/hg/ - Halo General

>>170775453
>tfw used Hayabusa
>always got shit for it

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>only ONE (1) Arbiter so far at KIWC
I don't think he got nerfed hard or anything, he's still pretty viable.

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>Previous 50 threads
#290 - I Want to Believe >>170451945
#289 - Implying >>170239103
#288 - Re-Write >>170117748
#287 - Place Your Bets IV >>169893670
#286 - Exploration >>169725747
#285 - Warthog Rush >>169537682
#284 - Let 'Volir
#283 - Dinos Playing Hoop
#282 - Standard
#281 - Halo Wars 2
#280 - Ultimate
#279 - Early Access
#278 - War of Wits
#277 - Imminent Hexagons
#276 - Soon
#275 - Never Forget
#274 - Opinions
#273 - Halo Wars is the only good Halo
#272 - Definitive
#271 - Blitz
#270 - Inauguration
#269 - Also on PC
#268 - Halo Wars
#267 - LOL Cards XD
#266 - Pulse
#265 - An Image for Drones
#264 - 2017
#263 - New Years Eve
#262 - Golden Shee
#261 - Christmas
#260 - 20 Pounds of Pussy and Ass
#259 - Betrayed by the Euros
#258 - Scripting
#257 - Place Your Bets III
#256 - Monitor's Bounty
#255 - Wrath of Balaho
#254 - Finish the Fight
#253 - New Friends
#252 - Baby Chief
#251 - Primoridal will Never be in a Game
#250 - 15th Anniversary
#249 - Full Scale Replica
#248 - Cool Clubs
#247 - Down but not Out
#246 - No New Content
#245 - Forge is Hard
#244 - Haloween
#243 - Halo 5's 1st Birthday
#242 - [Embed]

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Is hijacking Nightingales and Shrouds bullying?
It feels like bullying

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>>170775221
To be fair, Carmine is killed with a Sniper shot to the head, which kill you in Gears regardless if you have a helmet or not, so Marcus' logic is flawed.

>>170775414
Yeah, Actman invited Late Night and Favyn over before the three of them went to 343 for the Halo Wars 2 launch party.

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>>170775453
Do you see what I see?

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>>170776108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDFvQRfGxw

>>170776108
oh shit it's goatse

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>>170775696
The Halo 4 DLC maps are criminally underrated.

Landfall has one of my favorite skyboxes.

>>170776230
In MCC and even the original in 720p they're painfully 2D and pixelated. It's close to looking good but the hardware really held it back.

If it weren't so fucking low-res and shitty pixel though, yeah the art design was nice.

>>170776230
I liked Daybreak's box more. The new frigate design is pretty cool and it was nice to be able to look at it

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>First for our hottest waifu

343 panel at pax east today:

https://youtu.be/U6HxXDq8ClM

>and here she is in gameplay:

https://youtu.be/0Y0UYIKJr6E

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>>170776568
This is my issue with a lot of halo 4's skyboxes. Coming from 3 and reach especially, it is very obvious that the skyboxes are much less quality in a technical sense.

Artistically they are fine, but they get held back by being 2D cutouts with jagged pixel edges that you can see without zooming. 3&Reach had AMAZING detailed 3D skyboxes, (and bungie continued that trend in destiny even though the rest of that game was pretty bad)

It makes me wonder why they put stuff in like that so low-res. Surely making the mountains or something a little higher res so they aren't pixel-art tier wouldn't have strained the console so much?

I remember in Reach doing all the out-of level exploration glitches and being amazed at how massive and detailed the environments were. And the skyboxes themselves with giant cloud formations and stuff looked great, even zoomed in on.

Maybe it's a bit of an autistic rant but it's something I've always wanted to properly discuss on here, especially with how often people say "Halo 4 had the best graphics on Xbox 360" when really it fell short even to its predecessors.

There are exceptions of course, like this nice screenshot from last thread, but it's still lower quality overall. Like all those hills in the back are just 2D cutouts.

>>170776230
>>170776568
>>170777043
>People liking something from Halo 4
What is this sorcery? 4 was trash.

>>170777316
4 had some good things to it, one of which was its maps.

>>170777403
No, nothing from Halo 4 is good. Period.

>>170777537
I disagree.

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>>170777316
>>170777403
4 wasn't all bad. The multiplayer had many LARGE cancerous tumors that required a lot of effort to be cut out. So basically the entire matchmaking was fucked.

(Seriously, the maps don't even have weapons placed on them by default. They expected everyone to enjoy Ordinance THAT much.)

Solace is one of my favorite maps aesthetically, and I do quite like exile but it's annoying how objects in the distance turn to poo and the grass dissapears after 2 feet. Plus, I've never really been able to play a proper BTB match on it considering how there's no variants with normal weapon and vehicle spawns.

As for the campaign, I didn't like it at all, it was quite shit.

>>170777537
>tfw trying to get all the variants of the 4 maps in MCC that have weapons on map
So far I have almost half of them. The struggle is real

>>170777403
Halo 4s maps were also awful, though. It's tough to choose which is worse between 4 and 5, I don't even consider adding Reach in to the debate because it was 99% Forge maps.

>>170778469
Speak for yourself.
Halo 4 has my favorite maps after 2.
It's just terrible that infinity slayer renders them pointless

>>170775643
Is Sleep playing? He pretty much won Evo last year using only arby.

