You guys all know the Halo Swag Bags are available now, right? And so are the commemorative poster packs, and other shirts and stuff.
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Halo: Reach |OT4| This Thread is Not Your Grave, But You Are Welcome In It
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Tunavi said:
Went from a unique chess-like multiplayer FPS to a FFA bloom-filled bonanza. No fixed spawns, armor abilities ruining power-up timing, brutal nades. Save us Franklin.
Genesis Knight said:
Sage was a designer on a game that was a massive commercial and critical failure. Bungie hired him to be lead gameplay designer on Reach.
squidhands
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Steelyuhas
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A27 Tawpgun said:
The nerf on the characters was good to an extent, but its the weapon nerfs that really hit the Elites hard in my opinion.
kylej said:
Shadowrun was a great game on its own, but it wasn't Halo, and Reach shouldn't have been a bastard child of the two.
thezerofire
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it was really balanced and really fun though. Sage just didn't take the parts he should have (high speed and jump height) and only took the weapon mechanicskylej said:
The Librarian
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squidhands said:
Hypertrooper
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Damn. I don't have the money for the poster sets etc. I hope Bungie will sell their stuff at PAX. So I can buy the 20th anniversary shirt and an Hoodie.Sai-kun said:
And I bought the Bag. Can't wait to see what I get
Tha Robbertster
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Does anybody wants to read about a campaign theorie/explenation of mine for a part in the Reach campaign? It's kinda oftopic right now but I wanna post it somewhere where people actually care for it.
MrBig said:
I was thisssss fucking close to pulling the trigger on it now. But then I stopped myself. I felt like one of those Apple consumer sheep who wait on press conferences with their credit cards waiting to buy some other stupid shit they don't need. I don't need that stuff. It did look nice though :/ :lol
HiredN00bs
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You mean when it can hold a framerate in one of the most ambitious maps ever created in a videogame?Plywood said:
I play A LOT of Reach, and I play Campaign, Multiplayer, and Firefight. I notice just about every framerate drop. It happens, and it sucks, and I wish it wasn't there, but saying the technology in Halo: Reach isn't fantastic because of it is asinine.
Miggytronz
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Tha Robbertster said:
I wanna hear it.
Blue Ninja
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Shoot. You could always post it on HBO, too.Tha Robbertster said:
ncsuDuncan
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Yeah, I'm aware of that comment but I always thought it meant movable objects like gates, bridges, or doors. That could be tough to implement and would take considerable dev time.MrBig said:
What I'm talking about is much more simple:
Object: Spawn Switch
Appearance: Anything, really. But the best would be a small box with a red/green light indicating whether or not it has been activated.
Function: When a player walks up to it they get the "Hold X to activate switch" prompt. Doing so will cause any object tagged in Forge as "switch_1_spawn" to instantly spawn on the map. You can also place multiple switches, with a different tag for each. So a switch tagged as "switch_2" would spawn objects tagged as "switch_2_spawn".
You could also use it to make Forge objects disappear. When "switch_2" is activated any object already on the map with the label "switch_2_despawn" would be instantly removed.
A single switch could make some objects disappear while new ones spawn in their place (which would probably work best if the despawn command was a frame or two ahead of the spawn command).
I'd be surprised if something like this wasn't already doable in Megalo. Obviously we couldn't add new geometry for a switch box, but at least give an existing object the functionality. Maybe use the Medpac model, only you place them on a map backwards so people know it won't heal them. The tagging would work similar to the way Invasion spawns and despawns objects when the Phase changes. I think some of the Forge wizards out there could make some pretty awesome gametypes and maps with a simple switch like that.
squidhands
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Bullet bitten, Swag Bag purchased. I hope the shipping estimate is a very conservative one, I want it now (or a couple of days from now)!
Blue Ninja
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I wanted to buy it, but the shipping costs are just a bit too steep for shipping internationally.
