#halo-discussion

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analog salmon
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It’s not even close. 343 improved so much with 5 it’s genuinely incredible and shows how much 4 just needed more time

swift iris
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And better hardware. Remember that It was released on the 360's final years.

analog salmon
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I mean just the pve gameplay is worlds improved

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It’s actually sad a lot of players who don’t have an Xbox never got to fight the Prometheans in 5 and actually enjoy that experience

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Most probably just think they’re a bad enemy to fight but it was really just a bad execution in 4

swift iris
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I feel like it's akin to bias of nostalgia. I remember being like that a while back but being more open to other games and different perspective points got me seeing things more differently.

analog salmon
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If I was blinded by nostalgia I really don’t think I would praise 5 to the extent I do but alright

civic sundial
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Nomad does raise a valid point though, there's plenty who will blindly praise Reach and hate on 4 for similar things

analog salmon
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A game I never played until years after it released and expected nothing from

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Reach is the weaker of the bungie games gameplay wise but it’s still fun in a way that 4 just isn’t imo

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I get liking 4’s MP gameplay more then reach

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But it’s campaign gameplay? I really find that hard to believe

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It goes both ways too, 4 kids will have a affinity to that game

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analog salmon
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Reach gets both ends of the stick really. I’d say no game in the franchise is as polarising as Reach

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Lot of people can’t find a good thing to say about it

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I can find plenty of good to say about 4, just not the pve gameplay

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5’s stellar PVE gameplay makes up for 4. They focused on the weakest aspect and nailed it. That’s great see.

edgy forum
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I gotta remember in 2012 I was 13 and I liked Reach and was excited for 4. I didn’t care much about the nitpickiness because I was 13 and in middle school so it was just Halo gaming.

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Same thing with Halo 5, didn’t worry too much about it bevaude I was in high school and liked playing Halo 5 along Fallout 4

coarse dagger
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Be interesting to see how Halo would have played out if that happened

analog salmon
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The solo legendary Spartan ops experience

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(This being an achievement is MCC devs not 4 tbf)

edgy forum
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Seems like you’re in a bit of a pickle

swift iris
edgy forum
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I did not check the forums online way back then

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I was only exposed to YouTube and rather just being what a middle schooler was at the time in early 2010s

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I’d rather it be ignorant and not caught up with online arguments then focus on my real life most of my time since I graduated college

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analog salmon
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By this point I was just accepting of the situation since I’d respawn anyway

edgy forum
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You can use the acrophobia skull?

signal ivy
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sure

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if you're going for solely completion achievements you can use any skull

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bandana, acrophobia etc

edgy forum
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Thought any of those skulls would null achievements for solely time/par score types

signal ivy
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you can see from the video recon is already using bandana

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yes they do, that's why I said completion achievements

edgy forum
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Like if someone wanted to use the acrophobia skull for speedrunning Halo 3

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I wanted to be sure just in case lol

signal ivy
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yeah can't use for time/score achievements

swift iris
analog salmon
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Sometimes if you fly through missions you break logic that’s required for certain Easter Eggs skulls etc just be warned

edgy forum
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lol yeah and you can splatter yourself which can be funny

analog salmon
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Like you might not break the mission but whatever achievement ur going for

signal ivy
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yeah you have to be careful not to skip certain loading zones

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I've had to re-do missions because I just flew through them and the missions just fell apart

edgy forum
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I recall early this year a friend invited me to do the Annual achievement in Halo 3 and we had the acrophobia skull on and it counted legitimate

analog salmon
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Damn that’s good to know

edgy forum
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I was surprised that you can do it lol

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Makes skipping those flood fights easier

swift iris
analog salmon
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Yeah works for that

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I wouldn’t even be attempting SpOps legendary solo without bandana. If you get a beam rifle you can just rapid fire it

swift iris
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... considering how the computer cheats for CE and 2 I may mess around with bandana for it.

swift iris
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Major test of patience though.

analog salmon
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I would genuinely get to 699/700 and still just leave it haha

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With respawn I get it’s just a grind but my patience has limits

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Tbf I don’t know if I’ll get through LASO

civic sundial
edgy forum
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How far has anyone gotten on Survive the Undead? I just hit wave 15

warped yew
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Wave 33

edgy forum
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Oh crud, I forgot to say guys I found out the best weapon

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Pulse Carbine + Bulldog (Packed)

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Easily OP against any enemy

warped yew
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Clearly you have not tried out Heatwave x Shock Rifle

edgy forum
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No

warped yew
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Your pretty much unkillable up until waves 25 with that gun

keen silo
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Assault rifle x Calcine Disruptor is also a massive wave killer. Suffers from a 15 round magazine though

warped yew
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You also have the tendency to shock your self to death if enemies get too close

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so i’ve been thinking, someone at 343 said that the community should be rallying around and pushing our want for console mods now if we actually want them, they said we have a small window for it. The thing is, how do they expect us to believe them when for 343s whole tenure we’ve been begging for things like playable elites and for co-op back. Why does 343 expect us to believe that this time they’l listen.

edgy forum
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You’re a cat

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edgy forum
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Los Gatos

green mason
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Halo is awesome

vast nova
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you know what i find funny My 6y/o bro calls The Grunts Banana mans & the The banished Brutes Godzilla's (& Mabye tartaris when we finish H2)

tulip tusk
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theres a gamemod on reach where to make grunt player units they use a small Elite and put an orange cone on its back. rlly does look like a grunt

celest heron
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don't show him the banana spartan.

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lusty wraith
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Sooo this has been rolling around in my mind for a while but what do y’all think is the endgame for ai constructs in Halo’s story? I definitely think it would be extremely stupid for the UNSC/ONI or whoever to let The Weapon “live” after the whole created fiasco, especially considering that she has demonstrated the capacity to disobey orders while also having the ability to nullify deletion protocols

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lusty wraith
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but honestly i hadn’t thought of the scenario you brought up, but it would make sense for the unsc to want the erasure of the weapon after her use was up. Doubt halo studios will ever use this as a plot line though.

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brittle void
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Master Chief is back in UNSC-controlled space, giving his debrief. As he retells the events of Infinite, his superiors choose to turn a blind eye to The Weapon's transgressions—an event that is bound to make the UNSC rethink its ban on AI.

As the hopeful music track reaches a crescendo, it is suddenly cut off.

"No," you hear.

The camera zooms in on a dark corner of the room, where a sinister shadow makes its presence known.

"I will not allow it."

A dreadful track begins to play as Captain Del Rio slowly comes into view, introduced as the new antagonist of Halo’s studio first title under their new name.

tulip tusk
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😐🔫 i guess

radiant sundial
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or something like that

tulip tusk
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i suppose he can be some power within the unsc or oni somewhere, someone who doesnt like AI so he would share that with many. but he prob also hates chief

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the halo story is in a weird state cuz they had a bit of a war against AI going on, like other sci fi, but still had loyal AI and liked them. so it wasnt completely a war vs AI and following complete ban of artificial intelligences like in other stories

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and i guess thats over now idk it was kinda quick

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i know some great stories of sci fi histories where humanity has a golden age, get AI, which almost completely destroys the species in intergalactic war, and then thy emerge with cruder tech, darker, etc as a result of distrust of such technologies

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brittle void
brave pier
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This might be a stupid question so please forgive me what happened to sergeant Avery?

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I forgot

radiant sundial
warped yew
agile birch
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helo

white lichen
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why doesn't MCC on PC have a walk bind for KB+M

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is there any idea of how many active players infinite has including microsoft store and xbox

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cause the steam player count is depressing to look at like genuinely

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cosmic birch
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Does anyone else feel like a total badass when you're jacking someone's vehicle and they drive close to the edge of the map and you just throw them off and they die?

