thezerofire
Banned
I'm not buying that friendly fire is out. I think it's likely that it would be turned off for an E3 demo
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Halo |OT4| Trust's a Tough Thing to Come by These Days
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Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I think there might be more to the no friendly fire thing than there seems to be. I wonder if it was something they had on just for the public E3 stuff.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, that's what I'm assuming, too. I suuure hope so, at least.
I imagine the game will launch with a playlist that's competitive
Like Arena in Reach.
I rather not have that.
I would ask you how it's a terrible comparison, but then I remembered you're the guy who doesn't care if the game chugs at 14fps so really I'd be better off discussing Halo 4 expectations with a piece of cardboard.
RebornYeti
Member
I think kyle's comparisons are entertaining :lol
thezerofire
Banned
bring back Team Training for the only playlist that guests are allowed in
The Librarian
Banned
With the (seemingly) replacement of the pro-pipe with the Sticky Detonator, unless it's hiding somewhere, my biggest concern in Halo 4 is the SD being a poor substitute.
If there's anything that deserves to be carried over from Reach, it's the grenade launcher.
Edit: Well, okay, I was joking about that being my biggest concern – a good campaign is far more important – but, dammit, that weapon is too much fun!
If there's anything that deserves to be carried over from Reach, it's the grenade launcher.
Edit: Well, okay, I was joking about that being my biggest concern – a good campaign is far more important – but, dammit, that weapon is too much fun!
This is brilliant.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I want 10 Slayer playlists each with confusingly similar settings.
VivaciousJazzy
Member
Team hardcore or bust.
While theyre at it why not add arena ranks to some more playlists?
I see you're in rerun season now.
Let's not.
I never said that, I just don't find them worthy of crying over like the 5 people here that do. What I said was, I expect some dips here and there since this is still the 360 and I've experienced frame rate dips since I started gaming on the NES.
If you don't understand why that's a terrible comparison, then you don't really understand game development or programming, which is fine, most people don't, but you're flat out wrong and should dial it back a bit.
I do much of the time, the rest of the time I just find it tiresome and rude.
Why not
Forge to be Lego again confirmed.
Steelyuhas
Member
I'm assuming that friendly fire is off just for the E3 show floor.
I want to say that Bungie said they did that for E3 or something else for the press to make it an easier experience for the press players (Because they knew they would all be terrible at the game to begin with lol).
No de-scope is a big change. Hoping that it's still on the Sniper, but as for it on the BR and DMR, I'll have to wait and see how it plays.
This is 343 we are talking about here. Ranked, Social, HCE class, H2 Classic, H3 Classic, Reach Classic, Standard, Standard Infinity, some other crazy thing. All with 20~ playlists each. I'm sure that 343 made sure that their matchmaking for H4 could support well over the quite small 26 playlists that are allowed in Reach. They should go for a clean 100 playlists for launch. So good.
Wolf
30
Tha fuk
If we're going by what we strictly want, why would you only want so few ranked? Unranked should primarily be for guests and social encounters, i.e. Team Training and Multi-Team. There's no need for a duplicate playlist system that has a rank/unranked slayer, objective, btb, and so forth.
But going off what we've gotten in Reach's MM since the takeoever, I'm sure we'll see a ridiculous amount of Slayers and 20+ playlists, again.
Bregmann Roche
Member
Getting knocked out of scope when hit is a mechanic that I'm used to and appreciate when I'm the one knocking a sniper out of scope. I am NOT a fan of the mechanic when I get a bad spawn and someone starts DMR-ing me from long range and all I can do is look somewhere in their general direction while I watch my shield deplete.
If they have made the sniper harder to use, allowing players to remain scoped in while being shot might play ok. Like everyone else here I won't be able to form a complete opinion until my 500th match sometime in early November.
If they have made the sniper harder to use, allowing players to remain scoped in while being shot might play ok. Like everyone else here I won't be able to form a complete opinion until my 500th match sometime in early November.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Lol, do you just keep cycling through?
I mean it's obvious, I just don't want the population so separated. Halo 3 did it right in the beginning, they had the staples, Team Slayer, Team Objective, Big Team Battle, Lone Wolves, then the weekend playlists. It would make much more sense to start that way, rather than have 20+ playlists for people to play in, and add even more as the population lowers. Halo 3 is a fucking mess right now because of this.
