general-chat

[winter flame]

does badger badger badger count as a meme

[steel tinsel]

oh of course

[winter flame]

first one i can remember

[steel tinsel]

now that you mention it i do think badgerbadger was first for me instead

[winter flame]

i dont understand how late 90s kids are Gen Z? We grew up with 2000s internet culture like all the millennials

Gen Z aint know nothing

[steel tinsel]

its a mixed bag, some zoomers are more in the know than others for me

[past heron]

does anyone have the halo ce 1749 tagset?

[signal wedge]

my strategy in gaming is watching Youtube shorts while waiting for game to load

[wary dove]

Depends on the game you play

Most people play multiplayer now so like it doesn’t require much thinking

But in single player you if there’s a boss you have to be careful and think of what to do

[fickle drift]

dog why tfek do they look liks strees ballsss

[candid solar]

Really depends on the game here.

[wary dove]

Also true

But like for the most popular games like fortnite or call of duty most people will just play for fun

Even halo I play for fun without a plan

[candid solar]

Also, I'd argue that strategic knowledge still helps you a lot in those games.

Even if your 'plan' is second by second.

A lot of my best plays were done on-the-fly but looked planned, and to some degree, were.

[wary dove]

I think it’s mainly for competitive players

[normal owl]

Speaking of lack of strategy, bought these on a whim with no strategy of how I'm going to pull off the look.

[hearty flame]

You have no choice but to dress up as a Louisiana bigshot lawyer from the 1920s

White suit, bolo tie, thick stache, the whole 9 yards

[signal wedge]

yeah man most games your skill level is more important

[frigid linden]

Maybe it's backwards. Maybe people are mostly playing multiplayer because it doesn't require thinking

[normal owl]

Would be a smooth look!

[spiral glade]

Guys it worked, thank you for the guy who helped me

No no, just download 20gb and u can open it and then you can choose what to download and not

@winter flame thanks bruv

[vapid siren]

gamers

need some lore focused insights

have half a mind to ping haruspis he'd enjoy this probably

Trying to come up with a name for this ship i got in elite dangerous. been doing a semi-rp bit where i name ships in a manner that would make them plausibly real in halo canon

UNSC Size Matters, Big Pharma, Touchdown Pass, Horizon Line, Wonky Wallaby, etc etc.

@candid solar wake up this is your wheelhouse

so what do i do for a ship outfitted with missles, torpedoes, and is designed tot kill giagantic alien ships called Titans

[candid solar]

Hi cool ship

[vapid siren]

[candid solar]

Looking for naming conventions?

[vapid siren]

now im thinking something like Titanomachy which is the name of the war of titans vs olympians

[vapid siren]

nah just the name itself

[candid solar]

UNSC DAVID SEEKING GOLIATH

[vapid siren]

i have a convention called "just make it seem like it would work in halo"

[candid solar]

(Joke names are also a thing because of ships like the UNSC Say my name)

[vapid siren]

trench... ik

thats my angle

[candid solar]

Frogs

[vapid siren]

my rule is i make it reference an aspect of the ship and sound plausible in halo lore

honeybees hive for example is my mining ship that sends out tons of drones to pick up materials so it looks like a swarm of bees

big pharma is my evacuation/rescue ship

rat race is my fuel rat ship

mail whale is my cargo hauler

[candid solar]

UNSC ship names aren't really my wheelhouse, but there is a rough correlation between ship class and name.

Except for Frigates. Those are weird as hell.

[vapid siren]

youre overthinking this

[candid solar]

I'm talking while typing a list.

[hasty zinc]

what role is the ship you want to name

[vapid siren]

im killing Titans in elite here

4x size 3 missile racks, a nanite torpedo, and a beam laser

[hasty zinc]

UNSC Iceberg

[vapid siren]

[candid solar]

Anyways

UNSC David Seeking Goliath
UNSC Spinal tap
UNSC David's Sling
UNSC Loup-de-Guerre

[vapid siren]

elaborate

[hasty zinc]

titans/titanic/iceberg killed the titanic

[vapid siren]

ok thats a goodun

[candid solar]

(Loup-de-Guerre is the name of the Warwolf Trebuchet)

[vapid siren]

oh

im leaning a bit more greek mythos tho cause of the whole Titan dynamic, the fact each one is named after a god of thunder in the game, and also the Titan Cronus is also known as Saturn...

so ya know

[cedar turret]

that would be because it literally translates to wolf of war

[vapid siren]

@low narwhal wake up babe we got a halo writing exercise

[candid solar]

:3

[vapid siren]

screw it im pinging him ik he'd enjoy this

[candid solar]

UNSC Harpe's Comeuppance

[hasty zinc]

emoji makes that SS

[vapid siren]

hold on

[hasty zinc]

perfect lmao

[vapid siren]

hold on

to photoshop

[candid solar]

(The Harpe Sword is the weapon used by Cronus to kill Uranus, apparently)

Wow, there is not a lot for me to go off of here. Annoying.

[vapid siren]

thing is im killing the titan, which in this case is cronus

so seems backwards

[candid solar]

I know.

I was trying to word it like it was a better weapon than said Harpe.

Zeus mostly just spammed lightning, apparently, so like... Zeus' Thunder is a dumb ship name.

[vapid siren]

also @hasty zinc python mk2 is so damn good

i put a bunch of my chieftain's parts into it and it goes faster, hits harder

and SCO is so pog

[candid solar]

UNSC Keraunos?

[hasty zinc]

wait MK 2???!!

[vapid siren]

my jumpaconda has equal jump range with SCO vs the old v1 fsd

oh yeah we got a python mk2

[candid solar]

Okay, actually, yeah, this one isn't bad.

[vapid siren]

and FSD can now boost in supercruise

needs a special drive called SCO (supercruise overdrive)

[hasty zinc]

...

[vapid siren]

its super fun

i can stream it in a vc for ya

[hasty zinc]

yes please

[candid solar]

Keraunos is the greek name for thunderbolt, apparently.

Course it'd work better if your ship has energy weapons.

[vapid siren]

hop in babe: https://discord.com/channels/471722331820130324/471742789114265610

[candid solar]

Ignored moment

[candid solar]

@vapid siren

[hearty flame]

I actually need this look in Infinite now for... Reasons.

Cowboy hats in Infinite when???

[signal wedge]

UNSC Flatbread

[vapid siren]

sidenote the python mk2 looks a LOT like a prowler

[pulsar heron]

yes thats what i said

[obsidian wyvern]

lol

[thorny bough]

Good morning Krusty crewwwww

[vapid siren]

[thorny bough]

[obsidian wyvern]

did Rita die or smthn

[candid solar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/halo-infinite-unyshek-ASAefkbTO2zUZoNTv1

[spiral glade]

Oh ok

[granite sky]

I'm surprised that gif hasn't been a theme for a nightmare yet

I'm trying to be quiet and pretend to be asleep but then he hears me...

[vapid siren]

@candid solar lowkey may honestly take Keraunos

this is lowkey THE card that got me into magic when i pulled him

[candid solar]

Nice

[vapid siren]

I was starting to lean into something like zeus' bolt anyways so we basically arrived to the same conclusion

[fickle drift]

Bombastic barbeque sauce.

[frigid sierra]

High diamond ranked anyone

I clap onyxs I just never full stack to get there and I'm tired of it

[fervent trail]

Can anyone tell me which halo books are broken up into parts or sections?

[obsidian wyvern]

wdym

[fervent trail]

Like the first four books. They were broken up into sections

[normal owl]

All of them: they're each broken down into at least chapters.

[fervent trail]

Section 0 of first strike was called reach

[normal owl]

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and so on and so forth.

[obsidian wyvern]

most of them then

there's a book guide one sec

[normal owl]

I was being funny. Here's the official guide: https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/official-halo-book-guide

[fervent trail]

Idk why but I like when books are broken up into sections with chapters in them because I read a lot in one day so I prefer to have a big gole to get to for example the end of a section

[obsidian wyvern]

oh there it is

https://x.com/gearshift_media/status/1794414814275703094?t=NmU8o38dKK_-Xx3MEvyT5A&s=19

Kaleb Nekumanesh (@gearshift_media) on X

-- Trailer Coming Soon --
A @Halo playable horror narrative experience set on the Mona Lisa built inside @UnrealEngine #UE5.

