You fucking idiots didn't make a new thread Edition.
>Important Halo Links, Notes etc.
http://pastebin.com/64rb9y4w (embed) (embed) (embed)
>Latest Halo Community Update
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/post-launch-carnage-report
>List of /hg/ players
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1whs3eQiGdX5Ve8hVDHjuca-aRnx0igrMoIIiKYW-JAA/edit?usp=sharing
>Spartan Company:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/spartan-companies/halogeneral
>Looking for custom games/campaign co-op players/matchmaking squad
http://halolfg.com
http://halocustoms.com/
Watch the threads for occasional party squads
>Xbox One clips and screenshots
http://xboxdvr.com/
>>123752808
>OP image has nothing to do with the game
literally /dg/ tier.
>>123752927
>every image on 4chan has to be related
That's like bitching about an anime image on /v/.
>>123753115
>the OP of a general that may attract people browsing to the thread
>not inherently important for it to be related to the topic
It's literally a rule.
>>123753180
Literally oppose to figuratively right?
what is that huge, ugly and unnecessary thing on the end of the Helljumper elbows?
looks like some sort of automatic air freshener
>>123753783
Probably something to beat your mother with.
>>123753783
looks like elbow guards built in.
Good for close range elbowing.
>>123757270
Ya like that time buck almost got cuk'd by a Brute.
>>123753180
I rarely ever use the picture.
>catalog
>ctrl f
>gamename
>found.
>>123757417
Same
>>123757417
I just have filters set up for the ones I frequent that add a colored box around it, and bring it to top of catalogue
>destiny + animaymay pic
>(embed) (embed) (embed)
OP is a literal faggot
>>123752808
>play the Rainbow 6: Siege weekend beta
>have a shitload of fun
>extremely relaxing even though it's a tactical FPS (probs because of the pacing and downtime between setting up ATK or DEF)
>switch back to Halo 5
>stressful, fast as fuck action, arguably quicker deaths than even R6:S
fuck man.
I'm so disillusioned right now.
why can't Halo 5 just be a little slower?
why is every fight so extreme?
is it all muh MLG? or is this what Halo fans want now?
should I just get gud and down sugar drinks whilst gripping my controller in order to have fun?
why are there no good game-modes?
why is the basic Siege part of R6:S so much fucking fun compared to anything in Halo 5?
don't get me wrong, R6:S isn't stellar. I'm talking more about the comparative experience between both games.
I've heard that R6:S doesn't even have a campaign n shit.
I would rather play this beta over anything in Halo 5. not even Forge will bring me back to this game full-time.
I NEED game-types and customs options.
the honeymoon period of Halo 5's excellent gunplay is well and truly over for me.
now all I see is the rest of this shit game.
see you at the next content update.
>>123763024
my only problem with halo 5 right now is Non American players in every single lobby getting over 35-50 kills while lagging their dicks off.
Im a tryhard in the I only have fun winning sense. i will gladly die 20 times to move a flag an inch to keep sudden death active (halo 2). But it really fucks the game when matchmaking is putting people from different countries in the same lobby. I would love to see numbers for Halo 5's active population. right now feels like im playing a 3 year old CoD game, with the same 100 laggy shits from indonesia.
>>123763024
>arguably quicker deaths
>>123764024
>doesn't argue his case like the term "arguably" demands
>posts a quote with a reaction image instead
>>123764468
Tests have shown that the TTK in halo 5 is almost always exactly the sane as past games or .05 seconds below.
Which is higher than basically any kill time in rainbow six.
>>123764787
Lets not forget that its easy to land your shots in halo 5 and not so easy in rainbow six
True gentleman hours, whom of you has risen from their slumber?
W A R Z O N E
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>>123765615
I'm up for a few games.
>>123765834
Shoot me a FR and I'll be on in a sec
>>123765439
Now THAT'S arguable
>>123765975
No problem, can't handle playing with random shitters for much longer.
>>123765615
I'll be on in about am hour or so
>>123753783
container for koolaid
Anyone want to get a quick achievement and complete a co-op mission with me? I'll load up the Meridian mission where you just talk to people, so it'd be done in 5 minutes
>>123765615
I'M GETTIN ON
>>123765975
Alright I'm on you scrub, invite plz
savage
>>123770059
Could do with an invite, I have some grinding to do.
>>123770059
>Dont play with /hg/ guys they suck
>>123765615
Yo Tito you still hosting? Full?
>>123770604
>>123770470
Full famalamadingdong
Sorry boys, perhaps formt up a second squad of /hg/ pubstomp?
>>123770781
K, Squad 2 where we @?
TIME WARNER CABLE REEEEE E E EEEE E E E E EE E EEEEE E
>>123771365
Time Warner is pretty based anon.
>>123771365
>Have 50 up 50 down with Verizon
>Try time warner for a week because less expensive
> 25 down 5 up, 40 ping bandwidth hogging becomes nightmarish, second band is ass.