Edit: That sounded confusing. What I'm saying is start with around 10-12 playlists + weekend specials. As population dies down, refine, don't add all weekend playlists.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Blops 2 ...60 fps
Pikmin 3...60 fps
Halo 4...Somewhere around 20.
You know what to do.
Buy Blops 2 play it for awhile til bored. Complain about Halo. Buy Pikmin disc and poop on it.
Pikmin 3...60 fps
Halo 4...Somewhere around 20.
You know what to do.
Buy Blops 2 play it for awhile til bored. Complain about Halo. Buy Pikmin disc and poop on it.
MrGreencastle
Member
Maybe let it work for the sniper, but not other weapons?
Sorry, I'll start merging posts from the COD thread into my own. That should make them better.
dangerbyrnes
Member
i dont post much but i want to speculate. why is cortana on what appears to be infinity's bridge, telling someone they cant leave? who. didact? the infinity captain? chief? my theory:
anyway, just a theory.
the infinity might not be there for good intentions. i totally think the twist this time is that the humans on infinity are actually the bad guys in this game. i mean this would definitely be something extremely hard for the chief to deal with. his entire life he's just followed orders, what if this time he had to make a choice. maybe chief/cortana does something to stop infinity from leaving, could explain why the infinity's still on requiem 6 months later.
anyway, just a theory.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Shut up and give me some OC.
Fuck it, my dream Halo 4 MP lobbys:
Then one weekend playlist in each category.
- Ranked
- Lone Wolves
- Team Slayer (4P)
- Team MLG (4P)
- Team Objective (4P)
- Team SWAT (4P)
- Team Snipers (4P)
- Social
- Multi-Team
- Social Slayer (5P)
- Social Objective (5P)
- Big Team Battle
- Action Sack (4P)
Then one weekend playlist in each category.
If the aim assist and magnetism mechanics are similar to Halo CE or Shadowrun's then it won't be too much of a problem, but if they are like every other Halo game, then I see it as a huge difference in gameplay.
Pikmin rules, nerd. Totalitarianism and slavery have never been so cute.
The Librarian
Banned
There are variants of precision weapons in Halo 4, so maybe there's another grenade launcher variant. Yes? Maybe?
You just need to add a Zombies list to Social.
Because it will be there. Maybe not at launch, but it will be there.
Bregmann Roche
Member
I gotta be honest, if I was there I would just run that circuit until the building shut down.
There are also 15 primary weapons you can unlock, which leaves a lot of room for a grenade launcher. Unfortunately the Scattershot has the bounce-around-corners feature and the Sticky Detonator (I like that name by the way) has the delayed explosion feature which may mean that 343 considers the GL to be redundant.
See my edit, put it as a weekend playlist. Infection has no business being a permanent playlist.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Unless there's some serious ONI nasty business going on, no. The intro live action video even discredits your theory.
Same, nothing else this E3 interests me much anyway. Halo really is E3 this year.
I swear last time I was going to count down how many days it took before things devolved into dream playlist setups. This time I will.
Also good countdowns:
Time since last Bumper Jumper discussion: [0] days
That live action politician was full o' crap
Also good countdowns:
Time since last Bumper Jumper discussion: [0] days
That live action politician was full o' crap
As much as I hate to say it, Objective can't survive in a ranked-only context. Not unless they have a serious initiative to push it as the premiere playlist and can get people excited about it like Bungie managed to do in the runup to Halo 2.
dangerbyrnes
Member
really? where. i mean that unsc guy on the stage seemed mighty suspicious
Oops, that was my fault. Forgot to add objective to social.
Wow why such ridiculously long wait time? Bunch of people lined up for just 1 station?
Psychoward
Banned
So is bumper jumper fixed in Halo 4?
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.xxjuicesxx
Member
Yea it would rule, if I was playing it on my iPhone and it cost 1.99 and I could get more missions for .99 cents. Otherwise hell no.
Whats a Wii cost these days 42 dollars?
The Librarian
Banned
I think you're trying to see something that's not there, at least not in Cortana's way. The Infinity could be there for nefarious purposes, but Cortana was simply falling into rampancy at the end of the trailer. I wouldn't try to take anything more than that.