>>170778469
Well, I disagree with that too, at least in the sense of BTB. I didn't play standard very often

Who /hijacking nightingales/ here?

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On the map abandon, there's birds flying above if you look up. They're all flying in the same direction.

What are they running from?

>>170777954
Exile is a cramped map with little room for vehicles. The middle base is also a clusterfuck for grenades. I see Exile getting praise but I really don't understand why. I think features like No Descope made Halo 4s maps feel even worse too, since people moved around less and clung to cover more.

>>170778580
Halo 4s BTB is even worse than 5s which was an afterthought. Awful cramped maps which you could barely use vehicles in, spawnable plasma pistols. I miss BTB. Reachs highlights for me were BTB heavies and Invasion

>>170778559
He plays tomorrow, today is Last Chance Qualifiers.

>>170778250
Hey me too. I've been going in the Halo 4 playlist and hoping randoms vote for Legendary slayer.

It doesn't always work. Fucking randoms with shit taste voting infinity slayer.

I've got 4 or 5 of them now, though.

>>170778912
I've thought about just forging weapon spawns on myself but I know I'd do a shit job

>>170778746
I think given Halo 5s BTB had no effort put into it and it was still kind of alright, I think 6 could have a return to form for BTB if they actually put some dev time into it. Halo 5 was made for Competitive Arena play and the rest of the multiplayer suffers

It seems like 343 are finally starting to wake up and realise that people don't like them messing with pretty much everything since they got their hands on the franchise. They're slowly edging back towards classic gameplay, reverting back to a more classic art style in 6, adding black undersuits in 6. We might actually get a Halo game with 6.

I hope they bring back classic sound effects, they butchered quite a lot of iconic weapons and sounds like plasma grenades, plasma pistols, the warthog etc.

>>170779094
>I think given Halo 5s BTB had no effort put into it and it was still kind of alright, I think 6 could have a return to form for BTB if they actually put some dev time into it. Halo 5 was made for Competitive Arena play and the rest of the multiplayer suffers
Actually all of it suffers because 5 is probably the least new-player friendly halo game. They backpeddled too far from 4 and as a result nobody wants to play the arena because it has such a strong git gud stigma attached to it, even in the social playlists.
It's a shame because it's really well balanced.

>>170779236
I actually kind of agree.
I enjoy 5's multi now that I'm somewhat proficient in it but man, the road getting there was just suffereing. Not fun at all.
In the older games even when my team was getting stomped I still always enjoyed the match.

>>170777231
Why do people always ask the most retarded questions in Q&A?
They should've asked stuff like:
>Matchmaking for blitz FF when?
>Flood/promethean as DLC?
>What's the DLC campaign gonna be about?

Instead we got that fucking idiot kid asking for Forge's ramming line of dialogue.

>>170779236
This so much.
I have literally nobody to play 5 with now because all my friends that bought it have dropped it because it was too sweaty for them.

>>170778979
Yeah, same. I've got the legendary variants of Skyline, Abandon, Pitfall, Haven, and I think maybe one more so far.

Any I've got that you want? I could put them on my file share. I remember there was one I saw in the matchmaking once that I really wanted, but unfortunately nobody voted for it, and the name is escaping me.

>Halo 3 Anniversary
>Halo 3 and its entire multiplayer with the H2 anniversary engine and graphics
>Retail: 40$ or 30$ if purchased as an add-on for MCC

>>170779651
Day 1 buy, but it probably won't happen.

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>>170779651
STOP, its not gonna happen.

>>170779651
That would be glorious... assuming they fix MCC

>>170779651
>MCC

It won't happen. Even 343's community manager admitted that MCC is a "house of cards".

Anything they change about it is bound to break some other things even more.

>>170779831
>>170779919
>it won't happen
It was a hypothetical post.
We know in all likelihood it won't happen.

>>170779236
>>170779425
It's literally the Mario Kart 8 of Halo games.

It's extremely well balanced, but because of that there's nothing to stop the proficient from absolutely shitting on the newcomers, and the ranking system doesn't do enough to solve this issue.

>>170779651
I want to believe

>>170779651
>Halo 3 Anniversary is out
>Go buy it
>Install it in my Xbox
>See 343 logo
>Sell/return the game

>>170780221
Not there yet, but I'm getting there

Whose bright idea was it to change Anders?

>>170779651
Using H2As engine makes no sense. The game would feel off. H2As multiplayer was sadly trash too because they used a modified version of Halo 4s engine and it really showed plus loadouts.

So basically Halo 3 with the 2A campaign treatment. It will never happen, at least not for a long time. Halo 3 is a still a fantastic looking game besides character faces, we would need much stronger hardware to make a graphical leap like Halo 2 to H2A.

>>170779953
You play as both Kurt and the 3's.

>Opening level play as Lucy or Tom in the attack that killed all the S3's but them
>2nd Cutscene/Level is Kurt looking over data of the assault and does a flashback to you and Blue Team attacking the cruiser and getting blown away from the battle field and drifting off into darkness from 1st Person POV
>Play as the 3's doing wargames/training exercises
>When the Sentinels show up you go back to Kurt who chooses his 3 armor and joins up with Kelly
>Fight through Onyx against Covies and Sentinals
>The final scene of the game where everyone but Kurt jumps into the core and Kurt setting of the nuke and telling the Elite that "Spartans never die."

