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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:I guess the main point is: Don't show a bunch of rabid fans content that isn't going to be in the game, ever. No, the point is: don't imply something is going to be in the game when it's not, solely to sell more copies of the game. Halo 2 and Earth. ODST and everything Reach and what we were led to believe reach was from the previous 4 games.
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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:Gonna have to get more specific here. How about the whole "this game is a bunch of mini missions, scattered around a vacant city". I'm sure I read somewhere that it was going to be the Halo 2 that we never got (you know, the one set on Earth), but it turned out to be the mini-mission thing. quote:Reach wasn't really mentioned much in the previous four games besides extremely vague "the Covenant kicked our poo poo in at Reach" and some "REMEMBER REACH" graffiti around New Mombasa in ODST. What exactly are you talking about here? Reach was implied to be this massive base-world, one of the last bastions of humanity. Giant crushing loss and all that. Save for a few small sections (where you're flying over the city for example) the entire thing felt like you were fighting for a few farms and there was no real gravity to any of it except for when your squad-mates died. quote:Edit: wait, weren't you one of those morons who convinced himself ODST was going to be "not a Halo game" by hyping himself up on baseless speculation from other morons and then were pissed that it was, in fact, a Halo game? No.
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kater posted:Why do they have to come up with dumb names for their game sections? Marketing. Calling it a map pack isn't exciting enough for what it is.
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Oct 24, 2012 23:40
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InfinEight posted:If anyone needs an excuse or a little incentive to enjoy some last-blasts in Reach before they never play it again... What's the super bonus? Besides, it's utterly pointless unless they remove the 200k a day cap.
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The game got delivered to me a day early but every time I pop it in and fire it up it disconnects me from Xbox live. Is this some kind of Dick Move by Microsoft or something?
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Bovineicide posted:Have you tried clearing your cache on your XBox yet? It sounds like you've gotten a corrupt patch or something like that. That did the trick. Game is fantastic and I can't believe I'm torn between playing the campaign or playing the multiplayer. The spartan credits thing seems a little limiting. You only get one per level right? It seems that there's far too much to unlock with such a little payout. Also, what's the deal with those specialisation things. It says to complete one before getting access to the other. Does that mean hitting rank/level 60 or whatever with each one? edit: also, has a euro/uk metatag been made yet? Kin fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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Nov 6, 2012 00:41
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Creepy Goat posted:Just the one tag at the moment, I don't think there is really enough people to warrant a seperate one. Most people have US/UK in their profile anyway if you were worried about ping. From my past experience there's always been a Euro/UK metatag. Ping isn't really the issue when you lot live 5 hours behind us.
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Does anybody else get "stuck" after initiating a point capture in domination? I can still aim, but it's like I'm stuck in the same spot for a few seconds. Also, the multiplayer was more fun yesterday when there were less people on spamming the battle and sniper rifles.
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Nov 6, 2012 18:35
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Could the op be updated for any metatags that have been created? I'm sick of playing with pubbies.
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Nov 6, 2012 19:35
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Well, one game of Spartan ops netted me 3000 exp and I didn't think I did all that well, plus you don't have to deal with some asinine competitive bullshit so it looks like a nice casual way to go about unlocking stuff (except the multiplayer only stuff that requires you to "master" all game modes :/) Add me if you're in the UK and looking for some multiplayer action. GT:remnantkin
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PriorMarcus posted:I'm in the UK too, can't access xbox.com right now though, GT: PriorMarcus. I'll add you.
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Are any UK goons interested in setting up/using a UK metatag? Playing with you guys in the US is fun and all but this time difference keeping me up until 2am is killing me for work.
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madadric posted:Dominion you capture and keep the bases, build turrets and stuff for bases your team owns and blow that poo poo up on your enemy's base It's basically a more feature rich version of Domination from CoD. And by feature rich I mean each "base" spawns vehicles and defence turrets. I love it. What I miss though is Invasion, or a more advanced version of it. I've been itching for a true Quake Wars:ET/Brink/Battlefield:Rush/Unreal Tournament 2003:Assault mode in Halo for years and Invasion was kind of a step towards that.
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Ok, due to semi-popular demand, here's the UK/Euro metatag Gamertag: A UK Halo4 tag (see, the letter A makes it sit at the top of your friends list user: eurohalo4@gmail.com pass: eurohalo log into xbox.com with that, friend yourself from the tag and bob's your uncle. edit: it would be good to get this put in the OP please. Kin fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Nov 9, 2012 |
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PriorMarcus posted:I just tried to log-in and add myself but it's telling me the account doesn't exist. Typo on my part, the email should read eurohalo4@gmail.com
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Morshu posted:I'd actually be totally down for that. I loved that in Reach that you used your custom spartan for everything. It made me feel like unlocking gear had more meaning since it wasn't just used in multiplayer. I kinda miss that in 4 and think a customizable chief would rock, as long as it was cosmetic only. I was hoping that he'd pick up some snazzy new Promethean armor upgrades in this game. Nothing to contrasting to the Mark IV but something that would give him the "upgrade" he might have required to fight off this new, tougher enemy.
