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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo

VinFTW

Member
Good morning HaloGAF! What have I missed so far?

Oh not much...

Just gonna post this wherever I go everyday:

My list of things I'd suggest to 343 are actually pretty small.

-No sprint.
-No kill cams.
-No loadouts / weapon sets / whatever you want to call them.
-Stop putting bland color pallets on maps

I really don't care if they go overboard with medals or add more Promethean weapons or anything like that. But the top 4 listed above I kind of feel are big because they just take away from the Halo feel.

Couldn't agree any more.. It's just not possible to AGREE anymore with this statement.
 

MaxRealflugel

Neo Member
The upside of teabagging is revenge. If you're teabagged, simply single that player out and kill them. The comes the 'Revenge Teabag'. It's all good natured and innocent fun.
 

Sephzilla

Member
If I Halo-ify my avatar I might just make the RoboCop helmet green and the visor gold.

I agree 100%, i love a good "good game" after the game but trash-talking and tea-bagging (in some cases) is apart of Halo. It's a FAR FAR cry from the toxic community that is apart of MOBAs and other competitive shooters but it's still apart of Halo.

Halo 2 pre and post game shit talking is tame and formal compared to the shit you see during League or DOTA. That side of the world is the most toxic group I've ever seen.
 

Madness

Member
Would anyone be able to Halo-ify my avatar? Maybe have like a MK VI helmet over the Seahawk etc. Somewhat like YourExWife's avatar? Or anything else is good ie. Halo circular logo etc. I usually only use a Johnny Canuck, Colorado Avalanche, or Seattle Seahawks avatar all year round.
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
I think tea bagging is hilarious. Some people are really creepy about it, though. It's like they want to sexually assault their victims on top of killing them -- I've heard dudes online narrate their tea bagging, and it's seriously disturbing. I just think of it as doing a little goofy dance and rubbing my victory in a little.
 

AlStrong

Member
I really don't care if they go overboard with medals or add more Promethean weapons or anything like that.

hm.... Promethean teabagging. The twist is that you make yourself glow brighter and brighter with every squat until you explode with hard light confetti. :O
 

willow ve

Member
I prefer tea-bagging where I pick up the dead spartan's weapon and fire all their ammo into the air.

Spinning in a circle, tea-bagging, firing all the ammo, while also meleeing their dead body... that takes skill.



In games of BF4 (where who gives s shit if you live or die) I'll often tea bag until I'm killed.
 

Overdoziz

Banned
Would anyone be able to Halo-ify my avatar? Maybe have like a MK VI helmet over the Seahawk etc. Somewhat like YourExWife's avatar? Or anything else is good ie. Halo circular logo etc. I usually only use a Johnny Canuck, Colorado Avalanche, or Seattle Seahawks avatar all year round.

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Impala26

Member

I really like that in Halo 3 and beyond (Reach and 4?) when you T-bagged someone the physics actually registered with their dead model and jerked it around. Still think it's hilarious actually.

On a similar topic, anyone else miss the dead Spartan bodies and other debris floating down the stream in Valhalla?
 

AlStrong

Member
Would anyone be able to Halo-ify my avatar? Maybe have like a MK VI helmet over the Seahawk etc. Somewhat like YourExWife's avatar? Or anything else is good ie. Halo circular logo etc. I usually only use a Johnny Canuck, Colorado Avalanche, or Seattle Seahawks avatar all year round.

If I were an amazing photoshopper, I would somehow convert the seahawk into the Arbiter.


:p
 
Halo needs to evolve and aside from a few things i like the direction that 343i went for
and this comes from someone that regards Halo CE as the one true Halo, im pretty hardcore in that regard

sprint certainly was a good addition to Halo, it makes the slow paced gameplay a lot faster, something which is highly necessary after games like Halo 3 where you could go for making some coffee during an encounter as the killtimes where that high
if the map is well adjusted to the distance you can cover with sprint, this definitely will be benefitial for Halo, as its titles lately went away from its formerly large and open maps (CE) to some random chaos close combat as in guardian or countdown, in which melee is king

if you want a game to be successfull you need to adapt to the current way shooters are made
while that doesnt mean you have to copy games like CoD or BF, its at least worth a look to see what makes those games successfull and how well some of their features would work in Halo
and im sure theres quite a bunch that would help Halo to claim the console shooter throne again

so overall id love to see 343i continuing to bring in new features, they are in a way necessary to guarantee high sales and therefore get the AAA investment back



on a sidenote, if you would ask me what makes Halo a Halo game, itll be
- fast killtimes
- no ironsights
- moderate to low recoil
- open maps with just very very few vehicles (no BTB Tank/Banshee/Railgun-Hog crap)
- fast strafing and gameplay
- hitboxes that match the size of the player model
- grenades that deserve their name
- no melee lunge/warp

