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Barely anyone was playing it
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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It is returning early next year with more "competitive tweaks", digest that how you will. Personally I look at rotating out an unpopular playlist and making comment about supporting a reworked version of it after their own online tournament as a good thing.
Others obviously just like to complain.
Bregmann Roche
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Can someone whip up one of those poorly drawn duck guy memes with "Halo 4" written on the building and the above quote coming out of the duck guy's mouth?
Also: before it's too late in his time zone, Happy Birthday Heckfu!
TurkishDLite
Banned
Anyone who has an Astro A50 know if it makes any wireless signal noises, like static or humming of any kind?
No, they don't.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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1. Smaller Maps, Community Created Maps
bsAngel: Yup! In early 2013. Our first focus will be 4v4, then we'll look at 2v2.
2. Ranking System
bsAngel: There is not a date associated with CSR yet.
3. Playlists such as Team Doubles, Grifball, Optimized Slayer Pro, Possible MLG
bsAngel: We're targeting early 2013 for the first three. They won't be released at the same time, though.
4. *Speculation* Possible weapon rebalance
bsAngel: No hard news on this at this time. Sorry.
bsAngel: Yup! In early 2013. Our first focus will be 4v4, then we'll look at 2v2.
2. Ranking System
bsAngel: There is not a date associated with CSR yet.
3. Playlists such as Team Doubles, Grifball, Optimized Slayer Pro, Possible MLG
bsAngel: We're targeting early 2013 for the first three. They won't be released at the same time, though.
4. *Speculation* Possible weapon rebalance
bsAngel: No hard news on this at this time. Sorry.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Doesn't matter. It's was the only playlist without wallhacks.
You would be right, except for there is no logical reason why they couldn't do tweaks on the go. Taking it out just to say it will be back in 2013, without some on-the-go tweaks they could have done to resurge and maintain the "competitive" community's interest sounds stupid. It's not like they haven't had enough time, or enough suggestions from the community.
Also, they're not rotating anything back in next week, just letting the Crimson DLC playlist rock.
It seems like the only reason they deaded it is to give Infinity Challenge some shine. Plus it's not the ONLY playlist that almost nobody plays. The distribution between playlists is pretty dramatic.
xxjuicesxx
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Yea I love how they say that line like its a good thing too lol.
I DONT WANT FUCKING CHANGE. IF I WANTED CHANGE I WOULD JUST GO PLAY A DIFFERENT GAME.
Except the McBites were still fried chicken nuggets, the phone apps were still applied to phones.
Halo 4 is like if McDonalds said, "Hey look, their fried chicken nuggets are doing great, so lets use the batter on our BigMac!"
They're missing the mark. Halo and Call of Duty are not two pieces of chicken; one was a steak. A steak that they are now trying to batter and deep fat fry which sounds delicious to fat kids who don't know any better, but really just makes the steak chewy and unappetizing.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Actually epic did that. PCF are only doing campaign.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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From what I see they aren't just simple tweaks e.g. MLG trial setting with 4SK BR is inconsistent. To me that will take developer code changes, testing, bug fixing, sandbox rebalancing, more developer iteration, more testing then certification then release. You know what a proper company does over what modders do.
They are bringing in the tournament playlist though and we did just get a map pack 5 weeks after release.
Take a look at Blizzard tournaments, they don't do a hell of a lot so they give "shine" to their global tournament. Wheels are moving over at 343i, can't deny that.
That's just bending analogies to fit your outcome, for lack of a better way to say it, which is bad science. I do agree some playlists require the full classic experience, what that is exactly is subjective at best.
Franklinator
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I'm risking getting fooled by a fake heckfu birthday again, but happy birthday heckfu!
343 seems to have a policy of never admitting to having any actual development problems, cuts, or rushed features of any kind, and I'm getting pretty sick of it. Everything's perfect all the time, and if it's not, we're working hard on it and we'll see you in Early 2013, enjoy these pictures of a truck!
A great game, but just an okay Halo.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Focus on the light, never turn to the dark side and welcome my young Padawan.
Totally joking
Not really
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Bregmann Roche
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I bet the concept art for that truck looks amazing though.
I'm perfectly happy with the bolded.
