halo-discussion

[smoky wave]

Unless something is in stone, and even that might change, they are not going to tell you

[onyx latch]

My god, just say 'no answers' instead of whatever the hell 'cya' means

[coarse dagger]

Extending that to everyone else as well

[onyx latch]

Kk

[smoky wave]

Alright

Husky time it is

[smoky wave]

Played enough destiny 2 and now is time for it 😌

[ruby knoll]

badstiny

[smoky wave]

That is so true but I like pewpew magic

[ruby knoll]

use sidearms

[smoky wave]

I do that in PvP

[ruby knoll]

use frontarms

[livid fable]

so, bungie was the og maker of halo. And then bungie went on to make destiny. I don't play destiny. But for those who do, how similar is the gameplay to halo?

[stone star]

gunplay is kinda similar I guess

but it is very different in many ways

I'd say it's more different than it is similar

[smoky wave]

Yup

Gunplay is pretty good but it's not really similar to Halo basically

[stone star]

the pulse rifles are similar to the dmr

[livid fable]

Reason I ask: A while back, i played the games chronologically on heroic (Minus 5 because.... well, look, i made it through 4, alright?) and when I went from reach to CE, it didn't feel like a technological downgrade.

[stone star]

wait no pulse rifle is the burst one isn't it

[smoky wave]

Yes

[livid fable]

Graphics were worse, obviously, but gameplay was so much more..... it's hard to describe. But that feeling extended all the way through halo 3 and even odst.

[smoky wave]

Scout rifle is the one

[stone star]

scout rifle that's right

[stone star]

u sure? CE's physics engine should have definitely given a different feeling

[livid fable]

Halo 4 did not feel like either CE or reach. Halo 5 multiplayer feels..... GOOD, but different.

[stone star]

jumping and vehicle handling should have felt a lot floatier

[livid fable]

vehicles handled BETTER for me in ce than in reach

[stone star]

damn, now that's a take right there

[livid fable]

jumping felt very different and more useful.

[livid fable]

and i didn't even let kat drive.

[stone star]

interesting to say 4 didn't feel like Reach

[livid fable]

*just realized important caveat. played them all with mnk.

[stone star]

4 to me feels very much like Reach in its gameplay

[livid fable]

4 felt... heavier?

[stone star]

huh

[livid fable]

maybe just the animations? But i don't think so. It feels more mobile than ce for sure. but i've played a looooot of halo reach firefight. and 4 feels a good bit different.

[stone star]

4 recycles a lot of stuff from Reach though

[crystal iron]

No bloom is the big difference

[stone star]

there's a lot of reused animations in 4 from Reach

[crystal iron]

For sure

Really didnt like the loadout system

Everyone chose either jetpack or the wallhack ability

And a br or dmr

Oh and the boltshot

[faint pilot]

just crashed out of a 1-1 fiesta ctf in overtime

thanks game

[crystal iron]

Thats infinite for you

I really wanna play it but the crashing issues are...

[faint pilot]

It was my fault, I made the mistake of having fun.

[smoky wave]

That's illegal, you can't have fun

[crystal iron]

Prolly why it did that

Tried to save you

[faint pilot]

Yep. Can't enjoy the game without a licence (premium tier 100 of the newest battle pass)

[crystal iron]

I love battlepasses❤️

And nearly $70 worth of shop items a day❤️❤️❤️

[onyx latch]

🙄

[stone star]

at least you only have to buy the battlepass twice

[ivory glacier]

Dredge 4 matches in a row. This is BS now

Make it 5

[misty vale]

Why would anyone buy my little dolly dress up garbage ? Bp and events is all u do. $20 total

[glacial tartan]

Hardcore Doubles being back in MCC means cheaters flying / aimbotting nonstop. Automated bans should be possible, no?

[tulip tusk]

someone had some sort of teleporting hack in mcc reach customs lol took flag and teleported to their base and capped in 5 seconds was dum. wish i could go observer mode and see it

[crystal iron]

You should see custom games with assassination

Its a bloodbath when only the hackers remain

Some arent that obvious with it

Some just flat out fly around and have an auto-assassinate aim bot

[crystal iron]

The fact they put as much crap in the shop as they do proves otherwise

[faint pilot]

bot bootcamps back

thank god

[glacial tartan]

There is a YouTube video they made to sell their cheats where they show this off. Insane that 343 can’t do anything.

[toxic parrot]

Hey are we ever going to able to get the action pose stance? It's been there since season 1 and it's been the only stance I've been wanting to get

[wide trout]

These situations are constantly being looked at by 343 as they are brought to 343’s attention. I highly suggest you submit a report to either 343 via aka.ms/HaloSupport or to Xbox directly so action can be taken.

[sinful agate]

This is kind of a weird question. I just got a different game reward from infinite BTB, but I clicked out of it before I could see what it was. I think it was something like Ason__, does anyone know what that was?

[wide trout]

probably from the current hazmat event?

go check your free event pass

[celest heron]

how do you get the crosshairs on the reticle to be more outside of it? I'm watching 2gre and he has them.

[tepid latch]

OH yeah, they're much longer than default

[terse falcon]

dosn't he use a diffrent screen ratio

[celest heron]

no idea

[deep mantle]

I'm just going to say it, I think flag juggling is a stupid strategy

[lime robin]

Works though

[deep mantle]

It's still stupid. Stealth capture is best capture

[lime robin]

If you don't have any arguments to back that up other than "It's stupid" then I don't think you have much of a point to begin with

[deep mantle]

Because it's a minor speed boost at the cost of the enemy knowing exactly where you are, which is a big deal in an objective game type. You don't really need to go any faster if you're not under any pressure

[hushed moon]

I would only juggle if your teammates are actually protecting you while your carrying the flag

[lime robin]

The enemy is going to find you before you get out of their spawn anyways

[deep mantle]

Maybe I would also, but I don't see that happening often in random lobbies

[hushed moon]

Yeah

[deep mantle]

Nah you just got to be smart and go where they aren't

[faint pilot]

Unless youre rocking active camo...

[hushed moon]

When I load into a btb game with randoms I already know we've lost (They all have default armour😭)

[faint pilot]

then again who'd be crazy enough to juggle with camo on

[thin elm]

When I see default greys and 1 emblem I cry

[hushed moon]

Swear ive see my teammates play like it's rainbow six seige and crouch walk around the map in a fiesta game

This is 1 possible reason why 343 should make halo infinite like 5 or 10 dollars beacuse everyone gets the game like its fortnite or something

[white birch]

Sometimes that works, depends on the weapon you have.
Hammers, looking at you

[hushed moon]

Yeah or a sword but they just use like regular pistols (if they had the stricker sidekick I wouldn't be mad)

[zenith sun]

Master Chief is weak in Halo 2. Especially to Jackal Snipers. I am never going to be able to beat Halo 2 LASO with how tough this game in. It's incredibly unbalanced.

I want to feel like a strong Super Soldier. Spartans aren't supposed to hide and take cover and snipe enemies from a distance while fearing being seen by a Jackal sniper.

[frosty condor]

Then play on easy

[analog salmon]

Fr LASO isn’t about playing as a super soldier

It’s basically marine role play 🤣

[celest heron]

it was more important in previous Halos cause you moved a lot slower while carrying the flag. Stealth carries have a place, but that's not going to work in higher skilled lobbies.

[viral ocean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YoKFthM__0

[tropic ermine]

clearly a halo discussion

[crystal iron]

bro ive been looking to play ranked tactical for like 2 hours now. the game's a graveyard

[crystal iron]

Is something wrong with ranked tactical? All playlists are low on estimated time, except that one?

[zenith sun]

Playing on Easy won't earn me the LASO achievement for Halo 2. Unfortunately.

[low musk]

49 days till season 5

[tepid latch]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-worry-about-it-bob-no-no-worries-no-problem-gif-24253149

Love when i only have to search for like a second

[tepid latch]

Damn, thats the first time i've ever played Husky and it was awesome!

[open umbra]

Even the Marines have more health than you. Maybe that's why Sgt Johnson said you can hide behind him when you were in the mission the Armory.

[coarse dagger]

@fervent trench you can share your Halo content in #1076327824924872755 - it will embed there

[crystal iron]

Covers a great distance in the long run, but more than enough they'll always find you, just how soon

Ik in reach walking diagonally makes you faster somehow

With the core^

[onyx latch]

Same reason it happens with turrets. It's because the game treats it as a turret.

As for why you travel faster moving diagonally with a turret, no idea.

[formal stratus]

Someone took Zannys forge map name 💀

[spice trellis]

corpo?

[formal stratus]

Yeah, could be a coincidence I guess

[spice trellis]

anything i can do? my game runs smoothly just crashes occasionally

[wanton root]

corpo name should just be to reference cyberpunk, since it takes quite the inspiration from arasaka buildings in cyberpunk2077

coincidence likely

[young glen]

Create a post in #1075989764026675210. Mods prefer if we keep community support in that channel rather than bloating #halo-discussion with it.

[spice trellis]

oh right sorry

[young glen]

But, activity there is low, so might be worth trying to Google possible solutions first tbh.

[spice trellis]

i barely use discord so didnt see that channel

thanks for your help

[devout kite]

343 should remove btb heavies from the rotation since it’s stupid and boring

[compact pagoda]

Hi all, I have a doubt that it was possible to change the battlepasses but now I can't do it, do I have to complete the current one before changing or has it been removed as an option?

[rugged quartz]

You can change it, of course you do have to buy the battle pass you want to change to

[hollow bobcat]

I'll be the bad guy today; I think Halo does need a reboot. 🔥

[lime robin]

k

[hollow bobcat]

The story honestly hasn't been going anywhere after Halo Reach. While I do like Halo 4's campaign despite being overall mid, the games afterwards had terrible campaigns. The classic revitalization of the story with enhanced graphics, better effects, and more can be a benefit. Just look at what Capcom is doing.

[thin elm]

Infinite was that reboot

[hollow bobcat]

Infinite was a continuation. Although, it's a very bad campaign on top of that. The only reboot that Infinite had was restoring the classic armor (for no reason) and forgetting about the previous story (for no reason).

