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Haquer posted:He did this same thing early in the MCC thread "oh no man this time it's a clean slate, don't bring up previous games by the company to judge the new one" poo poo. If you are suggesting there needs to be a catch-all cross-platform multi-flop encompassing Halotank thread I am al for that.
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shadow puppet of a posted:If you are suggesting there needs to be a catch-all cross-platform multi-flop encompassing Halotank thread I am al for that. Dickblain the thread spoa
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shadow puppet of a posted:If you are suggesting there needs to be a catch-all cross-platform multi-flop encompassing Halotank thread I am al for that. plenty of room in the sharktank for that
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univbee posted:Games that are only fun if you're good at them are dead, bro. The 99% of us who suck have moved on to games that are still fun when you suck at them, like Call of Duty and Destiny and their respective PlayStation-exclusive content. I'm surprised you feel the "No n00bs allowed" sentiment. My friends and I play occasionally (probably once a month or so) and despite the fact that I very rarely play shooters and even more rarely use a controller, I'm pretty competitive at the Action Sack games. I can see where you're coming from on the super competitive slayer games, but Action Sack is good silly fun, and all they need to do to make it perfect is remove shotty/sniper/schwatguns/etc. games with no gimmicks (ninja assassin and the binary rifle/sword game are good action sack games though). I'm looking forward to the game, but my biggest complaint is that I don't own an XBONE and I won't be able to do couch coop any more.
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Sep 28, 2015 18:34
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univbee posted:Games that are only fun if you're good at them are dead, bro. The 99% of us who suck have moved on to games that are still fun when you suck at them, like Call of Duty and Destiny and their respective PlayStation-exclusive content. You're 100% correct, although at the same time you left off something. Games that are only fun if you're good at them have grown into eSports. And eSports are huge. But outside of games designed intentionally for eSports (Starcraft 2, CSGO, etc.) games are now designed so that people who suck still have fun. Halo is awkwardly trying to court both the eSports crowd and the casual call-of-duty crowd simultaneously.
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Sep 28, 2015 18:38
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MickRaider posted:I love how removing split screen is the worst possible thing someone can do in a video game when so many other games are already doing it and people will defend those other options as being a good idea. We;ll, I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise that goons don't see the appeal of something that requires friends. 
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Zaphod42 posted:Halo is awkwardly trying to court both the eSports crowd and the casual call-of-duty crowd simultaneously. I think the warzone/arena split is actually a good way of dividing it up into the two different player groups.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:11
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MickRaider posted:I think the warzone/arena split is actually a good way of dividing it up into the two different player groups. Yeah its at least nice and cleanly divided which makes things easier to design around those different groups, but it still means that 343i is going to be scrambling to do a lot of different things well at the same time when their last game didn't exactly do fewer of those things very well.
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I watched some of the Warzone videos that have come out and if (big if) the actual game can consistently match the moments I've seen in the videos, it will be a great game. When there's a big fight for a key point it looks like absolute mayhem and the exact kind of clusterfuck I want from halo. That said, I'm hoping matchmaking works for teams because I don't want to hop into matchmaking for one game after work and get rolled by a full team of 12 every time.
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It would be good if some of the Warzone gameplay vids wasnt the same dogshit player running to the same point and dying the exact same way 5 times in a row. Although I guess thats a fairly good example of a Halo MP experience for most players. and I just remembered how fun the railgun was in H4. I guess thats a good thing.
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Laserface posted:It would be good if some of the Warzone gameplay vids wasnt the same dogshit player running to the same point and dying the exact same way 5 times in a row. Your 343 hate post quality... is taking a nosedive.It's like, when you type this stuff up is there a voice in your head saying "pull up...pull up... pull up" ?
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Sep 29, 2015 01:29
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What was with the audio design decision to add in as much high pitched chirping beeps and boops as possible? poo poo is loving aggravating to listen to man.
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iSheep posted:What was with the audio design decision to add in as much high pitched chirping beeps and boops as possible? That's what the future sounds like dummy.
