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Halo |OT| She's Gone, Sir

When will Halo Infinite be revealed?

  • Yes, before E3

    Votes: 13 11.8%

  • Yes, during E3

    Votes: 20 18.2%

  • Wait, E3 was canceled

    Votes: 32 29.1%

  • Daisy, Daisy...

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • I will not... allow you... to leave. This. PLANET!

    Votes: 14 12.7%

  • Halo's just dad.

    Votes: 29 26.4%
  • Total voters
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Sibylus

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AI uprising that mirrors the "one ship, one spartan stands alone" setup of Halo 1? Cool, it can go places.

Giant doombots that were sleeping inside all the planets the whole time? Feels like an honest downgrade from the mystique and mysticism of the rings. Honestly, the franchise lost a lot abandoning the alien POV from Halo 2.
 
m23

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wwm0nkey said:
There is a local auction site I go to that usually has open box items. Got my Pro for $180 and I am hoping I can get an X for that
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Good luck. It'll make you want to go back to some already released games with X enhancements, 5 looks amazing for example in 4K. If only it also had HDR.
 
wwm0nkey

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m23 said:
Good luck. It'll make you want to go back to some already released games with X enhancements, 5 looks amazing for example in 4K. If only it also had HDR.
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I would get one right now, but the trade in value for my XBOX S 2tb is only $210 at GS, if I could find someone to sell it to for just a bit more I would do that and get the X
 
VincentMatts

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wwm0nkey said:
It's not, it's about what I paid for it. My issue is spending the extra $290+tax for the X when i don't really /NEED/ it right now but the growing 4K support is starting to get hard to ignore
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Put it online. I put mine on kijiji at the time i had the gears special edition one, got 300$ for it.
 

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For me the bottleneck is that I need a computer monitor (which doubles as my XB1 input), and HDR UHD monitors that are affordable are hard to come by. So I'm not getting an XB1X solely for performance improvements. Plus, I waited until the XB1 came out in white to grab one. No white XB1X, no sale :P
 
wwm0nkey

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fuchsdh said:
For me the bottleneck is that I need a computer monitor (which doubles as my XB1 input), and HDR UHD monitors that are affordable are hard to come by. So I'm not getting an XB1X solely for performance improvements. Plus, I waited until the XB1 came out in white to grab one. No white XB1X, no sale :P
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A white XBO X would be pretty nice.....

Yo 343, make a special edition Halo XBO X too and I'll buy that one
 
Tappin Brews

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wwm0nkey said:
A white XBO X would be pretty nice.....

Yo 343, make a special edition Halo XBO X too and I'll buy that one
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wwm0nkey

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  • Custom Edition – Another area Sean has been tinkering with on the side is working on the pipeline and process to bring Halo Custom Edition maps into MCC. This is longer lead proof-of-concept work that isn't part of the near-term scope but he's shared some exciting progress successfully loading a Halo Custom Edition map into MCC. There's a lot of rough edges and plenty of work to still do on this front - and to be honest this feature work isn't currently even tied to an official milestone - but it's a really tantalizing and exciting prospect to think about further down the road.
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Frankie, I want you to let you know that I am buying a Xbox One X right this second because of this
 
Moose

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Thruster and ground pound and e the only decent movement options in Halo 5. Sprint and clamber are both awful making the controls cumbersome.
 
wwm0nkey

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Also super good news

  • Tickrates – A single update of a game simulation is known as a "tick." The rate at which the simulation is run on a server is referred often to as the server's tickrate; this is essentially the server equivalent of a client's frame rate, absent any rendering system. When the Vista port was created for Halo 2, the "tickrate" was updated from 30 to 60, which resulted in the fire rate of some weapons inadvertently changing. There are also some similar oddities that have been discovered with AI fire rates that appears to be linked to the shift from 30hz to 60hz. Sean has been working on digging into this and identifying areas where this can be adjusted to more accurately replicate the original Xbox experience. This is ongoing but eventually is an area where the team will definitely want community feedback once this work hits a public flight build.
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gamerguy2002

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Ragnarok Flames said:
I wouldn't put it past 343 to reboot and continue to "modernize" Halo.
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Do you realize the rage that would come from GrimbrotherOne if they ever rebooted Halo? it took him forever to connect Bungie to 343's lore and make all this fucking lore crazyness work in a sane manner, if they ever go "fuck it, reboot!" he'd probably burn the offices down in a blind rage.
 
Moose

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They should reboot to be honest, it's a complete mess. I don't give one shit about the story anymore. If not a reboot, a retool where they focus on gameplay and leave story to a minimum like Doom 2016.
 
FUNKNOWN iXi

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Imagine a world where they update Halo 3 in TMCC to not have AR starts and to increase base movement speed to 110%. An updated Halo 2 to not have SMG starts.
An updated CE to have red X's and an in-game clock.
Dream B I G boyz.
 
Moose

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No AR starts and SMG starts is something that needed to happen IN 2004/2007 FFS.
 
Fahzzy

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Probably the best looking ring re-imagining in a long ass time. Thank you 343 for not ruining the aesthetic. It looks properly mysterious, cold, ancient, and foreboding. Want more of this in Halo 6.
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Masterz1337

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gamerguy2002 said:
Do you realize the rage that would come from GrimbrotherOne if they ever rebooted Halo? it took him forever to connect Bungie to 343's lore and make all this fucking lore crazyness work in a sane manner, if they ever go "fuck it, reboot!" he'd probably burn the offices down in a blind rage.
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Grim is basically the nicest, most cuddliest bear. And he does not start forest fires.

