On an unrelated note, why does Return Fire now trigger AFTER the enemy performs its action? When did this change? Because beforehand, Return Fire would trigger first, which is kind of what made it an useful ability.
Dominic Collins
>Rookie makes most kills in mission
Ayden Roberts
Return Fire has always activated after the enemy has fired upon you, that's why it's called return fire. Covering Fire is the one that activates before enemy actions.
Anthony Gutierrez
I specifically remember during launch having my sniper blast a stun lancer in the face before he could attack.
Daniel Russell
Frag?! Is that you?!
Alexander Howard
Remember the AYYlmao.
Jacob Turner
heh
Henry Moore
>not ayylamo
Brandon Torres
I do like the More Mission Types mod but Jesus, the developer doesn't have many ideas for difficulty or keeping it interesting past sheer retarded numbers with reinforcements every turn.
Owen Carter
Halo: Tactics a best. Until someone releases a Blacklight style robot mod.
Kayden Collins
>it's a "trigger a pod and they don't move" episode stay blessed, solomon!
Asher Bailey
Indeed. Though, with enough sharpshooters with Death From Above and Long Watch, it becomes kind of just tedious.
Jace Flores
I was so disappointed when these guys weren't in the Blacklight helmets mod.
Joshua Kelly
Adding new heads to the game is a pain, and you wouldn't be able to add that to the game as a helmet because the head would just clip through it.
Cyclop mod guy will also never get what he wants.
Jack Gutierrez
Shame we didn't get that animation, it's pretty cool.
Camden Jones
Wouldn't cyclops eye be possible as a simple item in place of glasses, simply made as thin and close to head shape as possible?
Carter Perez
You would have to model that individually for every single head model there is.
Eli Ward
>>Adding new heads to the game is a pain
Is that why no full model replacement exist yet? That would also explain the Nep heads lack of detail.
Anthony Cooper
What about the Halo Mods that just make the body invisible and basically have independent models?
Benjamin Diaz
I did want to add the robot head to the mod, but like said, adding heads isn't straightforward.
Luis Evans
>lob a gas grenade into a cluster of Advent troops >poison all 3 of them >shield-bearer gives everyone shields >they're shields protect them from poison damage
The fuck kinda logic is that?
Jonathan Morris
Or just force people to use a certain race/head/skin color combo if they want it to work
Daniel Williams
Yeah that really is unrealistic...
Ian Torres
this is a good point actually. the halo 4 armors come with the undersuits that replace the entire body, or at least make it invisible. would a similar technique not also work for the heads?
Parker Cox
From my understanding, the only way to add heads right now is basically to apply a material that makes a head invisible and then add your actual head as a helmet, but from what i'm reading right now this has the limitation of not getting rid of teeth, eyes and eyelashes, which means those would show unless your head is bigger than the default head, which is why the anime heads like
Somewhat work. That said, i've never tried to add heads to the game myself so i don't really know. So, you could add robot heads, but this one in particular:
Would probably look pretty bad with disembodied eyes, eyelashes and teeth floating around it, you'd have to make it bigger to hide them.
Wyatt Allen
boy this halo stuff is getting really monotonous, especially since it seems to be the same couple of people pushing it. i'm pretty sure we've had this image as op before even. could you lay off it for a while?
Isaac Morgan
Yeah, it works. Just look at and the Evangelion heads - problem is you still end up with a floating mouth and eyes iirc
This, I don't mind it that much but it gets old
William Jackson
>>it seems to be the same couple of people pushing it
You really believe that? Fun Stuff.
Oliver Sullivan
why wouldn't i? same style of writing and recycled screenshots
Charles Foster
I think his point is it's one guy.
Jaxon Cruz
this i can believe
Ryan Ward
there are at least three of us
but in all serious, i thought we'd see a lot of titanfall and mass effect when those mods came out but not much has changed. it's a shame vanilla designs are boring.
Jackson Diaz
If that's just the head what kind of hardships would it take to do full body/animations replacements?
Colton Ward
>look at a specialist in the armory or squad preparation screen >gremlin buzzing noise gets stuck permanently >amplifies every time you look at a specialist again
So this bug has existed for me since launch, am I just the only one who gets it or why haven't they fixed it? Are they just lazy with bug fixing? Ridiculously annoying, I have to mute the game every time I'm on the Avenger.
Jack Bennett
If we ignore the hardships of making animations themselves, none.
The problem with heads is a bit hard to explain, but basically, there is only 1 head for each gender(actually i don't remember if there's 1 head for each race but whatever), the rest of the heads are created with morphs, which basically means that when you change a head in the game, it isn't loading a different mesh, it's just changing the current one through these "morphs". So basically, you cannot add additional heads to the game because it's simply not how it works, and from my understanding you can't add morph targets either simply because of some limitation of the sdk.
So basically, you're stuck with the default heads in the game, and the work around these anime heads use is to make the game use a head without morph targets and then make it invisible.
With bodies, animations and armor it's all fairly straightforward. There's already a nude mod for example, and that's an entire body replacement, with animations i haven't actually looked into it too much, but i don't think it would be particularly difficult to do, there's even documentation with the SDK about how to import animations into the udk.
That said, there's a grand total of 1 animation mod so far, so i don't think anyone cares or wants to go through the trouble.
Matthew Bailey
Vanilla designs plus all the bazillion mods that are out mean the biggest limitation is your creativity. Make new soldiers with new themes instead of just making Spartan/ODST #159255836 and posting a billion screenshots of it here, we've had way too many of those. Of course you should actually PLAY with what's fun for you though.
When the Marine armor drops on the other hand I'll be hype to see some more screenshots of that, looks way cool. It's just the Spartan/ODST theme that's a bit exhausted.
The only guys who have had any progress with that are the Playable ADVENT guys I guess, but even then they're just taking existing stuff and putting it in a new place. I don't know but there are a LOT of hurdles concercning head animation in particular, everything else meant for a human you can more or less rig onto the XCOM2 skeleton.
You can read up on smarter people than me explaining the head stuff and how to get around it here, but afaik nobody has managed to made a fully animated head prop yet.
The key to a successful mod is 100% extra pouches and utility and shit. The vanilla armour is just too clean. That's why the Titanfall armour looks so good.
Nolan Ross
whoops, did not mean to attach that i bitch about generic spartans and post generic operator, sorry about that
Cooper Ross
Very interesting stuff to know. Thanks.
Operators are fair game too dude.
Josiah Jones
How did you get two tattoos on the same arm? aren't those two from different packs
Tyler Phillips
>tfw barely any realistic tactical gear mods >tfw cant deck out molle with pouches >tfw cant operate
Ayden Wood
>It's a "user passively aggressively complains about what people post in the general" episode
Charles Jones
arma 3 any good yet?
he's right though
Austin Price
thats every general. someone posts halo or advent and people bitch and say it's taking up image limit in a thread that moves slowly at peak
Brayden Fisher
I don't mean to step on anyones toes, it's just getting a bit overdone is all
Jackson Morales
>it's an user complains about people coming into his safe space and hurting his feefees episode
Jaxson Robinson
Is to me, though I spend 95% of my time in the mission editor.
Henry Baker
i want to get into it so bad, but it really feels like the type of thing you NEED a good group for
Thomas White
youre right, we shouldnt care what people think.
which means post more halo.
Owen Adams
Yeah they are, it's a bug I get where every tattoo I attach ends up on both arms. Most of the time it's super annoying but sometimes it looks alright so I haven't bothered to troubleshoot it
Logan Butler
not taking sides here but you don't think this kind of behavior is why people have gotten averse to it in the first place?
Nathaniel Wright
I played Arma 2 online with a group. You need some level of coordination in big missions so a group is pretty important there. Small missions are fine with pubs, I suppose. I don't really play much multi anymore. I spend most of my time making missions and scripting the shit out of them.
If you want people to play with, check out Murshun on steam. They do gamenights for tactical games.
Also I heard we were a Halo thread now and don't want to feel left out.
Zachary Foster
Without rampant back-and-forth shitposting, this board wouldn't move at all.
Eli Hall
I feel you.
Come dude, no need to push it.
Xavier Fisher
This ain't true, we're a quality general when we want to be. Also I prefer less tongue-in-cheek shitposting like this one. Now there's a quality Halo shitpost.
Josiah Howard
73rd for FRIENDLY, and NOT DANGEROUS neighborhood Snek. She's only here to work, and dispense cuddles after work.
Hudson Price
Speaking of armor discussion, EOD suits when? I need this for tacticool Tier 2/3 options
Also, is there some good guide on ripping UE assets?
Jackson Walker
>check out Murshun on steam
Don't do this. As of a few weeks ago, we are dead.
The slavs wanted to play on their own time so they left, taking the server with them. Ops might be coming back later on but for now it's a no go.
Nolan Williams
Oh. Well, goes to show how much I keep up with them. I played RS3 with them like three times. It was alright.
Jose Gomez
>tfw had a group of 12 friends who all played NS2 and Arma 2 together >one of them died in a car accident with three other of them in the car We have barely played since. Feels selfish to even mention those two things in the same breath, but I miss it.
/blogpost
Angel Scott
EU OST MOD WHEN
Charles Taylor
SOMEBODY MAKE IT FOR ME
i'm sorry to hear that, user
Logan Reyes
I WOULD MAKE IT MYSELF IF MY DOWNLOAD SPEED WASN'T 250KB/S AND THE SDK WASN'T EIGHTY GIGABYTES
Eli Kelly
Yeah I want to mod classes but fuck an 80 GB dl
Noah Cox
Whoever designed the plasma tier/dlcs aesthetics should be dragged to an art achool and left there to dry.
Josiah Sanders
What are you talking about? AC's power armor is the best addition to the game and alone makes the DLC worth buying.
Benjamin Brooks
>dragged to art school >implying that'd do any good >not just give them crippling college debts with jack to show for it Also what? AC was a huge improvement with its tarnished T3 armor
Camden Baker
Would it be plausible to apply the texture from the power armor on the plasma weapons?
Gavin Richardson
Well, i don't think you can get things out of the DLC packages, but if you could, yes. You couldn't just copy paste them over or anything, but with a little photoshoping you could.
David Gomez
>retaliation >spawn literally a tile away from mutonx2 berserker viper shieldbearer stunlancer sectoid activation
thanks a lot jake
Nathaniel Cruz
dead
Justin Scott
I blame posters I don't like
Nathan Wright
Heh, not even close :^)
Did they speed up the Avatar project? Last time I played was before AC.
Carter Miller
They made it harder to reduce and made it so the timer remembers where you left it.
Asher Rivera
>the timer remembers where you left it n-no
Justin Williams
Yup, no more timer cheesing
Josiah Powell
no fuck. anybody won this including the alien hunter dlc on legend yet?
Adrian Brown
I blame Discord servers even though we don't have one. Hopefully.
Ryder Anderson
>he isn't in the secret /xcg/ discord
Joseph Taylor
The only thing worse than a hypothetical /xcg/ discord is a hypothetical secret /xcg/ discord
Austin Diaz
linking is hard
Nolan Campbell
Ayo I like operator stuff Is this one in the steam workshop?
Oliver Bennett
>/v/ >Valid opinions >Mature >Grown up >Liking games >Being good at games