Twitter · May 25, 2024, 5:06 PM

same dude who remade new Mombasa in unreal engine, was really good

[outer arch]

You can cook me now i am no longer at Olive Garden

[hexed geyser]

imagine if there was a Boatish veichle called the beaver in infinite

but there are barely any maps with water 😦

also is there a game (Not reach or halo related) where you lose in the end

[meager linden]

Detroit Become Human I guess?

[faint mantle]

Avengers Infinity War: The Game

||What? There used to be game releases related to movies all the time!||

[quiet rapids]

Hey

[meager linden]

Good night spartans

[obsidian wyvern]

iron man 2 was oogd

[faint mantle]

I remember that one

[winter flame]

Cortana is being removed completely from windows 11 😭

[crude hornet]

Hi

When is next update

[faint mantle]

[obsidian wyvern]

2 weeks time tuesday

[candid solar]

@vapid siren @smoky token Y'all win. Redownloaded Elite Dangerous.

Maybe I can get it to work right this time.

I remembered why I uninstalled it, I could never connect to the online with it on my old computer.

[smoky token]

[vapid siren]

weakling

[smoky token]

how rich are you trench?

[candid solar]

Okay sorry I'll uninstall it again

[vapid siren]

coward

play it full bore

[candid solar]

Rather be a coward than weak

[smoky token]

in the game i mean

[vapid siren]

your pc was what was weak

you buffoon

you fool

you cretin

[candid solar]

The issue was the network.

[vapid siren]

[candid solar]

It played the game on near full graphics lmao

[vapid siren]

are you on the game rn

[smoky token]

she is

[elfin glacier]

@smoky token @vapid siren @candid solar ur nerds

[smoky token]

ur a nerd

[vapid siren]

alright

[smoky token]

i’m at a wedding party but i’ll be home to make some money with both of you in a couple hours

i’m at the spire site in HIP 19870 right now

gonna be spending today, tomorrow, and monday up till about 6 my time (cause that’s when the patch is) farming oreos and making enough money that i’ll hopefully never have to worry about it again

[elfin glacier]

nope

im cool

[candid solar]

Rekt

[smoky token]

what’s ur in game net worth?

[vapid siren]

-5m

[smoky token]

damn

kinda sad

[candid solar]

I literally played this 4 years ago for like half an hour.

[hexed geyser]

i hope i can replace the blue Xbox controller one day

cus it has drift

[elfin glacier]

i played badstiny 2 for 5 minutes then uninstalled and never played again

i think it was cuz the performance was bad because i forgot to lower the resolution

[smoky token]

@candid solar if you don’t have the Odyssey DLC you should get it

it should be on sale for just $4 or something like that right now

[hexed geyser]

i had the lonleyest match of infinite ever

Should i get Crash team Racing on xbox cuz i have on Switch & the Xbox Ver looks better

[quaint canyon]

i love how the halo 3 - reach didn't end up using nasty brown filters like other 2008 - 2012 games

[obsidian wyvern]

reach used one colour and it was grey

[queen remnant]

Skill issue

[elfin glacier]

does that to you

[queen remnant]

No......................

[graceful inlet]

Good Night Spartans!
(And Our Marines. 🫂)

[bronze breach]

Man. I can hear the music festival from miles miles away. :Z

[smoky token]

https://x.com/destinybulletn/status/1794114801368498491?s=46&t=EsfAsdhUoldfJcyweGd1aw

Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn) on X

Bungie discusses its GenAI initiatives: BunGPT, improving studio productivity, exploring content creation, and ethical concerns around art - https://t.co/zODtziIcpO

Twitter · May 24, 2024, 9:14 PM

[fickle drift]

what is skill rating

in halo infinite

[obsidian wyvern]

bungpt sounds so stupid

[fickle drift]

i just finished a quick play match adn said we had a skill rating of 1330 is that good?

[obsidian wyvern]

it adds up your team's skill rating and shows that at the end for you to compare with the other team, see if it was a fair match in that sense

[faint mantle]

Credit where it's due though, the name fits

[obsidian wyvern]

bleh

[faint mantle]

bleh

[obsidian wyvern]

your profile effect is so cool 😮

[faint mantle]

It does fit nicely

[fickle drift]

ok i get it thanks

[distant prawn]

[austere venture]

Is anyone else having the problem where when you try and open EAS Setup it closes instantly?

[hexed geyser]

i happy Bungie still doesnt make halo's

[austere venture]

I already reinstalled and nothings working

please someone help

Wait,I found the weirdest fix for anyone else having this problem

you have to install and open VRChat then relaunch halo and it works 💀 idk how

[hexed geyser]

if Endermen & Halo 1 Elites tried to talk to each other would they know what they are saying?

[austere venture]

honestly, probably yea

[hexed geyser]

cuz they Speak sdrawkcaB

[abstract heart]

The CGB filter tab has to be the most underdeveloped thing in the game.
that whole tab was unusable for like the first year of the game and even now it does nothing to help people find custom games

[azure canopy]

honestly i could sleep to some songs in the halo soundtrack

[azure canopy]

would it not be hsilgne

[vagrant fossil]

If I wanted to browse some offical Halo art, where's the best place?

[austere venture]

infinite prob

[pliant hatch]

waypoint still has a lot of pics on it

[fickle drift]

Yo anyone want to play some master chief collection or infinite with me

[hexed geyser]

will halo hog be a thing one day (Along with grunt bday party

im joking lol

not every seires can have a Racing & Party spinoff

[cedar turret]

hush or they might bring rocket race back.

[thorny glen]

😉

[calm fiber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/572921337782337566/1211114454142681118/noping.png?ex=65ed053b&is=65da903b&hm=127c1f5a619a9cb041d895fc8b72e2582f18b58934fcc2c232dda28837a796a2&

[thorny glen]

stickers automatically reply blame discord

[cedar turret]

you been around long enough to know better

[lapis ivy]

I'd like to create a game mode in infinite forge with ai destroying everything called ransack lol

Similar to generator defense

[cedar turret]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rocky-horror-show-dont-dream-it-be-gif-4990775

[thorny glen]

wouldn't that just be firefight?

[lapis ivy]

You mean create it?

[thorny glen]

idk if i know what you mean by ai destroying everything

is it possible in infinite's forge to have AI target specific things that aren't spartans or each other?

[lapis ivy]

Well destroying food stands that are destructible

Dynamic objects

Yeah there is by script

[cedar turret]

that's true in real life too. You can just run down 42nd street destroying hot dog carts and kebab wagons. People get mad though.

[thorny glen]

how many halo fan games exist right now that are still in development with no signs of a full release ever happening

[thorny glen]

surprised more people don't make use of it huh

[lapis ivy]

An experimental thing as well with the node graph in forge you have to experiment with I'm still getting the hang of it

It's difficult too if you ask me

[abstract heart]

Inf

[abstract heart]

I wish there was a sandbox version of forge in infinite.
No casual player wants to script+build for 30min+ before they can have any fun.

[lapis ivy]

And sandbox made it easy?

[thorny glen]

i 100% do not understand what you mean by this

[lapis ivy]

You never used the script node graph in forge? I'm pretty sure that's what they used to make survive the undead game mode

[thorny glen]

you spawn all weapons & vehicles
you put down a spawn point
you hold down on a button i'm forgetting which one it is
you spawn in

now u have access to all weapons & vehicles

is it more complicated then before?
sure, i agree, it's way to complex of a process in infinite especially with the "instant spawn mode" that can confuse new players sometimes without rendering things 1st
i do prefer how halo 5 did it instead tbh

even then i mean it's not that difficult to get the hang of

[candid solar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/halo-infinite-unyshek-ASAefkbTO2zUZoNTv1

[thorny glen]

i don't think he's talking about making game modes or maps

[lapis ivy]

It is difficult in infinite cause it's more advanced than halo 5

[lapis ivy]

Ahh

[thorny glen]

it's not that much more advanced tbh
verryy similar process, but the places it's different in i dislike

like how things are organized in infinite's forge
just...why? it's organized so poorly

or the node graph, it's so weird to use & navigate

[lapis ivy]

And figuring out how things go in it is what I find difficult

[thorny glen]

yea there's no real experimenting
it's more so "you have to do something in this exact way or nothing happens"

or it crashes the game

[worldly badger]

why is the ping fluctuating from 50 to 80 mid game with a 200ping shot reg lmao

[thorny glen]

but if all you're doing is just trying to spawn the weapon sandbox in that's pretty easy to do tbh

[thorny glen]

you play on wifi?

