Twinreaper

While I agree that should have benn stated much better, his viewpoint IS valid. 343has basically at this point, 1 to 2 months.tops of actual development time left before the bug list has to be squashed. Squashing the bugs and errors is.usually a 2 month process and the gap.between release to manufa turer and actual.shipping of the game discs is roughly 3 weeks. As far as speculation goes its done. What we saw is 99% likely what we are actually going to get. That is unless the demo.they brought to.E3 was months old. Which is highly unlikely.

Great explanation Cole. This is something lacking in the forums as of late. Good to.see someone take some initiative and explain why they feel the way they do.when it.comes to their.content here. Lots of you guys here should take this as a n example and perhaps do the same. No matter what differences we have Cole I respect your positions and stances. Hope you stick around for a long time, I have a sneaky suspicion that the ass side of you and me are gonna have some big laughs.

Hines, competative play is not.defined by a rank.system. Making a game competative depends upon its participants. If your in it to win, and.give it your all....the matches can be epic. Having a silly number doesnt make you more competative at your core. Quit throwing around terms like "noob", as if your some mid ages or really older gamer. All you little kids between age 25 and 0 are noobs to me. Noobs at life,.experience etc.... You see what I did there. I used it as an example to show you how short aighted and condensending using that term can be. Fact is....everyone in life is new or inexpereinced at something. Be more respectfull.towards my fellow.members. On a side note...you seem to.complain a whole lot and call out 343. Can you produce a higher quality product? Care to show.some of this award winning content and ideas you have off ingame in the form of a playable.asset?

^^ You One, get the brown star for today. lmao Don't really have any viable complaints with the game itself, at least not until I get a chance to decrypt a map file anyway. The only thing that really was over hyped was the BR. Correct me if I am wrong, but 343i said that they wanted the BR to feel powerful and sound like a force to be reckoned with. They wanted players to feel like they had raw power in their hands. From what i have heard of the BR firing, it sounds more like a silenced SMG than a powerhouse. For me, it's like having a small kitten with a cap gun taped to his fuzzy butt. Very misleading 343i....

Regardign the spread in halo 4, it makes me wonder if they reverted back to the predefined min / max spread setting with time defining it, or if they used the Reach single setting with time expanding it exponentially?

Also keep in mind, that each species has many different varieties of them. Look at humans....we have chinese, caucasian, african american, etc... The grunts we see here, along with the Elites, could just very well be a different sub-species that was dispatched long ago. Who knows, but it sure as hell aint worth getting all worked up about.

Roun Cole, chill the **** out! Halo was created well before the books. The books were an extension of the game that were created purely as a way for Bungie and Microsoft to capitalize on Halo once they bought Bungie and the rights. And the CREATORS specifically said, that the story layed out in-game will always trump any book cannon. Yes this is confusing, but how many people do you know, actually go in-game then pick up books while playing pointing out flaws? Obsessivve compulsive much? Furthermore **** face, dont come in here insulting my fellow members telling them that their opinions dont count. Everyone who comes here has a right to express their opinion and who are you to tell them otherwise? Games evolve and so does the hardware and software that powers it. Quit complaining that things look different from game to game, when quite obviouslt things are bound to change based on what can be added and taken away in-game. Epic space battles would have been nice, but do you have any idea of the memory overhead for that little spout? Do you know what rendering capabilities and limitations are in the 360 and the proprietary Blam! engine? No you don't, so go on about how you have a much better way to layout the gameplay. But before I finish here, if I remember correctly, Glasslands contradicts your little Ghost of Onyx tidbit on the Spartan III's. In fact, Chief Mendez talks about Spartan III's being volunteers, not six year old children. No children were used in Spartan III program, which is why Halsey was super pissed and initially rejected them, because they wee not children that were genetically matched to being "perfect". She felt older or grown soldiers were too much a liability. And if you wanna talk laws of physics, the the whole superhuman wearing tons of battle armor is irrelivant. No human can be enhanched to the point in which the muscle could exert the stength they describe in the books. Even if the armo was power assisted, where are you gonna cram that much assist mechanics into 4 inch armor? Oh thats right, it's Scy-Fy...my mistake.