[thin elm]

Chiefs armor is the drippiest it’s ever been

And mk7 is also drippy asf

I like the more classy style ALOT,

[magic night]

I wasn't a fan of the shift in narrative direction, but other than that Infinite's campaign was fine. If bad narrative was the only thing needed to make the campaign awful, Halo 3 would've been the worst.

[hollow bobcat]

Controversial Opinion: They should have kept the Halo 4/5 design of the armor in Infinite. If we really needed the classic armor, at least explain why he got it instead of "oh hey, he's got classic armor for...some reason..."

[lusty wraith]

If I had creative control over Halo…

[lusty wraith]

Big disagree, so much neutered for “open world” it damaged the linear mission design too. Halo Infinite for me is S-tier art design with probably the worst narrative to date

[uneven bison]

Open world design had potential but it was done wrong

Any game franchise can be good with open world, but there is a formula that needs to be followed

[lusty wraith]

Not everything needs to be open world it’s an epidemic

[uneven bison]

An epidemic of bad open world games, yes

Sonic frontiers was garbage, it was the complete wrong way to do open world

[lusty wraith]

Funny I was about to say that Sonic did the same thing

Pokemon too

Zelda at least did a good job but I still like the non-open world style

[uneven bison]

I’m not into Pokémon very much but I have not heard anything good about the open world format in it

Which is surprising, considering Pokémon is the perfect game for open world concept wise

[lusty wraith]

CoD doing some open world shenanigans too

[magic night]

I enjoyed the freedom to explore the map and approach missions the way I wanted. It offered something linear missions did not.

Narratively, it told a story. I didn't like that they pretty much swept all the stuff in Halo 5 under the rug, but it had strong character dynamics to push along a story about Chief.

[lusty wraith]

Assassin’s Creed open world games might be my least favorite

[limpid pollen]

no reboots pls i just want them to finish the story they r trying to tell rn

[lusty wraith]

Strong character dynamics such as another Chief + Cortana drama only this time we needed to give the pilot therapy and Escharum kept sending us angry skype calls

[hollow bobcat]

What story? We've had 3 games post Halo Reach and it's not going anywhere.

[limpid pollen]

escharum was handled so poorly, and what even was the point of excluding atroix from the game?

[limpid pollen]

apparently the big bois @ microsoft are considering a halo reboot

[hollow bobcat]

They should to be honest. I know I'm sounding like a villain, but I have my reasoning.

[lusty wraith]

Bro he def died bro

2 seconds into the game

[uneven bison]

I heavily dislike destroy all humans open worlds strategy

[limpid pollen]

and i dont even know what story like

halo 4 5 and infinite have almost 0 connection to each other, idek whats going on anymore

spartan ops had a bigger impact on the halo story than halo 4

[hollow bobcat]

4+5 had some connection. Infinite just threw away everything previous because they felt the fans might be happy. It just made things worse.

[uneven bison]

It felt like I was doing the same thing over and over, and I had to do missions in a specific order which I did not enjoy

[limpid pollen]

343 in 2015: what if cortana is dead... but not really ?!

343 in 2021: what if cortana is dead... but not really ?!

also were just never gonna see arbiter again is my take

[uneven bison]

Whereas with Elden ring and totk I had freedom to roam and do what I wanted, although there was a recommended order of things to do

[limpid pollen]

or flood cause they need to hit that T rating

[thin elm]

Oh I agree, I prefer a cutscene showing y

[limpid pollen]

im a massive bungie halo stan and even i think itd have been better to just stick to one plot, dont ask me to consume a bunch of suplimentary material, to understand the in game story

[thin elm]

It’s y I hate gen2 chief nanobot retcon

Jus show us

[limpid pollen]

and then back on escherum or whatever, they shouldve just kept the main bad guy as atriox, hes set up as a crazy villian in halo wars, they never tie that story together afaik either. infinites story is just bad, i think it could be worse than 5 tbh

[limpid pollen]

what this

[uneven bison]

And infinite didn’t do that. They filled it with repeat missions, and I was limited in what I could/couldn’t do. There was some collectibles, but not nearly enough side quests and other things to goof off with. Freedom is the best way to do an open world game

[lusty wraith]

Chiefs armor in 4 was a result of Cortana modifying his suit using nanobots

[limpid pollen]

the campaign was only interesting in that it was more open ended than typical halo games, but more in like a halo ODST sense, the map isnt open its just big. youre still limited to large "levels" youd have to load into

[lusty wraith]

According to Frank post release

[uneven bison]

I’m fine with a linear story but it should be something that can be approached from multiple angles, and doesn’t blot out other things to do. At least until the end.

[limpid pollen]

the levels themselves werent very interesting tbh

even the EPIC ARMOR sequences werent as good as in other games, imo

but its always really fun to fly around and blast banished in a banshee

[uneven bison]

ODST is also a bad open world game.

There, I said it.

[limpid pollen]

well the point is neither are open world

its just like, an overworld area

theres i think 3 levels in this "open world"

3 big areas to do missions in

[thin elm]

He shud be in h3 armor in the cryo tube

[lusty wraith]

It’s because every game increased the intensity of the sequences, Infinite is the first game where Marines can’t operate anything on their own

[uneven bison]

The approach towards odst made sense but ended up just being another empty, “follow the beacon” thing.

[thin elm]

But he’s not cuz let’s change styles lol

[limpid pollen]

oh ya true, i wasnt into the power ranger armor

[lusty wraith]

Even in CE Marines could use ghosts

[limpid pollen]

true, you do feel more alone in these big battles

idk like... the engine is fun, the equipment and guns are fun, what happened ????

where is the game?!?!!?!

i know im all like 2 years late with all this as well... p.s i hate the pilot

[lusty wraith]

So interested in what the next campaign will be like whenever it comes out

99% they’ll stick to the open world thing it’s a marketing gimmick that works unfortunately

Doood open worrrld broo

[hollow bobcat]

Or they might not even have a next campaign because of how badly 343 is with their structure.

If I was Microsoft and the studio creating Halo has made three games that were not very popular and the last one took over 6 years with even worse results, I'm restructuring everything. Maybe even getting a new studio.

[ruby knoll]

oh boy another moronic rumor

[coarse dagger]

This was from back in January, after the layoffs happened

[limpid pollen]

mint blitz said it 🥺

[ruby knoll]

the reverse boosting guy who spews out any half baked rumor for views?

[limpid pollen]

i wouldnt mind another open ended sort of campaign but they should probably refine it. like give more meaning to it being an open world, you can already bring marines in a warthog, or on a tank, somehow expand on that

[lusty wraith]

Not on a tank besides the gunner*

[limpid pollen]

well, he is a youtuber, not wrong

[smoky wave]

You see, I can't form an opinion

[limpid pollen]

theyd have success if they just stuck with something, one plot

[lusty wraith]

I just don’t see the benefit, like you can do most of what you can do in Infinite (and more) in a linear campaign

[limpid pollen]

halo 5 had so much hype, people obviously WANT to like 343's stories, but 343 sabotages themselves seemingly every time

[ruby knoll]

4 and 5 are known to be financially successful lol

[limpid pollen]

tbh its hard to make an unsuccessful halo game

[rugged quartz]

Unlike me. I am not financially successful

[limpid pollen]

u have to really do a bad job for ur halo game to not sell well, like its such a massive franchise

[hollow bobcat]

But if you ask the community if it was their favorites, they would say no.

[limpid pollen]

aside from the campaign, the multiplayer is really good now, idk what was going on behind the scenes but the stuff 343 has been doing in the past like, 8-ish months has been good

[ruby knoll]

the community is not known to be particularly coherent

[limpid pollen]

halo 4's story actually grew on me

[ruby knoll]

and Microsoft has only ever cared about the bottom line

[limpid pollen]

the first play through wasnt great for me, but a few months later i replayed it with a friend and we both thought it wasnt as bad as we first thought

[rugged quartz]

Halo 4 story is so amazing and halo 5 had a great multiplayer

[limpid pollen]

well i think microsoft wants halo to succeed for sure, u have to determine what is microsofts decisions and what is 343's

[long cypress]

halo 4 threw me off when i played it but looking back at it (and playing spartan ops) i find the prometheans to be a neat little addition

[limpid pollen]

i honestly doubt microsoft has any say in the story or etc, maybe in terms of the game being F2P and the microstransactions, but... ya id be surprised if you told me phil spencer was telling 343 to make halo 5's story bad

[limpid pollen]

spartan ops felt so interesting and fresh, especially when the new episodes would drop

its a shame they decided to scrap that story

[ruby knoll]

i don't think Xbox was involved in minutia but it's more than possible they could influence things on a high level

[onyx latch]

Mint Blitz wouldn't know how to pour detritus out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

[limpid pollen]

i agree, but to what extent? i doubt we'll really know

[long cypress]

i haven’t gotten through much of it but i think i finished more of it in one sitting than i have since i played ODST in a single sitting

(i came into halo really late)

[onyx latch]

Last person you should trust with statements like that, because his source is an journo industry tool spreading bad faith rumors.

[limpid pollen]

ODST or reach are my favorite campaigns, next to halo 2 of course

halo 3 was kinda... idk

[white birch]

Considering that game journalism is apparently on fire and collapsing as we speak I'm going to start taking stuff with even more of a grain of salt

[long cypress]

i love odst and then i half-ruined it for myself by playing it on legendary (the only game i’ve completed on legendary)

[limpid pollen]

y do u feel so negatively towards the ole boy?

[limpid pollen]

we looove uplift reserve

[rugged quartz]

What he just said is a reason

[onyx latch]

^

[limpid pollen]

well i guess what im asking is why do u say that

[long cypress]

uplift reserve speedrun strats is mario kart /j

[onyx latch]

Because I don't tend to deal in believing the words of people who absorb the words of grifters and regurgitate them as gospel.

[limpid pollen]

my favorite legendary mission easily

[long cypress]

fr

[limpid pollen]

see thats what im saying, ur talking about him so negatively, why?

[onyx latch]

I literally just told you.

[limpid pollen]

like ur talking as if he personally offended u

[onyx latch]

Noted.

[long cypress]

and you can get so many other achievements done using it (no dying, no health packs, without firing)

[limpid pollen]

you just said you wouldnt trust something he says, cause hes a grifter and etc etc, WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT

[onyx latch]

... Because I'm literally saying what he is.