Reboot can mean a lot of things these days. Technically, Spiderman Homecoming is a reboot but it doesn't tread over previous ground or necessarily throw existing lore away. I'd like to see a ship with the chief go into the unkown regions of space, the covenant in pursuit and new adventures to happen. Shed everything with the human covenant war, the forerunners.. space is a big place.
 
BizzyBum

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Man, a reboot before even finishing 5's story or... whatever that was would be so fucking bold of 343. It would also kinda make sense. The current story is a mess, no one really liked the direction 5 was going, and it would explain why the next game is taking longer than usual. This was also a /vg leak so could just be a troll but E3 will be hype regardless.
 

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Fahzzy said:
Probably the best looking ring re-imagining in a long ass time. Thank you 343 for not ruining the aesthetic. It looks properly mysterious, cold, ancient, and foreboding. Want more of this in Halo 6.
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I'm kind of sad Cook didn't explain what the heck the original splash screen was supposed to be. Was it a ring? A planet? A cloud of gas? I had no clue.
 
Cranster

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That new UI looks awesome!

BizzyBum said:
Man, a reboot before even finishing 5's story or... whatever that was would be so fucking bold of 343. It would also kinda make sense. The current story is a mess, no one really liked the direction 5 was going, and it would explain why the next game is taking longer than usual. This was also a /vg leak so could just be a troll but E3 will be hype regardless.
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It's not being rebooted though, and I am interested in seeing where 343i takes the story from here.
 
Tawpgun

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Hi I'm just here to say if they can put custom edition Maps into MCC I'd lose it.

Lemme tear shit up in those coldsnap jets again.
 
Fahzzy

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I've never seen compelling custom edition content. Maybe the spv3 or w/e it's called.
 
Sibylus

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I've never seen compelling custom edition content. Maybe the spv3 or w/e it's called.
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CMT had some MP maps that I quite enjoyed. Snow Grove was my favorite of theirs, symmetrical BTB with lots of side paths and places to leverage vehicles and grenades.

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wwm0nkey

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Eyyyyy I hit that 20 game requirement!

Also custom game browser + custom edition on Xbox has the potential to be insane
 
AR Starts

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Missed the 20 game requirement here. Hoping to get in on a future wave. Ever since 343 announced this patch I've been feeling real optimistic about Halo again. Already have the One X, need to jump in on a 4K TV this fall.
 
Cranster

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I should be eligible just for the fact that I completed all 600 achievements.
Shameless self promotion, I know.
But I definitely have played more than 20 games in the past 6 months, so we'll see what happens.
 
Masterz1337

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Sibylus said:
CMT had some MP maps that I quite enjoyed. Snow Grove was my favorite of theirs, symmetrical BTB with lots of side paths and places to leverage vehicles and grenades.

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It amazes me how successful that map ended up being. We almost didn't end up releasing it. It turned out to have like a 10 year run with an active 24/7 server each time I checked in on it. People even came up with their own zombie gamemode with the spiker (the spiker and laser we didn't even have access to the H3 beta to know anything about, although someone with alpha access did talk to us at that time). I haven't booted up the MP for CE in years probably, I wouldn't be surprised if people still are playing it. And unlike Coldsnap and other modded maps, we built ours for competitive play with all the new sandbox additions.
 
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Masterz1337 said:
It amazes me how successful that map ended up being. We almost didn't end up releasing it. It turned out to have like a 10 year run with an active 24/7 server each time I checked in on it. People even came up with their own zombie gamemode with the spiker (the spiker and laser we didn't even have access to the H3 beta to know anything about, although someone with alpha access did talk to us at that time). I haven't booted up the MP for CE in years probably, I wouldn't be surprised if people still are playing it. And unlike Coldsnap and other modded maps, we built ours for competitive play with all the new sandbox additions.
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Would have been a great shame had it not been released, the only other map I played at comparable hours was the likes of Blood Gulch! Favorite tactic was to plow a Warthog into the enemy base compound and drive down to the little flag alcove, absolutely no room to either side, and just squashing any defenders who didn't have the sense to get out of the way. It worked surprisingly often.
 
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Masterz1337 said:
It amazes me how successful that map ended up being. We almost didn't end up releasing it. It turned out to have like a 10 year run with an active 24/7 server each time I checked in on it. People even came up with their own zombie gamemode with the spiker (the spiker and laser we didn't even have access to the H3 beta to know anything about, although someone with alpha access did talk to us at that time). I haven't booted up the MP for CE in years probably, I wouldn't be surprised if people still are playing it. And unlike Coldsnap and other modded maps, we built ours for competitive play with all the new sandbox additions.
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Well wasnt that the same type of situation with silent cartographer? Practically didnt make the final game. It was originally build only as a demo. Could you imagine....
 

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I didn't realize how much I missed the simple falling of snow & subtle wind noise on Two Betrayals. New Alexandria is a bit like that with the rainfall. That calm serenity between fighting is a nice contrast with the gravity of the situations.
 
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