Twinreaper

This is one I have been personally waiting for. Great interview and great personal insight into yourself man..top notch

What? Halo 4 is a broken half assed piece of turd? Nahhh... it's fine we have better things to do.. Oh wait, someone made a sexists comment?!? ban them!!! Lets get on this and give it full studio and marketing/publication support! Yeah they have nothing better to do than be interviewed and track with laser vision...the out of control sexists comments on Live? There are literally hundreds of things they could be doing instead to improve the game. And Live behavior isn't one of them.

Anyone biching about the gauss must not have played Halo 2 or 3 very often. Its a one hit kill turretband even very close proximity will send you flying without shields or the splash damage will kill you. It has the same damage paramaters as all previous titles except for the firing spped. And lets be honest...for someone to be deadly accurate with it in a moving hog plus its horrible no center mark reticule.....the user has serious skill. As stated before, counter it properly.

I find it quite funny how some of you claim Halo 2 was "not a Halo" and that it's changes were bad. Halo 2 is was started off Halo into the profitable green-line that has lead us to a 7th installment of the game. The needler in Halo 2 was just as annoying as it has been in every title. The rate of fire and tracking on the needler projectiles has never changed at all. Need to see the weapon data for the tags...I got that. As for the glitches about bounds glitching and super jumping, they were issues with the collision detection due to a not so 100% working modified Havok version 3.15. Those particular glitches were not easily detectable seeing as how they had no real beta process at the time. As for BXR or quad shooting, that was an issue with the codec used to play stored animations. By default animations using a #6 codec in Halo 2 should not have been able to have the animation sequence overidden. But because of a small 16 byte or so oversight, players could skipp it and what we got was the mess of a BR. Seriously dude, read what you wrote. Do you think these types of code bugs are easily fixed? Do you really think core issues with code could ahve been fixed with a patch? If you know anything about the Blam! engine at all, or even bothered to watch the various VidOCS about halo 2, you would know that fixing those things would have required a completely new set of discs to be printed and shipped. Now..on to the whole Halo Reach vs halo 4 aspect. Halo 4 was a failure in my eyes. Does that mean that i don't find a way to enjoy it...no. I have found various ways to enjoy the purchase I made. Does MM bother me at all with the playlists, loadouts, ordinance...not at all. In all the matches I have played, I have yet to be overpowered or spammed by ordinance or the Boltshot. As for MLG catering, no. The loadouts and custom ability perks gives players 6 different ways to boost stats. Jet pack was not really nerfed at all. Yes, you may not be able to use it as long, but it is still effective for it's purpose. Finally, for those who just like to spout off nonsense and call it facts, why don't you do yourself a favor and post up a video or something to prove your supposed facts? Oh that's right...most of you are too cool for school and don't have time to do it blah blah blah. Shut the **** up about things you have no clue about and only post **** that makes common sense or is fact. End rant.

Steam offers a wide variety or games, not just proprietary ones. Steam should be looked at as more of a Facebook gaming platform than a standalone company. Microsoft is wise to allow this feature since a lot of gamers who buy their Windows Games over Steam, may not even navigate to the MS site otherwise. Although, we did hear quite a lot about PC gaming in the form of Halo a couple years ago. Corrine Yu whom was or may very well still be, "The Principal Engine Architect" for halo, had contacted us over on Modacity about what we have done for Halo 1 PC. I would not be surprised to see something coming soon about a possible port of an older title, or maybe even a current one. 343 did say they have no plans to support any title beyond Reach...leaving 3 and ODST in the wind I'm afraid. ***edit*** after re-reading this, and looking at the shoutbox, I think you meant to say that this site allows Steam Log-in. In which case is just a good practice by Twam, as this site is not controlled or sponsored monitarily by 343 or Microsoft.

If you can secure an energy sword, you can easily strafe one and hit them from behind with the sword. Each hit stuns them a second and lets you continue to hit and stun them until they die...which is usually in 3 hits on legendary. Of coarse safely strafing or jumping over them is usually easier said then done for players whom are not acustom to hand to hand with hunters.

Just finished eating. I swear being drunk make me a better cook than anything! Dinner was awesome and plentifull....my mother-in-law would have been proud. We love you mom....this christmas was for you! Now time to move onto dessert. Oh btw....got my first successfull.double kill withba splqzer in big team today!!!!

- woke up at 7:30 - watched the kids open their gifts - first beer 8:00 -8:15 started prepping appetizers - 8:30 second beer - shower time/ had a good cry - 9:45 put turkey in - time for beer #3 - general.eatijg of snacks and mad dashes to local.store for salt and onions. - 10:30 to 2:00 just more eating and drinking -as of this posting, my father in law is here and we are finishing cooking. On about beer #13 - scratch that.....we are all crying right now. More to follow.

