Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Which leads into another game anyway. It's social who gives a fuck.
What's 100x more detrimental to "fun" is when you're stuck alone vs a full team and you know no one can join to even things up.
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Which leads into another game anyway. It's social who gives a fuck.
What's 100x more detrimental to "fun" is when you're stuck alone vs a full team and you know no one can join to even things up.
Well, I guess I should fill this out.
Are you a very recently approved member of neogaf?
Yes, registered last July and approved this January.
What country are you posting from and whats your current age.
I'm from Ontario, Canada, but going to college in Vancouver BC. I'm 19 since last October.
At what age did you get into Halo and with which game.
Can't remember the very first time, but it was Halo 2, and I was 13.
For how long have you been reading HaloGAF?
I checked here every so often for a few years, but only really started lurking HaloGAF at the beginning of last year. You were all so endearing.
Whats your absolute favorite Halo campaign? And your favorite multiplayer? (youre not allowed to pick Halo: Combat Evolved for any of the two)
I loved ODST's; the cinematics, the supppresed SMG, and Nathan Fillion. Favorite levels? NMPD HQ, and Tayari Plaza.
Favourite multiplayer is probably H3, but only slightly more than H2. Don't know why, really.
Highest Halo 3 level and which playlist.
45 in SWAT, and 45 in Lone Wolves. I never had a team, so I gave up on TS (40).
AR or BR?
BR. Disliked the reticule though, I never had any faith in it mid-long range because of the reticule.
Absolute favorite multiplayer map from Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and 3 (just one from each).
CE: Sidewinder
H2: Midship
H3: Call me crazy, but default Foundry was one of my favourites. My absolute is unsurprisingly The Pit.
Least hated Reach mp map.(excluding Anniversary pack)
Breakpoint.
Do you prefer BTB or MLG? (pre-Reach era)
Uhhh.. Dont play either one really, but MLG FFA is fun.
Competitive multiplayer or Firefight?
Multiplayer warrior; Firefight is fun, but ODST's was just more enjoyable than Reach's for me.
I also forge, but it's like Lego for me more than anything: just something I do for the hell of it.
Games completed on solo Legendary.
Halo 2, Halo 3. Heroic for CE, Reach and ODST.
Are you EazyB? Mike DongBlain?
Errr ahh, nnnooo.
What are some of your favorite Campaign missions.
I like the long slogs with big battles. AotCR, The Covenant and The Ark, and New Alexandria.
Favorite Reach playlists.
Mostly FFA these days.
Anniversary FFA, Squad. Noble Map Pack was awesome too.
Size of frankie erotica folder (in megabytes).
However many hundreds of Gigs the old Bungie podcasts were. Fellow Scottish accents turn me on.
Opinion on reticule bloom.
I can't stand vanilla bloom, but 85% is pretty much perfect. ZB is awful.
But for H4, fuck no.
Opinion on Armor Abilities and the one you usually end up picking.
There is literally no redeeming value about AA's for me. I really, [b[really[/b] tried to appreciate them. But armor lock and jet pack just shit on me over and over. Even TU AL is unbearable. I never want to see a dedicated system for such equipment ever again in Halo.
I use sprint. But even then I find that I do use it as a crutch.
Why are you a Halo fan?
I think it's a nice mixture of love for the universe fiction and the mild euphoria rage produces.
I generally like multi though.
Are you a very recently approved member of neogaf?
Yes, registered last July and approved this January.
What country are you posting from and whats your current age.
I'm from Ontario, Canada, but going to college in Vancouver BC. I'm 19 since last October.
At what age did you get into Halo and with which game.
Can't remember the very first time, but it was Halo 2, and I was 13.
For how long have you been reading HaloGAF?
I checked here every so often for a few years, but only really started lurking HaloGAF at the beginning of last year. You were all so endearing.
Whats your absolute favorite Halo campaign? And your favorite multiplayer? (youre not allowed to pick Halo: Combat Evolved for any of the two)
I loved ODST's; the cinematics, the supppresed SMG, and Nathan Fillion. Favorite levels? NMPD HQ, and Tayari Plaza.
Favourite multiplayer is probably H3, but only slightly more than H2. Don't know why, really.
Highest Halo 3 level and which playlist.
45 in SWAT, and 45 in Lone Wolves. I never had a team, so I gave up on TS (40).
AR or BR?
BR. Disliked the reticule though, I never had any faith in it mid-long range because of the reticule.
Absolute favorite multiplayer map from Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and 3 (just one from each).
CE: Sidewinder
H2: Midship
H3: Call me crazy, but default Foundry was one of my favourites. My absolute is unsurprisingly The Pit.