[worldly badger]

no wired fiber normal servers are 18-20 ping

[thorny glen]

probably connecting to servers from across the world 🤷‍♂️

i've had it happen a few times

[worldly badger]

its set to local search just weird servers

[lapis ivy]

Things that ai destroy is market food stands in the destructible accents in forge crates too it's fun and creative

Gotta get to work on it and see what I can create

[worldly badger]

I got to say 20ping servers feel like 50 ping on any normal game and 50-80ping feels like 200ping delay

I think it has to do with the ping of other players in the lobby

some people are jittering all over the place

[signal wedge]

I hate kamikaze grunts

[lapis ivy]

Grenade hug grunt?

[signal wedge]

holding two plasma nades

[abstract heart]

I think I put it the best way I can, I just remember forge in reach being very accessible.

You could load up forge world and just with a couple items placed you could have fun for hours.

In halo Infinites forge there are more steps, it is more advance which I love because it let's people create greater things but to most of the player base, or at least the more casual players it is far too complex to go into for some casual fun.
Great tool but no longer a game mode in itself

IMO***

[thorny glen]

forge was never just a game mode

it's always been an editor tool to create maps

[abstract heart]

yes, but people often loaded it up to just spawn some weapons and shoot eachother on couch splitscreen.

That is way less likely with the current system, I have nothing against forge I just wish we had a more casual and approachable forge jsut to goof around with the sandbox. not to build matchmaking level maps.
YK?

[thorny glen]

you can still do that now? slightly more complicated but still very possible

not sure why ur having a problem with it

[abstract heart]

dude I literally just said I dont have a problem with it, just my opinion/idea

[thorny glen]

i explained the entire process here, very easy to do

practically the easiest thing to do in forge right now

[abstract heart]

I agree,I got a handle on infinites forge pretty fast and spent many hours in it.

But I believe a large percentage of the player base does not interact with forge because of its complexity.

[thorny glen]

i don't think your problem is forge being more complicated if what just said is that easy to do

you don't need to script or build things for 30+ minutes to have fun in it either

[glass tangle]

was aim magnetism always a thing for pc mnk in halo infinite? i turned it off now because i didnt realize it was even on

[worldly badger]

it was introduced around the same time as red reticle was enabled on PC (wasnt there on launch)

recently they added a toggle option to turn it off

[abstract heart]

One of the main things that interrupts the fun/sandbox aspects of forge IMO is the "test mode" system.

You entirely loose being able to play the game WHILE having a friend spawn stuff or fling you around with a large object, or crush you with a vehicle.
To play the game within forge you gotta F6 and start from spawn. That's one of the big things for me that stops me and my friends from going into forge for fun

It not a flawed system and I dont have a problem with it, I just see that its a much sharper tool that is harder to play with

and people like playing games

[glass tangle]

never even noticed until now

[abstract heart]

It was a glorious day when they added that

[meager linden]

Good morning spartans

[thorny glen]

they added aim assist to the mouse, bullet magnetism always existed in the game and has always applied to both mouse & controller

you still can't disable bullet magnetism pretty sure but you can disable aim assist now, which is how it was at launch originally

it's the thing that makes your reticle go more slowly when touching enemy players

[worldly badger]

the aim assist on mouse is like reticle friction your sensitvity slows down near spartans

[thorny glen]

yes that's what aim assist is

works like that in every single game that has it

[worldly badger]

on controller its more of a rotational aim assist that pulls your reticle

[thorny glen]

no?

it's the same on both

[worldly badger]

I don't feel like its the same if you have slight drift on controller and someone is strafing it moves on its own

[thorny glen]

yea it does that on mouse as well

[worldly badger]

possibly

[thorny glen]

not possibly, it literally does

that's what aim assist is i just told u this

your reticle moves slowly when it touches enemy players, it also tries to get pulled towards them or tries to follow them

works like that on both mouse and controller, zero difference

bullet magnetism on the other hand is when even if your reticle isn't on the player, your bullets will still hit the player
some people describe this as the bullets curving or moving to the player but what's actually happening is the bullets are just shooting in the exact direction of said player
think of it like a direct line

this is mostly noticable with the Warthog, both mouse & controller have always had this in all halo games more or less.

[abstract heart]

Bro is passionate about other peoples thoughts

[worldly badger]

alright guys I got a great idea, lets take a 4 players who are fully squaded up with coms and put them against 4 complete strangers playing their first game together

and lets do that to the solo players multiple times when they play ranked

[abstract heart]

I miss inf ranked, stopped playing because the game would be half empty by half time. And from what I’ve heard it’s still pretty rough

[worldly badger]

and also lets have it so they can have 1 guy smurfing in the stack of 4 to bring down their lobby rank

[abstract heart]

Seems they never were able to land a good MMR system

[worldly badger]

so now you have 1 smurf in the 4stack bringing down their squad rank to play 4 complete strangers in their first game together

perfect combination

also, if you lose to that stack of 4 with the 1 smurf on a new acc you lose even more csr than you gained when you barely won a game against another 4 stack

idk man I like the gameplay but this matchmaking is just frustrating going to end it here

not even about the csr gains or losses its just a plain unfun experience

people actually formed the perfect combination to abuse the system

[haughty wigeon]

hihi

halo 3 and odst are the best games made in the halo franchise

okay bye

[worldly badger]

dropped some facts and left I respect it

[haughty wigeon]

teehee

how is everyoneeee?

i’m just getting back into playing halo now so i thought i’d join a server (it’s been a while tho - fully haven’t played anything passed halo 4)

[worldly badger]

doing alright

[civic walrus]

and I won’t let anyone tell me otherwise

[haughty wigeon]

valid!!!

[candid solar]

Otherwise

[civic walrus]

darn

[thorny glen]

should play halo 4's campaign will probably change ur mind
h4 has an amazing campaign

[abstract heart]

It was cool

[haughty wigeon]

i remember watching through it and kind of seeing a shift in themes

which is fair bc the devs had changed after 3

but it was still like very diff from bungie

still cool tho!! i liked it a lot

[glass tangle]

[smoky token]

chat help

the inside of my throat itches

[bold sparrow]

Check for a tonsil stone.

[faint mantle]

Do you snore?

[smoky token]

i don’t know

but also i haven’t slept in like

18 hours

so

[faint mantle]

Diagnosis: Low defenses caused by lack of sleep allowed a common cold virus to replicate inside your body giving you the first symptoms

That'll be $249.99, cash or card? 😊

[buoyant smelt]

LOL

[candid solar]

Hey WebMD said it's problably super cancer

[smoky token]

like what tank operators get?

[candid solar]

Especially if they drank the funni engine juice

(The jet fuel is rotting the speech center of their brain)

[smoky token]

isn’t most jet fuel basically pure ethanol

or is that rocket fuel i’m thinking of

i think it’s rocket fuel

[candid solar]

JP-8, one of the standard jet fuels of the US Military, is known to destroy the nerve cells assosciated with processing and understanding speech.

So yeah you're thinking rocket fuel

[fresh turtle]

Hello everyone!

[candid solar]

I will explode your breakfast with my mind

[fickle drift]

Try the old reliable lemon honey drink, might alleviate the itchiness

[rare cedar]

[fresh turtle]

HAII PANDA-SAN!! How are you?

[buoyant smelt]

IM GOING TO LEVE THE SEVER

[worldly badger]

[buoyant smelt]

BYE

https://tenor.com/view/forest-gump-wave-hi-hello-howdy-gif-17500258755908763204

[rare cedar]

HAAIIIIII

Just hanging out, about to go grocery shopping

[bold sparrow]

Where are its legs
Where have this mans legs gone.
TRENCH. What did you do with his LEGS

[candid solar]

They are under the squishy friend.

[fresh turtle]

Very nice! I hope you have a good day and an enjoyable time grocery shopping. 😁

[rare cedar]

Arigato 🙂

What's on the agenda today for you?

[fresh turtle]

Of course! You're welcome. Not much, might play a game or two before I head to bed.

[rare cedar]

niceu - good luck on your games and ensure you have sweet dreams of bamboo

[candid solar]

The shareholders are manipulating the game to give me only the very worst in Fragmentation weapon spawns

@elfin glacier @normal owl

[obsidian wyvern]

?

[fresh turtle]

thank you! you as well.

[fickle drift]

@thorny glen wtf are you playing lol

[prisma jasper]

bro leaked the unreleased halo 7🔥 🔥

[vague mango]

anyone have ideas for the campaign?

[fickle drift]

Yeah lol

We’re going back in time

[vague mango]

has anyone watched red vs blue?

