#2050 - McDonald's editionCampaign Evolved News:>Exclusive McDonald's themed Armor available via the McDonald's app for 1500 points in the UK and Irelandhttps://x.com/Mr_Rebs_/status/2092254489067630741>August Update and Free Armorhttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/campaign-evolved-august-update>Campaign Evolved has sold 1.2 million copieshttps://alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/halo-campaign-evolved-has-sold-12mGeneral Halo News:>Halo and other Xbox franchises take part in McDonald's promotion with exclusive rewards (UK and Ireland only)https://youtu.be/Dr1sn4jPMMw?si=V-YS5H2cg74PrNSO>Campaign Evolved reportedly outsourced to numerous studios, potential future Halo project from Sledgehammer Gameshttps://wccftech.com/halo-studios-outsourced-campaign-evolved-15-studios-activision-sledgehammer/amp/>Halo Studios hit by Layoffshttps://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/halo/halo-studios-is-the-latest-xbox-games-studio-to-be-hit-by-layoffs-just-days-after-campaign-evolved-launch-as-reports-reveal-troubled-developmentPrevious >>578596559
>>579051283Nah.
>>579051239I unironically kind of want it
first for halo 5!
>>579051305there is a way
The Endless has arrived
can't tell if more forced or dead
It's spite.
>>579051465just say coloring book'd
>>579051409that's nothing
Bleach is the root of all.
>>579051708Halo?
>>579051989That one is spite too.
Forced.
>>579051239>halfway to 2100>still no collage or excel fro 2000the betrayal....
>>579051239Reach a good shit
>>579054265just ask grok to make it for you
>>579054380/hg/ is a proud anti slop general
i'm actually making it now
Somebody on /v/ suggest XCOM clone game for Halo, since there is Star Wars one out.I think it could be kind of nice.
>>579056985Tell that to the jews
GTA VI looks good.Hope Halo Next is just as hype and ambitious and actually delivers on its promises.
Rise and shine nigga
GOOD MORNING MINTO
>>579068439>Hope Halo Next is just as hype and ambitious and actually delivers on its promises.lollmao
>>579068439Normie leave.
>>579072051Halo is normie enough already.
>>579072986If normies like Halo then it wouldn't keep flopping. Autists and wannabe autists like Halo.
>>579073049Halo at its peak was maximum normalfag. You're just latched onto a dead franchise at this point that has been bad longer than it's been good.
>>579072986Not since 2008/2009. Now it it the den of autismos and the mentally deranged.
>>579073264>Halo at its peak was maximum normalfag.Yes, back then, but it isn't now, when we are having this conversation.
yup its over
If Halo was still the peak of normie faggotry it used to be we'd be worse off than we already are
>>579079503Explain, because it's already trying to chase normalfag trends and it failed miserably. We'd at least be getting proper updates for Infinite and a healthy playerbase.
>>579079756No we'd be getting yearly dogshit releases with less and less effort put in every year, with an even more brain dead playerbase
>LIEUTENANT, RAPE THAT MAN!>Captain!>RAPE HIM!
>>579080740How is that worse than what we have now?
What lunacy! He'll never evade that ban at Starbucks!
>>579080963It's not worse, it's just the exact same level of dogshit but mainstream and fine to cattle
I'm back. Entertain me.
nah
>Carrier forms
I am not yet entertained. But I will be checking back here for the rest of the afternoon.
>>579086614Play Halo.
>>579086887are you crazy?
Okay that's enough I'm not coming back.
>>579086887Sea Power is on sale. Nobody in the right mind is playing Halo.
>>579087179See you tomorrow, sweetie.
>>579087179>>579087675same imposter
>>579088219Is the imposter in the room among us right now?
in teh WHAT?
are we playing halo or are you guys literally incapable of organizing anything without Red?
>>579088576Well I could but you would be forced to play firefight.
>>579088576Red the Betrayer left a hole. Do you feel it, in your heart?
>>579088767That's the only good mode anyway.
>>579088767That doesn't sound so bad
>>579088927While that might be true not many people here seem to enjoy it.
>>579091038People have shit taste.
>>579088767What about Firefight Versus?
>>579091405Never been a fan of that mode.
Reminder the terminals were not written by Frankie. >those who know
>>579088767
I am STILL not entertained. Euro hours were a mistake.
>>579095164NYPA
>>579054804i missed you
>>579095275But of course. I'd never employ you worthless leeches.
>>579095550ESL
>>579092719agent washington?
>>579092274what terminals
>>579092274Only one of them was
>>579102059you wouldnt get it
any oldfags can explain to me how did people used to activate all skulls when trying out laso on the original xbox? on mcc you just do it in the menu.
>>579105135no one did that its all lies
It's up.
>>579105135LASO started being a thing with Halo 3.You found the skulls ingame and then you activate them through the campaign menu.
>>579105135Nobody did LASO, but you could make a profile and get a checkpoint right before picking up a skull. As long as the game wasn't turned off, the skull stayed active. Even in multiplayer.
>>579110897>Making Flood FunFinally. For the first time in the franchise, I can't wait to fight the flood.
>>579116086Here you go.
>>579116182That's enough, Marty.
>>579116730he's busy lil bro
I wish we got more spinoff games that weren't just FPS in the usual style.>A squad based gameplay for ODST or marines like Republic Commando>An XCOM clone with Spartan IIIs>A grand strategy game like Stellaris for Halo>An immersive sim sealth game in which you play as a spartan hunting down Covenant & insurrectionist HVTs>A third person shooter where you play as an ONI agentJust something that isn't related to Master Chief to cleanse the palate a bit.
hmm halo could be in store for tonight...
>>579118819but whos the pirate?
>>579118819First we need a good core Halo game. Then we can start doing spinoffs.
>>579120560nah
>>579118951Why, the leader of the most Halo anime, Spartan Straw Hat Luffy,
>>579116182This would be hardcore if they actually were destroying the flood, which they aren't. Because the flood is already over 130 million in the USA.
>>579116182is this real?
>>579120685If you're fine playing Halo: Tetris Evolved, while the last Halo game we got was Halo: Campaign Enshitified, you're probably more interested in Tetris than Halo. Let's get one good Halo game with core Halo gameplay mechanics (It doesn't have to be Masterchief but the gameplay needs to be core Halo) before we start wandering off into the wilderness. If the people working on Halo can't make a good Halo game, what makes you think they'll make a good Tetris game or are responsible enough to outsource it? We have no idea if Activision will even be able to pull it off, these aren't the same guys that made Call of Duty 4 or Black Ops 2. They've fallen off hard (Maybe not as bad as Halo's devs, but still). I don't want to play their shitty version of Tetris with 'Halo' slapped on it. If I want to play Tetris, I'll just play Tetris.
