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Fuck you.
>you will never play the tribes beta again.
;_;
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Halo 3 on PC will be announced this E3. Have faith.
>>340017329
You mean Windows 10 right?
>FLAG DROPPED
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How can a flag be dropped if it hasn't been picked up?
>>340017218
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>>340017329
The good Halo is already on PC.
>>340017329
Well if they are serious about cross platform, you have to figure a cross platform Halo 3 anniversary is coming this or next year.
https://youtu.be/71bCxE829Hw?t=38s
WE
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>LAST MAN STANDING
>>340017527
this better not be snowbound again
...
stupid fucking snowbound
pressxthismapisfuckinggayifyoudon'tpressxyou'reagayfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
...
omg
blow me u retards
>>340017292
FLAG OVER
>teammate passes you the flag
I never did that on big maps since it made the whole enemy team know your exact location and they had well enough time to catch up if respawning so it wasn't worth it i the end.
>>340017769
>veto snowbound
>isolation instead
>>340017868
shit
>>340017784
Flag the Flag to Flag
announcerfag here
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Eee5615Ia2
amaI ate a bunch of tootsie rolls before this so my voice is a bit hoarse
>>340017868
Heh I liked it, although that must be because I didn't get to play on it very often.
>>340017769
lollololoololloloolooolollol
I played this game for a while before realizing I could make myself feel better about being shit by playing team slayer instead of regular.
>>340018069
wtf no lock on
bungie r noob for shipping broken game
>>340017329
Halo 3.5is already on the pc, you can thank the russians.
>>340018354
>>340017530
if you mean halo online it's complete garbage
>>340018531Halo 3 isn't the good Halo.
>>340018531
Why's halo online bad? I don't really know anything about it.
>>340018743
sprint.
>>340018743
It doesn't fix any of the problems from Halo 3 while also adding in new ones.
>play my younger brother's Halo 5 multiplayer a few days ago while he was at school
>later that day he comes and tell me he got some messages saying how much he sucked at Halo
>>340018868
>>340018853
both of you are wrong.
play on the right servers.
tweak your ini.
and just fucking play on the right servers. most of the US servers I play on don't have sprint enabled or any of the ruskie weapons.
when was the last time you played? i can't even remember the last time I played on a server with sprint or the ruskie weapons enabled.
>>340017713
>MAN
>>340017868
Both maps were shit, but I honestly preferred Isolation over Snowbound.
DICE
MOVE
>>340019435
Did they fix the shit movement?
Did they fix weapon bloom?
Did they fix weak guns?
Did they fix Camo only lasting 30 seconds?
>>340018040
>>340019658
>Shit movement
I'm genuinely curious what you mean by this other than sprint.
>Weapon bloom
Tweak your ini. Also requires elaboration.
>Weak guns
They're no weaker than they were in halo 3. Also, play on the right servers.
>Camo lasting 30 seconds
What a specific qualm to have. Play on the right fucking servers.
>>340018040
I just cringe
>>340019810
>I'm genuinely curious what you mean by this other than sprint.
Halo 3 had terribly slow movement acceleration that made strafing a pain in the ass.
>Tweak your ini. Also requires elaboration.
When you shoot your gun, your reticle gets bigger and your bullets go off in regular directions.
>inb4 it was always like that
>They're no weaker than they were in halo 3.
They were weak in 3.
>What a specific qualm to have. Play on the right fucking servers.
Halo 3 nerfed the powerups and made them shit. You're not answering if it can be fixed or not.
>>340017413
It'll be the whole Windows Vista/Halo 2 fiasco all over again
>>340018565
Halo 3 is superior to 2 in every single way, you can't argue against this.
>>340020048
The posts higher in the chain were asking about halo 3 on pc. I have no issue with the halo 3 state of the game. I actually think it was the peak. Nevertheless, the game is quite literally halo 3.
If you want something different, so what? Halo 2 is already on PC. :^)It was always like that.
>>340018040
>>340020639
>weaker guns
>BR spread
>narrower fov
>overpowered melees
>neutered powerups
>no brute plasma rifle
>better
>>340017329
>Halo 3 will never be released on Steam for $20 with front page advertising and get 50,000 players overnight and kickstart a Halo renaissance
Why live?
>>340020756
>narrower fov
That's just a flat out fucking lie
>BR spread
always present
>overpowered meleesgitgudder
>neutered powerups
they're just as good you fucking baby
>brute plasma rifle
i can't argue with that
>>340020778
why do you want a Halo renaissance?
it is the epitome of mediocre
>>340019658
wasnt all that shit in halo 3?
>that first time you were hit by a charged plasma pistol into a BR burst
>that time you learned the hard way that SMG+Plasma Rifle mows down FFA rooms
>your heart when you saw how fucking shit the banshee was compared to 2's
>>340020756
>Better maps
>Better customs
>Forge
>Better soundtrack
>Better community
Come on that shit in no way comes close to outweighing the positives that Halo 3 has.
