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based

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Good morning. I can still send my info for the collage right? I only just remembered after seeing the 1995.

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In 5 threads your fate will be sealed, /hg/

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>>558537049
idk, Might as well try

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Microsoft literally just needs to make me in charge of Halo.
I should have say over what weapons, maps, abilities, deployables, cosmetics, story elements, and characters are in the game.
I don't want to toot my own horn but I'm about as big of a Halo superfan as you can get, not just because I love Halo and grew up with it, but because I actually UNDERSTAND it.
My Halo would be the ideal next step for the franchise, and anyone who has a problem with it or doesn't like it is just too retarded and shouldn't have a seat at the table of discussion on what Halo is and isn't in the first place.

>>558537194
I look like this and say this.

>>558537256
stop pretending to be me

>>558537194
Care to elaborate on what you would actually do?

>>558537049
nah

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>>558536958
IIs sparring must be interesting to watch

>>558555312
Reminds me of my time playing Jak X

>>558537194
You probably could pull it off. The biggest hurdle is just higher-ups not allowing people to put Halo first when making a mainline Halo.

>>558548719
Man, that's embarassing for the other guy. Double Spikers is one of the worst weapon combo in Halo 3.

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>>558563228
I don't even think it's that nefarious.
The problem is more that from the get go, game development is mandated to prioritize certain cornerstones to ensure it meets the publisher's blueprint for being lucrative enough. Game Pass especially compounds this. Game's need to balance out the risk/reward of essentially not having to be paid for. This is why on day 1, even after a year-long delay, Infinite had barely any playlists or Game modes, but had a fully functioning storefront and a plethora of skins you could equip and customize.

>>558565481
Having done some "work" in the industry, I can tell you that the store is one of the first thing they get done. Even pre-alpha games have the skeleton of the game store ready.

>>558565885
makes sense
it's usually the least buggy part

I remember that Marvel MMO that shutdown 6~ years ago. It was incredibly buggy but even on its last week, the store was still running fine without issues, and it loaded faster than anything else.

>>558572179
Youtube ads work the same way

>>558573950
your mom works the same way

>>558573950
Oh im aware of ads working the same way. On Facebook and Twitter they both load nicely even if the website is shitting itself.

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>here's your keyes and cortana bro

>bookshit
Who even gives a FUCK about this?

Anyone down for CE multiplayer on MCC? I'll be playing for a few matches.

Making Chief fall in love with Cortana was retarded. She was always meant for me.

WEIRD

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Halo is saved!

>>558593242
Halo, the bestselling book series.

>>558583368
That art looks better than cemake 2

>>558537194
This is 100% certifiably true and I have no idea who you are

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>Good to see you, Mogster Chief.

>>558596620
meh, it's clearly keyes

>>558596620
aaaaaarrrgghh my cortisol!!!!!!

>Halo's 25th Anniversary present is... the same books from the golden age, just re-released
I feel so amazingly empty inside.

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Why do they keep doing this?

>>558596934
Womyn

>>558596934
One is many years later and is using mocap
Attributing this all to some amorphous "they" is a misleading inference

There's no "they". It's womyn.

>>558597308
Have sex

They are here.

They JUST flew over my house.

An Omnibus just drove down my street

They have taken control of the narrative.

Yall Omnibus Spending Packages in my subcommittee

They will be playing Marathon.

They do not exist, schizo.

Son todos deliciosos calditos de res en mi pozole

They didn't like that one very much.

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>>558598165

who are they

You aren't supposed to know about they.

They were NOT happy about that one.

You WILL join the discord.
You WILL stop posting here.
You WILL play Marathon.

They have spoken.

I'd let a they/them suck my cock. No homo.

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it's not gay if they're a girl

Been waiting 2 months for Mirage or Orion armor to come back on the exchange in MCC I'm starting to lose hope

well keep on waiting little one

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>>558536958
My first time posting here even though I've been on 4chan for a decade (the time flies!). Never knew there was a Halo general.
Halo and it's lore was easily the most formative fiction media in my life. I loved it. I've never been religious, but the rich religious connotations in Halo gave me what felt like a religious experience.
Looking back, having it murdered right in front of me with Halo 4 was a personal trauma which gave me a seething personal hatred toward SJWs and started a political spiral which lead me to /pol/.
RIP Halo.

>>558597221
Does mocap really mean you can't do the old face? Doesn't seem like an excuse at all.
Anders looked like a normal hapa girl, then in the sequel they changed her ethnicity and gave her 12 cubic feet of chin. Was that mocap too?

>>558583368
Man do I not like Hannaford's latest Halo stuff. This and the vinyl cover just look flat out bad to me.
That Mark V is so off model and the proportions of it all are fucked.

