general-chat

[naive turret]

this is so dumb istg

[misty marsh]

Love getting woken up at 6am by them

[buoyant canyon]

they gotta redo this line just for the love of the game

I want to see this line again, just for kicks and giggles

[zinc bear]

To fort(nite)

[steady jolt]

BAHAHAHA

[steady jolt]

Worth the wait tbh

[spare solar]

@steady jolt will we be getting a Christmas event next month for halo infinite? It can't just end without a Christmas event

[steady jolt]

I have no idea

[buoyant canyon]

I don’t play infinite, but that would be so W

[spare solar]

Will halo infinite be shutting down?

[zinc bear]

He’s just a community guy lol

[steady jolt]

No

[ocean herald]

have they "brought back" a previous op before for like a holiday?

[zinc bear]

Read the halo waypoint post he sent in the chat

[steady jolt]

Operation: Infinite may be the last major update currently planned for Halo Infinite, but we’re fully committed to supporting players with exciting challenges, ranked rewards, and community events throughout next year and beyond.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/operation-infinite-preview

[spare solar]

Can we please please get hcs stuff back?

This would be huge too to end the year

[drowsy coyote]

guys halo 5 is still functioning and available to play, why would Infinite be shutting down before it?

[buoyant canyon]

no, they’re just shifting to minor bug fixes as updates if any. Last Major update as said above

[buoyant canyon]

I hope so, that was my favorite halo for multiplayer

[zinc bear]

You can still match make on halo 4 on the 360. Infinite isn’t going anytime soon lol

[trim saddle]

Yeah listen to unc samsquamch

[buoyant canyon]

😂

[steady jolt]

HCS items could make it to the Exchange, or Twitch Drops

[spare solar]

If halo infinite was top shut down next year or anytime would we be able to still play the game? Like the campaign academy stuff etc?

To

[steady jolt]

It's not shutting down any time soon

[buoyant canyon]

You CAN? That's so confusing lol.

[pulsar heron]

i dont think i get woken up by any of the noises on the range bc i've lived here all my life, but i do notice when they're practicing with different weapons. little bit spooky

[buoyant canyon]

I surprised the 360 still has support at this point.

Like dawg it's been 20 years it's time to get an Xbox one 🥀

[zinc bear]

You just need 4 people to match make. And obviously the servers are bugged, but it works. It’s cause halo 4 on the 360 ran on peer to peer networks and not a server like bungies games

[pulsar heron]

360 is unsupported by both microsoft (hardware/firmware wise) and by halo studios (game service wise), to be 100% clear

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah like how og reach and 3 you can host customs since it relies on host connection

[misty marsh]

Ive been woken up by the sound of hornets by my window before so chinooks over my garden are definitely breaking my sleep

[zinc bear]

Halo studios betrayed us. What do you MEAN they aren’t working on the Xbox 360 anymore?

[spare solar]

What about the other items as meteor fall kill effect, rust belt weapon coating and victory slash and high performance?

[buoyant canyon]

But MCC campaign doesn't have crossplay and no designated servers 👀

Doing online campaign so so laggy lol

[zinc bear]

When will halo infinite release on the 360..

[misty marsh]

im not even a light sleeper though, I can sleep through alot but that general sound sends me into fight or flight cause i think its a wasp or hornet out to sting me

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah no it's just funny to think about the servers still running though hah.

[brisk matrix]

Rip infinite

[ocean herald]

stat/challenges/etc don't work anymore, but yeah whatever infracture is needed to matchmake is still "up"

[pulsar heron]

oh i sleep like a log. maybe a lifetime of chinook flyovers has something to do with that. i also have a rail line near my house as well, which is background noise atp

[misty marsh]

That makes sense. My relationship with sleep is weird so idk

[trim saddle]

I slept through the runs at test range of A-10s for 12 months 🤷

[pulsar heron]

you slept through the brrrt?!

[misty marsh]

I've slept through security alarms and fire alarms which isnt great

[pulsar heron]

oh, alarms wake me instantly. same deal as your hornet response

[spare solar]

Will we be getting those mentioned coatings and kill effect?

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah we had a fire drill on my campus a week ago and I totally slept through it. Cooked when that realization dawns on you.

[steady jolt]

Unless it's been mentioned in any of the blogs or live streams so far, nobody here knows

[misty marsh]

Yet i've never slept past a phone alarm. Clearly my body doesnt see fire or intruders as a threat

[buoyant canyon]

✋🙄 if only

[steady jolt]

Well, studios staff will, but if it's not been announced they're not going to discuss it

[misty marsh]

bugs and being late for work/class are just more life threatening in this economy

[spare solar]

Well it would make sense to add victory slash since it's a Christmas coating right?

[buoyant canyon]

Maybe, they haven't announced anything I think, to what they will or will not add, so I would just wait until after Thanksgiving as that's when most games announce Christmas stuff.

[spare solar]

I hope it does come out, it looks amazing and they wouldn't add items to the game just for them to not be unlockable

[buoyant canyon]

Like the HCS stuff?

[spare solar]

And hcs too

[buoyant canyon]

They shouldn't make it unlockable in my opinion that takes away from the people who have already earned it.

Take MCC with all their unique and custom nameplates it would take away from them for example.

343i already made that mistake and had a lot of community backlash when they made the Helioskrill in H5 unlockable in REQ packs.

[eager jasper]

Let me see here.. a lot of comments about infinite 's future, 343 / Halo studios has actually been really good about keeping their servers online for a long while after end of support.

[spare solar]

They made a serious issue with the academy issue weapon coating

[eager jasper]

10 full years of supporting a game is pretty freaking good, 2012 to 2022.

I predict infinite's gonna easily last another 5 years.

[waxen rose]

Saw a halo booth at comicon and nerded out to the poor man attending the booth for like 15 minutes and my dad had to pull me away just to get me to stop

[buoyant canyon]

I mean maybe, they should keep stuff gate kept behind what they already gate kept as it makes those who already earned it more valuable.

[spare solar]

Yes but it's not fair for people to not own them items

Thy can just make a new account to make it look like they can't get it anymore

[buoyant canyon]

Lol I'd do the same. I remember my dad painted the house of a 343 executive and like they gave me a bunch of Halo Stuff.

I was LOOSING MY MIND.

Got the Reach Legendary Guide it was so dope

[eager jasper]

No way! For real?? @buoyant canyon

[waxen rose]

Yeah I was yapping about Orion armor because he was telling me that he was building the armor so we geeked out together

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah no it was awesome I was like 12 years old or something at the time

[eager jasper]

Hell yeah!

[junior kestrel]

Which is why I want the old games to have individual stand alone ports appart from the mcc. Frankly I think it'd be way easier to work on also.

[waxen rose]

I was so tempted to ask the guy at the Halo booth if I could buy his “join the unsc” poster that had fred on it LOL

[eager jasper]

this might be a smidge spicy but IDEALLY, partial open source would ensure all of the halo games live indefinitely.

However, I know that's not really feasible due to the third party middleware in most of them.

[junior kestrel]

If 2 gets remade I want the gravemind scene to use the design from the storyboards where his teeth is made of elite and human skulls.

[junior kestrel]

Thankyou.

[eager jasper]

Havok physics specifically requires a proprietary license, so you'd have to redo a huge chunk of the physics in all those games.

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah making it open source would be cool but it could cause too many issues

[junior kestrel]

Havok still exsists?

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah

It's still common used in games, DOOM, Helldivers II, etc

[junior kestrel]

Not necessarily. Assuming they make it like how doom was open sourced.

You can freely use the engine for whatever you want. But not the major art assets.

But it lead to everyone making doom mods and not many games in comparison.

[buoyant canyon]

I think from business perspective it’s not a good idea, but that’s just me

[junior kestrel]

That isn't to say. There weren't any.

[vital raft]

open source games are highly profitable

unreal engine basically started as one

[junior kestrel]

I disagree.

It'd also bolster your reputation in the wider gaming public. Which, in some cases, reputation is more valuable than money.

[vital raft]

you cant walk 5 feet without a game that runs on unreal now

[junior kestrel]

It's namesake for one.

[buoyant canyon]

I think it's beneficial and amazing, I just doubt HS would take Halo in that direction.

If they did I would love it, but I would be very surprised.

[junior kestrel]

I think it would at least be nice to make the trilogy open source.

If not at least ce.

Because ce has it's own proprietary physics engine.

[vital raft]

and doom went open source cause theres only so many ways to resell doom 1 and 2

so just give the peopel the engine to work with

[junior kestrel]

You can prolly fix the damage values by scalling them right. I think they're so high cause of a small error or smt.

[vital raft]

the plasma pistol is awful in CE cause of an error

[junior kestrel]

What?

