#halo-discussion

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eternal lion
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Its not about info dumps... its about marketing and communication... And lately there have been almost none...

signal ivy
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everything will be ok

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I promise

eternal lion
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You're not 343. So its means nothing

signal ivy
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life will go on, we will get details about the season, the world will keep turning

eternal lion
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the world yes. But Infinite ?

signal ivy
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sure why not

misty vale
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why pay someone to make up marketing materials only for social media to hate on it no matter what it is or how good it is

ruby lake
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that makes

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no sense.

misty vale
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the language filter on a t rated game's discord is a major lul.

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in short: why are you booing me, I'm right

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post up a roadmap and the first hundred replies will be negative

ruby lake
cosmic geyser
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Took an hour to do Oni: Sword Base on legendary.
That's... not a good sign.

devout kite
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This’s why they should hype up S5 now instead of worlds

ruby lake
misty vale
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Lemme step back and waste my time neil funk

uneven bison
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Most of the replies on any halo post are negative

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Or asking for something that has/is
A; already been answered with a no
B: dumb
C: just plain whiny

misty vale
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They could post up a roadmap that says they changed they mind and all cosmetics, the only way the game makes money at all, are now free and you get all of them and they're all cross core and the first rep would be like "Why not just play halo 5 then it's not got desync"

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"What about elites"

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it's just a circle of misery when they do it so I 100% understand why they don't hype anything

uneven bison
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And then people complain we have no content

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We do, you’ve just chosen to either ignore it or chase out people who say otherwise

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Halo players have very very little tolerance for differing opinions most of the time

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Conform and complain or suffer

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Yes it’s a blanket statement but it’s unfortunately true

ruby lake
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why most halo fans are just so negative?

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is there a lore reason why?

uneven bison
# ruby lake why most halo fans are just so negative?

Victim mentality and recycled opinions. It’s a large reason why the entire world seems to be so negative. Basically, it generates more clicks to be negative and hateful instead of positive and uplifting most of the time, and people have sort of stopped thinking for themselves, they just find something they agree with and insist that it’s the only true reason.

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Higher ups in communities tell them that they are victims of some sort of phantom entity, and that gets spread around like jam on toast

misty vale
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social media thrives on negativity because outrage drives engagement.

ruby lake
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i want positivity

misty vale
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and engagement sells advertisements

uneven bison
# ruby lake i want positivity

I do too, but the human minds greatest strength (and weakness) is it’s ability to focus on something and analyze it’s throughly and form conclusions.

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But these conclusions are oftentimes flawed, but since we made them, they seem to be invulnerable. That doesn’t mean every time we see something we think about it. That’s why tourists get killed by animals. They’re not thinking just doing. we do it all the time on social media, we just see something, say: “Yeah, preach!!” Argue with some people, and keep scrolling

misty vale
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dawg, folks aren't analyzing Halo Infinite thoroughly they can't even get a handle on client side hit reg

uneven bison
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Hence why I mentioned hive mind theatrics

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It’s easier not to think and just go along with what other people are saying

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And then that leads to confirmation bias which leads into echo chambers, and then the cycle repeats

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That’s why I respect people who are willing to think deeply about a situation, they use their brains instead of the share button

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Anyways, TLDR of the whole convo is that Halo fans have some reasoning issues

ruby lake
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or probably dum

uneven bison
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I like to see the positive in situations but with halo fans there isn’t much positivity, so yeah, dumb.

polar whale
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Bro how i can use voice chat in halo mcc Xbox one

uneven bison
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How prophetic of me. Anyways, do you have a headset plugged in? One with a microphone?

onyx latch
uneven bison
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Canary in a mine

onyx latch
livid fable
grim citrus
onyx latch
grave ether
grim citrus
misty vale
onyx latch
grim citrus
onyx latch
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Eh, I see Reach fans usually being the most outspoken about Reclaimer era not being Halo.

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Like, more than 3 fans.

grim citrus
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I’d like to meet those guys

onyx latch
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You've literally argued with them here.

grim citrus
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I did?

onyx latch
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Yes.

grim citrus
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They’re all the same to me

grave ether
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Halo is halo. Rings and aliens and large people in armor

onyx latch
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And Stolt.

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Don't forget Stolt.

polar whale
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Bro

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How i can do voice chat in Xbox one

uneven bison
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I tried to help you earlier and you didn’t respond

crystal iron
polar whale
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Ik

crystal iron
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Good job

polar whale
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But with wich button

crystal iron
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Wdym which button?

uneven bison
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(He has push to talk on)

grave ether
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PC or XBOX?

crystal iron
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Oh

polar whale
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Oh thabks

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Xbox

grave ether
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Push to talk doesn't work with Xbox unless it's a built in feature of a specific mic

uneven bison
grave ether
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There's no button you can map it to

polar whale
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So i can't use voice chat in Xbox?

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(halo) ofc

grave ether
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So just plug in your mic to your controller and mute yourself and unmute your mic when you want to talk

uneven bison
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No, you just need to check your audio settings

grave ether
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Or just leave it set to open mic

crystal iron
uneven bison
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Do you have it enabled?

grave ether
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Like everyone else

polar whale
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Yup

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Let me check

uneven bison
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What the voice chat audio? How high is it

grave ether
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Also there is a difference between the halo audio settings and the Xbox audio settings

uneven bison
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Parental controls can block vc if that’s the problem

polar whale
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Look i want to talk in a halo round or something but i just need to talk with the headpones?

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Thats My question how i can talk with the headpones i need 2 press a button or just talk?

serene furnace
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Guys you are not very good at explaining so I'll do it

serene furnace
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It's easy my boy, you just have to connect your headset into your Xbox controller, and then you can either just talk in game lobbies if the settings of public chat are on, or you can do what normal people do, which is joining a voice party hosted by either you or someone else and talk there

polar whale
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Ohhhhh

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Thanksss

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Let me try now

polar whale
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It works 👍

abstract solstice
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What is the best Spartan Ops mission to kill watchers? I need slightly over 100 left to get.

serene furnace
abstract solstice
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Oh interesting I'll have to look into thanks.

onyx latch
abstract solstice
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Yeah 5-1 that's the one I was doing lol was hoping for something a little better though.

normal chasm
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i just had to wait 7 minutes in q to get put in a match that not only started long ago but also got put on the team thats losing 0-2 in CTF. I i hope I dont get penalized for leaving matches like that wtf. And just before that I got put in a match on a losing team LITERALLY 3 seconds before the match ended.. whats with this game??

misty vale
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Do u live on Pluto

grim citrus
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If the alleged consensus is that everyone wants Halo to go back to the original formula (no, sprint/slide) why hasn’t 343 done it?

Is it that:
A) Only a small minority is asking for it
B) Microsoft doesn’t want them to go that route
C) They don’t know how to do it

misty vale
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Only a tiny minority wants that lol

grim citrus
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Let’s say for this experiment, halo infinite has everything that people has been asking and the game runs as best it can be, and then a halo 3 remake gets released. Where do you think the audience will spend their time playing?

uneven bison
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Halo 3 remake because that’s literally the only game they’ve ever played

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Then they’ll whine and vent about how yoroi isn’t halo while they heap praise on the Haunted and hayabusa armors

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I try to understand the other side in these situations but I just can’t with these people

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I’m not playing the same darn halo 3 over and over and over for the rest of eternity

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Not even the Star Wars Community is this whiny (instead they’re just racist, so I rescind this comment.)

misty vale
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why are you having a hypothetical arguement with someone on the internet anyway

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just go grapple some tenrais and ninja they keesters for the w

marble halo
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I dont understand how people are afraid to push in husky raid thats literlly the point

misty vale
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they don't wanna die!

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they play halo for the very forgiving time to kill, not to go in on a raid!

