#2036 - That Was 15 Years Ago editionHalo: Campaign Evolved:>July 29th "day one" Update Patch Detailedhttps://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/51876915911572-Halo-Campaign-Evolved-Patch-Notes-July-29-2026>GPU Benchmarks Testedhttps://www.techpowerup.com/review/halo-campaign-evolved-performance-benchmark/>Assault on the Control Room, 28 Minutes of Gameplayhttps://youtu.be/C6JyOj-7tH8?si=qB-y7L4VoNxnDj3YHalo News:>Halo: Campaign Evolved July Q&Ahttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/july-community-qa-halo-campaign-evolved>Halo: Campaign Evolved June Q&Ahttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/june-community-qa-halo-campaign-evolved>Halo: Campaign Evolved Achievements Announcedhttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/achievement-list-halo-campaign-evolvedPrevious >>575680918
Bleach is the root of all.
>>575838901CEA getting even forgotten by 343i is funnyCER samples the original CE a ton but no CEA audio to speak of
Carrier Forms
Moddertranny below
Timberland >>> Ridgeline
>>575839119
filtered post above
343 would burst into flames upon reading this
>>575840829halo really lost in every way
>>575839604Remake this already.
Anyone tried this one yet?https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3735328357
>>575840829>fomo and grinding currencySET A FIRE IN YOUR WALMART, NIGGER!!!
What's the best method to level up guns themselves?
New skin for CEmake hidden in the build
So if you enable the 60 round AR skull marines with ARs can't fire
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>>575840829This is beautiful.
>>575842108>level up gunsI didn’t know you could do that.
>>575844887is a feature for the remake
The Endless has arrived
>>575838901Reach a good shit.
>>575839097can't remind the consoomers that we made a remake already, before
>>575840829ok now lets wait for release. 343 said similar stuff with infinite
is it over?
>>575848036Yes
the shotgun in that remake looks so kino
>>575848202It is, it's the most fun shotgun in Halo since CE
>>575841562Buy an ad.
>>575850395I will
>>575838901Reposting>Game treats the player like a retard with enemy waypoints and condescending dialogue at every turn>Cortana is bitchy and condescending rather than sassy and professional>Johnson is a cartoonified Johnson rather than a serious take on Apone>Elites' voice lines are abysmally lame and they just sound like humans because there's no pitch-down filter>All new voice lines are extremely lame and tonally mismatched with the OG ones still present>The percentage of female marines is disproportionately high>Chief does stuff in cutscenes that should happen in gameplay>Game is a choppy vaseline smudge for 90% of players>Ring looks too small - the scale of everything is wrong>Cortana looks like Jerma>Halo reach enemy melee and sword hitboxes>Bollywood/tranime garbage in cutscenes>Enemies too weak>Stealth elites too tough>Max sensitivity too low>Removed classic control schemes - impossible to replicate with custom controls>Taking damage makes no noise>Grenade VFX do not represent their blast radius>Supercombine looks lame>Markers on fucking everything>Color palette is terrible>Banshee ai is retarded>Jackals trivial to kill with the pistol - making the pistol good at absolutely everything>Grunts have mismatched personalities with the monstrous halo 3 visual style but the whacky adorable voice lines from 1 and 2>Can't see passengers' health>Warthog sounds like a lawnmower>Jackal snipers>Pure forms>Marines don't drive>New missions are shit, lore raping, and tonally mismatched>Melee feels like shit - like trying to punch infector pods on halo 2>Epic music playing in mundane encounters>Ugly covenant art style>Sprint>Grunts blend into dark backgrounds>Keyes respawns in the escort segment>All elites can throw grenades>Removed the grav lift kinoscene>Hunter dance is gone>Sword has no lunge>Constant VFX eye cancer>Enemy markers apply even to invisible enemiesOut of characters
Too much text, I pass,No one reads the long rambleQuick point wins the day.
>No one reads the long rambleI did.
>>575851390What did you think of it?
>Watch out, Chief! The Covenant guards are using some kind of stealth armour!
>>575851539Thanks doc.
>>575851506Too many chud and graphics related complaints.No mentions of the poor balance on Legendary
>>575851390WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>muh bring back bungie
>>575851983But they were new hires for Halo Reach!!You love Reach, right?
Just launched Ruby's Rebalance and a Longsword flew over my house, why didn't anyone warn me
>>575839324I'd be surprised if that wasn't the most common outlook. I remember playing CE on PC and Reach on 360 on the same day for years. Good times.
>>575841562>>575843057Fascinating>>575843903It'll be interesting to see what's been improved (or not) by time I get around to CER
>>575850763I seem to recall some opinions that CEA was partially the way it was in order to make the next real offering look better in contrast.I wonder if that's the case with CER especially seeing people wonder why Forerunner surfaces look like they do despite Infinite's existing.
>Launch Campaign Evolved.>it’s shit>uninstall>put in Halo Combat Evolved disc on original Xbox>it’s fun
>>575840829Gears of War is going to save /hg/ (Halo and Gears General)
>>575854474I unironically have a really good vibe about E Day
Say some nice things about Campaign Evolved, if you can
It's too sad more than half of /hg/ started with either Reach or 2 on MCC when it came to Steam, so we are Incapable of having a serious discussion of what makes the remake worth playing. I highly encourage you to play Combat Evolved if you haven't yet.
>>575854709it's not as bad as Lord of Ring: Gollum
>>575854709Is has the SMG and the Needle Rifle in the same game.
>>575854709Active Camo being manually activated is kinda neat
>>575854709>the spiker has a cool design>chad needle rifle came back
>>575854709
>>575854709>the guns feel great to shoot>SMG and needle rifle are awesome>remix mode>lots of skulls>4 player co-op>prequel missions while a bit generic, are not a bad addition to the game>equipment
>>575854709>Say some nice things about Campaign Evolved, if you can1. The Weapon sandbox is by far the most fun out of all the 343i games (I know they didn't actually make the game). Things I was worried about like the 36 round AR and Shotgun feel great, and new inclusions like the Needle Rifle and Sentinel Beam are welcome additions.2. Best Flood since the original CE, and in some cases are even better. They may be based on Halo 3 but they've been tweaked just enough. Tank forms are also just straight up superior to the Halo 3 version.3. Asset Reuse in the second half of the campaign has been improved, sometimes significantly. Both the Library and the Warthog Run for example are just significantly better now.4. It actually does look good and more faithful than I expected, albeit still very "unreal esq" if that makes sense.This is not to suggest I don't have negative things to say. The game is just shy of what I would call a "technical nightmare" and needs multiple more patches before I can actually reccomend anyone purchase it. Even after that, there are still just some blatant L's like inferior re-dubbing of lines, the prequel missions being lackluster in general, the covenant being arguably not even as fun to fight as the Banished in Infinite (outside of Hunters) and above all, the lack of PvP entirely (though apparently there's a glimmer of hope now for that, but I won't bet on it actually materializing)I do think, at least in a theoretical patched up state, the game clears the bar for being worthwhile for Snoys who want to experience the Halo CE story, but ironically, it doesn't feel like it quite clears the threshold for fans who are already well associated with Halo to pay for it.Yes, you read this.
>>575854709I’m glad it’s the end of Halo Studios
>>575854709its sad it looks like a game from 2015.
>>575856493Older generation xbots probably held it back as usual
>>575856668The devs understood the assignment here
>>575856668why are they in casing thothey simply do not understand
>>575856649>muh older xbox copeFuck off marketer.
>>575856668
>>575856845>t. xboner owner lol loser get a job marketer
>>575856747Who even ARE the devs?Like seriously, are they listed in the credits?Are they actually Indian?Who made this game?
>>575857005There's like 80 chinese names in the credits i doubt they're all real and most likely AI
>>575851539The annoying thing is realizing it's not actually the game trying to explicitly mark them as some handholding measure because LOOK OUT CHIEF, but their fucking autistic "newbie player proof" attempt to auto-highlight the last enemies in an encounter before a script triggers, so it just so happens to go retard at the worst possible moment.
>>575850763does activating the no sprint skull raise your movement speed?
>20gb update for 10 minor fixes
>>575857435nobut you move faster than any prior Halo game by default anyway, yet when enemies with plasma weapons shoot you, it slows you and your aiming down a little, so the whole attempt at balancing that out is kind of a mess
>>57585759760GB update for pirates
>>575857597
>>575857005>Who even ARE the devs?They're named "Abstraction" and they're in the Netherlands, not India.343 has actually used them before for help with MCC when it was coming to PC.That being said, 343/"halo studios" was actively involved in directing the look and design of the game. They "led" the development and more or less told Abstraction what to do to a decent level of specificity.Also, no, Abstraction are not the same studio that did the Oblivion Remake or the Snake Eater Remake, though they do have the same parent company as those studios.
343 ABSTRACTED?!?!?!?!?!
>>575856668I like that it looks cel shaded but I'd rather have the old crystals back. I wonder what the entire game would look like if it was cel shaded. Maybe we'll get filters in the future?
>>575858071I wish people like (YOU) would abstract irl, if you know what i'm saying.
is CER worth a pirate at least?
>>575858083For sure. The mod scene is already in full swing for this game.Also for me, the bigger issue is the lack if a purple grate underneath the floor. It makes sense too, as if it's for drainage.
>>575858268I would say so, yeah.I would not have guessed it would be before playing it.
>>575857597WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
>>575858171It's okay, Baza. You just have to transition to not end up like Jax.
>>575858268My take on the game is it's literally good enough to waste time with for free but too busted to spend money on, so... yes?
>>575858268It's not the worst thing ever, it's still a better game than the previous 343 by inherently being CE with a Reach / UE5 coat of paint. But if you religiously love CE, you'll be offended, and if you hate UE5, you'll resent it. Very much a playable but middle of the road experience that could've been way better and needed more time in the oven for polish.
>BAZA out of NOWHERE
he meant to say Gab
>>575858268Of course. It's not deserving to be on the goypass because it lacks many merits compared to the original, as well as the evolution of the Halo series.
He's no longer a regular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Q4dDFOWdAIt's UP
>>575858681based
>>575858681Thanks boss.
>>575858681Buy an ad.
>>575858681Thanks for the link, Gobiin.
>>575858681I'm so excited lads
>>575858681Secure a billboard.
>>575858681But I don't wanna know the lore!
>>575854709The second half of the game is good
Pov: you just wanted to play Halo with the regulars
>>575858681...what... what is this?No really, what the fuck is the point of this video?Why does he think people need him to handhold them through the story of Halo 1 when they can just... play it?What the fuck low hanging fruit is this
I can't escape from HIM!
>>575859217I kinda wish Yeeze would message me...
>>575859249people make videos like this for everything ALL the time, its fine
>>575859285I kind of love this despite how cringe it is
>>575859302Faggot.