[pulsar heron]

genuine suggestion: consider getting a fire alarm buzzer designed for d/Deaf and hard of hearing folks. little buzzer that slips under your pillow. (in a pinch, "apple device with sound recognition + shortcut which does Something" may also be viable)

[junior kestrel]

No it's one of the best weapons in the game.

Granted all the weapons in ce are the best weapons in ce.

[vital raft]

in the og yes

in MCC they somehow broke its coding so the tracking sometimes just gives up

[junior kestrel]

Gonna have a nap.

[harsh bane]

The plasma pistol in CE and Infinite both feel like cool, powerful energy pistols even if they aren't actually that powerful

[vital raft]

still not as useles as the halo 2 magnum

[junior kestrel]

That applies to abt 25-50% of things in mcc.

[buoyant canyon]

again, it would be nice, but realistically if they did that, it would be a big deal however I don’t know if they would go that direction. I would be utterly baffled if they did.

[vital raft]

it was bad in OG halo 2 and just got worse in MCC

[junior kestrel]

Either way I want a stand alone set of the old halos on steam. I'm more than certain they'd be easier to support than the mess that is mcc.

Heck. I'm sure that since 4 was made with updates in mind that keyestone would be easy to add into 4 stand alone.

[vital raft]

the shotgun is also slightly worse in MCC but i cant prove it

it just feels like its one shot range is slightly lower

[junior kestrel]

I can't prove 3 being different from the 360 version.

And 2 seems to have made the jackal snipers even faster.

[vital raft]

oh god the halo 2 jackals did get so much worse

[trim saddle]

FF goes brrrrrrrr

[buoyant canyon]

not gonna lie, though you do have to give MCC some credit for having a complete disaster on launch that it had to be where it is today is kind of an amazing achievement.

[vital raft]

what meth did the convient start giving them

reaction times of spartans

[buoyant canyon]

this is true, but I at least give them credit for not abandoning it

to be fair though, I have noticed that 343i started heavily monetizing Halo Reach in general across their games, which is interesting.

[junior kestrel]

I'll give them that. Even tho they would eventually. It's still an active mess. Instead if a ragging mess like in 2014.

[harsh bane]

That sounds worth complimenting to me
I have a full brain and only a vaguely stable life

[junior kestrel]

Banking on nostalgia.

[buoyant canyon]

Oh yeah no 100% lobbies still bug, anti cheat is super easier to get around, and not have PC/Xbox crossplay in campaign is odd at best.

[misty marsh]

Might have to look into that actually. Not too worried about fires (though I don't want to jinx that) but for intruders yeah

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah it's quite obvious. Halo Reach REQ packs in 5, Reach coming to MCC, Reach starting season in Infinite, it kinda feels like what Star Wars is doing to the Clone Wars atm.

[vital raft]

you meant the req pack armors that are hyper super rare

[buoyant canyon]

Yeah but you can buy them if I wasn't mistaken when they came out.

[junior kestrel]

As I said.

They'd have a better time just doing stand alone pc re-releases of each.

Could even do em sequentially.

Ce, 2, 3, odst, reach, cea, 4 and 2a.

[vital raft]

i know people who have played since launch and still dont have emile from normal gameplay

[junior kestrel]

Or the prequels at large.

[junior kestrel]

That was the halo 3 helmet pack.

[faint mantle]

I thought you were going for a nap?

[buoyant canyon]

To be fair, I think Halo in Star Wars is literally going through the exact same issues.

Beating on nostalgia because the present content is so widely hated, so they either reboot the older series or they re-release content from the original series

[junior kestrel]

Speaking of. Imagine the longevity these games would get from stand alone rerelease with actual functioning matchmaking, unlocks and achievements.

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/hbGwV6hIXqL.gif

[junior kestrel]

You're right. I just got too caught up in interesting convo.

[vital raft]

im not against the idea of paid content

but why not just make it like most other games do

[junior kestrel]

Well. Halo and star wars have lotta meta parrellels as properites. And fan experiences.

[buoyant canyon]

Wdym

[vital raft]

its just annoying when 90 percent of a passes good content is locked out

and you get at best a helmet

[junior kestrel]

Have you heard of microsoft?

[vital raft]

like really paint schemes being premium content is ridiculous

[misty marsh]

Grim being here from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed despite having very different time zones baffles me

[buoyant canyon]

Well it's because Battle Passes make more money lol.

Why make a game complete on launch for 69.99 when you can make it half baked for 39.99 and sell Battle Passes to boost sales.

[junior kestrel]

Or xbox.

I might be able to blame phil for not advocating for the flagship of xbox getting unlimited respources and princess treatment.

[vital raft]

buying activision was vital i guess

[junior kestrel]

I have been awake since like noon yesterday. It's no 6 am.

[vital raft]

it only took killing every studio i liked

[hybrid plover]

🍂

[misty marsh]

was sleep ever given consideration?

[junior kestrel]

Night shift.

[vital raft]

also chimera still sucks

[hybrid plover]

🤦

[misty marsh]

fair enough

[vital raft]

4 plus years to give chimera literally anything remotely good

[junior kestrel]

I don't like rashakasahqhab aesthetically.

[vital raft]

chimera just looks gross to me

like someone skinned a spartan and painted it black

[junior kestrel]

I fail to see how xbox needed them or bethesda

[vital raft]

money

AI isnt cheap to work on

[junior kestrel]

Either way I hope Microsoft and xbox get forcibly seperated so we don't have microsoft's perpetual greed influencing them.

Just xbox's perpetual greed.

[vital raft]

halo on PS is pretty much my death nail for xbox

[buoyant canyon]

It's not him though. I was Reading an article on how Microsoft in general wants 30% profit increase which is just for some reason? The odd business decision but OK.

I would have to find the article but that would explain all of the interesting things that have been going on at Microsoft and their companies underneath them.

[vital raft]

they need a boost in profits due to their failed efforts in AI

that is bleeding them dry

[bright shoal]

and the fact that halo is dying

[vital raft]

halo is dying, gears six isnt coming anytime soon

[hasty zinc]

posts every hour for the last 16 hours

[trim saddle]

Meth-ane, since that's what grunts breathe

[bright shoal]

methane

[junior kestrel]

That's absurd and unrealistic. You'd probably be able to get those margins by just... not making new versions of Windows constantly and investing who knows how much into this AI craze. Which will either go the way of the dodo or go horribly wrong.

[vital raft]

then they ruined gamepass

might as well just buy games now

[bright shoal]

ai is not worth the money I dont get it

[vital raft]

they cant back down

theyve burned billions on it so if they give up their ruined

[junior kestrel]

Mass intergeneration in order to make it profitable. Especially within buisnesses. That's how Microsoft makes money.

[vital raft]

they bought activision to get candy crush

[trim saddle]

Anyway, back to playing halo.

[vagrant kettle]

Despite the controversy around it creating art and stuff, it’s a pretty valuable tool with lots of potential

[junior kestrel]

I'd still prefer if xbox was seperated from msoft.

[vital raft]

never gonna happen sadly

[ocean herald]

I don’t know what’s being talked about but don’t forget to remember reach today guys

[vital raft]

ofcourse i remember reach im an elite fan

[hasty zinc]

never heard of it

[ocean herald]

Mods unmod this guy

[bright shoal]

wrong kind of ai unfortunately

[vital raft]

shouldnt have sucked in battle lol

[vagrant kettle]

My I thought you meant ai in general

[vital raft]

WORT WORT WORT

[faint mantle]

That's not going to happen, there's no ground work or reason for it to happen.

[junior kestrel]

Ai doesn't "create" anything.

It just stitches existing things together thoughtlessly. There's no intent. No human understanding. Just algorithms and binary.

[buoyant canyon]

i’m not a business major,

but I remember working at Sherwin-Williams the paint company, and I remember seeing how division managers would give the small store managers like a huge bonus if they were just able to get a 20% profit that year… And that’s just locally to one store.

[bright shoal]

what we need is something that can alleviate humanity from all the monotonous bs of working till we die

[buoyant canyon]

And I get it you know you can’t compare businesses to businesses… But trying to get 30% is insane

[misty marsh]

I went back to fact check. Its been almost 18 hours actually

[pulsar heron]

i think we should talk about something more positive now, gamers

[faint mantle]

Pls pivot back to Halo y'all. AI philosophy and business decisions can go on DMs

[vital raft]

i actually was gonan mention something positive

[bright shoal]

I mean we can go back to halo but thats still bleak and depressing

[vital raft]

i encountered a bugged grunt in firefight

he was friendly despite his threats

hes just cranky

[pulsar heron]

but at least that would be fictional. this isn't really the place for discussing real world troubles in detail

[bright shoal]

wake me up when 343/halo studios makes a new halo game in like 3-5 years

[vital raft]

the most depressing part of halo lore is the food prices

you ever take time to look at those things in reach

[bright shoal]

im not even talking halo lore, im talking halo irl

if the CE remake does good its nothing but remakes after

[vital raft]

for how much i want to hate on it the remake of CE does look pretty good

[bright shoal]

and thats the worst outcome lol

[vital raft]

i hope we get another arcade game

[candid solar]

Boy, I'm sure glad that I already hate extraction shooters, otherwise I'd be pretty upset that Arc Raiders uses AI voice acting.

