Ask someone who worked at 343 industries from 2010 to 2016 anything.
Were you fired?
Hows Halo 6 shaping up
Why?
Give us some details about halo 6
How do we stop the Warriors from 3peating and eternally ruining basketball?
What was your job?
>>340764969
>Were you fired?
No. I was allowed to resign of my own will.
However, they were letting me go either way. So my file will indicate that I just resigned, but the real reason is that they are cutting staff
>>340764907
Where did your life go wrong?
How many people from Lucasarts went to work there?
Why haven't you killed yourself?
Were you guys actually working on a Banjo Kazooie game at some point?
Did you liked how 343i remade Halo?
do you have waifu?
>>340764907
Were you embarrassed by Halo 5?
>>340765243
Did anyone really think Halo 5's story was good in any way?
Is it true you guys were just a hack job team of interns scrambled together in desperation to keep Halo alive after Bungie left?
What actually happened during the Crimson Map Pack free trial thing? Was that a cover up for a pricing error like I thought it was or did they legitimately plan it and not tell anybody until after the "trial" had started?
>>340764978
>>340765193
Halo "6" was supposed to be just more of Halo 5 with another subtitle. (Nemesis was the name going to be used). But now there's a new game being made from the ground up with a new engine. That being said, Nemesis was never canceled.
>>340765159
King James needed to come out last night and he didnt. I don't want to say it's because he's too old, but he's certainly too burned out.
>>340765350
>Were you guys actually working on a Banjo Kazooie game at some point?
No.
>>340765517
>Did anyone really think Halo 5's story was good in any way?
The narrative got pretty butchered when we had to cut it down (about a third of the campaign got cut) but the bigger alteration came when we had to adapt the story to the squad system which was never part of the original plan.
That being said, most of the team, myself included, never disliked 5he story we shipped. I feel like when you make something, you get attached to it and grow a bias.
Is Halo 5 coming to PC?
Anything big you can leak?
>>340765957
>>340765193
But what was your job there? Were you a modeller, writter, PR...?
Also, just out of curiosity, does anyone there work on multiple departments (modelling+concept, for instance)
post proof if you want us to give a shit
>>340764907
>Ask someone who worked at 343 industries from 2010 to 2016 anything.
Prove it.
What kind of women do you like? Do you have a fetish?
Does Bonnie ever come into work in a diaper?
>>340764907
Why didn't you guys get Marty on for the music?
That's my biggest complaint about 4 and 5.
chances of halo 6 being set in tokyo or akihabara?
>>340765243
>but the real reason is that they are cutting staff
Why didn't you let them fire you, then? there is compensation and wellfare in those situation. Leaving on your own mean you can't get wellfare.
>>340764907
Did any of the employees make casual racist jokes about Black Master Chief?
>>340765464
>Were you embarrassed by Halo 5?
We were upset with the attach rate.
We gambled on the esports scene and lost.
I don't think Halo 5 is a bad game.
It was a decent compromise between what people expect in a shooter today and what is true to Halo. Halo 3 movement speed would not work today.
>>340765542
>Is it true you guys were just a hack job team of interns scrambled together in desperation to keep Halo alive after Bungie left?
No. Most of the original studio have resumes from established successful studios throughout the industry.
>>340765836
>What actually happened during the Crimson Map Pack free trial thing? Was that a cover up for a pricing error like I thought it was or did they legitimately plan it and not tell anybody until after the "trial" had started?
It was a pricing error. I was actually directly involved in working with this. It was our first real DLC release and we fumbled it. Microsoft has a pretty strict policy about what to do when there's a pricing error, so yes, we released a "patch" that locked the downloaded content behind a paywall. Yes, that's legal via the terms and service agreement of XBL.
>>340766280
>Is Halo 5 coming to PC?
Only the forge release. No plans ever for the full game or the MCC.
>>340765243
but couldn't you have gotten severance?
>>340767305
>Only the forge release. No plans ever for the full game or the MCC.
For what fucking purpose
>>340767429
An employer doesn't have to give you severance
He could collect unemployment benefits though
>>340767305
I believe you're legit for some reason.
proof or fuck off
What were your working conditions like? Better or worse than the usual?
Tell us about cut content in Halo 5
>>340767305
>halo 3 movement speed would not work in a shooter today
I don't know man, overwatch seems pretty successful
Why'd you fagots axe Marty?
>>340767492
Maybe MS wants to do Project "did you know it came out and is now gone?" Spark 2 Electric Boogaloo.
>>340767821
Not the same studio.
>>340767821
wrong company
Why do they feel the need to completely redo everything in their own image? Why couldn't they leave the original designs alone?
>>340767492
It's supposed to have full custom game support so at least we'll be able to organize private lobbies on /vg/ or wherever.
You fuckers ruined Halo.
Is Frank O'Connor as much of a bitch as he appears to be on Neogaf?
Did anyone on the team actually think it was smart to launch halo 5 with so few gametypes? missing ones like infection, Race, VIP, King of the hill, oddball
>>340764907
What does it feel like getting bungie's sloppy seconds and then taking a dump on its chest with how terrible 4 and 5 were?