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Sep 29, 2015 03:50
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As someone who grew up on Star Trek, technology that doesn't make pointless electronic borps, beedly boos and beweeoops actually sounds wrong and alarming 343's art style is one of the least objectionable changes they've made to the franchise but I can see how those little noises would get irritating after awhile
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Sep 29, 2015 04:00
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iSheep posted:poo poo is loving aggravating to listen to man.
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I love the live action commercials. The Believe campaign for halo 3 got me so loving hype. I doubt this one could be that good, but I still like it a lot.
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I just noticed they added a timer that shows when your shield will recharge. That's pretty cool The promethean grenades also look less useless
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Did they ever release the later halo games on PC and can I get them from a digital store that isn't garbage/dead? I know I can get a disc copy of Halo: CE and it probably will work alright. Halo 2 I heard was only for Vista and won't work with any other OS or something incredibly stupid like that. I've no interest in owning the bone or the MCC. I would like to play ODST since I heard that was decent. I always liked the Halo games, it's a shame that 343 hosed them up so badly 
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Cowman posted:Did they ever release the later halo games on PC and can I get them from a digital store that isn't garbage/dead? I know I can get a disc copy of Halo: CE and it probably will work alright. Halo 2 I heard was only for Vista and won't work with any other OS or something incredibly stupid like that. I've no interest in owning the bone or the MCC. I would like to play ODST since I heard that was decent. I always liked the Halo games, it's a shame that 343 hosed them up so badly Beyond Halo 2 (and excluding the RTS games), your only options are Xbox 360 and Xbox One, although the only thing you really miss out on taking the 360 route is online play with Halo 2.
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Cowman posted:Did they ever release the later halo games on PC and can I get them from a digital store that isn't garbage/dead? I know I can get a disc copy of Halo: CE and it probably will work alright. Halo 2 I heard was only for Vista and won't work with any other OS or something incredibly stupid like that. I've no interest in owning the bone or the MCC. I would like to play ODST since I heard that was decent. I always liked the Halo games, it's a shame that 343 hosed them up so badly Halo 2 works with any Windows version after Vista. (And there were ways to hack it to work on XP, too) There's also... Halo  https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloOnline/ It uses the Halo 3 engine and does run on PC, but its janky as gently caress. But its mostly just Halo 1 and 2 that are on PC. And the old version of 1 too, not the remaster.
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I just remembered how bad the promethean grenades were. What a poop idea. They even made a double kill achievement 9 months after the fact. What a poo poo company.
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Booties posted:I just remembered how bad the promethean grenades were. What a poop idea. They even made a double kill achievement 9 months after the fact. What a poo poo company. Absolutely everything about the prometheans was stupid and badly mishandled. Their story is loving stupid, their guns all feel bad and are just dumb versions of guns we already had instead of something actually new or creative, and the enemies were all just really un-fun to fight against and existed just to require you to use the new dumb guns that you'd otherwise rather not use.
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Welp, pre-ordered along with the dumb Elite Controller because gently caress the stock XBO sticks.
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empathe posted:Welp, pre-ordered along with the dumb Elite Controller because gently caress the stock XBO sticks.  Why?!Though I'm not sure I'll be able to justify buying a bone this month. Still considering waiting for report cards to go out and buy one from some parent trying to spite their kid
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MickRaider posted:
I already have the XBO and I cannot stand the stock controller. The sticks feel loose and cheap as poo poo. It has no weight to it. It sucks. Outside of them allowing me to use the Xbox 360 controller, the Elite controller is my only option. At least I can use on PC as well and I had Amazon gift credit to cover everything.
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Do the sticks from the 360 controller not fit on the xbones?
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empathe posted:Welp, pre-ordered along with the dumb Elite Controller because gently caress the stock XBO sticks. I use FPS Freek Ultra sticks on my Xbox One controller. They're super inexpensive and work great.
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empathe posted:Outside of them allowing me to use the Xbox 360 controller, the Elite controller is my only option. If you stream through a Windows 10 device, you actually can use a 360 controller. 
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:I use FPS Freek Ultra sticks on my Xbox One controller. They're super inexpensive and work great. Do these replace the entire stick or just the tops?
