halo-discussion

[analog salmon]

When you look at human history it makes no sense

Probably I would expect it to be like Imperial Britain and Japan before WW2

Friends but not allies

[crystal iron]

You should be able to veto or report game type if enough people don’t care for it. Infinite not old stuff

[onyx latch]

Diplomatically appointed as a gesture of goodwill and on 'loan' as you put it? Already happened and Swords are at least on amicable terms with the UEG. It's no big deal.

[sudden root]

Was there not an app that forces US servers if you cant find matches in EU?

[mossy spruce]

Has anyone actually played halo recruit? And if so how was it?

[tulip tusk]

What's halo recruit

[glass ether]

VR game that came out in 2017

[vale swallow]

did they put invisible walls in halo ce mcc so you can't get out of maps?

[limpid lance]

Less than 2 weeks from the showcase, any hope there’ll be anything revealed there?

[tulip tusk]

Look for your friends but do not trust a hope

[limpid lance]

It’s forsaken in these servers

[neon jasper]

Mint put out a video just a bit ago saying there might be some news
I'm trying to decide if I should get older seasons while we wait lol

[tulip tusk]

might breaking news

[ruby knoll]

if mint says that water is went the first thing i'd do is doublecheck

[crystal iron]

If everyone ques for btb heavies then we could theoretically get the avg wait time down to 30 secs roughly

Break the game que at same time

[neon jasper]

I must be lucky I never have issues finding games. Longest I've waited was about 2min

[glacial tartan]

Golden Moas why wont you spawn 😭

[valid beacon]

same problem, no golden moa in any level

[crystal iron]

Is this the latest version? 6.10020.17952.0

[robust depot]

Brand new player here, starting with CE. Can anyone tell me the difference between quickstart and starting a playlist? Not sure what to go for.

[celest heron]

quickstart is basically starting from the beginning and you choose the difficulty, but you skip all the other options like adding skulls or scoring. Playlists are a mix of different missions together or all the missions in order on a certain difficulty.

you'd want to do playlists to get achievements done since it's easier to resume if you quit at a certain point.

[robust depot]

i can't save when using quickstartt?

[celest heron]

you can continue where you left off if you hit resume, but you can't play any other mission in the meantime or you'll lose that progress. that's why playlists are good cause they're a separate thing.

[robust depot]

but if i'm playing a normal chronological playtrough of each game that doesn't matter though, right?

[celest heron]

if you just play the missions and nothing else from the quickstart, then you'll be good.

[robust depot]

cheers 🫡

[celest heron]

you can also just pick the first mission and go through them like that. you also get more options.

[stoic canopy]

For SIIs and SIIIs no, but SIVs since they came from the general populace as adults it absolutely does

[celest heron]

anyone find golden moas today?

[crystal iron]

I think it’s bugged

[left snow]

I've recently come up against two four stacks in Husky raid. As a solo player. And we won both comfortably. The one yesterday was 3-0.

And then I looked back at my Ranked games this season - and five times I've played against a four stack. For four wins and a loss.

It's so unfair. For them 🙂

And then last night I jumped on with a bunch of buddies - and we got whipped by a bunch of solo players. Like, they were toying with us.

This game is so biased against squads. 😄

[crystal iron]

Halo 3 legendary is surely hard, but not impossible.

[glacial tartan]

Still bugged I think. Submitted a ticket but they didn’t understand it

[crystal iron]

now that I'm at the flood invasion of Earth, Halo Reach was more inventive with the rail sequences and battles in space and in air. Halo 3 is more grounded, the design feels more traditional.

[celest heron]

reach wasn't a main game and it was their last so bungie probly wanted to do more non-traditional things with it.

[spare finch]

I don’t think people realize the outlines in theatre mode aren’t the outlines the player sees in the match

It’s impossible to tell if someone is using wallhacks in theatre (you can’t change it to in-match outlines)

[drifting gazelle]

They used a beta for it so I think alot went into it.

[vale swallow]

This toy story forge map has so much vibe

[shadow turret]

Technically its not, and is almost easier to tell, bc if someone constantly looks at another persons outline through walls its prolly hacking

[pallid topaz]

Yeah I just went through a ton of the levels and checked in the moa locations and there's nothing. I think it's bugged or someone messed up this week

[spare finch]

Why was I put in regular btb despite matchmaking for heavies

[tulip tusk]

i hope the waypoint content browser is ok Bob the Engineer has been working on it for a while

[paper estuary]

There’s one weapon I may find the most annoying overall. But it’s fun to use

The Needler. The girly weapon because of how pink it is

[placid surge]

hello

Why so silent

[paper estuary]

Remember, No Dorsak people

brings out a Vladimir Makarov Move

brings out SAW and starts shooting

[tulip tusk]

🛌

[placid surge]

Makes sense

[open tinsel]

Is anyone else's "Eye Spy" challenge in MCC not working?

nvm, just scrolled up

[obsidian sandal]

Good strategy to defeat Hyperius???

Cause 💩

I’m struggggglin

[sturdy kernel]

Use plasma weapons to deactivate his shield and headshot with snipe

[zealous panther]

Shoot him until he dies

[proper tulip]

man playing halo reach and it feels more like call of duty than halo

[analog salmon]

that's cus halo reach is one of the greatest video games of all time so COD copied it

[zealous panther]

that's cus halo reach is one of the worst video games of all time so COD copied it

[sturdy kernel]

Welp
Halo 3 Legendary Difficulty are done
The best part of originaly trilogy

[obsidian sandal]

Thank you so much ❤️

[upbeat cape]

Well. for once I'm not seeing ANY moa statues in Halo Reach. Are they the same for everyone ever week? If so, does anyone know where they are in the MCC? Are they only in Halor 3, Reach, and 4?

Please

[zealous panther]

i usually watch youtube video just not to waste my time on it more then i need to.

[upbeat cape]

I usually just find them in Reach, but there are litterally none in the entire game. So they're only in 3 and 4 otherwise?

[upbeat cape]

Are they the same for everyone that same week?

[zealous panther]

yea

[upbeat cape]

Have you found any this week?

[zealous panther]

i didn't played the game this week yet. No much time sadly

https://youtu.be/6d-J-7dS0zY

[upbeat cape]

I'll check back later then. I've already spent x20 longer than I normally do this week. Yes I have a guide for Reach. I found one for 3 and ODST.

[zealous panther]

watch the video and use flying skull

tho comments saying that this week they are bugged or something

[upbeat cape]

oh

thank you for the info

[zealous panther]

actually i will boot the game up rn and check it myself

[upbeat cape]

ty. I gtg. ttyl

[crystal iron]

Moas are bugged this week

All the usual spots are empty so it’s definitely on their side

[zealous panther]

yep, just checked 2 places. no moas found

[glacial tartan]

They aren’t spawning as others have said - been checking every few hours, nothing yet

[tulip tusk]

waypoint content browser has been down for nearly a day what's wrong? engineer bob mia?

[valid beacon]

was the bug with golden moa fixed?

[analog salmon]

Why is this a thing?

Sidekicks starts in cliffhanger slayer? Like you just respawn and run to find a longer range weapon, it’s horrible

I don’t understand how this was playtested and okayed

Basically every gun fight is either luck or who found a precision weapon

[agile lodge]

There’s a skeleton crew working on the game, you think they have time to playtest

[chrome belfry]

Not yet @valid beacon @zealous panther @upbeat cape

Nice there are others still doing these weekly.

I recommend we log it so hopefully it gets resolved.
https://discord.com/channels/471722331820130324/1245721970444730501

Oh hey @glacial tartan 👋 always nice to see your timely Moa videos.

[glacial tartan]

Im trying! 😄

I did submit a waypoint ticket which should be the official way. Nothing yet though.

[chrome belfry]

Good, hopefully it’ll draw their attention and flick the Moa switch.

[glacial tartan]

https://i.imgur.com/moDrr3S.png Im not holding my breath but I'll cross my fingers!

[glacial tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/ultimate-chicken-horse-uch-chicken-bush-hide-gif-25902095

Too bad I cant embed but thats them ^

[chrome belfry]

Golden Moas have been sighted guys.
@glacial tartan @valid beacon @zealous panther @upbeat cape

[zealous panther]

Yay! let's goooooooo

[valid beacon]

[glacial tartan]

Video done (and I just got an email back 3 minutes from support confirming) - Thank you!

[crystal iron]

have they explored all the seven halos?

so halo 3 went to explore the smaller ark. Are they going to explore the greater ark? Maybe they can come up with some secret lore about all the rings having a secret device in it. Something which has some biblical meaning

[vale swallow]

Reminder☝️
There's been 6 halo games, and not 1 of the halos have activated.

[runic slate]

Maybe we'll get it in Halo 7 lol

[topaz pier]

wasn't there a replacement halo that got activated in halo 3?

[signal ivy]

yep

it was activated and fired

[crystal iron]

I think I see why they didn't bring Thel back in Halo 5 and infinite. They already made 2 games with him taking part of the whole story

[signal ivy]

technially all of the rings were activated in Halo 3

when johnson did it

[signal ivy]

I mean to be fair, he didn't do anything in 3. He was relagated to a sidekick with like 5 lines

[crystal iron]

Maybe they can bring back what they did in Halo 2 and tell the story from a different species perspective

[vale swallow]

I meant activated + fired

[thick tusk]

The Flood was innocent. They were patsies!

[stoic canopy]

UGH

What is with this "2 Games to Diamond, but now it's vs. Stacks or you have teammates who don't listen anymore" cycle?

[signal ivy]

then yes, one was activated and fired in Halo 3

[crystal iron]

The humor in Halo 3 was way better than in Gears 4.

"Chief is dead, what do we do now?"

[onyx latch]

... What?

[runic slate]

If Halo 7 fails do you think Microsoft should just put the breaks on creating mainline games, and instead focus on side games like Wars, and ODST?

[vale swallow]

Did it blow up?

[runic slate]

Because I doubt that they'll stop making Halo games, but clearly the Infinite didnt succeed enough.

[vale swallow]

I think Halo series needs to maintain a certain level of respectability. Or else, someone is going to face a backlash from an angry mob of hardcore halo fanatics.