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radiant sundial
magic loom
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I have a question why was the Mantis not in Halo Infinite? nobody seemed to have every talked about it. Was it really something that nobody was interested in?

celest heron
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idk, but it would've worked better than the scorpion in the open world.

cosmic birch
celest heron
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the falcon would've been cool.

civic sundial
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Dual wielding was taken out in ODST, that was years before Infinite

cosmic birch
edgy forum
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Think I had a Halo dream last night, forgot what happened lol

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I was having struggle trying to spell John Unyznsk’s last name

celest heron
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you still spelled it wrong, lol.

edgy forum
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Yeah

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Need to practice that

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J-u-n-y-s-z-e-k

magic loom
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tough bloom
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Y'all ever look at your Xbox live friends list and see "last active 2674 days ago"

analog salmon
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i wonder if they forgot their password and made a new account or they just stopped gaming

radiant sundial
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ngl yeah

analog salmon
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like even if ur a PC gamer there's surely some XGS game you would play that requires a login

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maybe they switched to playstation ig 💀

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(jks i love my playstation homies all the same)

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warped yew
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Maybe some got married and are living the good life

civic sundial
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Maybe some ended up as Vengeance in a crime filled city

warped yew
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🤨

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Bro is not Batman

civic sundial
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You never know

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Maybe they became someone on the more "Friendly Neighbourhood" side of things

warped yew
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Maybe they lost their Uncle named Ben 😭

civic sundial
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Could've been an Uncle Aaron

cosmic birch
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There's so many quitters today. I joined 7 games that were in progress in a row

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south lichen
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hey

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which games are the most active besides infinite

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and also whats the best mode for someone not that good

south lichen
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Infinites maps are horrendous

tulip tusk
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prob firefight is most chill. cgb large lobby campaigns are fun too

south lichen
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did they mess this one up badly or what?

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that sounds fun

analog salmon
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but basically no SBMM

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so rough solo

south lichen
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Sbmm ?

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Skill based matchaking

civic sundial
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Aye

south lichen
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How difficult is it to put out good maps

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Wth are they doing

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analog salmon
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lol its actually horrible

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can barely play the game without at least a few mates cause the teams are so unbalanced

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and as soon as you get a match stacked in your favour, the other team quit

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Infinite's SBMM is so much better then nothing for solo/duo players

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get a few decent mates and MCC is a blast but otherwise strong pass imo

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im pretty sure the lack of strict team balancing has killed MCC's population moreso then any other factor

south lichen
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I have to seethe over

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How much of a botch halo infinite

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is

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that map pool is absolutely horrific

lean fulcrum
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Halo infinite où comment attendre 20min pour jouer en ranked.

south lichen
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bc it aint fun

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none of them are really memorable but with all the old maps added in i find myself never really being upset by any of the maps

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i think it’s the best map pool since 3 tbh

south lichen
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reach's were very memorable

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ive played all the games since 3

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actually thats a lie ive played all of them multiple times

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is halo 5 still active

ashen rapids
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So much potential

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Especially with how advanced forge has come

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swift iris
swift iris
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Guess due to crunch time and limitations it couldn't really be implemented well for Bungie.

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tender field
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Infinite just won't start, crashes at 343 logo

frosty condor
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Try a fresh install

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Or any corrupted files

tender field
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okay, finally started, but there's still a noticeable stutter during the 343 logo animation

frosty condor
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is your pc up to standard?

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# swift iris Until you get a party of sweats then you realize how badly it needed work on.

Depends on your team at that point, you're always going to have a bad time against a team with a group communicating vs you playing with randoms heheh, also defending side vs attacking side had different advantages and disadvantages, wasn't balanced but it was indeed "fun" and a great concept as gamemodes go, I think it'd be worth a relook purely as a social mode like firefight

jade pebble
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if anyone else here is inclined, I have a halo photography thread now for those that like doing game photography in halo. heres to hoping they would finally add a proper photomode into the game. really tragic that a game thats been around for so long never had one
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south lichen
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Forge hasn't caught my attention since halo 3

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possibly the best experience in the history of online multiplayer

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if your lookin at 2008-2011 xbox live

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it doesnt get better than that

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it’s crazy to me how many people think an engine is just about graphics when talking about the switch to unreal

civic sundial
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Someone else doing the "Unreal is souless" thing again?

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Show them Hi Fi Rush

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civic sundial
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Like, it's just a game engine at the end of the day, I couldn't care less which engine they used. I just hope the devs have a smooth time working on the game

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civic sundial
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It is! And I think that goes to show that the engine isn't what matters, it's how the devs use the engine (And hopefully not get rushed into pushing a game out the door before it's finished as is sadly the norm with plenty of games these days)

civic sundial
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I mean Halo Studios, still not quite used to the name change

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jade pebble
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at the end of the day its just a game engine. a game engine developed originally for shooters I might add. so while there are wrong game engine choices to make (looking at you EA with NFS) this definitely isnt the case with unreal and Halo

south lichen
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what have people been playing instead of halo and gears?

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like

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what are the popular shooters that can replace it

jade pebble
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really the only shooter I play

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thinking of trying spacemarine 2

south lichen
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im guessing you want a wired connection

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south lichen
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hmm call of duty

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like, whats the go-to mode and game

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which call of duty game

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well black ops 6 is about to come out, popular modes have always been tdm and snd

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but i don’t think there’s quite an arena shooter like halo on the market rn

civic sundial
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Yeah, outside of maybe Splitgate, but that's basically Halo meets Portal

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oh yeah forgot about splitgate

warped yew
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Splitgate 2 pretty much died on arrival

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Unreal helps to leap over that obstacle and have a smooth pipework with projects

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I have no doubt that they can translate the halo feel to unreal, we can already transfer assets and effects fairly easily

civic sundial
warped yew
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No my bad

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Jk yes

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Mint Blitz did a video on it some time ago

civic sundial
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warped yew
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It's pretty fun or it was before the game died

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The reason probably was the huge skill gap between causals and pros once you mastered portals

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warped yew
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Yeah

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i thought it was still in development 💀

warped yew
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Well it goes to show how dead and unhyped this game was on launch

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It's rly fun tbh so it's a bit saddening to see the state of the game :<

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unfortunately that’s how the gaming landscape is today, one trend after another.

civic sundial
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From what I remember of the trailer, Splitgate was going for the "This game is everyone watching the heroes in an arena" thing that allot of games seem to try

south lichen
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infinite is not good

livid lichen
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If Griffball playable in Halo 3 MCC?

edgy forum
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SplitGate 2 came out?

civic sundial
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And like, while I think the setting of an arena full of fans watching it could be good for a game, I feel like most FPS games that try it seem to not do well

south lichen
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clearly these game publishers only care about money

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and if they were smart they would make more money anyway

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all they care about is launch sells i guess

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and that really bothers me

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south lichen
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south lichen
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bc i think if youre not good, its no fun

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and contrary to common sense

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tons of bad players had fun on halo 3

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if you aren’t good there’s plenty of options still, firefight, fiesta, btb, squad battle, custom games

south lichen
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btb?

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big team battle, it’s more of a sit back and have fun with the chaos kinda mode

south lichen
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i dislike the ones where you start with a random loadout

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there’s lots of ways to have infinite without sweating or playing competitively

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south lichen
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also in like ranked slayer

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theres 6 maps

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how did they drop the ball so hard on that

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12, but they rotate im fairly sure

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might be wrong

south lichen
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playing rn, theres 6

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go to ranked slayer and hit game list, there’s 12 maps

south lichen
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ok

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is it a download?

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like dlc

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do you use a wired connection?