[bright shoal]

I'd love a halo extraction shooter

[ocean herald]

It does?

[candid solar]

Yup.

[fickle drift]

halo extraction shooter 🤤

[bright shoal]

with an entirely different studio behind it

[candid solar]

It's "ethical" in that it's specifically sourced by volunteering folks.

[ocean herald]

Extraction shooters are gonna be a fad imo

[candid solar]

Buuuut AI delenda est and whatever

[vital raft]

halo infinite works insaneyl well in third person so id like a game dedicated to that sttyle

[bright shoal]

would be true if it had pvp

pve games are sumn you can always revisit and have fun on

🤷

[vital raft]

you could set it on a planet being glassed

[candid solar]

Halo is a lot like Warhammer 40K in that there are significant amounts of canon that could be well-expanded upon and heavily experimented with in order to make more interesting game experiences.

[ocean herald]

Wdym? Because they (arc raiders) does have pvp

[candid solar]

Buuut Microsoft mostly sees it as a nostalgia piggy bank apparently, while Games Workshop basically allows anyone with a pulse and a dream to make a Warhammer 40K game so long as it doesn't butcher canon, sometimes even then.

[bright shoal]

ah so 343 has learned from James Workshop, "Allude to important event that seems super cool in a vague paragraph and never talk about it ever again"

[candid solar]

Halo has literally never not done this.

[bright shoal]

I love halo

[candid solar]

It's... It's literally just a sci fi thing. Hell, it's a fiction thing in general.

[vital raft]

its kind of hard to expand on events where your game format is shoot people

[candid solar]

I don't think we even knew what the UEG was by name in a game until like Halo 3 ODST

And even then it's only background notes about how Mombasa is run

[bright shoal]

doesn't help when the story includes shooting people but the team wants to focus on John Halo

[candid solar]

Microsoft wants it more than the nebulous "team" does, frankly.

[ocean herald]

I wouldn’t mind if halo split its multiplayer and campaign offerings entirely

The multiplayer could evolve into something like counter strike/fortnite. that’s better for a live service model anyways than the expectation to have to produce an entirely new product every 2-4 years

[vital raft]

also you know halo lore has changed alot

since the original plans were kind of glued together

[alpine hemlock]

Does anyone in here participate in halo clans ?

[candid solar]

#1076334026090094602

[vital raft]

man shoots the bad guys everyone else dies the end

[bright shoal]

well since Halo's probably gonna vanish into nothing within my lifetime, I best get to finding another game

[vital raft]

but johnson is alive cause plot

[candid solar]

Maybe cause Clans are boring and usually have their own Discords.

[pulsar heron]

that channel is the appropriate place for all clan discussion.

[bright shoal]

tried Destiny but Destiny immediately shot itself in the foot

[alpine hemlock]

That’s what I’m tryna find my way into

[candid solar]

Ah, famously unsuccessful Destiny.

[vital raft]

destiny lore suffers imo from the same issue its chosen format

[alpine hemlock]

Just need to find someone who’s in them

[vital raft]

its cutscenes seperated by shooting things until the game tells you to stop

[bright shoal]

destiny suffers from everything

like every bad thing possible besides gameplay SOMETIMES

[vital raft]

yeah no include raid bosses with intricate mechanics then dont explain them

thats good game design and not annoying

[bright shoal]

cant help but note that destiny 2 has the worst fashion in any mmo I've seen

[vital raft]

im tired of modern sci fi being afraid of doing chunky

[bright shoal]

d1 armor at least LOOKED cool

[vital raft]

its always slick and smooth

[waxen rose]

My year has officially been made.. I got a pic with a fred cosplayer
The young man was so happy that I got so happy to see him

[bright shoal]

d2 armor is constantly clashing with itself

[vital raft]

or santizied generic scifi gear

[misty marsh]

Where did you find a fred cosplayer??

[vital raft]

oh boy a titan helmet that looks like a bootleg spartan number 546786

[bright shoal]

season of the seraph had the best destiny armor to date

[waxen rose]

Im at comicon I just left after spending $200

[pulsar heron]

ouch. been there before

[bright shoal]

specifically the ornaments, everything else was garbage

[misty marsh]

I completely forgot you went

[candid solar]

I find it funny that people tend to get on pretty much any sci fi for having "Generic" armor when... The entire damn themeing is based off specific titles from like the 80s.

[waxen rose]

I was screaming at my dad when I saw fred I was like “THERES MY MAN1!!11!”

[bright shoal]

unless your destiny 2

[candid solar]

No, including D2.

[bright shoal]

then all of your armor is based off fantasy creatures or just really terrible armor design

[candid solar]

None of them are exempt.

[misty marsh]

freudian slip of a typo lol

[vital raft]

i cant post pictures but i prefer scifi is willing to look weird

[jade gust]

The best armour in D2 is the reprised D1 armour, the 10th anniversary armour based on concept art for D1, the BrayTech snow gear from Warmind, the Mass Effect collab armour (Though the N7 helmet not being more faithful sucks) and the Deimosborn armour for the Hunter. Most of the other armour designs are mid at best

[ocean herald]

Like warframe levels?

[bright shoal]

the anniversary armor sucks

[vital raft]

give me big blocky robots

[candid solar]

Like, my sibling in Christ, we're all playing everything based off of regurgitations of Star Wars, Warhammer, Starship Troopers, Crustpunk aesthetics, and whatever war is currently going on.

Oh and Aliens, can't forget the Aliens franchise.

[vital raft]

hey some settings try to be unique

[bright shoal]

if D2 had followed anything star wars related for armor design it'd actually be good 💔

[jade gust]

It's much better than half the Eververse armour

[vital raft]

aliens for its time was innovative for sci fi for doing anti future if that makes sense

[muted rose]

It does, it still sucks

[vital raft]

they made tech look stagnant

[candid solar]

gestures broadly at most basic Titan armor, most Ranger or whatever the other classes are

[bright shoal]

if it does idk where its getting its source material

[muted rose]

Like it’s literally licensed Star Wars armor

[vital raft]

titans are my fav class but man their cosmetics are so lame

[bright shoal]

Im not talking about the cross-over bro

[candid solar]

I'm not either.

[vital raft]

why the space wizards get to mog on everyone

[jade gust]

They're doing that next month for the DLC coming out, since they partnered up with Lucasfilm to get help with making a Star Wars inspired expansion (They have said it's not gonna feature Star Wars characters)

[muted rose]

It’s no different to the normal armor either

[bright shoal]

none of their armor resembles star wars

[candid solar]

I'm saying that the generic "smooth armor plating on the everything" is like, sci fi standard.

[vital raft]

which is why i dislike it

[bright shoal]

it all just looks like a terrible hodge-podge of parts

[vital raft]

it makes lots of things blur together in a generic soup of scifi

[candid solar]

80s and 90s set design must be horrifying for you.

[bright shoal]

oh and shaders SUCK

[vital raft]

give me something clunky

[bright shoal]

mostly, anything with metallic just looks horrible in destiny

[vital raft]

sometimes

[bright shoal]

god forbid we get flat colors for shaders

[vital raft]

or hear me out

just let us pick whatever colors we want

halo CE let us atleast change chiefs color

[bright shoal]

but then you'd have one less thing to grind for or buy!

bungo cant have that and neither can 343 lol

[jade gust]

Chief's armour doesn't change colour in Combat Evolved

[vital raft]

i mean for MP

you can make him pink

now if you want neon pink you better give up that wallet

[bright shoal]

h2a multiplayer is something people never talk about

[candid solar]

I am left adrift to point out the issues with wanting unique sci fi when the genre itself is literally derived from a specific section of media forever and always.

[bright shoal]

I can honestly see why

[candid solar]

It's like wanting to mix up a cowboy movie.

It's... It's a cowboy movie. In the wild west. You change it up with commentary and story, not aesthetics.

