halo-discussion

[crystal iron]

Wtf

[stone aspen]

I have a quick question. I'm a long time Halo vet(been playing since 2001). I just want to know if I'll get banned If I air out some of my pent up grievances about Halo infinite? Is there a channel I can do that in that's not the HI general?

I also want to state that I wouldn't be abusive about it. It would be coming from the heart, and would be respectful but stern.

I don't want to be a downer, but I feel like I want to make my voice heard as someone who's loved Halo for so long.

[analog salmon]

nah ur good

[stone aspen]

Kool thanks

Now I just need to spend a few hours collecting my thoughts XD

[analog salmon]

i would use the forums if you wanna have a conversation about stuff and it not get burried

[wide trout]

just don’t be profane and try to be as constructive as possible

[stone aspen]

I thought the forums were shut down?

[wide trout]

as in “I feel like the game could be improved by doing this” rather than “this part is bad and I hate it”

[glacial tartan]

The "Discord Forums"!

[analog salmon]

they're actually good though xd

[wide trout]

https://tenor.com/view/disagre-disagree-cat-cats-kitten-gif-26353918

[analog salmon]

look at some of the conversations people have in some threads. yeah its not for everyone, but the conversations people have are not really possible in a channel like this

and sure not every thread is great but many of them are

[stone aspen]

Oh are you talking about the channel were I can make an actual post and sent it? I don't use discord that often.

[crystal iron]

That’s what he is talking about

[stone aspen]

Ok thanks. I wasn't sure or not XD

[rigid tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-chat-gif-20883935

Hello chat

[crystal iron]

halo infinite is fun

[torn spade]

You know what

I want to see a banished scarab in infinite. EITHER as a campaign enemy like in h2-3 or as a multiplayer map element.

[hallow crown]

Next halo just got announced

[celest heron]

more halo wars vehicles would be cool

that @ is disabled

[ancient sun]

I hope this one doesn't cause a rukus with the art community too
https://twitter.com/G1Official/status/1658186515254775808

G1 (@G1Official)

Introducing, the captains for the Pledge Your Oath Showdown!

May 20th | ttv/G1Live

Twitter · May 15, 2023, 7:04 PM

[rugged quartz]

That's a nice poster.

[rugged quartz]

I don't think that will happen

[rigid tundra]

I want the falcon to return to halo

Also halo infinite campaing dlc when?

[celest heron]

what is that event about?

[smoky wave]

Maybe in the future

[ancient sun]

I hope you're right!

the first one created waves

[onyx latch]

The last one did because it was taken from pinterest.

[ancient sun]

it's this:
https://twitter.com/G1Official/status/1655618667915116545

G1 (@G1Official)

Introducing, the Pledge Your Oath Showdown! A draft tournament featuring the best Lady Spartans in @Halo. Tune in to see which team prevails and earn custom drops while hanging out in chat!

May 20th | ttv/G1Live

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Twitter · May 8, 2023, 5:00 PM

[onyx latch]

It started out with everyone thinking it was AI art and then it being stated by the person who made it that the art was actually taken from Pinterest, IIRC.

Without credit, which is about as bad as AI Art.

[eternal lion]

And we still don't know what is it too (besides esport)

[urban carbon]

Any reason why the behemoth map doesn’t show up anymore?

[shadow turret]

It goes in and out of rotation, so its in some playlists, but not others

[urban carbon]

Ahh ok, I see it’s in super fiesta I wanna say? But I feel like it just never shows up when I see it on the playlists

[ruby knoll]

I partially (mostly) blame the parts of the community that whined about it for a year straight

[meager heron]

Wort Wort WOrt

[lethal wave]

Day 3 of asking for Cross core

[meager heron]

Wort wort wort

[crystal iron]

What is wrong with you?

[crystal iron]

WORT!

[lethal wave]

Nothing is wrong?

[velvet cosmos]

Wort wort?

[crystal iron]

Something is wrong when everyone tell you to stop doing something but you still do this.

Like for the last two days people were telling you to stop doing this but you still do "day x of asking for cross core". No matter how many days you will do this, it will not change anything and only thing that will happen is you getting banned

[ember valve]

Does Escalation Slayer cap the amount of folks on the team? I just had a team of 6 vs a team of 12 and there were no fill-ins for the missing 6.

[inland minnow]

lets not be rude, please

[crystal iron]

I wonder if there’s still precursors out there in the halo universe

And i know most their particles were tainted and became the parasite known as the flood

[languid yarrow]

he ain't wrong tho

[coarse dagger]

Please don't spam this every day. You're welcome to leave feedback in the #1039633978841374720 forum, but spamming this every day does nothing. Cross core is already a well known ask

[meager heron]

Wort Wort Wort

[crystal iron]

Favorite elite

[meager heron]

Jega 'Rdomnai

[crystal iron]

Mine is Thel Vadam

[meager heron]

Ah, yes, The Arbiter

[crystal iron]

Yeah I wasn’t aware of his name until I got back into halo remember his fleet of particular justice

[serene furnace]

Whoever is the player 3 Elite in Halo 3

[crystal iron]

Yo what’s up Minecraft dude

[serene furnace]

Like, Halo 3 coop is funny, players 1 and 2 are naturally Chief and Arbiter, players 3 and 4 are random Elites, and ok, at least player 4 has some cool looking armor, but player 3 is just literally base model Elite with base color lmao

[serene furnace]

Sup

[crystal iron]

Do you know of the meddlers

[serene furnace]

Hmmm, I think not

[crystal iron]

They are not in the wiki but they are actually active in the series during cold stage the map from halo 3 which takes place on installation 05 someone rerouted the teleports during the containment of the flood so they wouldn’t escape

[serene furnace]

Oh that's nice, and speaking of that map

[crystal iron]

Go on

[serene furnace]

I believe that the maps Backwash from Halo 2 and Cold Storage from Halo 3 are the same area, one single map divided in 2, Backwash being the surface of a Forerunner facility overran by the Flood, while Cold Storage is the inside of a Forerunner facility overran by the Flood

Furthermore, Cold Storage is one of the few, if not the only map in Halo 3 set on Installation 05

[lethal wave]

Literally not hurting anyone. Y'all just some snowflakes

[crystal iron]

Also we do see 2401 Penitent Tangent on backwash must have been before the gravemind captured him

[serene furnace]

You see, cross core might be possible on Infinite, but it may just look terrible, each core is designed with an individual style and so are its pieces, while I do believe colors and attachments should definitely be shared across all armor cores, that's it, a Spartan wearing a WW1 armor, Samurai helmet, Mark V (B) legs and Chimera arms would just look terrible, like a Frankenstein thing

Instead of mixing and matching the cores, what I would ask to be added is an option to select all the cores that we want and then when a game begins, it chooses a random core from our collection and that way we can go from one match to another wearing our different armors that are aesthetically pleasing and with some variety

[rotund schooner]

anyone notice that on mark iv armor the right shoulder is bigger? Wouldnt it make more sense to have the left shoulder bigger than the right?

was playing halo wars 2 again and I love the design of red teams armor but just noticed that about there shoulder pads

[thin elm]

Cross core is for ppl who want fugly sets

I say keep cores, plenty of options now

[thin elm]

I think it’s a gladiator reference

Gladiators had their melee arm armored

Left arm carried shield so less armor

Guess they wanted that asymmetric vibe

[rotund schooner]

oh ok i see Im making my infinite spartan similar to mark iv

imo mark iv is the best design in the franchise

[thin elm]

Mark iv is one of my fav armors

I also rlly like scout

[rotund schooner]

jun's whole armor set up is probably one of my favorites

[lethal wave]

I guess I should've been specific then, cross core for the Canon cores and not the fractured garbage

[manic lily]

Anyone know the reason H3: ODST audio logs arent showing up? Im at a spot i know there is supposed to be one and nothing is here. I loaded into rally point 8 to get these and it was fine at first but now i cant find anything

[ruby knoll]

pass

[crystal iron]

yay, after waiting 8 minutes just for a single quick play match of halo infinite, the game crashed not even a minute after the match started

and it was on my favorite map

[crystal iron]

Is Halo infinite’s multilayer any good

[crystal iron]

when it works its fun

but if you're on pc, expect crashes and lag

[ruby knoll]

my hardware is good so I don't get either

[crystal iron]

Y did they make halo infinite just a first person halo wars

[manic lily]

Pop467 going insane

[crystal iron]

Please calm down and take your medicine

[thin elm]

Same tbh infinite runs 5k for me 100+ frames

5k res, it’s wild

Can’t run that high on any other title

[celest heron]

first two games of ranked and I'm playing gold players. gee, I wonder what I'll be. lmao, sigh

[rocky summit]

How is it a first person halo wars

[noble urchin]

when was the last time legendary warzone xp boosts were buyable with req points in halo 5 🤔

[green prawn]

Right so I very much consider to give Halo a try.

Once Iam done with the current game Iam playing hehe

[crystal iron]

Watch the terminals videos from halo combat evolved anniversary and halo 2 anniversary

[analog salmon]

probably cause you've set "minimum framerate" which enabled DRS

[rough jay]

Yeah

[analog salmon]

my hardware is mid to low and i dont crash or experience performance issues. its just a toss of the coin it seems

I imagine a modern Radeon card is probably least likely to have issues though

just because Xbox has used similar for so long

[low blaze]

Did Keyes ever find out he was indirectly responsible for the fall of reach?

[sullen anvil]

btb heavies im very scared

[lethal wave]

What he do

[broken dragon]

If its really that bad, if you have a VPN, give the servers in the US a try

[rustic jacinth]

What time is combat workshop (btb heavies) being added? I haven’t seen an official announcement about this playlist on social media.

[crystal iron]

Might do that, won't the matches be laggy though?

[broken dragon]

If your PC and internet are fast enough it should be ok, my settings are rather weird (70% resolution, etc) and i do fine on an old laptop and TV (no ranked for me)

Its difficult troubleshooting, because i did also update to a clean install of W11

[analog salmon]

just play peak time

if you live in Europe you dont need to VPN to USA to play this game...

