general-chat

[foggy vale]

Side note, origins got really stupid by the end. Like its trying to recontextualize the floods involvement in the human covenant war and making it seem like all sides worked together against the flood which was blatantly untrue and also stupid tbh

[junior kestrel]

Like I said. Working off the cutting room floor. It fits together after the earth ark facility being destroyed. And the covenant being mostly alive.

Arbiter still kills truth tho

[placid tree]

All this is to say that while I think Halo 4 is well done in story, the actual lore is so messy it’s kinda distracting to me lol

[junior kestrel]

It'd also be helpful if Didact's everything wasn't in the terminals

[foggy vale]

As well as that one dumb line from halo 4 "i thought we had a truce with the covenant"

Like nah bruh, you had a truce with the elites

[junior kestrel]

Working off the lost version of the story. Or cut?

[foggy vale]

Lost version perhaps? Could also just be a simple error

[placid tree]

It would be really funny if Chief barely knew what was happening the whole time

[foggy vale]

The legends animation could also be the result of a misunderstanding by 343 and the japanese directors

[junior kestrel]

Worse it's elites and there's no appropriate explanation.

Considering halo 3 I think would have been better to first introduce a brute lead covenant with other cov factions being introduced later.

But make the swords of sanghilos green. Not red. Red is unfriendly. Green is friend

[junior kestrel]

Within 4's story

Comics and books are really flushed out.

And have massive impact on the plot.

But we don't get a good idea of a to b when we only experience the games and barely advertise the books. Maybe having more smaller game projects as spinoffs would benefit

[placid tree]

Halo 5 tried to fix this by just killing Jul who the side material built up…bad idea lol

[silk narwhal]

The books are all over the place with lore. I use audible and the authors are always different

[foggy vale]

Yeah i dunno why they didnt just use the brutes since the start. They wouldve fit a lot better. I can only assume they brought back elites and scrapped the brutes so they can make the game feel like a newer halo 1 or something

[junior kestrel]

Ans alao by having more books that are borderline required since none of the characters are given an introduction before setting out into the action. We barely get a minute of talk before they fly out the back of a pelican.

Ce had an extended talk scene. And then a second mid level one.

2 has a masterful parrellel introduction to our cast.

3 brings us up to speed within less than 5 minutes.

[foggy vale]

Which is a shame, i actually like how the brutes behave in infinite. When youre not in the boring ahh open world anyways

[junior kestrel]

Build him up as a big bad for spartan ops and have everything IN spartan ops.

[placid tree]

Yeah instead Halo 5 just feels like you have no idea what’s happening or who these people are so Imma root for Blue team because I know those people lol

[junior kestrel]

Locke at least has the most accessible piece of external media. Shame it sucks.

No swearing outside crap damn and... turd

[placid tree]

Yeaaaaah…

But Fall of Reach is the most famous Halo book and Blue team is all over that so I think Blue Team has the edge on being well known by most fans imo

[oblique gorge]

Anyone that is into Machinimas, Feel free to give mine a watch 😄 via Show-And-Tell

Its about the aftermath of Reach, Exactly 2 years later

https://discord.com/channels/471722331820130324/1440435506302160987)

[junior kestrel]

Kelly gay, greg bear and some others.

[placid tree]

I haven’t read many but you better believe I knew who Linda, Fred, and Kelly were. I was very disappointed Kelly wasn’t zooming everywhere lol

[junior kestrel]

In the bungie era it was just eric nylnd and joe staten. With bungie doing editing.

[junior kestrel]

And for people who don't know?

[placid tree]

Theyre left totally clueless, the game explains nothing lol

[foggy vale]

Hot take about the books, as much as i like halo fall of reach, i dont even think THAT book fits well with the classic trilogy games. Chief always kinda behaved like a typical action movie hero with few words which doesnt at all fit with the emotionally stunted child soldier he is in the books

[junior kestrel]

Blue team would have been better to have been introduced at the end of 4. And in 5 we get a extended cutscene of them being briefed and they talk amongst themselves while chief is just silent the whole time.

[junior kestrel]

Until fred or someone addresses him personally.

[foggy vale]

In fact, i wouldnt be surprised if one of bungies original backstories for the chief was that he was just some marine that survived a battle, lost some limbs, got new cyborg body parts, and became a new super soldier or something like that

[placid tree]

Nylund had ideas and they weren’t half bad lol

[junior kestrel]

Hm. He is like 40 by the time of ce.

[placid tree]

Eh?

[junior kestrel]

Think more in line with marathon. Dead guy who was revived with cybernetic impants.

[junior kestrel]

Look it up.

I can't say it in full here.

[placid tree]

Oh

[foggy vale]

Oof this just furthers my theory

[junior kestrel]

It's not completely away from the reality.

Chief is a cyborg. He's got bionic lenses, metal grafted to his skeleton. And chemically enhanced muscles and tendons.

[foggy vale]

That i know. Its the circumstances behind all that tho

[junior kestrel]

Linda also. ||She died but got better via flash cloned organs||

[junior kestrel]

True.

I think the child soldier thing was Eric.

Maybe. Possibly.

It's weird that 343 pick and chose the things to focus in on more from the books.

Like I said before tho. Blue team should have been introduced in 4 properly. While 5 got us up to speed on their situation.

Say...

Idk now that chief is back at earth we see him get a formal promotion in person to master chief petty officer of the navy?

While locke and co are prepping to extract halsey.

Also replace vale with an australian or smt. I'm tired of everyone being an american in this series.

[foggy vale]

Imo it kinda has no place in a very clean cut good vs evil story about aliens genociding humans. Like, what is even the point of giving chief a tragic backstory? Like i said, i like the book but it really feels out of place and makes me wish chief really was just doomguy 2.0 but with cool one liners

[junior kestrel]

Halo The flood fills in some details

[junior kestrel]

But..... him being doomguy 2.0 does remind me I want more gore in halo

I need the brutes to he seen actually being savages

Grunts ate people too.

[foggy vale]

The remake will likely have gore thanks to the flood

[junior kestrel]

So I don't feel bad for their home being glassed.

I don't feel bad for doisac being blown up either. Since the brutes... yk. EAT PEOPLE

[foggy vale]

One of the reasons why i think chiefs speech about escharum was dumb

Dude was a murderer

[junior kestrel]

A man eater. Complict in man eating. And also... torturer. Complicit in torture. And hosted blood sports.

Warmonger too.

[foggy vale]

A bad person even

[junior kestrel]

Atriox. If he had any sense. Could have left well alone. But he JUST HAD TO ef around.

Now what happens is on him.

[odd anchor]

El pozole

What's going on??

[steady jolt]

It's fake, it was never a real thing. Someone made it up, posted it and people bought it

[junior kestrel]

Honestly. I think chief should have started crashing out through the campaign.

Your ship got destroyed. Many of your brothers in arms are dead. Tortured. Youre to late to save one. They kidnapped your normal friend and are torturing him.

I'd crash out.

I shouldn't be thinking: that's not what I'd do at all.

5 being the exception cause it's... exceptional circumstances.

Oh. And he lost cortana again!!!

HE WOULD CRASH OUT.

In both the books and games he's held people at gunpoint under suspicion of being a threat.

Including Johnson.

He is stoic. And often roboitc. But like any man he is still human. And as men go. We get tiled under pressure.

[junior kestrel]

Also that's a relief. Always thought it was dumb.

[foggy vale]

I actually dont think he would tbh. I think hes the kind of guy who would take out his anger on the aliens, purely through physical means 👊

[tawny raptor]

Hello

[silk narwhal]

Wha

Question are some of the halo books sequels to other halo books buy different authors?

For example if there was an author called Jim. And another author called sam and sam made a sequel to a book by Jim.

[hollow vine]

No clue

[signal wedge]

Often Halo books series are written by a single author

[silver arch]

There have been quite a few authors

[sturdy wharf]

How to make a fun legendary difficulty: the devs are only allowed to release it if it's beatable without the noob combo nor exploits

That or at least make the PP consume way more ammo

[raven fiber]

Keemstar blocked me on twitter guys

[sturdy wharf]

Congrats

[short token]

they done mix halo and god of war 😭

[short token]

i hope they continue chief's story shortly after the remake, but from what i heard the whole trilogy is rumored to be remade so thats probably gonna be years into the future

atleast if the rumors are true.

[steady jolt]

There is no indication at all that other games are being remade, the rumor came from nothing, no sources

[slender briar]

Greetings gents, I require some wisdom.

How do I get a friend of mine into Halo?

[signal wedge]

I mean Halo CE remake was a rumor once too

[sudden crag]

force

[slender briar]

the force?

[sudden crag]

Sure

[slender briar]

Ok

[calm shadow]

hi

[obsidian wyvern]

you buy the game for them and guilt trip them into playing it with you

[slender briar]

Hello

[jade gust]

Just because one rumour turned out to be true, that does not mean we should take every rumour as true

[slender briar]

They’re only interested in Infinite

[sudden crag]

if that doesn’t work just like kinda keep annoying them

[calm shadow]

how r ya?

[sudden crag]

force them to play reach

[slender briar]

Good, you?

