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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:I'm playing the VIP gametype from Halo 3 in Halo Reach! Somebody discovered it somehow recently, and it's totally legit!!! The announcer says, "VIP. New VIP." Send that poo poo to nondual
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I'm so so so excited to find out what the remake is going to be. I really hope it's Avalanche. That was such a fantastic map.
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Sep 25, 2012 20:17
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Valhalla or bust.
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MickRaider posted:Send that poo poo to nondual Does he still play? His brother got married so I never see him any more.
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DonkeyHotay posted:Does he still play? His brother got married so I never see him any more. Every once in a blue moon. Facebook is the way we find out when he plays.
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Cool ... so i was hoping these guys wouldnt be back ... Hoping its only in some form of zombies game mode or something  https://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/war-games-screenshots/fbcd7c53-da90-4274-b4d3-86571f5e5280#imageNumber=6
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Binskin posted:Cool ... so i was hoping these guys wouldnt be back ... Holy gently caress, they do not look at all like they use to. I don't like this new design half as much, it's more alien monster than parasitic zombie.
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Sep 26, 2012 11:45
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They all look so happy now. ^_^
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PriorMarcus posted:Holy gently caress, they do not look at all like they use to. I don't like this new design half as much, it's more alien monster than parasitic zombie. I preferred the spore-like blooms the old flood forms had, making it look more plant or fungus like. Those Cheshire grins are hilarious! So is this the new zombie modes? About time the zombie models were zombie looking
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Sep 26, 2012 12:48
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Binskin posted:Cool ... so i was hoping these guys wouldnt be back ... It says Flood multiplayer gametype, so long as they are not in the single player.
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I said come in! posted:It says Flood multiplayer gametype, so long as they are not in the single player. Looks like new flood types too, they are probably making all the new assets for the Flood since I am sure you they will reappear in this series somehow. Put probably for some updated cooler infection type game mode.
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Sep 26, 2012 17:14
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Some dude (@haloathon) on Twitter went to London to play Halo 4 and just tweeted, "ZOMG. Valhalla! #Halo4UK" I hate Valhalla
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:Some dude (@haloathon) on Twitter went to London to play Halo 4 and just tweeted, "ZOMG. Valhalla! #Halo4UK" Called it. Also, gently caress yes. edit: Have a picture  Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 26, 2012 |
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Funkmaster General posted:Called it. I wasn't really a fan of Valhalla. Hemorrhage was semi-bland. I really liked Coag though. They should've picked that. Valhalla sucks big wiener balls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder if they're going to put the laser in the center because the beginning of the game is always who gets the laser first. I'll miss Hemorrhage for sure. Actually, I would be totally find with a brand new outdoor "Blood Gulch". I wonder if Valhalla will be Forgable and expansive like Forge World was. That would be sweet.
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Sep 26, 2012 19:00
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Wow, I am really disappointed with those flood models. They don't look remotely like how the flood did. They don't even seem to have the little red feeler things 
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So I preordered at Gamestop due to convenience, but was really disappointed with their preorder stuff compared to some of the other retailers. If you're in the same boat, this may interest you. Gamestop is adding three more pre-order bonuses to the deal. Looks like they are playing around with the same system they are using for their BLOPS2 preorder stuff, meaning these are coming in "waves," but the twist this time is that you get to vote on what each wave is. The first wave of voting is... arctic BR camo vs green spartan avatar armor. Neither are particularly interesting but the choice is pretty obvious.
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Morshu posted:They don't even seem to have the little red feeler things Maybe they are promethean or forerunner new type of forms?
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Dvlos posted:Maybe they are promethean or forerunner new type of forms? How did those Spartans get infected? Those must be some really lousy super-soldiers.
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Sep 26, 2012 19:07
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I sure hope they hire a middle of the road Sci Fi author to write some books to fill in that important question of Halo Lore!
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Did you call Greg Bear for a "middle of the road"?
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Sep 26, 2012 19:42
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There's always the Karen Traviss books to look forward to. 
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Morshu posted:Wow, I am really disappointed with those flood models. They don't look remotely like how the flood did. They don't even seem to have the little red feeler things Change for the sake of change, I guess. I also like how the busted rear end end of the Forward Unto Dawn got a makeover somehow despite being adrift in deep space for 4 years. There have always been some aesthetic changes between the games, but most of it was easily explained away or due to graphical upgrades while some of this stuff is just ...why? If that picture hadn't been labeled "Flood" then they could have been any generic FPS zombie monster.