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ok, there is 12

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yup

civic sundial
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south lichen
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do yall know if mw3 is worth playing

civic sundial
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south lichen
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black ops 6

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thats a trip i remember playing black ops 1 2 and 3

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last 3 cods have all felt the same

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livid lichen
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Where do i post for the zombie survival game mode?

swift iris
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radiant sundial
radiant sundial
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Splitgate 2 isnt even avaliable on steam yet

warped yew
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Wdym?

radiant sundial
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source: the steam page for splitgate 2

warped yew
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Yeah?

radiant sundial
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the alpha testing is live, not the full game

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you are mixing up splitgate and splitgate 2

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# radiant sundial No it did not

didn’t think so i just saw the trailer like a month ago, but i don’t think id be very interested anyways as i HATE the character model designs in the trailer

warped yew
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Yeah?

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i get they’re trying to differentiate themselves from halo but i just don’t like it

radiant sundial
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radiant sundial
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tbh it seems like they're kinda trying to do what the finals did now

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radiant sundial
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Well my bad then

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and also i highly doubt that the community is unhyped

warped yew
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Well it is lol

radiant sundial
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debateable, but i dont feel like going down the rabbit hole of what communities think right now

warped yew
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It's also very hard to get invested for casuals because the skill gap is very big for pros

radiant sundial
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which is why skill based matchmaking exists... so you dont end up getting your butt kicked by pro's every other match

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although tbf that only works with a large enough pool of players

warped yew
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Well I mean it works mainly like Halo Infinite's. Balancing the team's power so you have horrible players paired with maybe 3 or 4 good players

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The horrible players just get carried by their teammates honestly in this game. It gets nasty when you master portals

radiant sundial
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Infinite's doesnt work well bc of the lack of population

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it is also during the school year for most people atm

warped yew
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Well guess what. That's the same thing with SplitGate

radiant sundial
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this is true

warped yew
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I wish I lived in a world where SBMM wasn't such a pain when the game's dead

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Just take it out of the game until something ig

radiant sundial
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Custom games exist for a reason, LFG's exist for a reason..

warped yew
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Sometimes man or girl idk. I just wanna do matchmaking

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Custom games only has like 2 pages too which is depressing 😕

tulip tusk
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yea it is 😔

delicate lantern
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Most popular competitive game category? I don’t usually play, just doing matches to complete challlenges

celest heron
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woo, got 7 campaign cheevos out of the way for infinite. the rest will be for another day.

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delicate lantern
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Yes, but it tells me to win competitive games

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List follows:
Halo 3 team slayer
Halo 4 squad battle
Halo reach invasion
Halo 2 anniversary team hardcore
Halo 3 team hardcore
Halo 3 team doubles
Halo combat evolved hardcore doubles

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When I load one of the lobbies I wait for ages and no one joins, unless im not waiting long enough?

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delicate lantern
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No sorry 💀

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Should I be asking somewhere else?

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Is there a channel for infinite gameplay, then MCC gameplay?

radiant sundial
analog salmon
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you can't find matches at rank 1

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why the old ranking system kinda sucks

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eventually everyone who plays ranked is too far above 1 and nobody can get into ranked without someone queuing with them

sturdy hawk
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Guys

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Can i play halo master chief collection with bots?

civic sundial
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No

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Bots aren't a thing in MCC

tulip tusk
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eac bug stinks

crystal iron
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They officially shut down h5 multiplayer servers. RIP

ruby knoll
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wut

radiant sundial
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You not being able to find a match and servers being shut down are two different things

warped yew
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It doesn't matter anyway. Never could find a match and custom games was minimal or dead

crystal iron
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Theres nothing on custom browsers

radiant sundial
warped yew
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Hmm ill try that

radiant sundial
warped yew
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I mean it's Halo 5

crystal iron
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Yeah but it went from having 2 pages to literally nothing

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And me being completely unable to find matches compared to the last time I hopped on which was last week I believe

warped yew
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Infinite has like 2 pages most of time even on the weekends

crystal iron
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It when you load it’ll had other players emblems but I wasn’t getting those either. I mean even if they aren’t down the game has deteriorated a ton

warped yew
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Which is rly interesting considering the crazy stuff you can do in forge and Infinite MP is free

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radiant sundial
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you bring up customs and people ignore you

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Well I guess that's what LFG or Xbox posts are for ig

radiant sundial
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true, but when you point that out too people brush you off bc they dont wanna play with lfg people

warped yew
radiant sundial
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idk, i dont know anything about game engines

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crystal iron
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Idk tbh. I just know on top of the limiting contracts the engine was just too hard to learn and work with which is one of the reason we don’t have assassinations

radiant sundial
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Well I only really play on the weekends so ig it won't be a problem

crystal iron
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Hopefully the next game launch’s with forge so the custom game scene is way bigger than what H.I. Should’ve been.

radiant sundial
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hopefully, tbf infinite's development was a little wacky too, iirc it was gonna be a hero shooter, but the plan for that got scrapped at like the last second and turned into the FPS style we have now

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ngl, id like if some of the hero shooter customization for mk VII got dropped instead of the constant banished stuff now, bc some of it looked cool

warped yew
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As long as the next game doesn't launch like Infinite.

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That's literally the deal breaker for me

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Gn me going to crash out

crystal iron
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Yeah the gameplay was so bad especially on an old gen

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Meleeing was a nightmare

radiant sundial
warped yew
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Ravager back then was something

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The charged shot was so useless back then

radiant sundial
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yeah, the ravager was kinda useless

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tbh i never really used any different weapons since i was still new to halo and was really bad, so i was just trying not to get pubstomped 24/7

crystal iron
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Honestly wish they just had more returning weapons and a bigger sandbox. There wasn’t a whole lot of live service for a live service game.

radiant sundial
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yeah, the customization is nice and all, but it would be great if we got more vehicles and weapons, there was a large enough pool of weapons and vehicles to pull from for other things, especially with the MO of the banished, there were also a bunch of UNSC weapons like the railgun and sticky detonator

crystal iron
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Hopefully we get some kind of official announcement next year

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And a game by 2027 👀

radiant sundial
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tbh, i dont care how long it takes them to get a game out, just have it come out as a solid game with as few bugs as possible, it probably wont matter to me since i likely wont buy it anyways

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not bc i dont trust Halo Studios to make a good game, i just dont like spending money on digital things unless i really want it or can get a good chunk of my money's worth back

crystal iron
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Yeah. I was the this close to actually pre ordering halo infinite. Glad I didn’t.

warped yew
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I did and I just got a special case

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Halo 5 had better pre order bonuses

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jade pebble
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Honestly and it sucks even more because the 1 volley isnt enough unless they are just far enough and in the open to make every shot count

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Gun is useless freehanding it and lock on is useless in close quarters

civic sundial
stoic sand
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im trying to figure out why halo infinite ranked does not have a join back option this game sucks honestly crashed in ranked arena and cannot join back 343 great job making a game

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game been out for dam near 3 years now

rugged quartz
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@gritty python No leak discussions real or fake please.

cunning jungle
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Is the new infection mode in the game yet or nah? Operation has been out for a bit now

frosty condor
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not yet

modern sparrow
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where would be the best place to give feedback to the studio regarding issues with the Foundry project? There are some problems I'd like to make them aware of, so they have the next 4 years to get Epic to fix some of them

civic sundial
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What issues do you have with it?

low blaze
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I really dont think important story moments that directly effect the plot of the games should be put in books

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Like to play halo 5 you need to read like 3 books and a comic series on top of all four mainline games and a 20 hour long multiplayer side campaign for 4

ruby lake
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huah?!

