sableholic
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RiskyChris said:
Exactly. Two thumbs for each thumbstick.
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The Halo 3 Beta Thread
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Exactly. Two thumbs for each thumbstick.
Curses!Flyguy said:
At least this means I wasn't going crazy. Spent five minutes in the theater screwing around wondering wtf was going on.
Yeah, I was watching some friend's vids yesterday, but when I signed on recently it seemed the whole thing was down, cause it wouldn't let me get any new vids. Even if they were from people I already watched them from the day before.MMaRsu said:
Well it must just be you guys. I play with a group which has been together since the beginning days of Halo 2. We have no problem talking and communicating. Hell, just through our communicating, we were able to come from four territories down in Valhalla and win the game in the final round. Perhaps you guys should quit complaining on here about pressing one damn button and go practice.RiskyChris said:
What's next? You don't want to pull the trigger to shoot? You just want to say "fire" and the gun shoots? What about moving? You just want to say "move left, go forward, go back?" God, the absurdity of some of these complaints is asstounding.
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The only thing kinda bugging me about Halo 3 is the FOV. It tends to decrease my ability to be aware of my surroundings.
sableholic
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epmode said:
Which is why I asked him what the strategy in it is. But he just keeps saying its strategy.
ElectricBlue187
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JdFoX187 said:
This analogy is the only absurd thing I've read
I explained. But in your ineptitude or desire to continue this assinine debate, you ignored what I said. If you talk normally, your teammates can hear you up close. The further they go out, the less they can hear you. Anybody also in that area can hear you talk. Or you can press a button, like a lot of actual soldiers do in real life to open a channel, and talk to them directly.sableholic said:
ElectricBlue187 said:
Take a look at the thread. You have people complaining about pressing a button on a video game. THAT is what is absurd.
RiskyChris
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JdFoX187 said:
Not the same thing. Pushing a button to open your mic is analogous to talking into your mic before your trigger can be used to shoot a gun.
sableholic
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ElectricBlue187 said:
I was just about to say that.
polyh3dron
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urk said:
ooooo Sick Burn!
StUnNeR H2K
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Anyone complaining about using the D-pad to talk is a newb... Seriously... It's the same button you pressed in Halo 2 for teamchat, or did you not communicate with your team?
DevelopmentArrested
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Quick Beta review:
Pros:
Same good ol gameplay
New weapons seem interesting
A lot of diff. options/ game types to choose from
Even more fast-paced than Halo 2
Cons:
Graphics simply aren't up to par. Maybe it's because I went from playing Gears to this but basically looks like Halo 2 in HD plus the game came out a year later than Gears. No reason why it shouldn't look at least better than Rainbow Six Vegas for christsake.
The voice micing is ***ing stupid. There is no strategy here it's just retarded that my team-mates can't hear me half the team. Proximity chat is probably the worst thing to happen to the Halo series.
The matchmaking system is great but it still could be more refined - same go for the servers.
And finally, the beta has pretty much become a pain in the ass to play. Half the time getting EXPIRED/BUYSHADOWRUN messages the other half - waiting in the matchmaking system for xbox live to update...
Pros:
Same good ol gameplay
New weapons seem interesting
A lot of diff. options/ game types to choose from
Even more fast-paced than Halo 2
Cons:
Graphics simply aren't up to par. Maybe it's because I went from playing Gears to this but basically looks like Halo 2 in HD plus the game came out a year later than Gears. No reason why it shouldn't look at least better than Rainbow Six Vegas for christsake.
The voice micing is ***ing stupid. There is no strategy here it's just retarded that my team-mates can't hear me half the team. Proximity chat is probably the worst thing to happen to the Halo series.
The matchmaking system is great but it still could be more refined - same go for the servers.
And finally, the beta has pretty much become a pain in the ass to play. Half the time getting EXPIRED/BUYSHADOWRUN messages the other half - waiting in the matchmaking system for xbox live to update...
KachoMakura said:
Definitely a lack of AA, but I only really notice it in the distance. It seems worse on Valhalla to me than any other map. And if anyone wonders, I'm playing on a 50" SXRD A2000, component at 1080i (which the TV scales to 1080P). I do have the input tweaked a bit, but I did that for Oblivion and Gears. Haven't touched the setting in months.
Strangely, after the first few matches last Friday, I haven't noticed the AA (or lack thereof) since. Too busy trying not to get my ass kicked, I guess.
Y2Kev said:
Funny, last night, I did three matches in a row on High Ground. I wonder if Bungie can force certain maps to show up more so they can get more data for that map as needed.
My Arms Your Hearse
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Laika said:
My connection is perfectly fine.
goldenpp72
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I actually found it annoying to activate team chat as well, I shouldnt have to think about it.
I'm trolling? I've been in this thread since the beginning. A couple people say "WAHHHHH! MY TEAMMATES CAN'T HEAR ME! I HAVE TO PUSH A BUTTON!" and I'm the one who's trolling?epmode said:
That is, seriously, the most moronic excuse of a complaint I have ever heard in a game, especially considering it's been like this since Halo 2. Nobody complained about it then. In fact, it was heralded as innovative then.
