halo-discussion

[glacial tartan]

be sure to take a bunch of pictures (and post some to #1076327824924872755 !) it will be a ton of fun im sure

[rugged ginkgo]

if I could post photos id send the funko i wanna get signed. im gonna alter it a bit to put cortana in it and put the original halo in it. its that one funko with a taller case with the Halo 1 box art in it

[grave ether]

That would be so cool!

[glacial tartan]

You should be able to post them in the section I tagged

[rugged ginkgo]

i recently did a Superman funko where i put a reissue of the original Superman comic in the comic case funko and had a bunch of Supermen actors sign it. so i want to do something similar with the halo one

[rugged ginkgo]

yea ill post them there when i get it signed

[glacial tartan]

In the meantime is there a particular Halo game you've been playing lately? I find myself playing less than normal lately but its MCC for me

[rugged ginkgo]

im gonna marathon the original trilogy and ODST and Reach here soon

havnt been playing Infinite as much as I used to

[glacial tartan]

I'll admit my bias since I havent played Infinite in a while, but that playthrough sounds fun

[rugged ginkgo]

im waiting until my new room at my house was finished and set up my actual desk, which is gonna be like halo themed, and just binge play all 5 of those games for an entire weekend

get some pizza. some mtn dew. and game

[glacial tartan]

I am still rocking an ikea desk that I put together like 5 years ago, think an upgrade is in the cards soon

I did at least put standing desk legs on it

the mrs has the secretlab magnus standing desk, where you can hide all of the cables, her office looks professional meanwhile mine is barely put together lmao

[rugged ginkgo]

i just ordered those Halo YouTooz monitor sitters and the Grunt plush. now I just need to order some better monitors too cause im rocking some like 5year+ old intels I "stole" from my job

[glacial tartan]

I was on 3 benq monitors that I bought from an mlg event in like....2010?

[rugged ginkgo]

HA

[glacial tartan]

up until 2023ish. the upgrade from 60 to 240 was amazing

now, needing better hardware to actually get that 240 consistently? less so

[rugged ginkgo]

nice. yea I need to look into new monitors. probs browse lenovo or just simply amazon

[analog salmon]

i recommend not going MSI

mine doesnt switch DP to HDMI automatically, and it's actually impossible to manually switch without disconnecting the DP

you can otherwise only manually switch when the DP device is on

also the cable from the monitor to the power brick is so short it doesnt reach the ground if you use a monitor arm lol

[glacial tartan]

Samsung Ultrawide checking in, pricey but worth it

[celest heron]

still playing on 24in tv from like ten years ago. I think I'll upgrade before the next halo comes out though.

[dusky lichen]

Wasted a XP boost like night because of AFKers. 94 kills in grifball still lost. I eventually got the wins but my boost expired.

So I got my time and my xp boost wasted by losers not playing the game farming spartan points

They need a report feature ASAP for AFKers where the system can tell if they have done it repeatedly

[glacial tartan]

I dont think its a priority atm, but I do agree

[dusky lichen]

It’s a big issue because of how common it is. Nearly all my matches have an AFKer

[glacial tartan]

Sure but you'd have to get the issue acknowledged first. And of course our individual experiences are just anecdotes, hopefully they're monitoring the data appropriately but who knows

[dusky lichen]

ya they probably don’t care

Too busy making skins for their store

So people can go afk to get points for them

[glacial tartan]

Its all a matter of priorities, I disagree that they dont care

[radiant sundial]

the people making skins aren't even remotely the same people who are working on the report system.... (probably)

[glacial tartan]

But they are going to spend their resources on what they consider to be the most important problems

And right now my priorities and theirs arent aligned 😄

[radiant sundial]

also I highly doubt that people are AFK grinding a game that kicks you for being afk for like 5 minutes

[dusky lichen]

You’re right the people in charge don’t care

[glacial tartan]

Its arguably a much bigger problem in MCC which has no automatic detection, and even if you manually report them its not bannable as far as I know

[radiant sundial]

thats not what i said 🤦‍♂️

[dusky lichen]

I corrected you. Because I didn’t say it was the skin designers either.

[dusky lichen]

Macros. Many ways around this but u probably a console player who doesn’t know idk

[glacial tartan]

Saying they dont care is so derivative 😄 They obviously care, but they cant do everything

Hey at least with Infinite you're playing a game thats getting some updates right

[radiant sundial]

there was nothing to correct, you said they don't care (bc) they're too busy making skins for their store, which implied that the graphic designers were the ones handling it

[dusky lichen]

I assume people have been doing this since u cud get spartan points for just completed matches so it probably been a long time

[wooden briar]

You have absolutely no idea. Accusing without any knowledge is just you being frustrated and lashing out.

[dusky lichen]

You assumed wrong.

[glacial tartan]

Im over here trying to get a bug fixed for over 3 months that completely prevents people from playing the game, so we're all struggling

[radiant sundial]

ngl you're just assuming the worst in a case that really doesn't exist all that much

[radiant sundial]

word your messages better then.

[dusky lichen]

Sadly the bar is extremely low these days for Halo.

[dusky lichen]

That’s on you not me lmao that’s your own reading comprehension. My auto correct didn’t work.

[radiant sundial]

buddy what 🤣 you just making up phrases now

[wooden briar]

Is that not what everyone calls their laptop or Kindle? Reading Computer?

--written on my Typing Computer

[dusky lichen]

Comprehension it was auto correct lmao

[keen silo]

Ohh, I wasn’t using my Reading Comprehension computer. No wonder I was also a bit confused

[dusky lichen]

Huh? You laughing at autocorrect btw

[radiant sundial]

ohhhh, thats what I need? let me go switch computers then

[keen lark]

I’m enjoying the halo 3 playlist on infinite at the moment. Feels a lot better without the sprint

A lot less chaotic and can think more about your next move without sprint

[civic sundial]

Sprinting doesn't take away your ability to think about your next move

[radiant sundial]

it also isn't really that chaotic

ok well sometimes it is, but you learn to manage the chaos

ngl a lot of the more chaotic moments I see come from just normal cqc encounters

[keen lark]

I didn’t say it did take away your ability to think. Just you obviously have more room to think as the pacing is slower

Which is a preference is it not?

[radiant sundial]

no one is talking about preferences?

[keen lark]

In context to what I said it was pretty obvious

[radiant sundial]

worded that wrong, mb

[wooden briar]

Slow the pace down even more: make Halo turn-based.

[radiant sundial]

what I mean is this sounded like you were defending yourself bc someone was going after one of your preferences, which isn't happening

[radiant sundial]

even better idea, sell Halo to MiHoyo and make it a turn based gacha game (for context, MiHoyo is the company that made genshin impact, honkai star rail, ZZZ, and honkai impact 3rd)

[wooden briar]

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-laptop-duh-gif-8033838636860661307

[keen lark]

I was just saying I enjoyed the pacing of the halo 3 playlist is all. Just feels like a nicer pacing to me

[civic sundial]

Ok but would Master Chief be a 4* or 5* character?

[radiant sundial]

5* easily

[civic sundial]

Fair

[wooden briar]

Haha it's all good. We're just having fun being cheeky with it.

[civic sundial]

Who would be the starting character then?

[radiant sundial]

hmmm

idk tbh, I want to say chief would be your starting 5* but idk

most of the IV's who aren't main characters would be 4*'s

ngl I kinda hate how a turn based style game similar to honkai star rail is a viable idea

I'd say genshin would be better but that's just halo infinite without the gacha

[granite cosmos]

i love it and hate it because of SBMM

it feels like ill get one good teamate and then the other 2 dont have poseable thumbs

(also being able to disable br starts is a fantastic thing)

[keen lark]

My matches have kind of been all over the place in terms of SBMM. Last match I got a killing frenzy and did quite well but quite rare for me lol

[granite cosmos]

i had 2 games where it was just jesus what is this SBMM

[keen silo]

A Final Fantasy Tactics style Halo game would also be very enjoyable. UNSC vs Innies, maybe some Covenant vs Banished stuff, Unggoy Rebellion, etc

[keen lark]

I quite enjoyed gears tactics. So something like that would be cool

[celest heron]

it is bannable, but whether they enforce it or not is another story.

[granite cosmos]

i will say having br start be an option for the new playlist is so refreshing

because br start gets old FAST

(mainly because its like why pick up anything when the BR is so good)

[cursive pewter]

Hellow there, everyone!

[glacial tartan]

I have been reporting them for years - some in particular have 0 kills and even 100K+ deaths - and never seen anyone actioned for AFKing. If it happens I’d love to be wrong

If even 1 person was ever banned bc of it I’ll take that to be what you said, completely.

[smoky bronze]

there are people who have multiple xboxs and controllers set up just to afk and spin in circles btw

[smoky bronze]

lol first game on and i get a teammate walking into a wall with bot as his service tag

1 kill to 4500 deaths

[celest heron]

I don't run into the ones that I've reported, so I don't know if they have or not, but it would be considered unsportsmanlike conduct.

[dusty olive]

When does the Halo infinite shop refresh?

The weekly one

[sturdy kernel]

Every Tuesday

[hallow dagger]

Man this game sucks sometimes. Spent 20 minutes in firefight and it didn't register my daily challenges

[rigid herald]

Aye encountered one today. Guy had two accounts and would use one at a time during the match. I could tell as one would hide in the corner and as soon as they moved, the other player stopped moving and was completely still and vice versa. They were also wearing the exact same armour, colour and tag lol. I recorded it, reported it and then blocked them.

Best course of action is probs blocking them so you don't personally encounter them.

Probs gonna see a few in these next couple of weeks as people want to complete this pass

[magic loom]

A better fix is if firefight gave you points based on what you DID in the match

I joined and got XP as it just ended in a firefight match

Wot ?!

[rigid herald]

Eh this was fiesta koth. The system isn't bad and is a chill way of getting career xp. Xp for staying in the hill is good yet people seem to not understand that.

I still hate how there isn't a way to remove said players from the match unless they run you over 4 times in a row.

[magic loom]

damn

[rigid herald]

I've been grinding hard and I've only played fiesta for the last 5 weeks or so. I'm going mad not from the game mode but from the absolute incompetence of some players

[long flicker]

All Halo developers should be required to watch the old Halo developer documentaries, playthroughs, and commentaries. If you want to save Halo—and, in turn, Xbox—you need to understand what made the original games so exceptional.

Become the goose! 🪿

While it may never happen, due to a lack of interest from those with power, consider simplifying the corporate structure. To create a thriving community of players, focus first on building a community of developers or a way to put it would be "genuine life long friends"

[lean panther]

dissolve halo studios and sell the ip to a fan for $1

[long flicker]

I'll take it or hell put me on the fan council.

[tame moth]

-# Not these people

[long flicker]

I have faith in the devs rn

But this really the last shot

Cracked Shields with one sniper bullet left

[celest heron]

people have said that after every game and they're still here.

[lean panther]

https://tenor.com/view/microsoft-jimmy-neutron-office-visual-studio-windows-gif-24182560

[sly vigil]

When trying to login, after entering my details, the login screen turns into a black square and stays there until I press escape, it then reloads the login window. Any idea how to fix this?