[prisma jasper]

whats dat

[vague mango]

its a show thats has the voice actors playing the characters]

[prisma jasper]

oh

[vague mango]

it was fun while it lasted

they had fun stuff in their episodes

they been doing it since CE

man the campaign of infinite gets lonley

[prisma jasper]

yeah ppl only play multiplayer :(

[vague mango]

i can tell

since the campaign is kinda mid

[thorny glen]

I forgot that could be seen here

it's just ms edge tho lol

[fickle drift]

Lol

[thorny glen]

you can change it to be anything

changed it back to ms edge for the time being (that's all it is anyways)

[rare cedar]

Rate my Memorial Day weekend dinner

[thorny glen]

was a joke I had it set like that in another server

[thorny glen]

someones eating one to many beans

[rare cedar]

they don't have the mini can at my store 😦

[thorny glen]

minicans exist?

[rare cedar]

yaya

[thorny glen]

I don't honestly think I've seen those before

just feed the extra beans to ur local ant hill population

[normal owl]

You brought a Blanton's with you? 10/10 then! Is that the B?

[nova crest]

Guys I'm new to hallo I hope I'm not too late and i hope that this amazing franchise is still alive

[rare cedar]

Brother I'm buying them over here 🙂

And it's the O

[normal owl]

Yeah it is.

What's that award/basket shot glass?

[rare cedar]

which one?

The charizard?

[normal owl]

Far right, looks like it's on a trophy base?

[rare cedar]

ooh it's just a little statue of the Coliseum from Roma, Italia

[normal owl]

Oh sweet! And also I love that it's there hanging out with the shot glasses. "What? I'm a regular down-to-earth item that knows how to have a good time just like any other."

[rare cedar]

haha that's a good way to put it 😄

[nova crest]

"Our duty as soldiers is to protect humanity at all costs" 🔥 🔥🔥

[signal wedge]

when can the UNSC reverse engineer forerunner guns already

im tired of starting with a horrible MA5

[granite sky]

how about MA5K? always liked how it looks. 5k model could be used and have a forerunner tech edge to it. a way of "reintroducing an old model"!

[carmine fractal]

Not a huge fan of the beans but everything else looks fantastic.

[rare cedar]

it's been sitting in my kitchen for a while now, so I decided it was a good time to pop it open

[quiet warren]

we need a operation based on ODST

.

[signal wedge]

Alpha 9

[nova crest]

I don't think so

[frigid linden]

Don't ask a spartan what he was doing late 22nd century

[nova crest]

What was he doing

[frigid linden]

Killing humans

[obsidian wyvern]

😐

[signal wedge]

Spartans only existed in the 26th century

[quiet warren]

anybody knows what halo book i should start with

[signal wedge]

Halo

the book I started with was Divine Wind

[cedar turret]

I let Sparta know they didn’t and don’t exist

[fickle drift]

Humorous honey mustard.

[elfin glacier]

noooooo

[fickle drift]

Hey guys, the servers in the "Games" section are disappearing.

[obsidian wyvern]

the channels?

[fickle drift]

Yep.

And it's all gone.

Scratch that, they're back.

[signal wedge]

those were the Spartan 1s

[candid solar]

I still love how Lasky was dumbfounded at Chief saying something even the weirdo child soldier should know is blatantly false

Actually, if anyone would know that statement is blatantly false, it's the child assassin/soldier.

Considering it not being the case is LITERALLY why he exists as he does.

[obsidian wyvern]

they're new to halo, they're not gonna understand anything you just said

[fickle drift]

Just curious, to our knowledge, what studios does 343 have working alongside them with Infinite at this time?

[obsidian wyvern]

sperasoft and certain affinity

[fickle drift]

And what do we know either studio has done for Infinite at this point? (maps, modes, what have they done up to this point)

[obsidian wyvern]

sperasoft has made a ton of the Dev made maps

CA was working on a mode for infinite that's never been in halo, but we haven't heard from them in over a year

[fickle drift]

I see.

[calm fiber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/572921337782337566/1211114454142681118/noping.png?ex=65ed053b&is=65da903b&hm=127c1f5a619a9cb041d895fc8b72e2582f18b58934fcc2c232dda28837a796a2&

[obsidian wyvern]

we can't

[fickle drift]

Well, if this thing is their biggest project, then I guess it would make sense we haven't heard anything recently.

[obsidian wyvern]

speculations that it's been scrapped but we didn't get anything from them officially

[candid solar]

Sounds like a skill issue

[fickle drift]

I kinda feel like they would've said something along the lines of "it's not happening anymore" if that's the case. I believe that it's important to be transparent about these kinds of things, manage expectations, make sure nobody is waiting for something that isn't going to happen.

Unless 343(or Microsoft/Xbox if they're the ones behind it, which considering legal mumbo jumbo, there's no telling) had a contract that's just bonkers. (not saying that's the case, it's just a theory)

Just my opinion though.

[obsidian wyvern]

transparency hasn't been huge in infinites life lol

[fickle drift]

Well, it's definitely not too late for 343 to improve on transparency.

Honestly, they could just look at Digital Extremes and such, I'd say that's a good reference point.

(and CDPR and Hello Games)

[elfin glacier]

Skybox Labs

[fickle drift]

The biggest problem with Infinite right now(in my opinion) is not enough communication, people are expecting things like new weapons, new vehicles, better CUs(or Operations) that (in their eyes) makes the ditching of seasons worth it.

And there's the fact that some people(whether we like it or not) sometimes just look at what a guy on YouTube/Twitter says and rolls with it.

The bandwagon effect, as they say.

[elfin glacier]

343 isn't responsible if people set their own expectations based on nothing

[fickle drift]

Also very much true.

But I do personally think that answering questions is important for Infinite more than ever before, since ever since the beginning of this year, the public reception hasn't necessarily been the greatest compared to the praise that Season 5 had.

[worldly badger]

I have low expectations and still dissapointed

[fickle drift]

In fact, let me try something.

[elfin glacier]

hey that's great, next time check if anyone asked first

[worldly badger]

such a cringe reply on a public discussion discord

[rare cedar]

it's a holiday weekend

let them rest

[worldly badger]

no one asked haaa gotteem

[elfin glacier]

waow smh how dare number corporation employees not work 24/7

[fickle drift]

Let me ask this: Do we think the match composer is really where it's "over"?

[worldly badger]

Siege is the biggest 343 stan I see

nice to see them in the wild

[elfin glacier]

is it?

has it been officially announced?

[fickle drift]

Employee wellbeing is important, my good sir. There's a difference between between a criticism and just going on a insult rampage.

[elfin glacier]

i should make a flowchart honestly

[worldly badger]

yes sketch has said match composer is in the works

[elfin glacier]

i know

[candid solar]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-you're-weird-shut-up-halo-grunt-shut-up-bro-you're-weird-gif-7011695203959243456

[worldly badger]

you are implying match composer is the last major update to the game

[elfin glacier]

who

[candid solar]

Personally I think the last major update to the game should be removing playable elites

[fickle drift]

But they're not even in the game.

[worldly badger]

the friendly doctor

[elfin glacier]

retroactively

[candid solar]

Exactly

[fickle drift]

How do you remove something that isn't there?

That's a scientific impossibility.

[candid solar]

Exactly. It already happened. They went back in time.

[worldly badger]

The last major update should be removing assassinations

[candid solar]

343i harnessed the power of time travel to make Halo Infinite lack playable elites.

[fickle drift]

This is not Doctor Who.

[candid solar]

I do think a remade and heavily rebalanced version of Invasion with preset Reach-style loadouts likely actually would drive a good amount of engagement for the game, tbh.

Kinda like that one Gears of War Judgement game mode I forgot the name of.

[fickle drift]

I think so.

[candid solar]

Invasion 2.0 because COD's squatting on the Warzone name now.

[worldly badger]

I'm a simple man my expectations are low I just want the game to feel consistent server to server

[candid solar]

Still mad CoD's also squatting on the Gunsmith name despite Ghost Recon being the one that used it in the same context first-then swiftly somehow made a way worse weapon customization system because I'm not allowed to have nice things.

[fickle drift]

You know, I never really got why people though a Halo battle royale would be it's own game, I don't know about you: But I feel like they could just make battle royale a mode in Infinite.

[candid solar]

I really don't care for the concept of Halo BRs because FFA has never really been Halo's strong suit.

[fickle drift]

If anything, a Battlefront style game with Spartans and Covenant species being playable would be something necessitating a whole game.

