The Librarian
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Just did Blastin' and Relaxin' on The Long Night of Solace.Self Induced said:
<3 that level.
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<3 that level.
Photolysis
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Dax01 said:
I consider the bridge as one of the most beautiful areas in the campaign.
Self Induced
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The boarding of the Covenant ship is one of the most replayable parts of the campaign imo.Photolysis said:
electricpirate
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LTTP here,
Atoms a really nice little map, nice sightlines, the bases have good approaches, and good weapon choices. Spawning setup seems like it's done well. My only complaint about the map is spawning underneath the bases with zero in those rooms with zero orientation. It's a really nice addition to matchmaking.
Cliffside seems to have some issues though. One base has that stupid sniper perch, while the other base doesn't, WTF is up with that? I love the concept of a really strong middle that you need to control instead of just hanging in the bases, but that middle structure is kind of a mess with having 6 distinct entrances, 2 of which are teleporters. Just not a really great slayer map, might be good for CTF though.
Atoms a really nice little map, nice sightlines, the bases have good approaches, and good weapon choices. Spawning setup seems like it's done well. My only complaint about the map is spawning underneath the bases with zero in those rooms with zero orientation. It's a really nice addition to matchmaking.
Cliffside seems to have some issues though. One base has that stupid sniper perch, while the other base doesn't, WTF is up with that? I love the concept of a really strong middle that you need to control instead of just hanging in the bases, but that middle structure is kind of a mess with having 6 distinct entrances, 2 of which are teleporters. Just not a really great slayer map, might be good for CTF though.
The Librarian
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Alright, I don't like Reflection (for Team Slayer at least). Most of the combat centers around the sniper spawn, and thus most of the map goes unused. Now, this wouldn't be a problem if the area the combat centered around was actually fun it's not. It's just one long hallway with a lot of grenade explosions.
squidhands
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Me too. I'm curious to know who/what drives the Banshees and Seraphs; they never registered as Elites for one of the previous "kill this many Elites in Campaign" challenges. Do they count as enemies at all for the B&R Challenge?Dax01 said:
The Librarian
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Wouldn't have been able to do it otherwise.squidhands said:
StUnNeR H2K
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Dax01 said:
Even with the small differences the map plays the same as Ivory Tower did in Halo 2, and the focus point even then was around the sniper rifle and that top floor. It was really easy to hold that area down once you get the lead. I loved the Halo 2 days so I'm probably a bit biased toward the map, but I love the feel of it in Reach and I'm used to the fight to control the sniper spawn area.
cuevas. PhD.
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Sorry most people don't get as griefed for no reason as often as you do. The world has it out for youWickedLaharl said:
Genesis Knight
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Man that challenge meter on Bungie.net is moving fast. I was hoping to make Commander before it unlocked (well, "make" it in the sense of finishing Lt. Colonel 3, but I have 25k from Lt. Col 2 and all of 3 to go before I get there. Don't think I can make it in the middle of semester... 
squidhands
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Good to know. I love being thrown out of a ship by George!Dax01 said:
Dax01 said:
That's how it was in Halo2, Dax. Albeit the nades weren't as strong and deadly as in Reach but the Sniper spawn was held constantly. Mostly because you could perch up top and watch the rockets spawn and easily have access to the overshield spawn.
MLG version of Reflection totally throws all this out of the window. No reason to camp up top now, it's just a death trap.
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cuevas said:
eh i wouldn't say i get griefed that often but it does happen (mostly in BTB) and it's pretty silly to suggest that it only occurs because of some fault of my own.
electricpirate
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StUnNeR H2K said:
Yea, I agree with this, I also think Armour Abilities, and a well balanced Sword, really make the fight for those halls much more interesting. I really like jetpacking up to get a key grenade in there, or taking camo up the lift, and using AL as a distraction to give my team an opening.
IMO, I rank the remakes in reach like this Asylum > Reflection > Pinnacle > Hemorage. I might rank Pinnacle a little higher if they re-worked the weapons a bit, maybe add some nerfles/DMRs to the low areas so you could get some weapons to get a real pushback against a well set up team.
WickedLaharl said:
BTB is just a pit in general, it's where the quitters and griefers seem to love to go. I find the 4vs4 gametypes generally have much more reasonable players, and fewer quitters by a large magnitude. I had my second griefer (sniper betrayer) ever in team slayer this morning, while I've had 3-4 in a tenth of the games in BTB.
I'm just staying out of BTB without a big team until the DLC hits.
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WickedLaharl said:
Getting griefed often was what we were talking about, thanks for the input.
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Dyno said:
Congrats. I did that on Monday and it felt great.
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cuevas said:
you're so very welcome!
that anyone can suggest that a player must do something wrong in order to become a target for griefing is mind boggling. :lol
just search youtube for an endless flood of vids created by assholes whose sole intent is to give randoms a hard time for the lulz
The Librarian
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But GAF told me it would be the end of December before the level cap was raised!Genesis Knight said:Man that challenge meter on Bungie.net is moving fast. I was hoping to make Commander before it unlocked (well, "make" it in the sense of finishing Lt. Colonel 3, but I have 25k from Lt. Col 2 and all of 3 to go before I get there. Don't think I can make it in the middle of semester...
*checks daily Challenges*Louis Wu said:lol - and that means that - for a very short time, probably - I'm ahead of you on one of my leaderboards.
Let me get back to you on that.
(That's a very good score.)