Also
>Weaker guns
Not like more than 70% of halo 2's guns were useless due to the br existing. Melees were also just as bad in 2 in fact they had a larger lunge range and quicker 2nd hit than in 3. In trade for weaker powerups we got
>power drain
>regenerator
>bubble shield
>tripmine
Added way more variety desu
>>340020891
I literally just want Halo 3 multiplayer on PC. It is the only good part of the entire series.
I had a PC back then, but you're lying if you don't think mid 2000s to 2010 Xbox Live was some of the most fun multiplayer gaming you could possibly experience. I wish those kinds of days would come back, but I know they won't just because the internet as a whole is way too different than it was in 2007.
>>340020884
>That's just a flat out fucking lie
http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive38.pl?read=1138638
>always present
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0Z90O_Djo
>they're just as good you fucking baby
They're literally not.
>>340020948
The only reason 3's banshees were bad because of the HAMMER OF SPARTAN LASER.
>>340021078
>>Better maps
That's a lie.
>Not like more than 70% of halo 2's guns were useless due to the br existing.
Same thing happened in 3, except everything was shifted back.
>Added way more variety desu
>a bunch of things that were hit X to not die
>variety
>>340021091
>implying that halo 1-3 campaigns aren't some of the best co-op experiences in gaming...
>>340021148
Do you truthfully believe you can tell the difference in 7 fov? Do you actually believe that's a reason to think that halo 3 is less superior to halo 2? I love both games, but your issues with the game are downright retarded and cherrypicking.
I will retract my statements about the rifling spread, but in 99% of cases do you think that's actually relevant enough to hate the game over? When did you stop enjoying videogames?
>It's a mythic in a banshee episode
>>340021497
>Do you actually believe that's a reason to think that halo 3 is less superior to halo 2?
If you want to just ignore everything else.
>but in 99% of cases do you think that's actually relevant enough to hate the game over?
Yes, because the BR can still drop shots even at short distances.
>>340021313
>powerups tweaked with the addition of activate-able mini powerups
>hurrr hit x not to die, i'm going to totally ignore this very valid point
>>340021652
The grav lift was cool, but everything else was either press X to not die, or the useless-ass trip mine.
>>340021594
>BR can still drop shots even at short distances
>view the video
>clearly shows that's not the case
ok
>>340021805
RNG is one hell of a drug.
>>340017218
In Halo 3, I joined up with some friends for a rare gamemode, 3v3v3v3 Oddball. Or maybe it was just 3v3v3.
Anyways, I had grabbed one of the balls, along with someone else, at just the right time, so that our scores were going over each other again and again.
>RED TEAM HAS THE LE-
>BLUE TEAM HAS THE LE-
>RED TEAM HAS THE LE-
>BLUE TEAM HAS THE LE-
>RED TEAM HAS THE LE-
>BLUE TEAM HAS THE LE-
>RED TEAM HAS THE LE-
>BLUE TEAM HAS THE LE-
>RED TEAM HAS THE LE-
>BLUE TEAM HAS THE LE-
It lasted for like, a full minute
>>340017868
>tfw you veto snowbound or isolation and get guardian, epitaph or blackout
Post your favorite maps actually found in playlists, bungie or community made
>that custom sandbox btb map where both team had pyramids
>>340021750
>literally blanketing all the powerups with "hit x not to die" instead of just specifically naming the fucking bubble shield because everyone viewing this comment thread knows that that's what you're talking about
Bubble shield wasn't even fucking hit x not to die either. Shit was cool as fuck to force the enemy into your little tiny battle arena within the already tiny battle arena maps.
Not the same game but same concept
>WE HAVE TAKEN THE OLD CITY. DYNAMITE THE OLD CITY WALL
>THEY'VE RECLAIMED THE OLD CITY
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>THEY'VE RECLAIMED THE OLD CITY
>>340022119
>>literally blanketing all the powerups with "hit x not to die"
Nah, just the ones that are "press X to not die"
>DESTROY THE TECHNO UNION SHIPS
>>340021860
not anyone in this thread, but anyone with a brain puts the entire circle over the head not the fucking dot for that exact reason. and you didnt even finish the final shot, since the 2nd one could have killed the enemy just like the 1st and 3rd would have.
maybe you should go back to your csgo threads to bait about MUH RNG XD
>>340022520
>and you didnt even finish the final shot
Because it's meant to kill in 4 shots.
>>340019435
except you can't get fucking rid of the awful mouse acceleration and the performance is shit and even 60 fps feel like 20 somehow and you can't do nothing about it
>>340023290
Tweak your fucking ini, can you read? I fixed all of those problems and more.
>halo 3
>be playing on friends house splitscreen
>ctf
>playing on a big map, don't remember which one
>me and the rest of the player just wrecking shit and killing each other, ghosts and warthogs everywhere
>friends just walks through the middle of the map gets and captures the flag three times without anyone bothering him
Honestly familia, I never played the objective on Halo 3, I just wrecked shit and drove the warthog
>That feeling of pure camaraderie during 2v2v2v2 with your partner
>That feeling magnified during victory
better than winning deathmatch
>>340017329
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujZGqNmtN0
Halo Online uses the same engine as Halo 3. I enjoy it.