[worldly badger]

only Halo project I am interested in is whatever Certain Affinity is working on I have some faith in what they can do as a studio

[fickle drift]

But a battle royale? Doesn't seem that much to require the status of a whole different game.

[candid solar]

Also, it had a pseudo-BR. It was not popular.

It also has the mechanics for a fully functional BR.

[fickle drift]

Yeah, the forge made one?

[candid solar]

Honestly, it baffles me that some things were stepped back on that were perfectly possible in-engine. I get scrapping custom loadouts even if I strongly disagreed with the move to do so, but scrapping preset loadouts just baffles the hell out of me.

[worldly badger]

We have a community made cod zombies mode

[candid solar]

Last Spartan Standing

[fickle drift]

Yeah, that one.

[worldly badger]

in halo 2024

[hearty flame]

Halo is not a loadout game in PvP, and at launch we didn't have PvE

[candid solar]

Yet another who lacks vision.

[hearty flame]

Yet another who has no idea what an arena shooter is

[candid solar]

Oh, no, I've always been more of an Unreal Tournament fan than Halo fan.

I'm very aware of what an Arena shooter is. I'm saying I don't get why the functionality was removed utterly, because it stifles creativity in custom games.

[fickle drift]

As I said before, I feel like they could've had a "loadout" mode. That way people could choose whether or not to go with the classic Halo gameplay style, OR go for the loadout style.

[candid solar]

There was a lot of uses for it, as Reach proved.

[obsidian wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-popcorn-comments-argue-fight-gif-9257697

[worldly badger]

[candid solar]

I'm sure Recharge is going to say something stupid that doesn't actually disprove my point.

[hearty flame]

Like they could have had a classic vs modern gamemode where one had sprinting and larger maps and faster paced action, and the other didn't, right?

[candid solar]

yeah, I was right.

[hearty flame]

This was just rude, you need to chill

[candid solar]

I mean, you claimed I didn't know what Arena shooters were, just matching energies.

[fickle drift]

But yeah, I feel like leaving Infinite in it's (effectively) current state would kinda just be some wasted potential.

[worldly badger]

Wel.....Happy Sunday Everyone!

[obsidian wyvern]

thinking about it, stckr hasn't been here for ages

[candid solar]

Point is, I don't see why they got rid of a useful custom games setting.

[hearty flame]

Claiming someone doesn't know what arena shooters are because they suggested something in an arena shooter that would further it from being an arena shooter is vastly different than saying I'm just gonna say something stupid

[worldly badger]

Even Stckr has moved on

[candid solar]

I mean, you're fundamentally misunderstanding why I brought up loadouts.

[hearty flame]

You're not worth talking to

[candid solar]

Neither are you, but yet.

[fickle drift]

Listen, all I want to see... new weapons, maybe vehicles, assassinations...

Playable elites(though that's the hot take).

Currently, most people want the new weapons and vehicles, which is extremely valid.

[candid solar]

Anyways, Invasion was a pretty consistent and 'alive' mode in Reach for a very long time. And a lot of that was because it offered leeway in how you could engage off spawn.

It's one of the few modes in Reach I'd say were actually good.

[worldly badger]

I just want rank maps that are not old halo map remakes for maps I have already played hundreds of times and now have to play again in Infinite

[candid solar]

It was also diet BTB one-way-pushes.

[obsidian wyvern]

can't wait for another remake we get to see this weekend

[fickle drift]

I kinda just feel like some people just don't like elites because the idea wasn't expanded upon much. I just feel like there was definitely a way to "make it work".

[candid solar]

I don't like elites because the people who are fans of them won't shut the hell up about it.

[fickle drift]

Fair.

[candid solar]

And try to shoehorn it into every damn conversation about Halo for the past decade despite being told, plenty of times, why it's not a thing.

[fickle drift]

It's just, the only other things I want out of Infinite has already been talked about, the weapons, the vehicles, even the assassinations.

[livid oyster]

When are they gonna let us gamble on hcs

[candid solar]

Honestly, I find myself wondering why assassinations of all things got cut. If it's because people in ranked and such complained, I'm gonna be mad.

Because it'd once again prove that ranked players are the doom of this franchise.

[fickle drift]

Well, that and the fact they could make bank of the shop assassinations(having wacky ones).

[worldly badger]

Let me bet some Spartan Points on SSG

[candid solar]

Oh, are they adding a new one?

[obsidian wyvern]

2

ones a remake, ones original. we get to see them both this weekend iirc

[fickle drift]

The problem is: Since they didn't have it at launch, they arguably made it so that they're going to have to spend more time actually ADDING it, if they even are.

[candid solar]

🥱

[worldly badger]

for sure a Halo 5 Coliseum remake coming up

[obsidian wyvern]

I can't remember the name of it in halo 2 and 5, but I'm pretty sure it's just asylum from reach

[candid solar]

... Ugggggh. Backwash? Really?

We needed another damn Midship reformat?

Come on, if you're gonna add a map from Reach at least add The Cage.

[worldly badger]

you know that H5 game we played for years? Ya we are bringing back all those maps in Infinite instead of making NEW maps designed for Infinites gameplay

[fickle drift]

Halo 5 had the option to turn it off, anyone who knows this and talks about Infinite having assassinations will bring this up and any given opportunity. And that's kinda where my argument comes from, they should've had assassinations at launch, with the option to turn them off, that way they could've satiated the people who liked assassinations, while also letting the more competitive players play the way they want.

[candid solar]

Infinite's closer to 5 than it is to freaking Reach, at least.

So I guess, begrudgingly, I get that.

But like, if you're going to add Reach maps, at least add the ones that mostly just appeared in Reach.

[worldly badger]

but if you rewatch H5 Plaza gameplay then watch Solitude gameplay you can tell it was designed for H5s movement and is just strange

[candid solar]

Like, I could live with a Powerhouse remake, even if I'd be annoyed at it being a Reach map, because at least it's not the freaking Pit again.

[fickle drift]

That's Infinite's biggest problem, most issues they experienced, they hate they experienced, arguably even the mass firing, was because Infinite was undercooked at launch. It was missing a bunch of things, and people were not happy about that.

And they're stuck at playing catchup.

[obsidian wyvern]

this one

[candid solar]

Ah, right, Sactuary, not Backwash.

... I'm going to go look at Backwash to figure out why I thought of Backwash.

[fickle drift]

Infinite got a great sandbox, and I do really hope they add more to it instead of just dropping it.

[worldly badger]

They let go of all the major heads at 343 and put Pierre Hintze in charge thats all you need to know about how Microsoft feels about 343s managing of Halo

[livid oyster]

I think they jumped the gun so soon because of how bad bf2042 was at launch

[candid solar]

I'll tell you that it doesn't give me any confidence in Pierre.

[livid oyster]

And granted, most people I know loved infinite at launch

[fickle drift]

To be fair, Pierre Hintze arguably had a better track record and public reception than the previous management. You know, in the public's eyes.

[candid solar]

The public is also comprised of idiots.

[fickle drift]

You say "Bonnie Ross", and people start fuming.

[worldly badger]

I will refrain my confidence in him until I see what he does with the next Halo since he didnt have any part in how Infinite was developed before he got there

[livid oyster]

Bring back Frankie

[fickle drift]

Meh.

[worldly badger]

and he had a good track record with MCC

[fickle drift]

To be honest, I don't have anything against the previous leaders, they ain't do anything personal to me. But I also don't necessarily like them either, it's a gray area.

[livid oyster]

Idrc, I just thought Frankie had his funny moments

[candid solar]

They were nicer than I would be when dealing with the utterly contemptable fanbase that is Halo.

[fickle drift]

I don't doubt that Bonnie and Frankie were legitamately nice people.

[worldly badger]

I have nothing against them personally just when you see the strange direction they are pushing Halo its like seeing your childhood game getting mismanaged

[candid solar]

"Won't anyone think of the Gamer's childhood!"

[fickle drift]

It's just that they might've tried doing "too much" with a beloved franchise, tried to change things.

[worldly badger]

bro you are cringe

[candid solar]

I mean, I'm not the one claiming my childhood somehow retroactively got ruined, lmao

[worldly badger]

you have the same prepared lines

[thorny glen]

Wasn't this 2 years ago?

[fickle drift]

Playable elites are kinda like a summary of that(though I want them back too), it's something that they saw as not too fitting of their vision of Halo, and the community never forgot about that and held it against them.

