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Juices brought up something while streaming last night that I agree with for the most part. In Reach, the feedback while in combat was really good. You could see shields pop with ease. In 4, you can't tell when you need to get that last shot off or when you yourself are about to die nearly as easily.

Yeah I agree. I actually played a game of Reach today just because and instantly noticed the difference.
 

Wizman23

Banned
I'm a level 31 in MP and have yet to experience 1 instance of lag. I guess some of you need better service providers or something or else you are making shit up. Also the AA's in this game are fine. People claiming this plays more like COD really need their heads checked and are just bitching for attention.
 

Havok

Member
The more I try use the new Forge, the more I think I'm not going to be able to put up with its bullshit. Coordinate editing the entire way is the only way to do anything with any amount of precision anymore with precision controls being gone and magnets being a complete waste of time. The magnet points are not in the geometry of the piece, they're on the outside edge, so using magnets to put two pieces together almost always leaves a fat gap that weapon fire can go through. So anyone that's using magnets is going to have to plug up a thousand tiny holes that players' grenades could fall through or get stuck on, or that could be used for exploits. It's really incredible how much of a fundamental step back this is. I can't even imagine trying to fix z-fighting anymore.

Even with coordinate editing, trying to use it with ramps that don't line up no matter what damn coordinates I try because the coordinate system is nowhere near fine enough to be of any use has made me more frustrated than I ever was at Reach's version.
 

Tawpgun

Member
The grocery store a block away has a shitton of Halo 4 Mt. Dew and Doritos.

How much does each give you? SHould I go for it?
 
The most refreshing part about a lot of these complaints is that they will be a lot easier to fix or adjust. No changes are really needed to the actual game physics, or even the weapon settings. It's all little setting adjustments here and there, at least I hope. Each Halo game outside of the first one, since it wasn't on Live, has had multiple fixes after release. I think 4 is in a good spot for the moment, assuming 343 will listen to the feedback and make some honest adjustments. Worrying about kill cams is a waste of time though and I think it should be left alone, personally. Not worth time and resources.

The hardest fixes, if 343 even wants to try, would be the Ordnance issues, adding red X's where people die, and changing JIP to like a social playlist only. Changing up the playlists, and what AA's are available, along with radar/no radar seem easy as pie in comparison.
 

Plywood

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I'm a level 31 in MP and have yet to experience 1 instance of lag. I guess some of you need better service providers or something or else you are making shit up.
how about no

20mbps up 20 mbps down

I wish Theatre was up so I could show you this shit.
 

MrDaravon

Member
So, servers down?

No problems here. I've also seen literally none of the lag/disconnect or other complaints people here have had though, and I play mostly in BTB. No idea what's up. I had one game that had lag problems when the servers were super jacked on Tuesday, but nothing other than that.

Actually that's assuming you're talking about War Games, Campaign co-op or Ops has been a shitshow when I've tried, but that seems to be a more typical shit netcode carryover from 3/Reach than anything as far as I can tell.
 
The most refreshing part about a lot of these complaints is that they will be a lot easier to fix or adjust. No changes are really needed to the actual game physics, or even the weapon settings. It's all little setting adjustments here and there, at least I hope. Each Halo game outside of the first one, since it wasn't on Live, has had multiple fixes after release. I think 4 is in a good spot for the moment, assuming 343 will listen to the feedback and make some honest adjustments. Worrying about kill cams is a waste of time though and I think it should be left alone, personally. Not worth time and resources.

The hardest fixes, if 343 even wants to try, would be the Ordnance issues, adding red X's where people die, and changing JIP to like a social playlist only. Changing up the playlists, and what AA's are available, along with radar/no radar seem easy as pie in comparison.

How would ordnance be hard to fix? You can place weapons on maps in Forge right? Just turn off ordnance drops and place weapons on the maps.
 
I'm a level 31 in MP and have yet to experience 1 instance of lag. I guess some of you need better service providers or something or else you are making shit up. Also the AA's in this game are fine. People claiming this plays more like COD really need their heads checked and are just bitching for attention.

There are so many things wrong with this post.
 

willow ve

Member
Who had the bright idea of putting instant respawn into the game Slayer Pro. Fire them.

How would ordnance be hard to fix? You can place weapons on maps in Forge right? Just turn off ordnance drops and place weapons on the maps.

Global ordnance makes no sense whatsoever how it is currently implemented.
 
The grocery store a block away has a shitton of Halo 4 Mt. Dew and Doritos.

How much does each give you? SHould I go for it?
The bags of doritos will give you the most bang for your buck. 2-liters and 20 oz bottles give you 3 games. 12 packs of cans gives you 6. The 24 pack and the bags of doritos give you 12. One bag of doritos is cheaper than 4 2-liters or 20oz bottles. If I've got it wrong please correct me, because I was trying to figure this out the other day when buying stuff. But there are also combinations that earn you more points. I think a 24 pack and a bag or doritos together will net you an extra 12 games? Someone explain it all me, please. I'm only confusing myself.

