Twinreaper

To be fair, Windows 8 is just as stable as Windows 7. Granted yes, the 8 UI is better suited to tablets, but Pro allows you to rollback to the older UI. Also you can find various tutorials for adding a "windows" style start button to the toolbar, to help you out.

Nice find LilDog.....ive been waiting for this kind of news. I can finally stop playing the past episodes like50 times each...lol

Sounds like you may have a registry problem or a nasty rootkit. If its anrootkit, system restore wont help, and most avs dont catch them. I use only Spybot and Avast! And never ojce ran into an issue. i also quad boot winxp, win 7, win 8 and Linux U. I also recommend getting an external hdd. Its quite cheap as you can find ide type hdds on ebay for real.cheap. enclosures are not usually more than $20

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If it is hardrive related, I would be happy to asist you. If you can get Teamviewer to work, I can remotely diagnose the issues and probably offer alternative fixes at far less than half these 3rd or 1st party repair companies. Let me know man

Soldier, while you may greatly enjoy Halo, you enjoy it for the gameplay. I like many others, have a huge problem.with Halo 4 and the development of the title. It was shipped with more flaws than I have found in any other Halo title. Gameplay in-game and development holes are 2 completely seperate beasts. In all I do enjoy playing through campaign, but I do fail to enjoy MM.as they have stripped the playlists I love...things like Grifball, Hockey, Big Team Objective, KOTH.... But Ibrespect your view and do see your points.

Since content is of a mature nature at times, two words... Marilyn Manson

I have to ask real quick to confirm a theory... Do you by any chance have your Halo 4 profile and game data using Cloud Storage?

ZB? Who are you again? Nahhh just kidding man. Here is looking forward to another year of good old fashion Shoutbox hijinx to come! Happy Anniversary bud!

Welcome! Ps... Watch that paw Syko extended...you can never be too sure where it has been....

Stealth Moose? Is your brother Invisible Elephant? Just kidding man. Welcome to the forums!

Zed....Zed.......nope. Not remembering any Zed. And Im pretty sure I would remember a taco.....

By far the biggest thing that changed the community was Halo 4. Tbh, there isnt much going on in the world of Halo right now to keep us distracted or.focused. A year and a half ago we were playing Reach and enjoying awesome playlists that were rotated with frequency. Not to mention the Halo 4 prerelease hooplah and panels plus RvB. Right now we are in a non supportive lul. Hopefully once 343i gets a better handle on things and gears shift to solid kew Halo news....the funk will break. We just need to keep ourselves focused and try not to go stir crazy.

I like that I havent been banned yet.

This thread is not meant for discussion on the games themselves. Keep it on track with what you agree with and what you dont with my OP. Any other off topic post will be reported and deleted. This thread is about the community only.... Halo2man, I love the idea of spreading this around. Unfortunatly I dont get a lot of time to browse so I saw this late. I would love for you to post the OP on as mqny sites as possible. But make it annonomous. Attaching where it came from and who made it may discredit or downplay the overall message. Needless to say....I hqve made many enemies over my 13 year Halo career.

Yes you can Cop. You may also want to check out the THFE section as it is dedicated to forgers. Enjoy your stay and dont be a stranger!

Sounds like a small.filesharing glitch. Best option would be to go into your base local file folder and save a whole new clip. If you see an option for stopping or deleting the older clip, use it. Now I havent done any clipnsharing or uploading in 4, so this is just a best guess.

First off, I don't see a need to hash this out yet again. But, I will repsond none the less. I'm sorry dude, but what do you expect? Shall we roll out the red carpet and 5 star treatment for the literal 100's of new members we get every day? I'm sorry not everyone drops everything they are doing right away for someone they don't know. Case in point...do you go to a party and go around to every new person you dont know and initiate a conversation with each and every one? Chances are...no you don't. The internet and our shoutbox is no different. if a new member comes in, it is up to that new member whether or not to engage and become a full member and interact with others. Forcing them to by hounding them with convo can be seen as hostile and intimidate them. As for you poor ecuse for an example about the ahrsh treatment above there with smilies and what not...again, show the whole convo...not just edited out omitted sections to try and make a point. If someone goes off and spams smilies 3 to 6 times straight without engaging in any convo behind those, that is spamming. Anytime I normally see someone use a smilie, it is directed at someone or follows some kind of convo. As for equality...I have been throwing that around for a long time. And you know what, it makes me sick to see others just now all of the sudden stand up and act like they are revieling some sort of eye opening experience for our members to be a part of. Where the hell was all this support back when I started out? Yeah you allt alked a good game and liked it, and signed on board...but where did you take it? Oh that's right, half of you now only stand up and cry when an inner circle member gets butt hurt for some of the bull**** they pull. You want a real look at the community, I will give it to you...unbiased and unsided. Don't like it, we have a delete account button for that. As far as I am concerned, all you whiney school kids in the circle can elave and not come back. By the time you delete your accounts, we will have 10 more members to replace you. I'm so tired of seeing these threads about conspiracies, and circles and all this other over the top crap. Enough is enough. The only problem i see is people rehashing the same old argument and stirring the already choppy waters with their own unique or like minded group mentality. Change doesn't happen by forcing it down peoples throat, and nor does spamming these types of posts on everyone. Change will happen when people get over the last few instances we had. bringing them up daily isn't going to help that, it's going to cause the opposite effect frankly...