>>340024305
I wish it was more populated and wasn't mostly custom games. It's a nice fill in for Halo 3 PC though so I can't complain much.
Have they said anything new about Anvil Online?
>>340024243
>be playing team slayer with bro on splitscreen
>one guy on our team killed me like two times so I had him kicked
>four players gone from our team
>they were on a party
>Now just 2v6
>this on the first minute of the match
>me and bro manage to get a tie
Fuck yeah
So did you get recon, /Vee/?
>halo will never be good again
hold me bros
Believe
>>340021091
Then you might like Halo Online.
>>340023345
it's all placebo you can't fix shit
>post yfw halo 5 campaign
>>340025423
once halo 3 gets released on pc, we'll be in the halo renaissance
>>340021561
>It's a, your banshee got destroyed by four sniper rounds episode.
>>340025596
I cried
>>340025596
>mfw that whole battle wasn't even in the game
>mfw big team slayer
>>340026913
>btb that first week avalanche came out
>all those hornet ride flag steals
>>340019658
>>340019810
>>340020048
>not wanting to keep weapon bloom on auto's since it actually makes them better and allows accurate bursting to be rewarded over just spraying and praying
It's shit on precision guns obviously, but wanting it's complete removal on every gun is fucking retarded
>>340026619
I know this disappointment as well
>>340017413
I would actually get Windows 10 just to play Halo 3 on PC.
>>340025423Halo 5's MP is good It's better then 3's.
The map design is better (though the map themes are blander due to mostly being UNSC shit). There's much better weapon balance, the guns aren't anemeic, there's no spread on precision guns, autos are viable, there's more skilljumps and unobvious map pathways rewarding map familiarity, and it's not as slow as 3. The forge is also way, way, way better, with far more custom gametype options
>>340020891
I assume you never played all those custom games back during the height of it's popularity. Jenga, fatkid, drive or die, fiesta, all that action sack stuff, grifball, it was all fucking amazing.
>>340029257
There's always one of you in these threads. Can't you just leave us alone and let us wallow in our misery, why do you gotta try and make things better by giving us what we hate the most?
>>340020639
Top kek, you did not play halo 2 at all.
>>340029257
>no splitscreen
>better than 3
shit game
>>340029257
Holy shit no. Half the maps are absolute trash garbage tier midship ripoffs. Not that midship is a bad map, but it shows how little creativity 343 have. The other half are forge recreations of more older maps. Nothing in the entire playlist is exciting to play on. Literally the only good point you made was the gun handling, which is top tier but at the same time held back because the game can't be played with m + kb
>>340029257
>The map design is better
It's not though. It's why you see so many forge remakes in 5.
The rest of what you said is somewhat true though.
I kind of miss projectile based weaponry. It's why BTB felt better in 3 because you don't get sniped by BRs instantly on the somewhat large BTB maps. Sandtrap forge remake in 5 does not feel good at all because of sprint and hitscan.
>>340017218
>tfw was gonna buy an Xbone for MCC just to relive good Halo MP
>343 couldn't even port a few games correctly
Dodged a bullet there tbqh
>>340029640
I'm just posting my opinion. You don't have to agree with me.
As a halo fan, though, it's frustrating that these threads are never actually discussing anything. They are either just nostalgia circljerking, or nothing but whining about 343.
Like, I get it: Halo 3 was great. I spent like 2000 hours on it myself, and I probably had just as much on Halo 2 (which is probably my actual favorite halo game overall). It's fucking bullshit it's not on PC yet, and I want it just as much as you.
But it's bullshit that it's impossible to actually disscuss the franchise because peoplee just wanna stick their fingers in their ears and pretend everything after reach didn't happen, and half the fanbase wants to ignore ODST and reach too.
Halo threads on /v/ used to be fun even if we had shitposters saying halo is shit and ruined the genre because actual god damn back and forth discussion happened. People discussed the lore, people discussed the pros and cons of each game, etc. Now when stuff is discussed, uit's black and white "this game was either perfect with now flaws or total garbage".
I guess I just want an actual back and forth discussion.
>>340029891
>>340030026
Regarding map design, maybe that's just a disagreement in taste. 5's map design is highly vertical and reminds me of CE and 2's maps, which I enjoyed over 3's which were mostly horizontal and had lots of dead space due to how wide they were.
I agree midship is shit though, and I always felt that way back during the halo 2 days as well.
>t's why BTB felt better in 3 because you don't get sniped by BRs instantly on the somewhat large BTB maps
See, I'd argue that was more due to the dead space I mentioned. It's not because of the lack of hitscan, it's because the BR had spread and it's zoom wasn't long enough to allow you to engage people effectively even if you both saw each other.
>>340029016
Halo needs more lightning guns.
>>340017329
Only some Edge lord would say that
>>340030273
Halo 2 had some pretty flat map design too. Hardly anything had more than 2 or 3 levels. Usually just hills or ramps if there is any sort of verticality.
