THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: 213372bu on December 02, 2019, 11:27:59 PM

Title: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: 213372bu on December 02, 2019, 11:27:59 PM
Anyone excited to see an active Halo PC community?

Reach was when the abilities started getting a little too crazy, but the campaign/customization/modes were really fun, and it was the last Halo that had me coming back regularly.

Seeing as it's $10 and on Steam+Gamepass I hope it sticks as hard as CE did.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: thisismyusername on December 03, 2019, 12:01:09 AM
For the record: Riot-ass annihilated. This wouldn't even be happening if folks didn't hack their Russian F2P Halo 3 PC port and say "nah, fuck you" and continued to torrent the shit out of it when Microshaft attempted to C&D it. :rejoice :piss Riotous :piss2

Anyone excited to see an active Halo PC community?

Reach was when the abilities started getting a little too crazy, but the campaign/customization/modes were really fun, and it was the last Halo that had me coming back regularly.

Seeing as it's $10 and on Steam+Gamepass I hope it sticks as hard as CE did.

I won't be getting it today since I'm waiting for my replacement PC parts to come in. But I might spend the $40 just to have them all in one go. Paying $10 a pop for Halo 1-3, and Reach pretty much pays for that already and I'll get 4 out of the deal even if I never touch it (:piss 343 :piss2 ) , so :trumps

But I'm waiting for /r/HaloOnline to fall on the sword and see how badly 343 fucked up despite the like year lag-time between announcement to Reach's "launch."
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Borealis on December 03, 2019, 01:07:38 AM
I'm keen for Reach as I've always loved the sci-fi military aesthetic tied to Bungie's work on Halo. Can't wait to go through all the games again, and there's really no excuse for shitty port/MCC work this time.

Side tangent, but it's fucked how garbage 343's design and approach to writing are in some lame effort to one-up Bungie's legacy. Says everything about the outcome though when you have Halo Infinite returning to its roots. Who knows if they'll be able to pull off a decent package.

On the story front, there's now this legacy baggage of advanced humans waging war with the Prophets against the Forerunners, then forcibly regressing to primitive societies 100,000 years ago ?? Congrats 343, you've done a fantastic job at undermining the human journey while pulling off the same sci-fi shit as Assassin's Creed  :yuck. 
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Coffee Dog on December 03, 2019, 10:25:49 AM
Reach for ten bucks and ODST for five means I'll gladly pay fifteen for the Master Cheifless titles of the MCC. Maybe I'll pick up Halo 1 when it releases. Halo 2 and 3 and can stay away.

Edit: i actually didn't even remember 4 or 5, which says a lot.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: nachobro on December 03, 2019, 10:40:19 AM
too bad they are starting off with shitty reach
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Don Rumata on December 03, 2019, 11:40:47 AM
I'll jump back into Gamepass for this, once we hit Halo 3.
Must be nice to finally play it with m&k.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 03, 2019, 11:45:03 AM
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaahh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Chooky on December 03, 2019, 11:47:13 AM
I played the shit out of Reach back in the day and I want to do it again. I hate being tempted to buy ports of games I already own lol
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 03, 2019, 12:40:18 PM
So whos playing this tonight? Id be down for teaming up! Also, is it crossplay with ms/steam? And can I just buy the 10 reach or do I need to get the whole shebang
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Nuitangg on December 03, 2019, 01:06:02 PM
Reach mp was the worst.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 03, 2019, 01:07:02 PM
Reach mp was the worst.

worse than later games ? I doubt it
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Nuitangg on December 03, 2019, 01:09:46 PM
Of the Bungie games. 4 is top of the shit pile.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 03, 2019, 01:13:31 PM
Yeh Halo 3 was better and more pure. Never really played h1` and 2 multi
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 03, 2019, 01:21:15 PM
Probably won't play any of the other games, but I wanna put some time into Halo 1 again.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Chooky on December 03, 2019, 02:33:01 PM
reach mp has abysmal game balance; a full clip was usually my enough to strip an opponent's shields so my #1 weapon for kills was the fucking fist. however, the game had better curation than any I've ever seen with new modes and maps rotating in every week to keep things interesting. I ended up playing it a ton because of that.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: bork on December 03, 2019, 02:35:08 PM
Halo 1 multiplayer is still my favorite- looking forward to getting to play that again.  Dunno if I want Reach since that's where I started losing interest, but it's been so long that for ten bucks I'm tempted to check it out.  Might get Halo 2 and 3 too.  Fuck Halo 4, lol 343, etc etc.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Bebpo on December 03, 2019, 02:53:38 PM
Time to finally play Reach campaign!
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 03, 2019, 03:53:34 PM
how is there no team slayer playlist wtf 😂🤦‍♂️
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: EchoRin on December 03, 2019, 05:44:36 PM
I'm excited, but my current laptop is ancient. Mostly excited for pre-Reach entries on Steam. Need my Halo 1 campaign fix which I used to do once a year for the longest time (plus my CD copy doesn't work on my Win 7 laptop. Sure I can PCgamingwiki what to do, but this old thing is probably so dusty and shit that I don't bother playing non-visual novels at this point.)

tl;dr - I need a new laptop or desktop at some point in 2020
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 03, 2019, 06:14:14 PM
Would play MCC, but the online system is fucking awful.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Bebpo on December 03, 2019, 09:16:02 PM
Installed it on gamepass. Hit PLAY and nothing happens. Game won't boot.

Good to see this long long process to get the PC version up to speed was worth it!

Time to finally play Reach campaign!

Time not to finally play Reach campaign!
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Bebpo on December 03, 2019, 09:20:34 PM
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/85d779d52cfd46918b4f8b638f2e3c7b/topics/can-t-launch-mcc-pc-from-xbox-app/2902a3d5-9c4f-4e17-a381-84a4943c78fe/posts

Lol, it loads from the start bar but not from within the gamepass app. GJ MS.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: nachobro on December 03, 2019, 09:31:30 PM
i get why they launched on pc with reach but also why did they launch with reach? :foxx
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 03, 2019, 11:41:52 PM
Ok nvm, maybe they updated so I can chose to play CTF and Bomb on just Halo 2, H1, and H3 maps.

I may play some of this.
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: Himu on December 04, 2019, 01:58:07 AM
Someone teach me how to play fps with this

Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 04, 2019, 06:57:36 AM
Anybody down to party up?
Title: Re: Halo Starts Coming to PC Today (Reach - 12/3 $10 All of Them - :shrug $40)
Post by: bork on December 04, 2019, 08:05:15 AM
Someone teach me how to play fps with this
As far as basic tips to get gid with FPSs:
Set the Windows Mouse Sensitivity slider to 6/11. Disable Enhance accuracy. Disable smoothing.

Set your mouse's software to 800-850 dpi. Change your sensitivity accordingly through the game settings.
--

Plug in or pair up a controller.  :brain
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 04, 2019, 08:44:46 AM
Installed it on gamepass. Hit PLAY and nothing happens. Game won't boot.

Good to see this long long process to get the PC version up to speed was worth it!

Yep, same here.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on December 04, 2019, 10:15:17 AM
i'm more than happy to give russian hackers credit for cursing us with the worst bungie halo all over again :P
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 04, 2019, 10:27:29 AM
Halo Reach for the uninstall button, amirite
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: benjipwns on December 04, 2019, 12:42:46 PM
i get why they launched on pc with reach but also why did they launch with reach?
They're being released in story order: Reach, 1, 2, 3, 3:ODST, 4.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on December 04, 2019, 12:49:51 PM
yeah yeah thats why i said i get it


but also reach sucks
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rufus on December 04, 2019, 03:12:33 PM
Played the first two levels of the campaign on heroic. Not cause it's the "true difficulty", but because the game was balanced for controllers. I'm enjoying it so far, outside of having to scrounge for weapons in the middle of firefights.