[celest heron]

maybe they have. your interpretation of those old vids doesn't mean they're going to see it the same way. also, I don't think xbox needs halo to save it.

[lean panther]

bro putting all his chips on crackdown 4

[granite cosmos]

tbf halo has been in a really bad spot recently

like yeah infinte is better then it was at launch

halo infinte imo still suffers from the

why pick up anything when the BR exists issue

[celest heron]

it's suffered from multiple issues since launch, but the reality is it's not 2007 anymore and I think even a perfect halo wouldn't be the next big thing. the best we can hope for is that it still sells, it's a decent game and we can maintain a population.

[granite cosmos]

like i get the br its the cool gun but its the issue with guns like that is no matter how much you buff things like the commando its just not worth using when the battle rifle just does the job 50x better

also sidenote the halo 3 playlist proves halo just has better pacing without sprint

[celest heron]

it's not the starting weapon in a lot of playlists so there is a little buffer and I think the bandit is the counter to it although I could be wrong.

[crystal iron]

i wish we got a crackdown 4

[granite cosmos]

its the starting weapon for a GOOD CHUNK of playlists its basically why delta halo died the last time when they removed the MA5K because the br felt so oppressive in that mode

[celest heron]

it is? I thought the bandit was the main weapon now.

[crystal iron]

in delta there's currently a copypaste of playlists, one with avenger starts, the other with br starts

for your usual non-delta playlists idk bandit probably is the starter

[noble urchin]

How many games of firefight would it take to get max level in Infinite?

[granite cosmos]

thats ranked

most of the time its br starts for everything else

[crystal iron]

i wish we got an official delta halo like playlist but for pve, like a delta firefight, and maybe delta "raids" that uses popular, big, challenging custom campaign maps
it's personally my favorite thing to do in infinite, just create a public max player custom lobby, this gamemode, community campaign maps https://www.halowaypoint.com/halo-infinite/ugc/modes/51d1b478-a7d9-4564-8143-43c04405b09c

[granite cosmos]

its why i hope the BR start doesnt win

because MA5k is just so much more balanced

[crystal iron]

i think itd be cool if they made more playlists, same thing, but with other different starts
bandit starts
commando starts

[granite cosmos]

if they do that theyd have to remove the br from the map because people would go for that the SECOND they see it

[crystal iron]

id be very partial to the commando starts xd

[crystal iron]

it kinda does though
modern xbox doesnt really have any killer apps
theyve more or less just become yet another platform for other peoples games even though steam exists and playstation won 8th gen, the most important gen for attaching to a certain company's ecosystem and building digital game libraries
the main draw of modern xbox is it's like netflix but for vidya games

im not arguing that returning to exclusivity is The Way, but microsoft/xbox should be putting greater focus on their more iconic IPs

[granite cosmos]

^

exclusives are bad but they should put more focus on their ips

look at how halo wasnt even REFRENCED at the xbox showcase
"25 years of xbox" name dropped everything but halo and the went to show CALL OF DUTY

[crystal iron]

real

[celest heron]

that'd be great, but I don't think it'd be a massive console seller anymore.

[crystal iron]

& i mean to their credit, yes there's another GoW coming, yes there's another forza coming, yes there's another fable coming, yes there's a new ninja gaiden
but where halo, where crackdown, could you imagine the hype for a new mechassault? remakes for stuff like kung fu chaos? a new iron brigade? teaming up with ubisoft for a new splinter cell? Vexx 2? etc etc

[celest heron]

I'm sure they'll hype halo up when they're ready to show stuff.

[tulip tusk]

i think its good for them to wait with halo, no rush every1 knows theyre working

no1 knows

[cunning oyster]

Nobody is talking about the fact the MCC’s matchmaker has totally gone haywire and now it’s not fun to play now. It’s got 1 year left at this stage.

[celest heron]

wdym by haywire

[solid canopy]

Solace might be my go-to example of 343i's forerunner architecture at it's best

Probably one of my favorite Halo 4 maps, at least visually

[short flower]

Ah yes let’s make Grifball unplayable

sorry for sucking so bad at the game?

[solid canopy]

....I'm sorry? I wasn't talking about Griftball?

[marble halo]

I don’t think the infinite sandbox is good with ma5k starts

Also holy smokes onyx level squad battle is a level of try hard I didn’t think possible

[short flower]

not you Otto, you’re good, I was already annoyed with it

[solid canopy]

Oh sorry then mb

[solid canopy]

I jumped back into playing MCC on and off again, ig I haven't played enough to notice anything weird beyond a few slight moments of buffering and my game crashing once

But I chalked that up to being my computer

[onyx latch]

SMG Starts 2; Ratta-tat-tat Boogaloo

[cunning oyster]

Huh so in reach zooming in reduces bloom with the DMR and magnum. How did I not know this?

[analog salmon]

i think its the same in all the games (only for spread not bloom)

something unique to reach tho is crouching reduces bloom

not really useful in pvp but worth knowing for campaign

[heavy edge]

It is morally right to quit a game when matching a 12 stack BTB team

Prove me wrong

[celest heron]

if you didn't give the game a chance, then no.

[heavy edge]

I don't care about losing but I won't be farmed by 12 stacks

[tulip tusk]

its been years since i played btb i remember stacked teams being rough in halo 5 warzone tho!

[heavy edge]

I get that the population being low makes it so you match 12 stacks more often but it's so annoying to play versus a coordinated team when you are with a bunch of randoms

[robust knoll]

I hope we can get new poses with the new weapons on infinite. I would love a pose with the mutilator

[bleak nymph]

Alright I may be mad for suggesting this. But what if they put a Spartan Point price on everything new in the premium shop going forward. So it we could choose to spend either currency, and price it so 2000 cR is the equivalent of 40,000 SP.

That way, people who really grind the game can treat themselves to a free shop bundle around once an operation. Instead of begging for scraps in the exchange hand-me-down service.

[shadow turret]

I think they should just add an Exchange rate for SP to credits at that point
And I honestly think it should be 10k SP for 100 credits, bc ik ppl complain about it, but also it's a f2p game so they do have to still make money somehow

[tame moth]

And people do love grinding it seems

[deep obsidian]

hey guys, how much spartan points does the current operation give you?

[shadow turret]

15k I believe
Or somewhere around that

[tame moth]

Ye

[ashen rampart]

Don't they get a certain amount of money per player on the game though?

I always thought that was the primary way f2p games got revenue, because the average player isn't spending money tbh

[waxen perch]

check

[radiant sundial]

1. You get banned for leaving matches.
2. You're being a coward and leaving your team to get their butts kicked while one (or more) man down.
3. You look like are a jerk for doing it.

Need more proof?

One more- most 12 stacks really arent that coordinated in btb

They're no more coordinated than the 2 or 3 guys with mics who somehow pulled off the flag pull with a warthog by straight luck

[cunning oyster]

Hmm I seem to have unlocked the ability to use muzzle flash as a visual instrument to better pace my shots.

[winter sphinx]

im probably gonna buy an operation pass cause i still need 20k SP for the hayabusa helmet and i dont think ill get enough by the end of july 8th
got any recommendations for which operation pass i should get

[civic sundial]

Which one has armour you like the most?

[winter sphinx]

im split, great journey and tenrai iv have some cool armor pieces but i dont know if i would use them

maybe ill just go with tenrai so i can have more yoroi customization, i dont think id actually use the armor from great journey

[dusky nova]

The premium items from great journey are nice, the classic sniper model and weapon coating.

I can vaguely remember one of the other passes also has the classic AR model and a weapon coating too if weapon customisation is your thing.
Generally, I don't care for customizing them much, but I do like the classic-inspired models.

[crystal iron]

i hope we get an ma5b avenger weapon model

[pulsar cipher]

Does MCC on Xbox support 4 player split screen for multiplayer LAN play?

[civic sundial]

Not gonna happen when the MA5 Evolved is in the game for the MA40

[crystal iron]

still find it very frustrating we can't apply evolved ma5 to avenger

the #1 reason i wanted avenger customization

silly it's called evolved ma5 when it's the halo 3 ar. they could make a more ce styled one

[maiden hearth]

I notice not just Halo, but the Arena Shooter genre & games like it as a whole, it's near if not impossible to find east coast, usa players that play, always west coast, usa or europe. I can't play with either of those without massive ping (100-120+) which with my current internet is impossible, anybody from east coast here that would be interested in playing anything sometime message me plz, I need all the friends I can get, I'm tired of the one off times when I finally do get to play with east coast, usa players and getting completely stomped cuz I have no way to practice.

[civic sundial]

Not really. It's very clearly styled after the Halo Wars Assault Rifle (Which is the MA5B, not Halo 3's MA5C) and the MA5K is a separate weapon from the MA40 in game. You can't equip weapons models on weapons which they aren't made for

[crystal iron]

a relevant excuse if ma5k was not originally an ma40 skin they repurposed into its own weapon to begin with

we have a br skin that looks like a dmr https://imgur.com/rkEpnRD
i dont see why we couldnt have evolved ma5 applicable to both guns

[civic sundial]

That looks like a BR, not a DMR

Like, that BR model is based on old Halo 3 concept art

[crystal iron]

reach iirc

& i mean you say that but then most of the stuff in red are unique to dmr

most notably the front sight post + all the bells and whistles in front

its small changes but significant to the difference in silhouette for the 2 weapons

[civic sundial]

It was concept art for Halo 3, featured in the artbook for that game. The design did inspire the DMR but it's still clearly not a DMR as it has the same basic shapes of the Battle Rifle

Also like, the triangle thingys highlighted in the image you shared are literally a design detail on the BR since Halo 2

[glacial tartan]

Is this bait

[maiden hearth]

No it's a genuine thing, every niche game that seems to be the protocol

west coast and eu are decently popular and it gets harder and harder to find players in east coast

the more niche it is

[glacial tartan]

It’s interesting because MCC is basically dominated by east coast players

[maiden hearth]

That is the one game I haven't touched in so long, might have to check it out soon again

[maiden hearth]

Since online gaming is off the table for most part until I get better internet or only available for games that let me host my own servers without having to port forward, I might get into the idea of mapping, I'm a very creative and artistic person, but suck at arena shooters, can I still be a good mapper in your guy's opinion or is that off the cards for me, be honest?

[glacial tartan]

Skill at the game doesnt directly translate into being good at map creation. Go for it 🙂 If you do it for a while and dont like it, you can say you tried and move on

[maiden hearth]

Awesome, I just wanna contribute to the genre in some way, before they all compltely die haha

[cunning oyster]

Is Halo Infinite dead. All the game modes are either saying too long to find a match or in the 3 minutes.

[radiant sundial]

No

Try setting your search region to expanded and changing your selected modes

Selecting modes that have very few peooke playing will raise the estimated search time, which might I add, is an estimate

Also its fathers day in the USA so a lot of people aren't on today

[dusky nova]

It's not exactly bustling with people, but I find queue times vary greatly depending on time of day.