[livid oyster]

That's the thing with a lot of games. Most are moving on to the next generation of kids. We had our fun, now it's their time to get a game that they'll remember

[worldly badger]

Most people still playing Halo is because we played Halo for awhile now

[livid oyster]

Kids today wouldn't like ce-3

Most

[candid solar]

Some do some don't. Really depends. I don't have kids so I'm not confident making that call.

[worldly badger]

90% of the people who use coms in my ranked games are 25+ based on their voice

there is not a cod or fortnite demographic playing halo

[thorny glen]

343i has already admitted they see Halo Infinite as content complete, I personally am not expecting anything big to be announced for this game at all anymore.

[rare cedar]

truuu

[livid oyster]

Most people from gen z and alpha find early 2000 games laughable

As far as I've seen

[fickle drift]

When exactly?

[signal wedge]

it's weird when you promise live service and 10 years of stuff only to not do any of that

[thorny glen]

I do not.

[candid solar]

I mean, I certainly find many laughable, and I turn 27 in like two months,

But I still play them, so.

[worldly badger]

The quote mentioned alot is in a recent 343 stream Sketch said they are shifting their attention to other halo projects where people are hinting Infinite is near end of its update cycle

[fickle drift]

That content complete statement was before launch. There is a somewhat sizable chance they took that statement right back(internally) when you look at how the launch was.

[candid solar]

Ow. This deals psychic damage.

[livid oyster]

Thats like right on the edge in terms of age. I guess you would technically be Gen z

[signal wedge]

yes, agree I can't stand pixelated graphics

[livid oyster]

But I did say most, not all

[fickle drift]

And there's the fact that "content complete" might've had the same meaning as "launch ready". How do you do a live service if the game is already content complete?

[worldly badger]

launch ready is pretty funny only took 3 years of updates

[candid solar]

I also tend to be hypercritical even of things I enjoy so maybe I'm just an aberration.

IDK.

[thorny glen]

I was a kid during ce - h3 days and
ce annoying
halo 2 good
halo 3 bad

[fickle drift]

And there's the fact that new weapons, maps, modes, and such had been added after the statement. So that statement didn't really stick. I think it might've just been weird wording on their part.

[worldly badger]

its like no mans sky is an indie studio and made their game launch ready gj 343 you did it too

[cloud onyx]

my first halo was halo 3

for me it is the best

[thorny glen]

during one of the Jan. 2024 343i live streams I'd have to find it, don't got it on me rn

[fickle drift]

Someone's going to have to fact check that.

[livid oyster]

Those are fighting words

[worldly badger]

Hows the steam charts looking this month? -9.25% player drop off oh no

[obsidian wyvern]

ok and 3s my favourite smh

[livid oyster]

Halo 3 I remember fondly because everyone in school had it

[signal wedge]

Nah 343 wanted to release Infinite early to destroy Splitgate

[thorny glen]

It's all anyone was talking about 4 months ago not sure why you think it needs fact checking

[fickle drift]

But I will say this: If no new game is revealed for Halo at this year's showcase, then Infinite still has some juice left in it.

[signal wedge]

this year is too early

[obsidian wyvern]

because it's you lol

[worldly badger]

if Halo is not mentioned in the xbox showcase I think we can call it

[fickle drift]

Eh, that was more "seasons are gone, it's probably over" talk going on. It was more interpretation than anything.

[signal wedge]

no campaign DLCs

like where is everyone else?

[worldly badger]

Cod is getting its own separate showcase after the main Xbox event

[signal wedge]

continue the story 343 wadahel

[fickle drift]

And to be honest: They should just come out and say that "this isn't coming" if they really are done with it.

[signal wedge]

also Spartans can get trapped in their own armor if mulfunctions 💀

[fickle drift]

FNAF reference?

[worldly badger]

The last time Xbox had a showcase I think season 5 or 4 of Infinite was dropping that week and they didnt even show a 30 second trailer or anything

[signal wedge]

do you guys think covid had anything to do with it

[fickle drift]

Probably.

[signal wedge]

probably had layoffs and stuff

[fickle drift]

All of the above.

[worldly badger]

Dr. Man I trust in his covid analysis

[livid oyster]

2020 and 2021 was an interesting time. Spent most days drunk

[fickle drift]

Listen, if the Cyberpunk dev team had to deal with the stuff, then Halo probably did too.

[signal wedge]

but Cyberpunk is good now

[fickle drift]

Exactly.

[bronze breach]

So is Halo

[worldly badger]

then cyberpunk fixed their game and released a banger expansion

[thorny glen]

don't think it's cause of "it's me"

[signal wedge]

all we got storywise is Ilsa Zane

[candid solar]

Honestly, I can track back like 66% of my current problems to residual issues from COVID.

[signal wedge]

and then they wrote a book around the audio logs in game

[fickle drift]

For all we know, ske7ch's statement about "we have nothing in the works" for campaign DLC could've been changed this year.

[candid solar]

I really hope it did.

[fickle drift]

I'm gonna say it: I don't think the rest of Infinite's story is fitting for a whole other game.

[signal wedge]

if they don't wanna show Infinity's status or the commander or the captain atleast have Horvath or Kova show up in game

[fickle drift]

Infinite's story is one that I think kinda necessitates DLC.

[last fractal]

They abandoned infinite.

no new real content till halo 7

[fickle drift]

Only time will tell.

[bronze breach]

Not abandoned, phasing down I believe

[last fractal]

Phasing into abandonment like halo 5

[worldly badger]

They are doing monthly shop updates thats a big phasing down

[signal wedge]

watch them bring Infinity back to life in Halo 7 💀

[last fractal]

It’s crazy that the MCC is still the best halo content around

[livid oyster]

It was a sucky time. Everyday felt like a drag for me. Couldn't go nowhere. No restaurants,no vacation, no bars or clubs

[signal wedge]

they should have split canon into two like Star Wars

[last fractal]

Aka milking the player base on $20 armor sets

[livid oyster]

Thank god the liquor store stayed open

[worldly badger]

$32* bundles

[bronze breach]

With me in charge I would double the shop prices!

[last fractal]

Covid affected mainly obese people

[fickle drift]

Just give me elites and I'll be satisfied.

[signal wedge]

it's been what 5 years

[last fractal]

Yipeeee

[worldly badger]

idk if thats a roast or just stating facts

[last fractal]

a halo game where you have to pay for every single color !!!

[fickle drift]

It's been slightly over two years.

[reef wasp]

Nope they are fun and you know the rule about having fun

[last fractal]

Both

[signal wedge]

all you do in campaign rn is just go around freeing marines right

[last fractal]

The whole plot of the campaign

[livid oyster]

Wasn't even just the virus itself. The media was messing with a lot of people's heads

[fickle drift]

Let me see if this works.

[last fractal]

Dudes I got so bored within an hour in the campaign

[bronze breach]

Those marines are potential 117s.

[last fractal]

The media was pushing the 7.7 billion profit margins the pharma companies made in 3 years

[worldly badger]

I was so bored but beat it just for the sake of beating it

[last fractal]

I went back to playing halo 3 on the Mcc

I genuinely couldn’t get into infinite

[livid oyster]

Hey I ain't got a medical degree so idk what to think about it. I just know the media wasn't good for anyone

[worldly badger]

open world concept had a lot of potential if every area didnt look the exact same

[signal wedge]

it was a good concept wasted by 343

[bronze breach]

Probably used the same rock for the entire campaign

[last fractal]

Open world concept is cool, unless you make the entire open world look the same boring shade of green

[candid solar]

Neat, good thing I never was.

[elfin glacier]

nah

[reef wasp]

based

[candid solar]

I weighed 140 at the start of COVID and 150 by the end at 69 inches tall. The issue was that it, combined with back to back deployments, crippled my social life.

[winter flame]

for some reason "the MCC" or "TMCC" always makes me think of the early days before it got fixed up and released on PC. Now everyone just calls it MCC 😔

[fickle drift]

What would you guys think about playable elites coming back?

[indigo lotus]

The open world concept is good. Hope they improve it next game.

[worldly badger]

I wonder why you seem like a fun person to be around

[rare cedar]

I giggle inside at the definition of AF "deployments"

[signal wedge]

Halo 7 probably and have more Arbiter and Chief. Or maybe Vale and Arbiter

[livid oyster]

Long stays at the Hilton

[bronze breach]

I would say we would get elite inspired spartan armor but not elite core in itself

[candid solar]

Still a 6 month stay away from friends and family. It's not an unmentionable measuring contest in that regard.

[elfin glacier]

only if it's the absolute lowest priority

[fickle drift]

Nah, they gotta make a return tbh.

