halo-discussion

[clever totem]

ok for me there all gone now 😄

[zealous cape]

Everything is there for me, that’s strange

[coarse dagger]

https://x.com/HaloSupport/status/1858949211347448153?t=HK6Rht1BfIIUPpWpypxtaQ&s=19

Halo Support (@HaloSupport) on X

⚠️ The #HaloInfinite team is currently investigating reports of matchmaking and playlists loading issues. Stay tuned as we'll share updates on an upcoming resolution here.

Twitter · Nov 19, 2024, 7:03 PM

[hallow dagger]

All i managed to load to Delta Arena and Infection. All the other modes are missing

[edgy forum]

I’ll just wait around evening to grind for my weekly SP

[analog salmon]

Delta Arena with BR starts and slower movement accel is pretty dang fun

[weary trout]

i think halo infinite would be booming if all the new features now was in the game on release

[ruby knoll]

yeah i wish they could unspill milk too

[bleak nymph]

Man, MCC can be frustrating. Got temp banned over a game I failed to connect to, even though I tried reconnecting.

[warped yew]

As much as this has been said many times, yeah lol

[quiet garnet]

13 days

Left in great journey

I got 11,800 Spartan points and plan not to spend till the next op

I plan to play every day

Any bets on how much I have by the end of the great journey 😈

[rugged quartz]

I think i got around 101k

[celest heron]

spent mine on the haunted helmet, but now I can finally work on the other new stuff.

[vocal ivy]

Bell Toll visor in the exchange when ? 🤞🔔

[frosty condor]

When the Bell Tolls

https://tenor.com/view/metalica-gif-8090049

[edgy forum]

No way, a Metallica reference in Halo?

[frosty condor]

I rock that visor frequently

[safe coral]

Halo 2

the one theme song that sounds like rock

[edgy forum]

Me trying to figure out which golden visor goes well with the Green Man armor coating: Noble, Aurum Evolved, or Gilded Infinity

Just need the right amount of orange-yellow mix blend. Hmmm

[civic sundial]

Stalwart is a good one too

[edgy forum]

Stalwart 📝

[quaint rampart]

Hi! I have a quick question, I'm replaying all the Halo MCC games and I'm currently completing the H3: ODST campaign by choosing missions one by one from the menu instead of going through Mombassa Streets. Now, I see that by completing all the missions, I still have Mombassa Streets not unlocked in legendary difficulty. Do I really have to replay all the missions but in free roam version to simply complete the Mombassa Streets mission?!

[keen silo]

It’s such a good visor. A nice, clean, untextured black. I slapped that on my Mirage Core with Void Ultra coating. 10/10

[civic sundial]

If you're doing a full playthrough of the game on legendary, it's better to do it via the normal means than selecting each mission in the menus. I know there is a playlist which is just Mombasa Streets, but I don't think it's on legendary

[quaint rampart]

So I really have to replay the whole game but going through the Mombassa Streets mission and collecting all the items like the "normal" way to do it?

[civic sundial]

Basically

[quaint rampart]

https://tenor.com/view/but-i’m-not-original-gif-4077672862622552877

[quaint rampart]

Are you sure that once all the missions are done, if I go back to Mombasa Streets and touch the Team objects, it might not unlock?

[tropic owl]

Halo Games Ranked:

• Halo 3 (gameplay is awesome, especially that warthog ride through the collapsing installation at the end)
• Halo 2 (it was just right)
• Halo 1 (it was just right)
• Halo 4 (personal favorite but I don't want to get bashed for putting it above the original trilogy so I'm leaving it at 2nd place, also best story in the series)
• Halo 5 (I wanted to play as master chief not locke, also butchers 4's story)
• Halo 6 (so overrated, I'd take 5 over 6 any day of the week)

[sturdy kernel]

Oh Halo 3 it's not a planet collapsing, that Installation 04B was collapsing

[tropic owl]

noted

[civic sundial]

Nobody calls it Halo 6

[tulip tusk]

tbh sometimes saying infinite does bother me and saying Halo I is strange

but i never liked the name Infinite

[fossil pine]

Controversial take but Halo 3 is my least favourite out of the original trilogy

My memory of it as a kid at least was just an overly large number of flood levels and not a lot of big open spaces, I was very disappointed with it

My personal extremely controversial ranking solely based off the amount of fun I’ve had with each game:

• Halo 1
• Halo 5
• Halo 4
• Halo Infinite
• Halo 2
• Halo 3

[quiet garnet]

High rank on 5 is always respectable. Shows you know your taste. I only played a little multiplayer but it was pretty cool IMO

[keen silo]

This is incredibly accurate to how I feel. (Though Halo 2 is my bottom tier) Halo 3 is great, but for me it’s carried more by nostalgia than anything else

[celest heron]

no reach?

[fossil pine]

It wasn’t flawless but it was more reinventive than any other game in the franchise, the ability to use scopes for every gun made a bigger skill gap which made competitive more fun, the gunplay was excellent and the new modes were fun. Warzone was incredible and having a break from Chief in the campaign was refreshing because having solely him and Cortana every time was getting exhausting.

[fossil pine]

I didn’t include it because I consider it more of a spinoff than a mainline game. I don’t like the campaign particularly, all of the characters fall flat to me but it has some of the best MP maps in the series IMO.

[onyx latch]

I like this person.

[grand wind]

Halo 5 isn’t too bad imo, I feel like the reason why a lot of people dislike it is due to the execution of the campaign, rec packs and armor designs

I will say this, even despite the flaws it’s weapon sandbox was incredible

[vague night]

Gameplay wise it is fun, its just that its got a whole stacked against it like what you mentioned

[grand wind]

yeah

[deep valve]

is halo 2 fixed in MCC

[zinc flax]

You guys wonder what if Hideo Kojima got to direct his own Halo spinoff game set entirely on Sangheilios?

[celest heron]

what was wrong with it

[final scroll]

a lot. to give credit where its due, a lot was fixed so its possible that whatever issue that guy had isnt a problem anymore

my biggest gripe, not just with 2 but a few games in MCC, is the increased tick rate which makes the games noticeably harder than the original versions

[civic sundial]

I feel like if Kojima directed a Halo, it'd be somewhere other than Sanghelios

[vivid marsh]

I would rather have Miyazaki do it. Energy sword dark souls here we go

[zinc flax]

I like his camera angles and scene direction,

[glacial tartan]

Back in Feb they increased projectile speeds to account for the tick rate difference. Made a noticeable difference imo

There are still a ton of issues for H2 (well, all of MCC really) published in their Known Issues list. But they dont talk about any roadmap for anything, so safe to say they will never get fixed without some serious intervention.

[safe coral]

Anyone know any type of extended storage devices for computer?

I’m tryna download literally every halo on my computer and I ain’t got enough storage

and play each one in order

[safe coral]

Only bad halo game in my opinion was Spartan assault and Spartan strike, whatever the names were but the weird 2 games that felt like Diablo

I think every halo was great other than those 2

just has few haters for each game because some people didn’t like certain things about it but overall they were great

[safe coral]

Do people still play halo wars 1 & 2? It seems a bit inactive and feels a bit dead, still fun when you get into a game but it kinda feels like it’s dying

[analog rose]

What’s up with the spawns on Infinite? I’ve lost KOTH three times today, the only mode I’m losing, because the enemy team is spawning ON TOP OF THE HILL, and then spawning my team ALL THE WAY ACROSS?’z

[sturdy kernel]

Skill issue

[analog salmon]

tbh spawns are just bad in halo and have never got better

they should be better but i think the parameters are just pretty minimal

and spawn locations just never make much sense to me. you either spawn in the open, or you spawn really close to the enemy but enclosed

which is just rng

[tulip tusk]

Idk haven't played in a long time but try 3v3 AI

[analog rose]

It’s a spawn issue, but thanks

[sturdy kernel]

No, it's a skill issue
It's damn so easy to learn where enemies are spawning

[analog rose]

It’s a spawn issue. We killed them and before we could even get shields back, they spawned the room beside the hill, then spawned us all the way in the back corner

[trim storm]

I hate it when u spawn in btb or 8v8 and u immediately die to the one kid who has 100% sniper accuracy from across the map just targets u

[sturdy kernel]

Just don't play btb, play firefight or any modes that you wants

[analog rose]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-opinion-your-opinion-is-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad-zoidberg-bad-gif-1041977452711668037

[onyx latch]

They're pretty solid twinsticks, nothing really wrong with them. Cheap too.

[trim storm]

Woop woop woop woop

[glacial tartan]

Have you read the old bungienet write up on halos spawn system? Helped me a lot

[fading condor]

Hey guys. My names Jacob, I’m 19 years old as of today. I was wondering if anyone wanted to play halo. Any of the games are fine with me except 5.

I just want to make so friends that play halo.

I’m a big fan. I’m not great with lore tho.

[coarse dagger]

Welcome, you should check out our LFG channels :)
And Happy Birthday! 🥳

[sullen kiln]

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

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

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

[fading condor]

Thanks guys. I feel very welcomed.

[coarse dagger]

If you ever want to learn more about the lore of Halo, #lore-and-universe is a good place as well as looking up Halopedia

[fading condor]

Thank you

[low blaze]

I finally got to play the new halo season and I really like this smg

Its a shame its model is just a reskin of the assault rifle but its still really fun to use

[bleak nymph]

Yeah, gameplay is on point. But there are a few issues with its model beyond just ripping the AR. It's too long, and because its so long it is easy to mistake for a BR when its on the ground. When it wasn't BR starts that managed to waste my time on a few occasions.

[celest heron]

I'm aware of the issues, but just wondering if they meant something recent.

[low blaze]

How come the SMG isnt in the weapons bench

[white echo]

Weapons... bench?
Y'all talking about Infinite?

I never played infinite or 5, i grew up on the og 3, reach and 4 >_>

[low blaze]

You cant put skins on the smg in infinite

[white echo]

Oh .-. Yeah again I'm sorta new with the younger halo games
And the most I know with my copy of halo MCC is the campaigns, I barely ever touch multiplayer lol

[low blaze]

None of the non human guns have any skins either

And theyve never had skins which Ive never understood

[white echo]

Is this for MCC's multiplayer? Or some other halo game

[mystic spire]

Master Chief collection

[low blaze]

So do I have to buy the new battle pass to get the halo 2 sniper?

[left snow]

Having played a bit of Delta Arena - I really haven't missed friendly player collision.

I am sick of bumping people - including getting bumped off my aim.

I was somewhat ambivalent of it being taken away - but now I really appreciate it.

