Twinreaper

Actually rather than go through all the painfull mess they have incurred since launch, they should have just done the Public Beta. Any company with half a brain, would have the smarts to release a public beta, especially for a critical title like Halo 4. Had it happened, many of the bugs we have had to deal with would have been squashed before launch, leaving only minor things like glitches with weapons. I hate to say it, but the OP is 100% correct. Never should DLC content be released before all bugs that are quite easily fixed, remedied. Just the fact that their official statement said "we now of these bugs and that they have been a problem since day 1" and they are fixing it "with" DLC content release, shows they had a few miskewed priorities. It's like a virtual in the face to tell the community basically, that they have to deal with and stop crying over the issues, until they feel like releasing a fix bundled with DLC, that will mroe than likely have the same kinds of issues. Whats next 343???? Will we have to wait till the map pack after that for core fixes to problems you think we should just "accept and deal with"?

Maybe you guys need your eyes checked. Last time I checked, the graphics should not wash out and look heavily pixelated once you get 2 feet from them. And the shadowing? Are you kidding me? it's heavily pixelated and spotty in most areas. Perhaps you guys are not playing on large HD Tv's then? I'm sure the game would look better ona smaller tv maybe? Nahhhhh it still fails....

Not once do I see anyone stating that the game is more fun. As usuall more ignorant MLG mindset folks throwing around the "noob" label. Not once do I see anyone here taking responsability for their ingame failures. As usual, its the same old blame the weapons argument. Whats next guys....you gonna blame your mommies when you dont land that job? Or start blaming unbalanced education based on what school you go to? Everyone performs and succeeds based on skill PER game, and what you put into it ensure your success. Either deal with change and grow as a player, or dont post such stupid closed minded statements.

Spawning is a complicated issue. I have not played with Forge in H4 yet so what I can offer may not be relevant to H4 exclusively. Static spawn is the lamens term for an individual spawn location that has a "neutral" default setting. Yes everything is a single spawn, but spawns are broken up into many different catagories. 1. Initial Spawn (single or group declared, identified by neutral or team color) 2. Initial Spawn Zone (anything inside this zone, acts as a "team specified" spawn) 3. Initial Respawn (the static spawn so to speak, but only used for respawning. Teams can be specified.) 4. Initial Respawn Zone (anything inside this acts as a respawn point) 5. Overspawn (specified spawns that the enemy team or player cannot use when flag or bomb is away from home) 6. Dynamic Overspawn (same as above but included to prevent players from spawning next to enemy players) *doesnt work*...lol Additionally, there should be a trait to change in the gameplay setup that allows you to specify "change teams" at round end, or something like that. From what I know, that has always been included but a seldom used feature.

I really need to get around to posting up in-game renders of Halo and side by side compare post "why" Halo 4 fails graphically. Nothing about Halo 4 is leaps and bounds above Reach. Hell most of Halo 3 looks better...

Winning the 360 Game Award is like a bit redundant. It's a first party title...of coarse it won. But the main thing is, when you view best shooter...CoD beat out Halo. Congratulating this, would be like congratulating Sonic for winning the Sega game of the year award..... As for best graphics.....it was rigged. No way in hell halo 4 rightfully beat out Journey, Dishonored or Assasin's Creed. Compared to them, Halo 4 looks like Halo 2. Who the hell tabulated and voted.....the community?

Ok then yes, you need the drivers. I am assuming they didn't come with it so you will need to do this.... 1. Go into "Device Manager" and try to locate the attached hardware. This might have a "?" next to it, or not at all, forcing you to locate it by going thru all connected ports on the USB controller. 2. Once you find the thing, go into it's properties view, and select to update the driver. 3. Choose the method of selecting a driver spcifically from a list the PC has on file. I forget exactly what steps and it depends on your OS. Either way, you want to select the driver manually. 4. Once you get to the driver list, you are looking for 'Microsoft Common Control for Windows Class" This driver is used by the 360 wireless receiver as the one that comes with the product doesn't work. Chances are, since the dongle is basically a receiver, that this driver will work for you.

