Zeouterlimits
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Currently suggestion is that H4 coverage is embargoed to the first week of March, but yes. the dream has not been crushed.
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Halo |OT| HaloGAF Evolved
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March 5 trailer! There'll be Chief, there'll be Cortana, there'll be BR and there'll be dubstep.
You butchered both names in the same post. No early Halo 4 beta for you.
You butchered both names in the same post. No early Halo 4 beta for you.
It's like a cryptic fortune cookie...
I've playtested it once yesterday and nobody mentioned framerate issues yet. It will definitely be more stable than Asylum - which has a pretty awful framerate at times - as my map uses less objects and less budget.
And yes, I've put killzones where appropriate.
Well, it's not only a matter of gameplay but that line of sight also causes framedrops on Asylum so I steered clear of it.I think its good but I would think the average joe wouldn't like the loss of the snipe to snipe LOS. I'm all for the change for good though
Nice work.
Zeouterlimits
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Yeah, apologies, I'm very tired.
VivaciousJazzy
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I think its good but I would think the average joe wouldn't like the loss of the snipe to snipe LOS. I'm all for the change for good though
Nice work.
ElzarTheBam
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That's because you played it by yourself! Just kidding, might try it tonight, but first I'm gonna do another playthrough of Minerva's den.
bobs...onGaf
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Oh it was directed at you
I assumed you liked the new mechanics in Reach (based on the Evade thing) and that's why you preferred Reach to H3.Nah, thanks for making me smile.
I suspect we'll get leaks before the embargo is up. We always seem to.
The Librarian
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I've yet to play a single game of Arena.
Edit: That seemed really random. Who else hasn't?
Edit: That seemed really random. Who else hasn't?
Tha Robbertster
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''Devid'' was a typo but I have no excuse for ''Franky''. May the Halo gods have mercy upon my soul.
Hitmonchan107
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I've promised my girlfriend that I won't get as hyped for Halo 4 as I was for Halo: Reach. (My hype for Reach was astronomical. :lol) I can't wait to finally see the game, though. Hopefully it's worth the wait. :^)
i gave it a go when the game first launched - but havent since. the post game scoring seemed quite a bit off IMO, which turned me off.
my wife is already making plans to visit friends out of town for a few days - taking our daughter too. oh how i love her!
Slightly Live
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It's usually a smaller site looking to jump the gun, and earn the clicks, before the bigger sites do. Pretty sure if the smaller sites, particularly places like Halo Destiny (j'adore!), get wind of anything it will be up like a shot.
On the bright side, as usual, if it leaks anywhere on net, it will end up on GAF within a minute.
ElzarTheBam
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Frankie O' Donnell has tainted your mind.
Steelyuhas
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LOL at thinking they'll be a beta!
I guarantee you will fall into the hype trap again.
The Librarian
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I still don't think Spartans would do anything like wall-jumping with their half a ton of armor on. If anything, I'd expect the following to happen, a wall-jumping Ryu Hayabusa versus a wall-jumping Hayabusa Spartan.
Hitmonchan107
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Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!
The reality would be somewhere in between. The Chief weighs 450kg in his armor, but he's also super-strong and in the game's fiction, incredibly fast--in part because they have dramatically reduced response times. So the Chief could do some pretty impressive leaps, but he's not going to be doing acrobatics based on the nature of his suit--and wherever he lands he's gonna' leave a mark.
That's what pissed me about Reach--it made us too vulnerable. We should have been Spartan-IIs anyhow, able to beat the daylights out of any unshielded enemy. Instead we're hunted down and killed with homing FRGs, and the Elites curb-stomp us as soon as we move in close. While Reach nailed the more tactical DMR use, it severely curtailed other combat options to the game's detriment (talking single player, multiplayer is of course another arena.)
Gabotron ES
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Your Asylum is looking really good over, I don't even know why both bases have lights... I mean, c'mon :/
I stopped playing after they made it win/loss. On the upside, I permanently have Season 1 and 2 on my service record in-game. (If you've been playing all seasons, I believe it pushes the older ones off). Also, personally, if they're going to base 4's movement off any game, it should be somewhere between 2 and Reach. Halo 1's movement was blegh.
Garrett 2U
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My Halo 4 wish list:
1) the maps need to scale better. the BTB maps feel just like the slayer maps in Reach.
2) the melee system needs to be changed. nobody likes double beat downs.
3) the movement needs some refinement. tired of having to jump and crouch.
4) the aiming needs to feel tighter. it always feels floaty in Halo.
5) ranked matchmaking please! it isn't fun when you demolish a team, or get demolished!
The movement of Halo has yet to change in 10 years.
I'm really hoping for some changes.
I'd love it to be more fluid, maybe pull yourself up onto a ledge instead of having to jump and crouch?
Also the melee really pisses me off.
I think it would be so cool if you could disarm an enemy at close range.
Maybe use martial arts to finish them off?
Of course the victim should be able to counter the aggressor.
There isn't much skilled involved in beat downs anyways, so I think there is a lot of room to diversify in melee range combat.
The maps should be able to scale much better than they do right now.
Take a look at Battlefield 3.
There is a huge war raging in Conquest mode version of the maps.
There are medium tactical battles in Rush mode version of the maps.
There are smaller tactical battles in Squad Deathmatch/TDM version of the maps.
When you're limited on disk space, don't try to make the campaign map design work with multiplayer map design.
Make the multiplayer maps scale for different multiplayer game modes.
Or give us 2 disks and epic maps.
1) the maps need to scale better. the BTB maps feel just like the slayer maps in Reach.
2) the melee system needs to be changed. nobody likes double beat downs.
3) the movement needs some refinement. tired of having to jump and crouch.
4) the aiming needs to feel tighter. it always feels floaty in Halo.
