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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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ArchedThunder
Banned
Me. I love the technical names.
User 73706
Banned
Nah, probably not. All of the PLC (halysis 2.0) weapons get their own technical names, though. Couple examples are:
GNAS-18 First Class Staccato Arbelist, Personal-Compound
Frontier Adaptability Sidearm, SI-14 Amorphous, Crystalline
HDL-CLS Gravimetric Articulate, Trace Translocation Auxiliary
And then examples of how the weapon data is presented in-game:
What is the answer to Beal's conjuncture then?
I can see why you like the forerunner naming system for things to be fair anti-materiel Z-390 high explosive munitions rifle does sound really cool.
User 73706
Banned
I'm shooting for some semblance of playable Q3 2015. Big thing right now is waiting for Quake 4 Free to kick off, and using that as a base. Also waiting to get settled into the Air Force by proxy so that I'll have an actual salary to work with and have a little extra money to pour into this thing. I'm biding my time, not letting it turn into vaporware. Pilot album (kinda like how Fall of Reach predated CE) should be coming out early September at the latest.
It's probably totally against what you've drawn up so far, but an arena brawler-FPS based around the gravity gauntlet sounds interesting. At the very least, it'd be a breath of fresh air (though what you've posted so far sounds different enough)
Are you not going to use UE4?
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Podcast will probably be recorded next week. We've been hella busy. Mix is busy doing a play being the shapoopy guy, Wahrer, Ghazi, and I have been swamped at our respective jobs. Don't know if this has been said but Bravo is the special guest.
NobleGundam
Banned
Can't wait guys. Will share the heck out of it of course.
FUBAR McDangles
Member
Wahrer lets work together to create a background lore for your game. And then talk about it extensively in this thread to annoy lore haters.
We gotz dis
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Take it to the WahrerGAF OT, please.
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
User 73706
Banned
It's already done.
Whoops, I meant Unreal Tournament 4 Free. Yeah, using UE4. Again, by "sinking money" I mostly meant paying for the subscription.
In contrast to the guns-grenades-melee trinity Halo's sandbox works with, PLC's is more of a snowflake consisting of six parts:
The Gravity Gauntlet and a second sword-javelin weapon are melee weapons in the Halo sense, in that they still represent the Gunplay section. However, in addition to gun-based melees, there's an intimate brawler sort of mechanic known as Fisticuffs, where if you go weaponless you switch to an emergency, class-sensitive melee weapon with unlimited ammo and a slightly modified controller scheme. Fisticuffs make you lighter and slightly faster, as well as giving you a few melee combat options:
- Punch
- Block
- Kick
- Lunge (replaces jump)
- Crouch
A lunge is a more horizontally-oriented jump, but can be used in a stationary sense as a shorthop to avoid kicks. Crouches can avoid punches, likewise. The Block will defend you from punches and kicks with proper timing, and potentially defer headshots versus riflemen. Successfully blocking a punch or kick allows you to perform a counter-strike, either by punching or kicking, which initiates a special animation (think front-facing assassination) that does double damage.
Fisticuffs still get shut down completely by gun users at range, but try to naturally expand the melee combat of Halo and avoid the "melee is a one-shot-kill" ghetto that's been perpetuated in FPSes lately. Fisticuffs users will thrash riflemen at close range. "Melee" is your usual Halo punch-with-gun tactic. Classes have slight variation in their Fisticuffs properties, which take into account three variables: Stun, Knockback and Damage. The largest character has moderate damage, low stun and high knockback, allowing him to punch enemies across the room - meaning his Fisticuffs are more reserved for finishers. On the flipside, the patron users of the Gravity Gauntlet and sword-javelin's Fisticuffs have extremely high damage, low knockback, and high stun, meaning that you're good as dead if you get close.
The Gravity Gauntlet and Schianova (sword-javelin) are different in that they can combat riflemen at any range: the Gauntlet is a shotgun with an alt-fire ranged "bolt" that does no damage but heavily ramps up the gravity of anything it hits including vehicles, while the Schianova can be thrown Halo Wars honor guard pike-style like a hugeass throwing knife, and can insta-teleport you to wherever it happens to land.
UE4 is amazing, also you don't have to keep on paying to keep on using it, you only pay for updates and marketplace content.
