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Halo |OT7| You may leave, Juices. And take Team Downer with you.
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Sounded like a chat log from To Catch A Predator.
Want some candy little kid?
Had no idea you went to Penn State.
I wrote out this really clever come back... but read it, and it was wayyyyy too over the line lol
But you can't dual wield in H4...
Barrow Roll
Member
"It breeds this smarter combat. You'll definitely notice a difference in how the game functions."
"Right now, at this exact moment in development, Armor Lock's insane! It's super powerful, I love it!"
"It is just fucking fun."
NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET.
Exhibit #734 why I lol when people say "Trust [Halo developer]"
Well at least you and Paterno have something in common for not saying anything.
<3
Get on tonight late btw, got my capture card going finally. Going to make magic.
/smh
We still talking about Halo here?
"The fans should never assume what you see in the beta is set in stone."
"The Jetpack is practically crying out for abuse."
Barrow Roll
Member
Why is this guy the MP design lead?!
The grin on his face about something as mundane as running after skulls is terrifying.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I bet he thinks CTF is this incredible revelation as well.
"Seeing a guy grab a flag, and then you killing him, and then the mad dash to return it to base, omg so kawaii~"
It's like they hire designers who just want to add whatever crap they think is cool while completely ignoring the fundamental balance that actually makes the games playable and fun.
Poker Face
Member
"You know what I'm not sure. You're thinking of new sandbox combinations we haven't even tried yet."
"new sandbox combinations we haven't even tried yet."
"we haven't even tried yet."
No one tried crouching with the hardlight shield? So did 343 not try BTB with everyone using plasma pistols and stickies?
The advantage you guys have over developers is that we don't know what you do, so our scathing ripostes can't contain crackpot theories about how you work or out of context sound bites that we can build conspiracy theories on. Although I suspect Heckfu encourages beard growth by drinking unicorn blood.
Steelyuhas
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To be fair Lars was the Firefight Lead, not competitive MP.
This though, is pretty insane.
Am intrigued... what time?
He was in charge of FF. He's also the nicest person, aside from Tim Dadabo(sp?) I've ever met within the Halo family.
Poker Face
Member
So did you test stickies and PPs on BTB?
I hope this whole process has changed for Halo 4. Waiting a whole month for an issue to be fixed in a map is just flat out unacceptable. I understand that there's serious testing that needs to happen, but really, that is a serious issue.
11/12am your time too late?
So...
Can you crouch with the Hardlight Shield?
Barrow Roll
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Cheerfully withdrawn! Though Reach FF has it's own set of problems. ODST FF > Reach.He was in charge of FF. He's also the nicest person, aside from Tim Dadabo(sp?) I've ever met within the Halo family.
Hypertrooper
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Somehow I thought you spoke to me and I was proud that I had been the Firefight Lead. But then I remembered that I did not work on Firefight or at Bungie in general and then the name Lars Bakken appears in my head.
How many EMP nades can you spawn with in a game of BTB?
OverHeat
« generous god »
Its always easy to criticise something you did not do, the real challenge is trying to make something better yourself.
Some of you guys should go in game design since it look so easy.....Introducing new gameplay mechanic to keep gameplay fresh in an already establish game series must be one of the hardest task since you cant please everybody and balancing everything out must be a nightmare since something might work at a lower skill but not at an higher and vice versa.
Some of you guys should go in game design since it look so easy.....Introducing new gameplay mechanic to keep gameplay fresh in an already establish game series must be one of the hardest task since you cant please everybody and balancing everything out must be a nightmare since something might work at a lower skill but not at an higher and vice versa.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
You know, Bungie did this big thing, where they let thousands and thousands of their fans test out their game and find all these exploits and crazy stuff, and fans got to play the sequel to one of their favorite games early. It was win-win for everybody.
The name escapes me...a zeta? A delta, I think.
The worst of all arguments. Nobody criticize anything until you do something better.
Hi, please hire someone, anyone to update the Reach playlist.
Serious question? Yeah, you can actually crouch with the Hardlight Shield. Granades can still kill you (in the MLG videos it happens a couple of times too).
Edit: I am wrong? Dunno, I remember reading that somewhere.
Steelyuhas
Member
Load up Elite Slayer.
Like I said, there's emergency fixes and then there's just fixes. If you update more frequently, it costs tons more money and time for diminishing returns. Once a month is a pretty good rate, they've been using it since Halo 3 launched and it works well.
Another problem with too frequent updating is you can get into a situation where you're chasing updates with updates.
Another thing to consider is it's never just a single map being update, it's a bunch of lists and other maps included too, so you want to roll as much updatey goodness out at the same time, and there might be a pending update to the map already. Say you see a missing weapon spawn on Powerhouse. You report it, it's known. Can't just go Forge it and then publish it though, because Powerhouse v5 is already going through testing. To change the weapon, you'd have to send the old map through the test and cert process at the same time you're pushing a totally new version of the map through the test and cert process, so you just wasted money and time. Hence why you just fold the weapon fix into the currently-in-progress version which is targeted for the next monthly update.
Now if the map is missing the spawns for Red Team entirely and puts them upside down facing backwards on Blue's spawns, then that would be a critical update to push out mid-stream. But tweaking normal stuff isn't critical level.
edit: oh, and your updates also have to be in the wild long enough to actually get useful telemetry and data off the reactions and effects it had. In something with as many moving parts as matchmaking, you don't want to make rash decisions.
Unfortunately, we don't need to build conspiracy theories; the results of the last 3 Halo games speak volumes about the testing and design.
Hypertrooper
Member
Right spelling. And yeah. Tim Dadabo is an amazing guy. I am totally waiting for Duncan now to tell our story from PAX last year. Pete Stacker is a nice person too! And the 343i peeps too. They really are! You can say this is slurping but then you have not met them.He was in charge of FF. He's also the nicest person, aside from Tim Dadabo(sp?) I've ever met within the Halo family.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Can you crouch while carrying a turret?
Zeouterlimits
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I hear Juices is
permanently
Is that trollish? I'm tipsy and rolling in self pity.
Only if you're avian turned dino.
Bit more trollish. Bah. Halo 4 will be great. Will hopefully end up loving it even if I hate some of the choices.
In Halo 4?
Tim was a huge fan of Letter's shirt design, lol.
Steelyuhas
Member
Another thing to consider with the playlists is that if they are not completely horrible when the game launches, then playlists updates won't be taken up by just trying to fix the game. Just about all of Bungie's matchmaking updates for Reach before they handed the game over were mostly attempting to fix the launch playlists and settings.
Spend more time on playlists prior to the game coming out and the playlist management post-launch will be a lot easier. Hopefully 343 has done this.
Spend more time on playlists prior to the game coming out and the playlist management post-launch will be a lot easier. Hopefully 343 has done this.
Right. So what would be considered an emergenzy update aside from some catastrophic event causing a game crash?
Hypertrooper
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Not of mine and Louis Wu's one. I am still asking why.
Zeouterlimits
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It's an exceptionally good shirt. Wearing it right now co-incidentally enough.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
In Halo 4?
The answer to all these questions is the same.
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