343 INDUSTRIES IS DOING A GOOD JOB WITH THE HALO FRANCHISE

fucking christ

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REMEMBER THE MARINES?

YEAH WELL FUCK YOU THEY LOOK BETTER NOW

>>385889649
This looks good.

>>385889753
This looks like shit.

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>How do you want your comics senpai?

>>385889753
I expected much much worse desu

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YEEEAAAAH WEAPON SKINS ALRIGHT JUST WHAT THE SERIES NEEDED

OH DID I MENTION BATTLEPACKS?

>>385889880
GIVE

ME

SHADMAN

MAKE

ME

HAPPY

>>385889935
>Every modern multiplayer FPS does this, so let's laugh at Halo. Just Halo.

I bet you think Rainbow Six Siege is fucking fantastic.

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>>385889802
>This looks good.
LMAO
>>385890024
>it's okay because other companies do it

>>385890024
The difference between Halo now and Halo back then is that back then, Halo didn't do this stupid shit. Under Bungie we actually had good campaigns, good multiplayer and good fucking character customization that was given to you for being good and not paying $20 extra.

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>>385890024
>It's okay because other companies do it

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>>385890182
So, you don't like it for adding an extra layer of customization, yet you say the old Halo's were better for having good customization?

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>>385890398
>Micro transactions are good

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OH YEAH THAT MASTER CHIEF GUY, THE GUY THAT'S BEEN THE MAIN STAR OF THE SERIES AND MAJOR VIDEO GAME ICON FOR YEARS?

FUCK YOU WE HAVE THIS NEW GUY HE'S WAY BETTER. HE'S JUST LIKE MASTER CHIEF HE'S STRONG AND SMART AND CAN BEAT UP BAD GUYS JUST LIKE CHIEF. DO YOU LIKE HIM YET???

WELL FUCK YOU IT DOESN'T MATTER, THE CAMPAIGN IS MOSTLY FOCUSED ON HIM SO YOU CAN LIKE EVEN HIM MORE

>>385890749
go ahead and Tell me how fucking hard it is to get a nice camo after playing three to four matches in order to get a gold pack?

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JUST FUCK MY ART DESIGN UP SENPAI

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AYY LMAO

>>385891419
I agree, why does Halo 5's art design look like it's straight out of something with creativity?

>>385890762
typically I think /v/ gets it's panties in a wad about black protags being shoved down our throats too much, but part of what made master chief so cool was never seeing his face. For them to immediately show us Locke, he lost any chance of competing with Chief, and it feels like they really wanted us to know he was black. Fuck

>>385890762
What's up, Luke Cage?

>>385891419
Is the 2015 image an actual final release screenshot? Last Halo I personally owned was Halo 2. I'll play devil's advocate and assume they watered down the artstyle so much to appeal to the streamlined "aesthetic" of modern competitive shooters. 343 or their publishers must've REALLY missed the mark on who loves Halo and why they love it.

I'm getting eldewrito again just out of spite

>>385891337
>>385891419
These can't be real. It looks like they were made with forge or something. I don't play Halo myself so I don't know any better.

>>385892135
it's a Forge map, so yeah its going to look worse than dev made maps.

h5 has the best Forge in the series and its the one thing 343 has done well.

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>>385890762
>>385889935
>>385889753
>>385889649
>>385891337
>>385891419
Is that you, Act Man?

>>385889753
Is this really what theyve done to them? All they had to do was stick to the Reach style of marines which were the pinnacle of their design. Fucking 343.

>>385891952
>>385892135
That's a forged map you fucking retards

>>385889753
>literally just clone pilots from star wars
kek

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YEEEEAAAAA BOOOOOYYY

>>385892353
Great forge but the assets look like ass. Hopefully they look better in 6.