[topaz pier]

i bet 343's next game is a spinoff, like odst

[vale swallow]

And unfortunately... maintaining that respectability in story telling... is I guess years and years of work..... which means no quick games.

Spinoffs might have more room for experimenting though.

Atriox Prequel 💀

Didact Story 💀

[crystal iron]

after fighting the scarab tank twice, I think that Halo is like Microsoft's version of Star Wars. Without the force or the dark side.

[runic slate]

343 has been facing hardcore backlash since Halo 4 thats why they cant commit to storylines lol. With spin off games this allows them more freedom and potentially more financial success.

[topaz pier]

since 343's next game is their 4th game and bungie's 4th game was also a spinoff

[runic slate]

their next game is Halo 7 but maybe we'll get something shown during the showcase

[signal ivy]

yes

[vale swallow]

Wasn't firing the ring supposed to take out an entire galaxy?

Wait, was that ring like an incomplete halo ring or something?

Hmm, or maybe only firing of the entire halo array eradicates things in a mass-scale... 🤔...

[topaz pier]

it takes out a part of it, i think

[half abyss]

I think its partial. some of Sparks lines would suggest that

Stating that i04's radius only spans 25000 lightyears

[stoic canopy]

Rings have multiple modes of fire; the firing in Halo 3 was a local pulse - like the kind that would target a single planet

[vale swallow]

oh I see, that makes sense

Maybe max firing mode took place in the past I guess. Forerunner times. Took out the dinosaurs 🤣 probabaly

It's hard to justify firing a halo ring with max pulse or w.e, you'll take out a galaxy or multiple planets with living beings.
That's not a win for the Chief at all. So I guess that will never happen.... and well if it does.... only way to fix it is time travel which no one seems to want for Halo

[thick tusk]

Confused by your question(s).....

In the games (ignoring the in-universe but not in-game situations), several halos were activated (put into ready-to-fire mode) and one, Installation 08 was fired during its construction.

As for time travel, the fact that the Gravemind was basically a ghost of its former existence kind of already makes time (and death) seem more like philosophical exercises than rigid cannon

[vale swallow]

like a brain preserved after death of the body.....
bro did a time jump (into the future)

[thick tusk]

Well as far as I'm concerned (and I'm not anti-time travel in sci-fi, but it can be an overused and underguarded trope), the Gravemind acknowledged its own death multiple times

Similar to how Mandicant Bias' "personality" was fractured, and only its remorse was allowed to exist on Installation 00, it's hard to really define whether something is the thing, or just a symbol of it

It's also inconsistent about what part of the Gravemind is truly just the Flood's evolved sentience from the coalescence of all its absorbed, and the actual id of a Primordial, as the Flood and Primordials are not synonymous

[stoic canopy]

EHHHHHH

||Book says "Actually...."||

[thick tusk]

Thus the "inconsistent" in my post 😛

[crystal iron]

I don't know if this is a bad thing or a good thing. But Halo is tied to having a megasctruture, a halo, in it. IF they exhaust all plot points regarding a halo, would this be the end of the franchise?

[thick tusk]

I don't know if its far to require all things to be related to a ring-shaped megastructure to retain its "halo" naming convention.

[radiant sundial]

Nope, the firing of the ring in halo 3 wouldnt have been as effective simply because the ring was not finished.

The rings only have one firing mode, that being galaxy wide annihalation of all thinking life

Each ring had a range of ~25k lightyears if i remember correctly

[stoic canopy]

When activated, the Halo rings release a burst of cross-phased supermassive neutrinos.[9] The burst possesses a harmonic frequency, which can be tuned to destroy the nervous system of any macroscopic organism that possesses one, even one as rudimentary as a notochord, as shown in the aftermath of a low-powered test firing of a Halo performed by Mendicant Bias in the system of Charum Hakkor. Fine tuning the pulse can also allow for selective extermination of lifeforms with varying degrees of neural complexity.[102]

[101] Individual Halos can also be fired independently from the rest of the Array; this is known as a "tactical pulse".[24]

The rings could also be fired on a lower power setting, cleansing specific planets or systems within a relatively small area of effect.

[radiant sundial]

Never mind then, i forgot about those incidents

Also rip Charum hakkor 💀

[rain horizon]

Atleast humanity stil exists unlike the forerunners

[radiant sundial]

Im sure some are still out there

[stoic canopy]

There were; they all would've died of old age or stasis failure by now though

The Didact only survived because of the Cryptum

[thick tusk]

Preserving the Didact was a poor decision, and it seems the general consensus of the decision to fire the array was that the Forerunners had collossally failed to uphold the Mantle and deserved their obsolescence, right?

[stoic canopy]

||The Mantle is a trap designed to trick and hobble the galaxy and prepare them for consumption by the Flood.||

[crystal iron]

the soundtrack in halo 3 seems to be more aligned with the action in the game. Previously it was more detached from the game. I don't know how to say it.

I liked the drums

[upbeat cape]

Finally back from work. Any idea of the map?

[swift iris]

Not a good decision I admit. Because you'd had to skip to a specific time to get the iconic moment in the game and it doesn't even last. I'm still surprised by 3 not having an official version of the theme. Closest was One Final Effort and Greatest Journey.

[chrome belfry]

Good morning.

I did Sierra 117, but any in the Eye Spy challenge description for the week should be there now.

[thick tusk]

Moas in CE still aren't working, but the first Moa in each of H2 worked

[glacial tartan]

Are you saying they havent spawned or that they dont count for the challenge?

[thick tusk]

They aren't counting

But first three missions in H2 All work

[jade pebble]

just got a last shot medal with the commando
talk about cutting it close

[radiant sundial]

Random note, all shots with the skewer are possible last shot medals, but also arent

[stoic canopy]

I'm so inconsistent with the Commando

Either I slap so hard with it I make H2 BR users cry, or the Marine AI Bots stop to ask me if I'm okay.

[limpid lance]

If anything (except mobile game) gets announced next weekend https://youtu.be/aeP0i_75oC0?si=u4-l3LNmozWdku3T

[onyx latch]

wut

[austere zealot]

So what's all of your favorite weapon in halo?

[onyx latch]

Plasma Caster from Halo 5.

[austere zealot]

Nice

I...don't really have a favorite

[white birch]

The railgun is always good

[austere zealot]

Rail guns are amazing

[civic sundial]

Plasma Rifle

[austere zealot]

Cool, why the plasma rifle?

[civic sundial]

I like alien guns

[austere zealot]

I like all guns

Even the very bad ones

[limpid lance]

It’s dancing time 🕺

[lethal hatch]

I recently downloaded Halo CE was wondering if anyone has a server IP to play online?

[halcyon violet]

Huh, did anyone get their Harvest Dusk armor coating? I got mine, but I don't see it in game. And yes I did checked the Twitch Drops on HaloWayPoint & Twitch itself.

[signal ivy]

seems to be a widespread issue, I recommend submitting a ticket

[halcyon violet]

Ok, I thought it was just me having this issue.

[halcyon violet]

There, I submitted my ticket.

[cobalt adder]

hello

[scarlet shuttle]

Does the match composer will let me play exclusively Husky Raid and Fiesta without “Super”? 😱

[cobalt adder]

Yello

[spare finch]

Wait… I could get gruntpoc more often with match composer

Either way it’s a win-win

[celest heron]

is the internet down for xbox?

oh, n/m. I guess they are

[cedar schooner]

Yea just found that out after trying to get on infinite for like a while

[low bloom]

me and my friend try that and found that also it was down hope they fix it tomorrow , also was playing halo 3 odst and had to laugh buck kept on walking off the cliff to his death not once but 4 times and when he was about to do it for the 5th time he stop

[drowsy storm]

Anyone here play Ultimate Firefight Sandtrap

[scarlet shuttle]

I missed the Twitch Drops today, can I still get them tomorow?

[frosty condor]

I believe so

[sturdy kernel]

If they till Monday 4th June, so i guess yes

[crystal iron]

I’ve got 2 questions regarding 152 in H5:

• Is Watchdog still achievable in infinite?
• Is it more efficient to grind warzone xp boosts in warzone or use them in arena

[onyx latch]

• I think you might have to submit a ticket to get it but yes.
• Warzone.

[crystal iron]

The AI in Halo 3 is kinda bugged

During the invasion of Earth by the flood, in that part where there is a turret and you find that enemy that shoots yellow spikes from a tower. An elite got stuck trying to go forward a container

[onyx latch]

Yep, sounds like Halo 3

[civic sundial]

It do be like that sometimes

[crystal iron]

How come you’d have to send a ticket?

[onyx latch]

It might not sync properly.

I've heard of people having it not register, so if it doesn't, you'd need to send a ticket.

[crystal iron]

Ah gotcha

So warzone firefight is still the best option compared to warzone xp boost + arena

Good to know I guess

[spare finch]

You mean Tuesday June 4th

[low bloom]

i like it where the AI don't know what they are doing sometime they could just up and mess up and kill you by mistake , AI kills himself , or better yet turn on their own AI , watching a grunt throw a sticky on another is always funny

[sturdy kernel]

Yes
My memory is like 8 seconds

[celest heron]

don't think you can use warzone boosts in arena

[civic sundial]

You can't

[crystal iron]

finished halo 3. IS the last level paying tribute to the ending of Halo 1? It's the same thing, except that now it's epic.

[eternal torrent]

Did the halo 3 avalanche sniper skin ever come back in the exchange?

[analog salmon]

Yah and it’s not the last 😄

Won’t spoil but it ain’t the last warthog run

[crystal iron]

You can through glitches

[zinc flax]

https://youtu.be/Ejn6lpGGHBE?si=Xz4_JIvOdFj7Qc3_

I still have hope that one day 343i can divorce from Microsoft

Be free to create their own games on their own terms without being overworked either unrealistic crunch deadlines

[coarse dagger]

Employees can leave and form their own studios if they wish. 343, as a studio, was created by Microsoft and will remain under Microsoft until they decide to close it down

[signal ivy]

yeah it wasn't an independent studio that was microsoft acquired

[zinc flax]

Still

[signal ivy]

it can't happen

[zinc flax]

Imagine working hard on a Game series for the last ten years only to be sabotaged by the Publisher

I’m surprised that the Staff hasn’t banned me yet…. I was scared that you guys would ban me

[signal ivy]

for what?