[elfin glacier]

sure, once everything else is done

[signal wedge]

if it fits the story line, how you gfonna skip the zeta halo storyline to whatever the SoS is doing rn

[fickle drift]

Oh definitely.

[bronze breach]

Time skip

[fickle drift]

Well, I kinda feel like the story doesn't necessarily mean elites are just not an option. Reach didn't have any "good" elites, yet they were still an option.

[rare cedar]

Nah I gotcha man. Just giving you and the entire branch a hard time 😄

[signal wedge]

2589 when Humanity has finally conquered the milky way

[candid solar]

Much as I get it was a joke, the context I'm saying that in is actually pretty damn raw to me.

[fickle drift]

I wanna know what the Ranger armor would look like with Infinite's art style.

[candid solar]

More greebly.

[fickle drift]

I don't know if that's even a word.

[elfin glacier]

343 should perform necromancy on Ensemble Studios tbh

resurrect Titan

obliterate the lore

[winter flame]

perform what now

[fickle drift]

You know, some people want t h i c c Spartans back.

What's the consensus on that one?

[candid solar]

SHUT UP

[winter flame]

^

[elfin glacier]

they need to revive the corpse of Ensemble Studios using ancient and horrible magicks

[elfin glacier]

i agree

[signal wedge]

YES

[bronze breach]

I will obliterate the lore.

Each halo game is set on it's own timeline. There are no sequels.

[worldly badger]

Can we discuss how we went from a dumpy on Halo 5 spartans to pancakes in Infinite

[winter flame]

no

[signal wedge]

spartans lost weight

[fickle drift]

Yes, please start this discussion. I want to see the metaphorical wildfire.

[jade walrus]

They’re already t h i c c
we don’t need them to be curved too much

[bronze breach]

[elfin glacier]

spartans without helmet has precedent

this will be halo in 2012

[worldly badger]

can we discuss how the only physical change we can do on spartans are 3 body types that barely change the size of the waist but no dumpy sliding bar

[elfin glacier]

shut up

[elfin glacier]

@obsidian wyvern

[bronze breach]

Next halo game brings pablo chief into main canon.

[elfin glacier]

this vaguely reminds me of Freelancer

[worldly badger]

I see you are not a cake connoisseur

[fickle drift]

"Hey guys."

[worldly badger]

having a gf, never touched a women btw

[elfin glacier]

jokes are supposed to be funny

[candid solar]

She's from another school you wouldn't know her

[worldly badger]

the boys are tag teaming most action they got all week

[elfin glacier]

anyways

[signal wedge]

lol

[elfin glacier]

this is actually a cool grav hammer design

[worldly badger]

H4 Cortana is top 5

[winter flame]

🤦‍♀️

[candid solar]

If you want to talk about crap like that take it to DMs.

[worldly badger]

chat was getting dry

[fickle drift]

That's what she said.

[worldly badger]

doctor can confirm

[elfin glacier]

jfc @smoky token @vapid siren kill them

[worldly badger]

siege is sending his shooters

[fickle drift]

Why barbeque sauce is the best condiment?

[worldly badger]

if you get rid of us we only have 3 active chatters left

[elfin glacier]

good

[worldly badger]

so petty lmao

[elfin glacier]

quality over quantity

[rare cedar]

Please use the modmail feature if there's an issue

[candid solar]

Sacrifice I'm willing to make. When the damn furry is telling you to go elsewhere with your constant talk of lewd crap, you're doing it too much.

[worldly badger]

if you can't see the obvious trolling about lewd comments idk what to tell you

[candid solar]

Oh, no, it's obvious. It's just annoying as hell.

[elfin glacier]

ah yes you're just pretending to be immature and stupid, great defense

[worldly badger]

you do it naturally

[livid oyster]

Thought on h4 cortana? .. joking lol

[candid solar]

Killing you with a golden sandwich in Halo

[livid oyster]

I just know how much you love that topic

[elfin glacier]

anyway@candid solar do you know energy bayonets have precedent

[signal wedge]

let's just say im glad weapon is wearing clothes

[fickle drift]

McDonald's is better than Burger King.

[candid solar]

Yes I did know

[signal wedge]

why is Spartan Laser not in Infinite

[elfin glacier]

apparently these are plasma rifles

[elfin glacier]

because it isn't

[signal wedge]

roble roble

[smoky token]

my theory is that it's unbalanced

[elfin glacier]

this will be halo armor in 2012

[worldly badger]

looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle

[signal wedge]

looks better armored

[elfin glacier]

in halopedia this is captioned as Green Sci Fi armor

[signal wedge]

sad

[fickle drift]

I liked the classic shotgun.

[worldly badger]

Spartan Leonardo reporting for duty

[elfin glacier]

@candid solar ICESTEEL THE EDGEHOG

exposed pipes/cables/whatever is dumb but yet it's an enduring part of scifi aesthetic

dumb in the sense of being impractical

[signal wedge]

looks dumb

[elfin glacier]

ensemble flavored brutes

[indigo lotus]

The likely reason is time constraints and 343 didn't have enough time to get it in the game.

[thorny glen]

Dec. 7th 2023
" it's just been a lot a lot of fun and to me this really starts to round out I think makes
infinite kind of the the the complete package that we know Halo fans have been waiting for"
https://youtu.be/Vrq9TNDan08?si=Itnk45A7BQEQi67k&t=335

Jan 19th, 2024
"going to be a very exciting year for Halo we are off to an exciting start we have dedicated team working on
supporting Halo infinite and continuing to deliver going forward but also uh yes we have additional teams now that are
accelerating towards the future working on brand new projects so I just want to tantalize you with that so there are a lot
of things cooking here of things cooking here we could not be more excited as part of that I also want to give a shout out we're actually growing the team right now so you're
passionate about Halo if you've got skills and you're interested please keep an eye on the Microsoft career site
because we are growing and uh we've got a lot of exciting things uh in the works for the future"
https://www.youtube.com/live/9aV4pIIz2p8?si=ygSWIsVNQr0jjYG7&t=3938

think I'm thinking of when Ske7ch said "complete package" and "brand new projects".
I know they referred to other stuff in these streams to but can't seem to find all of it through the youtube transcripts, would have to watch these entire vids again to refresh my mind with all this stuff.

anyways in Ske7ch we trust 🙏

[elfin glacier]

hello nighterlev

[signal wedge]

Halo Wars 3

[elfin glacier]

my favorite part of the concept art is the forerunner cities

[thorny glen]

why do people always want proof of stuff and when I mention it's gonna take some time to get the proof they think i'm making up, move on from the discussion, and when i bring the proof later cause I said it'd take me time to get it they aren't interested in the convo anymore

[elfin glacier]

fomo probably

[thorny glen]

and then assume i'm making it up still

[signal wedge]

Man the forerunners were supposed to be human ancestors but 343 changed that

[elfin glacier]

no

[thorny glen]

didn't happen but lets not get into that convo

[elfin glacier]

i don't care

[signal wedge]

someone said a bad word

[thorny glen]

i think it's more surprising throughout all the halo games we never see a proper forerunner city
it's always mentioned in the lore, we just never see them in-game

[candid solar]

Bungie era lore changed that and they weren't even sure internally.

[fickle drift]

my bad

[elfin glacier]

it would be an interesting setting to have a mostly intactish forerunner city

[candid solar]

Yay, Diamond Corporal.

[elfin glacier]

maybe not a full city but an outpost or something

[thorny glen]

as Paul Russel said -
"You'd be shocked by how little most of us cared about the story"
https://x.com/docabominable/status/1603541062978502656

[elfin glacier]

buh buh buh

[candid solar]

I'm not shocked at all honestly, but then I have a very dim view on Bungie.

[elfin glacier]

humen forunnr is ironicccc

[thorny glen]

aka they basically just threw whatever at a wall and if it worked it worked, bam donezo move on next project pls

[elfin glacier]

tbh not necessarily the worst way to do things, overthinking stuff can be an issue

[thorny glen]

343i takes the lore waaayyy more seriously then Bungie itself ever did more or less, I don't quite get why people think it's the opposite. Bungie literally didn't care at all

[candid solar]

Because hating on current holders is easy and requires no burden of proof to claim.

[elfin glacier]

bungie used the pants view of fps story

[candid solar]

So iconic it got cut like the Miranda strapping a nuke to chief plot.

Because it was dumb and clumsy.