[obsidian wyvern]

way to kill their interest

[signal wedge]

youre right ig

[calm shadow]

that’s how i got my brother to like halo for a week before he lost interest ☹️

[sudden crag]

okay maybe the first half sucks but the second half is amazing

[calm shadow]

i’m ok! js tired

[slender briar]

Same

[calm shadow]

yippee

[slender briar]

pluh

[sudden crag]

either try force them to play reach or CE

[calm shadow]

my brother forced me to watch hazbin hotel and i told him to play halo again
he didn’t keep up with the deal and now the hour and thirty so minutes have been wasted from my life ☹️

[sudden crag]

Remind him constantly, guilt trip

[calm shadow]

believe me
i will

[sudden crag]

I don’t like the graphics of halo infinite it feels like it’s missing a vibe

[soft panther]

What vibe would you say is missing? To me it just feels like Halo that has been brought up to modern standards.

[sudden crag]

like it just feels like the game is too clean and there is no weird patterns or rusted metals. It feels like it’s missing that mysterious kind of vibe. It might just be me because I love the old graphics of halo ce

[ocean herald]

i wonder how much of that classic CE look was because of hardware limitations, and not necessarily an artistic choice

[soft panther]

Yeah I can get that, infinite does in a lot of ways feel squeaky clean but I'd say that comes more down to the UNSC side of things like the vehicles especially, they all look brand new. I'd also say the lack of clarity in older textures could deffo contribute to that difference you're noticing

[foggy vale]

The forerunner structures in halo ce almost look like stone sometimes which i think was intentional. An alien type of metal that slowly lost its sheen and has become borderline stone

[sudden crag]

yeah that’s one of the main parts I love about ce because you have to remember the rings are really really old

[foggy vale]

Yeah, there needs to be stains, rust, dust even

[foggy vale]

Art through adversity. Many of its design decisions were likely due to hardware limitations but it ended up being something really iconic

Like the armors that the characters wear. 343 made the spartans look like iron man power rangers partly because they wanted to show off how capable the new hardware was

Reach lowkey did the same thing tho they did a better job at it imo. At the same time i miss the simplicity of CE and feel that Reach maybe overdid it on the tacticool look

[ocean herald]

the same greys/browns you see on the ring are also on the POA, and POA is obv a significantly newer structure/ship.

idk the whole "there needs to be more wear&tear and rust" card seems like an incredible nitpick

[foggy vale]

Well it should at least be less shiny

[sudden crag]

Wasn’t there a lot of dust towards the end of reach or am I just imagining things

[steady jolt]

I've always felt that a species that has the power to move planets and shape life, will probably have solved any rusting problems

[foggy vale]

I do appreciate how dark and ominous the remake forerunner structures look at least

4 and infinite were too bright and blue imo

But here its mostly dark. Greys and blacks, its a step up

[sudden crag]

Also the POA left from reach and if I remember correctly reach was pretty dusty like dust storms etc. that could explain some of the brownish tint to the POA. I’m not saying like that’s the reason I’m just saying it definitely could be a factor

I love how the covenant ships look in newer graphics

[candid tusk]

They're sleek. Styled for speed.

[foggy vale]

Regardless of the art style i am excited for the new weapons and vehicles tho, as well as the possibility of entirely new level designs for the weaker second half of the game

Tho they shouldve done this their first time around. Im playng through rubys rebalanced halo ce and its incredible

[sudden crag]

Assault on the control room was just repeating the same room every time and when you thought you made progress bam same room

I hope the magnum still one shots hunters, that’s like my favourite part of halo ce

[ocean herald]

it won't anymore

[steady jolt]

In the remake, magnum no longer one shots Hunters

[soft panther]

I replayed this yesterday and I think it may be one of the worst Halo missions in the entire franchise lmao

[sudden crag]

🙁

[foggy vale]

I strongly recommend the mod. AOTCR is really cool now. Wish i could post of a video of a particularly cool moment involving odsts 🔥

[soft panther]

This is my only gripe besides the needler ammo counter

[foggy vale]

How dare they 😡

[sudden crag]

Ima wait for steam sale to buy mcc on pc, I’ll keep it in mind

[ocean herald]

not to mention the weather on the ring is artificial and controlled. would be an insane oversight if the forerunners didn't account for how the weather impacted the ring structures

[steady jolt]

I don't mind either tbh. Hunters were always too much of a cheese because of the Magnum being broken, and I like the design of the needler. Looks cool to me

[sudden crag]

hopefully hunters are still easy to juke

[foggy vale]

The needler is literally just the infinite design. Tho i dont mind it, it looks cool

[candid tusk]

Infinite designs are peak tbh.

[foggy vale]

I do kinda miss how clean the little needle crystals used to look in the trilogy tho, before reach

[sudden crag]

Some guns look great in new graphics

[steady jolt]

I didn't try heroic or legendary on my play through, but they payed just like Hunters. Get up close, keep running around and shooting them in the back. They died pretty much the same

[sudden crag]

I feel like the halo CE magnum looks the best

[foggy vale]

I think i like 3's magnum best

Design wise

[sudden crag]

That’s fair

[soft panther]

I think the one shot is just one of those things I always found so satisfying. From a gameplay perspective though it makes total sense. The ammo counter though feels unnecessary, not the end of the world either.

I'm just happy to be getting Halo content. I only really just started getting into Halo and the lore side of things and I was sad to see the general community response is so negative to all of the 343 games.

[sudden crag]

most of them have a major flaw

[foggy vale]

I just really hope they at least change the look of the marines. Those halo ce marines are just so dang cool. Ive seen many neat fan renders of a supposed remastered look

I also wanna see them add odsts. The rubys rebalanced mod actually made a really cool looking ce-ified design of them

[sudden crag]

it would definitely make sense to have odsts

[foggy vale]

Theyve retroactively been added to the events of ce even before fireteam raven

Cuz theyre cool af 🙏

[sudden crag]

Does anyone know if the POA had odsts onboard

[indigo lotus]

The POA has had odsts on board. Like fireteam Raven for example.

[sudden crag]

Yeah so there should be no excuse for not having odsts in campaign evolved

[hollow vine]

Do you guys like the security Armor ?

[hollow vine]

But I do think they will have their halo2 appearance or just halo ce lookin Marine with modified gear to look like an odst

[sturdy wharf]

Best campaign armor abilities?

[ocean herald]

armor lock

[sturdy wharf]

In Reach

[hollow vine]

Oh yeah in halo2 there was a brief mention about the uesc

I think is another Marathon reference

[sturdy wharf]

I thought the point of armor lock is to just troll in multiplayer

Isn't the shield better as a lifesaver?

[hollow vine]

Bungie is kinda horrible at balancing things

Like the fact that duel wield-able weapons got their damage split in half in halo 3 and 2

Soo Basically holding 2 smg is like holding 1 ce ar

[jade gust]

I imagine if we do see ODSTs, they'll be using modified armour pieces from the Halo Infinite ODST armour pieces for the multiplayer. I don't see much point in them making a remade CE marine from the ground up when they have a good enough marine model already and they could just kitbash some of the armour from Infinite's multiplayer onto those marines

[hollow vine]

Yeah we know 343 habits of recycling asset's

I mean I wouldn't mind seeing the h2a version in the ce remake

[jade gust]

Nothing wrong with reusing assets if they're good

[hollow vine]

I swore that I saw an modified grunt with the halo 4-5 gas tank

[jade gust]

Like, especially with the quality of the models in Infinite, it'd be a shame to not use them again

[steady jolt]

Welcome to every developer ever. If you're a smart and efficient developer, you're making using of existing resources where possible

[hollow vine]

But if too much we'll get something like anniversary again

[jade gust]

I don't mind, if it means they can save time

[hollow vine]

I do like the Infinite elite design

Their slimmer look do fit ce in my opinion

[jade gust]

Like, we don't need a new model for the Elites or the Grunts or the Ghost every time they make a new game

If anything, I'd rather they use the Infinite assets as a base for stuff going forward, so adding new sets of armour onto the Infinite Elites or Brutes

[hollow vine]

And the hunters look identical to the ce version (except the fuel rod looking kinda different)

[pulsar heron]

a developer's greatest skill is efficiency. a developer's second greatest skill is efficiency. a developer's third greatest skill is redundancy.

[jade gust]

And the fourth is knowing the nearest place to grab food

[hollow vine]

[hollow vine]

Or having a cabinet full of instant noodles and red bull under their desk

[jade gust]

I don't need either of those to function thankfully

[hollow vine]

I never mind halo reusing animation

But people are still gonna complain about every single thing

[hollow vine]

Do you think they gonna Nerf the Grenade explosion radius in the remake

Because In the original and specially the gearbox port, they are like tactical nukes lol

Also why did they used the banshee reflection cube map for the fuel rod in ce

[jade gust]

Most likely, I don't think the game is intending to be 100% accurate to the original game in every aspect

[hollow vine]

That's why it look purple as hell

[jade gust]

Efficient to reuse it

[hollow vine]

Although the texture is gold lol

[jade gust]

My point still stands

[hollow vine]

But that make it kinda unique lookin

[hollow vine]

I mean is a remake

I can't hate on it because for being different from the original

Like omg no tree on silent photographer = bad game

I hope they don't Nerf my boy plasma pistol 🙏

[jade gust]

Well it's gonna be able to EMP, as seen in the demo

[hollow vine]

But it shouldn't be that bad

Like after around halo 2 and 3 it became an absolute peashooter

[trim saddle]

Im excited for CE²

or wait would that be CE³ ?