>>575859249He's probably trying to court newcomers
>>575854709There's plenty of nice things to say about 343/HS releases, the nice things just don't outweigh the bad nor justify the direction they took with many things.However, we've been getting more Halo-feeling releases and even if I'm not confident enough in that direction to pre-order anything, I'd believe it if someone told me the next campaign/multiplayer will feel more like Halo than any 343/HS production to-date.
>>575859302I kinda wish he would stop spamming me, but that's just me.
IT'S UP!https://youtu.be/5a0_LMt9LOY?si=KAbuxk5IDcE0H-rW
>>575859217It actually went up believe it or not.
>>575859302My DMs are always open but only if you suck dick.
>>575859526Buy an ad.
>>575859526Can't believe Halo Studios finally made a Halo and they didn't even make it.
IT'S UPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNr3fYHd8PA
The Pillar of Autumn - TieHalo - Original is betterTruth and Reconciliation - Original is betterThe Silent Cartographer - Original is betterAssault on the Control Room - Original is better343 Guilty Spark - Remake is betterThe Library - TieTwo Betrayals - Original is betterKeyes - Remake is betterThe Maw - Remake is better
>>575859526he's just not funny at all anymore
>>575859938>anymore
>>575859249Content + years of seeing "fans" in various series who strongly assert opinions only for it to be later found out that they didn't experience certain mainline works first-hand, be it a book, film, show or game.
they're prepping a bull in da 'cord
>>575859906>The Pillar of Autumn - TieI prefer the original>Halo - Original is betterAgreed>Truth and Reconciliation - Original is betterAgreed>The Silent Cartographer - Original is betterAgreed>Assault on the Control Room - Original is betterAgreed>343 Guilty Spark - Remake is betterShockingly, I agree, though it's not by a huge margin>The Library - TieDisagree. I don't even hate the original but I think the new one is significantly better. I have to play it in co-op still though.>Two Betrayals - Original is betterI actually think it's pretty close.>Keyes - Remake is betterAgreed>The Maw - Remake is betterAgreed and I can't believe I'm saying that because I love OG MawNot bad opinions anon.
did they add marines driving warthogs to the remake?
I understand how elderly couples see each other now. After 25yrs, OG Halo:CE is as beautiful as she ever was, and nothing can replace her.
>>575860284Nope
>>575860284I think? idk I've never trusted them. They were terrible at it even in every bungie game
>>575860373/hg/ has-been detected
>>575859285brings back some ancient memories
>>575860380damn. they couldn't drive in infinite either and I was hoping we relearned the ancient technology>>575860396features should be improved over time, not abandoned
>>575860373Infinity is literally the worst map in the series
>>575860474>>575860543makes senseHe talks about OG Halo CE being beautiful but posts geaboxslop.
>>575860525>features should be improved over time, not abandonedI would rather have no undercooked meat on my plate until it's properly done.Marines driving in Halo 2 is just a bad feature that is more likely to get you killed. It would be better off not being in the game because as it exists, it's a negative.
>>575860373Beautiful post.
>>575859285and this classic
>>575860591Makes sense.It's better than Xbox in every metric
and now he's responding to himselfsad, though not unexpected
>>575860974this
Halo Wars is so pure
>>575859859
>>575860373cryin' on the toilet rn.
>>575860974evidently
>>575861145>Halo Wars is so pure
>got recommended a new favynn video lol surprised that guy still makes videos, last one I watched years ago was coping that the halo formula would still be extremely popular in modern day
hes right you know
AI got that one!
>>575861145Fortunately they cared, had support and were actually allowed to tap into Halo as much as they pleased, despite how easily they could've justified being as off-tone as 4/5 due to making a prequel RTS with no pre-existing characters. Did 343 just have to keep making changes until some higher-up said "fresh enough"? It's really weird.
>favyn
>>575859285me on the left
>lil guy just posting random pics as he seetheslol
ITT: You just have to be there.
WE WUZ FORERUNNERZ N SHIET FORE FLATFACE STOLE ALL DATS FROM UZZ
>>575861285>lol surprised that guy still makes videoshe really doesn'tSaying Favyn makes videos is like calling someone who drank once in the past year an alcoholic.He follows the same cycle:- make video- complain about not having enough viewers and how this is ""make or break"" for him- disappear for 9 months or more- rinse and repeat
>>575860770wrongbesides the fact that it is completely optional, marines being able to drive lets them fill extra vehicles that you are not even in, giving you more options in the levels without sacrificing firepower and giving them a chance to enlarge battles on the few levels that contain both marines and vehicles where appropriate.
>>575862152>wrongSo you would rather eat undercooked food and spend the night on the toilet, got it.
>>575861571Halo was lightning in a bottle. Once h3 shut the door on the story, and games like cod4 were coming out, it lost its place. And now in 2026 there's been a whole generation that literally give zero shit about halo, so it doesn't even have the same cultural pull it used to
>>575860373this post made me think about my bff baaaw
>>575861285If it were tied to a proper launch with Forge, File Share, Theater, environment variety- basically the standard people came to expect prior to 343, but scaled for 2026+ technology, maybe. So long as no one's making hyperbolic claims about it being #1 again, as an ideal release would only be step 1 in rebuilding Halo's name and reputation. More importantly, just let Halo be Halo and use extra game modes, spin-offs or new IP for radically different ideas.After all, when 343 titles came out and player retention plummeted, suddenly shills and bootlickers were fine with accepting not being popular or being niche. So if it'd happen either way, just let Halo be what it was before 343 and build on that with new tech.
>>575862152>besides the fact that it is completely optionalGo play Halo 2, it's not entirely optional. Marines will roll up with a hog and if you don't jump in at that moment, will drive away. They can even run you over.Other NPCs will also steal other vehicles you might want.You don't even know what you're talking about.
>>575862409>>575862267AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>575862409this doesnt happen
>>575862125so he's like shreddednerd that's... bad to know...
>>575862409>>575862267NAH GUYS YOU SEE BUNGIE MADE IT SO WE HAVE TO DEFEND IT! BUNGIE HAS NEVER MADE A MISTAKE EVER! ALL WE NEED TO DO IS BRING THEM ALL BACK AND THEY WILL GET LUCKY AGAIN!!!!
>>575862540>>575862125Favyn is "fine" but listening to him when he's in videos with other people is so cringey. He's always so desperate to be "relevant". In one of those ALL Skulls On Podcasts, you could tell Raycevik was weirded out by how cringy he was
>>575862409I hate Halo 2 more than the average poster here but this is a lie. This has never happened to me.
>>575862970another classic map from bungie
........
>>575862372343 completely raped Halo, but that doesn't mean you have to be delusional about halos potential popularity.
........HIM
>>575861571Right or wrong, it shouldn't hold anyone back from giving a proper, feature-rich launch a try. CE launched into a generation that didn't know Halo. Soon-to-be lead devs who either didn't know Bungie or initially laughed at the mention of Macintosh, but were wow'd by Halo's attempt to push certain boundaries. Never mind people who weren't just neutral about Halo and Xbox but outright doubted them and tried to interfere. Sure, you may never be able to recapture that lightning, but you can still build sensibly on what exists and do things that were impractical if not impossible back then, with the major advantage of hindsight and feedback.
Forced.
>>575862770>I hate Halo 2 more than the average poster hereNot sure what that has to do with anything but Halo 2 is my favorite Halo of them all and yes it does and can happen. So even I am calling it out. Bungie made a big dela about it back in the promotion for the game and we all got excited, then we all made fun of how shit it was when the game launched.
>>575862409There's one time, on Metropolis, and I always immediately force him out because he sucks at driving and will get you shot by jackals. You are never forced to be a passenger, even if Bungie wants you to be one
>>575863324Does not happen.
>>575863324nah
>>575863351broken spawns: the map
>>575863324you're right, just ignore the usual suspects here.
>>575863516it's just funny how the guy that comes out and admits he hates Halo 2 is going to try to tell the people that know it inside and out that they're wrong about something even they are criticizing just to "win" an internet argument.But I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
This is it baby.Hold me.
>>575862409friendly AI can drive in every halo game except CE and Infinite. it is always optional and not nearly as deadly as you are making it seem
>>575863639Because this doesn't happen.
>>575863576this one is good though
>>575863639yep, that does happen
This is the part the guy is talking about. Bungie wants the player to be a passenger, stacked tells you to get on the gun, but you can force him out and drive it yourself
FORCED
>>575864018BRO YOU BETTER LET HIM DRIVE YOUWHAT? YOU DARE QUESTION BUNGIE'S """""VISION"""""?????
>>575864018stacker*
>>575863772His focus on H2, the first and worst implementation of it, when it was improved in every game after is telling that he's not actually interested in a real discussion about it. Ignore the cut features and enjoy the latest 343 slop. Praise the pajeeta CEO
>>575864018And that's the beauty of Halo, you can choose not to ride the warthog at all if you so please. But /hg/ likes to lie about Halo 2.
so now the space dust has settled, how did you enjoy the space section of the s𐐬y wars prequel?
Muh Vision Purists btfoLast thread it was maulding over mods, now it's broken AI driving mechanics
>>575862409>You don't even know what you're talking about.>>575863639>it's just funny how the guy that comes out and admits he hates Halo 2 is going to try to tell the people that know it inside and out that they're wrong about something even they are criticizing just to "win" an internet argument.
So besides the NPC driving, what are some other broken mechanics that would be better orr not in the Bungie games?
>>575863351The GOAT.
maulding isn't a word btw
>>575864301>le reddit manbro straight up said he hated halo 2 "more than most people here"That's more reddit than anything.
>>575863351BTB CTF on that map was a lot of fun, especially one I learned how to use the brake to make adjustments mid-air and land the Ghost/Hog at more extreme angles.
>>575864413AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
well halo 2 do suck cockandballs
>>575864331Halo 2 has a ton of bad "waiting game" segments, some like the gondola that are just broken completely and mess with projectiles.
>>575864413but redditors love halo 2 and think the rest of the trilogy dont matter
>>575864579what the fuck are you talking about
>was a lot of funsad, he stopped playingmany such cases
>>575864331sprinting
>>575864579AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE
>>575864579Halo 3 is the reddit game, and after that, Reach
>>575864636i said what i said
>>575863436All CE maps have broken spawns in team slayer.
>>575864720B-BUT THE DEVELOPER'S MASTER VISION!
its not broken its an afterthought
halo 2 gameplay
>>575864807yeah anyone that is playing btb slayer in ce is dumb. Just stick to ctf
>x Halo game is le reddit
Is ok Yeez, you can say you like 4 here.
Only done 3 levels so far and the anniversary graphics look worse for CE. It's just bright and overdesigned.
i am noticing a post went ignored.
>>575865420do tell us which one is it
We get it, you hate Halo.