[low blaze]

The covenant attached a tracking device to keyes' ship in the battle of sigma octanus IV

Which led them right to reach

[crystal iron]

WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO RANKED DOUBLES IN INFINITE?

[celest heron]

think it's been rotated out

[crystal iron]

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, my friend and I were dominating maaaan

[grave ether]

Well, one would think it was rotated out for a different playlist as it has been doing bi-weekly with other playlists

[crystal iron]

when will it come back?

[grave ether]

I don't know the schedule but maybe two weeks?

[celest heron]

look at the calendar

[crystal iron]

where is the calender??

[celest heron]

it's pinned

[crystal iron]

survivors, then ffa

i guess doubles after that... pffffffffff

thanks both of u

oh wait, maybe snipers before that even

daaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnn

[magic night]

The unfortunate fate of low popularity playlists

[crystal iron]

Survivors will be even worse though, people actually played Doubles

[magic night]

A shame, since I usually like those playlists

[crystal iron]

yeah same, ranked is nice

[magic night]

Hopefully, enough people play Doubles whenever they bring it back so that they can consider making it permanent.

Permanent Ranked FFA and Doubles would be my dream

[crystal iron]

Ooooh that'd be great lol

[proven pollen]

I do too. This time around it felt like doubles had a fairly solid pop during peak hours.

In a perfect scenario I would like to see a ranked offering that regularly had:

• Ranked HCS Arena
• Ranked traditional team slayer with BR starts
• Ranked Doubles
• Ranked FFA

[karmic oriole]

So no more monthly xbox game pass perks for halo infinite? It's been 2 months so far without one

[proven pollen]

Would appear so for now

Maybe they will give one each season going forward or pick it back up later

[gray herald]

Hot take, vehicles in halo infinite ruin btb

half the maps have no hydras or skewers

and it takes no skill to fly a banshee or drive a tank

[smoky wave]

Use shock weapons

[celest heron]

I don't think a lot of the maps are great for vehicles though. You're getting shock naded and boarded most of the time cause of the narrow paths and elevated terrain.

[onyx latch]

Good.

Most vehicles are effectively power weapons in their own right and those that aren't don't generally have many obstacles to their use.

[gleaming zephyr]

I have a script issue/bug. In halo infinite. Curious if anyone has experienced it also

On player spawn. Teleport player to point( checkpoint x/4)

It's a race track.

So problem isn't the teleport. All works fine. Problem is there's server latency. So on player screen in one location. All other players see the player in a different location then they think they are at. I've seen the same big in forge when a player joins mid session and they cant fly through objects or when they go player mode they are in a diff location. I imagine it's related maybe?

But this issue causes players to fall off the map and sometimes exsists in two locations

I can't share videos or screenshots here but I have those also. Didn't Wana make a new thread unless no one has had the issue

[inland minnow]

if you want community assistance, youll want to post in #1075989764026675210. if you want to file a bug report, that'll be on the support site

[sullen kiln]

Please refer to the Halo Support site for additional information and/or to submit a ticket concerning any issues you may be experiencing.

https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

[gleaming zephyr]

Thank you

[long egret]

Having not played Infinite for a while. Super Fiesta being a thing was a shock.
One of my reactions was “RUN, HE’S GOT A PISTOL.”

[gray herald]

Hmm why didn’t I think of that before? Same energy as a gold player telling me it’s cuz I suck

[smoky wave]

What

[crystal iron]

Hehehe

Halo is awesome

Ohh yeahhh

[quaint adder]

It appears Halo Infinite rank has received 1 new map in the middle of the season that can only host 2 game types? Sounds like a pointless update if you ask me. I personally am tired of maps that can only host 1 or 2 game modes. And you add in a map into rotation which brings the total maps in rotation to what now 5? Can we plase get maps with versatility and if you are going to add a map can you add in more than 1 new map. People get sick of having 5 maps versus the many maps available to play on.

[river minnow]

what are you on about

[pliant palm]

if y'all have feedback abotu BTB Heavies, can you hop over to #1108154487610282054 and leave it there please?

that section will be watched and scraped for feedback

[analog salmon]

As much as I would like to see more asymmetrical maps (plaza is coming), starboard is solid

It’s better then detachment and argyle

[sleek hatch]

Fr!!!!!

[analog salmon]

It also does not matter at all if maps can only host one or two game types, it just means you need different type of maps in the rotation

I love CTF but I hope detachment is removed as soon as plaza is added

If catalyst and bazaar were unpopular enough to be removed it only makes sense to me that detachment is also

Honestly can’t understand how catalyst got pulled in favour of detachment

[sleek hatch]

Ctf on starboard will be top tier!!

[sleek hatch]

Speaking my language sir

[velvet root]

so I was playing on xbox one a couple years ago, I recountered two hackers on my team, them they're tag a name change to mine, Is it true that I can get banned by accident my 343 ? I remember I was this somewhere on a video

Is it true that hackers can replace their names for others an innocent people can get banned ?

[hushed wind]

Infinite is still a buggy mess lol

[ivory glacier]

A charm? 🤦‍♂️

[full warren]

waiting 5 mins for a 120 ping game really is no fun -_-

[uneven bison]

I really hope not. I’m not sure though, I will look into it

[full warren]

in master chief colelction yes

there was a video about it by mint bliz

[velvet root]

that's scary

[crystal iron]

Hey when is S4 starting again?

[crystal iron]

Dude I can't imagine that anymore I know since S3 of Warzone that game has had latency pings at around 0-3 for me. I haven't played Infinite since the first or second week of S3 and I don't think I can have the patience for high ping.

[serene furnace]

Late june

[crystal iron]

Ok not bad, I guess, wouldn't say around the corner but not to far off. I guess this one has been a 3 month Season.

Feels like it's taking forever for those 3 months though

[sullen kiln]

Season 4 launches on <t:1687284000:F> which is <t:1687284000:R>

[ruby knoll]

even if you were directly connected to the servers, having latency that low would be unlikely at best, let alone on an average consumer connection

also man, 120ms ping is considered high now i guess

[crystal iron]

I don't know when playing warzone the difference from season 2 to season 3 is amazing have t disconnected once and now I melt players instantly

[ruby knoll]

the only warzone I care about is H5WZ, not some boring cod slop

[crystal iron]

ok no need to be pretentious over a Video game, besides the conversation is about connection how it impacts gameplay.

I haven't played Halo Infinite in a it so I don't know how it's improved or gotten worse in that aspect, from my only last expereince the connections were pretty buggy, and Wait times were not something I enjoyed..

In contrast In warzone For COD wait times were also bad pre season 3. After that not sure what they didn but the connection issues were almost non existent for me.

Hopefully Season 4 for Halo infinite, does the same. I keep hearing it's a constant tissue for several players

I have although been keeping myself busy playing Elden ring and Monster hunter Rise... With the Elden Ring DLC fast approaching I can't let my Self get rusty

[crystal iron]

The Hydra and its "better" counterpart are terrible. I just found out last match that the lock-on mechanic is so bad that firing the weapon enough deactivates the lock on. This is terrible for the pace of the game because of how fast people move sprinting and sliding.

The worst weapons in the game from my perspective are the ones that kill slow. Those weapons in that case, would be the Hydra and the Plasma Pistol. I do not believe any adjustments or buffing will do good to balance them with the rest of the weapons.

[crystal iron]

The hydra from Halo 5 was better than this Water down Ordered off of wish version of the hydra

I will say this, the Reclaimer Saga sure did the new weapons right, cause man, I only have good memories with the SAW

Also feels good to have finally dripped out my weapons and vehicles for the time being. In love with the new weekly as I have just grinded for it in a day.

It has been a really good season. After while I was able to decide on a look for my Mirage IIC core. Made a reddit about it, but I figured out a combination of shoulders that would let my Mirage IIC feel a bit like the MJOLNIR Mark IV shoulders, which is why I'm looking forward to getting Athlon.

[crystal iron]

How good is the stunning monster skill

Wrong discord my bad

[formal reef]

.

[smoky oasis]

I disagree. The base Hydra is decent, but the Pursuit is insanely good.

2 shot kill with dumb fire.

[crystal iron]

Hello Viper Sparks

[smoky oasis]

Hello Sub-Ten

[crystal iron]

😎

[zinc glen]

hello

[crystal iron]

Hello

[zinc glen]

how are you?, still dead I take it

[crystal iron]

I’m good. And you?

[zinc glen]

tired but good just trying to finish off these last few assignments for college then I'll be golden

[wide trout]

ehhhh, it kinda is tbf

[vagrant glade]

so... are all purchasable cosmetics unlocked for purchase now? browsing the armor hall has me believing so

[wide trout]

I think so

If there’s not one i’m pretty sure 343 wants you to file a ticket for it

that is only for formerly purchasable bundles though

[analog salmon]

you should honestly use a VPN at that time. you're gonna get american matches either way and a VPN gives you much faster matchmaking times because of the weird way Infinite's matchmaking works

idk why you need a VPN to get into a US server in less then 5 minutes but it is what it is. MCC you just select the servers you want and you can connect to them as fast as anyone else with that server selected

either that or just select local and wait however long it takes to find other europeans. selecting expanded from my experience doesn't make matchmaking any faster because of the above

[analog salmon]

but yah personally I just play when most Europeans are awake for those sub 50ms pings. "Local" matchmaking is one of the best QOL improvements they made since launch.

I still hope they can get the game closer to how it feels on LAN though. Feels like there's at least 50ms of added latency compared to the ping

[vagrant glade]

Hey, I'm all for it if it means I can finally get an old mythic effect that was locked off since S1. Slowly edging towards the "catalogue" system many people have been asking for

[young glen]

What would you consider high? After about 100ms I can notice the network latency myself.

[wraith willow]

at around 90ms+ i can't hide behind walls without getting elim'd at the last moment

[young glen]

Yeah same.

[pliant palm]

incorrect.

[pliant palm]

it's not all previous bundles, no. select ones.