[elfin glacier]

tbh the more interesting question is, does humans being forerunners actually make tgings more interesting or compelling beyond HUMEN IS FOREUNR IS IRONIC BECAUSE PROPET MAD

(No)

[candid solar]

I hate these topics.

[elfin glacier]

the two points i usually see are:

• ooo its iroooonic because the covenant worship the forerunners but if humans are forerunners thats IRONIC OOOOOOOOOO
• its mysterious ooooo

[candid solar]

It's so damn rote.

[elfin glacier]

you're rote

[candid solar]

IRONY FOR IRONY'S SAKE ISN'T GOOD STORYTELLING

[drifting kelp]

I’m rote

[elfin glacier]

CARTER THE LEADERS

[candid solar]

I'm actually roe.

[elfin glacier]

salmon eggs

[candid solar]

Yes

[elfin glacier]

soon you will hatch

[signal wedge]

I like ancient humans story tho, but why did they pick them as reclaimers

they could have reseeded their own species

[candid solar]

Trenchsalmon

Gets stronger with every generation of Trenchsalmon

[candid solar]

The canon reason is that they didn't feel like winners.

[elfin glacier]

can swim in salt and freshwater

[candid solar]

Very powerful

[elfin glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/swimming-upstream-salmon-robert-e-fuller-on-our-way-in-a-hurry-gif-27345597

glub

[candid solar]

The Trenchsalmon on their way to become more powerful (many will die on the journey)

[elfin glacier]

the GREAT journey

[candid solar]

Iconic....

[elfin glacier]

‼️ deep lore

[candid solar]

They shall be wed @elfin glacier

To end the Halo Infinite content drought

(They are a lovely couple)

[hollow void]

Frog

[autumn kestrel]

lol

[thorny glen]

i see it as -

• ooo covenant are genociding the humans for no reason cuz uh uh religious beliefs!!! humans bad cuz i said so!!! forerunners who we worship said humans bad to or something smh idk erm kill human thats it no questioning or else ur a heretic

[thorny glen]

Forerunners picked Humans as reclaimers because the Precursors (or the new found info they had of the Precursors) also chose Humans as the Reclaimers.
whatever remained of the last Forerunners on the Ark then exiled themselves from the galaxy, because they didn't want to interact with it anymore.

not all forerunners exiled themselves obviously, like the Ur-Didact and most likely a few other Forerunners to, but the ones at the Ark did & found a new home / planet.

[livid oyster]

Huragoks are the true reclaimers

[thorny glen]

What are your opinions on "new" Forerunners (the children of the ones that exiled themselves) returning to the galaxy?

like great great great grand children or something

[candid solar]

I don't like the idea. Halo has had enough sudden outside context enemies for one console generation.

[signal wedge]

those traitorous prophet species

[signal wedge]

forerunner human war 2.0

[verbal relic]

I personally want a game focused around rion forge and her crew. Loved those books and they had so much potential to change things up in the halo universe but nah, we good with more forerunner/precursor nonsense.

[candid solar]

I feel like making games about book characters is a bad idea.

[signal wedge]

We need Halo to end with humanity reclaiming their right 👍🏻

[candid solar]

Reclaiming their right to... What?

They can't claim the Mantle of Responsibility, that's a lie and test.

[signal wedge]

but Cortana did

[verbal relic]

Why? There are game characters in books, why can't it be the other way around? Human forerunner war 2.0 would just be mass effect 3 all over again. Except it would be even worse than ME3 because it's 343.

[signal wedge]

no spartans? sounds boring

[candid solar]

See, I problably would've been willing to engage if you didn't include the last two sentences.

[verbal relic]

The Spartan program lost it's meaning in the games when the Spartan 4's were introduced.

[candid solar]

Okay, yeah, not worth discussing it with you.

[normal owl]

Be respectful, this is just people's personal preferences and opinions.

[verbal relic]

Yeah that's fair, they're not great storytellers imo but they make some banger gameplay.

[signal wedge]

what

[candid solar]

Generally speaking, when your first response to me saying that is to, completely unprompted, say "Yeah 343i would make a worse Mass Effect 3", you're tilting how shallow and empty your hand actually is.

Like, dude, that's a whole new sentence that has nothing to do with the first. If that's your straight away attitude on it I'm not engaging.

[signal wedge]

I mean yeah the Spartan IIs are legendary... pretty sure they wanted to steer away from child soldiers but they could have atleast kept that 1 in a billion genetic thing

[candid solar]

They did.

[thorny glen]

i am hopeful for the future of halo

[verbal relic]

Spartan 4's devalued the Spartan program by fitting regular soldiers with weaker augments and weaker armor.

[candid solar]

*Stronger armor
*Different focus on augmentations

[signal wedge]

you're delulu

[normal owl]

Definitely everyone's personal preference to engage, but in normal conversation "Okay, yeah, not worth discussing it with you" is a disrespectful way to express yourself to someone else.

[candid solar]

Okay.

[thorny glen]

only the Primordial said this, it's not 100% true.

Mantle is basically being the peace keepers, that's kinda what it's always meant

[candid solar]

I prefer the story implications of the Mantle of Responsibility being a degenerate piece of imperialist farce.

[verbal relic]

I just think 343i are bad storytellers, everything good about modern halo lore was written by someone else other than 343.

[candid solar]

Because one species being 'more equal than others' is a really, really bad thing.

[signal wedge]

UN peacekepers omg!

[thorny glen]

Nothing about the Mantle implies being imperialist tho

[verbal relic]

Greg Bear, Kelly Gay, their novels are great.

[signal wedge]

Ancient humanity had an empire! and it was great!

[bronze breach]

I shall police the multiverse. Mark my words. - Morbius, 2024

[candid solar]

Literally the basic statement of what the Mantle is.

Guardianship for all living things lies with those whose evolution is most complete. The Mantle of Responsibility shelters all.

It implies that the superior race will determine the guardianship of all. That's boilerplate imperialist philosophy.

[signal wedge]

HFY

[candid solar]

That is not a good thing.

[thorny glen]

It's not. The Mantle implies your species / faction are the peace keepers, you keep extermination from happening, but you let everyone grow & live as a species. You don't control everyone, you let nature take it's course like with everything, but you don't let them start exterminating everyone.

[candid solar]

It's basically the sci fi species equivelant of the White Man's Burden.

Which is why taking it as something to be emulated is degenerate and why Chief is right to call it out.

[smoky token]

John: "The Didact made it clear the Mantle of Responsibility was an imperial peace. Step out of line, and suffer."

[candid solar]

^

[thorny glen]

Now you're taking it in a direction that makes no sense with that 2nd sentence. You don't control the fate of other species, the Mantle never implies this.

[signal wedge]

you're rigght maybe humanity should just keep all the forerunenr tech to themselves instead

[thorny glen]

yea, that's the Forerunners view. Which was an imperialistic view of it, Cortana had also viewed it this way. It's wrong on both accounts, it's not how the Precursors view it.

[smoky token]

and your source for this is?

surely a precursor right?

[thorny glen]

In fact it is said the Forerunners view of the Mantle changed over many generations, into something that it was never supposed to be.

[candid solar]

I mean, it's Nighterlev, Nighterlev doesn't need silly things like sources.

[thorny glen]

nope, my source is literally from another Forerunner right in Epitaph, you know, the Forerunner civil wars?

[bronze breach]

Source: trust me bro

[thorny glen]

everything I say is backed up with sources dude

[candid solar]

Like the UNSC not knowing what CBRN is?

[normal owl]

This is the first time I've ever heard it described like this, and it makes ton of [unfortunate] sense now.

[signal wedge]

do you guys think Halo's story will ever end

[normal owl]

It just goes round and round in a circle.

[thorny glen]

?? CBRN in Halo are just filter attachments for MJOLNIR armor we've been over this lol. No need to keep bringing it up over and over for no reason.

[candid solar]

Yeah, there was a big convo about it months back in lore and universe and the general consensus was

Mantle is a ripoff of the White Man's Burden
Librarian is a really creepy colonizer

Yeah, see, I've never seen anyone agree with you on that.

And I bring it up a lot because it's a great example of how unreliable and poor your judgement is on things like that.

[thorny glen]

Very incorrect view on it, Epitaph described all of this pretty perfectly.

[candid solar]

Epitaph described it as being pretty much exactly as I just described it.

So, not sure what book you read.

Wait, why the hell am I arguing with Nighterlev of all people? I have better things to do than this.

[signal wedge]

you're right but what difference is the UNSC? don't they subjugate outer colony worlds, ONI would probably jump at the idea of controlling the entire milky way