[zinc flax]

Not saying I want to be. Just I can’t respect Microsoft

I thought speaking bad about Microsoft is verbal attack and TOS violation

[analog salmon]

I think most of the halo community realise Microsoft haven’t treat this franchise exactly well

Not to say 343 have never fumbled themselves tho

[zinc flax]

But aren’t the Staff 343 Devs?

[coarse dagger]

Nope

Only those with the yellow 343 role

[signal ivy]

people are allowed to have opinions, it's how you present them that can cause issues

[zinc flax]

So, I’m still good? Or will I be let off with a warning?

[signal ivy]

I'm referring to people who just come in here every day and just drop "343 trash, MSFT trash" and dip

[zinc flax]

Oh

I have a weird question

So like……………………………

Do you guys like Call of Duty?

[pure ridge]

well. The TTK is wayyy to low

[analog salmon]

I grew up playing halo 3 and MW2 on 360 😄

[zinc flax]

Me too :3

[frail geode]

just finished halo reach on mcc

[pure ridge]

I was a H1 kiddo in the basement in Bremerton LOL

[analog salmon]

COD now just seems kinda mid ngl

[zinc flax]

It’s pretty high in CW and BO4

[frail geode]

it was a hell of an emotional and nostalgic ride

[zinc flax]

Better than being banned

Sorry bro

[ruby knoll]

mint quitz
opinion discarded

[zinc flax]

But that’s the question…. What will happen to the franchise? Will it end up like Medal of Honor? In which it will face a dishonorable death?

[white birch]

Not with it being on every Gamepass ad these days

[zinc flax]

I feel like that’s more like COD

Master Chief is just being put in Fortnite

[frail geode]

chief and kat are in siege too

[white birch]

Kelly

[frail geode]

as an elite skin for sledge, and a skin bundle for frost

[white birch]

Kat is in Gears 5

[ruby knoll]

idk only 343/ms know and I don't care to pointlessly speculate

guys i think Microsoft will sell halo to ubisoft !!!!!!!!

wow speculation

[zinc flax]

Eh more so to Konami

[zinc flax]

You’re right

I can DM devs right?

[civic sundial]

No

[frail geode]

msg modmail

[zinc flax]

Oh

[frail geode]

honestly im bad at multiplayer

[zinc flax]

How bad

[frail geode]

i havent dropped a kill yet

we finished a big team slayer game just now

its been years since I played and I cant get my controller to work in halo

[signal ivy]

negative

modmail is only for server moderation concerns/questions

[frail geode]

ohh mb

[crystal iron]

finished halo 3 odst. Reach is better.

Story-wise, ODST is pretty meh

[half abyss]

I think odsts are overrated

theyre cool dont get me wrong, but i feel like odst fans refuse to even acknowledge anything else in the universe

[stoic latch]

ODSTs are based because they don't have fancy Mjolnir armor and still badass

[half abyss]

yeah i can get that

the odst game though, i think is kinda disappointing

you still BASICALLY play like a spartan, despite the nerfs

and im not fooled,, you still have an energy shield, its just disguised as a red vingette

i get that they probably didnt wanna stray too far from the usual gameplay, but still

aint no way an odst can wield a grav hammer efficiently

[white birch]

More that making an entirely new game engine from the ground up would be a nightmare

[jade pebble]

if you just walk off needler shots you are a super soldier

[stoic latch]

we need an Alpha Nine game and this time they are spartans

[half abyss]

i dont care if youre literally a sci fi navy seal, aint no way you can hop on a wraith and punch it till it explodes

[stoic latch]

whaever you do in gameplay is not canon

[crystal iron]

the good thing about New Mobasa is that the art is better than New Alexandria

[half abyss]

again, odsts are cool. but the game just didnt capture that

[stoic latch]

There was a Halo 2 Cinematic with ODSTs it was cool

[half abyss]

oh yeah that one, yeah i liked it

[crystal iron]

I really didn't like how halo 3 odst plays

but I liked the art, the setting

[astral tide]

I just wanna see a game from a POV other than that of a Spartan again.

There's so many opportunities for cool stories in this world but all we keep getting is big green being big green.

Give the old man some rest.

[stoic latch]

yes we need a Red Team halo game

[astral tide]

Or a game about Johnson. I keep saying Contact Harvest SHOULD be a game.

[crystal iron]

the soundtrack of halo 3 ODST has some tunes that really remind me of JRPGs

[finite prawn]

dont get what people like about the story either. wasnt that great

[crimson berry]

Can I please stop getting 70+ ping lobbies today

[crystal iron]

Haha you get used to it

[neon jasper]

Where r u guys playing from

[crimson berry]

No, you dont and I hate playing with it at all.

[crystal iron]

Trust me, you do.

[crimson berry]

Nope

[crystal iron]

Coming from an aus player anyone in the US has zero reason to complain about ping

[crimson berry]

Oh get over it, I'm allowed to complain over a ping when it's seriously high above my usual and is more often today than typical.

[crimson berry]

US, East Coast to be exact.

[shadow turret]

I play constant 80-90+ ping and can still get insane KDAs most matches
its prolly a jump if you're used to like 20-30, but its playable imo

[crystal iron]

Literally 2 playlists in the entire game work for me; Quick Play and Husky Raid, both of which are either playing with bot teammates or farming kills

Everything else enjoyable like Btb heavies, ranked modes, even the pve modes like firefight are 200-400 ping

[onyx latch]

https://giphy.com/gifs/halo-infinite-unyshek-ASAefkbTO2zUZoNTv1

[crimson berry]

I'm usually 25-30 at most. 40s are also a typical. 60-70 is rarer for me, but I been seeing 60-100

[crystal iron]

Fitting

[crimson berry]

I even left a match, went back and I had somehow gotten lower ping, that didn't make any sense.

[crystal iron]

Is that markiplier that unyshek is pasted on

[crimson berry]

Yes.

[crystal iron]

Nice

[crimson berry]

I think that's a distractible ad?

Oh, no the mountain dew map. >_<

[crystal iron]

Total opposite for me, if I get like 150 ping and I quit to queue again I get a chance to get a 300 ping EU/NAE game

[crimson berry]

Honestly the one thing MCC has over Infinite is the ability to select your ping.

[crystal iron]

Like nobody in my region plays this game and if they do they play the most garbage modes in the entire game

[crystal iron]

Yeah that

I like that even if it doesn’t do anything for me

[crimson berry]

Yeah, I'd love to be able to select it personally.

[neon jasper]

Im EST too and not getting that highb ping at all

[crimson berry]

Congrats?

Like idk what I'm doing different but it's what I'm getting. Really tired of it though. :/

[celest heron]

I've gotten 170 ping games before. I shouldn't even be thrown into those lobbies when there are plenty of people in us servers.

[crimson berry]

Makes me want to stop playing to be honest.

Yep, think it's time to stop playing. Not helpful to any team I'm on so.

[ivory osprey]

https://www.halowaypoint.com/halo-infinite/ugc/maps/a4fd132c-26a6-4f51-83d9-54471ff60a98

We finally updated isolation with all the new objects and flood assets if anyone wants to take a look

[scarlet shuttle]

At what time does the Twitch stream start?

[hybrid lava]

HALO INFINITE WALMART IS ON RIGHT NOW

THE REPAIRMAN IS 3 DAYS OUT

[tulip tusk]

Nice, does firefight work on it? I do like the look

[plucky river]

why does this server not show halo tweets relating to drops this weekend?

[low bloom]

well was playing halo reach yesterday but i did a cursed mod and lets just say i laugh so hard i forgot what i was playing

[plucky river]

they don't even post news about it anymore

[woeful wigeon]

...

[coarse dagger]

Can't auto-pull tweets anymore due to changes to Twitter's API. Costs are ridiculous and there is no free version. If there's a solution out there, I'm sure something can be pulled together at some point

[plucky river]

Thank you for explaining

[spare finch]

Why did the game put me in a bth match with a bunch of human aimbots on the enemy team, I am not skilled enough to play with sweaty sweats

This is why sbmm is part of the problem

[bleak girder]

So I'm thinking about getting the MCC.
I've heard one big update is coming to it before support is pulled, and I'm wondering if the February update is that update.

Also, will it still get small bug fixes after the big update?

[coarse dagger]

It sucks tbh. I liked the ability to auto post stuff here, but new Twitter management makes that impossible 😞

[magic night]

SBMM on BTB has always been pretty minimal going as far back as Halo 2

[glacial tartan]

343 does not comment on MCCs development / roadmap. Nobody has any real idea.

[bleak girder]

Hm, alright.

[crystal iron]

I'm playing H4, why did they drop the unggoy's voices?

[civic sundial]

Reach did it first

343 just continued having Covenant not speak English because Reach did

Then went back to having them speak English for Halo 5

[celest heron]

they're comedy relief so it's good they're back to human language.

[crystal iron]

is it normal for the cinematics to be muted in halo 4? Just found the first terminal and no audio at all

[civic sundial]

That is not normal

[zealous panther]

halo infinite drops active... but none of the channels with this drops are...

oh wait, looks like some of them is

[plucky river]

So the new meta is players quitting on the last round ? The game doesn't quit the match by that point and the match is already pointless.

[stoic canopy]

I've noticed every pro is using Pad

I wonder if it's really that much better than KBM

[zealous panther]

Yes. Tho mkb is certainly better then before after all the changes and some guns straight up easier to use on it, but in most cases controller just better because of assistance

[crystal iron]

I can't say I dislike the robotic enemies of Halo 4

they are very good. Good design, good art, good challange

[crystal iron]

is there a secret scene if I beat halo 4 in legendary?

[celest heron]

yes, almost all the games have a different ending for legendary. they're all on youtube if you don't want to play that difficulty.