[white echo]

Oh cool :V I didn't know we have that kinda customization in MCC, I thought we just had spartan customization

[low blaze]

Infinite

But mcc does have weapon skins

[white echo]

huh.... neat :D
Ill try MCC multiplayer here soon
If they have spartan skins, i wonder if they ever did one of the Macworld 1999 MasterChief
Thatd be cool af

[low blaze]

Yeah

But only in halo 2 anniversary

[white echo]

DAMN-

[low blaze]

I think you have to wait until it appears in rotation to unlock it

I got it when it was an event item so I wouldnt know

[white echo]

Ah aight. Hey as long as they dont remove it, thats fine by me! ^^

[low blaze]

Are you going through all the games stories?

[white echo]

Ive already played the first 3 games a lot throughout my life- i got ce and 2 on my og xbox as an kid and 3 for christmas in 2011 along with my xbox 360. Im new to the master chief collection's system though.

[crystal iron]

So fkr the next halo game what would you want the default armor for MP to be,

For me I kinda hope qe get Aomething resembling or just give us, the Halo Infinite campaign armor.

I liked it and would prefer that as the standard armor for all the Spartans.

[white echo]

I favor towards the Mark V and VI, at least design wise- Halo 3's take on the Mark VI to be specific.
But I also never played Infinite before so I cant input my take on that game's campaign armor.

[crystal iron]

Not sure which one that is.

[white echo]

Halo Combat Evolved: Mark V
Halo 2: Mark VI

[crystal iron]

Halo 2 was ice, don't like halo 1 armor, to me it looks goofy.

At least compared to Halo Infinites.

I would like a blend between Halo wars 2 and Halo Infinite armor though

[white echo]

Whacah expect with Halo CE lol
It was the first game in the series and it debut with the Microsoft Xbox back in November 2001.

[crystal iron]

That combo would be more like Halo 2's armor really

I just hope they got there story telling back on track,

HALO 1-3 was a solid story that was told like a true trilogy, halo 4- infinite felt like season 8 of game of thrones

[white echo]

HA-
too true xD

[crystal iron]

Honestly though for the mostnpsrt halo studios or Formerly 344 has sort of burned out all its good will with me. So I won't really be pre ordering the games. If it's free on ganepass I'll probably take a look at it, but I'm very cautious moving forward with whatever they show us and how that compares to what they deliver

[white echo]

I dont even know what Halo game we could get after Infinite. Im all for a proper anniversary remake of Halo CE- since the 2011 version was so bad (using a set of models for the unsc marines and covenant that didnt make sense in the timeline as of September 2552) and MCC at least gave us the OG sound effects when using the classic mode- but other than that, idk whats coming up

[final scroll]

im hoping they continue Infinite's plot

i actually like all of 343's games, but my biggest complaint across all 3 was that they seem to abandon every story thread they start without ever resolving anything

[white echo]

wait youre telling me what I saw in the ending of Halo 4 back in 2012 wasnt even brought up in Halo 5, or infinite??

[final scroll]

and granted, bungie also had a terrible habit of setting up stakes and then never delivering on them, but at least the broader story went somewhere

[final scroll]

it gets brought up, but mostly just to tell us why its not important anymore

[white echo]

BRUH WTF
CORTANA LITERALYL SACRIFICED HERSELF TO YEET THE DIDACT AND DESTROY REQIUEM IN HALO 4... and thats not important anymore as of Halo 5 and Infinite??

that ending was so emotional when i first got halo 4 as a kid, whatdaheck?

[final scroll]

oh have you not played halo 5 and infinite?

[white echo]

i dont have an xbox one or series x, my reason being halo's about the only game series id buy them for cuz everything else i already have on PC.
And i never looked up the story for 5 and infinite since me playing halo 4 back in 2012.

that and my views on 343 and Microsoft has soured a lot back in high school when i started looking up what they were doing to the community with 5, infinite, and when MCC first came onto PC :/ so i never looked up 5 and infinite's story

[final scroll]

well, hope i didnt spoil anything.. unless you want story spoilers then i can give you a brief recap of the story so far

[white echo]

Ehhh sure- until 5 gets on steam i have no way of playing that, and i dont wanna spend more money today than i did with MCC, so no infinite campaign for me either .
Most of my knowledge of halo story- in the games, i know a few things we know outside the games as of 2011 or so, and what we got in 2a's terminals- are from Ce, 2, 3, reach, and a little bit of 4 from what i remember

[final scroll]

ah.. well just to refresh your memory. halo 4 of course ends with cortana sacrificing herself to kill didact and save the world, then the story continues six months later in Spartan Ops, where we are officially introduced to Jul Mdama the leader of the new covenant and our big bad guy now that didact is out of the picture (also jul is the one who destroyed requiem, not cortana but thats not important)

following that ending, a comic book reveals that didact survived. but he dies at the end of that comic so... i dont know why they bothered (also he technically even survived that but i havent read the new book that explains how he survived again)

[white echo]

Ohh right, the elites and such we fought in Halo 4 were from what's still functioning within the Covenant after Halo 3, some parts of the Covenant were still struggling to keep the system enforced after the death of the prophets and most of the elites allying with the humans .3.

[final scroll]

yeah correct! anyways, halo 5 :)
first mission we kill jul mdama and the new covenant shatters

so we get a new big bad villain in mission 2. cortana is back to life and she wants to become a super dictator and take control of the entire galaxy using forerunner machines to enforce her will

the game ends with her winning, almost every human AI joins her in an event known as the Created Uprising, robots control the galaxy and anyone who defies her rules will die

[white echo]

bruh where did that come from??
One, i thought she deterioated for good in Halo 4 because AIs deterioate and die after seven years or so
She was built to be loyal to the UNSC, so now she's completely against humanity now? Even Chief? |:/

[final scroll]

newer material explains it pretty well, but it was a bit of a stretch back then. the justification is that AI deteriorate because they have limited storage space, and after accumulating too much knowledge its too much for them to bear and they collapse under the weight of their own knowledge... buuuut before cortana died on the didacts ship, she connected to a forerunner information storage center called The Domain, where she can stave off rampancy by dumping excess info for free

[white echo]

Huhhhh... well that explains her being alive, thank god
But her sudden betrayal to the Master Chief and the UNSC entirely? Humanity, at that?

[final scroll]

newer stuff explained that the fragment of cortana that survived was one of her rampant splinters, so she was crazy from the start. the REAL cortana still died. you know all those times she freaked out in halo 4 and started threatening us? it was one of those pieces of her that lived in the domain

[white echo]

Oh god 3:
Well that at least made me sorta happy we're just dealing with a false, malfunctioning part of Cortana in 5 and beyond
Still sad the true, full Cortana is truly dead though

[final scroll]

yep, which brings us to halo infinite...
cortana is dead again, the created uprising is no more, that all ended off screen

[low blaze]

The explanation is that halo 5s story is bad

[final scroll]

its very frustrating

[white echo]

JUST... off screen entirely??
And now Cortana is completely fully dead?
thats horrible!
Its always been MasterChief and Cortana, now we dont even have that??

[final scroll]

we get a new AI named The Weapon which is a clone of cortana, but slightly different. a bit younger and more naive

[low blaze]

They tried to course correct by completely ignoring halo 5s story but they still needed to get cortana out of the way

[final scroll]

yeah its rough

[white echo]

Well thats sorta cool
We did get an AI sorta like that in Halo The Flood- though with an personality of some old british dead guy, but this.... I guess this is cool lol

[final scroll]

yeah the new big bad is The Banished, they're technically another splinter faction of the covenant. they are rebels from the original covenant led by brutes, so the whole time the covenant was trying to kill us they were also fighting the Banished

[low blaze]

I genuinely thought cortana dying in infinite was going to be a fake out until the game ended

[final scroll]

and they release something called The Endless but i dont know much about them, Infinite doesn't really go into detail with them. i hope they get elaborated on in the next game, thats what im hoping for

[white echo]

Oh THOSE were the guys i saw in the halo wars 2 DLC cutscenes a few years back, i do know about that at least
I always assumed those Brutes were formed to make up a new leader as the Chieftan of the Brutes, since Tarturus died in Halo 2

[final scroll]

YEA, when Weapon showed up and went "huh weird i deleted cortana but then i was supposed to self destruct, some reason i didnt???? super weird" i thought that cortana killed weapon, and now cortana was pretending to be her so she could keep an eye on us

[final scroll]

but yeah, the deal is that Banished are old rebels and pirates who were fighting the covenant, and now theyre fighting us. infinite ends with us demolishing the local banished force (but more are still out there) but not before the banished free The Endless... but we dont know what that is and im desperately praying the Halo Studios will actually let this story breathe

because its so frustrating how every story has either ended off screen or in the very first mission of the next game

[white echo]

well its not the flood, thats for sure. Ever since Halo 3 we never got them back.
yes, story wise the UNSC obviously were smart enough to avoid more Halo installations if need be- save for Infinite- so the Flood never had a chance to come back
... but still, cmonnnnn
The flood in Combat Evolved, and especially both 2 and 3 with 05's own Flood, were soo coolllllll

[final scroll]

im kinda glad the flood havent come back! i think that halo 3 had a beautiful ending, and chief put it very well: "its finished."
i like that 343 went in a new direction and gave us new enemies instead of just doing the same exact story we already had

i just wish that those stories had satisfying endings like 3 did

[white echo]

Huh thats true! I guess i never thought of it that way o3o the flood are done, and TECHNICALLY the flood that spawned from Installation 05 are super done- which thank god given the state of that ring was so bad they actually formed a GraveMind- so i suppose this justifies it.
Yeah im sorry for the comment, i grew up with the first three games, as late as I was to getting Ce through 3, and both reach and 4 are the only post 2010 games i own.

[final scroll]

no worries, the flood are cool! makes sense that people would want them back

[white echo]

I WILL say this though!
The introduction of the Promethians in Halo 4 definetly scared me as much as the Flood did when i got halo 4 on launch.
Something about the big dude's face opening up to reveal its skull is just... really haunting
I love those Promethians a lot LOL

[final scroll]

yeah theyre pretty cool, i love their lore as well

i really liked fighting them in halo 5! the knights were replaced by a smaller enemy called the soldier, and knights got buffed into miniboss encounters similar to the covenant hunters

[white echo]

ooooooo o3o

[final scroll]

and i loved the rebalance for promethean weapons in 5 as well, all their weapons had slower projectiles, but they came with HEAVY tracking, so it was basically impossible to miss and you could shoot them around corners and stuff

[white echo]

duuuuuude
where was THAT in halo 4
I used to use the rifle the knight had and that shorter one that was like an assault rifle, but the KNight's rifle was such an pain to use

[final scroll]

oh that reminds me, the promethean sniper got changed as well! instead of a single shot that insta-killed enemies, it became a beam weapon similar to the sentinel beam! but instead of holding the beam down for 10 seconds, it only lasted about 1 second, and you had to keep it trained on the enemy for the full duration if you wanted a kill

[white echo]

Ok thats really well balanced, wish we had that in 4 >->

[final scroll]

i liked it because i thought the binary rifle was very frustrating to fight in halo 4, because people could just find a really awkward angle and one-shot you in the ankle where you cant really fight back... it becoming a beam made it harder to use but also less frustrating to die against

theres a youtuber called Aozolai who had really really good videos about all the weapons in halo 5! usually the first 5 minutes were kinda boring because it was just going over statistics, but the videos always ended with about 3 minutes of multiplayer gameplay so you could see how they performed, i recommend checking it out if you wanna see what 5's multiplayer was like

[white echo]

oh sure! only halo youtubers ive been subbed to as of now was HiddenExperia and as of today, Ruby of Blue so hey, more Halo on youtube makes me happy :3

[frosty condor]

As long as your channel is Halo focused, you can promote your channel in #1076327824924872755

[fading robin]

Hello does any1 have a fix/tips for the halo 2 laso playlist, pretty much each time i save and quit when i die,i have a chance of having the game crash during the loading screen which would reset the whole mission ? The only solution i can see is doing coop but i'd prefer solo that's why i'm asking for some help pls

[keen birch]

Achilles heel

[sturdy kernel]

Halo CE 3? What did you mean?

