[StalkerUKCG]

""It tastes salty, m'lord."

[Computron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2UXmTGK4M

LOL. Find out what happens on the next episode of DRAGON BALL Z.

[Blue Ninja]

Stinkles is turning more and more into HaloGaf's Uncle Dolan.

I approve.

[NullPointer]

Stinkles is turning more and more into HaloGaf's Uncle Dolan. I approve.

I think he's hiding something.

[Blue Ninja]

I don't want no crouchin' on my stinkin' B-button, though. B's for bashin', that's why it's called B.

Give me a scheme like Halo 3 and let me put my armor ability on X or something. Keep Sprint on the Left Bumper. Real men use Recon and all that.

[Sai-kun]

sorry to be an annoying nerd and repost this but

so stalker and i were talking today while (not) playing and he convinced me to go looking for flights to PAX....so my question is, how much do hotels/a place to stay (that are near the con center) cost? Flying out to seatac from chicago and back is around $450 from what I found in a quick search, might be able to find something cheaper but I'm not sure. Either way it's a bit pricey with just that. I'd also need to (obviously) get a pass for the con, and I don't know how much that is. Thanks in advance for any tips/help :)

Also, the con probably wraps up early on Sunday, right? So I should be look for a flight back on that day, and not monday, correct?

[ElzarTheBam]

I don't want no crouchin' on my stinkin' B-button, though. B's for bashin', that's why it's called B. Give me a scheme like Halo 3 and let me put my armor ability on X or something. Keep Sprint on the Left Bumper. Real men use Recon and all that.

Real men do use recon.

[CyReN]

We have the best slides ever.

[StalkerUKCG]

We have the best slides ever.

They should be hyperlinked images

sorry to be an annoying nerd and repost this but Also, the con probably wraps up early on Sunday, right? So I should be look for a flight back on that day, and not monday, correct?

Annoying Nerd.

3Deep with homeboyd

[Plywood]

Those slides, WHY CAN'T I CLICK ON THEM

[FyreWulff]

sorry to be an annoying nerd and repost this but Also, the con probably wraps up early on Sunday, right? So I should be look for a flight back on that day, and not monday, correct?

I always fly back on the Monday, it's usually cheaper if I leave on Monday (early) than on Sunday.

But I also wait a while before getting tickets, since I can get them cheaper when they're getting desperate to finish filling up a flight.

Hotels next to the center run around 150-180 a night, I think, but it also depends on how willing you are to room share.

[CyReN]

There.

[StalkerUKCG]

I always fly back on the Monday, it's usually cheaper if I leave on Monday (early) than on Sunday. But I also wait a while before getting tickets, since I can get them cheaper when they're getting desperate to finish filling up a flight.

Super risky from the UK thou right?

There.

Fuck what an awesome site, its getting put on my bookmark tool bar

[Plywood]

BR is 5-shot with recoil DMR has bloom, 5 shot kill Pistol has bloom, 6 shots kill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

[FyreWulff]

Super risky from the UK thou right?

I'm not aware of the difficulties flying out international. I guess it could be riskier to wait, I'd probably try to find someone that's flown from the UK.

I bought my plane tickets something like 3 weeks before PAX last year. From Omaha -> Minnesota -> Seattle then Seattle -> Salt Lake City -> Omaha was 340$ for me. If I had bought them a week earlier it would have been 450$. I usually try to wait until a month out

[Kuroyume]

Bloom? Are you serious? And if the DMR has bloom and not the BR then the DMR should be a 4 shot not 5 weapon.

[Plywood]

The DMR was single shot with bloom. However, the bloom reset much faster than the DMR in Halo Reach. I didn't have to pace my shots much at all. Both the DMR and BR were 5-shot weapons in this build. At the end of the night, I preferred the DMR. It shot faster than the BR, took the same amount of shots to kill, and I didn't feel like the bloom made me miss shots all that often.

Bow down to your DMR overlord, team BR BK.

[ElzarTheBam]

Super risky from the UK thou right?

Can be expensive depending on which airline you deal with, please stay away from shitty Ryan air.

[Letters]

If this gif is the result of Letters posting, I can't say I want him to quit.

