ViewtifulJC
Banned
RIP in peace Dumbledore
Can't believe Snape killed him
Can't believe Snape killed him
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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Lol.
Der Flatulator
Member
Ian McKellen was my favourite Dumbledore.
Orochinagis
Member
So the only way to stop Microsoft is to kill it
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I got to play 90 minutes of Reach Anniversary Slayer the other day and it was as glorious as ever. I kept trying to aim with left trigger and wasting grenades, though.
Calm Killer
In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
I never had issues with Co-op. Firefight yes. Co-op, no issue.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Such balance
Orochinagis
Member
Storing a super that can kill more than 3 people with super shield is baaaaaad, on the other side having a rocket launcher that have more ammo when you pick up ammo is baaaaaaad or having an exotic weapons with all its passives is baaaaaaad
If people are expecting crucible to be balanced then they're gonna be very disappointed.
I've known it was gonna be a shitshow from the beginning even before the beta. It will always be a shitshow, and that's fine. A big thing about Destiny is strutting that gear. Embrace the unbalance and dong. Get your fair and balance with MCC
Same netcode in both modes
ViewtifulJC
Banned
FyreWulff, tell me my nigga...will Halo 3 MCC co-op be any better than it is on 360
Too bad Destiny didn't follow Derek Carroll's quick writeup he did on Shadowrun's combat.
Derek Carroll said:
I understand that superpowers in Destiny are cool looking and fun to use, but it causes more problems in balance than it is worth, imo. I like the more clearly defined sandbox of Shadowrun.
You fucking freaked me out for a second there before I realized what you were talking about.
Those 300,000 servers are going to have to be used for something.
I spent hours trying to get past the first boss in the raid on hard the other night. And 200+ deaths later we still failed.
So the way I see it is if you actually complete that damn thing and get that weapon as a reward then you deserve it. PvP is unbalanced as fuck anyway
nope
well, might be slightly better since it's 60fps, as that will reduce the input lag even offline.
but it's gonna be the same netcode.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Can't wait for those co-op achievements
/vomits
I can only hope Halo 2 co-op isn't as bad as CEA's was. 'cause that was awful (I mean I'm glad that it was put in the game and it's better than nothing. But the latency was frustrating)
What about halo 5? If they use the same asynch or synch or whatever it was model. Anyway next gen with more servers and cloud will remedy the lag?
They could totally (and should) go to async AI for Halo 5 and run them off dedis. My theory is still the entirey of Halo 5 is on dedicated servers when you're online. Campaign, firefight (if it comes back), online, and even customs (if they have them). Make it an Azure showpiece.
Destiny went to having servers handle things, hence why you don't have input lag in PvE when you're with other people. If you've got Azure now, there's not much reason to use full lockstep anymore.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I never liked the Hayabusa armor in Halo 3 (the shoulder armor aside, i like the overlapping plates, i don't like the damn white in them).
But damn if the source for the armor, Ninja Gaiden, awesome! Bought Ninja Gaiden Black for 360, fun game, if punishing. Needs some (more?) AA on 360 though.
The original Xbox Ninja Gaiden was, along with Halo 2, one of my favorites on original Xbox. (I never actually had Halo CE on Xbox, borrowed it from a friend once, but i mostly played it on PC.)
That was almost ten years ago, a few more months...
Too bad there's no Ninja Gaiden (Black) remaster for Xbone to go with Halo 2 Anniversary, that would be very tempting. I'm not usually one to indulge in nostalgia but i might make an exception here.
Since the Elites are space-samurais, i wonder if we will get ninja-Elites at some point. You know, more ninja-like than the stealth Elites are, add some dark coloring and curved energy swords or something.
Not sure if i'd be OK with that really. Perhaps i should not give them ideas.
But damn if the source for the armor, Ninja Gaiden, awesome! Bought Ninja Gaiden Black for 360, fun game, if punishing. Needs some (more?) AA on 360 though.
The original Xbox Ninja Gaiden was, along with Halo 2, one of my favorites on original Xbox. (I never actually had Halo CE on Xbox, borrowed it from a friend once, but i mostly played it on PC.)
That was almost ten years ago, a few more months...