[ornate sequoia]

yes, even though certain sticklers would say it's remake 1

as if the difference between a remake and a remaster is volumentous...

[amber mirage]

True. It is not volumentous because that's not a real word.

[candid tusk]

All words are made up. What's important is that it was a made up word used in an understandable fashion.

[sudden crag]

Revealing the brand new halo combat evolved cubed

[amber mirage]

Very volumentous observation

[candid tusk]

Thank you.

[steady jolt]

C3

[normal owl]

Hadn't heard of Banishers until I saw it was coming to Game Pass. Holy crap it looks incredible and heart-wrenching at the same time: https://youtu.be/9_tlzYe3vCY

[steady jolt]

Or maybe just C³

[sudden crag]

c3p0

[candid tusk]

That feels needlessly hostile...

The next project release on their website is story DLC for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and it's set to release alongside the next film on December 19th.

[junior kestrel]

That's what I mean. Exaggerate it a little to carry it across after we see him crack.

[junior kestrel]

Doesn't mean we shouldn't allow ourselves to be surprised of it is true.

[signal wedge]

I mean its them

wait WHATR?
NEXT FILM DECEMBER?

[fathom bolt]

Shoutout Halo Discord mods for taking down an AI bot scamming people for money in this server. 😎

[junior kestrel]

Guilt spark

[candid tusk]

Yeah. Avatar Fire and Ash. Trailer is wild too.

[signal wedge]

okay im gonna guess the humans will lose again and the fire nation will work together with blue aliens

okay I think they are all blue

[normal owl]

Don't be a jerk. Ubisoft makes a lot of games, a lot of people play and enjoy them, don't crap on what others enjoy. Very basic tenet of grown-up behavior as well as server rules.

[junior kestrel]

Yes. Wind and sun damage do that. But a lot of exterior structures have reflective sheens. Heck. The silent cartographer looks like it has multiple colours reflecting off it. It's very picturesque.

[signal wedge]

Okay 🙏🏼

[foggy vale]

I wonder if bringing back assassinations couldve conveyed that well 🤔

Tho honestly i think they should be first person like doom's glory kills

[ocean herald]

wouldn't the first CE be CE^0 and also CE^1

[steady jolt]

If we're using 0-based indexes, sure

[normal owl]

and 3rd-person mode! I've got it on my wishlist to see if there's a good Black Friday sale. The Gold Edition hasn't dropped below $30 I don't think, so hoping it will for a relaxing open-world time for me and friend.

[ocean herald]

i meant it more as an exponents thing. anything to an exp of 0 is 1

[steady jolt]

1-based probably makes more sense here though

1. CE
2. CEE
3. CEEE

[junior kestrel]

There is if they don't fit 100%

[signal wedge]

should have just called the remake Halo 1

[robust salmon]

actually crazy its coming out so early conpared to the last one

[candid tusk]

The DLC is a day one purchase for me. Working on finishing the existing story and dlc this month so I'm ready for it.

I just get side tracked in the collecting an eggzillion eggs part of the game.

[junior kestrel]

Yes. Pre crash out the assassinations were clean and clincal. After they were exaggeraterated and brutal. Deliberately brutal.

Like him squasing a brute's neck, or thumbing eyes.

[signal wedge]

yeah the other one took like... 14 years?

13

[robust salmon]

anyways hoping the GOATs win this time 🔥

[junior kestrel]

It'd also be helpful if we got a lot more blood.

[steady jolt]

They were being shot at the same time

[normal owl]

How have you enjoyed the open world? It seems from trailers like it's a more beautiful and better version of the bones of Ghost Recon Wildlands/Breakpoint.

[junior kestrel]

And it's not impossible for them to do limb destruction/removal in the engine. Since flood and drones explode on being shot.

[signal wedge]

Ubisoft pls make another splinter cell game

[junior kestrel]

You don't want modern ubi to do that.

[robust salmon]

we need Rayman

[junior kestrel]

I agree.

Rayman myths or smt

[blazing cave]

Grim….

[junior kestrel]

Hm?

I just woke up.

[blazing cave]

Bro

[signal wedge]

huh?

[candid tusk]

The world itself is fantasticly beautiful. I play on PS5 Pro and the game is perfect in every nook and cranny.

Except for the one awkward hole I got stuck in and had to fast travel out of, but to be fair I did tell myself... Don't go in there, you're gonna get stuck, don't even try it, but I did it anyway, and I got stuck like I knew I would. 😭

[signal wedge]

is asking why illegal now

[blazing cave]

lol good morning man

[junior kestrel]

Morning

[signal wedge]

okay nevermind

[junior kestrel]

Dunno

[signal wedge]

the splinter cell show was okay ig

[junior kestrel]

Ngl. I think it was dumb for cal to have died in the way she did. Yes. Hammer. Yes trauma. But spartans walk away from trauma that would kill normal humans.

[signal wedge]

Cal Kestis?

[normal owl]

Amps up my hope that it's on a good sale. Seems like a beautiful co-op adventure.

[junior kestrel]

Literally the worst part of that story tbh.

Would have prefered if they... say... Omalley or whatever the kid's name was never saw her again.

[signal wedge]

Cal died because she was made for the anime and died with it

[junior kestrel]

It wouldn't have been out of the question to keep her around tbh. Lord knows there's only a small handful of S2s left

Stop killing them all. I don't need the reality to be like the ce manual.

[signal wedge]

yeah they should stop killing the IIs

[junior kestrel]

Black team should never have died.

[candid tusk]

Looking at it now and these passes and packs are cut up really oddly. Base game is half of what it used to be as a base price now too. 60->30, no sale or anything. "Complete Edition" comes with everything for 60 now.

[signal wedge]

Black Team's death was so unnecessary

imagine a Cars live action

[junior kestrel]

No.

[normal owl]

Thank you, added that to my wishlist to watch for.

[signal wedge]

shoot

[sudden crag]

I was gonna make that joke but I didn’t know how to include it into the message

[vestal turret]

Deja Vu anyone we need 1 more ?

ODST on PC

[calm fiber]

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[meager linden]

Good no electricity evening people of Halo

[rare cedar]

Good cold night people of Halo

[mild elm]

Are you guys still talking here

[candid tusk]

Sorry to hear that. I hope your service is restored soon.

[rare cedar]

We collectively agreed to no longer talk until you posted this

[meager linden]

I need to wait like 2 hours and 47 minutes
Until it's back, and everyday same, until lost generation will return, but it's not easy to restore

So... I already used to it, like from 2022

[misty marsh]

No

[left sage]

still no Halo 2 2?

[languid vessel]

soon(tm)

[steady jolt]

2014, with MCC

[waxen rose]

Pull out the big hamster wheel and start running

[meager linden]

Nice idea, but I want to play games, not watching them on YouTube while I running lol

[soft panther]

are there any recreational substances in the halo universe? Covenent space weed or smth?

[blazing cave]

Flood

It was used for dogs

To be chill

[soft panther]

wha

[blazing cave]

Flood dust I should call it

[soft panther]

they gave dogs flood dust?

[odd anchor]

Guys

I feel like a block of cheese

[blazing cave]

Yeah, ancient humans did

[odd anchor]

I'm lowkey panicking

[blazing cave]

That’s how the flood came to be 😊

[paper sun]

How does a block of cheese feel

[blazing cave]

Swiss cheese? 🧀

[paper sun]

[normal owl]

RIP Ford Focus

[obsidian wyvern]

what

F

[naive turret]

Hocus Pocus

[steady jolt]

Thur's pizza oan yer Focus

[true ravine]

Guys am I the only one who pronounces Hazop like HAZE-op?

[robust salmon]

hazardous-op
hazop

[soft panther]

Its pronounced hoodleygoogen zop

smh my head

[waxen rose]

Multitasking wade hamster

[silver arch]

Subaru killed off the legacy a few months ago. I'm sure the WRX will soon follow

[junior kestrel]

I have sonething in mind to keep halo consistently uhhh. Stable so to speak.

Keep the games consistent game to game with one or two new additions or changes to the formular without massive overhauls to the engine every time.

[normal owl]

Call of Halo

[desert fog]

Wagwan

[calm shadow]

hi

[candid solar]

Tier 4 to Tier 9, 116K XP

[echo nova]

Good morning gents.

[candid solar]

Good god is Survive the Undead broken for XP gain

[calm shadow]

good morning

[sudden crag]

Funny thing is the flood infected dogs were treated like illegal items and you could only get one illegally

Via illegal trade is what I should say

[analog knot]

This is putting it lightly lmao

[echo nova]

Wait is it still there?

[candid solar]

In the firefight playlist

[candid solar]

You get a mutilator and energy sword, power up the latter, and you basically can't die unless you choose to.

I stopped because I was getting bored.

