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1 hour ago, Mercury33 said:

I think the insane number of people playing Warzone have thoroughly debunked the “there’s not enough maps” argument. 

One giant map with numerous amounts of varied smaller areas vs a couple maps that don't even compare in size.

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

I played PUBG for 3 years nearly every night 😂

 

I hope they improve the game in the areas you find lacking though.

Personally BRs are a completely different experience compared to Halo, but fair enough.

21 minutes ago, Brick said:

Tell us how you really feel 

 

 

18 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

All I can say is I got together a 12 man squad of my buddies and we rampaged in BTB for a couple of hours and had an absolute blast the entire time. If there are crucial components missing, it isn't affecting how much fun I've been having with this game since launch. 

All I'm hoping for is a Halo that maintains its population. If you're having fun, great, but how many times you gonna play the same 3 maps with the same 3 game modes before you decide to move on. Season 2 is a long ways away.

1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:

 

That's exactly the sort of thing that happens when a best selling franchise makes its multiplayer free.

I'll even go a step further and say the Games Pass playerbase alone could've incentivized this.

I mean I get it, but at the same time. Those $10 skins aren't even armor variant wide. It only applies to one variant. There is barley any customization at all, the HCS skins can't even be changed at all.

For anyone having that "I was around a wall" death issue.

6 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

if something is free, I think that at least a bit of a pass should be certainly granted!

Not when a simple color reskin costs $10.

Maybe if this was any other franchise, but I’ve invested way too much time into Halo. 343 has had nothing but marred releases with issues that never get resolved. It’s hard to want to support the franchise when you’re continually let down. 

8 minutes ago, silentbob said:

We are still “technically” not playing the full Halo Multiplayer experience with it still being a Beta version. Yeah some things are going to be missing for months (which sucks) but we got a few weeks of play in before the actual game release and it’s fucking free for everyone to play. Who knows what might be patched come next Tuesday

 

 

haven't played MP in a week because I know the game will suck me in for hours come next week, and will grind out as much time I can with FH5 until then

Season 1 was officially launched when the “beta” dropped. They’ve already confirmed that no new maps or modes are dropping on release day. Forge and co-op already got pushed back.

I’m suppose to overlook all the issues because it’s free? Halo 5 was a fully priced game and suffered the same issues at launch and some of those issues (like theater) never got resolved. Sorry if I don’t think it’s worth supporting the game, yet. 

4 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

Lol what a god awful take 

Didn’t know we were into supporting games that are missing basic features that have existed since Halo 3 or earlier and have horrible price gouging microtransactions. But you do you.
 

3 hours ago, SoberChef said:

Really debating diving in & purchasing the Battle Pass for this. After having looked up that one previous post about controller setup & sensitivity, felt more responsive a few games I played earlier today so I'm getting back into the groove of it.

 

I'm curious, with the FOV setting, I have mine at 120 degrees, what about everyone else? I merely went that route because of the FOV being the same as it is in Destiny 2 since they brought in that same feature.

Halo is all about tracking. At 120 enemies are just way too small at a distance. I lowered mine down to about 95-100.

From a moral standpoint, I wouldn't buy it. Melee is broken, horrible battlepass xp, horrible customization, theater is an absolute mess, low playlists, low game modes, low amount of maps, missing forge. We waited 6 years for an early access game from a AAA studio. Fuck that. Seasons never go away you can buy it later and still get the same items.

On the other do whatever makes you happy. If you want some of the colors and skins go for it.

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I don't know if anyone pays attention to pings but if I know I'm going to die but someone else has a shot at the person I ping the attacker. Sometimes it works out sometimes the team is braindead.

The amount of people that don't pay attention to the kill feed or look at teammates "X"s is astounding. I will only play ranked with at least 3 people for that reason alone.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

I feel like any attempt to tone down Ed so as to not be cringe-inducing would have shot directly over the line into having people complaining they messed up Ed. Maybe they should have just kept Ed as just an off-screen character the crew interacts with?

I guess changing the character into a more real representation of the character would count as toning down, but thats the route I would have gone with. A odd, peculiar, highly energetic kid with a severe case of ADHD. That clip is... something. 

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

The game is still a "beta" so they will probably free the playlist down the line, maybe when the campaign drops.

No new modes or maps are coming on dec 8th. So... probably won't see any significant changes until season 2 I'd imagine.

13 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

What are you doing while youre here? Hitting up any restaurants?

I’d actually like to see what you recommend and see if I’ve been there or not 😂

I just turned my deadzones down a tad and moved my sens up.

Halo has way to many settings that you can really mess it up by just swapping a few settings.

None. My family had a Christmas tradition of watching Muppets Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, but that kind of fizzled out when all of my siblings grew up and had families of their own. I'm the only one who keeps that alive.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Man, I hope some of this stuff gets tuned.

