Wish he showed more brute-needler action...

can some one please post a youtube video? i missed the stream

http://www.twitch.tv/podtacular/b/581643371
http://www.twitch.tv/podtacular/b/581644004
http://www.twitch.tv/podtacular/b/581651117

Wish I did video games for charity

Was the Stream lagging for anyone?

Was pretty smooth on this end and my connection is janky as hell.

For me it takes a long... while to load. Also in the stream the Anti-matter grenade is called "Gravity Grenade".
Edited by Infinite Guardian on Oct 25, 2014 at 04:49 PM

Gravity grenade is so sick.

Seems like it will be the majority of my suicides.

That bit where one got chucked under the turret and it started pimping out before exploding everywhere was my favourite bit on the whole stream.

That sounds fun.

Hopefully they'll be redesignating it as such. It's more descriptive of its actual function.

Maybe make the fire less red? I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think the main fire color being red makes the fire look too dark.

It seems really shiny, but I'm fine with it.

What are you guys talking about?

What are you guys talking about?

>2014
>No quality options

what is this, 1981. come on twitch.

props to your sound guy all the stuff from the sniper to the grenades sound phenomenal! also i was under the impression that the cmt version of silent cartographer was using the evolved bsp.. looks great in its current state but is that an older build or is that the spv3 version as it was intended?

Hey, thanks a lot! The sniper rifle wasn't my doing (I believe that was our previous sound guy), but yeah, I wasn't aware Masters was including my tags in the build, so hearing them all dropped in and working was pretty thrilling! Glad you like em.
The map shown was basically the original TSC with the updated tags. Both the original, and Evolved will be seeing a release.

Is the Needler sounds your doing, cause it sounds very impressive.
Edited by Infinite Guardian on Oct 26, 2014 at 09:28 AM

EDIT: Nevermind, Infinite Guardian stole my post seconds before me.
Edited by RabbitFood on Oct 26, 2014 at 09:24 AM

Thanks! Yeah, the Needler is me. Glad you like it! Masters and myself still aren't 100% happy with it, so expect it to change some before final release, but any feedback is good feedback. Cheers :)

1:45 hours of cmt spv3 :)

and I have only thirst for gungoose and the noble difficulty
Edited by UHWArby on Oct 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM

I wish the guy that was playing in the stream wasn't just using the DMR over and over again.

Ye, I mentioned this on on the TSC:E thread. With the wide variety of interesting and new weapons to use, why would you only use one weapon? You're limiting yourself and your game experience. It would be like if I tried to beat Halo: Reach with just the Assault Rifle and Pistol.

Well he tried some the new weapons to test them out, but stuck with the DMR. If it was Lengedary or Noble would he stick with one weapon? I wouldn't think so.
Edited by Infinite Guardian on Oct 26, 2014 at 11:17 AM

you guys are killing me. the answers you seek are already within you and i only hope that one day you understand

One thing that I identified in the stream was that AI always get stuck in those Recharge stations, is this some sort of bug or mishap.

the remark was just about the variety of content demonstrated in live promotional material and pondering the reasons for and implications of such

I'm conflicted on this because on one hand, the stream was some of the best footage of SPV3 we've gotten yet and many of us really wanted to get a good view and idea of how SPV3 currently is, but I think this was the wrong mindset. If we look on the other hand, ultimately it was the Player just playing a game for fun (and charity) and who're we to tell someone the "best" way to play a game?

teh lag's making an awful lot of posts today. Wonder if that means TSC:E is finally getting to a point where he has time to spare, or doesn't need to work on anything.
Edited by RabbitFood on Oct 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM

Could be. On one hand I like how T&R looks in SPV3. Alot of recharge stations are there, scattered Covenant equipment, longer firefights in certain areas etc...

I definitely think some of the weapon sounds need to be toned down a bit. I hated having my ears explode every time the livestreamer fired a DMR. It was especially noticeable due to gaps in audio levels between weapons (IE the AR's stable quieter weapon sound made the DMR sound loud, fake, and artificial)

In addition that needler firing sound doesn't work well when the fire rate hits its peak, and the sound cuts out abruptly rather than resembling a weapon rapidly firing needles. Perhaps if you just shortened the firing sound overall and toned down the audio at the beginning of the firing sound it'd feel much more like a smooth loop.

Also, and this is just a nitpick at this point, but why does the particle carbine sound nothing like a particle beam weapon from the halo universe? An firing sound aesthetic more similar to a merge of the carbine and beam rifle sounds (not the abysmal beam rifle sound from halo 4 that lacked any sort of torque whatsoever, mind you) would, in my opinion, make the weapon much more satisfying to fire.


I will add that the gravity grenade sound was absolutely amazing. Just plain kick ass



Edited by Delicon20 on Oct 26, 2014 at 12:51 PM

As I brought up in the thread where we discussed H2, Halo 1 operates with all it's mechanics fully working on Legendary, and Dust Storm was playing on heroic as a show of him trying to understand and learn the nuances of the game while fun for him, wouldn't be the greatest display. Much like anytime you see a Demo of an official game, it's always with invincibility on or a low difficulty where it is "hey look at all these things". If he tried to play that with just the DMR on Legendary he still could, but it wouldn't be anywhere as easy as how he made it through TSC with it in the stream. Experienced halo players will always cary a headshot weapon as their primary tool and something else as their secondary, depending on the situation. At least that's the design thought for SPV3.

Just to quickly run through your points, please bear in mind that absolutely nothing is finalised in regards to the sounds. I've been involved with the team for the best part of a few weeks at this point, and there's still a lot of editing for greater consistency to be done. The finished product will sound a lot better!
I agree that the needler sound still needs work, for sure. As a matter of fact, I'll be hammering out another iteration tonight all going to plan. The particle carbine I was treating as somewhat new territory. Since it's not a weapon established in canon I wanted to experiment a bit, plus I was never terribly big on the original carbine's IMO rather obnoxious "pyow-pyow" sound.
Glad you're digging the gravity nade sound though! Was pretty proud of that one :)

The gravity grenade sounds like someone made a dubstep of a dubstep song and condensed it into a few seconds.

So pretty good.