[analog knot]

I was referring to the exploit (though thats all patched now)

[obsidian wyvern]

trying to navigate the exchange is giving me a headache

[velvet ruin]

Real

[obsidian wyvern]

it is so badly designed, who said yes to it

[analog knot]

Is it also a long horizontal menu?

[obsidian wyvern]

a very very long horizontal menu

[candid tusk]

Buy from the end and work your way back to the front I guess. lol

[analog knot]

It seems like someone at Halo Studios is obsessed with horizontal scrolling menus

They plague mcc too

[obsidian wyvern]

scrolling to the end is whats causing my head to hurt

[naive turret]

Windows 8 guy stays winning

[candid tusk]

The lack of filtering is honestly hilarious in a sad way.

[analog knot]

Filters were too many story points

[spare solar]

Are we getting the locked items?

[obsidian wyvern]

not again

[spare solar]

There's still locked items in the game such as the weapon charms and whatnot

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah dude its been less than 24 hours

[analog knot]

Are you the same person asking this yesterday? lol

[obsidian wyvern]

yes he is

[steady jolt]

Note: Some items are being reserved for future ranked season rewards and Twitch Drops, but I'd be happy to double check to make sure everything is accounted for on our end.

[spare solar]

I am, there's no one from the studio to reach out too, I just wanna know how to unlock them

[steady jolt]

Wait

[obsidian wyvern]

yes there was, they linked you the tweet. you ignored it

[steady jolt]

https://x.com/Unyshek/status/1990870735448092881

John Junyszek (@Unyshek)

@SgdBenjamin If we missed something, please let me know. I can share a list with the team!

Note: Some items are being reserved for future ranked season rewards and Twitch Drops, but I'd be happy to double check to make sure everything is accounted for on our end.

X · Nov 18, 2025, 7:52 PM

[echo nova]

Dude I’m so stoked. I figured that would have rotated it out like last year. I love survive the undead.

[spare solar]

What about ranked rewards? Any info on what they are?

[junior kestrel]

Energy weapon ammo being picked up was a mistake tbh

[spare solar]

I payed attention about ranked items but any info on what they are?

[analog knot]

Yeah they are the locked items

[candid solar]

That has nothing to do with anything but honestly energy battery truthers are freaking weird to me

It's objectively a good thing they made energy weapons recharge off discarded energy weapons

[spare solar]

Is it like ranked snipers, and other ranked playlists that got added yesterday?

[candid solar]

I'm surprised the change wasn't made in like 4 because it makes so much sense

[spare solar]

Because I was just hoping ranked would have new items come

[analog knot]

Nobody knows they havent announced it yet

[candid solar]

The balancing of energy weapons is based off the heat bar, not your battery charge level. I don't know how it makes sense to anyone that getting more ammo for them at all is bad.

[spare solar]

Just making sure

[ocean herald]

they should make corded energy weapons, and maybe wall outlets

[candid solar]

Well that's just the plasma turret

[obsidian wyvern]

how do i find an evangelion gif on this

[junior kestrel]

It's a side grade that has impacted some power weapons tbh. Plus I believe it promotes more weapon hogging. In theory.

[sudden crag]

make energy swords take double Abatteries

[candid solar]

In theory, sure, in actual practice though, it doesn't appear to have significantly impacted anything.

[junior kestrel]

So weapon recharging stations like the unsc has ammo racks

[candid solar]

When you get a power weapon the usual incentive is to use it as fast as possible.

[junior kestrel]

Speaking of. Dual energy swords.

[junior kestrel]

They used to have a lotta ammo before they went caput.

[candid solar]

I never understood the appeal beyond cool factor tbh.

But then I'm practical and want a gravity mace-mangler combo.

[junior kestrel]

Grav mace and mangler dual weild.

[candid solar]

... That's... That's what I just said

[junior kestrel]

Sorry

I myself would be hot in machete and magnum.

[ocean herald]

no, i want to plug my energy sword into a wall and fight in one spot.

[blazing cave]

Bruh lol

[junior kestrel]

Camper

[desert fog]

Why plug it in when you can just add a hand crank to power the energy sword

[junior kestrel]

Crank that solda boy master chief

[naive turret]

https://tenor.com/view/evangelion-neon-genesis-evangelion-shinji-soulja-boy-rei-gif-26754648

[low yoke]

Add cross core to kits

[jade gust]

Looks like the mechanism for the door is completely broken, he's been cranking that for a while now and it still won't budge

[blazing cave]

You know what HS didnt add to Infinite, the dual wrist/forearm attachments like that one Spartan from the multiplayer cutscenes

[jade gust]

Likely to not have any clipping issues with equipment like the grapple

[naive surge]

Keep watching its just opening really slowly

[blazing cave]

Ohhh right

Clipping sucks too

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/arf-bark-evangelion-eva-neon-genesis-evangelion-gif-24301476

[fierce zephyr]

The complete legendary under 3 hours achievement is the most frustrating thing I’ve been trying to do so far

[obsidian wyvern]

for which game

[junior kestrel]

3 hours?

[meager linden]

Good night people of Halo

[nimble nest]

Imma try 3d printing cortana later today. What channel would be best to share that in?

[analog knot]

#1076327824924872755

[trail wyvern]

E

?

[abstract ermine]

Hi?

[light atlas]

Hi chat

I found a Halo The Great Journey The Art of Building Worlds book. In my closet, and man its dam good

[junior kestrel]

So yk how you can counter the sword in halo reach with normal melee?

What if doing that destroyed your weapon.

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah man i wanna go against a power weapon and lose my weapon

[candid solar]

Sounds cool I love adding humiliation to injury

What they should do instead is have you drop your current weapon and end up holding the sword

So the loser with the sword now no longer has a weapon

[naive turret]

So the dude sprints up to you with the sword, you somehow block it, lose your weapon and then...
Die? Because he's already spammed melee again, you've just prolonged the interaction

[junior kestrel]

Ideally it'd stun the sword user or smt. So you can gain distance or damage advantage.

[obsidian wyvern]

then its no longer a power weapon

[junior kestrel]

Cause otherwise it's just certain death.

[naive turret]

How are you gaining distance if the dude's got a lunge-range weapon and can sprint at you

[junior kestrel]

There is no cqc counter to the sword outside dooping the player into a bad swing.

[junior kestrel]

I said stun

[naive turret]

Aye how long's the dude getting stunned for

[junior kestrel]

Thinking half a second or so.

[naive turret]

We're getting into 'this feels awful for the sword user' territory

[junior kestrel]

Abt the same length as the vehicle jack stun is.

[obsidian wyvern]

so we';re punishing someone for using a weapon as intended

[grave bough]

tfw its not 2006 and you cant buy HALO 3: THE BEVERAGE

[junior kestrel]

How often are people even gonna be able to do it when the sword is basically a power trip in infinite.

[naive turret]

This still applies with a half-second stun btw, outside of edge cases with nearside cover or a lift etc.

[junior kestrel]

Not much better in 2 btw. Infinite battery.

[naive turret]

2's sword sucks balance wise who made a case for it

[tiny solstice]

Are there no new ranked rewards?

Sorry if this has been axked and answered already but the info isn't readily available in the blog posts.

[junior kestrel]

3's is better.

[grave bough]

sword cancelling was such a bad choice. that and armor lock made reach so frustrating to play. Oh and no bleed through on release, what a joke

[analog knot]

Sword and shotgun were in h2s hardcore gametypes and everyone survived

[junior kestrel]

I'm kinda thinking abt this from somewhat a cinematic gameplay angle.

[grave bough]

also, the ringing in the ears from explosions was so bad

[nimble nest]

Ok lemme try rewriting this, i have an idea to make the sword block cooler. So if you block, then you end up in a struggle mode where you have to mash a button faster than your opponent, and then whoever loses, their game closes and gets uninstalled. All in favor?

[junior kestrel]

It arguably punishes the other player just as much. They could have lost a good power weapon or a quick fire weapon to help counter the sword.

[grave bough]

so many design mistakes in reach. I rarely play it even to this day. Ill always pick 1/2/3 and even odst over reach

[ocean herald]

this could work

[analog knot]

My ears can ring all day long, but please never reintroduce that screen shake nonsense from H2A

[naive turret]

I'm content with sword clashing being exclusive to the Sword.
That way you don't get silly melee trades as often and it's power weapon vs power weapon.

[analog knot]

I am surprised H2A's gameplay passed some basic accessibility checks

[junior kestrel]

Qte is even worse tbh.

I'd rather just have the halo 2 sword.

[analog knot]

Genuinely playing some gametypes in H2A is impossible with all of the screen shake, boom ball is a funny meme though

[tepid aurora]

So when is ranked team snipers out

[obsidian wyvern]

its already out

[analog knot]

By the way its supposed to be a bomb not a skull, part of the fun is that it blows up eventually come on h2a

[tepid aurora]

Bet

[obsidian wyvern]

and its already a dead playlist. 4 minute wait times which means 40 mins wait time

[grave bough]

im not, it was so poorly made. 5 shot BR?????

[tepid aurora]

Time too go hit onyx rq

[junior kestrel]

Hm.

Oh. Hammer sword clash?

