I'll get this game just because I want to find out what happens to John. I fully expect the Forerunners and the Didact to be fuck to all hell.
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I'll get this game just because I want to find out what happens to John. I fully expect the Forerunners and the Didact to be fuck to all hell.
I wish the beam rifle were in Reach, if only to make invasion slayer less unbearable as an elite. The focus rifle is a neat weapon, but it doesn't work as a sniper rifle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterz1337
The only way to get rid of grenade spam is to get rid of spawning with grenades. I don't see how this solves anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsC-R8Us3XU
Definitely interested in some of the new additions to oddball, specifically ball passing, could make for some awesome custom gametypes... Halo 4 Football anyone? :D
Can anyone say epic matches of Grifball?
Hell yeah, there is another video where they demo Grifball, specifically showing off that a sword kill on a ball carrier steals the ball and gives it to the killer, while the gravity hammer now effects the ball like it should, i.e launching the thing off like a bullet in the opposite direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
Edit: Here is the griffball video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJOhe_uT0i4
Doesn't the focus rifle apply more force to vehicles (esp. the warthog) than the beam rifle does? Especially with a constant beam rate. Basically, with the focus rifle couldn't you fuck up someone's driving, flipping them real easily, thus raising the likelyhood that you could then grab the vehicle for yourself instead of just blowing the thing up and fucking raining turds everywhere?
R.I.P. Sentinel Beam.
E: Hello Binary Rifle
There's a third video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077vJWVOWoo&feature=channel&list=U L
4:13- "We uh, we slowed down some of the banshee tricks..."
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. It was so shit stupid in Reach how fast that damn thing moved, impossible to kill. Thank you 343i for not being stupid like Bungie was. :golfclap:
Now that they've finally stopped talking about slayer, multiplayer sounds awesome! Vehicle balance, oddball tossing and grifball improvements are just what I want to hear.
I hate the Reach banshee so much. Fuel rod has a huge blast radius, and they can flip two seconds. And the scorpion secondary turret is actually going to be useful now too, whereas in Reach it was just a free kill for the other team.
Now THAT is cool. That looks to be a lot of fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehob
1.) Going to Pre-Order Halo 4.
2.) Going to buy Xbox Live and activate it on the day of Halo 4.
3.) Still sad Halo 4 doesn't have Elites in Multiplayer.
4.) ??????
5.) Enjoy a nice looking game!
Halo 4 has elites, unless you're referring to MP. In which case I agree. Elite bipeds could be used in custom game variants, just like how Invasion used them.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Yeah, I probably should have specified. Editing original post for that purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Well spoilers are starting to pop up on the Halo Waypoint forums, so I'm gonna stop visiting them until I play the game for myself in two months. Which brings me to ask this request of you guys, can you all please not be douchebags by posting spoilers in this thread? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather play the game and find out the story for myself by doing so rather than have details spoiled for me beforehand.
Buck meets Chief. :iamafag:
That sounds more like wishful thinking than anything, and I would love to see that happen.
However, if that's an actual spoiler, then fuck you, fuck your mom, and fuck your car too.
Didact Vs 3809 Eternal penance :allears:
I get the joke. BECAUSE I STARTED IT!Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon
Anywho, still waiting for that to happen. Next time: The Chief and his Buck.
...you were visiting the Halo Waypoint forums?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
How are the spoilers getting out?
I'm going to guess that people spend hours and hours and hours trying to sharpen out of focus video of crap in the background for waypoint movies. Funny thing is that usually that stuff is complete bullshit of old horrible stuff or things made spur of the moment for fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterz1337
Yes, I am quite active on them. What's your point?Quote:
Originally Posted by Arteen
Wretched hive of scum and villainy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
Says the teeny weenie posting on moda-epeenie :mech2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Arteen
It's really not that bad once you ignore the few people complaining about the usual stupidities. You know, just like here. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Arteen
Around the 10:17 mark, I believe that's Margaret Parangosky (if you've read Glasslands). It doesn't appear to be Halsey and she looks about the age that Parangosky is said to be.
Hah that would be awesome if it were here. Tie-ins with the books are always nice, especially when they're good books.
No, that's still probably Halsey as Margaret Parangosky is described to an fierce-looking, old woman in her 90's who is fragile and requires a cane to move about. Nothing about that spoiler even hints towards that. =/ Also, Halsey was 61 at the end of Halo 3 & she's no doubtedly older due to the passing years. It's perfectly reasonably for this grey-haired, lab-coated woman to be Dr. Catherine Halsey.Quote:
Originally Posted by NotZac
I really don't think this is Halsey, at all, not gonna argue about it but it's what I think and I'm with Zac on this.
Meh, I'd be more interested in seeing CPO Mendez than Halsey.