>>340017283
>Tribes Ascend Beta
>Planetside 2 beta
It hurts. Good times.
>No Unreal Tournament with Facing worlds
KYS
>>340030031
343i ports old Halo games up until Halo 4 to AMD64.
It is one of the worst remakes ever made.
>People are still asking them to port it over to AMD64.
Some people are retarded, though I guess knowing shit all about hardware is a given in Halo generation.
Tell me /v/ of your own custom gamemodes that may or may not have been good.
On Halo 3 my favorite was 'Screen Peak'. Full invis, sniper only, sandtrap, slayer with 3 lives for each player and a time limit of 30 minutes to help you retain your sanity. The whole point of the mode was 4 player split screen where you were supposed to screen peak to find where each other was to kill them.
My friends hated it.
>>340025720
>>340030561
All of MCC was outsourced.
>>340030273
I mean i really can't think of anything 343 has done which has been an improvement over what Bungie did, what has 343 done that deserves praise over any of the older games
>>340030273
Kill yourself, Majora,
>>340030742
Allowing people to crouch mid-strafe
Making precision weapons precise once again
Making the majority of weapons powerful
Centered crosshairs
The little things.
>>340030592
Tower of Power, Troy, and Speed Halo are the best.
>>340030742
>>340030273
Go whine about your tripfaggotry drama or whatever it is somewhere else
>>340030635
So they are unwilling to do the ports.
What would change when the job description is literally the same?
Of course they'd simply take MCC code base and make the few necessary changes so the binaries would run on a normal PC.
>>340021561
>>340017218
You know 343 going to fuck it up.
Chief going to add more lights on his old suit, more arnor peices. Plants and guns have led lights.
Tacticool sights
remake lines to retcon a thing and tease some easy cash grab dlc.
>>340030976
Speed Halo was hardly a game.
>remembering back in H2 days when faggots would pull ethernet, run to cap, then plug it back in
>>340030880
Kek, that really is quite sad if one of the best things 343 has done is centered crosshairs
>>340031140
You can ignore everything else, I guess.
They're also the first Halo dev to show improvement between sequels.
>>340030273
Uh I don't know what you're talking about. A good portion of Halo 3 maps were highly vertical.
>Assembly
>Blackout
>Citadel
>Cold Storage
>Construct
>Epitaph
>Ghost Town
>Guardian
>Heretic
>High Ground
>Last Resort
>Longshore
>>340029106
you're what's wrong with the industry
>>340031140
Nah, I'd say the best thing 343 has done is make the weapon balance not shit.
>>340029489
I miss cops and robbers :(
Honestly thought dooms snapmap would be the reincarnation of that
>>340031085
OHHHH shit! Yess! I did that showed off to friends, felt like.
I was the kid who showed memes and stupid vids before it was everywhere too
>>340030439
>PS2 beta
It was so long ago and yet it feels like it was just yesterday.
>>340031265
Gee wiz they did a modders weeken hobby. Woop de doo
>>340030635
Not all of it though, and they still released it and left it for dead
Fuck 343, 4, MCC, and 5, pretty shitty track record, I doubt 6 will be any different
>>340031189
It's easy to improve from the abortion that was 4. Not saying much.
But in my opinion Halo 2 was an improvement over Halo.
>>340031214
>Blackout
>Cold Storage
>Last Resort
>Heretic
Remakes
>Construct
Hardly. Everyone just played from the top level and never left it.
>High Ground
Not really. Just the one tower where the Spartan Laser spawn could be considered vertical. Everything else took place on 2 planes at most.
>Citadel
Another map with just 2 levels, with no interaction between the top and bottom of either base.
>Guardian
Nah. Again, another map with no interaction between levels.
>>340031409
Well, it's something Bungie couldn't fucking accomplish over the course of 4 separate releases.
>>340031449
fuck off majora
>>340031189
They're also the halo dev that killed the series, Halo used to be at the very top, not it's fucking nothing
>>340018040
Why did you feel the need to post this with such confidence as if anyone would give a shit about your shitty mic quality cringe inducing voice?
>>340018743
I don't know. Some of the servers disables sprint and turns it into vanilla halo 3.
>>340031486
fuck off 3babby
>>340031189
I doubt it would have really taken much effort to improve on Halo 4 mate, if simply being better than 4 is enough to praise 343 against Bungie then lol
>>340030273
I love odst and liked reach, anon. Halo fans these days are a rare breed, especially on /v/. We're all open to discussion, just some of us get heated over our beloved franchise which has been in a fragile place the past few years.
>>340031471
This was a time where major update was released on disk right? A time where Internet was being the norm.
Balance is one thing but hardly a justification of them being shit.
>>340031514
Dude, you're implying Halo hadn't already been removed from the top multiplayer shooter position by the time Reach came out.
>>340031539
Still ignoring every other point to focus on something small.
Typical bungiefag.
