Yeah, I'm just kidding, d00d; you've definitely played way more Halo than me. Maybe they meant 8,880 hours!?
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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?
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Yeah, I'm just kidding, d00d; you've definitely played way more Halo than me. Maybe they meant 8,880 hours!?
Dude, it probably has something to do with your gamertag changing.
Tha Robbertster
Member
1254 hours of playtime from Halo 2, 3 and Reach. That's a lot of time spent for the 3,5 years I've been playing Halo online :lol
lazybones18
Banned
Whoever runs Halo Waypoint needs to fix that shit. Damn thing keeps getting errors while I'm checking out each section
What AA's are even relevant or necessary? Sprint, sure because of the slow speed. Jetpack? Camo? Hologram? No. Evade? Hell no, needs removed immediately for being a broken POS. That's why Classic shines in these maps.
i nerini del buio
Member
wow @ the new 360 halo waypoint °O° amazing job 343
ps. what's the music playing in background?
ps. what's the music playing in background?
Posted this on Twitter yesterday: "I'm in the awkward position of slowly realising that maybe I don't like Halo 1 any more. So much of what is now Halo was introduced later."
I guess I shouldn't have expected CEA to be anything more than a nostalgia run. But I don't have a massive stock of affection for Halo CE. I never owned an original Xbox. When I got my 360, I played through 1 and 2 back to back shortly before 3 came out to see what the fuss was about. I did enjoy them - but I loved 3 and the others that came after.
But, for me, that means that the nostalgia kicks in so much later in the series - with Halo 3, even. And so much of what I consider Halo to be, and so much that has made me love the game, just wasn't present in the original. Plasma EMPs disabling vehicles, for example. Vehicle hijacking. Switching weapons with the AI. Even things like the way enemies respond to being attacked - the shield pop and regeneration works differently, Jackals aren't susceptible to the two-shot, and so forth (although Hunters seem not to have changed throughout). I don't miss the BR at all, but it's another example of something that is very Halo but came in a lot later.
It just feels like a lot of what I have always loved about Halo, the variety of ways to approach encounters and variety of ways to get yourself out of sticky situations, came in a lot later than I thought. There's literally no reason not to carry the initial sniper and AR throughout the whole of Truth and Reconciliation. Hell, it gives you one after picking up Keyes. Compare that to Long Night of Solace, where (I, at least) am picking up every weapon in the sandbox to push past each different encounter.
I would have had this surprise, I think, if I'd just played through vanilla Halo 1 anyway, and maybe I should have. But playing through CEA makes me feel like it's such a missed opportunity to explore what the game would have been like with some of those additions. Yes, EMP and hijacking ruins (among other things) the Banshee race. But if 343 had been interested in just going a little more in-depth with it I would have been very interested in the result. Bungie's original is still a classic, of course - but it's a big mistake to think that it couldn't have been improved upon.
I guess I shouldn't have expected CEA to be anything more than a nostalgia run. But I don't have a massive stock of affection for Halo CE. I never owned an original Xbox. When I got my 360, I played through 1 and 2 back to back shortly before 3 came out to see what the fuss was about. I did enjoy them - but I loved 3 and the others that came after.
But, for me, that means that the nostalgia kicks in so much later in the series - with Halo 3, even. And so much of what I consider Halo to be, and so much that has made me love the game, just wasn't present in the original. Plasma EMPs disabling vehicles, for example. Vehicle hijacking. Switching weapons with the AI. Even things like the way enemies respond to being attacked - the shield pop and regeneration works differently, Jackals aren't susceptible to the two-shot, and so forth (although Hunters seem not to have changed throughout). I don't miss the BR at all, but it's another example of something that is very Halo but came in a lot later.
It just feels like a lot of what I have always loved about Halo, the variety of ways to approach encounters and variety of ways to get yourself out of sticky situations, came in a lot later than I thought. There's literally no reason not to carry the initial sniper and AR throughout the whole of Truth and Reconciliation. Hell, it gives you one after picking up Keyes. Compare that to Long Night of Solace, where (I, at least) am picking up every weapon in the sandbox to push past each different encounter.
I would have had this surprise, I think, if I'd just played through vanilla Halo 1 anyway, and maybe I should have. But playing through CEA makes me feel like it's such a missed opportunity to explore what the game would have been like with some of those additions. Yes, EMP and hijacking ruins (among other things) the Banshee race. But if 343 had been interested in just going a little more in-depth with it I would have been very interested in the result. Bungie's original is still a classic, of course - but it's a big mistake to think that it couldn't have been improved upon.
Gabotron ES
Member
Seeing what 343 have done so far with Reach I have big hopes on Halo 4, it will be the best Halo evar!
They fixed Reach's lack of good non-forge maps and added the classic experience people were begging for, they also did an amazing job with Xbox's Waypoint app and they have assured they'll continue to improve the overall experience.
They have already achieved more than Bungie ever did with Reach, they just have to continue polishing everything.
A good start would be making evade elite exclusive as it was intended.
They fixed Reach's lack of good non-forge maps and added the classic experience people were begging for, they also did an amazing job with Xbox's Waypoint app and they have assured they'll continue to improve the overall experience.
