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Grimthwacker posted:Are medals in Halo 3 multi not working right now? Because I just had a few matches where I was pretty sure I'd be credited with assists but didn't get any. I was noticing that I wasn't getting dick for assist medals.
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I think the new CE graphics are generally nice with the exception of some spots where I think they went overboard trying to make it feel "Halo-y". On the other hand, I think the H2A graphics are brilliant and very much nailed "what the game looked like in my head with nostalgia" kind of thing. Also, something I've been wondering about since Halo 2 came out -- at the end of The Arbiter you do that Banshee chase and the original music was part of an Incubus instrumental bit. The track is supposed to have a vocal repetition of the word "Follow" but instead of vocals it's weirdly buzzy and distorted. Is there a reason for this? Was it just that Marty was mad that MS made them put in licensed music or something?
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Jul 17, 2020 04:40
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JerikTelorian posted:I think the new CE graphics are generally nice with the exception of some spots where I think they went overboard trying to make it feel "Halo-y". On the other hand, I think the H2A graphics are brilliant and very much nailed "what the game looked like in my head with nostalgia" kind of thing. The ingame Incubus track is just an instrumental, same as the Breaking Benjamin track in Gravemind. The vocal versions were included on the Soundtrack CDs.
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Jul 17, 2020 04:52
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welp, the matchmaking for the game is somehow broken in such a way that my roommate and i can't play together. every time the game starts loading he just disconnects. no idea what the gently caress the problem could be since we're both connected to the same wifi router
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Jul 17, 2020 06:29
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General question for people concerning Chief and Cortana. How do you view their relationship? Do you see it more as a romantic thing, or as a brother/sister dynamic, or as two best friends? And of those, what do you think works best for the characters?
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Jul 17, 2020 06:53
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SO I reloaded the Game Pass version of MCC and it doesn't seem to include Reach, when I try to launch it the client claims I need to still DL it but it doesn't actually do anything. Is it just broken?
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Jul 17, 2020 07:13
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Dreadwroth2 posted:SO I reloaded the Game Pass version of MCC and it doesn't seem to include Reach, when I try to launch it the client claims I need to still DL it but it doesn't actually do anything. Is it just broken?
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Jul 17, 2020 07:58
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Ohhhhh ok.
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Jul 17, 2020 09:21
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Arcsquad12 posted:General question for people concerning Chief and Cortana. How do you view their relationship? Do you see it more as a romantic thing, or as a brother/sister dynamic, or as two best friends? And of those, what do you think works best for the characters? Cortana is the only sentient thing to ever treat John like a person, instead of a tool / something to be feared. Even Halsey never actually gives a poo poo about him. I don't know how you label such a relationship but that's why he cares so deeply about her. I'm sure there is lots of awful and  worthy fanfic though that paints the relationship in a decidedly different light...
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Jul 17, 2020 14:29
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Arcsquad12 posted:General question for people concerning Chief and Cortana. How do you view their relationship? Do you see it more as a romantic thing, or as a brother/sister dynamic, or as two best friends? And of those, what do you think works best for the characters? You are literally her knight in shining armor imo. edit: *runs back into thread* CORTANA IS THE E-GIRL CHIEF SIMPS FOR! Lawman 0 fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 14:46
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i vomit kittens posted:welp, the matchmaking for the game is somehow broken in such a way that my roommate and i can't play together. every time the game starts loading he just disconnects. no idea what the gently caress the problem could be since we're both connected to the same wifi router This is a problem that's apparently happened with MCC since the beginning launch on xbox, basically the matchmaking doesn't allow for two people on the same network on different PCs/consoles to play together by default. It's dumb as poo poo but my brother and I found a workaround back in December. I just don't remember the full details but it was something with Windows network settings if I remember correctly.
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Jul 17, 2020 15:22
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I'm a couple of missions into Halo 1, and I quite like it! In fact, I like it much more than I even thought I would. Everything about it feels good and smooth and fluid. And it's fast (relatively) and I like that to.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:02
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JerikTelorian posted:I think the new CE graphics are generally nice with the exception of some spots where I think they went overboard trying to make it feel "Halo-y". On the other hand, I think the H2A graphics are brilliant and very much nailed "what the game looked like in my head with nostalgia" kind of thing. Any level which is Forerunner design heavy, I stick to the old graphics. Not really a fan of the neon lighting everywhere. But the Human/Covenant ship levels look really good on the new graphics IMO.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:48
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I'm trying to play Halo CE on PC, and I'm having a lot of trouble. It seems like the game isn't properly registering held buttons? Can't pick up weapons, and switching weapons is finicky and often won't work. Anyone have this before?