[wide trout]

my apologies

[silver swallow]

What is the selection criterion? Why not give the opportunity to buy all the previous bundles? Why maintain the FOMO at all costs when you have an army of people who literally beg you to let them give you money?

[misty vale]

Creating scarcity and urgency gets people to purchase who would not otherwise.

like "oh that one is back better get me wallet out before it's gone" is something humans do

[silver swallow]

This is the role of a shop designed around the notion of FOMO, which is already in place given the ridiculous number of items available simultaneously. What I do not understand is why not to leave everything that is part of the previous seasons, especially if the criterion is not known.

[misty vale]

what do you not understand? creating FOMO moves more cosmetics.

[wide trout]

what are you all even talking about

[pliant palm]

no worries! 🙂

[silver swallow]

The shop creates FOMO already, rotating items within the current season. The season is over, they let us buy items. Why letting us buy SOME of them after the season in the first place ?

[analog salmon]

some bundles are probs not available because they've been split up to be sold individually this season, and i dont think there's the ability to have separate ways of buying the same item concurrently rn

[misty vale]

To create artificial scarcity. When finally whatever skirt comes on the shop that was from season 2 and you wanted; you, and ten other people, won't hesitate to buy it. If it was on the shop all the time, you, and nine other people, would buy it. That one extra sale is what it's about.

[silver swallow]

I don’t know if you actually understood my initial question

[analog salmon]

i mean he just explained FOMO, nobody is going to be able to tell you why it's selective but I would guess everything will be available in some form at some point

if its not available via customisation, it probably will be at some point, or in the shop. They might just still be working on adjusting prices, who knows.

for whatever reason they prefer to shadow drop these things so you just gotta hope whatever you want is coming

[celest heron]

over a 3 minute wait in heavies.

[next shard]

i timed out searching. I wonder if people just don't know what combat workshop means

[empty rapids]

bro this matchmaking is trash

got teammates going -14.3 kda

why do they get paired into games lol

[celest heron]

one game of heavies was enough for me. it's awful on an xb1.

[fallen flame]

That's because your KD is -14.0 also

[crystal iron]

The new halo book epitaph I think we’ll see mendicant bias because his burial site is the epitaph tower

And it’s protected by Offensive Bias

[celest heron]

playing super fiesta and I'm getting the same crap weapons numerous times. jc How bout some variety!!@@@!!@

[analog salmon]

just get luckier

ez

[young glen]

Gotta pray to RNGesus harder mate.

[analog salmon]

you are quite literally choosing RNG as your fate 😄

[hollow ore]

anyone else think the scorpions tail weapon is like a t4 weapon, that thing puts power weapons to shame. ITs a good thing it is a heavy weapon....

though it and the MG right now are the only heavy weapons anyone really uses.

[wraith willow]

MCC is back on Steam!

[next shard]

when was it not?

[wide trout]

was an issue since yesterday where you couldn’t buy it or any “DLC”

fixed now though

[next shard]

ah I see

[white birch]

I still dont understand how people in Heavies can get no kills.

[hollow ore]

ITs mostly new players that don't have a handle on the mechanics yet. Heavies isn't really a newbie friendly mode as it expects you to know how to play at a decent level.

[magic night]

If the opposing team controls all the vehicles, it's actually pretty easy to not score kills.

[hollow ore]

that said I can go 3 matches with about 11-30 kills then get one where I get 2 kills just do to bad rolls.

also BTB heaves doesn't have SBMM.

[magic night]

Only so much you can do when Banshees and Wasps control the skies

[hollow ore]

Especially if they are camping your hydra or sniper spawn.

[analog salmon]

there's 8 year olds playing halo

[hollow ore]

And 30 year olds who can't compete with the 14 year olds.

[analog salmon]

some maybe havent even figured out using a controller yet

[hollow ore]

I feel old now.

[analog salmon]

its ok

30 is still young

[hollow ore]

Yeah but the prime age for reaction times for games like halo is between 14 and 26 on average.

[analog salmon]

true but you have more experience

[celest heron]

I need three cindershot kills for the challenge and I've only spawned one in 5 fiesta games. 😐

[young glen]

Try spamming the scanner

[lyric beacon]

What happened to normal Fiesta? Is it gone forever?

[devout kite]

How is btb heavy allowed knowing its broken

[lime robin]

The name "Combat Workshop" should give you a hint.

[lime robin]

For now it's been merged with Super Fiesta, they may be separated as individual playlists in the future, but only time will tell.

[coarse dagger]

Feel free to leave any constructive feedback in the #1108154487610282054 forum

[serene furnace]

Oh my god they added the tank gun from campaign into multiplayer

Time for some chaos

[outer ingot]

Guys, i have bug in mcc, i played all levels Reach (in legendary) but i don't get a monument to all your sins achievement

[hidden scaffold]

I was like 4 when i first played Halo

and that was Halo 3

[next shard]

I got HCE for my 15th birthday a few months after it released. I'm basically ancient in video game years

[vapid marten]

What's beyond ancient?

[magic night]

There's another person here who got CE as a present when they were 15. You might be able to be ancient buddies.

Collecting dust and cobwebs together

[next shard]

playing halo in the nursing home

[next shard]

prehistoric?

[magic night]

Yeah. That sounds about right.

Even older than that would be primordial

[vapid marten]

Primordial sounds better

I didn't get it for my birthday, had to buy it myself

I was a teen back then, but I got other stuff for my birthdays

Had one of those, "original" pongs in my house, you could put batteries in the console and play.
also, original Boulder Dash on an original C64

those were the days

[hidden scaffold]

Why am not being given the kill when i killed them and instead i am being given the kill assist

Also it should not take 3 minutes to find a ranked game

[vapid marten]

Did they do some changes to mouse aiming? my accuracy feels like it went up significantly

[full warren]

when your whole team get 0 kills in a whole game.... literally 3 of them just running around and did nothing

How was that even a match, they were literally brand new to the game

[vapid marten]

You also enjoying Quick Play?

[full warren]

literally a nightmare team mates, just had a game I did more damage than my whole team.

even tho the 2nd best guy did about 60% of my damage so the other two only did 500 damage each

like seriously why does match making think this is fun

I literally prefer the bot who joine after one of them quit

The bot actually did better than one of them

[hidden scaffold]

Also why are my grenaides not going off when i throw them

This and Kill assists need fixing

[full warren]

probably just the servers, some days my pistol is a aim bot while other days it doesn't even take someone's sheild down

[vapid marten]

I generally do not blame the players, but the game

The skill rating of the teams does not feel reliable in the slightest

[full warren]

Yeah its not even close some times its just a stomp, They could balanced the 8 players better than this

[vapid marten]

absolutely

[hidden scaffold]

Plasma grenaides also need nerfing

[vapid marten]

Just had a match where the game said my team was rated under the enemy team, and they had two players with single digit amount of matches.
The other two were competent, one of them did statwise almost as good as I did in this match, but, it didn't help them when my team mates did as good as the other competent player

I'd expect the two players with the newbies to be extremely good

[hidden scaffold]

13kills , 12 death

Lke i need good players to be good around me

[full warren]

I am beginning to see so many players with 0-50 games* appear in my game

[hidden scaffold]

I need good players in my game

Same with ranked

[vapid marten]

would probably be advisable to team up

[full warren]

ops typo I meant 50 games total not 50 kills haha

[hidden scaffold]

I would love to, but it's like i don't want to

[vapid marten]

Gotta love getting called useless and having the most kills, least deaths of those who stayed, most assist AND held the Ball for one second less than the rest of the team combined, AND winning the match 2-0.

[celest heron]

down 7 kills while the enemy needed 1 and we came back to win. wooo. In SF btw

[inland minnow]

love when that happens

[livid fable]

I've played maybe 30 games of ffa today. no ninja slayer.

[celest heron]

and then this happens when I was trying to grapple the platform. Infinite for me in a nutshell.

[livid fable]

the only modes I've played have been King of the hill, basic slayer, and that progressive mode that I really do not like and I'm really afraid to even say that sentence for fear somebody might take offense at that

I forgot. I also played shotty snipers twice.

[livid fable]

from a design standpoint, I don't really know how I could fix that. like if you're over the abyss, we could maybe make it prioritize grabbing land instead of items

[celest heron]

nah, my aim is just bad. And the very next game I'm matching a 1700 onyx who got a nightmare. cool matching though.

[solid ingot]

whats the difference between btb heavies and normal btb?

[celest heron]

more vehicle spawns in heavies, upgraded weapons and I think the score is different though not sure.

[meager heron]

Hey, Halo 3 ODST single player Vs Halo Infinite single player

which is just plan better?

[celest heron]

Infinite

[smoky oasis]

Yeah, gonna go with Infinite. ODST is good though.

[devout kite]

Infinite

[atomic veldt]

I haven't played in a while because of one primary issue that for a long time hadn't been resolved.
I've seen posts on the forums dating back 5 years or so with this issue, so I'm hoping someone here can help. The game is listed as having subtitles on every platform it's sold on, yet halo 2, 3, and ODST don't have subtitles except for cutscenes. That's about 75% of the game that's not accessible to deaf or hard of hearing people even though the game specifically says it has subtitles. Considering that a large amount of the instruction given is through in game dialogue and not cutscenes, it makes the game essentially unplayable since there's no visual cues on what to do for those who are audio-impaired. I just started playing halo 2 and it took me an hour and a half to finish the first mission because I had to just run around hoping I found where to go because there were 0 subtitles during the actual gameplay. I really enjoy this series and I was incredibly excited to see it ported to PC and was marked as having subtitles because I could finally play it. With how things look currently, I may not be able to play 2, 3, or ODST until a patch is released that fixes the accessibility issues by adding subtitles. From what I've seen, no one has ever gotten an answer from 343 or anything about subtitles, so I'm hoping there might be an answer here.
I posted that message in this server a little over 2 years ago and when I last checked last year, there'd still no progress made on subtitles/accessibility issues. I'm wondering if there's been any updates on this or not, because I'd really like to be able to play the game lol

[celest heron]

all the games have in game subtitles now and there's also more subtitle options in the settings.