[bright shoal]

Star wars is at least coming up with new trooper armor that looks good all the time

[vital raft]

i dont expect everyone to make a unique artstyle but it gets old seeing people do the same slick white

or tactical gear but flashy lights

[misty marsh]

maybe make it unique by having a cowboy except hes actually a toy and instead of the wild west its actually Andy's bedroom

[vital raft]

just dont do whatever marathon is trying to be

[candid solar]

That's what I mean by 80s/90s set design. And prop design. Because that's literally what they were doing back then.

Surplus uniforms and guns with crap taped to it to make it look like a different gun.

[vital raft]

like a highlighter vomited

i really wish i could post pictures as examples

[candid solar]

Like, most of the Star Wars weapon inventory is literally just demilled German firearms with parts ripped off and stapled on.

[waxen rose]

Dont you remember when Master Chief turns pink in combat evolved only for October? I do
Only true halo fans remember /j

[vital raft]

you never changed your armor color in the profiles thing?

[bright shoal]

what is that armor in the middle of the operation infinite thing, it looks hideous

[candid solar]

A Forerunner-themed armor set.

[vital raft]

its the didact

[candid solar]

I don't see what's hideous about it.

[bright shoal]

some things are best left alone 💔

[vital raft]

i find alot of infinite helmets feel oversized

[candid solar]

Some things are worth pointing out as tiresome ceaseless negativity.

[jade gust]

NuMarathon's problem isn't the artstyle per say, it's just the plagiarised art assets, odd decision to be hero based and lacklustre gameplay loop which is at odds with what most people expect from a revival of Marathon. If it had a single player campaign, I imagine it would be much easier for people to stomach the extraction shooter side of the game

[candid solar]

Having personally done scaling experiments in Blender, most are actually exactly the right size.

[eager jasper]

ah, people of culture! we're talking about marathon now?? You all rock!

[bright shoal]

doesn't help that its all halo really is right now 🤷

[vital raft]

yeah thats the weird part they arent out of scale but on some cores

[candid solar]

Nah, I think this problem's in the chair here.

[vital raft]

they feel wrong

MK4 on chimera for example just feels off

[bright shoal]

anyway my main issue with it is the helmet, golly that helmet is wowie

[neon geyser]

Hello

[candid solar]

I like it. But then I like angular helmets.

[robust spear]

Is it true halo infinite is technically over?

[vital raft]

also hey look an elite armor

[bright shoal]

hopefully

[eager jasper]

No more updates, but the game will stay online for the forseeable future. there's no better time to grab some friends and play it. @bright shoal @robust spear

[robust spear]

Lmao 😭😭

[bright shoal]

The Honor guard armor is pretty sick, too bad no playable elites tho!

[steady jolt]

Operation: Infinite may be the last major update currently planned for Halo Infinite, but we’re fully committed to supporting players with exciting challenges, ranked rewards, and community events throughout next year and beyond.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/operation-infinite-preview

[vital raft]

i mean we could just play as elites but an armor is ok too

SOBS

[eager jasper]

I actually highly recommend infinite in its complete state, its a blast, i'd be happy to play now! 😄

[jade gust]

Playable Elites would require a whole bunch of work they likely can't do at this point on Infinite

[robust spear]

Nah, if I wanted to play a fun game with friends I would pick helldivers over halo any day of the week

[bright shoal]

hopefully in the next halo game whenever that happens, it rights every wrong infinite has and includes playable elites!

[vital raft]

my best advice get cosmetics you want in the exchange

[bright shoal]

either that or MCC

[vital raft]

save up reward points for the passes

[jade gust]

Like, I think the best bet for playable Elites will be whatever the next Halo game with multiplayer is

[robust spear]

Facts

[eager jasper]

playable elites are awesome, but we have still been clamoring for brutes. 🙂

[bright shoal]

who's we

[jade gust]

I can live without playable Brutes

[candid solar]

Speak for yourself. I want playable Promethean Armigers.

[vital raft]

i would rather be agrunt then a brute

[bright shoal]

Idk about you but I dont wanna play as a dumb berserking monkey

[eager jasper]

anyone that's touched halo RP before. lol.

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/you-keep-talking-pointing-good-idea-gif-16391587

[vital raft]

this isnt a joke iw ould love a funny grunt mode

[robust spear]

We? You Must be speaking French

[eager jasper]

Bonjour. I know a tiny bit of french, my french is crap though.

[vital raft]

we cant reference halo 4 tho

[robust spear]

lol

[bright shoal]

we wanna play as elites again

[candid solar]

Vaguely Spartan-sized, and they're cool Forerunner robot dudes who use human and covenant guns.

[vital raft]

unless its for skins

[eager jasper]

playable grunts would be awesome as a challenge skull.

[candid solar]

And they have a human body plan.

[eager jasper]

grunts have aboslutely hellish lives.

[vital raft]

or how its still canon but all the promethean enemies conviently died off cause shut up writing things is hard

[candid solar]

Honestly, if Infinite had a longer lifespan I think a Promethean Armiger-with some modifications-would've actually made a good kit or core.

[bright shoal]

nobody liked them so they got poofed

[candid solar]

Making them more solid and less 'floaty'.

[bright shoal]

well, I kinda liked the forerunner enemies

[vital raft]

i liked the knights in 5 felt like a battle

[bright shoal]

I just wish they embodied the old forerunner stuff rather than 343's current stuff

[jade gust]

Kit for Chimera would've been great

[vital raft]

halo 4 crawlers are spawned from satans crevice

[jade gust]

They purposely don't look like the older Forerunner constructs, it's to foreshadow what they actually are when you first play Halo 4

[candid solar]

Old forerunner stuff was boring as hell and I'm glad it's gone.

Oh, wow. Big imposing room with water stains on bare metal. Impressive. You know what else is impressive? The same thing on human metal. Or concrete.

[bright shoal]

no it was those floating guys who could revive stuff

[vital raft]

whoops you got sniped by a crawler behind cover cause it saw 2 inches of chiefs helmet

[bright shoal]

would've made me care more if they did

my only favorite thing about the forerunner stuff is the knights sword

[jade gust]

I've never had that experience unless I've been standing out in the open when dealing with Crawler Snipes, that's just a regular Jackal Sniper experience in Halo 2 what you described

[candid solar]

It's why I'm glad Infinite went for more of a synthesis of the artstyles.

And just wish they retained the more skeletal, floaty gun designs for the "Promethean" reskins of weapons in Infinite.

Instead of just adding a bunch of bits to existing guns.

[vital raft]

halo 4 knights are cool but get old fast

[eager jasper]

Oh trenchbird, dont get me started on how gorgeous the banished guns are. @candid solar 😄

those weapon models are futuristic and awesome. spikes at the end of EVERYTHING makes it better.

[vital raft]

honestly im split on the banished cause some of it looks amazing

[jade gust]

It would be for the worst if Prometheans looked closer to the Sentinels. They're constructs made from composed biological essences, they are more organic looking because their origins was as organics. Making them more robotic betrays and contradicts that aspect of the Prometheans

[candid solar]

They're alright, though I'll admit I think the best weapon remodel in the game is the human heatwave they showed off for the next update.

[bright shoal]

they're also forerunner in nature, them looking like that is weird to me but whats done is done

[jade gust]

Thankfully there's two Heatwave models coming which seem to lean back into that design next update

[vital raft]

not all forerunner tech was the best

[bright shoal]

there's a video where a guy redesigns them, I like it tbh

[candid solar]

I dislike that guy's redesigns.

[vital raft]

most sentienals are older tech so they look different

[bright shoal]

he's a hit or miss

[candid solar]

Strongly. Because he misses the basic reason for the themeing.

[jade gust]

That's the point, they're meant to look different to standard Forerunner stuff

[bright shoal]

he missed the rabbit on Kelly's armor, pelt him with stones!!

[candid solar]

The entire point of the Promethean military units is that they are meant to look more imposing than the flat-faced and angular builders.

It's why nearly every warrior-servant caste unit has a death mask look.

[vital raft]

i find most halo 4 redesigns boring cause they just remake old artstyles

same with 5

[bright shoal]

Agree to disagree, I much prefer that look for them

[candid solar]

And the hulls of the Knights specifically is meant to show their innately unnatural corruption of a human form.

[jade gust]

Stuff like the Promethean Knight opening their faceplate and screaming wouldn't work if they were closer to the classic Sentinel design

[bright shoal]

now this was another thing I kinda liked about them

[vital raft]

didnt they have some more sentienal like designs planeed

but they just looked off

[bright shoal]

but also it immediately tells you what they actually are so there goes the surprise

[vital raft]

theres also the underlying horror of knowing what powers knights

thats skull is there for a reason

[naive turret]

I think the broader juxtaposition would’ve been better. A tortured soul trapped in a facade of Forerunner ‘elegance’.

And I don’t know why soldiers designed to combat an unfearing parasite need to look intimidating.