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Jul 18, 2020 00:05
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Roluth posted:I'm trying to play Halo CE on PC, and I'm having a lot of trouble. It seems like the game isn't properly registering held buttons? Can't pick up weapons, and switching weapons is finicky and often won't work. Anyone have this before? Are you using controller? I played with M/KB and did not experience any obvious input issues.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:08
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Are you using controller? I played with M/KB and did not experience any obvious input issues. Found a page on the support site that says it's a Windows issue with 1903. Just patched it, hopefully it works.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:11
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Cortana is the only sentient thing to ever treat John like a person, instead of a tool / something to be feared. Even Halsey never actually gives a poo poo about him. I don't know how you label such a relationship but that's why he cares so deeply about her. I always thought of the relationship as almost entirely nonromantic except for playful jabs at each other. John has been through so much modification, but shes the closest hes known to a kindred spirit or real friend.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:12
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He definitely has other friendships though. His closest friend before Cortana was Kelly and Blue Team has basically been his family for forty years. But none of those relationships have ever been as personal as having someone living in your head. The difference between his relationship with Blue Team and with Cortana is in context. Blue Team are definitely close family, but their dynamic has been military focused their entire lives, which keeps them from really becoming as close outside of battlefield conditions. Cortana is different because she and Chief pretty much spent months in extreme proximity to one another both in and out of combat. To me it seems like a very intertwined brother and sister relationship because they're both the offspring of Halsey but represent different aspects of her. Chief the perfect soldier and Cortana the perfect scientist, both created from the same mind but allowed to grow into their own being.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:23
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While we're talking about stupid Halo things, apparently "hyper lethal" is the actual designation for Master Chief and Noble 6 in universe, which leads me to believe that there's also the lesser designations of "mega lethal", "super lethal", "adequately lethal" and "non-lethal".
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Jul 18, 2020 00:41
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Yep, updating Windows fixed the weird behavior I was having. Huh, how would that fix anything?
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RBA Starblade posted:While we're talking about stupid Halo things, apparently "hyper lethal" is the actual designation for Master Chief and Noble 6 in universe, which leads me to believe that there's also the lesser designations of "mega lethal", "super lethal", "adequately lethal" and "non-lethal". Why not? Its a franchise where the aliens refer to themselves by their enemy class names rather than their own languages. Mainly because when they use their actual languages it somehow sounds even sillier. Having a mega lethal Hunter and a non lethal grunt would be funny Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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Jul 18, 2020 01:21
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RBA Starblade posted:While we're talking about stupid Halo things, apparently "hyper lethal" is the actual designation for Master Chief and Noble 6 in universe, which leads me to believe that there's also the lesser designations of "mega lethal", "super lethal", "adequately lethal" and "non-lethal". You could probably just do the navy seal copypasta with all that bullshit included
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Jul 18, 2020 01:53
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What the gently caress did you say to me you little grunt?
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RBA Starblade posted:What the gently caress did you say to me you little grunt? 
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so after actually playing some more of the matchmaking instead of campaign/customs, the hit reg in this game is comically bad. like, so much so that getting in a firefight with someone feels more like a game of chance on whose shots are going to get picked by the server than anything. 343 is apparently claiming that the original game was like this as well which really just... doesn't seem accurate? i have a very hard time believing that something this terrible would be one of the most played FPS on the 360.
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Jul 18, 2020 02:43
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Yeah, there's no way the hit reg was this bad on 360. Its just off. Something isn't right. It seems most egregious in snipers, but I was never this bad a shot with the BR, either.
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Jul 18, 2020 02:47
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I heard the Halo 3 MCC release on xbox has the bad hit reg, so maybe that's what they're talking about when the say the original had it
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Jul 18, 2020 02:56
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i vomit kittens posted:so after actually playing some more of the matchmaking instead of campaign/customs, the hit reg in this game is comically bad. like, so much so that getting in a firefight with someone feels more like a game of chance on whose shots are going to get picked by the server than anything. 343 is apparently claiming that the original game was like this as well which really just... doesn't seem accurate? i have a very hard time believing that something this terrible would be one of the most played FPS on the 360. Halo 3’s hit registration is also notoriously not great but yeah, it’s significantly worse on MCC. I think it doesn’t help that the BR infamously has random bullet spread so it’s designed to not be consistent before netcode even takes effect. I’ve definitely personally noticed it, especially at long distances, but honestly if you gave me the choice of this or Reach DMRs I’ll take not dying across the map every single time.