[atomic veldt]

I am so immensely happy to hear that, and sure enough you're right \o/ thank you :D

[quaint adder]

Can I please get a different map other than Pit and Argle. Just CTF switching maps every game

[gray herald]

Man I hate the csr matchmaker, this season I have played 18 ranked matches, and only won 5 total, I played 9 today and lost 8. The worst part is I'm not even the reason we are losing. Halo tracker says I'm performing best on my team every match and I'm losing minimal CSR per loss, but I'm still losing overall since my win rate is like 30%. I literally would be in Onyx if I had a 40% win rate and the system didn't put me on the lower rated team every time

Like most people in mid high diamond range have 0.9-1 kd I have a 1.1kd yet I'm still making no progress

[crystal iron]

How goes the Halo infinite for everyone

[ivory glacier]

I thought I was the only one. Every other match is the pit. And the other matches are either argyle or bazaar.

[crystal iron]

I had made a comment regarding Map vote being brought back, to which someone stated that would just make it so that players are always playing on the same map and mode, to which now I see That's already seemingly happening even without map vote..

I have seen so many comments like yours with similar sorts

[quaint adder]

It's trash. They lower the slayer % to up the CTF %. So stupid! Just separate objective and slayer please 343

[quaint adder]

I would much rather have a voting option that makes you play the same map over and over by choice versus the crap they have now.

[ivory glacier]

For just the casual team slayer, did they remove streets, launch site, and behemoth? I don’t get those maps anymore. I get streets and launch site once in a while on fiesta only. But I haven’t seen those maps in team slayer since the season 3 release. And I haven’t seen behemoth at all no matter what game mode. And this has been months. Since season 3. Anybody know anything about this??

[celest heron]

I played Streets a couple times today in TS.

[quaint adder]

Why does rank arena follow HCS guidelines? Why can't we just have rank simply to show relatively your skill level. If we wanted to follow HCS guidelines then say no rank unless it is for professional use. Siver, bronze plat shouldn't exist. Only Onyx and if you aren't Onyx you can't play rank. Let's get real stupid with it

There are literally hundreds of maps that can be used

We choose to use only 5

[ivory glacier]

I’m not exaggerating like I don’t get them often. I have not gotten them even once. And I can’t get any explanation or even an acknowledgment. They were removed from my game. And my game only apparently

[frosty forge]

can anyone explain to me why team slayer isnt a ranked mode?

[celest heron]

if you're on pc, check to see if the maps are in your files. don't know how to do that so you'd have to ask in #1075989764026675210. Other than that, idk.

[ivory glacier]

I’m on series x but I definitely appreciate the help. I’ve been asking for months now and nobody has acknowledged me so I appreciate it

[celest heron]

in previous games, you would stay in the postgame lobby and let it auto search which would reduce the chance of getting that map again. Don't think it works in Infinite though since you don't auto search anymore.

[sand turret]

Let me rant about Halo's friendly AI for a minute.

I cannot express how much I dislike the missions where I'm forced to work with NPC Marines. They're worse than useless, they're actively a detriment. Among other things, they're terrible at driving the vehicles. Not only is their pathfinding awful, and they run into things all the time, but they also will occasionally refuse to follow the mission path towards the next objective. They will also drive directly into enemy fire and just sit there and take it. So if you want to get through a vehicle segment, you're forced to drive, and let the AI shoot. Which has its own massive list of issues. First and foremost, target priority. There will be a Wraith tank launching plasma right at us, and the Marines will pick out the random Grunt to the left to shoot first, instead of the bigger, more obvious threat. To top it off, their range is near-sighted. The enemy will be directly in front of you, but the AI won't pull the trigger until you're practically kissing their split-jaw toothy maws. Meanwhile the enemy AI is lighting you up with all manner of plasma. Then, finally, if they do kill something, they'll spend an extra 300 rounds of ammo dumping into their corpse, instead of redirecting towards other, very much alive enemies that are also still trying to kill you.

Oh and I haven't even mentioned the number of times I've died to friendly fire. There's a level in ODST where you must defend against waves of enemy Banshees. Even on Legendary, I think I've died more times to friendly fire, than to enemy fire. Since one ally has a rocket, and another has a Splazer, and they LOVE to fire those things while standing directly behind you. I also killed Marines in LASO a lot because the Catch skull would cause them to throw too many grenades, and I literally had to kill them first before they killed me.

Okay... rant over...

[quaint adder]

Supposedly low player count to support multiple rank playlist. Yet, it's 343's fault for releasing a game that was only 1/5 of the way completed. Heck it's sad that they use forge competitions to add in player based maps into the playlist especially Ranked. It's a joke

[celest heron]

load them up in a Razorback and give them all the upgraded sentinel beam. Also, no Kat call out?

[low blaze]

The arbiter was so noble for killing 6 billion

[sand turret]

I was talking more about the AI across the entire series in general. I've had these same grievances since OG Halo CE. Which doesn't have a Razorback.
Also, I was running out of character limit, so I trimmed down my initial rant, which originally did include some infamous Kat examples.

My buddy and I did occasionally take advantage of the Razoback tactic in Infinite coop though. However, many times the terrain was just to irregular to get reliable results out of the tactic for every mission. For some missions, side or main, it was just unviable. So 90% of the time, we just carried out the objectives by ourselves with no AI marines.

[crystal iron]

Wow it's crazy how hard it is to find Gams.worh monsters over level 71 in anomaly search

Sorry wrong discord again

[frosty forge]

couldn't they do an arena mode and a slayer mode....like all the other ones

[hollow ore]

IS there any way to tell the game to not put me in BR starts arena matches, I freaking hate the BR with every fiber of my being.

My accuracy with a BR like 28% my accuracy with an AR arround 50%....

[left snow]

You just need to practice. It has very good accuracy over a very long range.

[quaint adder]

It would be cool to have a ranked quick play with AR starts. That could help more causal players play rank and not stress about a BR battle

[quaint adder]

I wish. That's too much to ask for though I guess

[sullen anvil]

Thoughts on BTB heavies so far?

[buoyant elbow]

I hope that alongside the other additions to Forge, we also get the ability to script custom messages. Like for custom point systems, which is the most basic example that works right now without custom messages, instead of getting a message saying "100" for your current points then "110" for your new amount, it'd be nice if we could have it say "You picked up 10 coins and now have 110 coins" or something. The countless things we can't do right now without custom messages, are all message related notifications that don't involve numbers, whether that's telling someone they need a key to open a certain door, or telling everyone on the map that a new phase of a map has started. It seems like a really simple thing, with a huge impact, I really hope they do add it.

[crystal iron]

I actually really enjoy Halo: Infinite multiplayer.

W multiplayer

[hushed wind]

The gameplay is fun. when it works

[crystal iron]

😂

They really shaped it up during the end of Season 2

No more frame drops, no more latency, less bugs overall.

[hushed wind]

Im still dealing with movement hitches which yeets me off a cliff, some form of desync

latency improved Ill give them that

as for frame drops.... having discord open while playing Infinite crashes my game

the customization menu is a d20 die (either it works, lags my game hard, or crashes it)

@crystal iron

[crystal iron]

Agreed

[hushed wind]

and Variable Refresh Rate doesnt work well on Infinite

[crystal iron]

Easy fix

Turn off V-sync

[hushed wind]

I have Vsync off and I still see severe tearing

monitor is 144hz and i have the frames tied to 140hz

and my biggest gripe now that summer is coming- the Menu is still "active rendering" with no way to lock fps to 60fps for menus only

[crystal iron]

Oh yeah I know what you mean

[hushed wind]

"Get AC" isnt the answer either because I live in a part of the state where (due to the incompetence of a few old men in white buildings) our electricity bill went up 50%

[crystal iron]

Holy crap

50%?

[hushed wind]

inflation amiright

[crystal iron]

No kidding

[wide trout]

oh my god

that’s insane

[hushed wind]

we usually pay $120. Now we pay $180

[crystal iron]

Zosh Zamn

You live in an apartment?

I'm not an independent yet.

Still in HS

[hushed wind]

no. we live rural. Im in college still and my desktop can do the things I need since it calls the CPU or GPU more

the issue is my room is upstairs. And it doesn't take an engineer to know that heat rises

[analog salmon]

if you ALT+enter you can toggle to window mode without issues. also limit inactive framerate to 30

[crystal iron]

Oversight, what are your specs?

[hushed wind]

5800X
3070
16GB 3200mhz ram

the 3070 is the FTW3 version so yeah it dissipates a lot of heat

[hushed wind]

as of now I have the NVIDIA setting to "game in background (tabbed out) 60fps

I alt-tab to a different monitor

[crystal iron]

Good PC

[analog salmon]

its still gonna be quite hungry at 60 1440p

[crystal iron]

I have

[hushed wind]

its 60 1080

[analog salmon]

that menu has no chill

[hushed wind]

I dont have a 1440p monitor

[analog salmon]

well 1080p relax

[hushed wind]

lol.

[analog salmon]

anyway like i said you can alt enter

get it into a 720p window

tab out, let your GPU chill

tab back in when the game is loading

then alt enter when match starts

[crystal iron]

Intel i7-11700k unlocked
GIGABYTE RTX 3060 Eagle Edition 12GB
16GB 300MHz

[hushed wind]

Ill try that once the temperatures really get high thank you

Good specs but intel 11th gen rip in the temperature department

I've also taken the courtesy to undervolt components whether I can

[analog salmon]

also my advice on the stuttering would be force vsync via driver and use VRR

disable vsync completely in game

and dont cap

[crystal iron]

Bruh it's literally a neutron star

[analog salmon]

obviously driver level vsync will cap you to 144

but its the driver not the game doing this

latency aint gonna be amazing when you're hitting that 144fps but otherwise its fine

[hushed wind]

Could enabling Low Latency Mode compensate for the latency

[analog salmon]

it may or may not be borked lol

low latency is hit and miss

[crystal iron]

It's not as effective as just minimizing the amount of bandwidth other apps are using.