 

the commando is a shit gun. Worse than a DMR or an assault rifle. Just absolutely a horrible weapon. Hell, the sidekick is a better weapon.

If you can hit your shots its got an incredibly fast TTK.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

the sword takes too long to swap/ready, and the lunge is waaaaaaaaay to far. The hammer’s range is too large and it’s too slow to slam. It’s like 343 built these weapons for

camping even in long hallways. 

Melee in general is broken.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

speaking of camping, 343 needs to learn that moving while crouched is still moving. You can’t call it a motion tracker if it doesn’t detect motion where a cheap $30 home alarm motion detector strapped to a spartan’s chest would do a better job. It’s been 20 years. Even COD learned how to tune camping by not making it as easy to just disappear from detection. Sheesh.

Thats the trade off, move slowly and silently or be seen. Because how loud spartans are this even applies when motion trackers are off.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

also the UNSC clearly has the worst engineers if also after 20 years they can’t figure out how to make a digital optical zoom not zoom back out just because the shields take a tiny hit. It’s not a scope. It’s a camera on the weapon feeding optics directly to the HUD in the helmet. Read your own lore 343.

Halo 4 proved that not having descope was a terrible decision. Sniper became EZ mode.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Launch Sites is one of the worst Halo maps ever made, and the 343 employee(s) responsible for it should feel extremely bad about it. Although Live Fire is a great map and they should feel good about that.

This and Halo 4 by far have the worst Halo maps to date. Its not even close.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

whats the point of the laser sniper that takes three shots to kill when a regular sniper rifle exists in the game that takes 2 shots maximum, and can do the job in a single headshot?

Its basically what a DMR should be.

59 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

too many of these guns seem like they made them so “safe” to the point they’re kind dumb. The Hydra. Supposed to shoot small homing rockets that take forever to kill anyone, and barely have any tracking. It seems best used up close as a shot gun. What’s the point of the Heatwave’s primary fire mode? It ends up taking twice as many shots as the alt fire mode. The Skewer’s application is as a hop fire counter to a lunging sword. It is amazing at this. It is mediocre at everything else.

Majority of the guns are trash and aren't even worth picking up.

3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Last of Us 2 pretty much drives home the point that every villain is the hero in their own story. By seeing the conflict from both sides, you can totally see how from Abby's point of view, Joel and Elle were monsters. They literally took EVERYTHING from her but because we met Joel and Elle first and out sympathies lay with them, a lot of gamers had a hard time seeing that and "picked and side" when that really wasn't the point of the game or its narrative. Which is what made it so brilliant to me at least. 

I wouldn't say so much as picking a side, like I said earlier I understand Abby and her motivations. They just failed to make me care for her or her gang and its not just picking on her, Ellie's new companions are in the same boat. I do think that the way the story was laid out is part of the reason a lot of people picked that side though. I think some slight rearranging of the game would open up people to Abby a lot more.

13 minutes ago, best3444 said:

I disagree. The story in part 2 was way more emotional and diverse. I own TLOU Remastered and may play through it again at some point. I respect your opinion, though.

Diverse is an interesting one because while its true, its an aspect of the game that just falls flat compared to the first game. What made the first one so good was the character interaction between Joel and Ellie, they did such a good job of making me attached to them. 2 just lacks that interaction. I understand why Abby is doing what she is doing, I still don't care about her character and her gang. I don't care about any of Ellie's new companions. There is only 3 characters that I care about; Joel, Ellie, and Tommy to a degree.

19 hours ago, Moa said:

Celeste is the first game that comes to mind. It's not my absolute favorite game of the last decade, but it is one that accomplishes absolutely everything it set out to do and pushed its mechanics and design to the absolute limit for those who want to explore it.

This is was also the first thing that came to mind and more than likely takes my top pick.

6 minutes ago, Chris- said:

Bloodborne’s performance wasn’t so bad that I thought about dropping it (unlike BotW and The Witcher 3). 

I just started it up this past week and am having the opposite reaction. I really haven't noticed the 30fps outside of the first 10 minutes or so. Haven't noticed any huge drops in performance.

8 hours ago, best3444 said:

TLOU2. I didn't notice one flaw except a few stutters but the game was an utter masterpiece in every conceivable way. 

TLOU2 is better mechanically and graphically, but I appreciate TLOU Remastered so much more story wise.

Outside of whats been named already RE2make and Firewatch were pretty spectacular for me

2 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

Didn’t she call Mario and Rabbids?

I did some more digging because its a slow work day. This is about all the effort I was willing to put into it.

Mario + Rabbids according to some people on Reddit with no source claim it was Laura Dale who confirmed that.

Emily also deletes a ton of her old leaks making it hard to actually verify, it just takes you to a "oops nothings here" twitter page.

