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Black Republican

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BraXzy said:
So I've been playing the game for around 6 hours now and thought I'd drop my early impressions before I go to sleep

Positives

- it is a beautiful game, from the menu's to the skyboxes.

- The audio is amazing and really gives the game an atmosphere.

- The sparrow is my favourite vehicle ever. Zoom Zoom!

- Peter Dinklage is a cool dude, screw the haters.

- Open ended maps allow for self-set challenges like running through ??? levelled enemies.

- A lot of the content seems challenging.

- Co-Op invited or not adds to the experience and does indeed make the game more enjoyable.

- No connection issues besides the odd bit of a laggy squadmate.

Negatives

- The BIGGEST one, which many people have already said.. The mission design is horribly dull so far.

Go here, run through that place, backtrack, Press X to Ghost, defend Ghost.. done you have 5 seconds before you're forced to the menu.

- The beta was an exact replica of the main game. Bit nitpicky but I was hoping there would be a bit more stuff added for the main game.

- So far I rarely run into rabdom people, and it's only ever one or two people. I was hoping there would be a few more people always nearby.

- Loading times kinda suck.

- The tower feels kinda small, I wish you could see some of this amazing last city everyone harps on about to get more of a feel for it.

- Exploration still feels pretty. The world is pretty barren with very little to find besides the odd chest or hidey hole.

I haven't got all that far into the game yet, and I have only had a couple PvP matches, so this is all based on my experience so far.
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the load times suck, was worried about the mission stuff, think i'll wait till its cheap
 
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NoTacos

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I was playing road not taken to pass the time and the damn game locked up my ps4 -__- wouldn't let me access the menu or anything had to reboot
 
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TimeEffect

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BraXzy said:
So I've been playing the game for around 6 hours now and thought I'd drop my early impressions before I go to sleep

Positives

- it is a beautiful game, from the menu's to the skyboxes.

- The audio is amazing and really gives the game an atmosphere.

- The sparrow is my favourite vehicle ever. Zoom Zoom!

- Peter Dinklage is a cool dude, screw the haters.

- Open ended maps allow for self-set challenges like running through ??? levelled enemies.

- A lot of the content seems challenging.

- Co-Op invited or not adds to the experience and does indeed make the game more enjoyable.

- No connection issues besides the odd bit of a laggy squadmate.

Negatives

- The BIGGEST one, which many people have already said.. The mission design is horribly dull so far.

Go here, run through that place, backtrack, Press X to Ghost, defend Ghost.. done you have 5 seconds before you're forced to the menu.

- The beta was an exact replica of the main game. Bit nitpicky but I was hoping there would be a bit more stuff added for the main game.

- So far I rarely run into rabdom people, and it's only ever one or two people. I was hoping there would be a few more people always nearby.

- Loading times kinda suck.

- The tower feels kinda small, I wish you could see some of this amazing last city everyone harps on about to get more of a feel for it.

- Exploration still feels pretty. The world is pretty barren with very little to find besides the odd chest or hidey hole.

I haven't got all that far into the game yet, and I have only had a couple PvP matches, so this is all based on my experience so far.
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These negatives are exactly what turned me off from the beta and baffled me with the hype. I just couldnt get into it.

I actually on the other hand, sort of liked the PvP, despite it seeming too unbalanced with all the unlocking of leveling, but hated the beta/alpha mode. Hoping to see some solid gameplay for CTF and to check out the other modes.
 
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Schploople

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Midnight release at our Gamestop was pretty cool. We had a gametruck stop by and host a Halo 1 tourney, got last place but it's no biggie haha

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Hawk269

Hawk269

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Drove by my local Gamestop on the way from home and they had about 30 people, Best Buy had ZERO people. During Halo 4 at these same locations there were about 300 at GS and about 100 or so at Best Buy.

I know we can't take anything from that, but just appears that for a game available on 4 platforms, lines are no where near what they have been for other major launches.
 
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Garland7G

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BraXzy said:
- The tower feels kinda small, I wish you could see some of this amazing last city everyone harps on about to get more of a feel for it.
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I snipped your post, but this part right here...the Tower is the same size as in alpha/beta huh? Pls tell me I'm wrong but I already know it is :(
 
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casmith07

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Black Republican said:
the load times suck, was worried about the mission stuff, think i'll wait till its cheap
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Were people not expecting a disc-based game to have to load? Particularly if you're not running off an SSD?

I have an SSD and it loads a little longer than my all-digital beta. Might spring for a digital copy to eliminate loading times once cash flows are higher.
 
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Seil

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Just an hour til it finally unlocks. Planning on focusing on the story missions and just trying to make progress in general. I'll probably check out new places as I go, but not gonna spend a lot of time exploring just yet, I want to hit that cap so I can start getting the stuff that matters haha.

Anyone with similar plans want to join up to make things go more smoothly?
 
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casmith07

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Hawk269 said:
Drove by my local Gamestop on the way from home and they had about 30 people, Best Buy had ZERO people. During Halo 4 at these same locations there were about 300 at GS and about 100 or so at Best Buy.

I know we can't take anything from that, but just appears that for a game available on 4 platforms, lines are no where near what they have been for other major launches.
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Many more digital these days.
 
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Kingbrave

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time has stopped...hurry up 3 am.

Sleeping disorders suck, but right now I'm not upset at only getting 2 hours of sleep a night.


Except the wait.
 
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nismogrendel

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So it sounds like PSN is having some issues? I'm setting up a brand new PS4, keep getting the error: "Cannot connect to the server within the time limit. (NW-31456-9)"

When I googled that error code, I found a few links talking about port forwarding. I set up my router to forward:
80
443
1935
3478-3480

Is that all that is needed? Anyone have a link to exactly which need to be forwarded?
 
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Northeastmonk

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TimeEffect said:
These negatives are exactly what turned me off from the beta and baffled me with the hype. I just couldnt get into it.

I actually on the other hand, sort of liked the PvP, despite it seeming too unbalanced with all the unlocking of leveling, but hated the beta/alpha mode. Hoping to see some solid gameplay for CTF and to check out the other modes.
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People are always on the fence when the mission structure goes into lengthy cutscenes and large amounts of details. I never count the first couple hours of character building as anything other than a place holder for learning how to play the game.
 
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