Here are the Halopedia article on the Heroic and Legendary difficulties.

http://www.halopedia.org/Heroic
http://www.halopedia.org/Legendary

Oh my bad, it doesn't say it on any of them. Except on legendary it actually calls it suicide.

You'd think "normal" would kind of mean the normal way to play, anyway.

Lets play the level how we want to play it

I dunno, designing a level 'heroically' seems logical to me.
I play heroic a lot of the time when I just wanna kick back and it's pretty fun, not having to worry about dying yet at the same time using ammo wisely.

today's tsc:e feature is up on http://www.halomods.com/ips/index.php?/topic/680-cmts-the-silent-cartographer-evolved-media-month/page__view__findpost__p__8183. it is about the weapons in tsc:e!

a preview...

If you look at the original Bungie Weekly updates it's pretty apparently that they tuned the whole thing to be played on Legendary.

Is it archived?

The envionnement looks beautiful, I love those forreruner's structures on the ocean. I have another question, if I remember good, a long time ago, teh lag released the "cmt elite spv2 tags pack". In this pack, there was a special elite, (honnor guard), but it was with released with unfinished unwrap. DO you thing you will use it for TSC:E (with completed texture ^^) ?

hey can you design the plasma rifle so that the rear flaps look like they do in halo 2 when you hold it? I like it when the pr looks like it has wings >:D

Please, no fins.

Edited by Dumb AI on Jul 19, 2013 at 12:17 AM

such vulgarity :O lol

and will there be portable turrets like there were in v2?

I don't like the the fins.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jul 19, 2013 at 12:22 PM

what's wrong with the fins?

I've always wondered, why are they there? They don't seem to do anything other than exist.

that's why they're there.

Covenant weapons are supposed to have mysterious aspects that don't make sense to us, and make us wonder about they're purpose and how the weapon itself works.

I believe that's what Lag is getting at, correct?

in halo 2 they were the right size, they looked so cool! I freakin loved them, I hated how reach made them small. the sound was great in halo 2, I like how guns sounded like they have the power to punch someone's lights out, and I like how the needler, spiker, and plasma rifle, and all other machine gun weapons, could shoot faster when you tap the fire button in halo 2 and 3
Edited by rcghalohell on Jul 19, 2013 at 02:32 PM

The fins are awesome! Without them the PR wouldn't look all spunky and alien like.

The SMG didn't sound like a powerful gun until Halo 3.

I dunno, when I first tried it, I thought of bottlecaps lol

The SMG's H2 firing sound was kind of like a really fast stapler.

actually that one sounds pretty funny

everything from halo 4 sounds so weak

except the incineration cannon
Edited by rcghalohell on Jul 20, 2013 at 12:25 AM

Are you sure you heard the same sounds as me? Listen to the DMR in 4 compared to Reach, or the AR compared to any of the others from the series, they sound absolutely beastly.

This. The H4 DMR sounds are legendary.

(The TSC:E feature formerly scheduled for yesterday (Friday) has been pushed back to today (Saturday). It will feature an assortment of hopefully-useful animation-related tips and tricks for SP maps. It had to be pushed back as I had some real life obligations to attend to that got in the way of finishing it and it is very late at night for me now!)



What do you think about?

He thunk.

Looks like a Jackal. Because it's a Jackal. There's no Skirmisher model done yet.

.__. I was never keen on the Skirmisher in Halo Reach. If you guys can make it less annoying, then I'll be looking forward to it. If it's just a Reach clone where it's annoying as hell.... god damn :/

I wasn't too fond of fighting Skirmishers due to how annoying they were, but they tend to make some encounters far more interesting due to that very fact. It's pretty much the same feeling I have towards Halo's Drones. They're annoying little buggers (pun intended) that make it so that you cant simply hide behind random cover (i.e. rocks, UNSC Barriers, or the likes). Skirmishers are more of the dedicated recon units of the covenant. Fast and agile, usually equipped with needle rifles or plasma pistols, Similar to how modern day recon snipers are equipped with a Sniper rifle and a submachine gun or pistol.

With that in mind, i'd probably suggest renaming the Brute Plasma Pistol to the Skirmisher Plasma Pistol and more or less making it exclusive to the Skirmishers, where it would be far more effective in hit and run attacks due to the flurry of plasma bolts.

Also sidenoting, will there be Drones/Buggers in SPv3? Kirby spoke of (and videoed) drone AI that seem to know how to differentiate between when to fly and when to walk. Will you be taking advantage of that or will you keep them out due to their buggyness (there's that pun again)

The problem I saw with Reach's were that you absolutely had to use a headshot weapon on them, they just had way to much health. No drone plans for CMT. We already have an impressive Covenant lineup.



What are you keen on? Why did you feel they were annoying?
Edited by Masters1337 on Jul 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM

The fact that they weren't a very solid system for good gameplay. They were way too, whats the word "jittery" when you try to kill them. Nothing but jump around, literally. Unless, like you said, automatic headshot...

I think you just described exactly what a Skirmisher is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmisher

They're meant to run around, be annoying, and quickly retreat. They're not meant to be difficult to kill, just meant to distract you.

Well then, yeah thats it. Skirmishers suck. It pry was also due to Reach's Reticule bloom system. It was so radical with range weapons like the pistol or DMR. It made gamepley difficult. You guys always seem to make gameplay even, so i'm sure yours will be better...

Skirmishers were really easy to kill and much less of a concern than jackals were in Reach. Not sure how they "suck" when they did their job in Reach acting as a nuisance and distracting the player.