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for all that??

low blaze
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5 literally begins on a continuation of the comic series

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4 did that a bit with the didact being from a book series and infinite does it too but 5 is where it was at its most extreme

ruby lake
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ccant they just, put all of that inportant stuff in the game rather than have it separately by books and comics?

low blaze
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Infinite doesnt have much of a story but the story that is there consistently mentions events from books

low blaze
low blaze
ruby lake
low blaze
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It’s supposed to be a starting point but to know literally any of the main characters you have to go into the extended media

ruby lake
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as if having lore being made separately in books wasnt complicated enough

low blaze
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All of blue team is from fall of reach, locke is from a movie, buck becoming a spartan is from a book, and the rest of lockes team are from random books too

ruby lake
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jesus christ

low blaze
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And the game doesnt explain any of it

ruby lake
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big red flag there

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i didnt know much of the spartan characters in halo 5 aside from.chief

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but i hated locke because

yknow

he hurted the green dude

low blaze
ruby lake
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i dont think my brain is good enough to remember all that

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too many expectations

low blaze
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And then all of infinites important plot points either happened in books from 8 years ago or completely missable optional audio logs

ruby lake
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its always rhe books

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why is it always the books?!

low blaze
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They cant help themselves

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I think the most bungie took from the books were ODSTs and doctor halsey

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Halsey only shows up like twice in reach and ODSTs are just background marines that look cool

grave ether
ruby lake
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bruh

modern sparrow
# civic sundial What issues do you have with it?

they appear to have built some of those biomes in pretty limited spaces (I think one was built around a model of the 343 offices). It would be wise to try and stitch the biomes together to push Unreal a bit further on a few fronts:

  1. artistically
  2. to test traversal loading
  3. after new driver installation to test how badly those shaders compile
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I'm purposely asking them to break Unreal a bit here so that the game doesn't do it

grave ether
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It's just extra to help fill and dig more into what happened.

Do I wish more of those moments that are in the books were part of the games story and shown? Yes.

Do you need to know all of that to understand what happened and what's currently going on or be completely lost as to what is happening in the game? No

ruby lake
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but how can we be so sure if the next halo game isnt a reboot/soft reboot?

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and gonna leave bits and pieces out like 5?

ruby lake
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im sorry but i dont do lore readings where you gotta make 5565565 different paths just to know why grass is blue

civic sundial
civic sundial
civic sundial
modern sparrow
civic sundial
grave ether
modern sparrow
grave ether
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Exactly

civic sundial
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Yes, because the showcase wasn't showing off a game

grave ether
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Demo = demonstration

civic sundial
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It was a showcase of Halo assets in Unreal 5

modern sparrow
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Unreal has issues which other studios can't fix right now (including some of the exact same issues that plague Infinite). It's important to know where the limitations are

civic sundial
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And they are no doubt going to work on mitigating those issues

grave ether
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Pretty sure that's part of their building and testing since they couldn't make a full game without knowing what they can and can't do and ways to get around it

modern sparrow
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to be clear, we're probably still 4-5 years away from a game

feral bridge
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simply playing a multiplayer game and it puts me back into the gamemode select screen without any popup message, anyone had that happen to them before?

grave ether
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That does seem like a pretty good estimate of a timeframe, yes. But who knows

civic sundial
modern sparrow
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it is probably important to give 343/Halo the public feedback that they can directly push back against with management to know that we don't want a partly completed game. I don't want to rely on "they probably know"

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personally I feel Unreal does not fix any of the problems they are facing with Infinite (but this is a longer discussion that can be substantiated by comparisons with other games). And there is good suggestion that they will have the exact same issues unless they specifically look out for them right now

grave ether
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Yeah... I don't think they need a bunch of random people that don't know the environment, tools, goals, ect telling them how to develop a game and what is needed. That is something they will know and have the logistics of guiding their decisions and path forward

civic sundial
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The devs at Halo Studios are most likely aware of any issues the engine has, if those issues were big enough to be a major problem, they wouldn't have gone with UE5

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Plus, unlike Blam! and Slipspace, UE5 is much more widely used and has way more resources to look at for the devs

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Which makes things easier for anyone they bring onto the team

jade pebble
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everyone thinks they got game dev knowledge until you put a game engine and a path infront of em and tell em to go make it

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I doubt youll know anything better than the people making the game

civic sundial
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Aye. Like as someone who has worked in the industry and is working on something in UE, it's a constant case of learning something new

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And I'm doing this thing solo for a personal project and while I can safely say I have a good idea for how materials work, I have stuff like making mechanics work and optimisation to properly figure out

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And that's not even getting into stuff done outside the engine normally, like animation and 3D modelling

modern sparrow
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this is not a discussion I'm too willing to go too far down, but the value prop from Unreal is bringing the astronomical cost of video game development down. The cost crunch prevents games from being as polished as they could be, yes. But you also need to draw where things get cut no matter what.

In the end, I will remind you I asked if there is such a forum for feedback. If 343/Halo wants to tell me what you've told me, that's fine. But that also implies that the comments being made here are kind of equally of low value

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but I also interpret from this that there is no such forum for input

jade pebble
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nop not really. I think theres some halo insiders thing where you can give direct input but Im not able to access that myself at all

grave ether
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The devs do read the discord. There are places like here, or you can make a post in #1076337363770417172 if you'd like

magic loom
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That was alot of interesting points about having important stuff happen in the books and not the games sometimes

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I can sort of agree there, some didnt like how Didact was killed off in the books

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Blue Team Im not sure what to say about them in Halo 5, felt like they were there just for the co op side instead of the story

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What if instead of a legendary cutscene for beating legendary on Halo 4

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What if that same comic that brought the Didact back was an actual unlockable mission you could get if you beat the main campaign on Legendary? that comic has all the elements of a Halo mission, lord hood is back, introduction to Blue Team, black team showing up in the classic Halo 3 armor (everyone would of lost their mind) ending it with you going 1 on 1 with the Didact Halo Ring.

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Tons of shocking moments as well was shown in the comic showing more of what the composer does to humans.

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Only thing Id change is letting black team live, I know barely anything about them but it was something many agree it was a bad choice

celest heron
edgy forum
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I saw the new Infection update

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I’ll have to try that game mode tomorrow looks fun!

radiant stratus
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Can someone with mcc halo 4 installed please try to launch spartan ops chapter 6 mission 1?

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I keep getting crashes no matter what i do.

crystal iron
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Anyone playing mcc live anymore or strictly infinite? Games take forever to find

radiant stratus
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I play only mcc

celest heron
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are you on console or pc?

radiant stratus
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pc

hasty lily
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Alguien español

coarse dagger
hasty lily
ivory glacier
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Can anyone tell what to the AR after that update. There used to be a way to shoot that gun that was a skill and you had to learn. I can’t figure out this new AR. That skill no longer works and I can’t figure out any skill at all. I’m positive I killed the enemy but still not dead. Still spraying bullets and the fight is taking way too long. So what is the special way to fire this weapon?

stoic canopy
#

It's a little depressing when someone is so blatantly and obviously cheating a in match and not only are they acting like they're hot !@%& but that even if they get banned they'll just roll a new account and be back at in no time.

dark haven
#

The fact that anyone wearing ODST helmets stick together in games makes me so happy

void estuary
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Does anyone want playable elites

sturdy kernel
frosty condor
swift iris
magic loom
unborn adder
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is it possible to wear flame helmet and flame shoulders at the same time?

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cosmetics

civic sundial
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It is not

white birch
tulip tusk
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Is the Firefall helm the only ODST helm?

civic sundial
#

There's the ODST helmet you can get from season one's pass

tulip tusk
tulip tusk
celest heron
#

are there any server issues happening? my armor hall isn't loading.

celest heron
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restarted and it fixed it. odd

swift iris
lament summit
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Any Australian players looking for regulars?

tough bloom
#

Like out of all the changes? Unreal engine isn't the worst change 343 made to halo.