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mode is amazing

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but yeah folks are timid

slim flint
marble halo
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Also we really need to have a talk about how absurd the ghost is in this game lmao

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Basically wasp tier

limpid lance
crystal iron
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Why is every mode sweaty except for btb

analog salmon
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Fast movement and spammy pistol

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I think it’s mostly the movement but having to absolutely spam your trigger in close range sidekick encounters is gonna make the game feel sweaty alright

serene furnace
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Because every player is trying to win?

analog salmon
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Seems like a really poor social starting weapon but then everyone hates the bandit so idk how you satisfy this player base

marble halo
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bandit is so good tho

analog salmon
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Yeah completely beyond me why they went back to sidekick for squad battle

serene furnace
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I think it's because Squad Battle is not considered BTB

analog salmon
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Tbh I can’t understand why people prefer the sidekick over the bandit even in 4v4. That ranked slayer playlist that had bandit starts with radar was just casual halo fun for me

serene furnace
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I would suppose it is because the Sidekick can shoot slightly faster

onyx latch
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The DMR's got high recoil that offsets its higher damage and slightly longer range.

analog salmon
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Halo 5 got the pistol right, maybe not perfect but the biggest flaw for me in infinite social game design was going for a super spammy starting weapon

onyx latch
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Wait til he finds out the secret behind the Sidekick's origins

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He'll never guess it

serene furnace
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I agree 100%

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Halo 5's pistol was like a balanced version of the CE pistol

onyx latch
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(It's based off of the Gunslinger Magnum from 5)

analog salmon
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I think I liked it for about a month in season 1 and ever since then I’ve just found it really unsatisfying to fight with or against

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Spamming a trigger is just urgh

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Probably a month into season 1 was when everyone realised winning cq fights was just about spamming and praying

onyx latch
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I dunno. I don't really spam it.

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But then, I also feel like I'm John Wick the Spartan doing it.

serene furnace
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Remember when the assault rifle was hella broken and you could use it long ranged

analog salmon
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The perfect shooter for me is probably somewhere between 5 and Infinite

serene furnace
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Halo 4 :3

analog salmon
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Loool 4 is similar enough I find myself trying to clamber

onyx latch
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I stan long rang scopes on full auto guns.

serene furnace
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Yeah, even on MCC I have a difficult time adjusting to the controls because I play them all in default and you try to reload in Halo 3 with the equipment button or try to melee in Reach with the grenade swap button

marble halo
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AR feels dumb because in some 343 genius plan they made it had headshot bonus damage

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So someitmes it feels like you melt people

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sometimes it takes the full mag

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roll the dice

analog salmon
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Out of the 3 343 titles, infinite’s the one I have the least gripes with, but man it feels like most of them they got right in either 4 or 5 lol

onyx latch
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I like getting rewarded for marksmanship.

serene furnace
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Nothing beats the Halo 4 AR
Perfect design, perfect sound, and a great balance between damage output, range and bloom

onyx latch
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It applies to every gun at that, at least, the ones it's not already an instant kill for doing.

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Actually, no, even those guns.

analog salmon
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It’s obviously massively subjective but I feel like if you took the best from all three of 343 games you’d have a master piece easy

onyx latch
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WEAK POINT IS WEAK POINT

serene furnace
onyx latch
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I vomited in my mouth a little.

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Halo 2's mechanics were by far the worst ones. The least refined out of a franchise that views refinement as a dirty word more often that it doesn't unless that word is forge mode.

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I will die on that hill.

serene furnace
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I agree

onyx latch
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Don't even get me started on Reach customization compared to 4's unlock system.

analog salmon
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Tbf I don’t think it was a serious comment haha

onyx latch
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I... Honestly wish I could view it as a joke.

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But I've seen people spewing that detritus as fact enough to feel like I know better.

analog salmon
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Probably like half serious half just throwing a thought out

serene furnace
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I feel like people praise Halo 2's button combos when they are just thinking about the game and not playing it, but get very frustrated when they're actually playing and someone else exploits them

onyx latch
onyx latch
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Like, even Bungie banned people for using them.

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Not even kidding, one of the tooltips in OG Halo 2 reflected this.

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It was considered cheating.

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Nowadays, the game would be drawn and quartered for it.

serene furnace
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Halo 2 and Super Smash Bros Melee are two games that are in this very similar situation of people loving them because of their broken nature, but that broken nature not being exactly the sign of a polished product

onyx latch
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Which is fine!

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In hindsight, I mean. Recognizing that they are absolutely busted beyond belief.

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But people failing to recognize that or even espouse broken elements as proof of solid design is...

analog salmon
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CE is perfection though backpack reloading is lore accurate, chief is a wizard

onyx latch
serene furnace
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I once tried to spam melee and reload whilst jumping under my friend in a custom game (butterflying), and it worked, we literally started flying

analog salmon
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Clearly Spartans can reload weapons using nano machines

onyx latch
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I know at least one person who boycotted Infinite for over a year because they patched that melee bug.

serene furnace
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Bruh

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The BXB combo was just in the beta and it was busted beyond logic, it would have been terrible if they kept it

onyx latch
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"But it's quirky tho"

analog salmon
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The bug was funny, ig some people can’t be happy that it happened and it had to go

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It’s forever in our memories

marble halo
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I think built in button techs would be cool

analog salmon
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Actually I forgot until you posted that gif

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Could hear that gif though lol

marble halo
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we already sorta had some, like yy swaps, etc

onyx latch
serene furnace
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I mean yeah it is funny
But it would have also crushed the balance

marble halo
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landing a BXR felt so good

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lore accurate CQC lol

onyx latch
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It's funny as hell for a week, but it just becomes a draining broken abuse of poorly constructed mechanics that ultimately cheapens the experience. BXR and whatnot is in the exact same boat.

serene furnace
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I think they already patched the superbounces you can do in Infinite, or at least I don't see anyone actively trying to perform them

analog salmon
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Bxr was actually hard back in the day tbf, it’s just busted in MCC

onyx latch
serene furnace
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I'll give Halo 2 one thing
The glitches are what makes it one of the best games to speedrun out in the market

onyx latch
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Other people hate the Halo 5 fight because the choreography is too... Long?

I hate it because it doesn't reflect two space knight supersoldiers trying to find a gap in eachother's defense long enough to find the hole to win.

serene furnace
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Watching Halo 2 speedruns is just fun

onyx latch
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To each their own. I'd rather watch paint dry than watch people play a game I have a willingness to play myself.

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There's a reason I only really watch War Thunder, lmao.

serene furnace
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If I could consistently do the sword fly in my first try I would be speedrunning nonstop
But I don't have the magic touch

analog salmon
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Yah it’s more how impressive it is

onyx latch
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Lately I've honestly been finding more entertainment in making noncombat scenes from Halo in Blender than actually playing most games.

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Such as this Orbital Spartan walking down a hallway.

analog salmon
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A Spartan actually carrying his lunch box with him finally

onyx latch
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His lunch, two frags, a railgun, a pistol, and a shotgun :>

serene furnace
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There are 2 examples of watching speedruns changing the way I play Halo forever
In Outskirts from Halo 2 you can parkour around the buildings to skip the first area and ever since I saw that I do it every single time I play that mission. The same in Reclaimer from Halo 4, now I always take the route to board the Lich right after destroying the second particle cannon to save time and it's awesome, feels like an action movie to use the jetpack like that

onyx latch
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that was apparently something done only for first production run models of Orbital helmet.

analog salmon
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Timing the nades on T&R at the grav lift

analog salmon
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No matter the difficulty I try to time them to wipe out the wave

onyx latch
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That blue package on the bottom is a thermos.

analog salmon
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I assumed Spartans just steal rations from marines or something

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Or just inject nutrients into their bloodstream

serene furnace
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Yeah I really cringed at YouTube comments when the Infinite multiplayer trailer set in London came out and people thought it was stupid
Meanwhile I was finally getting something I had not seen in so many years: Spartans protecting civilians

analog salmon
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Yeah it was pretty dope, the size of the tank/brute compared to a civilian grounds the universe a bit

serene furnace
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Those are the kind of moments I like in Halo, Spartans showing you why they are heroes and why they inspire hope, not Halo 5 having them do 20 backflips while tearing through brainless Covenant units

analog salmon
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Reach’s Deliver hope was an insane marketing campaign

serene furnace
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It was a great trailer

analog salmon
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I wish they would do more stuff like that

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The ones showing civilians leaving reach too

serene furnace
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For me nothing beats that Halo 3 trailer that only uses pictures of action figures, no dialogue whatsoever, and yet it says so much

onyx latch
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It's too bad people don't care unless you see a limb get degloved and torn apart.

serene furnace
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Yeah, fans seem to forget the human part of all this

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I don't think fans understand the implications of the end cutscene in Composer from Halo 4. It's not just that the scientists died horribly, it's also that it was one of the rare times the Master Chief had failed a mission

onyx latch
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4 and 5 both have Chief failing at almost every nonmilitary objective he has.