It would make for a pretty neat game if they made stealth a key part of the game. Also they could introduce a "rage" mode which turns you into a bullet sponge for 10 seconds as a way of incorporating the 3's deficiency.

I mostly just want to see that final moment in action rather then read off the page.

>>170780673
I mean, I'd love to see it play out, but the sentinels on onyx had shields that were nearly impenetrable to small arms fire and had weapons way more powerful than the ones in the games

>>170780513
Mocap

>>170780673
>ywn get a high quality CGI movie of GoO

>>170780569
You really don't. Upgraded visuals have more to do with art style than textures.

But I agree with the point about we probably won't get it for a while.
As someone in the last thread said, it will probably be the fans that do it.

You can choose 1 cutscene from Halo 3 to be done by Blur, which do you choose?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPAAmr899i4

I'd choose the one where they listen to Cortanas message on the ship.

>>170782364
Everything between "Floodgate" and "The Ark"

Anyone want to play some h5? I want to do the mythic warzone firefight, but im down for anything

>>170782625
REACHED!

>>170782901
Normally I would say yes but with the time change tonight I should probably just go to sleep.

>>170783606
God damn i can your gaping vagina from here. Pussy ass fuckfairy

Remember, glassed planets have bad records.

>>170782625
WHY WAS IT NOT DESTROYED WITH THE REST OF THEIR FLEET?

Was the Rookie dying the biggest fuck you in 343 owned lore?

>>170789270
Yes

He deserved to live a quiet life after we played him and he made it through Mombasa

And I don't mean retiring and riding off into the sunset, I just mean we didn't need to hear anything about him again

>>170790317
He did live a quiet life. He never said shit.

I will never understand how people got so attached to his mute ass.

>>170789270
It's on the list.

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>>170791989
Because he's a playable protagonist. It means our fighting and effort in the game was ultimately for nothing, cast aside in a shitty book.

It's like how people would be upset if they killed Arbiter or something

Nobody got mad when 6 died, though. Because of the whole "from the beginning, you knew the end" thing.

>>170792358
I disagree with almost all of this

>>170792358
and 6 went out fighting his hardest on a doomed planet, rookie just gets shot by some fucking innies

>>170775453
Literally the most overrated armor ever. It got way too much praise becuase it wasn't as generic as the other armor.

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>>170794619
I don't mind it since it was a tribute for Dead or Alive 4. Thought at the time, a surprising amount of people didn't know about that.

I like it when developers pay homage to each other like that.

When were you when Halo saved the RTS genre?

>>170800443
Can't save that which is already dead sadly.

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>>170780569
>>170782361
I just want it because the 10 year anniversary is coming up

Halo CE and Halo 2 both got their's released for their 10 year birthday.. But if a remaster of Halo 3 gets released for it's 15th anniversary, I'm gonna feel cheated

I'm OCD about it

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>>170779651
>>170779856
>>170779919
>>170780124
>>170780221
>>170780569
>>170779831
>>170779997
just stop
we have this shit every fucking thread

http://wccftech.com/343-development-director-halo-3/

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/82841d11296340069f6b8e3ccbfcee11/topics/halo-3-anniversary-is-officially-not-happening/5104fc1a-64b4-4018-8e67-01545391733f/posts

>>170801234


see

>>170802824


ITS NOT HAPPENING

>>170788013
It fled
Like a BITCH

How do you guys feel about Frank O'Connor and Brian Reed as writers?

Anyone here still play Reach?

>>170805195
I think calling Brian Reed a writer is a stretch

>>170791989
Did he have dialogue in the book?

>>170782473
Nah

>>170805195
>Brian Reed as Writer

I'd rather they removed Story from Halo if this has to happen again

>>170805195
Reed is out
Frankie has said lots of stupid stuff before, like about Blue Team and his defense of the all new all retarded Cortana, but IRIS is one of the best written additions to the series

H3A will happen and anyone who says otherwise is covering it up.

>>170810256
But what's the point of it?

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>"what 343 can do to fix halo" videos are still being made TODAY

why have you been sticking around for so long? theyve almost owned halo for a decade now, Its dead already kek

For people still playing, how do people like the new radar 343 is testing out in halo 5?

>>170802824
>>170802863

>every time we try to discuss a hypothetical H3A there's always someone shouting "HURR IT'S NOT HAPPENING! STOP TALKING ABOUT IT"

We know it's probably not happening, but it's starting to sound like there's people that actually would be upset if it did happen.

>>170811143
>For people still playing, how do people like the new radar 343 is testing out in halo 5?
It's just another bandaid fix for sprint. I'll be fair and say it does help address the problem a but more, but ultimately there wouldn't be a problem in the first olaylce if it wasn't there in the first place.

>>170811527
There's always a few people trying to ruin everyone's fun and make the general miserable

>>170801234
Well get an anniversary campaign it just probably won't be this year. Instead it will be a fan project like SPV3 down the road.
The anniversary won't be ignored completely though. It's likely we will get a Playlist in 5 similar to what we got for CE's anniversary with Reach.

>>170810794
Money

Do you prefer 343's Halo to Bungie's Halo?

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>>170812235
>Do you prefer 343's Halo to Bungie's Halo?

>>170812235
God this place has hit rock bottom

>>170775614
At least you wernt a dinofag

>>170775453
Is standoff the best Halo 3 DLC map?

