
jackrabbit
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
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Posted: Apr 10, 2013 09:49 PM
Msg. 141 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: 032 Mendicant Bias
Allow me to elaborate.
Control maps are essentially Multipurpose maps but without a Self-Illumination channel. Halo 4 uses these as specular maps that can be controlled easier, hence the name.
The Halo 4 covenant weapons require a CC, or Color Change. I'm not sure as to why 343i did this to some of their textures. Upon closer observation, it appears 343i used a lot of filters when creating them, so it seems 343i is very lazy.
Halo 4 content also lacks proper rigging when exported.
Halo 4 bipeds such as Cortana and the Didact lack the head and neck, presumably due to the in-ability to extract them. Edited by 032 Mendicant Bias on Apr 2, 2013 at 07:06 PM Quote: --- Original message by: 032 Mendicant BiasRegarding Multiplayer assets, I haven't exactly attempted to extract the MP spartans. However, since the Master Chief's model is able to be extracted, I believe the same is the case for the spartans. On a side note, I have decided to include a scale comparison of the Chief and Didact. http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/3838/chiefdidactcomparasion.jpg I'm calling you out on this one I see a Head! Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 10, 2013 at 09:55 PM
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032 Mendicant Bias
Joined: Feb 25, 2010
Magnum periculum est elit.
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Posted: Apr 10, 2013 10:14 PM
Msg. 142 of 204
That is the helmet.
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master noob
Joined: Aug 10, 2012
343Industries Advocate
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Posted: Apr 10, 2013 10:27 PM
Msg. 143 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: jackrabbit I'm calling you out on this one I see a Head! Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 10, 2013 at 09:55 PM those little tufts of headhair naturally stick out of the ingame helmet, being separate from the head model itself.
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Rosanna Weyland
Joined: Apr 4, 2013
Up and down, and all around.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 08:26 AM
Msg. 144 of 204
Alth, do you honestly have nothing better to do than sit around heckling?
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ELVEVERX
Joined: Oct 5, 2012
For the great journey
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 09:39 AM
Msg. 145 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 Imagine, if you will, that someone ported a halo version of angry birds for the xbox 360 with a story that parallels perfectly to twilight or some generic love story that doesn't fit in line with the rest of the story. This is what I see when I look at Halo 4. While comparing it to angry birds is an extreme, It still a horrible looking game. Now Imagine that tons of people are paying 60$ for this game, a lot of people are disappointed but other people are embracing the story. This literally corrupts the whole halo storyline. still better than reach lol but no seriously i find it more fun then halo 3 i think 343 did a great job and everyone should stop hating on it and spartan ops is a fun and good addition i don't see why people complain its free and its better than firefight
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AllySuzumiya
Joined: Feb 27, 2013
"Kotae wa itsumo watashi no mune ni.."
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 09:56 AM
Msg. 146 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: MegatronQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 It's really funny to watch you people argue over a story that's not only based on a huge logical fallacy that contradicts the entire halo series, but also so rittled with holes that it can barley support itself, if you're one of the people who think it is supporting itself. Edited by Banshee64 on Apr 10, 2013 at 07:55 PM And this matters to you...why? Not to start an argument or go off topic, but I'm going to ask you a few things; I've seen you ridicule Halo 4 across this forum, and I think everyone knows you hate that game by now. But why do you want them to hate Halo 4 also? If you don't like something, why put energy into it? Why try to get someone to change their opinions or hate them based on their opinions? What do you accomplish by this? Did that game really offend you to the point where everyone has to hate it in order for your life to not be a miserable experience? Edited by Megatron on Apr 10, 2013 at 08:56 PM He's got Seth Macfarlane complex. It's not enough that he feels that way; He HAS to make you feel that way, too. Besides, there was hardly any continuity issues besides a few artistic liberties a la 343i. The continuity of the series was messed up in Halo 3 if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, onwards. Oh, you could also say that it's the book's faults as well because they came after the main canon. Halo 4's story was well-strung together and though, it killed off a fan favourite (or should I say; fan FAP-orite,) it held true to the overall feel of Halo. That feeling when you first landed on requiem and seeing the beauty around you harkened back to landing on the first Halo. The whole "Humans and covies vs flood" story was flipped into "humans vs covies and prometheans" but honestly, if your entire military campaign was in service to your God, why wouldn't you want to serve him when you found him? Maybe Halo 5 will shed some light on that and why that certain group of elites were so radical in their beliefs. Perhaps the Arbiter stirred up a frenzy on sanghelios and caused them to enter a civil war. Who knows? My only problem with Halo is that I wanted a Halo: Harvest over a Halo: Reach and I had too high of expectations for ODST. I hope they continue Halo, spartan ops, etc, and maybe even the trend of live-action trailers/series'. Maybe we might ACTUALLY see a film adaption of Halo.