You missed my point completely about the structure of your posts. I was trying to give you a tip on how to come across as a serious poster. Posting a thread with no coherent structure or detailing each section will only illicit short, unstructured responses. You are quite obviously not of a normal brand of member, so as such I simply am trying to instruct you on how to stay above the rest in that fashion. Now, as you so politely asked, I have read the entire OP you posted and have formulated a response. I will be as detailed and structured as possible, so as to not confuse or mislead anyone... CoD is not a good comparison to Halo. I cannot understand why people consistently compare Halo's changes to CoD style of gameply. Here is a quick fact for you, Unreal Tourny had loadouts, power-ups and all the gametypes we enjoy in Halo, long before Halo was even thought of. KOTH, CTF, Assault, Oddball...yup, UT had that. They also had power-up pickups that you could use at any time you wanted to use it, similar to AA's and Halo 3's equipment. Fact is, CoD and Halo BOTH contain basic groundbreaking features that were first placed in UT. If your going to continue to compare Halo to CoD, then so be it. But may I first suggest that you properly research the titles that have preceded both before you make a truly factual comparison. As for your view on BXR.....it was a glitch not a hack or a cheat. A cheat implies a third party add-on or manipulation of files to achieve and effect. The BXR was an animation skipping glitch that was part of the core "codec 2" programming. There was no way to effectively fix it since scripting did not sync on-line, and a core fix would have required new game files to be distributed...something a simple patch could not achieve. I will say however that I do not like the "scoped" in status when you receive damage. This is the first Halo to feature a "staying scoped" state when in battle. While this isn't that big of a change and rarely could it really effect a battle, I will say it does have a small impact, just not enough to warrant it to be fixed. As for flag dropping, that was taken out to inspire a more "teamwork" oriented gameplay environment. personally for me, if I am in a CTF match or an assault match, I would rather play cooperatively and rely on my team to provide cover, rather than play against a bunch of boosters and flag jugglers. 343 obviously listened and saw a lot of what was happening in those types of matches and made some changes. You are actually the first person I can remember posting in here complaining about the feature. I don't know what you are talking about here, but Bungie did not fail Halo. Halo was and only will be failed by it's fans. Bungie gave a lot to the community in terms of content and support. Not once have I ever heard of the "softcore" as you call it, hating Halo 2. Halo 2 is still loved and played today by tons of people. Yes the BXR is annoying at times, but most people, even MLG types frowned upon using it. That is a fact. IIRC, MLG stated strictly in the rules of combat, that super-bouncing and BXR style glitches instantly disqualified you during tournament play. Now that was quite some time ago so I may be wrong...but as far as I remember that holds true. Even today, I doubt MLG would allow the usage of button combos or glitches during a true competitive match. What's this about an extra $20? Not sure what that comment is about, but I would like to see you explain it. Halo 4 is not superior in graphics to Halo Reach or Halo 3. While yes the amount of on-screen poly's increased, the definition on rendering and textures is sub-par, and more along the lines of what we had in Halo 2. Just so you know, I am in the process of pulling texture data from the H4 map files so I can compare them to the other titles. Also I am compiling image renders of all titles so I can lay them out next to each-other just to illustrate once and for all how weak the graphical layer and shader post processing really is in Halo 4. The OP of the Binary Rifle is compensated by it's cool down and reload time. It's funny how someone like you, can laugh about the Boltshot not being OP I'm not sure how exactly the jetpack in your eyes breaks a map or the effort of the devs working on the map. If your going to illustrate that point, then show some proof as to how it breaks maps. Simply posting it does, does not make it so. As for the rest about the AA's, I simply just do not agree. That one is up to view and personal opinion. Ok so the spawn system yes, it's not perfect. but one of the biggest complaints you get during a lot of big battles, is the insane amount of time to respawn. 343 inplimented the instant resapwn to give people a better chance of coming back during defensive and offensive gametypes. Unfiortunatly, there is no way to have this feature without it being applied across all gametypes. Personally I have not had an issue at all with spawns. The only spawn issues I have is with Spartan OPs. getting respawned right in front of 6 elites, or being spawned 2 miles from where I died. I am not sure if your just unlucky or somethign else entirely... Ok so first off, quit using the term "sandbox". Sandbox is a dev term and in no way shape or form can you even begin to compare Forge to a "sandbox" in it's true form. As for Bungie failing altogether, do you care to showcase this? You have said that twice, that Bungie failed at halo, yet you have not given any clear structured detail into this. If you can't back up a claim like that, then don't post it. A true skill hasn't been added to the game yet. As it is now, your BPR is used to determine who your get paired up with. BPR can be viewed on HaloWaypoint in your service record. That's not to say that the system they will employ is going to be good....we just don't know yet. Fighting over map control and weapons is still in-play. You can't spawn with power weapons, I quite frankly I have not seen or heard a whole lot of people here complain about ordinance drops. I can probably go back thru the forum and count on 2 hands how many people have posted against ordinace drops. I have only seen about 6 or 7 drops in the entire time I have been playing. So I am not sure what playlist you go into a lot, but the playlist may have a lot to do with how frequent you see it. May I suggest playing a different one? Your not trying to bash anything? This whole post was a rant directed and just that wasn't it? You used terms like noobie and called out sub cultures like softcore. Plus the swearing? Sorry, but after really reading the post, I can't say I see anything but mindless bashing. Again, CoD was not the first game to use a loadout. TEam Fortress may not have had a "loadout" like we see now, but they had classes to chosoe form which all spawned the player with a different ability and starting weapon. Also you could choose on respawn which class to be. Loadouts are not cheap or a mechanic, they are a natural evolution to allow players more freedom to play with a style and weapon they are most comfortable with. Simply not being able to effectively combat someone with a skill set geared towards soemthign than your own, is simply called losing, fair and square. You talk about level playing fields? How is any competition in the real world level? Are athletes forced to use all the same brand and model equipment? Is it unfair that some people are just simply more athletic than others? By your very stance on a level playing field...everyone in sports should be the same weight, have the same access to every piece of gear or be forced to use it. A level playing field does not exist in real combat. If you were on the front lines, would you go running and give-up because it's not fair that the enemy has a tank, and you only have an AK? Establishing a level playing field does exist. You have the chance and opportunity to equip your self with the same types of loadouts as everyone else. So what if some items are not unlocked for you...then go unlock them! All I hear is "I just want to use my DMR/BR to rape everyone since that is all I am good with". Seriously.....the precision wepaons are the most talked about and used in the game. Are you just not capable of using other weapons effectively? Hell I may be best with a DMR instead of the BR...which is weird cause I dominated Halo2 with BR..but the point is, all the weapons in the game can be effectively combated by others. It all depends on how bad you want the win, and how well you stategize. I'm sorry....what makes you think your an expert again? You and the devs need to have a talk? Do you represent the community as a whole? Sorry but if you do, I must have missed that vote. Someone whom has never programmed or lead a dev team, has no right or need to talk to a dev team directly. While yes some of your views or ideas may be good and sound good to some, but do not delude yourself into thinking that you alone know what is best for the entire community. I understand your heated and upset that you got let down, hell so am I. Halo 4 is the first Halo title I have ever hated. My reasons however are more technical and dev oriented than actual in-game action. But then again, I'm what you would call a social type. I like to play fun gametypes with teams so I guess as most say, that makes my points invalid. But anyway, there you have it. I have tried to not sound like a **** or make any harsh words towards you. I think you do have an exceptional mind and view of things concerning Halo. I respect your opinions and stance with a high dgree, which by the way does not happen often around here.