[candid solar]

Before they fought the flood they were meant for something else, and considering normal AI can run in a Knight Hull, I think they always designed things like that.

There's something to be said for morale as well.

Specifically the same reason Guardians have faces; You have angered Forerunners enough that they are sending their caste specifically meant to kill you dead or force your compliance.

[naive turret]

Their design predates the Flood war? Maybe I misremembered the Terminals, nvm.

[jade gust]

I wouldn't say seeing the skull of a Knight tells you immediately what they are. Cortana even speculates if they're mimetic in nature, as in, they scan and mimic the skull of their enemies as an attempt to intimidate. Ultimately Cortana was wrong but that's because before Requiem, she'd only encountered Sentinels

[bright shoal]

if you're a lore nerd it doesn't take long to deduce

forerunners no likey ancient humanity

[candid solar]

To be clear I don't think Knight Hulls actually specifically predate the flood war, I'm just saying that the design philosophy of death masks on Warrior Servant caste members is likely a morale/cultural thing, and with Knights being built under that caste it leads to them adopting it even in the face of threats that aren't flood.

[sudden hound]

You mean the one where that does designs to fit the old Bungie aesthetic?

[molten pelican]

which is crazy since they are humans

[jade gust]

Most people didn't know about Ancient Humanity in their first playthroughs of halo 4

[bright shoal]

you're right

[sudden hound]

Tbh, I hate his Promethean designs, turning them into Sentinels was hideous...

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/loki-dont-just-dont-stop-gif-23310589

[molten pelican]

[hasty zinc]

I stg

[bright shoal]

They dont, the Promethians were a desperate gamble from the Didact to produce warriors who were unable to be infected by the flood

[hasty zinc]

3d slowmode

[candid solar]

Talking about the Knight Hulls, not the spirits inside them.

[bright shoal]

and if you havent noticed, ALL promethian weaponry includes heat and disintegration

[naive turret]

I just think the faces look silly, but I recognize that’s a taste thing.

[candid solar]

A Promethean Knight's hull is seperate from the composed person inside it.

[vital raft]

their main enemy was a viral infestation and mortal humans

[bright shoal]

those two things are one in the same, they both came at the EXACT same time as we see in the terminals

[vital raft]

melting people into data is a highly effective deterrant

[bright shoal]

they do not predate one another at all

[candid solar]

No, the Knight Hull is seperate.

[jade gust]

We've got lore showing us that Promethean Knights shells can be controlled by AI, such as those within the Created

[candid solar]

It's why the Created even have empty ones laying around for Created AI to inhabit.

[vital raft]

should this move to lore now?

[bright shoal]

thats..long after what

[candid solar]

It can be inferred that it is possible that the Hulls were meant for another purpose before the composition of the ancient humans, and it was more Didact making lemonade out of his two lemons.

[bright shoal]

yes inferred if you didnt look at the terminal when the knights were JUST created

[candid solar]

I did look at that terminal. And I'm still saying this because I know Halo canon does not sync up to what you see on the screen.

[bright shoal]

their hulls do not predict the composing process because they're literally a product of it

[jade gust]

Trench didn't say the hulls predicted the Composer

[naive turret]

tfw you want to concede to a gap in knowledge and then it becomes an argument weeee

[candid solar]

So you think everything in Origins I and II went down exactly as seen on canon and that the first disgraced Arbiter fought 100 foot tall Hunters?

[bright shoal]

they dont predate anything though, they exist at the exact same time as the knights creation

[naive turret]

Remember when the Forerunner architecture was Japanese temples, good times

[hasty zinc]

how's the weather where everyone is?

[bright shoal]

which was during the forerunner flood war

[naive turret]

Aegis that’s cruel

[hasty zinc]

?

[naive turret]

You know what the weather’s like here 🌧️

[safe dawn]

Suprisingly sunny

[jade gust]

You said "predict", not "predate", those words are not interchangeable

[candid solar]

Cold. I like it.

[bright shoal]

?

[candid solar]

You said predict

[bright shoal]

OH, mistype of doom

[bright shoal]

mb all

[safe dawn]

Minor spelling mistake be like:

[candid solar]

But no, we don't know if they are actually a product of the composition process.

[bright shoal]

we do tho

[candid solar]

We know the 'soul' of a knight and the hull itself are two seperate entities (Spartan Ops).

[safe dawn]

Since when?

[bright shoal]

they never existed before that moment, was never shown or alluded to

[candid solar]

Since never. He's taking a cutscene literally.

[hasty zinc]

where Knight Tillson?

[naive turret]

tbf it’s actually clear out, which is surprising given all the fireworks from a couple days ago

[jade gust]

Fireworks... It's been 3 days since Bonfire Night... That's the best way of summing up the weather for me

[bright shoal]

its literally the reason the didact was sealed 😭

[candid solar]

No, it isn't.

[safe dawn]

Oh no, thats not true

[bright shoal]

OML LOL

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-promethean-knight-promethean-knight-halo-knight-halo4-gif-26689148

[naive turret]

https://tenor.com/view/halo5-promethean-knight-head-bump-gif-13721229

[safe dawn]

Also no, the shells existedbefore th war

[candid solar]

The Didact was imprisoned for composing humans, not designing Knight hulls.

[bright shoal]

thats what I mean

[waxen rose]

Free him he did nothing wrong /j

[bright shoal]

his creation of the Promethian Knights is what lead to him getting imprisoned

[candid solar]

You're claiming, for whatever reason, that composition makes a knight hull, when it doesn't.

[safe dawn]

Bc its mentioned that the forerunners were messing with the composer to try and become immortal, but it didn't work since it twisted the personalities

[candid solar]

Composition just makes a composed person, not a Knight Hull.

[safe dawn]

So the hulls in some form 100% existed before the flood war

[naive turret]

Imagine, the Didact gets arrested for breaking a design patent

[bright shoal]

we see it happen in the terminal

[safe dawn]

The knight hulls were likely just an adaptation

[bright shoal]

so Im taking 343's lore and using it

[hasty zinc]

Ancient Humanity Nintendo

[candid solar]

And I'm telling you the terminal is an abstraction of that process, not the reality of it, because the same game literally shows you they are two seperate things.

[bright shoal]

no, they're a biproduct

[sudden hound]

Dude is a fusion between Voldemort and Megatronus Prime from Transformers 2

[safe dawn]

they're literally not

[waxen rose]

We cant have NOTHING: Nintendo is always there 😭

[safe dawn]

also forerunners print things from an atomic level, so that is the explanation

[bright shoal]

we LITERALLY see them transform on the spot 😭

[candid solar]

It's literally a major plot device in SpartanOps!

[bright shoal]

which comes long after the ancient noseless people are all GONE

[safe dawn]

forerunners print things from an atomic level

[candid solar]

I reiterate, the terminal is an abstraction of the process, because the terminal videos loved making the sequence abstract.

[jade gust]

You know Guilty Spark is a composed human, right? Like he didn't have a Knight body before he became the lightball we shoot in Halo 3, he was given the floaty bowling ball as a body after he was composed

[candid solar]

Something the noseless people literally designed.

[safe dawn]

the entire process of the composer is explained in either the mythos or the encyclopedia

[bright shoal]

and the created replicated

[candid solar]

The composer does not make a damn hull

[safe dawn]

go read one (preferably both) of them

[candid solar]

This was Halo 4! The Created weren't a thing yet!

[trim saddle]

The created weren't created yet?

[bright shoal]

so the didact did it then lol

[candid solar]

We didn't even know they could inhabit Knight Hulls until Halo 5 was already out

[safe dawn]

the only thing the composer does is vaporize people and digitize their concsiousness: see halo 4 when the didact composed new pheonix

[candid solar]

You're literally trying to argue something happens, that the canon could not be clearer about as not being the case lmao

Composition does not build a knight hull, it only composes an essence

[safe dawn]

there were no knight hulls running around new phoenix after it was composed, BECAUSE the composer does not shapeshift them into hulls

the transferring to a hull happens elsewhere

and is NOT part of what the composer does

[candid solar]

He's gonna bring up the cutscene again

[bright shoal]

no Im already bored of the argument

[candid solar]

Well, I can guess you were gonna lmao

[bright shoal]

because its plainly shown and what im seeing is misconceptions 😭

[safe dawn]

because you were told by literally everyone you were wrong?

[safe dawn]

it is quite literally described everywhere else to not be how you're saying it is

[candid solar]

The literal canon says you're wrong and the cutscene is an abstraction of the process dude I don't know what else you want

[bright shoal]

I have other things to do than to argue over the creation of the promethian knights who's hulls do not predate the forerunner flood war

[naive turret]

Piles of ash

[bright shoal]

nor do they predate the composing process

[candid solar]

No H8 those are Promethean Knights

[bright shoal]

thats just Killer queen

[jade gust]

I do not envy the people who had to clean up all of those piles of ash

[naive turret]

It’s pretty grim

[jade gust]

Like, do you think each pile was given a separate bag?