I think best items = bag of doritos, or bag of doritos + 24 pack

Can anyone confirm or deny?

EDIT: The 12 extra bonus games is only a one time deal and requires your halo 4 game package code to be entered with a bag of doritos and a 12 pack of dew. Yeah, so bag of doritos ftw
 

Omni

Member
<3 Teammates.

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Seance

Banned
Why is Waypoint like this? It takes forever to load. Like literally I have to close the page because it becomes obvious after a few minutes it just isn't working.

Don't 343 have enough money for a good website?
 
Sarcasm right?
Not at all.

FFAs are all about the leader. If you're not the leader, you want to keep the leader from scoring and ending the game before you can overtake him. The problem is that most players are stupid and will actively work against this goal. It happens in other FFA games too, like Settlers of Catan. If everyone isn't actively keeping the leader down, the game becomes imbalanced and it's out of a single player's hands to stop the leader from running away with the victory.

Regicide puts a target over the leader's head so everyone knows where the priority is. You don't need to go after the leader, you still earn 10 points per kill on other players, but going after the leader (as you should be) rewards a larger amount, depending on how long he's gone untouched. The end result is a frenzied back and forth between the best players and closer matches, which didn't always happen in default FFAs.
 
For some reason, none of the Avatar awards for Halo 4 are working for me. They aren't listed in the "awards" section when customizing the avatar, but they ARE on my hard drive.

Anybody have an advice here?
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
"Halo is built on a notion of really balanced gameplay."

-Frank O'Connor
As far as loadout weapons go, he's right. They all fill a role/play style nicely (though DMR is a wee bit more powerful than the other guns). It's ordnance that screws everything up.
 
The grocery store a block away has a shitton of Halo 4 Mt. Dew and Doritos.

How much does each give you? SHould I go for it?

I totally read this as "shitON" and not "shit-TON". I like my misreading better, it's like if you can stomach a shitON doritos and Mt. Dew you get double EXP (lol).
 

heckfu

Banned
Apologies to Fubar and Polish Pimp (P for Poland?) for not partying up. We were trying to get a game of 4 going and people kept joining and there was a major lack of communication (and a lack of good party leadership from Tunavi!).
 

88 MPH! Yes!

Apologies to Fubar and Polish Pimp (P for Poland?) for not partying up. We were trying to get a game of 4 going and people kept joining and there was a major lack of communication (and a lack of good party leadership from Tunavi!).

Eh, don't worry about it. This infernal university connection has me with a strict NAT so I can hardly ever party up with anyone, it's frustrating as hell.
 
Why can't I view fileshares while in a matchmaking lobby?
That was such a great part about Halo 3.. looking at screen shots.
Reach locked the file shares for some reason, I figured things would be different in Halo 4...
 
Apologies to Fubar and Polish Pimp (P for Poland?) for not partying up. We were trying to get a game of 4 going and people kept joining and there was a major lack of communication (and a lack of good party leadership from Tunavi!).
I hear Tunvai is a horrible leader.
 

Deadly Cyclone

Pride of Iowa State
I had great games tonight. No lag, and I made myself be more patient which led to doing way better.

Tomorrow everyone is out of town, so I may need some HaloGaf Halo 4.
 

DopeyFish

Not bitter, just unsweetened



The daily XP cap is intended to preserve the integrity of the progression system. In other words, it’s in place to provide an early gate from players running amok in their progression. When we launched, we had a bug where double XP tokens were being consumed even when you went over the cap. That has since been fixed. In the coming weeks, we will be monitoring how many players are hitting the cap so we can respond accordingly

we must make sure you can't have too much fun
 

JackHerer

Member
Join in progress is really hurting my enjoyment of this game. Just joined into a game down 30 kills on Ragnarok and proceeded to get spawn camped by banshee, mantis, and snipers. Fun stuff.

Please add a toggle for JIP in the next update 343.
 

BigShow36

Member
The Halo 4 servers have been offline for me for the past 3 hours. Takes 20 minutes to find a game and I don't get bonus XP, no commendations, and I really hope it's saving my game stats.
 

orznge

Banned
The Halo 4 servers have been offline for me for the past 3 hours. Takes 20 minutes to find a game and I don't get bonus XP, no commendations, and I really hope it's saving my game stats.

that sounds like a weird routing problem on their end or something idk
 

J10

Banned
Infinity Slayer is a cluster fuck. Slayer Pro is boring. There's nothing for me here currently. Can't I just have some old fashioned Team Slayer? :(
 
Sigh... I can already tell I'm going to be down another controller. Me no likely when dude with popped shield doesn't die from my grenade 3 feet away. :(
 
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