>>579121461just put the pirates into the ship man im tryna play the game sea of halo
>>579121461>If the people working on Halo can't make a good Halo game, what makes you think they'll make a good Tetris gameBecause these two are completely different things.
bleh
>>579118819>A squad based gameplay for ODST or marines like Republic CommandoAlready used up the Republic Commando angle with Halo 5's campaign. No do-overs or takebacks. They had their chance and lost it.>An XCOM clone with Spartan IIIsThis will just get turned into a F2P mobile game with shitty graphics and microtransactions out the ass, but it's the most reasonable and realistic one on this list.>A grand strategy game like Stellaris for HaloToo ambitious, 343 will find a way to fuck it up even if they outsource it. Just make Halo Wars 3.>An immersive sim stealth game in which you play as a spartan hunting down Covenant & insurrectionist HVTsI'd play a more fleshed out Ghost Recon Wildlands with Halo slapped on it, sure. It will probably suck though. I don't have faith in M$ to invest into it enough. They'll rush it out with contractors and Unreal.>A third person shooter where you play as an ONI agentMeh, I really don't like ONI. Wish they could fuck off. They just muddy the waters in the books, really demoralizing. I wish they didn't show up in ODST. Just get rid of them. Just male it a crack team of elite stealth spartans (or elites, that would be neat too) and make Halo Recon: Wildlands Evolved.
>>579122772
>>579122323All you have to do to make a good Halo game is copy what Bungie did. If you can't do that, I don't trust you to copy Tetris.
>>579122959>All you have to do to make a good Halo game is copy what Bungie did.Nobody can do that, including ex devs themselves
>>579122929No fun allowed until we get a good Halo game.
>>579123105Jason Jones truly was the soul of Halo...
>>579123105>Nobody can do thatNot so fast.
>>579123485
>>579123485i know you're shitposting but this dude has a hyper-autisitic level of understanding of halo's design and what works in it. i played through his CE mod a couple weeks ago and it was generally the best time i have ever had playing CE
new oney video dropped
>>579121604But we already have Sea of Halo at home.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjp1bE3FWTE
>>579123485he makes some fun little modsbut there's a canyon difference between that and making a real halo
>>579123857If M$ hired him to make the next Halo game, I'd have more faith in it than if we got the original Bungie team back together. I wouldn't even put Lehto in charge despite him having OG status (Reach was responsible for adding sprint and everything 343 got away with in later games, so he used up all his goodwill in my book), and some of the other OG devs have given some sus twitter takes (in regards to Halo). Also respect Max Hoberman, but the fact that he was fine with shipping Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer as is is sus. What an awful art style that actually negatively impacted the gameplay by making things harder to see than the original. I know he's not an artist but he has eyes, so he should have been able to do something or mention the problems to the art team.
is we?
>>579110897I wasn't expecting them to add flood Brutes just for one level but damn. Also looks like they expanded High Charity? You can really see that the team cares for this franchise
wall of dudes but for /hg/ when
>>579129667Ruby and co revamped Sacred Icon, Uprising and High Charity's layout. Some rooms and arenas are bigger and there are even completely new ones.
>>579130347working on it
>>579130704fr?
>>579121084More like 311.2 million if you actually pay attention.
pre-9/11 Halo would've been cool
No sign of entertainment this afternoon...Maybe tomorrow.
>>579123485>>579123857>>579125871>>579130437QRD on Ruby? What are the changes he made in CE and H2?
Halo 5 is shit but I miss Halo 5 era /hg/
>>579132386It was our best era.
>>579132382Too many to mention. Some people hate him. Some love him.Try out his CE Rebalance to get an idea of what he's about.
>>579132386It was the worst of times, it WAS the worst of time to this day.
>>579131140fr
>>579132382Only CE has a rebalance available right now, but 2 is getting one very soon.The workshop page has a pdf wilth all the changes and there's probably a youtube video. Lost of stuff, including cut content and altered encounters.
>>579132382I enjoyed CE Rebalance but apparently there's more stuff in it if you play on Legendary difficulty which is something I don't do often, so I missed out on all that I guess.
>>579132382good balance mod that does take a few liberties with loreshit, but not necessarily to an autistic degree
>>579133121This post reminds me of this meme.
>>579133121why does the chief look so faggy?
>>579123485>>579132382The one thing i want to see is his Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone rebalance. He managed to crack how to make good human enemies with human weapons and vehicles that are not frustrating to play against as an Elite. Kinda wish they would consult the guy at least once if the rumors of Halo 7 having Banished humans and Janissaries as enemies are true. I don't trust Halo Studios with human and spartan copy enemy AI, god, imagine their fucking stupid laser focus or dumbass vehicle ai. No inbetween.
more layoffs are needed
>>579135213more fucking games are needed. Jesus christ those retards at the helm can't direct a thing.
$40,000,000, go make a halo game with feature parity with halo 1
>>579135743You laugh, but if Halo 7 is next, then they are going to give people an armor coating for owning CE remake and tell you to shut the fuck up about the Mark IV. That one's going to the store alongside a shade of green in a 20$ package.
>>579135898>You laugh, but if Halo 7 is nextHow is that even a possibility? Nobody knows what the story and state of the universe is in Halo because it has been soft rebooted like 3 times now.>inb4 "lore autism"I'm not even trying to be a lorefag. I don't care about the books for example.But like, I genuinely don't see how you are going to catch people who buy the game up to speed at all. We just had an entire campaign devote itself entirely to trying to explain away 5's cliffhanger all so they could set up for a series of post-launch expansions that will now never happen involving time travel of all things.I really don't know what they can do.
someone please save halo...
Find the Halo. Win the war.
Fuck the HaloWin a Price
Cpt. Price?
Original Halo: 185 people. Full game.Halo Remake: 2,183 people. Campaign only.You said it isn’t just HR, it’s also the invisible layers. Producers, managers, leads of leads, people who are supposed to support the makers but instead add meetings and dilute ownership. It doesn’t have to be this way.
>>579139113chat... be honest... would you?
>>579139113Just say you hate women, you unfuckable incel.
>>579139247its from marus
>>579139247Yes and?
>>579139113You can't make a modern AAA game with a tiny studio
>>579139201yes?You wouldn't? She's hot.
>>579141219>being evil is no big dealCringe.
Honestly, this would've made an interesting game. Would've rather gotten this than yet another subpar remake of CE
>>579142235Are you the guy with the BNA profile?