>>385891337
They're going for some sort of weird esports thing which is why 2015 looks like you should be playing paintball on it

>>385890024
>Rainbow six siege is bad because of skins

Siege isn't bad, it just has the worst company supporting it

Greetmgs to all the Halo 3 crybabies ITT

>>385892480
I'll be the autist and point out that there weren't any Marines in Reach. Those were Army soldiers.

>>385892578
>forged btb maps somehow are related to competitive 4v4s

????

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Do people still play this? I recently built a new machine and I wouldn't mind some Halo.

>>385893094
So what the fuck is this? Why release only the map building function, and not the entire thing?
What were they thinking?

>>385893336
To my knowledge its basically the multiplayer. They added a server browser at some point but it didn't launch with one initially.

>>385889802
If you're not a Halo fan, it's actually fairly well designed armour.
Doesn't fit Halo at all though.

>>385892306
All BTB maps were made with Forge. They wanted to replace BTB with the 32 player Warzone, but caved due to demand.

>>385889649
>tfw you like what 343 did with the aliens design but hate anything human that they touch.
343 has done some good and bad things to halo, but fuck them until dead for fucking up the forward unto dawn.

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>>385892545
>EHH, ARR
>LOCK AND LOADED
>LAST SLICE
>LORD OF THE FRIES
>people actually defend this

We don't deserve another good Halo title.

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>>385894539
New elites look dumb as fuck though, they have teeth over their fucking eyes. Plus the old armor was way cooler, newer armor is shittier just more shiny and has more polygons from being in a more recent game.
Halo 2 Anniversary did them justice though.

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>>385892480
only reason I don't like the Marines redesign is because they got rid of the ridiculous yet iconic pointed visor on the helmet and when for a more rounded "pudgy" looking redesign for the helmets. The shin-guards and the 21st century kevlar looking body armor can stay (needs more magholders and other military looking junk on it for aesthetic) just don't touch the helmets. Reach had best more realistic iterations.

>>385891952
>we want the splatoon audience
You can be creative and not autistic

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>>385889753
Is that from the new EDF?

Is Halo Wars 2 any good? I'm legit considering tinkering with a win10 virtual box so I could play that and halo 5 forge.

343 killed the feanchise. Just hop on Reach and 3 instead, Halo 3 is getting backward compatibility soon.

>>385892545
>343 using mister chef
It feels so wrong.

>>385890762
WE WUZ SPARTANZ N SHEET

>>385895035
The teeth isn't actually close to their eyes in the Halo 4 one, the angle just makes it look that way.

t. somebody who has actually ripped the models and compare them

>>385896792
Still though, it's too close and looks like it blocks a good chunk of their peripheral vision

>>385895675
343 killed Halo and Bungie killed itself.

What does this mean?

>>385889649
Is that supposed to be a gundam or the fucking Guyver?

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>>385889649
Suddenly Perfect doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

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>>385893094
Yeah.
I do use it almost daily, and if you know how to use it, getting a 16 man party is easy, although it's kinda buggy which can fuck up 1/5 of your games if you don't know you are doing.
It essentially is the only good part of Halo and free, so yeah, get it and play with others, customs browsers is a gift from the heavens.

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>>385889649
>>385898856
What the fuck happened?

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>>385889649
>Bungie have never done wrong

>>385889649
>gundam

I'm a goondamn fag from /m/ and even i think everything in nu-Halo looks like absolutely retarded dogshit

>>385899510
There is literally nothing wrong with Hayabusa. The only really weird looking armor Bungie made was Gungnir, and until they rounded it out, it was one of my favorite helmets.

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I don't give a shit. As far as I am concerned the series ended at 3.

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>>385890952
I don't want to pay money or waste time on RNG bullshit to make my character look how I want. I didn't think Reach was particularly special, but fuck me if it didn't have one of the last good customization systems in gaming. More games need to have alternate outfits and skins be built in and earned instead of in off to the side loot crates or DLC. If something looks good, it should be earned, and not earned in the way you went out and stole your parent's credit card to buy 10 crates while hoping to get lucky.

