general-chat

[wheat river]

infinite matchmaking expects me to clutch every game 2 to 1 while giving me the most deviously bad teammates imaginable

[feral chasm]

frrrr

[wheat river]

Im not that good 😭

[feral chasm]

every game i play feels like im playing ranked

i have to be on my A game to actually consistently win

[wheat river]

im getting triple kills and killing sprees i look at the scoreboard and we losing by 10 points

if we go by todays numbers im 1.5 and i got a 36% win rate

if im not getting 2.0 then we aint winning

[feral chasm]

Im always playing with my 2 friends so im not sure if that effects the sbmm

[wheat river]

it must

[worldly badger]

it still uses hidden mmr of your entire party

[wheat river]

I play mostly tac which is a signifigantly smaller pool but i know like 10 people on a first name basis just by playing

[cerulean brook]

halo infinite updates every tuesday right

[feral chasm]

im mostly playing btb and quickplay

[worldly badger]

the brilliant mmr system thinks 2 decent players with 2 average players is balanced with 1 great player and 3 below average players

[feral chasm]

lol

[wheat river]

if i get 2 other decent players in my team its a blessing

the guy on the other team always carries harder than me tho

[feral chasm]

i dont like having people better than me on my team lol

[worldly badger]

some games I am the top player other games I can't get anything done with half my shots are delayed

[wheat river]

neither do I but like can you please not go 2 and 14

[feral chasm]

lmaooo

[wheat river]

just hide somewhere lmao

[feral chasm]

Hero feels so close but so far away

[worldly badger]

I had a game everyone on my team had like 20 kills in a ctf bottom player on the team has like 5 kills in a 10+ min game impressive

[feral chasm]

had Hero been in the game since day 1 I would have it

lol

[wheat river]

i usually play this game once a week just to get the weekly rewards

[feral chasm]

they removed those 💀

[wheat river]

been doing that consistantly since the raking update dropped and im plat private

[worldly badger]

weekly spartan points

[wheat river]

so you gotta have played every day for the last year to be hero

yet ive ran into a couple of them

[feral chasm]

its funny how they said they were removing filler items by adding spartan points in the operations, but imo they feel even more like filler

[worldly badger]

I would be hero already if they had the points count from launch I don't play enough recently to even grind for hero

I am like diamond something in rank progression

[feral chasm]

Im Lt Colonel onyx, so i probably need like 1.2k games left

[stable walrus]

Hello!

[wheat river]

if they had carried over i would probably be diamond

[worldly badger]

A good 3.5k games worth didnt even count when it released I played maybe 1k games after it launched

[wheat river]

im also sitting on 153 xp boosts that i never know when to use

[stable walrus]

Same

[feral chasm]

tbh if the next halo game doesnt come out for a next few years hero should be relatively easy for most players

im pretty sure the grind is no where near halo 5's

though in halo 5 you could just cheese warzone so idk

[wheat river]

every rank doubles the ammount of time it takes for the previous rank iirc

which means itl take me a year to be diamond then 2 years to be onyx

[stable walrus]

Yea, it less than 5s

[wheat river]

and then 4 more years to be hero

[worldly badger]

just for fun I check the games played of people in my ranked lobbies only the diehard still grinding I seen some people with like 15k matchmaking games

[wheat river]

if we dont get a new halo game in 8 more years that will be sad

[feral chasm]

bro how is 15k possible

[worldly badger]

I seen 25k

[hollow void]

Halo 7 have been in development for quite some time

[worldly badger]

the highest so far

[feral chasm]

ive played like almost every night since the beta and im only sitting at 6,416

[stable walrus]

True

[worldly badger]

This guy named Poetic has 26k games played

[feral chasm]

thats nuts

[wheat river]

15k matches seems to get you hero

[feral chasm]

15k is waaay to many for hero

[wheat river]

i queue into guys on tac with 9k just on tac

[feral chasm]

4k is about right

[worldly badger]

I played since launch and I am 4k games played

[wheat river]

i only have 1.4k matches played

[worldly badger]

no way I am going for hero lmao

[wheat river]

i got no shot going for hero

[feral chasm]

play lots of btb

[wheat river]

i hate btb

[feral chasm]

aw

[worldly badger]

People who got first heros were cheesing husky raid and bot bootcamp xp

[wheat river]

its like a nonsense gamemode to me

i cant go crazy with the sniper like mintblitz lmao

[feral chasm]

firefight is good xp but i find it super boring

[worldly badger]

I played firefight like 10 times and was done

[wheat river]

i would like to hit onyx

[worldly badger]

needs more game modes for firefight or something its too repetitive

[feral chasm]

infection is amazing xp if you are good, though there is luck involved because if you get zombie say goodbye to xp

[wheat river]

i played firefight like twice

[feral chasm]

husky raid is also a good source of xp

for the casual player btb is by far the best though

[worldly badger]

main reason I tried firefight was when they were testing the new networking on it

[wheat river]

im only good at tac lol

[feral chasm]

firefight seems so bland in the game, it doesnt feel like a real gamemode. Its feels like a mod

warzone would be goated but i doubt they will add it

im trying to get the master builder coating

it would be a dream come true tbh

[hollow void]

I'm fine with the stock Mark IV core but I wish there was a Jerome skin

[feral chasm]

they have like a wish.com version

[wheat river]

i got the gold ar skin only available via buying rockstar energy cans lmao

[feral chasm]

yeah those are nice coatings

[worldly badger]

idk how so much of the development was built around the customization/coatings to sell for being a f2p game and 90% of the chest pieces are default gray

and unaffected by the coating you are wearing

[feral chasm]

the gray ones were made before they added crosscore, thats why the newer ones change colors

[worldly badger]

just like how jorge's shoulders were default gray with zero textures

[feral chasm]

in future games i would like a "unify colors" option and possibly a battle damage slider for armor

being that the mark IV armor has been my favorite armor since i was little, it drives me crazy that it is missing one of the shoulders

idk how they messed that up

the left shoulder is different, its supposed to be a-symmetrical

[worldly badger]

I don't really care about customization but its an interesting topic to discuss since the development is so focused around it

and even that is lacklustre

[feral chasm]

idk customization has come a long way in this game

as of currently customization is actually insane, (assuming you spend money)

[worldly badger]

I think they took a step back when they added "crosscore" then increased the price of all items because of the "increased value"

[feral chasm]

yeah that was scummy'

the prices are ridiculous

[worldly badger]

I get a good chuckle looking at the bundle prices

[feral chasm]

an armor set should be $5 max, not $20

[worldly badger]

and its 50% coatings for crosscores

[feral chasm]

there is enough free stuff to make cool armor without paying tbh

[worldly badger]

true I got a lot of cool stuff from twitch drops and from unlocking battlepasses with the earned points

[feral chasm]

I hope that people who get hero in this game get some sort of award in the next game

[worldly badger]

I might have bought some shop items but can't condone the pricing to justify

[feral chasm]

although the next game may not even have coatings

yeah ill be honest im not proud of how much ive spent on this game

[worldly badger]

like the watchdog coating from halo 5?

[feral chasm]

yeah

[worldly badger]

I remember the reward from infinite looked almost the same as a shop coating after watchdog was released and they had to rework it so that it looked actually like the advertised version

[feral chasm]

There probably wont be coatings in the next game though if 343 actually listens to the community

lmao yeah

i would be dope if they did something like add the haunted visor for heros in the next game

idk why they dont add the haunted visor now tbh

they basically have a flood version already

though its a helmet

[bold sparrow]

Art teams busy probably

[worldly badger]

on the next game

[feral chasm]

hopefully they dont just do a bunch of contracts this time

[signal wedge]

so master chief defeated the harbinger and escharum. he is a certified superhero

ALONE

im reading rubicon protocol right now theres like 3 or 4 spartan characters in it let's see what they do

[feral chasm]

the ccp bot silenced my message

[signal wedge]

you can say badass but not the last 3 letters alone

[feral chasm]

lol

I wonder who the main enemy faction will be in halo 7

[wheat river]

bit silly to have censorship like that on a game franchise which is almost exclusively rated M

[signal wedge]

well it better be the banished lmao

[feral chasm]

I feel like if its banished again it will be a little boring

dont get me wrong i love the banished in this game, but something new would be nice

[signal wedge]

not on this christian minecraft server

[wheat river]

how many people under the age of 18 are currently in a halo match right now i wonder

[feral chasm]

lol 0

[wheat river]

5 tops

[feral chasm]

halo doesnt attract kids

[wheat river]

never has and never was intended to

except for when i was a kid i played it not at my house but at my cousins house cuz he had cool parents

[feral chasm]

i hope the next game has more blood/gore

[signal wedge]

not a single character in halo media said one bad word

[feral chasm]

this game had basically nothing besides splatter when you actually shoot something

[wheat river]

sgt johnson would like a word

[feral chasm]

the next game better have assassinations

[signal wedge]

next game better showcase humanity fighting back against the banished

[wheat river]

i feel like having the special ninja medal and call out makes up for no assassinations

[signal wedge]

UNSC takes over zeta halo

[feral chasm]

The bulldog is what it is but bro the next game better have a normal shotgun

[wheat river]

halo 3 shotgun plz

[feral chasm]

the infection in this game is fun but it doesnt have the same gritty, scary feeling that the old ones had

[signal wedge]

is it true the next game will have time travel

[wheat river]

hot take i never liked infection

[feral chasm]

flood infection was badass, one of 343s best ideas imo

[worldly badger]

meanwhile we have infection on rearranged UNSC maps

[wheat river]

whenever my buddies wanted to play infection i was always bummed

[signal wedge]

Chips Dubbo Spartan when?