[limpid pollen]

like is there an example of him saying BS???

like wtf??

[onyx latch]

Well, for starters, what you're saying he's said, lmao

[lusty wraith]

Who?

[limpid pollen]

ok, why does that make it BS???

[onyx latch]

Mint Quitz

Because it's not true, lmao

[limpid pollen]

ok noted, so for no reason at all, you think everything mint blitz says is lies, for NO REASON

[onyx latch]

If you want to put things in my mouth and seethe about it, go ahead.

[limpid pollen]

hes just a liar, and never tells the truth, for no reason

[onyx latch]

Just do it a little quieter, please.

[limpid pollen]

bro im literally just trying to ask u why u think that

[long cypress]

damn 💀

[limpid pollen]

and all ur saying in response to me asking is "oh cause hes a liar"

why. is. he. a. liar?!?!?!

[white birch]

Clout

[lusty wraith]

Idk what’s goin on I have so many people here blocked lmao

[limpid pollen]

thank you, damn

[onyx latch]

Someone said that earlier, lmao

[white birch]

The same brush applies to most YouTubers.

[limpid pollen]

wait ya thats just what this guy said

ok so how do u know hes clout hungry, if hes just saying things that happen with the game like thats what i dont get

[onyx latch]

He's literally a Halo Youtuber.

[rugged quartz]

What's your favourite youtuber killer orca?

[limpid pollen]

like ya hes trying to get views, but is what i was saying earlier like, fake news????

[white birch]

Mint just happens to be the most noted by dint of having been featured by 343 a couple times in things.

And being popular with the COD quick scope montages crowd

[onyx latch]

Again, yes, it's fake.

[rugged quartz]

Outrage and misinofrmation gets views

[onyx latch]

It's bull that came to some canoe in a dream that he's spouting like he knows something.

[lusty wraith]

I like Skill Up

[onyx latch]

I didn't know Killer Orca was named TheAandZ.

[white birch]

It WAS Halo Canon. Then the Fandom drove him to take a break over the TV show.
Now I don't have one.

[lusty wraith]

Disagree with a lot of his takes tho

[limpid pollen]

what he said was a tweet from some directer at IGN or something, so if anything, the quoted tweet is BS

[onyx latch]

Mint's BS for spreading it further and believing it.

[limpid pollen]

whos the dude with the fox logo who does halo stuff???

[ruby knoll]

oh no

[limpid pollen]

cannot remember his name, but his channel was pretty big

[rugged quartz]

I see, you don't watch any ones now?

[long cypress]

why do people here talk like it’s an email

[rugged quartz]

Oh no...

[limpid pollen]

cause u have to be very careful when the mods are around

[onyx latch]

I highly doubt most of you type like this in Emails.

[white birch]

Halo Follower

[ruby knoll]

i wish halo had a guy like AOE(2) does with T90

[limpid pollen]

rip halo follower

[ruby knoll]

T90 has been a blessing for aoe2

[grave ether]

Hey,

I genuinely don't know, but any insight on the matter would be welcomed.

~ Warm regards
Skyfi

[thin elm]

because we wack fr

[white birch]

Most don't covet the canon. Just events in the game itself I already know about or stuff on the outside that I really don't need to know.

Installation 00 is pretty good though but he doesn't do the style Canon did

[limpid pollen]

This email was sent on an Iphone

[thin elm]

i watched so many halocanon vids omng

[long cypress]

(Sent from My iPhone)

[limpid pollen]

thank u ☺️

[ruby knoll]

T90 is super chill, helps spotlight community projects not for clout but genuine appreciation, runs/is involved with tournaments, and casts both pro and casual games with a lot of community

[limpid pollen]

does 343 just hire whoever to make the halo soundtracks nowadays?

[onyx latch]

No, considering they've been consistently knocking it out of the park with every game they've released.

[ruby knoll]

they hire skilled people who are interested in the job yes

[limpid pollen]

nah i dont mean to say they r bad, just wondering if its always someone new

[onyx latch]

They tend to change between games, yeah.

[limpid pollen]

i can probably just google it tbh

[onyx latch]

Oh, right the AoE2 guy. Took me a sec.

[limpid pollen]

halo infinite has/had FOUR

[ruby knoll]

for H4, it's Neil Davidge and Kazuma Jinnouchi, H5 is just Jinnouchi, Infinite is a couple of peeps

[onyx latch]

Honestly, I wish Halo had more Youtubers who were actually worth the bandwidth it takes to watch their videos.

[ruby knoll]

split between the Campaign soundtrack and MP soundtrack

[onyx latch]

Most that were good quit.

Like, T90 type stuff would be nice.

[rugged quartz]

I see. so you mostly just like the halo lore youtubers but there aren't many

[limpid pollen]

halo infinite was like, one of those contract jobs where theyd just have people quit and would need to replace them with some dude from the temp agency

[ruby knoll]

yeah i'm usually not into long videos but i'll gladly watch a 3 hour diplomacy game

i suppose that's an angle that'd be hard to have in an fps since it's a much faster timescale

the amount of drama, backstabbing, intrigue, etc in some of those diplomacy games is insane

[onyx latch]

Damn the jerks who stole my recording equipment in Vegas.

[limpid pollen]

true we need more halo lore content

itd be cool to see like... some lore book in the next halo game, kind of like destiny lol

[white birch]

None that deep dive, no

[limpid pollen]

im sure there out there if u dig around a little

[onyx latch]

They did it for literally one damn game and it was a Kinect tie-in.

KINECT

[rugged quartz]

What?

[onyx latch]

The original release for Combat Evolved Anniversary had a library/scanning feature that gave you lore blurbs if you utilized your Kinect device via speaking to it in-game. It's the only time a Halo game has actually had a codex-style feature.

[rugged quartz]

Oh like a codex

They said a lore book so I was confused

[onyx latch]

I figured they meant a 'codex' system, so maybe I am wrong in my interpretation.

[glacial tartan]

How many times are you going to try to ask the exact same question

[lime robin]

I'd unmute early but I don't know the answer

[knotty magnet]

Hello everyone

[white birch]

I really want something like that again. With new lore too

[knotty magnet]

I wanna try to collect all the Unicorns in Halo Infinite

[lime robin]

I hope you like Forge

[stark fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-planet-planeteers-power-up-gif-14179737

[knotty magnet]

I do try to get better at it but I don't think I'm talent enough to ever get it in the game

[lime robin]

Then you're going to be missing like two

[knotty magnet]

Noooo!!! which ones?

[lime robin]

Fire Unicorn is one, though that one can be earned by getting your art featured as well

Cardboard is another, you need to get a Forge map into recommended

[knotty magnet]

Whoa whoa that's a new one I've never seen before!!

Cardboard!!

[sullen kiln]

For server moderation concerns, please message @ModMail.

[smoky wave]

Well, you know what to do

[knotty magnet]

I got in trouble 😞 by accident

[faint pilot]

when you keep getting stuck with butler because iratus is busy watching the discord

[knotty magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/sadness-simpsons-gif-12578198

I didnt know

[crystal iron]

Bro

Bro💀

Game loses its marble with you if have over 50ms in ping

💀

Also why does it forcibly crash on you if you even click on another monitor

Happens instantly

Going against gold players as a bronze 3

Nice

[sullen kiln]

You may refer to #1075989764026675210 if you are in need of community based assistance. This is strictly community sourced and operated and is not staffed by any official members of the Support team.

For official support, you'll need to go to the Halo Support site: https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

[crystal iron]

ranked tactical

[young glen]

Playlist.

[lusty wraith]

The infinite music team is excellent hope they stick around. Marty and Michael need to be credited properly though

Gareth Coker is among my favorite composers around but he is not the composer to The Road

(Yes I watched Marty’s recent video, you should too)

[onyx latch]

Why would anyone watch a sad egotist?

[buoyant girder]

alright bro☠️

[glass swift]

Is halo broken or something

[devout kite]

What you mean?

[crystal iron]

Yo how we doing it's been a while since I popped in here I see they added a bunch of new modes to infinite.

I forgot I had that tag name here

Anyhow still going through seeing what they've added since then but I mean how does everybody feel about the game since probably Year One?

[karmic oriole]

Is anyone else having a glitch in husky raid where you can't turn in the flag?

My dads been playing the past few hours and has tried to turn in the flag and it won't turn in, he's even restarted a couple times and it still happens

[dusty token]

Has 343 said at all when "The Duke" weapon charm will be available? It says coming soon and released during Infection.

[slim flint]

some maps have your flag and where you put the enemy flag at different spots

[crystal iron]

First game back and I have to guard a guy in capture the flag who takes close to a minute to realize that he's trying to put the enemy flag back in the enemy base instead of Our Own lol.

Not even upset I generally think the poor soul was just really confused cuz eventually he did move the flag to our base

Just noticed a Feature in MW2 multiplayer that honestly I know it won't come to Halo Infinite but would of liked... It asked if I wanted to play with the same team

That could be a neat feature.

That said I tried the new Modern Warfare and I just don't care for it like most of the quote popular games out there right now

[crystal iron]

Oh I made it a hobby to just amber other enemies in that game I exclusively use a shotgun that has a 25round semi automatic Fire rounds that just spams death

[lusty wraith]

So you don’t care about artists and would rather support the trillion dollar corporation, good for you!

[onyx latch]

Cry harder, I'm sure Marty will love you someday for putting words in my mouth.

Or should we just block eachother now and share eachother the trouble?

[lusty wraith]

I did have you blocked, just unblocked everyone to make sense of a conversation earlier, goodbye! Don't need to see toxic people 😎

[onyx latch]

Right back atcha, toxiroo.

[lusty wraith]

Still can't believe there are people who still don't get that MS actually was and is in the wrong for miscrediting talent. It's not just a Halo issue either, for example, a similar thing happened with C418 and is why they no longer make tracks for Minecraft

It also ain't just Marty they don't credit Michael too and he was also part of the suit against MS

[onyx latch]

Then I'll watch Michael's video.

[ruby knoll]

halo fans only seem to care about credit and whatnot when its their holy idols

[slim flint]

when was there a similar issue that halo fans overlooked?

