It's a different kinda raid.
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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It's a different kinda raid.
TheOhrenberger.
Banned
Yup. We can complain about how 343 has SMG starts all we want, but why on earth do people vote for them over BR starts? I just don't get it.Because it's what the community wants apparantley. Fkn terrible, all of them.
At least you enjoyed the Halo 5 beta, unlike some other peasants I know.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Looks like Vex architecture
VisceralBowl
Member
I didn't actually think about that, but now I can't unsee it.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Should be complaining about Matchmaking still limiting our online experience and no other options to play with randoms. 2015, will this be the year Halo receives a CGB? Doubtful, but like Justin Bieber said, never say never.
Evil so evil it despises other evil
I've been trying to mess around with weapon swapping in the project more, sadly haven't made too much progress. However I did figure out what was wrong with the Ammo counter being messed up! It now goes to the weapon to get the ammo counter but it stays at 0 because its having issues getting the data for some reason.
Progress though!
Poodlestrike
Banned
This is what happened to Bungie. You start out making Halo, then you end up with Destiny by accident.
Next thing we know, you'll be telling us that spawning with shotties is totally fine.
Yeah it seems to be the direction they're going based on H5's Light Rifle. Hopefully it continues like that.
Oh god my sides
Lookin good dude. Keep up the good work.
Halo 4 and halo online let you spawn with what basically is a shotgun :|
Poodlestrike
Banned
Fine, sniper then.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
CE let you spawn with the Magnum.
Halo 2&3 the BR.
Reach the DMR.
Halo 4 everything.
Says those people who voted for Gemini.
That's some 10th grade creative writing class right there.
VisceralBowl
Member
Favorite big team maps?
There is gonna be a Guardian remix and some big team map that I have yet to determine.
There is gonna be a Guardian remix and some big team map that I have yet to determine.
lmao
If I was Chief, I would be pissed, too. Such a unneccessary change just for the sake of the modern shooter crowd and to please stupid reviewers.
Sidewinder/Avalanche or maybe Rats Nest are probably my favorites.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Fata1moose
Banned
I found this funnier than I should have.
wesleyshark
Banned
umadbro?
Come on, I liked the beta aswell. But the change to ADS was totally unnecessary and catering to other people than the general Halo community.
But,
But I like ADS
Where do you draw the line on who is the general Halo community?
It's no different than people who vote for SMGs on Gemini, as much as you all hate to admit it, there are people who actually enjoy that Halo gameplay.
But I like ADS
It would be such a non-issue for me, if we could have a toggle for classic scopes and ADS.
Am I wrong, though?
343i actually said, that they are making these changes, so it's easier for people to get into Halo. I mean, if you have to write an essay about why Sprint belongs into Halo, without going into the gameplay aspect and how Halo actually benefits from it and your only arguement is lore and immersion... Well yeah...
A reviewer that gives a lower review, because a game "isn't modern enough" just shows his ignorance and stupidness. Sorry, but I think reviews are stupid in general.
well the way I see it with how the story is going 343 are LITERALLY going to kill chief....
If he does die, my love for the series will die with John, no matter how fucked up he is even if he killed a whole planet of babies, puppies and kittens he's my friend.
Halo was fine before ADS and playing on bumper jumper on ADS is quite literally the most jarring experience I have ever had, so much for it's just cosmetic, RIGHT? and the sword lunges didn't dramatically change using ADS.
If he does die, my love for the series will die with John, no matter how fucked up he is even if he killed a whole planet of babies, puppies and kittens he's my friend.
Halo was fine before ADS and playing on bumper jumper on ADS is quite literally the most jarring experience I have ever had, so much for it's just cosmetic, RIGHT? and the sword lunges didn't dramatically change using ADS.
wesleyshark
Banned
I'm a self proclaimed Halo junkie, especially as far as the lore is concerned. I play multi-player but not religiously, so I dunno, I can see maybe why big changes can upset some people, but... All of the other shooters I play have ADS so it absolutely makes sense that they'd follow the trend, there. I dunno. I just enjoy all of it haha.
samurai1226
Member
I think 343i already stated that they need more characters in the Halo franchise that are not dying, so I'm pretty sure John, Locke and even Cortana will be alive at the end of Halo 5.
