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Random weather would be awesome for multiplayer. For example thick fog on Valhalla, heavy rain on High Ground, and a blizzard on Snowbound. You could change the intensity of these in custom games or have them off. Random weather + time of day change would be amazing. Too bad it won't ever happen. :(
 
the first time i saw Snowbound I thought it should be at night. the white snow and the dark sky would contrast nicely. they could also do come cool lighting effects.


ps. where is the brute shot on Valhalla? i love shooting them at vehicles since they got a nice power upgrade. is it near the bubble shield/turret area?
 
Striker said:
I would like a swamp/jungle like area, similar to Backwash on Halo 2.
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There's a lot of good and fun maps that never came up in Halo 2 Matchmaking. Backwash and Foundation were two of them. I really hope Bungie incorporates more modes like Shotguns and Swords into Matchmaking more often. They almost never appeared in Halo 2.
 
ToyMachine228 said:
I really hope Bungie incorporates more modes like Shotguns...
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Yes.
ToyMachine228 said:
...and Swords
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No.

Anything with swords is by default, the worst gametype ever.

GhaleonEB said:
http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=18731

Someone photoshopped images of all three Beta maps to show what they would look like at night. In a word: awesome. Hopefully we see some nighttime maps.
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I'm liking Snowbound and especially High Ground at night. Wouldn't want Valhalla though, the size (and lack of flashlights) makes for a real crappy game if you can't see anything in the far distance.

Someone mentioned varying/random weather effects. Now that, I could totally go for.

Still, we haven't seen the weather effects Stinkles spoke about in the various updates. So those are something to look forward to.
 
Ramirez said:
I like Rumble Shotguns, but Rumble Swords is completely random garbage.
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What was the one that had everyone with swords and the hill in the middle of the map. Super lame.
 
Cipher said:
Random weather would be awesome for multiplayer. For example thick fog on Valhalla, heavy rain on High Ground, and a blizzard on Snowbound. You could change the intensity of these in custom games or have them off. Random weather + time of day change would be amazing. Too bad it won't ever happen. :(
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During the title screen flyby of Valhalla it looks like there is some light fog on the map that is no where to be seen when you are actually playing. I know Bungie has been going on about how important it is to have visibility during multiplayer, but I think a little atmosphere such as that would be an acceptable tradeoff.
 
Mr. Lemming said:
During the title screen flyby of Valhalla it looks like there is some light fog on the map that is no where to be seen when you are actually playing. I know Bungie has been going on about how important it is to have visibility during multiplayer, but I think a little atmosphere such as that would be an acceptable tradeoff.
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That's only when it comes to HDR since it would blind the player. Normal weather effects, fog, dust and the like are already said to be in the final. And in some cases (fog) were already in H2, so they're fine with those.
 
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
I'm still at work and it looks like we've got a late autopsy comin' in...maybe. Hopefully not. God please no.

Anyway, I won't be able to get on 'til later.
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Damn, are you like the cool nerdy guy in your CSI? Every one needs one.

:)
 
Sullichin said:
I'm sure you do. But the 'Hog is way too invincible.
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Oh trust me, it is. Especially when you have a jackass of a driver who drivers in the complete OPPOSITE way of the enemy. Then drives into a crowd of them and bails out and runs away laughing.
 
JdFoX187 said:
Oh trust me, it is. Especially when you have a jackass of a driver who drivers in the complete OPPOSITE way of the enemy. Then drives into a crowd of them and bails out and runs away laughing.
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Well, in all fairness, I think driving requires much more skill than gunning, and as you just said, it is the driver who ultimately decides the fate of said warthog.

Edit: Do warthog drivers get an assist when someone in their vehicle gets a kill? They really should.
 
CreepingDea7h said:
Well, in all fairness, I think driving requires much more skill than gunning, and as you just said, it is the driver who ultimately decides the fate of said warthog.
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I've driven too and it's more difficult, especially with the new warthog. But there's no excuse for my then driver to just run away from the enemy the whole game claiming he's losing health when neither of us are getting shot. Instead, it's beacuse my team thinks I have too many kills. Then to drive me in their area and dump me. Unacceptable. And yes, they do get assists.
 
JdFoX187 said:
I've driven too and it's more difficult, especially with the new warthog. But there's no excuse for my then driver to just run away from the enemy the whole game claiming he's losing health when neither of us are getting shot. Instead, it's beacuse my team thinks I have too many kills. Then to drive me in their area and dump me. Unacceptable. And yes, they do get assists.
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Oh, I didn't mean to phrase it like I thought that was excusable, (the in all fairness was to you getting lots of kills :P) just that driving takes more skill. Any way, good to hear driver's get assists, not sure if it was like that in Halo 2.

Edit: I should probably edit that bit out :P
 
i was downgraded to silver, that will change tomorrow. for anyone that wants easy kills that run right up to you guns blazin, ad me. I should be up and running by 9:00am... btw If I get a kill within 10 of my deaths, its a good day. all is right.

'scottlarock904' I only say these things , 'damn, soaBitch' got ya', wtf did you come from? hey peace! I'm on you side (shoot the fuker!)
 
Can't see ****ing shit in this game. :/

Widen the damn FOV! People come up right next to you and you can't even see them. It's bullshit.
 