Ok, what you are about to see is data taken directly from Halo 2. The point of this is me trying to illustrate how the concepts and actuals that we saw in Halo 4, have a deeper root than just that title... Take note to the bottom section of this "powerup" equipment tag. Halo 2 was meant to have both Full Spectrum (Promethian Vision) and Sprint...but was cut due to development restraints and time. Next up is a more specific item. We see the various "team Designation" that was supposed to be used. Obviously not all of them were used... In the next, we see that headhunter was not only supposed to be a gametype in Reach, but for Halo 2 as well.... Now yes some of these things have nothing to do with halo 4, but I thought it was important to show some of you that these AA's you all hate so much...were supposed to be added into basic multiplayer gameplay way back with Halo 2. making them standard loadout, or equipment does not negate the fact that AA's are usefull and serve their purpose in the Halo universe. Thanks for reading my TL;DR post guys. Peace!

#22!!!! Danm it...I knew I should have sent him the picture of me using the peanut butter....

Ok to settle this silly debate I'm going to post some pulled data images from halo 2. said images will show many of you, things you didn't even know existed inside the Halo 2 code base back before and when it was released. I'll post them up in about an hour. i gotta upload them somewhere then link them in. Stay tuned!

Im.concerened about this also. the default settings for.buttons is what I have always used. My concern is mostly for the stick layouts. Since Halo 1 I have used legacy inverted on 1 sensativity.

Bungie did not add it or expect the animation sequences to be cut short by other animation calls. Due to the fact that it was a core engine bug, it could not be removed from the game without compiling a whole new set of xbe's and global tags. That being said it is still a cheap trick that is not widely accepted during a match. many server runners and players feel it ruins the gameplay as did the super-bounces, and thus have made it not ok to use in-game, or at the least made it ok to use once or twice during a match. As for saying anyone can use it, that is false. Some people do not have the button layout nor the timing it takes to use it. Anyone who has to use a glitch is sad. It goes for the same as reloading in halo 1. There are people who waste shots, then melee after reloading to get their next round of shots going faster. If you were good and had any skill, you would have finished the job within the first 2 shots and had enough scariness behind you to allow the chance to reload properly. I for one would never use such a cheap little trick. I prefer to play o' natural.

Sorry guys. Due to the upgrade and.certain incompatabilities resulting....the server is down for a bit. I am currently.migrating to.a new OS and I.will update you guys as it gets underway. Sorry in advance.

Ok? Whats the point of this? Are you trolling or just being an ass? I dont see what callenging the mods.will prove.

As you all know the server I ran to host our community Teamspeak as well.as our Halo 1 and Halo 2 matches, was taken down after I moved. Today I am pleased to announce tbat the servers are back up and running in a way. Currently, the Halo 2 PC server is back up and running full steam. In the coming days the Halo 1 and Teamspeak will be restored to 100% operational.status. Stay tuned for more infor guys. Enjoy! UPDATE!!!!!!!! 343i Community Teamspeak has been restored. Please try and sue the Teamspeak for all game chat instead of th shutbox..that is afterall why I even bother to host it for you guys. Please use it. If usage does not equate the amount of time i spend working to keep it running, I'll take it down and use it for gaming clans. Please use it guys!

Have to.agree with campaign being the bees knees. For me Halo drew me in withe campaign gameplay. I never really got into or appriciated multiplayer until I started to do wicked mods for it. Halo 3 had a great multiplayer but I found the maps and the tweaks to.the globals and matg a bit oberboard. Not to mention the nasty habit of hitboxes incorrectly registering a sniper shot.... Halo 4 does need to build off the campaign mkre for me personally. Ranks and multiplayer always came in last as campaign was the one solid tbing that sold the game. Without a descent campaign or other game mode distraction, Halo would have just become another arcade download just for multiplayer play. Ranks are important to a lot of people but again...this is why we must have a seperation and choice in which avenue of gameplay we want to experience. All.for ranks.....just dont force it on me.

You have to.remember that a console enviroment is quite.different than a pc. The software.coding and hardware is layed out to operate more.efficiently and handle a greater range of graphics with lkmited hardware or lower tech hardware. Pc has a ton of overhead in the threading and north/south bridge data transfer protocols. Halo 2 was not ported horrible. Keep in mind that the tools used to.create and compile the game were PC...meaning that the only difference that had to be tweaked, was the platform specific format the compiler pushed out. Every tag except BSP, Shaders and Models are the same andas their pc counterpart. the only difference in Halo 2's case is the 12 byte endian header, and some padding.

Halo has always had it's reticule directly dead center. The particulars of the HUD invloving the crosshairs is as follows... Fullscreen offset X:0 Y:0 Halfscreen offset X:0 Y:0 Quaterscreen offset X:0 Y:0 These tag fields are in every halo and follow the same pattern of values in every title. Hope that helps.