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The UFPS camera is the scripts.

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ah screw it, i've been holding off on the lore bomb for a while (more like a lore nuke because some people may have no idea what any of this was) but i think i'll go ahead and send it down.

so some of u guys may have enjoyed the stealthier approach with the "silenced" weapons featured in the TaR demo/beta/whatever. i want u guys to know that scientifically bullets cannot and will not ever function like that, so don't say "it's the future, [blah blah blah] science". now that that's taken care of, some of u guys who know what a gun is may know that they create a loud "bang" sound, when fired. this is caused by both the gunpowder doin' its gunpowder thing, and the bullet travelling faster than the speed of sound (but really just the sonic boom). in order to make the weapon quieter many people will fasten suppressors to the end of the weapon like CMT did in TaR. attaching suppressors helps to control the flow of the pressure that guides the bullet, and can increase the accuracy of the round, by about 30% give or take. DOING THIS ONLY MUFFLES THE SOUND OF THE BULLET UNTIL IT LEAVES THE BARREL, sound will also exit when the action opens to kick out the casing and load the next round. in order to make the weapon legitimately quiet however, one must use this magical device, known as a subsonic round. subsonics (as the name implies) travel at just over 700 feet per second, below the speed of sound, to eliminate any sonic boom. additionally the dampened force of the bullet causes less recoil and leads to much higher sustainable accuracy. subsonic rounds, when combined with a suppressor can eliminate almost all noise from the gun firing excluding the operation of the action, and any noise that escapes during that time.

some of u guys may be wondering "how is this even remotely applicable to halo", well halo uses guns, so if u wanna feature said types of guns, do it right. since CMT already has their "silenced" weapon models and textures, most of the work is done. what needs to happen however, is CMT needs to decide on subsonic, or just suppressed for the individual weapons. each has its pros and cons.

subsonics can still be almost silent like the weapons from the TaR demo, and also would have highly reduced recoil, however they carry less force, and drop faster than regular bullets. for sniper rifles the lessened damage is far from ideal, but there is a way to offset it. high grain, heavier rounds could be used instead which would increase the force of the bullet, but increase recoil causing lowered accuracy after sustained fire and increase the bullet drop (plus add a new layer of complexity and immersion to sniping). lastly subsonic rounds use less gunpowder, and in order to be fired with optimum precision must be fired from weapons with less powerful springs.

using regular bullets fired from a suppressed weapon would dampen the noise, but not that much, and would also control the release of pressure and increase the accuracy of the bullet. however due to using regular bullets, they would be able to share mags with the standard issue, unsuppressed variant.

after reading this (for those who did) i can propose a solution. suppressed weapons would have slightly increased accuracy, but wouldn't really do much to dampen noise, and as such wouldn't be very common (possible to trade smaller clip size to offset the weight gain of the suppressor). subsonic weapons (also using a suppressor) would have increased bullet drop and less damage (high grain bullets could increase the damage, but would increase recoil and bullet drop) but much higher sustainable accuracy. i can propose values as well, however i believe that would be better left to CMT and their beta testers. (sorry for the text wall)

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In that video we were testing how well the multiplayer works, everything else you would expect from a Halo game will be added later. Host is given to the first person who opens the game. In this case the player happened to be in UAE. Thats about 8,000 miles away from Bean and I, the connection was flawless.

Edited by ToxicFantom on Jan 22, 2014 at 05:28 PM

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Do you need good connection to do the net code?

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Do you need good connection to do the net code?