[feral chasm]

would be cool to get a spinoff game focusing on arbiter

tbh thats what the dlc should have been

[signal wedge]

Halo: concert of worlds

[feral chasm]

whats that?'

[signal wedge]

i wonder what senghelios technology will look like

[feral chasm]

idk, I've grown to love the anubis helmet though

i will be bummed if its not in the next game

[signal wedge]

it's something arbiter dreams of

kinda like UEG but it's all elite worlds

[feral chasm]

ah

Jerome could be a cool character to get a game on too

[signal wedge]

he should show up in halo 7 along with rest of red team and spirit of fire

[feral chasm]

I've always wanted a spin off like dead space focusing on a marine/odst trapped in a flood infected spaceship or planet

[signal wedge]

I want a spin off of ONI spartans and the missions will be all stealth and undercover jobs

[feral chasm]

halo should lean more into the horror aspect imo

yeah

[wheat river]

how come i never queue into streets

did they just decide no one wants to play on that map anymore its my favorite

[feral chasm]

lol they like forcing you to play the same 3 forge maps

[worldly badger]

my ranked match history was wild

So many Recharge games

17 games not a single pit or streets

felt like they had 5 maps in the entire playlist

[wheat river]

they really love the pit theres like 3 different maps theyre all the pit and i always get them

[worldly badger]

when you get the same exact maps back to back it feels like they have even fewer maps

[wheat river]

also all the japanese inspired maps have this ridiculous red tint making me have to change my outline to green

[spiral glade]

i wanna play halo ce and halo2 remastered

i got no money

can someone do something?

[spice pawn]

We can’t do anything then

[spiral glade]

ik

[spice pawn]

So why did you ask

[spiral glade]

idk

nothings impossiible...

[spice pawn]

Well, that is impossible

[spiral glade]

as i said nothings impossible

bruv

an average guys slaary from where i come from is like 100$ a month

and i cant even work cuz im not old enough and my family is broke and even if they had money they wont let me spend it on games

[spice pawn]

Sorry man, but we’re not here to help with that. If you need actual help call a hotline, don’t speak of that here.

[spiral glade]

im not a suicidal person

theres no frikin hotline which would buy me a game

[signal wedge]

I thought Halo MCC collection or something was on sale on steam for quite a while it was dirt cheap

[bronze breach]

No one is going to buy you things or give money if you are thinking that.

[spiral glade]

i mean someone whos rich might

[spice pawn]

Dude, just go. You cant get the game free.

[bronze breach]

I'm 100% sure they wont.

[spiral glade]

ik it was pretty cheap but no matter how cheap i cant afford

[spice pawn]

We can’t help you then.

[bronze breach]

Halo infinite is free. Play that.

[signal wedge]

stonks

[bronze breach]

Dont know what goes people minds asking for free stuff.

[signal wedge]

I bought Infinite for free

Multiplayer that is

[candid tusk]

They are blighted by the "never hurts to ask" bug. Plus, I'm sure it's a gambling addiction deal. They ask a thousand times and hit once, that's enough to do it three thousand more.

[civic walrus]

ah yes, the Master Chief Collection Collection

[obsidian wyvern]

lol

[frosty siren]

Who played halo inf on hosptial wifi before

[candid tusk]

We are three Sundays away from a great time. Very ready for the xbox showcase this year.

[spice pawn]

Xbox showcase?

[candid tusk]

June 9th. 10am PT.

[spice pawn]

What’s it about?

[candid tusk]

Xbox Games

[worldly sedge]

Me living on CDT I have to wait until 12/1PM

[barren haven]

PlayStation, obviously

[steel tinsel]

presumably a case where they show things

[spice pawn]

Dang, never knew that

[worthy scroll]

Halo 5 is the best halo game

[spice pawn]

In terms of Multiplayer. Story mode no

[worthy scroll]

Best multiplayer and forge

Gameplay is good though

[spice pawn]

Infinite has better Forge types. Like scripting, AI, more blocks

[worthy scroll]

Has the best game models and design as well as hi

[barren haven]

I never really liked forging tbh, too complicated for autism brain lmao

[spice pawn]

That’s a bit biased

[worthy scroll]

UI*

[steel tinsel]

bros just trying to get a rise out of older fans

[spice pawn]

I’m not even an older fan lol🤣. But the Campaign is the worst one probably. But somehow the game had the best multiplayer experience?

[worthy scroll]

By far the best multiplayer

[spice pawn]

Alr we get it

[worthy scroll]

It was an absolute masterpiece

[spice pawn]

We get it

[worthy scroll]

And admit that spartan abilities made the game better

[spice pawn]

Halo 3, 4, and Infinite has that but alr

[worthy scroll]

I mean the back thrusters

[steel tinsel]

eeeh 3 technically only had equipment but yeah

[worthy scroll]

And ground pound

[spice pawn]

Yeah. The Built-in Thruster pack?

[worthy scroll]

Yes

[candid solar]

I feel like hover and ground pound could've stayed.

[spice pawn]

Well they brung back older Halo. So it didn’t stay

[worthy scroll]

As well as the built in sprint

[steel tinsel]

Personally i dont care what halo 5 fans say, because theyre halo 5 fans

[worthy scroll]

And mantling

[spice pawn]

There always was sprinting excluding Halo 3 ODST and under

[steel tinsel]

so go off i guess

[spice pawn]

Don’t worry he’s excited abt it🤣

[worthy scroll]

Tbh if halo 5 had a better story it would be the best halo

[spice pawn]

I guess. But then there would’ve been complaints from Older halo fans saying “It didn’t feel like Halo” which was a dumb take

Halo 4 was the last good halo with a decent story

Halo 4 was the cherry on top for the franchise then I guess that was it. Infinite was fine I guess

[steel tinsel]

id say my take but id probably get banned from here

[spice pawn]

What’s your take?

[steel tinsel]

i guess the tldr is anything that came after reach was a joke.

HW2 was acceptable at least

[spice pawn]

Halo 4 was fine. It was a new Halo. But it was cool cause it was like an epic, heroic version of halo

The OST’s by Neil Davidge were really really good

Halo 4 would’ve been better all though if it wasn’t rushed as much. They tried to fit in high quality stuff onto the Xbox 360 and didn’t bother waiting for the Xbox One

They had a lot of stuff removed before the game was released

[spice pawn]

That’s why some parts of it are highly out of quality

[spice pawn]

And some are high quality, which they could’ve somehow balanced it

Atmosphere of the game was fine but like the desert for example it was very bright and weird textured looking

[steel tinsel]

OST was generic. I came to that because despite my numerous replays, I still dont remember it

like, the melody could be put into a modern CoD and it wouldnt be out of place

[spice pawn]

OST’s were just very good because of how cinematic they sounded. They were very heroic, epic sounding. And very tempting to here

Some kf the OST’s are very tempting so like each couple of seconds the beat gets more tempting

Which is what makes it sound great. The songs were a master piece

It may not of felt like Halo. But it was a cool version of it

Halo 5 then brought that on with better gameplay, bigger armoury and new stuff. But the campaign and customisation was a joke

[steel tinsel]

See you say bigger

[spice pawn]

Halo 5 was also pretty rushed. It took 2 years to make all the other good stuff. But left the important atuff incomplete and rushed

[steel tinsel]

but it was just a lot of different color patterns, none of which stood out

not to mention the req packs

[spice pawn]

Graphics felt some what Halo 4’ish but higher quality in each area. There wasn’t a big difference

[spice pawn]

Those were a major cash grab

You had no choice but to buy those

[steel tinsel]

my issue with halo 4s armor is that none of it had character. it was all just random shapes with the occasional star or skull symbol, like it was AI generated

some helmets stood out, but not in any charming way

[spice pawn]

They removed add ons to the armour like Halo Reach had. Which sucked. But I think it was meant to feel… hmmm I don’t know the word for this…. I think it was meant to feel more secure the armour in a realistic sense?