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clonecam117
Joined: Dec 11, 2012
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 10:58 AM
Msg. 147 of 204
Frankie has already confirmed that a Halo movie will be made soon. And BTW, that was a brilliant argument! Halo 4 is great IMO. Quote: --- Original message by: xXxMlgProxXx lol grunts, stop releasing leaked awfully extracted Halo 4 models, you're making the kids here rant about Halo 4 which isn't even a good halo game or a good game in general. Go home, you are drunk. We get it! You don't like Halo 4! Have you nothing better to do than sit there and troll everyone? Did you know there are these things out there called Girls? They're really great. Edited by clonecam117 on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM
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Banshee64
Joined: Dec 4, 2012
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 01:46 PM
Msg. 148 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: AllySuzumiyaQuote: --- Original message by: MegatronQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 It's really funny to watch you people argue over a story that's not only based on a huge logical fallacy that contradicts the entire halo series, but also so rittled with holes that it can barley support itself, if you're one of the people who think it is supporting itself. Edited by Banshee64 on Apr 10, 2013 at 07:55 PM And this matters to you...why? Not to start an argument or go off topic, but I'm going to ask you a few things; I've seen you ridicule Halo 4 across this forum, and I think everyone knows you hate that game by now. But why do you want them to hate Halo 4 also? If you don't like something, why put energy into it? Why try to get someone to change their opinions or hate them based on their opinions? What do you accomplish by this? Did that game really offend you to the point where everyone has to hate it in order for your life to not be a miserable experience? Edited by Megatron on Apr 10, 2013 at 08:56 PM He's got Seth Macfarlane complex. It's not enough that he feels that way; He HAS to make you feel that way, too. Besides, there was hardly any continuity issues besides a few artistic liberties a la 343i. The continuity of the series was messed up in Halo 3 if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, onwards. Oh, you could also say that it's the book's faults as well because they came after the main canon. Halo 4's story was well-strung together and though, it killed off a fan favourite (or should I say; fan FAP-orite,) it held true to the overall feel of Halo. That feeling when you first landed on requiem and seeing the beauty around you harkened back to landing on the first Halo. The whole "Humans and covies vs flood" story was flipped into "humans vs covies and prometheans" but honestly, if your entire military campaign was in service to your God, why wouldn't you want to serve him when you found him? Maybe Halo 5 will shed some light on that and why that certain group of elites were so radical in their beliefs. Perhaps the Arbiter stirred up a frenzy on sanghelios and caused them to enter a civil war. Who knows? My only problem with Halo is that I wanted a Halo: Harvest over a Halo: Reach and I had too high of expectations for ODST. I hope they continue Halo, spartan ops, etc, and maybe even the trend of live-action trailers/series'. Maybe we might ACTUALLY see a film adaption of Halo. This might be the dumbest post on this thread. Halo 3 was a perfect end to the series, The Legendary ending was probably added by Microsoft through Bungie because Bunige had reached the end of their story but Microsoft wanted the series to be recycled to the point where no one would buy it anymore. Halo 4 is the flagship of this campaign where Microsoft wants to ride Halo into the ground. Halo 4's story was the equivalent to a middle schooler's fanfiction because Halo 4 had ridiculously unbalanced weapons, a stupid premise for the new enemy, exactly the type of mindset in the UNSC side as in a terrible movie with the army in it, a generic stereotypical boss who looked OP but was the troped run into it then cutscene of you defeating it. The texture artists and modelers for the Halo 4 project were so desperate to improve the graphics that they made everything look plastic or cartoonish or dry, and if that's not enough it's all in the same scenes together making the game look ridiculous. As for the love deal with Cortana, It was very suddle as it was played out from Halo 1 to Halo 3, in Halo 4 it is dropped on the player like a cinderblock and the whole time it was a distress generalized idea that made you care less about cortana, the game itself is made for people wants an easy game that they can rush through and get it over with. (Did you really make a joke about masturbating to cortana?) Promethean encounters are boring, covenant look stupid and it makes no sense to the player that you're fighting them, even if there was a valid reason that the player is fighting them again after all the work he had gone through in the previous games to end the fighting, It should be shown, or explained in the game somehow, That it doesn't is just more confusion that the player gets on top of all the other garbage in the game. As for the books, everything after The Cole Protocol is as invalid as Halo 4 is. I've read everything up to The Cole Protocol as well, They should have let Halo reach died, or should have made games strictly off of the books. As for the multiplayer, It's broken. Halo 4 felt nothing like halo, if anything it felt like a mix of something horrible and COD. Edited by Banshee64 on Apr 11, 2013 at 02:48 PM