>>579143125yeah nigga
>>579143526the art looks really good
>>579132837>>579133010Is he really rebuilding Halo 2 from scratch and restoring cut content?
>>579139113See>>579135213
>>579145459Not really. There is some restored content, but if you want that, play Uncut.He did a video series explaining many of the changes, but it's a pretty long watch by now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1S7jqSfpo&list=PLD9STRv6CzOt38PTkKNQNCLAmCtEu6yuf&index=4
>>579145459idk
Halo 2's original campaign plan >Cairo StationSame as retail>Covenant Ship>Earth CityIt was going to be similar to the rescuing marines section in "Halo" from CE. It was literally scrapped and restarted. There is zero trace of this mission that can be found in the retail version.>Gas GiantArbiter hunts down the Heretic Leader>Alpha MoonArbiter hunts down the Heretic Leader on Alpha Moon.>Delta HaloNight solo approach by Chief and Cortana without Marines or ODST allies, and the structure had a dramatically different design being more like a castle that's infiltrated. After killing the Prophet of Regret, Chief would commandeer a banshee to The Library >Sentinel HeadquartersMaster Chief links up with Miranda and Johnson and secures the index. Chief and Arbiter meeting and nearly coming to blows before being interrupted by a "Flood Hulk" who crashes into the "thermal outtake platform" they're on, sending all three falling into the Delta Halo ventilation shaft.>Forerunner Tank (deltatrain)Master Chief traverses the Delta Halo ventilation shaft and rides a gondola to Gravemind's lair. The gondola was moved to the end of Quarantine Zone (retail).>High CharityPossibly same as retail. Truth stranding Mercy (who's still alive in this version) outside the Forerunner ship. The Chief then defeats Mercy in a boss fight. After that, the Chief jumps onto the Forerunner key ship as it starts to leave. But Cortana has been plugged into a docking arm nearby and is left behind, although it appears to be unintentionally this time. Spartan 117 reaches out for her, but just as he's about to grab her chip from the plinth it's in, a pack of Brutes blows it to smithereens and she fades away. Chief then tucks himself into the ship and it enters slip-space.>UprisingPossibly same as retail. There are two Scarabs patrolling in front of the control room on The Great Journey. At one point you were supposed to fight them in the Scarab that Johnson commandeers.>Earth ArkEnding
>>579145459Partially, that's why it's been like 3 years since the last update. A lot of the second half of the game had entire sections expanded or completely remade.
>>579143526good shit
Just realized this since ya cunts mentioned pirates, but why isn't MS promoting Sea of Thieves anymore? Surprised it isn't part of this McDonald's collab but OW2 is lol.
>>579139201no and yes. my detransitioned ftm friend is far more convincing of a woman that the chuddy pictured here but i'd def rape this hr bitch into submission and irreparable damage
>>579145961>Sentinel Headquarters>Master Chief links up with Miranda and Johnson and secures the index. Chief and Arbiter meeting and nearly coming to blows before being interrupted by a "Flood Hulk" who crashes into the "thermal outtake platform" they're on, sending all three falling into the Delta Halo ventilation shaft.We know they intended the arctic warthog for this level and most of it was used in Containment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T98qsluN204>"This map is so big, the Xbox can't even hold it!" — Paul Russel[Headlong, Terminal, Turf also started as cut Halo 2 Earth City campaign sections. Burial Mounds is Alpha Moon.
>>579147147than the* x3
>>579146543>A lot of the second half of the game had entire sections expanded or completely remade.What are the best changes Ruby has made so far?
>>579147272I don't know
>>579147176>Halo 2 is Halo Reach with dual use maps
>>579147272Mod is not released so it's impossible to know.I like the idea of actually fighting the humans in Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone.
>>579147693Some Halo 2 maps were made for campaign first and multiplayer second.Halo 3 Guardian was also a cut campaign level.Halo Reach maps were made for multiplayer first and adapted them into campaign sets second because it was easier than making unique areasHalo 4 Spartan Ops levels were also just multiplayer maps iirc
>>579147936>Halo 4 Spartan Ops levels were also just multiplayer maps iircNot true, the first level is literally Spartan Ops exclusive. Others are small sections of existing campaign levels.
>>579147936>Halo 3 Guardian was also a cut campaign level.Using the same aesthetic =/= cut campaign level.
>>579148058The second half recycled a couple of multiplayer maps, but it also had exclusive locations.
>>579147936>>579148146>Guardian Forest – as some of our regulars may recall – was a campaign space that didn’t quite make the final grade for Halo 3. Though it was excised from the Halo 3 single player experience, Cotton had obviously seen the original concept artworks and knew he could rely on that rich palette if he needed to. >Guardian started development as a level of the Halo 3 campaign called "Guardian Forest". This level was to take place in the eponymous forest, with the player flying an AV-14 Hornet through the trees. The level would have featured the aptly-named Guardian, a Sentinel construct featured in several pieces of Halo 3 concept artWhy did they cut it bros? Guardian Forest seems kino
>>579148493Probably couldn't figure out of to make put the Guardian into the game. It would have been something similar to the Scarab, and that one alone was a huge project.
>>579147693Welcome to game development. Things get shuffled around.When Bungie were working on Halo 2 the engine was being developed at the same time so nothing was stable and they had to put the game together in the last couple months before release.
>>579148765The lighting in that pic looks odd.
>>579148765>When Bungie were working on Halo 2 the engine was being developed at the same timeDidn't they crunch hard to rebuild the engine in 6 months?
>>579148493Because Bungie could not manage a project to save their lives. They couldn't run a fucking bath without MS coming in and tard wrangling them.
>>579148493the arbiter/high charity mission being cut is even worse
>>579149493Bungie works well under pressure. Halo 1-3 were a trilogy of extremely rushed games. They didn't have such a tight deadline for Reach, and it ended up being their worst game.
>>579147693Asset flip in The Covenant
>>579149739That's cool though.
>>579145961They intended there to be more than just one missing back on earth originally
I am not even going to really say much since I rarely come to /vg/ but I assume you guys on here hate what 343 industries now known as Halo Studios did to Halo. This latest game is a fucking travesty beyond belief. This series is so dead and it saddens me greatly what they have done to Halo.But I've been listening to this song on repeat throughout the day. Halo.... its finished ;_;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3fmby0d6eU
>>579149739>moron discovers instance geo as if it was some divine revelation only he knewAnyway, if you want to have a go at Halo 3 for asset reuse go after the first person animations.