[lusty wraith]

You don't know jack about me

[onyx latch]

Off the top of my head, there's harassing a major writer to the point of him leaving all platforms and cutting off all communication.

Because they wrote something the fanbase didn't like.

That was actually surprisingly well-constructed in hindsight.

[ruby knoll]

not a similar issue per se, not that i think credit needed to be given for songs where Marty and Michael were not directly involved, but more the spirit of the thing

take Halo CE's script for example

or if you want to talk about a person or people getting shafted by le big megacorp, look no further than Ensemble Studios

[lusty wraith]

Man these guys will really say they're gonna block you but can't follow through just to spam nerd emojis lmao. Pretty lame

[ruby knoll]

i never said i'll block anyone lol

[onyx latch]

And I'm not AC.

[ruby knoll]

and I'm Javert

[onyx latch]

And I'm sending AC to the Trenchbird mines

[ruby knoll]

they say that those sent to the trenchbird mines are forced to dig only with entrenching tools....

[onyx latch]

Digging valuable Bloodbird crystals

They get stronger with every kill

[lusty wraith]

Throwback to early stockpile and fusion coil suicides

[grim citrus]

I actually want to be a Halo/Game Content Creator. Problem is that I don’t have the editing skills required to become one.

[rugged quartz]

start with a phone app you find for free

[midnight tree]

just went through 3 hours of spawning in front of enemy ghosts and wasps, disappearing grenades and bullets, packet loss, and 500 ping in back to back BTB matches

[smoky wave]

HiddenXperia video again

[open umbra]

Are we still talking about this? This is the third time. (No offense though)

[smoky wave]

This is going to be the main thing for a while because people blindly believe on a tweet or a youtuber talking about it

[open umbra]

Changing topic, I hope the Banished can use equipments when 343 launches forgable ai and firefight.
Grapple Shot wielded by Brutes/ Elites might be wierd since they can use jump packs, other than that it would somewhat make the gameplay much more dynamic.

Also due to the introduction of Quantum Translocator in S4, I think it's good to reintroduce the Prometheans. Have some of the Soldiers or Knights wield the QT, and only those can teleport, which at least makes the teleportation more bearable than in H4/5.
(I'm not sure about the Crawler and Watcher though, also need more Forerunner based equipments)

[prime kite]

who down to play two quick campaign missions with me on mcc

[sullen kiln]

If you're looking for other Spartans to join you in battle, check out our LFGs:

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
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Don't forget to check out #lfg-and-voice-chat to learn about the !lfg bot, how to use it, and how to create your own voice channels.

[faint pilot]

Hopefully they bring back kick options in response to griefing. Don't want to keep getting run over by a ghost like in Halo 5...

[wraith tiger]

^^^^^

[native tinsel]

Yo, I just finished the new halo event within 2-3 hours, the new stuff is pretty cool ngl

[tepid latch]

Surprisingly easy to complete events now!

which is great! but i do kinda wish sometimes a little more effort was involved

[smoky wave]

We kinda had that until the community complained, so I don't think we will ever see something like that

[tepid latch]

Yeah ik, I understand the complaints when it came to specific gamemodes, but if its something like an event week, I really wouldn't mind it being more related to playing the featured mode :P

I do wonder if we'll ever get proper daily challenges back

[crystal iron]

We'll have to wait and see all the changes apparently haven't brought anybody back to the game then I played last night in the game seems to be in better state.

I'd rather than try to focus on stuff that might bring people back to the rather than stuff that people complained about some before

[tepid latch]

Yeah I think the things they're focussing on now is great and should totally keep that train going! but also a lot of the stuff they're working on anyways thats bringing people back is stuff that the community has given feedback for

[crystal iron]

Yeah like I saw some people on one form talked about how they should bring Warzone firefight to cuz it would give something for the more casual base, and a strictly PVE mode like that probably wouldn't be a bad idea war zone could be fun when you just wanted to chill and turn your brain off

[tepid latch]

idk if we'll see Warzone come to infinite anytime soon, but a PvE mode would be amazing! I do love just hopping on games like destiny 2 to kick some alien butt. would love to do the same in Halo

[runic slate]

I have ptsd whenever someone mentions how good Halo CE is

its imo unadulterated garbage and was absolute torture to complete on legendary.

[tulip tusk]

i luv halo ce

[signal ivy]

Halo CE is so good, it was super easy to complete on legendary

[runic slate]

Oh it was easy on legendary far easier than Reach but man playing it on legendary just amplified the absolute torture that is the second half of the game

[fallen flame]

if you know what your doing haha 😂

[soft yarrow]

After I mostly missed out on Halo 5, Husky Raid has been really fun this week.

[soft spear]

My only feedback for Husky Raid is to bring in more of the campaign OP weapons

But I love love love the weirdly scaled Valhalla map

[magic night]

Smallhalla is great

I played a match of CTF on the regular version right after a Husky Raid match and I had to check twice to make sure which mode I was playing because it looked pretty much the same, just scaled different.

[full lodge]

Anyone on halo 5 seen the clan imss

Red Emile skull logo

[serene badger]

I think that Husky Raid is the most aggressive game mode multiplayer has.

[rugged quartz]

I do wish team mates were more aggresive

[rugged quartz]

What's your favourite map out of all of them?

[celest heron]

I didn't like the campaign looking map too much except for the giant lift

[rugged quartz]

Aqueduct

[neon vapor]

That map is way too large

Ended up having an insanely long game on it

[grim citrus]

Halo 5’s Husky Raid = Ruthless Aggression

[smoky socket]

Is there a way to make the oddball carrier faster than all the other players?

Super Escalation has the campaign weapons

[faint pilot]

husky raid with cowardly teammates brings out my inner Wings of Redemption

[rugged quartz]

Team mates need to learn to push more

Best tactic is to push together, not stay back

[faint pilot]

and die in spawn while the enemy literally walks in and takes the flag without repercussion

[soft yarrow]

I had 3 games back-to-back where i got all 3 flags earlier today.
Whip your aim on the grapple just right and you can drift through the enemy spawn.

[ruby knoll]

husky raid more like

Malamute JBOD

[faint pilot]

you were probably playing against some of my former teammates

[thin elm]

w utt

[limpid berry]

Megapolis is the worst husky raid map lol

[tepid latch]

looks lovely, but I wish It was just a little bit bigger idk. I loved playing Diminished and Disciple so far im keen to play the rest

I think i've found megapolis one of the easier maps to get captures on since if you have a hammer or rocket and a grapple you pretty much grapple in from the outside, kill the team, grab flag and head out again

[limpid berry]

Aye Megaman Legends

Megapolis needs extra lanes at spawn, it's too easy to spawn trap

Diminshed did it right 👌

[ruby knoll]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures#JBOD

[thin elm]

U sly mf u

[warped dagger]

I just reinstalled Halo Infinite yesterday and it feels like the game is .... actually playable now???

when I installed the game in 2021 it was like pulling teeth just trying to start a match

[thin elm]

It rlly is so much better, plays amazing

[crystal iron]

Games have come back from worse it could actually make a comeback if they keep going like this

[crystal iron]

Okay so that's one thing that needs to come if you have somebody leave at the beginning of the match you should get a fill part way through we got no fill

I really don't see why that should be an issue for quick play to have that feature

Or that's too difficult just have the match reset and be called a stalemate

Okay scratch that I just popped into a game partly started so I guess the system just works when it wants to 🤷‍♂️

[rugged quartz]

I've seen a few people online say they really like megapolis

in the best

[ivory glacier]

Is husky raid all fiesta CTF? I only played 2 matches

[vivid dirge]

anyone know if anyone plays MCC competitive is still alive? cant find a match, which playlist to play?

[slim flint]

yes

[fallow crow]

infinite has some of the worst spawns, either you spawn too far away, or spawn right next to an enemy.

[onyx latch]

Right, because that problem is totally exclusive to a single game in a genre known for spawn trapping being a viable tactic.

[crystal iron]

Any ideas for what Halo Ship I should try to recreate in Starfeild

[serene furnace]

The In Amber Clad

[crystal iron]

You just described COD all of CODs... Especially that border map

[crystal iron]

I will begin to get pics

[crystal iron]

I plan on making my ship a flying warcrime lol

Call or the grey Team Special delivery

[frosty condor]

[analog salmon]

customs firefight being on dedi servers is epic

playing customs flood firefight on legendary with a buddy from alaska and its flawless

[lusty wraith]

I’d say Halo has always had some questionable spawns but it is definitely infuriating when spawns don’t switch sides in Infinite’s pit remake

[open umbra]

Spirit of Fire or Pillar of Autumn?
Maybe just build a Longsword or Vulture first.

[crystal iron]

Ooo good choice

What about the halo reach space jet we flew

[open umbra]

The Sabre?
On that front, also the Broadsword in H4?

[crystal iron]

Ahh yes sorry it’s late and now i remember

Thanks

[urban urchin]

Any halo 2 for vista wizards out here

[analog salmon]

well i have played halo 2 for vista

[livid fable]

after watching some videos of destiny gameplay, I feel like this is what OverWatch 2 was shooting for, and maybe what Halo infinite was originally going to try for.

consider: multiplayer cooperative online gameplay focused on clearing missions that drop every so often as part of a serialized campaign

then go look at all the fractures and ask what the heck they were doing there in the first place

also considering the way the multiplayer campaign modules were introduced to us, and how little connection there was between the game modes and the multiplayer campaign modes

like they were recycling cinematics from something else and trying to find a way to force it to fit

[maiden skiff]

Is it just me or the series 7 right shoulders for Halo 4 are missing on the customization menu?

[lusty wraith]

If you’re talking about the unlock menu in MCC you get both shoulders with one tier

[maiden skiff]

no I mean the customization menu.

S7 shoulders are missing for me, IDK if its me or the season 7 shoulders were accidentally disabled in a patch

[lusty wraith]

Oh wow well then my b, definitely a ticket worthy issue if it doesn’t resolve

[coarse dagger]

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[crystal iron]

Yeah I got reminded of this last night.
I still found Modern Warfare 2's worse though from what I was playing that briefly to see if cod had gotten better

[slim flint]

how do they know how long I’m watching?

