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New Halo 5 Coverage! (expect spoilers)
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Jessie.Bristol
Member
I hope there is an ignore revive button or revert to checkpoint menu option like always if your waiting for a team mate to get to you and they take ages or die slowly themselves.
Will be interesting to see how they manage on harder difficulties. I can imagine last ditch efforts to revive you being fun but can see them getting obliterated quite easily unless the AI zones out while they help you.
Damn, that hunter gif is amazing.
Will be interesting to see how they manage on harder difficulties. I can imagine last ditch efforts to revive you being fun but can see them getting obliterated quite easily unless the AI zones out while they help you.
Damn, that hunter gif is amazing.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Maybe you cant be revived on Legendary? or only once? That would make it a lot harder
RedSparrows
Member
Asfaik if you are obliterated, I.e. Nuked by explosions or whatnot, you outright die. I think...
AcePartyN7
Member
They could since Halo 2, usually you melee them then, they become angry and finally they take their sword.
I just hope AI isn't useless on legendary, sort of like Gears AI on insane which is always downed so quick. Josh said they'd be helpful while still maintaining that difficulty, so who knows. I think Heroic will be the sweet spot for me in my advancing age. No longer the 14 year old with perfect eyesight and fast reflexes playing CE after school.
I don't even mind if the game is easier or that the difficulties aren't as bad as they were. It's a new style of game, plus there are always skulls to make the game as hard as you need. Just add a few LASO or Mythic achievements and tie some wicked armor to it and the legendary folks will be content trying to go for those ones.
RedSparrows
Member
Tbh they could probably standardise Mythic also: have it on the menu options, with a note explaining what it is.
SmartWaffles
Member
Yeah Heroic is always the best difficulty to play Halo, challenging but also very fair. Legendary in all games but 4 are just difficult and not in a particularly good way.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I wonder, how exactly does revive work should you become incapacitated while behind the wheel of a warthog or while manning a gun on a warthog? Do you simply just fall out of the vehicle till you're revived?
This is how it was explained to work, but in this weeks footage, we saw someone get revived after being caught in a plasma grenade blast, and after getting hit with a plasma sword, both of which I previously understood would kill you outright...
Now it seems falling deaths, being stuck by plasma, and death by splinter grenade are the only hold outs... Now I'm hoping that there is no reviving in Legendary, or there's a skull to turn it off...
Legendary feels like you are actually playing the story that's being told... Out numbered and out gunned, all you've got is your wits to overcome impossible odds... Nothing greater than the feeling of clearing a room in Legendary when you started the battle with way to little ammunition in your shitty guns...
Yeah some sections were overkill, but Legendary has always felt like the way to go for me...
I'm loving the look of the Covenant in Halo 5, but I gotta ask, what happened to the Yanme'e? They were annoying buggers but I would've loved to see them make a return.
Hell I'd love to see some Huragok in the mainline games. That'd be cool.
btw, I can't get over how fucking awesome the Jackals sound.
Hell I'd love to see some Huragok in the mainline games. That'd be cool.
btw, I can't get over how fucking awesome the Jackals sound.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
That gif of the elite shows their A.I. has improved too, looks awesome. I think i should not be afraid the A.I. is gonna be disappointing. Especially with that elite and the hunter throwing that box when the player used the rocket launcher. Unless the hunter just mashed the box out of his way, which was their behavior in previous Halo games i believe. But it doesn't look like that.
Best AI I've seen in years. Looks like a lot of fun.Hunters look fun as hell to fight.
Screw your grenades!
love it!
User 73706
Banned
It's funny, I think the Hunters in H5G most closely match their depictions in the novels. For balance reasons they've always kind of lumbered around with slow-moving weapons and iteratively covered up weak points with every new game, but the way they're so aggressive and so alien on top of being upgraded to lightning bruisers is pretty amazing. They also seem to exhibit more cooperation beyond berserking - it actually feels like they care about one another (like in the crate .gif).
