I'd like arena ranks in a lot of playlists. I'm saying so.
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Done yet? No rush, I'll wait.
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*looks at watch*
Done yet? No rush, I'll wait.
Sell me on it.
The custom soundtrack thing, do you just rearrange and enable/disable tracks that are available with the game already, like Burnout Paradise, or is it compatible with the music stored on your hard drive in a way that is seamless?
*In that you don't have to pause game, pull up the guide, switch track.
Zeouterlimits
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Derp, my eyes rolled over your post, sorry, and thank you.
VivaciousJazzy
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When after the beta I expected they were going to have arena and social like halo 3. Not exactly sure why they didnt in the first place. It probably would have helped the population issues.
oh yeah and why the heck did they removed dubs from arena?
The TOR servers went down for maintenance, only reason I was on, lol.
Is that new Trials game still an Arcade release? Amazing if it is...
ElzarTheBam
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As per EuroGamer:
The tech, known as Harmony, allows you to import your own playlists, which the game will then dynamically mix into the action in real time.
You need to upload a playlist into one of the five game modes for it to work.
You can apparently have only 5 playlist max, that's all I know so far.
Wasn't the Population pretty poor? I thought it was usually around Team Objective numbers.
Tha Robbertster
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Yeah, doubles arena did have really low population numbers. It wasn't too bad though since you only had to find 2 to 3 persons but still, it was way too low to keep it going. Same for Arena FFA but there, the search times were a bigger problem.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I still enjoy Reach. 
Haven't played in a while though.
Haven't played in a while though.
Low population. Double Team is pretty much the same thing - can't play with more than 2 people in a party, team vs team on, but without the stigma of being ranked it has more population (just like 3, before H3 Social Doubles was used as boostcentral). I also imagine the fact that being Slayer only made it pretty redundant.
VivaciousJazzy
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They should slip in arena ranks and keep the name
Really is a shame though. I think anything with the arena title kinda wards away people.
Really is a shame though. I think anything with the arena title kinda wards away people.
Guys, what's a good program to use with your capture card? I got this shitty card from a friend of mine and when I use the program that comes with it the screen just stays black. But when I unplug the cap card the program does say it got disconnected. So the program does recognize the card but somehow doesn't show me any video.
Help!
Help!
The Henery
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Didn't Arena Doubles have camo and jetpack as loadouts?
They should slip in arena ranks and keep the name
Really is a shame though. I think anything with the arena title kinda wards away people.
Ranks have always dropped a playlist population. Even if it's literally the same gametypes, more people will go "oh, that playlist is going to be too hardcore for me" and they won't play it. Halo 3 unranked SWAT had tons of people in it, when they made it ranked the average population took a massive drop. And it psychologically affects the games, as when Halo 2 went from unranked SWAT to ranked SWAT and H3 did the same, people turtled a lot more trying to secure increasing their rank.
I don't remember, I didn't really play it. Doubles is too intense for me even unranked
The only solution is to rank them all! That would probably just tank the population more then
We saw how well that worked out for Halo Wars.
VivaciousJazzy
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The only solution is to rank them all! That would probably just tank the population more though
It did for the first 2 seasons. The first two seasons were so fail...
squidhands
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No worries, most of my posts on GAF are of the 'roll over the post' kind.
The Henery
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Yea I'm not a fan of it either but it was at least playable in Halo 3. Camo and jetpack made it very difficult to enjoy. Even sprint in doubles is a source of much anguish.
The first few seasons of Arena are one of the foremost reasons it has failed in the long-term. I mean, armour lock was in it and they had the temerity to call it a hardcore playlist!
It is. I'm REALLY jazzed about it coming out since the first one was incredible.
ncsuDuncan
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Hypertrooper
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That's the reason Squid and me can swap easily porn here in this thread.Hakuna matata, most of Squid's posts on GAF get ignored anyways.
Arcade title has more impressive content creator than retail games, awesome.
I'd rather see the Timesplitters editor come back. It even had a full logic editor for single player mission maps, so doing an in-game Megalo editor isn't beyond consoles if they did full gametype scripting on the freaking GameCube.
But then again, it seems every time we go to a new generation people assume consoles are capable of less and less.
The Trials editor looks neat but I hope it's actually good at making racing tracks and not trying to distract people by letting them make a so-so FPS out of it. LBP was neat and had awesome scripting and functionality features but the fact that it was a so-so platformer was still apparent.
But then again, it seems every time we go to a new generation people assume consoles are capable of less and less.
The Trials editor looks neat but I hope it's actually good at making racing tracks and not trying to distract people by letting them make a so-so FPS out of it. LBP was neat and had awesome scripting and functionality features but the fact that it was a so-so platformer was still apparent.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Steelyuhas
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It's coming today
Zeouterlimits
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I'm not a fan of it, the grunts especially.
bs said it would be late.
ncsuDuncan
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I'm okay with lowering Halo 4's resolution to keep a stable framerate, but DAMN. That doesn't even look like 480i.
At least we get confirmation that player investment is coming back in a big way - those coins are huge.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Should be up early afternoon PDT.
Very unlikely.
There's like 8 guys in the world holding their breath week after week for Reach Economy news. They can't just cancel it.
I'm personally still interested in checking it out because the lack of dream-crushing on it will pretty much confirm the Feb 29 reveal.
Awesome, thanks!
Playlist updates on a game I hardly play anymore mostly...
squidhands
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My mommy reads all my posts and she says I'm the funniest person in the world.Hakuna matata, most of Squid's posts on GAF get ignored anyways.
Mommy, he's lying!
You're welcome.
Just saw. Makes no sense considering people went and posted XBLA games when the OP asked for PSN games.
Bregmann Roche
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What DIDN'T he do?
Shouldn't we come up with some ceremony for when a HaloGAF member is banned due to activities in OutterGAF?
I suggest a 21 snap-Reach-in-half salute.
GAF makes no sense sometimes with anything. Remember the great Ghaleon ban of 2011?
Never forget.
Link plz
Noice. All I needed to know.
I'll be terrible,though. Never played SSX, and never actually owned a Tony Hawk/tricking boarding game.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Recently played through The Ark again in Halo 3. Noticed something new on this play through. If you're sitting still in a small vehicle as the Forward Unto Dawn is coming down into the atmosphere, the shock wave will send you flying like all the other debris.
I'm sure others have noticed this, but still a cool moment.
I'm sure others have noticed this, but still a cool moment.
The OP of that thread has the same avatar as Jeremiah. >_>
Speaking of... Where the hell has he and Urk been?! TALK TO US.
I loved seeing all the objects in the map just get blown back when Forward Unto Dawn enters, most people dont notice though because I mean there is a HUGE ship about to almost crash into your face lol
They were consumed by the storm. LukeSmith'd
Hypertrooper
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No one checks the front page of HBO! That isn't fair!
Damn miss that. HBO front page is my number 1 Halo news source
No I'm not. lol. Or am I?
I start
squidhands
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2nd post
edit: prepare to be bored, Hyper. I finally caved into the twitter thing and as yet have anything interesting to tweet. You know, just like GAF. ;-)
I love that little detail. I don't usualy have a vehicle at the time, but if the nearby jackal sniper platform is still intact, I like to get inside that as it's tossed around.
DcLevartho
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It's more fun trying to ride those objects, especially the sniper towers.
edit: beaten by blamite
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