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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo

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Devin Olsen

Member
xxjuicesxx said:
Possible Clubbed Thumb, see Megan Fox, but he might also be pressing down on the cards weirdly and caught a weird angle photo.
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Yeah it's just something I was born with... My uncle has the same thing. I didn't realize other people had it until someone I knew showed me a picture of Megan Fox's thumb.
 
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zap

Member
Devin Olsen said:
I have not once tried to sell the controller. I have however been approached numerous times by people to sell the controller. I have gotten very real offers WELL over what I paid for it, but I have always turned them down because it was never my intention to profit from it. It's something that I really wanted and plan to keep forever.
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Highlighting this seems to be counter intuitive.
 
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YourExWife

Member
UNKNOWN iXi said:
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What the heck am I looking at..
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Raad

Banned
Put in Halo 4 today for the first time in about 2 or 3 months. It will be another 2 or 3 months before I play it again. Terrible.

New maps = Shit
Still no search function for most popular forge maps and game types = Shit

What the fuck is going on? I'm astounded by the lack of genuine effort from 343i. Fix your fucking game!
 
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IHaveIce

Banned
Raad said:
Put in Halo 4 today for the first time in about 2 or 3 months. It will be another 2 or 3 months before I play it again. Terrible.

New maps = Shit
Still no search function for most popular forge maps and game types = Shit

What the fuck is going on? I'm astounded by the lack of genuine effort from 343i. Fix your fucking game!
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Eh the bolded works right now.
 
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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Raad said:
Put in Halo 4 today for the first time in about 2 or 3 months. It will be another 2 or 3 months before I play it again. Terrible.

New maps = Shit
Still no search function for most popular forge maps and game types = Shit

What the fuck is going on? I'm astounded by the lack of genuine effort from 343i. Fix your fucking game!
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The search for most downloaded and most recommended was fixed. I don't know why it didn't work for you.

Come back at the end of the month when the new maps and patch drops.

Also, Doubles comes out tomorrow. Play it.
 
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Raad

Banned
Thanks for your quick responses. In regards to the most popular forge stuff it didn't load (could have been a glitch)

Happy to hear about the patch.

Hope still resides inside me.
 
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Sr Kitsune

Member
Raad said:
Thanks for your quick responses. In regards to the most popular forge stuff it didn't load (could have been a glitch)

Happy to hear about the patch.

Hope still resides inside me.
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Doubles Pro seems like will be fun. It releases tomorrow-today (Or was it already released?)

Tashi said:
You don't want this son
Not sure. It's gotta be going up very soon.
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Will check in 60 seconds, not sure if it changes at 3 am or 4 am.
 
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Talents

Banned
Slightly Live said:
At Halofest some lucky kid won the controller.

He tricked/bullied the kid into selling him the item for cheap, quick money before the kid realised the value of what he had won.

He then bragged about how awesome it was and asked GAF how much it was really worth.

And technically, it's not an official Halo product.

Looks like no one wanted to buy it from him so he stuck it in a box. I know he was desperate to sell it a few months back.
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By the way you worded it, it sounded like he forced the person to give it to him, yet he bought it off of the person... there's nothing wrong with that IMO, the person was foolish enough to sell a very limited edition item it's his fault not Devin's.
 
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Omni

Member
Oh wow. Batteries in my Xbox controller went completely flat.. so I can't play SO/ the MM update until tomorrow

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(My cat chewed the play and charge cord a while back... I'm too cheap to buy another so I just use rechargeable batteries).
 
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HollovVpo1nt

Banned
randomrosso said:
Oh wow. Batteries in my Xbox controller went completely flat.. so I can't play SO/ the MM update until tomorrow

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(My cat chewed the play and charge cord a while back... I'm too cheap to buy another so I just use rechargeable batteries).
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I ordered a play and charge cable for around 3-4 euros. You can find them very cheap online.
 
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TheOddOne

Member
League of Legends bets big on eSports success
Riot seems to be betting the very future of the game on eSports, if the words of Rozelle and his boss, Dustin Beck, are to be taken seriously. "We're all huge eSports fans at Riot, and the game was originally designed as a competitive eSport," Beck, the company's VP of eSports, tells Gamasutra.

Re-Shaping the Game

Whether or not League of Legends was originally conceived as an eSport, it's at the forefront of the team's current design efforts, say Beck and Rozelle.

"We're kind of in the infancy of our eSport and you're still seeing changes," says Beck. He doesn't compare this situation to the usual games-as-as-service model, but to NCAA football, and how the rules of the sport mutate over time.

Season 3 includes both a new league system and, perhaps more interestingly, "sweeping changes," to use Rozelle's words, to the game itself. These changes "have been very well received by our community," he says.

How did the designers choose what changes to make? Many sources, says Riot. But one of them is particularly notable: "Our design team brought in a bunch of pro players, and the leading members of the community, and had them test out the changes and give feedback," says Rozelle, describing the relationship "a partnership" with Riot's design team.

"It's very similar to traditional sports -- the NFL will make changes... to make the game more dynamic and more passing-oriented," says Rozelle. "One of the motivations of our design changes over the past season has been to overhaul items to make them more dynamic as well."

Making a Real League

Changing the game to make it more eSports friendly is one thing. But there will be no professional players if there's no way for them to make a living by playing League of Legends, the company recognizes. Riot has to create a solid league with "compensation and salary, so these guys can focus on league paths for their career," Beck says.

There are currently over 200 pro players in the world, Riot tells Gamasutra, spread across the five territories the Los Angeles-based, Shenzhen-owned company concentrates on: North America, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and China.

But "it's not just about the top tier that is going to make this a successful sport; it's about the ecosystem," says Rozelle. "We're creating a lot of aspirational paths to become pro. We're appealing to our current community."