Doing any of the things you listed could potentially harm shareholder confidence. Why exactly do you think any 343 employee would be permitted to do those things?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I have to agree that my game connection quality has been better this week too! A little slower to match but that is perfectly fine and expected to get Aussie games, kudos 343i and thanks for the locality tweaks.
Years ago Intel self admitted a flaw in their CPU's mathematics and they were doing the biggest recall in history for processors. The flaw and admitting it was an a massive scale but marketing regard it as possibly one of the best moves Intel could never pay for that quality marketing.
See the media and customers responded to the proactive admission and having a fix in place immediately. It went down in marketing circles as the top 5 brand marketing experiences at the time.
Nothing wrong with admitting fault but have a plan to put things back on track.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
What if they didn't have any problems and it's perfectly fine in their opinion for realsies?
ever consider that?
Bregmann Roche
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Is it actually his birthday this time? lol
It is not, and I know this looks like an error, but what is actually happening is anyone who "buys into" the joke and wishes Heckfu a happy birthday within the next two weeks is automatically part of our "buy and play" promotion. So congratulations! You will get free access to Heckfu posts until Dec. 19.
I did consider that but I find it comforting to think there is even a single person at 343 who is good at a videogame or likes a good videogame lol
Franklinator
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Gotta be kidding, I just Paypal'd heckfu $10 for his next 3 posts.
This is bullshit, I paid for access to heckfu's posts a month ago!
Bregmann Roche
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Don't worry. Dec. 19th, after everyone else has stopped reading Heckfu's posts, you'll still have access to them. You didn't miss out on anything!
What you were really paying for was the Limited Edition Heckfu Birthday Pack that included rare, flimsy pieces of paper that said "Happy Birthday Heckfu" on them. The access to Heckfu's posts is just a free gift from us!
EDIT:
vvvvv MAC cannon online? vvvvv
Everybody involved in the decision to add flinch to Halo, or the approval of that decision, should be forced to place their dick and/or tits in a wood-chipper.
It is, bar none, the worst festering piece of shit mechanic to ever be added to ANY Halo game, ever. And that includes armor lock.
It is, bar none, the worst festering piece of shit mechanic to ever be added to ANY Halo game, ever. And that includes armor lock.
You first for making fucking posts like this.
I mean I'm not expecting them to constantly be talking about all the development problems they're having or anything, but compare what's going on now to, say, the making-of DVD from the Halo 2 LE. It's okay to be honest about what's going on surrounding the game while still supporting it and being positive of what you've made. Every Bulletin seems filled with "we're amazed by the response to the game, thanks so much" without any hint that there are plans to address complaints.
Again, I'm not aasking for a detailed list of everything being looked at for the next TU, but just acknowledging that there are any balance tweaks at all would be a good place to start. The Crimson MP is another example, instead of a real explanation and apology or whatever, we just get near-direct copy and paste of Microsoft PR's spin on the "14 Day Buy and Play" thing that got invented yesterday.
I guess my point overall is that 343's interactions, in the Bulletin, at least, seem more like PR spin than actual, genuine communication. And after Bungie, that kinda sucks.
The other possibility is that 343 actually thinks everything's "good enough," which is way worse imo.
The Antitype
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You forgot the people involved with the decision to make the super-soldier Spartan's melee reach equivalent to that of of new-born flipper-baby.
And the people responsible for matchmaking that puts you on a team of people with negative k/D averages against a full team of dudes with a K/D average of 4.0
Oh, and the undergrad students they let program the online code.
Franklinator
Member
How would you even put your dong in a woodchipper?
NullPointer
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They handed the series to a brand new developer with the goal of breathing new life into it. 343 is taking a different approach, ie. not the same.
This aint Bungie. We always knew this. And I don't mind the salt nearly as much as the denial.
Yoga pants are always a good thing though.
Your first post since January, and this is what you go with?
Turn on woodchipper, insert dong? Although it'd have to be more like "insert pelvis" since the intake is so big
Cool, I guess you can go second.
Bregmann Roche
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Whatever that process is, it almost certainly begins at the yogapants reddit.
What can I say? First time I've responded to a game strongly enough to feel like posting here in awhile. Unfortunately it was a negative response.
I hate it because it's completely random. Descoping wasn't amazing, but it was consistent. This is just an unpredictable mechanic.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
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