On the technical side:
- Still looks very much like a 360 game. I expected it to be spruced up more. How is it 22GB with textures like these? (Videos, is my guess.)
- Capped to 60fps, but sticks to that at least. (Considering how it looks, it would be a surprise if it didn't.)
- No advanced graphics options. Just an unexplained toggle for 'improved' graphics. No idea what it does.
- Audio is broken somehow. Everything sounds like you're hearing it through a blanket.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 05, 2019, 01:41:58 AM
Wait this being released in a specific order? That's stupid. I wanted to get this and play Halo 1. I've never played a Halo game outside flirting with multi when it first came out and wanted to go through the campaign. I avoided Halo because I was an elitist jrpg gamer back then and wanted to give them an earnest shot. Releasing them incrementally is stupid af.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 05, 2019, 04:07:52 AM
No actually it isnt but ok
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on December 05, 2019, 08:29:25 AM
its pretty stupid. would be far better to just have all the (worthwhile, they could have held back reach and 4 and no one would have cared) games at once to give us hoppers with "best of" map playlists.

unless your argument is that 343 is incapable of releasing them all at once without it being a completely broken pile of shit, which in that case i'd agree.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Don Rumata on December 05, 2019, 08:46:40 AM
The sound barely working is cracking me up;  like seriously.. 343i is a bit of a fucking mess.

They should ditch the dual-engine approach
;  I have to imagine that's a huge part of the problem here.
What is even the point of this shit?
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Transhuman on December 05, 2019, 09:12:02 AM
Wait this being released in a specific order? That's stupid. I wanted to get this and play Halo 1. I've never played a Halo game outside flirting with multi when it first came out and wanted to go through the campaign. I avoided Halo because I was an elitist jrpg gamer back then and wanted to give them an earnest shot. Releasing them incrementally is stupid af.

If you want a quick summary of the campaign so you don't have to play any of then:


spoiler (click to show/hide)
Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.
             -Vladimir Lenin

Plus there's space monsters trying to destroy earth
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It's basically exactly what you expect to find when you take a bunch of boring-ass college nerds in the 90's and put them in a room with computers.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Transhuman on December 05, 2019, 10:06:24 AM
Halo was the first time I remember gamers ridiculously blushing about how amazing a game's story was.   It was when I realized most gamers huff paint.

It's because the average age of someone playing Halo was 10.5
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 05, 2019, 11:19:08 AM
Halo was the first time I remember gamers ridiculously blushing about how amazing a game's story was.   It was when I realized most gamers huff paint.

It's because the average age of someone playing Halo was 10.5

Yeah online discussions about games used to skew younger;  but I was like 21 and plenty of people my age or older gushed over that crap.

And today they gush over shit like The Last of Us, plenty of grown ass men bragging about how it made them cry.

Whenever I read stuff like this, I try to imagine my dad or my grandpa at my age, getting hyped up for Frozen 2 or crying over Last of Us, and it freaks me. :lol
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Akala on December 05, 2019, 11:28:56 AM
Halo had that one great beach stage and the entire series has been downhill ever since.

I actually kinda like Halo, but it’s always been overrated as shit. Story is  ::) in general yet takes itself so seriously.  :lol
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Akala on December 05, 2019, 11:30:17 AM
Did I say story I meant LORE
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Akala on December 05, 2019, 02:15:55 PM
Didn’t Goldeneye have just 2 weapons? I was underwhelmed (in comparison to hype) by it too so maybe I am remembering it wrong.

Agree Halo was 2nd great FPS on console, it had a pretty strong PC contingent too. I think the collection will do well on PC TBH.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on December 05, 2019, 02:56:52 PM
i always read that goldeneye let you plug in two controllers and use two sticks to move/look. never had a 64 so never tried that but pretty cool if it actually worked well.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rufus on December 05, 2019, 05:48:55 PM
The prevailing memory I have of Halo is the "combat puzzle" buzz word people parroted thoughtlessly.
Every action game is a combat puzzle. Dig Dug is a combat puzzle. /shakefist

I do understand why that stuck though, since the enemy and encounter design is top quality. :delicious

I have played Combat Evolved before. First on PC, then on 360 back compat, but I didn't realize what made these games special then. Two-thirds into Reach, and more open minded than I was, I think I get it now. Positioning just matters a lot more than twitch reflexes. It makes perfect sense for controllers (but it also works with a mouse). Halo is a different kind of FPS, not a lesser FPS (e.g. the stop and pop in a narrow corridor kind :shh).

(https://i.imgflip.com/3ik4qi.jpg)

Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 05, 2019, 09:51:58 PM
Rufus:

Thanks. As someone interested and has never fucked with Halo that sounds really appealing. Got an Xbox controller here for pc too. Looking forward to Reach now.

Are you referring to single player or multiplayer btw?
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rufus on December 05, 2019, 10:38:06 PM
Single player with mouse and keyboard. Gonna try it with a controller too, but I doubt I'll like it.

Played one match of slayer, but couldn't find another game within 2 minutes and stopped trying. :idont
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 05, 2019, 10:46:20 PM
Yeah the match making too long. Doubly so for someone like me just trying to play objective modes in H1,H2, and maybe H3.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 05, 2019, 11:21:10 PM
Single player with mouse and keyboard. Gonna try it with a controller too, but I doubt I'll like it.

Played one match of slayer, but couldn't find another game within 2 minutes and stopped trying. :idont

How is Halo single player unique then
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rufus on December 06, 2019, 03:03:23 AM
I don't know that it is, to be honest. Maybe it was? There have been many more shooters since. (Multi pioneer for consoles maybe? Did it pave the way for Modern Warfare's success? Dunno.)

My point is: it's suited to its platform without feeling compromised, like other console FPS. You could argue the two weapon limit is dumbing things down, or that any aim assist at all is anathema to shooters, but they do more than save on buttons with the former and the latter is a necessity. It's just a good shooter.
Well, Reach is, I don't remember Combat Evolved too well. Following Bungie's last Halo up with Bungie's first Halo is going to make for an interesting contrast. Hope the wait is not too long.

Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: benjipwns on December 06, 2019, 03:30:27 AM
How is Halo single player unique then
The original was one of the first FPSes to take a rather true sandbox type approach to enemy encounters. Once you land on the Halo, it's not open world and it's certainly not non-linear, but when you get to the encounters you have more freedom than you traditionally did along with AI fighting alongside you that's simply not scripted. You might fight guys to the north of the building with a rifle and I might be taking them out on the southside with nades and melees.

On consoles especially this was rather groundbreaking, in part because it took until the Xbox's power to pull it off, PC less so but it was still an iteration further.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: benjipwns on December 06, 2019, 03:40:14 AM
i always read that goldeneye let you plug in two controllers and use two sticks to move/look. never had a 64 so never tried that but pretty cool if it actually worked well.
Perfect Dark also allows this. Dude and commentary is lame but he actually shows his hands operating both controllers unlike most other videos that are just gameplay or show the persons face lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDQ_ri2ZbY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesXu5lX_Oo
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 06, 2019, 03:48:04 AM
How is Halo single player unique then
The original was one of the first FPSes to take a rather true sandbox type approach to enemy encounters. Once you land on the Halo, it's not open world and it's certainly not non-linear, but when you get to the encounters you have more freedom than you traditionally did along with AI fighting alongside you that's simply not scripted. You might fight guys to the north of the building with a rifle and I might be taking them out on the southside with nades and melees.

On consoles especially this was rather groundbreaking, in part because it took until the Xbox's power to pull it off, PC less so but it was still an iteration further.

I do remember the beach area being open and we would fight people on the beach with the warthog. Looking forward to playing it with an open mind.
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Post by: thisismyusername on December 06, 2019, 11:40:40 AM
Game topping the Steam charts even with Gamepass. :rejoice Maybe this means we'll finally get MS's X-box exclusives day-one with their console shit or at least six months later a la Death Stranding. :rejoice
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on December 06, 2019, 01:07:46 PM
wasn't that already the plan? Aoe2 remaster was on Steam at launch just recently so I assumed they were just putting their stuff everywhere right away.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Rahxephon91 on December 06, 2019, 05:01:36 PM
Wasn’t Gears 5 already day 1?
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on December 06, 2019, 07:40:06 PM
wasn't that already the plan? Aoe2 remaster was on Steam at launch just recently so I assumed they were just putting their stuff everywhere right away.