>>340018040
YOU SUCK
Halo online ain't that bad. Has some sound bugs. But its fun. Just look for servers without sprint.
>>340031626
It was still in the discussion though, Reach was pretty big still, 4 was quiet and 5 was pretty much a whisper
doom and halo CE was my childhood.
Fucking hell.
>>340020313
It won't. A good amount of PC gamers already use 10.
>>340017283
>mfw enjoying tribes beta more than any other multiplayer in years
>have to go to the army for a year
>come back and its dead
;_;
>>340031602
Halo 3 and Reach were released during a time where online was commonplace in video games. They are also the games with the worst balance.
>>340031530
Funny considering Halo 3 required more skill.
>>340031764
Funny considering that has anything to do with map design.
>>340031408
do people still play planetside 2?
>>340031694
No they don't.
>>340031634
You keep mentioning either shit that really isn't much of an accomplishment or just simply changing damage values for stuff, and this is all you can think of? The fact that 343 accomplished the unasailable task of making something better than halo 4
>>340031713
Mah nigga. Tribes was good shit, man. It was sad watching the number of users thin out.
>>340031817
>3babby
>>340031840
STILL ignoring everything else from >>340030880 just to focus on the little things.
Those are just the objectively good changes.
>>340031753
>They are also the games with the worst balance.
Depends.
Weapon balance wise I thought reach was actually better then 2 and 3. The DMR wasn't any more OP then the BR was in those, the AR could actually hit shit at medium distances, and the other non power weapon guns were actually worth using, and the covenant versions of stuff weren't just reskins (focus rifle actually preformed differently from the sniper rifle, for example).
>halo 5 has the best multiplayer since halo 2
There are 343 cock-riders that actually believe this.
>>340031140
Destiny does the same shit. Bungie likes off center crosshairs
>>340017218
FLAG DROPPED
>>340031449
>Remakes
>Hardly. Everyone just played from the top level and never left it.
>Not really. Just the one tower where the Spartan Laser spawn could be considered vertical. Everything else took place on 2 planes at most.
>Another map with just 2 levels, with no interaction between the top and bottom of either base.
>Nah. Again, another map with no interaction between levels.
All this can be said about 5 maps except worse design and aesthetics
This was the pinnacle of my gaming life.
Fucks sake i think it was the only time reordering a game net something
Went to 3 EB games ( Gamestop in Canada) before i said fuck it and bought it at a HMV of all places
Fuck me the memories
>>340031954
The AR could hit shit, but couldn't do anything more than a tickle even up close.
I'll concede that Reach had some fun pickup weapons like the Grenade Launcher, Concussion Rifle, and Focus Rifle. But everything else that wasn't a DMR, PP, or power weapon sucked eggs.
>>340031818
Yeah, very dead during off hours but prime time and weekends you can expect at least one full continent.
>>340031936
So crouch mid strafe and precise weapons? Woah, based 343
tfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdTWjtAb_k
>>340032139
That's more than Bungie could ever do.
>>340031981
It's absolutely more engaging than Reach and 3, those games got boring as fuck fast outside of custom games.
>>340032191
They made 3 decent games in comparison to 343s half
>>340031713
>>340031851
Last I cheacked thaere's a few nearly full servers at all times, like 10-20 during midday
The numbers went up a bit after they finally resumed updating it recently
>>340032012
Feel free to post some examples of maps where you think that to be true.
>>340032191
Except make a better Halo than Bungie. I mean how many people are still playing Halo 5 again?
>>340032276
But couldn't make fluid movement with powerful, accurate weapons.
>>340032327
5 is better than 3.
>>340032301
The arena maps. I don''t give a shit about halo 5 to remember the map names.
halo 2 babbies ruined halo. tobad we didnt get more games like halo 1. inb4 some tard says reach is like halo ce because le health bar
>>340017218
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
GAINED THE LEAD
TIED THE LEADER
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
TIED THE LEADER
GAINED THE LEAD
>>340032408Republic Commando
>>340032390
So basically you don't actually know if any of those things could apply to the Halo 5 maps because you don't actually know what the maps are like
>>340032441
Kek, remember when Halo 5 was shilled to fuck as it being like RC and it turned out to be absolute dogshit?
>>340032370
>5 is better than 3.
It's not, not overall anyways. Forge is better, weapon balance is better, default move speed(not sprint) is better but that's all I can think of.
>>340032494
I can, give me a picture with the map name and I can tell you. But all the non forge arena maps are applicable. I could go to the Halo wiki for Halo 5 maps but this conversation is not really important enough for me to do so.
>>340032538
Maps are designed to be much less campyinb4 that beta gameplay of Truth, abilities aren't designed to be defensive, and guns kill in a reasonable amount o time(could be put under weapon balance)
>tfw they confirmed Halo 5's forge mode on PC also includes custom games
>ywn play rocket big team racer or racetrax again
>>340032869
They're testing the waters.
Is Halo 4 good?
>>340033102
Halo 5s forge is incredible.