>>340768036
I was just about to ask this question.
I'm seriously considering never buying another Halo game because he seems like an insufferable leftard cunt.
Why is the covenant being replaced by these boring plastic bionicles?
>>340768056
Seconding this question. I really want to know what the business strategy behind shipping such an unfinished piece of shit was.
Surely you guys must have known better - I certainly know for a fact that a lot of the content, such as armours, were modelled up and ready to serve pre-launch. The file tags in the Waypoint armour customiser prove such.
why is halo so shit and why is it only americlaps that enjoy it?
do you ever feel ashamed for contributing to the casualisation of the FPS genre?
>>340768108
this
>>340767821
Because he was a cunt who got mad over fucking advertising not using his song
>>340768036
>>340768056
>>340768108
Seconding these.
Did you enjoy your job at 343?
What was your previous occupation in the games industry?
Is 343 ever going to hand off Halo to another dev and work on a new or existing IP?
Is Bonnie nice lady?
Favorite soup and sandwich combo?
Be honest, was Halo 5 a flop?
>>340764907
Hey OP if you're going to fake some shit at least stick around a bit longer
Anything.
>>340768580
Seconding this.
On a possibly related note, did you sign an NDA and would you get in trouble if this thread went public with your name?
Please be patient. I'm literally pulled over at a rest stop on the Washington Turnpike and postingfrom my phone
>>340766426
I was brought on to work with the handling of the exchange of the Reach servers from Bungie to 343. I was also involved with the major Reach title update (implementing it, not designing it) and later worked on the stability of the Halo Anniversary Reach multiplayer.
I had a limited role in Halo 4, which was already being developed during all of this. I had a bigger role with Halo 5.
>>340766934
Originally at least, Marty was almost purposely avoided so that we could set a new image via music for the newer Halo games. Yes I'm serious.
>>340766954
Halo 5 "Nemesis" was going to be set largely on Sanghelios. Now that it's essentially scrapped (but not officially), I have no idea if the narrative plan has changed. It almost certainly will given the way this company handles negative feedback.
>>340767152
Resignation almost always looks better on a resume than a termination.
>>340767214
Not really. We actually really liked Locke. What you guys got was a shell of what we wanted out of him.
Is there any chance of future Halo games not having microtransaction system?
>>340768791
>Washington Turnpike
are you leaving the state? Were you just roadtripping from New York?
>>340768791
How does the future for the series look? Good or not so good?
>>340768893
I second this, REQ packs ruined one of my favorite things in Halo.
>>340768791
>stability of the Halo Anniversary Reach multiplayer
Obviously a job well done.
>>340768791
>Resignation almost always looks better on a resume than a termination.
Not when they are cutting staff out. Employer will usually go "why were you lay off" you do "there was a resturcutration" and they are like "allright, this sucks" and then move on with the rest of the interview.
>>340768791
What was the primary reason behind Halo 5's lack of modes at launch?
As in, why were Infection, KotH, Juggernaut, Assault, etc all missing
>>340768791
Who came up with
>I'm impressed. Arbiter has females in his ranks. War has traditionally been a male's job on Sanghelios.
Why did you guys butcher Cortana's character? Don't you think she would have been better off dead than brought back as a cartoon tier villain?
>>340768791
Was Halo 5 infection at all held back or did it really take half a year post launch to finish?
>>340764907
Does "343" come from the 343 different pixel colors in ClearType text?
>>340769221
Lmao
>>340769128
oh god don't remind me of this
i can get arbiter leading the sangheli towards a more liberal way of life but for women to get high ranking military leadership positions in just a few years is so stupid
>>340768791
What're your plans now? Got any studios you've got your eyes on to work for?
What is the craziest co-worker/corporate/office story you have working there? Also, did you have any experience before working for 343i?
>>340769221
it's the name of a character dummy
How does it feel knowing you worked for a company that took a well franchise with a well established story and turned it into a game with literal fan fic tier writting?
>>340764907
Was it your fault that we missed games 2 and 3 of EG vs. CLG in pro league and is that why you're fired?
>>340769221
How much of Halo 5 was rewritten before release.
Nobody who works in the games industry is stupid enough to sabotage their career for posts on 4chan. OP is a liar.
Getting blacklisted is no joke. We have PR staff for a reason.
>>340764907
What is the best Transformers series/generation?
>>340769558
get cucked
>>340769532
Looking at Hunt the Truth, it's gotta be all of it
>>340769558
He didn't give out his name or anything
Are they going to undo what they've done to the story and characters? Because they should.
Make it all a dream in Chief's head while he's in cryosleep at the end of Halo 3. I wouldn't care.
>>340769558
>implying 343 is going to hunt down OP's name
ebin
>>340769558
Project Beast was leaked to /v/.
>>340769558
>hasn't posted any hard proof
If op isn't a faggot he's pretty safe you mong. Chill out.
>>340769331
Maybe the character got his name from ClearType?
I never played any Halo
>>340769471
I reverse engineered how ClearType text rendering works a few months ago and found that each color channel only every has 7 unique values
(For example: 0, 43, 85, 128, 171, 213, 255)
But since it is RGB that means there are 343 (7*7*7) possible values
So I thought that maybe some of the people that made ClearType are involved in this studio
>>340769968
>he
>>340768791
What's the reason for all the cut story content? Looking back and considering what you're telling us, the missing story is on the same level as MGSV.
Thanks for doing that Q&A here. It's cool to have something like that on /v/ - if you aren't lying of course.
>>340769712
I don't think you realize how easy it is to track someone down when they speak out on the internet. People who leak shit get found out so fast it's retarded. Trust me, it's a small industry.
>>340770015
>7
>not a Bungie theme
>>340764907
Why did you cut splitscreen and local co-op?
>>340770015
The studio is named after 343 Guilty Spark you mong. A simple google search would tell you that.
>>340770053
>Trust me
Would I trust a snake?
>>340770163
60fps. Why they didn't cap it to 30 for split screen is beyond me.
>>340769558
>We have PR staff for a reason
>We
Found the narc I guess.
>>340770015
Interesting coincidence. If the character was named prior to the Microsoft purchase, it would remain as such.
>>340768791
was there ever a plan to add a classic playlist in halo 5 that removes all spartan abilities? or are the devs at 343 really to retarded to do one?
>>340770015
>But since it is RGB that means there are 343 (7*7*7) possible values
The 7*7*7 is why. Bungie has a thing for the number 7. ClearType isn't relevant.
>>340770202
>343 Guilty Spark
>implying ClearType wasn't a thing before the first Halo
You're not very smart, summeranon.
How much anime did you guys watch before writing Halo 5's ending?
>>340770405
ok, your b8 has gone on for long enough
OP is missing
summon OP instead
>>340770053
I've heard of people in minor positions like phone support getting fired for stuff like this, the fact that 4chan doesn't use accounts makes it harder but I wouldn't be too surprised if they do track down OP if he's not lying. He already said that he was involved in fixing the Crimson Map Pack pricing error which narrows the search to 10 people at most. From there it's just seeing which of those people recently left the company and boom, OP is discovered.
>>340770405
Are you autistic?
Am I being memed?
I can't tell anymore. /v/ is so full of legitimate retards and people pretending to be retards it's difficult to tell the difference anymore.
>>340764907
Are you guys finishing Halo series on 6?
>>340770284
Not OP but desu the mp in 5 is great, arguably the best in the series, but at least right up with 2.
>>340764907
Any story details about Halo 6?
>>340765957
Who's idea was it to include a black main protagonist in a core halo game as master chief's equal and what can we do to end their life?
>>340770015
>Dark Souls lore
>>340770235
Call of duty has it and it runs at 60 fps so I'm not buying that excuse
>>340770556
They have a 20 year plan so obviously not
>>340770413
All of it, then they watched some of Anita's videos and had to tone it down.
Guilted for their male gays.
>>340770163
Do you know how hard it is to get good perf on split screen? Engineers hate it.
>>340770563
Here's your reply.
Halo 5's multiplayer is great, but 343 never managed to achieve the same level of quality for the campaigns.
Why is it that you guys don't do much with vehicular combat, and the level design in single player is always lacking. Halo sometimes had backtracking, some people didn't like it, but when done right it made you feel like you were on an actual alien world instead of just going through corridors.
Do you guys have like a "no vehicle" policy or purposely try to limit their usage? 343's Halo games rarely feature the points where you see aliens and human AI fighting, or if they do they feel muted.
Also, what is up with the art direction of the games? The maps in multiplayer are terribly, and I mean really terribly bland. Halo always used to have a gorgeous set of MP maps, but 5's are only interesting in their design. Is this part of the e-sports focus 5 took, because it never stopped previous Halos from being serious competitively but having gorgeous maps.
>>340768580
>Favorite soup and sandwich combo?
>>340768753
No NDA, but it's pretty common practice that if you out yourself as a leaker, you lose integrity in the industry.
I like Tuna and Tomato Bisque.
>>340768036
What people don't know about frank is that his hands are tied most of the time. Most major decisions he "makes" are just relayed from Microsoft Studios.
>>340768225
Halo has always been pretty much an American game for the most part.
>>340768056
>Did anyone on the team actually think it was smart to launch halo 5 with so few gametypes? missing ones like infection, Race, VIP, King of the hill, oddball
First off, this was the first Halo project that we really worked on mostly in studio. Certain affinity wasn't involved so we had to commit extra staff to the multiplayer. Secondsly, we still had to pull people to finish the campaign which like I said got HEAVILY altered with the inclusion of the squad mechanic. Seriously, the squad stuff was at least indirectly the result of the vast majority of the shortcomings of the game.
>>340768412
>Did you enjoy your job at 343?
For the most part, yes. It was pretty strict though. Longer work hours and more supervision than I'm used to. The people were pretty fun though.
>What was your previous occupation in the games industry?
This was my first solid career position in video games. I had worked for Microsoft when I got out of college and then I picked up a paid internship at Valve.
>>340768486
>Is 343 ever going to hand off Halo to another dev and work on a new or existing IP?
343 is Halo and Halo only.
>>340768558
>Is Bonnie nice lady?
You won't believe me but I hardly ever talked to her. Got a very "ivory tower" vibe (no pun intended) from her. I will say that she's not nearly as attractive ass she appears on TV with makeup effects on.
>>340768648
>Be honest, was Halo 5 a flop?
It made a nice profit for Microsoft and we got bonuses out of it, but it performed at about just over 2 thirds of projections.
Frank O'Connor seems like he'd be a fucking nightmare to work with. Is that true?
>>340770643
CoD tends to dip. You're right though, how they hell does CoD run as decently as it does? It doesn't look that great anymore but still.
Back to Halo, local was probably removed to ship more units and consoles.
>>340770653
Fucking hell
>>340770503
>>340770543
Thanks anons, I love my (You)s.
>>340770563
(you)
>>340770786
>No NDA
Horseshit. You can't work anywhere in the games industry without signing an NDA.
>>340770643
60 fps is tied to the engine.
Same way how 30 fps is tied to dark souls.
It's a way to make physics a lot better and animations sync up a bit more, while often being less resource demanding.
Halo 5 also uses some of the most advanced real time optimizations and adjustments in the industry. It constantly is lowering and raising settings such as shadows, draw distance, lighting, and particle effects on top of the overall resolution in order to maintain an absolute constant 60 fps at all times. If you know much about how games are made its borderline programming magic, and it makes sense why they couldn't do splitscreen
>>340770745
>>340770875
Have you guys played it? The only downside is that artistically the maps are pretty bland. It wipes the floor with 4 and reach mp, and 3 is also way too slow and floaty in comparison.
Do you know what halo game is scheduled for 2017? Is it another spinoff like Halo Wars 2 or is it a Halo 6?
>>340770786
I'm asking if Frank's a bitch personally, though. I imagine he's a patsy for MS, but thanks anyways.
>>340771101
I own it and was just playing it, it is a fine mp but it ain't halo
>>340770942
>It constantly is lowering and raising settings such as shadows, draw distance, lighting, and particle effects on top of the overall resolution
While this is admittedly sorta cool from a technical perspective, many parts of the game look like complete shit due to the LOD scaling.
Take a map like Raid on Apex 7, things look good up close but at a distance all the trees and foliage scale down to shitty looking 2D sprites
Same with how players and characters in the distance become 2D sprites with their animations cut down to 5fps
>>340771418
Every Halo has played very different to previous installments. Only 4 didn't follow the real pillars of halo, being guns / grenades / melee with an emphasis on map control and power weapons.
You know what is fun in the games industry? You always run into people you hate.
>Get fired for no reason (literally no reason was ever stated)
>Get hired at a new company
>Some time later the faggot that fires you shows up at the company
Least we work in completely different departments.
What was the general sentiment about #GamerGate? I know Frank loathes it.
>no Halo 3 on PC
thanks 343, I really enjoyed how buggy mcc was.
>>340768893
>Is there any chance of future Halo games not having microtransaction system?
Can't confirm, but the Req pack system was a colossal money bank for Microsoft. More money was made through it than sales of the game to my understanding, which is not rare for games that have such a system. Same with spartan assault and Strike. So I would guess it's here to stay. If it makes you feel better, I'm literally the core guy that advocated for more Arena-centric req packs as opposed to the original approach that was mostly geared towards warzone.
>>340768950
I'm heading East to visit some friends. I need a mini vacation to decide what I'm going to do next with my life.I was going to propose this week
>>340769041
>How does the future for the series look? Good or not so good?
I can tell you that as far as the modeling of the next main series entry goes, the big agreement from the studio heads was that a longer campaign with impressive enemy AI and a less story-in-your-face approach to experiencing the levels, possibly akin to Combat Evolved. Also a big core goal going forward is (and this is written on the grey board in every room that has one, almost as a meme) "MAKE THE PROMETHEANS FUN TO FIGHT". Yes they're here to stay.
Multiplayer I have no idea on, because the initial plan was to release another Halo 5 game/expansion with a different campaign and unison multiplayer. Since it's looking like Halo "6" is now more likely, I have no idea if the multiplayer will be that different or not.
>>340769168
Cortana was NEVER going to stay "dead". Never. Period.
The one part of the Guardians campaign that was never altered at all was the aspect of her returning as the ringer of the reclemation. That was the plan literally years ago. The hunt the truth thing on the other hand obviously went through changes.
>>340769213
I think I answered this already.
>>340771564
Yea it's kind of bad for giant maps where lots of shit is going on. Though I imagine it'll be better on scorpio. I kind of feel like Halo 5 was programmed specifically so Scorpio could easily take advantage of it.
Oh, and they get reduced to 30 fps like smash, it's just super jarring since everything else around you is at 60.
>>340771787
GamerGate is just a social justice movement like feminism but with a different form of social justice. Please take your little irrelevant twitter war back to twitter.
Why the fuck did they keep extending Chiefs story past 3? That story is over, it should have ended. Nobody wanted the abomination that is the story past 3. Personally, I would have liked that the game somehow went to the ancient humans first discovering the flood and their war with the forerunners. Maybe that could be a side game/series though.
>>340772009
>>340771851
Oh shit, good luck.
And sorry for confusing you for someone else.
>>340771851
>the initial plan was to release another Halo 5 game/expansion with a different campaign and unison multiplayer
Sort of like ODST?
>>340771859
>they get reduced to 30 fps
At longer distances, animations drop way below that.
If you're standing at the very back of a Warzone base and look at players running in and out of the front entrance, their movement is visibly choppy, something like 5 or 10 fps.
>>340772037
I just want a game where you play as the UNSC in a desperate attempt to stay alive against the Covenant. I want missions where you know your planet is fucked and you're just trying to salvage what you can.
Or like in Fall of Reach where John, Kelly and Sam boarded a Covenant ship and detonated a bomb inside it because they couldn't fight it with UNSC ships successfully.
>>340771851
>I was going to propose this week
Congrats, and good luck
>>340772087
>tumblr file image
>being this triggered
nice bait
>>340772087
I get what he's saying but I have different reasons for disliking GG. That being said, nice straw manning.
>>340770786
>>340768648
>Be honest, was Halo 5 a flop?
>It made a nice profit for Microsoft and we got bonuses out of it, but it performed at about just over 2 thirds of projections.
How much of this "Nice profit" was from REQs?
>>340771851
I know you have no proof, but a lot of what you say rings some truth.
My question to you is, where the fuck was the poncho/cloak Master Chief from the 2013 e3 trailer?
In the case that you actually have lost your job, hope you land somewhere nice.
>>340772515
Not up to date, but at near launch:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-5-microtransactions-generate-over-500000-in-o/1100-6432003/
>Halo 5 Microtransactions Generate Over $500,000 in One Week
>Revenue from Halo 5's microtransactions is likely even higher than $500,000. That's because only a "portion" of REQ bundle sales went to the Halo World Championship. However, the exact percentage split between funds that Microsoft keeps and money that goes to the Halo World Championship is unavailable.
Why no black undersuit?
When I was playing Halo 4's campaign it felt like there were going to be a lot of QTEs/QTE sequences in the game that were mostly removed. Am I correct? If so what was the thinking behind trying add them in and what was the thinking about removing them?
>>340772693
So from this we can pretty much assume halo 6 is going to go over the top in reqs...
Does Cortana get BLACKED by Locke?
Why is the customization of Spartans so shit?
Halo 4 had so much and it was sweet but 5 has the same type of customization as 3 for armor(but with more types to choose).
and customizing emblems is the worse its ever been.
>>340771851
>it was always the plan to turn cortana into forerunner skynet
Just seems out of character for her. If forerunner magic cured her rampancy then she shouldn't still act batshit crazy. But yeah, assuming you're not full of shit, thanks for the q&a. Good luck at your next job.
>>340773026
I think in the end that goes down to outsourcing, Anon. It explains why the multi was lacking at the launch since 343i had to do it internally.
>>340773026
Yeah it's kinda weird that they didn't separate the leg and shoulder sections from the rest
They could have doubled or tripled the sheer number of armor unlocks that way
Perhapsch people would be less likely to spend $ on a pack if they knew it might only award a shoulder piece
>>340769102
I answered this.
>>340769128
>Who came up with
>>I'm impressed. Arbiter has females in his ranks. War has traditionally been a male's job on Sanghelios.
Who do you think? Yes, just her. Literally.
To be fair though, there were originally supposed to be female elites in the game.
>>340769308
>What're your plans now? Got any studios you've got your eyes on to work for?
Well, I was planning on getting married. But to be completely honest I may actually apply to Sega of America. They have been hiring.
>What is the craziest co-worker/corporate/office story you have working there?
The guy whose job I essentially took had tons of expiramental codes built into the Reach Title Update. Wierd stuff like when you get hit, your spartan's body expands quickly to fill up the size of the entire rendered map before vanishing. On his last day he activated one of them for the Rumble Pit Playlist. It was up for about an hour. My supervisor came sprinting into the main office and screamed "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH REACH?!" I had to clean up the mess but everybody just started hysterically laughing even though most of them hadn't done anything with Reach in over a year.
>>340769430
The original story for Guardians was much more fanfic-tier but I can guarantee you would have loved it more.
>>340769532
>How much of Halo 5 was rewritten before release.
Pretty much everything except the Cortana bit and Locke hunting Master Chief. In the original game you were actually going to play on Halo rings. I know, I know, crazy right?
>>340769771
Just expect a lot of this to be less referenced as it moves forward, but not made non-canon. Basically what happened to Spartan Ops, which was supposed to be the lead in for Halo 5: Guardians. Thorne was supposed to be a major character in Guardians and was originally supposed to be what Locke turned out to be in the game.
>>340770035
It's more of the story being changed than "cut", and that it got changed too late into production.
>>340772861
watch this happen in gaylo 6
>>340772209
>I want missions where you know your planet is fucked and you're just trying to salvage what you can
Try Reach?
>>340773313
What do halo 5 population numbers look like? How many still play?
>>340773313
That legitimately does sound like something a coder would do on his last day if he was at all petty or even just a joker.
>>340764907
You should make your own company if they have too many people. You should have been learning how to run a company while you were there.
>>340773548
This has been tested. It's around 10,000 people a day.
>>340771851
Can you shed some light on what the fuck happened to MCC and what was the reaction internally and at Microsoft from it's launch and post release?
>>340773313
Would you expect 343 to make Chief the main playable protagonist again in 6, due to the Chief-Locke mission ratio backlash?
Or was this the start of a plan to phase out and entirely get rid of Chief?
>>340773785
How was it tested?
Will they ever make a full length Arbiter game? Did anyone ever talk about it?
>>340773693
that would probably be a very tricky thing to do without getting noticed, and if they did they would immediately can him anyway, for fear of him trying to steal their own employees or eventually their consumerbase.
Is it true that Brutes are a metaphor for niggers?
why you said Halo 3 movement speed wont work in today?
what do we all speedsteers now? what a bullshit response desu.
thats why you fucked up hard.
>>340773846
It's been below Battlefront on the rankings for a while. EA lets you check how many people played Battlefront by console on their site. It means that 5 has less than Battlefront had, and the numbers EA gave range from 10k-12k on Xbone.
>>340773896
Could have been like Certain Affinity.
>>340773964
Halo 3 movement feels like you're in molasses.
CE and 2 are much better to go back to.
>>340767305
>Most of the original studio have resumes from established successful studios throughout the industry.
From what I've heard is that most of you guys are rejects, fired from studios and the results (H4, H5) are pretty hard evidence of this.
>>340774119
>microsoft pulls together ad-hoc team of rejects
>they totally fuck up halo
>>340773313
>The guy whose job I essentially took had tons of expiramental codes built into the Reach Title Update. Wierd stuff like when you get hit, your spartan's body expands quickly to fill up the size of the entire rendered map before vanishing. On his last day he activated one of them for the Rumble Pit Playlist. It was up for about an hour. My supervisor came sprinting into the main office and screamed "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH REACH?!" I had to clean up the mess but everybody just started hysterically laughing even though most of them hadn't done anything with Reach in over a year.
Fucking kek thats pure gold
>>340773964
A Halo modder once told me that if you put a Spartan from Halo 3 into TF2 he'd be slower than the Heavy.
>>340774119
>be Microsoft
>have billions of dollars
>hire mostly rejects to work on your flagship franchise
Bait?
>>340774119
Not OP the 343i staff I've seen or met are really talented fuckers.
It's the upper echelons that screw them over with deadlines and fuckery that butcher the game; like OP said with the late introduction of squads.
>>340774434
It's actually not bait.
>>340774517
Seems more like a bad mix of too many cooks to me, friend.
Every core mechanic or idea is good individually, but applied as a whole to Halo, it makes a fucking mess. People have good ideas that just don't work well with each other.
>>340774119
Nah. 343, like NRS, are talented people, but publishers and deadlines are always against them.
>>340764907
>working in ANY tech field or really, any field where you can be replaced
The current trend of modern corrupt businessmen is the "revolving door" strategy
>>340774517
Once again, middle management comes to fuck things over, regardless of industry.
OP, did 343 get as much of a kick out of the ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENS in 2012 as /v/ did?
>>340774517
Yeah, I don't agree with some of the design choices they've made, but I have yet to see anything from 343i that shows any sort of incompetence.
Hell, they had some really good talent going in, and it influenced their games a lot. Halo 4 was very atmospheric, and if I had to guess that was probably due to their ex-Retro devs. You could definitely feel the Metroid Prime influence.
>>340774517
>people actually believe a team of 350 people is entirely incompetent
The lead writers and general development directors are to blame. Brian Reed is a verified retard, but that doesn't mean that people like Grim are also stupid.
>>340767305
>We gambled on the esports scene and lost.
Considering the only thing Halo 5 has going for it competitively over Halo 3 in the core gameplay is "rifle shoots straight" and Halo 3 was the worst competitive game of the first 3 Halos maybe you should have gambled a little harder.
>>340770052
Within a year some of the original Halo 5 details will leak and you can compare it to this thread to see I'm telling the truth. There's a few veterans that are older and want to retire and don't give a shit. One guy in particular has sworn to post some nice stuff if he gets let go because his pension is good enough that he doesn't care about being sued.
>>340770163
>Why did you cut splitscreen and local co-op?
It was unplayable.
And I don't mean in a digital foundry "oh as you can see here, the FPS dips" sense.
I mean the game was laughably horrifying to look at in split screen, even at the 720p build we shipped the beta in. We're talking textures disappearing a few world units away from the player, walls blinking in and out, and invisible enemies.
>>340770284
>was there ever a plan to add a classic playlist in halo 5 that removes all spartan abilities?
The first build of infection used spartan's with no abilities. Believe it or not we found it to be more enjoyable with the abilities. Sorry.
>>340770413
>How much anime did you guys watch before writing Halo 5's ending?
Evangelion is a favorite of a lot of the studio, but it's not like we actually watch it together. Would have been great though.
>>340770556
>Are you guys finishing Halo series on 6?
There actually is a plan to have a definitive end to the Master Chief's story before 2020. But after that if assume there will be games that take place at earlier time periods and then other games afterwards that don't star the chief.
No, Locke was not supposed to test the waters for a chiefless game.
>>340770597
The way Chief and Locke fight was more indicative of the original game idea where Locke was supposed to have all this awesome new gear that helped him be on par with Chief. That was scrapped. As to how the fight looks, literally next to nobody in studio was happy. You probably guessed but the in-game animations were literally one of the last things finished.
Talk about scorpio. Is as powergul as the rumors said?
>post yfw OP was reading the thread on his phone and got into a car crash because of us
are you OK OP?
>>340774848
One of the saving graces of 343i is sparth, his art is god tier.
http://sparth.tumblr.com/
>>340774960
>Evangelion is a favorite of a lot of the studio
I FUCKING KNEW IT. H5s ending was screaming Third Impact.
>>340774960
>You probably guessed but the in-game animations were literally one of the last things finished.
Sorry, but I didn't buy Halo 5. I just saw the clips of all the cut scenes on youtube. Thanks for answering... though you did take your sweet time. Jeez.
>>340773794
This please!
>>340774960
>Evangelion is a favorite of a lot of the studio
That was obvious as fuck, some of the Spartan designs look ripped straight from Evangelion.
>>340774640
>too many cooks
More like indecisive foremen and failed architects.
>"yeah, make the west wing more 'east' and take out that giant support column in the center, giant columns aren't in' these days"
>everything collapses
>blames the construction crew
>>340774960
>NGE is studio favorite anime
Really makes sense
>>340774960
Why were you guys ignoring Greg Bear's lore? Seriously, even though it screwed with the mystery it was one of the few genuinely compelling things 343 was responsible for since their inception. The writers seem to be spinning an entirely new plot and discarding all of that.
>>340774960
>I mean the game was laughably horrifying to look at in split screen, even at the 720p build we shipped the beta in. We're talking textures disappearing a few world units away from the player, walls blinking in and out, and invisible enemies.
How exactly did that happen? Was it not bug tested or something?
Was 5 actually made on a different engine, or was it built upon 4 like how every other game was?
>>340775292
Consoles
aww he skipped my mcc question =( I'm really curious just how much of a disaster this waste of 60 bucks was and if microsoft learned anything from it. Or at least some management sacking.
>>340773313
When will they kill Chief off so i can be done with this franchise
>>340764907
What are 343's thoughts on Halo Online and the El Dorito mod that opened it up to the world?
>>340774070
That's actually largely because of the FoV rather than movement speed, oddly enough.
>>340774692
>>340774517
>>340774434
I don't know, back when 343i was created they supposedly needed people so badly (since no one from Bungie except Frankie, Armstrong and 2 other no names decided to transfer) that they hired anyone semicompetent with a game studio's name on their resume.
>>340774960
What about Halo 3 Anniversary? Is that even going to be a thing?
>>340775292
Do you think doubling the amount of rendering on a machine just magically costs no system resources?
Is there anything you wish that would've made it into the game?
>>340775459
Evidently, the next game will focus on re-capturing / re-imagining the feeling of the original's campaign and multiplayer will be shoe-horned in.
Sound familiar?
>>340775520
Building on this, what the fuck was up with the management of it? It hardly lasted a year until the servers got shelved
>>340774960
how much input did 343 put into the arbiters move set in KI?
>>340775525
H3 still had really sluggish movement acceleration.
>>340775535
Thats probably horseshit since they handled Reach better than Bungie ever did with the server management and title update, and the top tier anniversary DLC.
>>340774960
>You probably guessed but the in-game animations were literally one of the last things finished.
Speaking of cutscenes, was the opening cutscene made as an homage to Monty Oum? It definitely feels very influenced by his animations.
>>340775692
I read before it was testing the waters for an eventual Halo PC port but the numbers were disappointing on Halo Online so they pulled those plans.
>>340775706
And completely fucked aim acceleration too, yes.
>>340771851
Well, thanks for your work while you did it and good luck with your spoilered plans.
This is just an unexpected detour on where you want your life to end up.
And thanks for leaking all over the thread.
Good luck.
>>340775535
Does that really seem realistic to you? There not being huge demand to come work on halo of all games?
>>340775535
They probably had plenty of time to recruit and I'm guessing the chance to work on the next Halo game was appetizing to plenty of skilled developers. Bungie probably retained most of their talent because of Destiny.
After playing halo 4, i started mailing jars of my feces to 343i on a semi regular basis in insulated boxes labeled 'Fan mail'
Did any of my 'presents' ever make it to the 343i offices?
>>340775435
>>340775612
He wasn't talking about performance.
Is warzone firefight the last free dlc for halo 5?
>>340774960
Are a lot of devs anime fans in general? Why'd you pick a fullmetal alchemist username?
Where'd you go to school? Or how did you get into the industry?
>>340776015
You're what's wrong with the world.
>>340775807
>was not supposed to test
>was it a successful test
>>340771851
>a less story-in-your-face approach
but why? Wasn't Halo 4 considered a success with its story?
And people don't hate the fact that Halo 5 has a story- they just hate the story we were given. Everyone was hype as fuck for the story after those live action trailers, but we didn't get the story that was advertised.
I think you're actually legit because this seems to be 343's MO. Ignore EVERYTHING about Halo except the very last release, and then try to fix criticisms of that game that you don't really understand.
>>340764907
Why didn't you quit earlier?
Tell us about Halo Wars 2
>>340772712
Secconding this
>>340776015
You're what's right in this world.
if you could go back to the moment that you decided to get into game development would you do things the same or would you go with a different career?
all this stuff about microtransactions and higher ups fucking with the studio's plans with random new features like the squad sounds incredibly frustrating just as a fan of halo and gaming, can't imagine what it must be look seeing it firsthand and having to participate in it
I cant believe none of you fags are asking him about scorpio
>>340776027
He was talking about textures and models and everything failing to work and load properly, as in there weren't enough resources on the console to support it all happening at once on split screen.
>>340771787
Game rate was never that relevant to us.
>>340772037
Chief's story is supposed to come to an end in about 4 years. No they won't kill him. At least that's what I was always told.
>>340772098
Thanks. It could get rough
>>340772130
Essentially. ODST is kind of the unofficial favorite game at 343.
>>340772284
There's now at I'm proposing the same week as I lose my job. But thanks, I'll need the luck.
>>340772515
The sales of the actual game made a profit. It just didn't sell as many copies as Microsoft had set the bar at, but it's not like the game failed to sell.
>>340772561
>I hope you land a job
Appreciated. Thanks.
>My question to you is, where the fuck was the poncho/cloak Master Chief from the 2013 e3 trailer?
Original story of Halo 5 involved chief essentially running around the Galaxy destroying the remaining Halo rings and Locke being sent out to stop him. Cortana is basically communicating to him like she does in Halo 5 to get him to do this because if the Halo rings are gone, the reclemation essentially gets jumpstarted by AI as a safely measure. The cloak was just a cloak, mostly just to symbolize loneliness. Yeah it's kind of cheesy.
>>340772758
Pretty much any QTE in 4 or 5 is there to give the game a more "immersive" feel. They're going to step back from them going forward.
>>340773117
Cortana being "evil" was supposed to be much more drawn out. You have to remember, it's not really Cortana anymore, it's a piece of rampant Cortana given stability.
>>340773548
Halo 5 hovers between 10-15K. On some weekends when a new DLC drops, it hits around 20-25k.
>>340773794
>Can you shed some light on what the fuck happened to MCC?
Believe it or not, the MCC was originally planned as an Xbox One pack in, but only with Halo CE/2/3 and no Halo 2 anniversary. When we decided to add H2A, we were given more time, but not nearly enough. Outsourcing and strict release fucked it
What the fuck happened here?
I am heading back on the road.
I'll maybe make abother thread answering more questions when I get to a computer. Look for this trip.
I promise to give more info on the MCC debacle
>>340776518
>Cortana is basically communicating to him like she does in Halo 5 to get him to do this because if the Halo rings are gone, the reclemation essentially gets jumpstarted by AI as a safely measure.
This makes much more sense then the final release. Fuck.
>>340776518
Is the scorpio or neo real? When are they out? How powerful?
Is ms pulling out of xbox and moving to windows? Will the nextbox be a windows 10 machine
>>340776679
post in /hg/ some time
>>340776663
>This is now what mark V looks like canonically
>>340776679
Thanks, OP.
Stay safe.
TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SCORPIO
>>340776518
>Essentially. ODST is kind of the unofficial favorite game at 343.
Fucking 3 babbies.
>>340770936
Hell, I have NDAs to the gills even though I just work in the distribution channel.
>>340776817
Would be easier for an internal narc to pick him out in there since it's a static environment and not an entire board to look through.
>>340776817
>/hg/
Topkek
>>340776819
>>This is now what mark V looks like canonically
Nah, it's called the MARK V ALPHA, so to my knowledge it's not the original MV.
>>340776817
IGNORE THIS POSTER
DO NOT GO TO /hg/
>>340776679
Go to /vg/ and find /hg/.
>>340776954
FUCK OFF BIAS
