"Wake Me When You Need Me" - The Official Halo Thread [NEW PATCH JUST DROPPED]

[tru_m.a.c]

I've just accepted the fact that 343 is never going back to core of halo and just accepted this game for what it is. Once you come to that realization, the game is pretty fun

I simply don't understand how we got so far off course. I suspect the change started when they began to focus more on multiplayer and not campaign.

Not even suspect - I know because Halo 2 had that dumb Covenant campaign mode.

It seems to me that Halo CE was the best because every weapon you used in multiplayer served a major, MAJOR, purpose during campaign. The game just "made sense."

Edit: all of the capabilities of the chief played an integral role in moving the story along. The radar/ shield is because of cortana. The strength is because he's a spartan. The shotgun is introduced to deal with the flood. Etc….

 

[tru_m.a.c]

This is a post made on teambeyond directed towards one of 343's employees views on keeping sprint in the franchise

http://teambeyond.net/forum/best-content/

sprint is a fukkin cancer to this series

Yo. Ak why did you not post this in the thread!? I've been screaming this shyt for years homie. I literally did a slow clap.

the Halo series' mutliplayer is not in a state where we need to think about going forward; it is in a state where we need to think about going backward to fix the overarching problems that have nagged this series ever since the first sequel, before we even begin to think about adding new content on top of it.

we're not focused on what our Spartan should be able to do based on lore and fair portrayal of a super soldier in the future. Let me restate this for emphasis - nobody who is trying to win at Halo cares about these things. Halo is not a simulator

Arena shooters have very extrapolated gunplay exchanges, and yet...squad shooters are the biggest culprits of camping. Do you notice how interesting that is? The mobility, the kill times, the weapon access and mechanics, these all have a multi-tiered interplay that produces results which are not necessarily the most intuitive. The point of me saying this is that Halo does not have a comfortable resting place between these two concepts. On the contrary, it sits on a very delicate fulcrum between them, where any minor adjustment can have drastic consequences for the gameplay.

Take a look at Halo 2, for example. This is a game littered with problems, but the one thing that broke combat for years afterward was the lack of power that the battle rifle had compared to the pistol. It took literally more than twice as long to kill an opponent with perfect shooting, but if you were shooting someone in the back or at an unfortunate angle, you now had to blow an entire clip just to kill that one enemy. That, along with the change in map design philosophy, completely altered the way that Halo was played...for the worse, as most of us would tell you.

Sprint ruins map geometry by creating gaps that can only be traversed with sprint-powered jumps; jumping and shooting is kind of important in Halo

It down plays the vertical aspect of Halo hugely, creating maps that are horizontally gigantic but vertically insignificant

If anyone doubts anything in these paragraphs, please leave the conversation.

 

[AkaDemiK]

We actually got off course because of the story. 343 is trying to bring all the lore from the campaign to multiplayer. They want you to "feel" more like a real Spartan would....its fukking stupid. All these abilities and mechanics are overkill.

Halo 5 will die faster than halo 4 if it stays the same as the beta. I promise you.

 

[AkaDemiK]

Yo. Ak why did you not post this in the thread!? I've been screaming this shyt for years homie. I literally did a slow clap.













If anyone doubts anything in these paragraphs, please leave the conversation.

That post got the most +reps on that site. Dude Ethered one of the head guys at 343 (who never responded back to his post, what a surprise).

If you wanna discuss halo with ppl that actually know and understand halo sign up fam. These nikkas on the coli do nothing but give me a headache when u talk about the game and it's issues. shyt is a waste of time.

 

[Liquid]

Anyone want the master chief collection for $30? Digital Code

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Liquid]

unbelievable, how in the fukk could this get out? This should have been a damn near PERFECT release for Microsoft.

Unacceptable IMO

 

[GoldenGlove]

Probably the WOAT pinned thread in Arcadium History

Yal cool if I take this shyt down?

 

[Liquid]

Probably the WOAT pinned thread in Arcadium History

Yal cool if I take this shyt down?

I was thinking the same

 

[Tha Gawd Amen]

Probably the WOAT pinned thread in Arcadium History

Yal cool if I take this shyt down?

Should've been taken down weeks ago, Halo as I once knew it is dead.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Probably the WOAT pinned thread in Arcadium History

Yal cool if I take this shyt down?

absolutely

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Fatboi1]

Probably the WOAT pinned thread in Arcadium History

Yal cool if I take this shyt down?

I'm still not off you for taking down that Smash Wii U thread .

 

[The G.O.D II]

Everytime I see this thread I remind myself to flip this shyt. Haven't played it in weeks and its killed any notion to play Halo going further. I'm not the biggest fan of this series so its whatever with me. How could 343 fukk something up this easy?

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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