Do y'all wanna check out my gameplay?

It's from a LONG time ago, I'm an expert now. But it's still decent.

[analog salmon]

i would disable overlays like discord overlay if its causing the game to crash

but i wouldnt worry too much about stuff in the background if you are not hitting a CPU bottleneck

i think the in game fps cap will work fine if you're using driver level vsync + vrr

i would never use in game vsync options if you can avoid it. driver level always seems to work flawlessly with vrr

[crystal iron]

Just don't let your CPU reach thermal throttling levels of power.

Because then it will definitely impact performance

[analog salmon]

i mean if you're thermal throttling playing video games you probs messed up your build ;)

the cost of keeping a CPU cool for gaming is pretty cheap these days, compared to the cost of a GPU like the 3070

Basically Infinite should run stable with:

• In game vsync disabled
• Driver level vsync enbled
• VRR enabled
• In-game minimum FPS enabled (this is the dynamic resolution setting)

Sure it might not be the lowest possible latency, but it's no worse then console.

if you're not getting stable performance with this setup, maybe there is some issue with your configuration, or maybe the game isn't working correctly

[crystal iron]

Yes, you are correct.

[analog salmon]

and honestly i wouldnt worry about latency at all until you can get a game to run smooth

[crystal iron]

However, for people with overclocked CPUs, thermal throttling is necessary in some cases to make sure all of the parts are getting the power they need. Because we all know the CPU likes to nom nom on thise watts.

[analog salmon]

i mean you just dont overclock to the point you're hitting power limit throttling imo

CPUs aint that expensive, you dont need to squeeze every bit of performance out of it

plus when you do, you just decrease power efficiency

[hushed wind]

The most efficient way to squeeze some performance is an overclock + an undervolt

the only thing you need to worry about is stability.

[analog salmon]

true

i've got a 150mV undervolt

pretty lucky with the silicon lottery i guess

can't undervolt my GPU because AMD makes overclocking and undervolting exclusive it seems

[hushed wind]

it can be done through their Radeon software

[analog salmon]

the slider doesn't do anything when i overclock

[hushed wind]

oh and AMD is notorious for being OC and UNV scUm 🛍️

[analog salmon]

as soon as the clock speed is higher then a certain threshold, the voltage reverts to stock

the slider only applies to stock or lower clock speeds

which is useful for saving power but useless for squeezing more performance

and its already only 5W idle

[hushed wind]

My EVGA GPU has a 125mV undervolt + for now a 30mhz OC

I could squeeze some performance but idk if Infinite is still a performance broken mess but it doesn't like 2010mhz but COD does

[analog salmon]

you should test with a stress test

just because COD doesnt stress it hard enough doesn't mean its not unstable

[hushed wind]

I pre-check with OCCD for any red exclamation marks but really hit it with Heaven

2010mhz @975mV is flawless on heaven

and heaven really beats the crap out of any gpu

[analog salmon]

also obviously if you're having issues with infinite on a 3070, test with stock

if its fine with stock then imo your overclock/undervolt is the problem

the game should run fine on a stock 3070

[hushed wind]

It runs fine on stock but the OC seems like a problem

[analog salmon]

then dont OC

[hushed wind]

or Infinite just doesnt like NVIDIA gpus still cuz it does somewhat crash on stock

[analog salmon]

honestly not sure why you are even asking this question

you are OC too hard and Infinite just happens to be the only game that you've found a problem with

its not as easy to overclock/undervolt a GPU because unlike a CPU, you wont just BSOD. It will behave weird and that's when you dial it back

[hushed wind]

Ill probably re access my undervolt

[analog salmon]

people dont even seem to realise your GPU can crash without your system crashing. Obviously any game will crash but its not the game that crashed, its your GPU

[hushed wind]

Ive had that happen plenty of times trying to find the sweet spot

The first sign immediately is the frequency going up 10mhz over your set frequency

[analog salmon]

i mean respectfully if you're gonna come here to complain or ask for help you should mention that the problem only happens when you overclock your GPU...

i completely agree with you on the menu GPU usage issue tho

[hushed wind]

The jittering issue + discord crashing happens OC or no OC

I think I did another "jump around to a different convo"

[analog salmon]

coffee is still kicking in for me so maybe i misread

[hushed wind]

Don't worry ive done it myself too

[analog salmon]

i wish Digital Foundry would do another video on Halo Infinite

see what's changed since the last one they did

cause S3 has definitely changed a lot of stuff

I think VRR is working correctly now with driver level vsync but i cant be 100% sure

and of course it was never listed as a known issue with the game so who knows if they shadow fixed it

[hushed wind]

the VRR issue may just be the game failing to communicate with the driver responsible for adjusting the new monitor frequencyu

idk much about game-VRR communication so dont take my word in full or as truth

[analog salmon]

yah i think it was related to vsync being broken as well

like even on console you had frame time issues if your xbox was set to 120hz mode but you wanted to play at 60fps

or 30fps in 60hz mode

and i mean a console game not being able to do 30fps properly in 60hz mode is pretty bizarre

[hushed wind]

VRR monitors have a minimum and maximum frequency. Its the bounds in which the monitor can operate.

for example. An ASUS 144hz monitor may have a 31hz - 144hz. Which means it cannot operate at 31hz and below or 144hz and above.

so 30fps in 60hz mode may not work for monitors with the aformentioned limits

[analog salmon]

i mean even without vrr, it wasn't doing consistent frame times without exact FPS+refresh rate match

[hushed wind]

oh and forgot to mention- just because the monitor says it does 144hz doesnt mean it does pure 144hz. it does somewhere around 143.94 hz

but still. setting the game to 142fps shows tearing and stutter

happens on my brother's computer/monitor too

[analog salmon]

a lot of console games run at 30fps while basically all TVs are 60hz or 120hz. You just double or quadruple the frames. You should be able to get a perfect 30fps on any TV.

for whatever reason Halo Infinite couldn't get consistent frame times

so vsync was not working correctly at launch. Whether its fixed now idk

[hushed wind]

the 2 softwares I use to measure latency are off by a lot

NVIDIA says 12ms. Riva says 4ms.

[analog salmon]

they are just guessing

but i mean 5ms is not really very noticeable you know

i get the desire for the lowest latency possible

[hushed wind]

10ms does wacky things. it can mess up frametiming

[analog salmon]

yah but latency and frame times are not the same

[hushed wind]

ik frametiming doesnt equal latency

but one seems to influence the other

[analog salmon]

unless you go 240hz, uncap, turn off vsync, turn off vrr. you are getting latency

unless you are a pro it doesnt matter, use driver level vsync, vrr, and enjoy your smooth game

my 2 cent anyway

[hushed wind]

im dealing with chronically dumb teammates rn lmfao

Riva was causing Infinite to crash so i uninstalled it

[analog salmon]

i would only use riva for testing

dont play with it on

its the only way to overlay data from HWinfo or Afterburner

dont use it to cap now Nvidia and AMD have driver level FPS cap

[pseudo ermine]

Am I the only one who thinks it be cool to have random encounters with promethians or the flood? Like completely random. When you're playing the game at complete random, it would choose between one to five in difficulty and throw that you. When you least expect it, you can have to fight like 16 Promethean knights or something stupid like that or fight a big group of flood

[hushed wind]

Sorry i was gone for 30mins. Just need a break to address some other issue. But Infinite is one of the many examples of PC ports being busted in the 2020s

Remember when the game went after your CPU like the Terminator for 6 months?

[analog salmon]

i didnt play on PC in S1 haha

[hushed wind]

PC on S1 was a fing nightmare

[analog salmon]

i only started playing on PC this season cause i got a new GPU. lucky for me the GPU I have runs Infinite very stable

Same RDNA2 architecture as the consoles probably helps

[hushed wind]

S1 of PC the best frames you can get with a 3070 was 40fps

on low

AMD was around 100fps for its higher end GPUs

plus you had every single bug known to man. Game crash, blue screen, Memory leaks, extremely high CPU utilization, poor optimization. And KBM users were abandoned until the near end of S2

part of the reason why Steam counts were and remains low, besides from the extreme lack of content

@analog salmon

[analog salmon]

yah

[hushed wind]

They had an opportunity to bring in new PC players to halo and they blew it

[analog salmon]

i think if PC was closer to the state its in now at launch

would be a much bigger playerbase

its kinda sad

[hushed wind]

This game should have been delayed another year.

There- I said it

[analog salmon]

not that controversial haha

probs the devs thought so too

[hushed wind]

I built my first PC just for Infinite

It had a R5 3600, 5600 XT and 16GB 3200mhz ram

Man was I disappointed how abysmal it ran on low

[analog salmon]

why'd you go to nvidia haha

[hushed wind]

AMD drivers were....... terrible

[analog salmon]

ohh

[hushed wind]

I went over to NVIDIA near the end of 2022

[analog salmon]

they seem alright now

i went GTX 1050 to RX6600

had issues with the 1050 drivers

[frail root]

You sure that doesn't describe numerous companies these days like EA with flimsy justifications?

[hushed wind]

by terrible I mean it crashed my computer during a lockdown browser exam and it failed me

[analog salmon]

only issue i had with AMD so far was a water bug in RDR2 that got fixed pretty promptly

[hushed wind]

EA and Jedi Survivor is another story

[frail root]

Yeah, I guess so.

[hushed wind]

Singleplayer-only games dont mean much for multiplayer ppl

But I also stated that Infinite is one of the many examples of PC ports being absolute garbage in the 2020s

[frail root]

Poor handling.

[hushed wind]

in fact- many AAA companies need a rude awakening in order for them to change

[frail root]

That's everyone in existence.

[hushed wind]

all the AAA companies need some profits sure. But now profits are priority 1 over the game's quality and content

[frail root]

That's everyone in existence. Companies have gotten so greedy, profits are more of a concern than getting anything done. It's ridiculous how people care more for the green that goes in their pocket than getting results. And no, I'm not counting getting paid as a result.