The armour didn’t really have any like body ranks. For example like Light armours, Heavy, Tactical, etc

[steel tinsel]

Yeah most pieces in H3 you could tell immediately just from their title why they look like that

EOD handles bombs so obv theres a lot of thickness to it

CQB got a knife and so on

[spice pawn]

Halo 4 had similar pieces but in different forms. Yeah there was no character either of the body pieces because it didn’t depict a type of hierarch on a fire team

And you wouldn’t really recognise it either

Halo 4’s story was pretty decent though. It wasn’t bad

[steel tinsel]

no, aside from the returning ones like mark VI and odst i know literally none of them

[spice pawn]

Same

They butchered the ODST Helmet in Halo 4

Not sure what went wrong there

[steel tinsel]

the story eh? all i see there was a needlessly complicated retcon that tried to shove all the exposition into one cutscene, and make chief some prophecised hero, ultimately making all his efforts in previous games that much less impressive

Im sorry, I don't mean to be contrarian. I just really despise it all

Ill throw in one good thing though

the warthog is actually really fun to drive in 4

[spice pawn]

Only problems I saw with Halo 4 was its AI play and its enemy designs. I mean Jackals had a fine new design, the Grunts and Elites though seemed a bit twisted. But I’m guessing they tried to make them more Alien looking

[worldly sedge]

I thought Halo 4 was fun and pretty good at the time

[steel tinsel]

Elites basically just became brutes

[worldly sedge]

Like the Didact and Librarian characters, just Del Rio was there for one scene and that’s it lol

[spice pawn]

Yeah they made the elites a bit too aggressive

And big

[steel tinsel]

not just that, theyre just kind of bumbling idiots even in cutscenes

well it was apparently the librarian that created all this "chosen one" stuff with chief so yeah no, shes not on my nice list

[spice pawn]

The design got me interested tho. They look very stupid whilst walking and should only be shown speaking there own language. When they speak English it doesn’t look right. But the design got me thinking one thing: “Hey they made them look pretty Alien! A bit too much though…”

Elites could’ve become less like brutes and instead a somewhat aggressive agile hunter. Instead of a bulky version

Grunts had a nearly human like facial structure. So that didn’t see, right.

Jackal design was pretty neat, but they were missing some add-ons like body spikes and fur

[steel tinsel]

oh and then theres the prometheans, I like challenging enemies. I dont like enemies with admin privileges though

[spice pawn]

Prometheans were actually cool enemies until there cool ranks got removed and there design. Design in Halo 5 they seemed more aggressive, I don’t like how they lost some of their ranks

[spice pawn]

There was only 2 for crawlers and 2 for Promethean knights. In halo 4 there was 3 crawler ranks and 4 knight ranks

Not much removed but they had more style to them

In Halo 5 the knights seemed less scary

[steel tinsel]

H5 treated them more as bosses which i can understand a bit more, lord knows its NOT fun fighting 4 of them at once

[spice pawn]

And the Promethean gun sounds in Halo 4 sounded aggressive. Then in Halo 5 they sounded more mechanical but way less scary sounding

That disappointed me

[spice pawn]

Oh man they were fun

[steel tinsel]

forerunner design in general became again generic. something about the octagonal, brutalistic design in the old titles was so foreboding and atmospheric

it was actually SCARY at times

but the new stuff decided to have it all bend in every possible angle with a hysterical blue or orange glow

[candid solar]

Me with OT fans

And Reach fans

And whatever fan I disagree with on a given day

[steel tinsel]

I like reach, i can acknowledge its faults and that it didnt hold up to 3, but i can accept it

[spice pawn]

Knights were made scary in Halo 4 yeah. Sometimes they swung there sword from afar then they teleported to you each time until they stabbed you. And when they come to near death they teleport. You get too close BAM they swing you with the sword

The lore about them being humans was cool as well

[steel tinsel]

no im talking about forerunner design in older games, just the architechture

[spice pawn]

Oh yes, those were nice

[steel tinsel]

the lore on em is ok, you could write a decent story on that

imo if it was done right it could have been as impactful as the flood reveal

could have even given chief some conflicting emotions since hes designed to protect humanity

[worldly sedge]

Believe it or not Marcus Lehto actually likes Chief’s character in Halo 4,5 and Infinite that they gave him more of a human character

[candid solar]

The absolute irony of saying original architecture wasn't generic and uninspired is tickling tbh

[candid solar]

And Downes' favorite time VA'ing for Chief was 4.

(Mostly because he had lines)

[worldly sedge]

Also the whole Forerunner lore and everything isn’t my area of expertise so it wouldn’t matter how they handled humanity’s origins because I’m still a Spartan at the end of the day with these games.

[candid solar]

Oh, did someone try starting that stupid argument based entirely off of cut content and oldhead whining again?

Good way to have the people who actually care about Halo's story mad at you in this chat, tbh.

[signal wedge]

BOO

[steel tinsel]

imma be real i cringed when he shouted "cortana"

[worldly badger]

CORTANAAAAA

[candid solar]

OT fans really don't get that their house is made out of glass tbh.

[steel tinsel]

i can appreciate that he does vary his range a bit more in 4 but they could only do it so much i guess

[steel tinsel]

oh? enlighten me

[worldly badger]

Atleast he didnt show his cheeks every scene like in the tv show

[steel tinsel]

lol

[candid solar]

Almost every single issue they've levelled at Reclaimer or Infinite games can be thrown back at pointed issues in Bungie's day.

[signal wedge]

nah...... Show chief has a real girlfriend

[frigid linden]

Infinizoomers laughing at halo oldheads, meanwhile, me, the mummified marathoner

[candid solar]

Everything from story direction to requiring outside context to understand what's going on in the story or how characters got from point A to B.

[frigid linden]

"Wait.. You guys have dialog?"

[candid solar]

Wonder what Marathonguy would sound like.

[frigid linden]

Personally I think he has no vocal cords, being an undead monstrosity

[candid solar]

I like to think a lot of it is them just not knowing gaming history very well.

[worldly badger]

Chiefs real girlfriend in the show is a Makee a captive from the convenant

[candid solar]

Like the aformentioned 'Halo OT had a unique aesthetic!' Drivel. That crap ain't true, lmao, never was.

[naive crystal]

cheif has ai girlfriend

[steel tinsel]

I've not read a single book or comic and i understood it, what are you on?

[frigid linden]

Dude the halo tv show.. Who let the halo coomers take control

[steel tinsel]

look i can say OT isnt perfect, its got issues

[signal wedge]

Cortana's Halo4 design.... was

[rare cedar]

if we're having discussion about the show, please discuss in #halo-the-series-chat . If it contains spoilers from season 2, discuss in #halo-the-series-spoiler-chat

[worldly badger]

Chief has interesting taste in women an ai generated girl and a convenant captive

[frigid linden]

I like my ai constructs non corporeal, only green text on a black screen

[signal wedge]

it's weird that cortana is blue while you have AI like Isabel with actual skin

[naive crystal]

that aint chief

[frigid linden]

Red text if they are baddies. I am simple man.

[candid solar]

And I didn't need one for 3 to 4 to 5 to Infinite, but people say you do.

[frigid linden]

Anything that moves

[worldly badger]

chief just like me fr

[frigid linden]

😂nooo dont say that

Master cheeks

[candid solar]

What's funny is that if any qualified, it'd be 5 to Infinite that has the most confusing gap. But even then they do explain a lot via audio logs.

[candid tusk]

I am here for the bird on bird violence.

[frigid linden]

Moas?

[signal wedge]

I'd like to imagine she really calls him stud muffin

[worldly badger]

You tend to be freaky when you have your emotions stunted

[frigid linden]

She certainly did while chief was asleep between 3 and 4

[normal owl]

Hello hello Are we being civil and respectful here today?

[candid solar]

Maybe.

[signal wedge]

Atriox managed to find chief on a 5km long ship

must have taken forever

[frigid linden]

Nah Chief smells strongly of..

[candid solar]

His own brand of bar soap

[candid tusk]

I wouldn't really go as far to say "managed to find" they definitely sought each other out specifically.

[frigid linden]

Yea!