Least hated Reach mp map.(excluding Anniversary pack)
Breakpoint.
Do you prefer BTB or MLG? (pre-Reach era)
Uhhh.. Dont play either one really, but MLG FFA is fun.
Competitive multiplayer or Firefight?
Multiplayer warrior; Firefight is fun, but ODST's was just more enjoyable than Reach's for me.
I also forge, but it's like Lego for me more than anything: just something I do for the hell of it.
Games completed on solo Legendary.
Halo 2, Halo 3. Heroic for CE, Reach and ODST.
Are you EazyB? Mike DongBlain?
Errr ahh, nnnooo.
What are some of your favorite Campaign missions.
I like the long slogs with big battles. AotCR, The Covenant and The Ark, and New Alexandria.
Favorite Reach playlists.
Mostly FFA these days.
Anniversary FFA, Squad. Noble Map Pack was awesome too.
Size of frankie erotica folder (in megabytes).
However many hundreds of Gigs the old Bungie podcasts were. Fellow Scottish accents turn me on.
Opinion on reticule bloom.
I can't stand vanilla bloom, but 85% is pretty much perfect. ZB is awful.
But for H4, fuck no.
Opinion on Armor Abilities and the one you usually end up picking.
There is literally no redeeming value about AA's for me. I really, [b[really[/b] tried to appreciate them. But armor lock and jet pack just shit on me over and over. Even TU AL is unbearable. I never want to see a dedicated system for such equipment ever again in Halo.
I use sprint. But even then I find that I do use it as a crutch.
Why are you a Halo fan?
I think it's a nice mixture of love for the universe fiction and the mild euphoria rage produces.
Only sort of kidding. Not a bad enough dude to go for the 360 out the window achievement, but I've busted the stick in on one of my controllers from a particularly bullshit TS game mid-2011.
I just said non ranked, WHO CARES? It's better than watching half your team drop out in the lobby or in the first second of the match because they got killed.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
So, I was trying to experiment and see what would help the new MC design. I moved the shoulder pads in and up which IMO really helped the design. Also, I would get rid of the things that look like huge eyes on his chest.
Anyways, I would love to see our more Photoshop savvy members attempt to show what they would like to see from MC in Halo 4.
Disclaimer- I have no idea how to use Photoshop and its the first time I have used it in years, I know its not well done.
Anyways, I would love to see our more Photoshop savvy members attempt to show what they would like to see from MC in Halo 4.
This is some next level shit, but imagine if you are playing a ranked game where a bunch of ppl quit out. That game then becomes unranked and now ppl can join it, drop in drop out style. Or another alternative, is remaining players can choose to leave that now worthless ranked game to join an in-progress unranked game, while they are still in the ranked game everyone quit out.
It looks a bit better, although it makes Chiefs noodly bi's and tri's look even weaker. I don't like the fan-out pad; probably won't be satisfied until it's gone.
The Librarian
Banned
I care because social is all I play; I don't like going into ranked. Honestly, I think the best way to retain players is to provide the best mixture of maps and gametypes.
I'm not saying drop-in, drop-out is a bad means to solving the quitting problem, but as I said, I'm not sold on it. I'm not sure if the benefits outweigh the costs. I mean, I guess we won't know until its tried (like in some form of beta), and I would be willing to give it a try.
Works in Gears. It would work in Halo as well. I'm all for it.
Don't be scared, homie.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Plus all you crappy players could post your sweet comebacks when you got dropped into a game down 20 points and won.
Rickenslacker
Banned
That actually looks a lot more tolerable. Shrink the gargantuan jetpack boosters/hooks/whatever too and he'll look alright.
Edit: Something like this? My editing here is ass but hopefully it gets the point across.
Says the guy too scared to play GAF customs because he doesn't want to lose.
What are these GAF customs you speak of?
Try some anny classic, team snipers on HiH. Christ man, there's a playlist for Snipers, why is it an option in normal lists? All red bars except one guy was just icing on the cake.
When the TU first came out, GAF was setting up gametypes and playing Customs pretty regularly, Juices always avoided them because he didn't want to tryhard against other GAF members who were good at the game.
Ah, I thought you were talking about recent customs. Yeah, I took part in a couple of those, pretty sure I made Juices ragequit during one of them.
For those that missed it, the Bungie mailbag.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=32038
I sent BS angel a PM a few days ago asking if 343 could answer how that's going to work in a bulletin, so I guess the answer is now if 343 is going to re-implement the functionality on Waypoint.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=32038
I sent BS angel a PM a few days ago asking if 343 could answer how that's going to work in a bulletin, so I guess the answer is now if 343 is going to re-implement the functionality on Waypoint.
