Title says all. What do you guys think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AD5inbKAs

I think this thread is gonna be locked

Cool i guess.

Call of Duty sci-fi edition.
But Sanghelios looks cool, I'll give them that.

Players are probably going to spend some time charging into random objects expecting them to break on release.

The combat looks super bland right ow but it's probably on easy.

I love the idea of visiting the elite homeworld, I hope we get see the other worlds of the covenant in future games. It's about time we got to explore a real family planet.

I think a bunch of angry bungie fanboys are gonna start flaming people just for liking this, that's what. Pretty ******* pathetic of them tbh.

There's only one way I can react to this.

Shangheilios is the name of the planet, not the name of the elites...

After you get over the beautiful setpieces, you realize that these enemies are not formidable opponents whatsoever.

He's more than likely playing on normal or easy.

He's probably playing on easy because the AI in the E3 demo and even warzone look more challenging.

Yeah that's what it's looking like...just wait till they add killstreaks

I mean it looks okay but it is definitely something else than halo...kinda reminds me of crysis I don't know why...

Borderlands: Halo Skin edition.

Would not buy.

The Elites and more notably the Soldiers put up a good fight when I played.

So if they can take halo reach bipeds and textures why can't they use the fuggin AI behaviour too.

Honestly 343 has reached a point where elites are now just skinny grunts.
Edited by SS Flanker on Sep 16, 2015 at 06:30 AM

Is anyone else disappointed with the level design?

The verticality looks fine to me.
But that "bashing through rocks" thing is just really stupid and gimmicky. I mean really, who finds that cool.

me

You might be amongst the few.

Just let everyone like what they want... is it that hard?

Not if the franchise you once loved used to be the jewel of your childhood.

the "OBVIOUSLY NEEDED TO ADVANCE THROUGH THE GAME SMASHING THROUGH ROCKS" are alternate paths that have collectibles. but of course nobodys gonna listen to me so lets continue crying.

I accept that some of you like smashing through rocks.
I too, once enjoyed rock smash. I believe my Sandshrew was quite good at it.

I was always afraid to attempt to teach my geodude rock smash for fear that moh's hardness scale would come into effect and the move would backfire.


Especially if I were up against steelix, that's just not fair!

The level looks fine, someone summed it up nicely by reminding them of Halo 2's In Amber Clad and Regret. At least their using 90% of the geometry, unlike in Halo Reach. Played that game again recently, finally realized why the campaign's gameplay bothered me for the first 4 levels. Speaking of Halo Reach, that game's ally AI is literally the worse thing I've seen since the stuff I saw in old Killzone videos. Brutes are kicking my face in and my allies are standing still, not noticing a damn thing. They were literally in front of a Brute Captain, acting like nothing existed in the level.

I agree the rock smashing is gimmicky and kind of lame, but the concept holds some potential. It all depends on implementation in other parts of the game. If done wrong, it'll either end up like Halo's obscure ladder system that is mentioned once at the beginning of HCE or a "oh that exists" feature.

The player of the demo was playing on a weak setting I'm sure and was going a path that lacked a great deal of action. The AI looked like they were having more fun simply because they were actually fighting head-on for the duration.

In terms of level design, it looked alright. Like DarkHalo pointed out, it definitely is a section reminiscent of the In Amber Clad area from Delta Halo. That being said, it looked quite chaotic, a lot like a lot of other encounters we've been seing from recent Halo games. It's harder to say though without actually playing it.

On the topic of rock smashing, it was definitely gimmicky, but I did think it at least looked cool. However it does pose the question... how the hell do the spartans get enough velocity to smash through the rocks? You'd think they'd just die from that considering a rocket launcher projectile head on is enough to kill them too. gg halo

Why are you questioning the logic of gameplay? If the game kept everything accurate, then multiplayer would be Sonic The Hedgehog with guns.

He isn't arguing about realism but is talking about 343 following their own arbitrary set rules and preset logic. It's like being able to jump down 30 stories in a video game but the moment you fall in a bottomless pit you die because reasons.
Edited by General_101 on Sep 16, 2015 at 10:55 PM

Rock smashing is kind of weird, but there are other parts of the game where you can go through broken walls and smash vents. It's kind of cool in that being able to break open doors was something they wanted to do in H1, but then dropped. Long as breakable walls are things that are for extra exploration, I think it will be cool. It's always nice replaying something and finding whole routes you never knew about before.

Whether or not a Spartan would be able to bash his or her way through a stone wall, I'm not sure, but to be fair, there is a difference between colliding with a solid object and being penetrated (bow chicka bow wow) by the jet of molten copper spewed forth by a high-explosive anti-tank warhead.
Edited by Echo77 on Sep 17, 2015 at 01:20 AM

If anyone was gonna make more Halos it would be Gearbox.

Edited by EmmanuelCD on Sep 18, 2015 at 06:11 PM