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He didn't save Cortana, he didn't persuade Del Rio to sacrifice himself, he didn't convince Cortana to stop.

serene furnace
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For the first time they showed him doing something other than following orders

onyx latch
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Honestly

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I'm a huge sucker for Spartans operating alongside regular UNSC personnel like they're just a bigger, better armored guy or gal amidst a larger force

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Like, some of my favorite pieces are stuff where a Spartan's directly participating with civilians or other troops in a noncombat capacity.

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I wish we'd see more of it.

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Especially since a big part of the IVs is that they're still half a foot into being 'human'.

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Focusing on Chief's loss of humanity is great and all, but what about the people who had to make the choice between a normal life and one of unknown lifespan and constant warfare for the good of humankind?

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Chief didn't get a chance to make that choice, people like Agryna or Buck did.

serene furnace
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I think that's why a lot of people like to keep as most marines alive as they can when they play the games

onyx latch
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Well, that and a spot of pragmatism.

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Shockingly enough, actually caring about your teammates ensures more guns on target. Who knew?

fallow crow
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match after match, I carry every game and my teammates play like bots, there whole system blows

onyx latch
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Sounds like heaven, really.

fickle ibex
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how do i turn off pc aim assist?

smoky wave
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You can't iirc

fickle ibex
# smoky wave You can't iirc

bruh they still haven't added the option? it's been like 10 months now? ima just go play another game then, thanks for the answer though!

civic sundial
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Was that a feature they said they were adding?

supple holly
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When are yall going to tackle the cheating problem in MCC? These people have the ability to temporaily ban people from matchmaking for no reason and they're actively ruining custom games and matchmaking games, and it seems to be getting worse and worse as time goes on. Do any of yall working at 343 even care about Halo anymore? Oh wait its ran by people who literally hate halo....

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too bad no changes are going to be coming for this game! Guess it will be killed off just like Titanfall 2!

coarse dagger
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Oh wait its ran by people who literally hate halo
It's not, but ok

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I've never heard of players being able to ban people from matchmaking, seems like that would be something to report as a bug and would probably be more widely known

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

https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

coarse dagger
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You can also report players in-game or via the Support site

sullen kilnBOT
supple holly
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literally in this vid

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mf advertising his cheat too. I'm legit getting sick of these people, they're the most toxic exploiting community I've ever witnessed from any game

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imma archive his video incase the cheater sees this thread and deletes it

quiet yacht
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it looks like ddos more than giving out matchmaking bans

coarse dagger
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So that's just someone posting a video of people being banned while on stream and claiming they're doing it, with nothing to back it up other than them saying it. If this is an actual legitimate thing, very likely would have heard more about it in the 3 weeks since it's been posted.

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If you have any actual evidence (that's not this video) of people cheating and potentially exploiting the game into banning players, please report it via the avenues I mentioned above

supple holly
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will it be a problem if these exploiters are able to change their gamertags and IDs?

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because they constantly change their names and I'm not sure how I would be able to obtain their real gamertags

coarse dagger
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Halo Support would be in a better position to answer that

cosmic geyser
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So apparently MCC reach is way harder when it comes to night of solace than separate 2010 reach, which is the version I'm playing.

quiet yacht
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yeah

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technically most of the games are harder but its especially noticable in that ship segment

supple holly
# coarse dagger Halo Support would be in a better position to answer that

I've personally never seen Halo Support have any reliance of getting cheaters banned, unless someone wants to show people obtaining successful ban hammers? 99.99% of the time they change their gamertags, post match/mid game, whatever, and they all manage to get away scott free and continue their habits for years. If halo mods even remotely cared about the quality of the game (and doing their JOBS...), they would join an assassination match to seek and ban the cheaters that are flying around, lag switching and rapid firing

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you guys should at the very least make these people pay another $40 each time they want to cheat in a 20 year old halo game

smoky wave
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They are going to buy it again anyways

polar lynx
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v;

glacial tartan
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When people cheating are willing to livestream themselves cheating and post their POVs to YT with no worry of repercussions I guess we're deep into it.

What I dont understand is how someone flying faster than possible through the map or capping a flag 2 seconds after grabbing it, or constantly changing their name mid game, or switching teams or altering the playlist hoppers arent red flags for a ban in the first place. I get EAC sucks but its still bizarre that simple detections cant filter some of these actions out.

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But as others have said - submit tickets on the underlying account (not the spoofed tag) 🙂

grim citrus
celest heron
glacial tartan
devout kite
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Why do I keep getting bad teammates like come on stop giving players that won’t do anything

dusk thunder
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Why don’t plasma grenades count towards banished weapon kills challenges?

onyx latch
dusk thunder
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But the needler counts

onyx latch
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Weird.

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Could also be that grenades do not count towards weapon challenges unless it is explicitly grenades.

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or explosives.

signal ivy
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@devout kite at this point coming in here every 7 days to complain about teammates is considered spam. Please refrain from this in the future

devout kite
signal ivy
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what is your fault is spamming

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please stop

ruby knoll
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yuore welcome

ruby knoll
ruby knoll
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@onyx latch what's the verdict

onyx latch
vivid shell
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hey all

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what you all think about if they remastered halo 3?

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@signal ivy how you get the green name?

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that so cool

crystal iron
coarse dagger
crystal iron
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Tbh I don’t think that halo 3 needs a remaster already. It aged quite well I think

vivid shell
serene badger
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Oh yea, i could use more Hood.

vivid shell
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also i think that @signal ivy green name is really cool though. i love green, my fav colour. like when i got halo 3 first time and the green boarder on the box just looked so right. i miss the green boarder colour on the 360 games

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360 green the best

crystal iron
uneven bison
cloud spruce
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Hello

vivid shell
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green boarder

vivid shell
cloud spruce
signal ivy
vivid shell
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i have no idea what youre on about

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i just love green boarders

signal ivy
vivid shell
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he still lives

gray herald
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Genuinely what is the difference between the out of orbit coating and the battle pass one?

wanton sigil
cloud spruce
vivid shell
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did you just D-DOS me @signal ivy

cloud spruce
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Am lost

gray herald
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the coating you get for buying the battle pass

summer aspen
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which battle pass

gray herald
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s4

summer aspen
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can you give me a name of the coating

gray herald
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genesis bloom

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its like the "free coating" you get instant unlocked when you get the battle pass

summer aspen
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out of orbit has more of a lime green coloring to it which genesis bloom does not have

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the color placements are also different

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genesis bloom has more of a darker yellowish green look to it, not lime green, darker

gray herald
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well its so minor I couldn't even tell lol what a waste of 20$

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like why would anyone buy it

ivory glacier
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I’m happy husky raid is still here but super has gotta go. My suspensions went from 10 min to 20 lol

frosty condor
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then stop leaving

ivory glacier
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It’s terrible

quiet yacht
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"Stop suspending me" said the person leaving in progress games

ivory glacier
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Just got it 3 in a row so I played cuz I guess I had to but even with an open mind it still sucks so bad. Like so bad. Is t there a saying like “just cuz you can doesn’t mean you should”

ivory glacier
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On the bright side I pay for game pass and never really used it. These suspensions have given me the time to explore and there’s some decent games

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And I never said stop. I said get rid of super it’s terrible. I accept punishment

kindred helm
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Hey all, seemingly found a cheater in game - I ask, how long will the match be available via theater mode?

