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[Poker Face]

What is this then?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/iamnotevilness/ohtwo.png

Taken from the IGN video recorded at 343.

Another update coming soon?

Damn. What a catch.

 

[NullPointer]

Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.

Its pretty damn insane, especially so for such a community oriented flagship title.

 

[kylej]

Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.

Why oh why are such simple features missing from Halo 4, it blows me away that there hasn't been more of an explanation for this.

9.8/10 from IGN.

 

[Duji]

What is this then?

Taken from the IGN video recorded at 343.

Another update coming soon?

An update for the game so it supports the new maps, possibly. Hopefully it's an actual update, whether it be a TU or a stealth patch.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

There should have been. You hang on to the outside of a Covenant ship in the campaign before inexplicably taking it over and letting Cortana crash it into that research base. I would've loved to play out that scenario. Some skirmishing outside of the ship in zero G before busting in and fighting your way to the command center.

Makes me wonder whether it was cut.

You mean similar to the 3rd stage of the Reach level "Long Night of Solace"

The first two parts were the space ship battles and then get in there on foot. So very much like Truth and Reconciliation that 3rd part of the Reach mission. I must have replayed that on all difficulty settings and about a dozen times at least.

Some of the best Halo to date.

 

[CyReN]

Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.

Why oh why are such simple features missing from Halo 4, it blows me away that there hasn't been more of an explanation for this.

We recently had to edit in the game announcer voice for our Top 5 series, here's the best we can do with Forge below. Really sucks for community involvement.

• Station9
• Lotus

 

[Plywood]

We recently had to edit in the game announcer voice for our Top 5 series, here's the best we can do with Forge below. Really sucks for community involvement.

 

[DeadNames]

I can't help but think of Anchor 9 when seeing station 9...

 

[NullPointer]

You mean similar to the 3rd stage of the Reach level "Long Night of Solace"

I guess that's exactly what I meant. I absolutely love that mission in Reach.

 

[BlueScrote]

Just tried playing Mission 1 Ep 5 on Spops solo.

I think i got through 5 waves of enemies before failing a SpOps mission for the first time.


Literally impossible solo on legendary. No matchmaking option for Legendary 4 player.
Don't take that as a complaint, take it as constructive criticism. Let us search by difficulty, please. <3

Pleased with the first missions shake up. Displeased with repetition of environments every single week. Not to mention, the cutscene intro made me realize Galileos air defenses have failed 3 times now? 4? Lols!

Yes please. I honestly don't enjoy legendary at all solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yF3zAUwm2jc#t=84s

"This looks like a pretty good sized map, is this more of a big team..."

NOPE! Just 343s idea of a small to medium sized map.

Edit: God dammit it makes me upset going to Forgehub and seeing pictures of the maps that people have spent countless hours on, being taken with CELL PHONES.

Why oh why are such simple features missing from Halo 4, it blows me away that there hasn't been more of an explanation for this.

Yeah, what a joke. I'll reserve total judgement until we can play it but it just seems like it'll be DMR cross-map hell.

 

[CyReN]

Example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKMuAMLM8vY

With game clips now they don't play the game announcer voices, thanks to SillyGoose we got them in for videos to edit. Jazzy does the editing for us and it's a REAL pain in the ass. It's not the worse thing ever but for something that's been out for 5 years now and hasn't had any feedback from their team makes me

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Here are some speculations...

1. Didact Returning.
2. Cortana Returning.
3. Flood returning.
4. Precursor reveal.
5. ONI mutany.
6. Librarian back to life.
7. Halsey reverses the composed humans back to life.
8. Gifts from Prometheans discovered.
9. Chakas/Guilty Spark returning.

 

[Omni]

I'm Australian, have a valid email address (never tried to change it), played some hundreds of games before November 20th and I still didn't get sent a Specializations code. Funny how that works

Didn't you just get FC3? (Was that even you?)

Yeap. Haven't even finished it yet... but I like to switch games often. I need a new multiplayer game.

IMO yes, so long as you don't have "Internet issues,"

I just got the game and already put 6+ hours into MP. It's the best CoD in recent memory.

I need to take a break from it to give team regicide a go though

Ahh okay.

Shop that I went to was complete sold out, so I put an order in. Should get it by the end of the week.

 

[Vire]

Just tried playing Mission 1 Ep 5 on Spops solo.

I think i got through 5 waves of enemies before failing a SpOps mission for the first time.


Literally impossible solo on legendary. No matchmaking option for Legendary 4 player.
Don't take that as a complaint, take it as constructive criticism. Let us search by difficulty, please. <3

Pleased with the first missions shake up. Displeased with repetition of environments every single week. Not to mention, the cutscene intro made me realize Galileos air defenses have failed 3 times now? 4? Lols!

Not impossible solo Legendary. I did it.

Rockets + Sniper.

 

[Plywood]

With game clips now they don't play the game announces voices, thanks to SillyGoose we got them in for videos to edit. Jazzy does the editing for us and it's a REAL pain in the ass. It's not the worse thing ever but for something that's been out for 5 years now and hasn't had any feedback from their team makes me

No words.