[civic sundial]

Where did you hear that was a thing?

[vast nova]

that was just a tech demo

[civic sundial]

And it didn't show off a level

It just showed off environments made to look pretty

And assets from Infinite in UE5

[hazy basin]

How is it taking them so long to remake 3?

I feel like they'll do something like that before making an entirely new game

[signal ivy]

I hope not

[civic sundial]

You say that like CE and 2 got remade. They didn't, they got remastered

[glacial tartan]

They could make a "remake" with a terrible launch that they fix years later or make a totally new game with a terrible launch that they fix years later

Either way im sensing a pattern

[hazy basin]

Okay remaster then.

[civic sundial]

Halo 3 ain't gonna get remastered

[glacial tartan]

I used to say they could take the H3 campaign and go nuts - take all the funding and roll it into resolving issues with MCC, but leave the H3 multiplayer alone because that would be a disaster.

Then I realized funding has never been the issue and they would probably create dances for the victory screen before they fix the game breaking bugs that exist.

So now Im less enthused.

[hazy basin]

Well at least modders are doing it.

[fading robin]

If nobody here got a clue, where could i find people who could answer it ?

[civic sundial]

What?

[keen silo]

I’m also confused

[civic sundial]

I don't see how that's relevant to what I was saying about H3A never happening

And UE has been used ever since it was added to facilitate the menus in MCC

So the idea they would never use it ever doesn't work with that fact being there

Again, not sure why you brought up UE when the conversation was about H3A and how unlikely it would be to happen

One of those things is happening, the other isn't

I don't think you really want to understand that there's a difference between a company moving to a different game engine and an old game not being remastered

Like, you're acting like there were these statements that were made about how Halo would never swap game engines until they suddenly announced they were moving to UE5

[hazy basin]

Yeah I would be very surprised if a Halo 3 remaster never happens.

[uneven bison]

This is some goofy aah reasoning

[civic sundial]

So if I say that Batman will appear in front of me enough, he will? I don't think that's how that works

The engine was called Slipspace, not Splitspace. And yes, after how much trouble 343 was having due to contractors not getting enough time to learn the engine before moving on, I can buy an engine move happening

My point is that your reasoning doesn't make sense. Just because I want something to happen doesn't mean it will. The same is true for everything

[hazy basin]

I think halo is moving away from slipspace just because of the complexity and issues they had while developing it. Moving to unreal makes sense as way more developers are familiar with the engine and they are currently looking for new developers.

They've taken a big loss with the engine and Infinite so they probably wanna just start fresh and play it safe with Unreal so they can devote their focus entirely on game development instead of making/fixing a new engine.

[civic sundial]

There's a difference between being unable to fix and not having enough time to learn something

Looking good isn't why they moved to Unreal

Any game engine can make any asset look good

[hazy basin]

He's just saying that halo 4 would prob look good in it.

[civic sundial]

My point still stands, the engine isn't just there to make stuff look good

[hazy basin]

Yeah but he didnt say it was.

[silent lichen]

These ranked maps are HORRRRIBLE this season, can we vote for a update lol

[wild hearth]

you know, I find it pretty funny to imagine Forerunner infants in power armor that outclasses GEN3 MJOLNIR

[uneven bison]

You really can’t outclass war sphinxes tbf

[brittle lion]

Has anyone experienced the bottom fifth of the screen rendering at 5fps but the rest of it rendering normal in Infinite?

I tried recording my screen to show the issue, but the recording looked fine for whatever reason

[analog salmon]

ur trippin

nah they dont seem very HCS friendly ngl i think its just a stop gap until whatever they have for HCS 2025 is ready

[weary trout]

i want assassinations back so bad brooooo 😔

[keen birch]

Yes

They’re awesome

And as for H3A, that can’t happen, because it should have happened in 2017 but it didn’t.

That’s why it’s called ‘anniversary’

[weary trout]

halo ce remake

we gotta push that theyll re-add 😭

[vague night]

Saaaame. I hope we get assassinations back with a toggle based on if we want them enabled for pvp, pve, or both.

[left snow]

Loved assassinations. And my wallet is open to their return.

There was nothing better than yoinking a mate's kill while they were showboating. 😄

But HS face an uphill battle to bring them back. The sad truth is that people turned them off - for whatever reason (eg. playing Ranked) - and weren't bothered enough to turn them back on.

At the very least they need to be auto-disabled in Ranked play.

[edgy forum]

Eh, I’m not an assassinations fan

I rather back smack like the old games than presentation, also people steal your kills

[gritty lichen]

Hate when they do that

[edgy forum]

Maybe if they did the body shield method from Gears/BO6 it would be viable

Just make the animations fast and quick, not slow like COD

[white birch]

No need to make em showey

[left snow]

I would never yoink a stranger. But mates in custom games - every chance I get. 🙂

[terse gate]

Halo Flashpoint Spartan Edition arrived today

Even came with Chief

[formal seal]

It bothers me that they still havent fixed the tunnel beams on the halo 3 warthog run in mcc

[celest heron]

I sent a ticket about that years ago, lol

[final scroll]

whats wrong with the tunnel beams?

i just replayed that mission a few times recently and never noticed anything wrong

[celest heron]

the beams are supposed to slide across the ground after they fall.

[final scroll]

they did for me, i think it might have gotten fixed

[celest heron]

doubt it

[weary trout]

halo 5 multiplayer was the most goated multiplayer in the franchise ngl

Warzoneeeeeeeeeeee 😩

[final scroll]

it was fun, but i still preferred more classic halo gameplay

still hope it comes to pc some day

[weary trout]

id log into 5 and played that for hours

and then they added firefight

[final scroll]

i loved firefight

[weary trout]

the REQs werent als half bad, they were more fun

warzone felt more like it was garnered towards casual players

I pray that theyll add customizable assassinations like they did back in 5 in the next installment

[final scroll]

warzone was awesome for the first like.. 2 weeks. but then 343 introduced Spartan Companies to waypoint where you could unlock the achilles armor by getting something insane like 10,000 kills in a Company, and suddenly the playlist was overrun with 12-stacks who would just spawn camp you for 30 minutes

[weary trout]

i thought the achilles armor was unlocked through having 100 members

[final scroll]

same thing ruined husky raid in infinite, the grind to hero made people want to play as unsporting as possible just so they could have nice armor

[weary trout]

i dont like infinites achilles armor

it looks too banished somehow

[celest heron]

no, you just had to get all the company commendations done

[weary trout]

o

achilles was goated. it felt like the 5s version of 3s hayabusa ngl

[celest heron]

which was even harder with less members

[weary trout]

i feel like if 5's artstyle was infinte, and just a better campaign the game wouldve been really really good

[sturdy kernel]

And if only Halo 5 was on PC

[weary trout]

i just want assassinations back though 😭

[weary trout]

yeah, sucks it isnt.

on 5 i'd go on the slow-mo assassinations custom game and play that for hours too

[sturdy kernel]

I'm not good at stealth on Halo 5, but I can say that assassination were really good on Reach and Halo 4

[weary trout]

I hope the next installment will feature atleast customizable assassinations, and a bunch of other stuff the community asked for

i had the supernova assassination in 5, because throwing people around was my favourite thing to do

[final scroll]

my favorite assassinations were the ones where your enemy tried fighting back! i loved the sense that even if you got them, there was still a fight happening

its not like spartans to just give up and get stabbed just because someone bonked them on the back of the head ya know?

[weary trout]

neat things they also added is that the energy sword and grav hammer had custom assassinations too

i hope that they'll add that for other weapons, like the magnum or sidekick, hope they add both in the next game tho

honestly only thing i'd hype train for would be assassinations

[final scroll]

thoughts on a glory kill system? kinda like assassinations but from the front if an opponent is weak?

[weary trout]

until i get conformations that they'd be added i'll actually look more forward to the next installment.

[final scroll]

i think it'd take away from standard gameplay but it'd be cool in a custom game setting

[weary trout]

ehh im not sure, it feels too scapegoaty, unless its on a front melee kill that would just have a short animation like in doom eternal.

like kneeing someone in the head or punching them that their neck would break.

they just gotta add a toggle for assassinations so people who dont like em can disable it

honestly the idea for 5 where the infinity would be like an sort of destiny tower is also pretty neat

i feel like the hate for 343 during that time was so naive

[final scroll]

i feel like the hate for 343 currently is still naive

[weary trout]

heard a dude saying that bungie now would make a good game if they still had halo's IP

[final scroll]

lmao

[weary trout]

and he said it wouldnt be filled with microtransactions....

i dont mind it personally, cosmetic microtransactions, but i do mind it if almost all the cosmetics are microtransactions.

community made armor pieces would also be sick

like people can vote on which piece would be added to the game

and i feel like the whole reason why 5 and infinite was like that is because of microsoft 😭

[civic sundial]

Considering that I just saw a tweet from someone in the community complaining about temp dialogue in an early build of Halo 4 not being the VAs of Chief and Cortana, gotta agree with you

[final scroll]

yeah its pretty ridiculous

i think theres a lot to dislike about the 343 games, but most of the hate i see them getting is totally unreasonable

[civic sundial]

Allot of stuff I see is hating on things which either are not worth complaining about at this point (Artstyle changes Halo 4 and 5 had), were in direct response to community feedback or just made up info

[weary trout]

theres criticism, and theres hate.

[civic sundial]

And allot of people who feel real entitled too

[weary trout]

its usually the halo boomers, i started playing halo when reach was during its run

[civic sundial]

Like, I'm talking "Oh I played Halo 3 and I think Infinite sucks" types

[weary trout]

if halo studios had a game where theyd had to cut alot of content like bungie did in halo 2, same situation and everything, i feel like people wouldve hated 343 way more than they did during that one movement in infinite.

