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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?
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lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Random error? Do you mean it's a different error each time? Please send me a PM.
xxjuicesxx
Member
My last 3 games of MLG was just me having host and playing decent, easiest wins ever.
As good as the netcode is in Reach, it's really just hiding the fact that internet still rules the game.
Still getting 25/6 Tashi. I dunno if I'll go higher since I can already stream and play and grab host all day.
Kyle your new internet is wasted because all you do is watch Formal stream. Start playing Halo.
As good as the netcode is in Reach, it's really just hiding the fact that internet still rules the game.
Still getting 25/6 Tashi. I dunno if I'll go higher since I can already stream and play and grab host all day.
Kyle your new internet is wasted because all you do is watch Formal stream. Start playing Halo.
Frank/Ellis/whomever may be interested: I will get a random cold feeling from my brain after using the outside world. It stops if I wear something warm like a hoodie. Solutions?
thezerofire
Banned
Similar to the above complaint, I cant seem to stay connected to Waypoint on xbox for more than a couple minutes, it keeps saying "cannot connect to servers" or something like that and then proceeds to reset the application back to the main start page.
For every University | FIOS connection, we have several connections like the one Tunavi posted. Pathetic Upload, and then people wonder why their games are laggy.
How about you play it more often and get matched against similarly ranked kids. Don't give me that it's so easy shit.
That is weird that it's maxed out at 6 up. I would call Verizon and tell them that you just got this shit and it's already not living up to what you're paying for. That's BS.
edit: Also found the verizon sponsorship submission form. They want like a full fuckin presentation. Oh well, time to get to work I guess.
Company name: Campus Safety
Awwwwwwww yeaaaaaa
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Do I win?
I just wanted to put this gif to use.
And you got to exercise your fancy fucking connection. >:[
Hydranockz
Member
Is this the page where 343 give away goodies cuz I totally just turned 22 about half an hour ago. You'll note that 343 minus 22 is 321... so yeah... Large please 
I probably shouldn't have used random to describe it. In any case, check your PMs.
As I was cleaning out my iTunes Library, I thought of this post. Are you going to wait for more entrants? Because it was Homeboyd, Robbert, and myself.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Its giving me a bit more than I pay for. These are the Verizon FiOS speeds.
You probably have the higher ones.
Lol at Trueskill comment too. That shit doesn't have code behind it.
You probably have the higher ones.
Lol at Trueskill comment too. That shit doesn't have code behind it.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Hypertrooper
Member
Nope. I said there was a deadline. But sorry blame Tor books for releasing Primordium today.
So you guys get a number. 1.) Karl, 2.) Homeboyd and 3.) Robbert. (Number given after post times)
And the winner is:
Check your PM homeboyd!
Its giving me a bit more than I pay for. These are the Verizon FiOS speeds.
You probably have the higher ones.
Lol at Trueskill comment too. That shit doesn't have code behind it.
I have the 25/25 packaged with TV and phone for $90/m. I don't use the TV or phone at all myself, but others do. Actual rates are more like 30/20. Throughput and system bandwidth is fantastic. Very happy with it.
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ya but Formal is way better than me at Halo and I don't have to put any effort in while watching. Win win.
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haha the fuck?
Hitmonchan107
Member
Happy birthday, Hydra!
xxjuicesxx
Member
Sounds like a quitters statement to me. You don't see Tashi packing it in just because he takes it hard all day.
Tashi is asian he should've dropped out to go pro in Starcraft years ago
Hydranockz
Member
Lag on a map with teleporters makes things very silly.
That is all.
That is all.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Detective Sai on the case
Bregmann Roche
Member
Did you or one of your brothers recently set the NFL record for receiving yards by a tight end?
@Tashi: You're wasting your time with Verizon just cut to the chase and ask James Earl Jones if he'll commentate your stream.
Congrats on getting a perfection in a game which is the easiest of all to get a perfection in.
Anyone ever imagine what Reach would have been like if Steve Cotton wouldn't have tried
to combine all those various maps into ForgeWorld?
I think we could have ended up with a lot more variety in matchmaking.
Several months back before Anniversary came out I made a thread on B.net where I
counted all the maps in rotation on Matchmaking and ended up with this stat: Only %16 of
the maps in MM were unique maps as opposed to variants of ForgeWorld or alternative
versions of the other maps.
That is if you count both map packs out at the time which rarely get any exposure in
standard matchmaking. Even when you enter the DLC playlists, there will always be people
voting for Hemorrhage (Why was that even an option in a DLC playlist?). Even if we
include Anniversary maps, how often do you see those outside of the underpopulated
Anniversary playlists? I think in practice, the apperent number of unique maps are much less,
if you factor in how the maps are ordered in the voting line-up and what players actually tend to vote on.
IDK about the rest of you but if I enter BTB alone,
chances are that no matter what I vote on I will play forge world variants about 90% of the time.
How many maps do you see that truly use the massive expanse of ForgeWorld in a
meaningful manner? Would anyone rather have the unique version of Blood Gulch,
Assension, Paradiso, Santcuary, etc... that were originally planned, even if it meant no ForgeWorld?
Personally, I am a little sick of blue skys, green grass and cold metal forerunner forge pieces...
to combine all those various maps into ForgeWorld?
I think we could have ended up with a lot more variety in matchmaking.
