Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Wait, the ammo one gives more ammo to power weapons too?
This chances everything...
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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains
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Wait, the ammo one gives more ammo to power weapons too?
This chances everything...
xxjuicesxx
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Getting an iPhone5. S my d Gaf.
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you sure? lol
nillapuddin
Member
Sweet, thanks! If anyone can point me to a list of all loadout options, I'll see if I can whip up a neat graphic.
Although if someone that's talented wants to do it, I'd be fine with that
MS Paint kind of sucks lol
Primary Weapon:
- Assault Rifle
- Battle Rifle
- Carbine
- Designated Marksman Rifle
- Lightrifle
- Storm Rifle
- Suppressor
- Boltshot
- Magnum
- Plasma Pistol
- Frag Grenade
- Plasma Grenade
- Pulse Grenade
- Active Camo
- Autosentry
- Hardlight Shield
- Hologram
- Jetpack
- Promethean Vision
- Regen Field
- Thruster Pack
rofl
didnt feel like posting the whole thing
here ya go
Amazing Mic
Neo Member
My biggest gripe is speed and accessibility- fingers crossed for the relaunch.
Hopefully if they do ranks- they'll be easier to track. Find it completely puzzling that I can see every Arena season on HaloTracker but only most recent/last on Waypoint and the last three rated seasons in game.
The Real Napsta
Member
People in this thread really dont have the anniversary map pack?
Yep, time zones as well as factoring things like "this player can't stay up late, he's got work, this guy's going to be away for a couple days", etc. Same goes for all alternates. Every team will have specific alternates assigned to them based on skill/time zone.
As far as I know, it does
Nice! If I'm not lazy, I'll get to it tonight
Zeouterlimits
Member
NullPointer
Member
They're oddly silent about the game.
Guilty.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
huh, so he ditched ExXy (or whatever it was). amazing he stll has that mop of hair after all these years...
The Librarian
Banned
For those that care, let's talk about stat tracking for Halo 4. As all of us know, Waypoint is pretty poor. It's not good at organization, speed, and/or linking. Not to bash too hard on their webteam, (mostly because I don't know the restrictions and requirements from the folks at Microsoft) but it is in dire need of repair. I think simplicity is the key for them to look at, similar to the MP design team. They need to get the core of the tracking and the UI in order for it to be successful.
This is not simple. It is a clusterfuck of information.
How can it be improved? For starters, remove the "All games" section. You should also be able to distinguish what is Matchmaking and what is not(custom campaigns, firefights, and multiplayer). After that, Firefight is essentially unlimited Campaign, and multiplayer is vastly different from either of the AI based modes. Once you have AI and MP distinguished, you can then branch out those modes. "Arena" is no longer a separate beast from "competitive", it has simply become another playlist. Add in a playlist sort feature with checkboxes (so you can lump certain similar playlists together). Add a map sort feature so I can see what maps I need improvement on. Maybe add the feature of map-viewing, so you can put in global and personal heatmaps, and possibly Atlas integration.
It will be key to make the UI experience as easy as possible. That will be crucial if some of the extras that I mentioned are added. Achronos and the bungie.net webteam did a stellar job with giving us information in a simple design. We were spoiled too much by Bungie. There were clear and concise ways to get to your service record. Waypoint's ways to get to your service record(and for that matter what the service record is) aren't clear.
Unnecessary redundancies in the main Waypoint menu.
These medals are incorrect. It shows a Hell's Jerome medal in the Hell's Janitor position.
Next on my agenda is medals. We've seen a vast amount of medals for Halo 4, whether some of these are actual medals or just white text, I don't know. But if we are going to have Distractions, I want to see how many times I've distracted an enemy.
Adding to this, it can be possible to truly see what type of player someone is better than commendations and the Waypoint awards. If these medals from in-game can be properly translated, then you can see how that player actually functions. Are they a ranged player or a close quarters player? Do they use vehicles or kill them(or both)?
As shown in the picture above, it's also going to be key to get the medals correct.
I never want to see this again.
The speed at which you can access your stats is atrocious. To access it in-game, it is a maze of menus. Make both speedy. Make both easy to navigate. If it is a Microsoft requirement that it use Silverlight, then I guess there's not a bunch you can do. If possible, drop the Silverlight. It is slow and also makes you install Silverlight to a computer. Let's say you're at work and want to check out your stats. You can't without installing which may be against your company's policies.
This happened while I was getting screens for this post.
Lastly, the linking. Have you tried linking to a file share? Have you tried linking to someone's game history? Have you tried linking to a Waypoint news article? If the answer is yes, then you've probably had some issues accessing restricted content. Restricted content that is publicly available... That's not correct. A box specifically for a link to the content would be nice and a good solution.
