Gnome Scat
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How do you open the pack? I entered in on Xbox but can't find where to open it.
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New Halo 5 Coverage! (expect spoilers)
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ElRenoRaven
Member
You have to wait till Halo 5 comes out. Then it's done in game.
Pretty sure it's all done in game. So that pack is for now tied to your account, and I presume will be there waiting for you when you boot up the game.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Stinkles, any possibility of pre-downloading the content patch for those who bought the physical edition? Would be really nice.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Trying to stay strong and stay away from the experience site ... Q.Q
ElRenoRaven
Member
They've said you can't. If there isn't anything installed it has nothing to update.
Yeah, pretty unfortunate we can't play mp right away. Then again I'll be playing campaign before anything.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
I have the REQ pack T_T
king grimlock
Member
That experience website caused driver crashes every time I played a video on my gaming PC and it made my surface chug, but it was perfect on my phone for some reason...
Love the ending of Reach. They did it so well to bring players into the game and believe that it was actually happening.
The Reach campaign is massively underrated. I liked it more than Halo 3. Only disappointment was no Scarab fight after they teased it.
Dynasty8
Member
Reach is the best Halo campaign IMO....and I've been a huge Halo fan since CE in 2001.
Biggest problems with Reach were the relatively boring starting missions, poor VO, and the canon breaking story.
Otherwise it had the best AI, skyboxes, vehicle gameplay, and feature set in the franchise.
To be fair, every game in the franchise has done something better than the rest and is looked upon more favourably over time.
The good old "Halo 2 sucks, back to CE" or "Halo 3 sucks, back to 2" was dumb to begin with.
I think Halo 5 might actually break the cycle of hating the newest release and liking the old one more. If all goes well, nobody will look back at Halo 4 favourably in comparison.
Otherwise it had the best AI, skyboxes, vehicle gameplay, and feature set in the franchise.
To be fair, every game in the franchise has done something better than the rest and is looked upon more favourably over time.
The good old "Halo 2 sucks, back to CE" or "Halo 3 sucks, back to 2" was dumb to begin with.
I think Halo 5 might actually break the cycle of hating the newest release and liking the old one more. If all goes well, nobody will look back at Halo 4 favourably in comparison.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Halo 4 is my favorite game in the whole franchise, so I always see myself looking back on it favorably.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I don't look favorably on Halo 4 now no matter HOW good or bad Halo 5 will be, so we good
I don't think anyone passionately hates Halo 4 as much as I do on this website tbh. A Halo game made by people who either didn't understand Halo, or just didn't fuckin' like it very much.
I don't think anyone passionately hates Halo 4 as much as I do on this website tbh. A Halo game made by people who either didn't understand Halo, or just didn't fuckin' like it very much.
In comparison to Halo 5 if all goes well?
I don't know, and this is coming from someone who liked H4's campaign.
IronWarrior
Neo Member
The vehicle damage system was also really bad. I prefer Halo 3's system, but at the very least give it a health bar of some sort.
Other than that I totally agree. Reach was superb, and the weapon sandbox was loads of fun in the campaign.
I don't exactly hate Halo 4, but I tried to replay the campaign and it just honestly wasn't that fun. The sandbox is just extremely dull overall, there's no excitement in picking up a new weapon/vehicle and planning on how you're going to use it.
Twilight Gap
Member
Dropping the 117 theme in there was great (especially on the time), but the Halo portion was lacking energy. Is this high quality? The strings sound very muddy and it's hard to hear the melody on top of the timpanis.
Light is Green autoplayed afterwards sounds a bit dampened too. Guess it was downsampled when it was uploaded or something.
Kamchatka sounds compressed too so i'll have to wait for official quality.
Solipsism's a helluva drug.
Nothing wrong with not liking it, but that's a crazy overload of projection.
Twilight Gap
Member
The Composer episode of the Sprint is my favorite one from the series. Would like to see more of how Kazuma operates behind the scenes, especially when it comes to why he uses certain instruments and cues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFoCcMHN50
Damn. This is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFoCcMHN50
Damn. This is good.
He usually just yells at people until beautiful music pops out.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
I'll caveat this first by saying that I enjoyed Halo 4. It had many problems, but overall I think it was an excellent game, and an excllent first-attempt at a Halo game from a brand new studio.
What's striking about people's dislike of Halo 4 to me, though, is that it seems like people blame 343 solely for the direction H4 took with its gameplay but to me it seems like H4 was the natural evolution to where Bungie was leading the franchise from Reach. Now it looks like Halo 5 is (rightly) going back to its roots while still advancing the franchise as a whole. It just doesn't seem like the gameplay direction of H4 should be placed squarely on 343 as if they had no basis for going in that way. I'll also add that this is just in regard to the multiplayer. 343's Halo 4 campaign direction was quite different from anything Bungie Halo related.