[glacial tartan]

With Twitch drops twitch captures the viewing time and you can track it on your profile.

[slim flint]

ok

[cinder ore]

is there a self promote tab?

[lime robin]

#1076327824924872755 For videos or art that are Halo-related.

[devout kite]

343 needs to remove scar 24/7

Because nobody wanted btb heavies in the first place

[hushed nest]

Dude I love the Husky raid match.
really fun

[devout kite]

Nice to see 343 isn’t punishing campers

[onyx latch]

Welcome to FPS games. First time?

[limpid lance]

Bruh the memories https://youtube.com/shorts/jgB4P0qggIE?si=xrBVAwWt3NKnpcQ6

[celest heron]

how would they do that?

[earnest token]

In halo mcc if you link ur steam account to Xbox ur name flashes but when I did it didn’t

[devout kite]

I hate bad teammates like 343 needs to start giving me teammates that know how to play the objective like come on

Start forcing players to play the objective or give them zero xp

[celest heron]

lol yeah play the objective or we'll ban you. that will go over great.

[urban urchin]

Do you think I can get a pre owned copy or do I need a brand new one so the game can actually be activated

[signal ivy]

that's a terrible idea

how would you define "playing the objective"?

[crystal iron]

What are you talking about? Literally most of community really likes this mode

[crystal iron]

Same

[crystal iron]

How do you want to force players to play objective?

Also not giving any xp is a bad idea

[magic night]

Anyone who doesn't touch the ball or flag within 2 minutes gets banned for life.

[ivory glacier]

Makes no sense

[magic night]

I was being facetious

[ivory glacier]

Is husky raid gonna stay? That is so fun

[zenith holly]

My husky raid experience has not been great since my second match of ever playing it was me getting spawn killed by sniper or shock rifle.

[magic night]

It's scheduled to leave on the 12th. It'll probably come back pretty quickly.

[ivory glacier]

They have to keep to that somehow

[glacial tartan]

It doesn’t for you.

[earnest token]

So if mine flashes it only flashes for others? I can’t see my own flash? Thanks for info

[glacial tartan]

Correct

[crystal iron]

Okay I took off over a week for season 5 this Spartan has done his duty.

[white birch]

That's Husky Raid

[merry mural]

The HCS twitch drops are continuous right? I got today's at 99% and I know for a fact I was less then a minute away from getting the MKV & Rakshasa colors lol. Once tomorrows stream starts I can finish those then start working on the others, right?

[coarse dagger]

Yep :)

[analog salmon]

code has a few activations but its impossible to know if you'll get a copy with spare activations

i think new copies are too rare

[slow walrus]

currently playing on BTB and I have no HUD and can't pause the game

no crosshair either

[summer aurora]

It's a shame people don't tend to use mic chat in matchmaking nowadays

[livid fable]

I agree but I had to turn mine off after dealing with people who consistently had excessive background noise

[summer aurora]

smh people need to work on their mic setups

[livid fable]

nothing like trying to hear your teammate over the sound of their Chihuahuas begging for attention

[summer aurora]

I agree

[ivory glacier]

Feel like a idiot. Couldn’t figure out where to put the flag in husky raid

[grim citrus]

Mic is only on if I see people that knows how to play halo at a high level

[crystal iron]

just curious , instead of a full reboot why not reboot it to after halo 2 or after halo 3 (if thy reboot it to after halo 2 thy can use sargent johnson and instead of killing him thy can use it for a different plot )

tho i could be wrong about that im not fully aware of the story and lore of it so idk if thats even a possibility

[uncut goblet]

it took me so long to open the game due to lag and it crashed. great

[analog salmon]

i think if they did any kind of hard reboot it would be the death of halo

i know i would completely pass on the story at least

frankly i dont think it's a possibility

[livid fable]

you ever notice that the only people who teabag are smurfs?

[crystal iron]

rip

[grim citrus]

No. Just no.

[crystal iron]

i just hope thy add firefight or some warzone hybrid to halo infinite

would bring me back to it for sure

[livid fable]

yeah, i'm basically waiting for firefight

[crystal iron]

tho that might be asking for to much i hope not but its 343

[livid fable]

they'll get their precious shop purchases once it's out

[crystal iron]

i kinda expect packs agine if thy do add warzone

or it will be a battlepass thing

[livid fable]

34 bucks for some skins

[dusk whale]

if i heared correctly, firefight is going to come. It's only not sure if it will be in S5, or that it might be on S6 for what the rumors are.

[crystal iron]

i mean as long as its in the next 2 years all be fine

tho i expect it will be buggy

[crystal iron]

According to the article I read today it sounds like season 5

[dusk whale]

that was what they were planning on, but i heared rumors that S5 might be a bit to early and that they might postpone it to S6 and bring another feature in S5 (not sure what it was, i think VIP?)

[livid fable]

supposition positive has same worth as supposition negative.

[crystal iron]

Possibly but it's usually better to look up than down

[livid fable]

observation for current situation is i'm still doing what i was doing on launch- waiting for it.

[crystal iron]

pve / story was the most fun part of halo sure pvp is fun but pve is def way more

[livid fable]

not anticipating it. waiting.

[crystal iron]

tho you either get to be a fan of both or a fan of pvp or pve

well i guess you could not like any of it

[livid fable]

pvp is potato chips

[dusk whale]

i linked the campaign. Maybe not the best in the series, but still very good. Already completed it in laso and even helped a friend of mine (who isn't that skilled to pull that off by itself) to finish it on laso by doing it co-op with that friend.

[livid fable]

potato chips are fun. a man does not live on potato chips alone.

[dusk whale]

potato chips are not fun, they are just tasty 😉

[livid fable]

I mean I could definitely say the exact sentence or at least the first part about PVP

PVP is what I'm doing while I'm waiting.

because firefight is so hard

and 'unsportsmanlike conduct' is such a joke of a category in this game

moving to a lighter topic. because i know how any clear observation tends to get treated.

Husky raid is fun. But they should consider making maps not quite so one-sided.

[jolly lion]

cursed to be stuck in diamond 3 forever

[livid fable]

one-side is the wrong word.

[jolly lion]

constantly get 5elo away then get some absolute inter on my team

[livid fable]

spawn-kill maps are questionable at best.

spawn kill maps for one side might start with rocket launchers and the other side might start with pistols is ludicrous on its face

[rugged quartz]

On which map?

[analog salmon]

that's a bit like saying spawn killing shouldnt be possible in grift ball

its just a silly mode

[livid fable]

that's a bit like saying spawn killing shouldn't be possible in infection.
It's just a silly mode.

i guess since it's just a silly mode we might as well just make it so people randomly spawn over cliffs

after all, it doesn't matter.

it's just a silly mode.

[livid fable]

on the blue map, you gotta go in the grav lift

[crystal iron]

now see that's just not even the same talking about over a cliff. Like You can get spawn killed on normal game modes depaneding where it put you.

[analog salmon]

spawning off a cliff isn't fun for anyone

getting lucky with RNG and spawn killing the other team so you can cap their flag is

halo has plenty to offer if you dont like RNG crazy modes

i just dont play modes like fiesta or husky raid because im not a big fan of that kind of thing

well at least not when im just solo queuing

sure i would have loved a mode like that when i was younger and jumping on with my friends after school

[livid fable]

yeah, and that's generally seen as bad design.

[livid fable]

getting unlucky and starting out with a plas and disruptor pistol while the other team starts with literally rockets and snipers isn't, though. That's the point.

[analog salmon]

right but the whole idea of RNG weapon spawns is to give one team the edge so they can annilate the other team multiple times until they can get the flag

[crystal iron]

that's called rng it's not fair. Also well no spawn system will be perfect some times your just going to have what is called a bad game.

[analog salmon]

the other team might get better weapons when they respawn

or they might not

"That's the point."

[livid fable]

okay, if that's the point, then just start out the game where one side literally has the power weapons and the other side doesn't and call it a mode.

putting a break in the middle is the difference between action sack and crap sack.

[analog salmon]

alright im not responding to your reductionist nonsense

[crystal iron]

Look at it like D&D no matter how high you have a stat because of RNG your always have the chance to roll a nat 1

[livid fable]

lol autocorrupt

I'm not responding to demonstrably false premises

[analog salmon]

you're literally responding with if a game has a large degree of RNG it should be entirely RNG lol

just get good bro, learn to use bad weapons

[solid ingot]

Why is my computer not letting me use controller for MCC?

[summer aurora]

does anyone else here like halo

[toxic parrot]

To be fair,he has a point. I've had teammates quit games because we get spawn trapped in husky raid and whenever we get good weapons,say a rocket launcher or a cindershot,they kill us and take it. They basically farm us until the end of the game which isn't fun. It's why reach grifball, in my opinion, was the worst Grifball. That's all people did

[analog salmon]

maybe a second of spawn protection or similar would address that

remove rng weapon spawns and it just becomes a stalemate unless you change the maps to the point that it's not the same game

[toxic parrot]

Nah leave the rng weapons

That's fine. But specifically deal with the maps

Either make it so you can't see each other across the corridor,or you can but at the spawn there is a sort of spawn protection. Or maybe similar to halo reach,the players spawn behind a shield that they can exit but can reenter

[analog salmon]

i wonder why they didnt do it like that, seems sensible while still allowing teams plenty of oppertunities to make successful pushes

[crystal iron]

I remember Gears of War did a brief spawn protection of around 5 to 10 seconds and it worked pretty well

[toxic parrot]

Yeah but the only reason why they did it there is because unlike in halo,in gears of war there's only 2 set spawn points. So if you get spawn trapped by snipers and spawn protection wasn't there,you wouldn't even be able to move

[night meteor]

Yeah spawn protection in games with wildly varied spawns across a whole map is that you run into the inverse issue

Instead of "oh, I died because I spawned where someone is", it's "oh, I died because someone spawned on me and was invincible"

although the latter can functionally happen if they spawn behind you, but you might be able to fight back in theory even then

[white birch]

A lot of the maps for Husky Raid in 5 had that. I remember one where you had to go around a corner to see the pathway forward.