[broken dragon]

I believe there was this scholar called J.S. Hayes who stated profits have always been a priority in games..

[hushed wind]

True but for example compare Halo CE from 2001 to Halo Infinite (year 2021)

if Halo CE was a poor choice of comparison then do 2 or 3

[magic night]

All developed with varying degrees of crunch culture

[hushed wind]

And which one had more content

the newest title from the year 2021 or the older game

[proven wraith]

My ultimate challenge just reset itself as I was finishing it, wtf

I thought this was fixed

[hushed wind]

thats new

[analog salmon]

try relaunching?

[broken dragon]

What is there to say, 343 wanted to prioritize competitive multiplayer and jump on the live-service bandwagen. The first succeeded, the second was a fail (thats excluding the internal strife)

[ruby knoll]

FPS PVP MP is inherently competitive

The only fanbase that thinks that PvP is magically noncompetitive is halo's

Same fanbase that treats dressup like a core part of the gameplay

[celest heron]

don't think that's a fair comparison. The original games mainly 1 and 2 aren't going to have as much content regardless cause that wasn't even a thing back then.

plus memory limitations and online was in its infancy.

[analog salmon]

i never really understand the casual-competitive distinction. I'm a casual player. I don't spend a lot on hardware, I don't practice for "real matches", but I do play ranked because I like higher level of play

and i use the same headphones or earbuds i use to listen to music

kinda think this idea everyone who plays ranked is spending loads of money and deeply invested in the competitive scene is not really very accurate

[broken dragon]

Can you clarify? Do you mean 1 and 2 had less content? Because 1 and 2 carried Xbox

[celest heron]

I was responding to Oversight's comment about which game had more content which I think he's also talking about all the customization and live service.

[hushed wind]

I was comparing 1, 2, and 3 launch content to Infinite's launch content. Even if November's launch was a "Beta" and we used Infinite's Dec 8th "official launch", the older games had more content at launch

[celest heron]

oh, launch

[magic night]

The older games are also significantly simpler. They didn't have to account for stuff like crossplay and online services and a bunch of the other stuff that operates under the hood in modern games.

[hushed wind]

H3 had to account for online, even H2

[magic night]

Which were simpler and didn't have things like crossplay, cross-progression, etc. to worry about.

They were big technical hurdles for the time, but the tech that goes into modern online services is even more complex.

[hushed wind]

You can have the online service issues with crossplay and cross-progression but what about the amount of maps/game modes/QoL during S1

[ruby knoll]

Additionally infinite added bots + the training mode with dynamic settings

[hushed wind]

We got teammates in Social Slayer for that

[ruby knoll]

Wut

[hushed wind]

I was making a sarcastic joke

the teammates I dealt with today were terrible. Every single game]

[ruby knoll]

The only joke is that it took Halo so long to have bots tbh

At least infinite's bots are good

[magic night]

Bots would be one explanation for why there aren't significantly more maps than previous games. Infinite launched with the same number of maps as previous games, but had to additionally account for bots to make sure they worked on each map, which adds to development time by a nontrivial amount.

[hushed wind]

Yet the bots like to walk off cliffs every respawn

[magic night]

Another sarcastic joke?

[hushed wind]

no I was serious

They do that a lot

[magic night]

I can't say I've ever seen that.

Got any videos that show that happening?

[ruby knoll]

Same here

[hushed wind]

It happens a lot in the new s3 slayer map & Chasm

[magic night]

I haven't seen it happen on those maps

[hushed wind]

ig Im the only one seeing it]

[magic night]

If you can show me some videos, I'll believe you

[hushed wind]

Ill try to find the ones in theater but I dont record while im playing

[twin crag]

I don't wanna be controversial but Halo

[coarse dagger]

[next shard]

first of all, how dare you

[sterile meadow]

Hi guys, does anyone here have OCD? I noticed in halo infinite btb the pelican that brings vehicles does in fact not have its front wheel deployed, only the rear two, which is odd, sorry if anyone is going to notice this now

[analog salmon]

it actually works offline lol

iirc

[hidden scaffold]

I am sorry

But i need help, i cannot have people with less then 4 kills on my team in a gold ranked match

I carried with 25 kills

[white birch]

Stop playing ranked.

[hidden scaffold]

Why, i thought it was soppose to be competitive

[misty vale]

BTB - Heavies is what Halo is

[white birch]

Ranked is dumb.
It removes all the stuff that makes the game fun and boils it down to a seething nerd-rage inducing primordial gloop that looks like the stuff the Tyranids eat.
Its not fun, its annoying and you're better off playing something more casual.

[crystal iron]

How dare you say it?! It’s heresy!

[twin crag]

I'm sorry I had to 😞

[twin crag]

So ure saying that in a ranked match where ur teammates have < 4 kills?
That might be due to team balancing

[hidden scaffold]

Yes

[twin crag]

Yea looks like team balancing

What is ur rank tho

[serene furnace]

Can barely even call it ranked when it's actually filled with casual players that pick ranked to spawn with a battle rifle

[proven pollen]

This might be true at levels below mid platinum but at mid plat + it begins to get sweaty.

[sterile meadow]

If you were replying to me, yeah, weird, even the little ropes attached to the vehicles its carrying work, but offline stuff like the ambient pelican on live fire breaks, and the wasp and banshee fighters in the sky on deadlock stop working too offline.

[analog salmon]

weird lol

[sullen anvil]

Just completed Raven on MCC. Only 2 more series to go

[sterile meadow]

I thought I'd mention that machinima controls option in custom games are avaliable just like halo 5 had, they are really useful, you can have a theater-like free cam to fly around, that's how I was able to find out the halo infinite frigate on high power actually has a modeled bridge, and fire control room, almost like it was intended to be used perhaps.

[low blaze]

Why was using MAC guns in orbit such a big deal?

[proven pollen]

the sheer force released by them would cause quite a bit localized collateral damage being in or just out of atmosphere

[low blaze]

The ones on the ground don't?

[full warren]

waiting 15 mins for BTB timed out each time...

[sterile meadow]

Maybe it depends on the size, the frigates that appear in halo are built around the gun, which is why they are gun shaped, you also get a look at the MAC shell loader on Cairo Station in halo 2 and they are big.

[onyx latch]

Real UNSC friends smooch the UNSCAF personnel manning the UNSC MAC guns.

[full warren]

time to quit playing I think, the game doesn't even want me to play

[hushed wind]

Halo Infinite moment

play to suffer not to enjoy

Oh and spend money on artifical cosmetics in a broken tirade that costs half a game or more

[full warren]

I spend 0 dollar on this game other than campaign

[hushed wind]

I MS rewarded all my stuff

[full warren]

I used to spend tons on league and world of warships but I do not think this game will last lol

steam numbers on this game is dropping like a stone

[hushed wind]

when you get older you realize how useless cosmetics are

[full warren]

I mean I am not against spending money on cosmetics if I really like it but I just dont want to spend on a game that could just get replaced lol, I not playd league in 5 years but I can go back and its still there

same as world of warships

[hushed wind]

personally now im not spending MS rewards on BPs

Infinite doesnt deserve my money anymore

[livid fable]

i've seen it. thought it was a bug the first three times. then i started wondering if it was intentional ai behavior.

just watch the death screen, look for AI dying without anyone killing them

[ivory glacier]

Why are so many more people hiding now? These matches are dragging. Had a couple slayer matches time out and there’s no excuse for that. Did all those COD campers come over to this game

[analog salmon]

Slayer be like that

just dominate the power weapons and clean them out

map i really hate for slayer is bazaar because each team just ends up camping either side of bazaar and its sooo dull

and with balanced teams there's not really an alternative way to play

[ivory glacier]

Yeah I’ve been getting bazaar a lot and that’s exactly how it’s been. I play all the time but it’s just been the last few days have been slower than usual. So many people are just crouching and hiding the whole game. My team too. I’m sorry but if a slayer match gets timed out everyone involved should be embarrassed lol

I don’t have patience

[analog salmon]

me neither tbh

bazaar is great for ctf but my god does it make for the slowest slayer matches

[ivory glacier]

I agree. I’m so sick of bazaar slayer. It’s great for ctf but I can’t remember the last time I got that mode for that map

[analog salmon]

it was removed from quick play for CTF. I think its still possible to get it for land grab but man i can't remember getting land grab in quick play in forever

my hope is if/when they add Assault, there's a rotating CTF+Assault playlist that brings bazaar CTF back

[low blaze]

If the fragment of Cortana on reach was getting data about forerunner technology then how come Cortana at the end of fall of reach didn't know what halo is?

[analog salmon]

halo was a super duper secret

[fallen flame]

Playing halo infinite at half 2 in the UK is just not worth it for btb

[analog salmon]

its not worth it in general

i just play weekends when i can get on early

[fallen flame]

I mostly play during events or new season or when there is a real good weekly, population is better then and you can find matches quicker

[rugged quartz]

The data didn’t tell her what it was

It allowed her to translate the coordinates from the museum artifact

[potent hearth]

Can we PLEASE finally fix bullet magnetism in halo CE, it genuinely does not exist on PC anymore and the game is almost impossible to play without it. Good luck trying to snipe a jackals hand with the water pistol.

[maiden venture]

Would search and destroy be good for halo?

[crystal iron]

You tryna turn it into COD?

[maiden venture]

One game mode doesn’t make it into cod

[crystal iron]

It makes it a step closer to becoming like COD

[potent hearth]

Assault?

the absolute best team gamemode too, we need assault to come back in infinite

[analog salmon]

assault isn't S&D

S&D is basically One Bomb Assault but with no respawn

halo doesnt have S&D cause its a fast pace game pretty much, people dont really play to sit waiting to respawn

for the round to end so they can respawn i should say

you can spend a lot of time waiting to respawn in halo but only if you die a lot 😄

[potent hearth]

I mean breakout was a failure

[celest heron]

lots of people liked it

[maiden venture]

What about a btb game mode like halo 5 warzone

Like a buncha objectives leading to one

Could be cool

[analog salmon]

i will honestly take any new modes at this point that are actually well made

[celest heron]

I think elimination modes in h5 did alright

[low blaze]

I've heard that the 2010 version of the fall of reach fixes the lore inaccuracies, is this true?