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I ask because halo waypoint limits the attachment sizes to 49mb, so I uploaded 480p vids in 5 parts, but it's not a very crystal clear vid.

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dude was locking onto every head, got mostly perfect kills, and fired the assault rifle into the floor at random times to (upon reviewing the match stats) lower his match accuracy

crystal iron
crystal iron
kindred helm
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k

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thank you

misty vale
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Same weirdos who HATE heavies

stoic canopy
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Okay, I understand SBMM and support it

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But what I'm really, really getting tired of across multiple games, not just Halo, is the "God + 3 Johnny No Thumbs" or "2 Gods + X Peasants" form of team balancing

white birch
#

So it's not just Halo? Huh
I felt that in Titanfall 2 but I thought I was just rusty

stoic canopy
#

Also, why is the Bandit a hyper-accurate mini-sniper on automatic fire when my enemies use it but feels like a weaker DMR when I use it?

Can use the BR and Comando just fine, but the Bandit all of sudden is just "Nope" while it feels like my enemies have aimbot

kindred helm
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i do feel super fiesta should be more like halo 5's where every variant , normal or super, is used (one of the few good things about that game)

onyx latch
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There is no other explanation!

ruby lake
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silly

visual cove
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MCC - If you beat a level with negative points, does that invalidate the achievement for beating the level?

dull bluff
#

howdy howdy

visual cove
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Just that. If you beat a level with negative points, does that prevent you from getting the achievement for beating the level? Not the Score one, not the Time one, the one for actually beating it for the first time.

visual cove
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Then where's my Sacred Icon achievement? I beat it with -41 points and it didn't pop.

crystal iron
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Idk, either I’m wrong or your achievement is broken

tepid latch
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Could be a bugged achievement, it happens on some levels and just gets fixed with updates

visual cove
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Unless it was indeed affected by my constant connection and disconnection to XBL, but why wouldn't it pop offline?

tepid latch
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my b odst, im a slow typer lol

crystal iron
crystal iron
visual cove
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Bro, they do in, like, EVERY other game.

crystal iron
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Ok

tepid latch
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idk if halo might be like that cuz the PC version you can mod and probably cheat achievements

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if they didn't do it

visual cove
#

Either way, guess I'm doing the level again in the morning.

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Not just for the cheevo. -41 points is absolutely pitiful, even for a guy like me who sucks at FPSs.

crystal iron
# crystal iron Ok

Never really played much games without having a internet connection so I didn’t even know that achievements work offline lol

crystal iron
visual cove
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fax

tepid latch
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What difficulty??

visual cove
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Normal.

crystal iron
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Man, I don’t wanna be mean but… maybe you should try playing on easy first then

tepid latch
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Fair, in general i think H2 is nutoriuosly hard

visual cove
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Also that.

visual cove
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Or, to phrase another way, isn't normal the ideal difficulty the devs intended the game to be played on?

crystal iron
crystal iron
visual cove
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Wait, really?

crystal iron
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Yep

visual cove
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Huh.

crystal iron
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I think it even says something like that in the menu

visual cove
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...I retract my question regarding intended difficulties.

crystal iron
visual cove
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Either way, I still feel Normal's the best difficulty for me. I beat H1 on Normal, I wanna do the same for the others - or maybe even better if I improve by the time I reach the end of the journey.

tepid latch
#

Honestly, each halo's difficulty will be totally different, like its a lot easier to beat Reach on Legendary than it is to beat Halo 2 on Legendary

visual cove
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Well, naturally. Different time periods when they were developed.

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Anyways, here's hoping I actually get the cheevo later. Night!

ivory glacier
misty vale
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Power weapons own!

ivory glacier
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There’s power weapons in regular fiesta

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And they’re consistent and make sense

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I’m not telling people what to like. I personally think it’s awful

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And I don’t like sports cars anyway but Porsches are so ugly

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But before you attack me I’m known from my family and friends as a very boring person

distant beacon
#

halo infinite needs a battle royale

celest heron
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the Shogun map is the best looking one that I've played on so far.

neon vapor
celest heron
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wow, jip into a 0-2 flag game and then half my team quits.

celest heron
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lmao, enemy team is crouch hiding in super fiesta. like, really.

short heart
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117 of 144 achivements earned

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fr

celest heron
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surprised they made the ultimate two killing sprees. that's a lot harder than previous ones.

tepid latch
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wish more of the challenges were actually challenging :/

coarse dagger
#

@worldly matrix That's something to report to Halo Support and potentially your local authority if you have definitive proof. It's not something to call out here

sullen kilnBOT
kindred helm
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yeahh screw it, i'm gonna record it in its original res, the 480p and 30fps of what i sent makes it too hard to tell

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gotta leave it with no doubt, and crush that knob

slow walrus
#

against my better judgement, I bought the championship bundle which immediately crashed my game and now it refuses to boot past the xbox game studios logo

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love it when that happens

olive brook
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mcc players when the task is to play the game

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afkers r everywhere

glacial tartan
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Cant blame them -> Quitting can get you banned, but you can AFK every game with no issue.

noble urchin
#

THANK YOU 343 FOR REMOVING BTB HEAVIES FROM BTB PLAYLIST I LOVE YOU

grizzled pond
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Hello

stark fractal
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How’s everyone enjoying the new patch?

grim citrus
stark fractal
neon vapor
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TFF is also working on one with procedural generated terrain

stark fractal
#

Interesting, I’ll have to check that out.

swift fiber
#

Halo 3 campaign Co op legendary difficulty ?

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Anyone?

pliant palm
ruby knoll
#

woo

fallow crow
#

just got 67 kills on btb, think thats my highest kill rate

onyx latch
# pliant palm https://discord.gg/RysAKq2K?event=1159184595380613170

Huh. Just noticed there's nameplates for Mardis Gras, Depression Awareness day or month, cinco de mayo, groundhog day, Master Chief's birthday (Maybe?), Mexican Independence Day, Bird day (maybe?), international rescue cat day, international rescue dog day, whale day, and maybe the winter solstice.

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I am so rocking the bird day nameplate if/when it drops.

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Assuming I ever swap off this.

glacial tartan
#

My current favorite atm is Focus Rifle

late forum
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is there a server for help with bug fixes?

onyx latch
late forum
ivory glacier
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I wish there was some Halloween themed cosmetics

late forum
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I posted in comunity self help

quiet adder
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Hey fellas, I was D4 but I haven't won a game in like 3 days. Down to D1 now. But like, I have gotten MVP for my team (usually the game) almost every game I've played. It doesn't seem to matter how well I do it only matters how poorly my team mates do.

Any tips for closing the gap from Diamond to Onyx playing solo?

celest heron
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stop playing solo.

slim flint
#

you ever just take a walk around the control room on the CE level Two Betrayals?

sullen anvil
#

Now that S4 is wrapping up and S5 somehow being right around the corner, what are you’re overall thoughts?
I loved all of the new maps that got added into playlists and the community knocked it out of the park like always.
Squad Battle is a fantastic addition
Infection is great to have back and the events were pretty cool but still very easy to beat.
The translocator is a pretty interesting equipment but the threat seeker was pretty underwhelming.

slim flint
#

I hope Infinite keeps getting better

celest heron
#

got a teammate who just stared at an enemy that I got weak and then he walked off the map. how are these people real

frosty condor
#

sorry

left snow
weak wagon
#

Anyone here like airsoft?

north glacier
#

guys one of my MCC weekly challenges isn't complete even though I reached the required progression I don't know what to do, the other challenges completed fine but this one is stuck at 75/75 (close-range kills) what do I do

north glacier
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Yes I did and it worked

floral halo
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any tips on which game to start with if im completely new to halo?

civic sundial
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Combat Evolved

wanton root
native tinsel
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I’ve only played Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo infinite

