FUNKNOWN iXi
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Combat Evolved 2
Motion tracker provides rewarding, skill-based gameplay that allows for creativity and outsmarting opponents by sneakily, tactically and skillfully crawling across the map.
And hire juices.
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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And hire juices.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Essentially what I'm getting out of all of this is the steady and unwavering reminder of truth that Halo CE has always been the best Halo.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Oh, you know it might have. Looks like it might have been on the author's blog first, but since the page wouldn't load when I found it, you'll have to forgive me.
I do not forgive you. You are condemned from the Halo.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Prinz Eugn
Member
Pretty sure Radioshack stock is free nowadays.
I applaud your use of that GIF good sir.Essentially what I'm getting out of all of this is the steady and unwavering reminder of truth that Halo CE has always been the best Halo.
Digital Limit
Member
Radar just makes sneaky crouchers seem like jerks.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
I am usually in the anti change group but crouching should not take you off radar. It promotes camping. Lot of people were crawling around in the H5 beta.
Perhaps; though their mockup video showed a controller being used to play H5 on a tablet/PC, streamed from an Xbone. Will be interesting to get all the details on this
Very seriously doubt it.
No. You will need to use an Xbone controller.
Even if you could use a KB/mouse, I have to imagine the latency would kill a lot of the advantage.
I sure hope they have control relay over USB. Otherwise you'll be limited to being within the range of the Xbox One controller to the console, which is extremely limited. That would make the streaming pretty much useless.
Also, they need to publish what the input lag figures are on the average home network. Anything more than one frame at 60FPS (16ms) and it's useless for competitive games.
I hope it winds up being good, though. All I ask is to be able to out-BR kids from the toilet.
That assumes a functional Halo game on the XBone
I want a spin off of halo 1 that tells Keyes' story, complete with maneuvering the pillar of autumn and space combat. Would start with the events before halo with reach and the Keyes loop, made in the original halo/CEA engine with blur cutscenes.
I'll just keep dreaming, but oh fuck I want that so bad
I'll just keep dreaming, but oh fuck I want that so bad
User 73706
Banned
QTE to soften up your face before chief caves your head in
User 73706
Banned
Weren't the Flood in CE and 2 two totally different instances?
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
All one mind though.. Tuna fish might be onto something.
Zeouterlimits
Member
No, that Gravemind was blown to hell and back.
Graveminds crop up all over the place once you can gather enough (brain?) mass.
MOAR!
Yeah I think there is definitely some credence to this theory.
By the way is your name a reference to that robot dude Toonami?
Wasn't he using the Halo's teleporting abilities to place them near or on the Halo?
User 73706
Banned
I don't think the translocation grid extends that far beyond the actual instalation.
Zeouterlimits
Member
There's too much of the "everything is connected" trope already in cult media, let some things just be what they are.
No I got it from a random letter generator when I was looking for character names for a storyline I was working on
Prinz Eugn
Member
Christ. Yes.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
lmfao alright
Halo 3 had a healthy population because it was the best and most competitive Halo game.
Halo 2 was a step in the right direction after 3 years of the incredible love and success of CE.
There was a reason to remove the Grenade Launcher.
There was a reason to remove the Falcon.
It was a good idea to bring back Camo as an AA after the universal hate it received in Reach despite bringing back the OS Power-up and adding two new ones.
It was a good idea to allow Plasma Pistols and Plasma Grenades in load outs.
David Ellis describing power weapons as one shot kills but forgetting about the Boltshot, then disappearing when asked to comment did not make me cry at night.
Frankie is not a master mind and doesn't know how to control our emotions. He definitely doesn't enjoy messing with us with all that power.
I will give up hope for
Combat Evolved 2 and #NoMotionTracker
Every single line in this post is truth.
Thanks CliQ, my night is now ruined..
Regret Upon Approval
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The thing from CE never reached Gravemind status, Keyes was incorporated into a proto-gravemind. This protomind was destroyed.
The one from H2 reached Gravemind status well before game events apparently.
