I'm hoping for that at minimum. Wonder how far CEA is right now since that's being done at the same time as Reach apparently
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Halo Reach (PC/Xbox) update: Starting flights still planned to begin this month, flights wont have a NDA, 343 Pro team helping with PC controls
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Probably shouldn't have repeatedly said April, in the middle of April. Missing a date given 6 months out is totally understandable, missing within the month inspires zero confidence.
I have no issue with devs taking their time, everyone should work half as hard and take twice as long, but there's an art to managing community expectation.
Here's how not to do it:
Just say soon, then give a date when you know a date 100%
I have no issue with devs taking their time, everyone should work half as hard and take twice as long, but there's an art to managing community expectation.
Here's how not to do it:
"It's this month!"
"It's still totally this month!"
"It's probably this month!"
"Oops, it's the end of the month and it's not this month and we have no new date!"
Just say soon, then give a date when you know a date 100%
Less than thrilled about this given I'm pretty sure the "Pro Team" is the reason Halo 5 launched with quite possibly the worst aiming I've ever experienced in a console shooter lol
Like Brian said, they're trying to be as transparent as possible and part of that means they might hit some roadblocks they weren't anticipating.
I prefer they keep this level of communication up even if it means disappointing us because their timeline slips a little
Other then the game being pretty bug free not really. They still as they said have to iron out controls. But it's pretty much done.
Ah so they are planning on a quick Flight to Launch schedule then? Nice. Any idea how far CEA is along? Iirc it was being done at the same time as Reach.
Just flighting. I have no word on CEA.
Well, looks like that plan didn't pan out.
I don't get why they would act so confident about the flights coming out this month. They've been so shaky with giving any details about what features these new versions will have, they never came off as confident enough to have any set timeframe for a beta test.
They probably want to avoid a Street Fighter V situation of one platform barely getting any public beta testing before release, which would be very bad when they want to show that PC is their primary focus for once.
I agree that Halo 5's aiming system was one of the worst and weirdest in any FPS game, but you can't seriously think that this was the fault of the Pro Team. They are not your typical developers and they are not coding any of these features. Either way... 343i rebuild the Pro Team, because a couple of them left 343i and they decided to hire oter fromer pro players. Halo: MCC has also received a "modern aiming" feature that is one of the best things that ever happened to the aiming system in Halo games. Here is a pretty good video that showcases this:
I'm not really worried about the aiming and even if problems occur with it... That's why the flighting program exists and people will leave their feedback.
I disagree, part of the flighting process is having the necessary number of players signed up so that the testing actually garners results. Without the announcement that would not be possible at this stage.
Issues in development can ppop up at random or hurdles can take longer than expected. It wouldn't be too surprising if things were looking good when they were giving those updates but issues surfaced later and they couldn't iron them out in time. I much rather they keep with this level of transparency and not stop because some gamers take development updates as full on commitments (not talking about you BTW).
As others pointed out, they shouldn't have repeatedly said April for the flight unless they were sure. The flight system is good, but managing expectations is also good
They set proper expectations by clearly stating it could miss April. The reason why they even said it could start this month is because people alot of fans were begging for a launch window for flighting.
Pro team are former Pro players? Which would mean console players. Why don't they have someone from a PC background working on PC controls. In before we end up with garbage accel, decel, input lag etc. Additionally I bet we'll see shitty view model locations because they dont get changing fov will cause it to be a problem.
really do hope that because the games are nearly 9+ years old that it will run easily on older machines.
Will easily grab if i can run 1080/60FPS on a gtx 670 and i5.
Will easily grab if i can run 1080/60FPS on a gtx 670 and i5.
Yeah, it always came across to me as if it may happen in April if all goes as planned, but May always seemed likelier.
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Most Pro Halo players migrated to games where there Is a pro scene. I would be surprised if any of them are not familiar with playing with M&K