Where can I buy the OG Halo? I want to try out SPV3>It's shit & inbred shit or whateverIdc want to try it out for once in my life
is we getting ruby's campaign evolved rebalance
>>575866018mods are easy to make for this game so, expect lots of wacky shit in the future
>>575865980steam
Halo with the boys was fun last weekI doubt CoOp can match it, but we'll see
>>575856493>>575856649true nuclear
NHE is the best Halo mod.
>>575866562Cool teleporter
>No skirmishers, drones or engineers add to campaign evolved>No addition of species we know are in the covenant like the Sharqoui>No new enemies like more forerunner machines or a nimble enemy using lekgolo>No addition to appropriate vehicles we see in other games like the spectre or gausshogGenuinely very disappointing. A remake of like an 8 hour game with 1 hour of new content is such a stupid idea.
I know Red is paying you, but do you need to spam the thread with these? There'll be nothing left for tomorrow,
>>575865821343 "Halo" is not Halo
>>575866209Not there :/
>>575864885Now there's a beautiful shot I forgot about. I truly wonder if we'll get multiplayer with CER assets, not because HS finally got good leadership, but just to keep (positive) press flowing until the next truly new Halo. I'm not itching for it, it just doesn't seem off the table considering the history of delays even with modern tech.
Do you have it?
>>575865328Love how stand-out it is.>>575865517Intercepting flag carriers and assailants during the long trek was a fun aspect of strategy on the big maps. Sometimes I'd have the flag or AC or OS and sometimes the carrier I'm looking for would.
>>575866971I bet the most CER gets is firefight with maps cut out of the campaign levels and Infinite will continue to be what they want you play for multiplayer until the next game.
>>575866894
>>575862409It didn't get really any better in Halo 3 outside of scripted sequences either. In fairness, I think it's something the engine struggles with.
>>575866648They couldn't even include the flamethrower.
>>575854709It's simultaneously better than I expected by a significant degree but 343i is still getting shat on over how much of a technical mess it is.Two Birds, One stone.And I didn't even have to pay anything.
>>575867518Even that I like the sound of and if that's the way it goes I hope it turns out well.
>>575867805Cozy. There's a part of me that would like to recreate that IRL.
buy an ad
Peak Halo
>itt: modders mogging jeet4jeet
>>575869431>itt: modders mogging jeet4jeetWe always did.
>>575868558>The Hidden: Blam
>>575870036whats dis????
>>575868892One of the few custom maps posted I actually happened to play on here and there
>the first custom edition map ever posted online
time to play Halo
>League Classic before Microsoft lets Halo be made with Halo first and foremost in mindit's really messed up when even Riot is making certain moves before you do
>>575871756Where's the bulge?
I hate the H2 Shotgun Flood.
>>575872180on pixiv
>>575871821thats low effort low reward anyway.
>>575872575whats the url?
It kept happening...
something BIG is coming.....
>>575872782id 145626715
>is straight>goons to femboysI know the feeling, Yeeze.
>>575872918I use cover in Halo so I'm always a bit surprised by the things that supposedly slaughter others with ease.I get it to an extent: many players like a more bold, reckless playstyle. Seen many friends in the past year struggle to tone it down even temporarily despite that playstyle causing them repeated deaths in various harder encounters in multiple games.
Did Chief want to fuck Cortana? YES OR NO
I don't know.
>>575872860>hitting the enter button while still slidingBrings back great memories of lining up a Warthog, hitting exit to make contact with the flag, and looking back at the 'Hog to get back in before you or it stopped moving
If you swap weapons with Marines, then you aren't playing the way Bungie intended.
another one for the pile...
>>575876648Kill yourself.
WHY ARE MY KEY BINDINGS RESETTING AAAAA
>>575877064Because you're a Tomokofag and need to die
halo 2 is an unreadable mess. it looks like GLOOPY POOPY
>>575877328This but reach
>>575877064STOP EDITING YOUR INI FILE, YOU SHIT
>>575877064Because your keybinds are nowhere near 343's true vision.
>>575876648I can rock with that, sure.
>>575877328>>575877428
Is this the halo thread?
>why are you complaining about hand holding in the remake? it's on Playstation so there will be a lot of new playersEVERY PLAYER IN 2001 WAS NEW AND IT WASN'T NECESSARY THEN EITHER
>>575880687It's made with Playstation users in mind
>>575880687I do like the jab that xbotx owners are too retarded to understand tho
>>575871262run to his right and melee
Look at this, NIGGAShttps://x.com/awesomehalofan/status/2082901574502715413
That's my account, btw
>>575880687>newas if there's an adjustment period between games
>>575881682AAAIIIEEE
>>575881682
Mediocre game heavily carried by its aesthetic
Mediocre game heavily carried by its aesthetic.
>>575805253>Futa skinNuHalo isn't for me.
>>575882909>>575883036AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mediocre game series heavily carried by its aesthetic and early entries
>>575883542Not Halo.
ALL RIGHT THATS IT
Ticonderoga's jammer is sick.
>>575858268I just don’t understand why someone would play it over the original or MCC variant. Assuming you already own one of those versions, it’s not going to cost you anything to play them. If you don’t, and you’re willing to pirate, pirate the original.
>>575881462didn't this guy's bio used to say "woman" wonder what happened there lol
>>575876648>halo 5>neutralretards made this
>>575885583>I just don’t understand why someone would play it over the original or MCC variant.Alternate experience.People have to do what they want with their own money, but assuming that isn't a factor, it's not a problem to try it out. There are like 5 different versions of Blade Runner.
>errrmmmm people can do what they want chudGo back.
>>575886179The autistic mind literally cannot understand this perspective. I'm not saying that guy is autistic, but as someone who has played CE probably over 30 times all the way through and has played individual levels well over 100 times altogether, someone who doesn't understand why I wouldn't want to check out an alternate take, be it a remake or a mod, for FREE, probably just lacks something upstairs and isn't worth trying to explain anything to.The exception to this is PS players who don't for whatever reason have access to a PC that can run MCC, which in all honesty they should have.
>>575885026It's in Halo Studios nature to destroy itself.
lmao at the snoys and their smear campaign.It's not hard to write a convincing negative review about this game, but this is just funny.
The first three games get so much praise for their story and characters and it's actually the most bland, basic, baby's first sci-fi ever. >but muh books muh nylund didn't you know mustard queef was a child soldier isn't that so f*cked upSomehow, even more bland and basic than the games. The story I was sold in the manual was more interesting than that garbage.
>>575886851TRVKEHalo 2 trying to be so serious and falling so flat was fucking funny back in 2004. Even moreso now that the culture has moved away from the war on terror.
...But as far as a single-player experience, Halo 3 is a colossal disappointment, largely for how little it's advanced since the series began. The big hook for Halo 1 was that it proved that console shooters could hold their own against PC shooters. Or "re-proved", considering Perfect Dark had already demonstrated this, but only for the subset of gamers who had an N64, which is not the subset of gamers who was playing shooters on the PC. Halo laid the ground work for the the genre to thrive on console systems, at the other end of gamepads, on big screens television and home theater audio systems. Bungie showed everyone how it could be done: solid graphics and sound, liberal use of autoaim, carefully laid out battles that didn't involve too much 180 degree turning, not too many weapon choices, and enough personality to give it some kick.But like id with their engines, Bungie struggles with the creative part of the equation. Nowhere is this more evident than in Halo 3. Six years later, it's still repeating the formula established in Halo 1. Virtually every single moment and location is recycled from the first two games (the "new" area was done just as well in at least two other games). The engine doesn't even look much better and, frankly, the gunplay is so very 2001. This is the same Halo you knew and loved, or didn't love, as the case may be. I'm sure it'll be a wonderful multiplayer game, mostly because millions will play it. But as a single player game, it's a classic case of the arrested development that makes our hobby the domain of teenage boys, grown up and otherwise.
>>575887092TRVKE
>>575886851>The first three games>threeMore like 2. Everyone clowns on 3's writing.2 is also completely retarded but it has quotable dialogue so that means good writing to midwits I guess.
>>575887092>it's a classic case of the arrested development that makes our hobby the domain of teenage boys, grown up and otherwise.PFFFFTBut enough about HiddenXperia/Favyn/Latenightcuckchair/Act Ma'am/Mintoblitz etc
Getting into Marathon AFTER Halo has always made me disappointed in Halo. Marathon's (the OG trilogy) lore and story is so intricate and full of really neat sci-fi concepts, especially Infinity.Then Halo just has nothing. It's so shallow.
>>575877295why are you so mean to me :c
Halo demake not having marines that can operate vehicles got me thinking, how come they’ve never tried just letting you, the player, control the hog with the left stick while you’re in the gunner seat with a marine in the drivers seat?
>>575888483Because you're a Tomokofag
>>575889998but she's cute :( i like cute
>Halo's have freezing cold arctic areas just to slow down the flood's spread>343 put flood biomass everywhere outside around the control room anyway
>>575892102Fag
>>575886851>The first three games get so much praise for their story and characters and it's actually the most bland, basic, baby's first sci-fi ever. Halo has a very good basic supportive story. What really makes it good is the gunplay and enemy variety.And you're right about the books. They have always been overrated.
>>575892954>Halo's have freezing cold arctic areas just to slow down the flood's spreadAlways been retarded fanfic. Why is the containment facility in a swamp then?Why is the H2 control room on the coast?
>>575892954Naturally the Flood is simply too dangerous to release, and mass sterilization protocols may again need to be enacted. Of course, samples were kept here after the last catastrophic outbreak... For study. It seems that decision may have been an error.
>>575892954They do understand what slows the flood down.
>>575893106projection
>>575893426>Always been retarded fanficTake it up with Bungie then.https://youtu.be/C0yjEi4YnDM?si=L9kemVxBP1GVzCj0&t=157>Why is the containment facility in a swamp then?To discourage anyone from going there? No stopping cov monkies though.>Why is the H2 control room on the coast?Surrounded by a sea and sheer cliffs, not as easily accessible for them, freezing it would just let them walk over.
lotta headcanon in this thread
343 will never be fully erased
>>575894679>343 will never be fully erased
>>575894634It's all that's left, the "canon" is fucked if you actually adhere to everything that's been released.
The brown hands maymay has to be the most misused forced meme ITT.
343 is like the flood, it will never be fully gone
So Halo 2 had custom missions made by modders on the original Xbox decades ago. Have any of those been ported to MCC? Or maybe Project Cartographer? What are they called?
>>575895708>maymayGo back.
>>575895882Lurk more.
>>575895708>The brown hands maymay has to be the most misused forced meme ITT.
Thank you for proving my point and bumping the thread.
>follow this one account that's a hardcore bungie halo fanboy >he often gets into fights with 343 fans>he is often very wrong when correcting people about halo gameplay features, lore and myths>turns out he started with reach and it's also his favorite What causes this?
>>575896107>reachchad shitting on 343 blue hairsbased?