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KingNick220
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 05:35 PM
Msg. 149 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: ELVEVERXQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 Imagine, if you will, that someone ported a halo version of angry birds for the xbox 360 with a story that parallels perfectly to twilight or some generic love story that doesn't fit in line with the rest of the story. This is what I see when I look at Halo 4. While comparing it to angry birds is an extreme, It still a horrible looking game. Now Imagine that tons of people are paying 60$ for this game, a lot of people are disappointed but other people are embracing the story. This literally corrupts the whole halo storyline. still better than reach lol but no seriously i find it more fun then halo 3 i think 343 did a great job and everyone should stop hating on it and spartan ops is a fun and good addition i don't see why people complain its free and its better than firefight Your joking right? Spartan Ops had the story quality and game play of a bloodgulch AI map, because that's all it was. They took the same maps over and over again, spammed them with AI, and made you press buttons. You probably pressed more buttons in Spartan Ops than 1-reach combined. The story was also stupid, making Dr.Halsely some evil super genius villain with a vendetta against the UNSC, and than they threw Requiem into the sun, killing off their new enemy class. So much potential for story to develop in Halo 5 right? Edited by KingNick220 on Apr 11, 2013 at 05:36 PM
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Dennis

Joined: Jan 27, 2005
"We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 06:12 PM
Msg. 150 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 This might be the dumbest post on this thread. You lost the argument in the very first sentence. Nothing you had to say after it means anything.
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Dumb AI
Joined: Sep 18, 2011
Dead.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 06:17 PM
Msg. 151 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: DennisQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 This might be the dumbest post on this thread. You lost the argument in the very first sentence. Nothing you had to say after it means anything. And Dennis wins.
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jackrabbit
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Fight Against the Machine of Deth!
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 06:22 PM
Msg. 152 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: AllySuzumiya if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, ect, ect, ect,. OMG Lol? Um I don't know what your talking about "romantic turn" ?  but I know where is your mind at!  This thread is horrible no one can even stay on topic because Even the topic is horrible! I don't understand why pep's are fighting when they could be doing something constructive with Tdog's content. Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 11, 2013 at 07:07 PM
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Banshee64
Joined: Dec 4, 2012
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 07:38 PM
Msg. 153 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: DennisQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 This might be the dumbest post on this thread. You lost the argument in the very first sentence. Nothing you had to say after it means anything. Lame or Game is not funny.
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Rosanna Weyland
Joined: Apr 4, 2013
Up and down, and all around.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 07:48 PM
Msg. 154 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Banshee64Quote: --- Original message by: DennisQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 This might be the dumbest post on this thread. You lost the argument in the very first sentence. Nothing you had to say after it means anything. Lame or Game is not funny. Then you're most certainly Lame. Now can it, Pork Rind. I want me some Halo 4 assets and your windbagging isn't getting them here any faster.