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empathe posted:Do these replace the entire stick or just the tops? They just clamp onto your existing sticks, no dismantling or whatever required. They're made specifically for "stock" sticks of whichever console's controller they're for so a lot of people who get SCUF controllers or whatever get them with stock sticks so they can use these on them correctly.
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univbee posted:They just clamp onto your existing sticks, no dismantling or whatever required. They're made specifically for "stock" sticks of whichever console's controller they're for so a lot of people who get SCUF controllers or whatever get them with stock sticks so they can use these on them correctly. Does it make the sticks any tighter? My issue is that the sticks themselves are loose and it's really hard for me to aim properly.
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empathe posted:Does it make the sticks any tighter? My issue is that the sticks themselves are loose and it's really hard for me to aim properly. No, it definitely won't do that, but the Elite might not either (has this been confirmed at all?). Some people get the clamps to make the stick itself "longer" and get more precise movements that way (since your thumb has to travel further from one side to the other) so I don't know if that helps. Those extensions are cheap enough (like $10-15 I think) that it might be worth taking a chance on them if it'll save you $150.
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empathe posted:Does it make the sticks any tighter? My issue is that the sticks themselves are loose and it's really hard for me to aim properly. No, they are not tighter. They will take a couple of matches to get used to, but once you adapt to them they will increase your K/D for sure. I love sniping with them.
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empathe posted:Does it make the sticks any tighter?
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Frankly I enjoyed Halo 4 as the first Halo game where the guns didn't sound like toys and the story, while awful, could actually be followed by a sane human being without the help of tie-in novels. Lack of splitscreen though? gently caress dudes. That practically kills the game for me.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Frankly I enjoyed Halo 4 as the first Halo game where the guns didn't sound like toys and the story, while awful, could actually be followed by a sane human being without the help of tie-in novels. The opposite of this is true
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:No, they are not tighter. They will take a couple of matches to get used to, but once you adapt to them they will increase your K/D for sure. I love sniping with them. Yeah, I'm not sure how these would work for me. Need that resistance.
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I plan on getting the Elite controller purely for the metal rings around the perimeter of the sticks. I use kontrol freeks and have eroded the poo poo out of my stock controller. Sweeping around the stick feels like riding a push bike on a dirt track. I will probably still use the kontrol freeks but attached to the low-sticks on the elite since the pad surface on the freeks is bigger and more comfortable.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:and the story, while awful, could actually be followed by a sane human being without the help of tie-in novels. As an autist who has read the books, you're so full of poo poo. I couldn't even follow the batshit story of halo 4 and I knew the backstory.
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Haquer posted:As an autist who has read the books, you're so full of poo poo. I couldn't even follow the batshit story of halo 4 and I knew the backstory. The forerunners made cyborg bodies to defend themselves against the Flood. This tech didn't work and actually created soulless automatons. One of the forerunners, who hated humans because of the wars they fought when humans were running from the Flood, realized he could use this robot stuff to kill the humans and the Flood, and drat the consequences. The other forerunners realized he was an rear end in a top hat and trapped him inside the device that he would have used to kill the humans. Like a billion years later, he tricks Master Chief into releasing him. Master Chief takes care of it because he is a Mary Sue that was programmed by both other humans and somehow by the forerunners to be the peak of human evolution. There, that is the entire high-level plot arc in a paragraph. There's also some poo poo about Master Chief falling in love with Cortana, which was completely new awful bullshit, and Cortana being a hysteric mess again. Also, high command thinks that the Master Chief, their foremost war hero, is dumb for absolutely no logical reason (like all Mary Sues, all the Master Chief's enemies hate him because they are incompetents who can't stand his superiority). I certainly didn't say the plot was good. I can't really tell whether it's better than collections of hidden and half-developed riddles from Guilty Spark, interspersed with characters referencing poo poo that is not even discussed in the game, and occasionally some supposedly significant numbering that they also never address. I don't even really see this as a complete Halo title without splitscreen. It has to have bullshit four-player games where one player is a ball and a chain to whoever he teams with.
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