I mean it's possible, but so far this generation we've only had the Master Chief Collection, Gears 5 (which was day and date IIRC), and Sunset Overdrive on Steam from them.

We haven't gotten Forza Horizon 3 (PBUH), 4, Motorsport 5-6-7 (any of them, really) and their shit escaping UWP/UWA hell yet.

Speaking of which, apparently MCC is UWP/UWA? There's an article about enabling Forge in Reach right now before a patch enables it and you need a UWP editor apparently to do that.

(https://i.imgur.com/QTLqPse.jpg)
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Chooky on December 06, 2019, 08:06:36 PM
i own all these damn games and my 360 is sitting in a box right here, but i still want to buy this. modern gaming is me rebuying all the shit i've hoarded over the years in the name of "collecting."
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: FatalT on December 07, 2019, 01:01:13 AM
If any of you play on PC, I'd like to get some of your gamertags to play with. I'm still FatalT on Live (I had to be FatalT1 on PSN though, sad panda). I don't really post much anymore because I've become a golem (you should see my social media, some of you are still friends with me and I don't even use that anymore except to post something stupid every once in a while like Baby Yoda) and distanced myself from participating in mostly everything online-related.

EDIT: Oh neat, I didn't know Cindi started posting here again. Last I remember she left for a while. I don't believe I was ever friends with her on Facebook though. I honestly don't even remember screen names but people like Doug, Ryan, Luke, Keith, Will, Jeremy, Maurice, Edward, and Thor are still people I remember and check up on every once in a while with Facebook, but I rarely post or participate in conversations. I remember only 4 of those's actual user names and I'm sure they're different now if you all are even still on here.
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 07, 2019, 01:07:40 AM
Halo Collection get.
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Post by: FatalT on December 07, 2019, 01:12:18 AM
Halo Collection get.

Gimme that tag boo!
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Post by: Himu on December 07, 2019, 01:23:10 AM
Halo Collection get.

Gimme that tag boo!

You'll get a friend request on steam. Don't mention my tag on this forum. :)
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on December 07, 2019, 02:37:51 AM
Really impressed by performance. Computer is a potato and can run Reach really well.

As for the gameplay of the campaign: how 2 play fps :lol Very slick gamepad controls tho :)
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on December 07, 2019, 06:53:25 AM
Doc is pretty good at this game but he's got nothing on FatRat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAtb-I9HEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7nGAQ5kGtg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCyUK3EU9Ao
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on December 07, 2019, 07:34:08 PM
Wow, they didn't balance the sniper by having it NOT be accurate from the hip in this port? :doge
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on March 03, 2020, 01:26:53 PM
https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1234905852135366656
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: bork on March 03, 2020, 02:24:30 PM
Will wait to see if it's shit or not. 
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on March 03, 2020, 02:36:04 PM
i'm just hoping this means halo 2 and 3 are coming this year
Title: Re: Halo is On PC (Reach - $10 | All of Them - $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 03, 2020, 04:46:36 PM
Will wait to see if it's shit or not.

Right now: The port is buggy. As expected by 343. But hey, at least crouch-while-moving is in the multiplayer now, so I can at least STOMACH some of this before it dies again because 343 is clownshoes.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 05, 2020, 12:02:54 AM
Holy hell. I've forgotten how horrible the spawns in Combat Evolved are.

Big Team is busted, so I'm doing 4v4. I'm having fun with it (in a cheap nostalgia way) but goddamn if the Magnum and spawns don't sour me on it. :lol
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on March 06, 2020, 11:21:09 AM
https://youtu.be/ECb5of4GKjI
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2020, 02:35:28 AM
Good god i hate MS.

See this thread. Excited to give Halo CE a shot. Dl MCC update.

Go into game, I'm logged out. Forget password, reset password. Log in. I'm locked out of account. Go into live.com and find ways to unlock account.

Get in game. See halo ce is now available. Click so I can play. Says content missing and really I have to dl it from in app.

Go to bed cursing MS as it dls.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2020, 03:33:56 AM
Holy fuck.

Ended up playing it rather going to bed and did the first level. It was great. Well paced, fun scenarios, nice set pieces, great art direction, and interesting story set up. Halo Reach didn't grab me because I'm all like "who are these people" but CE is great at grabbing me into the halo universe.

Now I'm on planet halo. Reminds me of playing co op just driving around the beach area in a warthog.

Feel dumb never giving the series a proper chance until now.

Only issue is the auto lock on. What the fuck.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 07, 2020, 03:41:07 AM
Wait. I can't tell from your post. Are you playing Halo: CE for the first time ever? The first half of the game is so good. Yeah, landing on Halo for the first time was a really cool moment. Heck I'd say it still has its charm even if someone were to play it for the first time in 2020.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: who is ted danson? on March 07, 2020, 06:57:48 AM
bought CE on steam

never played the MP much outside of 4 player splitscreen on og xbox

its pure chaos but also  :lawd :aah

don't make 'em like the used to


Also FUCk buying the whole MCC collection. I don't want Halo 4 to infect my library. lick my ass 343
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 07, 2020, 07:13:59 AM
bought CE on steam

never played the MP much outside of 4 player splitscreen on og xbox

its pure chaos but also  :lawd :aah

don't make 'em like the used to


Also FUCk buying the whole MCC collection. I don't want Halo 4 to infect my library. lick my ass 343

Just spend the $40, then "manage my DLC" and turn off Halo 4. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on March 07, 2020, 07:40:36 AM
I cant wait for Halo 3, best Halo
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2020, 09:37:01 AM
Wait. I can't tell from your post. Are you playing Halo: CE for the first time ever? The first half of the game is so good. Yeah, landing on Halo for the first time was a really cool moment. Heck I'd say it still has its charm even if someone were to play it for the first time in 2020.

Yes and no. Upon release I played some co-op at a friend's house. I didn't like it at all. The controls made no sense to me (I'm convinced he had it in inverted). I'd go to Halo LANS occasionally and the mp never clicked. Eventually got over my fps elitism with Counterstrike, Half Life, Chronicles of Riddick. Got an Xbox in 2005 and never bothered getting Halo CE. Halo 3 came out and interest was piqued. Played a level at someone's dorm in college. There. I've listed all the times I've ever played Halo.

But dabbling isn't the same as playing in earnest. And I'm no longer a PlayStation fantard that considers Halo inferior to MGS so I can actually give it a shot.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2020, 02:44:24 PM
Damn, this is fantastic.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 07, 2020, 02:54:53 PM
Don't leave me hanging like that. What level have you just completed?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 07, 2020, 02:57:07 PM
Halo
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: bork on March 10, 2020, 10:02:53 AM
Halo

(https://i.imgflip.com/1aryw9.jpg)
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 10, 2020, 07:21:13 PM
Considering buying a 360 and getting Halo CE original and playing 2 and 3 that way rather than waiting for the stupid MCC updates.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 11, 2020, 01:43:44 AM
I don't see why you would want to play Halo: CE on the 360 or the OG Xbox. People forget it has a decent amount of framerate issues here and there.

Can't you just switch into "old graphics" mode on Halo:CE on Steam and on the MCC on XBone?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 11, 2020, 02:05:48 AM
There's an old graphics mode?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 11, 2020, 02:06:47 AM
Apparently it's tab. Neat.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Don Rumata on March 13, 2020, 02:16:28 PM
So anyone can give me 1 (ONE) good goddamn reason why i can't play Halo (Reach or otherwise) in local coop, on PC?  >:(
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on March 13, 2020, 03:08:12 PM
So anyone can give me 1 (ONE) good goddamn reason why i can't play Halo (Reach or otherwise) in local coop, on PC?  >:(

because fuck you you're on a pc

so no :(
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 13, 2020, 06:16:16 PM
So anyone can give me 1 (ONE) good goddamn reason why i can't play Halo (Reach or otherwise) in local coop, on PC?  >:(

AFAIK, that's the same on X-box, isn't it?