Barrow Roll
Member
Totally remember this. :lol
Nice. But who gets awarded what rank-wise while doing the switch?? You can't just have the games "not count", people would quit out of spite to rob the people beating them out of their "rank points".
Because the lessons weren't learned the last three times the same mistake was made in this series. You'd think they would have realized that people want a separate list by now.
Who are the top of the food chain around here? As a newer member, I must challenge the throne and establish my authority within the community.
I'm exceedingly average at this game.
Who usually runs the customs, by the way?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Last time I played GAF customs I shit on everyone. Posted huge +'s and won every game. Your statement is invalid.
I think player rank should be a comprehensive scoring system based on how well you play and how much you win. If someone quits they should lose rank points similar to a bunch of betrayals or something. The players that stay in the game would have whatever rank points accumulated while the game was still valid stop right there once it becomes invalid when players quit. Then it turns into a social game with no bearing on rank. Win/Loss will not be calculated for players that choose to remain in the now social game, but players that quit while the game was still ranked get a Loss.
Barrow Roll
Member
Tell you who's not, that Tashi kid. Gaaaaaarbaaaaage.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=807977966&player=LiLBlain
Yep, Blinding made you rage quit this one.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=808004962&player=LiLBlain
Went neg 9 in this one.
He's got heart.
You have never beaten me and you never will. Borg can't adapt fast enough to beat my shit.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Semi Often, Mostly just hi but iv had a few creepers in the past. "ask frankie *this*" and some assuming i worked for 343.
M0dZ
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
You would have a machine in your ass!
:lol :lol I forgot I had clipped him quitting, ohboy.
Dax or Ghaleon for sure.
Another request for 4, 1 sided objective matches should only be 1 round per side, I'd say less than 25% of TO games I've played have been able to keep a full match for 4 rounds. Most of them should have ended because the other team couldn't win anyways, but that's another thing altogether.
What costs? It's social.
Shouldn't it just be best of 3? Both teams would have to play at least one round on offense and one on defense. First team to win two rounds wins, game over. No bullshit round when a team can't win.
I would be more in favor of 2 rounds, with the winner being whoever capped or planted the fastest. The more rounds you add, the less likely you are to get people to stay once stuff goes sour, sad, but true.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Make a 1v1 playlist that can only be entered when drunk, of course you'll need the Xbox 360 Breathalyzer USB add-on.
I will see you there.
That sounds like a modified gametype for an attack and defend style game mode. Blitz 1Flag or something like that. I understand your sentiment, but 3 rounds max that are capped at 3-4 mins shouldn't be hard to complete. It's 8-12 minutes, most objective games last that long. If people can't play Halo for more than 5 mins at a time, stick to Slayer.
The 400 people in TO right now shows that they do. I dunno, I was just throwing some ideas out since I had a guy quit on my team after the 1st round because the other team capped. I'm just really sick of quitters in general with this game.
That's where my other suggestion comes into play. But really it's just Reach, people don't like it enough to stick around when they are losing. Best bet is to make a good game and give player's options so they are playing what they want to play, and even if they are losing the game should still be somewhat fun. Reach is not like that, so people are going to quit. Too many people are also just salty assholes that hate losing regardless, they don't have fun unless they are winning in any game.
This is why I feel drop in/drop out is almost a necessity in the gaming landscape these days. Either that, or penalize someone harshly within the game. I don't like the quit ban, because it effects legit disconnects, so I don't really have any answer there.
Steelyuhas
Member
Truly the million dollar question.
What do you do in ranked? Because people will quit that too. Quit ban? Considering the stakes, seems more than reasonable. They can go to the social side.
In ranked, a automatic loss in rank might make people stay. If social has DIDO, then it wouldn't matter.
Yea, unlimited scoring is another option to whoever scored the fastest.
And the moment the attacking team in the second round has scored more points than the attacking team in the first round did the game should end immediately. No reason to keep playing after that.
There will be no white flag above my door.
Give quitters a giant head (DK Mode) for each game that they quit, and the only way to remove the penalty is to complete a game. If you quit 20 games, you have to go through 20 full games to remove the penalty. Make it cumulative, so the more quits you rack up without clearing them out makes your head bigger and bigger.
If you're a quitting little bitch, you get a giant fucking head like the broad side of a barn for newbs to headshot with ease.
If you're a quitting little bitch, you get a giant fucking head like the broad side of a barn for newbs to headshot with ease.
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