[tepid aurora]

Bruh

[junior kestrel]

More like 4 hours

[obsidian wyvern]

i said 40 mins

[junior kestrel]

Yeah and I'm exaggerating

[ocean herald]

i kinda wish evade/dash was part of the default movement. it would make sword encounters more of a game of chess than the current "who can button mash the fastest"

[tepid aurora]

U gotta put your stuff on expanded

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah, im not

my stuff is on expanded. its been on expanded for years now

[tepid aurora]

Lemme load up and get an into que

[analog knot]

No they meant your horizons!

[junior kestrel]

Crouch quick slide from default movement.

[obsidian wyvern]

expanded to halo 3

[analog knot]

Oh bet invite

[naive turret]

https://tenor.com/view/iron-man-tony-stark-invite-me-didnt-gif-15173798

[tepid aurora]

Boring

[analog knot]

Poor ShaShou

[junior kestrel]

Rude.

[analog knot]

He will stop playing if his team gets behind ever, idk why he tilts so hard

[tepid aurora]

How so

[junior kestrel]

Just ill mannered.

[tepid aurora]

Yea

[analog knot]

You better not AFK to respond to me Revenant he'll quit

[obsidian wyvern]

because i was only gonna play 3 or so matches. final one before i gotta get ready for work

[tepid aurora]

If u can’t give me a proper explanation don’t say nun

[naive turret]

Man, my restraint.

[junior kestrel]

Seems like you have a lot more rudeness than expected.

[tepid aurora]

If u say so

[junior kestrel]

It's awfully self evident.

[obsidian wyvern]

i didnt find it rude

[junior kestrel]

Fair.

[obsidian wyvern]

so idk why youre offended on my part lmao

[naive turret]

H3's been called worse I think it'll be fine.

[grave bough]

"Jarvis hit the lag switch"

[tepid aurora]

It’s not like I insulted him

[junior kestrel]

I shouldn't go to bat for other people who are right there.

[tepid aurora]

Good idea

[junior kestrel]

Maybe I have an attitude problem.

[naive turret]

What a bizarre interaction.

[analog knot]

You may not like H3 but whats more boring, finding a game and playing it or sitting in queue for 40 minutes for nothing

[junior kestrel]

That's kinda mcc tbh.

[naive turret]

Menu simulator 2021 is the best one since Menu simulator 2015!

[tepid aurora]

I play other things than team snipers

[analog knot]

You must not play it

[tepid aurora]

Someone kept saying it’s up next

[junior kestrel]

Only way I find games is in custom browser.

[tepid aurora]

I was hoping for swat

[analog knot]

Sounds like a you problem, idk

[obsidian wyvern]

well he didnt quit

[naive turret]

Australia geographical debuff.

[tepid aurora]

But beggars can’t be choosers 😪

[analog knot]

Snark aside there are some dead playlists

[junior kestrel]

It is a problem.

[obsidian wyvern]

probably because there was already a quitter

[junior kestrel]

My point exactly. The servers here don't work.

[analog knot]

I dont know how Aussie players manage to search and find games all during their streams, maybe magic

[junior kestrel]

Mint is built different.

[obsidian wyvern]

its not that the servers dont work, its that you have no players there lol

[analog knot]

W

[junior kestrel]

It'd be nice to have a population map screen. So I know I won't be wasting my time.

[potent ocean]

whats up

[analog knot]

I wasnt even referring to MB but sure

[junior kestrel]

Like every halo before 4.

[analog knot]

https://i.imgur.com/8W6Ji1Q.png here you go (sorry Rev)

Dont worry I used a council of nerds to generate that for you

[worn elk]

New pass is pretty meh. Wish the master chief MK4 was on the pass instead of in the shop. Oh well what else would I expect from 343 at this point. The coatings on the pass are also pretty meh. Shame we never got a proper colour system for Spartans in this game. Customization really at an all time low cause of greed

[junior kestrel]

I have mine open to all modes

[analog knot]

If you search all games/gametypes in 4s and you dont have any servers blocked and dont find a game within a couple of minutes at most, something broken on your end 🙁

[junior kestrel]

I have servers blocked so I'm not not at a ping disadvantage

[analog knot]

Play CE so you have an advantage on low ping, not sure what else to say

[junior kestrel]

I'd like to remind you. Even west coast American servers leave me over 130-170 ping.

[analog knot]

Or more likely you just wont play any Halo at all which is fair

I am east us and play europe on 100+ regularly I feel your pain. but thats how it goes

[junior kestrel]

At least counter strike has consistent games.

Part of me wishes they got a bot system into mcc.

[analog knot]

They already do, my teammates are often bots

/s

[obsidian wyvern]

not a bad last game, now ill go negative every match for the next few months

[analog knot]

ride that high

[junior kestrel]

Still takes 10 minutes to more than an hour to find a match

So I just go for the customs browser and f around in ffa

[analog knot]

Fair enough, with your restrictions you cant find games - but its not right to generalize that to everyone 😄

[obsidian wyvern]

collat too 😤

also one of the worst spawns ive seen, he was in my direct line of sight game

[snow elk]

I hope Halo Studios has taken note of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1RQF0-jyk, and not to have it removed. This is how mouse users would love this series to work

The gunplay is significant improvement over any of the Halos so far

[hasty zinc]

I would not play Halo if it played like CS

[snow elk]

I think there is scope for the two inputs to work differently. It's not unprecedented in gaming.

[obsidian wyvern]

as a mkb user, I would quit playing halo

[snow elk]

given your above clip is on controller I think you've automatically chosen not to play on mouse regardless. It's not common to see mouse users in multiplayer

[obsidian wyvern]

it isn't on controller. lol

[faint mantle]

You haven't already?

[obsidian wyvern]

merty, you've seen me crash out on Rob and icky the last week

[faint mantle]

[junior kestrel]

I still have the right to be pissed tho.

I can say that? Thank god.

[snow elk]

as a side note to Halo Studios, the existing Halo audience is much smaller than people who've stopped playing the game. Listening to the status quo is likely not the way forward.

And as for the controller vs mouse gameplay, there are UI elements in prior videos that are clearly the controller ones

so take comments here with a grain of salt

[hasty zinc]

wat

what videos are you referring to?

[snow elk]

oh, that was in response to Revenant's comment that their gameplay was on mouse. Which it clearly isn't

[hasty zinc]

it literally is

how do you think they moved the reticle around like that after killing the second person

[snow elk]

there are a couple of videos where there is mouse gameplay

given you're listed as staff, do you not think you should be holding yourself to a higher standard than trying to troll me?

[hasty zinc]

I'm so lost

[pulsar heron]

which UI elements are you referring to that suggest rev's on controller?

[hasty zinc]

what about that video makes it "clear" that he's on controller

[pulsar heron]

i've been "accused" of being a kbm player before. i dont really understand how or why people come to these conclusions honestly

[junior kestrel]

What relevance does the secone paragraph have with the first?

It feels like the first isn't really finished.

[junior kestrel]

Personally Idc how others play. I stick to controller cause I like playing that way.

[blazing cave]

other than the comedic super fast 360 moves, i wouldnt be able to tell whether someone plays on mkb or controller lol

[naive turret]

Rev causing trouble even in his absence smh

[pulsar heron]

yeah FOV really makes it difficult to actually tell when you're watching a player in your own match. watching someone's POV sometimes does have tells (quick small movements, very quick direction swapping) but otherwise it's very rarely obvious

[pulsar heron]

second paragraph is in response to rev saying he's a kbm player

[hasty zinc]

I think we are the ones being trolled

[pulsar heron]

i'm mostly a controller player bc its easier for me to grab one rather than dig out my keyboard lol

[blazing cave]

i want to show y'all a clip of my no scope, see if you can tell if im mkb or controller

[hasty zinc]

there's no hard indication of what input they are using other than the quick movement of the reticle. Unless keeping your reticle centered and not flinging it around wildly is making them think they're on controller

[ornate sequoia]

Can we all appreciate that Halo, along with Gears, are among the very few shooting games that provide console/controller players the ability to compete with MKB players in cross-play?

[obsidian wyvern]

I took this before leaving my house because I knew you'd say it

[ocean herald]

nice photoshop skills bud

[hasty zinc]

rev, you have obviously photoshopped that picture in order to deceive us

[obsidian wyvern]

my bad I've been caught

[normal owl]

[made with Nano Banana]

dang it I'm too slow

[normal owl]

getting Hollow & Churlish vibes

[robust salmon]

red team has aimbot

[hasty zinc]

one of two things will now happen. Crappy will continue to be stubborn and assume they are right regardless of the evidence or (the very least likely scenario) they will apologize and concede their mistake

[obsidian wyvern]

I've got the entire video of that match if you can wait about 5 hours 😁

[blazing cave]

or bring up sprint debate

[hasty zinc]

or a third, they will not mention it again out of embarrassment

[normal owl]

They're serious about their name too

[ornate sequoia]

crappy managed to invoke bullying

[snow elk]

I don't doubt that sometimes they play on mouse, but the vast majority of clips are not on mouse

[hasty zinc]

again what clips

[snow elk]

discord search is a thing. If you care enough to disprove me go ahead

[normal owl]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-keanu-reeves-dodge-bullets-dodging-gif-14224324471751140722

[hasty zinc]

do not tag Halo Studios employees

[normal owl]

Followed your recommendation to use Discord search: here are two comments from you specifying your accusation as towards the clip that Rev specifically disproved. Great suggestion!