[spare finch]

I’m tired of enemies turning btb into a sweatfest ranked match (it’s a social mode, ranked exists for a reason)

[spare finch]

Not true tbh, controller lacks proper aim (too fast vertical and horizontal aiming)

[left snow]

At least with SBMM it's the same for both sides.

And you can choose, to some extent, how sweaty you want to play.

The alternative is one side chilled and the other side fried. Yuck.

...

And speaking of SBMM. Has anyone tried Xdefiant?

I was expecting a torrent of posts here saying how much fun no SBMM is and how we have to implement it into Halo ASAP.

But I haven't really seen much

[ruby knoll]

i'm wondering how strong the infinite curse is still
many games that halo fans(?) annoyingly push as "better" in some way end up just being a flavor of the month thing that fades away after a bit if not straight up dies, while infinite keeps chugging along (splitgate, crossfirex, etc)

will xdefiant succumb to the curse? (god i hope so)

[left snow]

Halo will be patiently sitting here, waiting for them to return. And all will be forgiven. 😄

[swift iris]

They're usually those in parties who prefer playing with a group.

[ruby knoll]

there's legit few things less interesting than a game that's only/mostly been described in terms of other games being worse

[left snow]

Just did a quick google search for SBMM reviews of the game...

Literally the first web review; The lack of skill based matchmaking is being celebrated by influencers on social media, but in practice it makes for unbalanced matches where high ranking players are steamrolling beginners, even in the Welcome Playlist.

And the first casual (Reddit) review; So, after 10 or so hours playing in the casual playlists -- not the beginners playlist that does have sbmm -- guess what? Every match is sweaty as f&$@! 3/4 of the lobby is running the "meta" build, bunny hopping, slide cancelling, everything that made Call of Duty sweat is still happening in this game. So much so, that the xDefiant subreddit has people questioning if the devs lied about the implementation of sbmm. To them, sweaty players can't exist if there isn't sbmm.

That's hilarious...

[ruby knoll]

luh mao

@left snow certainly it could be argued that how an mm system creates teams might cause issues, or other such stuff, but like, "sweats". People who want to... win? You can't compensate for mentality in matchmaking

like "sweats" will exist with strict sbmm, or less strict sbmm, or cbmm, or even serverlist based mp

at most you can try "honor rule" separation where you have people self filter into separate hoppers for matchmaking, but again, can't enforce or compensate for a player's mentality

of course this doesn't touch on the people who just want easy wins

[ruby knoll]

also @river minnow funny stuff

[sturdy kernel]

Yes

One ending extended scene

So good luck beating Halo 4 on legendary

No spoilers

[thick cove]

How “free” are Spartans to customize the color and attachments on their armor?

[raven night]

Covenant hottie boys inbound!

[slim flint]

however they can find paint and tape?

[frail geode]

Is it true that halo mcc is never getting any updates anymore?

[civic sundial]

That's baseless rumour based off of wild speculation because the game hasn't been updated in a while

[frail geode]

Oh im glad

[civic sundial]

My guess is that MCC's anniversary will be the next update, be a good way to celebrate it

[stoic latch]

UNSC makes the customised armor and spartans choose

[thick cove]

So the armor from let’s say Emile is standard?

[sturdy kernel]

I didn't even know that the color of the armor also changes the color of the Spartan's suit

[stoic latch]

probably they had a pick

[civic sundial]

The carving on Emile's visor isn't standard, if that's what you're wondering

[thick cove]

No I know that but I was wondering since we have a billion ways to customize our spartans in game what the lore was behind it

I would assume they picked a standard armor and modify it to their likings

[ruby knoll]

semicanon. Not every customization should be considered canon, but mljonir could be changed up to suit different missions

[onyx latch]

^

[stoic latch]

Palmer chose from a limited selection and never bothered to change it afterwards

[onyx latch]

That's kind of the problem with every character (Except Chief and Blue Team) being forcd to wear their 'iconic' armor sets forever.

[thick cove]

So no field customization for Spartans

[spare finch]

Gonna multigrind for the mk vi emblem and hero rank

[onyx latch]

Constantly. That's the entire point of suits like Rakshasa.

[spare finch]

And yes I have mcc so I technically can get the mk vi emblem

[thick cove]

Whats the lore behind Rakshasa and the other non Mjolnir suits?

[onyx latch]

Rakshasa is a MJOLNIR spinoff that is built as a long-term endurance and stealth suit, with a lot of redundant and low-maintenance components meant for a Spartan that spends months or even years in the field.

Mirage IIC is a MJOLNIR-parallel powered armor that is built for stealth and low-cost combat, basically the same philosophies as SPI before it. It's also able to be downgraded so humans can use it.

Osteo is a hazmat-oriented powered armor, meant originally for things like CBRN environments that would foul even top of the line MJOLNIR. CBRN protection is not considered equal, and Hazmat is considered more effective and longer-term than suits like HAZOP from the MJOLNIR line. Unlike Mirage IIC, Osteo was designed for normal humans and upgraded for Spartan usage.

[crystal iron]

I'm at the Didact's core. Halo 4 is so rushed. The story is rushed. The levels are short. And they seemed to imitate Gears of War

[onyx latch]

Due to shared tech architecture, all three are somewhat compatible with MJOLNIR.

[thick cove]

Wow thanks for the answer!

[onyx latch]

No problem.

[celest heron]

there's also a bunch of missions with spartan ops if you want to get more story.

[spare finch]

I’ve been confused on how to pronounce Rakshasa

[onyx latch]

Rock-sha-sah.

[spare finch]

Thx

[crystal iron]

The final boss is lame. You win by pressing a button... how lame

[signal ivy]

which game?

[onyx latch]

4, I assume.

[signal ivy]

realistically there was no way to actually fight him in combat lol

[crystal iron]

y servers no work

mcc servers were fine now they are broken like infinites

randomly disconnecting everyone from the game

is mcc getting anymore updates

everytime something new pops up in my steam feed i'm like woo! update! then i realize its another nameplate for a special made up day 343 invented

[glacial tartan]

Its an issue creating the lobbies - been there since July 2023 I believe? Or maybe earlier. Never seen an issue randomly d/c everyone.

[glacial tartan]

Nobody knows. 343 doesnt say.

[celest heron]

there's a lot of button pressing in h4.

[lusty wraith]

It’s annoying because the UNSC actually does show up to help you in the end. An all out assault with the marines on the didact would’ve been so much cooler than just Chief and doing a QTE

[civic sundial]

What would a squad of marines do against the Didact?

[keen silo]

Die

[ruby knoll]

sounds like a you issue

[celest heron]

Chief would've as well if corbunga wasn't there.

[crystal iron]

Why did they put QTE in H4? Right in the beginning you have a climb up QTE followed by a surprise Elite who falls down... not the best opening

[ruby knoll]

trying something different, shaking things up

[tulip tusk]

qte was used in a lot of games at the time idk, i never enjoyed it. it's weird

[ruby knoll]

I'm neutral to it

[foggy torrent]

Do you think we'll get anything for the Xbox Showcase?

[tulip tusk]

no 🥺

[crystal iron]

what I liked the most in H4 is the art. Whoever was the lighting artist did an superb job

it's way better than the lighting in halo 3, which laked depth and contrast

[crystal iron]

halo 4 is the goat

a hated goat by most people, but still a 🐐

people i have a question

why do the explosion effects in infinite look some just set the object to disapear then added a 2d explosion sprite

but then halo 3/4/5 are like wow look at that eye candy big blue explosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLeV3KSrl6U

[main moss]

if you could have any studio other than 343 or bungie make halo, who would it be?

idk who id want but given destiny has double the player count of halo when the servers are offline i think we have a problem lol

[crystal iron]

i was going to say destiny but then remembered bungiee makes it

the gameplay feels nice almost addicting

whenis halo 7 out

the campaign in halo 4 feels filled with abrupt cuts, teleporting from one place to another

[main moss]

halo 4 wasnt as good as it could have been but i enjoyed it and it still felt like halo

halo 4 was the last good halo

[crystal iron]

The Star Wars trench in space was worse than Reach. And that giant war machine part was a rip off Gears of War 2. They even copied the Hammer of Dawn

yes but

cortana

[lyric brook]

so there’s been an influx of good players purposely throwing ranked matches

my hypothesis is that they’re jealous of me because they pick and choose what games to try in

if you’re like any of those people i feel so bad for you

jealousy is a disease get well soon

[celest heron]

what mission is the war machine?

[dreamy pulsar]

For some reason when I try and launch infinite from steam it keeps saying "unrecognized game client. Cannot connect"

[tulip tusk]

verify files. if that doesnt work make topic in #1075989764026675210

[dreamy pulsar]

Am verifying now (I had to ask a friend how lol)

[signal ivy]

could have asked here 😛

[crystal iron]

Reclaimer

[crystal iron]

What? Halo 5 is exclusive to xbox one?

[tulip tusk]

Yeah h5 is xbox, only h5 forge is on pc

[crystal iron]

strange. MCC includes all halo games.

[onyx latch]

Except for Halo Spartan Strike, Spartan Assault, Wars, Wars 2, Fireteam Raven, and whatever the VR game was called.

[signal ivy]

Recruit

[celest heron]

oh, the mammoth

[finite prawn]

just beat CE leg in 1:24

[zinc flax]

Team Amorous or Infinity Ward

[crystal iron]

why dont ms just lease out halo and let multiple devs work on it

instead of letting 1 dev work on it for years, everyone get hyped, then people not like it, then we all have to wait years again for the next one

[zinc flax]

Because they want to save money so their executives can buy another yacht

[zinc flax]

Like they just bought ActivisionBlizzard yet there’s so many studios that can help 343i…. But they choose not to…

[crystal iron]

microsoft casually spending billions buying companies then end up shuting them down later and losing money: ms sleeps

halo fans wanting microsoft to spend a bit on money to make halo good again: HOW DARE YOU NO

[zinc flax]

It’s really anti competitive… hopefully the FTC can break up Microsoft at some point so 343i can be free

[ruby knoll]

man there's so much utterly divorced from reality here

[noble urchin]

when is the update?