>Switched right back to verizon
>mfw
All these shitters causing us to get pushed back to core EVERY TIME
wake me up
>>123771365
>trying to play matches using wifi because my parents don't want a single ethernet cord around the house
>I'm a whole floor above the router
>mfw sometimes I just teleport backwards and explode with no warning, because of grenades thrown at me with this lag
>playing with level 1 turkeys
>>123772073
>mfw when I'm two whole floors above the router, and one of those has a massive steel plating in the ceiling
>no noticeable lag
>>123774601
>11/12
I want in
Just finished a conquest match of BTB on Recurve. We won 150 to 8. We had Total Control 6 times, and I was #1 overall.
And I did nothing but camp upper mid with a sniper rifle, occasionally waddling back a few feet to the base there to get a base defense medal.
Why don't people ever throw grenades up to the sniper perch? It seems so obvious.
>>123774601
11/12
God fucking dammit, quantum physics, let me play halo!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>123774779
They do, you were in a game of bads you ding dong
>>123774754
>>123774870that pic was from about an hour ago
we'll be 10/12 after this game laddy bucks
>>123775001
Alright send me an invite when alls said and doneXIII ACES IIIX
>play BTB
>team doesnt get the first flag cap
>people quit
>enemy team gets the middle base in stronghold
>people quit
>trailing behind in TDM by 5-10 points
>people quit
Its starting to get really unfun now that people just quit.
>>123775247
People have pretty much figured out the matchmaking system now, and how it sets up one team to steam roll the other each time.
When someone is on the verge of going up a tier in CSR, they get set up against a team better than their team, to see if they can overcome the challenge. A lot of people don't like dealing with bullshit like that so they quit.
It's annoying, but I don't really blame them, because it's also annoying to be matched together with shitters against a legitimately good team. Social playlists need to become a thing.
>>123775247
>playing BTB CTF
>enemy scores within a minute
>plug in my mic
>"guys, it's capture the flag, not team deathmatch"
>unplug my mic
>after the match (which we lose) get messages from three different people telling me to fuck off
>>123775634
Not going to lie, one of those was me.
this thread is dead edition, also I might add everyone from the Google docs since I have nobody on my friends list
>>123779691
Because we just plated for a few hours
Best button layout for Halo 5?
>>123780351
bump jump and a scuf or elite.
>>123780549
>Not Green Thumb
HALO LMAO
>>123781847
>locke_and_vale.webm
Jk, everybody knows Vale would never fuck aHuman
>>123781847
>>123781847
This did not happen did it?
>>123782239
first 5 episodes.
>>123781847
I'd really like to see the boost either have a larger distance, or have a double boost like Titanfall. It's useless now.
>>123783932
>thrust
>useless
Okay baddie
>>123783932
>double boost
I'd love this if they added the ability to shoot while boosting. It would add to the skill ceiling.
>>123781847
What show / movie is this from?
>>123784736
double boost would be cool as hell
or shooting during boost would be great too, but even more people would be turned off by it because LOL ITS NOT HALO ANYMORE
>>123783932
>>123785346
There's actually an ultra rare sword in warzone that gives double boost.
>>123785563
Rarest sword is Prphet's Bane goy
>>123785965
reading comprehension
The quality of the sword that gives double boost is ultra rare.
Prophets bane is legendary.
>>123783932
there is a sword that gives double boost and a couple of perks that increase your boost recovery and one that makes you boost further too.
>>123786074
Ah yes, sorry.
I took "Ultra Rare" as in "Superlative of Rare", forgot that it's an actual rarity in the game.
>mfw no Ultra Rare Buck OP image as a reminder
>twice
>TWICE
>in a row the game gave me the connection error after a match
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBLALBAHKEHFHAKNCIEWHCEIWCEWCJEIHEBENIWFA AW
>>123785075
jessica jones
>>123787263
she gets blacked numerous times by ep 5
>>123781847
>>123786328
Maybe this will jog your memory hmm~
who's up for some mcc? post your gt
68k req points
Bronze or silver packs.
>>123781847
>>123782395
>>123787547
God damn liberals pushing their kek agenda. Absolutely disgusting.
>>123788161
Have you finished Bronze packs yet?
>>123788632
Im not sure how to tell
>>123788714
Check your common unlocks on Waypoint, or if you have finished them you'll have an emblem called Nadir that you can use in game.
>>123788161
Bronze packs if you're not done with commons yet.
What reqs does /hg/ want for christmas?
I want Argus armor
>>123789015
Buck Helmet
Noble ArmorI'd suck dick for them
>>123788256
Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are a couple in the comics.
>>123781847
This is barely Halo-related, Mike Colter provides only the face model for Locke, he was replaced with a different voice actor because of the schedule conflict with playing Luke Cage
>>123789343
>He still doesn't have Noble
WEW LAD
>>123789402
ignoring halo nightfall I assume?
>>123789913
Is Nightfall the same Halo "tv series" they mentioned at the Xbone reveak? I recall it was supposed to be done with Stephen Spielberg but Nightfall was directed by Ridley Scott.
>>123790298
Things changed
>>123788161
gold
nothing less
Bored of the grind in Warzone and Arena.
Would anyone be interested in getting a group together for customs later? I forecast with a high probability low gravity, high speed and power weapons making a fun combination!