[snow elk]

fine, I'll reach out to them via other means

[blazing cave]

just let it go bro lol

wheres Grim when you need them 😔

[normal owl]

Anyway, here is the fancy food from the evening conference last night. I have to say that good food makes boring charts a lot more bearable.

[junior kestrel]

I'm more focused on paragraph 1

Looking at halo frim the religious aligorical is arguably more interesting than some stuff in the literal text and what these characters represent in the narrative.

John for one. Saviour of humanity.

Halsey the mother of the spartans.

Mendican bias is akin to judas later wrought with grief for his beteayal

There is a lot of meaning to be extracted from it.

[blazing cave]

What about the Halo

[normal owl]

Please migrate this to #lore-and-universe where it's most applicable. Thanks!

[junior kestrel]

Fair ig.

[ornate sequoia]

Say NO to invisible walls.

[analog knot]

That was the most mnk movement ever, but I also have a lot of experience on controller to tell the difference

[jade gust]

You're saying this like it's a policy which needs protesting against. Invisible walls exist in games because you're not meant to explore outside the play-space. Yes it's fun to break out of maps, but it shouldn't be something easily done by players

[hasty zinc]

@steady jolt NEW STARGATE ANNOUNCED

[analog knot]

Maybe they are a mime

[echo nova]

That seems like a really odd thing to argue about.

[hasty zinc]

I'm freaking out

[echo nova]

Because I haven’t bought a switch 2 yet?

The ps5 is still packed up and ready to go to GameStop. I just haven’t had the time to go up there.

[hasty zinc]

No! STARGATE!!!

[candid tusk]

On Prime video. Hmmmmmmmmm yum.

[junior kestrel]

Maybe if the map boundaries were better made than just kill barriers. Say a bottomless cassam or a wall too high.

This is more a complaint on 4 and reach tbh

[marsh blade]

Red verbal blu

[junior kestrel]

I love stargate

[echo nova]

In that case I’m holding off until 2026 😂

[jade gust]

Not every location can have a bottomless pit or giant walls

Like, that's a pretty reductive way of thinking about how levels are designed

Let's say I'm making a map set in a town square, what about a bottomless pit would make sense within that setting?

[echo nova]

No games should ever be based on Kansas. Ever.

[jade gust]

Not even Kansas Simulator?

[echo nova]

No way to make map boundaries other than invisible walls.

Maybe a fence? But instead of a kill barrier, it’s the farmer coming out and shooting you because he thinks your his daughters good for nothin baby daddy. (The player character looks kind of similar and farmer buck lost his glasses.)

That sounds more like an Alabama simulator.

[jade gust]

Well you're assuming Kansas Simulator lets you just walk about everywhere. It could just as easily handle the gameplay by having an overworld for you to walk around and then transitions into a battle arena for the core gameplay, similar to Pokémon

[naive turret]

Tornadoes create impassable areas of land, there's your barriers.

[echo nova]

But who would you battle in Kansas? The tornado?

[ornate sequoia]

Is ragdoll physics finally going to be fixed in HCER?

[analog knot]

The land? Or will the edge of every map just be tornadoes

[jade gust]

I don't really know what goes on in Kansas but I assume there's some sort of cryptid running about, that could be the basis for your enemies

[jade gust]

What do you mean?

Are you suggesting the physics have been broken in the recent games or in original CE?

[plain lagoon]

Just remembered Kansas exists

[naive turret]

The ragdoll physics are presumably going to be similar to Reach given the behaviours and animations are derived from that game.

[normal owl]

Doing my best to whittle this list of Monopoly rewards down before Sunday when this glorious time is over. 🙏

[jade gust]

Wouldn't surprise me, I just hope we can see Grunts go flying when we blow up their methane packs

[normal owl]

Michigan's basement!

[waxen rose]

Eat with one eye open.

[ornate sequoia]

Looking forward to Unreal Engine / Halo CE Remake's adaptation of the Ragdoll Physics.
Really not looking forward to seeing bodies flying as though they are in a tornado

[jade gust]

Mudila, do you actually pay attention whenever I try explaining things or ask you questions? Because it feels like you ignore me whenever I try to understand what you mean

[ocean herald]

Ohio is the Halo Reach of US states

[jade gust]

Meanwhile Arizona is the Australia of the USA according to someone I knew from there

[normal owl]

That might be too high a compliment for Ohio as the Covenant would never want to go there.

[dreamy stirrup]

the US does have a disproportionate amount of astronauts from ohio funny enough

[ocean herald]

they're trying to escape Ohio

[normal owl]

Understandable: I'd want to get as literally far away from Ohio as I could too.

[dreamy stirrup]

oh it's absolutely valid

[normal owl]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-together-smile-gif-20682410

[trim saddle]

As a Michigan resident, can confirm.

[ocean herald]

i was actually in Ohio recently and they have so many parks

[sonic tulip]

Halo Reach is goated

[waxen rose]

My brother lived in Ohio for a year for college and when he came home he was a changed man

[naive turret]

Present to some degree at least
https://youtu.be/hSjbIM0iegY?si=YGjbYTaIMy7DdlMd&t=600

Actually that third one gets some distance lol

[jade gust]

Good

I wonder if you could cause a chain reaction of Grunts blowing up?

[ornate sequoia]

When I think of states that are dark & gloomy (like Halo Reach), I think of Washington, Oregon, Maine.

[blazing cave]

I feel like there should a Flood horror game set in Florida

Flood vs. Florida

[ocean herald]

vs Florida man

[blazing cave]

Horror vs. Terror

[hasty zinc]

Floorida

[elder pier]

Olá

[junior kestrel]

True. Sand trap needs the invisible walls. Same for snowbound. But it'd be great to have more diagetic kill barriers.

[junior kestrel]

No. But it would make sense in a high rise building. As for a town square. Cut off the area wjth large physical barriers. Mix of fences and car barriers.

[jade gust]

You do know about the mines on Sandtrap, right? And the turrets on Snowbound?

[junior kestrel]

If they're gonna do a halo show again I want em to do an animated series.

[junior kestrel]

Yes. But in conjunction with invisible walls. Those extra elements are to help mask the diagetic kill zones.

No wait. They're to mask the wall.

[waxen rose]

Why are people fighting me

Is it because I want to take over their conscious minds for my own bidding? C'mon y'all be a little generous

[meager linden]

7 hours without electricity
What a perfect day
From 16:00 to 23:00
🥲

[jade gust]

Jokes on you, my mind can't be taken over since I'm a collective of squirrels in a trench coat

[analog knot]

The 6 months these were broken were awesome. Just take sniper wayyyyyy out of bounds

But obviously they needed to be fixed lol

[waxen rose]

IVE BEEN FOILED AGAIN

[analog knot]

The turrets on snowbound making noise and not firing anything all game long did get old fast

[junior kestrel]

Compositing 3d into live action is way more expensive than just doing a 3d show

[hasty zinc]

a collective you say?

https://tenor.com/bDD3E.gif

[jade gust]

I'm glad I missed out on that

[jade gust]

I don't think I've seen any Star Trek media with the Borg in yet surprisingly

[steady jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/stargate-sg1-hello-gif-9686285

[hasty zinc]

I'm so happy

[steady jolt]

Dannie is re-watching SG-1 again 😄

[hasty zinc]

let's go!!

once I'm done DS9 I think I'll meander my way back to the gate

[worldly sedge]

I just saw a fake Half Life 3 announcement trailer and got “Roger Roger’ed” with the Grand Republic theme playing, I laughed so hard

[steady jolt]

Did you miss the real announcement trailer? 😯
https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/store/half-life-3/bv7v679gp2h1

[raven elk]

Greatest game reveal since ODST!

[heady barn]

i need some advice, i wanna make a minecraft megabuild related to halo but i have no idea what specifically to build

[jade gust]

A bold new direction for the series, that's for sure

[analog knot]

https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/5/5c/HTMCC_H3_GruntPlush_Backpack_Icon.png

[heady barn]

im more trynna make a forerunner structure

[silver arch]

You could remake all of silent cartographer if you wanted. If you wanted something a little more unique, you could do the control room from the ark mission. I haven't seen people do that as much. Or you could make the anodyne spirit (you may have to scale it down to fit it within the block limit)

I'm not sure Minecraft could support much of halo's larger starships in general lol

[coral yoke]

it def can if you put them close enough to the ground.

otherwise mods exist to raise the block limit.

[silver arch]

Or alternatively use an empty world. They did update the block limit iirc and having nothing but void (or superflat I suppose) would yield even more space

[silver arch]

This is true, but from what I've seen, it can just break the game sometimes

That being said, I don't think anyone will be making a 1:1 of anything bigger than the starships lol

It would be pretty awesome to see someone make a 1:1 of high charity tho. I could explore that for hours

That plus distant horizons and shaders and oml it would be gorgeous

[coral yoke]

distant horizons' mere presence is more than enough to cause severe frame drops on my main pc lmao.

my deck, though... eh i think it's run that fine before actually.

[potent musk]

Hello everybody on this fine evening unless you're in a timezone that is not evening!