Fun fact: Hunters in CE could rapid-fire their fuel rod guns as revealed by dev-commands, they were just never programmed to make use of it.
Fun fact: Hunters in CE could rapid-fire their fuel rod guns as revealed by dev-commands, they were just never programmed to make use of it.
S0cc3rpunk
Unconfirmed Member
You guys should create a Halo Forge app on all devices (W10, iOS, Android). Create your own levels from where ever you want. Then upload them. True evolution of Forge imo.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'm so torn between this and Battlefront as my big holiday shooter. On one hand, Halo Campaigns are my most replayed single player experiences of all time. On the other hand, none of my friends either have Xbones or want to buy another Halo game so I can't play co-op without split screen. Oh and I'd have to pay for XBL again.
I'll wait a few days to a week for impressions. It looks like it could actually be the biggest Halo Campaign yet. Plus I have significantly more faith in this than Battlefront.
I'll wait a few days to a week for impressions. It looks like it could actually be the biggest Halo Campaign yet. Plus I have significantly more faith in this than Battlefront.
I know friends are important, but from what I've seen, H5 just looks to be a better game... This recent footage has knocked battlefield completely off my radar..
Make some new friends!
Get new friends.
blue_phazon
Member
Can you play as a female Spartan in multiplayer?
I notice some of the Spartan chatter has female voices, but that would only make sense if there were women on the field
I notice some of the Spartan chatter has female voices, but that would only make sense if there were women on the field
uncledonnie
Banned
Isn't there a time limit on how long you can be in system lock before being revived without dying? Maybe that goes faster at the higher difficulties and/or the revive process takes longer.
You could already play with a female Spartan in the Beta.
LegalEagleMike
Member
yes, it was in the beta.
You can save last checkpoint at any time. So you could quit and resume but I have never once done it, there's always the hope that they'll get there in time even though you're stuck between two angry hunters...
blue_phazon
Member
SmartWaffles
Member
You can always play with gaf fellas and make new friends.
Primethius
Banned
I know friends are important, but from what I've seen, H5 just looks to be a better game... This recent footage has knocked battlefield completely off my radar..
Make some new friends!
Perfect.
And a Forge app for Surface Pro/Windows would be great. That would completely take over my life.
SmartWaffles
Member
You mean the entirety of Halo 2 and the whole second half of CE? And in the fiction Spartans make short work of most Covenant enemies that are not Elites and Hunters like in easy mode.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I've never been one to let friends ruin my enjoyment, because when it comes to your own personal satisfaction, it isn't about what your friends want. It's what you want.
Leyasu
Banned
Hunters look fun as hell to fight.
Screw your grenades!
Shit yeah
Since it's drop in drop out online co-op that means progress will be saved for both people? Or will I see a completely different checkpoint, if I'm not hosting?
Also, anything on todays trailer? Is it a European friendly time?
Primethius
Banned
On a scale of 1 to 10, how many pants should I have prepared for tonight's trailer?
LegalEagleMike
Member
Since it's drop in drop out online co-op that means progress will be saved for both people? Or will I see a completely different checkpoint, if I'm not hosting?
Also, anything on todays trailer? Is it a European friendly time?
Trailer will hit between 9pm and 11pm EST unless they upload it before Sunday Night Football.
I know friends are important, but from what I've seen, H5 just looks to be a better game... This recent footage has knocked battlefield completely off my radar..
Make some new friends!
HAHAHA yeah I'll probably request to co-op with some Gaffers down the line if I end up getting it (comes out during a busy week for me anyway so I'll be waiting regardless)
It's not that I'm letting them ruin my enjoyment, if the campaign's awesome I'm buying the game regardless of whether or not I have anybody to co-op with. It's just that this factor combined with the heavy focus on co-op keeps it from being an instant purchase for me (along with the lack of big team)
And will the game come with an XBL free trial? Halo 4 came with a 2 week for me but that might have just been the Limited Edition. Oh and is there co-op matchmaking like Reach?