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thedouche posted:Does the trueskill reset after a certain period of time? I always seem to get paired against abysmal opponents when I return from long breaks. Been that way since Halo 3. It could be in my head but I doubt it given that you can clearly see your opponents steadily improving the longer you play.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 18:37 |
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I hadn't played Reach since last fall and killed the gently caress out everyone for a few games. drat, I was hoping I magically became good.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 00:37 |
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There was a Trueskill reset when they rolled out the CSR system, Halo 4's version of visible Trueskill. It's not actually visible in-game (only on Waypoint), but they wanted to give everyone a fresh start with the new system. IIRC, it's the only time that a reset's happened.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 00:47 |
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Holy Calamity! posted:I always seem to get paired against abysmal opponents when I return from long breaks. Been that way since Halo 3. It could be in my head but I doubt it given that you can clearly see your opponents steadily improving the longer you play. CSR came in about a month ago which reset trueskill for all players. Some playlists us a team based CSR, some use individual CSRs.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 00:57 |
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MickRaider posted:This. Only thing more certain than someone spilling the beans. Is someone refuting the beans spilled, since they didn't get to spill the beans first. Yeah this is more of a confirmation for me. They are shipping a lot of people out to 343 studios to play-test the new game settings. Wouldn't be surprised if there was an Alpha build of the halo 2 remake being played in-house. We'll know soon. V for Vegans posted:If you can only get one map pack, go for castle. It's my favorite map pack out of all of them. Majestic is the only one I own and I like it, but it's not amazing. It's better for 4v4 and up to 6v6. As for the others, this is the first positive thing I heard for castle since 343 said it would be fun. I didn't play it at all but no one I talk to likes it one bit. Crimson I played when they hosed up the War Games passes and it was free for everyone. The maps were too big and ugly for me to have a good time and the short amount of free time on the map meant it was an achievement whore festival. My advice, buy majestic if you like to play mid sized maps. If you play BTB, get the others.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 15:55 |
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Is the original H4 Fiesta gametype gone? All I get is Fiesta Classic and it's so much slower paced without armor abilities and such. Most of the time I spawn with useless weapons, too. I much preferred the over-the-top "Ordinance on every kill and every respawn" Fiesta just because it was so frantic and nobody took it even remotely seriously.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 22:41 |
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Ordnance fiesta was the best fiesta
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:14 |
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MickRaider posted:Ordnance fiesta was the best fiesta It was extremely satisfying getting speed boosts and the energy sword for a change. Gotta go fast
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:19 |
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I hate spawning with assault rifles and plasma pistols on Fiesta, when everyone else is getting rockets. Trying to grind out the Scattershot and Incineration Cannon commendations are a pain in the rear end.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:26 |
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Surprised it took them this long to think giving everyone Grunt Birthday party in Fiesta Classic would get old real quick.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 01:51 |
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This isn't strictly Halo 4 related, but does anyone else think RvB s9 and 10 took the show from funny and irreverent fan fiction to just regular old bad fan fiction? Mostly just the Freelancer stuff in those two seasons, I didn't mind it at all up until 9.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 05:58 |
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Does anyone else have a problem with this game logging them out of Xbox live? I opened up the Nat settings for the Xbox on my router, but I have no idea what else I can do.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 06:13 |
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thedouche posted:Does anyone else have a problem with this game logging them out of Xbox live? I opened up the Nat settings for the Xbox on my router, but I have no idea what else I can do. I get that on occasion, along with quite often being booted back to the main menu right before a match loads.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 06:23 |
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I'll try again tomorrow. If it doesn't work, I guess I'll resale it. I got to play one match earlier this evening and XBL works with everything else, but it boots me and reconnects me as I turn this game on and off. edit: I fixed it. Google led me to a random forum post suggesting deleting my gamertag from the console and redownloading it. Worked like a charm/damnit I stayed up to late shooting other spacemen on the Xbox. thedouche fucked around with this message at May 16, 2013 around 08:20 |
| # ? May 16, 2013 06:26 |
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So there was another bulletin posted last night. MORE (and the same) stuff about weapon tuning. One thing that did catch my eye is that they are removing Complex from Infinity Slayer and sending it over to Big Team which should be a lot of fun. Also, they are adding Slayer Pro to the Infinity Slayer and Big Team playlist. There is also another Forge community playlist highlighting Forge Island http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headl...etin-51513.aspx
