The Halo Thread V12: The Last Thread Turned Into A Bridge - Games

[QUOTE=AbbaDee;50495275][img_thumb]http://www.halopedia.org/images/b/b9/H5G-helioskrill-bloodgorger.png[/img_thumb] Helioskrill armor. It was designed by a Sangheilli prodigy to challenge humanity's tech capabilities. That's why it looks like Elite armor.[/QUOTE] It's also honestly one of the better looking armors in Halo 5.

[QUOTE=343N;50495962]nope. not in an easy way as far as i know, but i've only just discovered what the hell i'm doing and now i really want to mod Reach and 3 but i need an RGH (or a PC port). i can turn shipmaster into tartarus tho and he'll fuck shit up on the great journey though so i guess that's cool (he'll actually hijack ghosts and shit too) i can also play as tartarus with that sick weapon and it does damage and stuff but the effects/animations don't play for me :( i'm an amateur changed brutes to spawn as arbiters, one of them is an armorless variant :| you never really notice how majestic those seagulls are[/QUOTE] How are you doing this?

Assembly, and H2V. Experimenting and using many different modding tutorials (halo 3/reach/2) littered over the web to learn what some tags do if they confuse me (they all mostly carry over from game to game) I tried halo online with assembly but a. It won't be as fun without ai, and b. It seems a lot more crash prone than H2V

[vid]http://i.imgur.com/kmQWoB2.webm[/vid] [editline]a[/editline] damn, double post. but anyways, i dun fucked it. i did some halo online stuff but other than making the zanzibar wheel fast as fuck and changing vehicle speed/invincibility, or making vehicles without drviers, there's really not much to do on it since most other people can't ese it

[QUOTE=343N;50500607][vid]http://i.imgur.com/kmQWoB2.webm[/vid] [editline]a[/editline] damn, double post. but anyways, i dun fucked it. i did some halo online stuff but other than making the zanzibar wheel fast as fuck and changing vehicle speed/invincibility, or making vehicles without drviers, there's really not much to do on it since most other people can't ese it[/QUOTE] this must be what happens in slipspace explosions

[QUOTE=Highwind017;50484591]I really hope they're not doing a H3A. Reach would just make more sense. But even still, everyone is going to be cautious because of MCC.[/QUOTE] I want this just because I want to see Blur do the Halo 3 cutscenes.

[QUOTE=343N;50500607][vid]http://i.imgur.com/kmQWoB2.webm[/vid] [editline]a[/editline] damn, double post. but anyways, i dun fucked it. i did some halo online stuff but other than making the zanzibar wheel fast as fuck and changing vehicle speed/invincibility, or making vehicles without drviers, there's really not much to do on it since most other people can't ese it[/QUOTE] Actually, you can include stuff you change with assembly and have people see it, it's how most Halo Online mods work - you just have to include the file when you distribute the mod. Also, I would venture to say it's more prone to crashing because the engine Halo Online uses is only a pre-alpha - ms30, the last build, was a beta, but ElDewrito currently doesn't run on it (that's Anvil.) If you want to look at more serious stuff in Halo Online, look at Halo Online Tag Tool, or HOTT. It's lower level compared to Assembly but it's more powerful. Plus, thanks to some magic done by better modders than me, you can give directions that will change values seen in assembly. That's how I plan on getting the skybox as close as possible to the original one, since the original shaders can't be ported.

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;50501059]Actually, you can include stuff you change with assembly and have people see it, it's how most Halo Online mods work - you just have to include the file when you distribute the mod. Also, I would venture to say it's more prone to crashing because the engine Halo Online uses is only a pre-alpha - ms30, the last build, was a beta, but ElDewrito currently doesn't run on it (that's Anvil.) If you want to look at more serious stuff in Halo Online, look at Halo Online Tag Tool, or HOTT. It's lower level compared to Assembly but it's more powerful. Plus, thanks to some magic done by better modders than me, you can give directions that will change values seen in assembly. That's how I plan on getting the skybox as close as possible to the original one, since the original shaders can't be ported.[/QUOTE] yeah I know they can't see it cause they don't have it but I just do it in real-time, I don't save any of it for the sake of being able to jump into a new fresh plate rather than clean up the old dirty one, and convincing enough people that my one proj swap mod is worth their time is something I honestly can't be bothered doing. I might checkout HOTT, and also, if i may ask, if there's a way to get access to Anvil/ms30, how would one do so? [editline]12th June 2016[/editline] i can't find links to ms30 anywhere

[QUOTE=343N;50501148]yeah I know they can't see it cause they don't have it but I just do it in real-time, I don't save any of it for the sake of being able to jump into a new fresh plate rather than clean up the old dirty one, and convincing enough people that my one proj swap mod is worth their time is something I honestly can't be bothered doing. I might checkout HOTT, and also, if i may ask, if there's a way to get access to Anvil/ms30, how would one do so? [editline]12th June 2016[/editline] i can't find links to ms30 anywhere[/QUOTE] You used to be able to download ms30 straight from the servers, but eventually Saber removed it. [URL="http://goo.gl/FGuKW4#irc"]Ask on the IRC [/URL]for a download of ms30, and if that doesn't work, I'll upload my copy of it. If you're interested on modding ms30, and you get some progress, perhaps you'd like to join the small dev team working on Anvil currently (which will become the full complement of devs once 0.6 is completed)? I hear they are having some trouble integrating some features into Anvil that are in ms23 (the current build).

i'm no wizard, i just picked up assembly and messed with some tags. i'm more than happy to help but i probably won't be of much of it

[QUOTE=Luxuria;50500704]I want this just because I want to see Blur do the Halo 3 cutscenes.[/QUOTE] Yea, even when Halo 3 came out. Those plastic faces were nothing to write home about. The cutscenes are the one part that could really do with a remaster.