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>>385889649
>This armor set was an EXCLUSIVE bonus code in the $399.99 Halo 4 custom Xbox 360 console bundle
>I bought it for this armor
>a kick ass custom 360 with halo sound effects and 2 custom wireless controllers was a bitchin side bonus
>go in-game with my $400 armor and get asked where I got it
>feel high and mighty as fuck
>stop playing the game after a while
>they released the armor for everyone shortly after

I will never not be ass blasted by a company as much as I am by 343i.
Pic fucking related.

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>>385890762
HES FASTER THAN SONIC!

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Campaign
Second Half of 2 > 3 > CE = ODST > First half of 2 > Reach > 4 > never played 5 but I'll assume it's here

Multiplayer
3 > 2 >= Reach > CE

Soundtrack
2 > CE >= 3 > ODST > Reach > 5 > 4

Art Design
CE > ODST >= 3 > 4 > 2 > Reach

>>385898856
What the fuck even is this shit? I don't remember that set at all.

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Leave Halo 6's artstyle to us

>>385900873
>4 higher than reach in art design
you're retarded, like actually sitting in the middle of class eating glue kind of retarded

>>385894732
>people actually defend this
Fucking where?

>>385900987
Fucking reach baby lmao. Reach was the most generic military garbage. Every level whether multiplayer or not could be placed exactly in a CoD game and it wouldn't look out of place.

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I'm 28 and I never played Halo

>>385900928
those are actually kinda cool

>>385900873
>pic

>tfw halo 3 weapon art furry porn was my first fap

>>385900873
>The second half of 2 being better then the first half, CE being equal to ODST and better then 2's first hal
>3 better then 2 for MP
>CE and 3 having better soundtracks then ODST
>CE for best art design when it's so burdened by technical limitations you can hardly even say it has art design

dumbest post i've seen all day

>>385901134
They are pretty good games, but they are certainly more about the package as a whole then any indivual competent.

If you have a friend with an xbone, it's worth playing through the campaigns of CE, 2, 3, ODST and 4 on MCC and Reach via backwards compatability

>>385889753
>kevlar
>26th century
>after the war
huuuuuuuuuuuuh

>>385901134
i bet ur dad played with your halo though

>>385900928
>>385901148
Is that official artwork because that looks fucking awesome. I love the clunkiness of it but who knows how that would translate into 3d

>>385892480
>Reach
Wasn't the pinnacle of jack shit, Halo 3 Marines were the pinnacle of their designs.

>>385901368
Clunky

>>385901093
This

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>>385901368
>>385901438
Clunky spartan armor is the best. Too bad 343i doesn't into art design.

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>>385889753
Halo Wars had the best marine design. This is indisputable.

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>>385901368
Halo Wars 2 concept art.

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I'm just glad the multiplayer isnt a 500ping fest

>>385895182
>realistic
That's why Reach was shit.

>>385889753
Why did the Marines always look incredibly unequipped to fight space battles versus plasma guns and shit? Every iteration of Halo makes them look this way

>>385901558
Not really.

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>>385889649

I'll never forgive them for changing the designs of the warthog. Why mess with perfection.

>>385901625
Yeah really

>>385889935
PEEEEEEEETZAAAAAAA
cowabunga dude

>>385892578
The old UT games were styled after sports tournaments, especially 2004, and THEIR maps didn't look like plastic dogshit.

>>385901231
>The second half of 2 being better then the first half, CE being equal to ODST and better then 2's first hal
Outskirts, Metropolis, Cairo and arbiters first missions suck fucking balls. Shitty hallway simulators filled with puke orange and shit brown. Regret is the finest mission in the whole series. ODST is overrated as fuck around here, it's just a bunch of mediocre levels that are too short. Uplift Reserve is really good though. AotCR/TB, the Silent Cartographer are much better than anything in ODST.

>3 better then 2 for MP
2 is filled with maps that were clearly not made in mind to balance out the fact that every person was carrying a sniper rifle at all times (BR). The BR nerf in 3 made maps like last resort playable without dying for walking 3 feet.