Yeah, that whitecoat looks nothing like Halsey, age be damned. Look at the facial structure. Nada.
Yes, because Halo has always been great about consistency.
:downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterz1337
You're forgetting Cortana. And how she's modeled after Halsey. Who looks nothing like thatShadowCrispAnderswhitecoat. Can't really change her without changing the later.
It's always possible that it is Halsey, but they used a different biped for the trailer to not spoil things for us. However, I would love to see Parangosky in the game, so my bet is on her.
Yeah, i don't think it's possible that we went from:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../dd/Halsey.png
To
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Originally Posted by Spartan094
You tell 'em BobTheGreatest
It's granny-Chief.
Well, shit. I was just on the Halo wiki and I almost got major spoilered. I didn't know Glasslands for a sequel of sorts to Ghosts of Onyx. I have been waiting almost 6 years for a sequel and I had no idea it came out last year. Funny because I bought all the Halo ebooks from the Kobo website, but I didn't read most of the newer ones. I probably didn't notice Glasslands because Eric Nylund didn't write it.
If that was the Admiral, then she sure as hell wouldn't be seen wearing a lab coat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartan094I really don't think this is Halsey, at all, not gonna argue about it but it's what I think and I'm with Zac on this.
Psh. Everyone knows this is what Halsey really looks like:
Considering the look of pretty much everything in the entire game has changed from what Bungie laid down (and for the most part was consistent about), I dont think you can really tell who's who. I didn't read glasslands but thats just my observation.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...us_Other_M.png
today i learned dr halsey is samus.
This was the best looking Samus:
http://www.stealthboy.com/images/prime-ending.jpg
Past that I'm not sure what Retro Studios was thinking. Zero Suit Samus is ridiculous.
Agreed.
Not really true. Human features change from many things, aging, stress, depression, and other psychological problems. But, AIs such as Cortana, are only based on people's brains, how they think, how smart they were, yada-yada. AIs can choose what avatar they want and change it in subtle ways as time goes on such as aging if they please, but that's not too likely. The AI BB (Black-Box) from the Glasslands book didn't even take a human shaped avatar, but was instead simply a blue cube.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Not to mention that BB changed his form in Glasslands when he put a red ribbon on himself during Parangosky's birthday, which shows that AIs can change their looks whenever they want.Quote:
Originally Posted by KillJoyJoker
It could be....A NEW CHRACTER?! DUN DUN DUN!
that was the worst short in legendsQuote:
Originally Posted by ArteenPsh. Everyone knows this is what Halsey really looks like:
I know such factors can cause physical changes, but there isn't enough shit in the fucking universe to make Halsey look like that old hag.Quote:
Originally Posted by KillJoyJoker
Also if we're going to quote wikis,
Notice how in my OP I said nothing about how "all AIs are modeled after the bodies of their source brain". I just said Cortana.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortana wiki
What'd really be some shit is if DarkHalcyon is actually on to something and it turns out that's Chief's mommy :mech2:
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Originally Posted by John-117 wiki
Reading that last bit and then seeing your sig made me laugh.
rofl
Too bad it can't be made into a decent forum smilie
Didn't his parents die when the Covenant glassed Eridanus II?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
That's what ONI wants you to think :ohdear:Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Fine, it's his long lost half cousin who he had a crush on when he was 5 and now he's walking away because he's all like "ffffffffffffffff, do not want. I wish Cortana was corporeal..."
:aaaaa:Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
LMAO!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Inconceivable!Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
I did say Grandmother. :mech2:
His parents are dead, but granny and gramps may have jumped ship when it hit the fan.
EDIT: Maybe Sergeant Johnson finally got his lady!
halo fawr pee cee
Don't you need like 8 gigs of space if you want to play Spartan Ops? Don't know if that just means to install the game or install extra stuff.
That's already listed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta4907
The 8GB are for maps and missions from Multiplayer. That does not include the entire game Installation amount in GB, which they will not know for certain until the game has gone Gold.
Kinect?
The game isn't going to be on PC, this has been confirmed time and time again. No point in getting your hopes up, really.
Oh yeah my bad. Anyway I thought it was just for Spartan Ops but that says you need to install the 8 gigs for all of Infinity Multiplayer. Good thing I recently bought a 320 GB hard drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
Damn, I wonder if the game will be two disks then? First disk is the game, second is the "content installer"...
Not that I'm complaining. The more content, the better. Unless a chunk of that content data is the CGI nonsense for Spartan Ops.
So, what is the benefit of consoles again? They are not all equal, they require patching, they require installation...what did I miss here?
If there was a PC version, it would've been announced already.
why make people buy it once when you can make them buy it twice?Quote:
Originally Posted by ODX
There was a pic recently of the game coming with 2 discs.