Too bad there's no Ninja Gaiden (Black) remaster for Xbone to go with Halo 2 Anniversary, that would be very tempting. I'm not usually one to indulge in nostalgia but i might make an exception here.
Since the Elites are space-samurais, i wonder if we will get ninja-Elites at some point. You know, more ninja-like than the stealth Elites are, add some dark coloring and curved energy swords or something.
Not sure if i'd be OK with that really. Perhaps i should not give them ideas.
RowdyReverb
Member
It would be kinda weird to have them alongside stealth elites. Like, why would they come up with another class to fill the same role? I guess they could be very agile and do parkour or whatever, but that just wouldn't feel right.
Pirate elites on the other hand...
Of course they would not make any sense. I wasn't really serious.
Really, the stealth Elites are ninja enough already, though i wouldn't mind them being smarter about it.
So... Jackals?
Actually, couldn't the whole Covenant remnant be treated as kind of pirates, i got a feeling they do engage in piracy when it suits them.
The two scarabs in Halo 3. Doesn't get much better than that.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Stole my answer.
Does anyone have any decent video of this, btw? I've been looking for it for a while, can only seem to find the single scarab fight towards the beginning.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Take Mongoose, back way the fuck up, launch yourself off cliff onto back of Scarab, steal plasma turret and fuck everyone's day up, destroy scarab's core, get back on Mongoose before shit blows up, drive off and slightly turn the camera around for cool guy explosion escape
Poodlestrike
Banned
Thanks!
This...this is actually a really good idea. It would help to show off the power Microsoft has within their Azure network.
They're so many...
Halo 2 boss battles. Pain in the ass in Legendary but i still like them quite a lot, especially since i have a good strategy for each one.
Always loved the fight against the Scarab's crew in Metropolis.
It is hard to name specific encounters because i tend to like them while playing, but afterwards i can't remember them. Kind of a muscle memory thing...
From Halo CE, i'll just say the Silent Cartographer, the map is just plain wonderful, the very best map on Halo CE. Attacking the structure that leads to the Cartographer with a Warthog is fun, especially when the bastard Elite slams the doors locked in front of you.
From Halo 3, Tsavo Highway: The part near the end where you attack 2 or 3 Wraiths supported by Choppers. Good music, fun encounter.
Halo 4's Trench Run is fun. I ended up disliking Reach's space combat but Halo 4's i liked, though i think it has a lot of room for improvement. Specifically adding a bit more maneuvering space and adding enemy fights, Starfox-style (or Starwing for those who know it by that name).
Also Halo 4's Forerunner's area where the Covies and the Prometheans slug it out. Always love three-way fights.
And a lot of others...
That gotta be among my least favorite encounters (from any Halo). So damn boring. And annoying, one Scarab shoots you while you're trying to board the other... Halo 3 overused the Scarabs.
Halo 4 actually used Azure a bit as well. The stats and the matchmaking playlists are all run on Azure, hence why Halo 4 has fallback playlists when Azure goes down.
The MCC's dedis for H1/H2/H3/H4 multiplayer are assumed to be Azure powered.
Spinning up an Azure instance even for customs makes sense for Halo 5, because people actually do go into playlists with a full party (ie 4v4, go in with an 8 player party) and use it to serve out gametypes. So you're not saving much money by making customs peer hosted, might as well spin up an Azure instance when someone starts a custom lobby.
Azure for co-op and campaign would allow drop in Firefight/Campaign. It's technically possible to do drop-in on the lockstep model, but it's a memory and bandwidth hog to get someone in the session. Very few lockstep games do it even on PC.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Being able to play Halo online co-op without network lag would be a fucking dream come true.
The first one to come to mind is the section in Halo CE that the "Installation 04" Reach Firefight map is based off of. That's when I really felt that Halo magic for the first time.
FlyreWulff you seem to know you shit well. I hope it works out, and I agree with your reasonings for using the Azure with 5. Would Azure be working in sync with Live for multi and everything, or are Azure and Live one and the same at this point?
Also I really, really hope that there is proper
fileshare support in the MCC for gametypes and maps. Looking back at Reach videos made me realize that was one of my favorite parts of the game. There was so much variety because the community could just constantly pump out content.
Also I really, really hope that there is proper
working
As long as Halo 5 isn't online only I'm fine.
Offline should always be an option.
Offline should always be an option.