[civic sundial]

Well we know stuff has been cut from all three of their games, and I distinctly remember people complaining about it when they found out

But like, cut content happens, every game has cut levels, characters, etc

[final scroll]

i remember people being mad when they found out odst's were supposed to be in halo 5 but got cut

[civic sundial]

The story Halo 5 has doesn't really have anywhere for them to fit

[final scroll]

and even if they had a place, they would just be marines but slightly stronger.. its a lot of work to create 3d models and animated them and give em voices and stuff. for just another marine

[civic sundial]

Like, they don't make sense on Meridian due to trying to keep the UNSC presence on the small side. They don't work on Sanghelios due to it being a messy situation as is and deploying a battalion of ODSTs might cause tensions. And Genesis doesn't make sense either

[final scroll]

i could see genesis having an excuse, something like "we were defending a colony and got pulled into the slipspace portal" but then people would complain that its just a weak excuse to get odsts in a place they dont belong

yelling about weak fanservice or whatever

[civic sundial]

Aye

Like, I do think they could've worked in Infinite given that the marines are survivors of Infinity crashing, which would include the ODSTs on board, but I imagine they weren't sure how to work them in with the FOB unlocks

And they likely prioritised other things over them

[final scroll]

i cant speak to the validity of this claim, but i heard that marines werent even gonna be in the game until close to the end of development because they were hard to get working right

if that was true, it wouldnt surprise me that odsts didnt make it

[civic sundial]

Aye, but obviously it depends on if that claim is true

[analog salmon]

i thought marines were gonna be in it, but they wouldnt follow you

which explains why its relatively basic

i recall it being something Staten said needed expanding on? maybe the marine rescue missions were cut before he joined the project

[trim hamlet]

if halo would have flyable phantoms

[civic sundial]

Halo Reach, New Alexandria, you can drive one via the Pelican Easter Egg if you use a Banshee instead

[trim hamlet]

wait hear me out

[trim hamlet]

how should the phantom turret work?

[trim hamlet]

I meant like fully polished game vehicle

non easter egg

[civic sundial]

Ah, fair

[trim hamlet]

first person pfp from turret?

[civic sundial]

Uh, not sure how I'd handle the turret, maybe that should be a co-pilot's job?

[trim hamlet]

ye

[civic sundial]

Since the side turrets are just normal turrets in most Halo games so those are operated like normal

[trim hamlet]

but if theres a single pilot?

[civic sundial]

No clue

[trim hamlet]

if we had an ai copilot then we maybe could point enemies or places to shoot at when freelooking

[trim hamlet]

get it on steam

[civic sundial]

Steam is easier to mod since the workshop exists

[final scroll]

had an idea the other day, lookin for feedback: thoughts on bringin the spartan laser back but restricting its ability to fire without being locked on?

kinda like the rocket lock in halo 2, needing to get red reticle on a target before holding the trigger to begin locking.. the laser wont charge unless you have red reticle on a vehicle, that way it stays as a powerful anti-vehicle weapon that one-shots but people cant avoid the drawback of a long charge time by pointing it at a rock until its ready to fire

you need to expose yourself and track your target for the full 3 seconds if you want the power to instakill, and the laser beam on the vehicle will tell them they're being targeted

[hollow fiber]

2001 Halo Combat Evolved: Evolution of 1st person shooters, beginning for Halo, introduction to the Covenant, UNSC, Flood, Cortana, the Master Chief, UNSC "Pillar of Autumn", the Installations.
2004 Halo 2: Year 2552 Human-Covenant War
2007 Halo 3: Finish the fight: Elites switch sides and the Arbiter fights alongside Master Chief
2009 Halo Wars: Introduction to Spartan IIs: Red team and UNSC "Spirit of Fire".
2009 Halo 3 ODST: Orbital Drop Shock Troops fighting in New Mombasa
2010 Halo Reach: Fight on Reach with Noble team as Noble 6. (Spoiler: All of Noble Team die except Noble 3: Jun)
2012 Halo 4: The Master Chief wakes up on UNSC "Forward onto Dawn" after being put into cryo-sleep for 5 years after the events of Halo 3, fights the Forerunners.
2013 Halo Spartan Assault: Third person shooter and is the events in between after Halo 3 and before Halo 4, when Master Chief was in cryo-sleep.
2015 Halo Spartan Strike: Play as a Spartan IV leading UNSC forces against the Covenant, yet again, third person.
2015 Halo 5 Guardians: Spartan Locke and his team, Fireteam Orisis hunt down Master Chief and his team, Blue team, who are in pursuit of Cortana.
2017 Halo Wars 2: Introduction of the Banished and the Ark.
2018 Halo Fireteam Raven: A 4 player arcade shooter on the UNSC "Pillar of Autumn".
2021 Halo Infinite: The story of Cortana, Echo-216 (Ezparza), Master Chief, The Weapon (A clone of Cortana), the Banished, the Endless, the Forerunners, and Atriox on Zeta Halo.

I went a bit overboard on research

Wait I forgot The Master Chief Collection

[civic sundial]

The Ark wasn't introduced in Halo Wars 2, it first appeared in Halo 3

[hollow fiber]

But just briefly

[civic sundial]

It's a major part of Halo 3's story

[hollow fiber]

After The Master Chief retrieves Cortana after Finish The Fight where the gateway opens yeah

Dude I only have the OG Halo Trilogy and people are telling me to play ODST next?

[final scroll]

no, half the game takes place on the Ark

[hollow fiber]

Dude I need to turn on Halo 3 again clearly I already forgot after not playing it for 2 weeks

I have Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 but I haven't played them for about a month.

[keen birch]

there’s a whole level in the game called The Ark

[civic sundial]

I'm not the one that was trying to claim it was barely in Halo 3

[jade pebble]

man adding BR as a main into delta playlist was a misstep. just takes the fun out of it honestly

the avenger is bordering on useless now

[celest heron]

smgstartswasamistake.jpg

[keen birch]

I’m agreeing with you

[left snow]

It's probably the definition of casual (SMG) vs competitive (BR) play style.

In a recent video Lucid suggested the BR needed to be a bit less accurate at distance and have a small reduction in aim assist.

Sometimes it feels more like a DMR than a BR.

[jade pebble]

Idk if BR needs any fixes just dont have it be a starter in a game mode heavily built around a weapon that cant outdo it most scenarios

Its fine to have it as pick up but dont give it out in the start

Idk why they added it later on anyway. Was perfectly fine before

[left snow]

There have been a lot of calls for BR. At least on Reddit, if not here as well.

You would think two years at least.

[jade pebble]

Yeah

Just cant help but feel like people calling for it didnt really get the point of the playlist

And maybe the devs didnt seem well set on it either which is annoying

[left snow]

Fingers crossed they add both as options in the Match Composer.

[jade pebble]

Thatd be nice

Delta auto slayer and delta precision slayer

[left snow]

If the Delta playlist stays - there isn't any reason they can't have lots of game style choices. eg. Fiesta.

[celest heron]

I just played it and it's not fixed.

[final scroll]

well, rip

why even live if the beams arent gonna slide

[celest heron]

I doubt the majority of people notice it since you'd have to remember the og h3 version.

[ivory glacier]

Servers down?

[celest heron]

ugh, so many games with guests on my team that don't know how to play and half of them were afk.

[grim herald]

Delta Arena is the Halo I have been waiting to play for over a decade.

but then multiplayer became unavailable

[left snow]

Even though I find advanced movement much more fun that classic Halo - I will concede that Delta Arena plays better on high pings.

[low blaze]

Its the halo 2 playlist

What else would you start with

[formal seal]

It didn't

[final scroll]

figured that out about 12 hours ago

[muted socket]

do you get games on any mcc halo still??

queued for some h3 but didnt get anything 😦

[final scroll]

i can get get 4v4 in reach and 8v8 in halo 3, but queue times are gonna be pretty bad until later in the day

should try again in about 4 hours

[fading robin]

Where can i find people who could help me find a fix ? Please dont ignore if you know

[signal ivy]

#1075989764026675210

[muted socket]

thx will try later

[weary trout]

assassinations in the next halo would be nice

[final scroll]

i'll take assassinations in any form, but i hope that if they do come back that they expand on the customization offered in halo 5

in reach, 4, and maybe 5, you would get a different set of animations depending on if you approached from the right, left, or straight behind (and obviously unique ones for jumping) so it'd be cool if we could choose up to 3 animations that play from different angles

[radiant sundial]

5 you got whatever animation you chose, no differences from angle

[final scroll]

i thought if you didnt choose a custom one, you could still use all the defaults from 4?

[radiant sundial]

You start off w a default, im not sure what it was since I havent played in a minute tho

[final scroll]

yeah i looked it up, you get multiple animations if you have default selected

i think 5 did technically include a toggle, where you could only have animations play if you held the button down but you could quick tap it for a backsmack instead

anyways the deal with assassinations is just that theyre fun and thats it

same reason people got upset when the SPNKR got replaced by a normal tube bazooka when 5 launched. its functionally identical, but a double barrel rocket launcher is just cooler

[magic night]

I would like assassinations back. They're fun for those that like them, and optional for those that don't. Easy way for them to get pretty fair monetization too.

[final scroll]

yea i'd pay for assassinations

[magic night]

I wouldn't say the assassinations are functionally identical to backsmacks. They accomplish the same thing of killing from behind, but assassinations are also a big flex that you don't really get with the backsmack because there's an animation going on.

They talked about assassinations way back for Infinite. It was almost certainly just a feature they didn't have the proper time to fully flesh out.

I'd bet good money they had all the same thoughts and conversations about this on the dev teams, just didn't have the room to work on it amongst all the other stuff they need to work on.

[final scroll]

not to mention the added stress of having to juggle that work across several contractors

[magic night]

The contractors thing is probably overblown. Every studio uses contractors.

[final scroll]

overblown or not, it adds stress either way

[magic night]

It's industry standard

[final scroll]

it also seems to be industry standard to crunch workers half to death and then not pay bonuses, doesnt mean its easy or makes game development faster

[magic night]

Sure, but it's not really a problem unique to Infinite, or even Halo. It's just a reality of the industry.

[final scroll]

my point isnt that this is a unique problem to halo

[magic night]

It's pretty normal. If you look at the credits for just about any big game and compare that to the number of employees at the dev studio, you'll notice a lot more names in the credits than employees.