>>123791389
Y'know, when you've got full fireteam, Brad's custom mode aint half bad.
Whats the cutoff for films stored in Halo 5? I got a funny splatter spree with the ghost a couple days ago but im afraid it might have been automatically deleted
That's it, I'm done. I haven't been able to empty a whole mag in months now. I need to commit to a no fap month. Help me stick with it, familia.
>Haven't played a halo game in months
>sold my xbox 360 to help pay for car stuff
>found out about the halo pack thing for xbox one
>it doesn't have reach
wtf, who wants to play that shitty ass halo 4, reach was way better
>>123792160
good luck bro
>>123793440
Reach was a piece of shit. What's with the sudden boner for it? It was blasted when it came out.
>>123793440
>The Master Chief Collection
>>123791389
tfw havent been able to play with bv yet so that I can hit on them
>>123793497MUHBUNGIE
>>123793497
because that's the cycle. In 2 years, people are gonna suck up to halo 4 like its god, i know it.
>>123793661
J-JUST
Why would you ever buy Bronze Packs and what is "bronze grinding"?
>>123794047
Don't ask, just don't even bother with it if you don't already know.
>>123793929
I didn't mind Halo 4's gunplay. The shit corridor shooting maps, dumbass killstreak/ordnance system and lack of game updates until like 4 months after release killed it for me.
If there was a stripped back version, without the killstreaks and armour abilities, I'd prefer it to what we have at the moment in Halo 5. If there was a 60FPS version of Halo 4, I'd argue that it looks better than the jaggy shit we have now too.
>>123794047
you buy bronze packs to get rid of the common items from your silver/goldpacks which means you get better shit from them instead.
>>123794047
It clears out commons from your silver packs.
You don't want to pay 5K RP for two commons when that could've been an uncommon / rare.
Bronze grinding is spamming bronze packs until you get the Nadir emblem from them (all common items rewarded from the packs). You then do the same for Silvers which will take longer due to higher price and more items to collect.
It benefits you heavily in the long run. If you don't see yourself playing that long: just go silver / gold packs.
Elites when? Actual customizable armor when?Never probably.
>>123794047
Autists that want the fastest possible 100% buy bronze before silvers, because 3/4 bronze will contain a permanent common in them, making it slightly faster than doing silvers.
The problem with doing this however, is that you're absolutely butt fucked when it comes to rp boost cards (you'll get none, since they're all at least uncommon), and reqs for warzone. You'll be stuck using completely shit items constantly.
On top of that, if you got the premium pack with the collectors edition / digitally, you're not knocking off any of the uncommon / rare unlocks there, since those don't even unlock common reqs in them.
>>123794209
If only there were a version of Halo 4 that were 60 FPS. That would be awesome.
>>123794405
>wanting elites in MP
>>123794405
customization was mentioned in the latest weekly update
what type of customization is unknown though
>>123794047
It's a shitty meme
Bronze packs have around a 60% chance at giving you a permanent.
Silver packs always give you two permanents.
Silver packs will also sometimes give you rp boost req cards.
Silver packs are generally better if you play ANY warzone. If you ONLY play arena, brzone are slightly better just because you'll sell every card you get.
Anyone have more?
>>123795091
/hg/ would be pleased with actually customizable armor, even with just picking a third color for the undersuit/highlights
I bet my nuts on 343i fucking it up again, and letting us customize the size of the forehead bulge from enormous to fucking gigantic (in two steps)
>>123795140
that is actually quite low man.
>>123793497
Reach WAS better than H4/5 though. The only people sucking 343i's cock are CODkiddies and those in denial.
Not saying Reach didn't have its issues, by the way. But it was a damned sight more of a finished, polished product than anything 343i shipped.
>>123795418
>defending reach
>Calling us CODkiddies
lol
>>123795383
That is every achievement for every Halo game other than Halo 5, so... I doubt anyone here has any higher. I guess I should play Halo 5.
>>123795091
It likely refers to more REQs. I doubt there are systems in place to allow for further customisation options such as undersuit customisation or further armour alterations.
anyone up for a few games? i don;t care what we do, just invite me. NO MCC.
>>123795528
> Defending 343i
> all that denial
Top lel
>>123795582
>Each day, teams across the studio are working on not only improving existing experiences – based on your feedback on UI, stats and CSR tuning, customization, BTB spawns and JIP, spectator tools, Warzone Assault trickery, and plenty more – but also new experiences as well, including new maps, weapons, REQs, and beyond.
doesn't sound like more reqs
>>123795536
lel
>>123795761
that's not yours (^:
>>123795418
Reach sucked until the very, very, VERY end of the campaign. It was even more of a Republic Commando ripoff than 5.
>>123795726
>defending reach
you shot yourself in the foot the moment you did this
>>123795832
There literally isn't even that much, nice try dumbass.
>>123795735
doesn't sound like more reqs
Well #huntthetruth doesn't sounded like a lame ass punch-punch-crack cutscene between Lock and John, but guess what: That was all that we got.
>>123795689
I've got your back buddy.
