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Halo |OT2| Master Chief for Smash
- Thread starter FUNKNOWN iXi
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Anyone else let this bad habit get them in trouble? I couldn't really even understand what happened at first...
I always thought the Halo 4/5 spartan armor looked too sleek/power rangers esque.
Buck looks good. Tanaka ok. Some of it is way to sleek looking
I think Locke's design looks great.
I always thought the Halo 4/5 spartan armor looked too sleek/power rangers esque.
Buck looks good. Tanaka ok. Some of it is way to sleek looking
It's like a fighter jet to the Chief's tank-like design.
When a spartan is tasked with infiltrating a gaggle of grunts...
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Yeah, had to stop doing that many years ago for this reason lol.
I mean were it not for all the fucking pouches and bandoliers, it would be a solid improvement. Right now he looks like a Liefeld drawing lmao
Regarding Halo CE's graphical fixes from the latest MCC update, are there still any outstanding issues that haven't been addressed?
Looks like they got the big ones, transparency effects and bumpmaps, but anything else?
I did notice that the dirt texture on T&R looked sort of flat without a lightsource revealing all it's bumpiness, but that's about it.
Looks like they got the big ones, transparency effects and bumpmaps, but anything else?
I did notice that the dirt texture on T&R looked sort of flat without a lightsource revealing all it's bumpiness, but that's about it.
Multipurpose maps are still kinda fucked, instead of checking and replacing all of them with the Xbox ones they just seemed to target the most noticeable cases when pretty much all of them are just black thanks to whatever tool Gearbox was using, don't think they realise that they're all broke which is why it was missed. Other than that they've got some sort of regression in the way interpolation applies to certain animated textures, it worked properly in the flight but the full patch seemed to break it somehow and now things like the little animated console behind Keyes don't animate at the correct rate.
> Will not make or break the franchise
Xbox says Halo Infinite will not ‘make or break’ the franchise | VGC
“Halo will be here 10 years from now” regardless of how Infinite is received…www.videogameschronicle.com
> Spends 6 years to make a game that plays it as safe as possible
I always thought the Halo 4/5 spartan armor looked too sleek/power rangers esque.
Buck looks good. Tanaka ok. Some of it is way to sleek looking
Wasn't a fan of them, all too sleek and/or overdesigned for my liking. I think Buck, Tanaka, and Locke's could be salvaged with the Infinite art style, but Vale doesn't even look like she's from Halo. Buck's is probably the best, but his helmet has that weird thing around it that looks like a neck pillow.
Good to know. Progress so far has been good to see, and the major bugs seem to have been ironed out.
Strange about the maps you mention, I noticed on TSC, the glowy Forerunner animated textures still aren't glowing properly. Is that what you're referring to, or when you say maps, the BSP structures in the .map files?
this video also does a good job of highlighting things that were fixed and some things that still are not fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofbdbfSSs4
Really? Odd Vales armor is probably my favourite armor set in the whole franchise lol
I don't even think bulky is the right word. Some were downright bulbous.
Vale I think sells well as a really cutting-edge prototype for, and I think this is important, an expert on aliens. It looks alien, which is good for her. Maybe not super applicable to the general population of Spartans, though.
Bulbous is definitely the word I'd use for the more out-there H4/5 looks.
It's a personal bias for sure, I'm the kind of guy who wouldn't mind let's say Blue Team being slight variations of Chief's armor. Never been a fan of armor that deviates too far from the core of Mjolnir design, even if it is a reflection of said character. If she is in Infinite they should give her Anubis if they care about lore parallels.
Well, the S2s are kind of a different ballgame. I'd agree that they should all look pretty much like Chief. Lore accurate and all that.
In regard to S4s I like the direction 343i is going with them overall in Infinite, but I prefer the armor to look more practical and "Halo" than more out there for actual characters, which is what I mean in terms of my dislike for Vale's. But like I said, I'm biased cause I really dislike a vast majority of 343i's designs.
Is the Podium Finish challenge buggier than I think it is? Just finished top 3 in 2 straight matchmade SWAT games and I haven't unlocked it.
That was a very solid video, thank you.
