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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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Yes that too again that join in session option should ONLY exist in player matches, nowhere else.thezerofire said:
Also here is one thing I would love that hasnt been in a game since shadowrun
MAP PREFERENCES!
so pissed this isnt in more games.
Yes they where handing them out to anyone that played it at PAX, sadly I think our Halo GAF friends here where a bit too busy with Halo Fest lolSai-kun said:
thezerofire
Banned
I don't see a gaming side CS:GO Beta Key Begging thread thoughwwm0nkey said:
Reagan's BR
Banned
wwm0nkey said:
Steam on XBL....soooo good.
Sorry I haven't been online in a while, I've been super busy!
squidhands
Member
daaaaaaamnGui_PT said:
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Tha Robbertster
Member
Don't play Reach for 5 days. Hop into squad slayer. Get 2 guests who don't play.
Awesome.
Games I'm going to get are:
Halo Anniversery
Gears 3
BF 3
and if the money alows it:
Skyrim
Awesome.
Games I'm going to get are:
Halo Anniversery
Gears 3
BF 3
and if the money alows it:
Skyrim
Gabotron ES
Member
335 games of BTB and 179 of Invasion.
Games played on Highlands or Breakpoint:...
... wait for it ...
...NOT A SINGLE ONE!
All DLC required playlists are a must.
Games played on Highlands or Breakpoint:...
... wait for it ...
...NOT A SINGLE ONE!
All DLC required playlists are a must.
Highlands is abysmal. Be thankful. Was that 343 or Certain Affinity? Either way that map alone makes me worried about Halo 4. It fell into the Bungie trap of making things way too complex and huge for the sake of aesthetics.
Highlands is absolutely miserable to play on with Halo's player count. 16v16 with +75% movement speed would be a little better. 6v6? Reach style? Barf.
Highlands is absolutely miserable to play on with Halo's player count. 16v16 with +75% movement speed would be a little better. 6v6? Reach style? Barf.
biosnake20
Member
IGN's Halo 4: Concept Art Rewind Theater
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/09/halo-4-concept-art-rewind-theater
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/09/halo-4-concept-art-rewind-theater
Reagan's BR
Banned
It'd be nice to see GFWL and Steam merge.....wwm0nkey said:
Booshka said:
I really have no idea how the numerous turds in Reach ever made it past the mock-up stage. Doesn't somebody at some point actually play a game or two on them? Does anyone involved with the game know what makes a Halo map great? Every HaloGAF kid knows in 5 minutes whether a map is going to be fun to play on so why do teams full of people keep pumping out such garbage? I mean, Spire? Seriously?
Randomizing gimmicks over defined variables, aesthetics over gameplay, and size over scale. Welcome to modern Halo.
Steelyuhas
Member
Game of forever?wwm0nkey said:
wwm0nkey said:
Yep, COD DLC implementation is excellent. Halo's makes me not able to honestly recommend DLC packs to people regardless of the quality of the maps.
The Librarian
Banned
lolSteelyuhas said:
BackdoorBeauty
Member
kylej said:
One thing that was apparent to me is that no one really play-tested Zealot. It only took people a few days to figure out they could go up a few kills, and then camp the outer space portion all day long. There was no way to break that setup, and it took several weeks to get fixed in matchmaking by adding a 10 second kill zone.
If you have to add a giant kill-zone to fix a map, you didn't play test it enough!
BlueScrote
Member
I didn't realize Highlands and Condemned were so unloved 
Booshka said:
Maybe true, but Condemned has some pretty fun objective in my opinion since the hallways and more areas get used. When its slayer it just devolves to running to the Zero G room.
I don't have a problem with Highlands itself, just the way its implemented. Weapon placement and timers need to be adjusted IMO and it'd play better 8v8, but that is something I've never done on it and don't expect to..
Edit: While I am at it....
I think Tempest is a good map, but it needs some love too. I'd like it better with lots more spawns and to have the backside tunnels open. Also, I hate dudes sitting on the large rock. I'd put a soft kill up there as well as above rocket spawns.
I like Unanchored, and have no problem with it other than someone sitting on the Sabre up top (which was by design, lol). It plays so much better now that rocket spawn timer is increased.