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Nov 9, 2012 12:49
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Batoot posted:Thanks alot for this! I like the samurai-ish look of the Raider set. What are the codes for the other 2 pieces?
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Batoot posted:They're here earlier in this thread if you just scout back a little bit, not by many pages. I've juts gone back 10 pages and can't see any more code images.
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Baboon Fiesta posted:UK goons (or any goons anywhere really) add me & lets shoot some aliens! There's a uk metatag to join that still hasn't been put in the OP yet (hint hint). user: eurohalo4@gmail.com pass: eurohalo
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DiabloStarCraft posted:FYI the actual username (so you can add that way) is A UK Halo4 Meta. Just added myself. I know. I made it 
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I said come in! posted:It's never fully explained. I just chalked it up to "no species harmonious in its beliefs". We saw that the covenant was formed of differing species and each had slightly different views on the Forerunners (although most believed that they were deities). The prologue video on Waypoint indicates that a Forerunner told them to come here though so presumably Requiem sent out some kind of signal or something to do with the rings resulted in a message being sent out that the "True Believers" followed. Also, what's the name of that map in multiplayer that's a remake of one that's been in almost all the halo games. The giant grassy one with cliffs on either side that's too big for any game mode that's less than 10v10 and is always full of people that do nothing but snipe at eachother across the map? Because I think we should send a petition to 343 to remove the loving thing. It's shite.
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I said come in! posted:Ragnarok at least has a middle section where it's somewhat easy to hide from snipers. Once you learn where to go it's usually pretty easy unless you are playing against a full organized group (which is rare for this size) in which game you'll get stomped. Basically stay away from the creek, ideally on the opposite end of the map from it, and you'll be fine. So because the map is bad, don't use certain parts of it? Lets just not use the shite map.
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I said come in! posted:I didn't say that at all. The map isn't the problem. There being certain parts of it that make it really good for snipers does not make it a poo poo map. There are plenty of ways to avoid the snipers if you are capable of being self aware of your surroundings, if not then there's nothing a well designed map is going to do for you, that's your problem. You literally said "basically stay away from the creek". Which says to me, stay away from a large part of the map or you will just die. Why would I want to play on a map where I can't use an area of it due to people looking for the laziest way to get kills? Then you have issues with king of the hill because it's 5v5 and the map is far too big for that in addition to the vehicles that ruin it. Overpowered scorpions have been replaced by overpowered mantis' that gently caress you if you're within eyesight of them. And with the entire map pretty much flat and open, it's a never ending barrage of sniper/battle rifle/DRM's that pick you off from across the map wherever you are. So even if you happen to get your hands on a rocket launcher/spartan laser, expect a sniper bullet to pop you the moment you fire it. It's basically an endless chain of the irritating kind of deaths. I.e. the ones where you don't see the guy that killed you.
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Ineffiable posted:And of course, people who buy the limited edition are the kind of people who are able to poopsock to 50 in the 2 weeks before the 20th I've only been playing it a couple of hours a night, but i'm almost level 40 now. Things like Spartan Ops or playing with goons in King of the Hill let you rack up experience points ridiculously fast. Unless the grind from 40-50 is insane it's not going to take much to max out the specialisations in this. BabyMauler posted:Holy poo poo Spartan Ops matchmade poo poo out over 11,000xp with double dew xp running Wait, the 2966 EXP cap is only on solo/co-op spartan ops?
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I figured i'd continue my solo legendary run and do requiem, but I forgot how bloody long that level is. I've just passed the bridge with the banshees and the entire thing is just... tedious. Legendary co-op is fun though. It's just as hard but lacks the tedium.
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McTimmy posted:Would be faster too with more people working around. Marginally faster, but a lot more effort. These are people that are looking to level up the laziest way possible. I wonder if giving every player a slowly growing exp pool would negate some of this? Like, even if you don't play, you'll earn 1000exp a day or something.
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McTimmy posted:When all I did was drive the hog around in 1-1 I only got around 800 XP compared to the 2,000-3,000 I got for actual fighting. So unless hog driving gives less XP and idling doesn't it's a helluva lot slower. Especially with the 5,950 XP 2-5 gives out regularly. 2-5 gives out 5950 all the time. It's to do with the completion bonus so you never actually have to kill anything to get it.
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McTimmy posted:Ugh, dammit. That explains why it's always so full up though. It also makes me wonder if it's actually a cap. With the double xp on it shoots up to 11900. so there may be spartan ops over the next few weeks that give you >5950. Although if there are it's going to make levelling up even quicker than it already is.