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So idk where it’s from

civic sundial
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It’s in MCC

civic sundial
#

So I was replaying Dawn in Halo 4 and found a Jackal Ranger with red armour, never seen this before

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Anybody else seen one in red before?

olive brook
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what br skin is that

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it looks really clean

civic sundial
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Edgework, it’s an MCC exclusive skin

olive brook
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oo

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can you get it from the season pass thingy or is it a exchange skin

civic sundial
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Season pass

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The seventh one, tier 67

olive brook
#

ty

low musk
#

Hope there is a Season 5 trailer soon. The anticipation is mounting

signal ivy
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probably next week

low musk
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More than likely. I'm just eager to see what is in store for us

magic night
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Is it really more than likely?

signal ivy
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technically yes

magic night
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How likely is likely?

signal ivy
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I'd say that likely is generally likely, where as more than likely is confirmed or almost guaranteed

magic night
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I need numbers

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Got to quantify this

signal ivy
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on a scale of 1-10 likely is around 6 where more than likely is around 8 or 9

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also if something is confirmed or guaranteed, then technically it's more than likely so it could be a 10

magic night
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I'll accept that

hollow ore
open umbra
#

Just a thought.

crystal iron
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So MW3 is now showing it's 24 player open world PVE Zombies Mode, have we had any info or footage of Halo's firefight mode.. for us PVE players they really feel like they are getting left behind. Which kinda sucks.

And it has Human AI on the map.

misty vale
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lmao they really need to up the queue ban for leaving a game to like 30 minutes. These folks who leave over and over and over because they're bad and are losing games just ruin it for everyone.

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learn to play a game folks

coarse dagger
polar lynx
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another W for cod

smoky wave
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And next year you get the same game tro

young glen
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Ah, the Fifa of shooters. Gotta love it.

fickle ibex
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like camera recoil, it was ruining the game and complained about for like 8 months just for them to fix it in mw3

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litterally just a cash grab imo

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not to mention there's no new progression, all your gun levels are gonna transfer from what i hear, and they're only adding like 4 guns

limpid lance
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What would you say is worse in terms of the same game being sold every year, Madden, CoD, or Fifa?

fickle ibex
smoky wave
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Depending of what team did the changes of players

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But usually is some numbers of changes

uneven bison
ruby knoll
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play the match to the end if possible is my MO

tepid latch
fickle ibex
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real

uneven bison
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In fact I’m going to go a step further and say 2K as well as fifa. The only, I repeat, the ONLY thing that changes is pictures of players and team line ups. There is nothing worthwhile in the 2K or fifa games and people gobble them up like turkey on thanksgiving.

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It’s also worse than most EA games with micro transactions

tepid latch
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not that i play it, but i see the ultimate team stuff and lootbox card packs like 🤯 people are dumb enough to spend the same money over and over on cards they already had in the last game

uneven bison
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They’re not even real loot boxes

young glen
uneven bison
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They would be completely random if they were loot boxes, but most games don’t do that because “rarity class” 🤪

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I’m fine with micro transactions but not gambling

tepid latch
tepid latch
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no idea why infinite still has it

uneven bison
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It doesn’t really matter in infinite so I don’t mind

tepid latch
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yeah its more a make sense of the UI thing like "what does it mean that this is legendary when this epic item looks as good"

ruby knoll
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i don't mind a visual only (as in it doesn't affect anything) rairity thing but I do wish it was more consistent

uneven bison
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If I can purchase skins/cosmetics I want outside of bundles or packs or whatever I don’t mind, but if the only way to obtain something is gambling you’ll get it with a pack then no, I’m not ok with it.

ruby lake
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gambling?!?!?

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ew...

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i dont like it when the thing i want is locked away by a percentage of how close i am going to get that thing, and put it in a casino-type monetization tatic!

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if you ask me, thats pretty unfa--

young glen
#

Gamblor strikes again!

ruby lake
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no!!!🌧️🌧️🌧️

kindred helm
#

oh

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so halo 5 is playable on pc now

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well

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i dunno how stable that streaming thingy is

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and as i probably wont touch this game

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gl to those who were begging for this

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well, i guess people wanted it on mcc more

slim flint
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I doubt it’ll come to mcc before the original halo 5’s servers shut down

crystal iron
marble halo
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Ive had 4 losses in a row where im top 3 on my BTB team, when is it gonna give me people with common sense on my team

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surely the MMR must be correcting any day now

neon vapor
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Maybe that’s just the player base

marble halo
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yeah theyre all on my team

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I have 11 kills next guy has 2

white birch
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What mode you playing?

marble halo
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totla control. I have 2 caps also most on my team

keen stag
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When you get caught trying to push people off on Jenga

marble halo
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This is beyond dumb. My team is useless

polar lynx
fickle ibex
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and i say this as someone who grew up with cod instead of halo

polar lynx
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you dont know what your talking about

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no point argueing

marble halo
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jesus 6 games in a row with bad teams vs stacks

fickle ibex
#

what have they really even changed?

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it's the same base game with a new zombies and a couple updates

polar lynx
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you mean like literally every other game thats a franchise?

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halo, gears of war same thing

fickle ibex
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have you SEEN the difference between vanguard/mw2019

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most of the time they atleast bother to make new guns

polar lynx
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you are being so dumb you clearly dont know what you are talking about and just looking to argue

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did i mention vangaurd? answer no. mw3.

fickle ibex
# polar lynx halo, gears of war same thing

halo has a complete re-design each game with a new story and new mechanics i.e sprinting, armor lock etc. and gears has always had new maps/weapons for its multiplayer each year

fickle ibex
polar lynx
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no i didnt actually you made that arguement up in your head

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because your schizo

fickle ibex
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bro what?

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ur actually troll baiting mb

polar lynx
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thats right stay in your schizo lane buddy

keen stag
fickle ibex
keen stag
#

the fifa experience, purchasing the exact game game every year 🗣️💯🔥

olive brook
#

why is the performance on cea so awful on the silent cartographer

devout kite
#

How is bot bootcamp not mandatory for new players

scarlet shuttle
#

I want to report a player with a proof (30 seconds clip taken) but I keep getting: “the upload took too long, connection was lost”

Is this some sort of fraud? They put a report system there just for their good self-image but it doesn’t actually work for real?

crystal iron
devout kite
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Like it isn’t that hard to lock the other gamemodes until the noobs finish the mandatory amount of matches in bootcamp

young glen
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Imagine being forced to play against bots in a F2P PvP game before being allowed to play the other game modes.

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Most people just wouldn't bother.

devout kite
slim flint
devout kite
smoky wave
#

Maybe for you

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But we can't assume everyone can complete them

young glen
#

But I feel like this is like Groundhog Day at this point so I'm going to stop responding about this lo.

coarse dagger
slim flint
devout kite
sage tangle
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Hey guys,
343 is going to give the Smellbringer coating for free as a Twitch drop.
I think it is ridiculous as It is supposed to be an exclusive item for the people who bought the Dr. Squatch/ Halo soap.
What message are they sending the the customer?
What do you think folks?

onyx latch
#

I have smellbringer and I'm gonna be honest.