Also, I have tried quite a few different times to get that Experience website to give me a code, but it still hasn't. I might try later tonight, but hopefully by tomorrow it'll be totally fixed.
What's striking about people's dislike of Halo 4 to me, though, is that it seems like people blame 343 solely for the direction H4 took with its gameplay but to me it seems like H4 was the natural evolution to where Bungie was leading the franchise from Reach. Now it looks like Halo 5 is (rightly) going back to its roots while still advancing the franchise as a whole. It just doesn't seem like the gameplay direction of H4 should be placed squarely on 343 as if they had no basis for going in that way. I'll also add that this is just in regard to the multiplayer. 343's Halo 4 campaign direction was quite different from anything Bungie Halo related.
Also, I have tried quite a few different times to get that Experience website to give me a code, but it still hasn't. I might try later tonight, but hopefully by tomorrow it'll be totally fixed.
Do they really do this in the development process? Like "let's meet again next week and have this level done or this art drawn". Sounds cool.
Working on my own game at the moment with a team and would love to adopt that "sprint" technique.
On topic: Chief has taken a helluva beating over the past few months lore wise. Helmet has been
thrown around by the didact, fell from space etc lol
Working on my own game at the moment with a team and would love to adopt that "sprint" technique.
On topic: Chief has taken a helluva beating over the past few months lore wise. Helmet has been
cracked twice,
Sounds like the typical conductor. Heh.
super-heated plasma
Member
Just did it and it worked for me. Though I think a weapon skin called Vengeance should be a darker and more angry looking.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Halo 4, to me, started the franchise down a path where I think ultimately saved Halo as a franchise for me. I was beginning to grow tired of the games, opening up doubt in my mind that maybe they had nothing more or new to offer that I would find exciting. With what 343i did with Halo 4 suddenly all that excitement came rushing back. The campaign of that game, the story, the way the chief and Cortana were handled, all of it was pitch perfect for me. It's exactly the story and campaign I had wanted. It addressed concerns I had about the franchise for years since I started playing the games. it reminded me of the books I enjoyed so much.
Halo 4, even with Halo 5 ends up being a far superior game that absolutely smokes it in every category, will always be remembered fondly for helping to get the ball rolling in the right direction.
Vire
Member
Yea that would be amazing. I am nearly done with MCC Halo 3 and am constantly surprised at how well the game looks simply at a higher resolution. Reach would probably be even better.
CFtiger1127
Neo Member
like many of you, i look at Halo as a game where each new entry brings something to the table that I enjoy/appreciate. Full disclosure, now married w/2 kids campaign is my primary stomping ground. Halo 4 to me was all about visuals and moving the needle through its story. They took a relatively story lite saga up until that point, humanized the Chief and integrated a more gritty scifi approach into the "gamers" experience. I did however feel much more restricted to the "beaten path" than previous entries. Whether there is any truth to my hypothesis or not, it felt to me like a design decision was made to demonstrate the best visuals to grace 360 and as a byproduct the campaign was more narrow in scope. I must admit from what we have seen of H5, the needle seems to be moving on all fronts which imo hasnt happened since H3.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Halo 4's campaign wasn't that bad. They had a couple characters who should die and never return and they were damn linear but it was good. Kind of reminds me of Halo 2 level wise. Now multiplayer wise it was my least favorite without a doubt. Luckily 5 is looking like they learned from their mistakes.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Have they said the prices or content of the microtransactions yet?
soulassssns
Banned
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Saucycarpdog
Member
What's wrong? Does my question upset you or something?
I don't know about him but you made me quite uncomfortable. ://///
Saucycarpdog
Member
Maybe you can answer my question then. Have they said at all what the prices or amount content of the REQ packs will be?
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I think it's 2.99 for a gold pack, 24.99 for a premium pack.
$1.99 for a Silver REQ Pack. $2.99 for a Gold REQ Pack. $24.99 for the 14 pack Warzone Bundle that comes with the LE and LCE editions.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I finally took the plunge with the digital deluxe. And now the final stretch awaits us all.
Huh? What makes you say that? I can't think of anything that makes it notably better than other Halo AI.
It definitely had the worst friendly AI (in a Bungie Halo), or at least implemented in a way that made it useless.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
The Elites were like space ninjas in Reach. Really tough to kill compared to previous iterations. And the enemy AI was all the more impressive considering they were effectively dumped into reworked MP maps rather than maps designed for fairly linear travel.
Regarding friendly AI, you say it was the worst, but it was the only Bungie Halo that actually gave it a really good go. ODST was scripted through the roof, and the less said about the marine AI in earlier versions the better.