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Halo |OT18| We're Back Baby!
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aHebrewMenagerie
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Correct. It sucks, but I would do the same if I were in their position. Never playing GoW1, I want the membership now, but what are you going to do? lol #TheBrokeLife
Thanks, it's not for me anyways, since I already have Gears of War. I'm helping my friend to create a VPN tunnel, in order to connect to the US Marketplace, because Gears of War is on the black list here and you can't download it or buy it officially in germany.
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It wasn't a few years ago, so I assume it isn't now. Either way, it's not a big loss, because it's free anyways. Thanks for the tip, though.
Dongs Macabre
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If it's region locked, your friend won't be able to download it even with a VPN and Gold, so you should try a European country.
User 73706
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Halo |OT19| Share the Loading... Done
I miss having banners on rotation in the OP.
I miss having banners on rotation in the OP.
YourExWife
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See if this works. Been using this for like 3 consecutive months now. Needs silver to work. US only.
https://live.xbox.com/en-US/Subscriptions?Campaign=gff-live-welcome-offer
Steelyuhas
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10/10
Ah, k. Downloaded. Will definitely try and run it next weekend.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Frankie, you should write some Bulletins and give us some Halo Xbox One teases. You had a magical way of teasing things in the past without saying a damn thing.
Syphon Filter
Member
Well this is one thing i won't forget, we will see if he was right.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=82193317&postcount=251
Poker Face
Member
I feel like Frankie said this about Halo 4 though.
Syphon Filter
Member
I know, the audience part in particular is what i will be paying attention too. I am going to be very careful and cautions for this next title like i am sure most will be.
Hydranockz
Member
Perhaps my biggest hope in the next Halo title would be the removal of a few layers of red tape from the post-release support team. I think that they already have a good ear to the ground with the community when it comes to finding out the issues or problems that arise in the game but I guess it always felt like any change that could be made had to cascade through the chain of command and trickle back down with an 'ok'. That took time. It felt like the team were sitting on their hands just waiting to flick a switch but were awaiting confirmation. I think it would benefit everyone if they optimised that aspect of support for the game.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
If the next Halo puts the control back in the users hand it is a huge step in the right direction. Let us decide if flag/ball/etc is auto-pickup, if the flagnum is in play, if sprint is in, etc. It was bizarre having those options stripped away when customizing the gameplay is a Halo staple.
Also, please, more real symmetrical maps. And actual 1-sided objective gametypes for asymmetrical maps.
Also, please, more real symmetrical maps. And actual 1-sided objective gametypes for asymmetrical maps.
Never loved one sided objective due to round based quitting.
On the other side, please please please give us actual symmetrical maps. If I hear the phrase "functional symmetry" one more time...
Syphon Filter
Member
They need to be careful when it comes to the options though. For example in Halo 4 even if we had the option for turning off sprint,the maps were designed with sprint in mind so it will be kind of useless for the option to be there. There needs to be a certain balance. Fans want smaller maps and no sprint so they should design maps with that in mind. Honestly sprint is not needed if characters moved fast enough.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I agree it caused issues sometimes, but at the very least allow for it in custom games.
To be fair, once again, if users want to mess around with it in customs they should be allowed to. Anyways, tweaking the base speed among other things might help compensate.
Prinz Eugn
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My impression is that there are a lot of real software barriers with the current engine that made the actual deployment of things hard. I think Fyrewulf mentioned that the translation software that deployed gametypes to matchmaking servers would often break or introduce insidious errors that required a lot of testing to find and eliminate. Or I might be remembering wrong.
Regardless, I really hope they don't announce that Halo5one is "based on" the "Halo 4" engine, it sounds to me like legacy code ripped them a new one this time around.
Syphon Filter
Member
Isn't it the same engine? if they start a new one wouldn't it take even longer to develop?No way they get a new engine and manage to release a game next year. Also wasn't the Halo 4 engine the same as Bungies engine just modified?
User 73706
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While Bungie's Halo engines were more iterative, 343 near-completely scrapped traditional Halo out of the engine, and it shows.
Prinz Eugn
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Yeah, they're all descended from Halo: CE, which is approximately half the age of the Earth in computing terms. I'm 99% sure it's why parts of Halo 4 were so bad, there was only so much they could do with stuff that was hacked together by some programmer meeting a deadline ten years ago and which has dependencies throughout the whole project. So it wouldn't necessarily be slower to use a new engine since using the old one has its own issues. Personally, I think they would be better off ditching Bungie's engine and buying one of the commercial ones like Unreal or Cryengine, if they haven't already.
Here's what Stinkles himself said re:spectator mode:
aHebrewMenagerie
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Gracias, senior.
Halo just needs a reset back to zero and completely think what is needed for gameplay purposes, what is needed as features and what is needed to make this series feel special again.
Not looking at other franchises, not thinking how do you do a sequel for Halo 4, think how you would make a game that follows up Halo CE in gameplay things but is on top of modern standards for features and options to alter gameplay for customs.
Really it doesn't even strike me as difficult to make these decisions. Show that you are one of MS's prime dev teams.
Not looking at other franchises, not thinking how do you do a sequel for Halo 4, think how you would make a game that follows up Halo CE in gameplay things but is on top of modern standards for features and options to alter gameplay for customs.
Really it doesn't even strike me as difficult to make these decisions. Show that you are one of MS's prime dev teams.
Orochinagis
Member
Played some matches of Killzone ZF its good...but I am already missing Halo.
we all miss halo
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Happy birthday, heckfu!
I think Halo is worth enough to Microsoft that they can afford to make their own engine. Even with the best AAA games, you can often tell what engine the game was made on, and the worst possible thing that could happen to Halo is for it to lose its unique look and feel.
nillapuddin
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I hate to say it, but out of the big big dev teams out there in the gaming industry, I believe 343 might have the toughest task of them all.
Although they participate in the largest genre in general (FPS) the Halo brand of FPS (Arena shooter) has been surpassed by (MMS) both thematically, and gameplay wise.
I will be here every day thirsting for more information, and supporting them with my dollars, but I do not envy them.
Im not sure what the likelihood of 343 ever being able to use a "bought" engine, its a decision that was assuredly made years ago if at all, but maybe it would take "recreating" Halo from Portal 2 to be able to figure out where they want to be.*
Although they participate in the largest genre in general (FPS) the Halo brand of FPS (Arena shooter) has been surpassed by (MMS) both thematically, and gameplay wise.
I will be here every day thirsting for more information, and supporting them with my dollars, but I do not envy them.
Im not sure what the likelihood of 343 ever being able to use a "bought" engine, its a decision that was assuredly made years ago if at all, but maybe it would take "recreating" Halo from Portal 2 to be able to figure out where they want to be.*
*referencing that Titanfall was made from Portal 2
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I'll be tight on time tonight and tomorrow so the OT is up...I didn't have the time I wanted so forgive the crappy graphics and layout. However I'd really appreciate us all putting in the time to complete the surveys. Also if y'all have any additional suggestions to shape the survey feel free. We can get a beast of survey going then hit up all the other communities for a really uniform infographic about ALL Halo to date.
Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
As a fan of gathering random statistics, I approve of this and shall fill it out forthwith.
To paraphrase Cortana, "It's not the prettiest |OT|, but we know it'll work."
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