Several months back before Anniversary came out I made a thread on B.net where I
counted all the maps in rotation on Matchmaking and ended up with this stat: Only %16 of
the maps in MM were unique maps as opposed to variants of ForgeWorld or alternative
versions of the other maps.
That is if you count both map packs out at the time which rarely get any exposure in
standard matchmaking. Even when you enter the DLC playlists, there will always be people
voting for Hemorrhage (Why was that even an option in a DLC playlist?). Even if we
include Anniversary maps, how often do you see those outside of the underpopulated
Anniversary playlists? I think in practice, the apperent number of unique maps are much less,
if you factor in how the maps are ordered in the voting line-up and what players actually tend to vote on.
IDK about the rest of you but if I enter BTB alone,
chances are that no matter what I vote on I will play forge world variants about 90% of the time.
How many maps do you see that truly use the massive expanse of ForgeWorld in a
meaningful manner? Would anyone rather have the unique version of Blood Gulch,
Assension, Paradiso, Santcuary, etc... that were originally planned, even if it meant no ForgeWorld?
Personally, I am a little sick of blue skys, green grass and cold metal forerunner forge pieces...
Steelyuhas
Member
Speaking of which, bulletin today?
I know realize that its not Wednesday lol.
Without a doubt, yes.
Maybe it could of gotten us a Sanctuary remake that wasn't horrifyingly bad.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Yeah I've been trying to say the same thing to the Waypoint twitter account multiple times, but I've been getting ignored from that account for months now for some reason so I just have to deal with it. Same goes with Waypoint forum issues (using IE9).
I see this thread hasn't changed a bit.
Reach would have been much better without Forge World.
However, they couldn't fit all those extra maps on the disk = therefore, Forge World happened.
However, they couldn't fit all those extra maps on the disk = therefore, Forge World happened.
pretty rude
Steelyuhas
Member
No, didn't Forge World happen because Cotton was using the maps all put together into the forge world during development to make changes to them faster and then over time realized that they could actually ship the map as one single map? Don't recall it having to do with disc space.
Halo reach comes down to about 6.6GB in the final version with ~.3 gigs of padding.
But even if it was an issue they could have used more of the existing textures from
campaign and firefight maps or more compression. You can make a map look pretty
unique without a lot of memory.
Now that I think about it, audio takes up the most space, but %90 is campaign dialog,
I would rather have the maps.
Just look how big the DLC pack are.
Also, was it Cable or Cotton? I forget.
But even if it was an issue they could have used more of the existing textures from
campaign and firefight maps or more compression. You can make a map look pretty
unique without a lot of memory.
Now that I think about it, audio takes up the most space, but %90 is campaign dialog,
I would rather have the maps.
Just look how big the DLC pack are.
Also, was it Cable or Cotton? I forget.
First, I don't think it was Jon Cable. It was
Secondly, even if Forge World had maintained itself as separated maps, they would have still all looked like they did now, just the other FW areas would have been part of the skybox instead of playspace. The reason you can put a crap ton of pieces on FW maps in the first place is due to the simplicity of the objects and the map. Versus maps like Damnation which are loaded to the gills on graphics and have like.. one placable scenery object.
In addition, the uniform color makes them LOD fairly well at a distance and prevents maps looking wrong when the host forgets to set their color correctly. You may not have noticed it but Sandbox was basically one color (brown) so that things would LOD well and be less intensive to draw. Even though Sandbox pieces looked somewhat detailed, when you look at the edge of some pieces you can just see that it's convincing parallax mapping and they were actually a simple cube or rectangular prism.
They had a limited time and space for new art to add. You may notice that there's no map since that has actually made completely new Forge World pieces, they just ctrl-c FW's pieces to other maps, especially Tempest. Consider at this point some of the pieces are ALREADY literally taken from Halo 1 and Halo 2.
I thought that in one of the prerelease interviews it was mentioned that all of the forge maps would have had the same Halo aesthetic, and that you would be able to see each location from each of the others as you can now, but they just would have been separated into separate maps. If that was the case, and doing it that way wouldn't have led to more unique forge pieces, I think we're much better off with what we have now. It's not great, but would the alternative really have been much better? People say Bungie was lazy with Forge World, but would have splitting it into smaller chunks have led to a great deal of extra effort being put into those chunks?
EDIT: dammit Furewulf
Steelyuhas
Member
Steve Cotton
That and it wouldn't have really helped with framerate either. At a certain distance the imposter system kicks in and those pieces don't really impact the framerate. Backface culling already means that when you're playing on Hemorrhage, the 360 is not rendering the Island or Asylum anyway. They use tricks and clever modeling to think it's a big world, but if you take close note even the opening in the cliffs on Hem doesn't show the rest of the map.
For them to have more variety in pieces they'd need to go the Far Cry route where we can make REAL GEOMETRY(TM) and be able to place vis blockers and such. Any Forge-intensive map under the current system is going to use simply-modeled pieces so that they LOD better at a distance.
edit: thanks Steely
I just realized I got his name mixed up with a Nebraska football staffer
In the end I prefer FW's combined setup as it gives us the freedom to make any scale map we could feasibly want. I went and sized out Rat Race between my FW remake and the Anniversary maps, and not even Headlong or Tombstone have a big enough continous open space to put it on them, and Timberlands is an immediate no-go due to the trees and low kill ceiling.
Too bad people cant be as bad as you, that getting a perfection in Reach seems good.