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New Halo 5 Coverage! (expect spoilers)
- Thread starter JumPeRJumPzZ
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AcePartyN7
Member
This is sad, I would have love to be able to choose my weapons before a mission, customise them etc. maybe for the next one?
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What the hell is up with that grass? Start of the gif looks like it's from Skyward Sword or Wind Waker or Kameo or something.
Bornstellar
Member
Too bad - would have been cool to find weapon variants in the environment / take them from some enemies.
The grass doesn't cast shadows and there is no ambient occlusion applied to it.
Yeah, that's a real shame. I doubt the weapons are in customs, too :/
And I saw Return to the Battlefield signs again :/
RedSparrows
Member
The weapons being in customs would only work if you actually had the card. Else, the carrot of cards is lost.
Banderdash
Member
It's one of the No Mans Sky planets.
Is Frankie still around? I haven't seen him comment in past few days.
Probably requested a ban.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Has Warzone Assault been talked about before? This interview with Tim Longo mentions the game mode. It is still 12 v 12 with no AI and is an Attack/Defend game type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BsXLALRv-8
Sounds interesting. Give me a Warzone Infection mode, where players all start on one team against A.I and if they die, they spawn as an enemy player.
Edit: They always said it was 12v12 no A.I. Could they not bump up the player count if the A.I is missing?
It would have to be in a seperate playlist, because you can't have different player sizes in the same playlist. I don't think they want to split the Warzone playlist (and playerbase), because of that.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
gaming_noob
Member
I'd imagine the explosion of the vehicle would kill the ground pounder too. Suicide pounding.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
It should look hilarious if 2-3 people try to pound a Scorpion xD
Atomic TeaBagging.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Huh wtf. So after a match we'll be thrown into the MP screen again where we have to select a MP mode? Cause that's how it worked for me in Halo 4 MCC. And i don't see the point, let it simply continue into the next map.
Oooh wait, i explained it the wrong way. It's not that i'd want to vote on maps perse, but more that the map rotation just continues. But for some reason in Halo 4 in MCC it throws me back to the main MP menu. Not being able to vote is actually DAMN good really.
SamastahSukhino
Banned
I wish you could ground pound straight into the scorpion and lay a grenade. That would be so hip!
Ground pound straight into rodeo would be pretty sweet.
I asked Frank in another thread and he said you can. But said something about it being physics based, and that it also depends on vehicle health. I asked whether you could ground/pound threw a banshee and he said you would either just bounce off it, or if it was low health and hit at a good angle, you could destroy it.
RedSparrows
Member
The playlists rotate. You just sit there and it carries on, asfaik.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
IGN posted a video: How hard is halo 5 on Legendary?
He dies and stuff.
He dies and stuff.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Yeah, very very nice. This avoids the annoying problem that the same map would get chosen constantly.
That's how it should be. I've always chosen Heroic though, so i hope it's not a world of difference with how it used to be in previous games.
RedSparrows
Member
I'm currently going through Halo CE on Heroic, to play it before 5 is out.
As an experienced Halo player, man is it easy. Especially in co-op.
As an experienced Halo player, man is it easy. Especially in co-op.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I've always sucked at the Halo campaigns. Only played through each game once or so. Just finished Halo: CE on Heroic solo (gonna try to make it through all the campaigns before launch) and it wasn't that easy for me. There were a couple places it took me like 10 tries to get past. My playstyle is so much more geared toward multiplayer, I have no patience haha.
SamastahSukhino
Banned
I too recently started the campaigns before the release of h5 and I'm having trouble on normal. Playing solo is hard. I get to start the library today. I'm fucked.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Why are people saying you can't ground pound vehicles when that guy's timing in the gif was clearly not perfect? He barely missed his mark. If you can jump over and even land on top of vehicles, then you can surely ground and pound them also, even if you don't do very much damage.
- Can you use Legendary weapons/Warzone only weapons in custom games?
- Any word on theatre mode and file sharing?
- How many missions does the Campaign have, and did they opt for long and fewer or short and numerous missions?
- Do the community features such as speedrunning/par times return in Halo 5? (Anything in MCC that isn't MCC specific not in Halo 5?)
Unless Frankie comes back and answers before the interview, ask if the different scope options are available in Arena.
Can I have my FileShare back?
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I'm almost positive they won't be. Reason being: Different scopes seem to actually affect the spread of a weapon. Meaning if you have an AR with 4x zoom but the reticle stays the same size (assuming the weapon is firing within the reticle which would make sense), then the area the reticle is actually covering is smaller and therefore the weapon is more accurate.
I thought maybe they could disable the different behavior, and just let people use the scope they like. I don't care personally, but I figure there's a large portion of players who want that ACOG BR over the horn sight.
Gnome Scat
Member
Ask him about Theater Mode.
I don't understand that complaint; while Warzone is not BTB they are somewhat similar and I'm sure Warzone will scratch that itch until BTB releases.
I've always thought of BTB as large scale battles with many vehicles, generally with an objective basis. That is basically Warzone, except for the REQ system and AI bosses.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
This one? If so I agree, I like it better than the horn sight. However, my guess is they're trying to limit the BR's range in arena so it doesn't overlap with the DMR functionally. It's already arguably the most well-rounded weapon; if the scoped magnification was higher it could cause some balance issues (even if the spread wasn't reduced).
Head canon for ground pound
While there are out of the normal route "vacations" for certain things such as skulls, the game has return to the battlefield signs, which means out of map exploration will be difficult/impossible.
...Scatter...
Banned
I was playing Destiny last night and we got to talking Halo and someone brought up a great point I didn't think of much. After playing Destiny, some folks are leery of having to use the same old BR, AR, Pistol combos. Destiny really has spoiled us with variety of weapons. Halo does need to mix it up.
RedSparrows
Member
Whilst I think the variety in Destiny is a little oversold (75% filler weapons, the remainder, whilst shiny and all that, are not strikingly different from one another within their class; then again, I've always though the endgame horizontal progression of collecting all the guns is utterly tedious, horses for courses), Halo 5 looks, at least, to have diversified the guns better than any previous Halo. Every game has of course introduced lots of guns, but in 2, 3, Reach and 4 the rifles dominated everything. In 5, they probably will again, but at least now the basic range of weaponry is a) more functionally useful and b) particularly with Promethean weapons, actually a little distinct from UNSC ones.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Warzone seems to be doing a job and a half of that. On the Arena side, there might be something to that complaint, though the Hydra and Plasma Caster are kinda out there.
I don't know. I feel the same way. But when you have 4 previewers from GT saying they miss BTB and Warzone feels "off" or "weird", I dunno.
I think Halo 5 is shaping up to be great. My only concern is enough unique maps in Warzone and BTB.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Warzone will have way more weapon variety than any other Halo. But I could still see the concern, Destiny does have more attachments and different weapon characteristics. At the same time though, some of that weapon diversity is pretty deceptive. Weapons can have varying fire rates, accuracy, range, ammo types, and mag sizes but in the end a lot of them still feel very similar to shoot. Scout rifles for example; they all felt almost exactly the same to me. In other words most of the weapons don't have characteristics that make it feel like an entirely different weapon.