Fireteam Osiris is the best thing about Halo’s story and one of the best additions to the Halo universe in the last 14 years.

Prove me wrong.

>>170812779
Nah i'm good

>>170812648
>Halo 3 DLC
1. Avalanche
2. Standoff
3. Sandbox
4. Rat's Nest
5. Heretic
6. Foundry
7. Assembly
8. Ghost Town
9. Cold Storage
10. Blackout
11. Citadel
12. Longshore
13. Orbital

>>170812926
I... actually completely agree. Wow that's never happened before with one of these.

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Chief, we've talked about this before, you're not exactly a sight for soareyes anymore. Get out of the bar.

>>170812926
Why are the ODST maps and Lockout remake at the bottom?

>>170813387
Heretic is number 5.
Blackout doesn't play as well as Lockout but that has more to do with the way 3 plays.

>>170813387
The only bad 3 DLC maps are Citadel, Longshore and Orbital.

Being ranked even 8th doesn't mean it's bad

>>170813443
PR: Equipment, field of view tweaks, higher resolution, widescreen, Forge and I, Paul Freakin' Russel, am the primary artist. El Dios bendice Venezuela!

DM: I would guess the main change would be that jumping has changed and it made certain jumps easier to make. I wonder if the Assault Rifle's influence also changed how the level plays vs the smg. I think the level plays a little more mid-range because of the Assault rifle.

AM: The general pacing in MP changed between Halo 2 and 3, and the sandbox changed drastically, so that affects all remakes, but for Blackout specifically we wanted to keep things as close as possible to what was built in Halo 2. That means that the biggest changes come from actually gameplay as the way weapons and equipment interact on the map make a game on Blackout so much more different than a Halo 2 game on Lockout.

How is equipment placed on Blackout?

DM: We've decided to go with a 'less is more' attitude with Blackout after some playing around with a bunch of different placements, we've settled on one regenerator, one bubble shield and one power drain.
AM: With such verticality to the map and the narrows spaces, the Bubble Shield is terribly effective for just shutting down certain lines of sight. It’s also fun to toss a Power Drain onto the helipad while everyone is fighting in the middle and just clean up.

>>170813653
What do these abbreviations mean?

Somebody draft up a proposed agreement for going forward that would make both classic fans and new fans happy

>>170814573
Bungie Halo fans are still around these days? I thought they all left once Halo 4 hit

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>>170814573
Keep evade
Keep ground pound
Keep smart scope
Keep clamber
Keep the req system
Keep bloom on autos

Remove sprint
Increase overall time to kill

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Why do people have so much trouble with heroic AI on domination? You cap a point and drop a pair of artillery units next to it and you're never going to lose that point. Same thing with strongholds just plop some kodiaks around and you're gold

>>170814929
I would sign this in an instant

>>170814929
Done.

>>170779539
People are idiots anon

>>170814929
Gladly accepted.
You can even take the TTK gambling chip out and I'll sign it

>>170812779
but you are right

>>170814929
>remove sprint
>increase ttk

Halo 3 babies pls go

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What Halo games have won game of the year awards?

>>170815880
Halo 1-3

>>170814929
>increase ttk
>>>/cod/

>>170815657
>implying

Once sprint is in a game you can't remove it.
We're stuck with it for life.

>>170815880
CE won Game of the Year more than any other 2001 release did.

2 won a few game of the Year awards, but was mostly beat out by Half Life 2 and World of Warcraft.

3 was only names GOTY by Time Magazine. Portal, Bioshock, Super Mario Galaxy, and Cod 4 all won many more GOTY awards in 2007.

Reach to my knowledge edit the win a single GOTY award, neither did 4 (despite the claim on the re-release box) or 5

>>170818296
With that attitude

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>>170814929
>Keep smart scope
>Keep the req system
>Increase overall time to kill

>>170814929
A perfectly fair proposal.

>>170818515
We have to cater to the new fans a bit, anon.
Smart scope is annoying, but (mostly) cosmetic. We can get used to it.
The req system is a cancerous practive, but also avoidable.

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Hey guys, just wanted to get your opinion on this video. I think it's very important we get 343 to watch it!

https://youtu.be/QbZZNTJ0j40

I'm pretty sure that general consensus around here and the Halo community is that Halo 4 had the best campaign and story in the series. Halo 5 took everything that Halo 4 did so right and ruined it.

What if Halo 6 can be more like the movie Logan? I think it would be great to see more of Chief humanized, going through hell and back, to save Cortana. We NEED more character building, stronger narrative in Halo. 343 did everything right in 4 but went 5 steps back in 5.

>>170814934
blisterbacks>kodiaks

>>170818060
Increase not decrease you fucking retard

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Work is being done to open up an official /hg/ Halo: Custom Edition server.

Halo: Custom Edition is an open-source modified release of the Halo CE multiplayer. To date, there have been over 50,000 custom maps made from the ground up for Halo: Custom Edition
A list of which maps to download as well as how to download them will be made available.

You will need a copy of Halo PC for Windows to access Custom Edition.

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>>170821573
Reminder that the User Interface is considered a .map file, so if you want a custom UI/main menu, all you have to do is replace the ui.map file with a new one.

>>170814929
>increasing ttk
Why?

>>170821573
I swear there was one at one point. maybe it was just /v/

/hg/ Halo Online servers?

>>170821858
Longer TTK is fun because it makes it more of a battle and less of a whoever shoots first wins fest.

