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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights

I was looking at tag emblems and found something that might work for me since the crescent moons are gone in Halo 4. But I'm not interested in going Tracker before Rogue.
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Pop

Member
Never try to talk to XBL support, good god.

She told me I would maybe have to wait until next weekend cause you know this weekend is here. What kind of logic is that. She had no clue of it. This is such a backwards way of doing it. Could have just unlocked them for everyone who played before the 20th.
 

Ramirez

Member
Never try to talk to XBL support, good god.

She told me I would maybe have to wait until next weekend cause you know this weekend is here. What kind of logic is that. She had no clue of it. This is such a backwards way of doing it. Could have just unlocked them for everyone who played before the 20th.

Then next weekend you'll have to wait til the next one, cuz the weekend will be here.
 
Eh, your not really in a position to criticize.
Shots fired! My own opinions are pretty particular and in the miniority, but if I had to go with one person's views over anyone else's in this thread, I'd probably choose Juices (although I find Cyren's views to be pretty acceptable, too). 343 needs to hire one of these guys!
 

rakka

Member
A way to boost that? I am at 2/5 with 1/25 :p

just try to get first strike every time you play a match :p swat and regicide are good playlists to get them. oh and if you don't mind playing flood it's probably the quickest to master the first strike commendation, because there's the potential to earn three first strikes per match.

The unlockable stances through SR level are laughable. And the better ones we won't see people using for years. Getting UNSC, Forerunner, or Covenant Weapon Master will take ages. I need to look at the first strike stance. Might do that just for the extra exp. Still wish the exp worked in pro slayer, though. It should...

EDIT: I totally misread your post. How many first strikes does it take to get to master out of curiosity?

yeah, seriously. ordnance mastery (like 6-8 different weapons for UNSC iirc) to unlock stances? I'll probably stop playing the game before i master that. first strike mastery is pretty short. I think total of around 100 first strikes? last tier is only 50.
 

Jironimo

Neo Member
I have an extra specialization code if someone wants it. Send me a PM with a link showing you're a high-enough level to use it.
 

Esiquio

Member
I posted this in the Gaming Halo thread and didn't get any responses. I'd appreciate some feedback on it, thanks:

Now Halo-GAF, I got some questions and would like to know what the experts here think. First, has anyone else experienced the issue in this topic? Stinkles responded but OP never responded if it was fixed. Some Google shows me that this issue is a little more widespread than I thought. I'd really like to know how to fix this for my friend/try to avoid it happening to me. This issue is also mentioned in the Halo Waypoint forums here, but isn't listed in the known issues sticky thread here.

Secondly, cheating. Has anyone else experienced cheating yet? I just got finished with a game of CTF on Ragnarok where our team was about to score, the game then pauses at that black screen and says its trying to re-establish connections and start the game again, then after a minute or so the game returns, we no longer have the flag, and the other team scores instantly. After that, our team is like, wtf just happened, did we get standby'd? Then everyone else on the team quits as we quickly run over and score (no one was there on their team). I'm thinking that just one person cheated and everyone else recognized that and quit out of fear of getting reported.

So I see that there is no way to report people in-game, and the only option is do so through Xbox Live. I can't remember, was it like this way in Reach? The thing is, I'm trying to figure out WHO cheated, as I don't want to report someone erroneously. I'm going to watch the replay and see if I can see anything strange, but my initial thought it that the person who scored is the most likely candidate. Thoughts, GAF?
 

Brolic Gaoler

formerly Alienshogun
So, yeah. Blops 2 is really good. I just spent a huge chunk of the night playing it and didn't have any of the frustration I got in Halo 4. Even when I was getting shit on. Plus I can put perry the platypus on my playercard/weapon.
 

DeadNames

Banned
So, yeah. Blops 2 is really good. I just spent a huge chunk of the night playing it and didn't have any of the frustration I got in Halo 4. Even when I was getting shit on. Plus I can put perry the platypus on my playercard/weapon.

Haha, my friends can't stand it. I actually really liked it though.

These are dark times for Halo indeed.

