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>The Anvil's Legacy Update and Halo 5: Forge are live! They include the following:
- Forge and custom game multiplayer on Windows 10, featuring every Halo 5 map, keyboard/mouse support, increased resolution up to 4K, and 22 exclusive achievements for 1000 Gamerscore
- Forge content browser
- 1 new arena map (Haven Remake)
- 1 new warzone assault map
- New reqs, including hunter cannons and the tactical magnum
- All req items unlocked for forge

>Halo 5 Big Team Battle maps and map roster have been updated
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>Looking for custom games/campaign co-op players/matchmaking squads
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First for A FUCKING CUP

I want more wildlife to be in Halo games

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>Previous threads since numbering began:
#231 - Pay2Win #230 - Belated Birthday #229 - Covie Slayer #228 - Lazy Fucks
#227 - Enter at Own Risk
#226 - Big Team Refresh
#225 - Shenanigans
#224 - Reach's 6th Birthday
#223 - Logo
#222 - A Tale of Two Companies
#221 - Old Game, New Tricks
#220 - Forge
#219 - Anvil's Legacy
#218 - Build a PC
#217 - Last Chance to Prepare
#216 - Xbox General
#215 - Variety is the Spice of Life
#214 - Vroom Vroom
#213 - The Halo Cycle
#212 - Reach
#211 - Fuck Veggies
#210 - Personal Hell
#209 - Place Your Bets
#208 - Graphs and Ratings
#207 - More DLC
#206 - 10,000 Hours in MS Paint
#205 - Energy Sword > Gravity Hammer
#204 - Gravity Hammer > Energy Sword
#203 - One General One Company One People
#202 - Achievement Unlocked
#201 - Facebook Steals Our Memes
#200 - Milestone
#199 - Free For All
#198 - Under Cover of Night
#197 - Prepare to Drop
#196 - Hexagons are Real
#195 - Spartans Never Die
#194 - Halo 4 is Technically a Halo Game
#193 - Never Trust a Hinge Head
#192 - In Remembrance of the Beta
#191 - Were It So Easy
#190 - Master Chief's Bizzare Adventure
#189 - Arby Had a Hard Life
#188 - RIP Jul
#187 - Smart A.I. was a Mistake
#186 - Our True Cause
#185 - Black Undersuit
#184 - Heretic Hunt
#183 - Master Chef
#182 - Take the Cruiser Back
#181 - What Were They Thinking
#180 - What About That Stupid Cloak
#179 - Parasite's Cove
#178 - We Numbered Now

Are those...

I wish they still had the nice green grass on regret

It reminded me alot of halo 3 aesthetics, in a a good way

Now it looks like a nasty red and blue barf mix

Interesting how it's not color coded to each side of the map in the beta version.

I kind of have a soft spot for the natural look, but I suppose it would be annoying for callouts if everything looked the same.

hi pals, me again
is there any decent way to download halo 3 map variants and game types anymore?

the only way i can figure out is by searching someone's gamertag, going to their fileshare and downloading.

if thats the only way, do any of you friendos still have halo3 and a 360? willing to help me out a little? im looking for the vent on foundry, and it's game type. shark map& game type. griffball map & gametype and a few of the infection maps bungie took from the community to use in match making. the two that come to mind immediately is a map with a house on foundry and a tower-like map on sandbox. im hoping to buy some 360s super cheap and getting some cheap monitors to load into equipment cases for LAN parties.

Got any recommendations for good custom games that i might be missing?

is there a halo 3 community here at all? the thread seems pretty hard set on halo 5 (which makes sense since its the newest one)

Also, thanks to the user from last thread! i sent you a message!

There's easy ways to avoid that

Just have colored glyphs on the walls, have one side be more intact and the other more overgrown, etc

Every symmetrical Map being entirely red/blue themed is very annoying, especially regret because they made it look like garbage

GOAT Tier Regret would be beta coloring with the resolution and frame rate of the final release version

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It's a shame the Bone is so underpowered, I loved the lighting system in the beta, but the framerate drops and 720p sucked

I liked the Beta version of regret a lot more.

Not so much Eden though. Way too dark imo

Halo CE anniversary makes me a little bit angry but mostly just dissapointed. They fucked the art style so bad.