> >CE and 3 having better soundtracks then ODST

"DUDE JAZZ LMAO" CE and 3 have such a large variety of fantastic soundtracks that all sound and define halo as a SCI FI opera. A lot of ODST's soundtrack is forgettable.

>CE for best art design when it's so burdened by technical limitations you can hardly even say it has art design

CE still looks fantastic as hell what the fuck are you smoking? It's one of the few 3d games over 15 years old that I can gladly say still look great.

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>>385901861
forgot pic

>>385901321
>all vests are Kevlar
Unless there's some lore I'm not aware of there is literally zero indication it's Kevlar. People just see webbing and think Kevlar

>>385892480
I agree but those were army dudes not marines

>>385901416
The only thing Halo 3 is the pinnacle of is being the worst and most overrated entry in the entire franchise. Not even ODST could save that shit.

>>385901595

I imagine all the top of the line armor and equipment and armor would be rather costly to make, I always got the feeling that most of the marines you fought with were just rookies and shit.

>>385901595
To empower you as the player. Halo is literally just a giant power fantasy

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Do you remember the halo figures before they went to mattle and became plastic coated in m&m dyes? I hate the inflated prices they have now, I have to fucking Ross or DD's if I ever want to find one for cheap

>>385901969
>The only thing Halo 3 is the pinnacle of is being the worst and most overrated entry in the entire franchise. Not even ODST could save that shit.

3 is objectively the best in the series. Forge alone certifies this. Let alone the fact that it also has the best map design and weapon balance as well.

>>385901654
>no argument

Typical tasteless baby. Let me guess Halo 2 is your favorite Halo, right kiddo?

>>385900362
>spending $400 on hats

>>385901969
Halo 3 was the best in the series and after that Bungie and their games went to shit starting with ODST.

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>>385902054
>3 is objectively the best in the series.

Stopped reading right there. Go be full retard somewhere else.

>>385902057
>Let me guess Halo 2 is your favorite Halo, right kiddo
And how would that be a problem? Reach is fucking CoDified dogshit. If you like that shit you also enjoy the casualization of the whole series.

>>385902057
No Halo 3 was and I started with Halo 1 by the way.

>>385902115
>Stopped reading right there. Go be full retard somewhere else.

Where's the argument? Please enlighten me in what ways how 3 is not the best?

>>385902119
>And how would that be a problem?

AHAHAHAHAHA

> Reach is fucking CoDified dogshit.

No, Reach is a throwback to Halo 1. Halo 2 is what CoDified Halo with the dogshit BR and removal of pistol and health.

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>>385901595
Halo 1 version was actually pretty practical for that purpose.
>covered in disposable armor plates
>get shot by plasma
>plate gets slagged, drop it off before plasma eats through into your body and slap on a fresh one

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>>385902181
>Reach is a throwback to Halo 1

>>385895035
The new Elite heads look better, like they could actually exist compared to the cartoon characters they were before.

Anybody got a MEGA of Halo:CE or something? I need to go back down memory lane again.

>>385902181
>removal of pistol
Halo 1's pistol was actually bad, it served no purpose, everyone loves the scope meme but it had horrible long range accuracy and you could pick up a fucking needler and achieve better results

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>>385901986
I think 343 forgot about that when they started shoving spartan characters everywhere without them really developing the idea of them mass producing them again after Master Chief being one of the only survivors after Reach. Though I'm sure 343 changed that shit in the canon to further cover up their new train wreck of a trilogy

>>385895035
I really don't understand what the fuck was going on with Reach's designs.

>>385902181
>No, Reach is a throwback to Halo 1
Yeah, because CE had people running around at 50mph, flipping around, and going invisible or invincible at the touch of a button. You're fucking retarded and if you enjoy any of that dogshit you might as well just drop Halo all together and purchase the latest CoD title.