Describing plans for "peewee leagues" that lead to "the light at the end of the tunnel" that is pro play, the eSports team at Riot clearly sees League of Legends following traditional sports culture in more ways than one.

"We think we have a pretty good structure in place, and we're starting a league from scratch here," says Rozelle. The company's goal is to "mimic what an NFL or NBA does," Beck says.

Getting Audiences Interested

Of course, there's another crucial aspect of the experience: broadcasting it. "Fans of eSports have wanted eSports to be on a similar plane as any other sport," says Beck. The company is aiming for "the Monday Night Football experience," Rozelle says.

But one major difference is that the company doesn't have immediate plans to take League of Legends to television. "Maybe in a couple of years. Who knows? It's not on our immediate roadmap," says Rozelle. "Our players are used to consuming content online. We don't really think that that's necessary just yet."

Given that the game's last World Championships had three times the viewers of the NHL's Stanley Cup finals, according to Riot, he may be right.

The goal of the broadcasts, Rozelle says, is to "capture that dynamic exciting action and also tell stories, to bring up the human element" -- and to that end the company has employed filmmakers that make the same biographical packages you see when you watch the Olympics.

Riot has put "a tremendous amount of attention on the viewer experience," says Rozelle.

There may be one statistic that shows you just how serious the company is about this initiative: "Our expenditure this year was more expensive than actually making the game in the first place, so we're investing a ton into eSports," Rozelle says.
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Sr Kitsune

Member
^^^ That's awesome.

Still, yesterday lurking the (LoL) forums I found some threads complaining about the new league system, something like it was taking the attention from the actual game and so on. (As easy as just go and play Normal matches)

Just pointing out, some people don't know how good they have it :(
 
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The Henery

Member
Slightly Live said:
At Halofest some lucky kid won the controller.

He tricked/bullied the kid into selling him the item for cheap, quick money before the kid realised the value of what he had won.

He then bragged about how awesome it was and asked GAF how much it was really worth.

And technically, it's not an official Halo product.

Looks like no one wanted to buy it from him so he stuck it in a box. I know he was desperate to sell it a few months back.
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Slightly Live said:
Unfortunately, it's the truth. Some folks can't help but be a complete, filthy scumbag.
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TheOddOne

Member
Deadly Paw said:
^^^ That's awesome.

Still, yesterday lurking the (LoL) forums I found some threads complaining about the new league system, something like it was taking the attention from the actual game and so. (He should just go and play Normal matches)

Just pointing out, some people don't know how good they have it :(
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People will complain regardless, but it's better to have more people happy than unhappy. Riot really shows they care about their community and put in so much effort, hell even their worst efforts can be excused. Which says a lot.
 
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Sr Kitsune

Member
TheOddOne said:
People will complain regardless, but it's better to have more people happy than unhappy. Riot really shows they care about their community and put in so much effort, hell even their worst efforts can be excused. Which says a lot.
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Riot is awesome no doubt, the only thing that bugs me is that they still not fix the bug regarding the avatars in their forums, since 2009. The only thing that keeps me from posting there from time to time, they could just put a few dozens of avatars to choose, pretty much like the in-game avatar, and that it's...
 
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Blue Ninja

Member
Well whaddayaknow,
Osman is even more of a bitch when she's head of Naval Intelligence
.

I also seriously hoped
that Promethean was the end of Palmer
, but it seems I just can't catch a break with 343's storytelling.
 
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Hypertrooper

Member
Tashi said:
Oh nothing major. It's just that you can drop a Binary Rifle in Infinity Doubles. No big deal. Totally fine.
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I played on Relay last week. Enemies got beam rifle and binary rifle as personal ordnance. Me and my team? Needler, SAW or Grenades. Ordnance need a rehaul. A big one.
 
Moa

Moa

Member
Tashi said:
Oh nothing major. It's just that you can drop a Binary Rifle in Infinity Doubles. No big deal. Totally fine.
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D'aww, and I thought you guys were being generous!

I haven't actually played it yet, so can anyone tell me what maps are options?
 
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Blue Ninja

Member
Even my friend, who was eagerly salivating over everything 343 was adding to the franchise, has finally come around to realize personal ordnance and ordnance drops kill the gameplay. Heck, we had a few guys with us who don't normally play Xbox or Halo, and had to play on a Guest account, and thus were rated SR-1. They could only spawn with Assault Rifles. Everyone else in the game had BR's, DMR's or Lightrifles. They got frustrated on how unfair it all was, especially in a headshot-heavy game like Halo. They proceeded to get fucked by people spawning with better equipment than them.

That's not Halo.
 
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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Hypertrooper said:
I played on Relay last week. Enemies got beam rifle and binary rifle as personal ordnance. Me and my team? Needler, SAW or Grenades. Ordnance need a rehaul. A big one.
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I spelled out exactly what the personal ordnance should have been for Infinity Doubles. It was even leaked out there somehow. This one is on 343, I don't know what happened

edit: Moa, maps are...

Dispatch (Custom forge by Salot. Essentially a better Relay)
Rail (Custom, unique map. Awesome for 2's.)
Solari (Nokyard's heavily modified Solace)
Haven (modified)
Abandon (MLG version with jump crates for better movement through the map)
Scythe (Huge weapon drop overhaul. Sniper spawns right in the middle)
 
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ElzarTheBam

Member
Blue Ninja said:
Well whaddayaknow,
Osman is even more of a bitch when she's head of Naval Intelligence
.

I also seriously hoped
that Promethean was the end of Palmer
, but it seems I just can't catch a break with 343's storytelling.
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Fantastic cutscene as usual.

But, Palmer is the worst videogame character this generation, there I said it.

ME PALMER, ME GET ANGRY, ME SMASH THINGS!
 
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