I dislike Breakpoint. Terrible spawns. Too large. Stupid hill in the middle for camping.
Steelyuhas
Member
Dax01 said:
Obviously game of forever is a joke, but BF3 is going to be an incredible game.
Man sweet stuff. I think this is contributing to Glasslands release. IF they do 1 of these per week it will bring us into mid October which is the time for Glasslands release date.Gabotron ES said:
Sweet, Got mine payed up. Thanks Louis Wu, so generous.Hypertrooper said:
(If you get in the first 75 orders you get a VIP Halo Fest card with it I think.)
Yeah, same here. I hope the canadian version comes with the Orchestra Recording. So awesome. Nintendo knows their customers needs so well, this bundle is perfect for me.Tashi0106 said:
The Librarian
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Eh. Personally, it's hardly worth mentioning. The campaign seems like your typical military shooter (I got bored watching the first campaign video for the first time and turned it off not even half way through). At least Bad Company did it an amusing manner, though the first campaign was better than the second ("Truckasaurus Rex").Steelyuhas said:
But Battlefield isn't about the campaign, it's about the multiplayer. And judging from the Bad Company series, I'm not going to like it that much. The only thing I really liked about the BC series was the destructible environments; everything else was pretty much par for the course. Destructible environments can only get you so far. Vehicles weren't fun to drive, indeed, they could best best described as clumsy. I always had trouble telling where I was getting shot from, killing people was never that satisfying, and the melee system was pretty clumsy too. In both games.
In fact, going between Halo and Battlefield, and I could sum it up as follows: fluid and clumsy.
The Real Napsta
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Crucio said:
Nintendo lulz
Slightly Live
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Dudes, scans are banned on GAF. Delete that image and quoted image guys unless you fancy a short holiday when a mod pops by.
Yeah let's not get into Nintendo "knowing their customers so well" in here. Nintendo has fucked up so much lately IMO.
To keep it Halo:
My friends and I did Reach LAN last night. 5 of us. 2 of us play a lot, 3 never do. They sucked bad. I thought bloom would be better on LAN. It is in a way; it doesn't expand as fast and resets quick, but this only lead to the 3 non-players spamming and somehow still getting kills. It was ridiculous. They didn't win by any means but it still left me baffled.
We have done 3 Reach LANs now. Always plan to play CE for nostalgia, but they opt for Reach. It always turns into Hemorrhage all night. Not very fun.
LOL at the split screen draw distance and detail.
To keep it Halo:
My friends and I did Reach LAN last night. 5 of us. 2 of us play a lot, 3 never do. They sucked bad. I thought bloom would be better on LAN. It is in a way; it doesn't expand as fast and resets quick, but this only lead to the 3 non-players spamming and somehow still getting kills. It was ridiculous. They didn't win by any means but it still left me baffled.
We have done 3 Reach LANs now. Always plan to play CE for nostalgia, but they opt for Reach. It always turns into Hemorrhage all night. Not very fun.
LOL at the split screen draw distance and detail.
Hypertrooper
Member
You know that scans aren't allowed to post?The Real Napsta said:
Thanks through the HaloGaf shirt I got a free beer= win.
I like the maps.
Major problem with Highlands is the AR starts. You have people on here complaining about the DMR's range. Just imagine how much more dull that map would be with something like that? It slows down the gameplay too much. The faster people die the better. I think the complaints about the fast spawning power weapons also hurt it. Games had a quicker pace to them with all those weapons. Now matches seem to drag on.
As far as Condemned goes it should have never shipped the way it is. The framerate drops when sniping through the middle are atrocious. Maps should never ship with problems like that. I really do feel like they placed other things in importance above gameplay when you encounter stuff like that. It's like... Are you seriously telling me that you guys saw fit to ship a map with a problem like that? You don't understand how difficult it is to shoot when the framerate dies? The second they saw that they should made a major effort to either fix it or scrap the map. I see the same thing happen in KOTH games on Swordbase. Sometimes the hill will spawn in the middle of the map and the framerate just dies as explosions rapidly set off with all the grenades raining from above. Try sniping or shooting while scoped with the DMR when that happens.
No.