Ppfftt.. :/

[Plywood]

Magnum also had bloom and was very similar to Halo Reach. It could be shot very fast, but the bloom would make it very inaccurate. It had 8 bullets in the clip and was a 6-shot kill.

Please extend clip to 12 if 6 shot kill.

Ppfftt.. :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

[heckfu]

It's been too long since why you heff to be mad has come back. Thank you based Plylock.

[Plywood]

It's been too long since why you heff to be mad has come back. Thank you based Plylock.

[GhaleonEB]

Ha. Just got back from applying for my passport and stopped by the store.. came home to show the change I got, and saw you did it too. 343: Change we can believe in? Also, I didn't know they took your actual birth certificate when you apply for a passport. I feel so.. undocumented right now.

Where do you live? I haven't seen a Hy-Vee since I left Iowa. My wife used to work at one.

We have the best slides ever.

Read as Hands On Louis Wu. Felt conflicted.

[xxjuicesxx]

I release a lot of shipments to Hy-Vee.

[Tashi]

Read as Hands On Louis Wu. Felt conflicted.

:lol

[zap]

Read as Hands On Louis Wu. Felt conflicted.

He felt conflicted? What does conflicted feel like?

sorry

[MrGreencastle]

Hologram is interesting. I like the idea of messing with players using it. However, it rarely does...

I think the hologram should display the GT of the person who deployed it, and that it should only take half of the "energy" to deploy one.

The rest of the energy could be used to confuse the enemy even further. I'm thinking... after you deploy a hologram, tap the bumper again to have to hologram "fake shoot" in that it looks and sounds like it's shooting the weapon you had, but it doesn't damage anyone.

I don't know, maybe that's silly. Just thought I'd throw the idea out there.

[Plywood]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

However, the bloom reset much faster than the DMR in Halo Reach. I didn't have to pace my shots much at all. Both the DMR and BR were 5-shot weapons in this build. At the end of the night, I preferred the DMR. It shot faster than the BR, took the same amount of shots to kill, and I didn't feel like the bloom made me miss shots all that often.

Halo 4 DMR sounds SOOOO much better, to start with... and it seems more powerful (when I was getting hit, I felt more vulnerable), but it fires slower than Reach DMR.

[Schmitty]

There is bloom in H4? Where have I been?

[Letters]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

different perks activated

[GhaleonEB]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

Perhaps not a conflict. The first reads like a comparison to the Reach DMR optimal firing rate, once the reticule has fully reset. The second sounds like a comparison to the Reach DMR's maximum firing rate. I take that to mean, the locked firing rate of the Halo 4 DMR lies between the two.

[Tashi]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

Well 343 said it fires slower than the Reach DMR at what I figured was max speed. However, I'm guessing it shoots faster than the Reach DMR full paced with bloom.

[lybertyboy]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

Those statements (as I read them) are not in conflict.

[Steelyuhas]

Okay so conflicting reports on the DMR:

I would assume one person was comparing to zero bloom max ROF of the DMR to the ROF of full vanilla bloom reset.

So Halo 4 DMR fires faster than Reach's full bloom reset, but slower than Reach's max DMR ROF.

EDIT: Beaten

[Franklinator]

Perhaps not a conflict. The first reads like a comparison to the Reach DMR optimal firing rate, once the reticule has fully reset. The second sounds like a comparison to the Reach DMR's maximum firing rate. I take that to mean, the locked firing rate of the Halo 4 DMR lies between the two.

That's what I'm getting out of it.

[CyReN]

Where do you live? I haven't seen a Hy-Vee since I left Iowa. My wife used to work at one. Read as Hands On Louis Wu. Felt conflicted.

I knew that would happen lol.

[MrGreencastle]

Perhaps not a conflict. The first reads like a comparison to the Reach DMR optimal firing rate, once the reticule has fully reset. The second sounds like a comparison to the Reach DMR's maximum firing rate. I take that to mean, the locked firing rate of the Halo 4 DMR lies between the two.

I thought so, too. If the DMR fires slower, but has the same (or faster) reticle bloom reset, then surely the bloom would seem like it doesn't effect shooting as much.