More importantly, if there's no sprint, it would make sense to slow the TTK a bit.

>>170822063
Long TTK is literally the only thing I like about Reach.

>>170822063
>because it makes it more of a battle and less of a whoever shoots first wins fest.
How, assuming you keep it at n-shot kills?

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>Can't post webm, it's too big

>>170821840
That's pretty cool

>>170822664
Thru really should increase filesize limits

>>170821573
Is there any way to play CE without a original copy?

>>170824669
You mean play custom edition with out Halo PC? No.

>>170824705
You can download a pirate Halo PC and play online.

>>170822664
Compress it

>>170826868
But how much?

>>170824669
Just use a code online

>>170821573
I'll join when it's ready familia

>>170832236
Back in the good old days

>jotaro point pose is available now

>>170833012
>back when Gearbox was decent

>>170834317
Is that a JoJo reference?

>>170821573
Got an ETA?

>>170811527
>We know it's probably not happening
>PROBABLY

IT IS LITERALLY. 100% NOT HAPPENING. STOP FUCKING SAYING PROBABLY, MAYBE, I HOPE. IT ISN'T.

FRANK O'CONNOR HIMSELF SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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>The losing team invites you after the game

>>170839241
I don't understand why people here are so goddamned delusional either, anon.

Then again, I guess that's what you can expect from a community that spends copious amounts of time bitching about what they hate about recent entries in the Halo franchise that they could be using to find and play games they actually would enjoy.

How dead is Halo these days?

>>170841357
It's relatively alive, not breaking cawaboopy numbers, but you can find games

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I actually like this look. I hope it appears in 6

>>170842521
For what purpose would you wear a fucking cloak in a spartan suit?

>>170842521
There was no allusion to that look or him searching alone for Cortana in the actually game. Fuck, man.

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>>170842645
I'm assuming the context of this scene was supposed to be that his armor got fucked up, specifically his chest plate, leaving him more exposed to the elements.

>>170839241
Most likely it's not.
And it's too bad, because it would be a good thing.

>>170841201
It's not the community's fault people don't like 343 Halo. It's 343's.

>>170839241
Technically Frank O Connor said they have no plans "at this moment".
So yeah, to say it's probably not happening would be the correct way to summarize that. Once the date passes and the game doesn't exist, then we can say it didn't happen

>>170841357
>How dead is Halo these days?
I'll let you be the judge.
Game was bought by 4 million people. Has roughly 20k players.

Compare that to earlier games that had sex figures a year after launch.

>>170843736
Don't bother anon.
The old halo community has largely moved on.

Of course those that are left will be more sympathetic to the newer games, they're the only ones playing them.

What would make you buy Halo 6?

>>170844074
>What would make you buy Halo 6?
No sprint, which means I probably won't be buying it

>>170839241
Posting in all caps like an 18 year old that just discovered the site won't make Halo 5's population go up

>>170812507
Playing as an elite was redpilled.

>>170844305
There was a time where I would have argued with you, but given what the franchise has become since, it really doesn't matter

>>170844272
But anon, didn't you hear? Halo 5 is the most populated Halo since Halo 3!
343 said!!!!

>>170844074
>No spartan charge, ground pound, thrusters, or infinite sprint. Or sprint at all. The only good spartan ability is clamber.
>No req system, or at worst, a revised system with separate cosmetic/gameplay reqs.
>Proper Firefight mode, Warzone is great and all, but nothing beats Reach Firefight.
>Better campaign with more focus on Master Chief.
>Even better Forge mode.
>And as an added bonus, return of Invasian from Reach, and Halo CE Flamethrower.
>Brutes and their weapons would be neat too.

This general is cancer.
It's terrible for discussing the games.
It's terrible for discussing the lore.
It's constantly a circlejerk over discord and company leadership drama.
It has shit forced memes.
What is the purpose of spending time here?

>>170844754
It wasn't always like this.

Ok that's a lie, it was always like this, it just wasn't always this bad?

>>170844754
Well you're here you tell me.

>>170844754
That's really any Halo forum tbqh

>>170844834
Yeah that sounds about right.

>>170844849
I'm learning to let go

>>170844881
Bungie.net was alright. It wasn't as great as people will say it was, but it's far better than anything you can find today.

>>170844729
Obviously sprint needs to go, but I have little faith that it will.
Obviously campaign needs to change its priorities, but I have little faith that it will.

>>170845035
Bungie net was better, it had more people actually complaining about Reach

>>170845596
this
>but tfw in retrospect, reach actually wasn't that bad compared to what we've got now

>>170844074
My only criteria is "is the multiplayer fun?"

>>170844074
One of 2 things.

1. Remove Sprint. They can keep whatever other shit in the mutiplayer they want. Hell, they already gave the precision weapons iron sights, they can give all the other weapons iron sights for all I care. Keep their evading and their pounding. Keep the climbing even. Keep the req unlock system. Keep the resetting ranks, keep BTB a Forge only mode. I don't care. Just. Lose. The. Sprinting. For God's. Sake.

2. Make a half decent campaign.

I don't trust them to do either of these things.

>>170845596
Good times man. No way they would have been so soft on this new shit either.

>>170845723
"Fun" is relative.
5 is balenced, but it's fair to say the majority of people that bought it don't find it very fun.

>>170845681
That's a very combative response.
It's like you want him to come back at you

>>170845813
Are you me?