 

[Garrett 2U]

theories

Using the Librarian's brain to transform her into an AI that Chief uses in Halo 5.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Two games on Haven, one in Team Regicide, one in Infinity Slayer, both times initial drops were merged into the floor, unable to be picked up. That's a weird one.

This is creepy.. As I read your post my game started and I thought to myself "hmm, that's weird.. I've never seen that.."

And it happens to me this game.

 

[Fracas]

I think the new matchmaking update broke Haven.

Nearly all ordnance is spawned into the floor, and it's impossible to get to it.

edit: beaten like something something halo related

 

[kittens]

This is creepy.. As I read your post my game started and I thought to myself "hmm, that's weird.. I've never seen that.."

And it happens to me this game.

It's happened in every game of Team Regicide I've played on Haven.

 

[Homeboyd]

I win )))))))))))))

<3 b.net

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I'm Australian, have a valid email address (never tried to change it), played some hundreds of games before November 20th and I still didn't get sent a Specializations code. Funny how that works

Same here mate, Melbourne Australia with the same email address and xbox live ID since the original xbox and CE. Never received a specialisation email but I wonder if my LE code redemption spree would negate the need to send one? I've yet to reach SR-50 to see any specialisations. I don't play too much lately.

Using the Librarian's brain to transform her into an AI that Chief uses in Halo 5.

As long as Jen Taylor continues the voice work

I win )))))))))))))

<3 b.net

Love the HEY DAMMIT, like you spent 5 weeks making your response

 

[Ken]

Hopefully that message comes through, but just unlock them for everyone already. The codes are going for $30-$50 on Ebay now.

Seriously? I should have kept mine.

Not sure, I would hope it's still a loss but who knows, especially if they are dash boarding.

It should. Quitters should have the match show up as a Leave and they should lose more points than they would have lost for sticking with the game even on a loss.

 

[J10]

Scattershot is the only initial drop that can still be gotten to on Haven. Everything else is annoyingly stuck on your HUD for the entire game. We tried jetpacking from below up to grab the other weapons to no avail. So weird.

 

[kylej]

why is this game and everything surrounding this game so halfassed considering how much time and money went into it. I don't get it.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

why is this game and everything surrounding this game so halfassed considering how much time and money went into it. I don't get it.

That's not it though.



Game is bad on purpose.

 

[Omni]

why is this game and everything surrounding this game so halfassed considering how much time and money went into it. I don't get it.

Because

Spoiler

Microsoft

343i was built on the premise of raking in more cash for them. As long as they sell copies, they don't care what happens with the game.

...

Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh. But in comparison, Bungie felt more involved with their games.

 

[Der Flatulator]

An update for the game so it supports the new maps, possibly. Hopefully it's an actual update, whether it be a TU or a stealth patch.

Not a stealth patch, stealth patches wouldn't affect the minor version (MAJOR.MINOR.MINOR-MINOR), TUs affect the Minor version. Whether the TU is just for the map pack? unlikely.

 

[Fracas]

I really, really want a video about the dev process from start to finish. It seems like this game had a crazy dev cycle, and there's so many questions I have.

 

[Korosenai]

343 needs to just come up with a bunch of different modes like Binary Slayer and put in an Action Sack playlist.

 

[willow ve]

Do we collectively, honestly, think a Title Update is coming with the first map pack? Raise of hands? I vote no.

 

[Hydranockz]

I was saying this to bobs earlier but it feels like they tried to keep ten plates spinning at once, tried to add more to the mix and, in the end, only save a few.

 

[CyReN]

343 needs to just come up with a bunch of different modes like Binary Slayer and put in an Action Sack playlist.

I can't wait to play Action Sack for that week.

 

[Omni]

Do we collectively, honestly, think a Title Update is coming with the first map pack? Raise of hands? I vote no.

Nope. They would've marketed the shit out of it by now

 

[GamerSoul]

343 needs to just come up with a bunch of different modes like Binary Slayer and put in an Action Sack playlist.

I'd play that. They also need to hurry and put Grifball in rotation too.

 

[Merguson]

Do we collectively, honestly, think a Title Update is coming with the first map pack? Raise of hands? I vote no.

Well, according to the evidence Dani found, there is going to be an update eventually. (It was in the IGN video with the Binary Slayer gametype creation). Doesn't mean it's coming with the map pack though.

What kind of update? No idea.

 

[Orochinagis]

Scattershot is the only initial drop that can still be gotten to on Haven. Everything else is annoyingly stuck on your HUD for the entire game. We tried jetpacking from below up to grab the other weapons to no avail. So weird.

And I thought they didnt turn off the Ordinaces icons........

 

[MrGreencastle]

There should have been. You hang on to the outside of a Covenant ship in the campaign before inexplicably taking it over and letting Cortana crash it into that research base. I would've loved to play out that scenario. Some skirmishing outside of the ship in zero G before busting in and fighting your way to the command center.

