YourExWife
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Yeah, it felt worse.
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Halo TMCC |OT2| 3V4 Industries
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Yeah, it felt worse.
uncleniccius
Member
I finished Reach and thus have finished all mainline games (I haven't done Wars though).
What a great game, possibly my favourite. And I LOVED the ending. I'm now watching stuff around the series in preparation for 5.
What a great game, possibly my favourite. And I LOVED the ending. I'm now watching stuff around the series in preparation for 5.
VincentMatts
Member
No not really, it was really after COD (where people started to use red dots and all that) that Halo guns really started to feel bad and unprecise. But before that, it was just fine cause everyone was used to it. Mind you, the halo CE pistol wasnt this unprecise so im not really sure what happened with Halo3s guns.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Halo 3 online was much worse in 2007 than it is in TMCC. The CE Pistol is fine too, so perhaps it's connectivity issues you're having?
YourExWife
Member
Totally missed the point.
Exactly. Playing Halo 3 on 2007 internet was much worse than MCC, especially if you don't live on a coast or in an urban center, as was and continues to be my case.
The Sum of Zero
Member
Am I terrible for dashboarding because I'm tired of everyone only voting for Halo 3 games in Team Slayer?
Welfare
Member
BTB is a terrible experience because everyone wants to vote for Avalanche or Rats Nest or Standoff or Rats Nest or Avalanche or...
I know I got good people when Halo 3 does not win.
The Real Napsta
Member
I've never understood why Rat's Nest gets voted so much.
VincentMatts
Member
I stopped playing because of Halo3 appearing so much. I wish they would just put one map after the other and remove the voting for maps. We end up playing the same thing all the time. Thats what i like about BF4. Maps just appear one after the other. I prefer that by a long shot.
Welfare
Member
That and have filters for games and maps. I don't want Halo 3, so let me filter it out and after every match, put me in a lobby for Halo CE, 2, 2A, or 4 maps. Voting doesn't work in a game like this.
But oh well, shit's out now and all we can do is think "what if?".
VincentMatts
Member
Yeah its pointless. Even halo5, we'll end up playing on the same 3-4 maps all the time, like every other halo game.
VincentMatts
Member
I dont mind that as much since i can go into a Halo4 playlist worst comes to worst. But voting for the same maps over and over, that i have a problem with since theres no real solution to that other than me having to quit out the game.
True. As much as HaloGAF
RIP
Halo's greatest strength is its massive variety of gameplay experiences (from KOTH to SWAT to Snipers to Grifball) but it makes it devilishly hard to get people into the games they want quickly, with parties, or with good skill matching.
MCC, as a collection of ports, also has the metagame issues of "do you play this because it's your favorite game or because it's the most functional?" You can certainly feel the evolution of the games' netcode alongside the game mechanicsCE has been consistently the most likely to have rubber banding and wacky lag issues for me, whereas it's been much smoother in the later games.
https://aegisfate.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/feature-set-part-2-matchmaking-custom-games-and-theatre/
"Priorities are designed to give the player more of what they want, and vetoes are designed to give the player less of what they dont want."
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"Priorities are designed to give the player more of what they want, and vetoes are designed to give the player less of what they dont want."
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VincentMatts
Member
So just wondering, are the monks back in halo5 or did they not bring back the Halo theme for a second halo game in a row?
VincentMatts
Member
The quality is really not great, hard to tell
Poodlestrike
Banned
Monks are confirmed to be back. Not sure if we've heard them yet, though.
xxANTIMONITORxx
Member
Downloading the latest matchmaking data...
IronWarrior
Neo Member
The available options get smaller since I tend to avoid voting for CE as it seems you can't be kicked for betrayals, and in 8v8 BTB there's like a 100% chance at least one person on either team will ruin it for everyone. Saw someone go -11 a few minutes into a match yesterday :/
EDIT: Not the -11 one but well on their way.
PanicFreak
Member
The guns truly are garbage.
Fata1moose
Banned
Yup, when you're on though it feels truly rewarding. That's not to defend the gunplay in Halo 3, I'd rather have a consistent experience. The maps are the best mix of BTB+Arena in the series. 2 had the best arena maps, CE had the best BTB maps and 3 had a good mix of both, while not meeting the highs of either.
I think I pretty much run through the Warthog run on autopilot after a decade of practice, really. The vehicle controls in CE are definitely more finicky, but at this point it's pretty hard for me not to finish with a minute or more on Legendary to spare. The trick is usually knowing when to take the side routes as opposed to the central above or below-ground options, and knowing how not to flip the Hog when you get extreme air (also, at the end you can just jump to the side of the canisters leading to the fighter and pretty much avoid every enemy on the way.)