Dont spread rumors or lies. It was NOT confirmed and both CA and 343 stated clearly they do not plan to support at anytime, and title older than Halo4 besides Reach. If your gonna confirm.things likebthis, back it up.with a link...

Nice one man. Bloom ahs been in halo in every game...why can't people still accept that...and yes, that was directed to you Fraggy. Bloom was just visualized for you on the HUD rather than in the projectile contrail itself like it was in 1,2,3 and ODST. And yes, CoD has the formula right. They don't make drastic changes, and because the game is predictable in terms of mechanics, players will always flock to somethign they can COUNT ON. You can't bash a series that outsells Halo, and make bold statements about how CoD players are weak, stupid, unskilled etc...without properly addressing the root causes that halo has first. To a CoD player, Halo has no skill and is weak in comparison. In the end, CoD has and always seem to outsell Halo. There is a reason. You don't have to like it, but you cannot dispute facts and the overall sales volume and population of a title. CoD unfortuntaly is > Halo.

Can't be done. The widgets for the HUD are locked and are not able to be edited. The source for all HUD resides in the globals.globals tag which is locked in either the mainmenu or shared.map files. Editing or allowing the editing of this would em an that players would need to be able to create new encryption signatures to map files, and the map files would have to be the same all across the board. Only solution would be giving each specific helmet it's own HUD attachment. Good idea though, I always have wanted to have my own personal hud over LIVE and not just locally modded.

The BR coupled with it's z-up recoil and 3 shot burst makes it hard to master in this one. It operates nothing like the BR of old and requires a lot more skill and lower sensativity to master. As they have said already, try using a low sensativity first and progessively move up. FOr me, I can't seem to use it as good as I still do in Halo 2. Since I can't seem to find my nitch, I just stick with the DMR. Funny thing is, I couldn't use it to save my life in Reach, but it's my go to weapon now.

Here is the biggest problem with the two games. CoD contains a usual present or past time story behind it. Because the story doesn't involve weird aliens or evolved human timelines of weapons....the game remains relatively the same so the storyline and characters never get lost or jumbled or even stretch far too past it's own meaning. Halo on the other hand has been continuing a story that already started in the future. Because each game is showcasing a new amount of recovered or discovered tech from Forerunners or Earth scientists....the gameplay and new features have to be added to keep that story going. Halo kinda can't really stay in the same mode as it had with Halo 2 or Halo 3. If it stayed fundamentally the same in terms of mechanics or gameply...the player wouldn't really feel as if a reasonable amount of progression has been made in the timelines. I mean c'mon..... could you imagine what it would be like trying to tackle those damn Promethian Knights WITHOUT the aid of some of the AA's and sprint? Seriously...go play legendary and don't use any AA or sprint for the whole game, then come back and say how easy it is without them. Halo will always have to evolve the gameplay to meet the story standard and expectations of fans. Just not all changes are going to be accepted. We are going through a new generation of gamer right now, one that is light years away from the ones I have seen in my youth. For most of the older 1st gen and 2nd gen gamers...Halo will never measure up.

Halo 2 Vista is no longer a supported product by Microsoft. They ended official support about 9 months after it was released. As for the server issues...if some servers are locked, that is because the host is only allowing friends or players by invite only. My advise to you...start hosting a server yourself to avoid some of those headaches. As fro other issues, you can always hit me up or my team the H2MT over at Monstrmoose for some serious official map making endorsed support. To my knowledge we are the only team to ever be acknowledged and have out team advertised on the official Xbox Halo 2 page.

So what you want added is soemthing similar to the teleport weapon from UT? If I understand correctly. It could work...but I can't be sure on that one. Typically, teleporters area special netgame flag that has to be set on it's own as a "netgame" flag and cannot be attached to a weapon as an effect. Again, not 100% on this one, but I like it. It would add a few new aspects if you could lay a couple down and move kinda like Promethian Knights...