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I don't care and I have negative opinions towards anyone who is taking it personally.

neon vapor
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I feel like if you bought the soap purely for the color then that’s a little sad.

young glen
sage tangle
#

It's just scummy. I bought it because it was exclusive. That was the whole point.

onyx latch
#

Eh.

young glen
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It was a bonus alongside the product. I don't think there's any reason to be upset here.

onyx latch
#

If you weren't a Halo fan and actually bothered to use the soap, I don't see the issue.

neon vapor
magic night
#

Permanent exclusivity on promotional items isn't even guaranteed. They have a little disclaimer that the exclusivity is often timed.

smoky wave
#

Yup

sage tangle
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It's just a terrible business move. It's sad because it will gravely affect their future promotion.

smoky wave
#

Yeah no

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People love getting first stuff before anyone else when it is exclusive timed, specially with those things

coarse dagger
#

The vast majority of promotions related to Infinite like this have always been timed exclusivity. Check the terms, it's usually about 6 months. Adrenal with Monster was exactly the same

sage tangle
#

I'm glad I know this now!

low musk
#

I could care less if smellbringer or any promo item becomes a Twitch drop. I wouldn’t even be bothered if something like that occurred more often with older promos like the Deathly Poison or the Mega Blocks coatings too

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And I have those personally

limpid lance
#

One idea or pitch I have is for a "sub-series" of games set during the Human-Forerunner War, which would allow for more experimental gameplay that might not work in the main series

low musk
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Probably wouldn't work since the heart of the gameplay is rooted in the 'Human vs Covenant' based combat

white birch
#

Hopefully Adrenals stuff gets fixed too at some point so I can get the AR coating and the emblems

halcyon juniper
#

So I was 4 star general and today I’m 2 star cadet. Something going on?

white birch
#

Ranked up to the next level sounds like

limpid lance
past escarp
#

Why can't social game modes have a good balance in regard to team skill level in halo infinite.

neon vapor
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Because people didn’t want SBMM in those modes

misty vale
#

There's sbmm in the social modes it just prioritizes queue times

crystal iron
#

Hi

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I have a question: how can the hook pull a Spartan with all its weight? I think it's possible, but the equipment is so small.

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Sorry for the probably grammatical errors, I'm using Google translate to communicate.

white birch
onyx latch
white birch
#

Oh so that's why. The wire wears out and needs replacing after hurling a 1000 point brick around

onyx latch
#

Or things towards the 1k pound brick of man and machine, yeah.

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IIRC Horvath's stops working due to overstressing.

white birch
#

That's right, I forgot about that

onyx latch
#

Realistically I'd say Chief maybe only actually uses the equipment around 1-40 times each in the campaign, depending on the equipment.

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I should try doing a canonical expenditure deal based off of analysis of prior games and such.

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As Chief canonically also doesn't actually have a huge history of using Covenant-dropped weapons, usually preferring weapons he already has and just grabbing the appropriate ammo for them. There's good odds on him going through the entire campaign with just the AR and Sidekick.

crystal iron
#

Thanks for the answers.*

ruby knoll
#

didn't manage it but it's def a fun challenge

onyx latch
#

But in reality, he makes a lot of small or medium mistakes and happens to be wearing the equipment that prevents a mission end whenever a mistake is actually made, or gets help from his allies.

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This is obvious even in the games, such as most of Halo 3, where he has reliable and consistent support either in his battlespace or immediately outside of it.

ruby knoll
#

mamsr chef in book

onyx latch
#

Or convenient distractions that make it so a Spartan can slip through the cracks.

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... Come to think of it, Infinite might actually be the second greatest thing Chief's actually had to deal with entirely on his own, and it's heavily implied it happened because Escharum wanted to die to Chief.

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(The first being the final boarding of the Mantle's Approach)

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"But what about muh High Charity"

past escarp
onyx latch
#

Well, the first time, you can actually get through most of the level while Cortana is trying to lock out reinforcements, until the Great Schism goes into full swing and you have that distraction (Which Chief has fully expressed the pragmatism to take advantage of). This is followed by the flood, which you can actually skip past fighting for the most part in Halo 2, due to a mix of camo units and just being fast/sneaky.

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And in Cortana... Well, actually, I don't really have a good answer for that one. I'd assume canonically he just hauled through it all as quickly as possible because Spartans are more durable than they are on high difficulties.

grim citrus
past escarp
onyx latch
#

Ranked Action Sack when

grim citrus
#

Team slayer that doesn’t have that god awful bandit/AR combo

past escarp
#

I feel like they would be all great for sure, only the super fiesta ranked that would feel too rng based lol

grim citrus
#

Fiesta that is

past escarp
#

I was personally never a big fan of fiesta, but I'm surprisingly enjoying husky raids lately

grim citrus
#

Did you play fiesta in 5?

past escarp
#

I missed it, I was not gaming a lot during the halo 5 era. Was it very different?

grim citrus
past escarp
grim citrus
#

A lot of the weapons in infinite are just not fun to use to me.

past escarp
#

I miss the spartan laser from halo 3

celest heron
#

why that game in particular?

past escarp
true sage
#

Need a few people on halo 5: forge quickly in a lobby for an achievement and to play some games on there

sullen kilnBOT
#

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

#lfg-competitive – For ranked/competitive matchmaking
#lfg-social – For social/casual matchmaking
#lfg-campaign - For campaign co-op
#lfg-forge - For map/mode building and testing
#lfg-customs - For custom games
#lfg-other – For firefight, spartan ops, etc
#lfg-español – Para jugadores hispanohablantes en cualquier categoría de juego
#lfg-hcs-scrims-or-teams – To help you find a team or secure some scrims

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.

languid holly
#

Does anyone on PC know how to activate machinima mode? only people that have done it on pc with experience can answer. I've had enough controller answers that are useless

signal ivy
#

pretty sure you can only do it with controller

slim flint
#

if you want to be lazy about it you could just use an energy sword at 0

weak wagon
#

Hey y'all! Wassup?

left snow
white birch
#

Im still really mad we only got as much as we did.
And that, while the one about the ore for the armor was very touching, they didn't talk about the real cost.

I would have payed through the nose for the one on the armor itself to be one of the testers who strapped that poor volenteer into the early MK IV and watched him rip himself into jello through his own tortured movements.

#

New stuff on the shields alright too, I guess, but we already ahve like four points where MJLONIR's shield came from.

#

Magnes is nice but I wanted more from it, as always.
Ref; pretty sure you can use the Grappleshot as a close-in strike weapon as needed. That grapplehead is Titanium-A and its real fast. You could do real damage to soft flesh with that.

onyx latch
white birch
#

I meant for the add campaign for Infinite.

onyx latch
#

You're telling me

#

Card-carrying mensa member sociopath who pretends to care about people but only truly cares about her ego as far as it concerns humanity

#

Was too damn stupid to have an emergency shutoff switch?

#

Ridiculous.

white birch
#

They didnt even touch on it in the shorts.

#

Doesnt her journal mention the testing was done without her agreement?
Or is that her covering her own butt again

onyx latch
#

I'm not sure, but even then, that's not a good look for the UNSC in general.

#

That they'd test something that important without caring in the slightest about basic safeties.

#

Shoot, I've seen frogs with better self preservation skills.

white birch
#

I blame Nylund for this one honestly.

onyx latch
#

I will say, I do know Bungie had some weird rules for what they wanted Halo's lore to be like, including some weird no-no rules.

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Apparently it was a battle to get them to even accept the insurgency/rebels as an excuse to give humanity warships.

#

I always found it amusing that it seems like Microsoft's team was always more instrumental in getting Halo's story to be like Halo in the early days than Bungie, of all people.

#

Not that many people would ever admit to that.

civic sundial
#

Wasn’t it also a fight to get ODSTs included in Halo 2?

white birch
#

It was a fight to get them included AT ALL

#

At least, from what I have read.

onyx latch
#

Yes, which Bungie graciously pretended was their idea all along.

white birch
#

Part of the reason the descriptions of their operations differ so greatly in The Flood.

onyx latch
#

Honestly, I've never liked how Bungie conducted themselves as a company. They always struck me as lucky rather than effective.

civic sundial
#

Yeah, for sure

white birch
#

They did simple and emotional well.
Once it came down to the harder details, things got more complicated and they tended to trip over themselves.

#

Like Rooster Teeth actually, in irony

onyx latch
#

They happened to make the most popular mass-appeal shooter of the oughts then dipped into more popular pastures after the money was made and the contract ran dry.

#

Well, second most, by technicality.

#

(MW2 was a powerhouse)

white birch
#

Noob tubes will do that.

onyx latch
#

MW2 still inspires the sort of raw, impassioned rage I wish I could bring to the table more often.

#

Campaign's good though.

civic sundial
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Just a shame that COD is trying to recapture that game’s feeling without actually understanding what made it so good

onyx latch
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I still barely get what made it good in the first place outside of campaign, though it seems most companies (and fans) are struggling with that concept.

civic sundial
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Aye

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Like I couldn’t care less about the multiplayer in COD but the MW2 campaign was fantastic

white birch
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It hit HARD.