Looks like someone took a posting lesson from me....very tl,dr. I suggest you try breaking down a huge rant like that into easy to understand sections. It helps get your points acrossed in an easier to understand fashion. From what I did skim, im only going to pick on one subject...the " starting off with the same weapon" bit. Not everyone is good with every weapon. If your team or you as a single rumble player is the only one/ones good with the starting weapon....how is that fair and truly competative, relative to the opposing faction/persons skill.set? Some players are great with weapons like an AR or plasma rifle or SMG...but can be utterly fail with a BR or DMR. In those matches where a precision weapon is the starting, I fail to see the " fair" and even playing ground.

It's been a very rough week for my family. We lost a bright light amongst many, and we are continuing to struggle through the tragedy that has befallen us and a whole community. In the midst of our pain and tears, we can only look to each other and our memories of Grace, and try to honor her life with love, compassion and keeping her spirit alive in our hearts. As difficult as it is to post and think about what happened, I wanted to make a tribute page to Grace McDonnell. She was a beautiful young woman with a bright future. Her smile alone was enough to melt hearts and bring others to smile. My sister-in-law Danielle often visited and spent time with her in Connecticut when she had a chance. To her and the rest of the McDonnell family, I can only pray for the strength to survive and move past this tragedy. Grace is and always be loved by her family and friends for all eternity. No amount of time, distance or disposition can ever change that. The only thing that makes it difficult, is the eerie twin nature resemblance she has to my Sister-in-law. Seriously, they look as if they could have been twins. In a way, it is kind of comforting, yet sad. At this moment I would like everyone to observe a small moment of reflection for Grace and the other victims and their families. My Angel, My Hero... Link to the CNN interview with Lynn and John McDonnell about Grace. http://www.cnn.com/v...erview-full.cnn Also real quick, if anyone has a facebook and would like to leave a comment or prayers for Danielle, here is the link to her facebook. http://www.facebook.com/danielle.pompilii