(If you're wondering what the worst thing 343 did, it was the lore. Forerunners were originally supposed to be ancient humans and halo 4 accidentally retconned halo 3)

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Granted I'm not a 343 hater. I think if 343 made halo reach that the community would have panned it heavily because 343. (343 is also cooler than halo studios)

steel vale
#

Does anyone else feel the Halloween event stale?

clear cedar
#

Always feels weird how my grenades when they land are basically an m80 firecracker yet every opponents grenade feels like a mini nuke

civic sundial
jagged nimbus
rugged quartz
civic sundial
jagged nimbus
magic loom
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Sounds weird to say I wish they kept forerunners more mysterious and never knowing what they were

magic loom
swift iris
vale swallow
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halo infinite 2 campaign needs hans zimmer level music, better tasteful story, better locale, better writers, better cinematographers. And of course, more guns, and less limitations and clunkyness.

civic sundial
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Some of those need more explaining. You can't say it needs better X and expect everyone to understand what you mean

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And I don't think we need the composer/composers for the next game to be copying Hanz Zimmer

coarse dagger
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Just push the "make it better" button in Unreal

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Ez

keen silo
civic sundial
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I'd be fine with that

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I just find it funny I came up with a similar concept back in uni for one of my first assignments (It wasn't a practical assignment, it was just for idea generation)

jade pebble
rugged quartz
magic loom
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I think the games did great job making the forerunners really interesting

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All you got to see in the 1, 2, 3 and reach was their massive structures showing how insanely advanced they were

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And I dont think before Halo 4 we never got to see how a forerunner actually looked

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You only saw them with their helmets on in Halo legends and in the terminals back then

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It created alot of cool mysteries that I do feel was lost when Halo 4 came around

civic sundial
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We were going to learn what they looked like sooner or later

magic loom
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Thats perfectly fine and Ill admit I feel it was gonna happen, feels like 343 really wanted to focus on them more

civic sundial
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Well yeah, Halo 4 was about pulling back the curtain and showing us more about the Forerunners. You can't do that and keep everything about them a mystery

magic loom
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I think some things could of been done to make us still ask questions

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Fun thing I wanted to share was this video

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It showed some weird face or some hologram, thats the kind of thing I wish they added to alot of Forerunners maps they made in Halo 4 and 5

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To be curious what about Forerunners is interesting to learn about at this point in Halo? I like the composer which was a cool idea but cant think of much to really be interested in with forerunners.

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I really liked the debate of players talking about humans being forerunners, been now debunked now with them being separate but still was cool

civic sundial
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Adding that face to multiplayer maps wouldn't really add any meaningful mystery to the Forerunners, it'd just be a weird Easter Egg

magic loom
rugged quartz
magic loom
rugged quartz
rugged quartz
magic loom
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I wish I recorded my reaction, Id love to play an open world Halo Infinite campaign style game that took place on the Ark

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People had found this which looked crazy.

civic sundial
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That wasn't some big mystery set up though, that's just a detail on the skybox that may or may not have been intended to be the location of a level that was cut

magic loom
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On the topic do you think that background could of what had to do with the Forerunner City they had planned? it does not look the same but looks very city like with its size

vale swallow
uneven bison
tender canyon
#

does anyone in this discord love jackals as much as I do

tulip tusk
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i like the shielded ones esp if they're an ally buddy

keen silo
radiant sundial
vale swallow
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Name 1 idea that was said in discord or halowaypoint that worked.

civic sundial
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Do you have a list of the ones that didn't work?

vale swallow
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My point isn't to communicate to 343 or halo studios, they've closed their doors years ago.

uneven bison
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Buddy I just said asking for your own fanfiction isn’t going to work

vale swallow
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do you have a list of ideas that worked? I bet you can't pull 1

civic sundial
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That's not a list

uneven bison
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Sounds like this dude wants a debate

vale swallow
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simple point guys

uneven bison
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There is no point you want your own halo fanfiction game, you go make it

civic sundial
#

It's also important to remember that listening isn't the same as acting upon something that is suggested

vale swallow
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yea yea

inland minnow
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keep it civil please, folks. step away if you're getting riled up.

civic sundial
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Like, if 343/Halo Studios acted upon every single idea suggested here or on Waypoint before the forums there closed, the games would be extremely messy and unfocused. One person's great idea is another's nightmare

coarse dagger
edgy forum
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🗣️🔥 Amen

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Come on guys, let’s band together and kill some Zombies

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It’s Spooky Season

unborn adder
#

AFTER halo reach and halo 3, Master chief and Cortana were suppose to have baby clones, they traveled to a new planet. There they trained to their baby clones to hunt the the covenant and invaders of the planet. Halo could've been a Survival Game.

civic sundial
warped yew
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What the actual heck. This is some fanfiction type goofy ah

unborn adder
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if i was rich you be saying it was the best idea ever stop lying

radiant sundial
keen silo
dry terrace
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Man

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When will the Grave Markers shoulders be released

unborn adder
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The front trailer is basically what i mean.

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its just the front has bad performance and is too laggy

runic slate
#

Reading Versus and I would love for an actual long going Halo comic.

jagged nimbus
open umbra
#

Is there any issue with the server right now? i kept losing connection with it.

vale swallow
civic sundial
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Halo isn't exactly remembered for horror

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Like, 343 Guilty Spark in CE leaned into horror but after that the game didn't really continue with the horror aspects

delicate lantern
#

Good evening, playing social games, halo reach on mcc. Im always to start lobbies & play games usually but gets annoying if I have to leave mid-match and then get the threat for my Xbox live account, how to I jump onto a joining list for other games?

keen silo
tough bloom
# civic sundial Like, 343 Guilty Spark in CE leaned into horror but after that the game didn't r...

The ludonarrative dissonance is strong when halo portrays horror.

Because on one hand you're playing as a 7'1" 450 kilo walking tank who makes entire advanced alien batallions disappear as a hobby. Fear requires danger and vulnerability. Spartans by their nature are stoic and fearless. This presents an issue when you're trying to portray horror.

The flood would be far more terrifying to a group of marines or ODSTs. Having a game ala Dead Space where you play as a UNSC QRF aboard a vessel that picked up a shuttle/escapepod that was infected by flood that plays out like the neo-noir of ODST would be far more effective as a vehicle for story telling.

celest falcon
#

god ik this is probably risky on my end since i legit just joined. but i'm making a whole dnd campaign for halo and am hoping someone with enough knowledge for lore and halo things, as well as dnd mechanics (5e) to incorporate into a campaign. i've been doing my own extensive knowledge for the past three months but am just hoping for a little extra help with making things for it. i have a compendium and am also using the dnd halo wiki page i found

civic sundial
civic sundial
tough bloom
celest falcon
tough bloom
celest falcon
jagged nimbus
jagged nimbus
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Now halo infinite based of right after halo war 2 event against the ape from halo wars

civic sundial
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What? How does recapping the events of the games relate to the series not being known for horror?

torpid sphinx
#

is helljumper out yet?

tulip tusk
rapid summit
#

guys how do I set up rocket race game type for halo reach?

scarlet orchid
#

Hi, can i ask why are reports of cheating for someone on xbox considered and you guys still ban them for a month? You guys know u cant cheat on xbox and you still ban. Fix your system. It sucks, you know whos on xbox and pc. Stop the Insanity

jagged nimbus
#

Is it me or halo ce seem dead for online from free for all to 8 player team on master collection?

tulip tusk
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Prob most play cgb

bold lintel
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i will forever hate the library mission in Halo CE

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lol

edgy forum
#

Oh yeah yesterday is when the Legends of Forge Falcons launched their Helljumpers found in the CGB salute

near frost
#

do you guys think chief could win in a fight against apple'd sportacus

civic sundial
#

No, because Sportacus is too powerful

tender field
crystal iron
#

Hello everyone, I just have a question. How many people have 100% the MCC here ?

celest heron
celest heron
civic sundial
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Which ones do you need?

celest heron
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the h3 and odst vehicle runs

civic sundial
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Well, I'm down to help if you can find two more people

celest heron
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thanks

crystal iron
lyric tide
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i need halo 3 odst tech support lol

celest heron
river minnow
celest heron
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I'm only on the completionists server, but I rarely ever visit it.

short flower
#

Halo 5: Guardians released 9 years ago today. People were toxic about the campaign, but positive about the multiplayer.

sturdy kernel
spiral quarry
#

Is it just me who has Halo crashing at random times?

tulip tusk
#

Just needs link to an article with 5 million ads

short flower
#

Gonna try to play some Warzone firefight today…

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I guess since the game’s pop is so small it will struggle to find matches

warped yew
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It shouldn't be that bad

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It took me like 5 minutes to find le war zone match

civic sundial
#

Honestly tempted to play some too today, I wanna use an SMG against Covies

agile lodge
light holly
#

Happy Birthday Halo 5

short flower
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When you wanna play some Warzone ff but the pop is either extinct or so small that it won’t match anyone anymore

tulip tusk
#

Is there a date for the November update? Couldn't find it in the recent waypoint post. Just 1Nov?

sturdy kernel
tulip tusk
warped yew
#

Is this November update gonna have anything good?