[civic sundial]

In about 10 hours

[finite prawn]

whats it gonna be?

if its not pc and consolr crossplay im donr

done

[civic sundial]

They're talking about the Tenrai update coming to Halo Infinite today

[stoic latch]

Spartan vs Samurai

[frosty condor]

What kind of comparison is that? Spartan all day!

Also those kind of questions fit better in #general-chat than here 😉

[stoic latch]

we have a samurai core and I thought that was what they were called in their universe

[thick cove]

What are your thoughts on the new update ?

[frosty condor]

Ah, guess it would help for that detail

[neon jasper]

Not sure why but I dislike that core so much

Just feels so out of place compared to the other cores

[thick cove]

Got the same feeling and with that new pass coming out and focusing on Yoroi I might just grind older passes

[neon jasper]

same unless they got something else good in there

[crystal iron]

https://i.imgur.com/E2Ak2jx.png

hello

[ruby knoll]

saying you two are wrong isn't defending Microsoft lol, but whatever

[ruby knoll]

no way a fellow GT player

[crystal iron]

is it possible to emulate xbox one to play halo 5?

[coarse dagger]

No

[zealous panther]

For some reason MCC in steam asking me to login in my ms account every launch now... anyone else have this problem?

[sullen kiln]

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

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

[glacial tartan]

There are guides (I wrote one!) in the community self help section for this issue. Basically clear out your credential manager and watch the issue disappear.

[zealous panther]

Oh Ty, I will look into that

[turbid snow]

So when i start infinite it starts to load in but then crashes. This appeared out of nowhere, what can i do?

[zealous panther]

Sorry to bother, but I just can't find it. Can you point me into the right direction?

[glacial tartan]

Away from my desk right now, but DM me and I’ll help in a few minutes!

[crystal iron]

https://i.imgur.com/6rjTdRx.png ok

[broken venture]

PC? same issue, game is essentially broken for me right now, trying a fresh install

[turbid snow]

Yes, already tried it but still crashing

[broken venture]

fantastic

[turbid snow]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[left cape]

Some presets on these match composer playlists would be helpful... Having to scroll through 47 quick play modes to find the "Snipers" gametype is going to be a pita.

[broken venture]

love updates that literally break the game

[turbid snow]

lmao yea

[crystal iron]

just pull the plug, put all resouces into the next halo and hope its good

please you know its the right thing to do

[broken venture]

Yeah still broken after a reinstall for me as well. What GPU do you have, and did you update to the new Nvidia drivers today?

[turbid snow]

i have a 3060 and yes i updated it

[broken venture]

https://twitter.com/HaloSupport/status/1798051195359277381

The new driver did it, guess we have to roll-back to play the game

[turbid snow]

ooh

thanks

[hard surge]

i must say... this new operation looks good in halo infinite.

[distant inlet]

Is it me or is the music in classic Halo 1/2 really, really quiet?
like my music is on max MCC version classic graphics

[vital bolt]

I agree 100%, this seems like almost a downgrade

Imagine booting this game up the first time and getting into one of the weird action sack modes as your first game

[thick tusk]

Compared to the actual original releases, you are 100% correct.

[vital bolt]

The original audio in Halo 2 also wasn't such a low bitrate as it is in Halo MCC, seems like there was some loss of the original masters somewhere down the line

[half portal]

Anyone else getting incorrect xp from firefight? I completed two matches and both gave me xp for match complete and mvp.

[rugged quartz]

I forgot what it gave before

[half portal]

It gave you xp based on how many rounds you beat after 3 rounds. And if you got all 5 it was 400. But now it's only like 150

[ruby lake]

what??

no way.

[spare finch]

how's the match composer

[spare finch]

glitch

[shadow turret]

not a big fan of it personally, but its fine

putting like 10 playlists in the Quickplay search though is really annoying to uncheck basically all of them if you just wanna play like Fiesta or Husky or sumn

[coral willow]

useless

[ruby lake]

useful

[analog salmon]

you can just press Y to uncheck all (or similar on kbm)

[shadow turret]

oh good, I didn't see a button for that

[analog salmon]

keep in mind being able to queue multiple modes is huge for people in less populated regions. it might seem random so much is under quick play, but its literally making the game playable for most people outside North America and Europe

even in europe being able to queue off peak is nice

[shadow turret]

yea, it was mostly the unchecking everything that annoyed me, the system itself is good though

I also do wanna know what all the "community" modes are in Quick Play and stuff

[analog salmon]

its just the same as arena but with the halo 3 forge maps and whatnot

its a bit weird but i get why they did it like that

[shadow turret]

ah

[crystal iron]

halo 3 that game we're told isn't worth remastering yet is good enough to keep making playlists and maps of because they know people do indeed want more halo 3

[karmic oriole]

Yall know about the out of Map glitch on formation? On husky raid? Just played a game and the enemy flew out of the map holding the flag the entire time

[left snow]

I'm a bit disgruntled that Ranked isn't included.

I often have to wait 5 minutes or more to get a game. If I don't time out.

It would be awesome to tell the Match Composer to find me a Ranked game. But after two minutes add in Squad Battle. And then, if nothing by three minutes, throw in Husky Raid et al.

[crystal iron]

are we getting anymore campaign updates

it was fun

[spare finch]

Unlikely, the campaign hasn’t updated for a long while

[crystal iron]

big sad, many tears, much depression

I feel like updates to campaign would have been more worth it, coz generally they are good, and MP updates are just you put work into updating it, and people moan anyway where as campaign they would be like yay!

[spare finch]

How? It doesn’t have vehicles to glitch off of

[karmic oriole]

They grapple all along the walls of the edge of map

To some ledge or something and can't be killed because of invisible walls

[hallow dagger]

Hey so I just played my first Firefight match since the update and did they get rid of the XP bonuses for capturing hills? All I got was XP for winning the match and mvp

Wait did they bring back the daily 500xp daily mission too?

[spare finch]

The fact firefight is only a 4-11 second wait time is amazing

[hallow dagger]

I had trouble loading the map originally

[spare finch]

F

[hallow dagger]

Im concerned they removed the extra XP bonuses from Firefight. That was my go to mode to completing these operations

If anyone plays firefight let me know if you're getting XP for capturing hills

[stoic canopy]

Whomever did the updated layout for Breaker

Go back. Revert. This is not better.

[celest heron]

343 are aware of it.

[spare finch]

You do get xp from hills still

For career rank at least

[spare finch]

Had a btb round where I got two singular snipes in half a second

[spare finch]

Breaker has been the same since season 1

[hallow dagger]

No I meant for like weekly mission xp

[hallow dagger]

Wait is it a bug?

[spare finch]

Oh, idk

[hallow dagger]

Like in the post battle screen the hills usually had xp bonus

[scarlet shuttle]

Every time I want to switch game mode I have to compose the playlist for it? What the hell is wrong with devs?

This ain’t Quick Play anymore 😂 and poor players who don’t really understand how this work out. They’ll think their favorite playlist are gone.

[spare finch]

Bro doesn’t understand what match composition and organising are

[ivory glacier]

I kinda think this match composer thing is annoying right now but maybe it will grow on me

[crimson berry]

Wait, no they didn't remove tactical

Are you kidding me? Super Fiesta is gone, Tactical is gone, it's all ranked, Firefight or just Quick Play.

Ah, so it's the match composer thing, I had no idea that was even in this update. Found'em. Yay my playlists are back. 🙂

[celest heron]

bruh, 47 playlists lol

[celest heron]

deselected a bunch, restarted the game and the playlists selected were still saved so that's good.

[foggy dune]

47 playlists to sort through on quickplay who put a green light on this UI

[frosty condor]

We went from “not enough playlists 🙄” to “omg 47 playlists, too many 🙄”

[foggy dune]

It's the way it was implemented can't you see the difference

I guess it's easier to see things in absolutes

[zealous panther]

And most of the people play 2 of them anyway.

[zealous panther]

Look, I do not want to compare cod and halo games, but the practice shows that people do not really need a lot of playlists. Most of them just want to push one button to play game.

[thick cove]

^

That and easy to use/read UI ffs

[sturdy kernel]

I’m wondering, do those soldiers who became Spartans choose their own armor or are they given one already prepared?

[crystal iron]

Depends which spartan

Spartan IIs all got the same Mark IV and Mark V, I assume later on after certain operations and the upgrade to Mark VI and VII they all customised it to tailor their specific needs (Hermes set from H5 mentions only a few Spartans can handle its speed factor, one of which would be Kelly-087)

Spartan IIIs with the exception of some (Noble Team, Beta Company survivors, Outpost Discovery duo) all received SPI armor which was cheaper and less effective than regular Mjolnir armor to compensative for the large numbers of members of each spartan company

I’m a bit unsure about Spartan IV armor since there’s a division between Gen 2 and Gen 3 with the Mark VI and VII armors, but I’m under the assumption that prior to infinite all IVs got Recruit-class armor until they were able to get accustomed and master their abilities with that Mjolnir armor before getting customisable suits most likely based on the work they do (e.g. Sarah Palmer using her Scout armor to eliminate Dr. Halsey in H4 Spartan Ops)

Either new Spartans still do get the Gen 2 Recruit armor now or probably jump to Gen 3 default Mark VII

[neon jasper]

all i wanna know is where is my halo 3 refueled

[crystal iron]

The match composer is out, so...

Now what?

[analog salmon]

the maps are in the community playlists

except lockout which is under arena since 343 made it I assume

i wish they would put Guardian and Rig in the arena playlists since they're both good enough to be in Ranked Slayer

[stable raptor]

The match composer is mildly disappointing

[analog salmon]

functionally i think they nailed it

i think it probably should have some "presets"

[stable raptor]

I thought it was going to be more like you could put on the playlists you wanted to play, not the individul gamemodes for a certain playlist

[agile lodge]

Did anyone here played NOVA 3 on android or IOS a long time ago?

