My friend and I are trying to get a CTF BG going. Anyone is welcome to join. GT is xCliQuEx just send me a msg and i'll invite you!
By Granadier Go To PostBetter be.You do not want to get in a gif battle with me, young man.
By Cliq Go To PostHere's that long grenade kill. Must have got a huge bounce when the other nade exploded.lol that was so good. Too bad CE doesn't have Theater. Would be fun to see from their view.
Hmm…wonder why my gif isn't loading. Here's a link.
i.imgur.com/YR0AAbo.gifv
By YourExWife Go To PostShould I be???
I'm telling you, this gif is literally Ian and Austin in 20 years.
By Wahrer Go To PostI'm telling you, this gif is literally Ian and Austin in 20 years.
nah, both dudes are fully clothed.
By Cliq Go To PostHere's that long grenade kill. Must have got a huge bounce when the other nade exploded.I know some purists don't like the medal feed in Halo 1 & 2, but I like it for moments like this, it provides so much information.
Hmm…wonder why my gif isn't loading. Here's a link.
i.imgur.com/YR0AAbo.gifv
By Wahrer Go To PostI'm telling you, this gif is literally Ian and Austin in 20 years.
By YourExWife Go To PostYou do not want to get in a gif battle with me, young man.
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By Lord of Admirals Go To PostPlease, no. I don't want to abandon thread because of long load times.You should abandon Chrome or get the extension that helps with that.
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By SgtOra Go To PostWelp enough of this poop for the day gg turdsNo offense, but who checks potentially data involved shit on mobile? Or like granadier said, just disable gif loads on mobile.
Like, these threads are known for big pics and gifs for years. Not the same as a gif war perse, but c'mon son.
So this was no fun (more H3 BR crap):
http://i.imgur.com/FuCT7xs.gifv
http://i.imgur.com/FuCT7xs.gifv
By YourExWife Go To PostNo offense, but who checks potentially data involved shit on mobile? Or like granadier said, just disable gif loads on mobile.
Like, these threads are known for big pics and gifs for years. Not the same as a gif war perse, but c'mon son.
Or you could just not post a bunch of gifs like an idiot.
By Ozzy Onya A2Z Go To PostSo this was no fun (more H3 BR crap):the halo 3 BR makes me want to bash my head against a wall =_=
http://i.imgur.com/FuCT7xs.gifv
By Ram Go To PostOr you could just not post a bunch of gifs like an idiot.No need to be namecalling.
By Ozzy Onya A2Z Go To PostSo this was no fun (more H3 BR crap):You be shooting behind him, man :)
http://i.imgur.com/FuCT7xs.gifv
By Ram Go To PostOr you could just not post a bunch of gifs like an idiot.Love you too breh.
4v4 H3 Standoff can be fun. The Hog is soo good at picking people off, just roll around with a Bubble Shield to save yourself.
By YourExWife Go To Post…Or like granadier said, just disable gif loads on mobile.
Wait, how exactly can you do this?
By Granadier Go To Postyeah, for realz.
also, T-Mobile unliminited data is the shiznit.
also wifi
Unlimited Data plan in 2015?
T-Mobile must be desperate.
By YourExWife Go To PostYou be shooting behind him, man :)
You can see me keep aiming in front more and more, 3 times I went that little bit further as I realised he didn't die. Any further by the fourth shot and I wouldn't even have a red reticule. Also because it was a high latency game I was trying to sweep BR too.
By Ozzy Onya A2Z Go To PostYou can see me keep aiming in front more and more, 3 times I went that little bit further as I realised he didn't die. Any further by the fourth shot and I wouldn't even have a red reticule. Also because it was a high latency game I was trying to sweep BR too.With any distance in Halo 3, you *don't* want the red reticle if the person is moving. You want it just ahead of their location. You can remark about the H3 BR mechanics I suppose, but I was just saying that the gif looked fine to me.
By YourExWife Go To PostFor you FUNKNOWN:Nice. Too bad I can't play CE BTB whenever I'd like ;'[
http://xboxclips.com/YourExWife+ohhh/31c770df-c897-4cb5-a296-523ff56857f5
By rrc1594 Go To PostI can't say this enough Rat's Nest is the best BTB map of all timeYou want a fight, don't you?
By rrc1594 Go To PostI can't say this enough Rat's Nest is the best BTB map of all time
Saying it again: I really hope your AI Musketeers can just die and then respawn like real co-op buddies. Would make things feel a little more traditional and less of a hassle trying to go back and get them up. Reminds me of Halo Wars.
By Wahrer Go To PostSaying it again: I really hope your AI Musketeers can just die and then respawn like real co-op buddies. Would make things feel a little more traditional and less of a hassle trying to go back and get them up. Reminds me of Halo Wars.I think they bleed out and stay dead until the next checkpoint...or maybe I misread what was said about it.
By Wesleyshark Go To PostI think they bleed out and stay dead until the next checkpoint…or maybe I misread what was said about it.