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master noob
Joined: Aug 10, 2012
343Industries Advocate
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 07:56 PM
Msg. 155 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: jackrabbitQuote: --- Original message by: AllySuzumiya if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, ect, ect, ect,. OMG Lol? Um I don't know what your talking about "romantic turn" ?  but I know where is your mind at!  This thread is horrible no one can even stay on topic because Even the topic is horrible! I don't understand why pep's are fighting when they could be doing something constructive with Tdog's content. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/jackrabbitlight/storm_br_byjr_zps5b488d1c.jpg Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 11, 2013 at 07:07 PM "You're horrible this is horrible I hate the game! let me use its resources to show how much I hate it! :3 :) :O :D"
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KingNick220
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 08:02 PM
Msg. 156 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Rosanna WeylandQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64Quote: --- Original message by: DennisQuote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 This might be the dumbest post on this thread. You lost the argument in the very first sentence. Nothing you had to say after it means anything. Lame or Game is not funny. Then you're most certainly Lame. Now can it, Pork Rind. I want me some Halo 4 assets and your windbagging isn't getting them here any faster. That made about as much sense as every lame or game picture.
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jackrabbit
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Fight Against the Machine of Deth!
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 10:37 PM
Msg. 157 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: master noobQuote: --- Original message by: jackrabbitQuote: --- Original message by: AllySuzumiya if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, ect, ect, ect,. OMG Lol? Um I don't know what your talking about "romantic turn" ?  but I know where is your mind at!  This thread is horrible no one can even stay on topic because Even the topic is horrible! I don't understand why pep's are fighting when they could be doing something constructive with Tdog's content. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/jackrabbitlight/storm_br_byjr_zps5b488d1c.jpg Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 11, 2013 at 07:07 PM "You're horrible this is horrible I hate the game! let me use its resources to show how much I hate it! :3 :) :O :D" Now we don't want all of 343i's hard work to go to waste now do would we?
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AllySuzumiya
Joined: Feb 27, 2013
"Kotae wa itsumo watashi no mune ni.."
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 10:40 PM
Msg. 158 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: jackrabbitQuote: --- Original message by: AllySuzumiya if you're talking about the apparent romantic turn with Chief and Cortana. That was introduced in Halo 3, ect, ect, ect,. OMG Lol? Um I don't know what your talking about "romantic turn" ?  but I know where is your mind at!  This thread is horrible no one can even stay on topic because Even the topic is horrible! I don't understand why pep's are fighting when they could be doing something constructive with Tdog's content. Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 11, 2013 at 07:07 PM Halo 3 was pretty much about Master Chief finding Cortana. It was all about making promises that you can't live up to. I've wasted pixels typing to you. Clearly, your only directive is to find out what's wrong with other's content and flaunt it as if the things you've done are flawless. I'm officially done.
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master noob
Joined: Aug 10, 2012
343Industries Advocate
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 10:44 PM
Msg. 159 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: jackrabbit Now we don't want all of 343i's hard work to go to waste now do would we? you spent a whole continent's worth of fonts typing about how everything they did was wrong congrats on your contradiction sir bravo 10 years wasted what an accomplishment Edited by master noob on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:44 PM
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jackrabbit
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
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Posted: Apr 11, 2013 10:52 PM
Msg. 160 of 204
Funny how it's all about me now. It's hard to believe that your going to tell me Yes Me of all people what halo 3 is about. Your perception of the master chief and cortana's relationship. is so far off, It's downright hilarious.
Halo 3 was about finishing the fight.
Not finding cortana.
I think you have halo mixed up with mario. Edited by jackrabbit on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 PM
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ralph777
Joined: Mar 11, 2013
Loving the world than the almighty is loving vian
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 12:09 AM
Msg. 161 of 204
Will this include the Halo 4 HUD?
because I like that HUD than reach.
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Dennis

Joined: Jan 27, 2005
"We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 12:11 AM
Msg. 162 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Banshee64 Lame or Game is not funny. Be constructive and let them know or better yet help them out. It is after all user supported.