>>558616742
It's Elon Musk wearing that armour.

>>558616905
kek

>>558615574
This didn't happen, because nothing ever happens.

>>558615574
we dont like basedjaks here

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Turns out they weren't silly shrimp

...they were never funny

>they out of nowhere
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>558615574
>Playing Halo for the lore
>implying SJWism even makes the list of the top 10 things wrong with 343 halo development
Regardless, just play MCC

Finally tried Pozole
Not impressed

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>>558615574
That's bait, fucka

>4 hours ago

It's just an ancient slumber.

>>558536958
Watch your mouth, son! This "uncslop" is your history!

>>558536958
Reach a good shit

we need [...] Halo will be [...] in effect [...] when [...] the discord and [...] or else nothing will change or [...] I knelt

Da cord is playing Marathon! Inconceivable!

>>558634930
No there's a line I've not read in a long time. A long time.

I was watching S0ur's Halo 5 video because I enjoy getting new perspectives on games I know, and after beating the last Warden fight, he wondered if there was going to be a boss fight with Cortana in a life-sized physical form.
I can't stop snickering at the idea of the final fight having Cortana being like "Look John, I'm physical now" and then this seven foot tall beast of a man stomping around in literal tons of armor just K.O.'s her

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and now young /hg/... you will perish

>>558642447
Raiden! Stop that pincer!

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We, yes, WE will be playing Marathon tomorrow!

>>558642683
You of course mean Marathon 1994, right? ...Right?

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Nope

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>>558642565
LET 'ER RIP

THE DEMON HAS ENTERED THE COUNSEL CHAMBER

SEAL THE EXITS
PROTECT TICONDEROGA'S JAMMER

>>558651695
forced

>>558638508
the funny part is she still isnt physical

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gluetana

Decided to play halo infinite again now that it’s officially dead and buried. Last time I played was season 2. Had some fun but man the game feels so depressing. No one talks. No one types. Can’t say anything to the enemy team. No post game scoreboard to linger on and talk with the enemy team. I’ve never felt so depressed playing a game before. It just makes me think about what could have been.

Also fuck me this game has the worst weapon balance I’ve ever seen in halo. Outside the mangler there’s no reason to touch covie weapons. It honestly feels like I’m using the AR, BR, Pistol, Shotgun, Rockets, Sniper, Mangler, and nothing else. The equipment too is all junk outside of the thruster and grapple.
Why even add new weapons if they all suck? What is the point of that ugly ass carbine?

The jammer has turned its gaze on the poster below

>>558652545
Shitfinite has problems but if you think it has the worst weapon balance in Halo then you need to play more Halo games.

>>558652545
>reddit spacing

The poster above the poster above has been spoofed into thinking shitfinite isn't the worst halo game ever made

>>558596934
Not to defend this crap but halo has been redesigning characters from day one. See Johnson from 2 to 3. Looks like a completely different person, his skin is lighter, and he’s suddenly balding.

>>558652750
a lot can happen in 3 months

>>558652750
the technology changed massively between those games. pre-rendered faces are not the same.

>>558652726
>’reddit spacing’

>>558652848
yes, stop doing it

>>558652848
use the filters
newfags are only emboldened by your seething

>>558652831
Yeah this is cope

>Rand Al Thor 19's response to Xbox being Xbox
Hey gang,
Just wanna thank everyone all together for your support, kind notes, and shares over the last couple of weeks (and always). I'll be honest and transparent, since our lay offs in January, I've been feeling lower than I have been in years probably. I'm not good at hiding that kinda stuff, as you all likely know (lol). I really let shit get to me -- I've been the same since I was like 4 years old per school reports (also lol). The people laid off were people I personally hired. The cuts came out of the blue from higher up, and they were brutal, unfair, and cold. They ignored the years and years of hard work they'd all put in to the site and its growth.
I spent the last couple of months knee deep in thoughts of just giving up, but I owe ye all so much, and my family, and my current and former team mates for the incredible support I receive.

>>558652947
what's cope? use quotes, retard

>>558653019
It's just lord schizo

a new copypasta didn't read btw just entered the filters

The only weapons halo needs. Anymore is simply too much:

AR
Plasma rifle
Needler
Shotgun
Energy sword
Gravity hammer
BR
Pistol as a gimped BR
Sniper
Plasma pistol with EMP capabilities
Focus rifle (yes you read that correctly)
Rocket launcher with no heat seeking
Brute shot
Fuel rod
Frag grenade
Plasma grenade
Shock grenade

warthog encounters are so unfun and frustrating in reach
the gunner doesn't shoot at anything at all
i miss the coop campaign playlist

>>558653220
incomprehensibly soulless

>>558653019
Claiming pre-rendered faces changing between games is acceptable and totally different to changing a character’s face because of mocap is cope. The end result is the same. A character was redesigned and looks different between two games. That’s all that matters. Either you’re ok with characters changing appearances or you’re not.