so basically nothing that H2, H3 or any other game after HCE was, therefore i welcome any change that 343i brings in that moves Halo away from what it was in its last titles
this doesnt mean i didnt enjoy the last Halo titles, i really loved playing Reach or H4 as those started to set a new trend within the series :)
cant tell if u are serious or not, please tell me u are trolling
Sorry. Disregard. I was not on the same page yesterday. It was the marvel avengers trailer. Doh.
lol it fooled me as well, i thought i had missed a halo 5 leak
How about press X to see kill-cam :p
nah out with killcams period
  • They're not loadouts, they're weapon sets!
  • What kill-cam? It clearly says H-cam!
  • It's not sprint, it's enhanced run speed!
  • They're not color filters and bland maps, just a new palette to try something different since all the other games have those pesky bright colors! Well, except Halo 4 where we did the exact same thing and got criticized for it, so we've just doubled down on it this time.
  • It's not a horribly inconsistent mechanic that introduces randomness and takes away player skill, it's bloom!
  • We're not shifting the focus away from core mechanics to focus on new players, we're merely filling the screen with pointless medal spam that makes every useless player feel like a special snowflake every time they sneeze on the controller! The gigantic "CAPTURE HERE" and "DEFEND THIS" and "YES, THIS IS IN FACT YOUR FLAG" text on the screen at all times couldn't possibly be viewed as annoying by players who know what they're doing!
  • All of your complaints are invalid since you can just change things in Forge or turn them off if you don't like them! Of course, that's all irrelevant if you intend on playing matchmaking, and there's no custom games browser, and the original clan functionality which people used to easily organize and find custom games is gone, but still!
qft. halo 5 is going to be a major fuck up but instead of complaining on forums like i did with reach im just gona play halo collection
 

jem0208

Member
Oh man, I had a great moment involving tea bagging once.


It was on Standoff, Halo 3. One of our teammates had died and someone was tea bagging him. Our entire team then descended on this one guy and destroyed him completely. Funny thing was I went back and looked at it in the Theatre and the guy doing the tea bagging hadn't even killed our teammate.


Thought it was pretty good revenge for tea bagging a kill that wasn't even his own.
 

dwells

Member
For anyone looking to MCC-ify their avatar, here's the helmet cropped out for you to use. It's a sloppy crop, but I'm at work and don't have Photoshop. Should get the job done for 100x100px avatars anyway.

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jem0208

Member
My list of things I'd suggest to 343 are actually pretty small.

-No sprint.
-No kill cams.
-No loadouts / weapon sets / whatever you want to call them.
-Stop putting bland color pallets on maps

I really don't care if they go overboard with medals or add more Promethean weapons or anything like that. But the top 4 listed above I kind of feel are big because they just take away from the Halo feel.

I can understand disliking Sprint, it's definitely not very "Halo". However I can live it. It's nice to get back into the fight a bit quicker and it is very nice when you are stranded in the middle of nowhere with no vehicles on some of the larger maps. I think the complaint that it causes bad map design is a bit silly. You can have good maps with sprint. It's just we didn't get very many in 4. Haven for example is actually a really good map, the wider hallways are actually quite nice because you get less battles which boil down to repeatedly meleeing.

Killcams I think are such a minor issue that I really don't care. They're a nice educational tool for those who aren't as good at the game and it's also very nice on the occasion where you really don't know what happened. I see absolutely no problem with them if they act like 4 where you can skip them and look at the normal deathcam.

Customisable loadouts I completely agree with not having. They're not Halo, they shouldn't be in. Weapon sets on the other hand I'm fine with, as long as they are balanced.

Yeah, bland colours are a bit of an issue. The whole "We wanted to do something different" excuse is bullshit.
 
I really like that in Halo 3 and beyond (Reach and 4?) when you T-bagged someone the physics actually registered with their dead model and jerked it around. Still think it's hilarious actually.

On a similar topic, anyone else miss the dead Spartan bodies and other debris floating down the stream in Valhalla?
Halo 5 really needs next-gen water, it would be cool if the water current could push and distort vehicle steering when driving across a huge fast flowing river or something.

do it 343, please!
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Last night.


60fps CTF.

Two flags down.

I cap the flag three times in rapid succession, multiple flag kills. Total dongination. Best CTF match I ever played.


"Xbox, record that!"

"Sorry, this has been disabled for this test build dumbass."


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
 

jem0208

Member
Halo 5 really needs next-gen water, it would be cool if the water current could push and distort vehicle steering when driving across a huge fast flowing river or something.

do it 343, please!

Watch out, that's different to the other Halos so everyone will hate it.




;)
 

iMax

Member
Frankly, I think Halo should just turn the D-Pad into the T-Pad. Make it a multi-directional teabagging taunt system for multiple scripted moves where scenarios warrant them.

⬆︎Grab limp player's head and yank it towards your crotch. A pull-up teabag, if you will.
⬇︎ Standard-issue teabag.
⬌ For switching between multiple bodies when having a tea party.
 
Last night.


60fps CTF.

Two flags down.

I cap the flag three times in rapid succession, multiple flag kills. Total dongination. Best CTF match I ever played.


"Xbox, record that!"

"Sorry, this has been disabled for this test build dumbass."


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

which game tho
 
Would anyone be able to Halo-ify my avatar? Maybe have like a MK VI helmet over the Seahawk etc. Somewhat like YourExWife's avatar? Or anything else is good ie. Halo circular logo etc. I usually only use a Johnny Canuck, Colorado Avalanche, or Seattle Seahawks avatar all year round.

<3

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Welfare

Member
Last night.


60fps CTF.

Two flags down.

I cap the flag three times in rapid succession, multiple flag kills. Total dongination. Best CTF match I ever played.


"Xbox, record that!"

"Sorry, this has been disabled for this test build dumbass."


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Video or it didn't happen :)
 
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