/hg/ - Halo General

They probably hate it, because the DMR doesn't have bloom.

I think even /hg/ can agree that Destiny is an order of magnitude better than the messes 343i has made

This seems the most realistic desu. But I can't help but feel like they don't feel too good about having their titular series fucked up.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.
Destiny and Halo 5 had the same exact issues; fuck-all for content and a butchered story slapped together right before release.

At least H5 doesn't have paid DLC.

you have a point about the story but I would argue that Destiny went for a minimalist approach, and that's fine; whereas 343i fucking brought cortana back, ruining what was arguably the only emotional moment in Halo 4. Also making Chief the Chosen One really rustled my fucking jimmies.

Can someone fill me in if I've been away forever
1. What the fuck happened since Halo 3 plot-wise? I'd read the backstory stuff up until that point.
2. Have they ported anything else to PC since Halo 2? All I have is my 360.

>What the fuck happened since Halo 3 plot-wise?
literally nothing worth knowing user, I promise.

>Have they ported anything else to PC since Halo 2? All I have is my 360.

>no one playing Halo

Are there any lobbies up? I'm going to be playing Warzone in the meantime if anyone wants to join.

I wouldn't consider completely cutting more than half the story and fucking up massively when it comes to the writer a "minimalist approach"

That's fair.

Personally I would prefer half a good story than an entire terrible one, and I feel like Activision is behind much of Destiny's cut content.

I'll hop in for a while before I go back to slaughtering anything that speaks Kikongo in MGS V

Oh, it's entirely the company's fault. Same goes for Halo 5, really.

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That looks nice, I've been looking for somewhere that has all of the released official concept art. They released a big arse book with all of it didn't they?

Depends on how much you like forerunners.
And we're getting forge on PC and possible Halo 6, but that's up in the air at the moment.

That's probably true.

Now the question is, do I wait to get the Xbox One S, or just get a refubished from Gamestop for 217$.

I have a fair bunch of concept art on my HD, I'll post some. Also I work at Barnes and Noble, and I think I've seen some concept art books floating around

>Destiny is an order of magnitude better

"No"

Halo 5's story wasn't great but at least it -had one- and I understood what was happening.

5, just like Destiny, cut lots of content and launched as an empty husk of a game, but 343 added much of the missing stuff back in for free, whereas with Destiny it was all paid DLC.

Just buy a regular Bone new, since the price is going to drop soon since the S is on the way

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I wouldn't say it being "free" excuses it, but it's certainly leagues better than paying for it, and buying the same game twice.

>people still trying to outdamage someone getting pistol headshots with the AR
how fucking dense are FPS players

It can work if you're decent at strafing, but nobody is

Think it'll just be a flat 200?

It's 217$ used at my gamestop, I don't think we'll see prices on new ones get much lower than 279 for new

Why is Halo Reach so garbage on the Xbone?

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It was never all that optimized to begin with and now you're moving it to a new architecture

What is strafing anyway?

Moving sideways back and forth?

I want to believe

THE WAY IT SHOULD BE

Reach baby detected

People me and Mexican teenagers still play Reach online.

It's the best Halo, don't you know.

>the natural evolution of the Zaku

Up close, the AR outdamages the Magnum.

lol

Rude.

not really it's just easier to use and harder to fuck up because you only have to aim at their body and not the head the TTK is about the same

Thanks. Peace.

The TTK is faster if you land headshots.

The AR's TTK, that is.

Everybody seems to forget that the AR can headshot

Last thread somebody said there was a way to grab h2a?MCC gametypes and maps from people not on your friends list.

How?

Also, anybody have a gif or webm of the one stone cold stunner assassination, or assassination webms/gifs in general?

Evil otto has said that he enjoys 343's take on stuff and doesn't mind they go in other directions then what bungie wanted to on lore things

Marty has said he likes the score for 4 and 5

No idea about staten but he did a novella for halo recently so he likes it enough to do work for it

only once sheilds are down, it only saves you 3 shots

I liked it better in the beta when it worked on shields too, it gave you a reason to burst more.

Does Halo 2A include maps from that map pack released back in like '05? Those maps were cool as shit

I like that it only headshots when shields are down, staying in line with every other headshot weapon in the series. I would prefer the difference between body shots and headshots to be higher, though.

The classic Halo 2 multiplayer does, yes, it even has the vista maps. The anniversary engine mp only has 1 DLC map pack map, being relic.

It makes it not worth even trying to aim for though, and makes it more effective to just hold the trigger down most of the time, reducing the skillgap

> I would prefer the difference between body shots and headshots to be higher, though.

As is it only kills in 3 unshielded headshots, any less and you could easily do it by accident.

Head shields being weaker and taking more damage than body shields would make no sense, what would be the technical explanation for it?

>different mp playlist for Halo 2 OG and Halo 2A
>it even has the vista maps. The anniversary engine mp only has 1 DLC map pack map, being relic
Are you for fuckin-real?
I might just take back everything bad I've ever said about 343i. My god.

I just don't think shielded headshots would work out for the AR. Maybe make it have a higher base spread and slightly faster recovery so you can burst fire with it.

>As is it only kills in 3 unshielded headshots, any less and you could easily do it by accident.
Nerf the body shot damage, then. The gun is already way too powerful for how easy it is to use.

Remember they had minimal involvement.

I didn't know that; who did the heavy lifting?

Certain Affinity did the multiplayer.
But they captured lightning in a bottle because they also made Doom 4.

There are plenty of gameplay contrivances that have no lore explanation that exist only for gameplay's sake, this could and should be the same.

>Maybe make it have a higher base spread and slightly faster recovery so you can burst fire with it.

You can ALREADY burst fire with it, the issue is outside of long range you never need to, which means everybody just holds the trigger down, reducing skill and making it so people who do burst and are accurate just lose to people who spray and pray

>I just don't think shielded headshots would work out for the AR

It did in the beta

>rf the body shot damage, then. The gun is already way too powerful for how easy it is to use.

I agree, that's what i'm saying. Make it so it does headshot bonus on shields, but reduce bodyshot damage, so shitters who hold the trigger down and spray and pray do less damage then normal, and people who burst and aim for the head and can land it consistently do more then normal damage.

Bam, higher skill rewarded, gun is less easy to use.

Doom 4's MP isn't actually bad though, is it? It's just not what people wanted

If you ever have to think that, make sure that the segment wasn't outsourced. If it's something from 343 that you like, it was probably outsourced.

>Doom 4's MP isn't actually bad though, is it? It's just not what people wanted
Doom's MP is too slow. Certain Affinity is good at taking a base game given to them by the studio and building shit around it. However, after the response of the game being too slow at E3, the main devs made the singleplayer faster, but never really informed CA, so MP stayed slow.

>You can ALREADY burst fire with it, the issue is outside of long range you never need to, which means everybody just holds the trigger down, reducing skill and making it so people who do burst and are accurate just lose to people who spray and pray
Higher base spread would force bursting unless you wanted to never hit anything.

>It did in the beta
It was even more OP in the beta than it is now.

Oh I remember them, they made the Defiant map pack for Reach right?

Was pretty mediocre imo, but as long as they did a good job bringing Halo 2 content to the Xbone, I'm okay with it.

>If it's something from 343 that you like, it was probably outsourced
kek, good point.

but if your close enough that you can land head shots with bloom you might as well melee

>shitters are still mad about Armor Lock.

Scoping with the AR decreases your spread by a significant amount.

>It was even more OP in the beta than it is now.

And we both agree making bodyshot damage lower would help even it out so that wouldn't be the case. I don't see what the issue is.

.Higher base spread would force bursting unless you wanted to never hit anything.
I'd rather go with lower damage on bodyshots then doing that,. the spread rate and accuuracy of the AR in 5 feels literally perfect and i'd rather they not touch it. Even for 6 i'd rather they just keep it exactly how it was in 5 for that respect.

I don't want it to risk turning into the halo 4 AR accuracy wise where the first 2 shots are accurate buty due to the high spread rate you can't even burst properly because it maxes out almost instantly, even if you feather the trigger

except halo 5 has de-scope when you take damage

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So how will they do the Halo 3 Anniversary? Release it as DLC for the MCC?

>liking reach

OUT

That's only with snipers, I'm pretty sure

That's for every weapon retard.

If they would have kept the same artstyle I would like Halo 4/5 much more, but god damn I hate this tron looking Forerunner shit and these "subspecies"

>unable to adapt to Reach

Git Gud.

It's with every weapon. That was one of the major problems in the beta with the SMG. If someone grabbed an SMG, scoped, and got the first hit in, the opponent couldn't land a shot to descope the SMG user and they just died.

>So how will they do the Halo 3 Anniversary
Not happening. I'd bet my life on it.

Making the AR generally less effective would be a win for the "BRs everywhere" crowd.

I'm happy with the AR being more effective than in past Halos, as it gives the middle finger to the BR purists who scream for every other weapon and gameplay element to be removed.

>reeeeeeee, getting 4-shotted by a BR is the only thing in Halo that involves skill, get rid of everything else, no AR spawns should be allowed ever reeeeeee

>you don't like Reach so I'm gonna ignore the blaring flaws of it and tell you, you only don't like it because you couldn't adapt
>Every
>Single
>Time
Reach was the beginning of Halos downfall, Reachbabby. Fun campaign at least.

Why?

Spoken like a true competitive fag.

>keeps losing to armorlock
>wah, it's shit!

campaign disk and halo 5 multi player disk while putting out commemorative arena legacy maps
and a new warzone map based off a halo 3 campaign mission for halo 5 players who have save data form the campaign disk get a special variant of mark 6 along with a legendary variant for those who beat the campaign on legendary unlockable through special req packs granted upon completion similar to how you unlock Achilles

Trust me.

>samefag
>no actual argument so resorts to implying

Lol. You like Halo4 MP too?

>Trust me.
w-what?

>argument relies on samefag
>no actual reasons so resorts to implying

adapting to bad mechanics doesn't make the game any better in fact it just makes you worse at all the good halo games

>samefag

I do enjoy H4 but only on MCC as the class-creation is only present in 2 modes.

>it just makes you worse

Maybe if you're a shitter it can.

casual babies only like reach, this is a proven fact

but you like reach you're already proven to be a shitter.

i don't understand this meme

Reach is shit, babby. You're a minority in the community for liking it, and can never prove why it's a decent game besides, "hurr durr I like ett lol" and every time someone tells you it's shit, you get so flustered and resort to, hurr durr git gud to defend your flawed non halo shitty mechanics of Reach, when in reality you're probably a absolute shitter like most of /hg/ The campaign was good, even though it killed "lore" and the multi is barely a step above 4. :^)

Get over it

>Reach was the beginning of Halos downfall
Halo was always on a decline.

>can't prove it's a bad game
>just resorts to strawman
Play better.

>It's a tryhard gets triggered by people liking what he doesn't like thread.

The arguments for Reach being a bad game have been going around since launch, but reachtards always plug their ears while screaming "adapt", or they just say "lol works on my machine"