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That map looks incredibly bland. Reminds me of invasion all over again. Considering they'll be up against 12 players the AI must be set to Legendary difficulty and the skull that makes them dodge fire must be on. Looked like stationary bullet sponges from that video.
Looking forward to the first one rocket killionaire though.
Looking forward to the first one rocket killionaire though.
The most distracting and disappointingly bad thing about Halo 5 is the gun sound design. I mean...most of it just sounds so bland. The sword doesn't have that epic "TSSHHHHH!!!" when you open it and kill with it, the BR still sounds almost like a semi-auto single shot, the pistol sounds like "pew pew", the carbine sounds like a generic laser space weapon etc...
Is 343 opposed to meaty and powerful sounding weapons? Why did you take some of the classic ICONIC weapon designs over the years and change them? Why did you take it even further by making them sound like generic FPS gun sounds?
This REALLY irks me.
At least the game looks to play wonderfully...and that's what matters. After playing Halo CE, 2, and Halo 2 Anniversary I was assuming their sound design more like that. Oh well...
Is 343 opposed to meaty and powerful sounding weapons? Why did you take some of the classic ICONIC weapon designs over the years and change them? Why did you take it even further by making them sound like generic FPS gun sounds?
This REALLY irks me.
At least the game looks to play wonderfully...and that's what matters. After playing Halo CE, 2, and Halo 2 Anniversary I was assuming their sound design more like that. Oh well...
I'm still confused about Bonnie's wording, when she opened the show: "So lets start today with the 1st Halo game."
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but Phil Spencer will be at the PC conference. Maybe they will announce the 2nd one there.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but Phil Spencer will be at the PC conference. Maybe they will announce the 2nd one there.
Nothing in the limited edition interests me, first time I'll be getting standard edition for a Halo game since 2 (and ODST).
This year is going to be amazing though. Rare collection and Gears in August, Forza in September, new controller and Halo in October. My wallet can only take so much.
Also, Sony demolished e3, best presser in years. Microsoft brought the games with great announcements but the demos were severely lacking. Halo showing was very disappointing, was hoping they would show scale. I was very surprised about them showing Gears 4 gameplay which looked great, but again the demo was lacking. It was nice for them to set the tone and atmosphere, but it dragged on a bit much. Still a pretty great conference but them Sony announcements...
This year is going to be amazing though. Rare collection and Gears in August, Forza in September, new controller and Halo in October. My wallet can only take so much.
Also, Sony demolished e3, best presser in years. Microsoft brought the games with great announcements but the demos were severely lacking. Halo showing was very disappointing, was hoping they would show scale. I was very surprised about them showing Gears 4 gameplay which looked great, but again the demo was lacking. It was nice for them to set the tone and atmosphere, but it dragged on a bit much. Still a pretty great conference but them Sony announcements...
Just got to watching the Warzone ViDoc and 15 minute match. Some impressions:
1. The way Personal Ordnance is handled looks to be better in this, but the fact that you can change your requisition on respawn leads me to believe you could just spawn in with your Personal Ordnance without a Req Zone, which I don't like.
2. The textures / art style look to be a lot cleaner, overall. I think switching the texture finishes to matte on a lot of the objects and generally reducing reflections / glossiness as part of handling so many variables in War Zone is a part of it, but it looks like they deliberately designed the gametype around the limitations of the engine, rather than trying to push it for all it's got, like with Halo 4 and the 360.
3. Bro Banter seems to be reduced in frequency, but the actual quips don't seem any more efficient. I still heard a couple "hey, Spartan!," "sorry," "watch your nade spam!," etc. messages.
4. I guess after Palmer botched capturing Halsey she's relegated to choreographing / announcing stuff for the Infinity sims? (War Zone is just a simulation, btw. No further attempt at contextualizing their universe was made, thankfully)
5. The Knight Warden(?) boss class is a whole new breed of bullet sponge - it looks to have taken at least five or six volleys of Mantis missile fire on top of sustained chaingun fire. Thankfully it seems to have some visual indicators that it's a separate rank outside of the actual boss icon, at least.
6. The Mantis looks to be buffed, even more so - shielding appears to recharge faster, it has a faster movement speed (or the frequency of its pacing was ramped up), it looks like the stomp overall takes the same amount of time but comes out quicker (resulting in a slightly longer cooldown animation), and the full missile volley can be charged more quickly.