The one from H2 reached Gravemind status well before game events apparently.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Ozzy, radar makes you worse. You like being bad at Halo? If so, keep depending on and supporting radar as you know it and my apologies for thinking you wanted better from this franchise and its demographic of players.
Harsh? Maybe. Harsh honesty because I care? Absolutely.
FUNKNOWN cares about all of you.
Harsh? Maybe. Harsh honesty because I care? Absolutely.
FUNKNOWN cares about all of you.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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BTB with no radar? No thanks. Objective games with vehicles 4v4/5v5 and no radar? No thanks.
Also give me any game version and map with a bomb and no radar and I'll likely arm it a decent percentage of the time. Speaking of general matchmaking, not claiming to be the best player in the world you know.
I totally get your hyper-competitive arena play and always regular teams want no radar and spawn traps etc. It's just not something I care to play all the time. Radar allows a solo player to make a huge difference, especially in games like CTF or bomb from H2/3/Reach or 4.
Take a slice of my time in Halo 3 ranked objective, a solo Aussie for the most part as so many players/friends just want to play slayer over objective and most simply don't have the CTF/bomb dedication I do. Now there is no way with random teams or just two buddies playing could have achieved 50 in that playlist and held it for years. The regular teams that ran that playlist were running in 4 so often. I could change the tide enough to keep a win percentage that made it enjoyable.
Without radar and randoms vs. regular teams that playlist would have been shite for me, straight up.
I agree you should have a playlist that suits your no radar wants. Champion player/party toggles as it would literally match players who want the same things and give you more specific vote variants for you to play on. Honestly one of the biggest misses for me personally was not having these toggles for MCC, the unified UI could have just been playlists and toggles of maps/settings. BAM one and done.
Didn't know you write.
What kind of stuff?
I can taste the tears.
Why!?
A harsh truth is better than a sweet lie
You could argue that radar also hurts a solo player (especially in objective). You can see where the enemy is but so can they. And there a lot more of them than you. So that kills stealth right off the bat unless you want to crouch the whole time.
I think Radar can work for certain gametypes and I'd love to see it come back if it were changed, but as it is it makes defensive play much more practical.
I feel like that'd make a great poster...
Prinz Eugn
Member
Radar is fine for goof-off playlists like Big Team or Multi-Team, but even in radar playlists there needs to be some non-radar gametypes so radar doesn't become a completely expected feature.
I just remember Halo 2 Team Slayer having regular Team Slayer gametype and "Pro" (without radar), so even as a superscrub, playing without radar was not a completely alien concept.
I just remember Halo 2 Team Slayer having regular Team Slayer gametype and "Pro" (without radar), so even as a superscrub, playing without radar was not a completely alien concept.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Oh Ozzy ;b
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
The other major factor to radar is online latency, it helps create some "padding" for lack of a better word so an Aussie can actually compete at the highest levels of matchmaking. Do you know what it's like to not be able to use grenades during a match? The latency would literally get you killed every time. No radar, for me and my region specifically, essentially breaks the game down to you saw me first and I died because of that. It's exactly why I don't play COD etc.
On most high ranked games I'm a good step or two behind, the magic of what your game version is showing you isn't what is actually going on the server/host version of the game. I haven't even gone into network prediction and all these other fabulous smoke and mirrors. Radar helps me compete online, it's not a crutch for me in that respect.
It is padding for a 90-200ms difference, which in Halo is a world of difference.
On most high ranked games I'm a good step or two behind, the magic of what your game version is showing you isn't what is actually going on the server/host version of the game. I haven't even gone into network prediction and all these other fabulous smoke and mirrors. Radar helps me compete online, it's not a crutch for me in that respect.
It is padding for a 90-200ms difference, which in Halo is a world of difference.
So this has probably already been suggested, but with legendary weapons like the Prophet's Bane....We're totally going to see a 3SK magnum as a power weapon in one of the maps right?
This could work, and one benefit of it, could be that anyone who wants to recreate CE style shooting, can then make this CE type pistol a starting weapon for custom games etc.
Who knows though. Can't wait for some info on how the beta went for them, what they learned etc.