Makes me wonder whether it was cut.

I think I remember Geoff Keighley talking about Halo 4 a long time ago before it was officially unveiled, that there was a development rule early on: No Purple.

I wonder if there's truth to that.

 

[Tawpgun]

Well, according to the evidence Dani found, there is going to be an update eventually. (It was in the IGN video with the Binary Slayer gametype creation)

What kind of update? No idea.

One that deletes boltshot from multiplayer game code.

 

[willow ve]

Nope. They would've marketed the shit out of it by now

Yeah - we don't even get a straightforward blog talking about balance issues, tweaks, glitches, etc., that they acknowledge as existing.

Does anyone else have this problem? When launching Waypoint from the Halo 4 menu it freezes my Xbox on a black screen and only a power cycle gets it to work again. This is even after deleting the Waypoint app and then reinstalling...

 

[Korosenai]

I can't wait to play Action Sack for that week.

Sadly we probably would only get it for a week.

I'd play that. They also need to hurry and put Grifball in rotation too.

For real. I need some gravity hammer kills.

 

[Tunavi]

get on to join me in some team reggie

 

[willow ve]

Well, according to the evidence Dani found, there is going to be an update eventually. (It was in the IGN video with the Binary Slayer gametype creation). Doesn't mean it's coming with the map pack though.

What kind of update? No idea.

I love that 90% of that IGN video about Binary Slayer is just them going through menus to show step by step how to recreate the gametype... You know, instead of just linking to a downloadable gametype file. 2012.

 

[Reagan's BR]

why is this game and everything surrounding this game so halfassed considering how much time and money went into it. I don't get it.

I really want an answer to this. Reach was a flawed game but it was a complete package. Halo 4 on the other hand...

 

[Karl2177]

get on to join me in some team reggie

I honestly read this and thought it was some kind of weird team reggie and team heckfu twilight thing.

 

[ncsuDuncan]

Interesting article on Halo strafing at TTL. (From a few weeks ago.)

After transferring the tracking data to After Effects, I counted how many frames it took [...] to go from max. left speed to max. right speed, and therefore, how long it takes for the player to completely reverse direction.

Here are the results for the strafe times (in video frames) for each Halo game:

Halo 1: 12
Halo 2: 12
Halo 3: 12
Reach: 13
Halo 4: 13

In comparing five Halo games, the amount of time it takes to completely reverse directions differs by only a single frame. That’s 0.03 seconds of difference, which I think is much too small to be noticed during gameplay.

 

[Havok]

Team Regicide is pretty decent. The issue with FFA Regicide is that the king's scoring potential is artificially limited the second he gains the lead because he has no ability to receive the bounty bonus. With two kings, the issues mostly evaporate. A lot of fun in the right environment, and what's more, feels fairly competitive. We did run into the Haven Ordnance bug that people are talking about, too.

Capped off the night with a game of Infinity Slayer, and the only reason it was the last game was because we ran into a full team of PV users. Fuck that thing. Flanking? What's that? I see you! Seeing that pulse, and then two more behind it, means you might as well stop pushing up now, because you're going to have a rain of shit coming at you as soon as you step around the corner. Pauses the gameplay as much as Armor Lock ever did. I'm not much of a ragequitter - I can probably count the number of times I've done it in the last five years on one hand. I came very close to doing so that game.

Also, I knew Halo 4's LOD system was aggressive, but this is going a little far.

 

[Ken]

Interesting article on Halo strafing at TTL. (From a few weeks ago.)

i need frame data for dmr melee vs br melee asap

 

[JohnOfMars]

Spartan Ops just totally jumped the shark this mission:

Spartan Ops Episode 5 Chapter 3 Mission Spoiler

Spoiler

In this mission, there is a barrier that can't be destroyed. Miller sends Shadow Company to infiltrate a Covenant cruiser & disable the power core. WHAT THE FRAK!?! really? You're given another team a cooler mission during my lame-ass retread mission? At least there were some new mechanics & I didn't have to press a button, but COME ON! Infiltrating a cruiser sounds totally awesome.

But it was the best episode ever because hey! there was

Spoiler

No Sarah "I HATE THEM GORRAM EGGHEADS!" Palmer.[/spoiler.]

Other stray thoughts:

Spoiler

- Miller is nearly just as bad as Palmer. Same dedication to one-liners. Shutting down anyone else talking.
- They didn't say egg-head. They instead say..... drumroll... BIG BRAIN! &#3232;_&#3232;

I'm really disappointed in Spartan Ops. Every part of it. It's not a replacement for Firefight. And while CG episodes are great, the in-mission writing is terrible. Sigh. The mission did end in an interesting place. Sigh. I think I might break out ODST firefight this week.

 

[Tashi]

Interesting article on Halo strafing at TTL. (From a few weeks ago.)

So what makes so many people think strafing is dead? FOV differences maybe?

 

[ncsuDuncan]

Also, I knew Halo 4's LOD system was aggressive, but this is going a little far.