I may get on for a bit. Probably not until half 8 or something.

Yeah, it was fun. The grapple has loads of uses but I'm still getting myself into bother as often as I'm pulling off something cool. Will be great for the campaign though. Same goes for whatever that force push thing is, I was dropping down on a guy only to be dragon punched back where I came from. Surprised giggles all round

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How does that feel Nexx?

Halooooooooo.

Who is on tonight?

Just been on Game Pass and it says Halo Infinite Multiplayer is coming 8 December. Is that implying the campaign won’t be coming the same day?!

Ah, gotcha. Cheers.

If they were happy to punt and patch it would have been out last year, Shirley?

there are so many features that came out with the release of Halo 3 that they haven’t been able to get ready for release, after 6 years of development, that expecting what they do have to be polished is almost certainly naive.

But yeah, it might be a mess, but I suspect that those features have been held back in order to focus on getting the basic campaign and multiplayer to a higher standard. Microsoft have a lot riding on this being successful, I expect that they’re going to be working hard to get the launch product running as flawlessly as possible.

There's another beta this weekend right? Fucking desperate to get in. Might get Sunday

Yossarian wrote:

But yeah, it might be a mess, but I suspect that those features have been held back in order to focus on getting the basic campaign and multiplayer to a higher standard. Microsoft have a lot riding on this being successful, I expect that they’re going to be working hard to get the launch product running as flawlessly as possible.

I’m not sure I agree with this actually. In years past, then yeah absolutely, but I think Halo as a system seller isn’t what it was. Absolutely MS will want it to review as well as possible - it’s important to show that they can manage all these big production houses they’ve got, it’s still their main Mario style flagship, they’ll want the pr kudos of good game, good game and it does kind of need to desperately avoid being lolled at in the same way as the initial reveal and Gaurdians BUT in the whole scheme of where MS seem to be heading, a brilliant new Halo just disappears into the shadow cast by Gamepass and its multitude of content.

So, tldr. Yeah, it’s important to the Halo fans (and you’ll all already have your X’s) and it’s important that it doesn’t allow PS boys to aimlessly lol for a week or two but it really doesn’t matter like it used to. They’ve got GP now and that’s the prince who needs protecting.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Knight wrote:

there are so many features that came out with the release of Halo 3 that they haven’t been able to get ready for release, after 6 years of development, that expecting what they do have to be polished is almost certainly naive.

I was talking to Tiger about the incredible Theater mode and stuff like detailed stat tracking for every match you'd ever played on Bungie.net. You don't see that type of stuff getting much of a look in these days

H3 and Reach were incredible feats in terms of the overall package. I still find it remarkable that a company who developed Reach, which was gorgeous looking for it’s time and packed with incredible features, thought sprint and bloom was the way to improve the gameplay experience. We’ve been suffering the effects ever since.

Oh god, theatre mode! Being able to slow mo track your amazing sticky grenade throw or rewatch launching a warthog a million miles into the air. Those were the days

This weapon sandbox is not good, at all.
- the BR is very easy to use but kills very slowly
- the sidekick is very very hard to use but has too few bullets in its mag, an inconsistent bloom and very little range. It needs a range bump, a slower rate of fire, fewer shots to kill and no recoil/bloom. It basically needs to be the H5 pistol.
- the AR can cross map people and kills very fast. The kill time would be fine if the sidekick wasn’t so difficult and annoying to use.
- the sniper is so weird to use. Scoping in is really really odd.
- lots of the power weapons aren’t very powerful.
- the commando is a nice concept but at range it’s pointless.

It’s really quite awful weapon balance. Which is a shame because movement is good, sprint is nerfed enough, the advanced movement abilities that raised the skill floor way too much in H5 are gone, I like the art direction and some of the equipment has genuine potential.