>>579149739Reusing prefab objects like that is typical for any game. If you don't notice it without looking under the hood, that's even better.A lot of the Forerunner textures were used across all of the Bungie games. All of the Forge World pieces' textures were just taken from Halo 3.
Tell me more about Halo 2's original engine, /hg/ bros
>>579149967No one's ever really gone.One could say, it's endless.
>>579149967343i a shit but campaign evolved is just ok
>>579150146is anyone else cold?
dude what if...halobut...pingas...evolved?
Funny how HEK and H2EK include high resolution assets that weren't ever added to the base game in PC portshttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361280895>Higher fidelity bump maps (found in H2EK files or were previously used in MCC) that replace the legacy Xbox/current MCC:- Battle Rifle | objects\weapons\rifle\battle_rifle\bitmaps\battle_rifle_bump.bitmap- Beam Rifle | objects\weapons\rifle\beam_rifle\bitmaps\beam_rifle_bump.bitmap- Brute Shot | objects\weapons\support_low\brute_shot\bitmaps\brute_shot_bump.bitmap- Carbine | objects\weapons\rifle\covenant_carbine\bitmaps\covenant_carbine_bump.bitmap- Human Mounted Turret (campaign) | objects\weapons\fixed\h_turret_mp\bitmaps\h_turret_mp_gun_bump.bitmap- Needler | objects\weapons\pistol\needler\bitmaps\needler_bump.bitmap- Rocket Launcher | objects\weapons\support_high\rocket_launcher\bitmaps\rocket_launcher_bump.bitmap- scenarios\shaders\multi\waterworks\waterworks_cliff_a.shader| Swapped the granite_bump.bitmap for the granite_512_bump.bitmap which is twice the resolution. This affects the look of the cave walls of Waterworks.-scenarios\shaders\multi\waterworks\waterworks_cliff_moss_a.shader| Swapped the granite_bump.bitmap for the granite_512_bump.bitmap which is twice the resolution. This affects the look of the mossy cave walls of Waterworks.-scenarios\shaders\solo\earthcity\park_rock_mossy.shader| Swapped the granite_bump.bitmap for the granite_512_bump.bitmap which is twice the resolution. This affects the look of the rocks in the park in New Mombosa.
>>579151310cool little mod
what would grunt pussy feel like brosimagine being a lonesome marine stuck on an installation with no female human companion for months on end...surely you'd have to settle for a corpse while it's warm, right?
>>579153339
>>579153272AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>579150140devs used to largely be engineers and computer science majors out of university that took a chance on a budding industry. and it's a lot easier to develop a game when the engineers who built the engine are under the same roof and it just so happens that you have lunch with them every day.now engines is a complicated black box of features and templates that the majority of devs have no knowledge on how they work or how to use them. devs now go to college for a bullshit 2 year degree on game design or some abstract bullshit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RF7vU2dMj8Also the leap between Halo CE to Halo 2's rendering tech to halo 3 to Reach is massive. We haven't seen leaps like that in a long time.
>>579147176>>579147693 "The graphics engine that we showed at E3 2003, driving around the Earth city... That entire graphics engine had to be thrown away, because you could never ship a game on the Xbox with it," Butcher sighs. "Through putting ourselves through hell, we were able to do a five-minute demo of it, but after we came back from E3 we had to admit that this graphics engine was never going to work - it was never going to support the kind of environments that are really important for a Halo game. So we literally scrapped the entire graphics engine and started from scratch.""Even that whole environment, the Earth city, was way too big for the engine at the time," adds Carney. "We ended up cutting out huge parts of geometry from that level, so you never actually saw that." "We were building stuff that just couldn't be played, in any engine," says Butcher. "We built, and detailed, and went a huge way down the path with a whole bunch of environments and levels for the game that just totally didn't make it. If you look at the level with the Flood, inside the quarantine area - that is the remaining 20 per cent of a gargantuan, sprawling level that was meticulously built and hand-constructed, but that could never, ever have shipped in any engine.""We made a scope mistake on the single-player side, too," says Griesemer. "If you look at our original plan for Halo 2's single-player campaign and the story we were going to tell, this basically adds up to Halo 2 and Halo 3 combined. We didn't trim that back nearly enough and ended up having to force it, and that's why you got the ending you did.""The cliffhanger wasn't part of the plan," confirms Staten. "And yes, over-ambition was absolutely the cause."
>>579150140Dead end tech that they sunk cost fallacy'd themselves into continuing to work on for years. There is a reason why you only ever saw them show it off in basically hallways.
>>579155781>If you look at the level with the Flood, inside the quarantine area - that is the remaining 20 per cent of a gargantuan, sprawling level that was meticulously built and hand-constructed, but that could never, ever have shipped in any engineIt would have been legendary bros
>>579147272Like the other guys said the mod isn't out yet. But the most interesting changes from the videos seem to be: Brutes, they are basically remade, they have new animations, better stances when using rifles and H3 style captain; and probably the expanded maps. You can go to his channel and see what changes he made and why he took that approach.
>>579160074It was also a lie. Alphamoon never made it that far, and the only bits that survived from it into Quarantine Zone are some bits of wreckage.
>>579160753What about Forerunner Tank and the others >>579145961
>>579162567More barely finished crapWe have known this for a while nowI hate that I got excited for the digsite news back like 8 years ago
>>579147936>Halo 3 Guardian was also a cut campaign level.Never knew this. Too bad since Guardian has an interesting design going on. Such a great map.
>>579162567Forerunner tank never existed beyond notes on a whiteboard. Everything else "existed" to some extent (ranging from a vaguely playable very early level to a blockout of 1 bsp).Bungie weren't fucking exaggerating when they said they came back from E3 2003 and went "oh god we don't actually have a game". If you comb through the H2 leak from last year, anything that didn't appear on screen for the E3 demo is just in a pre-alpha state. And the game was meant to ship a few months later.
>>579163137>digsiteqrd?
Halo 3 really suffers from missing 2 levels. Cortana actually being the proper High Charity level and not Floodgate part 2 being cut off and shoved in it's place, and Guardian Forest.The Covenant fleet just kind of dies offscreen somehow because "LMAO ELITES ARE BADASS AND CAN 1v10 BRUTE SHIPS!!!" I guess instead of these fuckers getting unleashed on them at the end of Guardian Forest.
>>579163643you new?