>>558653347
I didn't say anything about mocap. I think you replied to the wrong post. You must be new to this site.

>>558653331
And yet they’re the only weapons people ever use in every game. Curious…

>>558653347
it's a video game

Yeah I’m gonna leave this general. You guys are dumb.

>>558653430
You're just lying. You're saying no one ever touches a beam rifle? You're saying people don't drop their ar for the carbine? You are unironically 343 tier.

SPARTAN CODE

>>558653220
>Fuel rod
Only if it is the cool as fuck gearbox version. Bungie's "rocket launcher but looks weird" is boring.

>>558653649
>replying to ximself
DEFINITELY 343 tier lmao

>>558654059
a true halo fan

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>>558654059
puzzling. why do pedos hate the people who deport child traffickers? yeeze loves ODST btw.

>>558651720
So he was definitely an Orion candidate right? He took a gutpunch from the arbiter like a champ.

>>558653536
Beam rifle is literally just the sniper reminded
Carbine is literally just the BR skinned

When the weapons have been reworked to function differently (see the beam rifle changing to the focus rifle in reach), people shit on them and don’t use them.

replies were hidden btw
once i've called you a liar, I know you're only going to tell more lies

>>558653220
After careful review I’ve decided the BR should be changed to the needle rifle instead so that the enemy can use it in PvE

>>558654434
JJAB loves ICE though?

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>>558654059
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_72818ebd-5268-4635-9f60-4d3af8dd6a63

pp grabber
do NOT click

I............. clicked it...............

>>558654059
>going to twitter to look for fags then posting said fag here for (you)s
What are you even doing

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there are 11 posters

all me btw

>>558655191
Five Guys narrative..... shattered........

GOOD MORNING MINTO

Guy #13 here, 11 guy theory is wrong.

>>558655191
mostly all me

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>>558630012
>implying SJWism even makes the list of the top 10 things wrong with 343 halo development
It is easily one of the top 3. Were you even a Halo fan?
Bungie was politically mixed, and had ACTUAL diversity. When Halo 4 came out, it was common knowledge that 343 were extremely woke internally, and beyond rank incompetence I would say their wokeness is 2nd place for why they completely failed.
343 has always failed to capture the aesthetic of anything in Halo and has turned Master Chief from a subtly complex and internally tragic Jeus allegory of a charscter into a whiny simp loser who is more emotionally incontinent than the average divorced 50 year old his age. And by the way this thing with master chief was politically motivated, because it has been a trend to deconstruct positive male role models to defeat toxic masculinity.
Likewise they turned the universe from a rich pseudo religious gnostic story about humans being pushed to extinction and discovering our own divinity, to... whatever it is now. Mostly mindless space opera with comic book cackling villains and cringe personal soap opera drama.
343 has always refused to bring on people who are not politically woke. They only hired Staten (then fired him) because he's the most left wing of the original bungie.
I don't even give a shit about politics these days but it's just clear that the myopic political culture at 343 from the start had a strong influence over their direction of Halo.

@558658162
>Bungie was politically mixed, and had ACTUAL diversity.
Total /pol/fag death when?
These people are mentally stuck in 2016 and need to be removed from the gene pool

>>558658323
I hope you enjoy playing Halo Infinite with the other 2 thousand players ;)

>>558658445
What part of the post implies defending Infinite?
are you retarded?

>>558658162
>It is easily one of the top 3
Contracting out, server mismanagement, and the inability to release a finished product at launch are all bigger problems.

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>>558658162
>diversity
>woke
>charscter (phonetard confirmed)
>politically motivated
>deconstruct positive male role models
>toxic masculinity
>left wing
>I don't even give a shit about politics

>>558658775
kek

>>558658775
it's always a mobilefag
Not even meming. It's like 95% of the time them.

>>558658612
You are just taking factors from within 'rank incompetence' and stretching them out to prove a point. Everything you mentioned is covered by that one point.
As far as I remember they didn't do much contracting with Halo 4, that started to cut costs when they had already killed and buried Halo.

>>558658775
Yeah I'm at work buddy. Sorry that I'm not at my computer for you :)
Anyway, I will let myself out. Tragic. Halo is so fucking dead that the only people who remain in dead forums like this are actually 343tards larping as OGs. Thanks for letting me know.

>>558659108
>Yeah I'm a filthy mobileposter
we know

Marathon is about to unironically become a bigger household name than halo. I…I need to sit down…

>>558658162
>Bungie was politically mixed, and had ACTUAL diversity.
97 libs, 2 of the gen x "the government is never wrong because they wouldn't be in charge if they were wrong!" types and 1 Bush dickrider (Marty) is politically mixed?