YOU'VE ALREADY SAID TOO MUCH. THE INFORMATION IS COMPROMISED. ABORT ABORT
I look forward to a leaked video showing
space Arthur
space pizza
Space Merlin
Halo
YourExWife
Member
So this sadist, Prinz Eugn, came to hang before he moves out-of-state, and it gave me the sads...
:/
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Speaking of laggy Halo 3 play - I miss the xbox live taunts back then of "Dude, upgrade your K Mart internet" etc. Everyone using a mic was a good time.
Also on a tangent to WaherGAF and VaporGAME. Is the team behind Murder Miners doing anything new? Perhaps a shooter for Xbox One?
It sucks when friends go but at least there are a lot of ways to keep in touch these days. The internet is awesome like that.
Did you party hard?
As far as I know they are still working on updating Murder Miners some more (which is great because that game is loads of fun). It's going to be cool to see what they come up with next though.
If somebody misses the Halo 3 Trash Talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNjFoBoGz00&list=UUrkczetjm8_lbYKlCD4E1fw
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Jesus Christ, this is a little too accurate for comfort.
Just remember all the good times you shared. Memories last forever man
Orochinagis
Member
Hurts when a friend moves away, still you can visit each other right?
Prinz Eugn
Member
Ha, I wanted to post that but with the caption of "I found the legendary Exwife, in his natural haloboratory. He was not pleased"
Orochinagis
Member
His shirt is right after all.
YourExWife
Member
Suuuuuuuuuuuper close, bro.
Looks fantastic. I like how it seems Halo-speed(maybe a bit faster), and not Super fast Arena FPS speed like Quake. Also I love the "NO FREE TO PLAY" thing. Funny how that is starting to be a good thing.
edit: The game's name is kind of lame, though.
User 73706
Banned
Looks nice! It's funny, though, it's like the antithesis of Livechamber's visual design - this looks like Unreal Tournament taken to natural extremes with a little bit of Halo and Killzone thrown in. Livechamber is pretty much Wind Waker in space with guns, by comparison.
My only complaint - and this is more of a general shooter thing - is that I feel like we're getting way too many "potatomobile" hover-vehicles lately. The little hover-bike thing they had in the trailer just scooted around with next to no points of articulation, kind of like the Sparrow in Destiny. I think small hovercraft can be done right, but they look so static when they don't move at all aside from actual locomotion.
Orochinagis
Member
Looks pretty frenetic.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Gameplay looks good, but I have this hangup about games (or anything, really) defining itself by what it's not.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
If Halo 5 released a trailer like this for its multiplayer, the world would frikkin explode. Imagine if Halo continued down a path of faster, tighter, more consistent and skill-based gameplay based in its arena shooter roots? Who knows.. Either way, loved this trailer and what it's trying to convey to its potential fanbase.
NO BULLSHIT
That sounds awesome! I loved Wind Wakers visual style (as well as the game itself). Do you just mean that in the sense that it's very colorful and Cel shaded? Or is the art style similar as well? Also, are there Tassels and Cinnabons everywhere?
So something similar to how the Halo CE Ghost moved (just less slippery and more responsive)?
User 73706
Banned
In hindsight the Ghost is pretty obviously a hovercraft as a way of making more weird vehicles without having to worry about articulation. I'm just saying there's easy ways to make vehicles look like they're alive and moving without necessarily having a ton of moving parts, for example the Revenant. The hover-thing in the Toxikk trailer just looked like it was on wires.
The art style is colorful and usually minimalist. It's cel-shaded without outlines. The multiplayer designs are pretty succinct by 2014 shooter standards, aiming for a level of detail between Combat Evolved and Mirror's Edge, just with more time to refine those styles:
While designs in the story mode / campaign if it ever comes to fruition have the capacity to be a little more detailed:
Looks cool, but probably will be playing h2a and derpstiny
Yeah. That was the first thing that struck me about the trailer. Seemed kind of immature. And the name could just be a 15 year old's Xbox Live handle.
But it does look interesting.
User 73706
Banned
The names did seem pretty uninspired, but then again a lot of nominal things in video games do. Now you see why things like Type-25 Directed Energy Weapon are important.
Looks amazing.
They said on their forum that the name is some sort of jab at military shooters or something.
MrGreencastle
Member
"no bullshit"
"exclusively designed for PC"
Heh.
"exclusively designed for PC"
Heh.