That's brilliant, and resonates because I also had a moment trying to Spike Grenade the Hammer towards me whilst a teammate swooped in with a grapple.Reddit - Dive into anything
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this is peak Halo comedy
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This brought back so many memories of playing halo 3.. this game is gonna be something special.Reddit - Dive into anything
this is peak Halo comedy
Last night some guy finished me with a melee me at an awkward angle from above as I jumped up towards him and the game interpreted it as a ninja and announced it to the whole server in big yellow letters on the killfeed. Didn't need to be done dirty like that. 😪
accidentally took a BR that a teammate was waiting for, looked at them, dropped it at their feet and then we both humped the ground in celebration. great addition
It's definitely a cool addition. At the risk of making it too complicated, could be interesting if holding the Drop button brought up a radial where you can drop whatever is in your inventory: either weapon, equipment, grenades.
I don't like the idea of slowing down the pace but if you can drop weapons, why not other stuff too?
What was the plan with the normal grenade? :D LOLReddit - Dive into anything
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Yea, I was in a party with Phil. It was good times. Played against some bots afterwards. Had to drop out before they started playing The Ascent.
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Good spot to stop playing. Really wished I could've gotten to 20 kills, but oh well.
Can't really run around aimlessly against the spartan bots, but they're far from difficult still. The difference between the first bots and these feels kind of minimal to me, to be honest. PvP will of course be the main thing in the final release, but I do hope they'll continue working on these bots.
Can't go back to bots after PvP last night lol... think its time to finally return the xbox I stole for this 😞
Have any of you Halo vets checked out Splitgate? Wondering if that might scratch the itch for the next few months
Have any of you Halo vets checked out Splitgate? Wondering if that might scratch the itch for the next few months
Sort of, it's got a bit faster time to kill I think. But it's enjoyable.
The annoying thing is that it's hard to play ATM with the queue times. So MCC is probably the best thing to scratch the itch until Splitgate adds more server capacity.
Has there been any coverage about the bot AI? Be interested to know if they're using anything like Drivatar for them.
No because the queue to play is always over an hour since they're capped at 65k concurrent players.
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Yeah, it effectively lessens camping. It takes away a vital piece of information, the argument that it makes camping more effective is not really true.
Thing is, it's better for casual play too. When you're going up against competent (note I said competent, not necessarily competitive) Halo players in casual play, do you really want them to know your every move when approaching a battle? Did you really enjoy crouch walking around slowly just so you won't appear on a radar? Because when you spawn with an AR/Pistol and the enemy team has BR's and range weapons, that's what you'll have to do to approach.
The reality is that's nearly anyone who's played a Halo game before and doesn't just play it like CoD (run straight to action, fight/die, repeat).
I actually hadn't considered this. I really like that not sprinting means your not visible on radar unless you shoot or you're spotted/marked but the idea that it will actually help alleviate some camping since you can't just stare at the radar the whole time which is great.
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They're only rewarding the Fire Unicorn nameplate to select people, there's nothing for the rest of the people who played in the preview.
Ah fair enough. I got a Steaktacular against all the bot types, that's enough for me.
The Nameplate is just a way to highlight community members who do something special, it's something that can still bee earned post Tech Preview but it's not earnable by any and everyone
From a casual standpoint I think the following should be fixed with radar.
1. Footsteps being louder. I don't need radar in Apex because you can generally tell where someone is. Listening to footsteps has been seen as a tryhard thing in the CoD days but games like Apex have shown it can be a consciously designed and mixed very well. I like that the mixing prioritizes people shooting at you but you shouldn't mute all other sounds because of that.
2. Increase the range. The radar is nerfed already. Make it classic Halo range.
1. Footsteps being louder. I don't need radar in Apex because you can generally tell where someone is. Listening to footsteps has been seen as a tryhard thing in the CoD days but games like Apex have shown it can be a consciously designed and mixed very well. I like that the mixing prioritizes people shooting at you but you shouldn't mute all other sounds because of that.
2. Increase the range. The radar is nerfed already. Make it classic Halo range.
got in one final game after work which was nice. Not sure if its working any more or if im just struggling locally but either way I had a lot of fun with it.
ill happily leave the beta on my machine if I can go listen to that amazing music whenever I want.
ill happily leave the beta on my machine if I can go listen to that amazing music whenever I want.
Was able to sneak in a match at 12:58PM EST
That was a fun ass flight and I am so pumped to play more
That was a fun ass flight and I am so pumped to play more
I really enjoyed my time with halo infinite so far. I really hope this test is a small slice and not some destiny beta thing where what we are seeing is a good chunk of the game.
my only gripe about the game is the way incoming bullets look. Idk if it was pistol shots or what but they looked like pellets or something. I could be crazy but something always looked strange to me.
I still hope we get the halo shotgun everybody knows. The bulldog is great but not nearly as satisfying. Bulldog seems like a low tier power weapon.
my only gripe about the game is the way incoming bullets look. Idk if it was pistol shots or what but they looked like pellets or something. I could be crazy but something always looked strange to me.
I still hope we get the halo shotgun everybody knows. The bulldog is great but not nearly as satisfying. Bulldog seems like a low tier power weapon.
Only appear when sprinting/shooting vs. at all times in past games.
Had a great time with the Flight, especially when they opened up player v player. Looking forward to the next one and will look out for a survey.
Sad to see the flight gone, but I'm very excited to see the post-flight report from 343 to get their perspective on what worked and what they need to change/improve for the next flight and for final release.
This thread has flown by, so I'm sure I missed it, but is there anywhere to give direct feedback to 343i on the flight? I know we've got a survey coming in soon, but didn't know if there was an email, discord, etc. forums for dropping thoughts and such into. (This was my first flight).
Outside of Spartan Ops, this is my first real foray into Halo PVP in a looong time (Reach, to be precise). Halo 4 MP and Halo 5 MP never appealed to me; after playing through the series since CE (and a crap-ton of games in H2, H3, and Reach) they just didn't scratch that itch (and I'm mostly moved over to co-op/PVE focused games as I've gotten older and can't hang with the skills of those 20 years my junior). I have to say, I really enjoyed this. I know 343i has struggled making something that feels both referential to the past Halos but also new and modern, and I think they have definitely struck gold here. It feels different from BF, CoD, Destiny, etc., and even different than previous Halos, but in a good way. I never thought I'd be ok with sprint in Halo PVP, but it felt like it worked here. Sure, some weapons could use some tweaks, but for a first pass on an unoptimized build, I'm impressed.
While I've mostly moved on to Destiny, I'll always have a soft spot in my heard for the Halo franchise, and this flight has given me hope that the next game will be great and that the future of Halo will be solid.
Outside of Spartan Ops, this is my first real foray into Halo PVP in a looong time (Reach, to be precise). Halo 4 MP and Halo 5 MP never appealed to me; after playing through the series since CE (and a crap-ton of games in H2, H3, and Reach) they just didn't scratch that itch (and I'm mostly moved over to co-op/PVE focused games as I've gotten older and can't hang with the skills of those 20 years my junior). I have to say, I really enjoyed this. I know 343i has struggled making something that feels both referential to the past Halos but also new and modern, and I think they have definitely struck gold here. It feels different from BF, CoD, Destiny, etc., and even different than previous Halos, but in a good way. I never thought I'd be ok with sprint in Halo PVP, but it felt like it worked here. Sure, some weapons could use some tweaks, but for a first pass on an unoptimized build, I'm impressed.
While I've mostly moved on to Destiny, I'll always have a soft spot in my heard for the Halo franchise, and this flight has given me hope that the next game will be great and that the future of Halo will be solid.
