The Halo Thread V12: The Last Thread Turned Into A Bridge
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[QUOTE=Shiftyze;49043227]This Halo has some of the best gameplay since H2. The only thing that bothers me is the maps. Too many are the same looking and none really stand out.
Warzone maps are fine.[/QUOTE]
I like warzone maps style wise but I don't think they are well designed at all
The snow map is a literal grind and whoever gets to mid first pretty much holds it most of the map, and has complete control over all NPC spawns which spawn near it, and the entire map progresses linearly
A few small changes to the level would have it flow so much better. Right now I get serious Operation Metro flashbacks from BF3
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;49043232]Shotty Snipers sounds like the worst Halo experience you could ask for[/QUOTE]
to be frank it really is, it's full of people that just sprint nonstop and the sniper aspect isn't really existent. Source: it's all people fucking played on MCC, same map and always voting for anything Halo 4, it was insane; Action sack was basically Halo 4.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;49043227]This Halo has some of the best gameplay since H2. The only thing that bothers me is the maps. Too many are the same looking and none really stand out.
Warzone maps are fine.[/QUOTE]
I agree, the multiplayer is fantastic. However none of the arena maps look like they remotely belong in the halo universe, other then a few. Warzone has me playing for hours on end, it'd be cool if the AI spawned randomly at different locations , rather then the same thing every match.
Goddammit, even with the latest Eldewrito update Halo Online is still unplayable for me. It takes a few minutes just to load a match, and then either the player cap was reached or something else happens and I either can't enter the match or it even loads me back to the menu.
[QUOTE=Pikmonster;49043116]of course shotty snipers is the most popular :suicide:[/QUOTE]
I voted Shotty Snipers so I could work on my sniper aim
Are they still doing weekly playlists? I kinda hated that in Halo 4.
What are the default playlists?
So, just bought Halo 1 and 2 for PC. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get through them since I'm so much better with a KB/M than controller and it'll be so much easier. I'll do 3/ODST, which I already own, from there and maybe one day buy an XBone
Just gotta finish FO4 first because the games don't arrive until ~a week after it comes out because slow-ass shipping
[QUOTE=KorJax;49043321]I like warzone maps style wise but I don't think they are well designed at all
The snow map is a literal grind and whoever gets to mid first pretty much holds it most of the map, and has complete control over all NPC spawns which spawn near it, and the entire map progresses linearly
A few small changes to the level would have it flow so much better. Right now I get serious Operation Metro flashbacks from BF3[/QUOTE]
I've noticed that with all of the Warzone maps, whoever holds the mid-point tends to have the upper hand, both in being able to defend said point and also having the advantage of nearby NPC spawns. It's almost always the case that whoever holds the spire, kills the Warden, christ I Ground Pounded him off the spire to kill him, enemy team couldn't even get close to get shots in.
[editline]4th November 2015[/editline]
Late to the stats posting here but I'm not [I]terrible...[/I]
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[QUOTE=gk99;49043654]So, just bought Halo 1 and 2 for PC. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get through them since I'm so much better with a KB/M than controller and it'll be so much easier. I'll do 3/ODST, which I already own, from there and maybe one day buy an XBone
Just gotta finish FO4 first because the games don't arrive until ~a week after it comes out because slow-ass shipping[/QUOTE]
Buy a Xim4, fam.
[QUOTE=gk99;49043654]So, just bought Halo 1 and 2 for PC. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get through them since I'm so much better with a KB/M than controller and it'll be so much easier. I'll do 3/ODST, which I already own, from there and maybe one day buy an XBone
Just gotta finish FO4 first because the games don't arrive until ~a week after it comes out because slow-ass shipping[/QUOTE]
Coaxing Halo 2 into being playable can be tricky, firstly, if you're on NVidia, you'll need to downgrade your drivers by about three years (forget which version specifically), and you CANNOT play with vsync on, otherwise the mouse-look is plain broke. Then there's GFWL.
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;49044261]Coaxing Halo 2 into being playable can be tricky, firstly, if you're on NVidia, you'll need to downgrade your drivers by about three years (forget which version specifically), and you CANNOT play with vsync on, otherwise the mouse-look is plain broke. Then there's GFWL.[/QUOTE]Halo 2 was perfectly playable with my GTX 750 when I played it last year.
Hell, with the graphics tech to overpower how unoptimized it was and GFWL being pushed into the background, H2V feels like the much better port now. Proper wide screen and controller support, 60+ FPS animations, and netcode not made for 56k modems (when online worked) make the whole package feel pretty damn good, while Halo CE needs lots of mods and patches to smooth that stuff over.
[QUOTE=Terin7;49044364]Halo 2 was perfectly playable with my GTX 750 when I played it last year.