[livid fable]

I can't have a point, it's just a silly game mode. pointing out flaws in the hope that we can get them corrected is reductionist.

anyway.

[livid fable]

I think the most interesting idea I've seen for spawn protection is not invincibility, but letting the person who's about to spawn in have about a second of preview of the area they are about to spawn into

I really don't like the idea of temporary invincibility. hard to put my finger on exactly why. I think the threat of someone spawning in behind you and you being completely defenseless is what makes me not like it. even if you made it so that if they attacked then the invincibility deactivated, you're still giving them a free shot. it's less of a bad problem to have, but it's still something of a problem.

[night meteor]

Ah, so the complete and total opposite of Splitgate, which spawns you before killcam ends if you don't skip it 🤔

[livid fable]

I have never played split gate, so unfortunately I cannot verify

[night meteor]

Yeah that's a thing that happens

If you don't skip killcams, you spawn with it still playing, and you can die before you finish watching it sometimes (without realizing you spawned)

[livid fable]

wait, it spawns you before the kill cam ends

holy smokes

[night meteor]

Eeyup

Seeing your surroundings before you spawn would be the total opposite of that

[livid fable]

you might be able to play around with whether or not you could see enemies before you spawn

simply knowing where you're going to spawn so you can make a plan on where you want to move would do a lot

at least, I think it would do a lot. definitely one of those things that you can't make a good judgment on without testing. also kind of difficult to test it. forge is great, but I don't think it has that degree of control.

I suppose there is also the complication that it would require knowing which spawn point you were going to go to at least one second before you spawned. that is, the system would have to know. I don't know when the system actually selects which spawn point you go to.

[earnest token]

Bring back forced game chat like in cod search and destroy old days

[coarse dagger]

If that happened I would just stop playing

[smoky wave]

People will just mute the voice volume and not use the mic

And people will definitely stop playing so

[left snow]

@livid fable I think I'd prefer a second or so of invisibility. It doesn't need to be much. Just enough to make you a vector instead of a sitting duck. And you could make it so you can't see enemies or shoot until you have properly spawned in.

[serene badger]

Before I step into forge, does this even sound fun??
A multiplayer teams map, two large floating islands facing each other, but separated in distance, each team is isolated from the other.
One team has rockets, the other team has swords/hammers along with thruster packs and repulsors.
Sword team has large moving targets behind them that the rocket team must hit for points, while the sword team must use either their repulors to deflect the rockets, or use thruster packs to sacrafice themselces to stop the rocket team from scoring.
This is a game where the rocket team wins by hitting a certain score within a time limit or the other team wins...

[wicked marsh]

i'm sure currently it's less than a second, i've spawned numerous times in front of an enemy who my teammates killed like .1 seconds before i spawn

[devout kite]

Why haven’t squad battles have it owns game icon because the icon it’s currently using is a btb map

[devout kite]

343 needs to start giving zero xp to players that won’t play the objective

[celest heron]

You keep saying this, but it's not enforceable.

what if the enemy team is destroying you and you can't get to the obj or someone on your team is hogging the ball. Those are just two easy examples

[white birch]

Gotta slay to play the objective first anyway.

[devout kite]

Yes it is enforceable it’s easy if they have zero access the board they get no xp

[celest heron]

are you talking about afkers?

[devout kite]

Yes

[celest heron]

usually those ppl get booted for inactivity unless they're purposely moving. I doubt they get very much XP regardless

[devout kite]

343 needs to start making matches more fairer since I have dumb teammates

Because an 2v8 isn’t fair

[quasi finch]

When firefight comes out this game will be at its peak

Unless they release a dlc in the future which they absolutely should

Even though they said they weren’t working on one that doesn’t mean they aren’t in the future

That was also the old employees at 343

Before the firing purge at Microsoft/Xbox

[quasi finch]

Lmao

That’s not gonna happen, it’s a perk of playing infinite by yourself

Especially ranked

I once got a teamate on ranked who got 2 kills and 14 deaths

The enemy team was all plat players

Except one guy who was silver

[slim flint]

wait until you play a 2v4 where your teammate just keeps killing himself and then leaves halfway through the match

[night meteor]

I hope it also comes with a mode like Halo 5’s with it

Having both would be great

Especially considering how dead 5 unfortunately is

[tame crane]

How do you publish a map in infinite? I'm not seeing any options anywhere 💀

[devout kite]

You don’t

[tame crane]

You do, thats how people find other maps in the browser

Cuz otherwise your files cant become viewable by others if its not published

[livid fable]

not entirely

conventionally speaking you are absolutely correct

but one thing you could do is diminish the number of points you get for kills that are not against people who are near the objective. anyone you kill from near the objective would count as near the objective. so if someone is sniping at you and you are 15 yd from the objective and you kill them, that would still count.

this would make playing the objective and slaying while focusing on the objective more important for accruing experience points.

it's doable, but I don't think it's necessarily a good idea

[celest heron]

the game still wouldn't be able to tell who or who isn't playing the objective correctly in different variables. Obtaining map control for example would be playing for the objective, but it would require people possibly not being near it and getting kills. The game wouldn't know that and punish their score. Overall, the original suggestion wasn't good for normal players and he was just referring to afk'ers anyway.

[faint pilot]

How about instead, boost the score you get from doing things like capturing and defending objectives and flag carriers? That way it doesn't punish everyone across the board indiscriminately, but still pushes players to play the way they're meant to.

[rose tundra]

Halo Season 5 info when? 🥲

[faint pilot]

Oct. 18th, when we get to see the return of more bugs

[full warren]

joined a game with a 3 man, one of their mates dc and they all 3 quit the game.... amazing

then the people who joioned didn't know how to play so hide in a corner...

[slim flint]

which game was this?

[full warren]

just a team slayer. but omg now I put in a game where it was 20/6 on the lossing side

I went 14/6 and still lost 36/50 I mean what is the point even putting me in that game just to ruin that game for me

I should quit just like the people before me

about 6 people left on that team during that game. obviously no one want to join mid game into a lossing game, I was like the 4th person put in or something. they need to stop runining the experience of people when the game is already struggling

[slim flint]

was it Halo Infinite?

[full warren]

Yeah

[slim flint]

ok

[full warren]

The litmit is stupid, if its not 25 kills they will put you in

even if it is 25/0 they will still force you to play

[slim flint]

because I’m pretty sure that MCC doesn’t put people in lobbies mid-match

[hollow bobcat]

Husky Raid is kinda bad tbh. I remember it being a lot better in the old days.

I think it needs to be 5v5 or 6v6.

At least, that one map sucks.

[slim flint]

which one map?

[grim citrus]

More reason to update H5 in 2023

[hollow bobcat]

It's a bigger map; You have to take the grav lift to score the flag capture.

The one night map is chaotic and good.

If it's the night map, then I like it. Otherwise, that bigger arena sucks away the fun.

[slim flint]

if I’m thinking of the right map, you can sneak from one side to the other by grappling below the bridge

[hollow bobcat]

yeah that one

the squad battle mini map is genious though lol

[slim flint]

smallhalla is cool

[gray wadi]

Why are so many people in MCC PC team killing so much? Whats the point? Halo 1,3 online have just been 2-3 people team killing, every few matches and if they engage first, and I fight back I get booted/penalized.

[slim flint]

do you happen to have any power weapons when they kill you?

[gray wadi]

Halo 3 was just at the very start, 1 started to kill me, killed me on a warthog (The generic one not the laser one) then in Halo 1, I did get a sniper, and one dude kept trying to kill me for it, but I killed him twice, then he started to kill others, got booted, then another dude right after, got in a banshee and started to just attack everyone at spawn.

[onyx latch]

Never bother killing them back.

It's a good way to end up getting booted yourself.

[slim flint]

what do you recommend doing?

[onyx latch]

Suffer.

You either make it worse by giving them an out to get you out of the game or have it be bad until they get booted.

[tulip tusk]

sometimes its fun my brother and i used to tk all the time in campaign lol but yea thats why most peeple turn friendly fire off there are some well known griefers n trolls

[livid fable]

if i have a video of a funny glitch, where would i put it?

also, what's the name of the husky valhalla map? Huskyhalla?

[toxic parrot]

Can't lie,I think I'm done with infinite. I'm probably going to only be playing mcc from now on

[tulip tusk]

smallhalla

[livid fable]

matchmaking?

[tulip tusk]

mcc is so fun the cgb is where the fun is, if infinite ui and cgb worked maybe it would compete but idk

[toxic parrot]

Mix. Matchmaking + not much of a fan of forced crossplay + Absolutely despise crouch strafing

Thats honestly what ruined the game for me. Crouch strafing

[gray wadi]

I haven’t played infinite since the first 2 weeks it released. Didn’t enjoy it, I really wish the grapple hook was a main mechanic of the game, and the level design complimented it. They should’ve committed to it for multiplayer/single player. MCC still my go too tho, even if I have my gripes about the players, every game has its problems with community. It’s still a lot of fun.

[toxic parrot]

Halo infinite was fun at first but now it feels like I'm playing against players who think they're going to be next in the big leagues. I just want to chill in the weekend and get my mind off of everything irl related by playing halo but I can't even do that

[gray wadi]

Yeah, I guess I get it now from my previous post, the team killing/tbagging and Bming is just the experince in the classic halo's its really not that big of a deal since the games have come and gone, its just meant to be fun, and i believe thats what everyone is doing in MCC. Thanks doods for helping me see the light, its just part of the community.

[livid fable]

there is one thing that's kind of really cool about husky raid depending on how you look at it

a single person is not capable of winning the game for his team

I killed nine people in a row all at their base. none of my allies captured the flag.

it's good to have a team mode that actually requires teamwork instead of only kind of promoting it.

[tulip tusk]

is it possible for the wraith to be added as an official vehicle to halo ce [multiplayer] or is it not possible at all? if one employee can do it ill send some donuts and coffee mayb? please 😍

[toxic parrot]

Can't lie,I might be on some Mandela effect or something,but I could've sworn that you could use the wraith in ce campaign. I don't know why but for some reason I have memories of being able to use it. And I replayed ce multiple times in a row back then

[tulip tusk]

u r sorta right, u can use it with hack programs, take control of an elite npc then hop in a wraith, but cannot use in normal spartan form sadly

[toxic parrot]

Ahhh

[toxic parrot]

Man I forgot how much more fun and less sweaty mcc is

[fluid quail]

is playing with br starts only possible in infinite in ranked and swat? custom games obviously but every time i look at the browser it's a bunch of goofy modes and it only displays one page, no way to look for more games. unless it's dead and no one uses it?