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The new one doesnt have the teeth

onyx latch
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It's not an issue of intuiting the actual reason, it's just such a profound disconnect between the broken systems and different culture at the time that it makes it hard to reconcile what people are asking for and what they actually want.

celest mauve
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I think it’s the social aspect of cod that seems appealing

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Or maybe annoying, idk

onyx latch
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Well, I will say, it's important to have a good social aspect. It's actually one of what I view as Halo Infinite's greatest flaws.

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You have CGB, sure, but that's kind of a step backwards in time.

celest mauve
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Like if you compare mw2/mw3 right now, people have comms and either contribute to the game they are in, talk about something else or just berating everyone

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Halo infinite I can hear my own voice in my head

onyx latch
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The lack of lobbies actually is genuinely a problem, but it's not because "Oh well nostalgia", it's literally one of the aspects that's most conducive to a healthy community. A sense of other people playing beyond faceless chaff, party chat or no. I think it is criminally undervalued in today's gaming landscape.

celest mauve
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Absolutely no one talks

onyx latch
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By fans and devs alike, mind.

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The fans don't make an effort, which shows devs that isn't worth the effort.

white birch
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Honestly, hearing people use mics in Darktide was astonishing.

celest mauve
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I don’t think there’s any decent content where you really need a mic

onyx latch
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And like it or not, they have to convince their bosses that it is worth the time to make the effort to make a system that provides results.

onyx latch
celest mauve
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With cod you need a mic to do raids

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Ranked mp/wz needs it for callouts

onyx latch
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That's actually also true of higher tier Halo gameplay. Communication is key because it lets you know enemy presence, demeanor, what powers they control, etc.

celest mauve
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Same with DMZ although it’s a little more of bartering with players’ pleas

onyx latch
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But I'm not talking about info-neccessity.

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I'm talking about banter and whatever dumb garbage people say in public lobbies.

celest mauve
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Yeah

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Even then with halo nobody talks

onyx latch
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When the most interesting thing I've ever heard on a mic in Halo in years was someone talking about their friend's intestinal cancer screening, and that was a year and a half ago?

celest mauve
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I’m not playing every day so take my word with a grain of salt but I have only heard one person use their mic

onyx latch
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That's not exactly the best look.

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I've heard a few... Dozen? The quality hasn't been good, either.

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I mean, I'm not saying it ever was.

celest mauve
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Yeah but yk

onyx latch
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And I'm not paid to put in the effort to find a way to more cleanly solve this problem, as a common dreg who has delusions of knowing what he is talking about.

celest mauve
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At least a hello will go a long way

onyx latch
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Right.

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It's also more necessary in games like @white birch mentioned, Darktide

celest mauve
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When I was playing a couple weeks ago I added literally everyone I came across in the recent tab

onyx latch
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Where a small team will spend about 15-20 minutes together doing a thing, and communication is a lot more important in that environment, which lacks the slowdowns and posturing Halo MP tends to have in favor of being a grindhouse flick for most of that runtime that requires role usage and coordination.

celest mauve
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Only one person sent a party invite

white birch
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I think I just have a really nerdy voice or something because half the time I try to talk I get told to shut up

celest mauve
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I’m hurt lol

onyx latch
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Most of the time people view a random invite out of the blue as the precursor to a battery of insults.

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I know I do.

white birch
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Yeah

celest mauve
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Do they forget people can dm them without sending invites

onyx latch
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Which, I suppose, begs the question, why are people such vicious jerks?

celest mauve
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Idk

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Makes them feel better

onyx latch
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It was half rhetorical, tbf.

celest mauve
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Momentarily

celest mauve
white birch
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Gaming tends to enhance and stimulate the more emotional sides of the brain.
Its why you see people coming here to complain after having a string of bad games.

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And why MW2 lobbies were the way they were.

onyx latch
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:>

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It makes it a blessing and a curse for me to look at games and scenarios as more of a problem to solve than something to legitimately be angry at.

white birch
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Might be worth a think myself honestly. Getting mad at it doesnt change anything.

onyx latch
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People have trouble stepping back emotionally. It's nothing to really be all that... Well, upset over?

celest mauve
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I just wish people would socialise more

onyx latch
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I'd say "Not ashamed", but I wouldn't mean it, because I do think people need to feel more shame for the things they say out of rage.

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Lord knows I should.

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Ah well. There's a reason my status is what it is.

celest mauve
#

Is there an snd mode in halo

onyx latch
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Search and Destroy?

celest mauve
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Mhm

onyx latch
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Well... Kinda. There's an elimination mode that showed up a while back but you almost never see it now.

celest mauve
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No wonder nobody talks

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Jk

onyx latch
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I never actually played SnD.

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Well, no, that's a lie

celest mauve
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I’ve played a bit of it

onyx latch
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I played exactly enough SnD to know it's basically just Counter Strike, and I don't like Counter Strike, so I don't like SnD.

celest mauve
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The game mode itself is alright but it’s the banter or whatever you call that kind of trash talk between rounds that adds to the mode

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Even though it’s usually hostile or toxic chat, people communicate with one another

celest mauve
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I’m not gonna lie I feel kinda bored whenever I play with people in halo because there’s no talking

onyx latch
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I don't really feel bored, I guess.

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No more bored than I am playing anything else.

cosmic fable
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My brothers, I need a fella to play the MCC with again

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Someone who will dive deep into those emotions

celest mauve
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Well maybe bored isn’t the right word

onyx latch
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No, I think it's a perfectly valid choice of words.

celest mauve
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But it’s more fun communicating with another person to complete an objective

onyx latch
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Right.

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It's honestly why I think I ended up playing solo more often than not lmao

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Of all things

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Having friends I played with who were actively less coordinated than randoms with no mics

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If you can believe it

celest mauve
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Like I mentioned before about the dmz mode in cod, it can be played solo or without a mic but it’s so much better with comms

onyx latch
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Yeah.

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I think I'm going to go to bed.

celest mauve
#

It leads to different things you can do in the mode like “I’ve got this mission to open x supply drops, are you guys able to help?” or “I’m going to koschei complex to get the heated madness blueprint, anyone else down?”

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Pings only go so far

celest mauve
frozen totem
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Does anyone know what the different colored vending machines and powerups do in Night of the Undead?

coarse dagger
frozen totem
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Perfect, just what I was looking for. Thanks! 🙏

tepid latch
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Would love to see TFF undead stuff come as a playlist over halloween or hope 343 has something cool planned for it!

lunar sun
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Hey, just wanted to check since it's been a while since I paid attention to it, but uh, earning XP in MCC is dependent on score and/or medals, right? Besides challenges of course

stray seal
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what is the best playlist for kill sprees in Infinite? BTB heavies is pretty miserable

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infection maybe?

twin crag
# stray seal infection maybe?

fiesta modes
so fiesta, super fiesta, husky raid (idk playlist it's in),
BTB is also good if u get power weapons or wasp

stray seal
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btb is probs my only choice

twin crag
stray seal
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Sniping is how I usually do it due to reduced risk

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need to get a good map for it tho

ripe shard
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Cortana is such a baddie

drowsy schooner
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So true

dense rivet
twin crag
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and boi got muted

ruby lake
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LOL

young glen
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😆

stable mural
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hey I have an issue where I cant invite more than 8players in a lobby

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this is for MCC

lethal pike
#

Anyone wanna run through halo 2 this weekend on MCC

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Dm me (im probably not gonna be checking this server)

sullen kilnBOT
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crystal iron
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So any news on dlc for the campaign

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Im waiting for halo 7

coarse dagger
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No current news/plans for that

viscid nexus
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All it says is regret regret regret, catchy, any idea what it means?

lunar sun
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is it me or is it impossible to find matches in MCC nowadays?

