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Hotfix is out. 36mb on Steam, 1gb on everywhere else because MS still needs to discover the magic of delta patching.quote:Resolved in this hotfix
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Mazerunner posted:you're actually out of the worst of it, the second half starts varying the maps more and bringing in new and multiplayer maps. there's a sequence on the infinity that's pretty ok. That's good. I really hope they also stop sounding like COD characters. So many, "scratch more bad guys!" "more bad guys on the way," "bad guys lighting up the sensors" Just say Covenant. Cythereal posted:And that's Halo: ODST. Fairly short game, and I feel like it badly squandered the premise of playing as normal humans instead of Spartans given that the ODSTs even have totally-not-shields and can hijack vehicles and destroy them by punching, but enjoyable enough. I have the level 3 Rarest Achievement Showcase on Steam and it's all Halo achievements now barring one from SWTOR.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:25
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I've hit a brick wall in Halo 4: the hangar fight in The Composer. I'm supposed to reach a console at the far end of the hangar bay while dropships continually unload Covenant, including snipers and gold elites. As near as I can tell, they just keep coming without any significant pause until I get the console, and I keep getting shredded by all the elites or nailed by snipers. Anyone have any advice for this fight?
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Jul 24, 2021 23:31
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When you have a window, Cortana or the Doctor yells at you to go for it. If you're trying at that point and still dying, good luck because that part sucks and has terrible checkpointing.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:36
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Shiroc posted:When you have a window, Cortana or the Doctor yells at you to go for it. If you're trying at that point and still dying, good luck because that part sucks and has terrible checkpointing. Yup. Usually when they tell me to go for it, I have at least two gold elites and a sniper still hammering at me.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:37
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Cythereal posted:Yup. Usually when they tell me to go for it, I have at least two gold elites and a sniper still hammering at me. Yeah, that's basically what happened to me when I ran through it last month. After like 10 times the game finally decided to checkpoint towards the end of the fight (instead of the middle of the last loving room) and I was eventually able to do it.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:39
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Cythereal posted:I've hit a brick wall in Halo 4: the hangar fight in The Composer. I'm supposed to reach a console at the far end of the hangar bay while dropships continually unload Covenant, including snipers and gold elites. As near as I can tell, they just keep coming without any significant pause until I get the console, and I keep getting shredded by all the elites or nailed by snipers. Restart and when you get to that spot, book it to the console immediately. You can get to it before the covenant get too thick.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:57
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Great Beer posted:Restart and when you get to that spot, book it to the console immediately. You can get to it before the covenant get too thick. Seconding this. If you grab a decent amount of gear before you dash into the room, you can then fall back through the room as whatever Covenant that manage to get in harass you. Generally Halo actually has very few truly "infinite enemy spawner" moments and I don't know if this is one of them. Usually you can wear down encounters eventually in the same way you can also run past a lot of things that you wouldn't think you could.
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Jul 25, 2021 04:29
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The LASO skip probably works fine on Normal if you feel confident doing a lil jump. Right at the start of the video.
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Jul 25, 2021 04:42
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I really like Dr. Tillson, one of the better examples of 343's approach to narrative working out nicely. One level of characterization but she's quite charming.
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Jul 25, 2021 04:43
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I played a game of firefight recently, my first actually. Well, first since playing ODST a billion years ago. Anyways we're going along just great and then one of the dudes decides to grab a ghost and just start running me over. Nobody else, just me. So I died to this dude running me over then I just stayed in areas he couldn't reach so he'd stick me with plasmas or throw grenades at me or whatever. I die 3 times total, never get a prompt to kick him from the game. So, fed up, I decide to stick him with a plasma grenade. I get booted for teamkilling. In a lot of ways this was the perfect recreation of the Halo experience I guess.
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Jul 25, 2021 05:49
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Jul 25, 2021 09:38
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jokes posted:I played a game of firefight recently, my first actually. Well, first since playing ODST a billion years ago. Firefight treats friendly fire weirdly. If someone is trolling in a vehicle you can plasma nade them and the vehicle will blow up but they'll live. Alternatively, you can keep plasma pistoling or Grenade Launcher EMP blasting them every time they get near. For bonus points do it while the covenant are nearby and they kill them for you.
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Jul 25, 2021 13:32
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Pretty cool how in 4 my wraith can die in 2 glancing blows from another wraith, but theirs will take 5 direct hits, six grenades, four sticky launcher shots, and 500 rounds of combined fire. Halo 4 sucks and so does this base game mode e: Reach has also crashed twice on me now so last patch has some issues RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Jul 27, 2021 04:14
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RBA Starblade posted:Pretty cool how in 4 my wraith can die in 2 glancing blows from another wraith, but theirs will take 5 direct hits, six grenades, four sticky launcher shots, and 500 rounds of combined fire. lol the Scorpion tank section in 4 on legendary was rough. although to be fair, on legendary in 2 some ghosts can take 4 shots to put down.
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Jul 27, 2021 05:15
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Halo 4's ranked playlist is insanely tedious (Friends want the challenge done, halfway there  ). Then we switched to Reach and our non-party pubbies averaged a total of 4 kills a game. We still won some lmao 
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Jul 27, 2021 06:19
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Anyone else make it into Infinite's multi test this weekend?