It seems like there's a big majority of the player base coming from America, so for the rest of the world finding matches can be difficult unless you queue at peak hours for Americans. For me that means playing close to midnight to find matches.

[dusky nova]

I'm in the UK and it's father's day for us as well. Not just America.

[civic sundial]

Yeah, it's only Mother's day which is on different days depending on the country

[celest heron]

depends where you live

[cunning oyster]

Went 33 kills for the first time in a halo infinte match. My trick was I shot targets only closest to my crosshair.

TLDR: Shot enemies that required minimalistic movement of my right stick and it got me 33 kills.

[tulip tusk]

uhhhh

🤣

[pure vault]

Halo Infinite? More like "Halo Infinite Loading Screens."

[brave carbon]

How does infinite determine spawn points? Really interested in actually knowing.

Especially in hill and oddball gametypes

[tame moth]

Line of sight and nearby danger, im pretty sure

[analog salmon]

spawning in infinite is a mystery

[pure vault]

Basically if the spawn is in an enemy's line of site or near any danger, the game will try to avoid spawning you there. On top of that, if the enemies push too far onto your side of the map, the spawns swap and each team spawns on the other team's side(unless the gamemode features objectives like CTF).

[quartz hearth]

Guys in halo infinite are some things unlockable from playing master chief collection or did i just install and have a bunch of free stuff

[tame moth]

Have a bunch of free stuff

[lusty wraith]

You get an emblem for beating the MCC games on legendary iirc

I think that’s it

[glacial tartan]

Bias up front since I managed to max out on MCC, but it always did strike me as weird that theres nothing like what Halo 5 has where you'd get a coating or something

[maiden hearth]

As someone who just started a youtube channel recently for arena shooters, I'm thinking of making videos at some point where I interview notable key members of arena shooter gaming communities, whether that be someone that was in the pro scene, just really good/well known players, community leads, mappers that kind of thing, Any ideas for this/these games as far as players go if any exist? Maybe like ex or current pros, etc.?

[wooden briar]

That sounds like a fun idea! One thing: this discussion would have to live in #1076327824924872755 as a thread so that its discussion doesn't become soft self-promo here in general. Wishing you luck on this project

[brave carbon]

Thanks Wendy's. Do you know if it would prioritize spawning enemies near each other over your teammates near you in oddball if you have the ball? Assuming you with ball and one enemy are last alive and near each other fighting.

Trying to understand these spawns better so can adjust strat accordingly. I seem to get rekt a lot by spawns so hoping understanding them better will help

[brave carbon]

Does this mean enemies can spawn behind you since they arent in your line of sight?

[tame moth]

Hmmm

[cunning oyster]

Remember homies stick with your teammates. That’s how you go positive in Halo.

[tame moth]

Yup, crowd sweeping

[brave carbon]

Yeah i struggle with that for sure, wont lie. But got tired of people giving away my sneak and dying to nades, haha. I hate giving opps easy multikills

But do think staying in strategic places where you can see your teammates but are not right next to them is key. Somewhere you can put in a shot or two to help, but not be naded with them.

[forest magnet]

i’ve been playing for a month i’m plat 4 do you think i can get onyx by the end of the year?

[swift prairie]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-reach-gif-22512727

Sword Base, one of my all time favorite levels. This theme is: ⚔️🔥🔥🔥

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0-TgUJ09AU8&si=5zHQ_7JWL1IbRbsb

[onyx latch]

Usually not within LOS of you from their LOS, but behind you, yes.

[lost trellis]

You know what, I admit it. It's been over 20 years and I'm still not over Foehammer's death. Kid me was honestly excited to leave with her but her dying has effected me more then it should've. I don't know why.

[hallow dagger]

Are servers down for infinite?

[civic sundial]

Servers are fine, I just finished a Firefight match

[hallow dagger]

Hmm. Won't let me connect to multiplayer

Well restarting the game seemed to work. Weird

[cunning oyster]

Hmm, I think I just did a big brain move. I played as an infantry support ghost and stuck with my teamates the entire match and didn’t die once.

22 kills. Not bad.

[tulip tusk]

wow crazy

[pure vault]

With Oddball, there is still the points of goals, so I don't think that teams would switch sides. If that were the case, Grifball would be very confusing.

[pure vault]

If they are near the spawn, unlikely. Even if they are looking away, they'd be a potential danger. On top of that, it shows your marker on their radar for a split second when you spawn in.

[celest heron]

Yes

[craggy wadi]

Here's a spark of mayhem. Sword cancel with swords only. And go on a sticky fest with plasma grenades thinking this still is a thing

Melee cancel same thing

[brave carbon]

I could swear i have seen opponents spawn right in my oine of sight. And vice versa. Now i am intrigued...

Same with right behind me

But whatever, is what it is. I will keep playing and yelling at the game, lol

[craggy wadi]

Breath in slow and huge slow and huge exhale

[crystal iron]

how much (total, lifetime) xp do you need for max rank in infinite

[craggy wadi]

4 hours straight at bursts with in a day you will get there in no time

[shadow turret]

The total XP needed to get from Recruit to Hero is 9,319,350

[craggy wadi]

the hours per gain?

should hit harder at onyx

really miss how it was if you remember red vs blue? not just lore but literal matchmaking

really like how it is now

extremely less people flying through the air and shooting faster than everyone else

[shadow turret]

Dunno really
I'd say, at least with how I play, Bronze-Plat/Diamond could prolly be done in about a month
Diamond-Onyx is maybe about the same
And Onyx-Hero is maybe about a month and a half

Depends on how much you grind tho

[craggy wadi]

don't know what your schedule is like - work family what not
it can be done less than that

[shadow turret]

I usually play daily, but not much (mostly bc my laptop is terrible so I get annoyed fast)

You can hit Hero in under 1k matches tho at the very least

[craggy wadi]

assuming finding match is 5 min

[shadow turret]

I find one in under 30 seconds usually

[craggy wadi]

take max

plus time of game

worst case scenario

once you find that out assuming 1k

that is the flaw

[shadow turret]

Classic FF gives 10+k for about 30 mins or so

[crystal iron]

classic eventually reaches a hard xp cap after a while right? like an hour in or so?

[shadow turret]

For BP XP, yes
Career Rank is infinite

[crystal iron]

i wish i could grind thru custom campaign maps in custom games but blah the penalty for that is massive

[shadow turret]

I got 50k one game from classic, which was just over an hour with the Bandanna skull on iirc

[crystal iron]

would you say classic is the best career rank grind?

i'd imagine pvp might be more efficient, maybe it's the most efficient pve?

[shadow turret]

Imo yes
It's the most consistent at least, especially if you have 2 or 3 ppl to cut down on randos leaving

[crystal iron]

what would you say is the most efficient PvE bp grind?

classic again?

[shadow turret]

Normal Gruntpoc Fiesta (FF KoTH) and stay in the hill
It's like 450 XP per match with no boosts, and the matches are usually about 10-12 mins

Since hill captures give you BP XP

[crystal iron]

why gruntpoc, more kills?

[shadow turret]

Just easier tbh

And Fiesta gives infinite ammo

[crystal iron]

are the higher difficulties worth it?

provided i have good execution on my part

[shadow turret]

No
They don't give any Career Rank boost like they used to, since it broke when they merged the FF playlists, and they might give a bit more BP XP but it's not really worth it imo

[crystal iron]

roger

[shadow turret]

Yea

So, classic, especially with a few in your fireteam is best for Career Rank
And Normal Gruntpoc Fiesta is best for just fast BP grinding

Again, just imo, but I have also played like 700 hours of FF lol

Technically Classic does give a decent bit of BP XP too, and grinding in the background does go pretty fast if you're just grinding for Hero or sumn mainly
But Gruntpoc is faster if you just want BP XP

[crystal iron]

thank you for the advice o7

[shadow turret]

Np

[crystal iron]

https://i.imgur.com/8gMuug6.png
in this scenario (it ran out just as i was starting a game)
do i still get 2xp

[crystal iron]

answer is yes

[crystal iron]

lmao https://i.imgur.com/HtnfDYP.png

[timber raven]

sick tag

[crystal iron]

whats the closest thing to classic coating yall have found for pistol

platinum marigold gets super close aside from the yellow imo

[forest magnet]

why can’t i find a ranked game?

[signal ivy]

did you try looking under the bed?

[rigid herald]

The Ghost of Noble 6 is shielding you from the horror that is ranked.

[civic sundial]

If it can't be found there, it could be in the bathroom cupboard

[frosty condor]

Only had classic grifball game type selected and I loaded into a 3rd person match

[dusty olive]

Is it better to play solo in BTB than with a squad?

Because of the skill based matchmaking?

[glacial tartan]

SBMM is an average. With that many players its much more lenient. You'll likely win more consistently with a team in general

[celest heron]

I'd say it's always better with some kind of team.

[sudden plank]

guys who would win in a fight. Master chief or noble 6?

[solemn portal]

Master Chief, easily.

[versed holly]

Do we know if HS is going to showcase anything anytime soon?

[solemn portal]

Nope.

[cunning oyster]

Huh, it seems the Halo MCC is more active with platform based restrictions on.

[tulip tusk]

no1 knows. mayb october

[lyric brook]

the Savior Protocol chest piece looks so dope I would purchase if it were available

[versed holly]

Is it true that if you buy a battle pass, they’ll have enough credits inside them to buy another battle pass?

[tulip tusk]

i think that used to be the case with a couple of the first passes not all

[crystal iron]

is it possible in forge to have different spawns based on game round?
for example i think itd be an interesting pvp experience if there was a multi round pvp, taking place on a halo campaign map, but every round is a different "checkpoint" of the map, from beginning to end, where the end of the final round is also the end of the campaign mission

oh you know what, hot potato proves that this is possible

[tame moth]

It is

[shadow turret]

From Season 2-5, yes

[versed holly]

So I should buy those then huh

[shadow turret]

Yea

[crystal iron]

if you want the gift that keeps on giving yeah go seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, then 1

not in that specific order, aside from save 1 for last because it has no cR

5 and maybe 4 are fast turnarounds because they are 50 tier instead of 100

[shadow turret]

S4 is 100 tier

[bleak nymph]

Is K/D spawn farming bannable? Just ran into a group in Grifball who tied the game with no points, and spend the entire match standing behind the spawn points spamming for free kills.

[tulip tusk]

I wonder if they'd be interested in adding a 1 sec or so deathless trait to the mode to deter spawn kills. Idk i don't play it so may be bad

[granite cosmos]

it basically is just like husky raid

its so much fun! (its not)

[crystal iron]

massive respect to the people in husky raid who just force cap the third flag instead of staying to spawncamp

[granite cosmos]

i had a game that was basically this but my team had me and 3 timmy no thumbs and was literally just LETTING THEM BACK CAP US

and when i told my team "hey dont do that" apprently im the bad guy

[crystal iron]

this honestly reflects my experience with grifball back in 3 and reach

[versed holly]

Infinite severs down?