[candid solar]

Smellbringer moment

[rare cedar]

Squash ™️

[worldly badger]

Any Chief branded cologne from soaking in his own suit sweat

[candid solar]

I'm like 90% sure his suit autocleans the sweat. He probably doesn't smell very ripe.

[steel tinsel]

ofc its not entirely unanimous, 4 and 5 was just a lot more vague, a lot more people had a harder time understanding it

[signal wedge]

I will imagine colonge companies in halo would use Chief's face

[frigid linden]

Omg we have mr chief gummy worms and mabster chf soder and chips, what about $300 halo man cologne

[steel tinsel]

same with OT it was just less people that were confused

[candid solar]

People had less incentive to crap on those stories for free internet points.

[worldly badger]

Musky Cheeks the new branded cologne from the Chief himself

[frigid linden]

Lmao

[candid solar]

Yes, we get it, Pablo Schreiber has great glutes, holy hell.

[frigid linden]

Chief bathwater

[candid tusk]

There were also less young people on the internet back then.

[candid solar]

True.

[frigid linden]

Good times

[worldly badger]

and we must be reminded of it everyday so we can bask in its glory

[candid solar]

Hating new things for nostalgia because nostalgia is comfy and requires less thinking is easier though.

[signal wedge]

We still don't know what happened to Lasky Palmer fireteam osiris, majestic

[candid solar]

Why, yes, I do think of nostalgia as a moral and societal cancer, how can you tell?

[steel tinsel]

OT has issues, that even i can't stand. and you can argue that in a vaccuum, the later games are fun

[frigid linden]

Oh noooo! anyway

[steel tinsel]

its just that one set of games are timeless classics, and the others basically had planned obsolesence

[candid solar]

Well, we know what happened to 3/4 of Osiris. At least, part of it.

[frigid linden]

Lasky was okay I guess

[candid solar]

'Timeless classics' is in the eye of the beholder.

[steel tinsel]

You still remember it though

[frigid linden]

This guy has no culture

[steel tinsel]

dont have to like em

[signal wedge]

after reading Outcasts I kinda like Vale

[candid solar]

Eh, better than having a culture of eating lead paint chips.

[steel tinsel]

thats sounds like an american thing

[candid solar]

That's irrelevant. Classics, yes, timeless, hell no.

[frigid linden]

Nostalgia is great. It gives value and purpose to things that'd be forgotten. I hate the notion that everything is disposable and doesnt matter because newer=better

[candid solar]

I remember damn near everything anyways, good and bad.

[signal wedge]

people hating 343 halo and not considering them halo 💀

[normal owl]

Actually, in America, they're called lead paint fries. Chips are a British term.

[worldly badger]

I can bootup the snes and play games that are actually timeless and hold up

[frigid linden]

It's why a lot of gamers today have massive libraries of games. They have no nostalgia for one thing. Everything is just ephemeral fluff that you give up on after a few months

Nostalgia is when people have "that one game" they remember playing hours on end for years

[candid solar]

And I hate nostalgia because people use it to cover for regressive behaviors and use it as a coping mechanism that holds them back as individuals.

[normal owl]

My gaming nostalgia is for back when I even had time to play for hours on end lol.

[candid solar]

This is true on a corporate, professional, and corporate level.

[frigid linden]

That sounds like a really resentful ideology

[normal owl]

What about on a corporate level though?

[steel tinsel]

mcc released twice (the first time almost 10 years ago) and still has about as many people on it as infinite, idk if that's impressive for MCC or if that's embarrassing for infinite

[frigid linden]

Ye that too. The memories of childhood 🤌

[candid solar]

Then you don't get to complain about companies like Disney rehashing nostalgic properties again and again like a damn necromancer instead of doing something fresh and useful.

[normal owl]

Didn't know what we had. 🥲

[worldly badger]

Video games used to be passion driven, you can see the gaming trends now a days that decisions are made for shareholder profits than the benefit of the gamer

[frigid linden]

Hahaha that's not personal nostalgia , that's not the same thing

That's just coopting things that are successful and proven

And hoping people are nostalgic enough to pay for it

[normal owl]

Disney can necromance anything they want as long as they keep my stock healthy.

[candid solar]

Suuuure it is. Totally has nothing to do with nostalgia-driven individuals seeking that next big hit of what makes them feel young again buying in droves because that works.

[frigid linden]

Hating someone for liking an old game even if it's bad is what I am mocking you about

[signal wedge]

Grapple hook in Halo casually carrying 300 kg spartans around

[candid solar]

If you're trying to mock me you should actually start to.

Instead of just saying you are.

[worldly badger]

Look at games like Fifa is used to be about the game, now its like everyone I know who plays it is a card collecting game, same with NBA 2k games

[normal owl]

No mocking. Be nice everyone!

[steel tinsel]

Maybe so. still just plain more fun

[candid solar]

Maybe when I was 10.

[worldly badger]

they added roulette wheels to unlock cards in a game after you already paid full price

[normal owl]

I've loved so many old bad games. Sometimes a game's imprint on a time in your life is greater than its critical review score.

[worldly badger]

Its basically an entry to gambling addiction in modern games

[normal owl]

For example, I love Reach.

[candid solar]

There's a different between liking a time you had with a game and insisting it's better than everything that's out now, and I think people take my criticism of the latter and treat it as hating everything entirely equally.

[frigid linden]

I think comparing moms that take kids to see Disney movie remakes is a lot different from gamers being nostalgic. I dont think those Disney movie-goers really care all that much what they are watching, it's just time filler for a day. But gamers are investing hundreds of hours into their purchases

[candid solar]

I used to love Reach. I had a lot of fun with it. I hate it mechanically now because I have more experience and knowledge of the universe and how shooter mechanics function, but I do miss playing with old friends.

[candid tusk]

One thing keeps Halo Reach as the best Halo game of all time, and that's the Falcon. Any Halo game that doesn't have that beauty of a vehicle just isn't taking the gold home.

[normal owl]

And I agree with you also on nostalgia being a tempting blinder that prejudices people against new good things.

[worldly badger]

Halo was always carried by the social fun with friends

[candid tusk]

^ Falcon's a social vehicle. Can't have that today.

[frigid linden]

Maybe you're just wrong? How can you say halo infinite is better than halo ce?

[signal wedge]

it's weird they have jet propulsion like the Pelican but still use whirleybirds

[candid solar]

https://tenor.com/view/office-michael-scott-thank-you-gif-5278681

[worldly badger]

You used to meet random people in pre game lobbies and form parties

[steel tinsel]

post game lobbies, man

[normal owl]

I remember the filthy chaos of the few seconds after a H5 Warzone match finished lol

[candid tusk]

New good things are neat occasionally if they really standout, but I'd say for the vast majority of people, they're just looking for something safe they know they'll enjoy instead of going out on a limb and getting burnt by 9/10 new things that come out.

[steel tinsel]

thats one big critique i have on mcc though

[candid solar]

Because CE is clunky, slow, and primitive even by the standards of its day-a collection of tried and tested mechanics and borrowed ideas that, to its credit, presented a palatable first FPS experience to console players of the time.

By modern standards, it's archaic. By then's standards it was a hair behind cutting edge for a console shooter.

[worldly badger]

even if I meet cool people on Infinite there isnt even a social component to easily form parties or add people

[steel tinsel]

it seems to have a pre game lobby but it doesnt do the thing tthat everyone liked

[signal wedge]

sometimes new things can be worse because original writters are gone

[frigid linden]

Primitive and archaic is automatically bad?

[candid solar]

Clunky and slow is.

[candid tusk]

It's fun to compare console apples to pc oranges.

[normal owl]

Games are no different than any other entertainment product or service: consumers want a positive experience, regardless of mathematical metrics.

[frigid linden]

I have no idea what clunky and slow means in this context

[worldly badger]

Fun = I play the game Not Fun = I find another game

[frigid linden]

The game ran great for me

[candid tusk]

It means Trench doesn't like it.

[candid solar]

So you fixate on primitive and assume I mean it's bad when it's just being objective. Astute.

[steel tinsel]

the gravity and vehicles was floaty yeah, but it still had a lot of moments where split second decisions had to be made

[candid solar]

On the contrary, it's probably the game of the OT I play the most.

[candid tusk]

It's not fortnite though, so it's bad.

[frigid linden]

It really seems that way. He's young I am guessing, and spoiled my modern dopamine-chasing game mechanics. It's very hard to enjoy old school games when you grow up on new ones. Old games a brutal, by design

[steel tinsel]

the only thing i could argue was unfair was the rocketflood

[normal owl]

I think clunky and slow does not automatically equal Not Fun. I genuinely enjoy chess a lot, which is by design clunky and slow.