The dongle was one of the links right? If so, that is your problem. the dongle is just a middleman. it relays the signal from bluetooth capable - bluetooth capable devices. Without a cord or physical connection to the desktop, there is no way for the dongle or any other device to connect or talk to bluetooth devices. That is why it works on a tablet and pohone...both have bluetooth built in.

Unfortunatly, the magnets are simply just the vertices of the objects. not all the verts are hotspotted for use, but that is why they are where they are.

I can attest to that. I used to play on straight 3's until around the time Halo 3 came out, then had to play on a 1. even now when I revisit the games, I have to use a 1 to play. I think it does have something to do with how we age and how are reasonable thinking skills coupled with reflexes acts as we get older. It's funny...in games my reflexes suck, but in real life, they are sharper than ever.

Well I can only assume that by PC you mean you tried getting it to work with a desktop. If that is the case, you need a bluetooth receiver or bluetooth card to enable that functionality with e desktop. No wireless card today, that i know of has bluetooth bundled with it. But on the other hand, most laptops DO have bluetooth functionality bundled with it. I suggest you try to test the setup with a freind or family members laptop to ensure the product does indeed work, before you go out and buy an actual bluetooth adapter. I did however notice that the product does have a nice 35mm jack. You could connect that to the desktop speakers, and pump the sound thru it that way. This way you cut out the middleman altogether.

What type of wired connection is supplied with the units, and could you please give me a link to the actual product? From there I can most certaintly help you brony.

That reminds me of the RvB PSA on controller sharing...lmao Funniest PSA ever!

Suprisingly, no one even mentioned the fact that you get a nice charge n play cable along with an actual rechargable battery pack....no messy AA bats to change out. Just plug and go....and the controller is a beast too.

While I normally wouldnt agree with it being OP, just tha fact that that spawning with it, and the easily doable reload glitch, make this weapon a major hassle. I get it... not everyone uses the glitch, but it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone.

Although I usually hold off from posting things premateur, I will.say this.... Using Cryengine 3, I have already begun planning and recruiting for a team to get a solid campaign and competative multiplayer ODST 2 going. I have a prelim story and enemies all.worked out, at this point I just lack the time and ability to.accomplish it allbmyself. If anyone is interested, please contact me or Derp about the team.

One guy is not going to save the mantis and kill the laser grabber. Ive seen matches where 3 skilled players took down a full opposite team. If you cant hold down your fort for one to two minutes before an even team is established in the case youbstated, then there is more to it then what your dewcribing. Sounds to me like effective teamwork is your weak point.

Although on PC, need I remind everyone that Halo 1 is a JIP game at all times, unless the particular server you are in is full. Halo 1 is still a very popular game and widely played today. A good example of how and when JIP works. A match can always have an unbalanced team at any time. JIP helps to remedy that situation and no it wouldntbalaways take between 30 seconds to one minute longer in the lobby. Chances are, that on average during a non peak Live day, you could quite possibly wait between 2 to 3 minutes. Most playerslike to boot up and play, not spend over half of their MM time waiting for a full party all the time.

I have to agree Victory. The turrets lack stopping power, and the aiming, and speed at which the turret moves when aiming is off. I play on 1 sense setting, and that turret definatly moves faster when aiming then when I am on foot. Second, yeah, the warthog is weak in both physics and momentum/movement/turning. Lastly I cannot even use the guass since the reticule has no point of origin center indicator. Each shot is like firing blind, and the rate is very weak. Especially noticable when trying to take out 2 attacking ghosts. Your lucky if you get q chance to fire twice before the hog goes kapoot.

Stingray...as in H2V Stingray I presume? Good to see you hanging out here finally along with Scrappy...if that is you.....