[onyx latch]

Man, that's a pretty funny joke.

[toxic parrot]

Played +10 matches straight of pure precision slayer. FFA. Mixed between halo 3 and halo 2. Won only 3 games but I still was enjoying it. There was only one game I didn't get to fully enjoy and it was because some guy was going full demon mode with the energy sword in halo 2

I can play 3 matches of halo infinite and even if I win all 3 chances are my arms are going to be shaky and I'm going to feel the complete opposite of relaxed

[ruby knoll]

lol
lmao even

half the threads in the cesspit of the MCC steam forums whine about how le gane is le sweaty (the enemy team played better than me :(((((( )

"Time to rant and seriously consider never playing this again. Every game feels like a sweat fest in social games now and has been for awhile because no one good wants to play ranked anymore for some reason. I played 3 games in a row where the other team was stomping us into the ground causing people on my team to leave the game. I look at all the opposing teams stats after each game and everyone has well over 100,000 kills in multiplayer while I've spent roughly 16 to 17ish days total in play time with around 11,000 kills which just goes to show how much people no life and only play these games like no other fps game has ever existed. By no means do I consider myself great at halo but I'm well enough to place rank 20 in halo 3 competitive and hold a positive k/d most games. It's completely unfair when the opposing team is destroying your team because the game loves putting the worst possible teammates with you that are either AFK or leave early to middle game. The last game I was literally in a 4v4 slayer game and I was the last one left on my team not even past the halfway point of the game, like this is a joke at this point. Then, of course I get banned and penalized for leaving a 1v4 game which makes zero sense."

@onyx latch

[toxic parrot]

Hmmm ok I see your point. I guess it just depends on the mode. I played one mode of br slayer and it wasn't sweaty at all. It was my first game after months away and I was trying to get used to it but we still won. I think what I find funny is invasion is a lot more sweaty than it was before. Which is why I will never play it sadly

[livid fable]

did you just respond to a specific stated experience by citing a different stated experience?

also,

in a non derisive manner,

what the ever loving hell does a bird in the trench have to do with a current conversation?

[tropic gate]

what do you think of aim assist on m&k?

[celest heron]

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-south-park-gif-20664336

[tropic gate]

and why it hasnt been removed yet? 8 months and we still have to play with aim assist on mouse instead of using raw input

[fallen flame]

you know the aim assist does really well right

[celest heron]

I look at all the opposing teams stats after each game and everyone has well over 100,000 kills in multiplayer
lol, the games been out for 9 years. It's not that hard to get that amount of kills playing casually unless you're not good at all.

[tropic gate]

yes but on mouse and keyboard it sucks

[fallen flame]

tell that to all the pc players that like it lol

[tropic gate]

almost no one plays with mk

i only met 3 other ppl playing with mnk

i'll tell u what happens to me... I want to flick and change target and I can't because aim assist triggers and it slows my sensitivity on a target i'm not interested e.g. it's not the flag carrier

it's 'healthier' a raw input that allows the game to take directly the input of the mouse without letting it pass throw the operative system you're using. This decrease the input latency for example.

[eternal lion]

there is an average of at least 3 000 people on PC. Most of them play on Mnk...

[fallen flame]

I acutally think its way batter then before

PC players had no chance at all

[eternal lion]

there is no aim assist too...

At least not in my game. And i'm 100% Mnk.

Networking however....

[fallen flame]

Same i'm 100% mnk

[eternal lion]

On another topic because i just saw the stats of player.
The events doesn't increase at all the population. That's an issue. That does well mean : no enough communication or real content (pls stop with cosmetic beiing content). And i know that there was a "new mode". But communication about it was only speaking to the community. WHo know what "husky raid" is outside of hardocre fans ?

[celest heron]

you can track console players?

[crystal iron]

Have to agree with part of that I had no idea what it was still haven't tried it yet cuz my main interest is more of trying to improve in ranked

As for the Cosmetics I mean people said they wanted earnable Cosmetics so they're giving them to them.

[eternal lion]

nope, never speaking about them because we can't track anything

[eternal lion]

-Personnally i like it, even if some maps are not that great (at least there is no water on them... thx)
-I know. But people are beiing brainwashed by corporations. Cinematics are content because they bring story, a sense of progression and direction. Of course maps are content, some for full mode (not variation, which are good but not the same).

[crystal iron]

Oh there's definitely content here now it's just everyone's moved on has that stigma in their mind there's no carrot to chase in Halo and say shouldn't have microtransactions they don't like it but they're going to go over there and spend money on microtransactions in other games that cost just as much battle passes they can actually lose instead of retain.

Advertising husky raid better could have been a decent start but it's going to take a lot more than that to get people to come back when they have the current mindset.

[analog salmon]

The sad truth is free cosmetics keep far more players interested then cinematics

Most important thing is that the game maintains a playbase

[crystal iron]

I remember about a week ago seeing a video that said there's an estimation of 15,000 combined which isn't exactly a bad player base but you do kind of expect and want more for Halo.

[analog salmon]

I think just focusing on delivering game content is really the right move

Granted they should of course make best use of their channels to inform players about new stuff

[celest heron]

ngl, the latest cinematics wouldn't have kept me interested and when you can watch them eventually on youtube cosmetics are way more important.

[crystal iron]

I mean I would say they've done pretty good delivering content if we're comparing a year and a half worth of work to the launch.

[toxic parrot]

The cinematics were pretty good. They can still make them but they would need to use the halo channel for it. I saw someone comment that in a halo video recently

[analog salmon]

For the most part good content will get them good publicity, they don’t really need to spend money on advertising

Especially if it comes at the cost of delivering content

Like if they have room in the budget I would just put it toward content not advertising

[crystal iron]

I mean people advertise for you anyways shoot I've been trying to get people I know back into the game because of how much better it is now.

Of course they all kind of fall into the mindset I mentioned before Halo bad at launch must be still bad.

[fallen flame]

Game is kinda different now and is in such a good place

Really hoping season 5 is action packed 😄

hope its got all the bells and whistles

[toxic parrot]

I hope they add a form of spartan ops one day

[analog salmon]

There are people who just didn’t like the style of gameplay

In terms of the halo community at least

[fallen flame]

I think the gameplay is the best its ever been

[toxic parrot]

Eh,movement wise not so much. It's why I stopped playing the game. I was able to put up with the content drought but the gameplay was too frustrating for me

[crystal iron]

Even none halo people didn't care for it they want super quick movement then pull the trigger your instantly dead.

They're not used to an actual firefight that requires you to think a little bit Tactical.

For the Halo Community a lot of the ones I saw talking about it basically they're in that house of they just want Halo 3 remaster

[fallen flame]

didn't help back then with the mad desync

[analog salmon]

I would say it’s the most fun halo at a high level but it’s he social experience is not my favourite

[low musk]

Halo is definitely in a much better place now. Its nowhere near as frustrating as it was when season one or even two was active

[analog salmon]

The way you can just get absolutely melted in social by someone spamming a sidekick will never be fun for me. Just as bad as preTU reach

[toxic parrot]

Hah,you guys remember week 1? When we were trying to level up the battle pass not realizing it would take forever? I remember rushing to complete the challenges and 343 says "here's a free sigil visor"

[fallen flame]

Gonna activate everyones ptsd from launch 😂

[analog salmon]

I would actually prefer a halo 3 movement speed difference for social over insane bloom

[crystal iron]

I me and my twenties would have actually chase the hell out of that me, in my thirties just wants to play the game if I get the reward I get the reward

[low musk]

Or having challenges that was based purely on having the ability to access certain game types on a playlist that rarely issued them, and god help you if you had one that required you to 'win' them

[toxic parrot]

Noooo wait. Remember that one week where most ,if not, all the challenges involved you being forced to play ranked?

[crystal iron]

As the average Joe whi spends most of his time in ranked trying to improve I fail to see the problem there 😏

[toxic parrot]

I bet it felt like Chrismas for you guys when people get a brand new game and all the noobs show up

[crystal iron]

Not really because when it first launched more often than not I got a bunch of people that thought this was Call of Duty and didn't understand how to play objective so I usually ended up getting stuck holding the ball

That's one thing I do love since coming back is people actually pick the ball up now more

[toxic parrot]

Man social is the complete opposite. Though it might be because I mostly get players who got that number 1 emblem and nameplate with almost no matches so I can only assume they're new

[crystal iron]

Well I remember seeing a conversation a while ago saying that apparently they widened the matchmaking parameters some time ago.

It does feel like it but until they mess with it again are revert it all you can really do is just push yourself to be able to carry.

Or find a clan to play with regularly that's what I need to do.
I just need to find something that I think would be a good fit

[toxic parrot]

Nah I kinda just gave up on the game. The excessive crouch strafing was getting so annoying that it actually made me quit. Now I'm back to playing good old mcc

[crystal iron]

I haven't had too much issue with the Crouch strafing I'm getting better at being able to still pin them in the head of course I'm doing aim training before I go into matches each night too.

I can't do MCC and infinite though I used two different control schemes it throws me off switching back and forth

I use Hell Jumper in infinite

I could have overlooked if I didn't see that in MCC

[toxic parrot]

Nah for me the crouch strafing just got way too annoying. It ruined the game for me and so I'm pretty much avoiding it until they either add spartan ops,which I doubt they'll do, or firefight

[eternal lion]

There is no "'halo channel" + branching things like that is a bad move. Just like all the intel not beeing accessible in-game all the time, same for Fracture. Cinematics can't be viewed again too (i think).

[tropic gate]

Have u seen the 1v1 tournament?

Won by an mk player

[tropic gate]

It triggers only sometimes not always

[eternal lion]

At the major ?
Do you have a place were there is the results ?