>>385902181
>Halo 2 is what CoDified Halo with the dogshit BR and removal of pistol and health.
Blindly ignoring the even more so broken DMR in Reach, capable of destroyed Banshees and Scorpions in 2 clips. If anything Reach was a throwback to the unbalanced dogshit that was 2. Where everybody had the most broken weapon sitting right in between their hands.

>>385900141
Killing Floor 2 has a solution to the Issues with Crates. You can recycle them, and slowly get the stuff you want. Yeah, it's random, takes really long to do, and you will get repeats, but you can theoretically get everything in the Game that isn't DLC without having to pay a Dime. Least on the PS4 Version, anyways. This obviously isn't the end all be all, but it's better than nothing.

>>385901595
Halo 1 was largely inspired by the movie Aliens. The marines were basically a direct copy of them, some building architecture was taken, most notably the doors.

The pelican kinda looks like the dropship, too.

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>>385889753
They changed them again

>>385892435
>hello people, this is the performing male here, and today we're going to talk about WHY 343 FUCKING SUCKS

>>385902442
>SMG was the most broken weapon
Bungie never did BR starts until MLG kids started shitting up the place and then it was forced into every matchmaking playlist

>>385895770
Frank O'Connor invented mister chief you dumbass

>>385901046
I unironically use The Last Slice and I don't give a damn. If you flip out in the current year over a dumb weapon skin I have to wonder how you fared back when Source game modding was booming and people were slapping retarded textures and models and sound bytes everywhere. At least its a quality texture.

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What went wrong? It looks like shit compared to the original.

>>385902206
I love the older UNSC designs. Rugged, standard-issue, and unique. Everything from the rugged armor plates to the tiny eyepiece indicates a military that works with what it's got.

Newer Marines are just standard tacticool, without the iconic pointy helmets and cheerful attitudes they could be from Call of Duty 4 and nobody would know the difference.

I don't hate the new Marines, but I do miss the old ones.

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>>385901368
Its from Halo Wars 2. If i remember right the art director for HW2 is on as the art director for Halo 6. So far he has done a good job.

>>385902684
if they made it a good, working game why would anyone buy new halo games

>>385902547
Not him but this is Blur, 343's Grim stated that Halo Wars 2 art was all Blurs, so I can see the marines most likely looking like they did in Halo 4 and 5 in Halo 6.

>>385889649
>company named after the robot that drags you to the worst level of the original halo

>>385902547
Looks like starship Troopers

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>>385889935
That gun looks quite awesome, with this explosion skin.

>>385902684
Too bright. CE was colorful but they saturated it way too fucking much in the anniversary.

>>385902805
is hw2 actually any good
I acquired a copy a while back and cannot play it until I get a new tv

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>>385902970
Its a pretty simple RTS but its pretty fun if youre not looking for Starcraft level complexity or anything. They finally fixed the fucking art outside of the Forerunners.

>>385900873
My nigger

https://youtu.be/g4KcFG4LpcA

>>385902424
Even back in Bungie's day there were quite a few still running around in the books and comics and shit. Even before Reach came out.
>Black Team, 4 members strong
>Gray Team, 3 members strong
>Red Team, 3 members strong, out of touch with UNSC but still alive on Spirit of Fire
>Blue Team, 4 members strong including Chief, stuck in Onyx but still alive
>that chick in the graphic novel that apparently retired but was still combat capable
>various Spartan IIIs

>>385902442
>Forgetting that the Halo CE scorpion left the driver's head totally exposed to pistol fire
>Forgetting that Halo CE multi didn't even have banshees except on PC, where they were broken as fuck
>Forgetting that Halo CE on the PC also added even more broken shit like fuel rod guns and missile warthogs
If you remove armor abilities and loadouts Reach had fantastic weapon balance.

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>>385902695

Less is moar, senpai.

>>385901995
Halo figures were always shit

>>385903156
tfw sprint was actually the best armor ability

>>385902874

If only Halo was a dank as SST.