Also Rosso, how is Far Cry 3?
 

rakka

Member
I posted this in the Gaming Halo thread and didn't get any responses. I'd appreciate some feedback on it, thanks:

Now Halo-GAF, I got some questions and would like to know what the experts here think. First, has anyone else experienced the issue in this topic? Stinkles responded but OP never responded if it was fixed. Some Google shows me that this issue is a little more widespread than I thought. I'd really like to know how to fix this for my friend/try to avoid it happening to me. This issue is also mentioned in the Halo Waypoint forums here, but isn't listed in the known issues sticky thread here.

Secondly, cheating. Has anyone else experienced cheating yet? I just got finished with a game of CTF on Ragnarok where our team was about to score, the game then pauses at that black screen and says its trying to re-establish connections and start the game again, then after a minute or so the game returns, we no longer have the flag, and the other team scores instantly. After that, our team is like, wtf just happened, did we get standby'd? Then everyone else on the team quits as we quickly run over and score (no one was there on their team). I'm thinking that just one person cheated and everyone else recognized that and quit out of fear of getting reported.

So I see that there is no way to report people in-game, and the only option is do so through Xbox Live. I can't remember, was it like this way in Reach? The thing is, I'm trying to figure out WHO cheated, as I don't want to report someone erroneously. I'm going to watch the replay and see if I can see anything strange, but my initial thought it that the person who scored is the most likely candidate. Thoughts, GAF?

it existed in reach, but nowhere near as much as It happens to me in halo 4. every few games I get a black screen while some others are in fact still playing and scoring. it's either easier to cheat or the games just buggy as fuck in regards to networking.
 

malfcn

Member
Yeah. Not how I wanted to end the week. On Monday I was in the office working from 8 am to 1am the next day (17 hours). The next three days were 12 hours, 14 hours, and 15 hours long. Add a 90 minute commute to each day. Today was super intense, and then I was supposed to get ready for a meeting with management about four levels above me. And the afternoon post-lunch lull turned into slurred speech, slow movement and head-on-desk exhaustion. Couldn't do it. I waddled over to my boss - who knows I'm going through hell - and told him I would neither be prepared nor coherent for the meeting. It got pushed.

I'm home and resting and okay. I've told my boss I'm never, ever doing this kind of week again (which was a confluence of unusual factors we couldn't avoid). He's supportive; I'm going back to normal 8-5 hours the rest of the year and taking every Friday off in December. I just had to survive this week, which I did. Barely. :lol

Thanks for the kind words. Sorry for the personal derail. This has been the hardest week of the nine years I've worked here. I'm too old for this shit!

Holy shit. Can you even say what you do? To pull those kind of hours sounds awful. The compensation better be worth it.
 

Pop

Member
So, yeah. Blops 2 is really good. I just spent a huge chunk of the night playing it and didn't have any of the frustration I got in Halo 4. Even when I was getting shit on. Plus I can put perry the platypus on my playercard/weapon.

Blops 2 is great. I have my Halo emblem as my emblem in Blops 2. :D
 
How? I dont eat mt dew doritos to level faster in a /fps, thats you guys

btw I would play Halo 4 if it wasnt a fucking joke.
I generally have an alright time unless I get matched up against full teams, which seems to be happening more and more to me lately. Also, I don't understand why people think vehicles are easy to kill. My experience says otherwise. Players getting 30 kills with the Gauss Hog... And single stickies, sometimes, two stickies, are not enough to kill things. Yeah, sure, team shoot, but if you're playing solo, good luck trying to get everyone to focus fire on something. Vehicles are once again the cesspool they were in Halo 3 in my opinion. Idiots going around everywhere getting undeserved easy kills. It's really discouraging playing BTB when you're basically at risk at being one shot by just about everything driving or flying around. And vehicles respawn way too quickly. I haven't had the best results trying to use the plasma pistol either. Thing doesn't lock on to anything it seems.
 

Esiquio

Member
it existed in reach, but nowhere near as much as It happens to me in halo 4. every few games I get a black screen while some others are in fact still playing and scoring. it's either easier to cheat or the games just buggy as fuck in regards to networking.

Really, so you are seeing cheaters every few games?! How come there aren't a lot of people complaining about it, then?
 

_woLf

Member
So just to confirm, anyone who owns the collectors edition of Halo 4 already have this code?