>>558658964
>As far as I remember they didn't do much contracting with Halo 4
Almost the entire multiplayer map roster was made out of house by Certain Affinity
A large amount of armor customization, especially post launch, was made out of house by Liquid Development
All terminals were made out of house by Sequence Group
All pre-rendered cutscenes were made out of house by Axis Animation

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>>558659932

>>558659932
Don't worry sar, India will save Halo now

>>558658162
Holy fucking tourist. When did you get into Halo? 2018? 2020?
>marty being a brainrotted rightoid means bungie was politically mixed
Any true oldhead knows Marty was the "old boomer conservative" of the office. They made fun of that frequently.

it's just nu troll

>>558658859
>always
>95% of the time
Are you american?

>>558661007
He's posting in a Halo thread so probably?
Halo is American after all.

>>558662026
Remind me how many Halo levels take place in America?

>>558662026
>Halo is American after all.
North American, but yes

>>558663265
Halo is so Beautiful!

Unfortunately, Halo has been more Indian than American. For over 10 years, in fact.

Halo is Marshmellean

Assault Rifle
SubMachineGun
Magnum
Shotgun
Battle Rifle
Hydra
Grenade Launcher
Rocket Launcher
Sniper Rifle
Railgun
Plasma Pistol
Plasma Rifle
Needler
Needle Rifle
Radioactive Carbine
Brute Shot
Fuel Rod Mortar
Gravity Hammer
Energy Sword
Mangler
Skewer
Focus Rifle
Cinder Shot

Halo
>Assault Rifle
>SubMachineGun
>Magnum
>Shotgun
>Rocket Launcher
>Sniper Rifle
>Plasma Pistol
>Plasma Rifle
>Needler
>Energy Sword

Not Halo
>Hydra
>Grenade Launcher
>Railgun
>Needle Rifle
>Radioactive Carbine
>Brute Shot
>Fuel Rod Mortar
>Gravity Hammer
>Mangler
>Skewer
>Focus Rifle
>Cinder Shot

>>558664731
I borderline hate Reach but the needle rifle is extremely kino
You don't know ball

Why are right wingers coming in and attempting to divide the Halo community? Jealousy?

damn ya'll are felling for lil troll antics again
editor note: anon meant to write feel

Will the Halo remakes by 343 include the recon of the forerunner not being ancient humans? I wonder if they will change dialogue since guilty spark was very on the nose about it in the original Halo 1

Monkey paw: It won't, because they want to gain goodwill, but their games will still suck.

>>558668507
They’re gonna stick with the retcon since on their twisted eyes it’s part of the original lore.

>>558664731
You missed a whole bunch of weapons. Also you do realise the fuel rod was in halo CE?

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Reminder CE re-remake looks like shit and for the life of them 343 can not figure out how to make mark v look good

>>558670946
343 have never been able to do a good art style, so it's no surprise. We went from whatever Halo 4 and 5 were to this cartoonish disney style in infinite, which people were psyopped into calling the old style. It feels like they are just trying to make it look 'good' above everything, so style is sacrificed in favour of overly vibrant gaudy detail. In fairness, Halo 3 suffered from this, too. Reach got some well-deserved criticism, but the visual style was the best. Gritty military aesthetic clashing with the aliens.

lobby dokko

I have this idea on how to balance vehicles in halo. Let me know what you think.
1) We segment vehicles. What I mean by that is, we split each of the components that make up a vehicle into different segments and give each segment its own health pool. So for the scorpion tank for example, the front, back, gun, and each tread are segments with their own health pools. All you have to do is deplete the heath of one segment to destroy the vehicle entirely. The idea is you can give different segments different health pools, creating weak and strong spots for the vehicles. It also means that destroying a vehicle now requires a concentrated effort targeting the same spot consistently rather than just blasting any section of it.
2) we give each segment health regeneration in stages. So let’s say the front of my tank has 100hp. If it takes damage down to 82hp and I drive away to safety, after some time that health will return to 100hp. But let’s say it takes damage for to 80hp, well now that is the new max hp for the segment. It only regenerates up to the nearest 20hp. To showcase this the segment should visually change to show a bit of damage.
3) we also add extremely small sections that are super weak spots, so you have something to target if you don’t have rockets on you. Having these also means we can do away with the spartan laser, and heat seeking, and the skewer and other BS instant kill shit that is needed to deal with air vehicles but inadvertently makes dealing with ground vehicles mindless, since now you have shoot planes out of the sky of your aim is good enough.

wait fuck you tricked me

>We

where is mr angery?

we exist together now
two autists in one ●■■○□●■

>>558685902
AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I think i miss Ultimate Firefight....

it's just a fun little mod

>>558685332
Dominated and forgotten

I miss my gf Kashiiera

>>558691609
grrrrr.