[celest heron]

sure, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon

[analog salmon]

try #lore-and-universe if nobody replies here with the answer

people who frequent that channel will know

[low blaze]

I thought that channel was deleted

[analog salmon]

you might just have to "follow" it

[celest heron]

I can see it without following

[karmic oriole]

Me and my dad are playing infinite right now so he could finish his ultimate challenge. He was at 9/30 on kills for ultimate and after we just did another game right now his kills reset and it shows he only has 1/30 now. Is that a visual glitch? Or do challenges reset all of a sudden now?

[onyx latch]

Too based for Halo fans tbh

(Please ignore SWAT)

[crystal iron]

COD is easier

[celest heron]

restart your game

[karmic oriole]

Didn't answer my question

[hushed wind]

I've had not one enjoyable game of social slayer because of bad teammates

this also reflects on what would happen in ranked too

put them alongside a dumpster and I would see no difference

[manic lily]

What would yall say is the easiest game to 100%. Like i am onna go for all 700 eventually, but if i were to wipe out the achievments one gameat a time which should i go for

[hushed wind]

I can proudly say Infinite is the game to not play after a long day of work

[ivory glacier]

Fix matchmaking

[hushed wind]

I wish the worst of the worst teammates get sent into "purgatory matchmaking"

[celest heron]

I did cause I'm indirectly saying it's a glitch.

[ivory glacier]

If you take it this serious then play ranked. I’m sure it’s frustrating for them too getting put into a game and getting mopped

[gaunt crest]

bro I cant 😭 the master chief in halo 4 pulls the charging handle on the wrong side

how do you mess that up

[low blaze]

When I played halo 3 for the first time I almost complete it in one sitting but the mission Cortana was so bad I just stopped playing

[crimson socket]

Is there an Event Calendar out something anywhere? I missed the Noble Intention event and was wondering if it would come back at any point

[outer ibex]

That's not really how it works, if you missed it you missed it. An event shows up and is active for two weeks, with the fracture event reoccurring over the course of the season.

[north stag]

Um…did anyones MCC challenge progress just up and reset for them?

[analog salmon]

Yup

[hushed wind]

Limit inactive frame actually helped a lot. It brought my GPU's temp to 40C (neutral temperature for me) and consumed only 50W

Plus I have a second monitor so I just ALT Tab to it

[analog salmon]

window mode down to like 720p will make it even lower ;)

i think im gonna set a shortcut for AMD's 30fps cap

so i can change my armour and stuff at 30fps

then just hit a shortcut to go back to uncapped

[hushed wind]

It makes no difference. Watt consumption on idle is 30W

[analog salmon]

mine is 5W ;)

[hushed wind]

yeah- dont. Customization will nuke your fps and moving too quicky will crash your game or PC

[analog salmon]

RDNA2 is crazy power efficient at idle

[hushed wind]

My 2022 upgrade wouldve been an AMD GPU if it wasnt for the horrendous driver crap I had to put up with

what AMD gpu is it btw

[analog salmon]

RX6600, nothing great but its all i really need since I also have a Series X

and big upgrade from GTX1050

i think you can get unlucky with both AMD and Nvidia drivers

best bet is just dont update right away unless its a critical update

was somehow BSOD with an Nvidia driver

[hushed wind]

The only stable driver I had with the 5600 XT was from early 2020.

Infinite-supported drivers and up were a mess

[analog salmon]

ah that's pain

[hushed wind]

Just like the game

[analog salmon]

I just sort of bet on AMD getting it together with the drivers

if they can get rid of that reputation a lot more people will switch

[hushed wind]

With the 2nd monitor disengaged the GPU uses 15W

I think it is most likely due to the monitors having different refresh rates, or its just because I have 2 monitors

[fallen flame]

there recent drivers haven't been bad tbh

[hushed wind]

Im sure they have gotten better. But the experiences I had with AMD in 2020-2022 were abysmal

And almost responsible for me failing a class I was passing because it wanted to blue screen during a protectored E-exam

[fallen flame]

Yeah it was bad i'm not gonna lie

[hushed wind]

It wasnt bad. It was awful. And I wouldnt have justified the price for severe instability

[ruby knoll]

My experiences with AMD have fortunately been great

[ancient sun]

Seeing this as the image on my service record will never not bother me

Every other title has your customized spartan AND a quick summary of a few stats.

With the app going away, maybe the team can focus on improving the web service

[analog salmon]

there was the ability to customise your spartan via the website

maybe that's coming back but just a preview would be nice

[gray herald]

Is the hul lightlink only available on menachite?? I previewed it on MKVII but it doesn't show up, is 343 doing another preview scam?

[ancient sun]

yes, but it never showed on your service record summary page

[signal ivy]

no polls please #rules-and-guidelines

[full warren]

anything interesting mentioned in that Q&A?

[wide trout]

#general-chat message

There was some other stuff like how they are making fixing server connections a priority, and similar things

This is all I remember off the top of my head @full warren

[full warren]

I guess the ranking system and the server stuff is good

I wonder if they will back date peoples xp they earned I know I have like nearly 2500 games now

[coarse dagger]

Probably not

[glacial tartan]

Theres approximately a zero percent chance they do that

[wide trout]

“0% chance” is… presumptuous

[full warren]

ah ok then I guess I am not that interested in that update then lol

Because I am unlikely to ever play another 2500 games

[wide trout]

You only play for your rank?

[glacial tartan]

If the answer is yes, does that matter?

[full warren]

Well if I was closer to max rank then it might motivate me lol

if I gotta start from the bottom then i probably won't even look at it

since I know I wont reach max rank

[ancient sun]

If anything it'd be nice if they did it just to the start of the Winter Update, when Match XP became a thing.
I would imagine they've been tracking since then.

Likely not possible to do from launch, so this is all I can hope for.

[rugged quartz]

I'd be a high rank if that happened I feel

[ancient sun]

But I also feel like it won't occur.
Just like with the Targetmaster skins in H5

[crystal iron]

Maybe not whole useless xp that you got to this point but xp from all your battle passes being transferred to progressive system would be cool. Like if you have finished all battle passes, then you would start with 330K xp. But I don’t think that they will do it

[eternal lion]

Still demanding more... only one answer : Slipspace Engine

[crystal iron]

Changing engine isn’t a right answer to halo infinite’s problems

[wide trout]

It would cause many, many more problems

They’d basically be rebuilding the entire game

[smoky wave]

And most likely new problems in top of that

[crystal iron]

Exactly

[smoky wave]

Or some stuff works better in one engine than other

[celest heron]

s4 store armors, weapons and vehicle skins will be cross core.

[crystal iron]

So am I the only one who still has like 312 XP boost lol

[analog salmon]

i use them just to get though the pass faster

but i hover around 100

[crystal iron]

So I may go and boot up Halo Infinite just to take a look at it. granted I'm not motivated to finish the S3 battlepass as it's mostly Stuff for the new Core which I don't even care for.

I had thrown up this idea was if they just gave us the Chiefs Campaign core but made the Undersuit like the Halo wars 2 Spartans, and made thst the universal cross core armor

[analog salmon]

if you buy premium BP its worth using the boosts to get the credits back before the next season

[crystal iron]

Hey was there anything about PVE for Season 4 discussed in the discord Chat they had

[analog salmon]

nope

they were quite firm nothing about campaign too

[crystal iron]

Bummer, that alone would have geared me to wanting to maybe play for longer than the usually 2 weeks into the season

[analog salmon]

im guessing S5 is PVE or Assault but idk

[crystal iron]

Most likely but by that point Starfeild will be out and Armored Core 6 and if those two deliver Halo might just have to be moved off to the cloud to make more room for those games.

PVP after like a few rounds getting mundane, one needs a gruntpocalypse or two here and there

We really need the ability to grapple a grunt to you and yeet them at enemies

[analog salmon]

also PVE challenges for campaign would be a nice surprise at some point but idk

[crystal iron]

See that's what I mean Halo Reach had such a perfect challenge system. They included PVE into it. Which would add even more replayability to campaign.

Again the game feels like a watered down version of aspect of reach.

I saw a tweet where I think Technically Halo reposted it, where someone essemtially former 343 or ties to 343 said that you can essentially blame Some O Conor guy for all the bad decision in Halo

[analog salmon]

lmao i wouldnt spend too much time on twitter my dude

[smoky wave]

And then going to glitches in campaign so you can get xp faster with the grindy reach progression
But I imagine if they ever put a PvE thing for Infinite they would put some form of challenges for it

[crystal iron]

But Halo Infinite really feels Mike they wanted to push to be like Reach in the good ways but fel shorter or possibly had ideas scraped because someone got overly greedy with it

[analog salmon]

i wouldnt call it greed to be over ambitious now

[crystal iron]

I would think that if they had maybe just used CODs prestige model like you reach a max rank and reset it get rewards...something like that so the ranks don't have to be grindy but also never truly ended or had a high cap or resets

[crystal iron]

No I would say poorly placed greed,

The coating system should have been an add on layer to the original color choice system.

Hell they probably would have add more money that way... People would have zero ground to stand on when it came to color choice

[analog salmon]

343 deserve credit for being ambitious and trying to introduce new ideas into halo. i dont think people just want halo reach remastered

[onyx latch]

Twitter's such trash for info.

[eternal lion]

never said to change engine. It is not possible. 343 made just a terrible mistake and didn't follow the talk from Bungie in 2015 about creating a new engine from scrap for Destiny...

[onyx latch]

Might as well just base your day plans off of the garbage in the dumpster outside your home.

[hidden scaffold]

Why is this game so annoying with luck

SO many people get away with luck

[crystal iron]

The Armor UI for Halo reach was better Cutscenes with your custom Spartan were better... Those aspect should have made it to Halo Infinite, but instead we got a bad UI and really bad nerative events that feel like they just put them together last minute

[onyx latch]

Because you focus on complaining about luck instead of making it, I assume.