>>575896095Stay butthurt, Sukhdeep.
he had to reply twice because he is just that angry
>he
It's easily filterable with the AI, so I don't care about these hands.
https://youtu.be/6D3iEKmIprg?si=DfX7-U3ojVM5ClI6
>>575895769you're gonna need to be more specific my man
It's so easy to rile you all up
>>575896884Anything i can get my hands on is fine. They apparently started popping put as soon as 2006.
>>575897075i'll do some digging
It's so easy to rile you all up.
>>575897058Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
is just dog, ignore her
Dog wouldn't do that to me. He's my friend.
>>575897230I appreciate it.
>>575897075>popping putESL. Go back to your designated shitting street, Raj.
Dog, you're better than this.We have to be better canines.
she's too irony poisoned to care, ignore her
It's so easy
>>575897632>she
>>575897669That's enough, Yeeze.
>>575896838Buy an ad.
For the love of God, stop sending me lewds.
Yeeze is messaging you too?I thought he only had eyes for me...
Halo?
>halo
>>575838901Finished the demake, CE still goes down the toilet when the Flood join but that's not really the demakes fault. I did the first bonus mission and although it was really inorganic in how it blatantly puts weapons everywhere and made huge arenas with waves of enemies, this doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the combat. I enjoyed the first bonus mission more than the second half of the main game.
>All the prequel mission terminals hint at prophet augmentationPrelates in a game soon. Also the other tards.
>Halo
>implying there will be another game
gaylo really should've been given to activision or idtech, too bad idtech is raped now
>implying yidtech would do any better
>>575856337>Best Flood since the original CE, and in some cases are even better. They may be based on Halo 3 but they've been tweaked just enough. Tank forms are also just straight up superior to the Halo 3 version.Flood are so mind numbingly boring to fight, they single handedly stop Halo CE being a 10, you have to do like 4-5 'stand your ground while Guilty spark hacks a door' too and it's the same fucking shit everytime
I can't stand talking about the remake anymore. The same people that endlessly jerk off "pointless" things that Bungie did (ie: random destroyable doodads and other objects being physics items) completely shit themselves in a rage about the details the remake added because "ugh who cares what does this add to the game? 343i bad!"How the fuck do they even find my tiny ass twitter account, where do they come from?
>Dog out of NOWHERE
>>575899169I genuinely like the remakeBut it can't replace CE
>>575898962Well yeah the new Library is genuinely better imoBut I do disagree with Flood being boring in H1 overall.
>Yeeze out of NOWHERE
>>575899316>mentioning yourselfyou're not that relevant my man
>>575898836This nigga needs a proper boss fight if they somehow get to the Gaylo 4 remake. Idc if it's just a repurposed infinite bot with the sundered star armor model from gayfinite, we need to humilliate his ass with a head-to-head.
>>575898548Not trying to be a faggot but I actually fully disagreeI think unlike the original, this one actually gets better once the flood show up.
>>575899169>>575899248>I genuinely like the remake>But it can't replace CEIt wasn't supposed to?Campaign Evolved is a reboot. >Classic HaloFall of ReachHalo CEFirst StrikeHalo 2Ghosts of OnyxContact HarvestHalo 3 + ODSTReach>Reclaimer SagaHalo 4Spartan OpsHalo 5Infinite>RebootFall of ReachOperation: Meteorite Campaign Evolved
Who is Campaign Evolved even for? People who thought Anniversary looked old? People who thought Halo CE needed a sprint? I just wanted the MCC on PS5, not this 'Halo Anniversary, but EVEN prettier (if you like UE5 slop). By the logic of this remake existing you can just keep making a new one every generation or two because why not?
>>575899409>>575899298Halo is a game renowned for it's fun, fluid combat and AI, all of that goes down the toilet when the Flood arrive and the game becomes you just shooting things that charge you with a Shotgun
>>575899423It's going to be funny seeing what the fuck is going to get retconned, heavily changed or completely removed if they make it all the way to Hated 5 and incompletefinite remakes.
>>575899478>Who is Campaign Evolved even for? People who thought Anniversary looked old? People who thought Halo CE needed a sprint? Reboot for the younglings
>Sukhdeep out of NOWHERE
>>575899556I have fun fighting the flood
>Carrier Forms out of NOWHERE
What changes would you like to see in Halo 2 UE5?
>>575899695fuck you
>>575899478it exists so they can "get used to" working with Unreal.Beyond that, it's for Snoys and Nostalgiatards.It ending up being somewhat better than expected shouldn't be a surprise to anyone given it is just copying a classic.
>>575899626I hate how the swarms get so fucking dense by the end that if you try to push ahead too quickly you'll get melted in seconds
>>575899556They just need more combat capability.For starters, they cannot throw grenades, in Halo 3 they also could not use equipment. 3 also had them unable to pilot vehicles again. Making them capable of all that would go a long way for combat encounters besides just "rush the player and die".
>>575899740they made sprint for people like youThere is even a skull that requires you to just run past the most flood-dense part of the game as fast as possible
I too would like Halo 2 if I enjoyed overdone Vehicle sections
>>575899697>What changes would you like to see in Halo 2 UE5?Having the game actually be finished would be a nice startI'm not even asking for Earth Ark. Just do something better than clearly cutting to black early.
>HiddenXperia out of NOWHERE
>>575899854IN THIS THREAD, QUARANTINE ZONE IS THE BEST HALO 2 LEVELEND OF STORY
>>575899896our king
>>575899810>they made sprint for people like youSprint literally makes no difference whatsoever in this game, and I've beaten OG and Anniversary anyway, the Maw is still boring as fuck
>Escharum out of NOWHERE
The tank form is kind of a pointless addition. It's better than the H3 version just by actually having some amount of HP (why did that thing basically just instantly die to a brute shot melee, let alone the melee power weapons) but it doesn't do anything and it's not overly threatening.
>>575899423>>575899558It will be revealed eventually that the remake timeline was caused by Atriox using the Endless at the end of Infinite to reset the timeline in hopes to have himself a more favorable outcome than Cortana conquering the Universe and himself getting nuked on Zeta.Halo 2 and 3 will mostly play out the same, but the new Halo 4, 5, and 6 will be about this revelation coming to light and Chief going to war against Atriox and a new Banished that was able to become stronger earlier. He will gloat about how he had already beaten Chief in the previous timeline.Escharum will also return.
Is aiming down the sights with the Assault Rifle really that OP
Opinions on the Bonus Mission are split but I enjoyed them more than all of Halo 4 and 5
>>575900052Enemy tracking has been drastically increased over the original to compensate for sprint. You also get slowed down when hit by anything, sprint or not.
>>575900283That one big round room's last wave kicked my ass, fuck spawning jackal snipers on the other side of a giant room while you're trying to fight a hunter pair.
>>575899896
>>575900052>Sprint literally makes no difference whatsoever in this gameopinion discardedYou can literally skip almost everything
>>575900145Apparently, the AR has near perfect accuracy on PC/Xbox. Maybe they patched it to be on par with Playstation.
>>575900283I liked the second one with your traversing through all those hunting ground locations in the fake skydome.
>>575899986Still is, just lacks combat against humans.>>575900068Probably, most likely even, it's just going to be really fucking funny when Halo IV, not Halo 4, starts and there's a fuckton of Banished or Sacristan outside, or already inside even, of Requiem instead of Jul and his hideous bitches.No balls if they don't use the Domain and Genetic upgrade excuses from the original Halo 4 to turn Cortana and Chief immortal.
Is there a single bonus weapon from later Halo games they added into this that is any good? Everything is mogged by the fact that the Magnum exists, like you start off the first one with the Battle Rifle and the Magnum and the BR is worse in every way
I'm really looking forward to them addressing the canon status of CE and Campaign Evolved.Should be a funny day with totally rational and normal people having mild reactions.
>>575900515The SMG is great, basically the OG AR but better, and the Needle Rifle is busted.
>>575900438>>575900372I'm sure the Halo diehards probably hated it but I loved the Brute berserk mechanic
>>575900515The Needle Rifle and Spiker do some serious fuck you damage now.I'm kinda scared for how hard that's going to hit in Halo 3 remake. The Spiker was a meme regardless of difficulty in 3 and Reach but it is VERY accurate with little to no spread in CE remake.
>>575900515Needle Rifle.That thing rapes ass. It's like they took Reach's Needle Rifle and gave it CE pistol damage. That also still supercombines.
>>575900068>>575900449I haven't played it but apparently the FF7 remakes do something like this where they're remakes for the most part but also technically not or whatever
>>575899986>>575900449Based QZ enjoyers
>>575900565Am I retarded or did humanity not know of the Prophets before CE? I was really surprised to see one in the prologue bonus missions
>>575886769>wolfGets so close to the sanest opinion but feels this strange need to be positive and stick it to others. Acknowledge the good, acknowledge what's lacking and support the request for higher quality. It's so simple. It's even simpler with Halo since fans don't want constantly upgraded, more realistic and more detailed visuals.
Halo Writers>Fall of ReachEric Nylund>Halo CEJoe Staten>First StrikeEric Nylund>Halo 2Joe Staten>Halo 3Robert McLeesLuke Smith>ODSTJoe Staten>ReachLee R Wilson, Marcus Lehto, Peter O'Brien >Halo 4Armando TroisiChristopher Schlerf>Halo 4 Spartan OpsBrian Reed>Halo 5Brian Reed>Halo InfinitePaul Crocker>Campaign Evolved Operation: MeteoriteTroy Denning
It's really retarded when a new game comes out, people play it for like 2 hours, and suddenly start making all-encompassing hyperbolic statements like "everything is mogged by the fact that the magnum exists"On higher difficulties I straight up drop the magnum on the flood levels once I get the shotgun.
>>575900989>It's really retarded when a new game comes out, people play it for like 2 hours, and suddenly start making all-encompassing hyperbolic statements like "everything is mogged by the fact that the magnum exists">On higher difficulties I straight up drop the magnum on the flood levels once I get the shotgun.The beauty of CE is that every weapon is viable on Legendary. Shame it can't be said about the sequels
>>575900762they knew, but it's also kind of bookshit so whatever>>575900958It's kind of like how on IMDB, 1/10 always has more prevalence for a score than 2, 3, or 4, and 10/10 always has an inflated value.
>>575900989>Dropped one of the best weapons for the one of the best weaponsaight
>>575900684FF7 got a remake because the original looks now like a cardboard styled indie game made by a /3/ autist.Halo CE got a second remake because the studio fucked themselves so bad with the story of the reclaimer saga that Infinite despite doing a literal 540° was still NOT ENOUGH to regain traction nor a profitable live service model. Which forced them to remake CE in hopes that if shit goes south again with Halo 7, they have been building already to the end of the original trilogy again so they can then just... clear the board and start again, not from zero, but right where Halo 3 ends and completely forget about everything after it or severely alter it to not do anything that caused the original collapse of the IP, fucking Frankie and Bonnie.