>>558654467
If I did some research I wouldn't be surprised to see that he was.

>>558672767
I was never bothered by the laser. Numerous things will insta-kill you on-foot so you play more carefully if you know someone who has it is around. You just take that mentality to operating a vehicle, which is already often faster and more lethal than you are on-foot.
>rocket
>sniper
>fuel rod
>tank
Since the first Halo contending with things that could guarantee you take out a vehicle and its crew or get taken out yourself have existed. So a laser that charges first and in the hands of your average player telegraphs itself while doing so never stood out negatively to me.

Marathon won.

>>558697636
If I understood correctly, you’re saying the splaser isn’t that hard to avoid on foot, but my problem is with avoiding it when you’re on a tank or hog. With rockets, at a distance they’re shown and can be avoided, but with the laser, some dude can be hidden miles away and can take out your tank, on their own, in a split second, in complete safety. That’s why I think they dropped the gun in 4, reduced its ammo count on reach, and removed it from infinite. It’s perfectly fine and balanced when hang it against air vehicles but against tanks it just instantly deletes them, making it frustrating to use tanks at all.

>muh tanks
Nigger, have you used the Scorpions in 3, Reach and 4? They delete everything on sight with their insane firing rate. I would have rather have the Spartan Laser balance these broken vehicles then not have it at all. Or maybe make EMP prevent vehicles from firing or something.

>>558703020
>reach
The DMR and sniper delete all the vehicles lol
>4
I haven’t played this trash game in years and I ain’t gonna revisit it
>3
You can literally just nick a vehicle with the laser and it will still go down

Only tank that was ever truly overpowered was 2’s, and it’s precisely because the splaser didn’t exist. The gun exists to ruin your fun. There has to be ways to fight back against vehicles but it can’t be mind numbing easy.

The older I get, the more I hate the motion tracker. Feel like halo 5’s ranked tracker only showing you when you shoot or sprint should be the standard of the game are gonna have sprint. Crouching all the time gets exhausting.

weapon balance is overrated. as long as the meta is fun, then it is good. H2 has shit balance, but the fun comes from controlling the power weapons and BR combos. I don't give a fuck if the pistol sucks dick. The noob combo is gay though

>>558705802
Weapon balance literally makes or breaks the game. What’s the point of having all these cool and whacky guns if you can’t use them 99% of the time? Halo 1 and 3 are legitimately un playable once you realise the only weapons you need are the magnum in CE and BR, sniper, rocket, and sword in 2. Real fun sandbox you have there where I only ever use 4 weapons. 3 is the only game to date where most of the weapons see some use, even if a lot of the guns are just copy and pastes of another.

Play MARATHON.

>>558706965
For a moment I was tempted to but then I remembered it’s an extraction snoozer

Benefits of sprint in halo (real):
1. It lets you initiate a slide which is cool and fun
2. It lets you close the distance on a fast moving vehicle so you can initiate a hijack or land a plasma grenade
3. It gives you a tactical retreat option as an alternative to your only option being to turn around and outshooting the guy who’s already landed 2 headshots on your cause he got lucky turning a corner
4. It allows the motion tracker to no be relied on so heavily by making it only show your location if you sprint as opposed to jog
#keepsprintinhalo!

>>558706746
>Only gun in CE is the magnum
And that's how I know you don't play. CE has the best balance in the series, the sniper and rockets are extremely strong, especially rockets which are key to winning on every map they or on, the shotgun beats the pistol at close range, the AR is like a shitty shotgun but both can be used for quick camo, and even the plasma weapons can be used against overshields, and the PR slows enemies. Definitely better than 3, which is basically 2s balance plus a few extra close range shotty/sword clones

But my point is as long as the meta is fun, then the game is fun. The fun comes from the teamwork, positioning, map knowledge, gun skill, nades. You don't need a million guns to make halo work

>>558705802
>weapon balance is overrated. as long as the meta is fun, then it is good.
>>558706746
>Weapon balance literally makes or breaks the game.

Both of these statements are technically correct, which is why it's important to find the happy medium.

>>558706746
>H1
>magnum
>has shit opinions
wow who could have seen that coming?

>>558707635
>>558707845
AAAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEE

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>>558707845
>>558707635

>>558707660
I mean obviously if the BR could one shot everyone and shoot throw walls them the game would suck, but then also the meta would suck. My point is as long as the meta is fun, then the game is fun, because the meta is the game

>>558708160
Halo is fun because it has no one single meta
As far as the weapon balance is concerned we have no disagreement.