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http://halo4nation.com/multiplayer/at-least-10-multiplayer-maps-announced/ So did anyone know that there are 10 MP maps + 3 Forge maps? I didn't find out about this until today. That's wicked. This day just keeps getting better and better!
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VaultAggie posted:There's always the Karen Traviss books to look forward to. Turns out the humans are evil and if you think otherwise you're just racist
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Promethean Weapon trailer from today's bulletin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ksq4dvLuk
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So wait, now we're going to have three sets of the same weapons? UNSC, Covie, Promethean?
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Friendly Factory posted:So wait, now we're going to have three sets of the same weapons? UNSC, Covie, Promethean? Isn't that how all multi-faction games weapons work?
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Friendly Factory posted:So wait, now we're going to have three sets of the same weapons? UNSC, Covie, Promethean? They're not the same; the Promethean weapons are obviously way better
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V for Vegans posted:Isn't that how all multi-faction games weapons work? It's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess. It's just kinda weird that instead of making new weapons with your new faction you're just making the old ones again except with orange lasers instead of green. I doubt they'll ever do a Covie vs. Promo gametype, so why not make Promo weapon only matches more interesting?
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Friendly Factory posted:It's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess. It's just kinda weird that instead of making new weapons with your new faction you're just making the old ones again except with orange lasers instead of green. I doubt they'll ever do a Covie vs. Promo gametype, so why not make Promo weapon only matches more interesting? Yeah, I mean, the guns will have some differences, such as how covenant weapons always take down shields faster, but are worse against the unshielded body than human weapons, but at a rate that they balance out for time to kill. If they make the guns too different, then players will complain about weapon balance and such. It'd be cool, but we know how 343 feels about pissing off the complainy crowd.
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That music was pretty good, come to think of it all the music surrounding this game has been pretty good. The whole DeRez effect is slick as poo poo also.
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NTT posted:They're not the same; the Promethean weapons are obviously way better I don't know, based on that video it looks like the binary rifle is a 2 shot clip and the incineration is a single shot. Unfair in that the first shot is likely to always kill you sure, but you're going to be that much more vulnerable afterwords. Maybe.
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I'll miss the Plasma Cannon. I will never hear the term "Blueberries" ever again. I guess the Inceration Cannon will be... oranges?
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BabyMauler posted:That music was pretty good, come to think of it all the music surrounding this game has been pretty good. The whole DeRez effect is slick as poo poo also. The remix album for this game is going to be so so so sick.
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Friendly Factory posted:So wait, now we're going to have three sets of the same weapons? UNSC, Covie, Promethean? This isn't the Resistance series with outlandish multifaceted weapons apparently. I agree this is a wasted opportunity to get creative with weapons. On a side note, your avatar pic is mesmerizing, goes great with the deadmau5 album I'm listening to. 
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If you make 30 weapons which all do different stuff you end up with too many guns that are way too situational leading to that "best gun in the game" problem. If almost every gun is situational, players start to feel that picking up most of them is stupid because "well poo poo, how often does that situation really come up?" People will gravitate toward the most utilitarian gun, like the BR/Carbine in Halo 2 and 3, which were good at pretty much any range besides "across Avalanche."
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Then only make 2 sets of guns, what's the point of three pistols, three shotguns, three assault rifles, three snipers.. etc. Or have an alternate fire ability that is significantly different between the three. Just an idea.
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I'm not disagreeing with you at all; just pointing out the problem with an overly diverse sandbox. Still, if the Prometheans only used the bog-standard Halo arsenal they'd lose a lot of the "scary new enemy with scary new tech" thing. Kind of a bitch of a position for 343. The new monsters need new guns or they'd just feel like Covenant re-skins, but they don't want to make the new guns stupid over/underpowered gimmicks. The unfortunate solution is to make them high tech-looking versions of the same ol' poo poo which leads to the guns feeling like re-skins (with bonus new visual effects). "I don't get it, it's just another shotgun." "Yeah, a shotgun so powerful it DISINTEGRATES YOU!" "This is the coolest new gun ever!"
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"The Promethean Farfitfagorz is a close range shotgun style weapon, it also transforms into a mini helicopter!" Would have been cooler 
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