[candid solar]

Ah, that old farce.

[normal owl]

Be nice everyone!

[signal wedge]

I am a zoomer and I can't play pixelated early 2000s game for the life of me. you are correct

[candid tusk]

The trick is to play them on a proper CRT.

That vaseline inspired blur makes them look much better.

[candid solar]

Yeaaaah, that was always funny to me. CRTs.

[worldly badger]

When I think back at CRT games I see them in 4k ultra hd in my mind

[candid solar]

They give me a headache now, for some reason.

I think it's the blur.

[frigid linden]

I grew up on marathon, and that is pure torture sometimes. I gave up on marathon infinity for a month or so it was so stressful and hard. I was getting lost on the maps, shot by unfair enemies.. Eventually I made it through and was so happy. My point is, most people playing a game like that now would nope out and go play something faster -paced, less methodical, and more dopamine microdosed filled lol

[worldly badger]

old games werent designed for modern displays

[normal owl]

Great racing game!

[candid tusk]

Probably, yeah. Once your eyes are used to crisp pictures the diffusion is weird to look at.

[candid tusk]

Nah, just have to call it a Soulslike and you'll get people on board.

[worldly badger]

Its like when you play PC games on 200fps and try to play an xbox game on sub 30fps

[candid tusk]

~60fps vsync team~

[frigid linden]

Pixel art doesnt hurt my brain as much as over-detailed unreal engine games that are a blur of complex shapes and colors that make it very difficult to distinguish enemy from map object 😆

[candid tusk]

That's on art direction for sure.

[steel tinsel]

hot take i do feel like gen z needs a lot more stimulation to enjoy games, i really dont mean that in any disparaging way. I just didnt expect infinite to have weapon skins and charms and stuff

[candid tusk]

It's the phones.

[signal wedge]

sorry I don't play games to sleep

[steel tinsel]

not complaining, the variation is welcome ofc.

[normal owl]

Reject modern games. Embrace stick & hoop!

[worldly badger]

anyone want to shoot some hoops at the park

[frigid linden]

Yeah but something I have noticed about a ton of games... Meanwhile og doom specifically made all their monsters their own unique color pallete specifically to make distinguishing at a glance easier

[candid tusk]

I'm hosting a lawn dart competition next week. You're all invited.

[candid tusk]

Right, the art direction.

[normal owl]

It's fun but ranked is crazy.

[left bone]

i dont like hyper realistic games

[frigid linden]

Why do games not focus as much on art direction now?

[steel tinsel]

but i got to a point where some of my younger friends was surprised to see me wear just a standard armor core and being legit stumped as to why i dont wear weapon skins

[worldly badger]

I am more of a competitive croquet guy

[frigid linden]

Detail is a hazard in fast fps games

[candid tusk]

Many, many do. Just looking in the wrong directions.

[steel tinsel]

polygon count i guess, seems to take too much priority

[orchid sleet]

Wsg

[left bone]

theyre just made to make the crowd say "oooooh....✨" "aaaaaaah....✨"

[normal owl]

...or are you actually being the true rebel now?

[frigid linden]

Grey walls, grey enemies = bad

[worldly badger]

so Hellblade is releasing today and it has 0 hype it seems lmao

[signal wedge]

to each their own

[orchid sleet]

That Bucherd name hard lol

[frigid linden]

Well it's the spamming of map objects IMO. Needless detail, that often has clipping issues too..

[signal wedge]

the Mk IV core is just too good looking to put skins on it

[steel tinsel]

well iM SORRY, i think the standard mark IV looks badass, suee me

[signal wedge]

I just wish I could put Jerome 092 skin on the core

[candid solar]

Mark IV is hilarious to me in Infinite.

[steel tinsel]

i DID put the scorpion punch on it

[normal owl]

I've been seeing a lot of hype for it. It's catering to games-as-art and games-as-storytelling populations.

[signal wedge]

I will pay money for a 092 skin

[candid tusk]

It's a difference in style between making a "game" and making a "simulation" lots of military shooters blur the two and they don't end up looking great.

[orchid sleet]

I gotta say the 2v2 thing kinda slaps

[left bone]

sure you can show me the most detailed looking game yet but dont expect me to not skip through 57 cutscenes to finally get into the gameplay

like im trynna play a game not watch a 1 hour movie

[normal owl]

I legitimately enjoy doing what you described intentionally. Being "no-skin" is so mind-blowing to my little nieces haha.

[signal wedge]

I am saving up money for ready or not because I watched too much of Swat 😵‍💫

[steel tinsel]

its adorable, but at the sime time concerning

[frigid linden]

Milsim is fine, those should make it hard to distinguish enemy from background... That's realistic.
Just dont let your arena fps get lost in the sauce of overdetailing.. Pls devs.

[candid solar]

Ehhhhhhh. It's really about the same, but more feedback to immerse players is generally appreciated.

I mean, I'm like, right between gens, but whatever.

[frigid linden]

Small doses of dopamine/stimulation over a long period vs long periods of stress and frustration culminating in dopamine rush when you beat a level. That is how I see modern fps vs boomer shooters for the most part

[normal owl]

I think it's just comparative stimulation. NES was probably crazy stimulating compared to the base level of stimulation on a typical day.

[candid tusk]

No... It's bad. Legitimately bad in the K-12 space right now. Behavioral issues are way up due to low attention spans and technology addiction.

[steel tinsel]

still, halo 3 only had about what, 6-7 sets of armor? that was enough to keep us running for years

[candid solar]

I wasn't talking about cosmetic rewards.

[frigid linden]

We're all spoiled now, face it. Blame phones, the games, the internet, anything you like. It doesn't matter, it's there. There's an undeniable shift in peoples' attention spans and patience.

[signal wedge]

but samurai core and bunny ears

[steel tinsel]

infinite had like 3 times as much plus other skins and that was apparently a content drought

i mean sure, matchmaking options was basically nonexistent

[obsidian wyvern]

when we talked about content drought in infinite, no one was on about the cosmetics lol

[normal owl]

Science proves you right. It's astounding how much that has changed just relatively recently in the context of technological development.

[candid solar]

For me it's more a case of preferring the feedback and immersion systems modern games provide over the annoying systems of the 'nebulous health' era of mid-to-late aughts and early teens shooters provided (Halo 2 and 3, Call of Duty, Halo 4, Gears of War) that went too hard into immersion but didn't do anything to tell you what your health was. 2, 3, and 4 are mild offenders but the Halo health system was what informed CoD that it was somehow okay to not tell your player they were dying.

[signal wedge]

look as long as it's not canon that bunny ears exists cosmetics are fine

[left bone]

i dont think halo 7 is gonna be any better tbh

if anything its gonna be stuck to the halo cycle too

[steel tinsel]

people got mad at the repetitive shop thoguh

[frigid linden]

Halo infinite has so much stuff in it, I've literally only explored firefight and the featured playlist like big team heavies. THERE'S SO MUCH

[obsidian wyvern]

that wasn't the content drought most people referred to, though yes, it was a problem

[left bone]

current game: "wow this sucks!"

previous game: "maybe this was underappreciated.."

oldest game: "this is amazing!!"

[frigid linden]

What is this halo 7? Are they not just going to continue dlc campaigns in infinite?

[left bone]

ha
ha
ha

[candid tusk]

They are not.

[signal wedge]

no they are developing Halo 7 now

[livid oyster]

A good comparison between older games and newer games is the point/medal system. Today's games have points pop up on the screen for everything you do and that brings in a load of dopamine

[obsidian wyvern]

so jelly believes in the halo cycle

[signal wedge]

I have never seen anyone calling Infinite Halo 6

[candid solar]

Like, nowadays, games strike a far better balance of immersion to information because all the good systems so far have been proven enough to be properly adopted by competent studios.

[left bone]

ive been believing it for a looong time

[obsidian wyvern]

halo infinite is a bad name imo

[frigid linden]

Whhaaa. They spent so long on infinite.. Is something wrong with the engine?

[steel tinsel]

anyway i just dont need skins and charms and armor effects and kill effects and helmet effects, and walking effects and death effects, and i think i can vouch for pretty much anyone older than me

[obsidian wyvern]

they should just stick to numbers for the main series

[candid tusk]

No, something was wrong with Microsoft and management.