I have managed to get job money and will now drain the massive wall of text that is my Steam Wishlist into a pulp.

Good days.

[jovial elbow]

Distant horizons and the new C2ME update that makes chunk generation GPU accelerated is beautiful

[coral yoke]

unfortunately i don't actually have a gpu lmao

[fickle drift]

hey to any tech nerds. is a couch coop with two 'xbox one' with a systemlink cable in 2025 possible?

[coral yoke]

can't say for sure, but i know it does work over lan at least.

[jovial elbow]

Bro hasn't got his GPU yet what

[coral yoke]

haven't had one for years. i falsely thought it to be a gaming pc when i bought it.

this steam deck's faring pretty well though.

[jovial elbow]

Prebuilt 💀

Just get a GPU if it's a good motherboard and CPU.

Or yk.. sell it. Then buy a case. Motherboard. CPU. CPU fan. Ram. Power supply. GPU. Some more fans or water cooling. Whatever other bs is needed. AND BUILD IT

but yeah, steam deck is decent. But my pc thwarts my steam deck a hundred times over.

[analog knot]

Prebuilts are great, theres a reason so many people buy consoles 😄

[severe flame]

prebuilts honestly aren't bad if you get them from a decent company

[silver arch]

Just don't get an Alienware ever

[vagrant kettle]

Guys will my IBM Personal Computer 350 run Helldivers

[jaunty zinc]

Depends on how much managed democracy you can fit into the case with the cobwebs

[odd anchor]

[coral yoke]

how did you not already get warned.

[candid tusk]

Looey's going looney.

[coral yoke]

yeah i don't think i want to create a fire hazard right now lmao

[obsidian wyvern]

I haven't used controller on mp halo in almost a year

the only game I use a controller in at this point is armoured core

[coral yoke]

now that you mention it, i think the only game where i don't use a controller is minecraft.

aiming where you need to aim in especially bedrock edition is absolutely abysmal without a mouse.

[misty marsh]

Halos like the only game I still voluntarily use controller for excluding infinite

[coral yoke]

at least halo has some kind of mitigation for that.

[analog knot]

I mainly played Halo mnk before H3 came out, then never looked back. I cant unlearn all of this time of muscle memory 😄

[snow elk]

for what it's worth, I'm not doubting I could have been wrong for that video specifically. I know you had the input screenshot, so that definitely suggests you were on keyboard

[analog knot]

the left/right movement gives it away

[obsidian wyvern]

yeah but like im saying, majority of my videos that I've sent this year are gonna be mkb so idk why that other comment exists lol

it is me just trying to get better with it

[snow elk]

that one paragraph was two separate points. I just kind of tacked them onto each other because that's what I thought of at the time

[obsidian wyvern]

right

[snow elk]

Infinite in particular is a lot better for mouse than MCC is, but I still don't think it's great. Partly because it's basically emulating controller mechanics onto keyboard and mouse

[obsidian wyvern]

infinite has tried to balance it, also came out on pc at launch so that helped with them having to make both work

MCC is controller dominant

[blazing cave]

There aren’t any stance with the heatwave in Infinite??!😱😱

[obsidian wyvern]

tbf even infinite most pros are on controller but, way more balanced obv

[snow elk]

like I said, I think Infinite has done an ok job. But a more native experience would be nice. Like Wutum or Scoobmeistr or Wryce will all agree like the shock rifle just sucks on mouse because you have to keyboard to try to get a perfect with it. Any excessive aiming movement will kill that

[analog knot]

Meanwhile sniping in mcc on mnk is considered easier

[obsidian wyvern]

I'm guessing controllers aim assist is super useful for the shock since it's a burst sniper rifle

[snow elk]

S7 is fine on Infinite btw. Criticism only applies to the shock

[obsidian wyvern]

mkb just doesn't compare with it's weaker aim assist

[snow elk]

it's a balance decision

even right sticking too much on controller will break the shock. It's just how they've tuned the gun. It was more right stick/mouse friendly for a while late last HCS season, but they reverted that change when that Faze (Renegade/Frosty/Royal 2/Snakebite) roster went crazy with it

[coral yoke]

might've heard of faze. massive clan, aren't they?

going off the observation that a lot of people have it in their gamertags, or at least used to.

i know nothing more than that.

[snow elk]

they're also one of the bigger esports teams in the HCS. Their team this season (if you still count it as going now that Worlds is over) was different

[blazing cave]

I have proof that double xp isn’t working for me now

Just tested this out

It no worky

[floral pollen]

damn

[blazing cave]

Not that it’ll truly stop me from grinding hero anyways
But

Kinda worried I’m not even going to get double Spartan points 😔

First halo studios couldn’t get the career rank until late into the game and now this

Halo Studios really don’t want me to have Hero lol

[coral yoke]

ok what is "2v2 hardcore ts" and why is it first in the list in specifically halo 3? nevermind it's because it's first alphabetically.

[buoyant canyon]

Well I cannot speak to H3 but it's really hard to compete against controller in comp in Reach MCC

[snow elk]

What I can say is that I can hit 70% accuracy in ranked against pretty high skilled players, but almost anyone can steamroll me in a straight fight on MCC

I have requested they balance mouse in the same way, because the H3 BR seems almost identical to the Infinite one without aim assist. And that balance would likely carry over to the other guns for example

[analog knot]

There’s also many years of experience in H3 you’re fighting against as opposed to infinite

[hearty flame]

Iirc infinite on launch was saw kbm dominate in short range but controllers in long range

This was because Infinite at launch had a negative aim assist for kbm, so it was actually working against you to aim at distances

[analog knot]

Also aim assist at launch would randomly turn off for controller which didn’t help

[snow elk]

from having sunk as much time as I have into all of them, Infinite without aim assist plays almost exactly like the older ones. And to be clear, I'm talking a straight 1v1 while in a match, no-one else screwing things up by assisting

the bandit has helped my accuracy too

I actually think that 'negative' assist is a game mechanic that's hidden by the assist. And it's a core part of Halo

if you look at the Infinite patch notes for the details on the numbers they adjust, there are some very interesting descriptions they're tweaking...

[lilac jacinth]

hi

[blazing cave]

The amount of new smurfs on infinite is insane!

Or they’re new players lol

[novel jacinth]

are infinites servers down?

[blazing cave]

Just went down after my recent match

[worldly sedge]

Infinite servers down?

[rustic belfry]

What happend with the servers? Clash?

[visual pond]

Confirmed it is down

[rustic belfry]

God

[dusty yew]

What happened to the servers

[blazing cave]

Too many new Smurfs crashed the game smh

[worldly sedge]

lol

[visual pond]

Likely too many new players going on

[worldly sedge]

Are the Azure servers affected?

[dusty yew]

Tbf the update is pretty good

[rustic belfry]

What? Crash for many players?

[visual pond]

Yep everyone affected

[blazing cave]

Maaaaan I’m going to go play battlefield

[visual pond]

Took noticed some players I was having matches in Zombie mode for bit and they experienced laggy and so was I

[steady jolt]

If you're still seeing issues after restarting your game/device, be sure to submit an outage report:
https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=11608840199188

[lucid hornet]

oh so its not just me

i just opened it

[rustic belfry]

Lol.
The other day i was playing zombies mode and the players took the match too seriously. The match took 2 hours to finish

[blazing cave]

How much xp did you get

[rustic belfry]

Only 36k because in the 30 minutes i was bored

[blazing cave]

“Only 36k” 💀

Restarting my Xbox worked

[rustic belfry]

And the players didn't want to end the match

[blazing cave]

Infinite is back

[marsh karma]

⚠️ FYI: Halo Infinite servers just went down for a ton of people. Ended stream early. ⚠️

[rustic belfry]

The player in top 1 won 150 k

[steady jolt]

^

[paper cypress]

In finite

[blazing cave]

⚠️ FYI: Halo Infinite servers just went up for a ton of people. ⚠️

[paper cypress]

Uggghhh my nitro is outtttt

[white atlas]

where do you go to report a bug on waypoint

[visual pond]

Servers back up

[white atlas]

some visors textures are broken on master chief infinite armor

[calm fiber]

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

https://aka.ms/HaloSupport

[rustic belfry]

Wake me up when you need me

[dusty yew]

I want chiefs armour so bad

[white atlas]

ive had it for a year lol

[dusty yew]

But I’m like platinum corporal

[white atlas]

took 6 months of grinding when it came out

[dusty yew]

Lowkey feels like the sp and xp hasn’t doubled

Or is that just me

[molten pelican]

@candid solar you into German handguns?

[candid solar]

Not really but I know them

[rustic belfry]

I suppose it dependes of the points you score

[candid solar]

Why?

[junior kestrel]

Just met a petty officer named John.

He was not a halo fan unfortunately.