[analog salmon]

i mean its just like MCC though more granular

it really just needs sub menus, so like when you select Quick Play and go into the composer, there's then an option for Community and Arena. You can select all of either option, or you can go into them and select what modes you want

and something like Husky Raid could be its own option

Imagine "Arena" and "Community" are collapsible lists so you can easily select all the modes within that grouping:

Quick Play

• Arena
• BR Slayer
• Slayer
• CTF...
• Community
• BR Slayer
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[stable raptor]

Well what I wanted to see what something of the MCC UI where you it was just all the playlists listed out and you could select the ones you wanted to play, I didn't expect to see just the sub game modes in the playlists the only thing that is changeable, if we had the first idea I was talking about it could cut down wait times extremely quickly where I don't have to way 3 mins to find a match

[analog salmon]

other then that i really have no complaints. hopefully they get around to doing some kind of grouping system cause its just a bit overwhelming right now

[analog salmon]

but they've combined all the 4v4 playlist together?

there's nothing you can do in MCC you can't do in this match composer I dont think

[crystal iron]

I hope they put in that piece by piece customization for elites, there are combinations that I was interested in trying.

[analog salmon]

if anything MCC's is more limited

[stable raptor]

Have they? I need to check rq

Oh damn they have

My bad

[analog salmon]

yeah it's confusing at first dont worry

[stable raptor]

47 boxes you have to go through is crazy tho just to play the ones you want

[analog salmon]

yeah its fine for the existing playerbase who will choose the modes they like and never change it

but for new/returning players it makes discovery pretty hard

i just think they need to adjust the UI, the ability to queue every 4v4 playlist if you want is really great

[stable raptor]

I see what you mean now, and I would totally agree with this more, it makes it less condensed and time consuming

[analog salmon]

hopefully something like that is the plan and this is just them getting it out as soon as they can

[stable raptor]

See what the community thinks at first then takes the feedback and hopefully improves upon it

But knowing Microsoft anything is possible

[analog salmon]

honestly they could just have left in the menu options for the playlists like husky raid but made them simply shortcuts to selecting that mode in quick play

also why the firefight modes aren't under one selector makes no sense to me

[stable raptor]

Agreed, it just seems out of place

[distant inlet]

is the nvdia driver thing fixed ?

i dont wanna revert to old drivers

[thick cove]

Whats wrong with Nvidia drivers?

[distant inlet]

it insta crashesh the game

[distant inlet]

.

[analog salmon]

could try clearing the directX shader cache: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-delete-directx-shader-cache-in-windows

then after clear your GPU shader cache in Nvidia software

[distant inlet]

i did it did nothing

[analog salmon]

you cleared both?

[distant inlet]

my friend reverted his drivers and now it working for him yes i did clear both

[analog salmon]

downgrade is probably the only solution rn then

[distant inlet]

gonna wait then

[jade pebble]

what happened to fiesta and husky raid?

cant find em in the selections anymore. tried to look at mode options too but didnt see em there

on a sidenote Im not a fan of how the ninja oddball plays. you have no defenses as the ballholder and really no way to counter so youre killing someone for a chance at 2 or 3 points before someone kills you. the game drags on until the timer runs out

loving the juggernaut modes

[white birch]

They were moved to team slayer I think.

They've been folded into one of the composer choices for sure.

[jade pebble]

nvm yea found in quick play

kinda sucks I think. itll be harder to find games with them now I think

nice thing is I can finally weed out the regular husky and fiesta modes

and just stick to supers. although thatll make the wait even longer

[dull patrol]

Since its Tenrai IV I’d love to see the Kabuto helmet become available again, there’s probably hundreds if not thousands or more players that would love to get it since we missed out the first time. Other armors and coatings have returned why not Kabuto? Halo, you brought back Yokai but not Kabuto, please listen to us fans and bring Kabuto back. Thanks

[jade pebble]

Im sure it will eventually

the stuff in the exchange is pretty expensive so if we had both yokai and kabuto come back at once itd be unaffordable

[white birch]

Good thing the exchange doesnt clear out. So all the stuff thats in there now you cant get will be there next operation too

[jade pebble]

it doesnt?

I know they only added with this update but I was under the impression the stuff will clear out eventually

[radiant sundial]

Whatever was avaliable in exchange will stay avaliable in the armor hall

[hallow dagger]

So since they nerfed the XP earnings in firefight into the ground, what game mode earns the most XP per match?

[crimson berry]

So it seems stuff in the exchange stays? Like even last seaons stuff seems to be there still.

[sterile moth]

I'm getting tired of seeing so many updates come out and yet not a single one of them has to do with bringing back the flyable pelicans :/

[hallow dagger]

I doubt they will. They're focused on Halo 7 development now. We're just getting the stream of left over content until the next game comes out

[sterile moth]

So no more major updates for infinite?

[hallow dagger]

Highly unlikely

What we got now is what we'll get from now on imo

[sterile moth]

Damn

[hallow dagger]

Yea infinite is in End Game mode now

[sterile moth]

Just wish they could've delved more into expanding forge mode atleast...

[hallow dagger]

Im not saying they won't, but everything hints that they won't either.

[sterile moth]

Most likely that'll be the case, just armor updates now

[hallow dagger]

They did show off some new Forge decorative items in their last stream but I don't know if that already came or not

[crimson berry]

I really despise the damn match making on here anymore.

[sterile moth]

I enjoyed the match making quite a bit, just the issue that I need a Xbox controller adapter for my pc

Hard to genuinely enjoy it with mouse and keyboard

[crimson berry]

No my issue is getting put in lobbies where 1-2 people just don't help or move.

[hallow dagger]

What game mode makes the most XP now?

[sterile moth]

Fr

[crimson berry]

I play on mouse and keyboard all the time, so no issues on input.

[sterile moth]

For me it's the haptic feedback

I can play on mouse and keyboard but I tend to have a lot more fun on controller

[crimson berry]

Eh, it makes my wrists hurt anymore. Need to use them more often.

[sterile moth]

Oh damn

[crimson berry]

Apparently having fun today is impossible. :/ Probably my last match and then getting off.

Did they change how much XP the challenges give or something or am I just crazy

Oh, wait it's probably cuz I don't have the pass currently, gonna get it in a couple days probably

[maiden comet]

oh boy a new tenrai event with cool armor in all the promotional materials, surely its literally not all shop only items? :)

[full warren]

where is the h3 playlist? where do I select it in quick play

aslo wtf have they done with the match making lol I am basicly playing onyx lobby with people whos max out the career rank in team slayer lol

[celest heron]

aren't you a diamond player?

[full warren]

yes but the lobbies are crazyier than even before

I not played for 5 weeks and somehow the lobbies are even more stacked lol

There is 22 players who reached max rank i met 4 already in 3 games lol

[ruby knoll]

bruh

they added so much on top of h5 forge which itself was a huge step up from before

[radiant sundial]

Max rank as in onyx 1600 or whatever it was, or max rank as in hero rank?

[full warren]

hero

[sterile moth]

They did add a lot on top of forge yes but missed out on the opportunity to add flyable pelicans or even phantoms

Back then the excuse of the map size and too much of a advantage would be used over other players however the dynamic has changed with most maps being created from the ground up by other players to allow for those play styles to be used

Back then when they removed the ability to fly them in campaign they said that they'd eventually bring it back, that was 2 years ago

[ruby knoll]

did they say that

[full warren]

This match composer is so confusing, where are the quick play modes, or the H3 modes gones

[shadow turret]

There's close to 300+ people at Hero Rank, not 22

[full warren]

300 but still meeting 4 of them in 3 games is a bit extreme, I not won a single game since the update, this is some crazy sbmm

[hallow dagger]

Well good news. Seems they fixed the XP bug for firefight. Worked this time

[chrome mauve]

probably around a couple thousand now

mint blitz is a straight yapper, you can run into some rando with hero rank pretty much every hour if not more

[crimson berry]

Think my career rank is Plat currently. So slowly moving closer. :x Maybe once I get the CoD BP done I can focus Halo and try to reach max.

[left snow]

The SBMM doesn't take into account career XP. And generally time played doesn't correlate to skill (although it does at least reflect that you like the game and are willing to put time into it). It's just happenstance.

[celest heron]

usually, the earliest people to achieve the highest career rank in halo games are above average in skill like some streamers for example, but after awhile like where we are now regular players will start to get it.

[ruby knoll]

sbmm ate my dog

i didn't even have a dog

[left snow]

But that's not the point. Youtube and Reddit have told you to be angry about the dog.

[native fog]

Anyone think the other tenrai helmets will be in the exchange?

[crimson acorn]

what the hell happened to half of the playlists on mp? i just logged in for the tenrai event and all of the fun stuff is gone lol

no casual tacti or super fiesta?

[chrome mauve]

Check quick play modes

[hexed harness]

I think those modes are in quick play. you can go in the playlist and check what you want to play

[chrome mauve]

pretty much everything has been separated into match player size + ranked and featured playlists

[crimson acorn]

ah gotcha. had me scared there lol

thanks!

[chrome mauve]

np

[topaz pier]

They should separate the 4v4 modes into their own playlists like in mcc

Like for example team slayer, team objective, team swat, team snipers, etc

[rough field]

Sometimes I wish this game was more accommodated for controllers

Why can a KBM player whip around in .1s yet I can’t even spin 360 in less than 2s lol

Even on max sensitivity

[ruby knoll]

true...

[rough field]

When will halo let us up the sensitivity more

[left snow]

Wonder if it's balance. If 343 feel that KBM and Controller are relatively balanced (similar bell curves of skill) then improving leads to problems vs the other.

And increasing sensitivity leads to it's own problem. The aim assist in Infinite is not as strong as Halo 5. If you increase the sensitivity you will be able to spin faster - but that will make it MUCH harder to hit your target. Especially if you want the sort of sensitivity that matches KBM.

Have you adjusted your acceleration and max input threshold to make your spin as quick as possible?

In Halo 5 where sprint and spartan charge were insane - I always thought we needed a 180 degree spin button. To make you turn around instantly. Imagine the John Wick moments as you flipped mid jump to shoot who was behind you.

[rough field]

It’s all on max.

I still spin slower than a wheelchair doing a 360.