>>558708405
Eh maps get played similarly by good players/teams when sweating for the most part, that is the meta. The difference mainly comes down to skill and snap decision making/predictions

Ok fags let’s review:

Halo CE
Magnum - busted
Sniper - good
Rockets - good
Shotgun - goodish
AR - useless if I have the magnum
Plasma rifle - useless if I have the magnum
Needler - useless if I have the magnum
Plasma pistol - only good for noob combos
Frag and plasma grenades - both good

So you’re looking at a very limited sandbox of 10 weapons where about 6.5 get some use. One of the better balanced halo games just by virtue of hating a very small weapons sandbox.

>>558708827
If the pistol is busted then rockets deserve god tier, they are absurd. Also the AR and plasma weapons are not useless, they work in close quarters, and players will drop the pistol for rockets and keep those guns to use quick camo. The needlers are useless though I agree

>>558709082
>keep those guns to use quick camo
No one does this.
t. play CE a lot

>>558709319
lmao it's a common tactic, makes rockets + camo almost a guaranteed 4+ kills. Without quick camo it's much easier to get tagged after shooting the rocket. Unless you only play big team, then that makes more sense to keep a pistol

>>558701747
Not just on-foot. In the first Halo a person could snipe you out of a tank.
The post I initially replied to mentioned "ground vehicles" rather than just tanks, so I was also thinking about how tanks could have other ground vehicles dead-to-rights.
So with all that insta-kill potential that needed no charge-up the laser never bothered me. I also just play with an awareness of whether I know where a power weapon is and who controls it.

Halo 2

BR - busted tier
Sniper - busted tier
Rockets - busted tier
Energy sword - buster tier
Shotgun - good
Brute shot - good
Magnum - junk
SMG - junk
Plasma rifle - junk
Needler - junk
Plasma pistol - junk outside the noob combo
Carbine - slightly worse BR
Beam rifle - slightly worse sniper
Fuel rod - doesn’t even exist in multiplayer
Frag and plasma grenades - good

8.5 weapons get some use out of 12 unique weapons with the gap between useful weapons and useless ones being huge.

>>558709678
PP deserves busted

>>558709082
>keep those guns to use quick camo
Everyone does this.
t. play CE hardcore a lot

>>558709319
https://youtu.be/eaNfzgQe3qg?si=FIRpn1BCfSayQGJC
At the 50 second mark here is the GOAT halo player dropping the pistol and keeping the AR for quick camo

Halo 3

BR - great
Carbine - great
AR - good
SMG - good
Plasma rifle - good
Spiker - good and slept on
Needler - good
Shotgun - good
Mauler - worse than the shotgun but still good
Energy sword - good
Gravity hammer - good
Sniper - good
Beam rifle - sniper clone so good
Rockets - good
Fuel rod - worse than rockets but still good
Brute shot - good
Splaser - good
Magnum - complete garbage
Plasma pistol - junk outside the noob combo and EMP so it’s good
Frags, plasma, spike grenade - all good

Literally 1 junk weapon even though it has a lot of redundant guns.

>>558710372
smg and spiker are complete ass come on now

>>558710618
especially given the fact you spawn with an AR that is just better

>>558710872
>given the fact you spawn with an AR that is just better
Silly people really post silly things on this website.

Reach

DMR - busted
Needle rifle - busted
Sniper - busted
Magnum - good
Plasma pistol - noob combo and EMP machine
Focus rifle - slept on but also non existent in MP because everyone would rather have the sniper
AR - good
Repeater - garbage
Plasma rifle - doesn’t exist in MP
Needler - good
Shotgun - good
Gravity hammer - good
Energy sword - good
Rockets - good
Fuel rod - good
Splaser - good
Concussion rifle - busted
Grenade launcher - good

A downgrade from 3. While most of the guns are good, the DMR and sniper absolutely run this game and completely killed vehicle use.

>>558710618
>>558710872
Ur supposed to duel them and the spiker’s melee makes up for its weak firepower.

>>558711103
Yeah the paper mache vehicles pissed me off, no clue who thought that was a good idea

>>558711238
Nah, the Spiker is genuinely shit and that +2 melee damage ain't gonna help you. The SMG on the other hand is really good.

3 would have the perfect BTB if it wasn't for the goddamn splaser

>>558711103
The Plasma Rifle and the Spiker both appear in Reach mp on player made maps.
They're both worse than the AR.

Babe, wake up. The MCC Exchange has been updated.

If I see a teammate using a spiker in reach im team killing

>>558713106
>AXIOS Aapwv killed GOYIM BULLDOZER

Ok, now the reason for my garbage posts. To prove that halo infinite has dogshit weapon balance.