Amazing at all the little details that are still missing. The snow on Sidewinder, transparent rocks, swaying trees!
For the first generation, presumably with hefty R&D costs. Iteration and investment over time would bring those down. Fast forward a few decades and there was like what, a couple of months between Chief getting Mark V and Mark VI? And then GEN2 came shortly after the war. At least they stuck with it for a few years, imagine all the supersoldiers pushing 50 having to reinstall their apps and adjust settings on a new suit of armour every 6 months.
After Halo 3, the UNSC experienced a boom due to Forerunner tech, shared learning with Sangheili allies, and black market deals from the budding piracy trade (though that's more the colonies). They also were intent on no longer being the weakest civ out there anymore tech-wise.
Forerunner tech is main reason though I think, humanity happens to come across a lot of it and are generally the only ones who can use it since it unlocks for their genes.
Multipurpose maps don't refer to maps as in levels, it's a type of shader Halo uses for detail masking, diffuse, specularity and colour modulation. They are all governed by RGBA, but when Gearbox converted the assets over whatever compression it had or some bug in the tools made all of them turn completely black so they were technically in the game just not properly visible as a result.
Imagining some zoomer spartan 4 teaching chief how to grapple
Chief "Bleh back in my day we would use physics glitches to get to these hard to reach places"
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Has there been any word on fall damage yet? I really don't want to worry about messing up my grapple and flying half way down the mountain to my doom.
No fall damage seemingly happens to the Spartan that grappled to the roof and pulled off that no scope and then fell the entire height of Recharge.
Fall damage in campaign seems counter to how 343 would want you to explore the levels. An unneeded restriction.
Ahhh, interesting. Thank you for the explanation with that. Hopefully those will get fixed in the future.
On one hand this is a bit of self promo but on the other, we are giving away that absolute fire Master Chief statue so I thought I would share so anyone who wants one can enter.
I routinely face the same squads in MCC and it has a much larger pop than H5. So I can't even imagine H5 anymore. lol
So I've seen people talk about putting the flag on your back but I haven't seen anyone mention that it's your team's flag. My theory is you can carry your own flag back to base to return. I think sprint kind of breaks the old system with opponents spawning and sprinting towards the dropped flag so this would help mitigate that.
Of all of the things to get me to revisit Halo, the recent Digital Foundry detailing the restoration of the some of the original graphics and effects of the classic presentation of Halo is what got me to re-download Master Chief Collection on my Series X. This is the first time I've played it on Series X, and in fact the first time I've tried to play MCC at all since ODST got added to it back on Xbox One.
I'm hooked again. Everything I'm experiencing, just starting with Halo and moving forward, is hitting just right for me at the moment. This feels absolutely glorious.
Good to be back. I need to dive some deeper lore with this current wave I'm riding, too.
Oddly enough, I've been quietly anticipating Halo Infinite but I don't think any Halo Infinite marketing has contributed to this current vibe at all. I legit had no interest in revisiting classic Halo at all until I watched DF's video. What a peculiar way to re-trigger Halo excitement.
I'm hooked again. Everything I'm experiencing, just starting with Halo and moving forward, is hitting just right for me at the moment. This feels absolutely glorious.
Good to be back. I need to dive some deeper lore with this current wave I'm riding, too.
Oddly enough, I've been quietly anticipating Halo Infinite but I don't think any Halo Infinite marketing has contributed to this current vibe at all. I legit had no interest in revisiting classic Halo at all until I watched DF's video. What a peculiar way to re-trigger Halo excitement.
Try Solo/DuoQ Team Arena. I had 55% win rate with K/D just under 1 over 150 games combined from Winter and Spring 2021 Seasons. Haven't played since then because I finished the last challenge for Magnum skins.
Since Spring 2020 matchmaking in Halo 5 is set up in such a way to let everyone play, disregarding fairness. During Spring 2018-Spring 2020, matches in most playlists had to comply with 60/40 rule, lower skilled team had to have to at least 40% chance to win. With that gone, full parties can now always find matches and ruin your day. No full parties in SoloQ Team Arena.
Oh please no. Halo has enough greifers as it is, I can just see people taking the flag and never returning it back to base.