They have already achieved more than Bungie ever did with Reach, they just have to continue polishing everything.
A good start would be making evade elite exclusive as it was intended.
Tha Robbertster
Member
I took a look because of your post and wow, 343 did a very,very good job on this. Looks really slick and it has a lot of information from canon to playerstats.
I really hope 343 is going to implant this in the Halo 4 menus without you having to leave the game. That's still my biggest problem with waypoint.
Make some more armor/unlocks/credits connected with the medals/milestones you can unlock via waypoint and I would be a very, very happy man.
BlueScrote
Member
Yeah, Waypoint integration has to be in Halo 4. If not then it's really a damn shame.
I imagine it's still going to be a hotlink to the app, not sure why'd you want to lose RAM to running the Waypoint app on top of the Halo 4 executable..
Maby a small part (''Core'') of Waypoint will be ingame, the rest of it will still be in the seperate Waypoint app.
FUCK YOU HALO 3
Btw Halo-GoT-GAF... First promo of season 2 tonight... OOOOOMMMMMMGGGGGG
The Real Napsta
Member
I'd be happy with waypoint just not clearing the hard drive disk cache.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Yeah, the stun is pretty terrible, especially in Reach.
Buh wuh? Launching Waypoint clears the 360 cache?
The Real Napsta
Member
Yep, thats why all your saved films are gone after using waypoint. It's the main reason I never use it anymore.
Thagomizer
Member
I wouldn't mind if it was VERY brief- like, just enough for a Warthog to get out of jack distance if they book it- but leaving you helpless for several seconds, long enough for the jacker to turn around and run you over while you can do nothing about it, is unacceptable.
Zeouterlimits
Member
*jaw drops*
So you're sure it's Waypoint that does this? Can anyone else confirm?
If so that's a pretty stupid flaw to escape cert!
It's murderous in a Ghost.
Thagomizer
Member
Exactly.
The hell? Never knew that.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
So I take it the infection achievements can only be received via anniversary playlists and or maps? I just had a game where I was the last man standing as well as infected more than 3 players in one round but didn't get the achievements.
Last man standing must be Defiant. Infect 3 players must be Anniversary.
HiredN00bs
Member
1800 hours. Yeesh.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Damn, I hate map pack exclusive achievements.. What are even the odds of getting a defiant map in infection?
HiredN00bs
Member
Not 100%, even with a full party of Defiant Map Pack owners.
Hypertrooper
Member
Very low. Since 343i added the Anniversary Maps to the Premium Battle playlist.
HiredN00bs
Member
You have to play the Living Dead playlist to get Infection on a Defiant map. You could try for the other Defiant achievements in Premium Battle, but as you said, people are going to vote for Anniversary maps almost always.
HiredN00bs
Member
It's not necessary. You just need a full party of Defiant Map Pack owners. If you can get 8, you search in Slayer or Objective, and if you get 12 you search in Infection. The Noble and Anniversary Map Packs are not a hindrance at all, it's the fact that there are so many in matchmaking that don't have the DLC, and the only list that requires it is currently unsuitable.
We had a party of 12 the other day, and we had no luck in Living Dead. Admittedly we only tried 2 rounds, but a Defiant map never popped up in our 4 voting rounds.
Gabotron ES
Member
By some reason my Xbox keep telling me my Invasion: Highlands map is now a map variant of Ridgeline, not fucking funny.
Could anyone who played/downloaded it and kept it in their HDD send me a link to thrir fileshare or something. I'll be pretty fucked if I had to forge it all again
Could anyone who played/downloaded it and kept it in their HDD send me a link to thrir fileshare or something. I'll be pretty fucked if I had to forge it all again
By some reason my Xbox keep telling me my Invasion: Highlands map is now a map variant of Ridgeline, not fucking funny.
Could anyone who played/downloaded it and kept it in their HDD send me a link to thrir fileshare or something. I'll be pretty fucked if I had to forge it all again
Do you still have a film from a game on it? if you play the film, the map will show up in your Recent History.
That sucks
Gabotron ES
Member
Thanks god I save the films from all my tests, it's not the newer version but still pretty accurate.
Thanks again Fyre! <3 what would I do without you.
Steelyuhas
Member
Fucking pumped to see some footage!
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Game of Thrones? Should i be watching this?
bobs...onGaf
Member
Thats the way I did it and it worked a treat. I think the way they tuned it makes it so that a DLC map will almost always show in the first round of voting, if the only DLC you have is Defiant then you have much better odds of getting a Defiant map show up.
Team Objective for 1 flag worked well.
eww
Hey - at least they think you're a Halo VIP. I didn't even GET an email.I guess, it's still the same account though.
It has nothing to do with Waypoint, specifically - launching ANY game will clear that cache. (And Waypoint counts as a game.)
Hypertrooper
Member
lol. Really? lol. Are you XBL Rewards member?Hey - at least they think you're a Halo VIP. I didn't even GET an email.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Top 2% Believe.
Whats the bonus terminal stuff?
Whats the bonus terminal stuff?
bobs...onGaf
Member
Was just playing CEA with Gui, the guy is a Halo 1 god. Were gonna be on later trying to help nab the Defiant achievements. Anyone up for that?
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah, it's fantastic.