AR - good
BR - good
Bandit - slightly worse than the BR and just redundant honestly
Bulldog - garbage. Mogged by the heatwave
Cindershot - kinda shit. Need to spam it to get any kills and it’s mostly junk against vehicles. I’d rather just use the rocket.
Commando - garbage
Disruptor - garbage. Only used to EMP vehicles and it’s mogged by the shock grenades and PP.
Dynamo grenade - good
Energy sword - good
Gravity hammer - good
Frag - good
Rockets - good
Heatwave - good
Hydra - garbage
Mangler - good
Avenger - good but pointless when the AR itself is so good
Mutilator - broken piece of shit of a weapon
Needler - good
Plasma grenade - good
Spike grenades - good
Ravager - garbage
Shock rifle - garbage. Worse sniper that’s inky good for EMPing but you can’t capitalise on it since you’re at sniper distance.
Sidekick - good
Skewer - broken piece of shit of a weapon that ruins vehicle combat
Stalker - busted tier and has no place in the sandbox when the BR is a more balanced version of it

The game’s balance is all over the place. You have so much stuff that’s completely garbage, stuff that’s mid, and stuff that’s gamebreakingly busted.

>>558713574
Forgot about the garbage piece of shit carbide that’s in every game

We need the sticky detonator back

>>558713889
Sticky detonator was an interesting addition in Halo 4. One of the few things they did which I liked. I understand the argument from people that each weapon should fill a unique role, and there shouldn't be redundancy, yadda yadda, but it would be nice if we had more guns. Sticky detonator and Halo Reach grenade launcher could easily work well in the same game.
Personally I wish there was an extended mag version of the assault rifle. Having the original 60 round mag would make it viable in pvp instantly.

>>558714589
>Personally I wish there was an extended mag version of the assault rifle
It's called the SAW.

>halo infinite dead and buried
>devs have yet to give out all the armours for free
Fucking cunts. Bungie gave recon to just about everybody when H3 was dying.

Halo status?

Not being played.

Sad!

>>558714992
>Bungie gave recon to just about everybody when H3 was dying
That was gay

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Buy Halo 4, you cheap fucks.

>>558709082
The sniper is also better than the pistol.

>>558714638
I think it would have worked better as an AR variant. They could have had both the Reach and Halo 1 style AR in the same game, the Halo 1 version filling the SAW role.
A big reason Halo 4 instantly died was it had jarring and needless design changes across the board, so keeping the guns more familiar like that would have helped. For the short time I played Halo 4 at release I actually enjoyed the changes they made to multilayer, it was just the thousands of other things that were terrible.
Outside of gameplay, I always thought the original vision of the assault rifle in Halo 1 (which bungie seemed to have lost in Halo 2 onwards) was super cool. It was a universal gun which filled the role of infantry firearm and support machine gun at the same time. Something real militaries would want to do if the technology was there. Introducing a whole new gun as the light mg makes the older games feel stupid for not having one.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/2026-mcc-exchange-update

>>558716415
The AR just became the SMG in Halo 2. Same fire rate, same mag size, it just lost some damage.

>>558716724
True but sad.
I will never understand why they replaced the AR with the SMG and then gimped the AR for eternity.

>>558716976
Automatic weapons in Halo were always pretty gimped. The SMG and AR in 3 had the exact same DPS, one just had a higher fire rate while the other had more damage.

>>558716976
3s AR is the strongest automatic in the Bungie games, relative to sandbox

>>558717321
You're right they were never good. Halo 4 was the first to actuslly make the AR viable, which I appreciated. Seems like they regressed again in infinite though from the little I played.
What I meant was, Halo 1 had a good AR but with a broken bullet spread double what it should have been, then Halo 3 fixed that but still made the AR useless because they didnt want to have 2 60 round guns.

>>558718370
The Halo 3 SMG is better, and can be dual wielded, but the Halo 3 AR is sadly the second best Bungie Halo automatic weapon.

Autos should be for CQC and thumbless kids, nothing more nothing less

Nah.

Uhh yah Halo!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

>>558718636
>3 AR useless
You don't play

The Halo 3 AR sucks because the Halo 3 BR is way too good.

>>558719224
The AR beats it at close range.

If the BR user lands all their shots do you really want ARs, which requires next to zero skill to aim, to have a better TTK? That would be a horrible meta

>>558719138
Well with AR and pistol starts it's the better of the two, but that says more about the pistol than the AR.

>>558713574
Commando consistently beats AR and Bandit and is on par with BR for close-to-mid-range

Halo 5 has the best balance. Not a single gun in that game is junk.

>>558719523
At close range the AR should nearly always win. Exceptions being if the player already lost health from an other engagement or if the BR user manage to weaken the AR user with a melee or grenade beforehand.