Are we at the point now where we can admit 343 is more to blame than Reach?

>>170846457
>Are we at the point now where we can admit 343 is more to blame than Reach?
Yes, but we can never forget the path Reach set us down on.

>>170846457
Yeah I'd say so

>>170846035
>but it's fair to say the majority of people that bought it don't find it very fun
Gonna need a source on that.

>>170846457
Do you blame the parent who dropped the baby or the parent who failed to pick it up?

>>170846996
343 didn't just not pick it up, it curbestomped it

>>170847083
Kek why did i laugh at the image of this

>>170846457
Mutliplayer was at least playable and not a fucking motion blur mess of bloom and framerate, so I still dislike Reach more

>>170847276
I'll give you motion blur but Halo 4 had pretty big framerate problems too, probably due to the hardware being stretched for way too fucking long.

>>170847276
Fair enough

>>170775453
Is Halo Wars 2 any good? I got to General on the first one and it has a special place in my heart.

>>170847635
Wars 2 is a bit more balanced than 1 (Anders notwithstanding)

>>170847635
It's alright

>>170847635
If you liked 1, you'll like 2.

>>170844729

This is so fucking dumb.

>Hey, you're a super elite super soldier

>And your greatest ability is climbing on ledges

Fuck you pal, and fuck your purist nonsense. If I'm gonna be a Spartan then I want to fucking feel like one.

>Sprinting

What a stupid fucking thing to complain about. go play H2 Anniversary then.

Reach is the only good halo game.

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>>170850717

>>170849816
People comaiming about clamber always confused me

>>170852428
A lot of people liked crouched jumping. Although it is fairly simple to pull off a lot of people saw it as a skill asset and a slight extra challenge when it comes to mobility, as you could just about reach places you otherwise wouldn't.

>>170844729
>nothing beats Reach Firefight
No just no.

>>170852737
It's still in the game.

>>170853879
Not in the same capacity. Turning clamber off isn't a fix when clamber is on by default in all of multiplayer. If you're referring to crouch jumping to try and get some extra height to clamber its not remotely the same especially since clamber already has a pretty good radius when it comes to grabbing a ledge crouch jumping would barely make any difference.

I'm neutral but I can see why some would be pissed, it's one of many typical Halo quirks

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>>170841162
>The guy with 4 kills and 18 deaths invites you

>>170854563
There's plenty of jumps where crouch jumping lets you not clamber which allows you to keep weapon up.
There's also jumps where it's impossible to clamber unless you crouch jump, e.g. jumping to the armory balcony on Array.

>>170854896
>There's also jumps where it's impossible to clamber unless you crouch jump, e.g. jumping to the armory balcony on Array.

isn't that just a crouch+clamber?

>>170855117
Well you have to jump so it's a crouch jump + clamber.

>>170852428
What confused me even more is comparing halo 5 to titanfall because of clamber

Like what the actual fuck

>>170852737
There no longer crouch jumps (or at least not any I'm aware of) but there are still skill jumps using the other things like boost and hover that range from very simple to extremely complex

>>170855564
I'm fine with less crouch jumps. Because like you said, they have essentially been replaced by other things that can be much more in-depth to pull off.

What angers me is that there is no GRENADE jumps, they don't boost you up at all so it's literally impossible to do.

>>170856002
Other physics mentions, Sword clashes are fucked, don't work correctly and people die too quickly, the gravity hammer doesn't function correctly and is missing a lot of the "gravity" behind its slams (3 had the best one for this)

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>>170801234
>Dat ass

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I LOVE halo

>>170858242
Ass is what Halo is good for

>>170856002
They boost you a tiny amount.
I only notice because you can't jump from the water to the curved ledge on riptide but you can with a grenade jump.

>>170860258
The timing is weird in 5

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>>170859927
Damn straight

>>170852891
Well, it beats 5 firefight

Breakout was really the only thing in 5 I really liked and they fucking ruined it

>>170865479
>Breakout was really the only thing in 5 I really liked and they fucking ruined it
It's ironic because Breakout was designed by the competitive crowd but the competitive players had issues with it

>>170865543
Breakout wasn't perfect, but I had fun playing it.

This new shit... just no.

>>170864328
I've gotta say I prefer Kelly's

It's a shame they made her armor so uggos

>>170867506
Vale is where it's out

>>170869736
Vale is an ugly bald baboon and her ass is flat

No really they made her ass flat on her model

>>170869736
Vale has one of the most disgusting faces I've ever seen in a video game

>>170867506
>Kelly ass
>not Linda

>>170873678
Kelly's thighs are thicker

Well they're the same but Kelly's thigh armor make it look thicc

>>170873874
Kelly's also just a better loyal waifu (for chief)

She's his oldest friend

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Oh lord take me back to the good old days

>>170874807
I miss CTF

>>170875894
I want a playlist or just objective modes

>>170877382
That HUD is fucking disgusting

>>170874807
>squad all loaded up in the warthog, making a last-minute flag run through enemy rockets, snipers, banshee fire, and other obstacles, clearing out the base, grabbing the flag and slamming the FUCK out of that gas pedal straight back home for the win cap

ooooo man is there any better feeling

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>>170886361
fixed

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>>170832236
It boggles my fucking mind that Gearbox used to be competent developers, able to create enjoyable games. I'm starting to think their headquarters uses lead water pipes or something, and the contamination finally caught up a few years ago.