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clonecam117
Joined: Dec 11, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 12:50 AM
Msg. 163 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: xXxMlgProxXxQuote: --- Original message by: clonecam117 We get it! You don't like Halo 4! Have you nothing better to do than sit there and troll everyone? Did you know there are these things out there called Girls? They're really great.
lol your mom is great, I have girlfriend and she's laughing at your post now. l28 knows about her ;) Quote: --- Original message by: Rosanna Weyland Alth, do you honestly have nothing better to do than sit around heckling? I only check in here for 5 minutes everyday when i open my PC. That's funny, 'cuz a lot of people here know my WIFE and some have even talked to her before. And BTW my mother is in the hospital with breast cancer, you stupid asshole. Edited by clonecam117 on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:56 AMEdited by clonecam117 on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:56 AM
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clonecam117
Joined: Dec 11, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 09:30 AM
Msg. 164 of 204
Lol dick, you're like jealous or something. Andd what part of PEOPLE HERE HAVE PHYSICALLY TALKED TO HER DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
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Banshee64
Joined: Dec 4, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 09:54 AM
Msg. 165 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: clonecam117 Lol dick, you're like jealous or something. Andd what part of PEOPLE HERE HAVE PHYSICALLY TALKED TO HER DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? Okay, This is far too off topic. You're going to get this quality thread locked.
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Dennis

Joined: Jan 27, 2005
"We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 12:14 PM
Msg. 166 of 204
Get back on topic: RELEASE] MORE HALO 4 STUFF
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SAS
Joined: Feb 26, 2013
I comment every once in a while
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 01:38 PM
Msg. 167 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Dennis Get back on topic: RELEASE] MORE HALO 4 STUFF I agree. OP, will we be seeing more bipeds released?
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Rosanna Weyland
Joined: Apr 4, 2013
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 03:47 PM
Msg. 168 of 204
Agreed - like I said, I'm patient, but I'd love to see what's been happening.
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clonecam117
Joined: Dec 11, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 04:51 PM
Msg. 169 of 204
Right, sorry everybody. This business with my mother has me on edge.
Any chance of seeing H4 Elites? IMO they're badass and I'd love to see them in CE.
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jackrabbit
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 05:24 PM
Msg. 170 of 204
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clonecam117
Joined: Dec 11, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 06:03 PM
Msg. 171 of 204
I meant one with full armor/textures lol
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Spartan314
Joined: Aug 21, 2010
Former biped rigger & FP animator
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 07:17 PM
Msg. 172 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: xXxMlgProxXx I'm cool. You're a faggot. A living shame to the entire human race. Personally I hated the design of the Halo 4 elites. My favorite elite design would have to be the ones from Halo 3. I don't know why they would remove the armor in Halo 4.
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SilentJacket
Joined: Jun 9, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 07:18 PM
Msg. 173 of 204
cause they leik nekked elites
Imo, Reach had some really cool looking ones
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AllySuzumiya
Joined: Feb 27, 2013
"Kotae wa itsumo watashi no mune ni.."
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 07:23 PM
Msg. 174 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Banshee64
This might be the dumbest post on this thread. Halo 3 was a perfect end to the series, The Legendary ending was probably added by Microsoft through Bungie because Bunige had reached the end of their story but Microsoft wanted the series to be recycled to the point where no one would buy it anymore. Halo 4 is the flagship of this campaign where Microsoft wants to ride Halo into the ground. Halo 4's story was the equivalent to a middle schooler's fanfiction because Halo 4 had ridiculously unbalanced weapons, a stupid premise for the new enemy, exactly the type of mindset in the UNSC side as in a terrible movie with the army in it, a generic stereotypical boss who looked OP but was the troped run into it then cutscene of you defeating it. The texture artists and modelers for the Halo 4 project were so desperate to improve the graphics that they made everything look plastic or cartoonish or dry, and if that's not enough it's all in the same scenes together making the game look ridiculous. As for the love deal with Cortana, It was very suddle as it was played out from Halo 1 to Halo 3, in Halo 4 it is dropped on the player like a cinderblock and the whole time it was a distress generalized idea that made you care less about cortana, the game itself is made for people wants an easy game that they can rush through and get it over with. (Did you really make a joke about