The Real Napsta
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Yeah, i was getting relatively fast matches even in playlists that require dlc.
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Yeah, i was getting relatively fast matches even in playlists that require dlc.
RebornYeti
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What a bad time to not have home internet. I need my Brute Chopper fix!
Poker Face
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youre better off just buying Halo 3: ODST as it comes with all the multiplayer DLC (it's like 6 bucks used)
HigherLevel
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Halo 3 has the best art direction/design/style or whatever you wanna call it in the series. Bungie is always good in this department but Halo 3 was definitely their best work.
squidhands
Member
Seeing these pictures reminds me how ugly everything looks in Halo 4. bleh.
Gotcha, thanks. I'll be picking up ODST on my way to school. Looking forward to (hopefully) playing tonight.
GrumpyOutlander
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I downloaded and played one match then remembered I'm not good enough to enjoy playing it without my friends that don't play Halo anymore. Great game though.
Lots of nice chromatic contrast. Strong dynamic lights with a beautiful specularity model. Really, really high HDR depth. Clean and simple iconic object designs that stand out nicely.
Halo 4, by contrast, mostly just has lots of detail, and very high-quality shading with respect to the baked lighting. The dynamic lighting is arguably the worst in the entire series (even Halo 2's rather boring lighting model includes some dynamic specular reflections here and there), the HDR is nowhere near good enough for the amount of contrast that's being used when combined with effects like heavy bloom, the colour and geometry layout is extremely muddy (and even when there's rich colour, there's usually not a great deal of chromatic contrast), and a large number of small touches in Halo 3 don't exist in Halo 4.
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AllIsOneIsNone
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Halo 3 is so vibrant and clean. Puts the toned down Reach and mess of Halo 4 to shame.
Imagine Halo 3 in 1080p with proper AA.
If they had a PC version I wouldn't know what to do with controls. I love the accuracy of a mouse, but using the keyboard for everything else would be a downgrade. Plus the aim assist is done better than most console shooters.
Still, it would be glorious.
Somewhere in the middle there you should strafe.
The McDonalds 2 step is most effective strafe technique there is.
squidhands
Member
look for the teammate with the highest kills and follow him around. Should get some nice cleanup kills.
OMG Really? SQUEEEEEEE
- Damage bleeds through shields. If you punch someone near when their shields are about to pop, you'll kill them
- You have to lead the BR and Carbine at distance.
- It's four full shots to kill with the BR. Shooting someone in the head does not make shields drop faster. Fire the first 3 shots into their chest then pull up for the headshot on shot 4.
- Don't bother dual wielding
- unless you're doing this
I'm up for it.
Prinz Eugn
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Yeah, if you use wired controllers with it it just goes BZRZRRSRTTTZZZRRT to everyone else, and makes your voice all garbled. Even the mute switch doesn't work to stop it. And only other people hear the feedback.
CreateNowSleepLater
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So good but I am terrible, lol
Nothing beats the Halo 3 Warthog for me, I can drive that thing like a pro. Nothing beats the total chaos that happens in this game, I think its the vehicle weight minus the DMR.
Nothing beats the Halo 3 Warthog for me, I can drive that thing like a pro. Nothing beats the total chaos that happens in this game, I think its the vehicle weight minus the DMR.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Huh, have you tried switching usb ports or trying a different wired controller? I would also double check with a borrowed wireless controller if you haven't since it sounds like it might be a short in the chat cable. Not really a super easy fix, but if you have a wired headset you can also try using usb from a computer or phone charger for power, too.
Of course, I cheated my way out of the problems with my TB X11's by buying X42's, so you could, uh, try that. XP300's are super cheap now here, actually.
This sums up my entire history of Halo multiplayer lol
But it's still a lot of fun to play. Still need to get my 50 in Lone Wolves, but I'm struggling as a 40 so far.
User 73706
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I can confirm this.
Calibrated Chaos
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If I bought odst in the past can I redownload the maps or they're on the disc?
ODST comes with a 2nd disc that contains all maps
Poker Face
Member
Was it a digital download?
The physical copy comes with 2 discs, disc one is the ODST campaign, disc 2 is all the multiplayer content for Halo 3. If you downloaded it digitally, you do not have access to the Halo 3 content.
Vigilant Gambit
Member
If I start playing this again, how often can I expect to get a game of Grifball going?
Prinz Eugn
Member
Pretty much. Opening menu is different but all the other functionality in multiplayer is identical.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Yeah, but then I have to put in the disc and listen to it spin up.
I'm only missing the two Mythic packs. I have ODST but I don't want to fool with a disc. May just spend the $10 out of pure laziness.
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kittens
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The game says 2250 people are playing Team Slayer right now. Is that accurate, probably?
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Terbinator
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It's been about 4 years since i've played, but after a few rounds, there is no substitute on consoles for this.
Heh. I actually got a Trip Mine Double Kill in our Neutral Assault game today. It's not quite RIPIP'ed.
RIP in peace Tripmine
DAT SATURATED COLOR AND HDR LIGHTING!
Not sure I follow about the Halo 2 thing, Halo 4 didn't have dynamic specular? Dont you mean baked specular like how Halo 3 bakes in the specular direction and intensity per pixel in their SH lightmaps?
(Halo 2 did this per vertex, and I gotta say, that kinda sucked, based on my experience with making maps in their editor. Especially having to tesselate your meshes and rebake to get it to work properly.)
In terms of precision though, I remember Bungie talking about this trade-off in their Reach DF interview:
It didn't seem all that slight to me, though...
Seems to me like few games, even today, match Halo 3's lighting in terms of awesome, colorful HDR. Maybe Halo 3 just had a better tonemapper and didn't post-process everything to shit afterwards, ala BF3. (Well, and most games don't bake dominant lighting direction and intensity so the indirect specular is non-existant)
What was the bit depth of Halo 3's HDR anyway? What is it compared to games released on PC nowadays, with something like Cryengine or UE3/4 for example?
So, they had 2 8-bit Buffers, right? Or was it higher than that? 2 8-bit buffers would make for 16bit lighting, which doesn't seem too high compared to what we see on PC today, no?
Was it just that their content and lighting was designed from the beginning for the high precision buffers rather than being pulled down to the least common denominator of multiplatform games?
Dongs Macabre
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