Edit: Freaking Brute round. :\
Notched a 3k cR Commendation, though, making for a 6,000 cR game of Score Attack with the daily Challenge. I was like, wow.
cuevas. PhD.
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WickedLaharl said:
I didn't say there are no griefers in the game that just do it to be idiots, I meant that if you are constantly being killed on purpose by your own team in different games by different people you are probably doing something stupid.
Well, like any popular online game, it has lots of shitty people online=
Try playing a normal Big Team Battle and try getting into a tank first, either they will plasma shot you so you cant move, or just shoot up your tank till it starts flaming. Or they just stand on your tank in front of your cannon waiting for you to betray them.
Try playing a normal Big Team Battle and try getting into a tank first, either they will plasma shot you so you cant move, or just shoot up your tank till it starts flaming. Or they just stand on your tank in front of your cannon waiting for you to betray them.
WickedLaharl
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Raiden said:
yup. the simple act of grabbing a highly sought after vehicle gets you such responses.
Foxy Fox 39
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Ramirez said:
You still don't get it. I wasn't advocating a SINGLE feature. I was (past tense because now I honestly don't care as I think HaloGaf doesn't either) saying that we could examine what does and what doesn't work. Multiplayer features and Join in progress are not mutually exclusive. Your response here is very similar to earlier and how you assumed I meant Cod when I clearly wrote games (plural) and didn't even mention CoD in that post. I'm sure games have more than ONE feature to reduce the probability of quitting. You seem to assume that J.I.P is the only feature that could be examined from other games. Your problem seems to be assuming what you think I mean rather than reading what I wrote and responding based upon what you see on the page.
But because I'm an idiot (no sarcasm) I will address what you said about Gears. Gears has always had Join in progress and its still there in 1. Only in the recent patches to Gears 2 has that been removed and bots replacing quitters.
divisionbyzorro
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aesop said:
Weekly challenge for the week of November 9th:
The One For Me (7777 cr)
Complete three matchmaking games every day this week.
Falt said:
They have the sniper at the back boardwalk instead of at the top of the lift. There is also a jetpack beneath it so you can use it to claw snipe. This keeps alot of the action on the back boardwalk and makes it hard for people to control top snipe unless they move the sniper up there.
Thagomizer
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Dax01 said:
Someone needs to make a variant where the upper hallway is filled with mancannons so it just pushes you to the other side. Something like this:
The mancannons would continue down the halls and spit you out at either end- at the top of the ramp or at the needler jump, respectively. You could still have the hallway for map movement purposes, but it's no longer a focal point of the map. You could still camp at either end, but you are a lot more exposed doing so if someone tries to flank you and thus camping is easier to break.
The Librarian
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We should just include mancannons on every map. They make everything better.
Neuromancer
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I wishdivisionbyzorro said:
Self Induced
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I was thinking there should be a way to open up the sniper balcony to have a huge ramp go from the sniper perch to where the rockets are (like if the big steps leading up to snipe from rockets didn't stop and you could directly walk/hop up there).Thagomizer said:
electricpirate
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chess said:
I love the satellite dish gates, I'm going to have to remember that trick.
Diablohead
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Awesome name for a level :lolchess said:
Self Induced
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Why is there no Arena FFA?
Hmm, I'm going to have to give that a shot tonight. I'm having a hard time conceptualizing the center of my map and that would help a lot.chess said:Thanks, I actually thought of the idea doing a concept 2 weeks before launch using Google Skectchup. It was my first attempted at using SketchUP!
I would love to see one of these setup just for HaloGAF/Forge to arrange Customs in Events etc.
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TBH i prefer to work out designs in Forge than in Sketchup. It's very hard to get a sense of scale when you design outside of forge. I've found myself designing maps and then importing them into forge and discovering that it's far too open or claustrophobic than I had originally thought it would be. Plus it's way easier to assess sight lines in game than in an external design document. My last medium-small map Ephialtes was about half designed on paper, but i had to include additional geometry on the bit I had designed because there were stupid-silly sight lines going through the bases.
Demoncarnotaur
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A bit late, but wanted to say I really liked the Noble Map trailer. The maps should be a lot of fun.
That looks pretty cool, queued to DL.
chess said:
That looks pretty cool, queued to DL.
Self Induced
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RRGGHH why is it that every single time I hijack a Wraith in firefight rockets/snipes, one of my teammates will shoot me till it explodes? What the fuck
Diablohead
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I get idiots shooting me because I grabbed the sniper rifle, annoying shits they are, it's not like anyone was around when I grabbed it, they just want it.Self Induced said:
I was playing a hemmoridge BTB match earlier and some guy kept tagging me with a melee to drop my shields, so I just said fuck it, shot all 8 rounds into the ground and then dropped it for another weapon, lol.
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Domino Theory said:
Seriously, people spam grenades without a single thought every game. I don't see any serious reprecussions for ridding of friendly fire, certainly nothing that matches the positives of ending the grief.
To KevinRo and Cuevas: You guys are either going in with teams or are far luckier than I. Randoms love to kill you if you grab the sniper or they'll ping you with bullets in hopes that an enemy will kill you and they can pick the rifle up. It's disgusting. I've had people start taking down everyone's shields the second the match starts, I've had people get bored during a match and start attacking teammates, I've had teammates get frustrated when they can't kill anything so they turn on the rest of us. It's not every match but it's sure as hell often enough to warrant the removal of friendly fire. If it were just me I'd attribute it to bad luck but I've seen many others with the same complaints online and not just at GAF.
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