It is an ambitious map, but it's also a map that shouldn't have been, just because you can make such a huge map and have it be playable does not mean it should actually be played on. Those maps would work and look a lot better if they were each there own separate maps.HiredN00bs said:
Pushing hardware from 2005 while impressive doesn't help me enjoy whatever small section of Forge World I happen to be playing on at the time.
Not forgetting to mention there are issues with Forge World and vehicles. Why make something so ambitious if it's easily prone to breaking?
Does the tech do a lot of things other games don't? Yes, absolutely.
Does it have a locked framerate? No. There in lies an issue for me who enjoys the major replay value of the Halo games, which is the MP and the MP happens to be at this time mostly comprised of Forge World maps.
The Librarian
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I want the bag...but forty dollars? Hm.
Steelyuhas
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Sai-kun said:I wanted a t-shirt but they were sold out
Then realized the bright side of being a short skinny kid, and bought a medium girl's shirt.
Is it mean that I find that hysterical lol?
Tha Robbertster
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Well okay: I was playing TotS last night and I remembered there were some complaints about it not making sense that it wasn't shot down by the MAC's in orbit around Reach.
In the first cutscene, Aunti Dot mentioned that the whole Viaera (or whatever it's called) territory is under attack, including orbital defences. Well, since we don't hear anything about a space battle going on, I asume this means that the generators for the MAC's above that part of Reach are under attack and possebly not working.
This would explain why the Long night of Solance wasn't destroyed by MAC's in space. From the book FoR, we know that human ships dont stand a chance against most Covenant ships, so a super carrier would destroy everything human in it's path.
It also would be impractical to send in more ships/MAC's to the part of space where the LnoS is stationed since this would be suicidal (super carriers have some kind of sniper lazer thing that can destroy everything from a very long range). It would make more sence to do something sneaky and this is what we are doing in the 5th mission.
Remember, only the Viaera teritorry's were under attack at that point in the story and the whole planet was under Winter Contingency. Since the Viaera territory is mostly military, perhaps the UNSC and ONI could have kept the Covenant invasion secret untill the destruction of the LnoS.
Then from there on, a space battle started, and the full scale invasion of Reach actually began.
This still doesn't make the story more consistent with the books, it atleast makes more logically on it's own.
In the first cutscene, Aunti Dot mentioned that the whole Viaera (or whatever it's called) territory is under attack, including orbital defences. Well, since we don't hear anything about a space battle going on, I asume this means that the generators for the MAC's above that part of Reach are under attack and possebly not working.
This would explain why the Long night of Solance wasn't destroyed by MAC's in space. From the book FoR, we know that human ships dont stand a chance against most Covenant ships, so a super carrier would destroy everything human in it's path.
It also would be impractical to send in more ships/MAC's to the part of space where the LnoS is stationed since this would be suicidal (super carriers have some kind of sniper lazer thing that can destroy everything from a very long range). It would make more sence to do something sneaky and this is what we are doing in the 5th mission.
Remember, only the Viaera teritorry's were under attack at that point in the story and the whole planet was under Winter Contingency. Since the Viaera territory is mostly military, perhaps the UNSC and ONI could have kept the Covenant invasion secret untill the destruction of the LnoS.
Then from there on, a space battle started, and the full scale invasion of Reach actually began.
This still doesn't make the story more consistent with the books, it atleast makes more logically on it's own.
Tha Robbertster
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My god, what happened to the Bungie homepage?
K
kittens
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I can't effing wait for the Aerospace reveal. I love how they've teased us by saying it's coming out sometime between today and 7/7. Leaving us guessing. Every morning I'm gonna wake up, hop on GAF, and be disappointed by the lack of an announcement... But then I'm gonna flip my shit (one way or another) when it finally is revealed.
Tha Robbertster said:
I had to shut off all of Firefox's addons and turn them back on before it looked right.
Also, it seems you gotta unlock your blue flames via the app or the website before Bungie Day ends - I guess they weren't just going to do a global switch-on like I thought.
The Librarian
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Me like.MrBig said: