halo-discussion

[glacial tartan]

As aforementioned you're wasting your time a bit. You can all leave it as agree to disagree 😄

[west rock]

I already did a few minutes back, I expected a grown adult to be able to see that but apparently I expected too much from you.

[glacial tartan]

Lets discuss how people on the Game Pass version of MCC STILL cannot play matchmaking 😄

Its been at least a week since I've mentioned it here

[west rock]

Or how the PC version is currently suffering from a cheater problem.

I cant play Halo Reach or 3 matchmaking anymore because cheaters are running rampant in the most populated gametypes because the anti-virus/anti-cheat doesnt work.

[glacial tartan]

The cheater problem is very very very small compared to the fact that an entire platform cant play the game in matchmaking. Not to mention its not "the pc version" like you put it. Dont distract from my pet project of getting this fixed!

[west rock]

Considering MCC is cross platform thats a pretty significant issue my guy.

[glacial tartan]

The cheating problem you're describing is massively overblown is my point.

But the game being actually broken is higher priority 😄

[west rock]

Anyone using cheats isnt just ruining lobbies for PC players, they're ruining the game for Xbox player too.

If anything I'd argue that should be at the same level of importance as the game being broken on game pass

Both affect the playability of the game, the divergence is in which part of its playability

[glacial tartan]

Lets agree to disagree then - at least they've acknowledged and taken steps to deal with the cheaters.

Nothing on the game pass stuff yet 😦

[west rock]

Which is also a big problem

Since it affects an entire group of people and their ability to play the game.

[radiant sundial]

Well I'm not a grown adult but okay buddy, also you never directly answered me with a yes or no so quit with the snark (I checked)

[nova basalt]

What crossovers would be cool operations

[radiant sundial]

Anyways I got better stuff to do then lose more braincells, have fun (Air assault is the best mjolnir platform)

[west rock]

Just because I didnt explicitly say yes or no doesnt mean I didnt answer you.

You asked if I knew how to design a game and I said I didnt have any education in it, which would be a no.

That's your fault for not understanding that.

Discussion, over.

[radiant sundial]

I asked if you had tried to make it, not for your resume, but apparently you failed reading comp, oh well moving on now.

[nova basalt]

I’ve lost brain cells just reading all this

[west rock]

Projection isnt a good look for you. I already lost interest in continuing discussing this, I recommend you do the same.

[radiant sundial]

Not projecting anything but ok.

[west rock]

Back onto the topic of MCC

[coarse dagger]

Me: let's move on
Chat: imma just get one more word in

[west rock]

The cheating problem and the game pass version being broken both need to be addressed.

[glacial tartan]

Like I said, the cheating problem is a whack a mole game thats a work in progress. AKA its always, constantly being addressed.

For the game being broken we need to at least get it noticed first 😄

[civic sundial]

You know what is a shame, we never got Unggoy Farmer to celebrate it being 10 years since Hunt the Truth

[glacial tartan]

Would love to see the yapyap playlist again 😦

[west rock]

Why would and should a marketing campaign that turned out to be completely misleading and borderline on false advertisement be celebrated?

[civic sundial]

Huh, not sure what about the gif I sent was prohibited. Oh well

Anyway, I just think Unggoy Farmer was a really fun joke and it's a shame it's something which only ever got mentioned once in all of Halo

[nova basalt]

What did he farm

Space corn?

[radiant sundial]

Unggoy

[nova basalt]

Oh I thought he was just a grunt who farms

[shadow turret]

yea I'm pretty sure that's what it is

its an unggoy farmer

[west rock]

Either way im just frustrated because I feel like im being screwed by the SBMM as a solo queue player, and on top of that my controller just doesnt work smoothly with Infinite (it does with MCC with no problems)

So I feel screwed over if I play anything other than a custom match.

[glacial tartan]

You are being screwed by the SBMM as a solo player. You either "get good" or grab a group of people. Its not 2007 anymore where theres a million people and you'll get into balanced matches more often.

[west rock]

So the solution is basically "deal with it or screw yourself" even though the game being one of the worst in the series is why nobody I know that likes Halo will queue up with me in it.

If I ask to queue up for MCC I get no objections. If I say Infinite I'm told the game isnt even worth the drive space it takes up

[nova basalt]

No, infinite is fun with the right game mode

[grave ether]

Grifball has been a blast and I'm really enjoying the h3 playlist

[west rock]

Really? Because Im having a hard time finding the fun. Because its definitely not in Delta Arena.

[latent pawn]

well screwed in what capacity

[west rock]

Or correction

"Halo 3" Arena

Which is literally just the goddamn H2 DA with remakes of Halo 3 maps.

[latent pawn]

because h2 and h3 play similar enough that the settings work?

[west rock]

The starting weapons are wrong.

[latent pawn]

just like in h2/3 with the br

[nova basalt]

Try fiesta or husky raid

[west rock]

The MA40 should have been the starting weapon for Halo 3 Arena.

[latent pawn]

that isnt very bungie iconic of you to say

it was gonna be the br otherwise the fanbase would lose its mind over it

[west rock]

"Bungie iconic"

My brother in christ Halo 3 naturally had AR starts.

[latent pawn]

ik

but br bungo gungo

[west rock]

Tough for them, this isnt supposed to be about them.

[nova basalt]

So don’t play halo 3 arena! So frickin simple!

[grave ether]

[latent pawn]

you also get to vote for avenger starts by only queueing that

br or avenger is literally a contest to see what stays for quickplay or whatever

[west rock]

How about remove both?

Give us an AR start legacy slayer mode.

And disable power weapon timers and locations on the HUD.

Then we'll have a proper legacy slayer mode.

[nova basalt]

I love how the avenger with platinum anniversary looks like a bullpup Pulse Rifle from aliens

[civic sundial]

It just sounds like you want to play Halo 3

[west rock]

Isnt that the whole point of this event?

To be nothing but Halo 3 nostalgia pandering?

The least they could do is do it properly and stop halfway.

[nova basalt]

Maybe you should just get to be the CEO of halo studios and do everthing right.

[latent pawn]

thats antithetical to accessible design and doesnt really help anyone removing it beyond gigasweats who set iphone alarms for whenever someone so much as looks at a power item

the amount of times you see even solid onyx dudes forget about the timers even when they're literally visible is enough to say they can stay lmao

legit doesnt hurt anybody to keep

[latent pawn]

and yes its literally just a funsies throwback thing to have a classic spin on infinite

it aint that deep

[west rock]

Accessible design is corpo speak for "we think our players are too stupid to memorize the maps and need to hold their hand"

[nova basalt]

It NeEdS To bE 100% HaLo 3 AcCuRaTe oR It SuCkS!!!1!

[west rock]

Funny how every Halo game prior to 5 and Infinite got by just fine without that addition.

It's almost like memorizing weapon spawns and the maps to learn map control was the point of the previous games.

Funny how this game survived decades without ever needing a timer or massive blip on the HUD to point out where all the power weapons are.

[grave ether]

Is such a small addition truly that bothersome to you or is it just something else you can complain about? Is there anything you actually like?

[west rock]

I liked the sandbox and some of the slayer modes, until they screwed it up with the current SBMM system.

And some of the newer weapons

[grave ether]

Liked

[west rock]

Yeah, keyword, liked.

[grave ether]

You complain a lot for someone that has been playing the whole time they've been chatting here and currently in a match.

Surly there are things you could do that you actually enjoy and don't cause you so much frustration and distress

[west rock]

Its almost like im trying to find where the fun is or if I was flat out lied to about the game being better

[tame moth]

Man, cant a man enjoy ma5k, fuel rod and mutilator

[grave ether]

apparently not. There is no fun to be had

[tame moth]

Just like uny said

“No fun allowed”

[grave ether]

The real fun was hating things along the way

[west rock]

Unironically more fun than the current state of Infinite.

[tame moth]

Sure buddy…

There is no fun in hating

[west rock]

Im sure someone will believe that lie eventually.

But then again I'm not surprised the paid moderator is going to bat for this game.

[grave ether]

Wait, I'm supposed to get paid!? BRUH

[west rock]

If you do this for free that's even more sad.

Either way you have a bias to speak in favor of the game and the studio

[grave ether]

Sure friendo

[grave ether]

It's one thing to share things you want changed and fixed, it's another to constantly be nothing but a Debbie downer.
I'm not even speaking in favor of anything, just pointing out how negative and pessimistic you are being and refusing to give anything a fair chance and enjoy it for what it is or move on and do something you actually like.

If you truly enjoy hating on things for the sake of hating on things, you are more than welcome to find another place, because this ain't it.

[nova basalt]

What a whiny little hater.

Complaining this much over a mid video game.

[grave ether]

For moderation concerns, you can DM @upbeat plover

[west rock]

And will that actually be listened to? Or are will someone delete my DM too?

[latent pawn]

accessible design just means that the barriers of entry are easier for players to get into the game

something you kinda need if you want the population to be sustainable especially in an ever expanding and rather overcrowded market

[west rock]

Accessible design is one thing.

Regressive design is another, and thats what marked timers and locations for power weapons is.

[latent pawn]

it literally hurts nobody

[west rock]

It's discouraging actually memorizing the maps since the game does it for you.

[latent pawn]

a good player would already memorize it especially if they're a classic veteran

[civic sundial]

Regressive implies that it was a thing which was there before then removed, then brought back again

[west rock]

Yeah because they put in the time and effort to learn those maps. The game didnt spoonfeed that information to them.

They had to learn the respawn timings and power weapon locations entirely on their own.

[latent pawn]

which is dandy and all but its a nice to have feature because i would rather not set iphone alarms and do mental spreadsheets of what weapon is what tier and thus the respawn timer math and guesstimate when the enemy wouldve taken it based on last seen knowledge from teammate callouts

i would rather just shoot a guy

and say he's one shot top mid

[west rock]

You can still do that

You'll just be disadvantaged to not learn the maps you play on.

[civic sundial]

Heck, you sometimes don't even need to say, you can ping them to let teammates know exactly where an enemy is

[latent pawn]

another good accessibility thing

its just handy to have

[civic sundial]

Indeed

[boreal slate]

I like being able to mark the power weapon spawns before they actually come up

I don't typically play with a mic so it's a great alternative to tell my team "hey someone go grab this"

[latent pawn]

see now someone's getting it

[civic sundial]

Aye

[latent pawn]

its a really handy tool to be able to ping for teammates to start setting up on

[wooden briar]

lol I was just noticing this.

[boreal slate]

as for whether or not those icons should be removed for the classic playlist, I find them to be a great quality of life change for those of us who don't know when the restart timer for weapons or powerups actually starts because we weren't the ones using them

[latent pawn]

if there's no notice to ping then you only get to ping when it spawns proper, which you got maybe like 2s max if people play it right

[latent pawn]

rule of thumb is every 3 minutes elapsed in game btw

[boreal slate]

oh neat

[latent pawn]

not 3 minutes from pickup or deletion like other items

so in a 12 minute game there's the one off spawn, then at 9 minutes left, 6...

[boreal slate]

ye I getcha

[latent pawn]

but when you're busy shooting and scooting its easy to lose track of the time so that timer for the last 30s is just... nice to have so you can reshift your focus for what clearly should be done next

[boreal slate]

exactly what I was gonna say lol
without the icons and without knowing that rule of thumb there's a lot of mental juggling going on when you can just shoot the other guys

[latent pawn]

rack items like a needler are around 45-90s from deletion/depletion btw

depends on the item

[boreal slate]

there's also the juggling of "if it's on the ground" vs. "is someone gonna pick it up" vs" does someone already have it and they're just not using it" etc. etc.

[latent pawn]

thats what th edeletion/depletion is

[boreal slate]

ahh I see

[latent pawn]

only when a shotgun is out of ammo or despawns from nobody touching it does it start the respawn

[grave ether]

The amount of times I've seen people completely ignore the weapon spawn and timer and just walk over to it and grab it uncontested is laughable

[latent pawn]

in more casual modes though youll see it start the respawn process soon as the item is picked up

but ranked its all locked to deletion/depletion

[wooden briar]

I always lose out to those Black Friday campers who just sit on the item/vehicle spawn until it appears.

[boreal slate]

I wish I saw more people going for the plasma grenade combat evolved strat on power weapon spawns

[nova basalt]

Hey, if I was there first, it’s mine!

[wooden briar]

That was one of the underrated innovations of H5 WZ's Req system: empowering individual players to choose what they want instead of being victim a lottery.

[west rock]

If only teamkilling was allowed in this game.

[boreal slate]

you used to see them all the time on launch but now it's as if it's been patched out of the game entirely

[grave ether]

Not if my game detects me pressing X first

[west rock]

H5 Warzone was also pay to win since you could just buy a ton of REQ packs to get the best weapon and vehicle variants.

[boreal slate]

BTB or Grifball has that in spades lmao

[wooden briar]

No argument there. I just tire of the "Sold Out" sign on every item/vehicle spawn

[west rock]

Its why I only played Arena in 5.

[grave ether]

Grifball and Ranked exist. Go have fun betraying people

[civic sundial]

The series has always discouraged team killing, regardless of friendly fire being on, the point was to make you think a bit more when you have a rocket launcher or similar weapon

[west rock]

343 couldn't pay me to play Infinite ranked.

And Grifball is undoubtedly the worst special gametype ever created.

[civic sundial]

I didn't pay a single dime and unlocked everything Halo 5 had in the REQ system

[wooden briar]

So you have no personal knowledge of whether WZ was P2W or not because you just admitted to never playing it. By design, it was not pay-to-win: your two level 6 Reqs in a 20-minute 12v12 match would not turn the tide ever.

[nova basalt]

Nah grifball got me 3 consecutive weekly challenges done in three days each

[civic sundial]

Gotta complain to Burnie Burns for that then, 343/HS didn't create Grifball

[nova basalt]

But it wasn’t enough to get me hayabusa 😢

[grave ether]

[civic sundial]

Huh, I still have this meme about Burnie Burns and Grifball saved

[grave ether]

lol

[civic sundial]

I need to see what else I have which is RT related saved still

I know I have some RWBY memes, some of which I obtained from a Volume 9 crew member, others from elsewhere...

And I definitely have a bunch of RvB ones saved

[nova basalt]

I am Michael J Caboose! And I hate babies!

New topic: what is the best featured game mode

I like grifball and alpha zombies

[tame moth]

Last spartan standing

I miss that mode

[tired sand]

is there a way to revert mcc to an older version so that i can do rubys rebalanced halo 3

[civic sundial]

Isn't Ruby Of Blue gonna revisit that one after they're done with Halo 2 Rebalanced?

[gentle basalt]

Was that always the case? I don’t remember it in the earlier games

[boreal slate]

Grifball has always been a hotbed of teamkills just because of how the gravity hammer works

[gentle basalt]

You must not have played Last Spartan Standing

[boreal slate]

BTB is more tame in comparison but there's always someone who gets run over by a friendly vehicle somehow

[nova basalt]

Usually me

[gentle basalt]

✋🏻 that would be me

[boreal slate]

yep lol

[gentle basalt]

I get killed by more friendly Ghosts than enemies

[nova basalt]

If I’m going to kill the enemy flag carrier, then I just kill anyone in the way

[warm turtle]

i've gotten ran over by marines in campaign... several times

they are not good at driving

[gentle basalt]

The mistake there is letting Marines drive

They’re only good for one thing: body shields

[nova basalt]

Nah give them skewers and cinder shots and they are demons

[gentle basalt]

Hell no I’m taking the cindershot. They can have a Mangler instead

[warm turtle]

they can be useful in a fight, if they dont die immediately

[gentle basalt]

I mostly use them for Grunt or Jackal bait

Never, and I mean never, do I let them drive

[warm turtle]

its like the devs intentionally made them bad at driving

[gentle basalt]

I think that’s canon with the books

[civic sundial]

Nah, it's not a canon thing, the AI for marines to drive is just bad

[gentle basalt]

It should be canon at this point then

[warm turtle]

the covenant driving ai seems to be significantly better for some reason

[gentle basalt]

At least they can do SOME thing right. Can’t shoot worth anything

[tame moth]

How dare you

[gentle basalt]

Oh I dare! It was nothing but a camper’s paradise

[tame moth]

True

[cunning oyster]

So I learned I’m left eyed dominant. I have to aim to the left of the enemy player’s hit box to successfully defeat them.

Essentially I’m misaligned.

[grave ether]

How does that work? Wouldn't looking at the crosshair mean that you are looking at the cross hair?

[cunning oyster]

No. Essentially what I’m seeing is a misalignment with both eyes open. My center is with my left eye. If I close it my right eye is way off note. It’s not healthy to close your right eye. So I have to realign my crosshair on the enemies left shoulder. That’s where center of where my crosshair should be.

[grave ether]

I get how that works in a 3d environment, I'm just not understanding how that works on a flat 2d screen setting. I would think that whatever the cross hair is on should be basically be hitscan on target without the binocular vision distortion of picking an eye

[cunning oyster]

I don’t really know either. I aim my crosshair to the right and all my shots kiss. I aim my crosshair to the enemies left should and suddenly I’m going on killing spree.

[grave ether]

Whatever works, don't question it!

[rotund zenith]

Wacky, been right eye dominant all my life so ive never had to readjust or anything. The 3d glasses phase of media pissed me off though

[sullen mica]

Hey i kinda wanted to throw this out here. But anyone else feel like Halo Infinite is the best casual f2p game out rn? thats just a good ol fashioned fps game?

I find myself coming back to it with always something to do and never feel like its a sweat fest.

[tulip tusk]

yea i enjoy the customs and forge. helldivers 2 is fun when i wanna play a game with population

[sullen mica]

also never feel pushed to spend money to get a good amount of cosmetics.

[sullen mica]

I find Infinite to be pretty populated. no issues finding firefight matches or people for pvp

HD2 is great tho. i like i dont have to spend any money on that game but the 40$ i spent

i have all WBs and not a single dime has been spent on SC

[tulip tusk]

i wish infinite was but its very dependent on time of day. and customs is less pop than mcc. i think it deserves high population but doesnt

[rotund zenith]

The tier 1 supercredit grind is real

[sullen mica]

maybe its cause i mostly play afternoons on EST but ive had tons of good games over the last few weeks

[sullen mica]

so real. still missing 3 wbs if im being honest but like they arent very good so im skipping em

[cunning oyster]

MCC is pretty populated. I find BTB’s to be the better place to play though. Can at-least go positive.

[sullen mica]

I wish i liked MCCs progression for cosmetics

[rotund zenith]

Babe wake up its time to find the golden moas

[cunning oyster]

I wish they hadn’t locked the ODST firefight characters behind a pass. Bad for game preservation when the servers shutdown.

[sullen mica]

like why cant it just be like Infinite if we had infinites leveling and bp progression in MCC it would be a no brainer

[sullen mica]

I dont think it will matter when you can just mod on pc

[glacial tartan]

They did increase the number of spartan points from challenges once

It was out for 1 week and I guess they determined players were getting too many and reverted it the next week

[glacial tartan]

Its not fully thought out - for example, I have wayyyy too many spartan points with nothing to buy 😦

[sullen mica]

the challenges just are too tedious for me

[glacial tartan]

I understand completely. The golden moas are a great start every week and take less than a minute to do 😄

[cunning oyster]

I kinda wish they just kept the TDM challenges on for the rest of the time.

Nobody plays objective no more.

[sullen mica]

I enjoy Infinites customization abit more too

[glacial tartan]

That’s fair. I haven’t really played since launch and it was eh there

[sullen mica]

its really good now

[crystal iron]

much better than before

lots of gamemodes

a classic playlist
customs works better and has a browser

plenty of high quality UGC (user generated content)

[sullen mica]

i like that i can grind out a pass then buy another pass for free

[crystal iron]

my 2 biggest complaints are hammer/spnkr inconsistency and that there's just no sense of progression. there is zero meaning tied to the armor you wear

[tame moth]

There is the chief armor at hero

[crystal iron]

yeah that's pretty much it

[sullen mica]

wdym? theres plenty of progression imo. you grind to get spartan points to get gear from the spartan store and you can grind passes which i doubt everyone has all passes maxed out

[tame moth]

I dont care much about progression, so eh

[sullen mica]

if you have every spartan store item and every pass item then you kinda completed the progression

[crystal iron]

imo it says a lot that they implemented spartan points instead of letting people grind for free cr

[sullen mica]

wdym? wouldn't grinding for CR kinda go against the point of their cash shop? id understand if the game was 60$ or something but Infinite is free so they cant really afford to pull a HD2 specially with how little people play.

[crystal iron]

charging $40 for a pack of skins also goes against the point of their cash shop

if they wanted to see real money, more money, they would charge less, because then more people would buy it

[sullen mica]

packs should be cheaper but making CR earnable would remove any reason to pay for things and thus we would lose a lot of support the game is getting it would be basically abandoned like MCC

[crystal iron]

there already is no reason to pay for things except to get that cosmetic you like

[sullen mica]

right so by ur logic we should be able to earn CR and not have to pay for cosmetics in the game?

[onyx latch]

They're tempmuted, so you're likely not gonna hear back from them for at least a day. Though I'm sure you figured that out already.

[sullen mica]

i noticed it as soon as I sent my reply. So its all good. how are you doing tho.

[onyx latch]

My answer is problably not appropriate for this channel nor this server.

So we'll say I'm fine enough and I'll leave it at that.

[sullen mica]

man :C i hope ur day gets better atleast.

[sullen mica]

anyone know if theres a way to download halo 2 without halo 2 anni graphics on steam

almost 30gbs for halo 2 is abit much

[solemn portal]

You can't.

Well, there's Halo 2 Vista...

[sullen mica]

but no mod on steam that just deletes them?

[solemn portal]

That's not how workshop mods work...

[sullen mica]

i remember being able to use gmod workshop files to get CS Source files without owning the game. Im sure there has gotta be a mod that removes anniversary mode from Halo 2

[radiant sundial]

the anniversary graphics aren't the reason the game is 30gb....

[sullen mica]

why is halo 2 campaign 30gbs and others are like 8gbs to 12gbs halo 2 is more gbs than halo 4 campagin

[radiant sundial]

you could also, yknow, just, not use the anniverary graphics

[radiant sundial]

have you considered the fact that CE also has an anniverary mode and apparently doesn't have the issue

it's not the textures buddy

the textures are not THAT high res

[sullen mica]

CE Anni legit looks no where as good as Halo 2 Anni also Halo 2 Anni was built for the Xbox One adn CE Anni built for the 360

[sullen mica]

so why is it 30gbs then

[radiant sundial]

because of literally everything else in the game? aka the stuff that actually takes up more than 3-5 GB at most?

[sullen mica]

what is it then?

[radiant sundial]

... literally the entire rest of the game...

how much more of an explanation do you need

[sullen mica]

so the campaign is 30gbs cause of the game?

[radiant sundial]

the campaign, the multiplayer, the models used for weapons, characters, literally everything

not every game is gonna be small

[sullen mica]

you do know the campaign for Halo 2 Anni is 30gbs and the multiplayer is 20gbs right?

[radiant sundial]

I didn't know they were separate downloads but the multiplayer already being 20gb should tell you something about how much the campaign, which has a lot more than the multiplayer, is going to be in terms of file size

[sullen mica]

Halo 1 3 odst and reach together are smaller file size than all of Halo 2 Anni

[radiant sundial]

have you considered just getting over it

[sullen mica]

halo 2 anni is larger file size than halo 4 and you're telling me its not that the game has 2 seperate textures

[radiant sundial]

CE also has two seperate textures, I HIGHLY doubt that the textures add any more than 3-5 GB of files

[sullen mica]

So you have nothing to add cool. All you did is come in here lie then tell me to get over asking a technical question. are you 5 years old or something.

[sullen mica]

all of CE and textures is 9gbs

[radiant sundial]

I'm not even lying lmfao, you're griping over the smallest possible thing to

[radiant sundial]

that should tell you something

[sullen mica]

you said halo 2 is 30gbs cause of multiplayer

[sullen mica]

sooooo halo 2 the newer halo game being 30gbs is what sound files?

[radiant sundial]

I did not know they were seperate downloads, I said that after

[sullen mica]

why dont you enlighten me on how to make my game file smaller

[radiant sundial]

are you forgetting the models used to make literally everything?

[sullen mica]

how many files do the models take up then?

[radiant sundial]

which I already brought up

[grave ether]

You can't.
A quick google search tells me that the files are so large due to the huge pre rendered cutscenes that blur made instead of using the in-game engine/live cutscenes like the other games and that makes sense to me

[sullen mica]

could i delete those files or replace them with lower rez cutscenes

[grave ether]

I highly doubt it

[tame moth]

You can change the ones in infinite, i dont see why not mcc

Unless different systems are used

[sullen mica]

you can change most of the video files in MCC already

[tulip tusk]

idk

[cunning oyster]

People get upset about kill stealing. I have the solution. Just wait for your teammates to die, and then claim the kills of the players they damaged.

[rare pivot]

I've never seen a game crash as much as Infinite.

[sullen mica]

I havent had any crashes

just awful texture bugs

[rare pivot]

I literally cannot play the game right now.

It either crashes on startup, during loading, or on the main menu.

Great.

Incredible.

[radiant sundial]

that's definitely a driver issue

[rare pivot]

It's a game issue.

[radiant sundial]

my friend had a similar issue with the game where it crashed an absurd amount

it's definitely a driver issue lol, it fixed when he rolled back the drivers

hell even on my end the only time it crashes is if I try to force my xbox one to do something else alongside infinite like launching another app, but that's because my xbox is old as heck

[rare pivot]

It crashes when I use Steam Remote Play.

[grave ether]

Try the Xbox store version. More stable

[gray plinth]

It really just the game I mean when I boot up MCC it runs alright but Infinite it's 3 minutes or 5 seconds and when it's back to normal frames Im dead to the Grunt's on fire fight Gruntpocalypse

like seriously we got to report this to Halo Studios/343 for them to fix their game

[civic sundial]

You know there's a support site, right?

[craggy wadi]

has anyone run into the login splash screen not loading? it turns black for me can't put in my credentials

[tulip tusk]

thats a common prob u can prob find fix in community self help

[versed holly]

Do we know what the next operation will be? Just finished the current and slowly doing one of the older ones

[tame moth]

Halo 4, operation reclaimer

[versed holly]

Do we have a preview of the battle pass yet?

[tame moth]

Probs, idk where if we do

[short flower]

So I can afford the Hayabusa helmet, but I’d literally be left with 950 spartan points, so I’m gonna wait until I’m done with last stand to buy it.

[frosty anchor]

Man it's weird to me that Halo 4 is old enough to be nostalgia bait, and that it'll work on me.

[sullen mica]

Any mods fpr mcc yall suggest?

Looking for fun time wasters like campaign mods or new ways to play the game

[shadow turret]

Not fully afaik but I belive its the Venator armor

[sharp grove]

Yo I’m trying to make Kurt 0-51’s armor while being new to this whole armor customization system do yall have any suggestions?

[civic sundial]

Are you going for Kurt's Mjolnir from before he trained the IIIs or the SPI armour he wore?

[signal ivy]

Kurt after Onyx

[civic sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/smoked-food-gordon-ramsay-uncharted-pour-it-in-ash-gif-23343839

[sharp grove]

I think the spi (my bad for not clarifying)

[civic sundial]

Ah, basically just default for everything then

On the Mirage core in Halo Infinite

And then a golden visor, such as Noble or Wulfenite Eyes (Which is in the Exchange)

[sharp grove]

Bet thanks man 🙏

[civic sundial]

For coatings, find something close to this

(And yes, this is what Kurt looked like)

[keen silo]

Interesting. I never really had a mental image for Kurt sans helmet. I like it though, he looks like a Kurt

[civic sundial]

Gotta love the 2022 encyclopaedia for giving us the faces for a bunch of the book characters

[sullen mica]

is there any resources to fix the Halo Wars 2 pc port

[glacial tartan]

There are not any resources

[sullen mica]

so Halo Wars 2 pc port is just perma borked?

[inland minnow]

if you just downloaded it and it wont open, search your pc for an app called just Halo and delete it. the halo app is discontinued but is still bundled with hw2. same happens with h5forge on pc

[sullen mica]

The game is broken on pc beyond that. tons of graphical and audio issues. im talking about like has anyone properlly patched/released mods for it that fix the game and make it more stable

[inland minnow]

you're probably better off asking in mod spaces then, since this server is for official/halo studios stuff only

[onyx latch]

I always imagined Kurt having a really thick mustache for some reason. A real soup catcher. Like, no facial hair aside from that mustache and his eyebrows

[sullen mica]

Kinda thought the halo server would have more info on modding cause it covers every aspect of the community and modding being a thing microsoft mainly put effort into for games like MCC

also annoying when all anyone can respond with in relation to questions about the games techincal states is just misinformation or telling me my issue doesnt need fixing

[glacial tartan]

Remember a few minutes ago when I told you there is no support

[sullen mica]

Cool ima still talk about it you should remember ur not incharge of what others can say online

[celest heron]

a dev or modders talking about stuff in this server is pretty rare. you might find more answers in general in the halo mods server, but you shouldn't expect devs in there.

[glacial tartan]

You can talk about whatever you want, my point is there’s likely no official resources for it here there or anywhere. So discuss at length but acknowledge your circumstances.

[sullen mica]

Im not expecting devs of mods to come in and answer my question. Im kinda hoping people who have played the games to share their experiences or mods they have used. But to just go "dont expect people here to have used mods" is abit silly

[celest heron]

I didn't say that. I said it's rare that it's discussed.

[sullen mica]

Its what was implied.

[celest heron]

well then your interpretation was wrong, but like I said, halo mods would probly be a better place for more info.

[warm wraith]

This has been an interesting 48 minutes.

• Activated an XP boost for the first time.
• Was in queue for around 5 minutes then got into game.
• Was a fairly quick slayer game
• I have since been in queue for around 38 minutes
• I have tried Grifball, Quick play, and Halo 3 Legacy
• It says Estimated wait is 1m 35s. The biggest lie I have read today.

[celest heron]

restart infinite

[warm wraith]

Already done that. Twice.

2 minutes left. Will try another restart.

Yeah. A total of one hour queuing using an xp boost for a total of one game. What a waste.

[celest heron]

is your search region set to expanded?

[tame moth]

I get less then 1min on que with region set to local, yall must be in some far regions

[celest heron]

they're in the EU so likely less populated.

[warm wraith]

Of all the times I have played Infinite, this evening was the longest I have ever had to queue for a match, trying all the steps to just get into anything

[sullen mica]

i mainly grind Firefight and Delta so i have no issues with matchmaking

[crystal iron]

if you are ok with grinding for below minimum wage to get the cosmetics you want.
helldivers 2 is the same- even if you fully optimize the grind it's ~600 an hour
being able to get free cR would not ruin halo's monetization system, it would actually alleviate some of its problems, and of course swiping that card will always be the better option

[sullen mica]

wouldn't making cosmetics actually cheaper not do the same? like bundles being 5$ would do the same

also helldivers 2 is a 40$ game Halo Infinite is free

[crystal iron]

ideally we would get both, but realistically we are getting neither. 343i/haloS is more interested in getting money from whales than the masses

since we have no way to get free cR it really has no point of existing except to obfuscate the amount you're spending and the amount things cost
they could replace cR pricing with real currency pricing, just completely gut the middle man, and it would genuinely be a better system
but they won't do it because cR always leaves a bag of change in your pocket, which incentivizes you to spend again to "get your money's worth" and try to 0 your cR balance
the "extra" cR you get from $20, $50, $100 card swipes is another tug to spend where you may have otherwise decided against it. it is not "extra", it is directly accounted for. Note the 2200cR bundles for example

[sullen mica]

so ur mad over the montization efforts of like every game on the market? even the "good ones" like HD2 and Warframe also do the whole "leaving spare change" in ur pocket

[crystal iron]

i wouldn't say mad, just disappointed and observant

[sullen mica]

Fair. my point is the cash shop has to be made in a way to force spending cause Halo wont survive without it. not cause halo studios wants it but cause Microsoft will nuke it the moment its not deemed "profitable"

its a lesser of two evils we either get free seasons and spartan points but are forced to buy CR. or We get 0 game updates and a abandoned project till we get a unnecessary remake "CE Remake"

[crystal iron]

it really surprises me they will not budge on store prices because that is the #1 complaint people have, that is the #1 reason so many people choose not to spend. per-person they would make less, but would having more people spend not be a net positive?

[sullen mica]

There is a silent majority. people who voice complaints usually go out of their way to enter spaces where their voices will be heard. You dont really hear anyone mention they like spending money at all. unless its some indies which people like to mention.

Someone could explain it better than I can. But Honestly I think infinite could be way worse. Im actually happy at where the game is right now. I can create characters im happy with, the spartan points ontop of passes gives me a reason to grind

I just ignore the store. most of it doesnt look good imo and is in the territory of "too flashy" i like making spartans that feel in universe

[crystal iron]

yeah im not big on the flashy stuff but i shell out for the down to earth stuff

[frosty anchor]

Does anyone know if the Wetwork helmet is in Infinite? I could have sworn I saw it in some promotion art or something lately, just can't find it in game

[shadow turret]

It isnt rn, but I believe it's releasing next Op

[white birch]

Next one or the one after.
Probably next.

[shadow turret]

Next is H4 armor
And I'm pretty sure it was shown off in the devstream for Last Stand

[white birch]

There's key art for it.

[frosty anchor]

Yeah I definitely saw it somewhere I'm certain

🤷
A Halo 4 season would be sweet

[crystal iron]

wow i did not realize that you dont need a paid xbox live or game pass sub to play halo infinite online

you really just need a "box"

W

were purchaseable points in MCC previously considered because they considered it too could go free2play?

[civic sundial]

No, it was considered because they needed an avenue to keep money flowing in to support MCC, people complained about the idea and they pulled the plug on letting people buy points in MCC

[crystal iron]

tbh i think it would have been more permissible if they at least hinted at the idea of making it free2play in exchange

[civic sundial]

They never said they planned on making MCC free to play

Like, as far as I know, no plans to make MCC free to play were ever there

[smoky wave]

Making optional payments or microtransactions is not always an indicative of making the game free2play

Plenty of paid games has this

[crystal iron]

what's the diff between base equipment and power equipment

[crystal iron]

yeah im not saying it would, but it would make mtx an easier pill to swallow if it were going f2p

[frosty anchor]

Am I awful for thinking that the paid Spartan points thing would have been fine, as long as items were still reasonably accessible through game play?

[pure vault]

Imagine how weird it would be to live as the main character in a video game, and losing your free will the moment the player takes control.

I'd feel horrible for Noble Six. Fighting waves of Covenant for days between Pillar of Autumn and Lone Wolf, trying your best to survive, only to then get possessed by a speed runner who sprints to the explosive barrels and punches them.

[sturdy kernel]

Noble Six still alive

When player returning back to Reach campaign he returning back

[crystal iron]

assault is a crazy map

our filter RN is the dead scarab snow zone with the camos

[onyx latch]

No.

In hindsight the kneejerk complaints were a major factor in them no longer supporting MCC; You need to justify work with money.

[glacial tartan]

It was such a major factor that they immediately dropped the "conversation", never proposed any further monetization, and continued with major releases for a year and a half (ish) after

Game still has a $40 price tag most of the year and we have zero idea how necessary that funding was (or how much revenue they make/lose curently). Happy to speculate though 😄

[glacial tartan]

Paid Spartan Points were a weird idea because your long term players will never buy them (They have too many) and the exchange is built in a way that you're going to buy spartan points and....sit for years waiting for an item you want to rotate back in?

[civic sundial]

It was also really easy to earn them in game too, since every level rewarded you with a point and you had challenges which gave you plenty as well

And it's not like there was anything which cost 100 points in MCC

[glacial tartan]

They added that retroactively around the same time but long term you're right.

(it was originally only the first 100 levels, now its all 330)

[civic sundial]

Aye

[glacial tartan]

Here I am, one of the heaviest consumers of your product (probably) with 2000+ spartan points. Monetize me 😄

[civic sundial]

It does feel like it was something not too thought out at the point they said "Hey, this is something we're thinking of doing with MCC, are you guys ok with this?". Not in the "They're greedy for our money" and more "Is there anything here we could fund additional stuff with here which isn't intrusive to what MCC is"

I wouldn't be surprised if down the road, something akin to a cosmetic shop as seen in Infinite would've been added, but that definitely would be controversial

[glacial tartan]

It was presented as a conversation topic and completely dropped with no back and forth with the community whatsoever. To be fair though by that point I dont think MCC had any CMs assigned for that kind of work

[civic sundial]

I just remember allot of people not approving of the idea in the community

[glacial tartan]

A monetization scheme with no roadmap at the time they decided to do it was just pulling blood from a stone.

Who waits until their playerbase is at the lowest its been to try to monetize a poorly designed system with no explanation of where that money would go

I will pay the development costs to update the games playlists myself 😄 But its not about money, it never has been

[cinder sandal]

Grifball got ruined

[civic sundial]

How?

[celest heron]

It was also a bit of bad timing cause it was during that time where mtx was a hot topic in other games and getting backlash.

maybe doing paid private servers could've been an option although trying anything in a dying game would be a hard sell.

[glacial tartan]

Circular problem here. Kill the game, say they cant do anything because the game is dead, repeat

[celest heron]

yeah, and I'd also guess it's a higher up issue as well when mcc is becoming yesterday's news.

[glacial tartan]

Maybe a monetization scheme AFTER you've concluded the constant seasonal content is a bit of a miss

[onyx latch]

Ans they were never heard from again...

[grave ether]

Died from teamkilling

[civic sundial]

They should've not become Grif, everyone knows Grif must die in Grifball

[feral vale]

Teamkillers on that mode should get put in their own playlist called GriefBall

[civic sundial]

Nah, teamkilling is part of Grifball (Though don't go in with the specific purpose of killing your teammates)

[cinder sandal]

Im plenty good at grifball. Had 180k kills on mcc and 800k on og reach. The sword physics and the way the hammer being so slow and inconsistent is why it’s bad and the bomb runner gets no range and hardly ever has enough health for more than one kill with it. It will sadly never be like reach or as good I’m afraid 🥲

[gray plinth]

@cedar spindle I left a Guide for fixing the Frames Drop Lag problem that we all have it in Frames randomly Drop and click on the Youtube link

[civic sundial]

So glad @ everyone doesn't work here

[frozen quarry]

Hey guys i just finished the halo infinite campaign and i really enjoyed it do you think i should get the MCC now because of the steam sale?

[glacial tartan]

Its undeniably worth the $40, let alone when its on sale for $10 - so, while admittedly biased, I would say yes

[frozen quarry]

Ok, ty for the opinion

[crystal iron]

6 good games for $10 is hard to beat

[wheat lark]

Definitely will keep you busy with the amount of content

Just finished the LASO playlist on CE

T&R will haunt my dreams

[tame moth]

As it should

[zenith zinc]

Oh yes absolutely

[solid canopy]

Go for it

[crystal iron]

it sticks reach as the first game, i recommend going through release order instead. and for combat evolved specifically, classic graphics. imo classic sounds too, but thats more subjective

[celest heron]

I don't get why people try to revive teammates when they're the last stand instead of just hiding when the ai barely have any hill time. most of the time they just die cause of the amount of enemies and then we lose the game.

[jade lantern]

YES

[jade lantern]

I hate when people do that

[gray plinth]

why not use the repair station rather then get killed for reviving your team mates

[celest heron]

it's not on all the maps.

[smoky tinsel]

Honestly I wish if the Halo 3 advertising would come in the next halo game (not a remaster). But it’s a big question if there will be another

[short flower]

House of Reckoning training arena should not be a firefight map.

[tame moth]

Why?

[civic sundial]

People begged for House of Reckoning to be made into a Firefight map, be weird to remove it now

[crystal iron]

i dont get the opposite personally

[civic sundial]

Living to die another day is better than dying while surrounded by enemies when teammates have a timer on when they auto-respawn

[crystal iron]

assess the risk- being last stand does not inherently mean "time to hide for 30s/1min"- thin them out and then if it's safe enough go for res

[humble light]

yes mcc is 117% worth it

[rigid herald]

House of Reckoning is the worst firefight map for xp.

In terms of last stand, I usually see what type of enemies there are in the hill. If I'm full shields and there are maybe 5 or so grunts, normal. I can safely revive without threat since a full shield will hold and you'll revive them just before you die and you get a nice overshield. (Sometimes that overshield you get for reviving is very important when it comes to taking back the hill, especially if there are yap yaps.) If the hill is full of yap yaps, I'll retreat and more or less snipe them until my team respawns.

If my team is full of noobs that avoid the hill like a plague, then I'll just let the match end as I'm not watching 20 minutes of people dying back and forth.

Hills 1, 2 and 3 are forgiving and does allow for some people not to engage with the hill. Its doable with two decent players. Hill 4 requires more skill or more people, at least 3 in the hill. Hill 5 is unforgiving and if you have a teammate who is slacking, you'll be in for a bad time. Everyone has to pull their weight.

[uncut escarp]

Hi, I was sent here by copilot as a means to give feedback to 343 industries and Microsoft Studios to not forget about the Halo Wars 2 early adopters who got the game and season pass before the complete edition and have been waiting for an Awakening the Nightmare sale for several years. Copilot also has a lot of out of date information which it recognizes when you tell it after instructions and reality differ. Is there a fellow Spartan that could direct me where I could give this feedback? Also noticed Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault stopped having sales.

[civic sundial]

Awakening the Nightmare wasn't part of the Halo Wars 2 season pass

And uh... Maybe don't trust AI for information on anything, given how often they have been wrong about things

[onyx latch]

... You needed copilot to tell you to go to a Discord server?

... Wait, you had Copilot make that message too, didn't you.

[uncut escarp]

If your answer adds nothing of value to the question please do not sideline. A) ADV Eon, please read my message again. I never stated it was part of the season pass. B) Trenchbird, I use forums. I tried copilot for the first time to check what it is. I am probably twice your age. I write my own messages.

[rotund zenith]

Waiting to buy something for the price of a sandwich is respectable

[civic sundial]

This comes across as you stating it is part of the season pass

[uncut escarp]

Q: What have they been waiting for? A: sale.

[rotund zenith]

Read the rest of the sentence

[rigid herald]

Is awakening the nightmare not available individually or do you just want a sale for it?

[uncut escarp]

It's available individually. Only complete edition and base game go on sale. When complete edition is on sale it goes for about 1 USD lower than the DLC. English is my third language so price is very approximate as not US based.

[rigid herald]

£19.99 by the looks of it.

I'm assuming you have everything but this dlc.

Unfortunately I can't find any keys in stock from the web and this isn't really a support issue to reporting it to the devs is irrelevant. Considering Support for the game is cut and the focus appears to be the complete game, I'd say you are out of luck.

It's purely up to the marketing team.

Halo Wars 1 is currently on sale for £4 on steam.

[uncut escarp]

And a big backlog so no hurry. There are quite a lot of quirks and forgotten games and delisted games without reason. The Swedish Xbox store has a ton of games with a price bug. Games and DLC marked as on sale but the price is higher than regular price by a cent or two, but this blocks these games from ever going on sale. Went through every backwards compatible game and DLC (wiki list Xbox 360 and Xbox original) 1000+ games and dlc and created an excel list that Xbox support got.

[uncut escarp]

Thanks for letting me know , but how does one notify the marketing team?

[rigid herald]

I don't think you can.

Marketing, admin etc is not responsible for the community and is not obliged to receive suggestions from them. The only thing we can really voice is bug reports, server issues, gameplay issues, bad players etc.

The decision to put an item on sale is purely subject to the business. The customer/consumer has no say or bargining power.

[rotund zenith]

Could make a support ticket through waypoint. That is predicated on the assumption that one end of 434 talks to the other but its worth a shot.

[rigid herald]

I don't think any support tickets fit that category. I can't see anything on waypoint suggesting sales.

[uncut escarp]

Only bug reports (unfortunately)

[onyx latch]

If you're older than 55 you should problably know how to find a website or Discord without copilot.

[serene thorn]

Me with every yakuza game to ever exist

[uncut escarp]

Forum rules:
-Be respectful to everyone
-Be constructive
-Quality over quantity

[onyx latch]

'-Be respectful to everyone'
"B) Trenchbird, I use forums. I tried copilot for the first time to check what it is. I am probably twice your age. I write my own messages."

Implying that I am a child is pretty damn rude.

[frosty condor]

alright y'all

[onyx latch]

Constructively, you should not utilize AI algorithms for advice on what to do. It's very easy to find this discord by going to the website on the waypoint.

[uncut escarp]

Look at what I answered to from you. I am close to 55.

[onyx latch]

Riiiight.

Anyways, quality; LLMs are good at quantity, not quality.

[serene thorn]

Bro is cooking in real time right now 🙏

[frosty condor]

https://tenor.com/view/sweat-sweating-sweaty-airplane-ted-striker-gif-4372615

[uncut escarp]

There was one question: who to contact. And I thank Spartan-045 "Agent" and DeinonyCas.

[jade pebble]

even if its true its pretty mean and unnecessary to say

[onyx latch]

On the one hand, I want to explain that if you only have a single question, it is imperative to condense and divide necessary information (The question being asked) from superfluous circumstance (Saying what told you to ask the question), lest your source be potentially discussed.

On the other, I fully expect someone to go on a tirade about how I'm the worst person since the guy who beat Jorge senseless in Spartan II training for correcting their pronunciation of his name if I say anything else.

[brave pond]

Yeah, sorry your first experience in this channel was... what it was. I think this channel is too big in some ways. One would hope someone with the "I'm new here" badge wouldn't draw quite so much immediate criticism (and I mean criticism in a more neutral sense than what we've come to associate it with an actual rebuke).

[serene thorn]

Yeah we’re getting way too deep into this lmao

Misunderstanding, all good. Bro could have put more thought into his search and you could have been nicer about it. Done and done

[rotund zenith]

Mountains out of molehills, trenchbird lmfao

[onyx latch]

Just a knowledge of who pops up when I'm even mildly critical of how someone puts something and who pops up as my blocked messages.

[rigid herald]

A lot of people here skim read and assume it's the same question they've been asked before and due to this they reply with a judging statement rather than an answer.

I don't know why, most likely due to boredom and frustration. It's not exclusive to this server.

[onyx latch]

I don't actually get why an LLM would tell someone to go to a Discord server of all places, honestly.

[rigid herald]

Idk either.

Copilot does have its moments. I'd give it a document for my oc story and it would make some stuff up not present in the document

[serene thorn]

Gemini sent me here this morning when I was looking to post halo clips LOL

[onyx latch]

Like, Halo has a support site to ask, it'd make more sense for it to tell you to go to a static address.

... The second question is, again, why people need LLMs to tell them where to go.

[jade pebble]

it kinda makes sense. it can try lead you to seek a community

[onyx latch]

Like, youtube. Twitch. Hell, Facebook, even if that means going onto the cesspit that is Facebook.

[rigid herald]

Only problem is the community hates getting asked questions

[jade pebble]

yeah apparently

[onyx latch]

Being fair, people ask stupid questions a lot.

[jade pebble]

or then its a cultural issue here

[rigid herald]

No such thing as a stupid question.

If one doesn't ask a question, they aren't thinking critically.

[serene thorn]

I think a large misconception here is the assumption that people are logging onto an actual LLM website and putting in this search. Every google/bing/etc. search these days has an AI-abbreviated synopsis of your search before you actually scroll down to see websites lol

Idk what the work up is about

[onyx latch]

Someone's ever the optimist.

[rigid herald]

It's a common phrase. Especially in the public services.

[onyx latch]

I'm aware it's a common phrase, that's why I'm criticizing it. People say war is hell, but that's not true either.

[jade pebble]

what

[rigid herald]

Trench. Do you know what a metaphor is?

[serene thorn]

Bump

[brave pond]

Oh no, not like this 🫣

[rigid herald]

Since the war is hell quote is not to be taken literally.

[onyx latch]

Metaphors are immune from criticism now too?

[serene thorn]

You have time to put your phone down and walk away lmao

[rigid herald]

Oh boy.

[coarse dagger]

Agreed. Let's find a new topic please

[brave pond]

This is like watching Foehammer's Pelican descend in smoke in slow motion.

[rigid herald]

More like brohammer

[brave pond]

Oh, uh, spoilers for Halo: CE.

[rigid herald]

I miss foehammer.

[jade pebble]

spoilers is crazy

[rigid herald]

Can't be spoiling halo. What are you doing?

[onyx latch]

... What's there to miss about Foehammer at this point?

[rigid herald]

IGN hasn't even reviewed CE yet!

[jade pebble]

anniversary count no?

[onyx latch]

https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/09/28/halo-combat-evolved-review

[rotund zenith]

||chief then rams the warthog into foehanmer and saves the marines on foot||

[rigid herald]

Anniversary what? Wake up it's 2001

[jade pebble]

lmao

[brave pond]

Certainly a happier ending 🥲

[onyx latch]

In some ways it certainly feels like 2001. But not for any of the 'happy' reasons.

[rotund zenith]

The year is 2000 and i cant wait for my mac exclusive game called halo :)

[brave pond]

But hey, you can get iMacs in five flavors again.

[jade pebble]

wait you can?? I have not heard

[uncut escarp]

2000 I was studying at polytechnique university. We were prepping what would become Swedish Game Awards

[nova basalt]

Forgive me John Halo, I have purposefully teamkilled. He was AFK for the first few minutes, and had a fuel rod gun. I was in a warthog with my friend, so I made a decision to kill him and let my friend have the fuel rod. But his death allowed us to kill the enemy scorpion.

[jade pebble]

are you from sweden?

[uncut escarp]

Bara bada bastu yes

[jade pebble]

neighbour here

(finland)

[uncut escarp]

"Bastubröder"

[grave ether]

"Should Sprint be in halo?"

[sturdy kernel]

Not this time

[grave ether]

Only put that because of how wildly that conversation goes so it's not smart to ask it in a halo community lol

[rigid herald]

Hmm. Given the fact that pretty much every fps game nowadays has sprint. I'd say it doesn't matter if it has it or not. In infinite, sprint generally doesn't do much and basically gives both sides what they want. Sprint haters dont need to sprint, Sprint lovers can sprint.

Though the question in terms of realism is why wouldn't a spartan be able to sprint? We know from lore that it is possible given the fact Kelly is the fastest and the fall of reach describes them to be quick.

I doubt they were walking whilst going 100+mph

[jade pebble]

Id argue in infinite sprint actually does a lot for movement. since it allows for the g slides and off a grapple itll let you slide super far if you were sprinting prior to grappling

[rigid herald]

That is true however if you was to go straight and watch the two, there was barely any difference at launch

[jade pebble]

not having a sprint was kind of frustraiting to me always. my first halo was 3 and it already annoyed me and all my friends

[rigid herald]

I am indifferent to it.

I felt slower in halo 4 when not sprinting however that is probs due to how maps were made for sprinting in mind.

Halo 1-3 felt normal since the maps didn't have sprint in mind and was made to fit the normal movement pace.

Halo Reach had sprint as an equipment so you felt a lot faster.

Halo 5, I couldn't be bothered with.

With infinite I like sprint just because it feels more natural for a spartan when getting to A-B in a timely manner.

[serene thorn]

Miss the launch mechanics of halo 5

Less the sprint and more the lateral movement

[rigid herald]

I doubt a Spartan would be having a nice stroll in the woods whilst their teammate is getting slaughtered in the distance.

[grave ether]

See what I mean lol

[jade pebble]

yeah it was weird lore wise that the peak of humanity couldnt run

[rotund zenith]

The default move speed is a run

Its pretty impressive chief is as accurate at a run as he is while perfectly still

[celest heron]

Just because they can do something doesn't necessarily mean it should be in the game even outside of sprint. People like to go with the immersion or feel like a spartan argument including josh holmes, but were we not immersed or felt spartan like in the original trilogy without sprint? and to be clear, I know you're indifferent on it so mainly speaking generally.

[jade pebble]

more like a jog

probably fairly fast as a jog compared to regular people since hes so tall

[brave pond]

And yet... https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cArpai6e-gI
Or maybe even more aptly https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVDwgCQ6Qo

[rigid herald]

You've got me there

[crimson eagle]

for some reason when i boot up infinite, i see a black square in the middle and its talking forever to load uo

[grave ether]

This is where I'm seeing this issue be directed to so hope this helps
https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411142084628-Cannot-Sign-in-to-Halo-Infinite-on-Steam-Stuck-in-a-Sign-in-Loop

[nova comet]

When are they sunsetting HALO infinite?

[coarse dagger]

Not any time soon

[jade pebble]

Yeah thatll be a good long while I think

[crimson eagle]

guess solution 1 didnt work out

[grave ether]

Do both of them, that's what I've seen work from others

[empty junco]

Yo I’m tryna get the skunked achievement on reach and idk wut to do cuz there’s nobody in the invasion lobbies and idk wut to do

Anyone got advice or anything?

[brave pond]

Anyone got advice or anything?

[glacial tartan]

There are discords for achievement hunting, idk if we can link them here but you'll find them on reddit when this question comes up.

[rigid basin]

Hello what's your favorite multi-player team name

[rigid herald]

I wouldn't mind full updates and content updates to mcc while we wait for halo 7. 2019-2020 was fun.

Loved the ODST update and playing firefight legendary with the bros in vc.

[tame moth]

We aint getting that sadly since the payable creds idea was shot down

[glacial tartan]

pls not this again

[onyx latch]

The open world concept would've likely made a lot more sense if Halo had stuck with the Created as an enemy over the Banished.

[grave ether]

but spooder-man grapple Chief go weeeee

[crystal iron]

i wouldnt say no just because of halo infinite but i believe there is a lot of room for improvement

[sullen mica]

We can keep open world if we get variety in environments and better encounters

[radiant sundial]

ngl, imo infinite tried to do something along the lines of how ghost recon: wildlands (only one I played) went, but there just wasn't enough in the map to hold up the campaign

tbh the enviorment doesn't even need more variety, it just needs more in it so it's not just a bunch of open grassland with nothing there

[sullen mica]

Halo infinite has 2 types of area. Grassy field, forerunner room. Halo rings have been shown to have snow, deserts, forests, beaches. So theres no reason a "open world" halo cant

[brave carbon]

in grifball, why when you make a hammer miss, then lunge with a sword, you don't get a one slash kill, but somehow die instead?

like they still kill you without swinging their hammer again

but you sword slash them, and they dont die. it is repeatable. like everytime.

is your sword like repelled and hurts yourself instead somehow?

[hallow sapphire]

Do you need to collect all the skulls on infinite's map to play LASSO?

[shadow turret]

Yes

[hallow sapphire]

So no quick selection like all the other Halo games in MCC?

[sturdy kernel]

No

[crystal iron]

also better objectives, not just ubisoft towers

[hallow sapphire]

damn

[sturdy kernel]

You need to find all skulls before playing LASO

[compact geode]

Dire

Oopps

[delicate brook]

Always been like that
MCC just enabled them by default for convenience

[thin dune]

Hey I wanted to ask if anyone was having a weird experience with halo 2 on legendary. It's seems like the covenant have a small health pool and everything dies really fast

[neon helm]

Hey y'all, got a question, the terrain in my Halo Infinite keeps flickering, like, the rocks keep flickering between different shapes. I have all the settings set to max on an RTX 4050... am I doing something wrong?

[celest heron]

you sure it wasn't easy, lol.

[thin dune]

I'm very sure. Reloaded it and everything. Even says legendary

[celest heron]

hmm, not sure. do you have any skulls on?

[thin dune]

I don't but I didnt think it would require it

I could of swore a couple years ago it was harder to kill on legendary

[celest heron]

well headshots still require the least amount of shots, but the bodies are more spongy.

[thin dune]

Thats the problem...

they aren't spongy for me but they do a lot of damage

[celest heron]

how many shots is it taking to kill an elite?

[thin dune]

I killed one with 5 bursts of a BR and another one with half a mag of an SMG

Doesn't make sense

[mint trout]

How rare is it to find a 343 dev in halo 3

I just got the trophy for killing one

[solemn portal]

You killed someone who has the achievement.

[mint trout]

O

[crystal iron]

blob tag achievement basically

now you're it. you must go, spread it to others

[craggy wadi]

having sprint - sprint is handy

remembering the days with out it...

[smoky tinsel]

I’m amazed at the turn around time between CE, 2, and 3. It’s amazing that a small team of developers can make games that good so quickly.

[civic sundial]

Halo 2 is notorious for the amount of crunch that happened during development

[sharp gate]

Question, just got MCC but my controller freezes for 2-3 seconds at random, thought it was the vibration but I put it on 0 and it still occurs quite often, any idea what it could be? (wired controller)

[hollow crag]

Halo 2 Anniversary editions dialogue audio sounds muffled like its underwater?

[sturdy kernel]

Try to find on #1075989764026675210

[sharp gate]

yea if I searched for controller freeze etc it didn't show anything :/

[civic sundial]

What controller are you using?

And (Assuming you're on PC), are you plugging it directly in?

[sharp gate]

Yes wired xbox controller

[civic sundial]

Hmmmm, not sure what could be causing your issue

Since whenever I've used a controller for MCC on PC, I've never had lag

Have you tried making a post in community self help? I know you checked there for any solutions, but you might get someone with a solution if you post there

[sharp gate]

I made a post on steam community itself

[civic sundial]

Ah fair

Fingers crossed you get a solution to your problem

[celest heron]

5 is normal. my guess with the smg is that the elite was already weak cause their shields take awhile to recharge, but you didn't notice. After playing again, I was misremembering a bit. The big difference with the difficulties is not really how many shots they can take, but how much damage their weapons do. On easy, you tank a plasma rifle all day, but you'll get melted on legendary fairly quickly.

[left thunder]

A few days ago, I began my final journey through the Halo series.
And today, I finished Halo Infinite.
And all I can think is: what now?
I’m honestly not sure what to do next.
That strange emptiness you feel after finishing a legendary series? Yeah... that’s exactly where I am.
It’s nostalgia, longing, hope, and reflection — all at once.

Now that I’ve completed my full Halo marathon — including all main and side entries — I can confidently say:
Halo is the greatest game series I’ve ever played.

[civic sundial]

Now you wait

Wait to see where the journey goes next

And maybe also go hunting through the campaigns to get extra achievements or find Easter eggs

[jade pebble]

not a razer xbox controller by chance?

[hallow sapphire]

Interesting had no idea tbh despite having played all of the Halo games on MCC

[delicate brook]

I mean my first was 4 so...

[hallow sapphire]

Halo 4 was alr imho but 5 improved the gameplay of 4 in some ways while making other things worse lol.

[delicate brook]

4 had great graphics and the gameplay wasn't amazing (gun play could've been better) but the bullet sponges and tedious levels are what killed it

Requiem could've been such an interesting place to fight in, and they made it more boring forerunner stuff

except they did it worse than 3 so it didn't matter

I hated the one mission near the end where you fly the Pelican

[hallow sapphire]

Yeah thankfully they did away with that in 5 by adding weakspots to the promethian knights and replacing them with other enemy units. Id also say halo 4 had one of my favorite stories in the franchise Id rank it around 3rd best Halo 2 obviously being the best.

[delicate brook]

I think part of my problem with 5 is that the story felt a lot like the writers just trying to make up stuff to do
In the original trilogy, hummanity is fighting a genocidal war with the covenant and are desperate to gain any kind of footing. So what happens there makes sense. And in 4, yeah it's a bit weird that you randomly end up on a shield world and the didact just so happens to be there, but it's enough that you can still suspend your disbelief. But by 5, humanity no longer has any enemies, so it's not like there's any sort of objective. You're just doing random missions with not much explanation why.

and by the way, how in the world does Jul Mdama land in Kamchatka so easily?

[onyx latch]

Sigh. Don't make me explain what terrorist organizations and intercenine warfare is again.

I've already had to five times today. I don't want to do it again.

[delicate brook]

I know they were still doing stuff

[onyx latch]

Then there is nothing to be confused about

[delicate brook]

My point is that Chief and gang going to an old freighter(?) and suddenly deciding to search for Cortana feels completely unrelated to the overarching plot

[onyx latch]

Because it was a routine mission that went awry.

[delicate brook]

At least in 4 it made sense since he'd been seperated for 4 years

[onyx latch]

...

I'm not understanding how that is an issue in the case of Cortana and Chief.

[hallow sapphire]

Yeah I think a lot of the lore for the forerunners and their relationship with humanity couldve been handled a lot better (at least in the games) especially if they were going to be the next big enemy after the covenant. I see it as wasted potential. Also having to read up on the books just to understand who the forerunners were just did not work and never has for 343. Bungie had a clearer vision on how to craft lore and also make it really hit home for whoever was playing their games.

[delicate brook]

Helped that the forerunners were kept behind the metaphorical glass in the bungie games

[hallow sapphire]

True

They were always subtly hinted at in bungie games

[autumn thistle]

Not sure you really needed to read the Forerunner trilogy (then only a two book deal) for something like 4. They laid in in broad strokes what was necessary to know in-game and could have easily been added onto in subsequent games.

Granted, 343 chose to deviate away from that, but it’s not as confusing as folks make it out to be.

[tulip tusk]

do u think people would play a Phantom Hot Pursuit map in infinite, like the police fly phantoms chasing hogs and geese

[crystal iron]

5 is the poster child for peoples book complaint, with infinite as a runner up. if anything 4 gets some criticism for its exposition dumps

[autumn thistle]

I’d argue even then, 5 isn’t as reliant on outside media as people tend to believe.

[crystal iron]

i hear spartan ops closes the gap somewhat

though eh i gave it an honest try and was not compelled to finish it

[autumn thistle]

Halo: Escalation more or less ties up the Spartan Ops plot point and leaves us almost on Halo 5’s doorstep (least as far as Halsey, Jul, and Infinity’s crew are concerned)

But a lot of things people argue as “essential” knowledge from sources like Hunters in the Dark or Nightfall or even Escalation (like the backstories of Fireteam Osiris) are conveyed ingame or not relevent.

[solid canopy]

5's writing is just very poorly done. Characters speak entirely in exposition, the plot feels very loose and disconnected, certain moments that are ment to feel like big things just fall flat on their face because they don't feel earned, ect.

Like ik- it's beating a death horse. But I replayed it not long ago and this stuff just stuck out to me even more

Personally if I were redoing this whole "Reclaimer Saga" thing I'd have Spartan Ops be a prequel to Halo 4 that would then tie into Halo 5, which would pick up right where 4 left off, and then tie things up with a 6th game while Halo Wars 2 serves as something of a lead-in to what comes next

I really think there being a year long gap between 4 and 5's story was a very poor decision

[craggy wadi]

Do we really need a campaign anymore? What's a shooter game without a decent campaign?

Without lore and a campaign what you got?

Glad I am not making big exec decisions

Rather play and enjoy

the way Infinite is laid out you can do without the campaign

rolling into the next chapter

the whole spartan / cortana vibe got lost after halo 3

at least for me

it seems Infinite campaign was filler

Don't get me wrong I bought it and gave it the old college try

Didn't like it

I think 10-15 years off and on first person shooters and nothing else like no other genre kinda rubbed a bad vibe

[civic sundial]

I'm glad you aren't too. People would be really mad if they didn't bother with campaigns anymore because you think they're not worth it

[civic sundial]

Halo is well known as an FPS game, you may as well be complaining that COD hasn't branched out into other genres

And Halo has branched out, we've had RTS, arcade rail shooters and twin stick shooters in Halo

[craggy wadi]

rather mad tencent linked up with them

[civic sundial]

What?

[craggy wadi]

cod

[civic sundial]

Ok

Not sure why that's relevent when you're complaining about Halo "not branching out enough"

[craggy wadi]

yes i remember the fad of halo back on disc

[civic sundial]

What?

[craggy wadi]

and yes it is still a thing

[civic sundial]

My dude, it feels like you're just saying things without actually thinking about what you're saying

[craggy wadi]

the fad was on disc my boy

[civic sundial]

Like what are you talking about by claiming Halo on disk is a "fad"

[craggy wadi]

halo 2 and halo 3 had its major boom on disc

[civic sundial]

My dude... Those games were not popular because they were on disk

They released at a time where they had much less competition on the console market from other FPS games

And for games exclusive to one console back in the 2000s, that's impressive

[craggy wadi]

The world wide web was halo 2

Kinda surprised halowaypoint deleted the original 2 and 3 info

I was on there

Instead all I get is "completed"

[civic sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/one-punch-man-ok-saitama-gif-4973579

[craggy wadi]

Indeed

[civic sundial]

Like I'm not sure the point you're trying to make here

[craggy wadi]

I just never knew why

Like ranked btb gone forever

[civic sundial]

Well nobody is playing original Halo 2 and 3 anymore since the servers were sunset

And I doubt anyone is desperate to learn someone's rank in Halo 2 these days

[craggy wadi]

But you see those campaigns vs Infinite's

Is my point

[civic sundial]

I don't see your point, you just pivoted to a different thing to complaining about old stats not being available

[craggy wadi]

The way either of two campaigns played out

Vs Infinites

Didn't like infinites campaign playthrough vibes

Liked 2 and 3 vibes better

[civic sundial]

So you disliking Infinite's vibes is why you think we shouldn't have a campaign anymore?

[craggy wadi]

Maybe rembering the roots will get them going on a better playthrough vibe

Like it's content released for us

I get it

[civic sundial]

My dude... Allot of why Halo Infinite is the way it is was because people complained 4 and 5 weren't close enough to the older games in how they felt

[craggy wadi]

the whole top down feel cinematically was a change

[civic sundial]

None of the cutscenes in Infinite were top down? What?

[craggy wadi]

like forward posts and such

that was top down feel if I might say

[civic sundial]

Ok, I am honestly convinced you're just saying things which don't make sense

[craggy wadi]

the whole forward posts thing

got to this post and then next

this is really not a complaint

I just a think taking out a command post and then on to the next forward post could have been different

[sullen kiln]

@minor pelican Feel free to use #1076327824924872755 to share your Halo content!

[craggy wadi]

The real issue is an older body wishing and wanting to play like I am 19 all over again

Sorry mate

Words are frivolous

[sullen kiln]

@compact geode Feel free to use #1076327824924872755 to share your Halo content!

[compact geode]

So did my post just get deleted

[short flower]

Exciting stuff at worlds for sure

I would wish to go

[cunning oyster]

Would 343 be willing to add to Infinte and MCC a similar accessibility option from Black ops 6? Basically when you hold down the trigger for semi auto weapons you can keep firing them.

To keep it balanced you add a delay similar to how Treyarch did.

[glacial tartan]

Its a good idea, likely never happening in Infinite or MCC but something accessibility wise to keep in mind for future

[granite trout]

Hey so I have some clips of what Im pretty sure is someone cheating and not really sure where to send them or even if anyone in here can do anything about it

[coarse dagger]

You can submit them on the Halo Support site

[sullen kiln]

https://aka.ms/HaloSafety

[granite trout]

o7

[granite trout]

Would it be possible to get a second opinion on the clip before sending a report?

[coarse dagger]

We don't allow posting clips like that here, but the Safety team will look into it and be able to determine if they are or not

[glacial tartan]

I'd be interested 😄

[cobalt lantern]

does anyone have any idea if the silent cartographer door skip has been patched? seems to be like an invisible barrier which would prevent me from going in

[civic sundial]

They've not touched that skip at all

Like, speedrunners still use it because it's such a good skip

[cobalt lantern]

my thought is if the speed runners use an older version perhaps, because i am being pushed out when i try to do it

[rotund zenith]

Got recommended a halo machinima called Crash over the weekend, very good would highly recommend

[civic sundial]

Heard they got Miles Luna to cameo in it so I think I'll check it out soon

[pine wraith]

Guys anyone has clue about the new halo game that will be released?

[celest heron]

We might find out more at hcs world's.

[coarse dagger]

^ this. The only details we know right now, is that it will be built in the Unreal engine

[left snow]

117 sleeps until (the last day of) the Halo World Championships. Which is a nice touch leading into our first real look at the next Halo game(s). Wish I could be there - but it's a bit of trek from Tasmania. 🙂

[hollow bobcat]

Who is ready for the Halo reboot information in October?

[left snow]

Oh so ready...

[keen silo]

If I had a nickel for every time someone mentioned the unconfirmed Halo Reboot, I’d be able to finish paying off my car

[smoky tinsel]

Yes you would

[short flower]

Did Frontlines already happen?

Oh it did…

The modulated instrument wrist just says currently unavailable apparently.

[shadow turret]

It should come back next update I think
I forget if Hellcat already rotated through the store or not

[short flower]

What was hellcat?

[left snow]

Over the next three months you could probably pay it off and upgrade to a newer model.

[shadow turret]

The armor set the wrist attachment came with

[barren bone]

I'm a non-professional player who plays Halo Infinite before I didn't play regularly but with the holidays I can't play anymore I'm not lying to you I thought it looked like Call of Duty but not at all I try to watch videos but even like that I'm only a Bronze Colonel but even like that I jump into holes in the map for example and sometimes I always stay with the same weapon I really want to improve but I can't , I only play two modes in the game: fast game and big team fight.Thank you for your understanding.

Pls send me the message un mp

[rigid herald]

Eh? Play the campaign.

[civic sundial]

What do they mean by "Fast game"? Quick Play or something else?

[rigid herald]

Join a match in progress then quit 1 minute later.

Peak gameplay.

[uneven bison]

Why are we lying

[left snow]

They are not lying. Except that the "reboot" bit is just conjecture.

[uneven bison]

It’s not conjecture because they’ve been told before a reboot hasn’t been announced

It’s just lying

[left snow]

It's a reasonable guess. A lot of people expect Halo to make it's way across to the Playstation. And to do that you need some sort of starting point. Either a reboot of CE or Infinite.

[uneven bison]

Then it should be framed as a guess, otherwise it’s just spouting misinformation

Again

[left snow]

I guess that's fair enough.

[uneven bison]

A reboot probably would kill any interest I have left

I don’t want it and I’m hopeful we won’t get it

[civic sundial]

Given the novel coming later this year is set right after Infinite's campaign, you'd think that would be enough to kill the reboot rumours

[left snow]

Guess it depends what the "multiple" projects possibly entail. Not all of them would be for everyone.

Guess along the lines of...

• Some sort of reboot for PS5.
• Halo Infinite 2 / Halo 7
• Halo Multiplayer Next

[uneven bison]

You’d think

[left snow]

Is it fair to assume that the novel will cover parts of the story we may have otherwise got as DLC?

To fill in the gaps before we proceed to Halo 7?

[civic sundial]

Aye. But alas, we are stuck dealing with people convinced a reboot is coming because... Checks notes A Halo YouTuber thinks one is on the way due to some person who is often wrong saying vague statements

[civic sundial]

Well campaign DLC was never confirmed to be happening for Infinite (Or in development as far as we know)

[uneven bison]

This 8 month old article on a gaming site I’ve never heard of says ones on the way so there actually is one

[civic sundial]

I saw it in a dream

[left snow]

My personal wish would be for the trinity of Halo 7, A new Multiplayer (based straight off Halo Infinite), and Halo Wars 3

[civic sundial]

So long as the gameplay injects some Halo 5 into the base player mechanics. Keep the equipment system Infinite has but make thruster a base ability every player has access to and they toggle between using their thrusters or the piece of equipment they've picked up

Maybe also bring back Spartan Charge as well, but not quite as potent

Also hovering when aiming too

[left snow]

I'd love thrusters. They injected so much into the gunfights.

[civic sundial]

No ground pound though, we don't need that back as a base ability

[magic delta]

I’d love to see them really push the boat out, maybe a horror-esque game as a marine hiding from a flood infection or something

[left snow]

I'd limit the thrusters to lateral movement. When you chained sprint and jump into thrust it kind of broke the maps. There pretty much wasn't anywhere you couldn't jump over.

And no Spartan Charge. I hated that bit. 🙂

[civic sundial]

I'd rather it be a horror game where a civilian is trying to escape from stealth elites

[magic delta]

Yeah that would be cool too!

[coarse dagger]

I got emailed by a Discord user on Reddit that saw an Intagram reel from a Tiktoker where someone on Twitter watched a Facebook video about this dude's best friend's mum overhearing a gas station attendant talk to an employee about this fax going round the office about a Skype call transcript confirming it. 100% legit, no baseball caps involved

[left snow]

I didn't mind hover and ground pound. Just not the charge.

[civic sundial]

Don't forget the uncle from Nintendo

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, he was on the skype call 😛

[civic sundial]

I didn't mind the thrusters and how they felt in Halo 5, I kinda miss it

[wooden briar]

🎵 BooBEEBoo (bweep-boop)
BEEbooBEE (bweep-boop) 🎶

[covert hornet]

Most likely a continuation of the storyline

and no it wont fail 👍

lets wait and see

[sturdy kernel]

Sadly, but Skype died

[coarse dagger]

https://www.threads.com/@halo/post/DLkca4xs9NE

[hollow bobcat]

More like a calculated guess based on the various hints. For example, the classic Mark V armor and the title of "new dawn" signifying a form of rebirth.

[shrewd finch]

Nah I think Halo 5 mechanics should be its own separate game mode in a Halo multiplayer game. They should make another multiplayer like Halo 3, and then just add a gamemode that has the thruster ability.

[uneven bison]

Then frame it as a guess

[hollow bobcat]

At this point, I don't think it's going to be a guess. I forgot to mention the other part which was not continuing infinite since it was the worst campaign and the story is basically dead at this point.

[uneven bison]

🤦‍♂️

[civic sundial]

Rebirth doesn't mean rebooting the franchise from the beginning

[hollow bobcat]

It does signify starting over.

[civic sundial]

We have a novel coming later this year which is set right after Halo Infinite

[civic sundial]

Eh, I'd rather not have a "Halo 3 2". And it'd be pointless to have designed all the mechanics Halo 5 had, just to shove them away in one mode and never used elsewhere

[uneven bison]

I don’t know what else to say that hasn’t already been said, there’s an amount of delusion needed at this point to unironically still be going about reboots

And when it doesn’t happen we just move onto another lie

[hollow bobcat]

Look at the recent reboots and remakes. Even Call of Duty had a reboot. That's the current trend right now if things are not going right for certain franchises. It's more like a new life breathed into it.

[uneven bison]

Don’t care about cod

Worse then it’s ever been tbh

[hollow bobcat]

It doesn't matter if you do. The point still stands about remakes and reboots being the trend. Also, the really think people are going to try to refresh their memory by going through Halo 4 and 5's campaign again?

[civic sundial]

"Those other franchises are doing it" isn't exactly somehow proof a Halo reboot is happening

[frosty condor]

Skype never died - it evolved into Teams

[uneven bison]

I recall a significant portion of criticism fired towards halo 4 was trying to change halos core gameplay, no?

I’m so tired of the constant rewriting in media, I genuinely could not care less about another reboot or live action remake

I’d rather have a bad game that tried something new than recycled gunk from 2007

[hollow bobcat]

Nostalgia sells. As a business, money is going to keep everything floating for the next foreseeable future. If people found out one of the best Halo games ever made is getting a remake, they're going to go crazy (especially for the upcoming sequels). Controversialy, the only issue I have is making them too DEI by making changing characters way too much.

Just make the game look pretty and add some story elements. No need for character changes.

[uneven bison]

There it is

Totally unprompted btw

[hollow bobcat]

There is what exactly?

[tulip tusk]

hes just continuing his thoughts its not unpromted at all. i see his point

[civic sundial]

I don't see why they brought up DEI, MIA is likely having the same thought as me

[hollow bobcat]

Because that's been another trend that people are not liking.

[uneven bison]

You keep saying people

[civic sundial]

Also like, if you want Combat Evolved remade but with no changes, you're gonna be disappointed no matter what because stuff will be different in remakes no matter what

[uneven bison]

I don’t think anyone wants this but you

[tulip tusk]

ah i see that now too rip

[coarse dagger]

"too DEI" 🙄

[uneven bison]

Could also just, play combat evolved

Like it’s not like it hasn’t aged well

It’s aged fantastically if you ask me

[hollow bobcat]

At this point, it's not a good move to incorporate what I mentioned earlier. Look what happened with Dragon Age 4, one of the most hyped up RPGs of all time. If that happened to Halo, it's not going to end well.

[civic sundial]

Like, to use a different series which has had remakes, Resident Evil 4's remake has allot of differences in terms of how it handles characters and gameplay mechanics, those changes exist because they felt things needed to be reworked for modern audiences or to make the gameplay better

[civic sundial]

Aye. Like sure the graphics aren't on par with modern games but that's part of CE's charm

[tulip tusk]

just look at it as a nostalgia microtransaction, its just for money anyways

[smoky wave]

Game... political?? no.............

[hollow bobcat]

Combat evolved can definitely use some more storyline and lore to enhance the experience. I think there should also be more Marines tragically dying near the end to focus more tragedy into the finals. Dust and echoes is one thing, but experiencing it first hand is a game changer.

[uneven bison]

Read the flood

[hollow bobcat]

Or just put it in a video game if people don't want to read.

[uneven bison]

Skill issue tbh

[smoky wave]

People will not pay attention even if they put it in a video game

[hollow bobcat]

More like some people just don't have time or prefer a different form of media to tell stories.

[civic sundial]

The Flood wasn't written back when CE released and trying to just shove that in because you want it in instead of reading a novel isn't exactly a good reason for why it should be in a supposed remake

[smoky wave]

Not a lot of times sadly

[uneven bison]

People have time to grind hero rank, they have time to read an easy to digest novel

[rigid herald]

Just leave the original games alone. We don't need 343 getting their filthy mitts on something which doesn't need to be touched.

[civic sundial]

Like, what would you really gain from seeing what Jenkins was dealing with while partially infected

[uneven bison]

I’m not asking you to read all of war and peace

[smoky wave]

I hope Halo studios makes it in tiktok format so everyone can understand the story

[civic sundial]

I hate whenever someone says stuff like "Keep their filfty mitts off [thing]" regarding a company potentially remaking something

[rigid herald]

Lol

Throwback to 1980s.

[tulip tusk]

every cutscene will be a short with AI narration and meme sounds

[smoky wave]

Subtitles in your face too that bounces

[uneven bison]

Halo: consumer evolved

Absolute cinema

[smoky wave]

''Oh so that's how noble 6 died I see''

[rigid herald]

"The master chief skibidied across the floor"

[hollow bobcat]

The one thing that popped in my head was this. What if Halo decided to be a bit more gruesome with the violence and blood? I know the game is rated M, but it's pretty much a T rated game throughout the series (aside the recent game).

[civic sundial]

I don't care if a Halo game has gore or not, that's not really why I play them

[hollow bobcat]

Now, I'm not talking about exploding body parts and gallons of blood from a single gunshot. I'm talking about hearing the slicing sound of an energy sword through someone's chest and seeing the blood flow. Just a visceral nature of the kill should be more represented.

[civic sundial]

That's never really been a thing Halo needed

[hollow bobcat]

I guess it depends on the reaction from certain test audiences. Maybe they tried it before or they never have.

[civic sundial]

You wanna bisect someone through the chest, play Mortal Kombat or Gears of War

[rigid herald]

I want Halo CE level of blood lol. Paint the entire wall with blood.

[hollow bobcat]

Could you imagine the increased level of violence I mentioned earlier with the flood? Oh gosh, that'll be horrifying. Just add some infected Marines screaming with the mutations. I won't go into detail, but let's just say it'll be audibly disturbing.

[civic sundial]

We hear marines scream when infected in Halo 3? That's never not been a thing

[hollow bobcat]

They have, but the transformation is usually just poof and they are flood.

[rigid herald]

We need a skull where if a Marine dies, you restart the level.

[autumn forum]

Here's one thing that kinda angers me
The hit reg for MP mode is notoriously awful

[civic sundial]

Because of limitations of the hardware (Also pretty sure it's not just a "Poof", we see the Infection forms burrow in, but again, hardware limitations were a thing back then)

[autumn forum]

Granted that's because no one in my country actually plays Halo MP

[hollow bobcat]

That's why you move to the USA.

[celest heron]

maybe if they did a spinoff game, but the main games have been moving away from more blood and gore for awhile.

[autumn forum]

I am still in VN tho

[civic sundial]

I don't think you understand that not everyone wants to live there

[smoky wave]

Nah, I stay here

[autumn forum]

Not that Halo isn't popular in Vietnam, but most of the market are succumbed by F2P games

[hollow bobcat]

You would think Halo Infinite would be popular since that is also free to play.

[autumn forum]

On mobile, forgot to mention

[civic sundial]

Vietnam isn't exactly known for being fond of America

[celest heron]

have to do your own marketing campaign to get people to play there.

[tulip tusk]

yea

[autumn forum]

Granted Xbox is gaining popularity but that just Game Pass and controller sales

[hollow bobcat]

Although this is a bit off topic, I thought it was the opposite. Even after we left over half a century ago, I assumed the public was more Americanized.

[rotund zenith]

Vietnam is the only communist country the us largely has friendly relations with

Actually that gets me wondering, do we ever see a map of the earth in halo? Like how its divided up beneath the UEG?

[celest heron]

from what I've seen, most have a favorable view of americans.

[autumn forum]

There was sometime where some content creators in VN tried Halo Infinite but that just some smaller gaming event
Most would rather play like Valorant or Genshin

[civic sundial]

Might be better to ask in #lore-and-universe for an answer

[rotund zenith]

Nah you guys are good

[autumn forum]

Anyway, Halo MP, it's fun but the hit reg is definitely sth i would never get comfy with

[civic sundial]

You're more likely to get an answer there on how Earth is divided up

[hollow bobcat]

Did you enable the ability to display your latency? If I had to guess, are you getting around 150 or 200 ping?

[barren bone]

I don't have the campaign

[barren bone]

Yeah It's his

[hollow bobcat]

Halo Infinite has the worst kind of matchmaking process. The match composer didn't really help things, even with the reduction.

[edgy forum]

I’m pretty frustrated with the splatter an enemy with a vehicle when I’m playing FF Classic. There’s only one map with a vehicle and that’s ONI Alpha Site with a mongoose. Wish they added more maps with vehicle options.

Wonder if the game mode for Halo 4 Operation next week will be PVE

[tame moth]

I dont think so

Doesnt fit halo 4

[civic sundial]

Halo 4 had a dedicated PvE mode, Spartan Ops

I doubt we'll be getting something like a return of Spartan Ops but to say a PvE focused operation doesn't fit Halo 4 would be wrong

[tame moth]

Forgot about spartan ops

[tame moth]

S&d extraction and action sack modes are its modes

Check the events in the server

[edgy forum]

I could be speculating, my friend and I wish Dominion gets brought back that mode was fun

[tame moth]

Ye

If ya want to know some of the modes coming soon, check this waypoint article, just scroll down
https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/forge-features-december2024

[celest heron]

just play grunt fiesta. there's a few maps with vehicles.

[west rock]

Has anyone else been getting stuttering and frame drops on MCC lately?

[glacial tartan]

Yes, particularly when switching from other EAC games. Only fix I've found is a hard restart which uh isnt ideal.

[lyric brook]

Grifball Tournament?

[west rock]

You mean restarting the PC?

That's a huge pain just for one game.

Then again I never liked EAC because it barely works

Remember when Infinite got flooded with cheaters because they switched from Arbiter to EAC?

[lyric brook]

I also have another idea for the devs. It would be dope if we had global chat instead of just team chat. It makes it more interesting that way imo.

[gray plinth]

Honestly I didn't get the same problems on Halo MCC with Frames Drops or anything like that It's only on Halo Infinite that it happens to me and Halo support is not doing anything we must tell them to fix the game on their end

[crystal iron]

i knew a guy in VN named LeCom who played a lot of ace of spades classic wonder what they are doing nowadays

[lyric brook]

LOL yo two spartans just started beating on each other in Kai Cenat's oversized room stream that's sick

[autumn forum]

200 to 300ms to be precise

[autumn forum]

Last night i was doing some Halo 3 MP and then the game crash

[left snow]

That's the sort of pings I have to play on. 😦

[west root]

Once the Hayabusa helmet leaves the shop, does he plan to come back later?

[solid canopy]

Just curious to ask-
What is you guys' "go to" campaign mission when you just want to play Halo?

[solemn portal]

CE or 3.
Any levels, really.

[shadow turret]

Honestly, despite not playing MCC much, prolly one of the Forerunner levels in 4
I like both the Pelican and Broadsword levels

[sturdy kernel]

I guess no, it's more like a limited item