[hidden scaffold]

Halo isn't COd

Halo shouldn't be COD

[onyx latch]

He never said anything about CoD.

[hidden scaffold]

Thats what they did with Halo 4

[onyx latch]

Then you haven't played CoD or Halo 4.

Such a small, simple way to look at it. I wish it was that cut and dry, life would be so much less infuriating.

[eternal lion]

Yup but everytime 343 try to innovate it is met with toxicity and bad reaction by the community... It's been almost 10 years now

[crystal iron]

They introduced the wrong aspects of that game.... I mean COD does have a solid progression system

[onyx latch]

... So did 4? It's literally the best the franchise had.

[analog salmon]

i dont like halo 4 and i can still appreciate the vision they were going for with something like spartan ops. Halo 5 has a lot of interesting ideas and i've barely played that game either

[crystal iron]

I think the issue is how they innovate, they seem to always take steps backwards and implement them in the worst way.

[smoky wave]

The progression in Halo 4 was way better than Reach

[hidden scaffold]

The campaigns are horrible

[onyx latch]

You had progression of specific stats, a basic progression system for ranking, and later in the 'prestige' section of ranking up that gave you choices.

[hidden scaffold]

Incorrect

[onyx latch]

Why am I not surprised that you're like that.

[smoky wave]

https://tenor.com/view/cortana2-cortana-halo-halo-infinity-gif-21956391

Think whatever you like

[crystal iron]

Halo Infinite should have been the accumulation of all the best aspect of previous games but it still feels like a watered down hard reset with steps backwards

[eternal lion]

if having character and developpement of the universe with a scenario, horrible, then yes it is

[crystal iron]

I'm sure some of it has to do with them having trouble with the slipspace engine and so they just kinda frankenstiened together what they could to meet a deadline while hoping they could fix it later

[coarse dagger]

This sounds like every development project out there ever

[crystal iron]

To be fair the story from Halo 4-infinkte feels like a disconnected mess, with most Characters having bad first impression to feeling empty and forgettable

[onyx latch]

Speak for yourself.

[crystal iron]

Yea But I think we had higher expectation for the Microsoft Flagship IP...

[eternal lion]

And why is that ? Fans complaining everytime, and then 343 following opinions rather then what they want.

[analog salmon]

Infinite isn't really a reset. It builds on ideas from 3, reach, 4 & 5

[smoky wave]

https://tenor.com/view/halo4-del-rio-surrender-that-ai-olivinism-halo-gif-25396564

[crystal iron]

In not the best ways. weapon pools in Halo 5 were better

[onyx latch]

Plasma Caster my beloved

[crystal iron]

Like the Hydra in Halo Infinite sucks, it really is one of the most useless tools in the game, the shotguns from previous Halos were better than the bulldog..

There is this idea called you can add to but don't take away and 343 really didn't follow this.
Had they added to and not taken away so much I think Halo infinite would have been really solid..

Like if anything each season if they added a new variant of a weapon... Like how Halo 5 had, that would add some flavor to the sandbox

[crystal iron]

And where is the SAW, that thing was Goated

https://tenor.com/view/gravemind-gif-24156512

[onyx latch]

Skill issue shown immediately.

The first sentence.

[neon vapor]

Hydra is underpowered cause you don’t even have to aim properly to use it

[crystal iron]

Nope it sucks, Halo 5 Hydra is superior

[onyx latch]

Nah.

[smoky wave]

That's just skill issue

[neon vapor]

And people forget the bulldog is automatic and 2 shot if you’re actually accurate

[smoky wave]

It's pretty good the hydra

[crystal iron]

That's if it even tracks, I have had so many hydra rounds just miss me while I demolish with the pistol

[onyx latch]

H5 Hydra is relatively clumsy. If it also had an unguided fast mode, I'd call it as good.

[neon vapor]

Pistol is just OP

[crystal iron]

If you don't miss

[onyx latch]

That's a skill issue on your enemy's part.

[neon vapor]

Being killed in under a second with a starter weapon is unfair

[crystal iron]

That Stench I’ve smelled it before

[crystal iron]

It takes several well placed shots to kill someone with it...

Hell I drop people with the commando and that was before it was buffed

Honestly I would always grab the commando over the ARbor the BR

[neon vapor]

I’ve never been able to use the commando

I can’t stand it for some reason

[crystal iron]

It's actually pretty easy if you just pace shots

[neon vapor]

I think it’s mostly just the bloom and recoil for me

[crystal iron]

The issue is it's full auto so people use it as a freaking full auto and not Burt's fire

[crystal iron]

I can only imagine how impossible it is for a regular marine to use if Spartans have Recoil like that lol

[analog salmon]

its a balance mechanic

[neon vapor]

Trying to shoot it full auto would be like those videos of people flying when using a full power hose

[crystal iron]

Lol that should be the dialogue you get in the campaign if you give a marine the commando.. like rally dude I'ma lose an arm firing this lol

[crystal iron]

When you do it right the recoil works in your favor. Few shots drop sheild and recoil basically auto aims it at their head and boom head shot

[neon vapor]

True

[crystal iron]

But I do miss the SAW, I feel like Microsoft pulled an Apple with the weapons pools and have us less options and features with the next latest version of their product lol

What you like that charged naw that's gone now no more, you liked that phone jack nope we taking that away too lol

[raven goblet]

i have a question what is career progression

i heard it coming in s4 but i have no idea what it is

[crystal iron]

A progression outside of the battlepass... Like how MW2 has right now

And since day 1

[neon vapor]

Mw2 had one?

I never noticed

Did it even give anything

[crystal iron]

You never noticed how you have a rank progression and a battle pass progression... It. Literally shows you after each round

[neon vapor]

I noticed the battle pass

[crystal iron]

When you reach a certain rank younger calling cards and when you max it you get a weapon bluprint mostly

[neon vapor]

Just not the career

[neon vapor]

Oh that’s kinda lame

[crystal iron]

Yes on the tabs go progression. You will see what rank you are

[crystal iron]

Eh it's better than nothing. You actually have to do actual work to get the cooler stuff.

Though I wish the Progression rewards were Tracer rounds, those are nice

But I did here you can add Tracer rounds to any gun somehow

[edgy fog]

Have they already discussed season4?

[crystal iron]

So Right now No Confirmed PVE mode for Season 3 and Cross core Armor most likely won't happen till Season 5.

Probably not going to actively jump into Halo In Season 4 but I may stop in to check it out for a week than just wait till Season 5 for the content I'm more interested in.

Man I do wish there was a new game in between, but I guess No Man sky and MW2 will habe to do.

Also There is a new starship troopers game, it's in beta I guess but Hopefully comes to Xbox... I did love me some Starship troopers.

[edgy fog]

Wait cross core might come in S5?

[crystal iron]

Yea we both seem to have been late to the party... I woke up around noon ish so no way I was going to be there for it

[edgy fog]

Yeah sadly I was at work

[young glen]

All season 4 and beyond coatings will be cross core. Anything else has not been confirmed to come in season 5.

[edgy fog]

Where’d you see this?

[edgy fog]

Will the others be cross core like before season4?

[young glen]

I was there.

I'll be honest, it was a bit difficult to follow as it was a long drawn out speech. But basically coatings (including weapons) from season 4 and beyond will be cross core. https://twitter.com/Mafooli/status/1659629412508155912 <- here is a decent summary of what was discussed.

[young glen]

No.

Might change in the future, but unlikely.

[edgy fog]

Wait so just the coatings not the actual armor itself

[sullen anvil]

Well we got a small scoop of the future of elites and assassinations but what about bullets ricocheting??? Will that ever make a return?

[young glen]

Just coatings.

[edgy fog]

Bro that is so disappointing

[young glen]

That might change in the future. Cross core is difficult, and might not even be possible for all pieces.

[sullen anvil]

Wait will S1-S3 coatings be cross core or no???

[young glen]

No.
Could change in the future, but it's unlikely.

[edgy fog]

I don’t understand how cross core armor is different tbh that seems more like a dev explanation

[young glen]

They said that coatings were difficult in itself to implement universally across cores. I imagine pieces would be even harder.

[grave ether]

Assigning colors vs aligning armor pieces are fundamentally different

[young glen]

Gotta take into account proportions, clipping and more dev stuff I'm not even thinkin about

[eternal lion]

The 1st problem is UI and the process to make coating (they didn't make a universal system)

[sullen anvil]

Very big favor but I really hope the menu UI gets a theming overhaul. I want it to have a lot more defining characteristics

buuuut knowing what Infinite is like under the hood- that’s a huge task

at the bare minimum I would like an audio shift with the UI. I hate the clicking sounds

[eager shuttle]

They said it's something they wanted to implement, but it wouldn't be at the same time as S4's new cross core coatings

[sullen anvil]

It is especially bad on some speakers. Very headache inducing

[hidden scaffold]

Have Headshots been taken away from this game also

If so that annoying

[coarse dagger]

No

[hidden scaffold]

That should be added

[coarse dagger]

?

Headshots haven't been removed

[hidden scaffold]

The ability to headshot people

[coarse dagger]

You asked if they had been removed
I answered: no

[split oracle]

is their a updated roadmap or anything like that? havent checked whats new or upcoming in a while

[hidden scaffold]

Also why am i getting into matches when it's me vs 4 players and my other players are AFK, 343 FIX YOUR STUFF

It's annoying when this happens

[white birch]

Take aways a major part of the game since CE...Not likely

Also, again; stop playing ranked

[hidden scaffold]

Why

I am competitive

[white birch]

It's making you mad and you don't sound to be having fun

[hidden scaffold]

I want to just get good at the game but i cant with bad teams

[analog salmon]

the solution is infact play more ranked

get so good at the game everyone is good

no more afks

😄

persevere or something

honestly if you wanna get better fast and havent already done so, watch some pros solo queueing

shows you how to play smart without communication

[hidden scaffold]

I don't care

Matchmaking needs fixing

It's so bad

[smoky wave]

Sounds skill issue