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Besides shop bundles etc

sturdy kernel
tulip tusk
warped yew
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They said we're adding forge content or something like that?

tulip tusk
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they say "notable forge updates" its a mystery

warped yew
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I'm expecting new nodes and objects

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Hopefully maybe a way to up the AI count?

tulip tusk
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im hoping for possess ai too

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hey more ai the merrier

warped yew
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Me personally, I'm hoping for there to be a proper nav mesh for the bots to drive the UNSC vehicles

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If we can't have our marine buds drive, then the bots would be an alternative

tulip tusk
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am i dumb or are the marines not able to droppod? i think i tried once cuz i wanted "odsts at home" lol but they cant

warped yew
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You can't have the marines come from a drop pod without scripting one yourself yeah

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Spawn in a drop pod prefab, spawn a explosion, then spawn an AI near the prefab, delete the dropod prefab and the explosion fx

tulip tusk
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i see i see. i like doing an fx to simulate an ai buddy teleporting in 😛 id say the most unlikely thing they could do is flood ai. super cool cuz of the newer flood objects but prob impossible. i mean i never expected flood objects either

warped yew
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Flood, prometheans, enforcers, ODST, drones, the Elite Rangers from halo 2

tulip tusk
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YEP!!

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Im already excited for next game forge that prob doesn't even exist at 1% yet lol

warped yew
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Probably

jagged nimbus
#

Halo infinite 2🤣

jagged nimbus
marble halo
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im at a total loss

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in the past week my controller just doesnt work in Infinite. Works fine in other games. In Infinite its like random inputs get stuck, so like my guy will walk in one direction or spin in circles.

Tried 2 controllers. Wireless and plugged in. Disabled steam input. Did big picture mode. Cleared cache. Redownloaded.

Nothing helps. It came out of nowehere too I was fine like 2 weeks ago

warped yew
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You controller works for other games but not Infinite?

novel finch
warped yew
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Yeah they should

marble halo
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uninstalled steam and trying playing via xbox now...

marble halo
#

no effect. So weird. Why only halo?

jagged nimbus
civic sundial
celest heron
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don't think it's allowed here to say anyway.

crystal iron
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Not legally no

signal ivy
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@signal gazelle discussion of piracy is not allowed here. This includes asking how to obtain pirated software.

fervent ether
#

At night I found out it's pretty hard to get a match

warped yew
#

Gee I wonder why

cinder garnet
# warped yew Gee I wonder why

I mean to be fair Halo is very popular so even at night it should be easy to find a match even if that’s the time when most people be going to sleep

warped yew
#

Infinite or MCC?

worthy kelp
sudden niche
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Do any competitive players use hold to zoom? I'm thinking about trying it out, but it seems like it causes more problems than benefits. It forces you to hold an extra button and if younget descoped, it looks like it takes a long time to re-zoom.

jagged nimbus
worthy kelp
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I see that you have literally nothing better to do with yourself than try and bait me into arguing

edgy forum
#

I’ve literally played MCC today and yesterday and found matches in BTB what are y’all talking about?

gritty python
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But also infinite is still alive (especially firefight), the problem is that in some moments of the day finding matches is difficoult

radiant sundial
# sudden niche Do any competitive players use hold to zoom? I'm thinking about trying it out, b...

not really a competitive player, but i use hold to zoom as my default, it only takes as long as it does for you to press the button to re-zoom, and holding the button isnt a problem (for me atleast) but i have always used it that way since i prefer to have control over exactly when im zoomed, since i dont feel like having to click a button to de-scope. (for extra notes i play on xbox and use a controller)

radiant sundial
sudden niche
glacial tartan
polar echo
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Speaking of MCC

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I think 343 Industries should remove Halo 4 from the collection, honestly. Very few people are playing it, and it doesn’t deserve to be part of the collection. If MCC was really about Halos story or even just the Master Chiefs story, we’d see Halo 5 included by now. Keeping Halo 4 in the collection feels like 343 is trying to leave an unnecessary mark on the legacy of the series.

civic sundial
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Halo 4 isn't going to be removed from MCC

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The reason Halo 5 has not and will never be added to MCC is due to how MCC is a collection of the FPS Halo games that predate the Xbox One's release

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Originally it was just a collection of the numbered titles, but it was expanded to include ODST and Reach

polar echo
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Yes but nobody liked halo 4 or at the very least why would include such a contraversal game that most dont even like

onyx latch
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"Nobody liked-"

polar echo
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Not to mention it is Halo 4 chief on the cover which come on NOBODY thinks of that helmet

civic sundial
#

I can tell you right now it's not as controversial as you think it is and it's inclusion is completely fine

onyx latch
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Uuuuugh. Sometimes the way this chat works makes talking infuriating.

onyx latch
polar echo
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it absolutely was but even if it wasnt why is 4 the cover for the game when every other halo is WAY more recognizable

civic sundial
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Could talk about 2 in the exact same way too. There was a whole website dedicated to hating on it back in 04

onyx latch
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Because Halo 4 was the most recent game and people don't blindly agree with subjective opinions like yours on the choice to use a specific helmet for a cover.

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Halo 4 and 5's Chief were the definitive looks for Chief in 2015. Deal with it.

civic sundial
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Also MCC's cover includes the boxart for CEA, H2A, 3 and 4 in the background

polar echo
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in the BACKGROUND

onyx latch
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Oh no. What a horror.

civic sundial
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It's not an issue at all

polar echo
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the objectively bigger games in the background. you can not sit here and say 4 was on the level of 3

civic sundial
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Nobody was saying that?

polar echo
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Ok

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so theres no reason for that not to be the cover instead

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Like how much cooler would it have been to see all three chiefs on the cover together instead of just a helmet

glacial tartan
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The purpose of MCC was to have all of the old 360 titles playable in a single experience. I don’t love Halo 4 either but I wouldn’t intentionally exclude it??? What a weird take.

onyx latch
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I mean I'd say it but just like saying 3 is better than 4, it's an opinion and thus subjective.

glacial tartan
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And yeah it’s one of the least played in the collection, like H2A, but they should still have a home if people want to play them. Better than fracturing them out.

onyx latch
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That and I like pissing off fanboys who can't handle differing opinions.

civic sundial
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Like, is Halo 4 perfect? No, but that's true of all the games

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As much as I love these games, I refuse to be ignorant of the flaws

polar echo
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id argue the other 3 might as well be perfect compared to 4 though

onyx latch
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It's the cover because it was 'the chief look' at the time lmao

glacial tartan
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Now removing the H4 squad battle playlist? That I totally agree with, it’s useless and needs to be removed / altered

onyx latch
civic sundial
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Like Halo 2's terrible balance, or Halo 3's story leaving allot to be desired, especially when you have dialogue like "To war"

signal ivy
polar echo
civic sundial
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Also Miranda's death was horribly done and added nothing meaningful to Halo 3

crystal iron
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All of them have flaws and are good in their own way

signal ivy
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truth did a 180 in 3 and turned into a generic villain, his character was murdered in 3

civic sundial
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Truth became like Mercy