I took that as meaning "perma-incapacitated" until the next encounter like with Johnson and Arbiter in 3, not actually "reloading" by your side, so to speak.
By Wahrer Go To PostI took that as meaning "perma-incapacitated" until the next encounter like with Johnson and Arbiter in 3, not actually "reloading" by your side, so to speak.That's what I meant haha.. Not actually dead woops. Similar in mass effect as well.. If a squad mate goes down, they stay down till the room is cleared, save for the Unity perk being used.
Unrelated to the current respawn discussion: I just recently came across haruspis' Blog featuring a boatload of Halo writeups and there's some pretty interesting stuff to yearn from them in that they actively go out of their way to integrate multiple points of Halo fiction to triangulate some type of theory or outcome, rather than being a mere analysis or rundown the way Ascendant Justice / FuD / Reclaimer Writeups usually do. There's a lot of speculation, but one of the more interesting things I noticed that seems really brilliant now is that, well:
Note the way the Flood mass not just bodies, but consciousness, and experience. Even at their Disorganized / Feral Stage, the immediate game plan is to try and create the foundations for an intellectual singularity - something that's actually capable of using the swaths of knowledge it procures. Note, additionally, the parallels drawn to the Domain in that the Flood form an expansive (albeit insular / exclusive) neural network that can "imprint" on people in slight degrees, such as how Chief seems to be getting "ghost of Cortana" fragments from his latent connection to the Domain while Chief's likewise capable of experiencing "Gravemind moments" in 3, and so on. Primordium / general Greg Bear spoilers: We covered it slightly in Reclaimer Radio 7, but the Domain is eventually revealed to have been created through the immaterial conscious remains of an individual Precursor, whom presumably acted as more of a processing store rather than a lucid being with intent. The Domain was said to have knowledge thought to be fact change on occasion, certain knowledge burned out entirely, etc. much like the way subconscious minds do.
(continued Bear spoilers)
Note, likewise, that the Flood are a corrupted Precursor creation. As a result, it's not entirely impossible to believe they may be trying to achieve a similar goal in terms of accruing a whole singularity of knowledge, summed whole. If the Flood's endgame is just as much about assembling a knowledge base in full as it is assimilating all life, Mendicant Bias' turn to the Flood makes way more sense. We know Graveminds are capable of inducing "logic plagues" to subvert AI routines in the way they can alter sentient consciousness on a more pedestrian biological level, but even so, Mendicant Bias wasn't a single individual. It eventually established a singular identity, mind you, but its actual "hardware" consisted of multiple fractions of extremely potent mind-engines housed on a smorgasbord of starships with varying degrees of interconnectedness and interactivity. Being able to take down a unit this powerful - Mendicant Bias belonged to the most powerful class of AI type in Forerunner technology, a Contender-class - seems improbable through sheer deceit, even if it took a little over forty years.
Which is why Mendicant Bias making the choice to personally align with the Gravemind for some time makes a whole lot of sense: they've both been engineered with a near-singular purpose for amassing knowledge, and the Flood are a hell of a lot more hasty in assimilating information than the Forerunners are.
Note the way the Flood mass not just bodies, but consciousness, and experience. Even at their Disorganized / Feral Stage, the immediate game plan is to try and create the foundations for an intellectual singularity - something that's actually capable of using the swaths of knowledge it procures. Note, additionally, the parallels drawn to the Domain in that the Flood form an expansive (albeit insular / exclusive) neural network that can "imprint" on people in slight degrees, such as how Chief seems to be getting "ghost of Cortana" fragments from his latent connection to the Domain while Chief's likewise capable of experiencing "Gravemind moments" in 3, and so on. Primordium / general Greg Bear spoilers: We covered it slightly in Reclaimer Radio 7, but the Domain is eventually revealed to have been created through the immaterial conscious remains of an individual Precursor, whom presumably acted as more of a processing store rather than a lucid being with intent. The Domain was said to have knowledge thought to be fact change on occasion, certain knowledge burned out entirely, etc. much like the way subconscious minds do.
(continued Bear spoilers)
Note, likewise, that the Flood are a corrupted Precursor creation. As a result, it's not entirely impossible to believe they may be trying to achieve a similar goal in terms of accruing a whole singularity of knowledge, summed whole. If the Flood's endgame is just as much about assembling a knowledge base in full as it is assimilating all life, Mendicant Bias' turn to the Flood makes way more sense. We know Graveminds are capable of inducing "logic plagues" to subvert AI routines in the way they can alter sentient consciousness on a more pedestrian biological level, but even so, Mendicant Bias wasn't a single individual. It eventually established a singular identity, mind you, but its actual "hardware" consisted of multiple fractions of extremely potent mind-engines housed on a smorgasbord of starships with varying degrees of interconnectedness and interactivity. Being able to take down a unit this powerful - Mendicant Bias belonged to the most powerful class of AI type in Forerunner technology, a Contender-class - seems improbable through sheer deceit, even if it took a little over forty years.
