Here's another thought. (inorite?) in a nice story form gaming studio promise sequel to awesome game gaming studio then promises to follow the canon of the story and base the game around the masses of brilliant fiction surrounding the game's universe gaming studio says lets change to be the same as everything else gaming studio then decides not to do what they said they would do online community gets pissed
Wow, I really was hoping that the weapon drops would just be timed events and the only randomness would be which weapon was inside. I really hope that this idea of "choose your weapon drop" is a beta feature and gets removed pronto. I'm still going to withhold judgement until the moment I see some actual MM game-play footage, though. I'm not too concerned overall, however, since I almost exclusively play Customs anyhow. Give me a heavily updated Forge and see my money land in your pocket 343i.
Yep. Let's have that forge announcement post haste, fellas. You could win back a lot of people around here with the right new features in that area.
Well thats a bummer. I always felt one of the calling cards of Halo was the weapons scattered on the map.
Oli - you're either trolling or ignorant on this point, I can't tell which. Forge has been confirmed several times, but they've given absolutely no details on it yet.
That ain't me you're talking to, bro. If this is the set way that default matchmaking slayer plays, where you get to choose one of 3 weapon drops after a certain number of kills, then ****. That is not a good thing. Nor will it ever be. If that's Default, what were they thinking?
He knows, he figured since his prank worked so well on neo that he could do it again and no one would notice. New comedy low Oli, you've ruined your own joke, bravo.
Darn. My troll failed Mind you, it worked on neo pretty well. Haha I didn't even intend to do that. I edited my post to say that because I felt like moving the discussion onto forge.
Oh, I guess he trolled me thanks to my forgetfulness. I forgot that he was the one that posted that before. Oli - stop messing with people's heads; there's enough misinformation (and unfortunately 100% accurate information) out there to worry about.
Good lord, it's almost as if 343i is trying to keep me from buying their game. The more I learn, the worse it sounds; I don't even have an analogy good enough for this.
I agree. And the "science" behind that analysis is atrocious. Sure the ground gets harder when it's cold out, but falling from any height is going to cause the same amount of damage no matter how cold it is. If I climbed a tall tree and jumped off, I would break my legs no matter what.
Will I never be let forget that? Totally agree with this. I love the new grunts. People need to slow down in their accusations of 343 ****ing with the canon.
Time for some major speculation: If the weapon drops automatically land at whichever designated "landing zone" is furthest from you, I don't see a problem. Or possibly if it's randomized, meaning you cannot just choose to have rockets spawn as close to you as possible. Once you call in that drop, everyone would immediately see the waypoint on their HUD, negating any real advantage other than knowing exactly which power weapon it is beforehand. Even cooler would be if all the enemy sees is the ordinance location, but not the weapon, for 5 seconds or so while the "data" is read and sent to their suit. Also, since killstreaks are so much harder to get in Halo than in CoD, I highly doubt it will be as simple as, "get a killing spree, earn a power weapon." Apparently they've revamped the scoring system, so there's probably a direct tie to that. Maybe it involves your teams overall score progression throughout the match, sort of like Invasion Slayer. What I'm thinking is this: whoever earns that 10th, 20th, or whatever point- they get to call in the weapon drop for their team. You won't know exactly where it will be, but you get the pick the weapon. This lets you coordinate with your fellow team members in a way you never could before. Have an excellent sniper on your team that could prove more beneficial to your team than the RL? Call it in. The other team is winning and you don't want to accidently give them a full-on power weapon? Call in a semi-power weapon. This could make communication more important than ever. Am I the only one who thinks this could be awesome if implemented well? In fact, I'd say that all the discussion here is essentially null until we know exactly how these features are to be implemented and how they correspond with one another. Done properly, it could combine the best aspects of CoD with the best of Halo. We cannot discount every feature CoD has as being terrible; in fact, I'd say CoD has a lot of neat features going for it. I am not a fan of the kind of game-play it promotes, but to say every thing about it sucks is just fan-boyish. I for one, welcome our new Halo overlords and am willing to keep the faith.
Or we could all just buy used copies of Halo 4. That way 343i gets the message and we can still have our customs.