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Jul 18, 2020 03:19
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From reading some of the things posted on the change logs, it looks like they know what is going wrong and have a general idea of how to fix it, but they have to wade through years old netcode to fix it. So, who knows when that is getting fixed.
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Arcsquad12 posted:General question for people concerning Chief and Cortana. How do you view their relationship? Do you see it more as a romantic thing, or as a brother/sister dynamic, or as two best friends? And of those, what do you think works best for the characters? I think its kinda eh a lot of the time. Its very shallow in the games until Halo 3, and then it has some issues. Your fun sassy partner who provides the fun one liners in your head? She's now an abuse victim (and it gets worse if you hit a certain audio trigger on the "Cortana" mission.) But then you save her and its back to normal. https://haruspis.blog/2017/03/26/why-halo-3-didnt-finish-the-fight/ About a quarter of the way through this they talk about Cortana's part in the game and I agree with what they say. It will also forever be cringe inducing to me that the Halo 4 lead said the Cortana rampancy stuff was directly influenced by his relationship with his mother through her dementia... and then the art department sexed up her appearance more than ever before. That said, I feel Halo 4 retroactively changed how everybody feels about Chief and Cortana because it played it a lot more seriously. No more teleporting Chief upside down, no more "You look nice" or "sorry, were you trying to shoot something?" It works for that story and its written quite well, but it isn't really reflected in the original trilogy- her quote about not being sure which one of them is the machine rings true and it really reflects the best part of Halo 4s narrative, but its not something I could imagine her saying in 1-3.
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Roluth posted:From reading some of the things posted on the change logs, it looks like they know what is going wrong and have a general idea of how to fix it, but they have to wade through years old netcode to fix it. So, who knows when that is getting fixed. TLDR; There's a bug in the original Halo 3 netcode where under certain circumstances, bullets perform their per-frame movement twice on the first frame of their existence (presumably causing them to pass through their target?). This was exacerbated by increasing the framerate and host tickrate to 60fps for MCC. There are also various other structural issues with the old Halo 3 netcode that Bungie fixed via restructuring in Reach, that can result in things like bad auto-aim information or grenades/equipment being used more than once. This'll take a minute to fix because it's gonna involve moving a lot of deck chairs around.
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Arcsquad12 posted:He definitely has other friendships though. His closest friend before Cortana was Kelly and Blue Team has basically been his family for forty years. Nah Cortana is a sexy robot version of his mom. Because of the decades of psychological trauma and abuse turning him into an unfeeling emotionless killer it only makes sense he'd fall in love with a robot version of his mom. John is Norman Bates but instead of killing randos he's killing rebels and aliens and is constantly being praised and rewarded for horrific violence. Plus, instead of psychosis, he literally has a copy of his mom telling him what to do! jokes fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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jokes posted:Nah Cortana is a sexy robot version of his mom. Because of the decades of psychological trauma and abuse turning him into an unfeeling emotionless killer it only makes sense he'd fall in love with a robot version of his mom. It's freud all the way down
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Jul 18, 2020 15:39
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I finally drove an anti-air wraith for the first time 
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Mazerunner posted:I finally drove an anti-air wraith for the first time Those things are a major annoyance to get a hold of; nice work!
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Was playing H2A with a non-Halo fan earlier and he thought that some of the music, while gorgeous, seems thematically out of place for slaughtering thousands of sentient beings. Like the tank bit in Delta Halo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jPy-GmyUc
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What’s the gooncensus on using mouse/keyboard vs controller? I’m primarily a mouse keyboard guy, but I have a controller and like to lean back and play some games. Doom 2016 plays really well with both.
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chaosapiant posted:What’s the gooncensus on using mouse/keyboard vs controller? I’m primarily a mouse keyboard guy, but I have a controller and like to lean back and play some games. Doom 2016 plays really well with both.
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M&K causes the hit detection to gently caress up for some reason. Controller is fine.
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Ok cool; I’m not even interested in multi, but can switch back to K&B easily enough if I were. Thanks!
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