[final scroll]

speaking of things that didnt make it into infinite, im hoping the next game has playable elites as well, really miss em

or, if adding playable elites to an otherwise spartan focused game is too much, i hope we get a spinoff that focuses on the elites

loud noises and funny ragdolls

plus theyve always had weirdly long limbs, spaghetti monsters

[civic sundial]

The Pilum from Halo 5 is a better rocket launcher design and I will die on this hill

[final scroll]

oh i love its design, its a very welcome addition to the world i think :))

i just think that part of what made bungies games so good was the whimsy, they were very silly games

i missed the double barrel

[civic sundial]

I think if it had to exist within a game alongside the SPNKr these days, I'd make the Pilum a laser guided launcher, akin to the Ad Victorian from Halo 5 or the Cindershot alt fire

[final scroll]

ohhh thats an awesome idea

[civic sundial]

Halo hasn't ever had a double barrel shotgun

[final scroll]

the rocket launcher

[civic sundial]

Oh

[signal ivy]

get the weapon model for it

[final scroll]

i made a comment the other day about this but it got buried by other convos, do you think the spartan laser could be a good addition to the sandbox if it required a red reticle to charge up and fire?

its annoying because it instakills vehicles which hurts btb a lot, and the drawback of the laser pointer is easy to avoid by just pointing it at a rock while it charges, which also means you can stay in cover during the charge up so its 2 main sources of balance kinda dont work

but if you were required to have a red reticle, that means you need to be out in the open and properly tracking enemy vehicles, no hiding and no instant death

[civic sundial]

Like you have to maintain red reticle at all times to be able to charge it? What happens if your target moves out of red reticle range or your view gets obstructed?

[final scroll]

ideally it would have a long range reticle (like the sniper) but yeah, if the target moves behind a wall or if you fail to keep the target focused it would fail to fire

that said, it would probably need some degree of forgiveness, maybe something like the rocket lock on, where you can be off target for a second before losing lock

[supple moat]

If Infinite had the same excellent vehicle game play as Halo 5 then for sure the Spartan laser would be welcome. But vehicle game play in infinite is plain awful with too many cluttered maps and weak vehicles… I miss the days of the gauss hog and a ghost that was actually fun to drive…. Sadly, No need for a spartan laser at this late stage of infinite’s life.

[crystal iron]

i prefer halo combat evolved

mad fun and the campaign was kinda dam hard to even think about doing

[warped yew]

Yeah too many guns that downright destroy vehicles

The shock weapons, PP, sniper, rocket launcher, hydra, and not to mention the upgraded versions (if they even count)

[crystal iron]

whats the gamemodes that are most populated on inf?

[supple moat]

Probably firefight, chill and lots of XP

[vague night]

Yeah I'm on firefight a lot, normal and heroic. I get matches pretty quickly most of them time and its nice easy xp

[radiant sundial]

so basically, all of the things that you would expect to decimate a vehicle?

[warped yew]

Yeah but that's not the point

The point is too many anti vehicle weapons lol

[weary trout]

assassinations are so cool ngl, would be nice in the next installment ngl

[tulip tusk]

Yea lots of stunning weps, and ranged stunning. Plaz pistol stunning is staple, useful, and limited. I think hydra and sniper would be enough of a distance wep bc need something vs demon wasps

[rose urchin]

Its about time they add a new vehicle honestly

[final scroll]

what would you add

[signal ivy]

a miniature UNSC Ship

and you sit on top, with room for a friend behind you

[warped yew]

More vehicles that you let have passengers

The variety would be fun af in the campaign because you have all these different means of combat and you can equip your allies with more stuff to better your chances

Vehicles that come to mind are the Spectre, Prowler, Scorpion, Falcon, and maybe even the H2 shadow

2. Why not give us the scarab or that smaller Banished version to pilot or fight against

Give the forgers and the campaign more variety

[warped yew]

Low-key you got me thinking now. Give us vehicles you can actively walk or run through without the need to be at a passenger seat

Like the pelican or phantom would come to mind

Or the scarab which is the best example of the concept (because it's like the only one)

[strong plover]

why am i having so much fun playing mcc again>

[final scroll]

halo good 👍

[strong plover]

halo much good

[astral violet]

Hi, can someone tell me which is this week's ultimate challenge? And if there is place where I can find that info easily. Thanks

[shadow turret]

In Infinite, every Ultimate challenge is 5k (combined) personal score now iirc, and its just for 1k SP (Spartan Points) which can be used to buy any of the old event/promo items from the Exchange (that have been re-released so far anyway, since not everything has been)

[heavy edge]

Infinite is dead man how can the most popular playlist historically take 2 minutes to find a match

ill rather just boot up another game

[warped yew]

B06 pretty fun rn

[heavy edge]

i would try it but it takes like 200 GB

[warped yew]

That's if you download the whole thing lol

You can just download the campaign and MP for 80 GB under

Even lower if you get one or the other

[heavy edge]

i wanted to try and get max level in Infinite but oh man that will take a while

[warped yew]

The MP for B06 is like 37 GB

[heavy edge]

matches take like a minute to find a match and most of the time they are unbalanced/ playing against a full team

idk i want to get slide all over me tbh

[strong plover]

anyone need part time for truth and reconciliation ?

[heavy edge]

last time i played COD it was super sweaty

[sturdy kernel]

If you want to reach Hero career rank on Halo infinite MP, I highly recommend Firefight

[warped yew]

COD had always been like that

Me personally, the SBMM along with the dead player base of Halo Infinite, make the game rly sweaty

[heavy edge]

you get the Infinite campaign model if you reach max rank right

i dont have to buy it or something like that?

[sturdy kernel]

Yes

[sturdy kernel]

No, you no need to buy it

[heavy edge]

im so close to reaching im in diamond rank right now

i wonder if they would give us something for the next Halo game but i guess that will take like 5 years

[sturdy kernel]

Congrats
Play firefight, it's the easiest way to reach Hero rank

[warped yew]

Your so close

[heavy edge]

yeah it is

[warped yew]

Keep moving forward 💪

[heavy edge]

keep the grind

[sturdy kernel]

Grind like me, play everyday, and will reach it in short terms

[heavy edge]

if i can do a rank per day ill reach it by the end of the year

oh man

[sturdy kernel]

Good luck

[crystal iron]

halo 3 is the best

[tepid stump]

Proceeds to post a picture of the halo 4 chief helmet

[limpid python]

Halo reach IS the best and dmr was too competitive for the competitivers

[analog salmon]

most factually accurate statement I've read here in a while

competitivers just couldnt git gud

Reach enjoyers are just better gamers

[hollow fiber]

I totally agree with that. I have the entire original Halo Trilogy and I still think Halo 3 is the best out of all of them.

[warped yew]

Compared to the other trilogy games, Halo 3 has some of the most entertaining and polished levels

Theres so much level of detail and nuance to them which alot of other later games don't have

The story isn't anything special compared to H2, but the in game story and world building just makes the game alot more enjoyable than 2

Though
I'm gonna say this lol. I think CE still has the best gameplay out of the 3 games

[radiant sundial]

Ngl, I prefer 4, 5, and Infinite over the other games

[warped yew]

It is what it is ig. Story wise, I can understand (except for 5 and Infinite lol)

Gameplay wise I don't understand (except for Infinite)

My problem with 4 is that alot of missions became linear and smaller. Your lack of ammo was apparent and you had stupid unfair enemies to fight

The prometheans had you always going after the watcher because they give shields to others and spawn more knights. They also resisted your grenades by throwing them back and whenever you tried to get close, they would fly away

Literally most of the time you faced these guys, you would rather be using a precision weapon

Then 4 had the audacity to bring back the gondola ride

EVEN WORSE NOW, this thing stopped multiple times for you to take down enemies. THEN YOU DID THE SAME THING AGAIN

[civic sundial]

Yeah, that's why I always use the skip on that level

[warped yew]

Elites had the same unfair melee attack from Reach

[civic sundial]

Don't think I've done Shutdown legit since 2012

[warped yew]

Knights had the same unfair melee attack and they were bullet spongey as heck

And that damn artstyle bro. Why do elites look like that. Not only that, the way they were portrayed in 4, Spartan Ops, 5 is sad

They're like lumbering giants who are slow and will fall down the moment they lose balance

Back then, they were fast and agile

They actually fitted their warrior role instead of being a brute

Guardians has alot of the same issues but atleast alot of the missions became open and wider for you to play around with

The vehicle sections were pretty sad ngl. Ohhhh but when you die. . . You have to wait for your allies to revive you

It sounds meh on paper but with the AI of these teammates. They will run to you and ignore everybody firing at them

This is one of the worst things ever especially on legendary

They also literally reused the same boss like multiple times like why?

Use this moment to introduce other enemies like maybe a forerunner robot

Or a scarab

Why not give us a vehicle boss

[keen silo]

I think a revive mechanic would’ve been really good in a firefight game mode. Not the campaign where the AI will get distracted by a butterfly

[warped yew]

Yes bro

And the allies you have are some of the most underutilized characters ever

There just there. We don't ever get some kinda of special moment between Chief and his crew

Why did they bring Cortana back too. They just ruined her death in Halo 4 by giving it no meaning

Emile, Carter, and 6 died for this AI just for it to go bad

Imma keep this short for Infinite but it's alot of repitivenes and mediocrity

Doing in the same thing again and again and there's not much to spice up the variety

[rocky oasis]

hello. how do i play halo on legendary

i feel like i am not bad but i keep dying to elites

and i also feel like its pointless to take anything other than dmr/magnum/needle rifle and a plasma pistol. when i have anything else they just kill me idk. even if i have perfect tracking and good dodging i lose if i have anything but that combo and barely scrape by with a plasma repeater or rifle

i am on firefight btw, and have done all campaigns on heroic

i feel like im not the worst gamer just dont understand halo mechanically idk how to explain it sorry

[celest heron]

are you talking about firefight?

[rocky oasis]

erm mostly just in general but im playing legendary firefight right now

ie if i take a focus rifle and an elite rushes me, i die. if i am holding a fuel rod or something and intent to save it for a hunter or vehicle, i either use it on the elite or i die

and this is on unearthed, which seems to be one of the most forgiving firefight maps

im too afraid to properly get stuck in on smaller maps like courtyard 😢

[celest heron]

best to just stick with teammates during the elite round or shoot them from afar. I only play arcade versions which has unlimited lives and ammo as well as starting with better weapons so it's not a big deal if I die.

[rocky oasis]

im playing solo

dont get me wrong i can survive. i just die, so that must mean im making mistakes?

[celest heron]

is it a custom game?

[rocky oasis]

i kinda just want tips to play legendary in general but nothing besides “use marksman/pistol” has been told to me really

[rocky oasis]

its just default firefight on legendary

[celest heron]

If it's a custom game, then just turn your health up in the spartan base trait settings. doing it solo will always yield deaths cause you'll get overwhelmed.

[rocky oasis]

im not asking how i can cheat 😞 im asking how i can be better on legendary 😥
thanks though. maybe someone else knows

[celest heron]

I told you to shoot them from afar

[rocky oasis]

i do that for sure yeah

idk i just feel like im playing the game wrong. maybe im just not. idk

[celest heron]

or use a plasma pistol and dmr combo to take their shields out. not much else you can do unless you get power weapons or get a vehicle.