>>579164092>you new?yes
post yfw the new halo book brings back noble six as a grizzled, amnesiac venezian jannisary
>>579164623Somehow Noble Six, Tartarus, Prophet of Truth, Gravemind, The Didact, Evil Cortana, and Warden Eternal have returned in Halo 7
>>579164582Digsite is or was, a team of 343 employees and modders who used to dig through files and files of cut content from the Halo games. They would release certain files to make modding and restoring cut content easier. There were 2 huge leaks that happened over the past few years from said team, we learned a lot about the cut content from the games but also left us disappointed because most of it was just stuff written on documents and never made it to the actual game files in any way shape or form.
>>579164582>>579165079So when people tell you Halo has a lot of cut content, it's usually crap that never made it past the drawing board. It just so happens that Bungie would come up with 30 cool ideas in a minute that were impossible to achieve with the hardware at the time.
>>579165250>Bungie would come up with 30 cool ideas in a minute that were impossible to achieve with the hardware at the time.Like the flamethrower?
>>579165445>*overloads your particle engine*
>>579164943>Noble SixSurvived in a cave on reach and was picked up by the banished>TartarusHis son, taking his father's legacy to try and usurp atriox>Prophet of TruthThe last sanshyuum, taking up the name>GravemindThe flood that survived from the story Saturn Devouring His Son congregate into a new gravemind>The DidactGenecopy in the domain or some bullshit like the librarian pulled>Evil CortanaCode implanted in the Weapon to turn her back into Cortana>Warden EternalNever died, was just chilling in the DomainFrankly I'm surprised you didn't mention Locke because he's just gone too
Bump mapsParticle engine overdrivePer pixel lightingSpecular lightingStencil shadows
>>579165070stuff like that makes me thsex the glassing beam is actually a massive welding torch
>>579165723>Frankly I'm surprised you didn't mention Locke because he's just gone tooThanks Brian Reed who gave us Spartan Ops, Spartan Locke, Team Osiris and Evil Cortana>Episode 10: Exodus and Episode 11: Exodus Conclusion>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.""
>>579165723you awoken the hive
>>579165945See when people say who their favorite character in halo is, it's always the guys who are effectively blank slates for you to insert into. People don't like noble six because he saved a kid when he was 13 or something equally inane, they like him because he's a customizable master chief who blew up a supercarrier. They like rookie because he's just as vulnerable as they are. They don't like locke because he's some established guy who you explicitly AREN'T
>>579163879>LMAO ELITES ARE BADASS AND CAN 1v10 BRUTE SHIPSit's very clearly said to be 1v3
>>579165996>>579165945Halo 4 was written by 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 script. Halo 4 was a lot better written than what was released afterwards.Reed was a comic book writer for Marvel before he joined 343i. He never worked on any other major videogame before. Frankie asked Brian Reed to write:>Halo 4 Spartan Ops>Halo: Initiation>Halo Escalation>Halo 5
Unpopular opinions? I'll startHalo 2 Anniversary looks worse
>>579167321It's all Reach assets.
>>579167321I hate anniversary Elites they look horrible. In OG Elites look like sharks
>>579167321
Halo used to be a system seller..
>>579167835Yes back when it was the gun part of the gun and ball gamer.
Only grizzled ancients remember H2CE, CMT, v2_fragment, Snow_Grove, New_Mombasa, and Zanzibar and Custom Editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXSMTLiHnQ
>>579170162Released in July 2004, New Mombassa Classic was modeled after the proposed design of the Halo 2 city of the same name. A mostly symmetrical design the cityscape features large high towers, wide main throughfares and a centeral divided highway. A small park sits under the highway and marks the divide between the two sides.Chris Carney was so impressed that fans were recreating Halo 2 maps in Halo 1 before the release in November
>>579170342>>579170162Soul. I miss booting up custom edition and then going into random customs/modded maps. How does multiplayer work nowadays, is it still gamespy or whatever? Are there still people hosting games?
>>579176505Everything works fine. Halo PC is mostly fixed by Chimera. Try it for yourself>Halo PC - Extract and Go (extract and play)http://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 PC Restored - fix bugs that occurred during the Halo PC Gearbox porting process (extract to maps folder)https://github.com/Aerocatia/halopc-restored/releases/download/r220/en-halopc-restored-retail-individual-r220.zipHalo PC and Halo 2 Project Cartographer are mostly maintained by the fans
>>579176618Chimera or Halo PC restored? Or are they compatible with each other? Will either of these affect my ability to access the customs/server browser?
>>579176618>stencil shadowsHoly...isn't that like the holy grail? That should completely fix Halo 2's art style. They should port it to MCC
>>579176848Halo Custom Edition steps>Extract Halo Custom Editionhttp://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/custom/Halo%20Custom%20Edition%20-%20Extract%20and%20Go.7z>Extract Chimera and copy it to Halo Custom Edition folderhttps://github.com/SnowyMouse/chimera/releases>Extract Halo Custom Edition Restored maps to "maps" folderhttps://github.com/Aerocatia/halopc-restored/releases/download/r220/en-halopc-restored-custom-edition-full-individual-r220.zip>Halo Custom Edition maps (extract to "maps" folder)https://www.halomaps.org/hce/https://haloce3.com/
The reason the lighting looks different in Halo 2 Vista is that the game is using default lighting instead of the lightmaps for some strange reasonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6gKvyef54
>>579177119Includes:Halo Custom Edition with update 1.0.10 and LAA (AKA "4GB") exe fixChimera 1.0.0r1302 - https://github.com/SnowyMouse/chimerahalopc-restored r220 - https://github.com/Aerocatia/halopc-restoredDSOAL - https://github.com/kcat/dsoal using build r693 from http://vaporeon.io/hosted/dsoal-buildsUpdated OGG Vorbis DLLs - https://www.rarewares.org/ogg-libraries.phpTo Use:- Extract "HaloCE" folder somwhere your user has write access, so mostly anywhere but NOT "Program Files"- Run haloce.exeUpdating Chimera:- When updating Chimera be sure to copy over just the new DLL file, and not the default ini file. This will ensure the game stays fully portable.
>>579177119>>579177353Neat, thanks.
>CMT was formed shortly after the release of Halo 2, with the idea of being the closest thing on PC to Halo 2. The Team began working on Coagulation, hoping that it would appeal to all players. The original Team name created in November of 2004, therefore, was Coagulation Mapping Team. As the team grew, the name changed to Conversion Map TeamReminder that Masters1337 was just salty about Halo 2 not being released on PC
>CMT RIPZ
Bootleg Halo 2...
What are the most impressive custom maps?
Halo.
why are we constantly raided by pasta spammers
>>579178418It's fine.These are free bumps for our general I hope
Any of you faggots used to post on Modacity?