343 is dumb.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 13, 2020, 06:21:01 PM
https://twinfinite.net/2019/12/halo-reach-splitscreen-is-there/

https://www.gamepur.com/guides/does-halo-combat-evolved-have-split-screen-for-pc

----
Nah it's there for consoles. Not on PC at least for now. Maybe never.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 13, 2020, 08:14:11 PM
Well, that's fucking dumb but not surprising given 343.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: BisMarckie on March 13, 2020, 08:42:41 PM
Apparently it's tab. Neat.

Lies. Halo never looked that bad. :tocry
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 13, 2020, 09:34:27 PM
Well, that's fucking dumb but not surprising given 343.
As dumb as Bungie on Halo 2 Vista and Gearbox on Halo 1 PC (2003).

I hope that's patched in though. For completionist sake. I probably won't hook up a desktop to a TV ever, but maybe a laptop on the other hand...
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Don Rumata on March 13, 2020, 10:23:07 PM
Yeah that sucks, it's not 2008 anymore, now even normies play on PC.

Anyway, i mostly did the new month of Gamepass for Ori, so no biggie.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 14, 2020, 03:37:56 AM
how do i play red vs blue

and will someone play halo ce mult with me
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 14, 2020, 09:06:37 AM
how do i play red vs blue

...You mean Multiplayer?

"Main menu->Multiplayer->Social/Competitive playerlists (click Social, nobody plays Tryhard besides Tryhards)->Click type to custom (choose your modes, GriffballASHIT), choose your games (Reach, CE/either or?)->Start

...You mean Rooster Teeth/Machinama?
You don't. Unless you get a group to do filming/etc. with.

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and will someone play halo ce mult with me

I'm about burned out because I've got like 10 or so levels to finish for the "season pass" (ugh) to get the blue-flames. If they do another 2XP I'd be happy to play with you since the XP gain will be less painful.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 14, 2020, 11:55:07 AM
I haven't played Halo multi since high school. For all I know, red vs blue was a mode.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 14, 2020, 04:15:50 PM
I haven't played Halo multi since high school. For all I know, red vs blue was a mode.

Red and Blue are the teams. But nobody really calls multiplayer RvB. :doge

That's why I wasn't sure if you meant the TV series made by Rooster Teeth or the multiplayer.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 15, 2020, 03:17:45 AM
Wow. Halo multi so hectic and fun
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on March 15, 2020, 09:23:44 AM
So anyone can give me 1 (ONE) good goddamn reason why i can't play Halo (Reach or otherwise) in local coop, on PC?  >:(

Same with left 4 dead on pc..
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 15, 2020, 02:31:25 PM
Well, that's fucking dumb but not surprising given 343.
As dumb as Bungie on Halo 2 Vista and Gearbox on Halo 1 PC (2003).

I hope that's patched in though. For completionist sake. I probably won't hook up a desktop to a TV ever, but maybe a laptop on the other hand...

I don't recall Halo 2 Vista being too bad. But I do recall Gearbox's port of the first being pretty bad with some things (in graphics).
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on March 15, 2020, 03:58:20 PM
Well, that's fucking dumb but not surprising given 343.
As dumb as Bungie on Halo 2 Vista and Gearbox on Halo 1 PC (2003).

I hope that's patched in though. For completionist sake. I probably won't hook up a desktop to a TV ever, but maybe a laptop on the other hand...

I don't recall Halo 2 Vista being too bad. But I do recall Gearbox's port of the first being pretty bad with some things (in graphics).

The Gearbox port seemed fine to me graphically. Not counting what some hawk would catch like some super duper Digital Foundry comparison. The main issue was optimization. Like I had built a computer in 2003 and it would have zero problems with what the game was demanding, yet the game was struggling unless I had it running at 800x600. Eh ok. Fine, that's still a higher res than what you would get at 480i, but I should have been playing it at 1600x1200 (was that a 4:3 resolution? I can't remember anymore, but it would have been something like that). And I think there were some framerate issues with the game if it wasn't locked to 30fps. Which, again, was better than what you would get on the OG Xbox that would have framerate drops even though it capped at 30fps (same issues if you played it on 360). I think that might have had something to do with how the game was made though? Not sure. But yes something was off about the initial PC port if you didn't lock it to 30fps. It might be something dumb like how some game animation things are tied to framerate. I'm not exactly well versed in those kind of programming things.

So anyone can give me 1 (ONE) good goddamn reason why i can't play Halo (Reach or otherwise) in local coop, on PC?  >:(

Same with left 4 dead on pc..

hmm... yeah then I guess this all comes down to "we don't give a shit if it's something only 3% of all our players would use."

and yeah that made sense back when people were playing mostly on monitors that were like 21 inches 4:3. But it's shittier now when you can easily hook up a PC to a 55 inch 16:9 TV. Ah well.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Don Rumata on March 15, 2020, 09:28:52 PM
I had to mod RE5 to play it split screen on PC.  :-\
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 18, 2020, 02:29:02 PM
Well that's because Bio5 had the co-op mode just dummied out thanks to GfWL.  :lol

Himu: 2XP is back on. If you want to play I can do that. I think I'm going to try to finish grinding the season pass now. #ThankYouCoronaChan
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Himu on March 18, 2020, 04:29:12 PM
2XP?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 18, 2020, 05:08:07 PM
Double XP for the season pass. Every medal you get will be double it's value.

It speeds up the shit progression for the Halo Reach item season pass. (The blue helmet flames that were Bungie exclusive is on the season pass)
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: MMaRsu on March 18, 2020, 05:26:46 PM
Yup.. I dont understand devs taking out this feature.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 22, 2020, 07:09:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

30,000 more EXP and I'll have max'd the season pass and can delete Reach's multiplayer. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 22, 2020, 08:34:30 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/yrQjcTK.jpg)

:rejoice Now I can relax.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on May 05, 2020, 01:29:38 PM
halo 2 next week :lawd

https://steamcommunity.com/games/976730/announcements/detail/2216278054512351778

does mcc on pc support ultrawide?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 05, 2020, 01:48:56 PM
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection#Video_settings

Cutscenes don't work for it (pillarboxed) but yes.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: bork on May 05, 2020, 03:33:15 PM
Is Halo 1 a non-buggy port yet? 
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 05, 2020, 04:02:19 PM
Is Halo 1 a non-buggy port yet?

No. Sound is supposed to be fixed with spread next week when Halo 2 launches. Remains to be seen. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on May 05, 2020, 04:03:53 PM
has 343 done anything right since they've taken over halo? :lol
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 05, 2020, 04:25:52 PM
has 343 done anything right since they've taken over halo? :lol

...Released Halo onto PC. Broken though That's something MS normally didn't do with Bungle. Outside of the first two. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: bork on May 05, 2020, 06:03:23 PM
Is Halo 1 a non-buggy port yet?

No. Sound is supposed to be fixed with spread next week when Halo 2 launches. Remains to be seen. :doge

OK, back to forgetting about this.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: nachobro on May 05, 2020, 06:47:31 PM
halo 1 :idont

halo 2 :mynicca

halo 3+odst :rejoice

bummer they never made anymore after those
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 05, 2020, 09:44:07 PM
Is Halo 1 a non-buggy port yet?

No. Sound is supposed to be fixed with spread next week when Halo 2 launches. Remains to be seen. :doge

OK, back to forgetting about this.

We'll see. But honestly: Big Team Battle wasn't able to be played at launch (up to now), so if you were looking to play Blood Gulch, the pistol spread issue, sound, etc. already would stop you. We'll see if the patch fixes any of this. I'm waiting for them to fix the achievements in Reach so I can blow through that and delete the single AND multiplayer just like I'm close to doing for CE to make space for 2-3 (the two multiplayers I'm interested in) and ODST.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Transhuman on May 09, 2020, 10:21:27 PM
timu will you play Halo Infinite with me y/n/m?