Hell, with the graphics tech to overpower how unoptimized it was and GFWL being pushed into the background, H2V feels like the much better port now. Proper wide screen and controller support, 60+ FPS animations, and netcode not made for 56k modems (when online worked) make the whole package feel pretty damn good, while Halo CE needs lots of mods and patches to smooth that stuff over.[/QUOTE]
maybe it was last year then? I just remember there being a NVidia update that caused a load of artifacting issues, as in individual polygons would flicker like mad.
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;49044261]Coaxing Halo 2 into being playable can be tricky, firstly, if you're on NVidia, you'll need to downgrade your drivers by about three years (forget which version specifically), and you CANNOT play with vsync on, otherwise the mouse-look is plain broke. Then there's GFWL.[/QUOTE]
And yet Halo 2 runs perfectly fine on my computer that uses an Intel HD graphics card :suicide:
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;49044900]I want Helioskrill, but I don't want to do Halo 2 legendary :cry:[/QUOTE]
Get a friend to do it with you.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;49044900]I want Helioskrill, but I don't want to do Halo 2 legendary :cry:[/QUOTE]
Halo 2 legendary ain't that bad if you know the right tricks... Until you get to Gravemind. Seriously, fuck that first room.
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Halo 2 on legendary is the most unpredictable experience, I remember the first time I played through solo the prophet of regret's honor guards slaughtered me for hours upon hours, then when I played it again on MCC not a single honor guard spawned and I killed the prophet in a few minutes w/o death. :what:
I don't think Warzone is a very well designed gamemode
Capping the middle on almost all but one map is nearly impossible once the enemy team has it. You can't cap it unless everyone in its radius is dead. Until then only one guy has to camp out and hide for about 10 seconds until everyone spawns on the point and eliminates the team trying to cap it.
Not to mention every map besides stormbreak the middle confers a massive terrain advantage. You'll be lucky if you make it there before getting picked by a dozen battle rifles.
I just want my big team
Join a slayer match. 1 guy leaves after he dies once. Then another guy leave a few minutes later. Forced to face the match 2 vs 4 for the rest of the match because of fucking retarded leavers.
[url]http://halotracker.com/h5/games/n3ddy/8011266f-ce56-4f81-a699-73a309836289?page=0&mode=arena[/url]
Still got a reasonable score though :v:
[QUOTE=EpicRandomnes;49044605]And yet Halo 2 runs perfectly fine on my computer that uses an Intel HD graphics card :suicide:[/QUOTE]
Intel HD Graphics are somewhat not terrible, presuming you have a Intel HD 4000+? That chip can play skyrim and a managable frame rate.
[QUOTE=Ki11aFTFW;49045290]Halo 2 on legendary is the most unpredictable experience, I remember the first time I played through solo the prophet of regret's honor guards slaughtered me for hours upon hours, then when I played it again on MCC not a single honor guard spawned and I killed the prophet in a few minutes w/o death. :what:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this is what has been super weird on my playthroughs, I remember Halo 2 being fairly hard on heroic on Console. But holy CRAP on PC even normal sees me getting my ass kicked constantly.
I have the game on CD for PC, but didn't want to deal with GFWL so I cracked it. I'm willing to bet it's some sort of super-hard pirate mode, because otherwise I'm pretty good at PC games.
Just watched the fall of reach animated series and it was pretty good
If you are going to play Halo 2 on PC, you don't need to downgrade graphics or anything, just cap the game at 60 fps otherwise the game breaks. At least that's the only thing I've done it to make it work.
[QUOTE=HTS CONNER;49046163]Just watched the fall of reach animated series and it was pretty good[/QUOTE]
I had read the book and I think the series did a good job of conveying the story. The only weird part was the third episode felt like it rushed the end of it.
[QUOTE=Neddy;49045610]Join a slayer match. 1 guy leaves after he dies once. Then another guy leave a few minutes later. Forced to face the match 2 vs 4 for the rest of the match because of fucking retarded leavers.
[url]http://halotracker.com/h5/games/n3ddy/8011266f-ce56-4f81-a699-73a309836289?page=0&mode=arena[/url]
Still got a reasonable score though :v:[/QUOTE]
I was playing Warzone and this guy sat through 20 minutes of it, not spawning "because the team was bad and he didn't want to ruin his K/D" and he was calling me a loser?
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;49046727]I was playing Warzone and this guy sat through 20 minutes of it, not spawning "because the team was bad and he didn't want to ruin his K/D" and he was calling me a loser?[/QUOTE]
You talk to the randoms in a warzone match?!
[QUOTE=ghghop;49046833]You talk to the randoms in a warzone match?![/QUOTE]
Yeah?
how come cortanas TITS got smaller wtf
[QUOTE=SGTSpartans;49046941]how come cortanas TITS got smaller wtf[/QUOTE]
What an outrage. 343 has ruined this series, starting now.
