Just give me ranked with no sprint, spartan abilities, recoil, wall clambering, ads, and BR being the GOAT again and I'll play that shit till the end of time.
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Halo |OT| She's Gone, Sir
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The halo 3 playlist on Halo 5 is pretty good but it's on forge maps
And some of the map choices are terrible. I played a handful of matches last night and got Snowbound and Isolation multiple times each. No thanks.
Does it also just feel /off/ to you? I just can not get into it
Played 3 or 4 games of KOTH in splitgate, not bad. A bit chaotic as expected with jetpacks and portals. It's pretty solid and found some Aussie servers that had full games as well. I'll play it a little more but it's not something I could get "serious" about as the movement and gunplay aiming isn't spot on how I like it. Bloody fine effort putting it together as well as they have, the beta is quite polished. They appeared to have designed their maps very well around their sandbox mechanics too. I can see how there is map knowledge and teamwork to be had here.
anyone going to outpost?
one of my longtime Halo couple friends are going and now I think I might go with my buddy.
I mean, its gunna be cool right? Worth a 2 1/2 hour drive
one of my longtime Halo couple friends are going and now I think I might go with my buddy.
I mean, its gunna be cool right? Worth a 2 1/2 hour drive
They have one about an hour away from where I live but I don't know if it will be worth it/what exactly will be there. If it was confirmed we could play infinite there then it would be a lot more enticing.
Probably going to the Orlando show, the VR experiences sound like they could be fun and since I won't have any other way to play these its hard to pass up the chance. I'll be going solo though, my wife is not interested lol.
I tried the open beta (May 3-6), but the game is too chaotic for me. (And ofc i love Halo and Portal series)
Have we finally forgiven Halo 4's soundtrack for daring to be different and recognized how great it really is? I remember it catching a lot of flack for not being another package of sweet Marty mixes around release.
I've seen Halo 4 receive more praise for its soundtrack than negativity, especially around launch. There were a lot of comments around it feeling heroic and bombastic, although different from the sense of wonder and mysteriousness of the previous games.
Gonna' be at Philly.
I still hold the opinion that I liked Marty's cinematic stuff more, but that Davidge was the first time since CE (and CEA) that the ambient tracks really captured that sense of alien wonder and mystery.
I saw a fair few comments who didn't like the more electronic aspects.
I always liked H4s soundtracks. I think the gameplay moments the tracks were attached to were less memorable, and that impacted the soundtracks reception
Playing the MCC is such a bummer right now. It's finally working good enough to get frequent matches and to have fun. I'm mainly playing ranked doubles right now and enough people are playing to constantly get games. But the servers are incredibly poor. The latency is really bad, not to mention that I'm on US servers the majority of the time.
Playing on foreign hosts already used to be quite the disadvantage. But currently it feels like a severe disadvantage. Maybe it's because I'm spoiled by modern day net codes. Anyway, such a bummer they weren't able to bring the net code of (at least H3, the other games seem a lot better) the game in to the modern era.
Playing on foreign hosts already used to be quite the disadvantage. But currently it feels like a severe disadvantage. Maybe it's because I'm spoiled by modern day net codes. Anyway, such a bummer they weren't able to bring the net code of (at least H3, the other games seem a lot better) the game in to the modern era.
I find a lot of these fan mock ups tacky, but this one is real good.
how is the tuned BR in BTB? I dont think ive played that mode since they "fixed" the BR many months ago
"While Magnum starts did feel really good, we noticed a lot of players didn't feel the need to pick up any other loadout weapons.
BR and AR variants weren't finding much use, and it is still quite easy to shoot out a Warthog gunner with Magnum starts. "
*gives players BR's to start with*
I like Randy and probably alot of those people, but naw dude
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"While Magnum starts did feel really good, we noticed a lot of players didn't feel the need to pick up any other loadout weapons.
BR and AR variants weren't finding much use, and it is still quite easy to shoot out a Warthog gunner with Magnum starts. "
*gives players BR's to start with*
I like Randy and probably alot of those people, but naw dude
The fact that they won't even TRY BTB Pistol starts as a playlist is incredibly disappointing. It's quite shameful to be honest.. How long has the community be [literally] begging for this?
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"While Magnum starts did feel really good, we noticed a lot of players didn't feel the need to pick up any other loadout weapons.
BR and AR variants weren't finding much use, and it is still quite easy to shoot out a Warthog gunner with Magnum starts. "
*gives players BR's to start with*
I like Randy and probably alot of those people, but naw dude
When were these comments made? This isn't post-tuning is it?
It would be crazy if the sandbox was originally balanced around magnum, but magnum btb never happened. Then they made the sandbox balance even worse, and use that as an excuse to not have magnum starts.
Yes and more yes. Good on the Forge community once again. I truly hope they really open up Halo Infinite PC and Xbox Forge. Allow real scripting and mods etc. MS you want another Minecraft? You've been sitting on it this whole time.