I agree that pushing a button to talk is needless. Voice activated communication works well in almost all other XBL games, why they chose to activate it with a button is beyond me. Especially on the D-pad, meaning one will have to stop moving to initiate a chat. Bad game design IMO.
CreepingDea7h
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Wolffen said:
Valhalla is the only map where I really noticed much aliasing going on - otherwise I can notice some in the distance. On other maps.
sableholic
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JdFoX187 said:
Do you think that the helmet the chief wears is for show? Let's say this was real life. Would the master chief press something to talk? Or would he open up private channels (ala the books)? And just so you know, in real life the military can open up private channels and not push a button to talk.
RiskyChris
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JdFoX187 said:
Should we be forced to hold other buttons before we can do other actions?
"Gotta hold LB before you shoot man, otherwise your bullets won't go as far. It's strategy!"
sableholic
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JdFoX187 said:
First off, people did complain back then. Second off, times change. Do you still have a 8track?
I don't understand why this is even debatable. Who can argue with giving those of us who want it, the option to have team chat always enabled? If you prefer removing your thumb from the thumstick to chat, or through some freak of evolution were graced with two thumbs on each hand, feel free not to enable this option.
DevelopmentArrested
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JdFoX187 said:
How ironic.
RiskyChris
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JdFoX187 said:
YES THAT'S WHY IT WORKS WELL
To speak you should just... speak! Why add a layer of abstraction!?
I don't remove my thumb from the thumbstick, I simply slide it over while in combat and cue it up. It's not really that hard to do. It's just there's not really a lot to complain about in the Beta and people are finding the smallest things to complain about. There are other things like MM taking forever despite having more people. The fact that it causes the guide to lag a lot. The fact that there are times when matchmaking completely shuts down and says downloading files. No...we don't complain about that. We complain about the fact that you push a button on a video game.Flyguy said:
goldenpp72
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In halo 2 I used the white button to chat and it wasn't so bad, in halo 3, I dont like using up on the dpad and even worse it doesn't seem to always work correctly.
Xdrive05
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Anyone seen any bugs yet?
I've seen a deployed bubble shield that didn't have the hexagon light-bending effect going around it, even though the particle pulses were still shooting out from it.
I've seem some weird rag doll deaths where the model would kind of bounce up for no reason, after it had already come to a stop.
I've seen a deployed bubble shield that didn't have the hexagon light-bending effect going around it, even though the particle pulses were still shooting out from it.
I've seem some weird rag doll deaths where the model would kind of bounce up for no reason, after it had already come to a stop.
sableholic
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RiskyChris said:
He acts like there is no alternative, like there is something special about the team chat in halo 2 versus the free communication in gears and others. Somehow its strategic to not be able to communicate without leaving yourself vulnerable for a moment. In real life the army would not stop moving to talk, plain and simple.
What point are you making? You are saying you hold a button to fire and that works well.RiskyChris said:
Speaking on Halo 3 you simply tap a button. It works fine. The only people complaining are a handful here who say it's impossible to communicate despite myself and others being in games where communication is not a problem. Now, that's either the game's fault, which would cause everybody to be complaining. Or, it's the people playing. I'm leaning toward the latter. I don't have problems communicating. It's not impossible or a pain in the ass to me. It simply is. I adapted to it and it works great.
DevelopmentArrested said:
That doesn't make any sense. Gears of War was released six months ago. Just because a game WILL be released later on, it doesn't mean that it will look better now.
For christ sake, it's beta. Just because Fable 2 will be released two years after Oblivion, it doesn't mean it have to look better than Oblivion TODAY.
Flyguy said:
Because a lot of you people are ungodly annoying and if I had to listen to someone who said EVERYTHING over team chat, you'd be on mute before the first kill even happened.
Listen kids.. you're already taking your thumb off a stick to go for the melee, unless you're weird and use green thumb.. and in that case you're still taking it off to zoom.
Taking your thumb off the stick for a split second to team chat is no different.
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awesome just got my first overkill with some grenades and my trusty AR 
RiskyChris
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alkaline black said:
I don't have to stop moving for melee, or any face button for that matter.
JdFoX187 said:
That's great that's it's not hard for you (despite saying earlier that it was a pain in the ass), but how does that invalidate my point of enabling persistent team chat for those that want it? And the point of the beta, beyond squashing bugs, is to recommend ways to make the finished product more enjoyable. I would enjoy myself more if I had the option.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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i played halo 3 beta today. It was my first time Halo. And boy did i suck badly. Im pretty good in CoD 3 on x360, but halo 3 beta is pretty different.
Shake Appeal
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not sure if it's been mentioned, but what is the deal with the interminable flashing 'Retrieving files from Xbox Live...'?? been trying to get a game going (that is, been trying to get the 'START MATCHMAKING' button to light up) for close on forty minutes now with no luck.