The only real advantage is convenience. Each new PC game I play seems to require minimum 2 hours of install, patching, tweaking, etc. Console games you just stick in the disk and you're good to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
I'll never stop thinking Halo PC every time I see "Infinity Multiplayer".Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta4907
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Originally Posted by Kornman00
Here's the image, it shows the limited edition with 2 discs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterz1337
Attachment 2987
What are you doing? Downloading it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
I'm betting it'll do something similar to what Halo 3: ODST did. Keep the Campaign on one disk, put the Multiplayer/Spartan-Ops/Extra content on another.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowSpartan
More far more likely the second disk is to do with the extended cut of Forward Unto Dawn.
But every time I do that for a new game on the Xbox it has to stop, "patch," stop again, actually patch for real, and then finally play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
Nope, the special edition of Forward Unto Dawn is going to be a digital version only. Here's the link to a comment made by David Ellis: https://twitter.com/DavidEllis/statu...84944354222081Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
Gamer standpoint: cheaper than buying a top of the line PC when all you want to do is gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Developer standpoint: Fixed platform
Multiplayer standpoint: harder to cheat/mod.
Software in general will always require updating and some form of installation. Luckily, future consoles will streamline the latter.
Well, I was getting at the idea that consoles are starting to not be all the same across the board. Developers are having to work around the fact that not every Xbox has a hard drive.
I'll grant the other two, though cost is something that needs to be broken down and analyzed; it's not as simple as it seems.
Anybody else getting major cheese vibes from Forward Unto Dawn?
True, but having to engineer around every console not having a hard drive has led to things like Blam!'s near super-fast/instant level loading. It's just that not everyone puts in the effort to make an engine with long term goals in mind. It's why something like Unreal has gotten so profitable despite having glaring problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
As for Forward Unto Dawn, it'll all depend on how good the director is. The student-soldiers are going to be hilariously bad (that's a casting AND writing problem). Visually it will probably be good as long as the director figured out how to frame armored faceless people.
I'm actually more worried about the sets, lighting, and generally poor cinematography. Until very recently, European television has had some shoddy production values versus the stuff that came out of Canada and the USA. Not that FUD is European, but the kind of crappy lighting and plastic sets used in shows like Doctor Who is what I'm afraid of (as much as I love Doctor Who).
Starship Troopers, which is deliberately a cheese-fest, looks like it has better qualities based on what we've seen of FUD.
Wait... people expect FUD to not be halfed assed and a quality movie?
^This. When I first heard about it and saw that they were using the shitty armour from Halo Legends : The Package, I instantly knew that I would be disappointed with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterz1337
I can't get past the fact that they're wearing fucking SPANDEX under the armor plates... WHERE in ANY of the previous games do you see that shit? Yet in almost every video they preach about getting it to feel just like Halo, about getting all of the pieces right.
E: Also Chief's neck is too long. I could look past everything else about him if he didn't look like an Ostrich craning over a bush.
It looks more like the Crysis nanosuit under there than spandex, which is awesome. Just saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanctus
Sorry, let me clarify. I meant the regular UNSC soldiers in FuD, not Chief.
Oh, I haven't looked into that yet, so yeah...
Then you've got a problem with real life. The cyborg model starting all the way back with Halo 1 was horribly distorted from normal human proportions. This, and most of what you see with the Startan IVs from 343i are what it'd take to be able to move around in armor normally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanctus
Shows off lots of stuff, like a Forerunner Assault Rifle and Pistol, new animation for bubble shield, Forerunner grenade, DMR now is 14 shots per mag, and a ton more. Feel free to mute it or enjoy how obnoxiously funny this guy can be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1rdfWjD5zU&feature=g-vrec
I like a lot of that stuff, a lot of those upgrades, but the only two that bother me are the Regeneration Field upgrade, which is basically a smaller Regeneration equipment we saw in Halo 3, but in ability form, and the Explosives support upgrade, which basically makes one's grenades stronger and gives the user better defense against grenades.Quote:
Originally Posted by ODX
New bulletin. New ViDoc
http://youtu.be/55zOTemj03k
Explains all the new Forerunner. :v:
EDIT:Their video may need to be re-uploaded. There are broken frames.They fixed it, but it's probably irrelevant now.
That was awesome. I'm completely sold on this game.
Really cool stuff. I love those environments so much.
Had to watch it on XBL to get a non-fucked-up-frames version. Hope they fix the yt one soon
edit: just realized the press site still has H4 listed as rating pending...wonder if they'll get slapped with M again?
I've already seen it listed with an M in a couple places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Am I the only one who thought they were robots, and still think they look like robots?Quote:
Originally Posted by Halo 4 Developer
I want to play this game.