>>558719552
It is usable with BR starts, in fact it makes close quarters much more boring than H2. Halo should always be balanced around the precision weapons
>>558719776
It does nearly always win, just AR them and melee and they are dead

>just AR them and melee
That's not what usually happens and we both know it. You're talking about melee range, not close range.

Marathon won.
They lost.

We don't talk about They here.

If Halo 3 is so good then where is /halo3/?

But this is /halo3/.

we need namefag memes back

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NEW MCC UPDATE
WE
ARE
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FUCKING
BACK

>>558724581
AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE

>>558719736
Nu commando is a joke and completely ruins the gimmick of the gun
Old commando just straight up sucks cause of the recoil

>just AR them and melee them
Nah I’m sorry but I’m never doing this again. Every time I do this in infinite the fucker who I melees somehow melees me long after they should have already died. It’s fucking bullshit and completely dishonest. I’m better off walking backwards and just unloading my entire AR mag into them.

>>558707568
trvke

>>558725236
Infinite isn't for meleeing like 3

Remember when reach didn't have bleed through so there would be sprintfags that would just run around double meleeing everyone

>>558726821
I've never seen it happen to me back in the day.

No?

>>558726821
Yes I remember. I still think the game was much better before 343’s title update. Killing sword blocking was gay and removing bloom from the DMR was completely fucking retarded considering it had over 3 times the range of the BR from 2 and 3, and could decimate every vehicle on its own.

I can’t ever go back to reach after experiencing infinite’s forge maps. How can you play through reach’s ugly grey ass maps and now go insane?

This is a Brick general, thoubeitever

>>558727539
AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>558726821
It's really funny to me that the AR+melee combo was so reliable in Halo 3 that, instead of reverting melees to how they were in Halo 2, or nerfing melee itself, they just reworked how shields worked completely. What a retarded decision.

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ITS OVER
I POSTED HERE ABOUT IT...I GAVE UP

>>558727894
what

>>558727894
Fake Bungie fan. I bet you never played Oni either.

>>558706965
No. But I’ll probably listen to the soundtrack if there is a throwback song of https://youtu.be/WlRM9-Rm34Q?si=6pQ0rCG2N0dfn8SG

>>558726821
no

>>558727179
I've warmed up to the TU but still prefer vanilla yeah

>>558726821
dunno what era that was in but it was both the gayest shit ever and the funniest shit ever akin to running an akimbo set up in cod

>>558726821
Bungie made good games but man was the balance awful. There is not a single bungie halo title which wasn't dominated by one gun. (I mean starter weapon, power weapons like sniper don't count). Kind of a shame that almost every weapon was completely useless in multiplayer.

6v6
8v8
12v12
16v16
32v32

What’s the actual ideal BTB size? Sometimes I feel overwhelmed playing infinites 12v12. Like there’s no when I can go without being sniped, and no real strategy beyond hoping I stumble across someone to kill.

>>558731503
>Power weapons don't count
The whole point is players start with the same well rounded weapon and then use teamwork and skill to control power weapons/ups/positions. Everything else is secondary,

>>558736803
This anon understands Halo.

Marathon status?

>>558732124
Never played more than 8v8. Really depends on the map, sometimes 8v8 feels too small on the really big ones. 16v16 and 32v32 would require battlefield tier maps though

>>558736803
>>558737000
He’s talking about the non starter power weapons. Your plasma rifle, spiker, needler, commando, etc…
These guns should be better than your starting weapons so you have a reason to use them but they’re often not.

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>>558737432
i found a cheeseburger machine before i got bored and went back to halo

>>558738127
Most have niches and worth picking up. They aren't supposed to be strictly better or else map design would become nightmare. Everything is supposed to be centered around the power weapons (and power positions and power ups) to create good map flow that rewards map control without it snowballing too hard. The gun you start with is supposed to be able to be good at almost any range so that this snowball effect is harder to happen. AR slayer, when played by sweats, is much more easy to snowball because the starter weapon is too weak

Cheeseburgers are Halo.

>cheeseburgers
un-halo
>moa burgers
halo

CE had the most kino map blurbs

>>558742891
ohh.... thanks for not being a webm of that awful 'marathon' game

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>>558743098
I only post Halo, and nothing but Halo.

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Niggas still falling for holograms in 2026.

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>>558743268
> and nothing but Halo.

>>558743810
Kek

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Standoff is scary...

>>558745014
>heavys standoff
the only map worse than regular standoff. gauss hogs on an open field was the dumbest idea they ever had

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>>558687931
>I think i miss Ultimate Firefight....

>>558598165
Mup da doo didda po mo gub, bidda be dat tum muhfugen bix nood cof bin dub ho muhfugga