Hopefully an indicator of where 343 want to go in future as well. I wish the studio would give some dev polish to this community maps. Textures, custom object models etc. Something for pushing that next step.
that quote is from the exact article today talking about settling on BR starts
In order of writing it says
we tried Stabilization BR starts
- it was too accurate,
- casual players got spawn killed
- players didnt search for other weapons
- Warthog Gunners were killed too easy
- ppl didnt want to pick up AR/BR
- still "quite easy" to kill Warthog Gunners
- other game modes have magnum starts
- but hey now there are atleast 5 magnums on each map
- now BTB will have its own "style of play"
- BR will let you defend yourself, but pick up a magnum when you want
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Alternatively, they could've made Stabilization BR's on-map pickups so people would want to replace the Magnum. It is odd though how they're eluding to the Magnum being OP; I've never felt that way about it.
I don't know man, it doesn't make sense how they refuse to give us a playlist or even a Magnum variant to coincide with BR starts when we still have to put up with AR starts in TMCC. Fishy as hell.
I don't know man, it doesn't make sense how they refuse to give us a playlist or even a Magnum variant to coincide with BR starts when we still have to put up with AR starts in TMCC. Fishy as hell.
I'm glad they made it so you can capture a flag when yours is away. Without that, CTF matches drag on far too long. Might have to reinstall and give it a go now!
We tested Magnum starts for months. I was one of the early proponents and eventually changed my mind after seeing players pick off warthog gunners from across the full length of Dead Heat. Love the Magnum but the magnetism toward gunners is stupid OP. One of our objectives with the playlist was to finally get players back in vehicles in objective modes. You can't do that when players spawn with a Magnum. If we had the ability to make weapon adjustments it would have been a different story.
Sigh...
Man, I don't even know what to say anymore
Yeah the magnum has never been OP- they just made everything else underpowered, then they lament when people don't want feel compelled to try other weapons.
Rather than fix the actual problem, they just put a bandaid over the whole mode.
W/e, we're so late into the cycle that is impossible to justify making the proper fixes. Here's hoping we go into Infinity with the proper balancing philosophy. Our even better - let players define weapon properties in forge.
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Well that's a real shame, I gotta say when I'm playing btb I don't feel like I can just pick off warthog gunners at will, so that just shows how much I suck
Im sure yall did your due diligence, I just personally don't agree.
Today on the daily sports show I listen to was unpopular opinion day for the callers, maybe I'm just wound up.
I don't even think the other weapons are underpowered as they have plenty of uses in certain situations where the Magnum might be harder to use. Automatics are all pretty useful, precision weapons all have their uses, power weapons are all good, etc. The only precision weapon that is arguably worse than the Magnum is the standard BR, but even that has its uses with being a good close range weapon that allows for sweeping headshots.
I don't know man.. People have been begging for just a simple test for years now, but we never get one. That's incredibly disappointing.
Plus, surely you'd agree the data would be better if tested on the public, so I don't think closed tests are necessarily strong support of never trying Magnum starts.
It's not like they had to remove BR starts entirely. Why not just throw in a Pistol starts gametype to rotate with BR starts? Just give it a smaller % chance of appearing, but nope.
Wack I tell ya, wack!
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I think if their data shows a general reluctance to use other loadout weapons with magnum starts - then they've failed to give those weapons enough utility.
Maybe underpowered isn't the correct word to use. But given the frequency of engagement types in BTB (close, mid, long) I can understand why people wouldn't pickup other loadout weapons given how shallow the their use cases are compared to the mag. But that's what happens when range & dps are the only pertinent factors when weapons are balanced.
I hope they take a long hard look at CE when balancing Infinite's suite.
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Missed that one, sorry mate, I would've given it a run, time differences permitting.
QFT triple threat
I'm with you all the way on that one funk, but hey I love ya NOKYARD so I hope you don't take it personally, I'm certainly not blaming you, just my opinion
I just personally don't love the way that was handled, kinda like funk said, I just don't see how a weekend playlist with Mag starts, or even a low weighted gametype in the hopper would hurt anyone.
Saying your starting weapon is not a good choice because it was too good and people weren't switching it out and then giving BR doesn't make sense though. Unless there's just something about the BR I am completely missing.
I did participate in some map tests, and I'm just not sure that's the best format, I look forward to this "open and flighting" persona 343 has seemingly adopted and hope we have more flexibility in matchmaking settings and experiments.
Nobody would quit the game forever if for a weekend BTB was pistol starts, let's be honest only the hardest of core Halo players have been playing the past 2 years anyways, we're in it for the long haul at this point, but I digress
Also I feel bad Nok if you feel like you have to answer to that, it's not fair and I know it's not your responsibility, you keep doing you my man, I know you help in every way you possibly can.
I can tell you that almost everybody in the refresh Discord channel favoured Magnum starts so we did give it the best shot possible. It's too bad Mag starts and promoting vehicle use were opposing goals within the current sandbox. The Magnums on map were a last minute addition likely to help prevent outright boycotts (i assume, wasn't present for the sandbox decisions), which is why you see contradictions in the bulletin.
I still want more needle weapons and brute weapons. Maybe they could give us something like the Halo 2 Hunter arm cannon.
BR >>>> Any gun in Halo. My favourite gun in any FPS, and one of many reasons I disliked Reach. If BR isn't a top weapon in a Halo game, it's a shit Halo game.
Can they make the other guns useful first? There's little reason to use anything besides a pistol in the H5 sandbox.
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