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And it's not like you can blame the VA on the character doing that 180 in personality

polar echo
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Much much smaller issues compared to the entirety of 4

civic sundial
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Because at the end of the day, a VA will say what they're paid to say in a game

polar echo
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Just like everybody wanna talk about armor lock yet halo 4 has wall hacks as an ability

civic sundial
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Nobody here was trying to downplay the issues Promethean Vision has

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But Promethean Vision had a way to counter it, armour lock didn't

polar echo
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but at least armor lock couldnt just fight at the same time you took a sacrifice using armor lock and is easily able to be countered

civic sundial
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Having to wait 10 seconds for the person armour locking to finish armour locking isn't countering armour lock

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It slowed the gameplay to a halt while you waited

polar echo
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you can just reposition yourself in a more favorable position

civic sundial
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Yes but you still have to wait for them to finish armour locking, that's still a problem

polar echo
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honestly you are just brain dead if you cant wait a few seconds

civic sundial
polar echo
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it has a very harsh draw back being the huge cool down and the fact you dont get to act immediately out of it

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not to mention it locks you in place. Wall hacks you cannot know your opponent is using until you are already dead no counter play u just die if you don't have future vision

civic sundial
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Promethean Vision has a very obvious audio cue

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And, you can counter it. It's not perfect but still. I remember running the stealth perk in Halo 4 because of the amount of people using Promethean Vision

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polar echo
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that doesnt matter when its not 1v1

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with every one else blasting away on the map you cant just focus on one guy

civic sundial
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It quite literally does matter. Not everyone playing Halo 4 was playing 1v1 matches. I used stealth in most matches I played because it was better to have it and not needing it

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And stealth wasn't about focusing on one person?

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It was about making you harder to spot in the match

keen silo
civic sundial
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Aye, but it's not like it was completely impossible to counter. It's just a bunch of people didn't care to think about stealth

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And the only perk in Halo 4 that really incentivised focusing on one person was Nemesis, which marks the location of the hostile that killed

onyx latch
civic sundial
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But it didn't give you any damage buff or anything, you just knew where they were for a short time

onyx latch
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It plays a loud noise and 'pings' your motion tracker.

civic sundial
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It was like a large "Blwannnnnggggge" noise

onyx latch
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If you don't notice, it's an issue in the chair.

civic sundial
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Huh, I think they left because we didn't agree with their take on Halo 4

onyx latch
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Armor Lock was busted. 343's nerfs (like not letting it save you from plasma grenades) were a long time coming.

onyx latch
crystal iron
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Why do people do that?

onyx latch
onyx latch
civic sundial
crystal iron
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Yeah I guess so, having an opinion is fine but when people disagree I feel like you should be understanding but that’s just me

onyx latch
keen silo
civic sundial
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Depends on the opinion the person has, disliking pineapple on pizza is whatever, but claiming something should be erased because of "controversy" that never existed is a weird hill to die on

onyx latch
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Or if it did exist, it was overblown.

civic sundial
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Aye

crystal iron
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People are weird, makes the world more interesting

warped yew
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Lil funny too

jade pebble
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halo fans just hate halo games its crazy like that. also the more new things a game has the more people dislike it

swift iris
magic loom
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Oh boy Halo 4 had alot of stuff multiplayer that annoyed people, boltshot was crazy OP but for me alot of those issues we kinda fun to me since I could appraoch them in almost any kind of way.

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I loved loadouts It really made players more valauable staying around more since they had something you didnt

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Me I was a careless idiot with infinite mobility and fast reloading running around like a mad Spartan, damn was it fun as hell

celest heron
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And many who didn't like certain aspects of something had valid reasons for it

magic loom
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I remember Halo 4, I loved the forge maps

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Erosion and Impact were my top picks making maps on

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Ravine was awesome but didnt compare to Forge World which I thought that was what I thought they were showing in their demos

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I have an idea for the next halo. What if we do a Halo Modern Warfare 2019 game and we add a gunsmith for each of the Halo weapons.

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Like, we can modify the Plasma rifle and make it into different variations from the different games, or make a Frankenstein plasma rifle.

civic sundial
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I don't think we'll ever see that extensive of a customisation system for weapons in Halo ever

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Plus, Halo's foray into having loadouts was mixed at best, we're likely not gonna be seeing custom loadouts happen in Halo on the PvP side of things

edgy forum
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I just noticed in Gruntpocalypse Firefight Fiesta you have unlimited ammo, reminds me of Arcade Firefight

celest heron
cunning oyster
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I’m confusing Halo infinite’s skill based match maker.

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Can’t give me bad matches if know what it collected and how to counter it.

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I’ll sum it up. If you mostly aim down sight one round, hip fire the next.

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Rock paper scissor type thing.

edgy forum
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I guess they reworked it to make it more arcade like which is pretty fun!

celest heron
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hmm, I'll have to try it out again then. not having ammo was one reason I stopped playing it.

frosty condor
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Unlimited ammo is on by default, as fair as I’m aware

edgy forum
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Yeah, I just discovered that and wish to inform everyone that it’s more fun with said unlimited ammo!

sudden niche
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From the Great Journey teaser, did the books talk at all about how the MA5K is supposed to function? Looks like a mix between the BR and AR.

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Hoping it's not just a weapon model

frosty condor
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Hope we see gameplay trailer for it

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That’ll answer all the questions

keen silo
white birch
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In Ghosts of Onyx its mentioned as being a carbine; faster firing, but shorter range than the full length MA5 variants.

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Of course, "carbine" means very little these days when the overall length of most rifles is already short...

whole raven
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Yo @white birch

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you there?

celest heron
magic loom
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Are Halo mods allowed to be mentioned here?

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Its about that weapon they showed in the Halo infinite teaser, wanted to talk about it and its possible use

coarse dagger
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Mods that fall within the server guidelines and Xbox ToS / GCUR can be discussed. Modding in general is the same

river minnow
celest heron
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sure

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oh, I think I've seen that one before. thanks

low forum
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i wish there was only 1 firefight mode everyone can compare against. all these different ones spread over different modes is just....

edgy forum
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Yeah MA5K Carbine is a SMG like rifle

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Think it’s what Chief and Blue Team used in the early chapters of Fall of Reach

celest heron
edgy forum
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Saw the Waypoint and oh man that Delta Arena will be cool as well as third person FF.

celest heron
white birch
edgy forum
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Oh yeah

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I forgot lol it was some variant of the MA rifle

drowsy wharf
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is it even possible to get all the battlepass rewards in MCC? like theres somewhere around 10 battlepasses and it's hard to get the points to unlock the tiers..

radiant sundial
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playing through campaigns give a lot of spartan points

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just complete your challenges and the points will build up faster than you realize

void estuary
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does anyone still want playable elites?

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my only two requests is for 343 industries to add playable elites and add third person to the campaign in the future if possible

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I think a lot of people really want elites in the next halo game or in a update in halo infinite

spare finch
stuck dune
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I want playable elites

spare finch
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Halo 3 + 2

stuck dune
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Hey everyone

void estuary
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Hi

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I would want playable elites in the future if they could add them possibly

stuck dune
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They won't its 343

void estuary
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I think there is a high chance they won't add them

stuck dune
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They'll never add them keep your expectations

void estuary
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I will keep my expectations in check

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What is your opinion on the game getting a third person mode?

stuck dune
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I think it's whatever honestly I'm happy with whatever

void estuary
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I will definitely try out the mode when it comes out because I wonder how it would play in a different perspective

stuck dune
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I see

void estuary
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I would want them to add a third person perspective in the campaign but I don't know if its only planned to be in firefight

stuck dune
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Nothing will be added to campaign

void estuary
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I see

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I know I have to keep my expectations in check. the elites and third person perspective are only just requests I would want them to add to the game even though it might not happen

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Halo 2 is turning 20 years old on November 9th this year

stuck dune
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It'll never happen sadly but I'm excited for the great journey

void estuary
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I plan on playing halo 2 on my original xbox and crt or i will just play it on the master chief collection

onyx latch
void estuary
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I hope there is a way we could possibly send a message for Halo Studios to Add Playable Elites In the Future. I am not saying it is required to happen but I would want them to see this and see if they accept the request

stuck dune
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I'm pretty sure everyone wants playable elites

civic sundial
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Not everyone

stuck dune
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Who's not everyone

coarse dagger
left snow
sudden niche
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I'd like them for a Reach style invasion mode. But not standard matches and definitely not ranked. They'd have to either be shaped and proportioned almost identically to Spartans or have different hitboxes--and I don't like either of those options.

