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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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Slightly Live
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Kinda sad that they are taking away Premium Battle away from me. Taking away the Defiant playlist hurt and this is just salt in the wound. =/
Me kinda sad.
Me kinda sad.
Slightly Live
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Tunavi said:
And it won't be the same playlist anymore when that happens. =P
Steelyuhas
Member
bsangel said:
It's both.
Nah, c'mon man, Team Objective was update for the purpose of "less fringe gametypes." A gametype where the objective doesn't matter? That's Objective, right? It has it in the description! It's a total staple of Objective play now!FyreWulff said:
P.S. Hope you like getting pinged with DMRs on spawn and it being a pain in the ass to get the flag out on open maps. We out.
Sigh. That playlist is sad.
Slightly Live
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I'm not opposed to this at all anymore. I've never liked how it played out and I've seen some awful abuses due to unbalances with that gametype.FyreWulff said:
Flag Slayer should have stayed in Action Sack. They should have brought over something like SpeedFlag.
I don't know how much this has been discussed before (probably a lot), but can 343 change the matchmaking algorithms to increase the weightings for players with DLC?
What if the Premium playlists were abolished, but then the weightings for DLC searching was increased? Removing players with DLC from the premium playlists with 'inject' these players back into normal playlists, most likely Team Slayer, Squad Slayer, Invasion, Objective, or BTB. Then the increased DLC weighting will still improve the chances of still finding Noble/Defiant maps in the normal playlists along with the fact that more players will have the DLC.
It's just an idea I though of; I'm sure you guys will tear it up into shreds
What if the Premium playlists were abolished, but then the weightings for DLC searching was increased? Removing players with DLC from the premium playlists with 'inject' these players back into normal playlists, most likely Team Slayer, Squad Slayer, Invasion, Objective, or BTB. Then the increased DLC weighting will still improve the chances of still finding Noble/Defiant maps in the normal playlists along with the fact that more players will have the DLC.
It's just an idea I though of; I'm sure you guys will tear it up into shreds
Speedflag was brought over, along with 2 Flag Slayer and 3 Flag.Dani said:
It would only 'inject' roughly 800 people at any given time back into the playlists. Spread across upwards of 5 playlists, I doubt it would end up making a difference considering how many DLC-less randoms there are to take into account.cory021 said:
Steelyuhas
Member
Hopefully the integration of the DLC playlists means that 343 will be open to combined slayer and objective playlists in the future.
Or the playlist populations were just really low.
Definitely that.
Good changes to the playlists, but I hope that evade is considered being removed.
Or the playlist populations were just really low.
Definitely that.
Good changes to the playlists, but I hope that evade is considered being removed.
800 is still a decent number. And I'm sure there are enough DLC players in the normal playlists right now to have more DLC games, it's just not matching players up appropriately.Havok said:
Here's another idea: What if the chances for searching for DLC improved every time a DLC-player played in game with no DLC players. So every time I play Team Slayer and get matched with non-DLC players, matchmaking will slightly increase the priority it places on searching for other DLC players the next time I play.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Instead of going to sleep right after work this morning, I spent the next 3 hours in the Grifball and Living Dead playlists trying to get a killtacular... It was painful and I was ready to trounce my xbox multiple times. Grifball is an interesting playlist where all the maps are the same, but with different colors and patterns adorning the traditional box locale (or maybe that was a result of voting). But I'll never understand why people score and end the rounds prematurely. The most exciting aspect of the playlist is trying to rack up kill combos. Sometimes a player will get an immediate score and end the round just after it started. I'm left wondering what that person thought was so fun about running to the opposite end of the room. Anyway, I finally unlocked Jorge's helmet, which is obviously the best helmet of the Noble team, lol.
The Librarian
Banned
The fiction behind Prisoner sounds fantastic, given we've been discussing the Prisoner. Wrinkles my brain, man.
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Interesting. Very, very interesting.
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So somebody starts the thread complaining about the look of a game when he's never played it before?Havok said:
Interesting. Very, very interesting.
Steelyuhas
Member
Havok said:
That concept art shot is insanely cool.
It's probably my favorite concept art I've seen of Reach.
Devolution
Member
senador said:
Let's hope it is. Just further proof why discussing Halo outside of these confines will give you brain damage.
Havok said:
I gave that playlist one chance since the update. Turned out exactly like I predicted (ie, your post). Of course, the first gametype voted in was 7-1 for Flag Slayer.
senador said:
This is one of the reasons I actually like Halo and Perfect Dark. Shooters that weren't afraid of color. Can't really think of the Covenant being anything other than Purple/Blue.
Someone in the other thread mentioned how Reach would look better without the filters added in. I agree.
Overlook from the beta:
Overlook in Firefight:
The colors are so much more attractive in the first picture.
EDIT: I just realized they added the tree that's in the middle of the second picture. Odd.
Overlook from the beta:
Overlook in Firefight:
The colors are so much more attractive in the first picture.
EDIT: I just realized they added the tree that's in the middle of the second picture. Odd.
Also, The End leaked Helix from the upcoming Justice album. If you haven't heard it yet: http://soundcloud.com/1077-the-end/justiceSai-kun said:
Slightly Live
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Did someone say randoms? I love randoms.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Dax01 said:
Sounds like an idiot to me. I'm sorry but play the damn game before you bitch about it. And yes Halo needs to be nothing but grey and brown like almost every other damn shooter out there because obviously we need more colorless shooters that have no charm and personality./rant
Sorry about that. It's just that nothing pisses me off more then someone bitching about a game they haven't even freaking played.
cory021 said:
Devolution
Member
PsychoRaven said:
It's fine dude. I don't need more de-saturation and gray in my shooters either.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Does not compute.Halo Bulletin said:
I'd really prefer the two lists remain separate.
RebornYeti
Member
My Halo: Reach download is at 46% percent! It only took.... 6 hours. :lol
Guess I'll just have to leave it downloading over night.
Guess I'll just have to leave it downloading over night.
ElRenoRaven
Member
God I can't believe I actually replied in that thread. I kept it a lot calmer then I was here.
PsychoRaven said:You know I think the OP is right. In fact everything needs less color. In fact let's start with neogaf.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
This is the most I've ever enjoyed a Halo thread on the Gaming side. Your post cracked me up, PsychoRaven.
ElRenoRaven
Member
omg.kittens said:
LOL. Does it look like I'm kidding? I mean imagine Neogaf using the new super awesome Dudebro filter. The kids will flee in droves. lol
Sucks that they're just removing Team Classic instead of reforming it by introducing the ZB DMR gameplay similar to what we've been testing and making use of all the non-Forgeworld maps. In November they'll be all about pimping the 3sk magnum as the new and only classic gameplay on the new maps and I don't see how that'll be satisfying as the only thing I touch. I want DMR start Classic gameplay with (relatively) long kill times making use of all the maps I own.