Ok, I'm gonna try to answer your Campaign faults as simply and logically as possible. 1. The Didact uses his "Composer" weapon to transmutate all liiving semi sentient beings into mechanical beings, that is what it does, and that is how he had intended to consume and conquer the flood. At least that part I think is confimed both in-game and by the books. 2. The Didact had some sort of "controlling" power, but beyond simply using some sort of gravity wave to hold people in place or shove them, I doubt he has the ability to manipulate matter or cause serious telekinetic harm. Not to mention he needed the chief, as the Didact had plans for him, and Cortana. At least from the dialog that is something that one can naturally get out of it. 3. Using an AI to control the armor completely and dictate it's movements is not logical. Even if Cortana were to assume control of the armor and force Chief's movements, his body would restrict those movements, since his brain could not even begin to keep up with the electronic impulses sent to his muscles to mirror her moves. Simply put, it would actually decrease his speed and efficiency. 4. Cortana's rampancy is not why she was able to save chief and take down Didacts shields. She simply copied herself into the Composer's system. She has used this technique before for data reconosence. In fact, during the Fall of Reach, the book outlines how Cortana used a copy of herself to retrieve data from a forerunner facility during the conflict. 5. Cortana cannot hack everything in seconds. Usually what happens, is that she utilizes her unique AI qualities "being cloned from living tissue", to extend her abilities beyond typical AI. That beign said, Forerunner architecture is still relatively new to her. She simply does not posses the expereince or unique skill to master it quite yet. Additionally, the Librarian may ahve given her extended knowledge during the time she removed Cortana from the systems on Requiem, before Chief got her back. 6. I have never seen a second slot or any other slot utilized on Chief's armor throughout the entire series. if you could pinpoint this for us, it would be helpfull. 7. Cortana does not talk to Chief directly per say. She utilizes the armor's own enviromental scanning tech to transfer HUD data to herslef. This is also how she is able to scan and recieve data about Chief's position, enemy movement etc... The hardlight thing...I can only assume that you are talking about the end where she actually materializes and touches Chief. That was due yes, to her manipulating the energy of the Hardlight Shield. But due to her excessive copying prior to that moment, she did not leave herself with a full "being" as you could say. At that moment, she was only a fraction of what she was, as she had to shed the excess to achieve the overcoming of the didact. 8. In order for Cortana to send herself to the Infinity, she would have to be physically plugged into the system via the chip, or have the Infinity initiate a transfer protocol. She simply can't just beam herslef anywhere she wants at any time. if that were the case, Chief would not need to insert her into the systems on Requiem. As for her clones at the end in relavence to this, she was communicating to those clones as she would chief. She had already sent her plan in motion and simply only needed to call out to them. remember, she doesn't have to make an actual sound. 9. In terms of real time, it is not as if the Earth defenses really had a couple hours to prepare for the Didacts arrival. Playing the campaign gives you a different feeling in terms of time elapsed. In real time according to the game, the Didact likely arrived, and Earth had about 20 minutes to respond. Not enough time to coordinate a defensive line. 10. The Didact was limited in his reach with Requiems systems. The Librarian likely did not and could not restrict simple protocols that were already in place. Further, the Librarian was not present on the Ark in Halo 3. What portal did you want them to change anyway? They never went through a portal. The Arbiter was not recovered on earth that i know of...? The half of the Dawn that Chief was on, simply got blown from the explosion and drifted to Requiem by coincidence. 11. The part about the Librarian is misconstrued. What she is trying to explain, is that she planted the seeds, but had no control over when and where they would emerge or come out. Same goes with the Covie and Flood. She very well could plant certain genetic markers and what not, but nothing she plants can effectively control ones destiny as in making enemies, over thousands of years of natural evolution. At this point, she is simply using Chief as a referrence, and could have used anyone of human decendance to enhance and mutate them...or whatever the hell she did to Chief. 12. Yes the Didact loves the mantle. Afterall it was handed down to, or should i say, forecfully removed from the Precursors to the Forerunners. That said, Humans were destined to take-up the mantle. Part of that, from the books, is preserving all life in the galaxy, but not at the expense of risking that very life in the process. By not using the Halo array, we effectively went against what the mantle stood for in the eyes of the Didact. Also, after the firing of the Halo array, a fleet of repopulating ships would have yet again, seeded the galaxy with another generation of life. that is what the rings were designed for in the first place, after removing all life. 13. The relationship between the Didact and the Librarian is simply put, as sad love story. she loved him and still does. And Didact loves her. Think about it...if your wife was evil, and say commited crimes, and you know you could simply kill her...would you be able to? If you have ever been married or in a very serious relationship...you know that this is something you would likely not be able to do. This is why she enhances Chief and basically sends him to do it. Can it be called weak...yes it can be. But saying it is, negates all her feelings or the bond they share for eternity. Love goes far beyond right and wrong, and can create situations where you cannot or won't do what is hard. As for your story, it simply does not retain any of the information gained from the novels, nor does it fit with what happened between Halo 3 and halo 4. The Covenant are disbanded entirely. All of the Sanghelli left, or at least on the arbiter's side, have to re-learn how to use and repair the technology they used for so long. The arbiter himslef is also still at this point in relation to halo 4, trying to reunite Sanghellos, and therefore would not be bothered to even try to track down MC, which would be impossible anyway, since he or anyone else on Sanghellos does not know where or what Requiem is. The particular Covenant branch we face is an old offshoot branch that has been in deep space since right before Reach. They simply sided with the Didact since he is Forerunner, something they worship. it is likely that the Covenant had communications with the Didact prior to Chiefs arrival. Why do you think the Covenant attack Chief? If they had been from the same branch and place where halo 3 and Reach took place, they would be well aware of what has happened. but they seem to only know and call Chief "Demon". Aside from that, they still have the same "kill" order on his head. That fact alone **** ahuge whole in your story. Aside from that, c'mon...Cortana would not be easily fooled about a cure for her Rampancy. She was unique..one of a kind. only one person knows enough about her and her creation to fix her. She wouldn't have been fooled...not even in a rampant state.