[candid solar]

Mfw this was literally why I was confused and annoyed at earlier shop complaints

[frigid linden]

This is a game coming from the guys that make Xbox... I'm not sure I trust them with numbers

[steel tinsel]

except one of my friends, god he has awful taste

[candid solar]

'I can play the game just fine for fun, who cares'

[obsidian wyvern]

don't trust msft with names at all

[frigid linden]

Yeah Microsoft where is windows 9

[steel tinsel]

a nice color scheme's where i can settle

[signal wedge]

how about pouches and stuff

[signal wedge]

Lmao

[steel tinsel]

i could take it or leave it

[candid solar]

I also really highly value movement abilities a'la old school shooters and new school shooters. Early Halo and its ilk were originally the ones who started the trend of slower and slower movement because it tended to be easier for consoles.

[signal wedge]

I mean they skipped 6 because no one ever calls Infinite Halo 6

[left bone]

but why call the game infinite tho?

[candid solar]

Old school Unreal was fast as hell.

[frigid linden]

I'm not a premium player so I only have access to the charms I think. But I don't use any and I probanly wouldn't use any effects even if i did own some.
About the charms, they are kinda distracting, the way they flop around

[left bone]

dat gaem only lasted a few yearz! ahyuk!

[signal wedge]

Because.... I am actually not sure... Halo 5 guardians because of the guardians...

[obsidian wyvern]

no one ever calls it 6 because they didn't name it 6

[steel tinsel]

yeah no especally the big ones, they can get in the way of the crosshair too

[candid solar]

I still find it funny that a friend of mine hated Infinite because it felt like Unreal Tournament to him. And that's actually the exact reason I love it.

[frigid linden]

Lol

[livid oyster]

I do not see the comparison to unreal tournament

[frigid linden]

I'm trying to figure that out myself

[left bone]

me too

[frigid linden]

The biggest difference between infinite and other halos has to be the grapple

[normal owl]

Yeah the comparison seems unreal.

[frigid linden]

And I dont remember unreal having a grapple but I didnt play them all

[normal owl]

but what do I know, I'm just an a-tourney.

[obsidian wyvern]

took me a second

[signal wedge]

Grapple is cool

[normal owl]

[signal wedge]

but don't spartans have thrusters

[frigid linden]

Grapple is cool

[left bone]

*anymore

[obsidian wyvern]

it's equipment in infinite

[frigid linden]

Repulsor very cool too. The other mods kinda boring

[obsidian wyvern]

not built in like 5

[frigid linden]

Yeah, map pickups were a much better choice

[normal owl]

5's thrusters were freaking sweet. Loved the gunfight dance with them.

[candid solar]

It was more the improvement of Halo's movement to trend towards slick and clean, which 5 also did a ton of.

[signal wedge]

grappling everywhere like you're in Just Cause

[obsidian wyvern]

lowkey id love to see a mancannon you can pick up as equipment as opposed to the grav lift

[normal owl]

just 'cause of what?

[frigid linden]

And then covering it in sticky grenades like you're in the same

[candid solar]

It's why gameplay wise 5 and Infinite are my favorite Halo games-both have a large emphasis on movement and gunduels that happen in a mechanically interesting way versus the more 'walk and spam precision' method older Halos trended towards.

[signal wedge]

you know I didn't know grappling on to an unggoy would automatically melee and I kept missing my melees because of that

[frigid linden]

Aw man the remote detonate gun from halo 4-5 :(
That needs to be in infinite

[candid solar]

I feel more heavily rewarded for being better at terrain and engagement traversal than I did in, say, 3.

[normal owl]

Yeah the dance of death was so well implemented.

[signal wedge]

idk if you're joking but it's a game

[left bone]

just imagined a scenario where a spartan uses a grapple hook on another and kicks the living daylights of the enemy spartan in mid air

[obsidian wyvern]

you must be new here

[signal wedge]

correct

[normal owl]

I was indeed making a joke. That's why the entire chat was laughing uproariously.

[left bone]

uh

[frigid linden]

Halo 1-3 had mechanics prioritizing campaign playthrough, with online PvP as an added bonus I think

[candid solar]

Old school unreals had different but engaging movement options; Double jumps, wall bounces, etc, that fulfilled a similar mechanical function but not identical implementation.

[dense orbit]

i am having issues with halo infinite it says "At least one player in your fireteam is banned from playing halo infinite"

[rare cedar]

[left bone]

that was the most corniest joke i ever heard in my entire life

[signal wedge]

canonically Locke should have went flying after Chief punched him (real)

[left bone]

yep

[obsidian wyvern]

you haven't spoken to icky much

[candid solar]

Where's that damn cinderblock, I have a skull to crush.

[normal owl]

A corny joke is butter than nothing.

[left bone]

who

[obsidian wyvern]

lol

[left bone]

???

[normal owl]

Use the incantation: "Orange Juice".

[candid solar]

Really chewing these puns down to the cob here.

[normal owl]

aw shucks, you're right

[rare cedar]

And with that, I’m off to bed

[frigid linden]

The marathon ARG corn rabbithole... 😃

[normal owl]

Sleep tight!

[rare cedar]

[candid solar]

Maybe you should Combine your puns with some better jokes. It can be hard to Farm engagement if there's less ins.

[frigid linden]

Someone found some numbers somewhere and decided they were map coordinates. Turns out it is somewhere in Ohio, in the middle of a corn field. And, the hypothesis is that bungie hid a clue about the new game, in a corn field, in the style of I Like Bees

[livid oyster]

Smart move. Nobody will go to Ohio

[frigid linden]

Only true rizzlers dare enter the bungle®️ cornfields at night

[normal owl]

Har Har. Vest I can do is promise that I won't be irrigated if someone doesn't laugh.

[normal owl]

[dense orbit]

guys what does this mean? At least one player in your fireteam is banned from playing halo infinite

[candid solar]

I should go to Wright Patterson's museum again one of these days.

[normal owl]

It's only Wright that you do so.

[candid solar]

I think it means one player in your fireteam is banned from playing Halo Infinite.

[frigid linden]

Someone you know?

[dense orbit]

there is no one in my fireteam

[normal owl]

343 employee confirmed.

[dense orbit]

i usually play solo

[normal owl]

Now this was a twist I did not see coming. Don't be alarmed...but are you sure you're actually alone?

[dense orbit]

ohhh wait nvm it works

[signal wedge]

it means you got banned

[candid solar]

I bet I know who it could be then

[frigid linden]

Your spartan is haunted by a community guidelines violating ghost

[dense orbit]

it works now nvm, i got scared

i thought i was actually banned

[frigid linden]

Not yet

[candid solar]

Forever

I'm actually putting in the request now. Your time is numbered, buddy.

[normal owl]

I'm glad that the ghost in their fireteam was finally freed to rest in peace and depart.

[frigid linden]

Someone drove that ghost off the map

[dense orbit]

i think it was a weird glitch, that messaged kept appearing.

but its working fine now

[pulsar heron]

temporary bans are a thing

[normal owl]

until said ghost returns.

[signal wedge]

Iratus has hacked your game

[candid solar]

It's me, I'm Iratus.

[frigid linden]

Speaking of glitches in halo infinite, anybody else have issues loading the customization tabs? Or with the "mark all seen" button not working?

[candid solar]

Sometimes you gotta spam it a bit and play a game.

[frigid linden]

Yeah I mostly just ignore the yellow triangles and do already spam click and ESC the armor hall until it loads

I can let it sit for several minutes without loading

[signal wedge]

when you press cancel search only for it to find you a match you can't cancel 2 seconds later

[frigid linden]

I read somewhere that disabling ipv6 in network settings can help. It kinda did, I think, but that's a ridiculous fix

[dense orbit]

anyone down to play halo 3 refuel?

[steel tinsel]

just comin back to say:

Oldheads? is that what we're called?

[frigid linden]

That's the new name for boomers I guess

[signal wedge]

you are old

[calm fiber]

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

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

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

[exotic bramble]

Merica

[frigid linden]

Oldheadshooter, not boomershooters anymore

[steel tinsel]

I mean im just 27

[candid tusk]

Wise beyond your years.

[dense orbit]

very close hitting Max hero

cant wait to hit that 🙂

[frigid linden]

Haha yeah thats old now. Anything pre-google/Facebook takeover of the internet probably.

[exotic bramble]

My friend died to legendary grunts in gruntpocalypse smh

[signal wedge]

what was the great depression like

[steel tinsel]

wow i cant believe you just called me the o-word smh

[exotic bramble]

He used up 7 of the shared lives so when he died I was alone with already low health

[frigid linden]

Dude I watched a grunt like a mile away from me ignite two grenades, and FLY ACROSS THE MAP to blow up in my face. I had time to react, I was just too stunned by disbelief. Wtf they feeding these grunts omg

[steel tinsel]

you mean TODAY?

little political joke for ya there

[frigid linden]

?