>>385902805
>If i remember right the art director for HW2 is on as the art director for Halo 6
You sure about this, do you have a source?

>>385901595
>Why did the Marines always look incredibly unequipped

Because they are. Spartans are the only reason Humanity hasn't fucking dropped dead.

>>385903156
>If you remove armor abilities and loadouts Reach had fantastic weapon balance.

The DMR literally made every single other weapon irrelevent, discount maybe the sniper. I don't know how you can make a weapon as broken and accessible as the Halo 2 BR.

>>385902684
Pillar of Autumn
>pretty shitty - added additional glowy lights everywhere in an effort to make things look high-tech, forgetting that at this point the UNSC wasn't even that high-tech - ship design more reminiscent of Tron than Aliens
Halo
>fairly okay, in what will become a common theme the interior structures look like shit - removed fog from distant view, added bright lights everywhere
Truth and Rec
>totally botched original level theme of arid desert, now looks like lush tropical savanna shrubland - interior ship design looks okay but fucks with original texture designs of wire mesh and hexagon pattern on floor, added too many lights in dumb spots
etc. etc.

>>385903341
It was from some video from either LNG or Actman where they talked to the art director and they said he's moving into the art director role and that he had huge problems with the new Wraith and mainly because the Halo 5 wraith was supposed to actually be a different vehicle altogether. With him as art director and Tom French in as multiplayer lead maybe Halo 6 wont be total shit. If only they could get Joseph Staten to come back to the series and save the campaign.

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>we will never get to play as the best spartan armor design

It improves on the 2/3 armor and has the best proportions of any of the designs, it's perfection.

>>385903613
Oh yeah! Also while Joe isn't writing the story, unfortunately, 343 has a new writer for Halo 6. I actually have hope for Halo 6 now even though I'm cautiously optimistic.

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>tfw no Odd One Out game

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>>385904047
That does look pretty rad

>>385904165
Does anyone know who the new writer is? Even if its fucking Karen Traviss it won't be as bad as fucking Brian Reed.

>>385902619
How does someone who's only job was to author a weekly pr post become a lead writer on the game.
No wonder all of 343's Halos are poorly written.

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>>385904181
I wish Eldorito wouldn't crash so much for me, I'd play it a lot more. And it'd be nice if we got that fucking update they keep promising

>>385904331
Frankie Wasnt the lead writer. Brian Reed. Frankie has actually written one or two decent things in the Halo universe. Brian Reed is despised even in his normal trade of comics.

>>385904272
Unfortunately not yet. I'm just happy Brian Reed got fired, that was the greatest day.

So Jerome is going to take over when Chief dies, right?

>when some college nerds save Halo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfE9Q3I3Q_g

>>385904331
Frank O'Connor isn't a writer, but even he writes better than that hack, Brian Reed.

>>385904443
>Chief dies
HAHAHA, that would be the day. You must have missed that interview of Frankie and Kiki stated that Chief is going to be the MC for now on and isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

>>385904181
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZxqrylX4nk
It's a good time to be a halo fan with a PC

>>385904586
The original plan was to probably kill him off and have locke replace him but then they learned their lesson with Halo 5

>>385904390
>eldorito

What is this all about?

A quick google search suggests it's a cancelled game but you post like it's still being developed?

>>385904951
Halo Online is a cancelled russian F2P Halo game that is a sort of Frankenstein mashup of code from Halo 3 and Halo 4. Eldewrito is the name of the fan development around it which has made the game playable and added tons of features buried in the code like Forge, multiplayer via simulated system link, and every map that was playable in the Russian version before cancellation.

Basically, Halo Online was a P2W Russian Nexon-quality garbage piece of shit and Eldorito has made it an actual Halo game again, or as close as it can get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob2f5ta0hZI

>>385904861
>they learned their lesson with Halo 5
Feels good

>>385905223
So it basically just plays like Halo 3?