H2A is quite accurate 90% of the time, so that's nice

They could even keep the colored varient, but they don't have to get rid of the green version.
They could at least use it in FFA

I'm a huge fan of H2A and it's clearly the part of MCC that had the most care put into it.
There's times where I think it's a bit too bright but whatever

That might stem from the original not really having an actual dynamic lighting system

So unless you move the entire sun and light source in the skybox, some areas will have to be a bit brighter than others

I honestly think normal CE in 1080/60fps looks great

It does. Everything is slightly cartoony. So it hasn't aged too badly.

Give me 500 on the Hunter.

Those Reach things are weak af

So it's been (almost) one year since launch.
Still no
>playable elites
>flamethrower, sentinel beam, grenade launcher
>juggernaut, MM oddball, race, random weapon option in customs
>custom powerups/trait zones/trigger volumes

>wanting playable elites
Scalies out.

I'll have you know that "those Reach things" are one of the only nine intellegent sentient life forms in the Galaxy according to cortana

Sentinel beam and nade launcher are coming soon™

We don't need Elites anymore.
We have something better.

And we also have helioskrill.

>playable elites
Nobody would even play as them, not even you
>flamethrower, sentinel beam, grenade launcher
Already leaked
>juggernaut, MM oddball, race, random weapon option in customs
I agree that they should add them.
>custom powerups/trait zones/trigger volumes
I believe it is coming since the forge team is on a roll with these updates.

>tfw Halo 6 has potential to actually be the ONLY mainstream arena shooter come its 2018 or so release
>could actually be unique considering the mainstream direction of team games now
>you just KNOW 343 is going to notice how every shooter is now moba-like and follow suite in Halo 6 because theres not a single original bone in their bodies

Its hurts bros :(

You best be trolling

I'm putting down everything I have on the Guta to pull off the upset

Reminder that this match is rigged.
Hunter is taking the fall in the 5th round

Pretty sure Gamecheat tested this match up and the Guta got raped easily.

He's been training harder.
Hell die in the ring before he gives up

>mfw can't play online anymore
>mfw immortalized

What's the problem?

Something seems off about my Spartan, /hg/

I have never understood the hatred for elites, besides a couple hitbox issues. I've seen some people refuse to play customs if someone chose an elite, even in very casual custom games. And then there's people that hate 2 just because of the Arbiters presence in the campaign. What is this meme?

Nothing really. Just time to become life's bitch and can't afford sinking time and money into Live anymore.

Might be joining the military soon, too. That'll be a rollercoaster.

Playing as the arbiter was fucking great and I'm still dissapointed that we didn't get more arbiter missions in halo 3

You can play as him in co-op yeah but its not the same

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Looks perfectly fine to me!

Looks perfect to me, soldier. Carry on.

I've got the idea over the years that it's often CoD kids who think aliens are for nerdz and uncoolz.

Personally, I love playing as aliens. Who wants to play as humans? Humans are boring. I see humans every day. I ran over a human once. I live with humans. Humans look weird and are short and wet and smell. If I wanted to play as a human I'd turn off the Bitchbox and knock up some slut.

I guess stealth is kind of broken in the arbiter missions, but the way the levels are designed it felt like it was meant to be used heavily anyways.

So, Halo 5 was early access, yeah? Does anyone still maintain the pretense of having purchased a full game, or have even the fanboys begun to fuck off with that?

There's still a few people here that defend Halo 5 and its controversial DLC plan, but for the most part they're just being contrarian.

Yeah, it's been pretty weird to me. What's silly is that throughout playing Halo 3, people have occasionally trash talked me since everyone thought Elites got killed easier. But now I see people now saying people don't like them because they actually die less often?

Reminder that you're not a true Gears fan if:

>you didn't 100% GoW1 and do Seriously on both 360 and PC versions
>you didn't 100% GoW2 and do Seriously 2.0 both the normal version and the Japanese version
>you didn't get Wings in GoW2 and GoW2 JP
>you didn't 100% GoW3, getting Seriously 3.0 and hit Gold Wings (Rank 400)
>you didn't 100% GoW:J, getting Seriously Judgmental and hit Re-Up 10
>you didn't 100% Gears:UE on both X1 and PC, while hitting Rank 400.
>you haven't pre-loaded you're copy of GoW4: Ultimate Edition
>you haven't bought every single pre-order bonus skin, character, emblem for every Gears game, excluding the Dev skins

>Halo 5 was early access
Since when that was a thing? It had a beta but not early access.

I wouldn't say that's the only way to be a "true" fan, but I'd take your advice and word on the Gears franchise over somebody that doesn't even have half of those accomplishments.

He's being pissy

In Halo 2, their bigger heads required a larger area hitbox which made them much easier to kill. One frag grenade well placed can kill them with no prior damage, while the same can't be said for a spartan.

In Halo 3, they compensated for that by just plain not giving part of their neck a hitbox in order to make them even with spartans. The result is that ever asshole under the sun played as an elite in order to throw off your aim and hopefully exploit that spot.

Since October 27th, 2015.

I mean, I'm not asking anyone to be bitter about it. I just want to know if everyone has acknowledged this fact in some way by now.

That might have been people assuming elites were played by little kids who wanted to be space dinosaurs, but there were plenty who played spartans as well.

I have

Most have

>That might have been people assuming elites were played by little kids who wanted to be space dinosaurs
I never really got that, since whenever I heard the occasional squeak from a child, it was coming from a Spartan player.

This was true, but it's not like all little kids played as elites

I hate gears it's boring

Sure thing, kiddie

If it was in early access, it would've been in the Preview Program like ARK. But it isn't.

Fuck, i defend the dedication meme for Halo's achievements but Gears of War really is something else above that. They really went full retard with Seriously 3.0 and i didn't even try.

these things got raped by fucking grunts, they'd get obliterated by hunters, especially reach hunters

Honestly, i enjoyed it for what it was at release and i enjoyed and loved it even more after each update.

>inb4 apologist
>inb4 shill
>inb4 3v4i

people would play as elites, hence why so many people want them

Oh, you can enjoy it. But it was not even halfway done when it came out.

So when does one consider it "done"?

After it has more content than Halo 2 did.

So it's done. Case closed people.

Quick, who is the most annoying /hg/ user? I vote jffry890, he's just a drunken retard that babbles about nothing. Mc lovin is a great user though, he's really nice, funny, and he gets way too much shit. He also has all of his teeth completely intact, and there was no incident involving a nerf gun.

t. cookie

Oh yeah i'm not denying what it was and it really was awful for the first month but it really surprises me all these people still stuck in the past for some reason.

But it doesn't.

>1 blocked post

Why it doesn't?

>Infinity Slayer not the default mode, alongside classic slayer as the default
>classic infection

would this have been enough to save H4?

>lack of modes
>lack of maps
>less campaign missions
>less memorable songs
>all of lower quality than a game from 12 years ago

Maybe but, the art design and sounds would still trigger me.

Ragnarok legitimately looks worse than Valhalla

Probably. Halo was already dead after that mistake called Reach though.

youtube.com/watch?v=4IRdw_Qgwqc

Jfry had a hard life and depends on the booze too much. Give him some rehab and he'll be fine.

Mclovin has managed to convince pretty much everyone to dislike him, so we have him muted, so he's not sitting since we can't hear him.

I vote for sigmund, since he sniffs his balls loudly and proudly.

*after 4

Mclovin is a great guy, and he's super cute. You guys really need to leave him alone, he's done nothing wrong. He just wants to be friends with you, but you guys hate him. Sigmund is a complete faggot though, we agree on that.

I don't think making "memorable songs" makes a game more finished. Also we have fucking god-tier FORGE now for maps.

>4 just copied Reach
>Reach a gud boy dindu nuffin!
Nice Cycle

There still would be sprint, flagnum, a broken oddball, and no descoping.

4 copied Reach but had shitter abilities, those weird armor mods, fucked up the story forever and had like three good maps.

What killed Mclovin's tooth? Was it the nerf gun, or the bike? Or was it a BBC? I think it was a BBC. Nerf guns can't melt steel teeth.

I agree with some of your points but saying it isn't complete is just an opinion. It easily compensates the lack of modes/modes with all the options for custom games and a powerful map editor, with both of these you literally have inifinite possibilities.
Not like it matter though, you obviously are strongly biased and probably will just dismiss my post and call me shill or something.

Halo was already dying during Reach times in terms of population and this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.