[clever totem]

ya also see that the servers are down

[versed holly]

Thought it was just me

[lean panther]

Thank god

[civic sundial]

Servers were fine for me

[granite cosmos]

honestly it gets super annoying when i get games like because its like "SURELY someone has a brain"

[grave ether]

I wouldn't keep your hopes up lol

[cunning oyster]

Anyone else use the clicks the trigger makes on the controller to pace shots?

[candid rivet]

Thanks for the grifball replug 🔌 @pliant palm ❤️

[crystal iron]

it frankly tilts me a lot that g-hammer can push around teammates but repulsor and mutilator cannot. where is the consistency

[radiant sundial]

nope, but my controller's triggers don't click, it's not actually a terrible idea though (I think)

[glass goblet]

elevation is by far the worst map in halo history

[crystal iron]

for me personally its that red banished husky raid map

diminished

the vibes are immaculate but the gameplay is awful. i just treat it like a tdm because no way in hell you're taking flag ever

[tame moth]

https://tenor.com/view/krill-issue-skill-issue-krill-issue-gif-25572478

[mint trout]

I only got halo because of mass effect

[glass goblet]

i mean husky maps are pretty 50 50 for me all across the board but elevation is just over all terrible. in my opinion. combine bad map with worse matchmaking im better off calling it quits for the day lol

[craggy wadi]

guardian - team camp

[glass goblet]

??

[craggy wadi]

that is out of all titles that is halo

[glass goblet]

my brother in christ. elaborate please.

[craggy wadi]

got wrecked on the map guardian

[glass goblet]

okay but guardians map design ist terrible like elevation

i think it just has the issues of modern fps and old map design

[craggy wadi]

never liked it

[glass goblet]

i dont mind it but there are for sure better ones. idk what its called but the map in h3 that had the flood effects over time on it and the lower cave system was a terrible map that should not have been remade for infinites gameplay

i love halo but that map with infinites horrible matchmaking and genral gameplay is a real mood killer

[craggy wadi]

honestly the remade maps are bigger more of an obstacle

[glass goblet]

well yeah cause they arent made for the modern systems that infinite has. the pit wasnt made for sprint or clamber or all the armor abilites which kills how the map used to and is supposed to feel

but modern maps cant recreate how good the old ones were at the same time

[craggy wadi]

exactly

modern maps can not replace

set in stone originals

[glass goblet]

there might be the dime a dozen new maps that are genuienly good but more often than not new maps are terrible

[craggy wadi]

hence why I think they should keep things classic

[glass goblet]

delta arena just proves that point further too lol

[solid canopy]

3½-ish years later, I'm still very mixed on Halo Infinite's art style. While I think the Forerunners look amazing, I am very mixed on the UNSC and Banished. The Banished feel a little too "clean", lacking a lot of that beaten up, gritty, salveged look. While the UNSC was largely solid, maybe felt a little too "flat" in their visual language. I think a lack of variety is a critque I'd apply to all 3 main factions of the game. How much of that stems from an open world game/the singular environment of the campiagn, I don't know

[crystal iron]

unfinished game tbh

answers the problems of its single environment, its ubisoft open world structure, and lacking variety and detail in factions

[stone marten]

anyone try the H3 ua/aam torso attachment with the mark vi helmet curious to see how it would look

[rigid herald]

Makes your spartan look like an overweight Spartan II.

[bright finch]

Infinite to me was a very good game in comparison to the abominations of 3 and 4

[frosty condor]

@signal ivy how do we handle this kind of disrepectful take? Do we gulp join forces and overcome this heresy?

[civic sundial]

I genuinely don't understand calling Halo 3 and 4 abominations, like, I vastly prefer Halo 4, but I'd hardly say Halo 3 is an abomination. I just don't think it's got a good story (Especially considering it's wrapping up Halo 2's story) and the weapon balance is not great

[waxen perch]

https://discord.com/channels/471722331820130324/1385267063718940774

[signal ivy]

https://tenor.com/bXbiz.gif

[crystal iron]

Tf you mean? Halo 3 is PEAK halo, meanwhile 4 is alright, INFINITE being an open world just isn't it. 5 was ok-ish.

I'm sure the Majority of halo players would have CE, 2, 3 in the top 3 best Halo games

People have some conflicts about Reach and ODST, but all Bungie games are absolutely amazing

I know most people wouldn't agree with my ranking, but oh well: REACH, 3, ODST, CE, 2, 4, 5, Infinite

Saying that 3 is a trash game is basically saying that your day to day civilian could take out an SII, but it's just not true

Then again, your probably a new Halo player who's recently played through most, if not all the games and just prefer the "advanced movement" that Infinite has to offer. If you want advanced movement, go play CoD. Halo is better when it's without all that bs. Halo 4 was the testing grounds for that kinda, then 5 expanded on it

[signal ivy]

3 is def bottom tier for me

bottom 3 are 3, ODST, Reach

[bright finch]

You shouldn’t make so many assumptions when it comes to an opinion. If you want me to clarify why I have such an opinion, the correct way to find out what they are is to ask questions. Looking at what you are doing right now is just you enjoying to see yourself type down your opinion because my taste differates from yours. Also the ‘go play CoD’ is such a laughable thing to say to someone.

You have a very good day and I hope that some day you will find redemption in whatever is bothering you.

[signal ivy]

Halo 4 was the testing grounds for that kinda, then 5 expanded on it

you mean reach was

[bright finch]

You base that on single player right?

[signal ivy]

4 expanded off reach

[crystal iron]

Who would base it off of single player?

[signal ivy]

I do

[civic sundial]

Reach was Bungie's testing ground for Destiny, and everyone should have been able to pick up on that

[crystal iron]

Nah, I just find it weird that people don't like the Bungie Halo games

[bright finch]

I was so hyped for 3 and yet so dissapointed when I started to play that game. I disliked all the new things, the fact that you are almost more inside vehicles than actually playing an FPS. The addition of those addons/shields etc. That you could pop, not to mention the story telling which bothered me with Cortana flashing up every now and then. A total off game for me.

[signal ivy]

3's story was just so mid, the writing was just not that good

they destroyed truths character and miranda just made stupid decisions

arbiter was reduced to a one-liner spitting sidekick

[bright finch]

Damn, I just right now imagined Jason Statham voicing the arbiter….thanks for that 😂 😂

[wooden briar]

Just because others are different from you doesn't make their thinking "weird".

[bright finch]

I want to respond to that but I don’t want to be banned 🤣

[crystal iron]

I'm aware, I'm js saying.

[bright finch]

Well, to be fair, you are not aware because otherwise you wouldn’t have made such statements.

[crystal iron]

Eh

[bright finch]

Think before you speak goes up in the online world too. Think before you send. Read what you wrote over, there is no time limit, give it a rest, send it 5 or 10 min later if you still feel the need to do so. Also think what you want your choice of words to achieve. Do you want to get a proper discussion going or do you just want to offend the other person by boldly stating that their opinion is weird and that they should just play different games because they do not understand Halo or whatever.

Just a word of advice. FYI, I am not offended by your messages, but I think you can do better.

[nova basalt]

Why are there so many 40mm grenades in customization if we don’t get a grenade launcher

[crystal iron]

Alright :P

[crystal iron]

Well, the brute shot is technically a grenade launcher. So is the sticky det

[bright finch]

Brute shot in my hand feels like a banana and in the brute’s hands like a nuclear bomb

[crystal iron]

x3

[rigid herald]

Need your help with something. I'm trying to create a universal spartan colour in each Halo game in MCC, of course the colours are different for each game. However am I right in thinking that the silver option in Halo Reach is very similar or the same as steel from Halo 3?

[crystal iron]

Silver in Reach is just about the same as steel in 3, yes

[rigid herald]

Would it be fair to say that the Silver in Reach is the same colour used for the Steel Blue coating in Infinite? It's annoying since Halo Infinite ingame is a completely different colour to Halo Infinite in the customisation menu.

For reference my pfp is that coating ingame.

[crystal iron]

Uhm, idk bc I don't play infinite much

But it's kinda close

[rigid herald]

Yea, its annoying in the customisation menu you'd think it would fit more to reach's steel however ingame as my pfp shows its more like the H3 steel colour.

[crystal iron]

Fair

[rigid herald]

Making an OC document and using descriptions so I'll probs have to note that the Halo Reach Palette is the reference point for all colour descriptions whereas the reference pattern is Halo 3.

[crystal iron]

Yeah

[civic sundial]

That's not coatings being a different colour in the customisation menu, that's just the different maps having different lighting to the customisation menu

Like, if I take a picture of a Master Chief figure under studio lighting conditions, then take another picture of it in natural light, the colours of the figure itself will be the same but it could potentially look different due to how different the lighting is

Another good example would be this dress everybody debated what colour it was (Granted there is also differences between individual human eyes and how they perceive colours but still)

[rigid herald]

Indeed that is a better way of explaining it. It's like how in customisation, the gold visors look gold yet ingame they are black due to the lighting.

Bugs me out sometimes.

[civic sundial]

I can use the Mark VI MOD helmet I have to show that off as well, I just don't have dark lighting right now since it's still day time

[cunning oyster]

Oh that was nasty. I did “peaking” gameplay where I peaked my gun out of side of a wall and got a killing spree medal.

[rigid herald]

Ah.

[cunning oyster]

Those dudes got annihilated.

Reminded me of the time I played battlefront 2 and killed 7 dudes on genonsis who were on the back lines.

[civic sundial]

Would you say it was just like the simulations?

[celest heron]

that's what I say about knives on the armor.

[civic sundial]

Those aren't actually grenades, they're party poppers to celebrate after the fight

[onyx latch]

I think most of them are actually Pilum rounds, because that was more of a recoilless rifle than a regular launcher.

[civic sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/おめでとう-嬉しい-クラッカー-お祝い-可愛い-gif-15780951

[cunning oyster]

I have 7 dudes inviting me to play halo infinite. They keep pinging me lol. I just wanna play alone. 😩

[sturdy kernel]

I miss those times

[nova basalt]

Ehhh looks like the pilum fires 130mm, those would be pretty big

[onyx latch]

Halo doesn't really respect the sizes it claims its weapon calibers are.

[nova basalt]

Yeah lol the avenger fires 7.62 and does less damage than the other 7.62 rifle

[zealous panther]

can someone tell me how much ninja gaiden helm costs?

[sturdy kernel]

40k SP If you mean hayabusa helmet

@zealous panther

[zealous panther]

oh, ty ty!

[coarse dagger]

https://www.threads.com/@halo/post/DLFyyezs7Tf

[subtle rampart]

Ok who can I bug till they add online multiplayer split screen on pc

I’ve messaged as many people who are obviously in contact with the halo team and I’ve messaged several members of the halo team to try to get it to happen

[coarse dagger]

It's not going to happen for any current titles

[cunning oyster]

Pro trick. Every time you get into a fight say “I’m gonna lose.” You’ll jinx it and win.

[celest heron]

bugging them won't make them add it and will probly just get you blocked.