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I took several years away from gaming and didn't play much H3, but I think a lot of people exploited their hunch to avoid being headshotted from behind. I don't know. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. But I think Halo and gaming in general has become much more competitive since then that it just would not work today.

civic sundial
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The hunch wasn't the problem, the missing neck hitbox for most the Elite helmets was

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Like, I really wish more people knew about this https://youtu.be/aNCMD-pDv50?si=B_rvOcSOWgM5PD1l

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edgy forum
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Oh that’s right there was no hitbox for the Elite’s neck

lusty wraith
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Just in the hopes that someone at 343i will see this: please add inertia on strafes like past Halo games in Infinite

civic sundial
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Huh, so I just found an Unbound Plasma Pistol on Excavation Site. Never knew one spawned there

coarse dagger
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Neat

civic sundial
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I was so surprised because it's just not a location I know for having a weapon variant spawn

magic loom
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Thats a great find I love that weapon

civic sundial
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Since there's the one you can find at Outpost Tremonus if you check the ledges below where the large Banished building is, and obviously the one held by the High Sumpter

jade pebble
# civic sundial

they have these powerful weapons spawn on map in somewhat random locations

civic sundial
jade pebble
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Idk really. I think theres a webapp that has a bunch of these things marked out. And its an interactive map that they have with skulls and easter eggs etc

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But not sure about these random guns tbh

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Exploring some mountains I remember finding the 10 round sniper

civic sundial
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I remember using the map for the skulls

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And the Flexfire Sniper has a set spawn point on the map too, on top of one of the peaks in the Pelican Down area

jade pebble
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Yeah

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I found the good needler somewhere as well

civic sundial
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Any idea where?

void estuary
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I tried sending multiple messages during the Halo Livestream to Halo Studios About The Playable Elites Question. Guess they will not respond to the question.

sturdy kernel
coarse dagger
tulip tusk
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why didnt megasonic respond to your answer? RUDE!

void estuary
sturdy kernel
void estuary
sturdy kernel
void estuary
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I don't even have my microphone on

tulip tusk
coarse dagger
void estuary
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I will continue talking about elites but only if It does not get me banned or in trouble

civic sundial
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You're not gonna get in trouble for talking about Elites

void estuary
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By the way, Is anyone going to be playing Halo 2 on its 20th anniversary?

civic sundial
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I'm not sure what I'm gonna be doing honestly

void estuary
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I might play the game on my original Xbox with my crt television or I will just play it online on mcc.

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Should I continue talking about elites or should I talk about something else?

coarse dagger
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You're fine to talk about Elites

void estuary
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Okay then, if Elites were added what would you want them to change and why?

tulip tusk
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hmm let them able to use all weapons

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infinite is a bit limiting in several ways with even ai elites

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next game i hope will improve it 🙂

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i miss fuel rod gun as well, and needlers, for elites

warped yew
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Are you even a mod?

near blade
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Just move on.

warped yew
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Ah yes

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First heard it in Ice Age 3 lmao

void estuary
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I understand that people want me to stop talking about it

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I will stop talking about it on here

swift iris
void estuary
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Do people see halo as more of a competitive shooter or more casual shooter?

warped yew
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Causal shooter lol

swift iris
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Both. It usually varies on what game is it for customs or arena.

warped yew
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I mean if u go into ranked, it's obv competitive lol

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Idk is Infinite filled with sweats?

void estuary
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I think it will vary depending on the mode

glacial tartan
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As the population shrinks the two ends of the skill curve meet more often.

swift iris
glacial tartan
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When there are a million concurrent players you’re far less likely to be matched with someone far above (or below) your skill. But we’re nowhere near that in Halo nowadays.

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So matches “feel” more difficult, people leave and the gap tightens and tightens

void estuary
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I Usually Try To Be More Casual But Still be a bit competitive

jade pebble
crystal iron
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I just joined this server

civic sundial
edgy forum
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I am totally buying that Mark VI GEN1 armor kit day one, I don’t want to debate about it. As long as I support the studio. Gonna use my MS points that I’ve been saving up to get it.

analog salmon
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Is it confirmed to be an armour kit

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I get not making them a new core and having to make every single helmet/shoulder work on them, but idk why they don’t let you use the pieces on other cores

crystal iron
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Anyone saving up for the Ghost of Reach helmet?

civic sundial
abstract mural
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Anyone wish we could control npcs in a third person perspective? I feel like that’d open up a ton of minigame possibilities to play as hunters or jackles

exotic current
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sliding in halo is no good remove it

civic sundial
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Slide is fine

abstract mural
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What’s wrong with slide?

civic sundial
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My guess is their reasoning is along the lines of "It's not a Halo ability"

warped yew
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I'm meh on slide, but what does it even do for Halo besides making it feel modern?

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Like sprint has never had any real value besides 1 button to go fast

magic night
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Adds depth to the gameplay. More room for skill expression.

onyx latch
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Older Halos lacked a lot of mechanical skill expression outside of abuse of game mechanics.

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There were things you could do but they were usually pretty limited.

civic sundial
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Plus sliding under an object feels cool

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Like, sometimes you just have something in a game for rule of cool

shadow stag
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I cant think of a time when sliding saved my life but i can think of a thousand when it saved the person I was shooting at

tulip tusk
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Sprint slide jump sprint slide jump sprin sld juimp sprt slud jup

shrewd finch
shadow stag
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MCC switched my contoller detault to mouse & keys, I switched it back and receieved a 4 minute ban

edgy forum
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I prefer if the movement evolved in later games and not be like COD where nothing new gets innovated or changed. Honestly have to keep saying COD because the Omnimovement has caused some traction. But it wouldn’t be appealing in Halo if you Max Payne dived. For now sprinting and sliding seems to be realistic.

civic sundial
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Did COD really need to go full Max Payne?

celest heron
civic sundial
radiant sundial
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pov: they remove sprint but not sliding

glacial tartan
shadow stag
civic sundial
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People just love to play Halo 3 in MCC

lone plover
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You know what I like about Earth levels in Halo games? They're set in a unique exotic place like Mombasa and not a generic overused place like Los Angeles or New York because those have been invaded in fiction enough times.

edgy forum
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I’m pretty disheartened that I don’t have the funds right now to get the Master Chief armor kit coming out on Tuesday. I messed up with managing my MS points because they auto-redeemed a month of Ultimate Game Pass AFTER I manually redeemed it (because sometimes it won’t work) and all those extra points I was gonna save up to convert to money. Gone. Hate myself right now. It’s not the Shop’s fault or anything. I just made a grave mistake. And I’m gonna miss out on being apart of the scene.

rare pivot
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new weapon?

tulip tusk
edgy forum
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lol just for $20 nah it’s gotta be something more less

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That’s literally what I need is something like 2,000 something credits

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Because I can buy the Premium Operation with 500 but most likely the armor kit is gonna be 2,000

civic sundial
edgy forum
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About to have a mental breakdown

tulip tusk