>>575901076>every weapon is viable on LegendaryBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HIM is here...
>>575901173nah he's (mostly) right.you can pretty much pick up anything and use it in CE on the covenant if you're good enough.It's not quite as true for the Flood but most weapons can still beat them.
>>575901173It's true. git goodHalo 2 ruined the weapon design and that carried over to Halo 3, ODST, Reach and Halo 4>muh BR to win>muh noob combo>muh garbage automatics>muh power weapons
>>575901173Even the Needler has specific use cases where it's useful, even if it's worse than many other options.
>>575889681Sounds fun but playtesting would be the make-or-breakProbably was an idea at some point but with Bungie enhancing the multiplayer suite with large, new modes constantly it may have been something that just didn't get the necessary time
>>575901272>>575901275Most guns in H2, H3, Reach and H4 feel completely underpowered and worthlessSMG starts? H3 AR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyYwLCDyCUSomething that 343 got RIGHT was making the AR beefy and viable in H4 and H5.
>>575901528Infinite's AR feels better than 4 and 5 though.Those ones felt like you shot for more than a second straight and they suddenly had worse spread than the SMG from 2 and 3.
Surprised more people aren't bitching about the dumber Elite AI, that was like the defining feature of CE
>>575900394lol nice to see this gif still getting some mileage
>spiker and smg got a massive glow up>plasma rifle still dead in the ditch
>>575901624>Surprised more people aren't bitching about the dumber Elite AI, that was like the defining feature of CEThis has been true since H2. Compare the Covies between CE and H2. It's a complete joke and was a major complaint back in the day
nah
>>575901624They have. It gets buried under the utter bullshit complaints but yeah.My favourite thing about this is it's forcing people to look back on Reach and go "oh it's not the 10/10 flawless game I thought it was because I was 8 when it came out".
Halo 2's sandbox is also more viable on legendary than just the noob combo btw, and it's funny to see CE purists brag about being good at CE on legendary but then getting filtered by 2. It's unironically just a higher skill ceiling.
So I don't have a classic Xbox but is CE in the MCC just the same game as the classic Xbox version IF I toggle the old graphics? Or is there still stuff engine wise that changed?
>>575901624we have been bitching about that since the early demos from last Fall.The Covenant overall are just worse than in the original. A lot of people do feel the Flood are handled better than expected and that the second half of the game is a bit of a welcome surprise tho.
>>575901782(you)
>>575901624People in the know have been rightfully complaining that Campaign Evolved is an Halo Reach mod, especially regarding Elite behavior.
>>575901782Your viable sandbox falls a part the moment you encounter an ultra elite.>oh yeah you know what i'm sticking with the noob combo fuck this
>>575901782trvke
>>575901624That may be due to the animation/posture differences leading to people concluding they'd be worse even before the game came out. By this point everyone knows Evolved did not pass with flying colors and Microsoft has always had more than enough feedback from Bungie's highs and lows to have done a great job since CEA/4. They just prioritized a whole lot of other things over creating a solid Halo experience. Always using Halo as a vehicle for one thing or another, trying to see what they can get away with. Constantly wasting talent and money to try and twist Halo into something else, rather than having the guts to run a new IP beside it so that both can breathe.
>>575901824There are some walls and barriers added to it but they're not something the average player would stumble upon. There is a mod that removes most of them called Old CE. Also the details are not as good because it's using the Gearbox version.
>>575901824Never heard anyone bitch about anything in Anniversary other than the new art direction so probably
>>575901824MCC CE is the Gearbox version aka. PC and Custom Edition. It's fundamentally different in many ways even if 343i did manage to fix a lot of stuff that Gearbox never did to achieve the most parity possible between the intended gameplay of the original version.
>>575901824>So I don't have a classic Xbox but is CE in the MCC just the same game as the classic Xbox version IF I toggle the old graphics? Or is there still stuff engine wise that changed?Pretty much. The closest thing you can get is Halo PC with mods.>Halo PC - Extract and Gohttp://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/custom/Halo%20PC%20-%20Extract%20and%20Go.7zhttp://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/original_files/>Chimera - An open source mod fixing the core issues of Halo PC and CE (as released by Gearbox), while providing additional features (extract to root folder)https://github.com/SnowyMouse/chimera/releases>Halo CE - Restored Edition (Gearbox Halo PC)https://github.com/Aerocatia/halopc-restored/releases/download/r220/en-halopc-restored-retail-individual-r220.zip>Halo Xbox NTSC / halo_01.10.12.2276.7z (Use this on an original xbox or xemu)http://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/original_files/xbox/halo_01.10.12.2276.7z>Halo PC Original Files / Setuphttp://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/original_files/>Halo 2 Project Cartographer - Extract and Go (Halo 2 Vista: Fixed Edition)https://www.h2maps.net/Cartographer/Installer/h2pc_installer_2.1.zip>Halo Bookshttps://files.lyberry.com/books/Halo%20Collection%20All%20Books/>Halo Soundtrackshttps://www.sittingonclouds.net/series/halo
>>575901782The problem with 2 legendary is less about only the noob combo being viable, you're right about that part, but it's not on the same par as Halo CE where pretty much EVERYTHING is useful. SMGs for example are actually pretty useless.
>>575901824It's 99% the same these days. There is some stuff that is still different that only the highly autistic would care about but that isn't worth going back to unstable 30fps and 480p.
>>575901782There's truth in that, but enemies like Elite ultras teach you to play extremely safe.
>>575901782>>575901885>>575901935CE had a completely different idea of balance compared to later games. It's the only game designed to make the player feel truly powerfulCE>at least some weapons have a role>best ai in the franchise, elites and grunts sidestep, strafe, crouch and move constantly>That's why flood is so boring to fight, they just rush you and aren't a threat unless they use shotgun, badly designedHalo 2>worse AI in every way, enemies just stay in one place, you throw a sticky on them and they'll just stand there. absolutely patheticai comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDhkn2HIC6A&t=304s&ab_channel=Altehros>introduction of hitscan weapons combined with worse AI that doesn't miss turns the game into a chore (at least on legendary) for a few missions>Arbiter missions suck>weapon sandbox worse in every way, only BR is worth using>dual wielding meme killed single handed weapons because Bungie was awful at balancing>flood is back early and is just as boring as in CE, though they are dumber in 2 so you can just run around them and ignore themHalo 3>shitty campaign that doesn't even make sense: Truth becomes a religious zealot who actually wants to nuke the world even though 2 says they just want to stay in Power? Sergeant Nigger and Femoid (who the fuck made her a commander) leave chief and enter the Forerunner ship? The gravemind was in that shit for some time now yet it just waited for Chief and Arby to kill Truth??>no one liked Arby so he has no voicelines and no major role in the story>the "finish the fight" meme is 2 scarabs 2 helis and a warthog lol, damn what an "epic" fight>no one liked the flood and Bungie listened so that they're only in 3 last missions, they are way too tanky>no one liked Brutes, so Bungie nerfed them to hell, did I mention that the AI got worse again?>weapon sandbox worse than ever, wtf were they thinking
>>575902013Funny as fuck that the only good modern book of Halo is Empty Throne and the compilation of free stories from Waypoint.
>>575901824MCC CE is close enough, and you'll be fine playing it.
>>575902150>Arbiter Missions suckstopped readingThis was a dumb talking point in 04 and it's dumb now. You might as well complain about ODST being $60 next.
>it's an ultra elite in a vehicle episodeI hate Halo 2 legendary solely because of this.
>>575902190>>575902125>>575902013>>575901976>>575901974>>575901971Right,time to directly compare the experience while the Demake playthrough is fresh
>>575902123The SMG is great for Drones (only outdone by the snipers) and unshielded Flood. Hell, it's even okay at taking out Jackal minors and majors.
>>575902232>y-you're j-just w-wrong>y-you're d-dumb2fags never fail to disappoint.
>>575902232>this nigga likes oracle
>>575901824>So I don't have a classic Xbox but is CE in the MCC just the same game as the classic Xbox version IF I toggle the old graphics? Or is there still stuff engine wise that changed?It's not technically 1:1, but at this point in 2026 it's pretty close.It's technically still the Anniversary Port of the Gearbox version, which itself is also a port based on a different version of the game.They have cleaned it up over the last decade and a half, but it still has SOME occasional hiccups and collision problems. The most common issues you are likely to see are weapons getting stuck in walls and causing a schizo amount of noise. Sometimes music gets bugged when starting or ending certain levels, as well as the end of the game. Neither of these things happen nearly as much in the true original game, but imo as someone who has been playing Halo CE since 2002 it's worth the tradeoff for high res and high fps.
>>575902463>>575901824Reminder the whole "In Gravemind Legendary, you die as soon as the level starts" thing was introduced in Halo 2 Vista. The OG Xbox version actually gave you a couple of seconds to register that Brutes were in fact in front of you. Another difference is that human Flood forms cannot climb walls like in the original. This made certain enemies like the Rocket Flood on Quarantine Zone unable to climb up, so you end up just not seeing them at all. It also made Sacred Icon's final waves more awkward, as some of those forms stuck to a wall and couldn't climb up, increasing the wait time between waves. These bugs are still in the MCC
>>575902503Retards making hyperbolic statements like all the arbiter missions "suck" or "it's the only gun that matters" are not fans. But a new game just came out so it makes sense the tourists are in higher volume.
>>575902503>>575902587>Retards making hyperbolic statements like all the arbiter missions "suck" or "it's the only gun that matters" are not fans. But a new game just came out so it makes sense the tourists are in higher volume.Halo 2 was hated so much that Bungie themselves said they made mistakes and wanted to "Go back to CE" with Halo 3 and Reach lol
>>575902586Yeah H2 in MCC is still far more fucked than CE is at this point.I think Vista is just significantly more of a mess under the hood than Gearbox CE is.It was funny when MCC launxhed though and it still had the hit marker doots
Can someone explain to me how the Flood didn't starve before the Covenant retards set them free? I know the Halo is supposed to kill all their food but how long does that take
>>575902587>Retards making hyperbolic statements like all the arbiter missions "suck" or "it's the only gun that matters" are not fans. But a new game just came out so it makes sense the tourists are in higher volume.
>>575902586The QZ Rocket Flood still appears, they changed it in MCC so it just jumps right into the scene.
>>575902701I get you're new, but appealing to bungie isn't the knockout punch you might be expecting here.>and Reachand this isn't doing you any favors either kek
>>575902760>'this sucks' is considered hyperbolic now
>>575902754They were "kept on ice".Cryo, stasis, dormant, it's not clear.
>>575902754They were kept in stasis/frozen for studyYes, it's kind of dumbIt also never makes sense why the Monitor doesn't just teleport you in front of the index.
The final redpill is that Masters is right and only Halo CE and SPV3 is good
Halo 3 sucks.I don't have to explain why. it just does.If you disagree. you're from reddit.Period.
