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SpecOps hunters?!?

also, how do you change the difficulty? i put in game_difficulty_set hard, but nothing happened. it still said normal when i typed game_difficulty_get.

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good idea. but i thought that command worked... but how?

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Everybody go back to the previous page and read my review! :B

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I did, and would've replied, but someone might flame me. Other than you.

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Well, they were black, so I'm assuming that's what they were.

But maybe that's my graphics.

Still, normal hunters are blue with my graphics, so maybe they really were black. I don't know.

Also, I took those videos.

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Ok, so I got my Halo fixed yesterday, and I played through the beta (on Normal).

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Ok, so I got my Halo fixed yesterday, and I played through the beta (on Normal).

First off, something was screwed up with the MC biped, because it didn't show up, and in its place was these wierd glitchy lines or something.
EDIT: Videos. I know there's no sound. and ignore the lag, my computer sucks.
http://www.xfire.com/profile/karrde47/videos/

I loved the spiker, but the reload completely obstructed the entire screen. That should be changed. -Aren't you supposed to take cover when you reload?

I agree with everyone who said the Assault Rifle was underpowered. 2 clips to take out an Elite's shields? Needs more damage. -At least the melee is powerful. SMG takes 3 rounds to kill a grunt on normal, but the AR takes... 4-5?

I loved the smg too, but there wasn't enough ammo for it, and I didn't like how it wasted the entire clip when I reloaded. Also, its melee is like rapid-fire. -The SMG is like the MA5B with ammo being trashed. There were, periodically, M7s throughout the level. If you don't have an AR, though, it'd be useful for melee.

I didn't like how I had to swap battle rifles to get more grenades for it. I'm not a fan of the battle rifle, but its grenades were useful so for parts of the level I kept one with me. I had to keep switching it for another one with more grenades though, and that was annoying.

I felt like I was constantly running out of ammo. Thee only weapon that was never on short supply was the plasma pistol. -It never runs out of ammo. In all Halo games.

The Brute and Elite plasma rifles didn't seem that different to me, except for the colors. The Brute plasma rifle is supposed to do more damage, but overheat rapidly. But it felt the same as the Elite variant. -The Brute PR was supposed to fire and overheat faster, but I don't think do more damage. That's what I recall from H2, though. But basically it just had textures and projectile bitmaps(or models?) changed.

I was very impressed by the fact that there was very little lag, even on my crappy computer. The only lag I got was from the Hunter beams (TOO MANY PARTICLES) and the warthogs that were on fire. -Yeah, lol. If you're using an unsupported video card, and everyone has white armor, you're in for much less lag. I have the same with my old Pentium 4. Unsupported video cards always have a letter missing from lag.

The new areas were nice, but they made the level seem a bit too long. The original purpose of the mission was to escape the ship with Cortana as fast as possible, but I felt like I was just running through the ship killing everything I found. There didn't seem to be much of a point to it, except for making the level longer. -Well, at least it keeps us more entertained. It's like how you fit 3km into a 1.17km ship. Yeah, I'd say the same.

Some of the new areas were a little confusing, and I had to run around quite a lot to find where I was supposed to go. I never actually got lost, but it seemed like there was just too much. -If there's someone willing to stick a spike in your head, you know you're going where you need to.

Some of the new areas were lacking music as well.

Later on in the new areas closer to the end of the level there were very few marines, alive or dead. And I was constantly using Covenant weapons because there were very few human ones to be found. It's was supposed to be a human ship, so I really think there should be more humans and human weapons. -CMT needs to buy more weapon racks. No, ammo. Or better yet weapons. Or weapons and ammo. What use is a rack if you don't have something to rack up in it?

And I really don't get the sleeping Grunts. Why would they be sleeping if they were invading the ship? -I think it's like in Halo Wars when you assault the enemy base and different groups take different paths, while some are just outside the enemy base, waiting.

I really did like how some of the encounters in the original BSP were changed. I came around a corner expecting to find a few grunts, but instead I found several camouflaged Elites. It was suprising, and I liked that. -I thought there were too many. Something's wrong though - they don't shoot you until you get close. That or I annihilated them with the BR without getting into shotgun range.

Overall, I thought the beta was pretty good, considering that it was a beta. I would give it a 9 out of 10. -I agree with an 8.9999(repeating decimal)
Edited by Karrde on Aug 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Edited by Karrde on Aug 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM

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shotgun range? there were shotguns?

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shotgun range? there were shotguns?

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one issue i did find out when i played through the campaign again was when i first encountered the stealth eleites at the escape pods; the damage effects from the "pods being destroyed" were killing elites and flinging their bodies out of the escape pod hatches.

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You mean the trapezoidal yellow one? That slows down time.

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also did anybody notice that when you were really close to the elites as they melee'd you that the h1 sword sound was played when they hit you? cuz i tryed it on all three of my pc's and it did it for all of em

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also did anybody notice that when you were really close to the elites as they melee'd you that the h1 sword sound was played when they hit you? cuz i tryed it on all three of my pc's and it did it for all of em