[rustic belfry]

If you only do 1 k points you get 2k

[dusty yew]

I thought the operation was also free

[rustic belfry]

Or how it is

[ocean herald]

There’s a free track and a paid track

[molten pelican]

DMs

[dusty yew]

Ohh

[ocean herald]

If you look the free items say as much and the paid show a little 🔒 icon

[blazing cave]

The double xp you are supposed to get in post-game “Applied Score” isn’t double for me either

It must be a bug I guess

[steady jolt]

Can you check your XP before and after a match and see if it's actually doubling and just not displaying it visually? If it's definitely not doubling at all, submit a bug. If it's doubling but not displaying visually, that's worth submitting a bug for too

[white atlas]

the game is still offline its not loading the shop

[visual pond]

Let you all know Black Friday sales recently started for Halo stuff especially Forza Horizon series that have Warthog

[blazing cave]

Gonna test that out now

[dusty peak]

Would be nice if all the remaining vehicles in infinite was in the vehicle bay for color customization at least and emblem as well

[warm warren]

does anyone have the invite for the halo air wars discord?

[thin linden]

Do y’all think Chief ever wanted a normal civilian life?

[warm warren]

no

[dusty peak]

Possible

[thin linden]

Bcs surely after years of war and seeing friends fall Chief would even for a second want a normal life

[pliant hatch]

his dream was to work at Have S'Moa to make moa burgers.

[signal wedge]

Maybe. But he can’t

He has to finish the fight

[cedar turret]

He dreamed of being a professional tiddlywinks player

[signal wedge]

Chief might win every medal if he takes up professional wrestling after his military career

[vagrant kettle]

Chief wants to be a Jumbotron operator at baseball games

Or a yoga instructor

[thin linden]

Tuff

[true ravine]

Atonement is such a great song

[true ravine]

The Admiral doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, so no lol. Granted, being an admiral is not exactly civilian life, but it’s much less combat oriented than being a frontline soldier

[thin linden]

True

[silver arch]

My coworker and I were talking about what should/could happen with chief when his story is over. He thinks he should go out in a blaze of glory and I have no idea what they should do with him lol

[steady jolt]

Chief gets a job as a Walmart greeter

[true ravine]

Kinda related but also not but I’ve always loved how Lord Hood is British nobility and he’s just Ron Perlman

[true ravine]

“Welcome to Walmart, weapons are down in the back.”

[silver arch]

Fate worse than being infected by the flood

[true ravine]

Walmart is the one place the Flood won’t touch

[visual pond]

How about Chief gets job to drive forklift and runs over plushies Elites

[true ravine]

Nah that’s what Noble Six is doing

[blazing cave]

I tested it out. Got photos and made the calculations for both pre-game and post-game based on the [+#### to Next Level] that accompanies the career rank. Based on my math I’m not getting double xp towards career rank. I’m seeing the score I get in-game and the score in post-game “Applied Score” are the same value as well.

[steady jolt]

As long as he's Forklift certified, acceptable

[blazing cave]

No double xp for me rip 💔

[runic gulch]

In halo reach why did Nobel team get called for a "demolition op" on sword based? Why not straight out tell them it was related to Halsey or something like that? I know Halsey is listed as Kia but wouldn't a spartan team be told the truth?

[blazing cave]

That shouldn’t be said over the radio

[steady jolt]

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=1900000441547

[blazing cave]

So they masked it as a “demolition op”

[runic gulch]

I mean true, colonel Holland was speaking on a unsecured line

[blazing cave]

Noble teams greatest foe in Reach was using the radio too much

RIP Kat 😢😔💔

[runic gulch]

Rip indeed

[true ravine]

Where does he get off calling a demolition op priority one—-

[runic gulch]

The only thing about halo that makes me sadder then nobel teams fate is the state of halo lol

[junior kestrel]

"Master Chief Front Adrmial"

[junior kestrel]

John. It's Lord hood. Not admiral.

[candid solar]

My bad, I got it derped with another title.

Lord is his British title. He is Fleet Admiral Lord Terrance Hood.

[flat gyro]

guys what playlist is best for xp? im playing btb

[candid solar]

The "Lord Admiral" thing is likely an unintentional joke I'm only now getting.

[candid solar]

Survive the Undead in the Firefight playlist.

[flat gyro]

thx twin

[junior kestrel]

I thought terrance was his first name?

[candid solar]

It is, I just misread it again and I'm also half-focusing on homework. Anyways, Lord or Admiral would be acceptable.

[junior kestrel]

Lord being because he's british nobility or smt.

[candid solar]

Well, he's presumably lorded, yes.

Either way he's Admiral Hood as far as the UNSC is concerned.

[true ravine]

I was doing survive yesterday and the amount of berserkers and ultras I killed was insane😭 I was one of two people left alive and I was right by their biggest spawn point and somehow stayed alive

[fierce zephyr]

For any game tbh 😭

[true ravine]

Fleet Admiral Lord Terrance Hood

[junior kestrel]

Yeah.

[junior kestrel]

Lord Admiral.

Heard that before...

Lord of admirals.

[fierce zephyr]

Yeah it’s an achievement on the mcc “complete halo CE/1/2/3 on legendary in under 3 hours total time”

[true ravine]

An admiral of lords, perhaps.

[hasty zinc]

it all comes full circle

like a ring or something

[true ravine]

All of them…total in 3 hours??

Like a…halo or something

[junior kestrel]

Lord of admirals is a character from the halo 4 terminals.

[fierce zephyr]

Nono each game on legendary under 3 hours 😭

[true ravine]

Ohh

[true ravine]

That makes more sense😭

[signal wedge]

just legally change his name to Master Chief

[junior kestrel]

Master John Chief Doe

[true ravine]

jONaThan DoHerTY

[junior kestrel]

He is literally a John Doe

[true ravine]

If they canonically make his surname Doe idk if I’ll laugh maniacally or be absurdly angry

Or both

[frosty siren]

Had the UNSC made special MRE packs for spartans or no?

[signal wedge]

seaweed

[junior kestrel]

It'd be funnier if he picked it for himself.

Reality is. He's basically John Halsey.

[junior kestrel]

They prolly just ate more.

[frosty siren]

Cannon lore?

[flat gyro]

my weekly challenges are all “earn multikill medals”

[frosty siren]

I'm assuming that, but I wanna make sure

I'm wirteing a book.... and turns out even the smallest details I never thought of need to be added

[junior kestrel]

They are already a massively expensive program. Giving them more servings of high protine rations is prolly the best bet.

[true ravine]

Cannon lore? The MAC, or Magnetic Accelerator Cannon was a weapon developed by the UNSC that fire multi-ton projectiles, and are typically attached to starships or orbital stations.

[frosty siren]

Of MREs

[signal wedge]

A cannon (plural either cannons or cannon) is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during the late 19th century. Cannons vary in gauge, effective range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees, depending on their intended use on the battlefield.

cannon lore

[sharp escarp]

Pslam 25

[junior kestrel]

...

Are you writing for halo or smt?

Or your own super soldier program?

[frosty siren]

Fan fic

[junior kestrel]

John 1:17

[true ravine]

Mjolnir-kini

[signal wedge]

my fan fic canonises the character major major major into Halo

[junior kestrel]

From the ww2 show?

Can't remember the name.

[signal wedge]

Catch 22

[junior kestrel]

Yeah that

[odd anchor]

Chat

I ate too much pasta again >_<

[true estuary]

Eat more

[odd anchor]

Do you want me to explode ??!

[signal wedge]

Glutton

[true estuary]

Bo such thing as too much pasta

[odd anchor]

😭😭😭

[frosty siren]

Makeing a non cannon book- that is as accurate as possible to actual lore...
My spartan who is named ashely in in a experimental forerunner technology infused mjolnir suit, she is put in cyrosleep while the suit adapts to her biological, during that time... the banished along with the recently freed xlayan are useinf a forerunner device rhat pulls ships out of hyper space, they so happen to catch a prower, while they try to escape, the ship gets cut in half...

[true ravine]

You can never eat too much pasta

[odd anchor]

Lies

[signal wedge]

rip Mr Grim got 'ed. Guess he can take this time to touch grass

[true ravine]

The only way you’d explode is if you put a plasma grenade in your pasta 🤷‍♂️

[candid solar]

Mmmn, tasty. Spicy.

[frosty siren]

The spartan and a random solider who was assigned to Project: Omen crash land on a planet with humans and unknown creatures they also look like humans but they have ragged coarse pale white skin

[signal wedge]

those aliens Kirk saw on that one planet

[frosty siren]

They pretty much land in a warzone

[frosty siren]

No, the aliens look more like marshmallows

[coral yoke]

so the thruster ability in halo 4 right? i'm getting a bit of a hunch that it's not supposed to be used how i've been trying to use it (like a dodge roll). any tips?

[frosty siren]

Kinda...

[signal wedge]

they look like the michelin man?

[frosty siren]

The creatures can hatch out of red pods, as small halfling looking things as jueives

They then can later grow up to be more human looking

Called imagos

Then they begin to harden up with a thick excskelton becomeing drones

[candid solar]

This is just Gears of War.

[frosty siren]

Yes... its a cross over....
Wanted to see how long i could go before someone realizes

[supple whale]

Sorry to jump in mid convo: any word on when the new ranked rewards come out? I couldn’t help but notice that the emblems all look the same and i wasn’t awarded anything after placing. Apologies if this is the wrong place for this question

[balmy pagoda]

oooooo Gears Of War

[frosty siren]

Don't worry you good

[frosty siren]

Halo and gears of war crossover book