Yeah I see what happened. basically the xbox collects and stores all your data, and then syncs and updates your Waypoint profile to reflect your achievments. The dumb part is, unless those achievments or milestones are completed while connected to Live, it does not give you the credit for them. I feel your pain for that one my friend. It sucks about the router issue. If your open to it, I would be more than happy to try to help you with it. If you decide to accept the help, just shoot me a PM with info like router model, how many pc's or devices are in the house etc... I'll do my very best to help you out.

Thats just the thing Riseing, you didn't even clarify a point, nor have you backed up the point. The post was just all opinion, with nothing to showcase why your opinion formed the way it did. making statements like "It plays like CoD", without showing anything to back that up, just makes you sound like a whiner with no thought behind his reasoning. THAT was the point I made in my post. I even went so far as to explain how and why you may be possibly feeling the way you do in MM...but whatever. if you want to just come in here and ***** mindlessly, feel free to do so. And Dawn Wolf, well put my friend. Good to see we didn't gain yet another mindless, thoughtless member.

Fixed = No physics/collision move it. In previous games it was labeled as "Unmovable" in the tags. Fixed will make any object not respond to physics or collision...aka hitting and moving it with stuff. Phased = Means that you can just simply make it spawn or appear inside of other collidable objects. Because it is made to do so, any physic or collision responses don't move it. If it could recieve said collision or physics, it would be thrown out of the map, or take off like a rocket due to it recieving the collision response from the object it is phased into. Normal = Means that any physics or collision response the object has, simply operates at it's default settings. Not all objects are designed to be moved, and some of them may have had theat aspect removed. While yes I agree that it can be frustrating, I'm sure they did for a reason. Again though, they could have simply increased the mass of the object, requiring more force to move soemthing. Hopefully this helkps you understand what you were trying to point out a little better.

Bigger question is, why is Xbox Live not signing you in automatically? Anytime someone logs into their Xbox and loads up their profile, Live will sign you into the Live servers so it can sync your player data. So the big question is, why did you play offline in the first place? I'm suspecting there is something not 100% about your xbox....