:uguu
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 10, 2020, 12:12:56 AM
N. It's not getting a PC port (yet) last I checked?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Transhuman on May 10, 2020, 12:53:31 AM
https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-6-release-date/

Check again baby
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 10, 2020, 09:00:17 AM
Huh. No Steam DB though. :lol

Guess that "N" turns into "M. If it hits Steam and 343 unfucks the MCC clownshoes release schedule and fixes the games." :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 12, 2020, 11:48:11 PM
https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042882732-Halo-The-Master-Chief-Collection-Patch-Notes-5-12-20

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042883072-Halo-2-Anniversary-Known-Issues-05-12-2020

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The sun is not rendering on most maps and missions

With the Scarab Gun skull active, a hardlock can happen when firing a plasma rifle after swapping weapons with an Elite

Performance lowers during games of 3 plots

Team Spawn system does not have parity with original

Bullet registration is not in parity with the original

Quote
Users on AMD hardware may encounter missing and/or flickering textures across campaign (such as the Elevator on Oracle)

When using a Ryzen 5 and AMD GPU, large rectangle volumes appear on the mission Oracle

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqnSCQ2UwAAamzF.jpg:large)

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Enemy Elites do not dual wield in the Campaign

:idont
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on May 12, 2020, 11:55:11 PM
Why rush out the game when it has some pretty obvious issues and not minor things you wouldn't notice unless you were running OG Halo 2 on a TV next to your PC monitor? Nobody cares about when these games come out. They just want them to to be nearly perfect.

Gaahh.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: bork on May 13, 2020, 12:08:26 AM
343 sucks.   :-\
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 13, 2020, 12:11:46 AM
Why rush out the game when it has some pretty obvious issues and not minor things you wouldn't notice unless you were running OG Halo 2 on a TV next to your PC monitor? Nobody cares about when these games come out. They just want them to to be nearly perfect.

Gaahh.

Because folks wanted 2-3 over Reach-CE, but they're doing it in time-line/lore order instead of popularity or release order. :doge

343 sucks.   :-\

Audio in Reach still isn't fixed. They're still "investigating" six months later.

At this point, they should just give the fucking IP to the El Dewrito team and fuck off. At least THEY don't fuck up with a pirated Russian F2P Halo 3 engine. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: EchoRin on May 13, 2020, 12:56:18 AM
No I get the game order releases.
I just don't get what the rush is. Nobody on the PC side cares about any anniversary or anything else. Nobody cares. It's way after the console launch. Makes no difference if you release it today or in a year. Nobody cares at this point and would be more than happy with "we'll get it to you when it's done" even if that took another 2 years.

Just ship it right  :dizzy

Edit: H1 still has issues, yes? OK then fix those first. H2 has issues. Why the fuck ship it today? It's a digital game anyway. It makes no sense. It's not like "oh shit we gotta ship a million discs to the stores, oh well. Too late we'll patch it later".

What is the rush?
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 13, 2020, 06:19:06 AM
Because folks wanted 2-3 over Reach-CE, but they're doing it in time-line/lore order instead of popularity or release order. :doge

.

Nobody wanted Reach out of the gate. Folks wanted 2-3 out of the gate. 343 fucked up. Put that up because they figured the PC community wanted that. SURRPISE! They wanted the continuation of Halo 2: Vista before Reach, which is... 3.

So now they're getting these out the door as fast as possible to try to get to the shit people bought the collection for. :doge

We'll see if they slow their roll with 3 and actually fix shit. But at this point, I doubt it. I doubt it'll revive the community and the game will die on a vine because they blew their first impression and have fucked up repeatedly in the run-up to that.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 13, 2020, 09:19:59 PM
Halo 2: Anniversary multiplayer is just Halo 4 with Halo 2 window dressing.

It's ok but not what I wanted from 2. However, "2 Classic" is apparently busted (haven't tried MM with just it alone) to know. Apparently the hit-register in H2C is busted. I'll have to see, but Big Team Battle is working in H2A. Just... the maps suck for the objective modes. :doge
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: Transhuman on May 14, 2020, 07:49:28 AM
I can't play any Halo games right now because I need to keep my appetite sharp for Halo Infinite, which will be faithful to the originals but also revitalize the series, and also cure my depression.
Title: Re: NOT A DRILL HALO: CE IS BACK ON PC (Reach - $10 CE- $10| All of Them- $40 TBD)
Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2020, 08:16:33 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/cITXqjw.gif)

I hope it helps you, Bogey. But with how the MCC is going... :doge
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Post by: MMaRsu on May 14, 2020, 03:07:13 PM
https://twitter.com/Edddddddddddi3/status/1260724114521763842
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2020, 06:24:03 PM
https://twitter.com/ImKadaddle/status/1260933522480492545

:mike
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2020, 10:20:42 PM
Yeah, H2Classic is fucked. The hit regristration is all over the goddamn place.

And H2Anniversary puts me in a shitty forge map that plays horrible for CTF constantly to where my team is basically stuck in base because battle-rifle starts means the other team is able to set up a line and ping us even if we push forward.

Goddamn shame, I was looking forward to Halo 2 the most.
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: Borealis on May 14, 2020, 10:49:25 PM
I'm enjoying H2 Anniversary's campaign despite the FPS fuck ups here and there.

MS trying to pump everything out before Infinite launches while the list of bugs for each MCC game alone continue to mount, we all know how that's going to pan out. Congrats on fixing stuff long after the community has died off thanks to release fuck ups.

Here was I thinking last year they would get it right the second time, with long-awaited fixes to the fucking Gearbox early build/substandard port of all things. Halo CE Classic kinda looks shit cause it's outright missing bump maps ffs.

 :snoop
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2020, 11:34:39 PM
The CE port is literally just Gearboxes. Despite saying they've found the "original X-box Developer console" that has CE on it... :doge

----

WELL WELL WELL, look who I ran into on H2A:

(https://i.imgur.com/FkSvceA.jpg)
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: benjipwns on May 14, 2020, 11:47:41 PM
wow not only are you doxxing him you muted him
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: thisismyusername on May 14, 2020, 11:52:29 PM
I muted everyone. :shh
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are on PC.
Post by: HardcoreRetro on May 15, 2020, 06:53:12 AM
Guess I wasn't insane when I thought Halo Combat Evolved didn't look as bad as it did in this collection. Apperently they used the broken pc port for it. Good job!

The fact that their latest patch broke the 60fps on both of the Anniversary titles on the Xbox One X version is just the cherry on top.
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Post by: Ghoul on May 15, 2020, 08:18:01 AM
only problem is that controller is far better on this game than mouse and keyboard it's actually hilarious the difference
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2020, 12:24:18 PM
only problem is that controller is far better on this game than mouse and keyboard it's actually hilarious the difference

Supposedly they "fixed" that, but I dunno. Given they haven't fixed audio issues, broken achievements (some not in sync, aka: only on Steam or the X-box app), the bullet register being broken in CE past 60FPS (hello Pistol spread), 2 (hello not hitting where you're aiming), the lag, no server browser (CE and 2:Vista had this, shit 3/Online/El Dewrito did as well!)... I wouldn't be surprised they haven't.

Which reminds me. I can't make binds multiple of the same key. I get why in some sense (some PC players may not want that, I don't generally) but stuff like picking up a gun and now with 2/3 having Dual-Wielding, you have an entirely separate key for dual-wielding and it's like "why? Why can't I just have it be a long-press or something a la the X-box controller?"

[Probably because Keyboard is digital, but jesus: High-jacking is E, interacting with something like the EMP in H2A is F... it's a mess]
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Post by: Ghoul on May 15, 2020, 01:14:18 PM
lol I'm just trying to install it atm on GamePass and holy fuck this app is a piece of shit,

Starts the download then just fails saying you need to start by having MCC installed....

I am clicking on MCC to be installed and it chooses the games first rather than the launcher

Janky as fuck, and like hell am I gonna pay these people money for a game I bought day one on Xbox One like some sort of prick haha :D

Well just managed to fix that by downloading via Microsoft store app cool!
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Post by: EchoRin on May 15, 2020, 01:18:02 PM
Man. Reading about this is such a bummer.