[rocky oasis]

so if you get rushed by an elite and you dont have that 1 weapon combo you just die?

just trying to understand how halo works i guess sorry

[celest heron]

you can dodge their melee attack and then backsmack them

[rocky oasis]

i always die to that too, it basically has a 1 frame animation xd

[civic sundial]

Depending on the game, you should have plenty of options in close quarters

[rocky oasis]

but they usually kill me by shooting. i dont tend to melee unless necessary

[celest heron]

you have to time it correctly

[rocky oasis]

anything in mcc basically , i dont play infinite

[celest heron]

you can practice in lone wolf.

[civic sundial]

I recommend you also try to keep distance between yourself and a rushing Elite, but keep an eye on their movement as you do

[rocky oasis]

eh lone wolf is supposed to be a place you die, they eventually swarm you with aoe and snipers. i find firefight a good place to practice!

[celest heron]

doing the dodge and backsmack is how you get the 250k achievement in lone wolf.

[rocky oasis]

yeah i do that…. i guess the punishment for letting one get close without noob combo is death (in basically all circumstances barring luck)?

[celest heron]

you play on easy though with skulls on

[rocky oasis]

yeah im on legendary. ty

i love halo but am bad at it i think but never know why. what i need is a halo coach lol

[zinc frigate]

halo infinite snipers be swarming with cheaters

anybody ever got walls pop up in their game?

[civic sundial]

Like, walls moving?

Are you sure you're not trapped inside the clockwork mansion from Dishonored 2?

[zinc frigate]

Like if I aim at an opponent, then a wall pops up that doesn't let me see them

[civic sundial]

Do you have footage of this happening?

[zinc frigate]

I should've, don't think so though. I'll start recording from now on.

It only happened to me once, but lots of times one guy on multiple accounts

it's obvious because one opponent is sitting inactive

[signal ivy]

I have never heard of that

[hollow jackal]

Ngl Alpha moon level was great sad it cot cut i do hope digsite team uncovers more cut levels

[glacial tartan]

With the great work the digsite team has done I wish they’d be allowed to attack the backlog.

[hollow jackal]

Backlog?

[civic sundial]

Stuff they've not prioritised working on

I just hope they can get those Halo Online weapons and vehicles to us for mod tools

[hollow jackal]

Ooh i see

What kind weapons & vehicles? I dont realy know mutch halo online

[civic sundial]

Basically just a whole bunch of weapon variants, such as an energy carbine, long barrelled SMGs, weird looking Plasma Rifles. And the vehicle mainly was just a new Brute Chopper design they made for HO before it got canned

[hollow jackal]

Damn sounds cool

Truly shame HO got scrapped

[civic sundial]

T'is the nature of the industry I'm afraid

[hollow jackal]

Yep

Sadly HO got take away too soon rip

Woudb been great to have like what was HO again mmo?

[civic sundial]

It would've been a PC only Halo game in Russia based off of Halo 3

[hollow jackal]

When woud it taken place in time line?

[analog salmon]

after human-cov war since its based around Anvil Station (human-elite training facility)

[glacial tartan]

I was not describing new items as backlog. For MCC each title has a bunch of game breaking bugs that have just sat there. Chipping away at that with volunteer effort would be nice.

[weary trout]

so

my entire team got 12 VIP kills but only scored 9 points

???

bro i miss assassinations bro

[tulip tusk]

they r fun

[crystal iron]

It would have been rife with micro-transactions as well.

[civic sundial]

Not really important to what I was talking about regarding that project

[slate birch]

Ugh that sounds nasty

[formal seal]

I just finished fall of reach yesterday and I gotta say, this is what made people seethe about halo: reach? Because it didnt follow this book 1-1??
they're on reach for like 2 chapters, with no combat there except a sentence "off-screen" through a radio
its almost entirely space battles
People call halo: reach the death of halo because of this???

[hexed bison]

You wouldnt get it

[ruby lake]

buhhhhhhoouuaaaarre

i mean

reach is ok

[edgy forum]

It’s like historical documents

There’s like 50 accounts of what actually happened in an event and only one of them is unknowingly the ”true” source

[coarse dagger]

They were testing the waters with a particular, but seemingly large, market, and the developers of the project were based in Russia (Saber Interactive).

[civic sundial]

Aye, and it's not unheard of for there to be an exclusive version of a game/entry in a game series that exists in one specific country

By no means a common thing but it can happen

[tulip tusk]

that would be cool i enjoy saber's space marine 2

[analog salmon]

I assume Saber also ported Halo 3 to x86 for MCC (or fixed up an existing port from the bungie days) as part of bringing Halo 3 to Xbox One

So you had the US side of Saber working on MCC, which probably made working with the same company for a game in a new market appealing to Xbox

Interesting to think what it could have been, whether it would have expanded to other markets etc

But it was a lot different to even the kind of game Halo Infinite is

[white arrow]

#bringmodstoxbox please

[warped yew]

Yeah

[formal seal]

anyone remember any point in the original games where cortana calls chief by his name?

[magic night]

End of Halo 3

[formal seal]

i think that might be the only time
same cutscene that made me think of this too

[civic sundial]

She does so in 4 and 5 as well

[formal seal]

in the original games

[weak minnow]

Ya I can only think of that one scene in when Cortana calls chief John

[vestal dragon]

So did halo wars come after or before halo combat evolve?

[signal ivy]

timeline before, game release after

[sweet nymph]

ANYONE WANNA PLAY TURKEY TIME?!

[sullen kiln]

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[sweet nymph]

You wan play?

[warped yew]

Somebody with manners finally

[upper bloom]

can you play halo 2 online multiplayer on pc or xbox one?

[coarse dagger]

Via Halo MCC, yes

[celest heron]

on both

[rain flame]

I've been trying to get my buddy to play halo for years and he has finally agreed to try it, but he said if he's not feeling it in the first hour he's out.

He doesn't care about story so we can start with any halo I've personally only completed halo 3 and reach so I was thinking about one of those, what do you guys think?

[clever lance]

Genuinely this is tough, but I’d say reach.

[dim jewel]

Just thinking of a plot idea I had if I were writing the story for a future Halo title: The Weapon having an identity crisis from the Cortana fragments s

[weary trout]

I hope the next halo has assassinations ngl

[left snow]

Yep. I don't know how Halo Studios is going to make them relevant - but my wallet is open and waiting...

[deep valve]

what's a skull

[deep valve]

real gamers call them executions but no. it would be unfair since you either get i-frames or you get insta-killed when you're performing an execution

[coarse dagger]

"real gamers"

[civic sundial]

Assassinations in Halo never gave anyone i-frames

[deep valve]

so it's worse

[left snow]

There was never any invulnerability. For the assassinator or the assassinatee. That was both the beauty and the curse of them. Yoink medal for the win...

[celest heron]

only hope is either that or the assassination would glitch and the animation would stop.

[celest heron]

h3 would be easier to figure out cause you don't have armor abilities or have to deal with bloom. downside would be leading shots and possibly running into more sweats.

[viral kayak]

The amount of times I have yoinked someones assassination....

There is also the medal show stopper I believe for saving an ally that is being assassinated.

[civic sundial]

Aye but my teammates would never do that for me

[viral kayak]

Then you just got crappy team mates.

[civic sundial]

Yeah...

[viral kayak]

It doesn't take much to kill another in reach.

[rocky oasis]

assassinations as a mechanic to me have always sort of highlighted one of the key differences between bungie and 343. for bungie they were just fun little animations you could optionally trigger for nothing but style points. for 343, theyre either gimmicks to be sold or so useless as to not be considered if they cant make money and serve no competitive value

[warped yew]

Assassinations should still be in the next game

It's an optional mechanic that be avoided just by not holding the melee button

[rocky oasis]

im not saying assasinations are bad haha. im moreso just saying they used to be there for fun, and under 343 they were milked for cash, and simply removed when they no longer could be sold

id love them back! thyere the backbone of some custom games haha

but for that reason assassinations never needed iframes. i think suggesting they do goes against why they were added in the first place!

[weary trout]

Assassinations werent sold in 5 btw..

You can unlock them through requisition packs by playing the game

[rocky oasis]

they werent? what am i thinking of? its been a while 😵

[civic sundial]

I don't remember Halo 4 having microtransactions for assassinations

[rocky oasis]

i swear i remember unlocking different assasinations through the lootboxes

am i going insane xd

[weary trout]

Yeah 5 had the best ones tho

[rocky oasis]

the best what sorry?

[weary trout]

You can but you get the boxes through earning CR

[weary trout]

Assassinations

[rocky oasis]

yeah 4s an exception. i like 4 personally haha but i get why some dont

wait im confused sorry @weary trout
assasinations were part of reqs right?

[weary trout]

Yes

[rocky oasis]

which could be bought with real money?

maybe im misremembering

[deep valve]

executions have i-frames in many other games and I honestly prefer it in those games cuz I can't just get killed while I'm helpless

[rocky oasis]

no thats valid! its just they were always a fun sandbox gimmick is all. never anything to be taken super seriously

[weary trout]

Yes but you can get it for free by earning cr

[rocky oasis]

so therefore its unfair to say they were sold?

[civic sundial]

Halo 4 was the only other 343 game with assassinations, Infinite doesn't have them

[weary trout]

Yes and no, if you say you can get them by ONLY spending money then its unfair

[rocky oasis]

yeah true

[rocky oasis]

my apologies, where did i say “only”?

[weary trout]

^

[rocky oasis]

wheres the only in that sentence? 😵‍💫

true haha

[celest heron]

you literally implied that they were only sold

[rocky oasis]

no i didnt. you just inferred that haha
i assumed everyones play h5 so therefore knows how reqs work

[celest heron]

we can see your posts

[rocky oasis]

where did i imply they were “only” sold?

[gilded dome]

Yo does anyone want to play if you join the social squads

[rocky oasis]

if it makes you feel any better im sorry it came off that way haha. i definitely didnt imply it though

[celest heron]

in this post you didn't even know that they were in req packs so it's easy to put two and two together.

[rocky oasis]

i was moreso trying to challenge them without being too confrontational haha

i clearly remember it so was confused at the pushback

babe wake up its 2015 and hunt the truth is kinda cool actually ✨

[deep valve]

out of the 3 games, halo 4 really wasn't that bad when you consider halo 5

[rocky oasis]

no haha i genuinely like halo 4! its my 2nd favourite

it has problems but it stuck with me for contextual reasons 😊

[deep valve]

cortana

don't make a girl a promise you can't keep

[rocky oasis]

cortana was beautifully written absolutely i loved her a lot yes. i cried at 4 a few times!