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Jul 28, 2021 01:22
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RBA Starblade posted:Anyone else make it into Infinite's multi test this weekend? i did
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Jul 28, 2021 02:06
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RBA Starblade posted:Anyone else make it into Infinite's multi test this weekend? i did
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Jul 28, 2021 02:09
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Welcome to the bullfrogs
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Jul 28, 2021 02:22
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I did too.
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Jul 28, 2021 02:53
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I did, but I'm away this weekend so I'm not going to get much of a chance to play it 
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Jul 28, 2021 06:51
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oh poo poo I did too but I won't get much time to play it probably
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Jul 28, 2021 07:32
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Was sad all day yesterday because I didn't get in. This morning I realized I was checking the wrong email. I'm in 
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Jul 28, 2021 13:12
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I've been invited to every flight for MCC but have been unable to make the last few for reasons. If I don't get into the beta because of this I will be sad.
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Jul 28, 2021 13:53
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I forgot to add my dxdiag and probably got skipped because of it. 
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Jul 28, 2021 14:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxs05bjCzkU A video on Halo Infinite's technical preview is starting in about ten minutes.
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Jul 28, 2021 21:53
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I got into the Halo Infinite tech preview for this weekend. The e-mail said I can start playing on Friday.
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Jul 28, 2021 22:09
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They let you turn off the generic chatter, blessed be
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Jul 28, 2021 22:21
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oh I got in neat
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Jul 28, 2021 22:21
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This stream is moving onto the most important part: pretty space princess simulator!
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Jul 28, 2021 22:24
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RBA Starblade posted:Welcome to the bullfrogs RBA Starblade was never heard from again, as they immediately jetpacked into a bottomless pit
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Jul 28, 2021 22:36
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halo infinites not looking bad needs assassinations though
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Jul 29, 2021 02:19
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Have they kept clambering in the game or is the grapple hook taking over for advanced movement?
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Jul 29, 2021 02:35
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And that's Halo 4 beat, with it the Master Chief Collection. My ranking and general thoughts, from best to worst: Halo 3: the best music, visuals, and level design of the entire collection, imo. Even if it's wound up looking the most dated (Miranda's model is particularly embarrassing) and everything to do with Cortana is pretty yikes, I felt this was the best all around gameplay experience in the collection and the only one that left me seriously wanting more. Halo Reach: the one game in the series where you can play as a woman, which counts for a lot with me, and a simple but enjoyable story with what felt like the most variety in gameplay. Also, across the board, the hardest game in the series for me despite having my favorite gun in the whole series in the needle rifle. Halo ODST: an abject waste of potential, playing as a regular human should have been very different and a game about the battle for Earth shouldn't have been one generic sci-fi city that's most of the time so poorly lit you're required to use night vision. Despite all that, a perfectly fine gameplay experience with a dull but serviceable story that had a few good moments (shame you never got to play as Dare, though). Halo 2: this game sure did exist. Again, my disappointments stem from a feeling that it could have been so much more. High Charity, the Covenant's capital, was wasted on a string of purple corridors that look very much like every other Covenant ship you board, and the Covenant civil war felt intensely phoned in. Halo 1: I get why this game was revolutionary for its day, but now it's one identical grey or purple room after another. The outdoor sections were all pretty good, but ye gods Assault on the Control Room, 343 Guilty Spark, and The Library. Halo 4: This game just felt wrong. The way everything looked and sounded was off, the story was simultaneously insane, stupid, and boring, and Cortana in this game is one of the more embarrassing things I've seen in gaming. All the new guns were boring, and I was expecting more from finally getting to fly a Pelican than a short, dull rehash of the Falcon level from Reach.
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Jul 29, 2021 03:20
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I wish infinite didn't have sprint  The gun sounds and sound effects are nice, sound pretty classic halo and also punchy. The maps look... okay? Not great but not bad? It seems funny this is like some of the first footage we're seeing of the game and they didn't try to put together a highlight reel its just video of some guy playing slayer and half the time he's just staring at walls.
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Jul 29, 2021 05:24
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The new Halo Infinite footage is a massive improvement over the original footage shown in early 2020 where the game looked like Halo 3.
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Jul 29, 2021 06:29
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To be fair, the worst part of it that looked so halo 3 was the brutes, and there's no covenant in this footage. Doesn't really wow me in any way as a next-gen game, but it looks okay.
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Jul 29, 2021 06:39
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Zaphod42 posted:To be fair, the worst part of it that looked so halo 3 was the brutes, and there's no covenant in this footage. That's because it's not a next-gen game. It was developed and announced for the XBone and only later did the decision come to make it cross-gen. Which didn't pan out like Microsoft hoped since it was delayed to well after the new Xboxes release date.
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OhFunny posted:That's because it's not a next-gen game. It was developed and announced for the XBone and only later did the decision come to make it cross-gen. Which didn't pan out like Microsoft hoped since it was delayed to well after the new Xboxes release date. Yeah but it is what it is, they can still make it better given that; especially considering significant release delays. Halo started as an apple strategy game. I mean you're absolutely correct, but "hey guys this was supposed to be an xbone game" isn't going to sell consumers, they gotta find some way to make it a viable product or give up. As-is the game looks about the same or even not quite as good as Destiny 2, which... came out 4 years ago.
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