*Oh and an API for developers would be nice.
Quoted for new page. Quality post, Karl. <3
Can't decide which is more need of fixing: the speed of Waypoint, or the way it presents its information. As it is a stats site, probably the latter.
The Real Napsta
Member
Get on.
Are you using Firefox? For some reason I get audio issues all the time with twitch.tv on Firefox, but it seems to work fine in Chrome.
Portugeezer
Gold Member
Wow, Brad is getting fucking fat.
The P of Poland
Member
Anyone else not getting any sound off this?
I would love for Halo 4 to have a stats API so alternate sites can be created as well as mobile apps, I'd like to mess around with it too. I don't feel like we'll see one though. I'm thinking they won't be with it enoigh yet and their code base won't be at a place to provide one. Maybe it'd come later. I hope I am wrong though.
NullPointer
Member
Chrome actually, but yeah, no sound.
Steelyuhas
Member
No, pretty positive it's only your loadout weapons.
Tried it in Chrome and IE, and no sound on either.
Portugeezer
Gold Member
Yep no sound, happens a lot with twitch recently.
The P of Poland
Member
Yeah, I've got Firefox.
Twitch has been having a lot of issues for me in the last day or so.
Gabotron ES
Member
toggleable middle text please.
Zeouterlimits
Member
They've already said that's not happening, disappointingly.
They say it's "invisible" when you're playing...
SO WHY IS IT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
Gabotron ES
Member
Just delete that damm line of code and ship it, no one will complain.
Maybe they can do that with a TU... :/
Bregmann Roche
Member
This will make the choice between it and the PP much more difficult in Big Team. I can always use the Promethean grenades to deal with vehicles if I have to and with DMR/Boltshot starts I would have a powerful long range weapon and a pretty good CQC weapon as well.
Whoa really? For me it's a toss-up between Mona Lisa, Impossible Life<snip>Cole, and Midlothian
SSSSSLLLLLUUUURRRRRPPPPP
EDIT: We just got Stroll Troll'D
https://twitter.com/alisonst/status/246720842845782016/photo/1
Agree.
indubitably
Member
I don't think it will be that bad, it is just going to be annoying seeing the game score in the hundreds during a game of slayer. At least CTF doesn't go up by 10s.
Watched that GB gameplay. Lol'd at the bug where the guy got points for shooting his own Scorpion as it was boarded.
Umm... I know this might be a dumb question this late on. But how do these supposed 'random' weapon spawns work? I see people picking all sorts of different weapons up from similar locations in all these gameplay vids, are they on a cycle or something?
Umm... I know this might be a dumb question this late on. But how do these supposed 'random' weapon spawns work? I see people picking all sorts of different weapons up from similar locations in all these gameplay vids, are they on a cycle or something?
Steelyuhas
Member
WOULD READ AGAIN +10
Orochinagis
Member
I have all the map packs, Halo Reach disc is broken.
Rand0m TAG
Member
fuck the iphone. nokia 920 all the way
Yep, time zones as well as factoring things like "this player can't stay up late, he's got work, this guy's going to be away for a couple days", etc. Same goes for all alternates. Every team will have specific alternates assigned to them based on skill/time zone.
As far as I know, it does
Nice! If I'm not lazy, I'll get to it tonight
what if teams had six players. whatever 4 are on play.
MrGreencastle
Member
Hell yeah, brother.
User 73706
Banned
Then there's the inevitable issue of more than four people being on and deciding who gets to play.
Also, just thinking out loud here about tourneys: what if we had different maps based on the rounds? Each initial bracket would use the same set but round 1, 2, semifinals, etc. could have different map/gametype sets. Maybe even ones tailored to the tourney.
Devolution
Member
School. Knee deep in shit already. Damn. Halo 4. Fudge.
Excellent post, Karl. I agree 100% that we were spoiled by Bungie, I'm constantly impressed with Bungie's webteam.
Although, I think a lot of the grievances we have with Waypoint's stat tracking and UI will be settled come the massive site overhaul in November. I don't know the specifics other than a lot of the site, including the forums, will change in design to accommodate all of the information Halo 4 will have. Apparently the stat tracking will be more expansive then Bungie.net's (or so I've heard).
OdysseusVA
Banned
lol me
Steelyuhas
Member
I feel you. I've never been so buried in my life.
Poker Face
Member
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I call shenanigans.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
What does that mean for Legendary? I'm okay with brutally difficult, as long as it's fun and not cheap.