I am working on going through CE and Halo 4 in under 3 hours, though, and I basically will need to figure out how to do the bridge descent and Keyes bump to make time (at least if I'm still going to try solo.) T&R is another major timesink but I have attempted and failed at grenade jumping too often to really bother with it.
draughn101
Member
So I just picked this up and think the single player is awesome. I can't believe how awesome Halo 4 looks. I haven't been able to get into a multiplayer game yet tho. I have a really fast connection, open nat and still nothing. It will say "players found" but never connects. I thought all this was sorted... Are there any tips and tricks I'm missing?
Quitting the build or hard resetting the Xbox usually fixes any issues.
The problems are sorted for the majority of people. Nobody seems to know why it's still broken for some though.
Blue Ninja
Member
Yeah, when you've done it so much as we have it becomes second nature. I remember it being a goddamn pain the first time I played Halo: CE, though. For me it was even worse, since I started off with Halo 2 in 2004 and then bought Halo: CE and played it. Going from Halo 2's Warthog controls to Halo CE was a nightmare.
draughn101
Member
I'll give that a try. It took me a few installs to get the just to get game to completely install. It plays great, just wish I could get it working reliably. It's got me stupid excited for halo 5
TerryLee81
Member
Played the first 4 levels of Halo CE, only noticing towards the end that you can switch between the original and remastered.
Damn it's fun and it looks great!
Damn it's fun and it looks great!
Finished Halo CE, 2, ODST and 3. Halo CE and 2 very good, loved ODST, found 3 not as good as the other ones but the plot story gets really interesting. Now Im reading Glasslands, then I'll go with The Thursday War and Mortal Dictata to finally start Halo 4.
After finishing all Halos I'll play MGS 3, GZ and TPP in the wait for the greatness of Halo 5.
After finishing all Halos I'll play MGS 3, GZ and TPP in the wait for the greatness of Halo 5.
The Sum of Zero
Member
If you haven't read the Forerunner Trilogy books, I'd read them before you start Halo 4.
PanicFreak
Member
I agree. The maps a great. I just hate how you have to lead people. I cannot fathom the number of times I've shot at a guy without shields and not been given a kill. There are certain weapons that should just be hit scan. The BR is one of them.
BTW, is the BR in Halo 5 hit scan? Did anyone do a Halo 5 weapon breakdown to give us the ins and outs?
Oh man, I love Halo 1. It was the first thing I did when I started playing MCC last October. It brought back so many great memories.
I've read them all, Cryptum, Primordium and Silentium. And Im half through The Broken Circle, reading it alongside Glasslands. Love the books, they add so much depth to the story and characters.
Yep.
highs and lows
PanicFreak
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Poodlestrike
Banned
At the BR in H5 being hitscan.
What other weapons are hitscan? All?
Pretty sure the Plasma Caster (and the rest of the Covvie weapons) are projectile. Ditto sniper. Suppressor and Botshot are tracking, so those're definitely not hitscan, and I don't think the Light Rifle is either. So I think it's mostly just non-power human weapons.
At the BR in H5 being hitscan.
What other weapons are hitscan? All?
I just want that legendary handcannon, I mean pistol. M6D BAYBEE
The Sum of Zero
Member
Damn. The right stick on my controller has a drifting problem. I can still play Halo and most other games fine since I always have my thumb on it to hold it steady anyway, but it is certainly a nuisance.
Just have to hold out until October and those new controllers.
Just have to hold out until October and those new controllers.
It really fucks with my playing of Titanfall though
Well, Not sure what is worse. That or not being able to kick people in Halo CE, even if they betray you 20 times, like I observed once in a game...
The Real Napsta
Member
Any news on the next content update?
They have been "on schedule" for 3 months now. What do you think? lol
They still won't tell us 1) when it will release 2) what it will contain 3) where they even are on it other than "continuing to make progress"
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
They are telling us for over 3 months now that they are working on one. But why cant they tell us what they are working on exaclty? This must be a 6+GB patch at this point...
2 or 3 Weekly Updates ago they said that they finished testing for the CU. I dont get why there is still no rough ETA for it.
I think this CU is a lie and will never happen. Its all about H5 now it seems.
IronWarrior
Neo Member
CE BTB is kinda tragic that way. So many people here seem to rank it as their top or one of their top BTB experiences, but the no betrayal limit basically kills it in MCC. I wish they'd patch in a limit on it, add in a game timer and maybe a score counter viewable without pushing select. And maybe make the hog idiot proof.
Honestly I think all four of the games could benefit from a few balances and tweaks (H3 pistol buff pls), but even ignoring the effort to do this I'm not sure if it would be in the spirit of MCC in that everything is "just as you remembered it."