"We also had a tendency to kill all of our characters besides Master Chief. We are not Game of Thrones, and we actually want to make sure going forward we have a larger cast of characters with which to tell stories."
Source
"We also had a tendency to kill all of our characters besides Master Chief. We are not Game of Thrones, and we actually want to make sure going forward we have a larger cast of characters with which to tell stories."
Source
wesleyshark
Banned
They aren't going to. He's got quite a lot of legs left in his journey.
I dunno man, they also said that Halo 4 multiplayer was going to be good....
They are not going to kill him. Master Chief is the face of Halo and of the Xbox brand. It would be like Nintendo killing Mario.
Funny that you brought this up.
If I remember correctly, the default control sheme allows to get into ADS again, if you hold LT and are getting shot at. Not possible with Bumper Jumper and the response as to if this will be adjusted for every control scheme was a negative, I think.
I think you either accept that change, or you lose de-scope.
Regret Upon Approval
Member
Yeah, biggest example of that probably being the last third or so of H3 where they knocked off like 4 major characters and came as close as they could probably bring themselves to writing off the MC with being lost in the void of space.
Halo definitely could be doing better with creating, developing, and actually keeping characters. But 343i doesn't have much room to talk while they continue offing characters in side media.
That's funny, because they really haven't killed that many characters, once you subtract all the random Spartans. I'd say losing the Prophets, killing the Gravemind, et al were perfectly natural results of the climaxing plot, whereas saying "Game of Thrones" implies people will get killed off at any moment. If Cortana had died in the third mission of Halo 4 I could see the comparison.
Top tier reply. Thanks for the confirmation.
Personally, it didn't feel much different to me. I was playing with bumper jumper, like I always do. I actually loved how the BR scope felt. It being "aim down sights" literally didn't factor into my enjoyment at all.
Now the pistol, I couldn't hit shit scoped in with that thing; which is weird because I love the hand cannons in destiny.
Is Thorne still alive*? If so, would be interesting to involve him (and possibly Buck) in the main storyline.
*(haven't read like any of the extended media)
jailbird20022
Banned
or you know, 343 could fix it.
Gnome Scat
Member
I don't know if I'm behind on this, but in Master Chief's commercial, was he talking about himself in the beginning?
I always hated how they handled Miranda
I thought they were going to address the descope issue, but I can't find a source so maybe not. The thing is with bumper jumper it doesn't matter, because you just make sure you never get hit.
Nintendo should come out with a campaign that if not enough people buy a WiiU then Mario dies. Although I'm sure with some of the mobile stuff happening some will feel that is already happening.
Oh you.
I'm saying I think the default control scheme works that way because to new people coming in, the de-scope mechanic is foreign enough as it is. Not bringing them back into scope if they still have the trigger held in would completely turn them off of the game.
There's nothing to fix, I think it's intentionally designed that way. Maybe they could add it to the other control schemes (I'd rather they didn't), but they're not going to take it away from the default scheme, because like I said, they would take de-scoping out before they would do that, IMO.
samurai1226
Member
What were the major characters in Halo CE to 3?
Chief, Cortana, Captain Keyes, 343GS, Prophets, Arbitor, Johnson, Miranda, Gravemind. Besides Chief, Cortana and Arby everyone died in Halo 3 - And Chief and Cortana went missing.
Halo 4 introduced a few characters, but the major ones Didact and Cortana died (even though the Didact really died later in Escalation and Cortana is of course not really dead).
So with Halo 5 there are not really that much big characters people can relate to. Locke is the first one that really seems interesting. Palmer and Lasky didnt really matter to the story, Del Rio had his moments to let the chief question his orders.
There are a lot of cool characters in the expended franchise, but the games themself really need big roles besides the Master Chief.
I guess the reference to GoT meant to say, that compared to GoT they cant afford to let much characters die, because they are not introducing enough. GoT follows what, 10+ big characters and 20+ minor ones in season 4 on tv?
Gnome Scat
Member
Well it could be directed at Locke but also apply to himself. Chief could be going through a bit of an existential crisis. Is his life the life he wanted?