[granite cosmos]

im beginning to get convinced that the ghost town map has too many power weapon spawns

or they need the spawn timers increased for CTF

because that flat out wasnt fun

[granite cosmos]

i wish this would happen with my teams in CTF because i get some of the DUMBEST people in this game

[whole mauve]

I was wanting to know what halo game i should play on my xbox series x. My first ever game of halo was halo 4, and that was on the xbox 360. My cousin and I loved to play it together, but we found it boring on some parts

So what’s a recommended halo game that i should play

[civic sundial]

Start from the start with Combat Evolved (Via MCC) and work through the games in release order so you get to see the gameplay mechanics evolve over the course of the series

[whole mauve]

Alright. Thank you!

[civic sundial]

Don't forget to check your corners, trust the blue lady inside your head (Apart from in Reach since that's a prequel to Combat Evolved and you don't have her in there or in ODST since you're not a Spartan in that one) and have fun!

[winter sphinx]

im trying to 100% my legendary save on infinite and im at 99%
but i literally completed every collectable and side objective

what am i missing????

ok i found the issue i just had to go through all the audio logs

[versed holly]

What’s the ***range on a gravity hammer and does it matter where you point the reticle

[frosty condor]

Play enough to get a feel for the range and yes it matters

[crystal iron]

remember: with g-hammer, your range is shorter than the enemy's 😉

not literally but pretend it is and you will git gud

[crystal iron]

does 2xp work for career xp or only bp xp

[civic sundial]

Pretty sure it's BP EXP

[sturdy kernel]

Only for battle pass xp

[frosty condor]

Bp only

[crystal iron]

o7

is there a way to change the passive (white) crosshair color?

[sturdy kernel]

I guess no

[river knot]

Gm guys

[frosty condor]

How’s the cave doing

[grave ether]

still stuck in here

[quartz moth]

retuning player, i load in on HI and "press enter to play" and get a black box in the middle :/
sigh, good ol days of HI just being buggy as heck

[grave ether]

Sounds like a

[glacial tartan]

Im not sure why they didnt link you the fix but here you go https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411142084628-Cannot-Sign-in-to-Halo-Infinite-on-Steam-Stuck-in-a-Sign-in-Loop

[quartz moth]

yeah im tryna remove all the Xbl things rn 🫂

[glacial tartan]

I can give you a script that deletes them all at once, but its also not THAT many usually a few miinutes of clicking will get you through

[quartz moth]

fo some reason i couldnt for my life fin Steam Browser settings in the settings page o.o but deleting those lines got me into the game!!

now to test my asia ping in the game lol

[grave ether]

Because I'm not aware of it

[glacial tartan]

np the skill issue comment got them to find a fix on their own so it worked

[grave ether]

I hear so many bugs for the steam version, Xbox app version runs so much smoother

[glacial tartan]

Maybe for Infinite, for MCC its the exact opposite.

Heck the MCC Xbox app version still cant play matchmaking....many months later. And mod support is all manual. Always tell people to refund and buy the Steam version.

[quartz moth]

aaa the btb wait time is still so long

[glacial tartan]

Low population 😦

[quartz moth]

sadge 😦 well i managed to get 4 kills and 9 deaths on 300ping i think its p good for me LOL

[devout cedar]

So i reinstalled Halo Infinite for the Helmet.

Decided to grind Big Team Battles. I noticed im constantly being the MVP and win most games.

So i assume this inflated my MMR a bit.

I heard of someone who lost all their games while being bottom frag got into diamond.

If i play Ranked (and probably get destroyed). If i play Big Team battle for couple of rounds every ranked game. Would it place me highly?

I was Diamond (didn't started in diamond, was grinding it until i realised the game had a "backpack" matchmake and had enough of "unfair" games) in season 1 without any attempts of influencing my MMR. (that was the last time i played Halo Infinite)

[grave ether]

iirc ranked is separate from the non-ranked mmr except for when it's initially calculating your rank in the placement matches it factors that in a little bit.

So if you play ranked right now, expect your matches to swing in both directions for a few matches until it finds your "settling" point. But games you play outside of that won't affect that much

[glacial tartan]

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

I cant embed, but straight from the Trueskill2 whitepaper there you go, you're correct that in Trueskill2 prior experience is factored in as a newer parameter

Trueskill factored in Past Skill but ignored "experience"

[grave ether]

Let me help you with that:
https://imgur.com/hBxpGKX

I remember they had explained it in one of the waypoint posts awhile back but it was a bit ago and I don't remember which one it was.

[devout cedar]

well not trying to cheese a high rank. Just like to experiment.

Anyways in my first game (Ranked Arena) everyone but me was already ranked. Full high Platin 6 lobby (one rank below Diamond 1).

I still managed to be MVP in OddBall. (HIghest KDA & Longest ball carried)

Seems like game didn't account for me losing skill due to not playing for a long time. (roughly same rank since last time i played which was Season 1.)

[shadow turret]

You can't change the passive color, but changing enemy/friendly colors will change your crosshair color when you're hovering over them, as well as the outline colors

[cunning oyster]

There ain’t no way Microsoft will put the MCC on the PlayStation with the current matchmaking problems. Are they crazy?

Modern Warfare II 2009 is 10x less sweatier than the Halo MCC and that’s saying something.

Current MCC multiplayer is like, nearly unbearable.

[civic sundial]

Is the announcement that MCC is coming to PlayStation in the room with us right now?

[fair rose]

Watched a few MintBlitz video over the time. I was always curious what you guys think about him?
He always talk like he has some influence on the dev choices? Is that even true?

Or is this just a jerk full of himself? He feels pretty toxic and seems to change his mind a lot to get likes

[tame moth]

I dont watch him

And will avoid him

[civic sundial]

Mint's not someone I would recommend

[cunning oyster]

He ain’t got any pull. I destroyed him once in a match. Jerk couldn’t handle it 🤣

[fair rose]

Doesn't surprise me, I've heard a few stories like that

[civic sundial]

Where's Trench with their gif of them taking down Mint?

[cunning oyster]

Happened last year in BTB.

[fair rose]

Would have liked to see that haha.
Anyways, I will follow your suggestions and stop watching and following his stuff thanks 🙂

[cunning oyster]

I was in a ghost and he just kept trying to kill me and failed LOL. I killed him over 6 times.

[onyx latch]

I don't have embed priveges, was a naughty bird.

[daring oxide]

Who are Halo creators y'all would recommend?

[tame moth]

….

[river knot]

Wsg

[tame moth]

?

[river knot]

Idk maybe Kammyshep and HaloFollower

[onyx latch]

There's... Not many I'd recommend at this point.

[tame moth]

Ye

[daring oxide]

Well damn

Purely based on their type of videos/coverage? Or just the lack of people covering Halo

[agile cloak]

Can I say, from halo 4 and forward the odst helmet just got worse and worse

[civic sundial]

Not sure I agree when these all exist post the Halo 4 design (Which I also wasn't too bothered by)

[ruby lake]

incorrect buzzer noise for halofollower

that guy fell off harder than string cheese

and even further with his "odst vs helldivers" series, like i think its trying too hard to become the next rvb but downscaled to 1 person per different IP + continuity

it felt like i was watching slop

[onyx latch]

Hating Firefall is unreal tbh

[edgy forum]

I avoid him at all cost

[uneven bison]

Firefall is like a top 7 sci fi helmets for me tbh

If it replaced the normal odst helmet I would be the first to defend it

[shadow turret]

Honestly same
Firefall is better than normal ODST imo

[tame moth]

And ce mark v is better then mark vb and by a long shot

[shadow turret]

No

[onyx latch]

correct

[crystal iron]

i love mk v

is it weird to say its got like a dad bod vibe to it

[nova basalt]

Life wasn’t kind to ODST, soon he started looking like firefall

[tame moth]

Firefall is good, wdym?

[edgy forum]

Firefalls is post Human-Covenant War ODST design

[radiant sundial]

late to the party but installation 00 is a good guy to watch if you want lore

[radiant sundial]

weight joke

[tame moth]

Ah

[civic sundial]

Eh... 00 did a video where he used the beliefs of a really terrible guy (Who you should not be listening to) to try and justify Doctor Halsey and the whole kidnapping of the IIs as kids and making them into child soldiers thing she did to them

[zealous panther]

Halo infinite will continue in the novel? Uh... i don't get something?

[tame moth]

Most important part of the article

“Akin in many ways to Halo: First Strike, this story serves as a glimpse into the aftermath of its preceding events, the novel dealing with the immediate fallout of what took place in Halo Infinite's campaign while embarking on its own new, self-contained adventure.

RECOMMENDED REVISITING

Edge of Dawn will ostensibly serve as a standalone story that any reader can jump into, whether this is your first Halo novel or if you’ve been following along for years.”

[zealous panther]

i just hope it will not be something like halo 4 to halo 5 and 5 to infinite all over again, where i just don't understand what's going on between the games.

[craggy wadi]

Once your inducted as a Spartan virtually all understanding goes out the window

Question...why try to follow the story as a linear progression? Instead 1 by 1

[zealous panther]

because they are continuation of one plot. Halo 1 was story in itself and you don't need to know it to play halo 2. But you probably want to play halo 2 before playing halo 3 because of the structure of the story.

[craggy wadi]

Trying to rack your brains over the story and getting mvp style kills don't mix

[zealous palm]

Tactical Slayer

[civic sundial]

I mean, when you are playing a game which is part of a larger saga, it's important to that it's easy to understand how characters ended up where they are between games, even if you don't have the context of what happens between those two stories. Like, you don't need First Strike to fill in the gaps between Combat Evolved and Halo 2 to understand Chief headed back to Earth after he destroyed Alpha Halo. So I'm not really sure what you're trying to tell Tombeg

[civic sundial]

At no point were they talking about multiplayer, they were talking about the story of the games

[craggy wadi]

I get story to story progression... now we have Infinite

[civic sundial]

Just like the quote DigiAce brought up, this novel is basically the "First Strike" to Infinite's "Combat Evolved", whatever the next main game will be is like the "Halo 2", being that it will be a sequel to Halo Infinite and continue things. This novel will cover things like Chief regrouping with more UNSC forces, maybe having a few fights with Banished forces on Zeta as well as Jega doing Jega things and lead into what Halo 7 (Or whatever it's gonna be called) will be. Outside of maybe the medic mentioned in the book's description, I don't see any major deaths or something like Chief leaving Zeta Halo happening in this novel

[zealous panther]

Ah, this is nice to know. Because... i kinda dislike to read halo novels specifically.

[tame moth]

[civic sundial]

I enjoy them, especially Kelly Gay's novels for the series so I'm picking it up, but I get not everyone wants to read the novels

But also, there's just been so many people not actually reading what's been said about this novel and spreading this idea this one is a replacement for the next Halo game, which you can imagine gets annoying

[pine wraith]

yo guys i wanna do a mission in legendary a easy one of one mission halo 1 to halo 4 anyone can give me a mission to do im bored

[olive brook]

gravemind halo 2

[severe pulsar]

I just finished Combat Evolved, probably gonna start on Halo 2 tomorrow. I know Reach is a prequel and I'm playing in release order, what game should I play it after?

[civic sundial]

Stick with release order

So after Halo 2, you play Halo 3, then ODST, then Reach, then 4

[pine wraith]

you never played halo before?

[pine wraith]

that hard lol

[severe pulsar]

Roger that, I started with Combat Evolved on an OGBOX a few years back, damn thing died to the clock capacitor, recently bought MCC, and I just finished CE on MCC.

[severe pulsar]

Thank you

On that note I might have a little trouble sleeping tonight after seeing ||how Captain Keyes died... Yeesh that was gruesome||

[pine wraith]

nice you will enjoy it

[severe pulsar]

I wish they ported Halo 2 to the Nintendo Wii

Bro I used spoiler text for a reason

I just arrived here having played basically nothing, I figured others might be in the same boat

[pine wraith]

i see

[severe pulsar]

I know these games are over two decades old but still

[pine wraith]

be respectful to the legendary game halo he is not old he is in his best ages

[severe pulsar]

But yeah I agree, it definitely had its emotional shock value.

[civic sundial]

Who knows, with Microsoft trying out games under their umbrella on PlayStation, like with Hi-Fi Rush and Forza, we could see a Halo releasing on a Nintendo console in the future as well

[severe pulsar]

Well I mean nothing there, I love older games. I collect physical releases of the Half-Life games

[pine wraith]

yeah

[severe pulsar]

Didn't they already port MCC to the switch or am I misremembering

[pine wraith]

they didnt

[severe pulsar]

Okay

[pine wraith]

only pc and xbox

[severe pulsar]

But yeah I've got a modded Wii, that and a cheap-ass laptop that barely plays Portal 2 are my only gaming systems

[pine wraith]

oh lol

[severe pulsar]

Once I get a job I'll first prioritize getting a good desktop, then I'll shoot for a PS3

[civic sundial]

You are misremembering

[severe pulsar]

Then I'll probably just buy whatever looks good from my local used games store, I've seen good consoles insanely cheap there

I saw the Destiny II PS4 for like $170 and an Xbox Series S for like $130

[pine wraith]

yeah extremely cheap

[severe pulsar]

That's not even counting absolute bangers like a $70 PS2 Slim

Or a $45 PS1

Honestly I'd freaking love to get one of those smaller flat consoles

I have my Wii on its side, I'm totally gonna just stack consoles

[craggy wadi]

Depending on your age. Go to local FedEx or UPS - a career awaits

For that matter 1 month or 2 at a factory

[severe pulsar]

What's intercontinental shipping got to do with anything

[craggy wadi]

Money

[severe pulsar]

Anyway I have a job interview queued up already so I'm probably not gonna go work at UPS

[craggy wadi]

Sweet good luck and look sharp

[severe pulsar]

Yep, this is definitely one for the fake breasts

[craggy wadi]

Never say never. Rid your mind of can not

[severe pulsar]

Already have. Probably wouldn't have but my dog needs a vet and we don't have money.

So money I shall acquire

[craggy wadi]

Fortune 500 stuff is not a joke

[severe pulsar]

Wdym exactly

[crystal iron]

https://www.halowaypoint.com/halo-infinite/ugc/maps/4bc27667-c15f-4ef0-b287-5c0f2578f863
good map
hardest campaign ive found
any others?

have a lot saved but none quite as challenging

[craggy wadi]

Halo 3 legendary solo by far the most challenging

To answer your question

Brutes galore

[uncut ore]

Have any of you guys encountered "MCC Goose 15"? they seem to be a bot

[crystal iron]

im thinking like halo infinite custom campaign maps

i like to throw them on in 28 player cap public lobbies with combat evolved ish rules

[craggy wadi]

Honestly played them all

Thinking no customs

[crystal iron]

hmm can you give campaign ai custom weapons, like fuel rod spnkr grunts

[uncut ore]

"SWAT goosing" seems to also be a bot

[elder cradle]

who can teach me the game im new

[glacial tartan]

Block them / report them. But yeah, this same person constantly griefs all day every day. Sorry you have to deal with it

[uncut ore]

so just 1 dude trolling a niche multiplayer game? that's pretty sad

[glacial tartan]

Theres no real enforcement, it sucks but its part of the experience now

[agile cloak]

The reach one was one of the best in my opinion

Tbh the reason it bothers me is because I grew up playing halo3,and halo3 ODST

And reach still closely followed that design

Halo 4 kinda just scrapped the entire design

Sorry about the long rant

[civic sundial]

I've seen long rants, what you posted is barely even a quick monologue

[rain plume]

The amount of people who griefing and exploit in btb matches today is ridiculous, the amount of wasps each team can have at 1 time needs to be fixed.

[radiant sundial]

Elaborate

Because I'm 90% sure no more than two or maybe 4 wasps at most are spawned at once in a btb game unless it's fiesta

[solemn portal]

Getting your vehicles stolen is part of map control, which has always been an foundational element of BTB Halo.

[cunning oyster]

Halo MCC matchmaker has become so awful corner camping is the better way to play. 😞

[brave pond]

It's a rough learning experience for new players. You have to assume the other team has Grapples and the floor is lava, figuratively. It's rough for everyone on the team when new players don't yet realize or practice this and your vehicles are turned over for the entire match. It's even more egregious when they're stolen off the spawn point and your team has ran past fresh vehicles, leaving them open to theft. It can just go really poorly if conditions are right.

[celest heron]

it's been the same way for years. the only thing that changed is the population.

[rare pivot]

Does Halo Infinite randomly take literally over half an hour to open for anyone else?

Also, does this game seriously not have Reflex, Anti-Lag, DLSS, FSR, or XeSS?

And you can't even disable anti aliasing?

Are there ANY actual PC gamers at 343?

[coarse dagger]

Yes

[rare pivot]

That's insane.

I think that's worse.

[crystal iron]

Hi guys, I'm trying to find a track that plays during halo ce in one of the missions. I can't find it on spotify, tencent domestic music nor youtube and have no idea where else I can look. I recorded it ingame and tried to upload it to shazam but even then I get some generic "Game music" that isn't even related to halo. Can anyone please help me? I have the mp3 needed for reference

[brave pond]

I can try, sure. Do you happen to know which Halo: CE mission uses it?

[crystal iron]

Assault on the control room is the name if I recall correctly. The one before the first mission where the flood is introduced

I don't have perms to upload here, can I dm it to you?

[brave pond]

Sure, that's fine

[crystal iron]

I've sent the dm. Should be maybe under message requests

[brave pond]

We tracked it down to the full version of Assault on the Control Room as it shipped in the game, before it was trimmed to presumably fit on the OST CD release.

[crystal iron]

Thanks again!

[stray forge]

Yall think a subanese crystal could be made into ammo for a bow?

[civic sundial]

Most likely

[radiant sundial]

Ngl, I think thats just a hardware/software issue for you, check your drivers and whatnot

[rare pivot]

Most likely.

I've seen it mentioned a few times, but for most people it only happens after a drivers update.

[onyx latch]

That... Actually sounds like something that would explain Sangheili usage of it as a weapon in the first place.

[cunning oyster]

The more the playerbase act toxic the less motivated I’m going to be to do objectives in BTB in Infinite.

[versed holly]

Latency made me kill 3 teammates in a row and now I’m banned

[celest heron]

I once shot a rocket that missed a long range target and instead blewup 3 of my teammates in a hog. I got booted and then temp banned.

[rare pivot]

Is there really no way to turn off TAA?

[versed holly]

Are servers lagging right now or is it on my side?

[rotund zenith]

could dig around for an ini file

[crystal iron]

there is not, unless you use a m*d

[cunning oyster]

Aight I’m gonna be real. Halo Reach on the MCC has shown me the way. I don’t strafe anymore in Halo. I just go forward and spam my shots

[severe pulsar]

You dare defame the holy art of circle strafing?

You sicken your brethren and your ancestors.

[rare pivot]

Does that work on multiplayer?

[north grotto]

Is halo: the edge of dawn the continuation of infinite and does it close up the story?

[versed holly]

It is a continuation of Infinite, and we don’t know if it closes the story or anything about it, save that they’re trying to find Lucas the medic, and that Jega is alive and looking for revenge

[shadow turret]

I think its meant to set up the next Halo, not close out Infinite's story
Idrk tho, we'll have to wait until it comes out to see

[north grotto]

I don’t know much about halo books, is Jega some name for an elite, banished crew member?

[versed holly]

Have you played Infinite’s campaign?

Jega is the black armored elite with the red energy sword and red dual bladed looking energy axe in the other hand. Yes he’s an elite member of the Banished

[cerulean skiff]

yup and fun fight at the right difficulty

[lament cliff]

Was wondering if anyone would be down to play the halo infinite campaign together?

[autumn thistle]

It’s compared to First Strike by Halo Studios. That book bridges the gap between Combat Evolved and Halo 2. Edge looks to do the same with Infinite and lingering threads from The Rubicon Protocol.

I firmly believe Edge will drop us on the doorstep of the next Halo, not replace it.

[north grotto]

Nevermind I know him thanks

[crystal iron]

but I am because of reasons I explained

I am not looking for the hardest overall campaign, I am looking for hard halo infinite custom campaigns so I can throw them on in public lobbies like big "spartan team raids"

the closest ive gotten to this is interception but i was wondering if there are any more on par, nearly on par, or more difficult than interception

[tulip tusk]

i made a series of 8 maps u can try out, theyre called Campaign Op maps. to be very difficult u would need a mythic mode that lowers armor, or choose to enable skulls. otherwise its pretty chill with large lobbies. there are also the maps named Raid: [etc name here] that are fun with big groups

and set ai legendary

[crystal iron]

can take a look, would i search for your name in the map browser?

[tulip tusk]

im not sure if i gave them my name as a tag, best to search "campaign op"

[crystal iron]

can do

[tulip tusk]

also have link in my bio

[crystal iron]

id love to use halowaypoint but for some reason it just hates firefox as of recently

even if I useragent spoof to chrome it just insta-500 server error's

[tulip tusk]

hm idk do u have a vpn enabled?

[crystal iron]

nah i dont

its weird cus it used to work but these past few weeks/months it doesnt

[tulip tusk]

weird indeed

[torpid goblet]

anyone ever have an issue where you press youre grenade button and both nades are thrown literally at the same time? mouse and key and halo infinite

[inland minnow]

please don't spam the same thing across multiple channels. make a post in #1075989764026675210 or file a support ticket.

[sullen kiln]

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

https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

[elder cradle]

who wanna play with me

[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.

[elder cradle]

hmmm thx you

[paper pawn]

still up for it ?

[elder cradle]

yh

[paper pawn]

you on steam or xbox ?

infinite or mcc @elder cradle

[elder cradle]

infinite

[paper pawn]

ok my gamertag is GreaziCheeto

add me and lets play @elder cradle

[elder cradle]

wait me few minutes

[paper pawn]

ok

[elder cradle]

im busy

[paper pawn]

ok just let me know @elder cradle

[elder cradle]

know wth ?

[rotund zenith]

I somehow missed this dropping https://youtu.be/aNfM_g7xg2Y?si=vqYEmOpkFRTA8Y29

Odsts in ce aesthetic are peak

[celest heron]

ugh, I hate in ff when a teammate gets a grav hammer and then keeps purposely hitting me trying to throw me off the map.

[rain plume]

Its not even about vehicle stealing. Thats not even a problem plus I couldn’t care less if something gets stolen from me, like you said, its part of the nature of btb.

[rain plume]

What i mean is in btb slayer for example, an enemy team using multiple wasps and other flying vehicles to corner another team and keep them trapped for the entire game and infinitely kill them till they win. No chance for team to fightback at all.

Sure you can make the argument that those players should “just get better at the game” but then why is matchmaking is soo bad it matches players who don’t even have similar levels of skill making winning games so easy without any form of challenge for the winning team.

[glacial tartan]

Small playerbase, either end of skill curve meets more often 😦

[brave pond]

I sometimes wonder, more so recently, if the onus is on experienced players on the beleaguered team to help coach the inexperienced players politelyabout why they find themselves in this predicament: don't leave spawned vehicles empty, expect enemies to have Grapples/avoid turnovers, use power/shock weapons firstly against certain vehicles. If we don't communicate at all with the inexperienced players, improvements may be slow and infrequent.

Yes, some won't receive or heed the advice or may respond negatively, but surely there'd be some benefit. Some of my positive BTB experiences in the past month or two are those where just one person on the team stepped up to try to help improve our performance (I think XLR8 sets a good example on stream): asking for a gunner to go on a flag run (incidentally, much more pleasant than the driver sounding the horn constantly), announcing our Wraith is now empty because they were shot out, calling out the position of their Skewer holder or an Active Camo user, asking whoever has a Hydra to focus on that Banshee or Wraith... When comms and chat are quiet, I can hardly be surprised if we're doing poorly.

[nova basalt]

Wait, we can COMMUNICATE?!?

I had no idea voice chat was in halo

[tame moth]

[celest heron]

it's always had it in online mp, but mics are rarely used nowadays.

[nova basalt]

Cool

[grave ether]

Iirc voice chat is off by default in Infinite for whatever reason

[tulip cave]

Is this srv only for discussing halo infinite or all?

[grave ether]

Any and all Halo like the channel description says

[tulip cave]

Halo reach campaign is looking kinda fire
But i think imma speedrun depression if i complete it

[vast nova]

which halo has the most fun mp

[celest heron]

too subjective

[solemn portal]

The real question is which is the most fun for you.

[wraith relic]

Halo 2 campaign will always be #1 for me

[edgy forum]

Same, tied with Infinite’s campaign

[rotund zenith]

The objectively correct answer is halo3odst had the best mp

[solemn portal]

I wish ODST had more maps...

[elder cradle]

im free man

[prime rain]

Is there any news about what Halo Studio is going to make?

[signal ivy]

nope

[prime rain]

I was honestly very disappointed with Infinite, I pre-ordered it just because the vibes it gave me with the classic Halo OST were top notch but Microsoft just had to deliver an incomplete campaign😐I would even buy DLCs for Infinite if they ever released but I have given up hope for that and I can just pray they don't butcher the game I love anymore 😅

[crystal iron]

they will probably use their half [] attempt in infinite to say that "open world halo can't work"

[craggy wadi]

You can expect "Infinite's" effort of campaign on the next title

You see I hunched this

[craggy wadi]

Campaign is separate from multiplayer. So your disappointment is not just you I am afraid

[tidal kettle]

idk if this is dumb but im downscaling reach from 8k to 3440x1440 and somehow getting 200fps, although im using 12gb of vram (9070XT) but it looks good ey

[nova basalt]

Halo took so much stuff from Aliens

The marine loadouts, the dropships, the ammo counters

[magic loom]

There was a guy that reminded me of sgt Johnson not sure about the other stuff

Metroid took some inspiration with the Chozo statues and the space jockey I think

I think its really cool

[nova basalt]

The bad guy is named Ridley right

I read hes named after Ridley Scott

[teal gulch]

Woah, hey, Infinite wasn’t half bad, it showed a more human side of chief, I didn’t mind it, In my opinion of course. It had its flaws sure. But it was more pleasant then not

[autumn thistle]

Infinite is an odd duck for sure. I understand the choice to go semi-open world, but it was a deceptively constructed one. You see one PNW forest you’ve seen them all. The Forerunner interiors (sans the Silent Auditorium) blended together too.

I wouldn’t mind a return to more traditional liner levels if it adds some variety again.

[versed holly]

is Infinite having server issues atm? I keep disconnecting, same with other players

[autumn trellis]

Hello

[rare pivot]

Sorry, that was me.

[edgy forum]

I wish there was a Halo 3 Chief coating, to mimick almost his shade of olive dark green. I mean Genesis, his Halo 4 coating similarly has it, just the undersuit pattern is GEN2

[crystal iron]

the soft kill barriers, invisible walls, and banshee ai really get to me

also just the complete doodoo tank controls what in halo are those

[gray plinth]

So is it me or is their a drop in Frames and lag in Halo Infinite lately

[rare pivot]

How many days do I have to wait to get my emblem from the latest drop?

[solemn portal]

Twitch drops? Should be instantaneous. Go one Halo Waypoint if need be.

[radiant sundial]

once you've finished whatever amount of hours it takes of watching to unlock the drop, just click claim or whatever it says, it should pop up within a few seconds/immediately, you'll have to restart your game to get it to show up if you claimed it with the game open though

[rare pivot]

I claimed it two days ago.

[solemn portal]

For MCC, you'll have to claim them one more time on Halo Waypoint. Infinite should be automatic.

[radiant sundial]

make sure you have your account linked first if you haven't already, after that I'd say just give your armor hall a run through to make sure you didn't just overlook it by accident, if that doesn't work go to halo support

[rare pivot]

I checked again ten minutes ago.

[radiant sundial]

really? I never had to do all that for the MCC nameplate I got

[rare pivot]

It's the Whose World Is It Anyway? emblem on Halo Infinite.

I've claimed drops before with this account.

[solemn portal]

Go on Halo Waypoint to check the status of the drop.

[radiant sundial]

if you're absolutely sure it didn't claim, go to halo support, I don't remember the link exactly but you should be able to find it somewhere in #1075989764026675210

[rare pivot]

Weird. It wasn't claimed on Waypoint.

Thanks.

[radiant sundial]

good luck

[west rock]

I genuinely cannot comprehend how people still enjoy playing Infinite. Of every game I've played, Infinite is probably the one that controls the WORST.

I cant play it on controller because my character randomly just stops turning left or right for no damn reason, and it feels insanely sluggish on mouse and keyboard.

[radiant sundial]

tbh, that's just a hardware issue for you, I (and many others that I know) don't have those issues

if anything I feel like infinite controls the best out of the ones I've played

you may want to look into your settings to see what you can change around

[shadow turret]

Also ngl
Unless it is just FPS/Ping jitter/sluggishness
Turning your FOV up helps a lot with that feeling

The game feels really slow on default FOV imo

[radiant sundial]

^

[sturdy kernel]

120 FOV the best

[radiant sundial]

higher FOV always makes me feel like I'm flying across the map tbh, lowering it confuses the heck out of me somtimes

[radiant sundial]

if you can handle it yeah, it quite literally gives you the best field of view

[shadow turret]

I play at like 95 bc I have a small screen, and it's still decent

[west rock]

I've tweaked with just about every setting I can think of and it doesnt fix the controller problem.

I'm about ready to just break my DS4 in half if I go negative in another match.

[radiant sundial]

I play at 110+ bc I have a small screen lmao XD

[west rock]

Sorry to say it but since nothing has ever been able to fix the issue of playing on controller

I have to assume the steam port of Infinite is just garbage.

[radiant sundial]

ngl, your controller could very well be the issue, try with a different one if you get the chance

[shadow turret]

Fair lol
It just fisheyes too much for me at a certain point (plus my laptop really does not enjoy rendering more map)

[radiant sundial]

this is a solely you issue IMO, I don't know anyone else with these issues so try dropping a post in #1075989764026675210 to get the attention of more tech-savvy people than us

[shadow turret]

I already play on like 10 FPS too, so 💀

[radiant sundial]

cries in locked at 30fps bc xbox one

[shadow turret]

I'd rather 30 atp ngl

Anything would be better than like 10-15

[radiant sundial]

cloud play can run it at 60fps but my current laptop doesn't seem to like cloud play, might just be the wifi connection tho bc I've only tried it from my room so far, xbox didn't like it either, may actually just be the wifi itself bc it got switched up and it worked fine before

[shadow turret]

My laptop is just bad tbh
It's technically below minimum specs for Infinite (and honestly may be almost fully now with the amount of updates they've done)

[radiant sundial]

ngl, I wonder if I could force infinite to run on my laptop, it doesn't like the integrated graphics part but that's the only issue that seems to be below-spec so I could just try to trick and brute force it, but only if I'm willing to wait for it to install (I'm not)

[shadow turret]

Hopefully within about a month I'll be getting a job tho so I can save for an actually decent desktop, which should be able to run 120 FPS consistently (its basically what a friend of mine has, if not a little better, and his does, so)

[radiant sundial]

me out here procrastinating on trying to get a job so I can finally clone tox's build, and totally not spending money on building an airsoft kit instead

[shadow turret]

Idk ur laptop specs but I have a GTX 1050 graphics card and an Intel i7-8750H CPU, and I can (barely) run Infinite

[radiant sundial]

I've got an i5 cpu, intel integrated graphics (that's literally all it tells me, it refuses to say anything else) and 20gb of ram lol ;-;

this laptop runs fricking war thunder but not halo 😭

like make it make sense man 😭

[shadow turret]

Oof
Yea that prolly can't run it 😭
I think the minimum specs it has on Steam is an i7 CPU at least

[radiant sundial]

it didn't complain about the CPU lol

just the graphics, literally everything but the graphics is fine

Halo Infinite's minimum PC specs include an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or Intel i5-4440 processor, an AMD RX 570 or Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti graphics card, 8GB of RAM, and 50GB of storage. It also requires a 64-bit version of Windows 10 (RS5 x64 or later)

• google AI

[shadow turret]

Yea, I just checked Steam too

[radiant sundial]

I have frigging everything BUT the graphics card to make this an amazing laptop

in the meantime I'll play warthunder at 20fps

(halo x war thunder collab when )

[gray plinth]

so I think we should all report that to Halo studio's/343

[crystal iron]

gtx1050 is definitely what's holding you back here, the cpu is good enough that if you got a stronger external gpu you would be ok

[rare pivot]

Doubt.

[crystal iron]

what i5

msinfo32 or task manager to check

[rare pivot]

Try with a different controller.

I also use a controller on Steam and it works flawlessly.

[shadow turret]

I might try and figure out mounting an external GPU, or I'll just suffer through low FPS until I hit Hero, and while I just save up for a full system

[crystal iron]

what laptop you got?

there's a couple ways to go eGPU, usb-c is the easiest but your usb-c port has to be good enough to support doing this

[rare pivot]

You should get stable 60 at lowest graphics 720p.

[shadow turret]

I play on the lowest graphics settings
And idk how to change the resolution to like 720p or whatever

[shadow turret]

I don't have a USB-c

[radiant sundial]

what is that supposed to mean?

[rare pivot]

DM me a screenshot of your graphics settings.

[radiant sundial]

for what I need it to do this laptop would be amazing if it just had a decent graphics card

[radiant sundial]

your wifi also sucks which (apparently) can impact fps

[crystal iron]

another option you have is using one of your nvme slots to drive the eGPU. this option is less portable though, and could mean having to go hard-wire instead of wi-fi, if that is important to you

[shadow turret]

Mby
Idk

[rare pivot]

Not that way, no.

[crystal iron]

@radiant sundial

[shadow turret]

If I'd hafta take stuff apart on my laptop for that, then I prolly won't
Just bc I don't wanna mess it up more than it already is

Plus I think part of my problem is just playing off an external hard drive, bc my D drive crashed a while ago

[sturdy kernel]

Intel CPU

[radiant sundial]

external graphics drives require you to take apart your laptop

I was going to do that myself bc it would've been cheaper than buying a whole new setup but it's not worth it bc I don't have the room or knowledge to make it work

[shadow turret]

Yea, I'd rather not mess with stuff too much

[crystal iron]

yes but what model

"i5" does not inherently equal "good enough"

that ranges anywhere from 1st gen intel core i5 to current gen. there are what, 14, 15 gens of intel core?

[rare pivot]

Your problem is something else entirely.

[rare pivot]

Technically last gen.

[rare pivot]

Your GPU is 50% faster than the RX 550, and I could play at 60 FPS on some maps with that card.

[radiant sundial]

i5 10210U (supposedly 10th gen according to the sticker on my laptop)

[rare pivot]

Not bad.

[shadow turret]

Well, I've tried near everything at least that I feel comfortable doing to try and fix it, so

[rare pivot]

Did you DM me the screenshot?

[shadow turret]

Of what?

[shadow turret]

I can tomorrow
I can't get on my laptop rn

[crystal iron]

ah yeah thatll do
similar advice to aurora, if you have a usb-c and it's good enough you could hook up an e-gpu. worst case you have to pop open the laptop and populate/replace a wifi/ssd slot with a connection to an eGPU rig

[rare pivot]

😑

[shadow turret]

I would if I could
But parents are a pain

[rare pivot]

Blud is 15.

[shadow turret]

16, but yes

[crystal iron]

going egpu is not the most practical option ever but if you want to pursue it you may find some handy info here https://egpu.io

chances are someone has already done it before with your model of laptop so you can find out how to do it

[rare pivot]

Just get a PC 🤨

[crystal iron]

this is the better option

though ymmv in terms of which is more economical

[shadow turret]

Ngl I'll prolly just save for a new PC atp
Bc my laptop is just slow in general anyways

[crystal iron]

if you're on hard disk instead of solid state that's a pretty huge difference

swapping to ssd alone could make it much faster

[shadow turret]

My C drive is an SSD, and I had a D drive which I think was also an SSD, but it crashed a while ago and I can't recover or replace it easily
So basically all my games are on an external hard drive rn

[radiant sundial]

no USB-C ports on the laptop, and I have no intention whatsoever to try to screw around with the insdie of this laptop

[crystal iron]

it might be worth also going solid state for your game drive because infinite is one of those games you really want to have an ssd for

[shadow turret]

If I get a new PC I'm getting a 2 TB SSD which I'll put Infinite on
But I physically can't on my laptop rn

[crystal iron]

do you know what laptop it is

[radiant sundial]

lenovo ideapad 3

[crystal iron]

ahhh

[radiant sundial]

it's not even that I'm scared to pop it open, I just have no inclination whatsoever to do so while my xbox still works fine

I also just don't have the space and the money is all dedicated elsewhere

[crystal iron]

tbh a line like lenovo ideapad is not very consumer/repair friendly i sympathize with not wanting to take it apart

plastic clip hell

hp pavilions and dell inspirons are similarly hellish to take apart

[solid canopy]

I'd love to see a level like Reclaimer revisted. I think the idea of a mobile base like an Elephant or a Mammoth serving as a hub is a really solid idea, but one that was let down by admittedly lackluster level design.

[crystal iron]

as long as the 2tb is separate from your os disk (which should also absolutely be solid state)

[solid canopy]

Imagine that but with a much more open space to explore + a ton more attention to detail with the characters

[crystal iron]

that was a pretty cool level can't deny it

[solid canopy]

Like each time you return to the Elephant/Mammoth you can see the various marines and COs have different reactions to events or moods.

Some of my favorite moments in the series is just hearing the characters speak as you exprience a level. And I really like the idea of you on the back of an Elephant moving through the desert, while Marines chatter about the mission at hand.

• I think it'd be cool to go back to giving the Marines more of a presence than the nameless canon fodder most of them have wound up being for the past few installments, alla Johnson, Stacker, and The Chips Dubbo

Also speaking of Stacker, I think its a shame we didn't get to see more of him in Halo 4

His cameo was really cool, but I would've liked to have seen him in person. Maybe he could've been leading a group of Marines that Chief rescues in Infinity, or he sees Chief off at the beginning of Shutdown. Idk

[west rock]

Is it weird to say that I have a problem with the Halo 3 version of Delta Arena not having AR starts?

It should be with the AR, not the MA5K.

[nova basalt]

The avenger is more like the classic ar than the newer one

Higher fire rate, lower damage

[rare pivot]

It worked. Thanks.

[west rock]

More like the Halo 2 SMG

Its a borderline reskin and is a waste of weapon sandbox space imo.

Plus I think the current party system should be removed from the game.

Anyone on a discord call has an inherent advantage over my solo queue and im sick of getting literal bots for teammates while my opponents treat every match like it's an e-sport finals game.

So flat out remove their ability to queue up together. Give us a solo queue mode.

[tame moth]

Another ma5k hater

[west rock]

Yup

And it deserves the hate

[grave ether]

[west rock]

Cool response

But when did I ask?

[grave ether]

[grave ether]

"I don't have friends to squad up with and don't want to put in the effort to find them so instead of doing all that, I'm just going to complain and request that others no longer be allowed to play with their friends so they can be just as miserable as I am"

Did I interpret that right?

[west rock]

Try again with a bit more sincerity and less overly sarcastic snark, maybe you'll actually get some repsect if you do.

[nova basalt]

WAH WAH WAH I don’t like the avenger because the 7 people working on halo infinite couldn’t program a whole new weapon

[glacial tartan]

Solo queue has always been tough, the less players there are the worse it feels

[nova basalt]

Would you rather have NO new weapons?

[grave ether]

I was sincere with that one. The "cool" response was the one where I was just messing around because everyone has their own opinions with what they like

[civic sundial]

MA5K Avenger exists in the way it does because of two reasons;

1. The team doesn't have the people they need to make a fully animated M7 or M20 SMG, as Infinite is supported by a small crew, with their animators no doubt working on the other projects currently in development
2. People had been demanding an MA5K appear in a Halo game since Ghosts of Onyx introduced the weapon
   Considering the above points, they decided that repurposing the animations from the Assault Rifle already in the game would make sense for bringing in the MA5K in the form we got. I'd have preferred a true SMG over it but I'm not too upset given the circumstances

[glacial tartan]

In MCC teams of 4 can block each other, only forcing themselves to match solos. I think thats a bit broken 😄

[civic sundial]

Also like, I feel like calling it a "reskin" is wrong considering that the MA5K Avenger has plenty of differences to the MA40 already in the game, such as fire rate, time to kill and magazine sizes all being different

A reskin would be if it had the exact same stats but was treated like it was a different weapon

[west rock]

So exactly what the fuel rod spnkr is.

AKA "We're too lazy to create an actual model for the fuel rod gun so we just slapped gold paint on a SPNKr and called it a day."

[nova basalt]

Can YOU program and import a whole new weapon?

[west rock]

Modders literally did exactly that.

[civic sundial]

And you have proof of this how?

[west rock]

Because it was covered by multiple community creators? Mint Blitz and HiddenXperia being two examples.

[civic sundial]

Laziness isn't the issue at all. If they don't have the people to impliment something due to a lack of animators, they aren't just going to be able to do it magically

[grave ether]

So... was I wrong then or? Cause

[civic sundial]

Two people who have time and time again been untrustworthy with their sources

Heck, Xperia will look at cracked glass on a screen and claim it's confirmation of the Flood

[coarse dagger]

Friendly reminder that data mined content is not allowed in discussions here

[nova basalt]

Mid new weapons are better than no new weapons

[west rock]

And who's fault is that I wonder?

Maybe the studio that failed upwards for 10 years and got such bad PR that they had to undergo a rebranding? Perhaps?

[civic sundial]

Something tells me you don't know much about how games are actually made

[west rock]

I dont

But I know how incompetent businesses are made.

It's almost like leaving the development of a game that was supposed to (and failed to) last for 10 years up to rotating contract hires instead of bringing on a dedicated team of developers was a terrible idea from the very beginning. A problem that CONTINUES to exist even with the management shake-up.

And that's just the start of the dumb decisions they made.

[glacial tartan]

You may have some valid criticisms but you're undermining yourself in more ways than one. For example, where you are choosing to host your criticism 😄

[radiant sundial]

Have you ever tried to make a game like this before?

[west rock]

I dont have a degree in game design, I have a degree in applied sciences for business and leadership.

Running a business is my irl job.

[radiant sundial]

Answer my question.

[west rock]

And if im being blunt

You dont need to know game design to criticize a studio's bad decisions.

[nova basalt]

That’s an interesting and constructive opinion, thank you for sharing

[radiant sundial]

I don't care what degrees you have, its a yes/no question

[west rock]

Thats like saying you need to be a chef to give criticism on if the food is bad.

It's pretentious and completely ignorant.

[radiant sundial]

Two wildly diffetent scenarios, especially when two people can have wildly different opinions on what counts as bad food

For example I hate chocolate ice cream, and think its bad, my mom on the other hand loves it

[glacial tartan]

But if someone hands you pudding and your friend goes hey thats not ice cream its pudding

[west rock]

You dont need to be a game developer to give criticism on bad game development decisions. You absolutely can and are allowed to criticize it from the perspective of the consumer.

[radiant sundial]

Find a new scenario to draw parallels with or answer my question with a yes or no

[glacial tartan]

You wouldnt yell at them that theyve never made ice cream before

[west rock]

If I go to a restaurant and ask for ice cream, I dont want to be served pudding.

[radiant sundial]

Thats not even what you said lmaoooo

[west rock]

And then get a crybaby story about how I dont know how dessert is made when I ask for ice cream instead.

[radiant sundial]

Bad food ≠ swapped order

Buddy. Cmon, do better.

[nova basalt]

Crybaby? You are the only one complaining about anything, and how 343 wronged you!

[west rock]

If its a food I never wanted nor like then its not good food, and not good service.

[radiant sundial]

Give me a yes or no answer so we can move on already from this braincell draining part o the convo

[coarse dagger]

As riveting as this battle of bad analogies is, why don't we move the conversation on to something else for a while please