It's the MCC on XBone all over again.  :'(
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Post by: Ghoul on May 15, 2020, 01:38:40 PM
only problem is that controller is far better on this game than mouse and keyboard it's actually hilarious the difference

Supposedly they "fixed" that, but I dunno. Given they haven't fixed audio issues, broken achievements (some not in sync, aka: only on Steam or the X-box app), the bullet register being broken in CE past 60FPS (hello Pistol spread), 2 (hello not hitting where you're aiming), the lag, no server browser (CE and 2:Vista had this, shit 3/Online/El Dewrito did as well!)... I wouldn't be surprised they haven't.

Which reminds me. I can't make binds multiple of the same key. I get why in some sense (some PC players may not want that, I don't generally) but stuff like picking up a gun and now with 2/3 having Dual-Wielding, you have an entirely separate key for dual-wielding and it's like "why? Why can't I just have it be a long-press or something a la the X-box controller?"

[Probably because Keyboard is digital, but jesus: High-jacking is E, interacting with something like the EMP in H2A is F... it's a mess]

Lmao sorry just read the rest of this there is no way in hell I am using a mouse and keyboard if you can't have multiple prompts on one button, lol 343i is such a joke it really is just a company of clowns
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2020, 07:43:55 PM
So, I think it's pretty clear I suck at Halo 2 Hardcore.

But CE? I dunno what was going on with that round to where I just dominated with the Rocket Launcher. Was that team we played new? :doge
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2020, 08:39:42 PM
So yeah. I think H2C is busted right now. As much as I don't like the Halo 4-isms in the Anniversary remakes, it plays more solid with the BR (for me). But Ghoul wanted to do Doubles and like 4v4 instead of 8v8/Big Team so... :doge
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Post by: mormapope on May 15, 2020, 08:51:32 PM
Halo 4 has a ton of bullshit that makes it not play like Halo at all. Halo 2 Anniversary is definitely not the same feeling shooter as classic Halo 2, but it's not nearly as floaty or jittery than Halo 4.

Remember, Halo 4 has "class" abilities such as Promethean vision (see enemies thru walls) and jetpacks and shit. And sprint.

The biggest difference between H2C and H2A on console was sticky sim/bullet magnetism being much higher on Anniversary.
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2020, 08:54:42 PM
I dunno about the magnetism currently, but it just feels more "solid" than Classic does on PC right now. PC Classic feels "laggy" and not as "playable" as Anniversary.

The only power-up I've seen is the Sprint. I dunno if the Vision and Jetpacks are in Anniversary. But I really don't like the Gungoose. I don't get why they needed to add some of Halo 4's stuff to Halo 2 maps/playing.
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Post by: mormapope on May 15, 2020, 08:59:02 PM
H2A to my knowledge and experience just has the gungoose and silenced SMG. I've played tons of Halo multiplayer across the board, H2A is the best feeling. Halo 5 has way too many mobility options combined with abysmal maps.

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Post by: thisismyusername on May 15, 2020, 09:04:48 PM
It has Sprint on the Relic remake/"Remnant" One Flag CTF Big Team mode.
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Post by: Ghoul on May 16, 2020, 07:57:39 AM
So yeah. I think H2C is busted right now. As much as I don't like the Halo 4-isms in the Anniversary remakes, it plays more solid with the BR (for me). But Ghoul wanted to do Doubles and like 4v4 instead of 8v8/Big Team so... :doge

I was hammered TBH I just never liked big team because of the fuckery that is tanks etc.

playing reach campaign atm and I fucking hate the health pack system so much it sucks.
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Post by: bork on May 16, 2020, 09:26:34 AM
Man. Reading about this is such a bummer.

It's the MCC on XBone all over again.  :'(

https://twitter.com/PaullShii/status/1261130455438331904
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Post by: Ghoul on May 16, 2020, 05:23:18 PM
Well I played quite a lot of reach today, got kinda motion sick and threw up.

7/10 health pack system is annoying still. Will try finish it tomorrow.

On the stealth/sniper mission atm. Will play some some multiplayer too.

H2A not having bumper jumper controller layout is so annoying.

That’s why I think I prefer Halo 3 just for the dumb jumpy fuckery you can do.

Luckily playing on an elite pad so just made a back button for jump so it’s not so bad
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 16, 2020, 05:45:18 PM
Halo 2 didn't have Bumper Jumper, being original X-box. :doge

I just never liked big team because of the fuckery that is tanks etc.

>buys a sandbox shooter
>doesn't want to play in the sandbox
:drakewtf

I really enjoy Big Team, despite some of the bullshit with it. Objective modes just aren't the same with a smaller number of players.
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Post by: Ghoul on May 16, 2020, 06:16:16 PM
Halo 2 didn't have Bumper Jumper, being original X-box. :doge

I just never liked big team because of the fuckery that is tanks etc.

>buys a sandbox shooter
>doesn't want to play in the sandbox
:drakewtf

I really enjoy Big Team, despite some of the bullshit with it. Objective modes just aren't the same with a smaller number of players.

Yeah I know about the controller, I’m just so used to it now not having it is jarring for me.

I was struggling with two people 8 players I’d have no chance,
I will be up for some big team sometime though when I can actually play and I’m not a bot.

I guess my love for halo is pretty much MLG, doubles or swat or TS, big team was always a just chill thing with buddies who didn’t play that often and usually sucked. Damn maybe we should have played that last night haha
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 17, 2020, 12:54:49 AM
I play SWAT now and then, but I'm really rusty at it. It was about the only thing I played in Halo 2 back in the original X-box Live era. Even up until Bungie and MS shut down the servers. :lol I haven't grokked how to play it with mouse-keyboard on the PC version since it seems like it's "spawn, get shot, spawn, get shot, spawn, get shot" without actually moving/doing anything. :doge Then again, that was Reach and Reach's spawn system was pretty ass. I guess I should try 2's... when they fix the lag/register.

I don't give a shit about the MLG-try-hard 4v4 comp mode. It's not what the series is best at (IMO), though there is/was an eSport scene for Halo back in the day so some folks might be into that. But I prefer having larger teams (to support/ping folks for others to kill. :doge ) while having an objective to focus on.

CE's BTB was busted, so I dunno how that plays (so I played a lot of 4v4 hence that dominating Chill Out round) but I played 2 and 3 BTB nearly exclusively. :doge I guess I need to up my game and play some Hardcore/no radar to play the mode you want to play.
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Post by: Ghoul on May 17, 2020, 12:15:32 PM
Well we can mix it up although I love being a try hard sweat lord, we can also play BTB I just really can’t wait for a Halo 3 on PC as I was good at H2 but very good at Halo 3. Shame that esport didn’t take off really I went to a few of the comps and did fairly well in them, what made me laugh was Halo 4 trying to play the customs with some pro players the modes sucked so no wonder it dropped off.

Halo to me is all about call outs and winning your ones when you’re in that situation. Deffo up for more games though.
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Post by: EchoRin on May 20, 2020, 07:36:35 PM
I can look over minor errors here and there that are inconsequential, but the first paragraph in this article makes me  :dizzy

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A mere 13 years on from its initial release, Halo 2 has been re-released on PC as part of The Master Chief Collection - an ongoing enterprise that has attracted as much criticism as praise. So how does this port from the Xbox One conversion of Saber Interactive's Xbox 360 original fare? What extras does it bring to the table, how well does it run - and does it manage to avoid the problems and issues of some of the other games in the PC collection?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-halo-2-anniversary-pc-master-chief-collection-analysis

Excuse me, wat?
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Post by: Ghoul on May 21, 2020, 04:26:50 AM
I can look over minor errors here and there that are inconsequential, but the first paragraph in this article makes me  :dizzy

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A mere 13 years on from its initial release, Halo 2 has been re-released on PC as part of The Master Chief Collection - an ongoing enterprise that has attracted as much criticism as praise. So how does this port from the Xbox One conversion of Saber Interactive's Xbox 360 original fare? What extras does it bring to the table, how well does it run - and does it manage to avoid the problems and issues of some of the other games in the PC collection?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-halo-2-anniversary-pc-master-chief-collection-analysis

Excuse me, wat?