7. Spartans were panting and grunting way too much. Reducing it to the tail end of your sprinting, falls that actually take damage, and taking near-lethal damage without shields should be the only times they do it, imo. Bumping into teammates in the base at the opening sounded like a casting couch.
8. ADS on Carbine looks absolutely ridiculous in a bad way - traditional scope needs to come back with it. The new ammo indicator on what used to be the scope looks awful, too - it's just a pentagon of five little hologram things that diminishes as you fire, rather than the "diminishing bar" effect.
9. ADS on the SAW looks horrible and distracting - on top of the labyrinth of super hi-tech "zoom lines" around the crosshairs, someone thought it was a good idea to throw a crapton more dead center of your screen and gaussian blur them. And they aren't even in your peripherals, they're actually taking up screen real estate! And they shake around as your SAW recoils! It seems insanely obstructive.
10. Relegating vehicle spawns to the garage / bases seems fine provided that's the only place they can spawn, mind you.
11. New Sniper ADS is a massive improvement over the old one, but I still don't see why they're so adamant about completely blocking out your peripheral vision while using them. Just reducing the opacity would be fine.
12. Thankfully Req cards appear to be exclusive to big team / War Zone and not Arena, but it is possible to unlock cosmetics for Arena. I really, really hope they don't mean weapon skins, because some of the random bullshit like the steampunk weapons completely throw the visual identity of the weapons out the window.
Also, lol at the Legendary Limited Bad Kid Edition having two statues and being a $150 difference in price because of a single large statue.
1. The way Personal Ordnance is handled looks to be better in this, but the fact that you can change your requisition on respawn leads me to believe you could just spawn in with your Personal Ordnance without a Req Zone, which I don't like.
2. The textures / art style look to be a lot cleaner, overall. I think switching the texture finishes to matte on a lot of the objects and generally reducing reflections / glossiness as part of handling so many variables in War Zone is a part of it, but it looks like they deliberately designed the gametype around the limitations of the engine, rather than trying to push it for all it's got, like with Halo 4 and the 360.
3. Bro Banter seems to be reduced in frequency, but the actual quips don't seem any more efficient. I still heard a couple "hey, Spartan!," "sorry," "watch your nade spam!," etc. messages.
4. I guess after Palmer botched capturing Halsey she's relegated to choreographing / announcing stuff for the Infinity sims? (War Zone is just a simulation, btw. No further attempt at contextualizing their universe was made, thankfully)
5. The Knight Warden(?) boss class is a whole new breed of bullet sponge - it looks to have taken at least five or six volleys of Mantis missile fire on top of sustained chaingun fire. Thankfully it seems to have some visual indicators that it's a separate rank outside of the actual boss icon, at least.
6. The Mantis looks to be buffed, even more so - shielding appears to recharge faster, it has a faster movement speed (or the frequency of its pacing was ramped up), it looks like the stomp overall takes the same amount of time but comes out quicker (resulting in a slightly longer cooldown animation), and the full missile volley can be charged more quickly.
7. Spartans were panting and grunting way too much. Reducing it to the tail end of your sprinting, falls that actually take damage, and taking near-lethal damage without shields should be the only times they do it, imo. Bumping into teammates in the base at the opening sounded like a casting couch.
8. ADS on Carbine looks absolutely ridiculous in a bad way - traditional scope needs to come back with it. The new ammo indicator on what used to be the scope looks awful, too - it's just a pentagon of five little hologram things that diminishes as you fire, rather than the "diminishing bar" effect.
9. ADS on the SAW looks horrible and distracting - on top of the labyrinth of super hi-tech "zoom lines" around the crosshairs, someone thought it was a good idea to throw a crapton more dead center of your screen and gaussian blur them. And they aren't even in your peripherals, they're actually taking up screen real estate! And they shake around as your SAW recoils! It seems insanely obstructive.
10. Relegating vehicle spawns to the garage / bases seems fine provided that's the only place they can spawn, mind you.
11. New Sniper ADS is a massive improvement over the old one, but I still don't see why they're so adamant about completely blocking out your peripheral vision while using them. Just reducing the opacity would be fine.
12. Thankfully Req cards appear to be exclusive to big team / War Zone and not Arena, but it is possible to unlock cosmetics for Arena. I really, really hope they don't mean weapon skins, because some of the random bullshit like the steampunk weapons completely throw the visual identity of the weapons out the window.
Also, lol at the Legendary Limited Bad Kid Edition having two statues and being a $150 difference in price because of a single large statue.