>>123795860
> defending minimally viable product
> defending fanfic-tier writing
> defending a botched launch of a PORT
> defending 'for only a few dollars more'
Reach had its flaws, to be sure, but nowhere in any Halo game did Bungie pull off shit that even began to approach how heavily 343i fucked Halo over.
>>123795974
Including MCC mate? Considering that alone gives 6k.
>Like EOD helmet in Halo 3
>In Reach it's fucked up
>Like that fuckin' IRON MAN helmet in Reach
>in Halo 4 it's gone
>Like Oceanic in Halo 4
>in Halo 5 it's gone
Also
>Emblem from 3/Reach is removed in 4
>Emblem from 4 is removed from 5
Why does 343i hate me, guys?
>>123796176
>calls 343i fanfic
>reach is literal fanfic
top fucking kek m8
343 has got to be among the worst vidya developers of all time.
>>123796471
> Reach is literal fanfic
Please explain. It may not fit entirely with The Fall of Reach book, but I fail to see how Reach's campaign is somehow worse than
> Ancient Evil - defeated in a QTE
> Muh waifu is dead
> muh waifu is still alive
> Mary Sue Scrubtans
Daily reminder, senpai - Sam died for this.
>>123795974
(You)
>>123796672
>everything I don't like is a mary sue
this is the worst meme
>>123796672
>> Ancient Evil - defeated in a QTE
But he was beaten in a comic not just in the QTE.
>>123796584
If this is your first gen gaming, sure.
Actually no, not even then.
>people don't remember Capstone
Favorite medal you've earned, guys?
>>123796672
Well that better than
>generic man captain 1 crashes ship
>large butt woman has le accent
>black guy
>with shotgun
>talky sniper guy
>big tall guy
>they all die the end
>>123796952
But Jun is still alive.
>>123796952
>>123796672
>reducing characters to buzzwords
How about both of you just fuck off?
>>123797119
Way to show that off, bungie.
>>123797184
Because bungie didn't have time to show it off. 343 howevere has.
In Halo: Initiation, it's confirmed that not only is Jun very much alive, but he worked with a former SPARTAN-II candidate by the name of Musa to facilitate the SPARTAN-IV program
>>123796778
I know, which makes it worse. A character that could have been decent, as teased at in Halo 3's terminals, is suddenly just another Saturday morning cartoon villain, defeated due to Cortana ex machina, brought back to milk a comic series a little more, then defeated again through some space-pantshittery to presumably be trotted out later.
Any series that relies heavily upon extended universe material to tell a story falls down before it begins.
>>123796952
I fail to see how 343i did characters any better. Most people can agree that Palmer in particular was annoying as fuck in Spartan Ops, and while I can't say that Jun was any better with his quips, Reach's story at least made up for it.
>>123797184
He flew away in the pelican at the end with no indication of him dying. You have to be literally retarded to not think he lived.
Original guy who asked started the whole Halo reach shitshow
I went to do something else and came back to this
For the record I don't think Reach had a good campaign but Multiplayer (while it did have many flaws) was OK, that's why I asked about it
So is the MCC worth getting then? I mainly want halo 2/3 multiplayer or is it all mixed together and just has different maps?
>>123793575
Doesn't it have ODST or atleast an ODST DLC though?
Just seems lazy if you're going to put a bunch of halo games on 1 disk for your new platform why leave 1 behind on 360
>>123797839
they added ODST (campaign only) as an apology for how shit the launch was
>>123797291
Well there you go, 343 actually paid attention to that detail
>>123797309
Reach's story was ok, but the characters were so poorly done is made everything feel like it was just a meh setpiece.
Plus Noble 6 is a huge Mary sue. Just poof, suddenly hes a sniper, now he's a pilot, now he's a hyper let her Victor or something.
What's worse about the characters is that ODST showed that bungie could in fact do characters right.
>>123798054
Clearly you never did since you missed jun fly off at the end of reach quite clearly alive.
>>123795825
This, the ending was the only good thing about that campaign b/c it was over.
>>123798040
is it free?
>>123791734you're right, it's downright awful
Still got some kinks to be worked out though
>>123796176
Reach retconed the series, no book or game can exist if Reach exist.
Who else /halowars/ here?
You hyped for HW2???
>>123798456
You're thinking of Metroid: Other M, senpai.
>>123793497
What's going to be even funnier is that when it does come to bc these guys will complain again about how it sucks all over again. Rinse & repeat.
>>123798654
Funny that's one of the things both Other M & Reach have in common besides bad gameplay & story.
>>123798523
If MS were smart, they'd add some sort of Smart Glass functionality to it. Maybe a map or something, but issuing commands on a tablet would be quick and relatively easy.
>>123798351
I think you needed to buy the game within a month of its release
You got ODST as a download code in a message from xbox
>>123798975
I really haven't heard anything about the game, saw the trailer and though it was about time
>>123798991
I can probably just find a code for it somewhere like G2A
If it costs to much i'm probably not gonna get it though, the only thing cool about that game was the SMG and Pistol
>>123798054
Reach story would been better if Joseph Staten written it. No retcons, no middle fingering canon. no shit characters, it would have had a better story & character development. Peter O'Brien can't write worth shit.
>>123799235
haven't even played it yet myself, it's just campaign so probably not worth more than $15 really
So, just got the emblem for getting all the commons. How do you tell when you're done with silver?
>>123799418
When your soul has left your body and you hate yourself
>>123799418
oni gauss turret.
>>123798891
> Bad story
Now please, anon. You're going to have to explain yourself instead of flinging shit and bait all over the place.
>>123799369
You're really not missing out on much
The campaign is a weird mystery solving thing where you look for clues about your team and in the end drive a warthog across a bridge with a covenant healer
I forgot most of it but it was pretty shit, the Firefight game mode was fun, but there was no matchmaking so you had to have 3 other friends to play with
If it doesn't have FF with matchmaking it's really forgettable and not worth anything
>>123798991
I just got it around Halo 5s launch and it had ODST included
>>123781847
BIG
>>123799640
I played it on 360, I meant I just hadn't played it on the one yet. I liked the story though, same with Reach. Shit taste maybe but that's just me
>>123799707
Cool, didn't know they were doing that
Shame they didn't just fix the fucking game
>>123771756
> straya
> 25/1
> actually get like 9/0.6
> 70ms ping lowest ever
> 80-90ms average
> 300GB cap
> $85/month
Feels bad
>>123792140
25 game backlog. just counted my theater games.
my 25th game was yesterday. Yours might be different.
>>123799630
Noble Team being this retarded for not knowing the Covenant is on Reach, I mean they saw footprints & plasma burn what more do they need?
Carter: "The Covenant are on Reach" nuff said.
Most of Reach not knowing the planet was being invaded.
No story til the end of the game.
End of Game retcons all the books & games.
>Cortana saved humanity
>Cortana saved the Galaxy
No she didn't that was all Chief. Chief needed Cortana to set him straight in CE & her help b/c she still had the index in Halo 3. If Cortana didn't have chief it would've been the end of humanity & the Galaxy.
Pillar of Autumn on Reach
No feeling of a full scale invasion
You can barely even explain the game's story b/c there really isn't a story.
Hey I haven't been here in a while. Has forge been added to the game?
>>123800176
>good net with low cap but cant pirate anything
>bad net that can pirate with high cap but dies off after 5pm
>nbn not planned in your location
fuckin Telstra
>>123801586
>343 ever adding things
HAHA
>>123796672
i can try to explain how you could see Reach as fanfic. I was trying to explain something similar to someone on waypoint yesterday. That people are complaining that Locke doesnt say much and doesnt develop much as a character, along with all the other halo 5 characters, while they ignore his little tv thing and all the books where they are all included or soon will be. Since 343i at least attempts to develop characters within the universe and not dance around it like bungie did. Halo Reach introduced a Locke style character, a hyper lethal spartan on par with the chief, that does Oni's dirty work, says very little, we learn just about nothing about their past other than they can fly space planes, then conveniently killed off along with their squad so we dont have to include them later on. making a story around a very small period of time, then trying to give them something significant to do to give them meaning to the greater narrative.
they shot some things, killed some stuff, then were delivery boys for halsey.
oh boy if they didnt deliver cortana to the pillar of autumn halo wouldnt have ever happened.
i forget, but didnt the master chief help blow up reach with some crazy nuke?
i forget which planet they hyper nuked.
>>123801187
almost forgot
Downplaying Master Chief by making it look like Noble Team were the ones who saved humanity & the Galaxy. Fuck Bungie for that one.
Any Warzone/BTB lobbies going right now?
>>123801187
>they saw footprints & plasma burn what more do they need
Proof and confirmation.
>Carter: "The Covenant are on Reach" nuff said.
Would you like a ten-minute Metal Gear-style cutscene where Carter breaks down into tears while on the line to Holland?
>Most of Reach not knowing the planet was being invaded.
Because, of course, you out a statement like that to a colony of a few billion - one of the UNSC's most heavily-fortified strongholds, no less - and don't expect mass panic? Pre-Long Night of Solace, most of the aims were to contain the Covenant.
>No story til the end of the game.
I don't even get where you're going here. The entire game is the story - Reach is falling. The entire point is to portray a futile struggle to defend the planet, knowing full well it's going to fall.
>End of Game retcons all the books & games
The only 'retcon' is the Pillar of Autumn being on station in Aszod to receive Noble Six and the Cortana fragment. Everything else fits in fairly well.
> No feeling of a full scale invasion
And Tip of the Spear didn't do that for you? Long Night of Solace, New Alexandria?
Nigga you're fucking stupid.
>>123801890
> Silent characters
You're forgetting that, pre-343i, that's pretty much exactly how the Master Chief acted. Silent, taciturn, spoke only when needed to.
> conveniently killed off along with their squad so we dont have to include them later on
The characters introduced in Reach weren't meant to be portrayed later on. The entire point of Reach was, as I said, to show off the futile tragedy of trying to defend a planet against a full-scale Covenant invasion. You could argue that Noble Team are the epitome of a throwaway cast, but that's the entire point - none of them were meant to survive Reach. Even the extended canon shows that there were very, very few survivors.
>making a story around a very small period of time
See above.
2/4 for campaign achievement grinding, message me or Eis Shenron
>>123798523
Right here, man. I love me some RTS and I think HW was a decent attempt and hopefully the mistakes were realized and they'll make the game have more units to play with, free base building and some more factions. Campaign was really fun in HW, especially with a friend that also likes that genre.
I'm sure HW2 is coming to PC but for Windows 10 users. I might grab another HDD and have that OS + the game on there so I don't have to worry much about losing W7.
>>123803903
Hit me with an invite.
>>123803903
>campaign achievement grinding
Grinding what, exactly?
>>123804184
presumbly skulls, intel and the achievements for missions.
>>123781847
SPARTAN-II
> trained from age 6 for war
> they know nothing else
> chemically neutered
> literally 0% chance of emotions interfering with the job
> barely human - everything that makes them normal is gone
> superhuman virgin strapped in bloody big armour
> basically /r9k/'s wet dream
SPARTAN-IV
> rushed whack-job of augmentations and implants
> not a Spartan until already an adult
> genetics not 100% perfect? Fuck it, armour up anyway
> have already felt lust, fear, anger, sorrow, all of that
> high chance that emotions will make them risk the mission
> we see this in Halo 4 Spartan Ops
> Fireteam Majestic fighting Prometheans
> one gets injured
> another goes nuts with a shotgun, breaks cover
> gets fucking downed as well
> fuck it, armour up anyway
Pretty much the only exception to this is the Spartan-II's relationship with Halsey, who is a mother figure to all of them and genuinely cares (or seems to care) about the fleshy bloodsack that's under the armour, John's relationship with Cortana, since after the Fall of Reach, she was basically his only friend and person who talked to him like a human (until it was retconned that other Spartan-IIs were alive, and he knew about them and just never mentioned them and neither did any other Marine ever), and the Spartan-II's relationship with each other, which while professional, was also a super tight-knit family like Buck so thankfully pointed out.
>>123802962
Your Reach defense is hilarious.
>>123783932
>>123784736
>>123785346
> tfw nocanon mag-boots allowing Spartans to clamp to walls to set up three-dimensional choke points
I got tired of Titanfall quickly, but I have to say, the three-dimensional combat was actually really good.
>>123805312
Then feel free to make a counterpoint.
>>123804113
>free base building
I'm already throwing money at the screen family
>>123804937
> literally 0% chance of emotions interfering with the job
uhhhhh i dont know about that one anymore senpai
>>123802962
> End of Game retcons all the books & games
I have a mate that says that all the time. It's like he doesn't realise that Noble Team is supposed to be a black ops off-the-books team. It's why they're Spartan-IIIs with Mjolnir armour that, technically Spartan-IIIs shouldn't have access to. It's not a stretch to believe that Noble Team could've been operating on Reach alongside Red Team without them knowing.
That being saidI would've fucking loved a small cutscene where Noble Team is moving in one direction and they slow down to a walk and just see like a dozen Spartan-IIs moving in the opposite direction in the distace. Emile makes a remark to Jorge, asking if he would prefer to be out there with them.
>>123805898
See below about the exceptions. It's clear that the long periods of time alone with Cortana imprinted on John.
Gotta be hard for him, watching his one friend throughout the entirety of Halo, the battle for Earth, and the Ark (and the war against the Didact) slowly break apart and eventually turn against every single thing she used to stand for.
>>123805536
What's the need Reach was a shit game that ruined the franchise as a whole.
>>123806212
his fellow spartans are also siding with him which is an emotional thing
>>123807761
See below about the exceptions. I also point out the Spartan-II to Spartan-II relationship.
>>123807705
Christ, you lot act like rape victims. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume, just for a moment, that your real problems began with
> not being able to slap your dick to numerical ranks
> Not being able to deal with bloom
> Not being able to deal with armour lock
Am I getting warmer? Reach's campaign takes a meaty shit over anything 343i have pulled.
why is fable 2 such a laggy shit
>>123808245
>you lot act like rape victims
>>123808245
To be fair, Armour Lock shenanigans were either bullshit or hilarious, depending on who was pulling them. Anyone on the enemy team? Bullshit. You, while your teammate had a rocket launcher and like three enemies were right next to you trying kill you? Hilarious.
>>123808245
>just deal with these shitty mechanics that only make the game worse!
Why didn't you just deal with everything in Halo 4 then ;^)
>>123808245
B/c it is worse then the fanfiction tier bullshit 343's been telling. It doesn't matter how bad your story is one thing you never do is retcon fucking canon.
>>123808328
That's pretty fucked up.She's not still doing porn anymore, is she? Haven't seen/heard anything in a while.
>>123808478
I honestly never had an issue with any of the things people commonly complained about with Reach. If I saw somebody use Armour Lock, I just walked back and waited for them to pop out, and bloom wasn't really something I ever really found a problem with. I could compensate for it pretty easily - the only real issues I can pick out would be things like Banshee spawn-camping on Spire, which was down more to using a Campaign space for Invasion instead of a dedicated multiplayer map.
>>123808530
Joke's on you, I barely touched Halo 4's multiplayer. I took a two-year break from console gaming after Halo 4 hit.
>>123808691
> Bungie's fanfiction is worse than 343i's fanfiction
See, I'd take you seriously, except that it's not fanfiction when it comes from the guys actually responsible for the fiction in the first place.
>you never do is retcon fucking canon
I'm still failing to see how Reach was a massive, unforgivable retcon. The end product of the game was the same - Reach fell, the Autumn escaped with coordinates for Alpha Halo. The only part of the campaign you could even legitimately call a retcon is how Cortana obtained said coordinates - which, in the end, is pretty much a null point, it's such a small detail it's hardly worth getting your frilly panties in a twist over. Otherwise, Reach was fairly self-contained - and I refer you to the above. Coming from the guys responsible for the canon in the first place, and referring to a book that was published even before Halo: CE came out, I'd say they're allowed to alter plot points if they so choose.
>>123809228
Spartan IIIs on Reach retcons novels & CE manual.
Noble Team retcons Halo Trilogy
Story retcon novels
Design retcons the entire series.
>>123809228
I forget, was Reach confirmed to be a retcon, or was it just 'this is how it happened in an alternate timeline' thing?
I don't like the change in canon as much as the next guy. I don't mind playing as Noble Team, because Reach is a big planet and it's not difficult to believe that a six-man fireteam could easily be on Reach and keep out of site of other major Spartan forces. The ending was a bit miffed, since it changed the canon to make faceless Noble Six the hero of humanity, which admittedly, is the point of every Halo game - to make you, the player, the faceless hero of humanity.
Would've preferred the campaign to divert and have Noble Team link up with Red Team at the polar generators. They could even still have the Objective: Survive mission - just with dead Spartan-IIs on the ground here and there.
>>123809548
>Spartan IIIs on Reach retcons novels & CE manual.
Hardly. Nothing in the 'original' canon states anything about the Spartan-IIs being the only defenders of Reach. Noble Team are simply another Special Forces team that happens to be on Reach during the attack.
>Noble Team retcons Halo Trilogy
You're going to have to explain this one in more detail instead of flinging shit.
>Story retcon novels
Hardly. Again, Noble Team are off doing their own thing for the most part, and arguably the only conflict comes into where Cortana obtained her coordinates, and what the Autumn was doing in Aszod. Hardly canon-breaking points.
>Design retcons the entire series.
Then you'd better start bitching about the difference in the Chief's handplates between Halo 2 and Halo 3, senpai. I see no reason to pick details on purely cosmetic changes.
>>123810338
>Hardly. Nothing in the 'original' canon states anything about the Spartan-IIs being the only defenders of Reach. Noble Team are simply another Special Forces team that happens to be on Reach during the attack.
Except Halo CE fucking Manual
>You're going to have to explain this one in more detail instead of flinging shit.
Halsey's speech at the end of the game
>Hardly. Again, Noble Team are off doing their own thing for the most part, and arguably the only conflict comes into where Cortana obtained her coordinates, and what the Autumn was doing in Aszod. Hardly canon-breaking points.
They were doing their own thing until they decided to fuck with the main canon. Plus The Days & time are screwed
>Design retcons the entire series.
Elites no longer look like Elites, Brutes no longer look like Brutes, Hunters didn't have armor on their stomachs, Jackals always carried their shields on their right wrist, Grunts going suicidal this early in the war. No BR, Armor Abilities are more advance then anything in the Trilogy. Humans having shields on ships, Retconing the original release date for the Mark V armor.
>>123812178
>Then you'd better start bitching about the difference in the Chief's handplates between Halo 2 and Halo 3, senpai. I see no reason to pick details on purely cosmetic changes
That is a small design change. The armor itself looks exactly the same. Can't say the same for the Mark V in Reach though.
Who's up for some more halo?
>>123812581
I'm down for WZ/BTB.
How many people do you have?
>mfw all this shitposting against the best Halo of all time, Reach
Its best to just accept the facts, to be straight forward with you, kinsmen.
>>123812581
Counting me?
1
>>123812831
Stop
>>123812831
>best Halo of all time, Reach
Kill yourself
>>123812831
>mfw
>no face
I love all the shitposting about which Halo is best, it sure is the best thing for the general
>>123812178
>Except Halo CE fucking Manual
A copy of which I have right here in front of me. I'm not seeing anything that might conflict with Noble Team being on Reach.
Find a copy here: http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halo/about/xbox_manual.pdf
>Halsey's speech at the end of the game
Which has exactly nothing to do with the original trilogy. She's talking about rebuilding on Reach, how does this conflict with anything?
>They were doing their own thing until they decided to fuck with the main canon.
Again, 'fuck with the main canon' exactly how? Use your words.
> All this shit
Oh, dear god. You poor sod, some designs were updated. Heavens only know how much you shit the bed when you saw Brutes with armour in Halo 3.
>>123813030
I loved the Brutes in armor in Halo 3 it made sense. Master Chief & Arbiter kicked their asses in Halo 2 so they upgraded to Power Armor. Why said armor is in Reach when it was stated that they could no longer use it is beyond me.
>>123813341
>no longer
reach is before 1 2 3
>>123813030
>http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halo/about/xbox_manual.pdf
I see Spartan IIs in that manual but I sure as hell don't see Spartan IIIs.
>Which has exactly nothing to do with the original trilogy. She's talking about rebuilding on Reach, how does this conflict with anything?
Doesn't matter if it didn't have anything to do with the main Trilology it should have acknowledge the Master Chief's achievements as well
>Again, 'fuck with the main canon' exactly how? Use your words.
Since you have half a brain I will use my words. The Pillar of Autumn was in space during the whole battle of Reach, Master Chief was picked up at Gamma Station above Reach, Planet was on fire.
>>123814020
& Contact Harvest written By Bungie's own Joseph Staten came before Reach your point?
In the book after the Brutes failed during their campaign on Harvest they were stripped of their Power armor & were no longer being used for war until Halo 2.
>entire thread gone to shit
Thanks Reach
How did Blue team end up with Chief at the start of Halo 5 and why was this never explained? Up until I begin the game and see them on a Pelican with Chief, they are canonically MIA not even mentioned since before the fall of Reach.
>>123814618
>they are canonically MIA not even mentioned since before the fall of Reach.
did you not read first strike
>>123814323
> I see Spartan IIs in that manual but I sure as hell don't see Spartan IIIs.
> because something is not mentioned, it doesn't exist
Righto. So you think it's completely unbelievable, that on a giant planet that is getting invaded, six members of a black ops special forces group could not remain separated from perhaps two dozen OTHER special forces operators?
> it should have acknowledge the Master Chief's achievements as well
The game wasn't about the Chief. It had a different protagonist. Deal with it.
> The Pillar of Autumn was in space during the whole battle of Reach, Master Chief was picked up at Gamma Station above Reach, Planet was on fire.
We've been over this. The ending portion of the game is the only part that legitimately fucks with the canon that is specifically said to be different to the game in other media. For like 90% of the game, Spartan-IIs are never mentioned or seen, because Noble Team has their own mission, separate of any other Spartan special forces on the planet.
>>123814618
Apparently they showed up in a comic where John and Blue Team hunted down the Didact, who survived a grenade to his chest. From what I've heard, there wasn't much hubbub in the comic either. John had known Blue Team was alive since Halo 1.5 - the book First Strike. It just never bothered to come up in any game since then.
>tfw no one wants to play halo right now
>>123814618
Halo Glasslands
Halo Escalation Issues 8, 9, & 10
Someone host a lobby.
>>123815026
I will. Message me.
>>123814878
I'll be hoping on in a sec.
>>123815149
lemme know how many people you get m8
>>123814832
Ghost of Onyx explains why Spartan IIIs shouldn't be on Reach, oh wait I forgot Bungie retconned that too. I'm done
>>123815321
I have read Ghosts of Onyx like three times, but it was years ago. What part specifically states that Spartan-IIIs can't be on Reach?
I mean, it's not a long shot that a small section of S-IIIs were given better armour and put on different missions. The Spartan-IIs had Grey Team, which was almost the exact same thing.
>>123810338
i liked halo reach's campaign. it definitely leaves you feeling a bit of sorrow for them, dying with their world falling apart, for a future they would never see. All unexplained characters. only people that read the books would know what they were. They were the expandable spartans you sent to do the jobs where they were not expected to survive. But they didnt even touch on that. 1 throw away line of surviving Pegasi Delta. which after reading the wiki just now, didnt even make it into the final game....
it was bungies quick and dirty way to explain what Reach was without having to go full force with the story including the master chief. instead, they found some narrow space in time to ram a bunch of characters, whip it up to make them integral to the larger story, then quickly killed off one by one to make it seem dramatic. characters which could have had a meaningful backstory or explained what they were and the grim reality of the existence of spartan 3s.
killing off a spartan that was as good as MC, likely worlds better than locke, a person that survived a battle that killed almost 300 other spartans and found a way off... and gets killed in a fist fight because they couldnt find a place to hide or a ship to escape in... high jack a banshee or something, (i dont think they even fully glassed reach). but they were not concerned with letting your spartan live. probably why they let you pick the gender. they were just explanatory tools, and even than i doubt people knew what reach was if they only played the game.
multiplayer was poo, had some friends that were semi pro that were a bit sour for playing on forge maps 24/7.
>>123815502
just keep sending him :^). People get mad as fuck at that for no reason
>>123815502
what was teh cheating?
>>123815502
Story behind this?
>>123815243
Well we have 2 right now
>>123815685
>>123815698
Used armory glitch then didn't win the game.
>>123816120
What's the armoury glitch? Not really down with gamebreaking glitches yet.
Will we be able to make covenant structures in forge?
>>123816248
they said you can change glossiness and color, so we'll see
REAL NIGGA HOURS
who up, smash dat invite button
Anyone else up for some arena or warzone?
>>123817239
I should be on SWAT in like 45 minutes or so.
It's the only gametype I'meven slightlydecent at.
>>123817364
Are you pingas?
>>123816205
You groundpound the shield door and let the marines shoot themselves.