[deep valve]

best cortana design in the entire series

[rocky oasis]

she was a bit lewdly designed but out of all the redesigns she was one of the better ones for sure!

my favourite chief armour is still 4 🙊

[deep valve]

promise her that you'll ask for compensation

[warped yew]

Damn you actually got me but worse it was halo 5

[deep valve]

I require partial reimbursement of my meal

I'm always hungry

[rocky oasis]

but yeah tangent aside itd be nice to see assasinations come back in a non paid fashion. but if they are to come back, in infinite at least, id be surprised if they didnt go the halo 5 route 😢

[deep valve]

designed after a beautiful woman

none of that modern ubisoft type design

not every female character has to look like a femboy

[rocky oasis]

quite a curvy woman lol but i get you. compared to the older models though for sure

[deep valve]

when I play video games I don't expect to look at ugly unattractive women, you can see that in real life

[rocky oasis]

in some sense i prefer the older design of 3 and such. it looked like she was in clothing

[rocky oasis]

are you ok? 😵‍💫

your making some bizzare statements haha

no offence.

[deep valve]

man I'll be ok when these big shot companies stop intentionally making women in games unattractive

[rocky oasis]

wait am i talking to coomers?

oh dear 😞

[deep valve]

there's some beautiful english women what you talkin about

[rocky oasis]

a subset of weird online gamer guys who for some reason care about designs of women and specifically want them to be hyper attractive, and complain otherwise

the kind who get annoyed at alloy having… peach fuzz… like everyone does lol

[deep valve]

I just want not ugly

[rocky oasis]

by ugly though you mean normal women. you all do haha

[deep valve]

with man hips?

[rocky oasis]

what are man hips?

[deep valve]

hips that are seen in male, that 2b model ubisoft showed looks like leon S kennedy in a dress

they're femboys not normal women

I've seen femboys more attractive

[rocky oasis]

shes in a coat friend

[deep valve]

excuses

[rocky oasis]

have you never seen a woman in a coat haha

[rocky oasis]

no its not excuses, your just weird 😖

[deep valve]

make women look normal not ugly

women like looking at attractive women too

[rocky oasis]

sorry but thats just it. you have a bizzare and sexist attitude

it depends on the game! i believe the limit is often 2 to 4

[deep valve]

it's fiction, why does it matter if the women are more attractive in a fictional game

[rocky oasis]

it doesnt. which is precisely my point. you care way too much and its very strange!

you arent alone though. a lot of people fell down that gamergate hole and i gues never came back out haha

[deep valve]

sorry but women don't look at men in video games who look like losers and say wow I love that guy

I look at abs and I'm not even gay

[rocky oasis]

are you a woman and how many women have you spoken to? your speaking to one right now lol

[deep valve]

you're more like a girl than a woman

[rocky oasis]

most people dont care, just a subset of online gamer guys

usually those whove fallen down the gamergate hole but still

[deep valve]

the only people who complains about video game women being too attractive are those toxic feminists who taint feminism and puts feminism in a bad spot light

the average woman is not gonna care that they're so attractive

[rocky oasis]

no one complains about women being too attractive. i think the issue is moreso the sexualisation of most female characters. as a woman it feels very gross and exploitative
when people complain about that theyre moreso complaining about whats called the male gaze, if youve ever heard of that

[deep valve]

if you actually feel offended by attractive people then I'm sorry for you

[rocky oasis]

and even then its a small amount of people who actually complain about it. usually people who study the industry, which isnt too common anyway

ironically a smaller subset of people complain about sexualisation vs those who complain about it being wiped out or whatever lol

[deep valve]

men have abs in most media, including video games, yet you don't hear men complaining about it being too unrealistic and exploitative

[rocky oasis]

not necessarily important. just funny i suppose

[deep valve]

don't create problems that were never there

[rocky oasis]

i dont even really know if its most really, but again your missing the issue no offence . its not about attractiveness and never was

[rocky oasis]

you do understand thats precisely what your doing by complaining about ubisoft female models right?

you brought this up… no offence

[deep valve]

people still respect tifa lockhart and lara croft despite their attractive designs, it doesn't take away from the character

[rocky oasis]

whos tifa sorry?

and again, your missing the point

[warped yew]

Maybe not the best examples

Bunch of weirdos lol

[deep valve]

I don't talk to people who says no offence every second

[rocky oasis]

yeah lara is just attractive. this guy seems deadset on thinking the issue is attractiveness in and of itself

[rocky oasis]

then please feel free to disengage 😊

[deep valve]

lara is still a strong female character that men respect

[rocky oasis]

absolutely! i think lara is awesome personally

though spiky chest is very funny.

[deep valve]

the conversation is over, go back to whatever the halo chat usually talks about

[rocky oasis]

speaking of wort ive really come to respect elites recently… a really fun and engaging opponent

its rare enemies in game feel like level threats and elites really do! i love them, at least in reach

gosh now i want to play invasion. gosh damn it!

[rocky oasis]

tfw you cant play because your friend is using your steam account 😔

[weary trout]

Ngl i want assassinations back

[rocky oasis]

sameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[celest heron]

not sure how many more ways they can think of to assassinate someone while keeping it somewhat clean since there were so many in h5 unless they just do basic ones.

[crystal iron]

Wdym keeping it clean

[tulip tusk]

how about an assassination that ends with throwing them into slipspace portal

[crystal iron]

Have one where we stab a spartan multiple times with a knife

Or we trip a spartan using a SPNKR and then pummel their head with said SPNKR

[stray root]

made it to diamond general 😵‍💫 what a slog aggghhh

[edgy forum]

Someone played Halo CE in VR, cool

[rare yacht]

Oh yeah I saw that, looks pretty cool

[celest heron]

meaning they can't do ones that are too graphic.

[celest heron]

they already have one like that.

[harsh tusk]

Thinking of playing ODST on legendary, anyone know the weaknesses of the enemy types?

[tulip tusk]

so uhh did halo studios hire bot farms to spike the play counts bc now every map has a million plays

[celest heron]

it's the same as other halos. just overcharge plasma pistol brutes, then headshot them. weaker enemies just need a headshot.

get a mongoose so you can get past areas quickly unless you want to play it all.

[harsh tusk]

Ah

[rocky oasis]

halos supposed to be clean?

thinks back to jenkins 😳

[vivid dew]

Recently replayed Reach's campaign, to me its still one of, if not the most well written story of the franchise, closely followed by Halo 2. The soundtrack is amazing, and personally i believe the darker tone and art direction fits Halo like a glove. I do agree with the statement that we don't really get to know Noble team that much, or that they didn't get too much development, but personally i don't think that matters, as its been said countless times before, its a story about the planet, meant to setup Halo CE. Multiplayer is less grounded with armor abilities, even if they can get quite annoying, and rather broken at times, they can be quite a lot of fun imo.

That's my little rant over, i'd like to know what you guys think of the campaign

I've also been reading The Fall of Reach so it's nice having both sides of the story.

[onyx latch]

"It's a story about the planet' is mostly a cope when it's very, very bad at telling the story of how the planet fell. It tells the narrow perspective of a single special forces team who is second contact on the planet.

It's a story about Noble Team, who happen to be on Reach. If it were a story about Reach, the planet, the perspective would be more heavily focused on the issues the planet itself suffers from during the attack; Not the exploits and character interactions of the team that happens to be on Reach.

You would think a battle on Reach would have more than two city levels set in the same city and call it a day. This is a planet with SMAC guns, an entire major fleet, a knock-down drag-out naval and ground battle; To reduce it to a series of what amounts to skirmishes in a backwater region of the planet reduces the impact.

Every single aspect of a story matters in how you tell it. Noble being wooden is something that actively drags the story down and thus matters.

[rocky oasis]

100%. such a good game!!

[onyx latch]

Jorge, for example, should've not been tossed out as early as he was; As the only member of Noble with any form of personal connection to Reach, he had the most to suffer from its fall.

[rocky oasis]

i wanna replay reach now… ty 🥲

[rocky oasis]

story about the planet is a pretty accurate way to describe it too. i never thought of it that way. whos your favourite of noble team @vivid dew ?

[onyx latch]

Because it's a bad way to think of it lmao

It's a cop out to dodge actual discussion of the story.

[rocky oasis]

i respect your opinion!!

im sure you respect ours too 😋

i think its cool how halo is so diverse in its playerbases way of thinking.

no one wants things to be insular i suppose!

[vivid dew]

I can see that, though i disagree, honestly. Ultimately the main thing it wants to tell us is how Reach fell, mostly through the perspective of Noble Team. Just because its a story about a setting, doesn't mean it can't be following certain characters. The main focus is still the planet

If they wanted to tell a story about Noble Team, i'd imagine they would focus on prior missions, not when everyone dies, right?

[vivid dew]

Honestly go for it, its such a fun time

[vivid dew]

Probably Noble Six, the other characters have neat personalities but i like how he interacts with the rest of the team

[vivid dew]

I sort of agree, i think he was killed a bit early, but i suppose it helps set the tone for what's to come.

The game felt shorter on my replay

[rocky oasis]

gorge was so sad… he died thinking hed just saved everyone… such a harrowing scene!

[vivid dew]

Is it really though?

[rocky oasis]

hmm fair!

[vivid dew]

Looking at it as a story about the characters, i guess in that point of view, they could've used with a little more developing, but even then, imo they managed to cram enough personality into them in such a short amount of time.

[tulip tusk]

it was fun and good but i would have liked massive battles maybe they couldnt do it at the time but

[vivid dew]

Fair point, would've been cool to fight some scarabs, and other vehicles

The fights did feel medium scale, with larger battles going on in the background and cutscenes

[rocky oasis]

yeah a lot of enhancements were made to halo 3 and it was really pushing it 😥

[vivid dew]

Larger battles would've really enhanced the game, but at least it makes up for spectacle in other areas

[celest heron]

modern halo has a T rating and I clarified in a later post that I meant too graphic or gorey.

[rocky oasis]

does it need a t rating? 😵‍💫

reach is a pretty great benchmark imo

[celest heron]

based on their last 3 games, they're probly going to stick with that.

[rocky oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/boo-gif-19787475173016375

[vivid dew]

People put too much emphasis on the rating, they should actually focus on making a good game

Or a great story rather, Infinite was good, just not great.

[onyx latch]

You... You do realize that the people who criticize Halo's rating don't make the game, right? And that 343i/HS has no control over the game's rating?

[celest heron]

well based on their games, I doubt they're going to start making assassinations where you rip the arms off your victim and then beat them over the head with the arms for example so they're going to be more limited with the creativity. that's why I mentioned the T rating.

[rocky oasis]

lol i dont think we need doom level assasinations spartans arent cruel like he is xd

assasinations would be nice though!

[warped yew]

Assassination where we bonk a spartan with a SPNKR

[keen silo]

Assassination where we give the enemy a little love tap with a gravity hammer

[onyx latch]

When I was a kid I used to write ideas for assassinations a lot because I was bored in class constantly.

[clever lance]

What is the name of the theme that plays during like every flood encounter?

[tulip tusk]

which game? maybe "devils...monsters"

[clever lance]

🗣️🔥

[vivid dew]

Why would we even need that in a halo game of all things

that'd be more suited for something like doom

[rocky oasis]

your name 😭✨

[deep valve]

can you choose to not install the multiplayer component of halo mcc?