[steel tinsel]

uh economy

[left bone]

ha
ha
ha

[frigid linden]

Yeah economic not political

[signal wedge]

my multiplayer spartan dies way too many times to be a spartan

[frigid linden]

Or is it a recession

[frigid linden]

They dont make em like they used to

[signal wedge]

imagine being fresh out of Spartan academy and you're being sent to Zeta Halo 💀

[frigid linden]

I dont know my halo lore, which is that

Hell I am still working on odst

[forest lagoon]

I mean, a Spartan fighting other Spartans in simulated training, it makes sense to die frequently

[signal wedge]

I am reading Rubicon but it's kinda ruined since I know Griffin and Stone is dead

[forest lagoon]

You're fighting Spartans after all

[frigid linden]

That's such a goofy in universe explanation for pvp

[signal wedge]

what about the coop one where you fight armies of Unggoy?

[frigid linden]

Yeah no excuse for dying in firefight to grunts

[forest lagoon]

But it is the explanation for PVP

[frigid linden]

That spartan just dead. Or fired.

[signal wedge]

hides in bush

i spent most time in firefight finding grav hammers and grappling to grunts

and dying sometimes

[frigid linden]

I love the mangler in firefight

Grapple + melee smack with that gun's blades

Ammo is easy to get too. I get in the rhythm better with guns in don't have to drop

I really like all the guns except the ravager

But mainly the mangler

[signal wedge]

I think the coop mode is my fav now

everytime I play PVP I get bullied

[queen lantern]

anyone want to play halo reach with me on halo mcc

[calm fiber]

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

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

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

[fleet shore]

yes

[queen lantern]

im on pc but my xbox username is deadkid200m

[queen lantern]

i didnt know what lfg ment sorry

[trim saddle]

i guess it means looking for group but i always read it as lets F-ing go.. lol

[signal wedge]

inded

[queen lantern]

i though the L was a capitalized i

so i was like what is ifg

[trim saddle]

"i forgot" lol

[normal owl]

That is exactly the initials' meaning IRL. It's only in gaming that it means "Looking For Group".

[trim saddle]

makes sense for both areas, its up to interpretation for the audience lol

[normal owl]

like whenever you see someone on LinkedIn announcing their new job, the comments are filled with what looks like "Looking For Group!" "Looking For Group! Congratulations!"

[trim saddle]

we all need a group for congratulations honestly. uplifting each other en masse should be more commonplace.

[normal owl]

I know that's right!

[candid tusk]

I agree completely. You folks are so right!

[normal owl]

Congratulations on being right!

[queen lantern]

huh

[thorny bough]

Yay

[forest fulcrum]

Afternoon all

[normal owl]

Fresh pfp!

[elfin glacier]

congratulations everyone

[thorny bough]

Heck to theeee yaaaaa

[queen lantern]

its 10am for me

[thorny bough]

7:52 AM here

[forest fulcrum]

Gasp, other timezones, that's crazy

[queen lantern]

they suck

[normal owl]

I am so excited for the 4-day week that happens after a holiday Monday.

[dusty oxide]

my steam achivements are not syncing with the xbox app once for a while now some do some do not sync at all

[forest fulcrum]

Always the best

[candid tusk]

True. Those Hawaiian people should be in the dark during working hours.

[obsidian wyvern]

was going for all the audio logs in odst for the achievement and only just discovered all these secret back areas and caches dotted around the city. S tier game 😤

[candid tusk]

Next week is going to be baller.

[normal owl]

#1075989764026675210 is where you'll want to seek assistance. That's where all the big brains are. Your issue will just get lost in the sauce here.

[thorny bough]

Ooooooo!!!!! That's funnnn

[candid tusk]

You're kidding, right? You're only just now learning about these? lol First time going for any audiologs?

[queen lantern]

i just want 343 to remove the platform restrictions on mcc

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah lol

[candid tusk]

lmao you goofball.

[obsidian wyvern]

i didnt know any of those doors could be opened

[normal owl]

Rev! lolol. Well I'm happy that ODST continues to delight and surprise.

[queen lantern]

i found them on accident

[candid tusk]

Sadie's story leads to many abilities, some would call unnatural.

[thorny bough]

https://tenor.com/view/the-more-you-know-gif-19118236

[normal owl]

I could see and hear this down to the pixel in my mind's eye.

[forest fulcrum]

uh oh embed fail

[thorny bough]

🥹

[forest fulcrum]

At least on my end it is

[candid tusk]

No failure there, we can read what it is.

[obsidian wyvern]

ive got like 80 achievements in the past 3 days, gotta keep going until the laso ones are left

[fickle drift]

Man's caught the bug.

[obsidian wyvern]

idk why im doing it

[normal owl]

Anyone got plans for Memorial Day weekend?

[obsidian wyvern]

i was meant to go for hero but this is more fun rn

[candid tusk]

None here, and I'm glad.

[candid tusk]

Why did I think you were in the 100% MCC crew?

[pulsar heron]

had that experience when playing with my gf, it was her first time playing and she wanted the logs, i was always too lazy for them. i was floored when i saw it

[queen lantern]

i has only got 319/700 achievements for mcc

[forest fulcrum]

Our rememberence day is in November so I'll be doing my usual

[thorny bough]

I plan on buying up the stores supply of chapstick. It's dry over here lol

[obsidian wyvern]

im generally too lazy to be that person so idk why lol

[queen lantern]

i suck at multiplayer

[candid tusk]

ikr? :p

[normal owl]

Well, at least the player population may be higher than usual this weekend for your games!

[fickle drift]

See the MCC ones are fun becuase they motivate you to explore the games, find a lot of stuff you otherwise wouldn't have.
Gives you a deeper appreciation, or it did for me anyway

[normal owl]

I think the one I'm still using is literally from a year ago.

[forest fulcrum]

Maybe, does mean I can get more script writing done, maybe even get a little animation out for fun

[normal owl]

Still smells fine.

[thorny bough]

I love the smell of nostalgia

[obsidian wyvern]

good to know i wasnt the only one

[queen lantern]

i want to install infinite on my computer but i aint got the space and i dont meet the mininum requirements for it

[normal owl]

I still have one unused from a 3-pack I bought a couple yrs ago. And I use it every morning and night!

[thorny bough]

Why did clorox buy up Burts beeeees though....that's my favorite. They better not tamper with the ingredients

[normal owl]

That stings, but it'll bee ok.

[thorny bough]

Your mind is a beautiful place 🤌

[normal owl]

Most of the time lol

I'm going to get a nice amount of estate planning caught up on while everyone's out of touch for the weekend.

[thorny bough]

Yay!!!!

[trim saddle]

i remember someone saying ODST had no story and was boring lol

[thorny bough]

I'm going to be lazy and eat olive garden breadstickssssss

[normal owl]

I audibly gasped. That sounds delicious.

[trim saddle]

Im sad that a pizza place forgot my breadsticks recently

[normal owl]

Did you hear Red Lobster declared bankruptcy?? Former Darden siblings.

[trim saddle]

^yes and therussianbadger wants to buy the trademark lol

[normal owl]

That is a crime and I am sorry!

[thorny bough]

Yep! I still never been!

[signal wedge]

ODSTs being cannon fodder in books unless they got names

[thorny bough]

Noooooo! Shame!!

[normal owl]

audibly gasped again. I will take you there one day.

[worldly badger]

crazy how crazy the connection flips performance on this game, I played the same 1600 onyx guy one game he drops almost 30 kills the next I beat him easily lmao

[thorny bough]

Can we trust the lobster 🦞 though.....

[normal owl]

Yeah I think their terms & conditions contain a guarantee claws.

[thorny bough]

Teeeheeee

[normal owl]

But it's for the shrimp! Their breaded shrimp, grilled garlic shrimp, and so much more.

[thorny bough]

[normal owl]

Oh my gosh talking about it even...

[thorny bough]

Omg

[normal owl]

And their cheddar bay biscuits.

[thorny bough]

Mmmmmm yummmmm oh God yes

[normal owl]

Now I'm so hungry thinking about it and wishing I was in a booth at that restaurant right now.

2:50 until I can eat.

[thorny bough]

You lil gremlin you

[normal owl]

intermittent fasting

[forest fulcrum]

What about breaded garlic mushrooms?

[elfin glacier]

[thorny bough]

Ohhhh maaa gawwwwd

[normal owl]

Very good!