Redbeard said:
Can't see ****ing shit in this game. :/

Widen the damn FOV! People come up right next to you and you can't even see them. It's bullshit.
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Ummm, you should really use the motion tracker, even though I agree they need to widen the FoV (I'd be happy with 80, since someone said that's what CoD was at and CoD was just fine for me).
 
Shotty Snipers is so great, it's the one game mode that I love regardless of map or player count.

I'd love for some more limited weapon scenarios. Needles and Swords is the most obvious one.

Anyone think the Carbine is too strong? I guess it's just down to opinion, but it feels so much stronger than the BR. Plus in my experience it rocks just as much ass close range as it does mid-long and can easily take down people with ARs. If given a choice between the three there's really no reason I can think of to take the AR or BR over it.
 
What the **** is wrong with the rating system?! I am getting murdered match after match after match, rating stays the same. Oh wait! I came in third because two people QUIT! Up two number ranks for you! This is so dumb I must have been in the bottom half of 80-90% of my rumbles tonight and I went UP THREE NUMBER RANKS OVER THE NIGHT. I can take losing matches, but I will never win again if this game doesn't cut me a break. What do I have to do to prove I don't belong with these people?
 
Mongoose should have a horn like the warthog. It's useful to get the attention of your teammates to hop in especially if you don't have a mic.

Also you can't sit on the back of the mongoose while holding the bomb/flag if there's no driver... why is this? kind of annoying. you can enter the passenger seat of the warthog with no driver, there should be consistency here.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, the blade at the bottom of the spiker does extra damage. A jumping melee with the Brute Shot is a one-hit kill as well.
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wow i didn't know that. that explains a lot of what i'd been seeing recently. is this documented anywhere or is this just something you have to find out for yourself?
 
Played for a good four hours tonight........first night really playing it more than 3-4 matches in a row.

It brings a tear to my eye thinking about how much better it is than Halo 2.
 
PedroLumpy said:
What the **** is wrong with the rating system?! I am getting murdered match after match after match, rating stays the same. Oh wait! I came in third because two people QUIT! Up two number ranks for you! This is so dumb I must have been in the bottom half of 80-90% of my rumbles tonight and I went UP THREE NUMBER RANKS OVER THE NIGHT. I can take losing matches, but I will never win again if this game doesn't cut me a break. What do I have to do to prove I don't belong with these people?
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Rating Points have nothing to do with your kill/death ratio AFAIK. +1 RP are given if your team wins a match, and none are given if you lose. They take away -2 RP if you quit IIRC, so as long as you don't quit you should be OK.
 
Sean said:
Mongoose should have a horn like the warthog. It's useful to get the attention of your teammates to hop in especially if you don't have a mic.

Also you can't sit on the back of the mongoose while holding the bomb/flag if there's no driver... why is this? kind of annoying. you can enter the passenger seat of the warthog with no driver, there should be consistency here.
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Hmmm, interesting. I'm thinking they did it because with the mongoose, it'd be easy to accidentally jump on the back when you want to get on as the driver, while with the warthog, you have to be on the completely other side of the vehicle.

Agreed about the horn, btw (first thing I did after I hopped on one was pull the right trigger to see if it had one).
 
Shogmaster said:
Rating Points have nothing to do with your kill/death ratio AFAIK. +1 RP are given if your team wins a match, and none are given if you lose. They take away -2 RP if you quit IIRC, so as long as you don't quit you should be OK.
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Okay, but those RP things affect your military rank, not your number rank? My number rank is what I'm refering to. It went from 17 - 20 over the evening. My other rank went up one, 3 chevrons to 3 chevrons + star. I should mention all my stuff was Rumble Pit, so when I talk about sucking hard, I definately lost. No teamates to carry me through.
 
PedroLumpy said:
Okay, but those RP things affect your military rank, not your number rank? My number rank is what I'm refering to. It went from 17 - 20 over the evening. My other rank went up one, 3 chevrons to 3 chevrons + star. I should mention all my stuff was Rumble Pit, so when I talk about sucking hard, I definately lost. No teamates to carry me through.
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Oh I see what you're saying.
 
PedroLumpy said:
Okay, but those RP things affect your military rank, not your number rank? My number rank is what I'm refering to. It went from 17 - 20 over the evening. My other rank went up one, 3 chevrons to 3 chevrons + star. I should mention all my stuff was Rumble Pit, so when I talk about sucking hard, I definately lost. No teamates to carry me through.
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The # rank is your ranked game ranking, not your personal RP (military rank) ranking. In Rumble Pit, players get matched up by RP ranking, plus or minus 12 points if I recall.

In any case, you've placed high enough in the games you've played to earn whatever rank you have. So you'll be matched up with the range of players since the game expects you to play around that skill level. It's just bad luck in your case that it's matching you up with people that're above your playing level.

Still, you have to remember that ranks have nothing to do with someone's individual skill. So they could just be better than you are and are on their way up to higher levels, but are just matched to your range for now. Pretty much the only things you can do are get better, wait it out... or quit matches until you get to a low level. :lol You could also just only do party matches with people you know who are of a similar skill level.

As for the spontaneous level gaining, it could be a server issue. Maybe it was just slow on reporting some results from past games? That has been a reported issue for a while now. Some people are also missing numerous matches from the Bungie site/servers that they've played, yet have X number of matches played on the console side.

spermatic cord said:
Is there anyway to jack a mongoose? If there aren't, then are there any plans to have that in the final game?
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You know, I've still yet to try that. I always just end up killing them before I remember to try. :lol
 
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