I feel like I wasted some of my money... o_O
 

Deadly Cyclone

Pride of Iowa State
So just to confirm, anyone who owns the collectors edition of Halo 4 already have this code?

I feel like I wasted some of my money... o_O

Specializations? Yeah, LE got them day 1 (ability to see all of them/use them). We knew this before launch though. David said it wouldn't be too long for everyone else to get them.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
Holy shit. Can you even say what you do? To pull those kind of hours sounds awful. The compensation better be worth it.

Corporate finance, cost analyst specifically. (Quote for some specifics) And yeah, the compensation is worth it. I actually like my job and love the company I work for. Just not when it's trying to kill me.



I think I'm going to wrap up some home building in Skyrim and hop on for a couple of Halo 4 games. I kinda feel like blowing stuff up tonight. Can't imagine why. :lol
 

Omni

Member
Also Rosso, how is Far Cry 3?
Really, really good! It's my game of the year. Story mode is fantastic (I've spent hours just wandering the jungle... and it's fun), coop is kinda... tacky, but fun (very arcadey if I had to be honest) and multiplayer is quite average... BUT, the map editor is absolutely amazing and is the saving grace in that department.

Really puts Forge into perspective.
 
So just to confirm, anyone who owns the collectors edition of Halo 4 already have this code?

I feel like I wasted some of my money... o_O

If that's the case then I just wasted a perfectly good code. I didn't realise what it was, would've been nice if it had actually specified that it was the specialisations that I already had rather than just saying "You’ve earned a free gift".
 
I generally have an alright time unless I get matched up against full teams, which seems to be happening more and more to me lately. Also, I don't understand why people think vehicles are easy to kill. My experience says otherwise. Players getting 30 kills with the Gauss Hog... And single stickies, sometimes, two stickies, are not enough to kill things. Yeah, sure, team shoot, but if you're playing solo, good luck trying to get everyone to focus fire on something. Vehicles are once again the cesspool they were in Halo 3 in my opinion. Idiots going around everywhere getting undeserved easy kills. It's really discouraging playing BTB when you're basically at risk at being one shot by just about everything driving or flying around. And vehicles respawn way too quickly. I haven't had the best results trying to use the plasma pistol either. Thing doesn't lock on to anything it seems.

Thats cool. If you have fun play it. I played and had no fun, even tho I shit on kids and went 40/44. It just didn't have what I wanted.
 

Ryaaan14

Banned
After a 3 week long break, my first game back I get my first IS Overkill, and a few games later a Frenzy. Didn't go negative once tonight.

Dat Truskill at work.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
Yeah, I can definitely have fun in this game, but it's nothing like old school Halo, at least for me.

It's kind of like when you're really hungry, but the only place open is McDonald's. It's food, but only just barely.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
Second game I try tonight.

JIP into a BTB Infinity Slayer game where our team is down 10-180 on Exile. The other team has the Banshee, Gauss and Scorpion and are camping our spawns.

I asked this question after PAX, when that was my only experience on Exile there, and it was kindly included the Q&A Bulletin.

Was the vehicle setup on Exile planned to be what is used in matchmaking? -GhaleonEB

Vehicle setup was designed to show a ton of content for PAX. That map content will vary dramatically depending on game mode and playlist.

From what I can tell the vehicle set up is the same as PAX. The Gauss Hog and Scorpion should not be in matchmaking, for the reasons I ran into at PAX and the experience it creates in matchmaking. We need a non-Heavies BTB.
 

senador

Banned
So, yeah. Blops 2 is really good. I just spent a huge chunk of the night playing it and didn't have any of the frustration I got in Halo 4. Even when I was getting shit on. Plus I can put perry the platypus on my playercard/weapon.

To be fair, you just started playing it and you had similar feelings about Halo 4 when you first started. Let it sink in and report back in a couple weeks on both.
 

Ken

Member
JIP into a BTB Infinity Slayer game where our team is down 10-180 on Exile. The other team has the Banshee, Gauss and Scorpion and are camping our spawns.

If only players could spawn with a way to deal with vehicles that's more reliable than the green gun.

Or if BTB could just remove all vehicles except the chaingun Warthog so BTB games don't devolve into one team getting slaughtered by vehicles with one-hit kill weapons.
 
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