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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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Der Flatulator
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"FLAG STOLEN!"
"Hey guys they've got our flag! Where the hell did they go?"
"I "--
"FLAG CAPTURED. LOST THE LEAD!"
"What the f***!"
Smart glass... ATLAS seemed to be MSFT piloting the tech.
We need video of this peace talk for educational purposes.
TS x Massacre
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User 73706
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I'm picturing sai twirling his fingers through heckfu's magnificent beard, giggling, ohgoshing and the like while heckfu talks about lumberjack things, such as chopping down trees and wearing plaid.
The P of Poland
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A bit late, but that new FUD video... why on earth do they have a male cadet and a female cadet bunking in the same room?
.... I will wait until the game released.
Slightly Live
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The Promethean units are "salvaged" Flood victims. The Didact is also infected by the Flood and has his transformation suspended by the Composer.
Guess Cortana is rather antsy about letting a a live Flood contamination off the planet.
Guess Cortana is rather antsy about letting a a live Flood contamination off the planet.
Objective needs love, you only need to take a look at the population of Team Objective in Reach at the moment to assert that.
Let the peoples at 343i give it the love it needs, be a little open to change--less skeptical
It's gunn b k.
See... I am completely open to change... in fact wild change depending on how it's implemented. Being anything else would be against true innovation, which I'm not. But honestly, based on what's been released, there's plenty of reason for me to be skeptical... pessimistic even, about how things are going to play.
Take CTF in Halo... I actually enjoyed Speed Flag. It was fast paced, but was tarnished by armor ability use while having the flag. It is particularly a problem in a game with traditionally slower kill times when compared to other shooters.
However, I didn't think it played better than default CTF with flag juggling, for competitive play. Having no marker over your head, but very slow movement when holding the flag, juxtaposed against a marker for the flag when flag juggling, while moving much faster, created a more nuanced game play and genuinely created on the fly strategic moments that went beyond "grab the flag and run it back".
Now... if there is an innovative way to give the same resultant experience... I'm all for it... but I don't know how much optimism I have based on other design decisions for default game play shown in videos thus far.
Shooting alone while carrying the flag doesn't solve the equation for me.
I'm excited to see what is revealed though.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Got accepted into the XBL Beta and new Halo 4 footage is about to flood our faces! AND it's only Friday!
No flood, thank the lord.
User 73706
Banned
Whoa, what? Where are you getting this from?
...even though it does make perfect sense. Cortana's impending rampancy would be a great parallel to 343 Guilty Spark's; he seemed by-the-book and chatty initially only to reveal just how crazy all those years of isolation made him when the threat of a Flood outbreak came into the picture. Does this mean Cortana's gonna get repulsor fields and laser beams too?
What exactly is all this new ctf info?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Speculation, or did I miss something?
Garrett 2U
Member
Just Frankie teasing. We'll know in a less than a few hours when a new video is released.
This is pure speculation/trolling. Its been stated the flood won't be in the game.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Actually it's only been stated that we won't fight the flood.
Slightly Live
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You think I of all people would be trolling about fiction?
You won't be fighting the Flood. I never said you would be. A half-Flood infected Didact doesn't really count as Flood.
ArchedThunder
Banned
After reading Primordium your theory does make sense, sorta.
Ragnarok Flames
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You could be right i mean look at the creatures in Primordium
I don't know, I just don't want to accept that we will be fighting AGAINST the
Diadact
How on earth would the Diadact be half infected with the flood?
Bros to the end! Hahaha. The tequila + mojito was just the right amount of buzzed for me. Dinner was also super delicious.
Off to the convention center now!
HiredN00bs
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Learn to accept responsibility for your own mistakes. It's not anyone else's fault for reading what you incorrectly write. And you reiterated your claim to TrueSkill's inadequacy at skill ranking multiple times (despite the fact that this is its entire and sole purpose) in specific replies to specific rebuttals. TrueSkill. By name. If there's an onus to step up comprehension, it's not on us.
Poker Face
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little over a half an hour till doors open, correct?
ArchedThunder
Banned
The original Didact didn't die, he was left stranded in a flood environment. There are two Didacts.
Slightly Live
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Remember, there are now two Didacts and one of them is assumed dead, injured and forgotten on some Flood infected world as of the end of Primordium.
And the Composer has been shown to be to retard Flood infection - literally halting the transformation. It can't stop it or reverse it but it can halt it.
The Composer also has this nifty ability to transfer the conciousness of living being into machines, like Guilty Spark.
And the Composer has been shown to be to retard Flood infection - literally halting the transformation. It can't stop it or reverse it but it can halt it.
The Composer also has this nifty ability to transfer the conciousness of living being into machines, like Guilty Spark.
The P of Poland
Member
This. If I remember the ending of Primordium correctly,
wasn't it Chakas that got infected with the flood
User 73706
Banned
Maybe the Requiem robo-ball thing is really just Didact put into a giant forerunner beach ball.
Good times.
This is true, but remember we also don't know where the Maser Builder is. It was just be so tragic having him turn evil, I suppose everything with Born, and the Didact is sort of tragic in my eyes at least.
What if its Didact vs Didact
more importantly why the fuck is everyone on requiem
FUNKNOWN iXi
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It begins:
Geoff Keighley and Adam Sessler - My two favorite gaming industry vets. Keighley really knows how to rip new buttholes in interviews lol, especially against Reggie ;]
Poker Face
Member
It begins:
soon
yes, but Primordium also reveals that
the Composer can stop a flood infection, as well as turn "organics" into AIs (Chakas -> 343 Guilty Spark)
the original, Ur-Didact was marooned on a Flood infested world
The P of Poland
Member
This is a wise decision.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Like a full summary of the book? No.
This article series takes a look at the possible identities of the Halo bad guy (before it was pretty much confirmed it was Didact). It contains a lot of explanations and summaries from Primordium and looks at The Composer, Didact, Master Builder and more.
However there will be a full run down of both Cryptum and Primordium, and Glasslands and The Thursday War (eventually) in a few weeks time.
It has been a terrible read thus far, but I've come this far, I might as well finish it, even if GAF keeps spoiling every major thing about it for me.
The P of Poland
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Hey, we're managing to put most of the spoilers under tags.
And we DID tell you to just skip straight to the end, I believe.
Slightly Live
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Sorry Ram. =/
Poker Face
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Couldn't be more true..
Shouldn't be too much longer now for dem Halo 4 goodies!
Let the battle begin!
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