I always find it funny how official 343i maps are always beaten by community maps or community remakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElsCIrBVWw&user=Insanmiac
>>340033319
Forge maps have been better than dev maps since Reach. Only difference now is that they can actually look good too.
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>>340033394
Its insane how these makers can put in so much details in their maps when forge is limited.
I still remember in halo 3 with people making space ships with the objects and they all end up looking something out of KND.
>>340032706
The maps are boring white wall boxes made of entirely 90° angles
I love the forge, weapons, mechanics, and customs though
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>>340025767
>mfw
>>340018040
Just kys my man
>>340035004
oh god this
>>340035004
Also
>Old city lost. Defend the old city wall!
>>340031818
Yeah. There was actually a large pop increase since the construction update came out.
>>340035916
>I just started playing a while back and hit BR50 this week
>team king of the hill
>Oddball
>>340036343
>Red team, C-T-F!
Halo 2 > Halo 3
>>340036750
CE>Reach>Wars Multiplayer>2>ODST>3>Wars Campaign
>>340029257
>ads
>climbing
>ground pound
>loadouts
And more I can't be assed to list, the gameplay isn't even like Halo.
>>340036918
>fully regenerating health
>dual wielding
>can't launch weapons with grenades
And more I can't be assed to list, the gameplay isn't even like Halo.
>>340030592
My friends and I made a map that was basically just a circular room. Everyone ran fast as shit and jumped high and had random weapons. First to 50 kills won. Was surprisingly fun.
>>340036918
No loadouts in halo 5
Unless you meant the casual mode
Much better than halo 4 which had perks, loadouts, kill-cams, killstreaks, etc in every single mode
>>340037110
We get it, you have poor as fuck taste and believe the shit 343 shits out to somehow be better than the widely loved original trilogy.
>>340020639
>>340018531
>Implying
Fight me faggot. Custom Edition was better than all of the Halos combined.
>>340036918
Don't forget the worst atrocity of all: no split-screen
>>340038002
I love 1-3 and ODST, reach is ok, I fucking despise halo 4 and I tolerate halo 5. 5 has definite improvement over 4, they are really trying to make a good game.
>>340038056
>Halo: CE
MY NIGGER
Those 64 players ground wars were the shit
>tfw Halo 2 is now a "childhood classic " that kids "grew up with".
>>340038056
>tfw Coldsnap with the people in the massive ships, full of seats, 8 dudes dropping from the air
>Those gundams
>The C4 packs
>The ice hogs that went super speed
>The spider tank laser thing
I fucking miss that game
>>340038402
I can't be that old can I?
>>340038402
>the 9-year-olds on halo 3 are old enough to post here now
>>340038243
Too bad Halo 4 was such a piece of shit I decided to get a PS4 instead of an Xbone.
>>340036918
>ads
It's not ADS you turd, it's zoom. You don't slow down movement wise, and you are more accurate then ever without even using it. It's just reskinned zoom
>climbing
And yet tanks to hover and thrust er it has more skilljumps than any prior halo game and said skillljumps are more complicated then in any prior halo game
>Groundpound
And? Are they not allowed to add new features? Is Halo 2 gameplay not like halo since it added dual wielding and vehicle jacking?
>Loadouts
Halo 5 doesn't have loadouts, did you even play the game?
>>340038056
This. Any Halo after this didn't amount to shit compared to this colossal giant.
>>340038485
I dont blame you
Halo 4 was an abomination
I ended up getting an xbone because all my faggot friends did, but halo 5 only really disappointed me in the campaign and the visual variety in arena maps
>>340038056
>That one server dedicated to 64 player space battles
>Mfw I got to pilot the Pillar Of Autumn against a play controlled Covenant Flagship
>Halo thread
Question: how much punishment can Brutes withstand before dropping? I mean, they're always shown running around out-of-cover like Elites. But unlike Elites, they don't have the benefit of shields, they're practically running around naked. Do these guys canonically have titanium skin or something, because otherwise this seems pretty suicidally stupid
>oh shit this pissed-off space gorilla is charging at me
>with no shields or armor
>good thing I've got this machine gun lol
>tfw in 10 years, you won't have anyone to play your favorite Halo game with anymore
>tfw all online games are bound to die, never to be replayed again
Oldies can be emulated and patched, those with bots can be enjoyed to some extent... but the rest will just die and there's nothing we can do. All those games lost forever, it pains me they'll never be played again.
Sometimes I'm thinking we could work on some great bot AI that could adapt to play many different games and allow to play any old online game again. But that's so much work to be done and it likely won't ever happen before those games are rendered impossible to play anymore because there's neither software nor hardware support. And it pains me even more when I realize devs themselves rarely ever think about that, and so few provide long-term solutions.
I came to hate online games because of this. Because when they die they're gone forever.
>>340039280
They wear armor, but still, they're fucking huge monster beasts that can take a beating.
>>340039280
Lore wise?
A pretty damn good amount. People call them gorilla's but bungie has always been pretty clear even as far back as the artbook that came out right before Halo 2 did that they are more like bipedal rhinos crossed with bears, and DO have rhino/elephant like skin under all that fur. You have to keep in mind they are also around 9 feet tall and weigh a ton and a half
So, i'd say, imagine how much damage a grizzly bear or a rhino could take. A brute can probably take that much damage
Off the top of my head, I recall in contact harvest, Tartarus's uncle got shot at, and then hit head on and pinned against a wall by a warthog going full throttle, and was still able to total the thing by lifting up his hammer (the then unmodified fist of rukt) and smashing it against the engine.
He got out of the affair with heavy injuries but non life threatening injuries. Granted, he WAS wearing a suit of armor (pretty sure it was unshielded, though, it was native brute stuff), but still. and a lot of brutes even pre halo 3 wore suits of armor.
>>340039757
>>340039280
And a size comparsion to illustrate how big they actually are
>>340039757
I'm pretty sure that you could kill a rhino by unloading a magazine of machine gun ammo into it when it charges at you.
Keep in mind that since brutes are significantly smaller than rhinos, any tough skin layer would be proportionally thinner, and thus less protective
>>340022269
>>340035004
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>>340040074
>I'm pretty sure that you could kill a rhino by unloading a magazine of machine gun ammo into it when it charges at you.
People often overestimate the lethality of guns. There's plenty of accounts irl of people getting pumped full of bullets but not going down till a few hours later. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, and Specifically, I remember reading about how during a home intrusion, an 8 year old girl confronted the guy, got shot 8 times in the head, but wasn't even incapacitated, which freaked the intruder out and he ran, and she made a full recovery.
So, some of the time, you'll have shit like that happening. On top of that, you have the fact it's a 9 foot tall beast with way more and denser muscle and thicker skin, and you are fighting in a warzone against these hellbeasts and are going to be freaked the fuck out, so how many of those shots will you actually be landing
Laatly, consider the fact they are shooting at you too. Consier your logic, and apply it the other way around. If it's supposedly so easy for a human to take a brute out with a burst of AR fire, how easy is it for a brute to take out a human with a burdt of spiker fire or a brute shot grenade? And it's not like brutes are that stupid. They might not be as clever as humans when pushed into a corner or as strategic as elites, but they did achieve rocketry and nuclear physics on their homeworld prior to the covenant finding them.Granted, they had caused a nuclear winter with those nukes and knocked themselves back into the medieval era, but still
So, consider the following hypothetical:
In the event that the Covenant found humanity, BUT there weren't any reasons to immediately declare a war of extermination. Humanity is folded into the Covenant after a war, wherein they impress the Elites and covenant leadership, as they did in-universe.
Now that Humanity is a part of the Covenant, what would they DO? They aren't strong or tough or fast enough to serve as shock troopers to the same capacity as Hunters, Brutes and Elites. They don't have bullshit hax physical properties like flight, or jackal super-sight. They don't breed fast enough, and are too smart to waste on dangerous manual labor like Grunts.
What would their role in the Covenant be?
>>340040843
The Covenant isn't only a fighting force. Still, humans with Covenant technology would kick serious ass. They fought back the Covenant pretty good with theirs, it wasn't all the Chief's doing.
>>340040504
Whoops, forgot my image, which again, should really put into perspective the difference in scale going on here
>>340040843
I''d expect there would be a lot of early tension, but that the elites would quickly grow a high degree of respect for human tenacity and strategics. I imagine they'd be put above grunts, jackals, and drones, but below elites. Probably on par with brutes on paper but above them in practice since the elites wouldn't hate their guts, but would still not trust them since humans fight dirty.
Which is actually where I think their main combat application would be beyond general small team command: They'd be used for high risk, unorthodox combat situations. Humans would be more dispoable then Elites, but would have a pragmatic edge that would be useful under pressure and wouldn't have the honor system that holds elites back from operating to the best of their ability.
>>340040843
Intelligence, analytics, policy, and reverse engineering of Forerunner technology alongside the Huragok.
>>340038435
don't forget
>nuking other players from kilometers above
>>340041170
>Humans would be more dispoable then Elites, but would have a pragmatic edge that would be useful under pressure and wouldn't have the honor system that holds elites back from operating to the best of their ability.
To clarify on this, BECAUSE they are more dispoable, but ALSO have those other traits, that makes them ideal for stuff like spec ops teams, stealth roles, and other situations that don't fall under normal tradtional combat.
>>340041251
I doubt they'd be anywhere near dealing with pollciy and certainly not forerunner tech. Policy was pretty much purely a prophet thing, as was forerunner tech stuff. I don't think you realize how much political power the phophets actually weielded.
And the moment humanity actually gets in contact with forerunner shit and it's revealed that they can wield it, it's the moment the same siutation happens that did happen in the lore where the prophets brand them as heretics to keep the power for themselves.
>>340041123
>>340041251
>>340041170
>>340040843
They would be scientists off the battlefield.
On the battlefield, they would be ship commanders, along with the elites
But what all of you anon are forgetting is that they would be DOCTORS
D O C T O R S
Nobody else in the whole covenant wants that job, because the elites hate it because muh honor. Humans would be the Combat Medics of the Covenant, and would specialize in medical technology and innovation
>>340021860
>not shooting the chest until the shields drop and bursting up into the head
The spread makes literally no difference.
>>340041495
Again, I can't see the prophets allowing them near any forerunner tech, but yes, combat medics make a lot of sense
>>340041170
>>340041391
Aren't Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap what the Covenant use Jackals for?
>>340017698
>killfeed suddenly lights up with 2 retarded names
i miss tf2. i know it never left but i cant go back
>>340041617
Not really.
They were used for sniping a lot since they are sneaky and were great marksman, but if you look at any of the actual lore that goes into that, you'll note pretty consistently that they actually were't often amazing at it because they were too predatory and bloodthirsty to control themselves, and they were kleptomanics who couldn't be trusted to not loot and plunder shit.
I think it's pretty telling that the covenant special operations division had Elites and grunts, but not jackals. Grunts were scaredy-cats, but were loyal and were socially adaptable, which made them actually usable in those sorts of situations.
>>340017769
I get it don't worry.
>>340041869
>>340041617
one last thing before I head off, to clarify on the socially adaptable thing.
Grunts are regularly shown to actually be very intelligent and are pretty manipulative, often outsmarting their elite superiors just knowing how to push all of the right buttons to get them off their back and make them feel smug and proud of themselves, and were able to pick up human language and act as translators.
Jackals are obviously manipulative lying dirtbags themselves, but they are pirates with little to no self control.
Anyways, you should really read the novels, it seems like you would enjoy them and they delve into the covenant's social and military strucutre pretty often,. Most of the novels have like 1/3 to 1/2 of the whole story being told from a covenant perspective.
In particular, The Flood, Contact Harvest, The Cole Protcole, and Broken Circle delve into covenant structure, politics, and interspecies relationsnot that kind you sick fuck, though The Flood is one of the worse halo novels, and other then contact harvest none of those are good starting off points for the Halo books.
So are elites just full fucking retards, then? Everything about their lore makes them sound like a bunch of impossibly braindead jocks
>get outsmarted by humans
>get outsmarted by grunts
>get btfo by both of these races whenever they start putting up a serious fight
>DESPITE each and every last one of them supposedly being as strong and fast as an SII (which is dumb because SIIs had to have titanium grafted into their bones so that the stresses of their movement didn't shatter their skeletons and tendons like glass, elites don't have comparable protection against the dangers of such feats of strength and speed)
>supposedly receive the combat and tactics training to match SIIs as well
If your army is fielding hundreds of millions of Blue Teams onto the field every year, you have ZERO (0) excuse for not wiping the floor with every enemy you see, casually sweeping them aside like ants, unless all of your troops are legitimately, clinically retarded
mfw the flood used to be space catnip
>>340017823
>tfw there was always a winning team decided by some random overlord nerd
>tfw you were always in the '''secret'' whisper group
>>340042951
And that space catnip used to be the Forerunner's creators. Shit just goes full retard from there.
>star roads
>neural physics
>>340043107
Reminder that the neural physics of the Domain were apparently left unscathed by the firing of the halo array, which specifically targets neural systems
>>340031832
They do. If they didnt install it themselves its installing itself right now because fuck user rights.
>>340042885
Elites are basically autists. They are extremely proficient in warfare and are not only very physically capable but know the ins and outs of tactics, but are infexable in their psychology.
Litterally from the start of the formation of the covenant, the whole deal was designed so the prophets would be doing all the thinking and planning, and the elites would just be the muscle, and the prophets planned it from the start that the elites wouldn't question orders much or they'd be branded as heretics, etc. Combine that with their innate cultural sense of honor and putting up a fair fight and all of that you get the picture.
That's not to say that elites AREN'T intelligent in other ways, they were, but what I described is generally their weakness.
You have to keep in mind all the stuff i'm saying are generalization, and many of the specific istances I am describing involve specific characters, and those characters are obviously exceptional in some way or another. So while I say that there are many grunts that outsmart their elite superiors, because that does happen a few times, for every one of those, there's a 100 grunts who don't do that,
Think about IRL with humans. If you pull 100 random people off the stree, chances are most of them are going to be dumb and unformed in a lot of areas, I doubt most of them would be smarter then the average elite, but the average elite by elite standards is also probaly an idiot, etc
again, you should really read the books.
>>340042951
>>340043107
>>340043227
I actually really liked the forerunner books. Litterally everything in them sounds dumb as fuck out of context, but in context it's super well written and the way it transitoons from this dull, dense story that;s mostly worldbuilding with a bored forerunner teen and then spirals out of control into fever dream psychological horror and finally really well done cosmic horror is great.
>in capture skulls on reach capping 10 skulls was an instant win
>my team was dead last
>see a guy with 10 skulls
>assassinate him
>all his skulls transfer to me as the new cap point opens where i'm standing
>SKULLAMANJARO
I could feel how mad everyone else was
