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>"Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare" is now available - Can be purchased for $19.99 individually or included with the Halo Wars 2 Complete Edition - Includes a new campaign where players take control of the Banished and return to High Charity to combat a flood outbreak on the Ark - Also includes the new flood-themed survival mode Terminus Firefight, as well as new blitz cards and 37 new achievements
>tfw no Halo 5: Master Chief & Friends Superstars Adventures in Dreamland
Colton Gonzalez
It will never be fixed.
Evan Garcia
This better not be a bomboozle by bonnie
Robert Peterson
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Justin Cooper
I miss Bungie physics. Nobody was ever mad when they happened because it was just too funny.
Joshua Lee
It still happens on occasion
Cooper Cooper
>on stream they basically just said they were giving up on trying to tune the AR for accurate burst fire and are just tuning it for full auto spraying instead
why
Lucas Thompson
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Nathan Reed
I don't know whether to be hyper excited or suspicious
Aiden Cooper
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Wyatt Lopez
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Jacob Brown
Why is the gravemind/flood the best antagonist is any video game ever?
Most people wouldn't see this, because they just DON'T LOOK UP.
Daniel Turner
Is that a sly reference to the H2 Dev commentary?
Blake Ross
Any more ideas? Top kek "buy our new console and we promise we'll fix MCC for it" >inb4 Halo 5 is added to the compilation and it becomes a two-hundred-gigabyte bloated monstrosity I bet we'll see that in the next expansion for Halo Wars 2. After all, Pavi'n'Vori's task ain't done yet... Eh?
Benjamin Rivera
Small update to my reaction image
Brody Richardson
I really don't see why they never did a Jackal but we ended up with 4 brutes, a shit meme grunt, and a dead arbiter faggot. Should've given us a jackal instead, or a skirmisher maybe. Ah fuck it, give us an engineer leader. Reuse anders Sentinel assets for some of it maybe. Big focus on high tech and healing. Aside from Jackal, Drone Queen, and Engineer I can't think of much. We're running out of unused races and I don't want any more fucking brutes.
On a different not I think they should have given more leaders unique/modified Uber-units like they did with Voridus' Scarab. Even just slight changes to the other leaders shit would be fine. Pavium should have outright got the Lich as a scarab replacement and the same goes for Anders Retriever Sentinel. Give Cutter a souped up Elephant instead of the Condor. And for characters who dont get something truly unique give them the Voridus treatment and just slightly change their default. Kinsano with an incndiary condor, serena with an ice once etc.
Asher Collins
>a shit meme grunt
Kevin Williams
>load up Halo 5 >zoom in >see this >uninstall >vomit profusely >call Bill Gates >call the President >call an exorcist >shitpost on /hg/
Lucas Wood
>Should've given us a jackal instead, or a skirmisher maybe. >Ah fuck it, give us an engineer leader. Reuse anders Sentinel assets for some of it maybe. Big focus on high tech and healing. >Aside from Jackal, Drone Queen, and Engineer I can't think of much. With the character in the new comic, we could have got both drones and jackals for the same commander. Since Ripa is already some sort of AU/What If Banished commander, it wouldn't be without precedent. >We're running out of unused races and I don't want any more fucking brutes. >inb4 next commander is a fucking Yohnet
>On a different not I think they should have given more leaders unique/modified Uber-units like they did with Voridus' Scarab. Even just slight changes to the other leaders shit would be fine. Fully agree. >Pavium should have outright got the Lich as a scarab replacement AS LONG AS LET'VOLIR GOT IT TOO WHY THE FUCK AN AIR-BASED COMMANDER ONLY GETS A STANDARD SCARAB >and the same goes for Anders Retriever Sentinel. Eh... I don't know about that. I'd rather see her Condor get replaced by the ability to call on Controller Sentinels instead. Though I'm sure the player-base would shriek "CANCER" at that. >Give Cutter a souped up Elephant instead of the Condor. So, the Mammoth? Fully agree. Also, current hero unit (Jerome) should be replaced with Sunray 1-1. >And for characters who dont get something truly unique give them the Voridus treatment and just slightly change their default. Kinsano with an incndiary condor, serena with an ice once etc. Also agree. Hell, don't stop there - all of Kinsano's vehicles and aircraft gain incendiary (DoT) ammo, and all of Serina's vehicles and aircraft can slow (and with continuous hits, freeze) enemies.
Hell, even with the meme grunt, they didn't go all the way and record all of the commander-in-question's available unit lines in Grunt voices. >Grunt Scarab: "Out of our way, lest we step on you!" "Not so big now, are you?"
Isaac Jenkins
Also, keep in mind, we started with this.
Christopher Brooks
>he's queuing up a shield during this
Elijah Sanders
I think one of the most cancerous things I've ever experienced was a custom 3v3 match, with the Emperor skull on, against three Yappers.
Xavier Stewart
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John Morris
Missing the original Array and the Greater Ark.
Joshua Sanchez
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Isaac King
>laughs in Digon
Landon Murphy
Timestamps?
Brody Green
What program? Would be very much useful.
Luke Howard
>Missing the original Array
Carson Bailey
They genuinely made the thing way too big for the plot to handle well. >~2AU in diameter sphere with the interior terraformed and dotted with forerunner cities >not to mention basically infinite tunnel complexes and facilities throughout Like, with that under UNSC control they should have an entire fleet of forerunner ships and who knows what else. But instead it's just some sort of irrelevant ONI outpost where they apparently risk taking prisoners to sometimes. (Jul 'Mdama)
But I'm sure now that Cortana is in charge she'll make great use of it, right? :^)
Luis Gray
It's fine
Leo Adams
Says (YOU)
Logan Martin
OG xbox support when??
Austin Rodriguez
Probably 2018 though it could be (and was announced to be) sooner
When's the Halo collection coming on PC lads? I'm not ready to ear every possible answer.
Jace Stewart
Well the fixes to the xbone version aren't coming till next spring at least, so if it does come to PC I wouldn't expect it till sometime in 2019.
Isaac Sanchez
Didn't watch that video but if anything Reach has a pretty nice OST
Jacob Bennett
>actually biting that It's true what they say then. That getting up early gives you a better chance
Xavier Harris
Well I'm not a regular and assumed it's possible that people here just have terrible taste. Congrats for your (You)
Owen Reyes
It makes sense that the UNSC is taking the exploration process slowly, given how they don't know how nine-tenths of the stuff they uncover properly works, let alone any dangerous technology that might make explorers have a real rough time of things.
Brandon Wright
Does halo 5 have split screen yet?
Aiden Cox
My counsins fish and they say if youre not on the water by 5 at the very latest, you've wasted the day
Zachary Murphy
No but they confirmed it for 6 the other day. Expect it to be exclusive to the X1X though
Camden Russell
They better not make the whole game also runnable on vanilla x1 or else the game is gonna be so held back its hilarious
Logan King
R u fucking kidding me?
Leo Kelly
The Xbone a shit Hate on 343 all you want, Lord knows they deserve most of it, but a lack of system link in 5 was unavoidable
Logan Hall
We're apparently getting a more detailed post on MCC fixes tomorrow
Jace Hughes
>We're apparently getting a more detailed post on MCC fixes tomorrow S A U C E?
Dominic Richardson
>We're apparently getting a more detailed post on MCC fixes tomorrow
Dylan Myers
Post yfw HE'S BIG
Kayden Perry
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Adam Brooks
Is he giving 343 back their bomb?
Brandon Thompson
Ok I've been looking and can't find a solid one just some guy saying supposedly we're getting it but have faith young one
Even if CEA looked 10x better than it did, it doesn't really have any action cutscenes All the non-gameplay scenes in CE are just the camera tilting around the chief while he walks forward. Tossing tthe grenade up and down is the most dynamic thing his character model does.
Liam Murphy
>Damn that grenade is huge Said every person ever every time they watch that scene
Carson Barnes
Bad taste
Ryder Price
>426 hours ago
Angel Thomas
So, obviously you and I, or any other seasoned H5 player, knows it's just cosmetic and not that big of a deal, but believe it or not something like that actually goes a long way to turning people off from the game. Normies are easily triggered and turned away. 343 would be wise to not have it return in H6
Andrew Reyes
>it's just cosmetic
Matthew Scott
Basically this. You don't have to bend over backwards to cater to a fanbase, but you also can't piss them off to much or they will abandon. Halo Has historically had this long-running rivalry with Call of Duty, so anything, no matter how insignificant, that resembles a catering to or influence from it will naturally be seen negatively and will result in a backlash.
Justin Nelson
I guess I should make my stance clear here so we don't end up in an unnecessary debate. I don't like the ADS scoping. I think it was a dumb thing to implement, and a dumber thing to make it the standard, but it is roughly just as cosmetic a change as zooming any gun in an earlier Halo game is. They all slightly increase accuracy.
Benjamin Ward
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Henry Nelson
>but it is roughly just as cosmetic a change as zooming any gun in an earlier Halo game is. They all slightly increase accuracy. It's different in that it applies to all weapons. Not all weapons in previous games became more accurate by zooming. In fact, most did not.
Josiah Rodriguez
>It's different in that it applies to all weapons. Not all weapons in previous games became more accurate by zooming. In fact, most did not. That's fair enough which is why I've said they should keep smart scope but alter it so that it's not better but "different"
Matthew Garcia
9:40
Xavier Reed
J KING GETTING FAVYNED!
James Long
>tfw got a perfect kill
Mason Reyes
What was Halo 3's peak population?
Jaxson Jackson
No clue, but I remember times where it had 250,000 players online at any given time.
Landon Sanders
I want to believe the "classic BR" was the first step of them recognizing their error and trying to fix it.
Christian Butler
It had over a million a month after launch
Xavier Thomas
just under 1,200,000
Kevin Green
Let's hope
Alexander Walker
This makes me so so fucking sad. Nostalgia is a bitch
Cameron Jones
imo H5BR w/ classic scope > H2BR
Nolan Price
Most of them were 3babbies. They were never fans in the first place. They moved from one popular flavor of the year to the next, so don't be too upset. The actual core base from CE and 2 remained largely intact until 2012-2014
I’m still one of those CE guys been playing Halo since 2001.
Leo Nguyen
Who?
Logan Carter
>back-to-back co-op >CE, 2 and 3 it's a shame no-one from /hg/ except me would commit to this. prove me wrong.
Ian Fisher
Same. I'd like to think there's still a fair number of us
Jason Rivera
This Friday boi Buylt we have to play CE with grunt funeral on for extra bantz
Nathaniel Perez
t. Born in 2002
Elijah Diaz
What is this? A stream?
Ryder Jones
I'm an originalfag actually
Asher Robinson
2v2 tournament roster update: >THE ONE BIG RED (organizer) >xBackup Beastx (organizer) >Mad L3pr3chaun >KingMiniBlock >Jack Wild Dog >jeffro529 >dankcucumber >Safari Russell >LJ999 >Fantastic Mr D >Dont Fire Here >Punished Dog Thats 12, which means we need a minimum of 4 more.
As of now, the teams are set to be randomized every round. There is no set map or map list, we are open to and are considering ideas that have been put forward. There are no hard start times, but the first round of matches will begin the first weekend in November. If you want in, shoot one of the organizers a message on discord or XBL, or simply reply to this post with your GT.
Mason Howard
Does anyone here relate to my current situation? Growing up the games i played the most were Halo 2 (and 3) and phantasy star online. I feel like all recent online shooters and online rpgs these days are shit. I am currently playing a lot of Destiny 2 and I hate it. The only reason i keep playing it is because it feels like Halo and plays better than most recent shooters. The limited amount of content and grinding the same runs over and over is something I used to enjoy in Phantasy Star Online so that aspect of Destiny does not bother me as much as it would most people. I am just very frustrated that Halo went to shit and now I'm stuck playing a shitty halo-mmorpg hybrid instead. /blog