I think they’re talking about H2 anniversary which in fact saber did a lot of the legwork on, I remember back when it launched 343i had very little to do with it hence why it worked at the time haha
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 21, 2020, 06:49:49 AM
H2A never released on 360 though. That was Halo: CE: Anniversary. Saber did that one as well.
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Post by: Transhuman on May 22, 2020, 11:05:14 AM
Seriously... WTF are they doing at 343i?

Halo Infinite is going to be a disaster...

It's just a sign of how much effort is going into Halo Infinite that they're willing to neglect everything else

:rejoice
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Post by: Nintex on May 26, 2020, 08:28:12 PM
Video-game developers in 2000: "Let's retool our third person game, which was originally an RTS into an FPS in less than a year so it can launch with a new console no one has ever worked with before. Maybe we can add in some multiplayer during our spare time."

Video-game developers in 2020: "Sorry, dual wielding enemies are too hard to code but we did manage to cut your FPS in half on an entirely different platform"

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Post by: thisismyusername on June 08, 2020, 09:00:03 PM
Fixed the broken achievements in Reach with this method (https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/epcoom/psa_fix_for_buggedunlockable_achievements_on_mcc/), so I've been going through getting the auxiliary/Easter Egg achievements.

One level wants you to beat the level on Legendary with the tank totally intact (:doge ) but to do that you need to hit two specific switches in co-op. Which PC doesn't have local co-op for. #RIP :(

I guess I could bother Ghoul to do that, but just for one level on Legendary? :doge
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Post by: Ghoul on June 10, 2020, 04:43:24 AM
Yeah if you want to do it just hit me up :)
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Post by: MMaRsu on June 11, 2020, 05:38:49 PM
Halo 3 Flight is live for insiders, check your inboxes.

Im downloading now on Steam, cant wait to check it out
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Post by: thisismyusername on June 11, 2020, 06:09:12 PM
Can't wait for another round of "It's bug free, launch it!" *launch, bugs that weren't in flight show up, audio still isn't fixed, broken achievements, shotgun shooting the floor gets you kills [which I abused. :shh ] *
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Post by: thisismyusername on June 14, 2020, 05:36:17 PM
Can't wait for another round of "It's bug free, launch it!" *launch, bugs that weren't in flight show up, audio still isn't fixed, broken achievements, shotgun shooting the floor gets you kills [which I abused. :shh ] *

LMAO (https://streamable.com/nsble4) 343 is so clownshoes.
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Post by: mormapope on June 14, 2020, 06:27:10 PM
Halo 3 has always felt like a garbage mud monster when it came to multiplayer. Fantastic campaign, abysmal multiplayer. People loved it, but there's a reason why CoD4 was so popular.  :lol
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Post by: thisismyusername on June 14, 2020, 07:18:20 PM
Halo 3 has always felt like a garbage mud monster when it came to multiplayer. Fantastic campaign, abysmal multiplayer. People loved it, but there's a reason why CoD4 was so popular.  :lol

I liked both. But Halo 3's atrocious netcode (AR run up->melee wack! TRADE KILLS!) was the biggest reason I dropped it for CoD4, beyond liking CoD4's maps, P90/modern weapons. CoD4's biggest stumbling block is the infamous 2xFrags (or Flash), 2xRPG (or was this a Perk1?), Stopping Power, Martyrdom and Bombing Runs/Airstrike.

Made playing the maps spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die. Which Halo didn't have (until these PC ports it seems. :/).

I still vastly enjoyed CoD4 enough to buy it on PCS360 and the remake on Steam despite that being dead because LOL NO SERVERS LOL. So I can't complain. :yeshrug
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Post by: Nintex on June 14, 2020, 07:54:41 PM
Halo 3 was a great game when it released. Very few games managed to handle large scale battles as well as that game did. Especially in the campaign.
On PC it seems the FOV is expanded to 120, which makes for a big improvement.

I'm not seeing the appeal of playing these old games in multiplayer though.
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Post by: Ghoul on June 15, 2020, 01:38:55 AM
It’s gonna be 2025 before they fix Halo 3. I wish 343i would just take their time with this shit, having a flight and it out in a couple of weeks after with them bullshitting saying “it’s fixed this time guys honest” just further damages the games, Lord only knows what H5 is going to launch like. I wish we got a remaster of H3 instead of this trash.

Deffo will be playing the hell out of it when it works though as Halo 3 was my shit back in the day
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 07, 2020, 11:36:25 PM
Halo 3 is supposedly launching on the 14th of this month/July. We'll see how "bug-free" it is on launch.

I still need to get that Easter Egg in co-op on Reach so I can finish Reach's camapign. :lol :lol :lol :lol :-\ :'(

I'm nearly done with Halo 2's campaign, but man: Playing the campaigns now a days is a chore IMO. The star of the series and the most popular way of playing it is the multiplayer.
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Post by: mormapope on July 08, 2020, 08:53:11 AM
Disagree completely, single player FPS campaigns like Halo's don't exist anymore. You can play dozens of multiplayer shooters that scratch that itch.

I played thru Halo 1 thru Reach on legendary this year. Halo 2 was the campaign has been the weakest. Halo 1, 3, and Reach were excellent experiences.

Sandbox puzzle combat is something Bungie got right. 343 can make ok multiplayer maps and design decisions, but single player from 343?  :lol
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 08, 2020, 09:23:59 AM
Who cares about 343's bullshit? I'm talking strictly Bungie and the multiplayer is the star of those.
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Post by: bork on July 08, 2020, 09:55:04 AM
Who cares about 343's bullshit? I'm talking strictly Bungie and the multiplayer is the star of those.

Yup.  Never cared about the campaign stuff- always went for multiplayer.  Halo 3 campaign with 4P was fun for a few playthroughs though.
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Post by: MMaRsu on July 08, 2020, 11:44:59 AM
Halo 3 mp is so goddamn good

Many hours
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Post by: MMaRsu on July 09, 2020, 04:54:12 PM
Cant wait to buy Halo 3 on PC, flight was good imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJaOqfS84T8
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 11, 2020, 09:11:19 AM
Finished Halo 2's campaign and Easter Eggs/skulls. Now I just have to mop up a few situational ones (Complete Metropolis on foot on Heroic/Legendary, "Needs More Whammy Bar") and then I can probably dump the Campaign's installation/file-size out the airlock and keep just the multiplayer.

I dunno if I want to do the campaign L.egendary A.ll S.kulls O.n (LASO) Apparently the skulls count for the "Beat the campaign on Legendary" achievement, but you lose shields, you have to melee enemies to regain them, you have the Scarab gun which can backfire in close-combat situations... etc. Just seems like a really annoying complication, but probably easier than doing it on Combat Evolved (since there's no Scarab Gun there?)

I still need to do that Reach easter egg, so I should probably bother Ghoul. :doge
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Post by: Transhuman on July 11, 2020, 01:17:18 PM
I have absolutely no faith in 343, and yet somehow I think there's a chance they have made decent multiplayer given that it is at this moment the most expensive videogame ever produced.

Is Halo Infinite going to be the next Fortnite or the next Rise of the Skywalker?
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Post by: EchoRin on July 11, 2020, 01:22:18 PM
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=733175557493112

hot damn
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Post by: Trent Dole on July 11, 2020, 09:10:09 PM
I have absolutely no faith in 343, and yet somehow I think there's a chance they have made decent multiplayer given that it is at this moment the most expensive videogame ever produced.

Is Halo Infinite going to be the next Fortnite or the next Rise of the Skywalker?
Is it the next derivative crap kids like or thing that makes old people angry? ???
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 11, 2020, 09:13:28 PM
Is Halo Infinite going to be the next Fortnite

That times already passed, Bogan. :doge
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Post by: Transhuman on July 11, 2020, 11:28:48 PM
Star Wars makes everyone angry not just olds
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 13, 2020, 11:41:20 PM
Well 3 is out. But I'm waiting on Death Strandings Pre-load to unlock and boot that up to check performance/etc. before going to bed to where I'll have to check Halo 3 tomorrow.