So just read [url]https://haruspis.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/halo-5-level-by-level-analysis-guardians/[/url] Didn't realize that the Halo 5 plot was so terrible. I knew they ruined the "Hunt the Truth" story, due it having nothing to do with the events of Halo 5 with locke and the chief. Shame that the Didact won't be the main antagonist as Frankie said before halo 4.

[QUOTE=death2sarge;50501668] Shame that the Didact won't be the main antagonist as Frankie said before halo 4.[/QUOTE] [sp]What if the Didact and Cortana are in on this together.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Delta616;50502798][sp]What if the Didact and Cortana are in on this together.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]What if Cortana IS The Didact?[/sp]

[QUOTE=343N;50500607] damn, double post. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that happens if there is more then an hour between posts

I supposed still from a CG trailer for Halo Wars 2 [t]http://i.imgur.com/TrKHHVK.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=overwatch pvt;50501472]Yea, even when Halo 3 came out. Those plastic faces were nothing to write home about. The cutscenes are the one part that could really do with a remaster.[/QUOTE] [img]http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_55673.jpg[/img]

Reading that blog... was Halo 5's campaign outsourced or something really late in development? Hunt for the Truth was obviously bullshit and didn't reflect the game, but [B]all of the interviews[/B] were flat out lies and didn't remotely resemble the final product. Like, as in, they were making stuff up because they didn't actually play their own game.

[QUOTE=Zeos;50504779]Reading that blog... was Halo 5's campaign outsourced or something really late in development? Hunt for the Truth was obviously bullshit and didn't reflect the game, but [B]all of the interviews[/B] were flat out lies and didn't remotely resemble the final product. Like, as in, they were making stuff up because they didn't actually play their own game.[/QUOTE] A lot was canned and redone, iirc.

[QUOTE=Makol;50504805]A lot was canned and redone, iirc.[/QUOTE] Which accounts for the Blur cutscene near the end of the game, and why there were several arenas with waves, and (in somewhat Bungie-ish style) levels that you go through forwards and then backwards.

Tbh I think that it was a huge case of creative differences that caused Halo 5's plot to be the way it was. Someone came up with a Cortana resurrection plot as a rough draft, management decided it would be the best way forward and put pressure on the writing department, the writers who didn't like the change either left or shut up, Brian Reed became lead and the marketing department did what marketing departments do. I don't think Halo 5's story would have been well-received even if the original plan, whatever it was, had been kept. Halo 4's plot had a rather lukewarm reception by anyone who wasn't a lore fan, and lost the tone and atmosphere of previous Halo games. Halo 5 definitely tried and, in some ways succeeded, at getting the tone back, Grunts are funny again and the music has definitely feels more (but not enough) like Bungie's Halo. But overall, the same mistakes that Halo 4 made, such as introducing entirely new concepts into the main series without actually introducing them, are still present, and this time even the lore fans were left completely in the dark. There are fragments of a better plot, but it's hard to tell if these were intentional details that weren't made clear and/or byproducts of lazy writing. Cortana's quotes from the Didact could very easily be a sign that the Domain has corrupted her in some way, yet it could also be that the Didact was the original villain and the writers just though "Meh, it fits, keep it anyway". Going by the "Bastion" Intel, Warden Eternal was very much [I]not[/I] a part of the Forerunner's plan for humanity and could be using Cortana for his own ends, but he acts inconsistently with this in the plot. Sometimes it seems like they've dropped every previous story thread and at others it seems like they're still intact just needing to be reconnected. In the end, all of this is salvageable but 343 definitely needs to focus on the story like they have on the multiplayer. I've seen some speculation that Tales from the Slip and Fractures are tests to pick the new lead writer, and I can't say I'd be surprised if it were true after this.

For E3 today, don't expect a new FPS. Just Wars 2 and something for Win10 perhaps.

[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50509737]For E3 today, don't expect a new FPS. Just Wars 2 and something for Win10 perhaps.[/QUOTE] If we're lucky they'll show footage of halo 5 forge on pc. I would be really surprised if Microsoft end up announcing that Halo 6 or Halo 3 Anniversary will be coming to windows 10.

[QUOTE=death2sarge;50509832]If we're lucky they'll show footage of halo 5 forge on pc. I would be really surprised if Microsoft end up announcing that Halo 6 or Halo 3 Anniversary will be coming to windows 10.[/QUOTE] I'm hoping they announce a beta or something of Halo 5 Forge, or the release date. Either one of those would be great.

[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;50509845]I'm hoping they announce a beta or something of Halo 5 Forge, or the release date. Either one of those would be great.[/QUOTE] I would like them to perhaps to go the same route as the Radiant Mod tools for Black ops 3. Have a closed alpha, then a beta, followed by release. So the game isn't broken when it comes out. The betas that Bungie ran, proved that the the community will always find things developers won't. Lets remember the god awful release of Halo 4's multiplayer in terms of their private beta they ran. How op was the Boltshot before they nerfed it? Also do we know if the Halo Wars beta is on pc as well? If it isn't, then Microsoft sure does care about pc gaming.

The Gameplay trailer for Halo Wars 2 showed classic Wraiths [editline]13th June 2016[/editline] Haha oh lord, they accidentally put Halo Wars 2 under 360 on the xbox web store

It's on the xbone now. Downloading it. It also says you can buy it lol.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/w3trWtf.png[/img] [editline]13th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Vilusia;50511968]It's on the xbone now. Downloading it. It also says you can buy it lol.[/QUOTE] Well yeah, got to get that sweet Pre-order cash

downloading the beta hoooboy [editline]14th June 2016[/editline] xbone only iirc

It is X-Box only