5) ranked matchmaking please! it isn't fun when you demolish a team, or get demolished!
The movement of Halo has yet to change in 10 years.
I'm really hoping for some changes.
I'd love it to be more fluid, maybe pull yourself up onto a ledge instead of having to jump and crouch?
Also the melee really pisses me off.
I think it would be so cool if you could disarm an enemy at close range.
Maybe use martial arts to finish them off?
Of course the victim should be able to counter the aggressor.
There isn't much skilled involved in beat downs anyways, so I think there is a lot of room to diversify in melee range combat.
The maps should be able to scale much better than they do right now.
Take a look at Battlefield 3.
There is a huge war raging in Conquest mode version of the maps.
There are medium tactical battles in Rush mode version of the maps.
There are smaller tactical battles in Squad Deathmatch/TDM version of the maps.
When you're limited on disk space, don't try to make the campaign map design work with multiplayer map design.
Make the multiplayer maps scale for different multiplayer game modes.
Or give us 2 disks and epic maps.
....and you were trying to make melee less annoying?
Make melee weak again so it's a situational ability instead of an unstoppable force of nature. Done. Ship it. Anniversary Classic's melee did it. It works.
Steelyuhas
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I am so paralyzed!
I'll probably end up removing mine too. They're so expensive and don't really add a lot.
Hopefully Ubisoft remembers that people like the map editor more than their game
bobs...onGaf
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Black Ops 2, Assassins Creed 3, Halo 4, GTA 5, Bioshock Infinite.
Woah gonna be a pretty good year for gaming.
Ok there are more games, and Black Ops 2 is unlikely, but I just wanted to make the numbers run in order.
squidhands
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Keep in mind that there's already framerate issues with the blank canvas in that area. No way of getting around it, but I like what you've got so far (I'd ditch the lights).
Please 343, give us some frakking options so we don't just have shade variations of one color for the next Forge. I'm begging you.
Cuban Legend
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I think we can all agree that if Halo 4 can replicate the risk/reward skill-balance of QUAKE LIVE, then it'll be a success no matter what else.
but who will mind your taint?
Hydranockz
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A familiar face reveals itself.
Garrett 2U
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It isn't annoying, it is just a stupid mechanic.
I beat someone down and they lose their shields.
My punches do more damage than my bullets do.
The close counter fights end up people just jumping around beating each other down.
It could be much more tactical.
You make some good points but then wtf?! Movement changed drastically with Reach. They added fucking Sprint! And evade! Also jump arch is lower. You want things to be more fluid and suggest pulling yourself up from ledges rather than crouch jumping. What? It sounds like you wanna slow it down and make it traversing a map more janky. Also martial arts attacks? I'll pass. I mean if you wanna keep the assassination mechanic and just add different animations that's cool but CQC as Halo has always been is what I love. It is a shooter after all. I can't imagine getting into a CQC battle and countering attacks back and forth in my Halo.
People have been shouting down powerful melee attacks in Halo since 2007, not many are going to disagree that it's out of hand. The logical step is to make it less powerful (like it used to be), not to layer additional systems on top of it that would likely be just as janky as the assassination system.
If you want to introduce more complexity into melee, that's fine, but complicated animation in gameplay isn't the answer there either. A return to the Halo 2 inertia based variable melee damage would be nice. It has the positive side effect of not letting objective items be a OHKO unless the carrier works for it.
Nope. When was this?
If you're going to make melee just some weak lovetap so that shooting is always the superior option, take it out the game completely and quit wasting everyone's time. The correct thing would be to make melee more than just a lump sum of damage. Also, remove its lunge, by god.
Sage only wanted assassinations, I think Luke was the one who led the charge on not letting that pass. It was in one of the podcasts...
I love any end of game stats. Fill the post game report with all kinds of stats. I don't even care if one is "distance travelled" - actually that would be awesome to see who the campers are. Add Shots fired/shots hit, give me a list of weapons of what everyone used - give us all bnet stats in-game.
Get on it Frankie.
Ah, that does sound familiar actually.
Sage was trying to kill everything good about Halo :/ He almost succeeded.
Yup.
Originally assassinations were going to be the only way to one-hit kill someone from behind. Luke (and others) protested and got the regular beatdown added back in.
Ahh yes. Fuckin insane. My favorite is the begging and pleading of having the DMR be 15 shots per clip rather than 10 or something. It's like really? That should be fuckin automatic.
Damn, that would have been scary. I like the role the dramatic assassinations play. They're like a dedicated teabag. But in no way should the one-hit quitter have been removed.
bobs...onGaf
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I wish there was a option to turn assassinations off, it seems like Sage got his way considering how many accidental assassinations I do. Not going to lie though, with how little I take Reach seriously going for assassinations is something I purposely do most of the time anyway.
With Halo 4 though I dont want to waste my time staring at the same animation when I could have just given him a backsmack, please give me the option to disable animations.
He got his hands on a lot of things that didn't even need touching. He was pretty thorough lol.
Ditched. Also raised car.
I'm experimenting with dynamic spawns for Slayer games right now. Spawn-camping is way too easy with static spawns. Hopefully that will no longer be as easy when people can spawn all over the map.
They experimented by taking normal assassinations out for a little bit, and then put it back. You know, normal development experimentation. They also played with more weapons having custom assassinations like the sword has, and were cut.
Stop abusing the melee button. It'll treat you right if you stop being so clingy.
I have a friend who accidentally assassinates people all the time but thankfully it rarely happens to me. I'm talkin like, it's happened to me less than 10 times in my total playing of Reach. And you guys know I play a lot.
For me, the assassination animation actually holds weight. I don't do it often so when I do, it means something. It still looks bad ass to me.
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