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trying to play FFA, SWAT... no dice. Only way I get matches is by searching 4v4, all games/all gamemodes, and the teammates I get matched with are atrocious every time 😬

smoky wave
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What game?

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Halo 3 it has more players but you are going to get long times queues anyways

lunar sun
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I'm searching for all at this point

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I remember searching for stuff like FFA/SWAT/Infection would put you into a match almost immediately, now I can't find a single match

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I'd rather avoid 4v4 or 8v8 because teammates are hit and miss nowadays... more miss than anything lol. anything Obj-based gets dragged forever too

smoky wave
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Yeaah MCC is a lot of times a miss with that

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Kinda surprising because iirc at this time of the day there is always something despite the long queue times

shadow oyster
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hello halors

real vapor
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I was able to get my 2 killing sprees in a single match 😅

coarse dagger
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💪

glacial tartan
low musk
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I'd honestly hope for a BTB Slayer on the playlist one day. Skockets, Fiesta, Heavies, and even just the standard version would all fit pretty neatly. Most games I see people tend to ignore objectives anyways

crystal iron
round forge
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How do you put items on the back of vehicles in Halo Infinite?

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e.g. Fusion coil

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And can you put them on a mongoose?

slim flint
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I’m pretty sure you can only do it on the razorback

round forge
#

Has anyone encountered a glitch with Chac Lok killing you with a sword lunge that blatantly missed? he seems to lunge towards the ground and kill me no matter how far I get from him. It's absolute garbage and it's making his fight unwinnable.

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I am giving up on it for today since I'm at my wits end and might go nuts if I attempt it again.

celest mauve
broken tangle
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Hello

slow walrus
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find out this weekend at HCS

crystal iron
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They didn’t announce any PvE mode

low musk
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Nothing was announced yet, though we should get some kind of hint sometime this week

livid fable
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I have no opinion on whether or not we will get leaks or hints. at this point, it's uninstalled and it's going to stay that way until firefight comes back.

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going forward, that's going to be my new standard. no pve, no participation.

ruby lake
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confidential information!!🌠

livid fable
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k

low musk
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Just need a reversal or last shot medal and I can move on to the capstone

grave wedge
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Why do i keep losing rank even after my teammates ragequit mid match??? its clearly an unbalanced game after they leave why am i punished

misty vale
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Because you lost.

grim citrus
grave wedge
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I do play with friends, but not always. Still, i shouldn't be forced into losing points because all my teammates left and it's suddenly a 1v4. There's literally no winning that matchup, especially in higher ranks.

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My teammates leaving mid game is 60% of my losses while playing ranked.

magic night
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Because that can be abused. You could have designated quitters on your team so that way you never lose points when its clear you'll lose the match.

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In the case of a 1v4, you're not losing as many points compared to if your teammates had stayed

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That's the compromise to minimize abuse

misty vale
low musk
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They could have it where if you solo queue in ranked, and the other players quit, it would have a more favorable way to scale against the other players who left

grave wedge
misty vale
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Take yourself out of it, and it's just how competitive stuff needs to be. That said: halo is a deeply unserious shooter and you should not let it upset you.

magic night
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Even if you solo queue, you could just communicate with randoms and coordinate quitting there.

low musk
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Out of curiosity, is there a proper way to use the rocket hog? I avoid that one like the plague since the hits rarely ever seem to hit as intended. Not sure if I am just using it wrong, or if the weapon is just seriously useless

earnest thunder
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What is the best playlist for getting a killing spree? I'm struggling to stay alive long enough to do it.

uneven bison
grim citrus
uneven bison
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And also why I left awhile ago

grim citrus
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I always thought the stance was that most people play games casually over competitively.

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Most games.

uneven bison
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Usually yes, and that is especially true with older shooters like cod and halo, warzones a good example of that, good mix of casual and very competitive players

misty vale
# grim citrus Why do you call it unserious

Well even though it'd be debatable with the floaty physics, and very long ttk, what makes it unserious is that there's aim assist, the netcode is designed for a very old console, it's free to play which brings in the cheaters and throwers, and there's no real reward for being competitive.

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There's no reason at all to play ranked. It's deeply unserious

grim citrus
misty vale
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That does not matter

grim citrus
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Yes it does. A lot.

uneven bison
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But when you factor hero’s and legends, and a strong ranked platform, like overwatch (however mind-numbing it may be) you get a lot of people who enjoy the game eventually floating over to ranked modes

misty vale
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It is still making the game not representative of input

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I agree it needs to exist

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But it's subtractive from a competitive environment

grim citrus
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Aim assist is not making everything accurate or else everyone’s accuracy would be in the high 70’s

grim citrus
misty vale
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It alters the player input

young glen
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I'm guessing DrScorpio is a M&K player lol.

grim citrus
misty vale
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Should a basketball in the wnba have a gyro which helps it go in the net

uneven bison
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grim citrus
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Ayo

misty vale
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It's just not serious. You shouldn't let it upset you.

uneven bison
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I’m not upset, just more surprised

grim citrus
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Ah yes. I’m showing signs of being upset because I disagree with you.

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You’re wrong my guy

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You act like aim assist is auto aim.

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There’s so much factors that come into play with competitive halo

misty vale
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No, I'm not wrong. Serious shooters don't alter the input. Inferior inputs are punished for being inferior. It's just the reality of the input.

Like what if mnk players were given a speed boost in gran turismo

grim citrus
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Just because you can accurately shoot does not make you a great player.

misty vale
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Or steering assist

grim citrus
misty vale
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Is that competitive? No

magic night
misty vale
#

Additionally, the netcode is awful, and it's free to play. It's still so far away from being competitively viable even after you try to argue with me that mnk is better for fps.

grim citrus
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This is a wild take on a Sunday

magic night
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CSGO/2 and Valorant also fails to meet those requirements by being free-to-play and I don't think too many people will agree that those are uncompetitive games.

grim citrus
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I’m going to assume this guy is strictly a mkb player

misty vale
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What difference would that make, and I'm not

grim citrus
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It’s the only reason that makes sense

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What difference?

misty vale
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If i only used mnk

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That doesn't change my point that the auto aim is a major flaw for it being truly competitive

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I already told you I agree it needs to exist

grim citrus
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Because you wouldn’t be making an argument like that if you played with controller and/or actually played competitively.

misty vale
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Halo is a console game, they want to keep that crowd, it needs to be there.

grim citrus
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If everyone has aim assist, nobody is inferior or superior.

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It also doesn’t make it less competitive because it’s a leveled playing field.

misty vale
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Brother if you don't appreciate the obvious advantages of controller at higher ranks, then I wonder who complained they can't 4 stack in onyx and why

grim citrus
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Halo has more to do with situational awareness and map control over accuracy.

round forge
#

Anyone been having trouble getting in to Halo Support? I click on sign in and it just refreshes the page and I'm still not logged in. I've tied everything I can think of but nothing works.

misty vale
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Yeah turn off adblock.

grim citrus
round forge
grim citrus
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Its preference.

misty vale
grim citrus
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No it doesn’t

misty vale
#

...

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I see that you have a singular input. Good day

grim citrus
#

If you had watched fighting tournaments over the last couple years, Controller players have dominated

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But you clearly don’t.

magic night
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You guys are talking about two different genres here

misty vale
#

Read my comment one more time

grim citrus
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I’m talking about fight stick and you’re talking about flight sticks

misty vale
#

Yep 😊

grim citrus
#

Why…

misty vale
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To illustrate what I'm saying. In serious games the best input is the best input

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There's no assist

grim citrus
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Alright man. You have a good day.

#

This is a waste of time.

round forge
misty vale
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He just doesn't want to hear that controllers are worse for fps again

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Which is fine.

grim citrus
shrewd aspen
#

Ramming a banshee with a chopper is pretty fun.

grim citrus
#

Like you guys really need to read before you comment.

misty vale
#

Naw dog you need to stop. You're incorrect.

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Just drop it and go shoot some spacemen

earnest thunder
misty vale
#

Game's fun

grim citrus
#

Okay.

round forge
round forge