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| # ? May 17, 2013 00:41 |
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Whyyyyyy cant they just put CTF into BTB. It would solve the problem of every loving map being a meat grinder at the centre set piece (except Settler, which is is a ledge-meat-grinder.) They drastically need to consolidate playlists too because the player base is loving abysmal. The only chance for someone in the southern hemisphere to get a game with a local host is BTB (2k players avg)
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| # ? May 17, 2013 00:55 |
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Laserface posted:Whyyyyyy cant they just put CTF into BTB. It would solve the problem of every loving map being a meat grinder at the centre set piece (except Settler, which is is a ledge-meat-grinder.) because if you put CTF into BTB half the people will ignore the objective and pretend they are playing slayer.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 00:56 |
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Spacebump posted:because if you put CTF into BTB half the people will ignore the objective and pretend they are playing slayer. I really hate partying up with good Halo players only to find out until we are ahead of the other team that they want to farm kills. Usually what I do is capture the flag as a huge troll to piss them off.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 00:59 |
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:I really hate partying up with good Halo players only to find out until we are ahead of the other team that they want to farm kills. Usually what I do is capture the flag as a huge troll to piss them off. This is pretty much all we do in Grifball and IDGAF. score*4, spawn camp the remaining timer. Or cap flag once then go real heavy on Defence.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 02:01 |
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omg chael crash posted:This isn't strictly Halo 4 related, but does anyone else think RvB s9 and 10 took the show from funny and irreverent fan fiction to just regular old bad fan fiction? Mostly just the Freelancer stuff in those two seasons, I didn't mind it at all up until 9. Yeah, I watched every episode up until the "series finale" and I was really excited when they were bringing it back, but I watched about 3 episodes before I realized it wasn't Red Vs Blue anymore, just the haloid guy showing off his kung fu mo-cap while occasional comedy happened.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 04:15 |
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Yeah, I have fond memories of wasting time in my high school computer lab watching RvB when it was still a bunch of dudes loving around with a capture card and some xboxes in somebody's basement. After it got "big" and official it really started losing it's touch. I still have and treasure Donut, Tucker and Sarge's autographs a friend got me from when they went to some big con they were at a few years ago.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 05:00 |
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God these bulletins are depressing. Your jokes aren't funny and your "award" is fake.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 05:01 |
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V for Vegans posted:...just the haloid guy showing off his kung fu mo-cap while occasional comedy happened. Maybe it's because I coach Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but I have no respect for dumb, flashy eastern martial arts coming from what should be highly trained combatants weighing a ton or so of body armor. I liked it better when they (poorly)shot at each other and screamed across a box canyon with two useless bases. S10 was bit better than 9 and most of in-game stuff WAS funny, but I do miss the feel of earlier seasons.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 08:58 |
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One Incineration kill away from mastering Forerunner Ordnance, and then some rear end in a top hat kills me before I pull the trigger. Now I've refreshed Action Sack several times now because Fiesta won't come up in the rotation  Also, adding Slayer Pro into the BTB rotation was a terrible idea. Nickname Pending fucked around with this message at May 20, 2013 around 23:43 |
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Nickname Pending posted:One Incineration kill away from mastering Forerunner Ordnance, and then some rear end in a top hat kills me before I pull the trigger. Now I've refreshed Action Sack several times now because Fiesta won't come up in the rotation Its a loving awesome idea because now vehicles are actually worth a poo poo because no one spawns with 2 stickies and a plasma pistol. Ninja edit: needs radar though. its basically halo 3.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 01:00 |
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Did they actually add Plasma Pistols and Plasma Grenades as on-map pickups or initial drops? 'Cause that'd be the ideal situation, in my (and I suspect, others') opinion. Vehicles shouldn't be invincible death machines with no counters for people stuck on foot, but they also shouldn't be useless death traps thanks to everyone being able to start/respawn with the counter.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 02:05 |
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Didnt find any myself but then again I wasnt really looking. looks like the spawns for weapons are the regular ones that occur on the maps in infinity slayer, so stickies and power weapons are still the same. either way it makes for a better game as warthogs are now a little more than just a gigantic rolling double kill. totally changed the dynamic of play on settler and exile in the games I played - no one is plinking away with a DMR til they get ordnance, and the hotspots on the map get a lot less meat-grindy and play spreads out a bit.
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I'm a pro with vehicles. Maybe I should upload a video of how to avoid PP/PG because it's really loving easy
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