masturbating to cortana?) Promethean encounters are boring, covenant look stupid and it makes no sense to the player that you're fighting them, even if there was a valid reason that the player is fighting them again after all the work he had gone through in the previous games to end the fighting, It should be shown, or explained in the game somehow, That it doesn't is just more confusion that the player gets on top of all the other garbage in the game. As for the books, everything after The Cole Protocol is as invalid as Halo 4 is. I've read everything up to The Cole Protocol as well, They should have let Halo reach died, or should have made games strictly off of the books. As for the multiplayer, It's broken. Halo 4 felt nothing like halo, if anything it felt like a mix of something horrible and COD. Edited by Banshee64 on Apr 11, 2013 at 02:48 PM You're kidding, right? "Halo 4's story was the equivalent of a middle schooler's fanfiction because halo had ridiculously unbalanced weapons"? You DO know what a fanfiction is, right? The non-titular items in a particular story don't pertain to the story itself. The weapons were well-balanced in certain situations. If you want a true definition of unbalanced weapons, look at Halo 3. Halo 3 took Halo 2's paper pistol and slowed it's rate of fire to the point of being unusable in high-stress combat situations, took the assault rifle and gave it the Halo 2 treatment by making it's bullets useless, emphasized the Halo 2 OP Sword-lung and then created the gravity hammer, which is essentially the same thing. Also, if you're REALLY talking about the texture artists, you must've been talking about a different game. The stills in Halo 4 were amazing and the cutscenes were just as good. The CGI in the game was life-like, even better than Halo wars. Halo 3's graphics were also good, save from the unnecessary bloom and the lack of HD. As for the romance with Cortana, it was never subtle in Halo 3. In the beginning of the game, she talks about having plenty of other choices of soldiers and specifically picking the chief and then reinforcing this with "I can pick'em", emphasizing the choice that she had prior to the events of the canonical Halo series. Oh, and not to mention the fact that the entire game, he's going paranoid without her and rather than "finishing the fight" immediately, he takes on a separate campaign to find Cortana. Next thing, the Promethean encounters on legendary solo (since you've clearly played the game on an easier setting) were, in no way, boring. Halo 4 had some of the best ai in a first person shooter. When turned on legendary, even the grunts are formidable opponents. If you change tactics, they'll change tactics. Hiding behind cover? They'll send grunts with grenades to bombard you. Out in the open? You'll get sniped. Take down a promethean's shield? Another promethean will take it's place as a watcher flies in to restore it's shields. Take out the shield again while no watchers are present? He'll teleport away from you and deploy an auto-turret to draw your fire. That's incredibly adaptive. As for the looks of the prometheans/covenant, they look decent if anything. The holo-eye that a sniper gets looks awesome, the elite armour harkens back to Halo 3's elites and the grunts look less weak. There IS a valid reason for fighting the covenant. Have you played the original games? Have you read the books? They set out to activate Halo because they saw it as a religious artefact. They saw the forerunners as their Gods. If you were to choose between a God and a few soldiers that you used to fight with, what would your choice be? Also, might I remind you of what the covenant did. Reach? Harvest? Ring a bell? At the end of Halo 3, Hood mentions that and states that the UNSC has no forgiveness for the covenant. Right there. And if you really want to talk about messing up canon, the books came after the games, might I remind you. That's what messed up the canon, not the games, themselves. The books also stated that Master Chief could run 21.75mph. In-game, Master cheif ran only 15mph, and that's only Halo 2/3. Also, it's stated in the book that he could carry some 1/2 a ton. In-game, Guilty spark took the index from Master Chief's hands twice without any sign of stress. Next thing, his reflexes are supposedly "300%" faster than the normal human. If that's so, how come in game (even in cutscenes), his reactions are slow/sluggish? For instance, when the warthog practically knocks him out of the ship in the latter end of Halo 3, he fails to dodge it and it takes him some 5+ seconds to grab hold of the interior. That doesn't seem really accurate to me. Take away the books and you've got something completely canonical to the series. Leave em in and there's plenty of discontinuity. The very fact that hitting a spartan with a warthog kills them is defying the physics instituted in the books. Edited by AllySuzumiya on Apr 12, 2013 at 07:25 PM
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master noob
Joined: Aug 10, 2012
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Posted: Apr 12, 2013 07:32 PM
Msg. 175 of 204
Quote: --- Original message by: Spartan314 Personally I hated the design of the Halo 4 elites.
My favorite elite design would have to be the ones from Halo 3. this is ironic on so many levels the halo 4 elites are the closest to halo 3 elites of any in the series(aside from skin tone), considering that halo 1 and 2 had the same looks and smooth skin, and reach's l elites looks like uglier brutes. in terms of armor, 343 really did mess up in that department.
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