>>579176952No smoke and mirrors pre-recorded bs
>>579160531I'm not a fan of them having energy shields again. It was necessary for 3 and ODST, but there's no reason for it when Elites are enemies too.
>>579170342My friends liked to load this map up and joust warthogs on the bridge.
>>579179423That actually looks amazing. Can't wait to see it working in-game. Is there any youtube footage? Well, if it's releasing soon I'm sure there will be a trailer for it. I can't believe the community is about to fix Halo 2. The original art style was always there in the game, and now we finally get to see what Halo 2 was supposed to look like. That's crazy.
>>579051239https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYKd5wzImcIt's up.
>>579129667they should also add new flood types to represent those aliens that released the flood on Delta Halo
>>579051239why didnt they delist the superior version of halo 1? is bungie retarded or something?
>>579118819I don't really care much about Master Chief anyway, Noble 6 was fine as is but that aside, some of the sound fun.
>>579181396pirates is why
>>579167321Lightning and shadows tend to look worse in the remaster, at least in some places, but base Halo 2 is kind of fugly overall.
Forerunner Tank
>>579181991When does the awesomeness ensue?
>>579181991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-s7ha8uXASerenity before the Storm
>>579177119Custom Edition with a new Chimera looks far better than MCC. Look at this bump glasses: now it has proper specular effect.
>>579179451noice mate
>>579163879The idea to remake Halo 1-3 in a new engine sounded really cool to someone like me who was hoping they would add more missions specifically cut ones but Halo Studios shits the bed at every turn. Girl bosses and voice actor downgrades are the future.
>>579181720how does someone stealing their game stop them from delisting it? they werent going to buy it anyways
>>579183289You will get Halo 2 in UE5
Michael Wincott refused to return in Halo 3 because of this trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibZrP6TPkIY
>>579179423According to devs>Nah the engine was changed cause the Xbox couldn't run it primarily. Although the shadows also didn't look good outdoors.>The E3 2003 demo ran on a devkit, with double the memory of a normal Xbox>The digsite leak has the full tag stuff for H2V alongside all the H2 map sources, model sources and such that they found.>Then later we also got the E3 2003 build, including tagtools for that as well. And that had the stencil shadows>So no excuse to not go all out with Cartographer custom maps, unlike before all the tools are there. Still stencil shadows here is a huge surprise>we still need to figure out cutscene shadows>Dynamic Light Shaders were used to imitate stencil in the MCC version of the E3 demo>Steam "Restored lighting" isn't actually true, since it's merely placing additional dynamic lights on the map (which aren't true stencil -> True stencil wouldn't have the blocky staircase-like look) and using some tweaked pixel shaders that were done by SEV to reduce the staircase-like look to them. I'm not sure what else SEV does, but it does get very stencil-like.>Xbox sound class tags, which are intended for the Sensaura sound chip on the Xbox, in Vista, which uses the Miles Sound System, in MCC, which uses FMod>Halo 2 Shader Fixes (MCC)https://github.com/Vuthakral/Halo-2-Shader-Fixes/- Sphere lights now actually give a shit about spec masks- Projected lights aren't dimmer on dynamic objects compared to bsp- MP emblems are no longer glow-in-the-dark & use ambient light like seen in all builds prior to release h2- lit transparent shaders now sort correctly with fog (i.e. brute fur)>HALO 2 RECLAIMED R3 RC1 (Project Cartographer)- Xbox restoration mod and some backported shaders from MCC- Stencil Shadows restored in the next version (Berthalamew)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zkoh-r_mzniaTKCVnKohNRXApCAhXetZ
>>579165815does H2PC have this yet?
>>579188571thats really sexy
Ultimate Firefight forms
>>579197908Shut the fuck up
>>579167321>Halo 2 Anniversary looks worseeh, sometimes
>>579177119doesn't work for joining like half the lobbiessays you need an official key
>>579197908
>>579200560he looks like>>579086395
die
Is Halo being played?
Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
>>579203454not today
>>579155061>devs now go to college for a bullshit 2 year degree on game design or some abstract bullshit.hmm maybe I could save halo after all
Renjibros...
>>579178418just filter reddit spacingfiltering for more than two empty spaces in a post kills 100% of faggots
>>579165815still looks like shit on an ledhalo 2 needs post processing filters to emulate crt bloom and interlacing
I am entertained so far this morning. Keep up the good work.
>>579183852halo 2 in halo reach in ue5
At least we're not Gears of War.
At least Escharum isn't real.
>>579209785Atriox is the superior choice.
>>579210048ATRIOX IS DEAD
>>579209569There's a Gears general?
>>579201004lol
>>579210963Actually, Tremonius is dead, not Atriox.Also, I think Infinite made Banished too much of a generic bad guys.
unentertaining poster above
>>579211084I refuse to believe that it's a coincidence. I bet the porn make did it on purpose.
>>579210963jobber
You gotta believe.
Brutes are gay
forgot pic
...and you are their rape victim
brutes are only gay for pay from prophetsthug hunter = brute hunter
How much did Halo reach retcon?
>>579219412Some things from that old book that talks about the Reach, but I wouldn't know how much, because I didn't read itWeapon balance, like all the games, added some new stuffNot sure beyond that.
>>579178418they don't play halo. its that blatant.
>>579221304well neither do we
>>579219412nothing relevant really.
>>579221734nahits just your chums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiK4qLgAWw
I can understand Flood making spooky noises sometimes, to inflict terror, but wouldn't make sense for them to usually be quiet and more ambush oriented? They are not mindless zombies after all, at least in game 2 and 3 when it's explained that they are not.
Gravemind might have a very low APM rating (actions per minute). So he might just do what noobs (like me) do when playing an RTS, which is mass produce basic infantry units and then send them all at once to the enemy base and hope for the best. The AI's pathfinding for his units might need some work, but that's part of the charm. The flood already have overwhelming numbers, it would suck for the player if they were more competent individually. With that kind of strength, they don't need to rely on stealth or trying to outwit the opponent. Just zerg rush.