>>575902906Also why the rooms are designed so you need to cross several light bridges instead of just one to the other side of the room, God I fucking hate the second half of CE
>>575902503don't worry we're merging generals soon so we can all be miserable together
>>575902754aren't they all suspended in liquid or frozen most of the time
>>575902812The second Rocket Flood in the big area with the 3 Wraiths on Quarantine Zone still doesn't show up because of the previously mentioned bug. He just dies in his tiny hole.
>>575902906>>575902981>Also why the rooms are designed so you need to cross several light bridges instead of just one to the other side of the room, God I fucking hate the second half of CEYou got filtered by... good level design?
whatever happened to halobugs website>https://www.halobugs.com/is this the one?
>>575903040I don't know why I was quotedI like the second half
>>575902957Sierra 117 is the best level in the series
>>575902503>gears fanssi hermano
>>575902957wtf, I love reddit now
>>575903060343 has an OG Xbox emulator for Series X and Windows 11. CE and H2 still aren't on itMCC was outsourcedhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gpklokblI006QYtGlxUeds747lPZD_JSph56qLJqzhw
>>575903040This has nothing to do with gameplay, I'm questioning why there's a room in the Library that required people to make a light bridge to go to a room with a Light Bridge switch to another room to another light bridge, the second half of that tweet is a separate statement
>>575903148Really hope they drop Halo 2 OG one day, MCC version is still a piece of shit
>>575903230but this general just said it was okay!!!!!!
After playing through it on Campaign Evolved just now I have to say the Silent Cartographer is overrated
>>575903384Based
>nobody tried to hack the PS Stencil shadows onto Halo 2 after the demo finally leakedsad
Halo 3 has 2 great levels and a bunch of mid slop other than that.Not even trying to be hyperbolic>muh Tsavoextremely overratedIn older games the Storm would have been part of the same level, possibly even Floodgate as well>muh 2 scarabsin practice the engagement is either underwhelming if you just use the hornet or too reliant on trial and error if you try to get creative due to the game engine almost caving in itself by trying to do too much and erroneously overly targeting the player as opposed to friendly NPCs that are closer.>muh HaloTower ascent and defense are meh.Boss Fight is too scripted and feels like filler on repeat playthroughs.Hog Run is just fine, Maw was much better. Some geometry is bugged and you'll just clip through it.They did nail the ending though.
>>575903434>PS Stencil shadowsQRD on these?
>>575903301Halo 2 MCC? It's passable. But not the real thing.Neither is CE MCC, but that's much closer.
>>575902503There are Halo fans and then there are "fans" who went "Adapt or move on!" and then ignored their own advice when 343 removed stuff they defended, or who expressed "Halo needs to modernize!" but were suddenly fine with low player retention and being niche when 343's plans bombed again and again.
>>575903460>In older games the Storm would have been part of the same level, possibly even Floodgate as wellSierra 117 was a test level and showcase for the Xbox 360Crow's Nest was generic Tsavo, Storm and Floodgate were intended to be one big level, yeahThe Ark, Guardian Forest, and The Covenant were intended to be Halo's finale Cortana and Halo are just wrapped up loose ends with the Gravemind
Microsoft literally just needs to make me in charge of Halo.I should have say over what weapons, maps, abilities, deployables, cosmetics, story elements, and characters are in the game.I don't want to toot my own horn but I'm about as big of a Halo superfan as you can get, not just because I love Halo and grew up with it, but because I actually UNDERSTAND it.My Halo would be the ideal next step for the franchise, and anyone who has a problem with it or doesn't like it is just too retarded and shouldn't have a seat at the table of discussion on what Halo is and isn't in the first place.
>>575903434>yeah bro just rebuild the renderer no we don't have source code just do it lmao
>>575903597Floodgate was probably supposed to be one level, but more than Half of it got repurposed into Cortana, which was supposed to originally have a completely different level, no?
>>5759034602? The Ark and...?The Covenant shits the bed the moment the Flood turn up.H3 Flood are anti-fun incarnate.
>>575903614>>575903434Halo 2 is so botched that you'd have to remake the entire game from the ground up.. which is exactly what Halo Studios are doing
>>575903434
Claude, decompile Halo 2 for me.
>>575903695it is weird how CER managed to improve the Halo 3 Flood so much despite having worse covenant than 25 years ago.
>>575903701>remake the entire game from the ground upAsset flip incoming
>>575903513pre downgrade halo 2 lighting/shadows
>>575903602Even leadership at Halo Studios could pull it off if they would just prioritize Halo while making Halo games.
the great debate
Exactly as it shipped 10 years agowww.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfx9eoB-88
>>575903930Stark is better3-Point is something people would probably say looks better when they first get access to it, but it looks aged now
>>575903996Buy an ad.
>>575903513Their attempt at global illumination lighting before they gave up and settled on post processed bloom gore every game has.
>>575903996It is kind of neat how the line down the middle of the console matches the line on the platform below it and the wall behind it
>>575903434>>575904059How impressive was Halo 2 back in 2004? Considering Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 were the other big FPS
>>575904059halo 5 did a similar thingThe beta had great shadow casting but ran at 720p
>>575903805They're more aggressive and have more HP. H3 flood are so fucking fragile.Getting into melee range of combat forms in H3 means nothing because you can just crumble them with regular melee hits.
The best thing about Reach is there's no Flood, it also has no massive ups but also no steep declines either, it's just a solid game
>>575904119it was impressive for a console gameit wasn't as impressive as just a video game as CE was when it launched
Reach is fine.
Reach is not solid.
>>575904181Reach is fine
>>575904119the massive downgrades it got just made doom 3 look better
Reach is liquid.
>>575904119Not Halo 2 but I still catch myself forgetting Halo 4 was on the 360
>>575904160melee in 3 in general is kind of OP, no?You can btfo Brutes with melee as well.
Reminder that stencil shadows got cut from Halo 2 both due to performance cost, and the fact they couldn't get it to work with outdoor environments.
>>575904196>it was impressive for a console gameXbox is just a Pentium III PCHalo 2 had to run on a GeForce 3. Doom 3 was made for GeForce 6800
Reach is a mess.
Reach is only good if you played it between 8 to 17 years of age and never achieved anything in life since then.
Reach is a big fat mistake
Stencil shadows would not have saved 2, much to the dismay of 2fags.
>>575904358>Objective: Survive!D:
>>575904295Yeah. They massively overcorrected to the complaints that H2 brutes and flood were tanky bullet sponges.So now they are weak and don't do anything. The only interesting new unit is the hammer chieftain.Since that's an "oh fuck" moment when they start barreling towards you then pop invincibility. Their really great animation work helps a lot too.
I thought they were going to make the halo CE AR into literally the halo infinite AR where it's got the chunkier firerate of the ones from halo 3 onwards but instead they did this weird thing where it shoots fast and is super accurate but has the smaller mag like it's better balanced than the original CE assault rifle but but it's funky and I definitely miss the 60 round mag a little just for the fun of walking through squads of grunts
>>575904523just use turn the skull on
>>575904594>just use turn the skull onHoly ESL. Go back to your mud hut.
>>575904594AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>575904630HeyDon't be mean
>>575904594Just use turn google translate become english
>>575904278>Not Halo 2 but I still catch myself forgetting Halo 4 was on the 360It’s achieved through a lot of trickery. Small environments, while Reach had huge environmentsHalo 4 has basic small pointlights, and they only cast diffuse reflections with no specular component. Even vehicular headlights are just little pointlights sitting in front of the vehicle, rather than large spotlights: for example, if you're driving the scorpion over rough terrain, you can actually see the "headlights" popping in and out of the ground. They also eliminated the flashlight, which in all prior games (including alongside the "night vision" in ODST and Reach) was a pretty huge light which included specularity. Having a single platform of optimized hardware makes game development a lot easier. Good devs can get a out of existing hardware.Halo Infinite was botched because Phil Spencer wanted it to run on base Xbox One, Xbox One X, Series S and Series X. The downside of >muh PCMR is that devs have to optimize for weak hardware like pic rel
Snoys report in.Do you have access to a PC?We would like to play MCC with you one of these nights.
>>575899359woman now actually
Xbox GPU had unified shaders and "almost free" MSAAx2Extremely impressive for 2005. Back in the day people were saying that Halo 2 should have been delayed by another year.
>>575905481People say silly things like that.
>>575905114>Having a single platform of optimized hardware makes game development a lot easier. Good devs can get a out of existing hardware.I'm not even someone that understands how game development works but yeah this has been obvious to me across my entire life.I've heard about the limitations of the Sega Genesis sound chip and color palette, the N64 audio processing, the complexity of the PS3 Cell architecture, it doesn't matter. When a dev team has to use just that hardware they can make magic with it.
>>575905481Beautiful
>>575905740>I've heard about the limitations of the Sega Genesis sound chip and color palette, the N64 audio processing, the complexity of the PS3 Cell architecture, it doesn't matter. When a dev team has to use just that hardware they can make magic with it.RE4 was extremely impressive for 2005.According to Capcom, the character Leon was modeled with 10.000 polygons on the Gamecube, and on the PS2 the polygon count will be almost half of that number. By comparison, the Snake on Metal Gear Solid 3 has 4.000 polygons, 1.000 less than the PS2 RE4 Leon.>A former Capcom employee recalls: “When we heard the game would come to PlayStation 2, most of us weren’t sure whether it was even possible for the PlayStation 2 to run the game without severe compromises.”The textures, that on the Gamecube were on the 24bits color standard, will be lowered to 4 or 8 bits. On the other hand, the wider and superior memory bandwidth on the Playstation 2 will allow the use of more varied textures than that used on the Cube.
>>575905114>Halo Infinite was botched because Phil Spencer wanted it to run on base Xbox One, Xbox One X, Series S and Series X. The downside of >muh PCMR is that devs have to optimize for weak hardware like pic relLook at the steam hardware survey. The vast majority of customer hardware. A 3060 or equivalentXbox One had DDR3 and a GPU equivalent to an HD7790. It was completely fucked considering OG Xbox and Xbox 360 were extremely impressive for 2001 and 2005.Halo 5 beta was 720p only, where the final game is dynamic 1080p (on the original Xbox One).Xbox One could barely run Halo 5, they wanted Halo Infinite to run on the same hardware. Series X has actual good hardware, Ryzen 7 3700X, but the commitment to releasing on base Xbox One was their error
>>575906716>Series X has actual good hardware, Ryzen 7 3700X, but the commitment to releasing on base Xbox One was their error
>>575904743>becoming EnglishHow terrifying.
>>575902150Halo 3 campaign was great. The missions were very fun.
it's cheaper to outsource to Indians and Malaysians to make their games in UE5 than to hire skilled programmers to make and maintain custom purpose-built game engines. >Yibo Liu - Halo Campaign Evolved Art Directorhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/yiboliu_one-down-one-more-to-go-i-had-never-shipped-activity-7460784930868875264-i1WJhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/yiboliu_halo-campaign-evolved-launch-trailer-activity-7486463453600305152-VDsa
>>575907540This is why AAA pushes so hard to standardize on UE5 and why it's slop now. They want to hire people (or indians) off the street for a standardized industry tool so they don't have to do any training and so experienced developers who understand how the systems work don't get any ideas that they are vital to the operation and start asking for raises90% of the people who worked with Halo 5's engine, Slipspace and id Tech got axed. There’s literally only 50 guys left at id right now after they fired 150 of their 200 employees, and only one of them knows anything about working with id Tech.id is officially dead. I hope you like AI UE5 garbage made by H1B Indians from now on, because the Pajeeta CEO of XBOX just bought 5000 H1B Visas.
Casket status:Sealed. Hushed, even.
>>575908684An angry little casket
>is easily the best version of the AR to ever existShould be standard going forward
Two corpses... one brap
>>575909153It's missing a HK slap so it's still lacking.Although given the quality of the new animations for the remake, maybe it's a good thing they didn't lmao. I think a wobbley noodle handed HK slap would be lethal to me.
Will the Next Xbox be as impressive as the Xbox 360 was in 2005?
No.Because tech in the current day is just an exercise in misery.
There's a reason why it was called Project Foundry in development. This isn't about "correcting Anniversary" or some big ambition in the usual sense of correcting past mistakes. It's about producing a basis, turning Tags into UE5 scripting and essentially writing Reach logic into a baseline so they can soft-reboot the series again under their new studio name and work from there. Start from scratch and craft the "foundry" from which everything would be made thereafter. Hence why the prequel missions are less about actually telling any sort of worthwhile story and more about throwing in Brutes and a bunch of extra weapons that are blatantly assets unused from Infinite's post-release cycle, and homogenizing the gameplay mechanics to be like 3/Reach.The other two remakes in theory are just part of the effect of trying to re-establish the brand image, and they wanted a "Fortnite style live service game" separate of all this stuff. Hell, everyone though these campaign remakes were just gonna be DLC add-ons for the MP, but here we are. But they've effectively got the core baseline down and are asking for lots of feedback precisely because it's not about Combat Evolved, but about effectively "unfucking Halo after we fucked it up", regardless of how one feels about them fucking it up again.
>>575910996Better than Melbourne, but only barely.However most Australians would immediately pledge loyalty to Cortana after turning Sydney into a crater.
I actually really like the AR in the remake. It's no longer a weapon I look to replace for something else. It's useful, accurate and good damage. I find myself using it over the magnum
>>575900372It's funny because I was having a little difficulty until I discovered how utterly OP the Needler Rifle is in the Remake. Seriously it destroys everything.Also after the battle I discovered there's actually rocket launchers and other supplies behind each staircase...
>>575911094patriots
>>575914084I was playing around with random weapon spawns + infinite ammo on heroic.Got a needle rifle spawn on the library. It utterly fucks all forms of flood so hard it's really funny.
>>575907540>>575908575I was wondering why Campaign Evolved looked like soulless ai slop
Reminder that Halo 2 was inspired by Bush's Global War on Terror>Entertainment Weekly quoted H2 lead writer Joe Staton, "You could look at [the story] as a damning condemnation of the Bush administration's adventure in the Middle East" (Keighley, 2004). After this story was discussed on the ultra-conservative blog Free Republic, Staton posted a clarification:>Let me be really clear about this: there is no intentional political message in Halo2, anti-Bush or otherwise. While I tried to be mindful of folks' sensitivities as I wrote its story, I knew that the game was going to scrutinized by a large, diverse audience, and would, therefore, be interpreted (or mis-interpreted, as the case may be) any number of different ways. The EW journalist chose to include one of my examples of possible misinterpretation in the article, but not all of them. Most importantly, the journalist left out my closing statement: "Look, you can read anything into the story that you like - call a damning condemnation of the Bush Admnistration's [sic] adventure in the Middle-East, for example. But you'd be wrong." …Halo2's story is non-partisan. Any meaning you ascribe to it is yours alone. And remember, at the end of the day, whatever some journalist says I said really doesn't matter. The proof is in the pudding. Play the game, and I think you'll see it's just that: a fun game with a good story. https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/gvoorhees
>>575909153343 doesn't understand the AR's purpose.
>>575919262Such purpose as>immediately drop it for the first headshot capable weapon you see
https://twitter.com/i/status/2083021525225988280The hunters are bitches after all.
GOOD MORNING MINTO
>>575919469Not true at all in the first game.
>>575886769>i like this a little better than the og>8/10mental illness
Will halo studios reboot their plot again with halo 7 or will they somehow try to continue whatever the fuck was supposed to happen with the Infinite story expansions
>>575919054reminder that i add all your cancerpastas to the filters
>>575921662>Will halo studios reboot their plot again with halo 7 or will they somehow try to continue whatever the fuck was supposed to happen with the Infinite story expansionsOperation: Meteorite was written by Troy dennings so he might write new game stories
>>575919638looks like they overcomplicated something again even though it was perfected in halo 3/reach.
>>575910439I wish they would slow down and optimize their games better than rush out another console with no games. This stuff is only gonna get more and more expensive while also have shitty bugs and shitty graphics. What's the point of all that extra power if the games still run like ass and look ugly with vaseline smeared everywhere and messed up lighting/effects/physics. Not to mention all the graphical bugs/glitches/performance issues even with the latest hardware. How about putting some of that budget into quality assurance and optimization. How many times do we have to repeat this.
>>575919638>those fucking commentsHave I entered the illiterate universe? How are people completely both misunderstanding and missing the point entirely?
>>575922183343 shills
Ok hear me out. Halo…but with three weapons instead of two. Y to switch between two primary weapons. B to pull out your sidearm. SMG, magnum, plasma pistol, plasma rifle, needler, etc… are sidearms. Everything else is a main gun. Could it work? Would eliminate the need to drop a cool gun just to lug around a rocket launcher for that one moment you need it to take down a vehicle. Would also justify having redundant weapons like the SMG and AR, or the magnum and BR.
>>575922130i'm blaming grand theft auto vi and immense inexperience post-restaffing for this one, honestly
>>575922459Could you substitute sidearms for regular weapons?
>>575919638kek, and here I thought the hunters got toughened up. That being said at least they aren't one-shot anymore and now you have a smaller target to aim at so they're not gonna give you their weak spot for free like in the original. Could be worse. They're fine here.
>>575900283they're decent, I'm glad we're on a covenant ship, too many of the battles encourage doorwayfagging though which is the least entertaining way to fightheavy burden is the best of the threeboarding action is fineMDG I don't care for, wish they made that a vehicle mission, according to the terminal there are tanks and probably other UNSC vehicles on the ship that were being used as part of that brute hunting shit
>>575908575I fucking knew what that bitch was up to from day one. I’m legitimately never playing another Microsoft game again.
>>575922685they're not fine
>>575922632No, just for other substitutes. But I think if there was enough of them it wouldn’t feel restrictive.
>>575922130>>575922510They're just hardware upgrades. The architecture is largely the same across Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Helix.
>>575922685>>575922843There problem is the retarded melee which registers a hit when you aren’t even close to them, and there ridiculous rate of fire.
>>575923108TRVKE
>>575922764see you when the next halo drops, diego
>>575908575I thought we escaped the desaturated brown doom and gloom art style of the late 2000s...
My ideal halo arsenal:ARPlasma rifleNeedlerShotgunFlame throwerHeatwaveEnergy swordGravity hammerMagnumPlasma pistol with EMPSniperStalker rifleFocus rifleManglerRocket launcher with no lock onFuel rod but it had lock on for planesBrute shotFrag grenadePlasma grenadeHalo infinite spike grenadeSplinter grenade
>>575923004If there were too many of them, it would be restrictive to not have them in the regular secondary slot.
Halo Fun FactIn Japan, Master Chief Atsuki Tani and Cortana Akiko Koike were replaced by Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura in Halo 4. Japanese fans were pissedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9Rud2V1Wohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn07wS3lqughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYRaHLSzpGc
The overshield in demake feels more like a health pack than shield. Makes me wonder if a game where health packs return but you choose when to use them could work.
Alright I played campaign evolved for like 20 minutes and it just felt like shit, which is weird because most of the complaints I saw were about the enemy AI/art direction/cutscenes/etc.But seriously, mouse aiming feels weirdly floaty and imprecise and if you switch weapons you HAVE to wait for the animation to finish before you can use it? Who the fuck decided that was a good idea?
>>575923672>I thought we escaped the desaturated brown doom and gloom art style of the late 2000s...
>>575924485>But seriously, mouse aiming feels weirdly floaty and imprecise and if you switch weapons you HAVE to wait for the animation to finish before you can use it? Who the fuck decided that was a good idea?Welcome to UE5
Halo 4 and 5 still baffle. For starters, they clearly don’t want Steve and Jen to return, so why did they bother being chief and cortana back? They were written out of the story. It was their golden opportunity to introduce an OC without pissing anyone off, or they could have let people play their multiplayer spartan in campaign. But they decided to bring chief and cortana back anyway, only to then introduce an OC in 5? And now we’re at the point where Steve seems a little too old to still be voicing chief, but no one can do the voice better, so we’re just kinda stuck. Like this whole scenario could have been avoided if they had any sense of foresight at all.
Rise and shine nigga
>>575924782>Halo 4 and 5 still baffle. For starters, they clearly don’t want Steve and Jen to return, so why did they bother being chief and cortana back? They were written out of the story. It was their golden opportunity to introduce an OC without pissing anyone off, or they could have let people play their multiplayer spartan in campaignFrankie and his 343 wanted to make "our Halo". This included:>New Chief and Cortana VA>New OCs (Spartan Ops and Team Osiris) >New art style >New lore (Humans ARE NOT Forerunner, Spartan 4s, introducing book lore into the games)>New music style>New mythos Frankie has stated that the plan was to make an overarching trilogy about Didact, while Brian Reed wanted Evil Cortana and Team Osiris. >“That said, this is a long running issue we’ve had with the Chief. Over the years, people have grafted their own feelings about the Chief onto the Chief. And sometimes that’s meant, like in your case, holding him as a sort of paragon of useful emptiness. And I think that’s a completely fair way to approach this character.”>“But we’ve also got lot of other players who, maybe they’ve read the books, maybe they’ve just followed the games very closely, and they’ve projected their ideals about heroism onto the Chief, and actually given him far more personality than we ever have. So I’m not contradicting anything you’re saying, I’m just explaining the intent, and we certainly have got opinions contrary to yours, of people who enjoy that, and there are definitely Master Chief fans who’ve been literally asking for this.”
I still think it's funny how to this day Halo 4 was by far the most successful game 343 was able to pump out.On day 1 it had:>full campaign with split screen and online coop>multiplayer with playlists>custom games>forge>spartan ops that released periodically through the initial launch periodNo other game actually launched feature complete with most things working out of the box.
>>575925374And it’s a damn shame because it was the worst feeling halo game ever until demake. Imagine if infinite was the one to launch with those features without being buggy. Halo would still be alive today.
343i started out strong. Armando Troisi who previously worked on both Mass Effect 1 and 2 as lead cinematic designer joined the team in July 2011 as narrative director. Christopher Schlerf who also worked on Mass Effect in the past created the original draft of Halo 4’s scriptIn that vacuum Brian Reed became narrative lead. >We couldn't figure out how the story ended. Room full of smart people, all with storytelling skills and the resumes to prove it, and we could not tie a bow on this story in the outline stage. Then Frank O'Connor says, "Maybe Jul just drives Requiem into the sun." And we all laughed, because that was so wonderfully absurd. A half hour later we still didn't have an idea of how the Requiem adventure ended. Eventually we let Jul drive Requiem into the sun because, come on. That's pretty awesome, throwing planets into suns.>Brian Reed: "No – if anything it was a goal. Halo has been around for 12 years now, and has been really healthy and really good with just Master Chief and Cortana as our identifiable heroes, but it was time to let the universe grow. Fans of the novels and the comics and the live action stuff all know that there’s a lot of other stories going on in Halo, but we’ve very rarely seen them in the game – Reach and ODST were as close as we got. This was an opportunity to make the pool a little deeper, and give us a few more characters. I’ve said it multiple times that my goal all through Halo 5 was: you need to be able to come out with your favourite Spartan. If you can go into it going ‘I really like Master Chief’, and you come out going ‘Man I still like Master Chief, he’s still awesome, but I wanna know more about Spartan Vale… I wanna have another adventure with Spartan Buck’ – that was our goal here.""They have no choice but to reboot the entire franchise after Frankie, Kevin Grace and Brian Reed fucked it
>>575924567left looks better
>>575923746Very nice. Here's mine (if no dual-wielding):Assault RifleBattle RifleMagnum (Halo 3 version but with scope)Sniper Rifle (50% nerfed rate of fire to make it less spammy and more deliberate)ShotgunGrenade Launcher (With Reach EMP functionality)Rocket Launcher (No lock on)Plasma Pistol (Can EMP, charge shot also does damage to infantry like in CE)Plasma Rifle (Halo 1 version)Energy SwordNeedle RifleFocus Rifle (Halo 5 Binary Rifle, but takes 2 bursts to kill a full-shielded opponent [can't headshot], and overheats if you shoot too fast)Fuel Rod Gun (Similar to the ones Hunters and Grunts use in CE; requires a short charge, has a heavy arc, and slow rate of fire)Plasma Launcher (Tap trigger to fire single projectiles rapidly, charge to increase the burst fire along with increased damage and tracking)Brute ShotManglerMauler (Basically the Bulldog with increased melee damage)Gravity HammerFlamethrowerScrap Cannon (Revs up as you fire, increasing the fire rate the longer you hold down the trigger. Has a long reload animation)SkewerFrag GrenadePlasma Grenade Firebomb Grenade (Weak initial explosion, but leaves behind damaging fire in a small radius for short while)
>>575925374downward trend is common for this type of companyprivate companies by entrepreneurs sell the assets after the business model has run its course343 was a benefits program for microsoft employees so it could not be closed under any circumstancesthey pumped the budget up to Olympian proportions because they didn't have the same kind of negotiations that existed between bungie and microsoft when proposing a project
>>575924567Left is a product of its time. Right is timeless. (Endless)
Ok, now release Custom Edition Evolved for Campaign Evolved.
>>575904181Now if it only had Halo 3's combat/physics/movement...
Sigmund won
>>575926489>Battle Rifleone of the gayest additions to the halo campaign sandbox, they should have leaned more into weird projectile based weapons like tribes rather than more boring hitscan hyper effective weapons
But the BR is not hitscan.
>>575928376It’s just a reskinned magnum. Chill out.
>>575919262Halo Studio understand the AR's purpose in CE, they just gave its former role to the SMG instead.
>>575922685The Hunters aggressively use their Fuel Rod Cannon at close range when they should be engaging in melee. They are not fine.
>>575904181No Flood and the worst covenant. Yay
>>575906325the PS2 version is slop. Seperate Ways was thrown together overnight and it shows.
>>575932651>The Hunters aggressively use their Fuel Rod Cannon at close range when they should be engaging in melee. They are not fine.They telegraph it fine and you can cancel the attack by confronting them. It's also not hard to dodge at all.
the coveted halo discussion
now if only they played halo
They actually kind of nailed the weapon sandbox and Flood AI.Shame the same can't be said about the Covenant AI.Bigger shame the game is a technical mess. It's not Cyberpunk launch tier or anything, but it should still have not launched in this state.
El Pozole
>>575934967no covenant ya HAD to open your mouth
this is real by the way
da halo...
>>575938652L8
>>575938652Go back.
>>575939338Retard
>>575939728Meant for >>575938652
>the fucking bullet magnetism makes it nearly impossible to shoot a jackal's hand since the bullets get curved to the center of the target which is the shieldHow the fuck did these retarded niggers not notice this immediately?
SAAR
>>575940468that's been an intentional feature since halo 2only reach - shitfinite let you style on jackals with precision weaponsyou are judging halo games by how it works in the shit ones
>>575940687then why did they acknowledge it as a bug
i don't like it, let's stop talking about it
>>575940935Why did they say they'd ship infinite with splitscreen? They have no fucking idea what they're doing and haven't the balls to accept failure.
>>575886179>because they want to try itBut why would someone want to try it? It’s 343 Industries with more budget restraints. We already know they don’t know how to make a game. How many more times must you be fooled?>theres 5 different versions of blade runnerRight and that’s stupid. Regardless that’s not the same thing. If there were five different remakes of Blade Runner, sure I could see the parallel. But there are five differently edited cuts of the movie. That’s because the director was indecisive not because Larry Fink thought he needed to make the definitive remake of the original film with new actors and new technology for modern audiences. I don’t understand the attitude of>well it’s new version I must consoomWhy? Why do you have no self control?>uhh freee?You can be kicked in the balls for free or you can pay someone to kick you in the balls. Why get kicked in the balls at all?>INB4 some people enjoy getting kicked in the balls it’s their right to do so
>>575838901If not for being a pirate warlord, I would say Atriox would be a good guy.
Twitter retards are unironically throwing a fit over the covenant ship's name
>>575942098you sound exceptionally fat
>>575944458stop posting our memes on /dg/
>>575945926I’m sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gQ3RJSJtoMchud o'donnel is chudding again....
>>575946645Buy an ad.
nopeowned
SYBAU
nopeowned againchief is trans btw
Operation Forced is a go.
>>575900283The terminals for these levels are all big foreshadowing for Prelates.Funny since Infinite did the same for Janissaries and Executors, the only reason those lore breaking fucks got canonized was due to non-spartan armor selling more than everything else they were pumping out into the store. People want Spartans back but they don't buy Spartan armor lol.
Idk about you but the brute helmet looks real neat on my spartan
>>575945926you are too new to claim anything from /hg/
>>575947587ive been here since before /vg/ was a thing can you say the same?
>>575947719and i'm your mother
I won't have internet access for the next couple of hours. Someone ritualpost for me on the next thread.
>>575938652I don't think 1.5 trillion is going to be enough to fight the Covenant, bros...
We'll make it.
>>575947352The ending of Infinite's multiplayer story was the Banished destroying the Academy and stealing the entire history and data of the Spartan Program by retrieving Iratus, including how to make everything, so we are getting even more non-UNSC made armor next game.This has also led to the "extremely fun" possibility that they can, at any moment, reveal every single skeleton in the closet from ONI and the UNSC surrounding the first three generations of Spartans, including the fake Boren Syndrome affecting the ORION members, all the insane giga illegal stuff Halsey pulled like abductions and flash cloning of kids for the IIs, and also recruiting orphan kids for the IIIs and pumping them full of drugs and growth hormones to throw them at the Covenant. Sullivan from Forward Unto Dawn is going to get an aneurysm if it all goes public, since he's now the director of communications in ONI aka. He decides what is the official narrative of the history of humanity.As Stacker said:"Brace yourselves, it's gonna get hot!"
yawn
will any jeet contractors get carried over for the next halo or are they all going BYE BYE
>>575949061Surprised that after so long they have not tried to do a mission in the middle of naval combat.
>>575949265>the next halo
>>575949265The only confirmed leak we have is that some retards at the office are prototyping an mp using the hybrid engine from CE remake in hopes of releasing "something" live-service soon because the studio literally has nothing story-related to release for the next couple years except for books.
>>575949265With Microsoft's policy they're most likely already packing up and greeting the new jeets.
>>575948786Bungie lore was based.This is cringe.
>>575949548Another live service slop Halo game? Yeah NOBODY is fucking playing that no matter how good it turns out. They will need a miracle because after Infinite nobody will be interested.
>>575949265>will any jeet contractors get carried over for the next halo or are they all going BYE BYEthe studio that made the game is Dutchthey're already working on the next one
>>575949747it can even be live service as long as it launches feature complete
>>575838901better than I expectedStill a technical mess that needs patches
>>575949884Yeah sure but modern Halo has such insane negative reception that I highly doubt gamers will care for the next multiplayer.
Will (YOU) be competing in the Open Competition at HaloFest?
>>575949884Forge? Theater?One (1) Slayer only playlist?On day 1?Stop being antisemitic.
>>575950145>CE as relevant in 343's eyes as 5it's over
>>575950145red has that much money to blow?
>>575950145lmao at CE being worth the least
>>575950301He does seem to have a lot of disposable cash for someone in the education field
>>575950301He's making the big bucks now, but he still hasn't paid me for bumping the thread.Kinda rude, desu.
>>575950301>>575950393I know someone that teaches in NY and they actually pay pretty well thereIt's an outlier compared to the rest of the US
halo: the endless is releasing tomorrow btw
>namefagging out of nowhereCALL THE DOCTA
>>575950487AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>575950393He changed profession not that long ago.Realtor or something?
forced and coloring book'd into irrelevancy
>>575950607AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>575949265The standard contract is for 18 months of I remember correctly. 343/Halo studios has been around since 2007. 4, 5, Infinite and Campaign Evolved have had completely different dev teams
fresh baked bread>>575950704>>575950704>>575950704
>Red out of NOWHEREObsessed.
>>575950715Campaign Evolved was coded and made by a real studio called Abstraction in the Netherlands.Halo Studios directed them on the aproach and art design.It wasn't a game made with bringing in contractors the same way Infinite was.
>>575950740SYBAU
>>575950145>halo infinite>$20k@boypilled @tavult one final effort to finish this fight?
