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Halo: Reach |OT4| This Thread is Not Your Grave, But You Are Welcome In It
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Hitmonchan107
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"Pick 'em up, set 'em down."Ken said:
"High speed, low drag."
Wait, that's not right...
A million kudos if you can guess what game that's actually from.
I'm hopping back on Halo 3.
Major Williams
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You'll never hear "tank beats everything!" in that game.Ken said:
Hydranockz
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C&C Red Alert 2 or Tiberium Sun lol. Gimme a few more minutes for my brain to work out which...Hitmonchan107 said:
[Tiberium Sun, final answer!]
Edit: Fuuuuck, it's eating my brains out trying to think of it. I want to say it's one of the troop transport units too.
Edit2: Almost certain it is TS. GDI transport unit of some kind.
bobs...onGaf
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MrBig said:
Woah, I thought it was a good game, as an RTS its extremely simplistic so I can see why that would put you off, but its worth going through the campaign, I felt it was a nice Halo experiance which was a bit out of the norm.
The multiplayer can also be fantastic if you hold off against an initial rush and destroy your opponent with a massive army
Wow, Bro Slayer is freaking terrible. Spawned out in the middle of Hemmorhage like 5 times in a game. Played ANOTHER GAME after that (for fuck's sake) on Boneyard and wow the spawning on that map is just unbelievably bad. People were spawning behind me all the time inside the middle structure. It wasn't like they had a buddy there just hiding so they could pop out. They would just spawn right behind me because the game put them there.
Hydranockz
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In bro slayer you can spawn off any other player or the maps default spawns... Pretty sure Boneyard or Hemmorhage don't have spawns that far into the map.Kuroyume said:
Hitmonchan107
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Hydranockz
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FuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckHitmonchan107 said:
So close too!
Hitmonchan107
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The Running Riot Podcast is live! Go here and join in!
It'll be worth it to watch David Ellis choke.
It'll be worth it to watch David Ellis choke.
I kid! I kid! You'll be awesome, as always.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Hitmonchan107 said:
Don't get cocky kid.
Hitmonchan107
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Oh, I'm in your game now, bro. It's on.lybertyboy said:
Lake Minnetonka
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Less than 20 viewers...Hitmonchan107 said:
What is this?
Hydranockz
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It was a good show. Props to Duncan for wiping the floor during their quick game
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Hydranockz said:It was a good show. Props to Duncan for wiping the floor during their quick game
I'm totally wrecking him in the post-show matches. Just had to made it look good for the show.
ncsuDuncan
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Yeah, my aimbot only works in custom games... and with the sword...lybertyboy said:
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Permabanned.ncsuDuncan said:
Hitmonchan107
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Great job, Ellis.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Old?
ncsuDuncan
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NOKYARD said:
What, the Running Riot map? Seemed fine. Nothing broken except for us audience members making too much noise...
So the past few days my Firefight connections have been quite poor. And I just checked the in-game Network Status via the Start menu, and it has a big warning on my upstream bandwidth, saying it's suboptimal and such.
I did a speed test, and I'm running at 20 down and 3.6 up, after a few tests. I have no idea if that's good (enough) or what I should do. Any advice?
Totally different subject: Please turn on betrayal booting in Firefight, I'm sick of high ranking asshats spattering me so they can get vehicle kills or otherwise just screw around. David, Urk, someone, please turn it on. Jeremiah said in Optimatch that the options Bungie has to configure Firefight are the same we have. I'm sure the interface and matchmaking integration are very different, but this should be a no-brainer setting. It's enabling griefing like nothing else right now.
I did a speed test, and I'm running at 20 down and 3.6 up, after a few tests. I have no idea if that's good (enough) or what I should do. Any advice?
Totally different subject: Please turn on betrayal booting in Firefight, I'm sick of high ranking asshats spattering me so they can get vehicle kills or otherwise just screw around. David, Urk, someone, please turn it on. Jeremiah said in Optimatch that the options Bungie has to configure Firefight are the same we have. I'm sure the interface and matchmaking integration are very different, but this should be a no-brainer setting. It's enabling griefing like nothing else right now.
Hitmonchan107
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I didn't realize I was making so much noise until they joined us up top.ncsuDuncan said:What, the Running Riot map? Seemed fine. Nothing broken except for us audience members making too much noise...
Yeah. He has the mixing equipment. I don't see why he doesn't split the guest's mic from the game sound and lower the background noise. I do it quite easily using only Soundflower and a few cables.ncsuDuncan said:What, the Running Riot map? Seemed fine. Nothing broken except for us audience members making too much noise...
Steelyuhas
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GhaleonEB said:
By connection fluctuates from 15 MBPS upload to 50 (because its shared, still pretty good for upload either way) and I get Firefight connections all over the board. Some are pretty smooth, others are literally a picture book.
Your connection is fine (certainly better than mine, given those numbers), I've had the warning pop up several times over the last couple of months for no reason. With Firefight, unfortunately, the latency is dependent on the weakest link in the group. If somebody has a shitty connection then everybody gets that lag because their box has to wait on his inputs. Hooray for synchronous lockstep models :/ The off-host input lag in all the campaign and firefight stuff since Halo 3 has been one of the biggest bummers for me (it's better in Reach, at least).GhaleonEB said:
Steelyuhas
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Havok said:
Is it really that much better?
I was very pleased with the HUGE networking improvements on the multiplayer side for Reach, but I don't really feel like it got that much better for Campaign/Firefight.
Thanks guys. I'll continue to use the good connection criteria and hope for the best It's usually pretty good but I got a bad streak the past few days.
Yes. The number of low lag games in ODST I could count on one hand. With Reach, poor connections are (usually) the exception for me.Steelyuhas said:
Hitmonchan107
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I got four questions in on The Running Riot Podcast:
Could you describe the difference in atmosphere between games journalism and something like 343?
When can we expect the next 343 Sparkast?
What's your favorite part about working at 343? (lol)
You guys talked about celebrating at PAX, was that a decision from 343 or was that something Microsoft decided?
I also liked my deep "Let's do this!" before the quick match.
Could you describe the difference in atmosphere between games journalism and something like 343?
When can we expect the next 343 Sparkast?
What's your favorite part about working at 343? (lol)
You guys talked about celebrating at PAX, was that a decision from 343 or was that something Microsoft decided?
I also liked my deep "Let's do this!" before the quick match.
Short film, rendered.Recarpo said:
Yes, it counts as a betrayal. As with Multiplayer, it often won't register if you're taking damage from the enemy and a team mate finishes you off. But the straight up splatters I'm talking about count as betrayals, and are recorded as a penalty in the post-game stats; they would trigger the boot player prompt if betrayal booting was enabled.
This is true. But I've also had mostly good connections in custom games (or games with parties) as well, and which was as I said almost never the case in ODST.MrBig said:
Well that could be accounted toward it being custom games and not matchmaking. In ODST all you could do was bring in friends and they could be in any part of the world. Reach's FF matchmaking looks for people in your region and tries to filter for best connection. The way that the networking system in the campaign networking model makes distance a huge factor, and distance exponentially increases delay.GhaleonEB said:
I've noticed a really large improvement. It's still not great, but it's better. Firefight in ODST and Campaign in Halo 3 were a total mess for the people off-host, with inputs taking practically a full half second to register at times, while I've done every single LASO run with a friend online, which flat out wouldn't have been possible before. However, I hope they either find a way to make it perfect, or move to a different model (Gears never had this issue as far as I remember, for example. On a related note, and this is pure speculation on my part, I think that the synchronous model might be one of the major barriers to doing jump-in jump-out coop in Halo.).Steelyuhas said: