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[Fuchsdh]

I had that issue multiple times last night as well. It's especially annoying on close games where your running to the stand with someone hot on your heels.

Oh I thought that was because flag has to be at home to score in that game type. That explains a few things.

 

[MrGreencastle]

That's awesome. The best things about huge games being hyped up is the evidence gather from trailers frame by frame when we know little about it. Great analysis.

Thanks! I'm still contemplating a lot of stuff. Bungie have always had a bit of a less is more approach to reveals, but I know they like to hide lots of info in things for their eagle-eyed fans. Though, looking back, and considering iPhone UI conventions, I was backwards I think with the bottom navigation bar. I think he's browsing the Bounties section in that picture that shows the Story, etc. And that Featured at the top is a featured (this week's?) Bounty. Not sure why I thought otherwise... I was very tired when making these. Still, at least it helps make sense of some things in there a bit better than <3 second glimpses.

 

[Gui_PT]

How very... French of you!

Diogo pls

I can recognize a French when I see one. I am, and you are.

Gui teaching French:

Bonjour you cheese-eating surrender monkeys! I can feel the love buried deep within all the mockery

I got Unicorn armor named after me. Get on my level Frenchy.

Well, you'll have to pay to get the map named after me. The ugly armor came with the game.

 

[Tunavi]

GOW Judgement actually looks really good.

Not surprised though, Bulletstorm was awesome.

 

[BlueScrote]

Oh I thought that was because flag has to be at home to score in that game type. That explains a few things.

Well that is true as well. It still seems like you need to be more precise when running over the flag stand though.

Maybe I'm going nuts though.

 

[thezerofire]

I think 343 could take the next couple Halo games in some really interesting directions if they do it right. They could have Halsey find Chief and team up against ONI and have a human civil war of sorts. You would fight Spartan IV's. At the same time, you could find Forerunners like they showed in the Making of Majestic video and fight them/team up with them (I don't know a lot about the Forerunner backstory and where they are in terms of being united with the Didact so maybe they're not all down for killing humanity). And bring back the Arbiter to fight the Storm, so 3 way galaxy-wide giant war thing.


Would be so much better than "find new Forerunner planet/artifact, fight more Prometheans"

 

[RdN]

I just saw the Majestic making of.. All the maps do look great, specially Landfall. Let's see how they play out.

 

[reggie]

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[Deadly Cyclone]

In before anyone calls Landfall "Landfill."

Seems like Microsoft has sent it to die though. Zero fucking marketing. A fucking Gears of War game is coming next month and has ZERO buzz... you have to fucking wonder what the hell Microsoft is doing.

I'd guess the marketing will begin to pick up, but it seems like this Gears game is just one aimed at hardcore Gears fans. All of whom already know it's coming and have a pre-order. MS is in next-gen mode now and Gears is just a bit of cash for them. Epic hasn't really pushed it either it seems. I'm still in the air on buying it.

 

[Hypertrooper]

GOW Judgement actually looks really good.

Not surprised though, Bulletstorm was awesome.

It looks more interesting than GoW3 did to be honest. But I won't pay the full price for it. Especially since BioShock Infinite is coming out at the same time frame.

 

[Orochinagis]

Any idea how many Sticky grenades it takes to destroy a Mantis & Scorpion tank? I would check but little busy at the moment.

with full shields and depending where are you throwing the grenade, 5.

 

[RdN]

Seems like Microsoft has sent it to die though. Zero fucking marketing. A fucking Gears of War game is coming next month and has ZERO buzz.. you have to wonder what the fuck Microsoft is doing.

It looks like their throwing this title in the wild just to say Xbox had an exclusive this year.

 

[wwm0nkey]

It looks like their throwing this title in the wild just to say Xbox had an exclusive this year.

I mean I know Microsoft is probably saving a lot for the new system but at least Sony can get some exclusives out the year of their new system launch :/

 

[Aggrotek]

So the new maps look pretty good.

 

[Dirtbag]

So the new maps look pretty good.

Yeah they do, I wish they would have launched with the game, or at least been the first mappack.

 

[TheOddOne]

So I watched it again and re-read and what? What did 343 do besides play test? Any competent person that has play tested community maps and settings before could do this. What does 343 do? We're almost 5 months into this game with an extremely long list of things wrong with it and have only been getting tiny small improvements in matchmaking in the past few weeks, and will be receiving a meager title update. They've managed to alienate every community, the population is failing with each passing day and cant seem to manage to lift a finger.

What does 343 do?

Ugh, I wasn't even defending 343. You can pretty much see from the video and article who did the heavy lifting, we don't need to even speculate.

 

[LosDaddie]

I'd guess the marketing will begin to pick up, but it seems like this Gears game is just one aimed at hardcore Gears fans. All of whom already know it's coming and have a pre-order. MS is in next-gen mode now and Gears is just a bit of cash for them. Epic hasn't really pushed it either it seems. I'm still in the air on buying it.

SAme.

Loved Gears 3, bought the Season Pass & all, but I'm just not hyped for Judgement. At this point of the current gen, I'm happy to play one MP game (Halo 4), and just clear out my backlog.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Ok so Throwdown is actually really good.

 

[Ghazi]

Ok so Throwdown is actually really good.

Yes, now wait until the 25th when we get to play it on awesome maps!

 

[Woorloog]

Wait, Halo 4 vehicles have regenerating health?
I captured a Wraith marked as target in Spartan Ops. It got slightly damaged during hijacking... but afterward, the target health indicator (it stayed) filled back to 100%. Thought it might have been a glitch so i shot myself with the mortar... and thing filled up a moment later again. Slowly though.
Does this apply to multiplayer? To all vehicles?

EDIT doesn't apply to badly damaged vehicles.

 

[CreateNowSleepLater]

Throwdown CTF variants need an update to the flag capture radius.



I had to run over it two more times before it would register the cap.
That weapon is obnoxious no matter how it spawns. No descope, laser sight disappears with camo, but especially because it gives incredibly easy one hit kills. You could put a weapon in a static location and limited ammo that blew up half the map and killed everyone on that side when you used it, that doesn't make it fun to fight against.

Huh, I posted in the last thread how do you return the flag (which of course I was laughed at). I stood on that damn thing forever and it would not register.

 

[CreateNowSleepLater]

Yeah, I do, because they have. The base game has a handful of solid maps. Maybe you're just not into that style of map, and are looking for more Halo 2 style, but that doesn't make every CA map bad.

Thats's a stretch don't you think? Base game has a handful of solid maps?

Haven
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...
...

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Thats's a stretch don't you think? Base game has a handful of solid maps?

Haven
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...
...

Haven is number one obviously.

Exile
Adrift
Longbow
Ragnarock
Harvest
Abandon.

All of those are solid maps. Yes, it depends on the gametype you are playing on them, but they all have decent flow and aesthetics.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Something just clicked as to why I really liked the latest Gears' Guts of War trailer:

It reminds me of ODST's Bip. Bap. Bam.

 

[Gordon]

Thats's a stretch don't you think? Base game has a handful of solid maps?

Haven
...
...
...

Adrift isn't that bad. Infinity Slayer is a big factor in making things sucky. I think the maps are better than we realize because we're preoccupied by random incineration cannons. Still pretty bad though..

 

[Steelyuhas]

Ragnarok and Abandon solid maps?

HOLD ME HALO IS DEAD

 

[Danny 117]

Ragnarok and Abandon solid maps?

HOLD ME HALO IS DEAD

Yeah abandon is awful. Seems pretty lopsided in favor of the team that spawns on the higher ground.

 

[YourExWife]

Halo 2 did not have any disarm. It used sticky arming and certain map's arming circle varied depending on the map size or bomb arming location. You armed it, planted it in the middle, and round was over. Halo 3 took all of it away and went to instant arming, had a defuse, and took away other strategic HUD elements that made Assault great before. Reach was in the middle between the two by using an arm rather than instant, but it did have a diffuse setting. Neither Halo 3 or Reach went back to the objective return markers or sticky arming, for whatever reason!

That's right, I misspoke. But planting and arming were two different things too, and the plant location was always in the most vulnerable part of the arming radius.

 

[thezerofire]

Base Exile is bad. Abandon is bad and has basically no flow. Ragnarok doesn't seem as good as Valhalla for whatever reason (probably the weird bases and the nerfed mancannons)

 

[Kibbles]

The gameplay videos we got from this... my god.

 

[J10]

The gameplay videos we got from this... my god.

This is the developers playing, right?

 

[Orochinagis]

The gameplay videos we got from this... my god.

someone fool me with a hologram, better throw him my hologram too!!!!

 

[Gordon]

The gameplay videos we got from this... my god.

You'd think they would have footage from some playtesting or something. Or I mean, at least shoot the video with a free-roaming camera so it's not quite as painfully obvious..

Edit: I love the moment right after this clip as he starts reloading the empty AR and then decides to sprint headlong with no health into two enemies instead. I'm gonna go ahead and say that during this game, no fucks were given.

 

[Computer]

someone fool me with a hologram, better throw him my hologram too!!!!

Kevin Franklin's montage gameplay footage.

 

[Digital Limit]

Yeah, watching that G4 gameplay was horrendous. I tried to not let it affect my love of these new maps, but I'm officially dehyped by this upside down controller gameplay.

 

[kylej]

Please be considerate towards the mentally disabled, they enjoy video games as much as anyone else.

 

[CreateNowSleepLater]

Haven is number one obviously.

Exile
Adrift
Longbow
Ragnarock
Harvest
Abandon.

All of those are solid maps. Yes, it depends on the gametype you are playing on them, but they all have decent flow and aesthetics.

Yeah I don't know. Not picking on you.

I'll give you Exile for big team but the rest? Adrift is terrible, small ass corridors. Abandon is equally as bad if not worse.

If you are talking BTB Harvest is just ok. The inside part of the map is too separate from the ground making it not flow right for me. Its like someone put half a map inside a race track.

 

[Digital Limit]

Anyone done with Far Cry 3 and went to resell that beast? For old time sake before next gen kills used games, maybe?

 

[Tawpgun]

Solid thread, 8/10

 

[CreateNowSleepLater]

Kevin Franklin's montage gameplay footage.

You rang?

 

[TheOddOne]

The gameplay videos we got from this... my god.

He fell for it a couple of times in that video.

 

[Ghazi]

Imagine playing Ragnarok with only BR's, Explosives, and Resupply. It. Would. Be. Amazing.

 

[Fracas]

Off topic, but would anybody want to be awesome and help me out making a couple images with transparent backgrounds? It'd be much appreciated.

 

[YourExWife]

Please be considerate towards the mentally disabled, they enjoy video games as much as anyone else.

inb4kyleban, also, these are the same Mensa members that give us great reviews (9.8) and call games challenging/difficult as a negative point.

 

[thezerofire]

Honestly, how hard is it to find good people to playtest your maps? Even just for gameplay footage. Literally all you need to do is hop into Throwback or Doubles, find a couple people who wipe the floor with you and then offer it to them. It's not like there's some lack of good halo players

 

[Zoso Achilles]

There was a bunch of people interested in getting the crimson dlc achievements a few pages back, I wanna get in on that too. That happening sometime today?

 

[Ryaaan14]

inb4kyleban, also, these are the same Mensa members that give us great reviews (9.8) and call games challenging/difficult as a negative point.

lol, was waiting for you to make a comment about that. Dat H4 release day ban.

 

[YourExWife]

lol, was waiting for you to make a comment about that. Dat H4 release day ban.

Had to beat Heckfu to the punch.

 

[heckfu]

Had to beat Heckfu to the punch.

I know it's a dig, but having a reputation for taking up for the mentally disabled is a reputation I can be proud of.

BUT SERIOUSLY, I JUST WANT TO GO HOME AND PLAY TEAM THROWDOWN.

 

[YourExWife]

I know it's a dig, but having a reputation for taking up for the mentally disabled is a reputation I can be proud of.

You're good in my book, just pokin' fun. I'm just still waiting for the outrage.

BUT SERIOUSLY, I JUST WANT TO GO HOME AND PLAY TEAM THROWDOWN.

This is a noble quest, indeed.