[safe dawn]

the literal cannon says that the forerunners tried to mess around with composing people and putting them in hulls before, but it didn't go well because the process was too traumatic

[bright shoal]

SO THEY DONT PREDATE THE COMPOSING PROCESS TY

[jade gust]

Or did they go "Scoop them all into one bag and let the scientists figure it out"?

[safe dawn]

not what I said

[candid solar]

You need to read slower man.

[safe dawn]

you, severely lack reading comprehension

[bright shoal]

nuh Im making a bagel

[naive turret]

I’d hope they were attempted to be identified and returned to family members but 😔

[safe dawn]

I literally just said that they did, your reading comprehension is not here

[coral yoke]

this vaguely feels like the "piles of asriel's dust" argument in more ways than one

[bright shoal]

you're trying to tell me something I already know to be a misconception I'm not bothering lol

[candid solar]

I mean you can problably guess the pile of ash in grandpa's favorite chair is grandpa.

[jade gust]

Thorne wakes up to the news his parents are outside his apartment... As two bags of ash

[candid solar]

"I don't like being told I'm wrong so I'm gonna pretend I'm right"

[safe dawn]

ah yes because the halo mythos' word for word statements are a misconception

[bright shoal]

no need to pretend, halo lore is just that hard for people to comprehend ig!

[naive turret]

Well in like an urn not a plastic bag like ‘da’s dead lad’ cmon lol

[waxen rose]

Asriel
U…undertale reference

[safe dawn]

trench you know exactly how I'm looking at my screen rn

[bright shoal]

you still have yet to provide concrete evidence of promethian knight hulls existing before the forerunner flood war btw

[candid solar]

I mean, Halo lore is clearly hard to understand if this guy still thinks he's right.

[jade gust]

ONI's urn budget was exhausted after the Human-Covenant War, they had no choice

[safe dawn]

I already told you to go read the halo mythos and encyclopedia 🤣

[candid sand]

Hello kings and queens

[safe dawn]

I gave you the proof and you brushed it off XD

[bright shoal]

and guess what, none of the info on the knights and their bodies predate the forerunner flood war

[jade gust]

Bold of you to assume I'm not the court jester

[safe dawn]

also ngl it had to suck in new phoenix when the wind picked up

[waxen rose]

Halo lore: mr halo from halo needs therapy

[safe dawn]

it literally does tho, when the composer tech itself predates the war

[bright shoal]

John halo loses e-girl

[bright shoal]

I'm talking about the Hulls not the composer itself

[safe dawn]

the technology is literally said to predate the war, but that it wasn't used because the process was too traumatic so it had to be perfected

[candid solar]

Reminder that I said they could have, not that they did. You're claiming that they somehow tweaked the Composition process to turn them into knight hulls when it doesn't.

[safe dawn]

the hulls would have predated the war: see, literally every other piece of forerunner equipment

[bright shoal]

lets fact check!

[safe dawn]

forerunner tech was TWEAKED to be more effective against the flood, but it existed beforehand

[candid solar]

I mean if you think that'll help you (It won't)

[safe dawn]

how is this hard to understand

[candid solar]

Ah, they were created by the Didact to house composed essences.

[bright shoal]

wow it took ONE google search to prove me right, lmao

[candid solar]

So, they post-date composition, not pre-date, but are not made by being composed.

[safe dawn]

the books I own and have read tens of times over still prove you wrong

[candid solar]

Dude this literally says you're wrong

[safe dawn]

bro

[bright shoal]

promethian knight hulls were constructed during the late stages of the forerunner flood war so maybe you're not reading correctly

[safe dawn]

lemme guess, you took the first google AI result and didn't fact check it

[bright shoal]

thus why I knew it to be a misconception lol

[candid solar]

So you're changing what you're claiming.

[bright shoal]

uh no, I'm confirming what I've been said LOL

[candid solar]

Reciept time

[bright shoal]

promethian hulls do NOT predate the forerunner flood war

[safe dawn]

I should be working on my college homework but instead I'm doing this lol

[bright shoal]

myth busted onto the next!

[jade gust]

I go stare into the husk of a dead god falling into a black hole for 5 minutes and you lot are still arguing about this?

[safe dawn]

ykw, change of pace, YOU provide the proof

show us where it says, word for word, that "hulls were created during the war, not beforehand"

[sudden hound]

I'll give you a really hard one

[bright shoal]

"No, the Promethean Knight hulls and the constructs they house were created during the final stages of the Forerunner-Flood war. The war itself lasted approximately 300 years, ending around 97,445 BCE, while the Knights were a late-stage development."

[candid solar]

#general-chat message "their hulls do not predict the composing process because they're literally a product of it"
#general-chat message "we see it happen in the terminal"
#general-chat message "no, they're a biproduct"

[safe dawn]

did you just copy this from google ai

[candid solar]

This you? @bright shoal

[bright shoal]

one in the same, gg

[sudden hound]

Is there any proof or info about the ship that crash landed on Installation 04 40.000 years before the Humans or The Covenant arrived?

[bright shoal]

sourced directly from the wiki so I cant argue 🤷

[safe dawn]

bro is juggling goalposts so hard rn

[jade gust]

It crashed and nobody knows who was on board. That's all we know about it

[bright shoal]

so when proven wrong you two just nitpick

[safe dawn]

ok so thats wrong, I'll give you that

but what about what trench brought up

[candid solar]

I did actually check and they were made after the Didact's own composition experiments to house the composed Prometheans and then humans.

[bright shoal]

halo lore is not this serious bro just admit you mistook halo lore and we can all move on and do other things

[candid solar]

My guy, you are literally the one who thinks the process of Composition makes a Knight and not a Composed Essence.

[safe dawn]

I did, now you do the same about your previous statements

[sudden hound]

There was a theory surrounding it's origin, also there's some info about the UNSC Engaging enemy ships that weren't Covenant

[bright shoal]

wasn't wrong so I have no need

[jade gust]

There's nothing which links those two events at this time, so assuming they're related right now is a big stretch

[safe dawn]

but, knight hulls aren't a product of composition, so you are wrong

[naive turret]

Maybe it was the Endless woOooOoOoOoOo 👻

[candid solar]

You literally are wrong though. You were right about one part of one thing I said. What you said you are still wrong about.

[bright shoal]

and as it turns out, no, I'm infact not wrong

[safe dawn]

^ @bright shoal

[sudden hound]

Composed essence is placed inside a knight hull, wasn't that the reason the Didact composed the humans on Zeta Halo?

[jade gust]

I hope not, I don't think it'd make sense for the Endless to be the ones who crashed on Alpha halo

[bright shoal]

okay I was wrong about THAT specifically I will admit

[candid solar]

Yes, that is literally how the knight hulls work. They're like putting the mind in a monitor or whatever else they do with the minds.

[sudden hound]

Locked on Installation 07

[bright shoal]

everything else I got right on the money

[safe dawn]

"everything else" that was everything else tho

[bright shoal]

so Im happy enough with only one minor misconception :3

[naive turret]

Cmon the big woo and the little ghost wasn’t enough to indicate a joke 😔

[safe dawn]

you had one thing right, that was it

[candid solar]

That's a major misconception to me merely floating the idea that they could predate the composition process.

[bright shoal]

uh no, I had one thing wrong and the rest was completely correct

[safe dawn]

holy lack of comprehension

[bright shoal]

ya'll were spouting pure non-sense about the hulls predating the war, when they were made nearing the climax of it 😭

[candid solar]

Again, I said it was possible.

[safe dawn]

you brought up first that they were a product of composition

[bright shoal]

dont come to me about reading comprehension when you somehow pulled that off

[candid solar]

Not that it was certain.

[naive turret]

Gonna wrap it up or move to #lore-and-universe pls since this is going in circles

[safe dawn]

also that kind of hull 100% did predate the war, because the experiments did too (even if the knight hulls themself didn't exist yet)

[bright shoal]

Im trying to vro

[naive turret]

You’re doing a very good job please try harder

[waxen rose]

I got blue colored boba to match my cortana cosplay

[bright shoal]

true..

[misty marsh]

what flavour is blue

[bright shoal]

do you have a 7ft tall bald guy in green armor to go with

[waxen rose]

My boyfriend dressed up as raindowdash

The theme was 💙blue💙

[bright shoal]

I s e e

[waxen rose]

Forerunner flavor

[bright shoal]

wait hold on isn't rainbow dash cheating

[cedar turret]

Raspberry

[trim saddle]

Florunner?