I have the map packs so there's no reason why I should be against it but it just makes me think of Halo 3 and how I would be locked out of playlists that I'd want to play because I didn't have one of the required map packs. This mostly happend with BTB and later on after Heavies so by that time I already made up my mind that H3 sucked, but it was still unfair to be locked out of that playlist. It's wrong. I don't understand the complaints when there's a premium slayer list.
Required DLC is wrong. It just is.
Clumsy is the best way to put it when describing Halo. 5 minutes to cross maps because you're slow as a turtle. Takes forever to switch your weapons. Nothing better than being vulnerable for a minute while you wait for the damn animation to finish. Enjoy dancing around while you're getting shot at. Throw grenades as if you're an old woman. Matchmaking... LOL.
Major problem with Highlands is the AR starts. You have people on here complaining about the DMR's range. Just imagine how much more dull that map would be with something like that? It slows down the gameplay too much. The faster people die the better. I think the complaints about the fast spawning power weapons also hurt it. Games had a quicker pace to them with all those weapons. Now matches seem to drag on.
As far as Condemned goes it should have never shipped the way it is. The framerate drops when sniping through the middle are atrocious. Maps should never ship with problems like that. I really do feel like they placed other things in importance above gameplay when you encounter stuff like that. It's like... Are you seriously telling me that you guys saw fit to ship a map with a problem like that? You don't understand how difficult it is to shoot when the framerate dies? The second they saw that they should made a major effort to either fix it or scrap the map. I see the same thing happen in KOTH games on Swordbase. Sometimes the hill will spawn in the middle of the map and the framerate just dies as explosions rapidly set off with all the grenades raining from above. Try sniping or shooting while scoped with the DMR when that happens.
Gabotron ES said:
No.
I have the map packs so there's no reason why I should be against it but it just makes me think of Halo 3 and how I would be locked out of playlists that I'd want to play because I didn't have one of the required map packs. This mostly happend with BTB and later on after Heavies so by that time I already made up my mind that H3 sucked, but it was still unfair to be locked out of that playlist. It's wrong. I don't understand the complaints when there's a premium slayer list.
Required DLC is wrong. It just is.
Dax01 said:
Clumsy is the best way to put it when describing Halo. 5 minutes to cross maps because you're slow as a turtle. Takes forever to switch your weapons. Nothing better than being vulnerable for a minute while you wait for the damn animation to finish. Enjoy dancing around while you're getting shot at. Throw grenades as if you're an old woman. Matchmaking... LOL.
Kuroyume said:
Don't forget, this is an All New Engine from the developers at Bungie! COD runs at 60fps steady with 100x the amount of shit going on at once. It must be the power of the grey basic geometric shapes. Those things are brutal. I understand Bungie was probably busy using the same Resources for campaign and matchmaking, but really the framerate should've been worked on before release.
Gabotron ES
Member
So I should be locked to one or two playlists to play the maps I payed for? seems a bit unfair.Kuroyume said:
Kuroyume said:
No it's not, just make Squad Battle, Team Objective, Invasion and BTB All DLC required (included Anniversary) this would also increase the amount of non grey forge world maps we play on. Defiant and Noble were decreased to 400 mp not too long ago, right?
Bregmann Roche
Member
Gabotron ES said:
I think that was a one-time sale...
I don't think that required DLC is the right direction to go in, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for people to want to play the maps they bought with the amount of people and gametypes they were obviously designed for. I've never played (in matchmaking) 4v4 Condemned, I've never played 8v8 Highlands. That's not okay. They need to step up their matchmaking to facilitate more DLC-centric matches. Why there isn't a DLC-only search restriction is beyond me. That would solve all my issues with it.Kuroyume said:
Condemned Objective has awful spawns. Take the bomb through maintenance bay? Guess what, the entire enemy team will spawn in there now. And the low grav sections in Reach really annoy me for some reason, especially on Anchor 9 (that spawn on the ledge out there is the worst thing ever). It just seems to slow everything down to a crawl, and jumps stop being predictable at a point, with the slightest bump screwing up your jump to rocket spawn.senador said:
StalkerUKCG
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Off topic but how do i look at the top posters in the thread?
Syracuse022
Member
I did find it extremely telling that Chris Butcher said he's essentially been working on Destiny since Halo 2's release during the Bungie HaloFest panel. That's about the time that Jones went into his hidey hole, as well.Letters said: