#1866 - Halofest Anniversary editionHalo 2 Digsite E3 2003 Demo Released:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360515088Halo Infinite's 2024 Winter Update has launchedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77CMLVQrvBQHalo Info:>Latest Community Update (11/9)https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-2-twentieth-anniversary>Latest Infinite Update (11/5)https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/31505389702676-Halo-Infinite-Winter-Update-2024-Patch-NotesHalo News:>343 Industries Becomes "Halo Studios", shifts focus to Unreal Engine for Future Developmenthttps://www.gematsu.com/2024/10/343-industries-becomes-halo-studios-multiple-halo-games-in-development-on-unreal-engine-5Previous >>502292576
>>502958997Release the Maybes
>>502958997I actually can't make it this SaturdayWill it be recorded?
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Next Halo should have sprintNext Halo should have load-outsNext Halo should have hexagons
>>502962515It's time to innovate.Next Halo should remove sprint.Next Halo should have loadouts, but only as a toggle/customizable option in customs.Next Halo shouldn't just have hexagons. It should add octogons and septagons.
post mp4s
Is red actually killing himself?
>>502966602hopefully
>>502967846why
>>502965372Sprint is good. If I want to get to a warthog I can get there much quicker with sprint. Or if someone's shooting at me, I can sprint away. I think it makes the gameplay more enjoyable.
>>502958997https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyL-ah1c2pQ
Sprint has been added to the wordfilters
>>502970053spr|nt
>>502971064D*amn
>>502969081I respectfully disagree. Not being able to sprint makes getting to that warthog all the more important and gives vehicles more value because of their mobility. And it helps prioritize positioning, so you don't have to run away when shot at because you wouldn't have made the bad decision to expose yourself carelessly in the first place. Not being able to sprint makes the gameplay more enjoyable.
>>502969081go back 2 cock of doooty
>>502972107If you prefer no sprint then fair enough. I think I prefer sprint. Having played with both options of course.>>502975959The only time I ever played COD was at friends' houses. I've played much more Halo.
>>502977026The only good cod is 3 because it has vehicles like Halo. I loved the side car motorcycle.
Not very Halo.
>>502982563The charged Incineration Cannon shot is so good. The primary fire is almost worthless but on groups of grunts or flying enemies it's okay. It does tip over too easily though, but at least it's not the motorcycle or that horrible Banished mobile turret
Getting the park time achievement on The Ark is very difficult which is weird considering most of the park time achievements are very easy. It’s like they didn’t even play test this one.
>>502985971All of these are worse.
>>502986929I think I got that odst one. I don’t remember it being difficult
>>502988398I think that one is people can't figure out that you can skip a lot of the level and people suck at killing scarabs.
>>502989037I just remembered that stupid Easter egg achievement is completely broken for me and won’t trigger the music queue on the kikkwani station.
>>502952415People who enjoy 343i games are ontologically evil and no harm to them is morally unjustified.This, but also for those asshole Jeets and similar "people" who shitpost that other thing that I like as if it's their only purpose in life.Good men understand that bad people deserve to suffer.
Anyone else hate Guilty Spark. Why did they have to make his voice so annoying?
Halo.
The odds of getting a Halo game that looks like the left, but plays like the right, are painfully slim.
>>502995338Best 343i can do is HA2.
>>502995338Hiring competent artists is, like, racist. Probably.
>>502995338It should look like the right and play like the left.
>>502995501I mean we had the Halo CE Anniversary Reach playlist which was the closest we actually got. It's just that as good as some of the 6 maps look, some of the really important ones look sub-par like Ridgeline. None of them quite look as good as Halo 3 maps either.
you didn't see that
Yet you keep posting homolust ITT.
proof?
>>502997715
>>502995338You know what's incredibly frustrating is all the assets are available to create something that looks like the left, but plays like the right, in an incredibly lazy and low effort way: you could literally just port Halo 3 and Reach maps and assets into a single engine, maybe mix and match some stuff like Halo 3 spartan models but the better looking Reach elites, Halo 3 AR model, but the Halo Reach Magnum model, etc. And tune everything to play like CE, both the gameplay and the weapon layouts on the mapsbut I've never seen a modder who was capable of restraint, modding always seem to go off the rails in some way eventually, and the stars would have to align for the multiplayer to become active
>>502998035cool photoshop
>>502998475>modding always seem to go off the rails in some way eventuallyThe usual "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." situation. Because of this, I'm worried about the Halo 2 Ruby's Rebalanced mod and whatever other games he might do.
>>502999835I think it's also a situation where a modder wants to show of his skills, flex how good he is as a game designer for the attention factor, so sticking to a homework assignment like "faithfully re-create Halo CE's gameplay" starts to feel un-glamorous halfway into a project and you get SPV3 or that Halo CE in Halo 3's engine project
It's Wotan Wednesday Part 2!Just basic CTF on ValhallaSee you on the battlefield!
>>503001339gay sex
>>503001441Uh... Kino?
>>503001441>>503001620
>>503004413arby is gay tho
>>503004604don’t talk shit about Arby
>>503004674but it's true
rubbing beanie toes with arby warby :3
Is this the halo thread?
>>503005110>>503005862The book Cole Protocol actually mentions he has a wife so I’m afraid your social degenerate homo fantasies aren’t lore accurate.
>>503006115More like Gaylo now apparently.
>>503006554no it doesn't
This is a Christian general.
speaking of gaybiter. remember that time when cheef fag thought arbiter and half jaw were gay because half jaw put his hand on arbiters shoulder?
>>503009706actually it was because half jaw was pounding arbiter's bussy
Thinking of hosting a game of Ultimate Firefight this week-end. Dunno how many people would be interested though. My guess it's a maximum of 4 people who can play together.
when i was a kid, this confused this shit out of me and my friends. we thought there was a hidden banshee somewhere in silent cartographer. we'd grenade jump a warthog to the top and drive around to find it.
>>503009706>>503009858begone faggots
>>503011696he never said that
>>503011696>Flood infection is like monkey pox>only spreads through gay sexKeyesbros, I don't feel so good about our boy...
Here's the lazy man's remake of Halo CE multiplayer- Use the Reach engine(?) - seems like the best one, although I know the Halo 4 engine is basically the same but a little easier to use(?)- Port the following mapsH:R Beaver Creek H3 Valhalla (replaces Blood Gulch)H:R Sword Base (replaces Boarding Action)H3 Cold Storage (replaces Chill Out) H:R Anchor 9 (replaces Chiron - this is the only one out of the 3 and Reach maps I could think of that sort of correlates: it fits the Marathon aesthetic and is a gimmick map)H:R Penance (damnation Remake)H3 Midship (replaces Derelict)H:R High Noon (Hang 'em High)H3 Narrows (replaces Longest)H:R Solitary (Prisoner)H3 Orbital (this one seems like a decent fit to replace Rat Race, having similar multi-tier layouts and claustrophobic inner paths)H3 Citadel (replaces Wizard)H3 Avalanche (replaces Sidewinder) (this is the full original Xbox map list, but you have 12 more BTB maps from Halo 3 and Reach that could be used to fill in the places of the Gearbox BTB maps)- For models/assets, use the Halo 3 Spartan (maybe use the CE armor pieces), H3 Assault Rifle, H3 Rockets, H3 Sniper, H3 Needler, H3 Banshee, H3 Scorpion, H3 Ghost, H:R Warthog, H:R Magnum, H:R Shotgun, H:R Plasma Pistol, H:R Plasma Rifle, H:R grenade models(this fills the full Halo CE Xbox weapon sandbox, but of course you could use the H3 Fuel Rod, H3 Flamethrower, and H:R Rocket Hog to fill out the Gearbox sandbox additions)Use Reach's Anniversary multiplayer gameplay as a foundation and tune everything from there to get it feeling like Halo CE. It's so tantalizingly close to existing and yet so far
>>503011747>>503011851facts dont care about ur feelings
>>503013608gays liek being called faggot
>>503018464
Here's the Slightly-More-Effort-Man's remake of Halo CE multiplayerBasically the same as this >>503013352Except with the following extra steps(oh, forgot to add: use the original Halo CE sound effects - that's what will really tie the whole thing together)>H:R Beaver Creek needs an adjustment to its lighting, needs to be much brighter to be on par with H1 and H2, and needs a new skybox. >Valhalla is a good replacement for Blood Gulch, but personally I really like Coagulation, and would love a version of touched-up version of it that could sit next to the other HD maps in the list>Replacing Boarding action with Sword Base would be a decent move, Sword Base looks great, but it's worth considering remaking Boarding Action because it's so unique. Could make the middle low-G to allow actual boarding action>Chiron is also so unique it would arguably deserve a remake >Replacing Derelict with Midship would be a good move, Midship is a great map, but I personally like H2's version of Midship a little better. Would be worth examining H3 midship and adjusting it (lighting, layout) to match H2's more closely. Additionally would be cool just to have a remake of Derelict>Penance has a few small aesthetic things that could be touched up>High Noon, the Reach Hang 'em High remake, has a really busy skybox. I'd just straight up replace it with the skybox from Sandtrap or Sandbox desu. And adjust some things on the map to make it less visually busy>Narrows is a good replacement for Longest, but the H2 remake is a lot cooler - could update that map to HD>Rat Race could do with a proper remake>Reach's Prisoner remake is also really busy with too much glowy shit, and the towers in the skybox are kind of nonsensical. Would make several aesthetic adjustments>Wizard has its Halo 2 remake, which could be brought to HD>Sidewinder deserves a proper remake instead of Avalanche (and really, all the BTB maps probably deserve a remake)1/2
>>5030194362/2- There's a lot of maps in Halo's history that would play well with Halo CE gameplay. As BAD examples, I think maps like Tempest or Highlands have too much cover and not enough space for vehicles despite being BTB maps. They would need retooling (mainly removing a lot of cover objects and opening up vehicle space). But on the other hand, Powerhouse is a fantastic map that could fit comfortably with Halo CE's gameplay. Halo 2's Relic would be a great fit both in terms of gameplay and aesthetics. It would take playtesting to figure out which ones actually ARE fun, and not all of them would be. But a lot of Legacy maps, and even some 343i maps could be great with Halo CE's combat- Personally I think the Halo 2 Spartan player model is the coolest. Would be very preferable to have that in HD than to use the H3 spartan or even a Halo 1 spartan model remake. - No reason not to have playable Elites. You've got the Reach and Halo: Infinite models to work with. Gun to my head, I prefer the Reach one, but Infinite Elites have a good silhouette - Halo CE has Campaign weapons that aren't in the Multiplayer sandbox - the Energy Sword, Fuel Rod, and Sentinel Beam. Oh and I guess the Wraith. All were modeled in Halo 3. On top of this, Halo has had a ton of interesting weapons and vehicles. Not all would compliment CE gameplay, but a lot of them would. Reach Grenade Launcher, Halo 4 Railgun, the original Gearbox fuel rod, Reach Plasma Launcher, Halo 2 Brute Shot, Halo 3 machine gun turrets - you wouldn't want to add anything functionally redundant, but there's room for more weapons- Halo 3/Infinite style Equipment is a possiblity for CE gameplay. Both aren't ideal, and some Reach Armor Abilities should be converted to Equipment, like Hologram, but Equipment is a good addition to Halo gameplay.
>>502958997HALO HALO
Remember to follow the Spartan Code.Homophobia is not Halo.
>>503027726covenant 4 life
>>503027726BASED…
>>503034279>CQB*sigh* now I have to jerk off thanks
destiny is halo allegedly >>502985782
HEY LITTLE ARBYI JUST COATED MY ASS CRACK IN PLASMA AND NOW I CAN'T UNSTICK MY ASS CHEEKS HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES
The Halo Reach Beaver Creek map should look more like this. This is very rough, but just swapped the skybox with the H2 Beaver Creek skybox, upped the brightness, saturation, and the black levels to make it less washed out.
>>503036884LIL ARBYYY
>>503027726>Easy difficultyWhat extra steps are there on the Heroic and Legendary versions?
>>503037625>>503036884YO LITTLE ARBY, I JUST ORDERED A MAC BLAST BARRAGE ON YOUR FLEET OF SHIPS SO NOW YOU CANT GLASS AFRICA TO STOP THE FLOODHOW DO YOU LIKE THAT YOU FUCKIN PUSSY
>>503027726>Killing aliens and other humans brutally "YES, XIR,">Trash talking "DO NOT REDEEM"
>>503027726I've been playing online games since counter strike and TF classic. Halo since Halo 2 and other online games. Honestly most trash talking was pretty tame or evenly hostile. Somebody yelling curse words wasn't popular because it was always annoying but nobody ever got offended. People just need to mute people or be equally hostile.
>>503039178Trash talking really sucks nowadays. It sounds like really bad Internet blood sports.But when it's funny, it's fucking hilarious.
The Halo Reach High Noon / Hang 'em High remake should look more like this. I swapped the skybox with the skybox from Halo 3 Sandbox. There is a force field effect between the playable area and the outside. It looks pretty bad, and I tried to show what it would look like if it were replaced with glass.
>>503039290Yet why do people think XBL was just n words. I played COD and sure it existed but nowhere near that much. Honestly most people are pretty chill.
sleep well sweet halo fans
Bird looking at its reflection
The Halo 3 Sidewinder remake Avalanche should look more like this. I swapped its skybox with the skybox from Sidewinder. I also desaturated the map. Sidewinder is actually many shades of gray, where Avalanche is more icy blues and greens. I increased both the black values and the white values to provide more contrast, and create more of the icy impression the original map gives.
>>503038764This. Also marines are the most racist, homophobic, nastiest people there are irl. Do they think some Spartan that kills hundreds of sentient beings is going to be a really wholesome person.
>>503035381>thread almost as slow as ours
>>503039934you too :3
>>503040459Avalanche doesn't need fixing though.
>>503040459I'm an astronomy nerd and I support this purely because the sky is more scientifically accurate to what sky on Halo would look like. Unnaturally dark and completely full of stars since it's so thin.
Here's a comparison between Halo: Reach's Prisoner remake Solitary, how it looks on the left, and roughly how it should look on the right. There is so much glowy blue shit all over that map. My guess is that the designers weren't confident in the strength of the basic Forerunner aesthetic, and they wanted to make it "extra" with all kinds of lights and wacky visuals like the rotating prisons standing on impossibly thin spines in the skybox, but the simple idea of the broken window with the ice and snow pouring in created plenty of visual dynamism without going overboard.>>503040798The geometry itself is ok. I'd personally remove all the gravity lifts, except the two inside the cave, and clear out some of the driving space, but the skybox leaves something to be desired. The general aesthetic isn't as nice as Sidewinder even if the layout is fine.
>>503040798Ice should have actually been slippery like in Halo 1. Also the middle part should have been more worked on.
>>503042160My issue is that the edge of the northern area see very little activity. I think Heavies add a few walls and barricades, but the regular variant should have more reasons to venture that far.
>>503041459I just think it looks better. You're right of course, it's more correct, but Halo has always reminded me of surrealism, and later when I found out about it in my teens, the more geometrically precise Symbolist movement. I think Halo's impact has less to do with how scientifically accurate it is, more to do with how so much of it is dreamlike imagery made plausible through its sci-fi veneer.
Haven't played Epitaph since the 360 days.Looks great.
>>503044080almost all the Halo 3 maps are completely gorgeous
>>503044080oh my hecking forerunner trilogy is that mendicant bias? THE mendicant bias from halo 2 and 3?
>>503044080Sorry but construct, narrows and epitaph are boring af. Same boring Forerunner architecture and they are symmetrical mlg levels. Boring
>>503044385Nah. If you take the time to actually look at them the amount of artistry on display is staggering.
>>503044385Construct and Epitaph aren't symmetrical, you dumb retard.
>>503044080Halo 3 maps are usually beautiful. They also are fucking creepy. Now mind you most classic Halo maps have a lonely, scary or weird feeling. Usually because we are used to playing them with friends and now they are empty and lonely. However even back when Halo 3 was peak some of its maps made me feel like I was being watched or just off.
>>503044595Neither is Narrows for that matter.
>>503044595No map is when I'm playing cause any side I'm on has the advantage
Describe his SMALLEST meal
>>503047092
>>503047262Could anyone actually do that who isn't a fatass? I think that would actually kill me.
>>503048102The sodas are the real killers here.
>>502965372>"Time to innovate">Immediately suggests the removal of a featurethats not innovative its reductive you fucking goon
>>502972107With over 300 hours in Infinites multiplayer, I can confidently say I have never been able to sprint away from an encounterBecause the other guy can sprint toosprinting doesn't radically alter or ruin the gameplay in any way, it literally just makes you move a little faster
>>502995976peak take desu
>>502965936Cool.
>>503050340Innovate doesn't necessarily mean add. It's making a change to something already established. And removing something can also create a new experience. Playing with sprint can make you behave recklessly because of the lower risk involved with your actions, but playing without it makes you more cautious, resulting in a smarter, more surgical gameplay experience. In an industry full of shooters with sprint and advanced movement, slowing the game down is definitely an innovation that would make Halo stand out more in a unique and compelling way.
>>503044080Best map for Free-for-all Fiesta Slayer.>>503044843Comfy. 3's maps really make you feel small. Even the small indoor maps. Even though they barely fight 8 players, when you look outside a window, you can peer out way out into the distance and see the same exact structures you're fighting in, like you're just one of many. Really cool feeling.
>>503050517>makes you move a little fasterThen make that default speed and get rid of the animation so you can always have your gun up. You will always lose this argument, 343.
>>503050517No, it actually does change the pacing. When someone disengages in older Halos, it's slower so even though you lose sight of them when they turn the corner, it's more predictable where they might be when you follow them around that corner. But with sprint, that time they spent around the corner can result in much more variability, they could be in more places than you have time to predict simply because you have less time to make a decision due to the faster movement. It's much easier to disengage with sprint and escape your attacker, even when you both have access to sprint. You have more options and stronger safety net than without sprint.
Somehow it always ends up turning into a discussion about why we shouldn't remove sprint. But no one has really made a strong case for why sprint should have been added in the first place. It's really more just that Bungie added it, so we should accept it as an innovation. But what exactly did it innovate and improve? Did it actually make Halo better? I don't think it did. It was cool at first because of the novelty, it was different from previous Halos. But it didn't make the game more fun. But for whatever reason the devs don't want to let it go.
>>503056753That's trend chasing for you.