Wait and see on how buggy it is.

Edit: Oh, wait:

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045689252-Halo-3-Known-Issues-07-14-2020

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Secondary Weapons do not reload in Halo 3 while dual wielding. Halo 3 introduced per-weapon reloading (compared to Halo 2, which only had a single reload action for both weapons). Both Controller and M/K support this by having the “reload” functions on separate keys. Check the “controls” page for your input of choice to find out where it is bound (on M/K, this is defaulted to the “F” key, but can be rebound). 

:beli

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Throwing equipment or a grenade in multiplayer sometimes results in multiple objects to be thrown. Our team is aware of this and continuing to investigate potential causes and fixes for when this occurs. We hope to have more on this in the future.

NEAT.gif
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Post by: MMaRsu on July 14, 2020, 08:00:44 AM
Well its free on gamepass so I cant complain
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 14, 2020, 09:19:43 AM
The weekly challenge "deck" giving you season pass (ugh) unlock points so you don't have to grind EXP/levels to get all of them anymore. #thankyou343 :rejoice

Though this "season" is just Halo:CE skins (WTF) and banners (:beli )
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Post by: Ghoul on July 14, 2020, 12:57:33 PM
Halo 3 is so good, already dropping some 20 kill games.... Finally got bumper Jumper back feels so fucking good. FOV makes the game so fast feeling


Team BR's alll day!!! Fuck this is good shit!
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on July 14, 2020, 01:00:03 PM
Ghoul-kun, later today help me with the 3 co-op in Halo 3 so I can get the banner and do the Reach Easter egg. :doge
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: Ghoul on July 14, 2020, 01:11:03 PM
depends what time as I work in the week and time zones etc! IF I'm on for sure, also how do you unlock flaming helmets?
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 14, 2020, 05:38:52 PM
depends what time as I work in the week and time zones etc! IF I'm on for sure, also how do you unlock flaming helmets?

Get to rank 100 in the first season pass. With the "unlock your way" on the pass now, once you reach the last "tier" (10) of the Nobel pass, you can just skip to the end to unlock the Legendary/Bungie flames.
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: Ghoul on July 15, 2020, 11:47:52 AM
nice, what's the quickest way to earn ranks? I heard there's some firefight hack that you can gain ranks super quick with
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Post by: thisismyusername on July 15, 2020, 05:27:40 PM
Firefight Doubles. Unless they finally removed it. Then Firefight Arcade and killing faster than the other 3 players.

During 2XP. Which will be 3XP next week.
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Post by: EchoRin on July 24, 2020, 08:41:56 PM
https://youtu.be/d94tRkTsvUU

That first clip.
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on July 24, 2020, 10:22:39 PM
3XP is worthless when the XP gain on level-up doesn't give you season points anymore. :beli

It's only worth doing the orange 3 for the weeklys.
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Post by: MMaRsu on July 28, 2020, 12:50:49 PM
https://youtu.be/zjKXe8ZOuNg

Off the charts
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on August 21, 2020, 06:31:55 PM
Ghoul-kun, later today help me with the 3 co-op in Halo 3 so I can get the banner and do the Reach Easter egg. :doge

Nevermind, someone helped me and I finished the campaign.

What's funny is that they left in the middle of it, so I finished the level on Legendary and got the Legendary co-op achievement from it. :lol :dead

Matchmaking continues to be busted. Either it takes five minutes or twenty. They're supposedly doing cross-play with X-box/console in the ODST update(? IIRC) but I doubt it's going to do too much for the shitty matchmaking (BTFO rounds or takes forever) right now.
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Post by: thisismyusername on August 21, 2020, 09:59:32 PM
A tragedy in three acts:

*sitting in Warthog at spawn as everyone Lemmings the bomb, sneak the bomb to the site nearly by myself by taking the left [thank you to the teammate that mentioned that], fail to arm..., finally have enough and grab the Mongoose*

(https://i.imgur.com/UpyJdPj.jpg)

*start traveling, Spartan Laser shows up, balls to the wall speed*

(https://i.imgur.com/MDx67EO.jpg)

*teammate bails as I hit the wall and the Spartan Laser doesn't hit us*

(https://i.imgur.com/8VFrFwd.jpg)

"Why the fuck would you get off?"
"Did you not see the laser, you bot?"
"OH NOES WE DIE! The bomb stays where it drops when you die."
"What the fuck does that mean?"

Fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on September 22, 2020, 06:21:55 AM
ODST is out. This means: All Bungie titles are now in the collection PC. Hola 4 is the only one that is left in the collection that hasn't released on PC. But: Who gives a fuck about 343's stuff? :doge
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Post by: thisismyusername on September 22, 2020, 12:35:52 PM
ODST seems solid so far. Probably the first port that is pretty much flawless.

But it only has campaign and firefight, so obviously it HAD to turn out good. :lol

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Edit:

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049898331-Halo-3-ODST-Known-Issues-

Quote
Users who are at non-16:9 aspect ratios, extended FOV, and/or centered crosshair will occasionally see through the ODST’s body at certain angles.

Often, repeating voice effects can be heard from either Covenant enemies or player actions.

BenderNEAT.gif
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: MMaRsu on September 22, 2020, 12:37:10 PM
Yeah the update didnt fuck anything up

https://twitter.com/FatRatlol/status/1308352353670701056
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on September 22, 2020, 12:40:39 PM
Quote from: Firefight bugs
Phantom becomes stuck on the environment, blocking match progression.

The inclusion of our new expanded game modes exposed this as a legacy bug in title (likely as Halo 3: ODST Firefight in Legacy never expected troopers with infinite-ammo rocket launchers!)
We’ve resolved this in the interim by removing game variants where this exploit is easily reproducible on impacted maps (Fiestafight, Rocketfight, etc.), however this will still be possible in custom games.

...Just take infinite ammo out? :dead I mean, it's a nice feature to have but if Bungle never intended it for the mode...
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Post by: MMaRsu on September 25, 2020, 03:59:16 PM
Why didnt yall say ODST is only 5 bucks?

INSTA BUY
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on September 25, 2020, 05:38:26 PM
Because some of us spent the $40 to get all 5 titles in the collection, Sweaty.
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Post by: MMaRsu on September 25, 2020, 06:40:46 PM
(https://media.tenor.com/images/9087b173654382b8f2c428f147b9a46d/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: Borealis on October 27, 2020, 05:53:36 AM
Got into the Insider for Halo 4.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm shocked at how much I hate the gameplay feel, enemy AI plus their looks, goofy/over-designed armour aesthetics, pointless hitmarkers, the bloom effect, honestly almost everything about it. The (better?) narrative and visuals don't make up for these shortcomings at all.

While everything else on MCC has mostly been a blast to play through, I can definitely accept the flak 343 cops on the regular. Bonnie and Stinkles being thrown down that shaft near the start of Assault on the Control Room when?
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Post by: bork on October 27, 2020, 07:10:42 AM
Halo 4 killed the series for me. 
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 27, 2020, 07:39:05 AM
I only really played Halo 1 on the OG which rocked so I tried 3,4 and ODST on Xbox One X and they are all doodoo stuck in 2000 gameplay.

The campaign feels so clunky jeeeeebus.

I guess there is plenty of kids that grew up on this so they will keep milking it but this series is dead unless it can reinvent itself.
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Post by: thisismyusername on October 28, 2020, 11:41:06 PM
I mean that's kind of what the older fans want. 343 has tried to "modernize" the series to the appeal of no one. :doge
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Post by: Bebpo on October 29, 2020, 12:29:13 AM
I played Halo through Halo 3 and some of Reach.

Should I play Halo 4 when it finally comes to PC? I've heard it's better than Halo 5...
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Post by: Nuitangg on October 30, 2020, 12:45:28 PM
Halo 4 MP is so bad.
Title: Re: Halo 1, 2, and Reach are broken, but on PC and $10 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Post by: thisismyusername on October 30, 2020, 07:14:54 PM
Should I play Halo 4 when it finally comes to PC? I've heard it's better than Halo 5...

It's 343 made, so: Hahaha, no.gif