[civic sundial]

You can choose to not have the multiplayer, gotta go into the settings and make sure you select just the campaigns

[rocky oasis]

yup! i think multiplayer includes firefight/spartan ops though, the latter being its own campaign esque thing.

[celest heron]

you're missing my point. I'm saying because they don't use those types of assassinations they're going to be more limited in variety and I'm not saying they should either.

[rocky oasis]

do you think so? halo 5 had a pretty dizzying array

theres a lot of way you can flourish a knife ✨

they could always take a snipped of inspiration from doom as well i suppose. in doom, the limb you aim at is where youll “assasinate” them

imagine tripping somone up and stomping lool! just for example

[celest heron]

well they already had a lot in h5. I think they would need a lot of creativity to make a lot more.

[rocky oasis]

just port them over! theyre just animations afterall

no need to make it complicated haha

[celest heron]

that could be one way although I'd rather have new ones or only the good ones.

[rocky oasis]

yeah there were some we dont need. werent some like sticking people with plasmas? cool but a bit odd

some were a bit silly and i dont think they need to be. but we have cat ears i suppose so.

[celest heron]

that was actually a good one cause after you got stuck they threw you by the leg

[rocky oasis]

yeah absolutely but i guess in mind im like. where did that nade come from. where was it when i needed it lol. 🧐

i wouldnt hate to see it come back tho!

[celest heron]

it was cool when you did it on top of a warzone base

and then they'd go flying off of it

[rocky oasis]

i forgot what my favourite one was but i still remember its sfx. gutwrench or something. visceral.

[civic sundial]

I remember there being a "Sparta Kick" assassination that Elites could do, did we get one similar for Spartan on Spartan assassinations?

[rocky oasis]

wasnt it after a sword stab? the disrespect 💔

[deep valve]

700 achievements, how the hell does anyone 100% halo mcc

[civic sundial]

With lots of time and effort

[vivid dew]

I doubt variety is a problem, Halo 5 had lots of assassinations. If you're creative enough, you can come up with a whole bunch of assassinations, having a T rating doesn't limit them that much.

[civic sundial]

The problem with assassinations is that they weren't fun to be on the receiving end of and they were easy to steal

Like, I'd rather just have them beat me down

[vivid dew]

Being on the receiving end of anything isn't fun, just try not to turn your back to the enemy

it's frustrating, but in my experience, it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying.

[deep valve]

huh? what's "Halo Reach Content Pack 2" on steam? it appears as a DLC when you buy the game

oh apparently it's the multiplayer

[analog salmon]

the only issue with assassinations was the inability to prevent them. i couldnt reliably back smack in reach and it seems impossible in 4

after the toggle was added in 5 i dont see any downside really

its just like someone bagging you, entirely up to them to do it or not

not really annoying i dont think

[civic sundial]

I know the idea was that you tap for a back smack, hold for an assassination, but I think the window for it to count as a tap vs holding was really short

[analog salmon]

wish there was a toggle in mcc

[civic sundial]

Agreed there

[analog salmon]

there is a workaround using steam input to change my bumper to a tap input even if its held

[deep valve]

hear me out, halo 4 might not be that bad

altho I haven't encountered the prometheans yet

[civic sundial]

It never was bad

[deep valve]

it never was awesome either

it's just meh

[civic sundial]

I disagree with the idea it wasn't awesome

I'd call flying a space fighter through a trench on a large Forerunner space craft pretty awesome

[deep valve]

I got bite the hand in 6 minutes

minor complaint but why is the default keyboard config for MCC so bad? why not use the old config from the vista ports? when I play an FPS game on pc, I expect the melee to be F not the grenade and why not bind grenade to right click and zoom to middle click?

[vivid dew]

You can turn it off in the settings.

[thorny zenith]

In halo 3 in the final mission you see the ark portal in the last cutscene that leads back to earth. On the ark and on the covenant, why isnt that portal in the air?

[weary trout]

i hope assassinations comes back in the next halo game bro

[analog salmon]

Thanks for the pointless ping but you can’t in MCC

Like I literally said

[tulip tusk]

is there any way to talk / chat to enemy team in Infinite lol?

like u cant even do stuff like ask peeps to switch teams in campaign maps if map doesnt have proper scripts for it

i dont like this feature

pls let all teams chat to eachother in next game

game doesnt have to socially feel like bots only

[analog salmon]

Neither MCC or infinite get comms right

You just need to be able to VC with everyone in customs but not matchmaking

Text chat in MCC is decent since you can just choose on the fly who you want to be able to see a message

Disabling cross-team communication for matchmaking is fine but it should be possible to enable this even if the setting would only affect customs

[atomic sapphire]

I dont think it is bad, it just feels a lot more like a call of duty game than a halo game to me

[granite cosmos]

honest question

why did they put br starts in the delta playlist surely it wont stay like this

[warped yew]

Idk

[civic sundial]

People complaining it didn't have BR starts

[muted cobalt]

I’m not used to big servers so I’m sucking at navigating it. This is why I don’t know where to post this, but I made a cover for Halo. Pretty simple, it’s just a cover, but I think it turned out nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euHFCH3tkHU

[warped yew]

Someone's always complaining lol

[granite cosmos]

for me its just map size with br starts makes it feel either super off like the br makes it basically pointless to pick up any other gun

[coarse dagger]

#1076327824924872755 :)

[muted cobalt]

Ah, thank you lol

[analog salmon]

you either need BR starts or you need to make precision weapons on power weapon pads lol

the precision pickup dominance ruined Infinite as a Halo game for me. then 10x worse in delta arena where you have a SMG rather then an AR+pistol

i geuinely dont get how people can spawn and be BR'd to death and think it's a fun match

you gotta spawn with something that can shoot back, Reach for all its issues had a pistol that could take on a DMR

i would be very open to just removing 90% of preicison weapons from maps and treating them like power weapons tho

[granite cosmos]

see thats exactly it i would like it if the br wasnt such a power weapon because at least that way i could fight out of my spawn because the br being on the power pad at least you could go get it if you wanted but now its just spawn in get beamed by the guy in the back and respawn

[analog salmon]

but you can shoot back because you spawn with a BR?

they're not on power weapon pads, they're just all over the maps

so you can get a BR... until you get respawned.

[granite cosmos]

i had a map where it was just i could spawn take out one guy and the other guy would be nearby and kill me

[analog salmon]

that's a team issue then not really a BR issue

i do understand why they did sidekick starts and dont want everyone beaming across the maps for Infinite. I just dont think it works when they toss BRs all over the map to pickup

[granite cosmos]

i was scrolling through the reddit for halo and people basically went "i love the playlist but brs because as strong as they are just make it a spawning simulator"

[analog salmon]

yeah and people were begging for BR starts when Delta Arena landed

there's not really a consensus

[granite cosmos]

and now we got it and its kinda just unfun because people now just get beamed by the guy in the back on the other side of the map

[analog salmon]

it was unfun for me when i had weak team mates and i got respawned with just an SMG and immediately beamed by players who had picked up BRs

personally i'd rather spawn with the BR even if it makes those long range encouters more common because i always have a chance off spawn

[granite cosmos]

i think part of the problem is the br itself given how strong it is

[analog salmon]

honestly the BR in infinite is just a burst of extremely precision bullets. moreso then Halo 2. its not meant to be the starting weapon in social.

[granite cosmos]

if it was sidekick/ma5k i feel likeit wouldve been fine

the br is just too good for social

[analog salmon]

the bandit is perfect balance for me

[granite cosmos]

yup

[analog salmon]

but its a halo 2 throwback playlist so you can just imagine the seething if they did that

[granite cosmos]

just slow enough to be countered by someone good enough but just fast enough to where its just ok yeah they are good

[analog salmon]

probably a hot take but i've always felt pretty much all the social pvp playlists should have starting weapons tailoured to each map

[granite cosmos]

honestly yeah that would be nice

[analog salmon]

so it fits the size and also for variety

but i do think a lot of people would whine about that

[granite cosmos]

makes me think about a halo 3 legeacy playlist but ik if the br wasnt a starting weapon people would freak

[analog salmon]

yeah pretty much, bandit starts for BTB was controversial somehow

one of infinite's strength is the BR+Commando+Bandit+Sidekick precision variety and i dont know why they dont play into that more

[granite cosmos]

honestly the commando now that it was buffed enough its actually really good

if they made it commando/ma5k start i think thatd be nice too

[analog salmon]

yeah... but the overly nostalgic-focused crowd would not have it i dont think

[granite cosmos]

100%

honestly it just feels pointless to use anything else when the br is right there now

[vivid dew]

With all due respect, you don't have the ' No Pings ' role, so if you're annoyed by it, get the role so others don't ping you. And yes, it can't be turned off in MCC but you can in Halo 5 and there might've been an option in Reach, though i'm not sure about that one.

[left snow]

Could they add a different version of the BR. Just for the Delta arena. That's a little less deadly at distance.

Call it the BR Delta-H2.

[loud pier]

does anyone want to grind the operation with me

[neat haven]

Honest Question:
Where do you Think Zeta Halo ended up?

[crystal iron]

In the next game, can elites, grunts, and maybe jackals drive UNSC vehicles?

No real reason honestly, but feel like forge would be insane with this

Also could be a way to make fightable UNSC vehicle encounters

In the campaign anyway if

I think I’m asking for this anyway because I asked to control the elite biped in the next forge

[deep valve]

I remember being genuinely excited about halo 4 when it came out (I was still a kid). the awesome and badass cutscenes made me like the game as a kid, and the gameplay didn't really look too bad either. me not knowing bungie stepped down at the time, I thought this was the future of halo

I think I got into halo CE when I was 9 or 10

halo 4 soundtrack is BANGER tho, it doesn't feel halo-like but it sounds good

[rocky oasis]

so awesome, you really captured the magic. thank you for sharing!!
out of curiosity what made you want to cover that track in particular?

[rocky oasis]

halo 4 is the best call of duty game ever made lol

[edgy forum]

I liked playing Halo 4 when I was in sixth grade during the November elections lol

[rocky oasis]

lmao

halo 4 is a guilty pleasure for me i know in all the ways its bad and acknowledge them all… but its still probably my 2nd favourite lol

i really liked halo 4 as a kid too. its main menu is still the 2nd best in the franchise and i cried opening it the first time!

i really liked it… until it broke. idk why but for some reason i eventually got an issue where my 360 fan would spin faster on halo 4, and i couldnt hear any sounds that werent made by me, music or guns?! like it just refused to play those sounds one day

bizarre.

i was a dreaded destiny kid so it wasnt a huge loss but it was quite sad…

[edgy forum]

Never had any bad memories or experiences with every Halo game post-2010

I only had bad DESTINY experiences because it was too ambitious and to be valued