>>170889687
I liked Halo 4's ox art

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Can't search any game in most modes in halo wars 2 on PC, Is PC online already dead?

>>170792358
so he is your self insert and you mad he got killed...

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>>170843902
>MFW people still believe this myth

>>170844495
>Not believing the people with the actual numbers

I bet you don't believe in doctors too.

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>>170893674
>game is less populated than Star Wars Battlefront
>Star wars Battlefront currently has TWO THOUSAND players with a peak population of 20k
Those are abysmal numbers for a Halo game a year after launch.
halo 2 and 3 by comparison had 6 figure population numbers MULTIPLE years after launch.

The game is unpopular.
It was bought by over 4 million people and nets roughly 20 thousand users.
That means a year after launch 0.0005% of the possible player base is still playing the game.

You can try to move the goal posts as much as you want, but if you like Halo 5, you're in the minority. Facts are facts.

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>>170893886
DELETE THIS!!!

HALO 5 IS THE MOST POPULAR HALO GAME SINCE 3!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!

>>170893886
Still an improvement from Halo 4's pop drop

>>170893886
That's because they didn't have to compete with a Star Wars, Battlefield, and CoD among others, back then when you wanted a FPS that wasn't set on WW2 it was Halo or bust. After 3 the market got flooded with AAA FPS games and you can see this on sales with 4 selling about as much as Reach, because people now had options, and unsurprisingly they took those other options.


but instead of anon using his brain for 1 minute, he simply blames it on the fact that the game is not catering to his autistic needs.

>>170894254
>but instead of anon using his brain for 1 minute, he simply blames it on the fact that the game is not catering to his autistic needs.
I didn't "blame" the lack of popularity on anything actually, so nice projecting.
All I did was present the facts, contrary to what >>170893674 said when he/you stated the game being unpopular was a "myth"

>>170894254
Halo 5's a gud boy! Din Du Nothin!

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Let's try to vie away from population talk, because there's nothing we can do about it.

What are your thoughts on squads returning in 6?
What would you change?

>>170895262
I don't want squads to come back as they were in 5, but if they can improve them or make them more interesting/tacticool to use, then I'm open to it

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Halo 5 is so good that it sold 4 million copies despite the fact that microsoft has only sold 10 xbones.

>>170895262
It would be neat if they increased the variety of each squad member (weapons, abilities, etc) and let you pick which ones to bring into each mission.

Maybe there could be an upgrade mechanic where you win experience points and apply them to different squad mates to improve things like their shield recharge time, starting weapons, combat effectiveness, or special traits like "purchase this point and every time buck shoots someone they light on fire"

>>170895457
Sounds like Halo: Dead Space
I like it.

>>170892027
/hg/ is dying, anon.
I'm sorry. Get used to more long, cold, empty mornings until eventually there will be nothing but silence.
And then, only then, will we have peace.

>>170895343
If they improve the a.I it's fine

>>170895262
Make them function like they do in republic commando. Also give them some damn character in game.

>>170899470
I really hope they get better characterization

>>170852891
Reach Firefight > ODST Firefight
You could actually really customize the gametype, and unlike Warzone, you can play it locally.

On a side note, what would everyone think 343 brought back Spartan Ops in Halo 6?

>>170901346
You're about to get absolutely slammed for saying Reach > anything, but yeah you're right, the customization was fantastic.

And no spartan ops is disgusting imo.

>>170901553
Customization was better in 4 but the armors sucked

>>170895580
A horror Halo game would work really well considering how the flood works

>>170903483
>tfw we'll never get a game adaptation of the Mona Lisa

>>170901346
Reach FF felt too arcadey

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I just beat Halo Reach. I'm a little confused. I thought Cortana was the Pillar of Autumn's ship AI. But apparently she was an archaeologist? What happened to the Autumn's ship AI?

>>170905547
Just don't think about it too hard.
Although I think it was explained in one of the books.

>>170905547
She is still on the Pillar of Autumn
She just split her core to help Halsey

>>170895580
That's a crossover that I can get behind

>>170909463
I forget whether or not Chief's planet got fucked

>>170909536
Pretty sure it was glassed

This Mega bloks games was honestly looking solid, why would they cancel it? It even had firefight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uje1zqwKAzQ

>>170911247
Because all Microsoft does is cancel shit

>>170903483
I could really get behind the idea of a Flood-focused Halo game. Not a main entry but something like ODST. I feel like this is a minority opinion though.

>>170911247
Microsoft hates people having fun

>>170905547
Pillar of Autumn also had 2 AIs, the other of which oversaw more logistical parts of the ship and died in 04's explosion

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>>170877382
>you could wedge a grenade between her shoulder and shoulder pad

>>170895262
THEY NEED TO GO. Level design around 4 players is trash to play. You can't have anything except open arenas with some shit on the edges to play with. Replay 5 and you see it everywhere.
>>170877382
>Palmer gets a black undersuit
>we don't

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>>170884915
>profits

>>170914127
That literally never came up in the game

>>170915534
Palmer's black undersuit isn't even the right shade

>>170877378
Too bad Halo 5 is objectively shit

>>170918064
>objectively
Fuck off false flag faggot

>Xbone has no exclusives
>Microsoft is sitting on all of these franchises

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Studios#Owned_franchises_and_properties

>>170911247
Because it would outsell Halo 5 and make 343 look bad

>>170918205
He's right you know

>>170917973
Yeah, but it proves that undershirt coloring was an option that could be easily added.