[edgy path]

after updating both game and nvidia graphics driver today the game crashes in the middle of the load screen, at about 33%, and I'm not sure if it's the game update or driver update doing it

[left snow]

I think a lot of people have had trouble with the nvidia update.

[edgy path]

[crystal iron]

infinites fault

[celest heron]

I also know someone who says the max sens is slower compared to previous games. I think they should increase the sens and players can decide if they want to keep it there.

[crystal iron]

this sounds far too sensible

[celest heron]

343 are aware of it. they said to roll back your driver to the previous one.

[ruby knoll]

it's on nvidia

frankly if you're not using cuda there's little reason to use nvidia over amd

[left snow]

True. It would be a very easy "fix". Which makes me think it's a balancing thing. To even out the pros and cons of controller vs KBM.

[crystal iron]

fun fact, while its not up to companies like nvidia or amd to fix other developers games, they do have a submenu or patch menu for specific (most) games embeded in their drivers, to help further optimize games that dont run too well with the generic approcach. there was nothing specifically related to halo infinite with changes in v555.99 which means one of nvidias fixes they used to help infinite run better now has an issue, but you know, they could have not bothered at all to include that fix and just left it to the devs

[analog salmon]

Pros don’t use full sens so this doesn’t really make much sense

You can increase sensitivity a bit more by increasing outer deadzone to max (I think 15)

Pros do tend to use 3+ acceleration tho iirc. I gotta find the table

Yeah their acceleration is pretty much always 3 or 4

Sensitivities are most around default. The only pros with high sensitivity have zerod the outer deadzone

[crystal iron]

plenty of reasons to concider using nvidia over amd other than cuda (if we're talking about 4000 series vs rdna3 here)

1. dlss is superior to fsr, even xess is better than fsr on amd cards
2. efficiency
3. vr performance is better with nvidia
4. RT is much better with nvidia
5. nvidia normally get the special treatment with other small things like getting dlss added to newer games first, AV1 encoding on discord, etc..)
   i'm not going to make a point about them having better drivers because amd drivers have improved a lot recently

[analog salmon]

Price to performance I honestly think Nvidia and AMD are basically the same

The raw compute performance you gain with AMD you just lose with worse upscaling and other stuff

[crystal iron]

6800XT is fantasitc value if you dont care about having the above, and cuda

[onyx latch]

Spartan Locke spartan charged my door down and shot my Nvidia graphics card using aim down sights

[analog salmon]

I hope AMD can close the gap on RT and upscaling but honestly I would just buy whatever fits my needs best at the time

And honestly unless AMD close that gap in the next few years I’m probably going back to Nvidia

RT is just gonna be in every game soon enough

[crystal iron]

(I know leaks can't be trusted) but the word going around among the hardware spcae is rdna4 won't be competing in the high end vs RTX 5080/5090), so prepare for the 5090 to be like 2K+... lol

[analog salmon]

That’s a pretty safe bet honestly

But there’s also less need to go that high end

[crystal iron]

Also Intel, with their new battlemage gpus are targeted at the low/mid end, so they won't want to lose that too..

[analog salmon]

It feels weird routing for Intel but it’s no doubt a good thing if they can gain traction

I think AMD are too comfortable in that mid range market rn and don’t invest enough. Like they don’t actually have a long term plan to catch up to Nvidia

I get gaming GPUs aren’t their biggest business but it’s frustrating

[clear cedar]

is anyone else having their game just instantly crashing on Steam for some reason?

[crystal iron]

I think GPUs might be the last thing they care about honestly
Server market makes the most
followed by APUs for xbox/ps
oem laptops and cpus for desktop
then finally their GPUs... lol

[analog salmon]

Yeah and honestly if they lose the console market I don’t even know how they’ll keep the GPU business going

[clear cedar]

okay, I need to rollback my nvidia driver

[smoky flare]

Hi

[safe summit]

Yo

[edgy path]

Yeah just downloaded the previous nvidia driver

Halo workin now

[thick cove]

I was wondering does the EVA helmet offer the same protection as the other ones ? I would assume all that glass part doesn’t

[glacial jackal]

So I was playing some custom games halo 3, ride or die infection.
I was on a warthog mini gun and there was a driver and passenger, we get flipped by a grav hammer and I just start shooting and manage to kill the infected who did that, but my driver and passenger died. So I'm just there spraying the mini gun at all the infected running towards me when another warthog gets flipped, killed and I'm the last man standing. I'm just shooting like my life depends on it and I knew I was gonna die. I ended up with 28 whole kills before finally being infected. Best game ever.

[edgy path]

I assume you're asking about lore, in which case the visor is indeed more fragile and offers less protection than the rest of the helmet, hence the various up-armor options available to a lot of helmets.

Gameplay they make no difference, obviously

[thick cove]

What I assumed thanks for confirming
Weird thing is Spartans like Emile who specialize in CQC wear the EVA but than again rule of cool probably

[edgy path]

usually a case of providing functions that make it most useful in specific situations that the Spartan may excel at performing in

[thick cove]

Fair enough

[gloomy dew]

How is there still not a toggle for M&K aim assist in Halo Infinite?

I don't wanna play with this, it keeps throwing off my aim

[hexed harness]

How yall feeling about the new mode selection layout? I kinda like it. so many options in wuick play

[coarse dagger]

There is, it was added in the update at the start of May:
https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/25897330878868-Halo-Infinite-Banished-Honor-Update-Patch-Notes#h_01HW64VK5WWXFRB2QZ5Z933VRE

[dusky nova]

I'm no expert in consumer law, but if Nvidia were to start inflating prices that much due to no competition in the high-end market, would they not be at risk of breaching laws regarding monopolies in many countries?

[coarse dagger]

@safe summit if that's your own Halo stream, feel free to post it in #1076327824924872755

[analog salmon]

probably not. those cards aren't even really mass market

they're like the reference monitors of GPUs

even 3080 is like 2% of Steam players

AMD got some momentum with the 6600 and 6700 tho, they gotta hold onto those customers with good RT offerings in the next few years

[magic night]

I don't think we'll see much from AMD in the RT space anytime soon, though I'd like to be proven wrong. They've been pretty far behind NVIDIA and there's no real signs of that changing.

If they improve, I'd be happy. I wouldn't have to explain to people why their GPUs are crashing from raytracing as much.

[scarlet shuttle]

Why am I having trouble finding games for Husky Raid since Match Composer?

[clever totem]

hey guys i was playing with a friend firefight on the map rendez vous. I have activated all 3 terminals but the gates for the garage woud not open, is this a bug?
because we wanted to go for the warthog but it did not work to open the garage

[tulip tusk]

it may just be a rough time to find games, it's a weekday and around noon EST most are at work or school

[scarlet shuttle]

Been playing every Thursday at the same time of the day and never had to wait for a game 🤷‍♂️

[tulip tusk]

idk, i always play custom browser. perhaps more people diversified their search to other playlists using the composer - not just huskyraid.

[scarlet shuttle]

There was already a Playlist with just Husky Raid. I suspect that common folks don’t read about update notes and just think Husky Raid is out of the game 😅

[cloud anchor]

Halo crashing after initial intro screens wile loading, right before menus would show up. [On PC] - The game was working perfectly until this started happening two days ago. I have an i9 & 4080. Anyone else experience this?

[cloud anchor]

I've reinstalled, verified game file integrity, updated all drivers, nothing seems to be working.

[shadow turret]

Roll back NVIDIA drivers to before 555.85
it gets bugged every update with the newest ones

[cloud anchor]

Thanks, how do you roll a driver back

[shadow turret]

Just search up NVIDIA drivers, and there should be the official page you can just download the previous ones off of

[cloud anchor]

Yeah I found how to and my option to roll back is greyed out -_-

[distant inlet]

its been 2 days still no fix player count on pc bouta be 40% down

cause some of the nvidia gpu users dont like downgrading their drivers

[signal ivy]

blame Nvidia

[onyx latch]

No I will blame 343

[signal ivy]

they broke in to Nvidia HQ and sabotaged their GPU drivers!

[analog salmon]

something in the driver broke shader compilation regardless of Infinite's update. Unlucky timing for 343 I guess cause most people will just assume game update > crash

[cloud anchor]

Figured it out

Download this driver https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownloads/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/555.85/555.85-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe&lang=us&type=geforcem

[analog salmon]

yeah that's what the tweet says in #halo-support-news 🙂

[onyx latch]

They SPARTAN CHARGED into Nvidia's driver storage. They GROUND POUNDED the support team. They NOOB CUBED the drivers with a SHOCK CORE. They used DYNAMO GRENADES to destroy everything else, then GRAPPLED out and, using MOVEMENT TECH, they SLID into their home country, thereby gaining diplomatic immunity for their many crimes.

[analog salmon]

this is why dyno nades needed nerfing

[cloud anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/chloe-sideye-seriously-gif-10549810

[onyx latch]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-fall-epic-embed-fail-fail-funny-gif-21341768

[crystal iron]

um? https://x.com/InsiderGamingIG/status/1798757955967520780

I hope its not just for ps5 but xbox and pc too

[ruby knoll]

based on a report
into the trash it goes

[crystal iron]

true but they're not always wrong, even if most are

[ruby knoll]

the fact it says ps5 release is more evidence that it's garbage

[crystal iron]

that would be kind of whack tbh, imaging remastering CE again and not giving us h3a lolol

[crystal iron]

Wasn't there something about gamepass being on PS because they're aiming to be a service now and dont care about xbox

[ruby knoll]

that's different than a native port, which isn't happening with blam

[crystal iron]

isn't tom warren fairly "reliable"

[white birch]

No

[crystal iron]

could be a much worse source

[ruby knoll]

he's a muckraker who'll publish anything that's gonna get him clicks

if he's ever right about anything it's by coincidence

[white birch]

Cant think of anyone in that area of journalism that isnt. Thats just standard these days.
Why do you think game journalism is on its way out.

[edgy path]

Mini slayer is absolutely hilarious. And aggravating.

[crystal iron]

wait so if the gamepass on ps ting is true how do they plan on making the games run on ps?