[waxen rose]

How is rainbow cheating?

[bright shoal]

she's literally blue with rainbows she gets to have more color on her than everyone else

[misty marsh]

so did it taste human?

[waxen rose]

Because she's cool

[trim saddle]

That's a good name for a blue raspberry energy drink, florunner cortuna 🤣

[waxen rose]

NO. I will hear no more of the HUMAN nonsense

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-sign-stop-sign-traffic-sign-street-sign-gif-2690453596687940941

[misty marsh]

[odd anchor]

Cortuna?

[naive turret]

[odd anchor]

Tuna?????

[odd anchor]

Cortuna.

[misty marsh]

[waxen rose]

I should've made a fish friend to go along with my cosplay💔

[odd anchor]

Meow

[waxen rose]

Maybe next con I will make a cortuna that flaps its tail like those cat toys

[trim saddle]

Meowster Chief and Cortuna

[odd anchor]

Yes

I approve

[waxen rose]

Meowster chief in his signature maid costume

Halo infinate should've added that to their last big update😒

[misty marsh]

going up against gwavemind

[naive turret]

I must be able to find it

[waxen rose]

Magical girl gravemind

[misty marsh]

hey hey its their final planned major update

[trim saddle]

I've seen what you're referencing lmao

[misty marsh]

they'll have a comeback just for meowster chief

[waxen rose]

Maybe they'll finally give us Meowster Chief's final form…

[misty marsh]

...Rawrster Chief?

[trim saddle]

The UwU version of H2 gravemind scenes 😂

[misty marsh]

canon btw (source: me)

[waxen rose]

Got kitty cat claws on his handplates, maid costume, and a mobile tail

[naive turret]

@Ximiandingshi is the artist

[candid solar]

I'd buy that for a dollar

[waxen rose]

That is perfect but it just needs a kitty cat tail

[trim saddle]

"cleaning up the frontlines"

[candid solar]

Ow. I sneezed so hard my muscles hurt.

[naive turret]

That cave won’t tidy itself 😤

[misty marsh]

brought a tear to my eye

[waxen rose]

Bless you

[safe dawn]

I can 100% see this being in a halo anime

[trim saddle]

Need a scarab sized bottle of Windex for all the glass that needs cleaning.

[safe dawn]

I mean, we already got gate, so when do we get a halo isekai?

[misty marsh]

will that be enough

[trim saddle]

🤷

[plain mica]

Oh naw

[waxen rose]

Spartans gotta finish the fight clean

[naive turret]

[misty marsh]

Rookies time to shine

[waxen rose]

Auntie dot can give you optimized cleaning methods

this is if halo was cool😔

[trim saddle]

https://youtu.be/Szzgf4jZ1D8?si=FpQP1XAxRQx_nhe0

I found it.

[waxen rose]

If halo was cool they’d make ts cannon /lh

[misty marsh]

should've tagged aegis, he's locked and loaded with it

[candid solar]

I was gonna make a remix of "Blood on the risers" based on how Rookie got shot in the head but I think I might just make a variation of the actual original for ODSTs

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/willem-dafoe-looking-up-willem-dafoe-willem-dafoe-blue-willem-dafoe-meme-meme-gif-10294496856248602941

[odd anchor]

I freaking love this 🤣

[coral yoke]

i...might just be terrified of this fanbase now.

[waxen rose]

Wdym that is literally a gift from above bestowed upon us that we do not deserve

[trim saddle]

No no.. you're -always- welcome.

[candid solar]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

This doesn't even break the top 500.

[waxen rose]

Doesn't even break top 10,000

[trim saddle]

It's over 9000?!

[waxen rose]

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-break-breaking-scouter-its-over-9000-gif-6845504705959603863

[candid solar]

I never got why he broke it there

Bro just wasted like twenty bucks for emphasis

[waxen rose]

I guess $20 doesn't matter to someone like him

[candid solar]

Money he coulda spent on his hairline

[waxen rose]

Aint a forehead thats a sevenhead😭

He's got alot to think about

[paper dust]

Hello I’m new here

[misty marsh]

Hi new here, im dad

[paper dust]

.

[zinc bear]

Saiyans have feelings too 💔

[chrome ether]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-gif-5677380953331354485

[candid solar]

What they don't apparently have is access to Keeps or Hims

[zinc bear]

Hi dad, I’m.. why do I even bother anymore. Gosh.. no one even cares.. 🐺🐺

[waxen rose]

I dont care abt his feelings after how he treats goku at the start

[misty marsh]

Make both 🔥

[zinc bear]

It takes 4 minutes to microwave 15 chicken nuggets btw

[candid solar]

I'll do neither because I found out remaking lyrics to work with drop pods is boring

[waxen rose]

https://tenor.com/view/alpha-wolf-sigma-male-gif-26562640

[misty marsh]

like reheating right?

[zinc bear]

No. They’re frozen and I microwave them.

[misty marsh]

dont they go soggy?

[silver arch]

Just finished my legendary reach playthrough, which also marks the first halo game I've beaten on that difficulty

[zinc bear]

This gif gets me every time why is that guy running

[waxen rose]

LOLL

run wiillld run freeeer the world beneath my feet🎵

[misty marsh]

i dont think running is even the word i wanna use for that

[zinc bear]

Yeah but when your air fryer is broken It don’t matter

[faint mantle]

FREAK

[misty marsh]

thats actually really sad, your poor airfryer </3

[waxen rose]

Opinion rejected
You clearly dont have an airfryer

[silver arch]

Now onto CE, which I may or may not have already started a legendary playthrough of lol

[zinc bear]

I’m not a freak

[waxen rose]

Hi Merty with a capital M

[zinc bear]

Of course when I’m the most depressed my air fryer has to break. It’s all I had left.

[faint mantle]

So the dubai chocolate meme is just... a product?

[misty marsh]

You can borrow mine if youre willing to travel

[waxen rose]

YEAH they turned it into a product recently bc of tiktok

[misty marsh]

its an actual chocolate yes

[molten pelican]

How was it a meme

[zinc bear]

TikTok moms

[faint mantle]

Oh so Dubai Chocolate happened before?

[drowsy coyote]

Tik tok out here creating jobs🥲🥲

[bronze breach]

Who pinged?

[misty marsh]

modern day version of vsco girls

[zinc bear]

You’re a couple weeks late buddy

[misty marsh]

dubai choc labubu girls

[faint mantle]

Marketing majors need to pay them bills

[waxen rose]

Yeah but not in areas outside of where it originated from

[molten pelican]

yo dark what's up man

How you doing

[bronze breach]

All good. Been busy with my job and destiny 2. I should really start coming here again lol

[waxen rose]

Merty you should try the Dubai chocolate and then tell us on a scale of bad to awesome sauce it is

[misty marsh]

it was originally just called fix and was a pistachio kadayif chocolate bar sold in Dubai. It got trendy and everyone referred to it as Dubai chocolate since thats where it came from

[molten pelican]

Good to hear mate

[bronze breach]

Ever since my pc fiasco with infinite. I uninstalled the game and simply playing only destiny 2

[faint mantle]

Nah

[bronze breach]

In short, infinite crash caused bsod which then corrupted windows

[misty marsh]

it made basically anything pistachio popular and basically relabelled everything that had pistachio in it to 'Dubai'

[molten pelican]

rip

[bronze breach]

Only way to fix was a complete reinstall

[waxen rose]

Tiktok is lazy like that with names

[faint mantle]

Games and applications by themselves do not have the capability to just BSOD and corrupt an operating system. The issue must have been in drivers.

[misty marsh]

I love when shops call basic pistachio lattes 'dubai choc' lattes

[bronze breach]

Likely.

[waxen rose]

Oh yeah!!! Wanna see the haul I got from comicon today

[bronze breach]

Perhaps the graphic driver failed

[misty marsh]

makes absolutely no sense either cause most of what makes 'dubai choc' dubai choc is the crunch from the kadayif. Otherwise its just pistachio flavour, you cant encapsulate dubai choc as a drink

[misty marsh]

Yes tf?

fred labubu

[paper sun]

Nah we good

[muted rose]

Try unpaid labor

I find it describes Dubai well

[waxen rose]

#1436833434436894740

[waxen rose]

I dont wanna see your trinkets

or goodies
Or doodads

[paper sun]

Yes you do

[waxen rose]

Your fidget spinners dont impress me

[wise pecan]

What's up

[cedar turret]

that is called a butterfly knife

[waxen rose]

Scout TF2 reference /lh

[meager linden]

Legend mentioned

[hybrid plover]

i just got arc raiders

very excited

[cedar turret]

https://tenor.com/view/aliens-bishop-knife-trick-gif-11543549

before fidget spinners we had cheat the devil

[wise pecan]

Wooow

[cedar turret]

It's funny till three beers in and people start missing. Then it gets hilarious

[waxen rose]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-friends-smiling-friends-season-3-season-3-mr-boss-mr-boss-smiling-friends-gif-13541761432819411276

I love watching the five finger fillet mini game from rdr2 where they just go at mach 5

[molten pelican]

@obsidian wyvern yo that first helicopter was a humbling experience lol, took 3 tries before I realized I needed to stay really close to it

[zinc bear]

rdr2 would always BSOD my old pc. then again it was 6 years old and half of the cords inside were ripped somehow

[stray socket]

HALO WARS 3

[zinc bear]

happening never

[stray socket]

Ik

But i gotta try ig

[trim saddle]

I'm making Sriracha Garlic chicken 🤤

[cedar turret]

[molten pelican]

ac6

[full plank]

is there someone on pc to play coop?