I'll probably download it once I get my new PC, how active is the player base?

Is Microsoft gonna try to kill it?

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>>385905591
The project has been running for years. Microsoft briefly tried to kill it but have since moved on.

It doesn't play exactly like Halo 3, so depending on how familiar you are with it you might notice some differences (some physics are slightly changed and weapons are different. For instance the Battle Rifle is now hitscan and NOT projectile) there are also new weapons which include the DMR and stat variations of the regular weapons which were part of the Russian P2W scheme. Duel-wielding is also not possible, but is slated to be in the next update. Also, there is no deployable equipment from Halo 3.

Aside from that, though, it is still Halo 3's engine. If you hook a controller up, you can find the original pause menu and more. The armor is all fuck-ugly but there are mods to replace the weapon models and armor with Halo 3, and other mods to personalize your game. You can even find the easter eggs on the Valhalla wall depending on the date (pic related)

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>>385905591
I forgot to mention the playerbase. It's a very small community, but it will fluctuate as sometimes Youtubers will bring temporary boosts. Checking right now there are 26 servers and 33 players, but it is the middle of the night in America and on a Wednesday.

>>385900921
It was one of the less popular specializations in 4

>>385905223
holy shit thanks bud

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>>385903198
>All you greenhorns who wanted to see Xenomorphs up close... this is your lucky day

Seriously. 343i shouldn't bother making any new Halo games until they watch this movie

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>>385899891
My man.

>>385892623
>there weren't any Marines in Reach.
well you're a bad autist because there are literally marines in halo reach.

>>385900928
these look fucking great

>>385900928
Holy fuck I love it. Is this concept for a future game?

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>>385902684
>removed distance fog is a bad thing

nostalgiafags need to leave. I can buy it being a bad thing in the swamp level since it added to the atmosphere but fog doesn't even exist inside interior structures, come the fuck on anon.

Likewise, the hex patterns added to the covenant design makes sense since that's a key part of their visual design, and would have been what those structures look like in canon. Same for the changes to forerunner structures, if you look at the artbook in CE their actual concept art looks closer to how they look in CEA then in CE itself since CE just had that many hardware limitations.

>>385903475
The DMR is less OP then the BR was in 2 and 3, i'd argue, every gun in reach exist the plasma repeater is actually somewhat reliable in their own role

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>>385901654
Both CE and 2 are fine. The removal of health in 2(it was actually never removed and is still there, just not visible) had nothing to do with CoD, nor did reach's loadouts, which are litterally just armor ability selection.

4 and 5 are the only games to take clear inspiration from CoD and only 4 did it in a way that doesn't mesh well.

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>>385902695
3's looked well suited to it, i'd argue

>>385910770
Halo wars 2 units

>>385889649
Fuck I hate all the Halo 4 on spartan armour redesigns.
They are fucking sleek and streamlined like literally every other sci-fi setting out there. Spartans are not supposed to be sleek or streamlined. They are supposed to be chunky and angular. They are supposed to evoke the same kind of aesthetics as a tank, while still having enough clearance for freedom of movement.

Why for the love of god would you go and ruin the main element of their visual design by making it all curved, sleek, and formfitting? If you have room for all these pointless bevels and shit, you have room to stick another armour plate over the top of it.

>>385890398
Could you be any more obviously underaged?

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>>385912319
Oh

Is there any chance Halo will have a good art style again?

>>385914029
Halo 6 probably won't but if they do more games they'll probably go back to the original

>>385914337
What makes you say that? I don't think you're wrong or anything. Just looking for any piece of hope to hold on to.

>>385914337
I don't care if they break the continuity of design. Halo needs this kind of stuff back, the majority of 4 and 5's designs are so shit by comparison.

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>>385914410
Halo Wars 2 had a seperate art director which was just a one and done thing, and unless that changed I doubt 343i is just going to start scraping any art they've already done for the next game and attempt to emulate it since they're usually stubborn pricks about any pre-launch design choices