The new sound effects seal the deal. Putting the rocket into the rocket launcher sounds like music to my ears.
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Halo Anniversary |OT| It All Comes Full Circle
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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The Warthog is controls like garbage in CE compared to Halo 2 and beyond.
The sounds are definitely more 'chunky'
Perhaps something about it ruined it for you, but feel that each Halo game can be different and still be a Halo game in spirit. We shouldn't get too far off topic thoActually slightly on topic. I wonder if these discussion terrify the 343i guys. Nothing can be harder than trying to innovate and satisfy your base at the same time.
SPEAK TO US OF TERROR, 343ies.
It's not off-topic, CEA comes with Reach multiplayer maps.
The fact that 343 felt the need to even attempt a TU, and add in Anniversary gametypes gives me hope that they will being going in the completely opposite direction for Halo 4.
The Xtortionist
Member
Reach had good variety but the quality of the animations weren't great imo. CE's pistol, AR, shotgun, rockets, sniper have way better draw/reload animations. Especially the pistol, by god. When you pull that thing out the game is basically saying "You're going to ruin some poor motherfucker's day."
They're really small things but I like feeling like a badass when I draw or reload a weapon. Just a minor thing that bugs the hell out of me if the animations are poor. Not a gamebreaker but I'd like to see some cool stuff for Halo 4.
ElRenoRaven
Member
To hell it does. The Warthog in Halo 1 still has not been topped. Halo 2's was ok. Halo 3's was meh. Reach's Warthog is a fucking abomination that should not even have the name Warthog.
A27_StarWolf
Banned
How is the new firefight map, Ghaleon?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Fixed.
A27_StarWolf
Banned
This has to be one of the most overrated series of all time. I've played it, its not fun at all. Skyrim has frozen on me twice, while I was trying to play for the first time, and furthermore the combat has always felt really, really, clunky.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
They fixed all the bugs? I doubt it.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
For decades, we've fought an alien enemy we do not understand. Unprovoked, they brought our civilization to its knees, and forced us into hiding.
Hmm, possibly
Precursor related?
EDIT: That dialogue is seen if you have the subtitles on.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
ElRenoRaven
Member
Could be due to him not having entered any Halo Anniversary terminals yet.
Oh, that would explain it then
higherARC05
Banned
Ya me too. Just right now xbl is acting funny. Keeps telling me to update my payment plan too even after i did keeps doing it and singing me off xbl.
WTF
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Using that cheat sheet, I deciphered the rest of the symbols at the end of the terminals:
343GS
HALO4
SPARK
FLOOD
EARTH
DEMON
RINGS
ARRAY
HUMAN
HAVEN
343GS
HALO4
SPARK
FLOOD
EARTH
DEMON
RINGS
ARRAY
HUMAN
HAVEN
ElRenoRaven
Member
So you guys for this Red herring added a short video of a test pattern? Sounds like an odd thing to do if this terminal is not to get used at any future date. If anything a simple oops page or something would be better wouldn't it?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
So best egg still hasnt been found yet?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Better than extra Terminals?
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Time to think of 10 symbol combinations to use
spartan117
Jencortana
MCoverface
spartan117
Jencortana
MCoverface
GodfatherX
Member
frankiesux
try it
try it
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Does it have anything to do with the fact that the DMR's serial number shows up on something in Anniversary?
Because the DMR's serial number is on something in anniversary and there appears to be an encoded string right next to it.
Hypertrooper
Member
The best thing about this decipher is, 343i can add symbols to every Halo-related product. Maybe we will find a code in Halo: Primordium? Maybe at the end of a Halo 4 trailer or of a new motion comic.
Reach was a step in the right direction for "grittiness", they rebooted the look of all the Covenant characters for the better, and the human facial models made the game feel a lot more realistic than Halo 3.
Halo 4 needs to turn the "gritty" dial to 11, though. It will still feel fantastical because of the Forerunner architecture, but the look of the gun models needs to feel even more grounded than Reach, and the environment lighting needs to squeeze as much atmosphere as they can out of the 360. I want it to be hard sci-fi as fuck. No sound in space either.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Oh, now Im confused...does this mean that there is still something to be discovered with the terminal codes?
So, you already said no 12th terminal.. I suppose that doesnt rule out there being other uses or secrets hidden in that terminal input thing?
So, you already said no 12th terminal.. I suppose that doesnt rule out there being other uses or secrets hidden in that terminal input thing?
AlmostMilk
Member
You are running two game engines simultaneously, what else can you expect.
Lockstep networking and the fact that Halo 1 wasn't set up to be networked at all, let alone campaign?
It's going to be real sensitive to high-latency internets just like Reach Firefight/Campaign co-op and ODST Firefight/Campaign co-op.
The fact is I'm still paying for an online co-op experience that is supposed to run correctly. They shouldn't have released it if it was this broken -- it's borderline unplayable for those who aren't hosting the game.
It's not the internet causing the problem, it's the game.
theb0xmIke
Neo Member
343 seems to have added enemies where they weren't before as well. On the two betrayals when you get the banshee in the last canyon and fly back underground down to the bottom of the hole where the bridge there seems to be flood spores? I really don't remember that happening in the 2001 version. Also after you find the map room and go back to where the first terminal is in the center of the map there is now jackals and a covie dropship????
I'll give you Morrowind/Oblivion being overrated, but Skyrim is just on another level for me. I've put like 30 hours or so into it so far and I've yet to get any of the usual Bethesda jank with bugs and freezes, sounds like a personal problem.
^ Couldn't you hit the back button and see if the enemies are there? The game is untouched in classic mode...
Slightly Live
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Those were always there - the spores get stuck on the walls sometimes (they're usually there the first time anyway), the dropship always comes after you exit the security room, but people just jumped down the cliff instead of backtracking.
Technically... it is your connections causing the undesired performance.
My connection can run co-op in every single other game I try just fine, there is absolutely no excuse for Halo CEA's co-op to require anything more. Look on the 343 forums, everyone is having this issue. Don't put co-op play over xbox live on the back of the box if it doesn't run properly.
theb0xmIke
Neo Member
Oh wow really? I did it a few times and don't remember it happening on CE. Fair enough though.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
How many games do you play that are high-def ports of games over a decade old, running two graphics engines side by side and incorporating an online model hammered on top of a system mechanic never meant to handle it in the first place?
I understand both sides of the argument, but to the average person who picked this up, none of the above matters. If it really is as bad as people say it is, it should have just been left out.
Wouldn't bother me if they cut it for 4 either (they won't!), Reach's was pretty much unplayable in any enjoyable fashion if you weren't host as well.