>>579226961That would mean they would not be as dangerous as they are made out to be, because multitudes Forerunner generals could be on par with Gravemind and could delegate while Gravemind would have to do it all himself.
yahbut stop posting that weebshit
Patching the AR was such a dumb move. The game just isn't as fun now. For the first time in Halo history the AR was actually worth picking up and using outside of the instances where it was foisted on you, like at the start of most missions. It was powerful and accurate enough to reliability take the shields off of elites, the headshot capability made it good for finishing the elite and then mopping up whoever was left, and all three of these qualities combined to make it good for general crowd control against hordes of grunts and flood. You could mix and match it with the pistol (if you call it the magnum, rope immediately), plasma pistol, or a heavy/specialized weapon according to the job you wanted it to do. It didn't outclass or nullify any of its contemporaries; pistol had more range for picking people off, plasma pistol could insta-strip, SMG was/is the best for infection form swarms, plasma rifle did/does a better job at cutting through shielded flood and gibbing their bodies, and the AR itself doesn't have a big enough mag size to do it all by itself.But not anymore. Now it's just the Infinite AR, aka that thing you immediately trade for a mangler (and then a needler) in the first mission. YOU VILL use the pistol and plasma pistol in every single covenant encounter unless you want to intentionally handicap yourself, and YOU VILL be happy.Devs are such faggots about this stuff. REEEEE I DONT CARE THAT YOURE HAVING FUN THATS NOT HOW I DESIGNED IT. I guarantee Bungie would have patched the CE pistol before the end of December 2001 had CE been an online game. Just look at the fucking sandbox mess they made in H2, all because they were cheesed off that the pistol did too much damage and the AR had too high a fire rate.
>>579231513nah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvxyJClyhhg
The thread...I'm gonna bump it.
>>579219412Engineers in new alexandria - in odst they have never been that close to them beforeoperation red flag which was described in the user manual for halo 1 and 2 - the halo 1 manual describes the mission being 2 days from readiness, but in halo reach, it is weeks before cortana is ready for deployment and also halo reach does not mention this operation at all and all we see are spartans wasting their effort and lives on a losing battle instead of just trying to get the fuck out of therethe scale of reach's industrial capacity - retconned by making it look like a back-water shithole with 1 or 2 shipyards and a bunch of cabbage gardensthere were barely any ships in orbit despite it being one of the most important strongholds in the unsc's arsenalteleportersinvisible covenant super duper mega shipreach taking weeks to fall no super macs - the entire crux of the battle of reach in the fall of reach and first strike was keeping them online just like halo 2ONI being sus - they went from being recon to being spooky for the sake of melodramanukes being rare on a unsc stronghold world - they are a dime a dozen in the books and every ship has them so they could have just got nukes from the pillar of autumnscarabs being invincible - in halo 2 they are mission-killed by pelican weapons-fire and then finished off from insidespartan 3s having mjolnir - book lorecortana picked someone other than chief grunts speaking gibberish - skin marcus lehto alivecovenant emp tech before halo 3 - fine as a gameplay gimmick but it shouldn't be acknowledged by the dialoguecovenant jamming tech - would have helped them a lot in other halo gamescovenant opsec - only comms between the high prophets were ever encrypted, everything else, even tactical data, was broadcast unencryptedbrutes with energy shields before halo 3 - contact harvest loresuicide grunts - only started doing that after the brutes took over
>>579237701so nothing relevant.
AI got that one above.
I'm gay.
We know Gobiin.
terminated post above
I like sus ONI, not the 343 one of course
I'm bi actually.
>>579239182it's exactly the same ONI 343 usesmelodramatic garbage for unthinking goy slaves
>>579234223>Patching the AR was such a dumb move.Nah.>The game just isn't as fun now.Lol, care to substantiate that?>For the first time in Halo history the AR was actually worth picking upaaaand stopped reading.You sound like one of those retards that think the SAW is good game design.
>>579240004you know ball
>>579240004How could you even make an LMG for Halo that is not a straight upgrade to the AR, but also doesn't introduce any new mechanics.
>>579239582>it's exactly the same ONI 343 usesnah
>>579237701how many retcons did bungie do from CE to H3?
>>579241980very often and thats a good thing
Is we playing Halo or can I finish MGS4 tonight?
>>579243824sorry i'm busy bros gonna drink and consume painkillers haha
>>579240004The AR "nerf" is fine, but the SAW is in fact good game design.
So that new Steam leak...what are the chances there's anything Halo related there?
>>579247670what
>>579248815Every game file uploaded by devs on Steam from 2003 up to 2012 got leaked. Almost 13TB worth of files, that includes every version of every game released throughout that period.
>>5792476700%.
>>579247670zero
>>579245379>the SAW is in fact good game designit's way too OP for having no serious tradeoffIf the reload time was like 4x longer it would maybe be ok
>>579251782You have so much ammo and do so much damage that the reload basically doesn't matter. Even if you spawned it with 0 spare ammo you'd still get 4-5 kills with it.
It's so easy to rile you up.
:'(
yall balls in my sack
>page 10all my friends are gone
im still here!
carry the torch anon I'll be gone soon
okay, see you tomorrow!!
yeah, tomorrow
pls no
>>579249361Wouldn't that help piracy? Source?
>>579267379He doesn't mention on Valve games because those hadn't been discovered yet at the time of the tweet. https://x.com/gabefollower/status/2093806496534446200
its over
its what, over
it's finished
Is this the halo thread?
>>579270013Ip grabber, DO NOT CLICK
>>579277683Nintendo.... HIRE THIS MAN!!!!
>>579277683>>579277841DLSS ON
>>579277841I remember a few Custom Edition maps where the Master Chief actually kinda looked like this.Might have been early Open Sauce times when when people just shoved the CE textures through a normal map filter and put them back in game.
>>579278160Yes, it is the unreleased DLSS 5 that modders found. CE, 2 and 3 looks incredibly cursed
>>579277683Reach was quite a pretty game for me, some buildings from the outside, some residential areas, but especially skyboxes and landscapes far away. Places where you would want to live or visit.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention I'm Mexican if that matters btw
Marty way to play Halo Trilogy.>Halo - Original Xbox - HD AV cable - Enable Dolby Digital in the Xbox dashboard- Sony Trinitron TV- Xbox sound class tags, which are intended for the Sensaura sound chip on the Xbox- Original Xbox soundscape>Halo 2- Original Xbox - HD AV cable - Enable Dolby Digital in the Xbox dashboard- Sony Trinitron TV - Xbox sound class tags, which are intended for the Sensaura sound chip on the Xbox- Original Xbox soundscape- 720p mod, 128mb RAM and 1.4 GHz CPU are optional- MCC audio is bugged>Halo 3, ODST and Reach - Original Xbox 360 - Xenon, Opus, Zephyr, Falcon, or Jasper- Set your console to “Dolby Digital 5.1” in System. Make sure your receiver supports Dolby Digital- Sony Trinitron TV - Xbox 360’s XAudio API - XAudio 2 audio API for Xbox 360Enjoy the music.
>playing at an unstable 30fps in 2026Lmao no.