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VarrosAnon posted:I love the ambivalence of the UNSC now. I don't think it's characterized as the UNSC suddenly investigating and condemning human rights violations, but rather, with the way it's presented (and with all of the plot gaps yet to be filled) I choose to think it's just this ongoing dialogue among humanity now that the war turned us into this super-cohesive warmongering faction humans aren't meant to be and we should now calm down from. I think it's to do with suddenly shoehorning in book elements to a game series that barely addressed it. Resulting in a sudden shift from "Good Military fighting for survival" to "Space Assholes".
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Completing campaign on legendary co-op doesn't unlock the legendary ending in case anyone was wondering.
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raditts posted:Is the legendary ending that bit after the credits with the Didact voice-over? Nope, it's literally a half second shot of the Chief's shadow covered eyes. Youtube it and prepare for disappointment. Kin fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Nov 27, 2012 |
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doctor 7 posted:"This time..." I more or less made this exact post here after game launch and was told I was just Bad at The Game. So brace yourself for the "not a shite map, you're just shite at playing on a shite map" retorts.
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MickRaider posted:Do people just like the simplicity of Haven? It's got symmetry, seems like an arena and forces players to use a variety of combat techniques. Unlike most of the others which mostly devolve into battle rifle/DRM fests shooting at you from across the map.
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:Yeah, this is currently a known issue at the moment. gently caress the map pack, I want more Spartan ops.  (oh and unlocking the specialisations in the UK would be cool 343, i'm running out of exp to gain and don't feel like wasting all of these commendations i'm about to get).At least the mantis level is back in matchmaking. Makes me wonder how they'll do the entire series because requiring friends to be online at the same time play some of the spartan ops as a team of 4 is lame as gently caress.
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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:No, but the specialization codes were likely printed on the receipt at either the time of pre-order or upon final payoff/pickup, kinda like how you get all your silly "oh you pre-ordered at Best Buy instead of Gamestop" armor skins and such. My receipt at Gamestop had seven fuckin' codes to enter for all the dumb dashboard themes, avatar costumes, armor stuff, the BR skin, etc. GAME went belly up months ago and is a horrible poo poo filled shell of itself propped up by the corporate buyover from the company that own Currys. As such almost all of their stores closed across the UK. So if it was a pre-order bonus from them, most people in the UK had no-chance of getting it. It was a poorly implemented plan with no detailed information for it available online. In fact the only rumblings of it were about everyone getting it before the X date until a few days before that, when it changed to "everyone" (in the US only). Why? No-one has any loving idea because they've only issued some PR laden dribble about a "milestone". I've already noticed a drop off in Euro goon players and i expect this to get worse across the board as more people close in on that easy to reach level cap.
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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:Nine posts up from yours. It's even bolded to call attention to it, for gently caress's sake. Actually, I have one of these "mythical" email addresses and didn't get an email. Guess they only got sent out to anyone eligible to receive them leaving the rest of us in the dark, only able to find out through forums or other avenues.  quote:I said it before, I'll say it again: jackasses gotta have that carrot nowadays. Games ain't fun unless you have a progress bar to fill, feel-good text every time you do something good to let you know just how good you're doing at the moment, and don't forget: numbers, numbers, numbers! Colour me surprised that people flock away from Battle Rifle Floaty Shooter™ when one of the few interesting things about it comes to a screeching halt. Halo's multiplayer is pretty shallow, especially when the public userbase seem to gravitate to making every single game's combat play out in exactly the same way. There aren't that many people who are into using forge to make their own fun in the game, not when the public playlists shouldbe doing that for them. So I don't blame people for migrating away to other more interesting games when the personal unlock stuff runs out. On top of that, as has been said, it's an arbitrary cap that pretty much just ruins the whole commendation/challenge system.
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InfinEight posted:I respectfully disagree with you. And If I get sick of 4 then I think I'll go back and play all the Halo games again on easy (or legendary) just for fun. Or maybe GTA... or SR3... or Dead Rising... or MGS HD... I'm going back to Steam, there's a sale coming you know. An entire years worth of games that are much better than Halo "Push the Button" 4 for stupidly low prices.
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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:Well here's your problem! You're still playing Halo 3. And I can't recall a single thread where you don't come out white-knighting the series and dismissing complaints against it. To answer your inane question about why I keep buying the games: Co-op campaign.
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Funkmaster General posted:Picking the best connection from a spreadsheet of everyone's latency, NAT, and upload speed isn't difficult or time consuming. Compiling said list is. You're uploading your positional data all the time while playing (that's how other players know where you are and what you're doing). The idea you have of things not working efficiently because "coding is hard" is a bit of a weird one. These are a huge team of professional developers, not basement monkeys. If efficient netcode was beyond the abilities of the 343 devs then it should have been given to someone else to produce. Or, at the very least, given to someone who thought that minutes of time being passed for a host reselect when anyone drops was unacceptable. There are games that use matchmaking which don't take a ridiculous amount of time to select a new host when one drops out. It's not an impossible feat.
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