[Plywood]

different perks activated

oh you

Perhaps not a conflict. The first reads like a comparison to the Reach DMR optimal firing rate, once the reticule has fully reset. The second sounds like a comparison to the Reach DMR's maximum firing rate. I take that to mean, the locked firing rate of the Halo 4 DMR lies between the two.

Well 343 said it fires slower than the Reach DMR at what I figured was max speed. However, I'm guessing it shoots faster than the Reach DMR full paced with bloom.

Those statements (as I read them) are not in conflict.

I would assume one person was comparing to zero bloom max ROF of the DMR to the ROF of full vanilla bloom reset. So Halo 4 DMR fires faster than Reach's full bloom reset, but slower than Reach's max DMR ROF. EDIT: Beaten

Okay, makes sense now.

[NullPointer]

Hey 343, feel free to drop me a line if you ever need super secret Spartan Ops testers.

I'm both a 34th degree Freemason, Greater Poop of the Paratheoanametamystickhood of Eris Esoteric as well as a Master Chopper in the Woodcutters guild.

I've also killed a man with my bare hands.

[GhaleonEB]

I'm going to put out a possibility:

The Halo 4 DMR does not feature bloom. However, the reticule expands upon firing and resets fully in lockstep with the fixed firing rate, the same way the Reach sniper rifle 'bloom' works. In that sense it's not so much bloom as a visual signal for when the next shot can be fired.

That might explain why people felt bloom was in, but didn't notice it affecting their play.

VVV

I'm gonna guess Omaha, or at least that's where the hyvee was. ;p

Oh, duh. The address is right there. :lol

[Karl2177]

Where do you live? I haven't seen a Hy-Vee since I left Iowa. My wife used to work at one. Read as Hands On Louis Wu. Felt conflicted.

I'm gonna guess Omaha, or at least that's where the hyvee was. ;p

[The Henery]

I thought they'd avoid bloom like the plague after the reaction to it in Reach. Brave of them to use it again.

I'm going to put out a possibility: The Halo 4 DMR does not feature bloom. However, the reticule expands upon firing and resets fully in lockstep with the fixed firing rate, the same way the Reach sniper rifle 'bloom' works. In that sense it's not so much bloom as a visual signal for when the next shot can be fired. That might explain why people felt bloom was in, but didn't notice it affecting their play.

I'd prefer that to be the case but, as with the Reach sniper visual bloom, it's completely pointless.

Please be no blooming reticle on the Halo 4 sniper.

[heckfu]

I hear with every ticket you purchase to see the Beach Boys, Ellis gives you a free pass to the H4 beta.

See you boys on the other side.

[ElzarTheBam]

I hear with every ticket you purchase to see the Beach Boys, Ellis gives you a free pass to the H4 beta. See you boys on the other side.

What is it with you and boys?

[zap]

I'm going to put out a possibility: The Halo 4 DMR does not feature bloom. However, the reticule expands upon firing and resets fully in lockstep with the fixed firing rate, the same way the Reach sniper rifle 'bloom' works. In that sense it's not so much bloom as a visual signal for when the next shot can be fired. That might explain why people felt bloom was in, but didn't notice it affecting their play.

Yeah that was my impression (see this from the previous page).

Judging from Killa KC's imnpressions, I would say that the DMR bloom is more like the bloom on the Sniper in Reach - doesn't affect your shots, just tells you when to next pull the trigger. A visual aid to get the timing right (correct me if I am wrong Frankie).

[PsychoWARD23]

lol, they changed the name of Forerunner Vision? The internet can be influencing thing

[Kibbles]

^Hopefully Spartan Points and Spartan Ops are next.

[ElzarTheBam]

lol, they changed the name of Forerunner Vision? The internet can be influencing thing

In all honesty, it still sounds bad. The name that is.

[GhaleonEB]

Yeah that was my impression (see this from the previous page).

I haven't caught up on posts from my commute home, so I missed that post. I strongly suspect this is the case and there's much ado about nothing afoot.

[heckfu]

What is it with you and boys?

What is it with you and pedantic gay jokes?