[thorny bough]

Yum 😋

[forest fulcrum]

I'm definitely gonna treat myself this upcoming payday

[thorny bough]

Hell ya!!!

[normal owl]

Sounds like you're a fun-gi!

[forest fulcrum]

AHHHHH

[thorny bough]

Teeheeeeeee

[forest fulcrum]

Oh Attorney did you end up seeing our teaser btw?

[normal owl]

Not yet, but will definitely check it out!

[dusty oxide]

the teen content of middle of the convo is crazy

[forest fulcrum]

I hope you like it bud, trying to get exposure of the series

[thorny bough]

Why do I imagine you saying that wearing a trench coat

🫵

[forest fulcrum]

i aint no perv 😦

[thorny bough]

I am 🥹

Noooooo

[normal owl]

Robin the Pure? Never.

[thorny bough]

Muahahaha

[normal owl]

Rated G for Gangster

[thorny bough]

All this talk of food though

[forest fulcrum]

gasp

[thorny bough]

I'm sooooooo hungry 😫

Hash browns and eggs for moi this morning

[forest fulcrum]

oooo hashbrowns

[thorny bough]

I love them

[normal owl]

How do you do your HB? And how do you like your eggs?

[thorny bough]

Oooo ok, so I'm a wild card with my eggs 🥚but today I'm eating hard boiled haha

For hashbrowns, air fryer baby 🤌

Air fryer is life now

If only I had a KFC xbox though 🥹

[normal owl]

Sounds eggs-tremely delicious. I shell wish you bon appetit.

[normal owl]

That's interesting, I've never made my hb in the air fryer before. What heat & time has worked better for you?

I'm getting deja vu, have I asked you this before?

[forest fulcrum]

Isn't an air fryer just an oven?

[thorny bough]

It's a portal to a delicious dimension

[normal owl]

oh my sweet friend, it is so much more: an oven without the large space, long cook time, uncertain results, and other inconveniences.

[frosty siren]

Rate this picture i have

[forest fulcrum]

Hm, but cast iron pan?

[normal owl]

Quality, but for a different purpose.

[normal owl]

Air Fryer is essentially a modernized oven that gets you the benefits of baking without the drying-out and other drawbacks of a conventional oven.

It's a miracle machine.

[forest fulcrum]

hm I see

[frosty siren]

Ima fine the Venom photo i had on my other decice

Found it

[dusty oxide]

no steak tonight sparrow

lol

[forest fulcrum]

Damn, bot doesn’t like my cursing

[dusty oxide]

yep

cant say nothing

[calm fiber]

For server moderation concerns, please send a direct message to @bleak yoke.

[trim saddle]

dont need to swear to show emotion or communicate. 😉

[livid oyster]

It does add a little spice though

[forest fulcrum]

Swearing ain't bad, its how you use it

[abstract heart]

what if I NEED to

[trim saddle]

you can, just not here lol

[topaz gazelle]

wait a second... if new alexandria exist, where is the OLD alexandria

[dreamy stirrup]

egypt

[forest fulcrum]

I wonder what other new cities got developed on Earth tbh

[obsidian wyvern]

bruh he really did it

[stuck ruin]

MCC has does not play any sound except during the opening logos. Any idea what is going on?

[candid solar]

I don't like it

[elfin glacier]

still Twitter

[bronze breach]

😐

[austere venture]

damn

im still callin' it twitter

[elfin glacier]

i know reach is like space Hungary so i'm guessing that there's an Alexandria in Hungary? i know there's at least a dozen or so scattered around

reach is so cool i wish Hungary was real 😔

[austere venture]

Fr

[worldly badger]

X gon give it to ya

[hexed geyser]

i wanna have a gamecube Controller Themed Xbox controller one day

but the controller desinger wont let me changet RS to yellow

[worldly badger]

any xdefianters

[cedar turret]

Alexander the Great named a lot of cities after himself after he conquered them. One after his favorite horse and a couple after his bf too

[soft wharf]

Well he was that guy

It was like Cesars too

[normal owl]

Alexander: one of history's ultimate examples of a unicorn start-up with a terrible succession.

[hearty flame]

He's dead and I'm not so I think I win tbh

[normal owl]

Fortune favors the old.

[hearty flame]

Sure he may have cities and land named after him, however, he never got to play Halo

[soft wharf]

I think he died from an std in Babylon

[hearty flame]

In time, those cities will crumble, than land will part, but he'll still have never gotten the chance to play Halo

[dusty oxide]

will 343 add Denuvo DRM to their future game as it makes game much harder to get pirated

[soft wharf]

Why couldn’t he live longer

[hearty flame]

ah, yes,
pirating the free game

[dusty oxide]

campgain

[bronze breach]

[glad aspen]

https://fxtwitter.com/TheForgeFalcons/status/1792966904878858299

[hearty flame]

THEY ADDED WAVE-BASED ZOMBIE SURVIVAL TO INFINITE?

NAW TIMEOUT

[bronze breach]

New firefight variant?

[glad aspen]

New gamemode
No variant

[hearty flame]

As long as ammo is easy to get I'm so down

[glad aspen]

If you played cod zombies
You will love this one :]

[barren haven]

PVE?

[hearty flame]

More Halo PvE is always welcome in my life

[bronze breach]

Lit!

[barren haven]

Fr, I enjoy PvE a little more in Halo

[bronze breach]

I assume its limited spawns

[hearty flame]

YO THIS IS JUST NACHT

[bronze breach]

oh its available only for 2 weeks only.

[glad aspen]

Yeah
Because 343 is testing the mode for matchmaking
It will comeback in the future

Just like btb heavies

[bold sparrow]

Forge Falcons stay winning

[bronze breach]

nice

[bold sparrow]

I'd like it if there was a limited round mode, Ive never been a huge fan of "survive as long as you can".
Its why I like Firefight KOTH.

[worldly sedge]

Booya let’s go

[cerulean temple]

Same, seems like it adds a meaningful end and progress to be made.

[soft wharf]

Gears of war is the only horde mode to do it I think

And army of two and mass effect, only three I could think of

[normal owl]

as long as it's Time Until Survival, not Deadline To Defeat Boss (one of the not-great things about H5: Firefight).

[soft wharf]

Halo 5’s firefight sucked

[bold sparrow]

It worked once you understood how to play it right.

And once you had enough packs saved up.

[normal owl]

Yeah it was more of a timed boss tower, not Firefight.

[bold sparrow]

There were some cheeky things you could do with the bosses too. Like running all the infantry-sied ones over with a Ghost.
Or my favorite; infinite Grenadier frag spam Gungoose.
Especially on Escape from Arc.
Allll those enemies spawning on that one side, you sit behind one of the pillars and rain M9s

[normal owl]

True, it was pretty obviously a Req pack consumption mechanic.

[bold sparrow]

Oh for sure.
But by that point I had everything unlocked and was getting one Gold pack per game played at that point, so.

[normal owl]

Yessss, immediately spawn an ONI hog and get up to Req level 3 to get a ghost next round.

[worldly badger]

If shots registered properly on low ping this game might be more populated

[soft wharf]

Reason I didn’t like it, I like the classic firefight set up

[ornate sequoia]

wow new workshop event / zombie mode is a W

[bold sparrow]

That is the LEAST of the issues my dude. LEAST.

[soft wharf]

I still think odst has the best one, reach was also eh in that regard to

Despite it being highly customizable

[worldly badger]

the least of your issues is a modern fps game where bullets are delayed like 200 ping on "20 ping" connections?

[bold sparrow]

What me and my friend would do was spawn a Warthog at Level 3 (which we almost always got during Round 1 cause we knew wher ethe enemies spawned and how to kill them) then use that till we got to like round 4 or 5, then both of us would spawn Mantis's and just WRECK.
We were top-scorring basically every match

[bold sparrow]

Never happened to me, so IDK.
Ive never had connection or ping issues ore latency issues in this game since I started playing back when it launched.

I think its less the game and more your internet or position.

[dreamy stirrup]

big brain

[bold sparrow]

Or just...bad luck? Or skill? IDK.
Ive never had bullet registartion problems.

[worldly badger]

Its more obvious in ranked where people can't buy a kill then suddenly are gods the next game

[bold sparrow]

I had ONE instance where it happened, and that was because my cat pulled the plug out the back of my Xbox.
Bad Charles.

Oh well the obvious answer there is, you know, dont play ranked

[ornate sequoia]

🙌 zombie mode 🙌

good job 343 devs

[bronze breach]

lol kept dying every wave... guess this mode aint for me.

[bold sparrow]

You'll get the hang of it.