Wow, Fyrewulff, rewriting history again? Conveniently ignoring Griffball and Action Sack? What's your hidden agenda this time?
That would require them to acknowledge Firefight, so I doubt it.
That would require them to acknowledge Firefight, so I doubt it.
But really, the introduction of Super Slayer is totally baffling. It was presented as a sort of compromise resulting from the two week TU vs. Vanilla competition in Team Slayer, but it didn't solve anything. Were people really crying out for a TU Slayer list with armor lock and community forge maps? 343 should have just left things as they were.
But whatever. With the added WTF decision of removing bleedthrough, Squad Slayer would have been no fun to me, anyways. It still feels weird to say that MLG is my favorite list.
It was easily the best one in 3, too. Less shit, less bad map variety. I rather have a full team going in though - as bad as people are in regular playlists like Super Slayer, you need them to be better in something like MLG.
Most of the TU changes are, at some level, arbitrary tweaks, most of which have some unbalanced detrimental effect. Bleedthrough was the main offender. If they want to continue fixing the TU gametype, they should adjust bloom next, and then maybe re-introduce sword block. Basically, my theory is when you sufficiently test the gametype and work out all of its flaws you end up back at Reach 1.0.
Defiant Map Pack was already part of 3-4 DotW. Blame people for not using the chance. Otherwise which hyped game's DLC got a perma price drop?
Never really understood why people liked sword block. With latency, it seemed like a complete crapshoot as to whether you'd get the block or not...and even when you did, you delayed your death by what, a quarter of a second?
Host selection seems to have gotten progressively worse over the last few months, at least from what I've played. I'd like to see what happens if they erase host history like they did back with Halo 2, to see if that makes a difference. Their upstream detection was completely broken for several months, with my 5 meg upload showing the WARNING status in the menu. Kind of makes me wonder how accurate their tools are.
It really seemed like an attempt to avoid taking a hard stance by making a weak effort at catering to both sides ("Voting data suggests that people like video games!" This is science.). Given how the actual experiment was handled, with maps, starting weapons, etc. not being the same in every voting screen, I wonder how much data they were actually able to gather, or what conclusions they were able to draw - turns out putting TU Elite Slayer and Slayer DMRs on the same voting screen doesn't make for very good data gathering! It was not exactly a shining example of well-designed investigation.
I've always felt they should let Reach be Reach and 4 be 4. I appreciate that they tried to effect a positive change in Reach, but it mostly fell flat, with MLG probably benefiting the most from the TU.
Too bad sprint and sword still work the same, eh? *yawn*
Yeah, I get that. Doesn't help that I really hate the simultaneous kill system in the last few games - the window seems to be too big, or maybe just feels inconsistent since I don't have the ping numbers for each player. I probably end up getting simultaneous headshots in a third of my DMR duels, which might just say something about my skill, I dunno.
Hello again, HaloGAF.
It was fun playing with you all for a couple games. Those flag games against terrible people were awesome.
Same here, three tweets in a day? motherofgod.jpg
I enjoyed your tweets. <3
Gonna be there with Trendy Ent.?
I'd be surprised if Halo 4 wasn't playable in some form.