[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.

[full plank]

Got it, but found no one

[obsidian wyvern]

would you be surprised if I mentioned loads of people quit the game because of the first mission

[molten pelican]

damn I would be

I mean at first it seems daunting but once you understand dodging and conserving power for dodging you can beat it pretty easily

[obsidian wyvern]

and if someone was to go for achievements in that game, you have to s rank the mission. minimal ammo and damage taken, oh and finishing it asap lol

[molten pelican]

I love the movement and customization, been playing around in the training grounds

[molten pelican]

yeah I'm good just playing it regularly

what was your early game build?

[obsidian wyvern]

uhh I can't remember

[obsidian wyvern]

tryna scare h8 for when he inevitably goes for it

[molten pelican]

rip h8 sanity

[coral yoke]

what game are we talking about again? might know a thing or two about that

[molten pelican]

I'm just not that kind of player, love a challenge but dont play games regularly enough to 100%

[molten pelican]

armored core 6

[sturdy wharf]

Real talk now: Is chief straight or asexual

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-spongebob-season-1-the-paper-spongebob-the-paper-gif-17386612228447282475

[coral yoke]

ooohhhhhh i see why i remember that name now

from a quick google search this is another fromsoft game

damn and i swore dark souls wasn't their only ip

[sturdy wharf]

I see the sheeple are too scared to tackle the hard questions

[timid roost]

Pretty sure spartan… urges are heavily suppressed but the plumbing still works. Source: a couple spartans had kids, but only a couple.

[stray socket]

Straight he has the anime girl in his head

[waxen rose]

Chief’s identity is…. Green
Just green.
Green.
He’s Green.

[silk beacon]

Green john

[timid roost]

We are green and very, very mean!

[silk beacon]

Speak for yourself .-.

[smoky radish]

did anyone else genuinly hate the HALO series on netflix as well

[silk beacon]

I'm the nicest guy in a 10ft radius!

[smoky radish]

like why tf is chief taking his helmet off 24/7 and in mid combat like wtf XD

[silk beacon]

Because it's the only thing he doesn't do in the actualy game

[smoky radish]

ig but i will say i did like how they did the flood , but i dont remember that being lore accurate

also been a min since ive seen the flood lore

[hasty zinc]

the whole show isn't main canon accurate

it's a separate timeline

[zinc bear]

Pretty sure it’s canon he’s asexual

[waxen rose]

Make kai being a girlboss cannon OR ELSE halo studios💕

[smoky radish]

vannak was underrated and didnt deserve to die

[meager linden]

This is just beginning

[zinc bear]

I love vannak

[smoky radish]

kai just annoying asf like a lil sister

[zinc bear]

Master chief is definitely an asexual pansexual drag queen

[smoky radish]

alright now

[meager linden]

So many new users, can't sure that I can remember them all

[zinc bear]

He was actually supposed be called “queen” instead of “demon” but it was cut

[smoky radish]

cap

[zinc bear]

Nuh uh

[misty marsh]

True 343 told me

[zinc bear]

It’s true 343 told Kitso

[obsidian wyvern]

it also does unlock you more AC parts if you're going for the other endings, which I would really recommend

recommending going for other endings part, not the 100% lol

[meager linden]

I didn't know about other AC parts on my first play until first ending boss fight

[obsidian wyvern]

i was doing most missions solo and some with a friend so that's how I found out about the hidden parts on maps and whatever

[remote moss]

talking about ac6?

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah

[remote moss]

Really loved that game

Wish it got more story dlc or something

[obsidian wyvern]

fromsoft did say they have a new project being revealed soon and iirc most people think it'll be the next AC title

[remote moss]

I hope it is

[meager linden]

Hoping for that

[remote moss]

Ac6 was probs a platform with a bit more souls borne dna in it compared to the other titles but I really liked it.

I wish we had stuff like the NEXT's though

[meager linden]

Maybe will be another || coral waifu || best buddy

[obsidian wyvern]

I heard ac6 was also like the easiest of the games

[remote moss]

It's easier in that it's more accessable to newcomers and many more builds are viable

[obsidian wyvern]

ah

[remote moss]

the hardest part of the other games were the controls

[obsidian wyvern]

I imagine they were pretty dated lol

[remote moss]

you didn't use the sticks to look around

[coral yoke]

damn. bloodborne ever coming to pc has never been more than a measly hope.

[obsidian wyvern]

but I've also seen how fast the combat in those games are, don't see anything like it in 6

[remote moss]

that's only in 4a

5 was slower than 6

[cosmic peak]

HALO'S 25th BIRTHDAY IN 6 DAYS 48 Mins

[obsidian wyvern]

https://youtu.be/QM1nkupCi4c?si=ruVA1gEMQw4RrtaD
oh yeah it was this one

[molten pelican]

the air tingles with a looming sense of dread

[ocean herald]

Is this a nuclear bomb joke? 🧐

[rich jolt]

idk

[molten pelican]

5 bucks they are under the age of 13

[meager linden]

Usual fight against || cel 240 || bosses in Ac6

[molten pelican]

wtf lol

[remote moss]

That number on top is his hp

[rich jolt]

actully there 17

[cosmic peak]

Guys. What Yall Doing For Halo Day?

[meager linden]

You liking the game?
Wishing you good luck

[obsidian wyvern]

not playing halo

[molten pelican]

playing Minecraft

[meager linden]

GOAT

[remote moss]

To explain: The nuke is being compared to the sun.

[molten pelican]

Only done 1 level + some customization and training in the garage

Visually pretty great and it runs amazing on the 2060, controls on KBM aren't too bad, nice movement

[remote moss]

I think he's memeing.

[cosmic peak]

Its The Halo Series 25th Birthday. Im Gonna Play Halo Reach From When I Wake Up Until 4:30PM. 15th November

[meager linden]

Btw, you can do your own emblems

[molten pelican]

I saw that, il have to make a spork

[obsidian wyvern]

I gotta eventually download some community emblems

[meager linden]

Good luck and don't forget to smile, tourist

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/yikes-smile-sarcastic-look-away-unimpressed-gif-16223912

[obsidian wyvern]

you're like a year early for the 25th

[cosmic peak]

oh wait

[obsidian wyvern]

bro

[molten pelican]

Lmao

[cosmic peak]

im a year ahead. Idk why

[meager linden]

LOL

[molten pelican]

relax, they are just in a different time zone

[sturdy wharf]

Am I the only one who waits for people to say if something really sucks (skip) or is really good (watch) ?

If it's more divisive than I may still watch, though

Same for games

[cosmic peak]

im British

[obsidian wyvern]

so am I, pretty sure we're in 2025

[cosmic peak]

Blame the education system

[molten pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-emoji-nerd-meme-radar-gif-26497624

Wade I got your request btw

But your discord isn't accepting

[hasty zinc]

please don't tag HS folks

[meager linden]

You mean steam request?
Just checked, thanks

[sturdy wharf]

Don't tag who and why?

[molten pelican]

Halo studios

unless it is their birthday

[smoky radish]

huhhhhh

[cosmic peak]

halo studios wont get celebrated but The Halo Series Itself Will

[open bough]

guys react with only masterchief

[paper sun]

DS x Halo collab when

[wheat nexus]

Will seeker have an attachment to make it beautiful again

[misty marsh]

Among us 🔥

[ocean herald]

Death stranding?

[coral yoke]

dark souls?

don't starve?

uh

can't really think of any more lmao

[zinc bear]

Dead space

[coral yoke]

damn i knew i was forgetting something

[polar orbit]

Sup people

[stiff stone]

Hello

I-m seeing some comments online about the remake

Does anyone else thinks the hate on the new game is getting a bit ridiculous?

[coral nexus]

Nothing new given on the fans have been for nearly 20 years now.