Maybe I've gone crazy, but I feel the need to defend 343 and their decision to show heavily scripted gameplay.
You have to remember that they have a tight time window they need to fit into and they have certain goals for what they want to show off. They also don't want any surprises. So they're left with a challenge - how do we play the game live, show the things we want to show, fit a precise time window, and ensure everything goes as we planned? A guided, scripted sequence is really the only answer.
Let's not forget the
Halo 2 E3 2003 demo. Everyone remembers it fondly and at the time it was absolutely mind-blowing and a huge deal. It was also extremely scripted. Doesn't mean it wasn't super cool.
If you want to criticize the content of a scripted demo, that's fine, but criticizing something for the just being scripted is unfair given the circumstances.
You have to remember that they have a tight time window they need to fit into and they have certain goals for what they want to show off. They also don't want any surprises. So they're left with a challenge - how do we play the game live, show the things we want to show, fit a precise time window, and ensure everything goes as we planned? A guided, scripted sequence is really the only answer.
Let's not forget the
sadly scrapped and should have been remade for H2A
If you want to criticize the content of a scripted demo, that's fine, but criticizing something for the just being scripted is unfair given the circumstances.
I can see that. "We need something kinda boring, short, and scripted as hell to fill out time, can you whip something up for us?"
I'm sure in their own time, they got 60fps direct download Sprint/ViDocs detailing the weapons and enemies and scope of the battlefields and the dynamic encounter design and "we know we fucked up Halo 4 and the MCC but trust us it feels like Halo and 3rd times the charm" and blah blah blah.
I'm sure in their own time, they got 60fps direct download Sprint/ViDocs detailing the weapons and enemies and scope of the battlefields and the dynamic encounter design and "we know we fucked up Halo 4 and the MCC but trust us it feels like Halo and 3rd times the charm" and blah blah blah.
I suppose they turned Steizer off for Warzone, huh? Dude was racking up medals but he didn't say anything. I guess it makes sense since Palmer is always announcing how many points you have, what level you are, when a boss shows up, enemy core vulnerable, and that would probably be vocal overload to have Steizer doing PUUURFECT KILL and KILLTACULAR on top of it.
Maybe? Might just be turned off in this build as they work on it.
Huge nostalgia factor for those games for people. Too bad FF and Shenmue are probably 2017 games. At some point though there is so much expectation for these games that bringing classics back are really difficult if they don't live up to the high expectations we now place at them. So rather than making new ones, MS bundled 30 old Rare games and opened up BC. I don't understand why Shenmue is PS4 and PC only though if Sony supposedly has nothing to do with creating Shenmue other then launching their kickstarter considering Shenmue had always been a MS studios game.
Overall, best E3 in years and its just begun.
Huge nostalgia factor for those games for people. Too bad FF and Shenmue are probably 2017 games. At some point though there is so much expectation for these games that bringing classics back are really difficult if they don't live up to the high expectations we now place at them. So rather than making new ones, MS bundled 30 old Rare games and opened up BC. I don't understand why Shenmue is PS4 and PC only though if Sony supposedly has nothing to do with creating Shenmue other then launching their kickstarter considering Shenmue had always been a MS studios game.
Overall, best E3 in years and its just begun.
It's always painful watching press play Halo. Love how that guy picked rockets over a sniper rifle then proceeded to try to cross map with rockets.
Game looks fun though, I think you can get power weapons a little too early. It's also ridiculous 3 people are going around in a Mantis at the same time.
Game looks fun though, I think you can get power weapons a little too early. It's also ridiculous 3 people are going around in a Mantis at the same time.
343 does have some weird weapon sound design. I honestly think Reach was the Pinnacle of Halo sound design. The weapons had a certain amount of echo/reverb that made them sound powerful and satisfying (especially the DMR). Halo 4 weapons sounded very muted, like they were trying to add more thump and bass to them but they went to far or something. Halo 5 has some good sounding stuff but it's very inconsistent. I still think the DMR kinda sounds like shit.
Still, I think the weapons look great and shoot great, probably better than any other game in the Franchise. They just need a little help in the sound department.
Edit: It's also strange because Halo 2 Anniversary sounds so damn good. Get whoever worked on that game and bring them over to 343, no offense 343 sound guy.
Still, I think the weapons look great and shoot great, probably better than any other game in the Franchise. They just need a little help in the sound department.
Edit: It's also strange because Halo 2 Anniversary sounds so damn good. Get whoever worked on that game and bring them over to 343, no offense 343 sound guy.
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