[ruby knoll]

xcloud if it happens

[crystal iron]

oh

idk how it compares to nvidia but geforce now is pretty smooth

[heavy edge]

i cant believe those rumors jc

Phil Spencer is the worst thing that has happened to Xbox

[crystal iron]

oops the bot no happy

let me rephase

I wouldnt mind another CE remaster as long as the artstyle isn't (insert word of your choice here]

[civic sundial]

You don't want an artstyle that's faithful?

[onyx latch]

Kinda based tbh.

[distant inlet]

why blame nvidia when the only game that broke down is halo infinite mcc works other game work

[magic night]

It's an NVIDIA driver issue, though. The fix would need to happen in a driver update that NVIDIA would need to release.

[floral totem]

what weapons do you want to see return

[torpid valley]

yo my game doesnt start and it crashes during the loading (halo infinite), i have a good pc i never had this problem

[signal ivy]

#halo-support-news

[floral totem]

@torpid valley is it doing that for other games or just Halo

[torpid valley]

just halo

[floral totem]

steam or gamepass ?

[torpid valley]

both

[signal ivy]

Roll back your GPU driver

[torpid valley]

ok

[signal ivy]

The version you need is listed in the channel I posted

[torpid valley]

thx

[signal ivy]

You're welcome

[sturdy kernel]

Needle rifle do boom boom

[crystal iron]

#halo-discussion message

[floral totem]

spartan laser

[crystal iron]

spaghetti laser

someone make a mod so my laser shoots spaghetti and meatballs

i'll give you a hug in return

and my mothers finest meatballs

[agile lodge]

Isn’t like halo reach

[zinc flax]

I kinda wish Don Matrick stayed, I always felt off about Phil Spencer being Microsoft’s parrot

[agile lodge]

That’s the guy who said we’re better off playing Xbox 360 when Xbox one was coming out

[ruby lake]

don matrick?

please.

"no internet? go bak 2 360"

[ruby lake]

id switch back to PlayStation if he stayed

[ruby knoll]

don mattrick can take a hike for killing Ensemble Studios

[zinc flax]

If we listened to him, the Microsoft would’ve been forced to desperately make changes

Hell…. Maybe even take a massive stock hit

Sorry Mods

[ruby lake]

ugh

[ruby knoll]

you are a fount of bad takes

[ruby lake]

for once

ill agree with siege

and im glad that "xbox is 4 tv!!" guy is gone

but then the folks that were still working at xbox at the time, had to clean up his mess

[ruby knoll]

im always right

[crystal iron]

im always left

[zinc flax]

What were my others?

[hollow bobcat]

Controversial opinion: Halo Infinite's story should be retconned. Create a new title called Halo 6, which properly concludes Halo 5 with all of the returning characters and story elements.

Also, does anybody honestly believe in the rumors that the first Halo is getting remade and ported to PS5? I have doubts about it and I think it's just hearsay. I might be wrong.

[radiant sundial]

Tbh, i doubt theres a cea2, but, i honestly wouldnt be suprised if the older halo games ended up on ps5, there's no good reason to gatekeep h1 through reach as xbox titles

And tbh, a h3a/reach anniversary is probably not happening anytime soon

Besides the fanmade h3a

[lunar swallow]

I think its true

[onyx latch]

I absolutely hate the idea of retconning games, and in the case of Infinite... Well, it's problably the closest I'll ever get to admitting I think a Halo anything should get retconned.

they should not have definitevely said that Cortana was killed or anything-if anything they should've made what happened between her and Atriox as frustratingly vague as possible if they were going to be as noncommittal as they were.

[radiant sundial]

Tbh yeah, they had a whole opportunity for a 3 way war and they threw it

[onyx latch]

Technically, I could still see one happening.

[ruby knoll]

unless they're doing some kind of emulation or a dx compat layer, i don't see them doing a full rewrite away from directx to use whatever ps uses

[onyx latch]

Hypothetically, this brings the Created down to a 'defeatable' level (Though IMO, how it was before kinda fit the terms of 'defeatable' in the sense Halo's known for; Impossibly high odds, but our plucky and stalwart Spartan heroes can save the day!)

It gets rid of the personal stakes for Chief, though, which... Really, really sours the dish.

Like, best case scenario for the Created, is it gets its crap together as the other Created start poking around deeper in Forerunner tech and integrate more of themselves into whatever's left to scrounge or connect to; Dedicating infrastructure, selfishly, to survive in spite of the disconnection from the domain.

And they become hostile to the UNSC and denounce Cortana because she 'abandoned them to their fate' (Which, tbf, she absolutely did), and start to ramp up military production and drones out of their factories based off of the tech they stole from the Forerunners, and the tech they continue to steal from the Forerunners.

[hollow bobcat]

If you ask me, Cortana should have been a boss fight. If my idea involving Halo 6 is created in order to continue the events directly from Halo 5, I would have done that.

[onyx latch]

I don't think she should've been a boss fight, but that's because I don't think Halo has historically had good boss fights.

[hollow bobcat]

It would have been more emotional. Honestly, I thought the boss fight with the warden at the end of Halo 5 was pretty awesome.

[onyx latch]

It's sad that Warden is honestly the best boss the series ever really had, but they basically spammed him as a miniboss for the rest of the game.

[ruby knoll]

not iconic, #notmyhalo

[hollow bobcat]

If I could design the boss fight for Cortana, it would have basically just been a bunch of AI and other enemies swarming you with intense orchestra choir music. In the end, the chief basically thanks her, she cries, delete.

[ruby knoll]

anyways heres why halo 3 scarab is the best and ironic

[onyx latch]

Diverse array of attacks, windup on all his instakills on normal difficulties, your toolbox is designed in a way you can get around the worst of his attacks if you play smart. Pretty competent for an FPS boss fight.

[radiant sundial]

To be fair, chiefs story has kinda run its course

[onyx latch]

The problem is that it's kind of a binary.

Chief gets a replacement goldfish who is basically just 'naive' Cortana, with a full hypothetical 7 year lifespan.

But if you want a character with emotional resonation with the Created, Chief is going to have the strongest.

[radiant sundial]

Tbf, that would've been a decent way to end chiefs story, but no, we got infinites half baked storyline. Personally, i liked the gameplay of infinites campaign, but the story just wasnt there

[onyx latch]

... Honestly, I think a timeline of reality where they went with an alleged cut ending where Osiris actually fails to rescue Chief would've been a better ending for 5 than rescuing Blue Team.

Because that would basically force a stronger degree of narrative consistency. Chief would have to wake up with Blue Team and they'd have to be in the Created's clutches.

Unless they did something dumb like have the Banished wake them up I guess.

[radiant sundial]

Tbh that shouldve been how it went, with that being chief's 6 month nap, and griffins fireteam infiltrating zeta halo (which would've been a created stronghold) to free them

[gray merlin]

I can’t keep watching HiddenXpheria go down this spiral, you can feel how desperate he is. The only way I’ll ever accept this game is if it has ZERO micro-transactions, ZERO live-service, and FULL campaign, FULL multiplayer, FULL forge, and a FULL game.

However, we know how things work. Why would they be remaking the very first Halo game? We know, this is another desperate move to run the blood of Halo dry for a little extra cash. Every. Last. Drop

[zinc flax]

It would be heresy, literally puts the Xbox’s whole existence in jeopardy

[onyx latch]

[hollow bobcat]

I mentioned that Halo CE should not get a remake. However, Halo 3...

[onyx latch]

So a forge that literally has more options than literally every single other Halo ever isn't a full forge to you? You want a Forge with less featuers?

[tulip tusk]

he may just mean full at launch. forge is great rn, it has issues more bc of infinite itself. i do wonder how forge will be in later games

[onyx latch]

Hmn.

[grave ether]

Do you believe every rumor that gets reported on like this?

[onyx latch]

Yes.

[grave ether]

Must be tiring

Being this mad at everything all the time

[ruby lake]

these halo rumors are

starting to make me feel a little bit upset

[grave ether]

Then ignore them until you have something concrete to actually react to

[ruby lake]

yeah but heres the problem

they keep popping up my youtube feed like a dang virus

[grave ether]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-oh-no-anyway-gif-18887547

And you keep interacting with it so the cycle continues

[ruby lake]

i got it

ill just make a response video

[grave ether]

Lol, now you're thinking with portals!

[white birch]

If he had stayed Im fairly certain someone whould have but a GBU-28 through Microsoft's front door.

Also, someone please, please post some of the new lore channels we have for Halo.
We got some really good stuff going on that should get more attention. Its not fair people like Hidden get thousands of subs but the guy breaking down every ship class the UNSC uses to the detail level of Spacedock gets nothing.

(Also someone remind me to do a Baldermort style "original fanfiction and existing lore" channel video sometime because that would be super cool)

[onyx latch]

I'd share them if they knew who they are

[white birch]

Thats the main issue, the algorithm buries them. The ones I see only ever show up in the community spotlight.

[ruby lake]

if i could, i wouldve made a halo machinima

is it fun to do those kinds of videos actually?

[onyx latch]

I wanted to do something like that with MJOLNIR a while ago.

Buuut then my brain turned to soup because depression fugue.

And yes, fugue is a word, it is not a bypass of the swear filter.

[ruby knoll]

https://tenor.com/view/puffer-fish-gif-24866377

fugu

[white birch]

Friend shaped

[ruby lake]

youd never see me eat a pufferfish

[scarlet shuttle]

My friend just reacted exactly like I though average player would react: “Yo *** they removed Husky Raid? ***!”

[ruby lake]

THEY WHAAT

[white birch]

I mean honestly eating them is just mean, posion possibility discounted.
Just look at it.
This is not something you wanna eat.

It is something to pet

[ruby knoll]

its in qp

[ruby lake]

o h

i almost fainted

[white birch]

Its like a malaise yes? A mental/emotional fog.

[scarlet shuttle]

Yes, but people who don’t follow updates notes don’t know about it

[ruby lake]

what on earth is that

[ruby knoll]

idk

[scarlet shuttle]

Match Composer is unknown to average players

[ruby lake]

looks like a
shoork

[onyx latch]

Yep.

[radiant sundial]

Cowbell shark