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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Tha Robbertster
Member
It was an accident!
But what to get with it? Curious about FarCry 3 or Pokemon B/W2.
MrGreencastle
Member
I would flip. Spartan Ops is the shit so far, especially last episode. Just go nuts with it, 343. And I love that my cliffhanger desire was addressed in the bulletin. Season 2!
I just announced the winners of my Halo 4 Notebook comeptition. There's some cracking entries, well worth a look.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
I need that skill based ranking and I need it fast.
Specializations have been a bit of a deterrent for me, just leveling up for armor, visors, and a piece of shit tactical pack that I am probably not even going to use.
I pretty much play only a couple games a day now because these specialization rewards are just shitty.
Specializations have been a bit of a deterrent for me, just leveling up for armor, visors, and a piece of shit tactical pack that I am probably not even going to use.
I pretty much play only a couple games a day now because these specialization rewards are just shitty.
Sign that petition HaloGAF. Sign it.
NullPointer
Member
So much this. And as someone who almost never plays online games in a full party, being wildly outnumbered affects my enjoyment far more than whatever the current score is.
Aye, people are forgetting the cancer of quitting that plagued previous Halo games. JiP isn't without fault, but it is absolutely better than what we had before.
I've had a few games where me and friends have joined on the losing team and it's been like a case of "come on the lads, let's fix this shit" and we've gone on to win.
I concede it's much harder to do that when you're playing solo.
I've had a few games where me and friends have joined on the losing team and it's been like a case of "come on the lads, let's fix this shit" and we've gone on to win.
I concede it's much harder to do that when you're playing solo.
You say things like "play a GAME to have FUN" as if you have some universal description as to what constitutes "fun." This is so obviously a misguided opinion and has been literally beaten to death here on HaloGAF. Fun is not some universal truth that applies to all players in all situations. Some players love AR starts, some love campaign scoring, some love competetive balanced matches, some just like trolling their own team by blowing up vehicles. None of these groups are necessarily exclusive of one another, but they're definitely all "fun" to certain groups of gamers.
For example; I personally don't give a shit about gametypes like race or grifball. I never really played them very much and I personally wouldn't care if they were in or out of the game. But I can't talk down to race or grifball players and tell them that their way of enjoying a game isn't the "fun" way to play it. That would be condescending and make me into more of an asshole than I already am.
If you're attempting to force the Join in Progress on everyone in the name of "fun" you need a better argument. Giving the option to players to toggle JIP on and off might possibly make it less "fun" for you, but would greatly increase the enjoyment of others. So who's version of "fun" is more important?
But but but JIP will totally solve that and even out the teams almost, like, instantaneously. There's no way you'll get spawn trapped or lose two flag caps before anyone else matches into the game. Right?
Pop
Member
JIP absolutely screws me over 99% of the time playing solo. But what makes me rage harder than JIP is starting matches 5v2, 4v1, 5v3 etc... Really 343i
his version of fun is more important because he's the game's primary demographic taken to it's logical limit
brokenwatch
Member
Are hills held by the blue team blue, and unoccupied hills... blue?
Maybe when they create that no perks no ordanance no quick spawn game type they can also add in no JIP for it.
For me I have limited time when I get the time to play, so I need to get into games fast and I want to be spawning fast alongside it.
The only way I see 343i winning here with the various fans and trying to appease them all is to just add more variety for playlists. A 4v4 slayer and a 4v4 objective play list that cuts all the H4 stuff out of it seems the best way to go about it. No run, no DMR, BR starts, no ordnance, no quick spawn, and no JIP. Anything else?
Hypertrooper
Member
The first one and Wahrer Machines are just incredible.
Pop
Member
Every time I'm on the red team I swear unoccupied hills are the color blue. Should have just went with a super white color. A lot of decisions by 343i make me smh.
Honestly, if I just saw his somewhere without knowing it was a contest entry, I'd have thought it was canon.
Pop
Member
Yeah called Classic playlist/gametypes. We were promised a playlist or did Frankie mean we would be able to do that in customs?
At this point in time idk if I even want one cause it would probably just be obj based and have no slayer, start matches 4v1 and we would still be auto picking up flags. :/
Reagan's BR
Banned
I miss pre-Reach Halo; the gameplay, the art, the story, it was all so good. What happened?
Call of duty happened
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Reagan's BR
Banned
The whole game is equally share the flag mode.
User 73706
Banned
Hey guys what's going on in this threa-
YES I INVENTED THIRD PLACE
So happy to have placed. I had fun working on my journal entry thing. Thanks for having the contest, Shadders!
To the BTB discussion: DMRs are completely fucking up my idea of fun in BTB. Make it the same kill time as the DMR, give it an identical (shorter) range and be done with it. I want open BTB maps again, not this Meltdown/Vortex-styled clusterfuck stuff. I think Ordnance would actually work better if people weren't being forced into encounters every 0 seconds thanks to enclosed maps and instant respawn.
YES I INVENTED THIRD PLACE
So happy to have placed. I had fun working on my journal entry thing. Thanks for having the contest, Shadders!
To the BTB discussion: DMRs are completely fucking up my idea of fun in BTB. Make it the same kill time as the DMR, give it an identical (shorter) range and be done with it. I want open BTB maps again, not this Meltdown/Vortex-styled clusterfuck stuff. I think Ordnance would actually work better if people weren't being forced into encounters every 0 seconds thanks to enclosed maps and instant respawn.
The Lamonster
Member
So much this. And as someone who almost never plays online games in a full party, being wildly outnumbered affects my enjoyment far more than whatever the current score is.
What's this gif from?
FWIW, JIP has a lot to do with why I've been googling how much I could fetch for a used copy of Halo 4. Every other day or so, I think I might want to try it again. Then I'm reminded that odds are I'll just get air dropped into some game in progress, on the losing end. And it just saps any desire I have to put the disc in.
It's not the only reason. But it's the one I think of first when I consider going back to Halo 4.
Zeouterlimits
Member
One of the Reach vidocs iirc.
YourExWife
Member
We were told before launch that #2 was the case. Apparently they just lied to our faces.
3) dont start games with a team missing players.
I'm assuming that's a glitch. Or at least I hope lol
You traded in the game already ?
Call of duty and Gears have it, so I doubt is a glitch
Slow down the DMR RoF, increase the Carbine's accuracy or make it one less shot to kill.
Hire me.
Considering it. If I don't play it for the next week or two, I'll see what I can get for it. I haven't redeemed the map pack code, though the others I gave away on GAF.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
I have an extra Halo Reach Anniversary Map pack code for anyone who wants it. I gave it to a friend but i don't think he ever used it.
Pop
Member
Camo should just have been a power-up like overshield. Damn you Bungie for starting this, what were they thinking. Honestly 343i could have made it one but decided to make it even more of a nuisances.
NullPointer
Member
This only makes sense if there's a mechanism for players to end a losing match or if matches just ended on their own at that point. You guys basically see it as pointless to keep playing a losing match right? This is made only worse by having a losing match with lopsided teams without the possibility of reinforcements, which is what you would subject players to by removing JIP.
You guys honestly don't see the point of playing a losing match? And this bugs some of you enough to avoid playing at all? I honestly don't understand.
I don't get this mentality. Would you not prefer to play 5 minutes of a game that you joined part way through, then play an infinite amount of games with full teams on both sides.
Or
not have JIP and have, based on my experience of prior halo's MP, 80% plus games lopsided after at least one player quits with the first minute of a game.
JIP has saved halo MP for me.
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