Sources: Resetera, Reddit, Reddit

Incorrect

• Mother 3 Wii U outside Japan
• Female Link in BotW
• Mario Kart 8 will have 16 new tracks
• Switch Pro
• Switch Pro production starting

Correct

• BotW will also ship on NX
• BotW will have voice acting for most characters
• NX will not use x86 architecture
• NX specs (720p, no camera, dock has 2 USB ports)
• More NX specs that I'm too lazy to type out
• When the NX will be revealed
• Mario Kart 8 with all DLC + new stuff
• New SNK game (Tag Team Frenzy or something like that)

Confirmed someone else's leak

• Correct - NX will have Nvidia Tegra
• Correct - BotW will have 4 dungeons, over 100 mini dungeons
• Incorrect - BotW will miss NX launch
• Mixed - Paper Mario Splash - Intelligent Systems was hiring and had Paper Mario listed in the description
• Correct - Pokemon Let's Go image leaked on 4chan and will have some tie in with POGO.

I've tried to do Schmilk, now called Super Body Fuel, a couple of times. I've never stuck with it longer than a month.

The taste never impressed me as much as people raved about it online. The texture was grainy?

Its edible, just not great. I'd drink it while at work to keep myself from snacking on junk food.

On 11/16/2021 at 5:40 PM, crispy4000 said:

Might want to hold off on that with all the remake rumors floating around.

I know nothing about Emily Rogers, but I can't find anything of her being a reliable leaker. I wouldn't hold my breath.

In fact she actually goes back and deleted old "leaks".

On 11/16/2021 at 5:56 PM, Brick said:

Don't quote me but I think i remember them saying that they just won't be there at launch. That or they took them out because the community (ie the pros and YouTubers) didn't like it. 

"[Assassinations] are not in for launch," said senior mission designer Tom French. "We actually really love assassinations... but what happens at a lot of levels is people just turn them off because there's a gameplay disadvantage to it." Consequently, the team is taking "a step back" and will bring them back only when it "really just feels meaningful so that they're always an accessible tool"

Its pretty much a guaranteed death in any semi competitive game. So its pretty easy to see why most people would turn them off.

22 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

Yeah you move slow as hell with the ball so it should be one hit kill if you’re dumb enough to get too close. 
 

it’s been awhile since I played a Halo but didn’t they add in execution animations when you melee’d someone from behind at one point? I miss that 

You can sprint with the ball and flag.

EDIT: I lied only flag.

On 11/11/2021 at 2:21 PM, best3444 said:

I'm a graphics whore and I'm extremely underwhelmed by the visuals. It doesn't look next gen at all which is very disappointing to me. I know Halo isn't about visuals but with the power of the XSX I expected MUCH better. 

 

This gives me all the more reason to just play this on my one x. I think the game will be good, though. The MP will be dope af.

Xbox One is probably holding it back.

37 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

After 10 hours I'm down to collecting things I've missed before facing the final boss. I truly curse whoever came up with the whole Shinespark mechanic. I've given up on a few collectibles now, and they've all included some insane speed-boost timing. Part of it is that it's just hard, and I can accept that. Part of it is the controls for chaining these actions together are horrible. Somehow I'd feel better if I could just see that my timing was off and I just couldn't make jump or whatever, but most of the time I can't even do the thing I meant to do. At this point I'll happily skip some extra missiles or whatever when I see those stupid speed blocks in some hard to reach place.

 

Also, to hell with those blocks you fall through. I was really hoping with each upgrade that you'd gain the ability to cheese them by freezing them or get some ability to blow them up.

I had to watch videos for those because I had no idea what I was suppose to do in order to shinespark at that location. You can usually nail it in a few tries after you watch some strategies for it.

1 hour ago, Ghost_MH said:

I think @stepee is probably right in that what your see might be whatever you're monitor can push...maybe? My PC monitor is mostly for work, so it's a big 32" 4k 60hz display. Got to see all those spreadsheets and chat windows all at once.

 

Either way, you shouldn't see any stutters with that setup. The game is pretty good with loading times too. My PC is on Windows 11 and has a 3900x, 2080TI, 32GB 4400Mhz, and a 2TB 980 Pro. We're not that far off from each other and you should certainly be running this game better than me. I think I've had one crash in the middle of a loading screen, but other than that it's been rock solid on full screen.

Eh, at this point I've done as much as I'm willing to do. Turned gsync on/off, messed with nvidia settings, ran DDU and reinstalled GPU drivers multiple times, turned game mode on/off, tuned game DVR on/off, turned down settings, limited FPS to different settings, reinstalled windows, installed random driver updates that I could find for my stuff.

More games work perfectly than those that don't so until a game that I care about is acting wonky I'll probably just deal with the issues I'm facing right now.