The Scarab battles in Halo 3 were the pinnacle of badassery in all of Halo. I can't think of an encounter that measures up to it in terms of scale, and sheer awesomeness.
Live is more the authentication/profile handling/messaging/presence (What game am I playing?) for Microsoft.
Azure is the data/server side, what you host your servers on, or feed stats through.
One doesn't need the other, but for first party MS games they're heavily intertwined. You can use Azure for anything web, not even related to games:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
and technically you can use Live for presence/sign in on any site (ie, Bungie.net, Rockband.com, etc etc) but the whole Live Passport initiative didn't gain traction so you mostly just see it for game sites with Xbox versions.
Azure is the data/server side, what you host your servers on, or feed stats through.
One doesn't need the other, but for first party MS games they're heavily intertwined. You can use Azure for anything web, not even related to games:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
and technically you can use Live for presence/sign in on any site (ie, Bungie.net, Rockband.com, etc etc) but the whole Live Passport initiative didn't gain traction so you mostly just see it for game sites with Xbox versions.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I'd imagine Live is built/hosted on Azure given the multi language, multi currency, content distribution (CDNs), redundancy, security, scalability etc.
Yep, I was familiar with Azure for other situations and tasks besides games, but I wasn't sure how closely intertwined they were in the Xbox ecosystem. Interesting to learn.
I would assume that Azure was actually built using knowledge and tech from Live since Live predated Azure by nearly a decade, (8 years).
edit: I think I misinterpreted your post. It could very well be run through Azure now.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Maybe a small percentage but Azure is driven by the corporate/web world and a means to tackle competing datacentre/software sales against linux/MySQL/java/CMS and the virtualisation/unification technology etc. It's magnitudes more diverse, reaching and complex than live. It's a means of moving corporate windows, servers, SQL, email and all that to the cloud while creating a hierarchy that requires Azure at a higher level to run other technologies on it. Great business strategy that has a ton of success.
So I'd so no.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I'm keeping my hype in check just because, well, I could easily let myself get absurdly hyped only to end up disappointed by who knows what. Like I've said before, playlist management is my biggest worry. I'm also worried about CE netcode not working well. Other than that, I have no major worries -- but who knows what could arise. Regardless, I'm optimistic.
Ha, you're right. That was a stupid assumption to make. Building a business class platform based on a games technology would be silly.
Yeah, I'm definitely still optimistic. I just want good community features (integrated fileshare, clans), good net-code, and excellent (perfect) play-list management.
Okay here we go...
I am so fucking tired of these posts. Why are you getting on here to complain about something that you're looking forward to? People (and I definitely don't mean only you) have been taking to this thread to shit it up with posts like this, "Ugh, why is there no Halo CE footage" "gooh, but f they don't show Halo 4 before the release (which is still almost two months out) I'm not gonna buy it" "Why should I trust a company with my money when they wont show me a finished product before it's finished?" They haven't shown it yet because they aren't ready to show it yet. If they wanted people to see it, they'd show it. Maybe they think that youtube videos or trailers won't cut it, maybe they're waiting for the game to be in a more finished, more polished state. Who the fuck actually cares? As long as the game is done by the time it's supposed to be finished, you know damn well you'll buy it.
People come in here, post this crap to up their post counts, and leave not to come back for another fifteen pages. They just bitch and bitch and bitch about how 343 aren't catering to their every demand and are throwing hissy-fits all over forums and social media because they want to see something they've had access to for over ten fucking years but what? In a higher resolution? in faster frames? IT'S NOT GOING TO TRANSLATE OVER YOUTUBE. They have said that they will release footage when they feel it's the right time, they will make sure your needs and demands will be met before the street date is broken, so just wait calmly and stop posting these "I'm afraid that they won't deliver on their promises" posts. They still have plenty of development time. Come back in here the week of launch and complain if they still haven't shown anything by then. That's the time to worry, not two months before fucking certification.
I understand wanting to see things in advance, but you wouldn't expect to see the ending to a movie before it releases, right? Just give them time to get their game done, then check your hype levels around that. Wait for the team to say, "Okay, take a peak at what we've been slaving over for months, and expect the final game on 11/11/14", don't come in here with a misplaced feeling of entitlement. Be patient.
/rant