Which is why Mendicant Bias making the choice to personally align with the Gravemind for some time makes a whole lot of sense: they've both been engineered with a near-singular purpose for amassing knowledge, and the Flood are a hell of a lot more hasty in assimilating information than the Forerunners are.
By Wahrer Go To PostUnrelated to the current respawn discussion: I just recently came across haruspis' Blog featuring a boatload of Halo writeups
Dude... That's my favorite Halo Lore blog and has been for a while now. They do some crazy study on the really deep connections between everything.
So an outlier we’ve got is Soma the Painter, and like IRIS it was written by Frank O’Connor – so it is him and Greg Bear who we have to thank for all this beautifully foundational material that has been written for the Forerunners.Seriously... Bear and Stinkles have given us some amazing stuff. Cheers to you sirs.
I'll get off the haruspis pimping tangent after this, but one of the articles I've really enjoyed so far (I've read like 80% of the Halo stuff on his blog yesterday and today) is the one about disabled representation in the Halo series. I mean granted, the entire series is more or less framed around wars, so disabilities are inevitable - but at the same time, it's easy to see why those types of portrayals could easily go wrong in a lot of series. And yet, a solid chunk of the disabled characters in the Halo series are fan favorites that I never even thought about: see half-jaw / Rtas' Vadum and Kat, primarily.
By Wahrer Go To PostI'll get off the haruspis pimping tangent after this, but one of the articles I've really enjoyed so far (I've read like 80% of the Halo stuff on his blog yesterday and today) is the one about disabled representation in the Halo series. I mean granted, the entire series is more or less framed around wars, so disabilities are inevitable - but at the same time, it's easy to see why those types of portrayals could easily go wrong in a lot of series. And yet, a solid chunk of the disabled characters in the Halo series are fan favorites that I never even thought about: see half-jaw / Rtas' Vadum and Kat, primarily.Halo, I think, has always been pretty accepting and diverse in its promotion of a variety of characters, but I think it's only expanded and deepened as time has passed and new games and stories have been released. People from all sorts of backgrounds and races. For me... I've always really been a fan of how many female characters there are and how strong they are. Damsels in distress don't exist in Halo. Instead we have characters like Halsey, Osman, Cortana, Miranda Keyes, etc... Even the whole of Sanghelli hierarchy is structured around Sanghelli wives being the supreme rulers of their Keeps while the males are simply the Warriors. Women are powerful in Halo in a way that men and women are true equals. I've always liked that. It's refreshing.
I never took into notice the inclusion of disabled folks Halsey is part of this now too haha... But they're right. That's another gold star for mutually accepting narrative and sci-fi. Maybe that's part of what has driven Halo to 65 million sales... It's not all guns and shoot and bang and grunts and stuff. There's some real depth here. Something just about anyone can relate to as they play.
It really is a shame how many people write off Halos story as boring and generic. It has such a vast and deep sci-fi universe. I suppose one of the reasons is that none of the games have really lived up to the universe as far as story telling goes.
That said I still think H2 has by far my favourite story of the games. The introduction of the Gravemind, the conflict between the different Covenant factions as well as the Brute/Elite civil war. It's such a fantastic game with some really interesting themes.
That said I still think H2 has by far my favourite story of the games. The introduction of the Gravemind, the conflict between the different Covenant factions as well as the Brute/Elite civil war. It's such a fantastic game with some really interesting themes.
“Humans will be tested next. […] It is the way of those who seek out the truth of the Mantle. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. The Flood will return when they are ripe—and bring them unity.”
This quote from the Primordial is all the more relevant. Halo 5 is going to set up some major game changers in the universe as a whole. Humanity is being tested and will be tested with greater fervor going into Halo 6.
The Flood not returning yet makes a lot of sense the more I think about it. Humanity isn't ripe enough for their return just yet. The Flood is waiting and biding their time. Their grand entrance is still in the slow cooker, so to speak, and so is the unification of humanity.
By jem0208 Go To PostIt really is a shame how many people write off Halos story as boring and generic. It has such a vast and deep sci-fi universe. I suppose one of the reasons is that none of the games have really lived up to the universe as far as story telling goes.
That said I still think H2 has by far my favourite story of the games. The introduction of the Gravemind, the conflict between the different Covenant factions as well as the Brute/Elite civil war. It's such a fantastic game with some really interesting themes.
Halo 2 was my favorite Halo campaign until Halo 4 came out. I love both of those stories greatly.
Halo 2 is a sort of foreshadowing to what humanity is about to endure with their own "Great Schism" and civil war throughout as the Insurrectionists are rising up across many, many colonies.
Who showed up to unify the Covenant? The Flood.
Who is going to show up, when the time is ripe, to unify Humanity? ;)
I try not to talk too much about the lore stuff since I come off as a massive fanboy, but Halo has easily one of the best, most fleshed out game 'verses out there. It's nuts, the amount of stuff they've got packed in and how much of it works.
Discovered this community through a feature on my blog that said I'd been linked in this thread. Thank you very much for your kind words, Wesley and Wahrer. :')