>>579241980johnson being alive - nylund did it at bungie's requestthe pillar of autumn being a modern ship - uses the marathon class model in the halo 2 intro cutscenearbiter and miranda getting back to earth before chief - chief begins his journey back to earth while arbiter and miranda don't even have a ship yetthe elites don't have grunts or hunters as allies.50 cal and rockets rape scarabs - didn't do a thing in halo 2, air support was requiredteleporting on forerunner installations - this vanishes in halo 3 without explanationGuilty Spark trades teleporting for a laser - would've been helpful for him in halo 1, they added this for melodramaTerminals - full of bizarre rebellious shit like implying forerunners are a different species in the same game where an expert in the subject outright declares humans to be forerunnersmarines are jobbers - in halo 2, marines kick the shit out of the flood and covenant but in halo 3, they are completely useless and have to be rescued all the timenot much else really. ODST was where the retcons started to get a bit crazy and that was just because Bungie were strapped for time. Doesn't excuse them though. Retcons for the sake of melodrama are unforgivable.
>>579281550>arbiter and miranda getting back to earth before chief - chief begins his journey back to earth while arbiter and miranda don't even have a ship yetMakes more sense when you realize that slipspace was instant teleportation in 2 and 3.MC was knocked unconscious for a bunch of hours and they teleported back to UNSC space.
>>579281550What did ODST retcon?
>>579281961no, you misunderstand. there's a missing segment from halo 2 or 3 where the arbiter and miranda secure some kind of transport to get off the ring
>>579281475halo runs at 30fps, everything else is just fake visual interpolation Halo 5 was originally coded for 60FPS, with almost no code to adjust things for higher framerates
>>579281550that's goodlore are meant to be bench
>>579281961makes sense.tho its really obvious when you think about it
>>579281550>not much else really. ODST was where the retcons started to get a bit crazy and that was just because Bungie were strapped for time. Doesn't excuse them though. Retcons for the sake of melodrama are unforgivable.ODST ironically is mostly Halo 2's cut ideas quickly put together in 8 months>Resembles the Halo 2 E3 2003 Demo>Dark tone like Halo 2's original dark tone and story>Silenced SMG and silenced pistol from Halo 2>Engineers >Joe wanted ODST POV like Another Day At The Beachhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYDklklJYog>ODST is mainly the cast of Firefly, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, and Alan Tudyk because Joe wanted another season>Buck being girl bossed by Dare, just the way Joe likes it>sold for 60$
>>579287838kys
Something has awakened.
Beginningless
And by something I mean....my penis of course.
sloppa
>>579288090syk
Halo 3 be like
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3671811558wtf
>>579306559buy an ad
buy an ad forms
You're an embarrassment
>>579306519Just Miranda's one liner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DMLhNLXwg
>>579312092buy an ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkVzPitp1UCraig...
>>579167321With this pic I definitely agree. I never played through H2A though.
>>579308746I like CE and 2, but for different reasons. 3 is less interesting to me, not a consolefag either, so I only got to play it fairly recently.Reach has some things I really like, but can be annoying in other ways.ODST is just ok.Didn't play 4, 5 or Infinite, Halo Wars, but I like Escharum and Atriox, either for memes or for their potential to be good characters (343 wasted it).Didn't read any of Halo novels besides the Flood.
>>579315254more layoffs are needed
>>579292018mass dev suicide
>>579315254Escharum is memed precisely because he's a bad character
>>579315915I wouldn't know how good or bad he is in overall story, but he is written in a kind of cool way and seems more interesting than pretty much all other antagonists, besides the Flood maybe, but Flood is best not explained. He just has certain charisma and character that makes it work. That said, I think they probably made Banished too much into generic bad guys/pirates/mercs. That's not so interesting, Escharum as portrayed in Infinite probably doesn't make sense as Atriox's mentor when you think of it. But still, character is fun.
post above does not know ball
we are winning again
no we're not
"no we're n-ACK!"
Minto's orders are that you should be brought before her. She did not specify in how many pieces...
forced
i never played infinite but i used to escharumpost a lot back in the day
adjacentbias..........
Forerunners should have ignored, no AI uprising either. If you look at the state of factions, most sensible plot would be about post Covenant break up wars. Within species themselves (insurrections among covenant species and humans), and between different species. Maybe add new threats.
Were covenants really were a metaphor for Islamist jihadist?
>>579312092>muh victimhoodWe're not bullying conservative cis-gendered heterosexual white men enough.
>>579322165It's same shit with Star Wars. Writers being uncreative and perhaps more importantly normalfags want more of the same bullshit, so sequels end up as shitty rehashes of OT, when it makes no sense, because at the end of OT political situation on the map changed, it make no sense to have notEmpire to be there again, instead of many splinter factions.Same with Halo, they bring back the Chief, instead of Flood we do have new big bad attempts from Promethean and AI, done poorly. Covenant is still there as "Covenant", instead of being splinter factions of various Covenant species.Same bullshit, and it's not completely the fault of execs, it's also normalfag audiences, that would screech, bitch, moan shit and piss if you didn't make it a rehash.Garbage in, garbage out.
>>579322845but doing that is what got us to this state
Adorabird gives me the ick.
reminder that the Escharum spammer got caught confessing his crimes to sanicfags
>>579325484what crimes?
>she thinks there was only one escharumspammer
>>579312092Can bungie halo devs go one week without embarrassing themselves?
>>579325484what spammer?
>>579325484what escharum?
Halo reach is my favorite game
>>579332354cool
>>579177115Halo peaked in artstyle with Halo 2. Brutes should have retained this look rather than basically devolving into being space orcs but with fur. Sometimes they are even clean shaven. They actually looked like more than just a basic monke or orc.
complain all you'd like about Campaign Evolved, at least it isn't this...
>Still Midnight is audio onlylol, not opening that. At least the text made it easy to just zoom through it. Bye.
>>579335060Cortana, what exactly are we looking at?
>>579340617That, is another AIslop
>>579306519CYBERPUNK 2077
>>579306519Borderlands 3
>>579277683Now do it with this Kat model
she was captured and tamed by elites
Halo is in control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRHLWddYdQ
>>579335060>>579340617That looks like a... MAN
>>579352613Not Halo.
>>579308746I played everything in MCC blindly with friends this year and liked everything until Halo 4, which made me not give a shit about anything 343 made because of how malaise ridden it wasYour argument was over before it even began considering your image has a stojak however
>>579277683Is this that leaked DLSS 5 thing? I want to see what the Pillar of Autumn in Reach looks like