[livid fable]

husky raid is demonstrating that the weapons in fiesta modes are not purely randomly assigned

only rocket launcher i got in the past 3 games was one i got off a corpse

28 kills, 15 deaths, 5 perfects

ugh. husky raid scoreboard doesn't show accuracy rate.

42.29.

husky raid is a mood.

what was great was the guy who was obviously a smurf on our team quit, then we got 3 flags

[ashen helm]

Tired of stewpid people who makes treachery in your team in Halo 3 MCC 💀

[livid fable]

I accidentally betrayed three people playing Halo infinite last squad battle

I mean it worked but still. those capture the flag on valhalla. I was in a banshee.

I'm really good at this game so I plowed my banshee along the ground instead of using the guns

I successfully splattered the enemy carrying the flag as well as the three allies who were chasing said enemy

and, because I was plowing it along the ground, it began to glow red

right when an enemy hijacked it

which resulted in me landing on the flag and sending it back to base while the enemy died in a spectacular fireworks display

chaos

[tropic gate]

I acutally saw it on twitter

[ashen helm]

I mean, betraying and teabagging... 💀

[ashen helm]

Waw 👀

[limpid pollen]

how do the double xp boosts work? when i finish a game it doesnt indicate where im getting double xp

[livid fable]

report and boot

[low musk]

Just saw info being passed around from Surasia stating simply 'no reboots'

[devout kite]

How can someone be a plat captain with 1k games played like wtf

[nova dirge]

I husky raid i grappled to the enemies side and killed like 8 people with an energy sword

Grapple and energy sword is so op

But I hate the energy sword in halo infinite

It’s design is so boring

Like I miss when it used to be actually cool

[stoic canopy]

...it's literally the same Sword as the past games. It just doesn't have the Halo 5 variants

Also; what is the setting to make WASD and Camera separate for vehicles? I want to make it so that W always moves forward (towards the HMG turret) for instance.

[livid fable]

unfortunately I'm not sure there is a setting for that

[livid fable]

I've been trying to figure out why everybody took off with that even though there were zero credible sources saying it was on anyone's mind.

I've decided that the answer is the reputation 343 and Microsoft earned.

I've also decided that since they have explicitly rejected the reboot concept, at least for now, a mental reputation reset might be in order.

[livid fable]

the bleed through diminishes it from being a power weapon to being a balanced melee weapon

[lusty wraith]

Isn’t it technically weaker since you can now trade much more easily with it

[livid fable]

like I think using the sword is fun but if you told me the sword was a power weapon I would give you funny looks

it's a power weapon that the assault rifle can counter very easily

two pops with a battle rifle and you're not going to do anything to the guy with the battle rifle that he won't do to you

better than the hammer I guess

shock rifle can one shot someone and disable vehicles. I think it has a better claim to being a power weapon than the sword does at this point.

[lusty wraith]

People throw around the word “reboot” for things that aren’t. Even with the ‘spiritual’ qualifier for Infinite, it’s hardly a reboot of any kind imo

[livid fable]

yeah, but people this time were talking about a reboot explicitly

[lusty wraith]

“Reboot” for a future game could mean like literally anything at this point

[livid fable]

there's a difference between a soft reboot, which is what some people argue Halo infinite is, and a hard reboot, which is what the silver timeline almost was

[livid fable]

yeah, except when we define it to be something explicitly

which was done

what was stated explicitly was the idea that it was going to be a total timeline reset

[lusty wraith]

Did Ryan say that he meant explicitly that? I’m not on twitter

[livid fable]

if you are not talking about a total timeline reset, then you were not talking about what other people were talking about

yes

[lusty wraith]

Well

[livid fable]

are you being a contrarian just to be a contrarian

[lusty wraith]

I wasn’t trying to be, I just thought the ‘reboot’ conversation was similar to how it was pre-Infinite, my bad

[livid fable]

u gud. I don't mind people who argue pointless semantics as long as I understand that that is their intent.

you're not doing that.

when people say halo infinite was a spiritual reboot, there's any number of things they can mean. none of its concrete, so none of it's demonstrable, so it's all opinion and you might as well discuss tiamat's favorite flavor of ice cream.

the reboot that people were talking about would have seen Halo 1 2 and 3 rewritten

the reasons people thought it might be intended is because the motivation stated previously by 343 and Microsoft regarding the Halo TV show would also potentially compel them to reboot the series. "reaching a broader audience" for example.

[lusty wraith]

Agh I should’ve looked up the tweet lmao, I hate talking out of my rear about things I don’t know anything about

At least he said his ‘gut feeling’ in the tweet but yea still…

[livid fable]

normally when you have a rumor that is that ungrounded, nobody even carries it. like if I put out a rumor tomorrow that rocket launchers were going to upgrade to 3 tubes, people would ask me for a source

rightfully so mind you

the reason nobody asked for a source this time is because it matches people's mental image based on prior behavior

sort of an inversion of the boy who cried wolf

everyone was so used to there actually being wolves that when the guy got it wrong, everyone expected the wolf to be there

if nothing else, it's a very useful lesson for everyone

343 and Microsoft learned what people think motivates them. they also learned how a mass panic can be born from their reputation. hopefully they start managing their reputation better through intelligent use of a PR agent.

and the fans have learned that what they thought motivated 343 and Microsoft isn't fully accurate. so they should keep asking for sources instead of believing rumors.

[clear cedar]

is it me, or do Spike Grenades in Infinite feel useless?

[livid fable]

I felt this way until I went into academy mode and practiced with them explicitly

spite grenades do tremendous damage to enemies in enclosed spaces.

plasma grenades deal tremendous damage to anybody near them, but enclosed quarters, the effective range of the spike grenade is definitely greater than the plasma

you should pretty much never use the spike grenade in open areas

I recommend going to that tutorial level whose name I suddenly forgot and turning on deathless and infinite Spike grenades, then hang out in the tunnel below. turn off all of the ammunition for the bots and they will begin meleeing you, and you can begin testing the effectiveness of the spike grenade

[white birch]

They used to be even nastier inside rooms but they tweaked em cause the pros commented.

[wraith willow]

is there any way to change infinite's respawn spectator view to being a fixed camera like it was before?

[solemn cypress]

it was 2 industry insiders with a reputation for saying this kinda stuff before its announced

[devout kite]

I hate how the HCS map intros is better than the regular map intros lol

[hollow bobcat]

So how many husky raid maps are there? 4?

I will say all the maps are good for Husky, except for that silver-ish level. It's entirely too big.

[hollow bobcat]

Correction; 5. We just won a match on that red colored map

[magic night]

Correction: 7

[coarse mauve]

Was reloading while sprinting ever a thing in Halo infinite? I could have sworn we used to be able to do that?

[hollow bobcat]

I can't remember, but I think Halo 5 possibly added reloading while sprinting. Maybe it was before that.

Also, is it just me or is that regular needler extremely useless in Halo Infinite? It seems you need more than the entire mag just to kill one person.

[white birch]

5 let you do it with an armor mod in Warzone.

[celest heron]

if you're using it on people who are no shields then maybe, but overall no.

[empty rapids]

just hopped on infinite to play like 10 games, game still feels awesome to play. Wish there was more in rotation stuff to do now tho yk?

bg3 is stealing all my time rn lol

[ivory glacier]

Needler seems awesome and really quick for everyone else but it sure sucks for me

[hollow bobcat]

It seems like you have to land at least 20 of those needles onto somebody to actually kill them.

In my opinion, Halo Infinite needs that fun action sack playlist that was in Halo 5. Just fill it up with some absolutely wacky modes like rocket race, sniper mole (I think it's called that), sticky dodgeball (spamming grenades only in a tiny map), and more.

Even mongoose sumo.

[celest heron]

if you get the needles to home in, then it goes pretty quick.

[magic night]

I think it's something like 12-14 needles to get the supercombine with the needler. Not too bad. Does require you to lead your shots a bit on strafing enemies to compensate for the tracking.

[empty rapids]

i hate team mates with absolutely 0 situational awarness though

[stable quail]

seriously

dont u js love when teamates dont teamate

[empty rapids]

needler is best used as a mid-range weapon for ambushing

well mid-close

[stable quail]

yo ajar tryna run some ranked i cant w these randoms

[empty rapids]

i'm na

[stable quail]

oh i forgt theres a lfg channel my bad

same

[empty rapids]

maybe, might hop off in 40 to play some baldurs gate

dm me iyw play ig, gotta finish a match first

[stable quail]

aii bet

[quiet crown]

Hey does anyone know if you can turn the white flash off when you die in infinite

[hollow bobcat]

You can turn off the white flash by not dying. 😈

Jk, I don't know to be honest.

[quiet crown]

Lol fair

[knotty ermine]

for halo mcc. when running mods. do I need to turn off easy anti cheat?

[wanton root]

yeah

[tulip tusk]

yea open mcc via team and select that option

[wanton root]

they won't even allow you to access your workshop mods if it's on

[tough temple]

I get having high ping in matchmaking to NA servers, but why in the world do I have to play in NA servers when I make a custom game with my NA friends? Is there not a setting to set the custom game to be hosted in my region?

I literally had to start a custom game by myself and then invite my friend to it, what the hell is going on? lol

[midnight tree]

how much of a difference do you guys think backpaddles make on Infinite

[jolly lion]

so many cheaters in infinite it's nuts

run into a three stack of players with less than 100 games of matchmaking

play them back to back games, all three are around 15-4 in a game of swat. 100% walling

accuracy is around 15% because they keep trying to shoot people through walls. Very frustrating

[crude ravine]

Ive thought about it, i know my buddy uses them

[grave ether]

I think it really depends on how you have your buttons and how you play. I can't play infinite without them or I feel lost. The way I have them mapped out, I rarely ever need to take my thumbs off the thumbsticks

[low musk]

Is the thing already over to do the HAZMAT coating? I thought it was starting at midnight

[tepid latch]

Yeah nah its over lol, it was for the grandfinal which happened hours ago

[low musk]

I saw on the Twitch thing that is said it was starting at 12AM on September 4th. I set my alarm and everything lol

Oh well. I got all the other ones at least

Oh wait, nvm. I forgot I kept my twitch open on the HCS channel. I did get it xD

[spring girder]

oof

[thin elm]

Huge difference tbh

If u commit to utilizing them