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e: never mind!
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Jul 9, 2020 00:42
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Lawman 0 posted:lmao ok so I died like probably 30 times to that section trying both of those methods and it was honestly loving awful because I forgot that actually the rocket launcher sucks rear end. At least until I realized I could shimmy a ghost up the ridge and it only took three tries. I use the rocket launcher for flipping over turrets (aim low). Then you can spam ghost cannons on the tanks from afar, and once the tanks are dead the battlefield becomes a sniper gallery.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:52
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If you think the banshee levels are bad wait until you try legendary on the space combat level in Reach. Enemy fighters can take you out in < 2 seconds, they know how to lead aim and compensate for speed boosting and trick moves, and you have to fight like a dozen at a time. Only way I was finally able to pull it off was by flying tight circles behind pieces of space debris / the enemy capital ship to use as some semblance of cover and hope that only 1 enemy fighter decides to engage me on that side at a time.
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Jul 14, 2020 00:28
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Yeah I forgot how good Halo 3 was because I mostly remembered the plot and writing being rubbish. I still hate the Cortana telepathy too much to really love Sierra-117 but the big final section where you rescue Johnson at the dam was just so well designed. Something about how you get to see the lay of the fortified position you're assaulting like reconning a base in MGSV is just really satisfying. I really love Crow's Nest though, the way it's this lived-in setting that you criss-cross defensively putting out fires rather than going linearly forwards was fun. The Ark is pretty fantastic. I could do with about one less scarab battle and "Cortana" can die in a fire.
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Jul 14, 2020 07:52
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Some good ways to deal with excess brutes are the humble needler, and sticky grenades because they're fat and bad at dodging
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Jul 16, 2020 19:49
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FPzero posted:Are brutes still weak to needles in Halo 3? I know they were in Reach but I'm not sure if that was something made specifically for Reach or if that reaches back a bit. There's a reason the game very onstentatiously gives you a needler via cutscene the first time you encounter brutes in Halo 2. As for Halo 3 I don't know the "weakness" mechanics but I recently completed my legendary run and the needler is by far my favorite close-to-midrange weapon against brutes (the best option always of course being to headshot them from afar).
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Jul 16, 2020 20:21
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While we're talking backstory, what is the general gist of the story being told in the Reach data pads? I've been getting them very much out of order and all I can tell is that there are AI's plotting behind either humanity or forerunners' backs.
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Jul 22, 2020 05:24
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Why is this entire thread discussing a cancelled Far Cry spinoff from 2011?
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Jul 23, 2020 20:47
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Hardcore players of pretty much every franchise with a competitive element cry endlessly about innovations and balance changes because they consider themselves entrenched experts and take the idea of having to get gud again as a personal affront.
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Jul 25, 2020 04:40
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:So were Spartan Ops any good? It looks like there are 50 missions so they can't be that long or involved, are they at least varied with some fun battles? Seems like a nice extra bit of content provided I don't end up hating how halo 4 plays. Some of them, especially the early ones, are pretty generic and repeat areas, but some of them are actually quite cool. It plays differently than the usual campaign because it's designed for co-op and even if you die solo you don't have to revert to a checkpoint. Playing on XB1 I had a problem finding the plot very confusing and it turns out that you have to manually track down the cutscenes between the various mission sets? Baffling.
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Jul 27, 2020 04:20
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I'm playing "Reclaimer" in H4 now and just laughing at how humanity's greatest warship can't fire its armaments at a massive stationary object without having a shootyman point a bar code scanner at it.
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Jul 29, 2020 00:27
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The worst dialogue in Reach is when Kat refers to a problem as a "solvable".
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Jul 29, 2020 04:38
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If we can include nameless idiots I nominate the Gypsy Company member who got trapped under the Mammoth in Reclaimer, spent five minutes running into the underside of the loading ramp, somehow escaped when it started moving again, and then used this newfound freedom to run around to the front of the Mammoth and then stop again in front of a massive wheel. To add insult to injury, this cost me 200 points.
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Jul 29, 2020 23:12
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I still don't understand how Cortana does cross-galactic telepathy to master chief in the first few levels of the game
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Jul 31, 2020 05:15
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Been playing through 4, which everyone hates and they are right, but I will die on the hill that Composer is a good rear end level
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Aug 1, 2020 00:59
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alf_pogs posted:I missed that it's launching with battle Royale and f2p multiplayer. hooooo boy is that a red flag I thought they were not doing a battle royale? Didnt 343 post a meme or something like "The only BR we care about is the Battle Rifle"?
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Aug 6, 2020 05:22
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I actually looked up Voi once on wikipedia and it is a real town about 100 miles inland from Mombasa in the middle of the savannah. Tsavo is an actual region basically directly between Mombasa and Voi. I wonder if there was some sort of change in development that led to Voi having a coastal vibe.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:54
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:I thought that the huge pit the covenant had excavated to reveal the ark portal was basically the ruins of Mt Kilimanjaro? It's mentioned in a terminal that's where the forerunners put the portal. New Mombasa is on the other side of it from Voi. Doesn't explain why Voi seemed to be a once coastal city though. Fool that I was, relying upon 21st century wikipedia instead of the authoritative source halopedia posted:In the mid 26th century, Voi was situated beside a large man-made lake,[5] which was connected to an ocean inlet leading all the way to New Mombasa on the coast. This waterway provided a way of carrying large amounts of cargo from the facilities in Voi to the space tether in New Mombasa and other locations around the globe. The shorelines of the lake were filled with warehouses and docking structures; one of the most prominent industrial facilities in Voi was the Factory Complex 09 of the Traxus Heavy Industries. Another facility, Traxus Factory Complex 71, was also located nearby on the shores of the lake.[6]
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Aug 10, 2020 22:56
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My impression was that a lot of the Reach AI was highly encounter-specific
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Aug 31, 2020 15:29
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My wife, who suffered through me playing an insane amount of MCC during quarantine but doesnt pay much attention because FPS motion makes her nauseous and she hates Cortana, happened to catch me playing Halo 5 for a few minutes once and immediately asked me "Is this bad Halo?"
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Nov 9, 2020 20:31
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Some good things about Halo 4: The music Visual/environment design of things that are not enemy targets About half of the combat areas The railgun Some things that suck: The other half of the combat areas Elites are ugly DMR supremacy Cortana, Captain Dickhead, Captain Gamer Dad Any promethean with heavy weapons
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Nov 21, 2020 01:55
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I want to backhand Lasky's smug, virtuous face with the top side of a needler every time I see him
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Nov 21, 2020 02:13
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Xinder posted:I didn't realize they were a thing or I'd have played the whole game with the original visuals instead of alternating between sessions. The new cutscenes (in both games) don't play unless you activate the terminals, so you probably just had the unlikely accident of trying to reload your weapon five inches from one of the ones that isn't tucked away in an obscure chasm somewhere. e: with the exception that the very start of the H2 campaign has an utterly pointless H5 tie-in cinematic that plays before the opening cutscene Fuzzy McDoom fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Nov 28, 2020 01:06
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