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>>170918253
>Brute force
>Fuzion Frenzy
>Conker

>>170918064
i hate you. I hate you. I. Hate. You. I hate you like the Domain hates Forerunners. I hate you with the fury of a thousand Prophets.

>>170919084
Microsoft hates fun things

>>170922484
Scalebound is proof of that

>>170925195
Scalebound looked mediocre as fuck m8, MS dodged a bullet there desu.

>>170925195
JUST LET IT DIE

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>>170925291
No until we get to # 300. /hg/ can die after that.

>>170925473
only 9 more

>>170925473
Picture Day this weekend?

>>170925195
It looked interesting, but at least Nier is alive and coming to PC

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>>170925726
>Picture Day this weekend?
Sounds good to me.

Is there no way though that somebody could just get full body versions of pic related and just post them in the image all over the map?

>>170919892
Gee wiz

If you didn't want Kai to kick you, you shouldn't have ratted on the company

>>170926070
>Is there no way though that somebody could just get full body versions of pic related and just post them in the image all over the map?
If someone provides the scans I'll happily take the time to paste them in.

>>170926070
Would prefer sometime during the weekdays

>>170926070
I'm the guy who made this >>170925473
I'm not doing something like this again if that's what you're trying to imply, hopefully someone else can find some time to do it.

>>170926070
That will look bad, though.

>Picture day
You fuckers better not leave me out again. I still remember not being invited to that holiday picture when I was obviously online. ;_;

>>170926186
>>>>>

>>170926798
Post GT fag

We will know to invite you instead of you waiting for us to invite you

But more importantly, what type of map should we be taking a picture on, and what is the occasion anyways

>>170926939
/hg/ island.
We're actually gonna do it this time.

>>170926939
It has to be on the island

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>>170926662
Looks good to me.

>>170775453
when will 343 die and Halo gets made by a better company?

>>170927093
Kek

>>170843361
yeah no thats fucking retarded, they still have entire under-suits

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Here's what I propose we do.

The island sounds nice but we will probably get more than 16 people that want in.
We find out how many people are available at the set time which will probably be over 16 but under 33. We divide that number in half and put half the anons in a side by side pic on Barrens and half in a side by side on depths.

>>170927632
I can agree to this.
How about sunday?
10 AM pacific
11 AM Mountain
Noon Central
1 PM Eastern

>>170927753
I'll be there

>>170927632
>a bunch of faggots standing around on empty canvases

Oh boy so good

>>170928036
Still better than last time, which isn't even a picture, it's just a collage of profiles

>>170926798
Sorry I took your spot, it was my first day

>>170927632
Dividing people sounds like a good plan but why Barrens and Depths when we already have the island?

>>170928109
Last time included everyone

>>170928109
But it looked nice and everyone's armor was clear

Xbone screenshots are only 720p not to mention the horrible rendering ingame which made the Christmas screenshot look pretty blurry

Going through and screenshotting everyone individuallly again would be hell though, so I don't think we should do that

>>170928248
Because if you cut it in half on Barrens and depths you will have some nice contrast.
If you have 2 seperately island pics next to each other it would look... off, unless you managed to perfectly align the pics at the same point on the island

>>170928358
The only other thing I can think of is screenshotting everyone again but this time having it be reach.

>>170928730
>The only other thing I can think of is screenshotting everyone again but this time having it be reach.
I'd be down for that. I like my Reach armor, it's maximum edge.

>>170928730
>>170928793
Hell no, the relevant Halo right now is 5 whether you like it or not. In 10 years from now, we'll look at the /hg/ #300 pic and it has to use Halo 5 to represent the era it was taken.

>>170928941
>Halo 5
>relevant
Kek.
But fine, sure whatever, so picture day it is then.

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>be Atriox
>Got a pimpin' flagship and an entire army of loyal brutes and skilled elites at your disposal.
>Somehow amassed a huge amount of repurposed Covenant vehicles like it ain't no thang
>Successfully bullied another research facility on this fancy place called the Ark you just found
>In the middle of the night some fucking Spartans come from god knows where and start sticking their noses in your beeswax
>Go in there and personally give them a knuckle sandwich
>Little demons BTFO
>Call up their ship's 50-year-old captain and talk some mad shit
>In less than a week a re-purposed colony ship, a small army with outdated equipment, 3 aging Spartans, and a literal schizophrenic AI destroy your bases, kill your second-in-command along with half of your standing army, and slice your flagship in half.
>TFW defied the Covenant for this shit

>>170928941
All that matters to me is that we not just do the same thing as last time.
We have to either do a picture day or do a collage with a different game.

>>170929068
Look man i'm not gonna start a discussion with you right now but come on, Halo 5 is way more relevant than Reach or any other Halo game at this moment.

>>170929280
>Halo 5
>ever relevant
The keys keep coming.
But like I said that's fine, we can do halo 5. We just actually have to take a picture this time. We can't just do the same thing and put a 300 there

>>170929280
The only reason Reach was brought up was because if we are going to be lazy enough to just do a 100 person collage again, which would look exactly the fucking same, then we might as well switch the game up.

If we are doing Halo 5, which is perfectly fine, then let's actually take a God Damn picture or two.