Twinreaper

If your looking for help, I am all you will need. I am the greatest campaign player ever!!!! Well maybe not...but I am damn good at combating AI..more so than most people I know. Hit me up when I'm on and I will help you out.

Let's clear a few things up first. Your University Object oriented programming coarse doesn't equate to anything when it comes to understanding how the Blam!engine is layed out and how the tag relationships work. Yes basic Object orientation can be applied, but not as simply as you think, nor is it fundamentally sound or appropriate for all instances where objects can or should be grouped. Comparing the Blam! Forge mode to Farcry, which by the way is developed and published ona superior engine (Cryengine), is not a good comparison. Forge was never meant to be this great universal tool to allow avid wanna-be map makers (immitation SDK users) to create limitless things. Forge is simply a "memory based" editor for the scenario_file located inside a .map file. It's sole purpose is to allow you to assign certain objects to a certain coordinate or to change basic scenario file related floats for these items. Furthermore, the reason you have a limit to what you can use is two fold. 1. It prevents players from havign too many renderable objects on screen at one time, which can cause overloading or crashing of the map. 2. You are generally limited to a set amount of "chunks" pre-compiled into the map called "placements". These placements can be added to by means of modding, but was not meant to be expanded upon. Your Alpha, Bravo thing...wrong. They already have a dedicated group indentifier like that applied to the teleporters and other netgame flag items inside the globals tag. Second, they cannot just simply go into the [bloc], [scen] or [mach] tags and just add in an Enum32 field to apply a "group" identifier string. Adding any chunk to the tag will not only shift the tags meta data and raw data fields, but also force the developers to rewrite how the fields are decoded and interpreted by offset addresses. Remember, anytime you change something outside a float, the map would have to be re-compiled to ensure a proper offset listing for the engine to refer to for all tags and referrences. This is why we are not given the option to expand upon the palettes or other certain data fields within the Forge environment. Soem thigns we want or may need in the future, have to have a memory friendly, and RAM friendly way of doing it. And compiling maps will never happen so long as the Xbox remains a single process execution provider.

People who actually use the term N00b or Newb to describe someone who may or may not have mroe skill in certain situations or maps....is just lame. Just because someone is not "as" good as the next person does not make them a n00b. A true n00b or new player, would be just that. Please guys....

I hate to be the **** on this one, but you should have used common sense first and foremost. Despite what any hourly low wage glorified receptionist tells you.....you should have known better as a non-licenced authorized cleared entity to play it early. It's your fault you were stupid enough to not realize that you made a poor decision. Furthermore...you purposely went in looking to buy it early and now you want to cry foul because you think the blame is not to be layed on you at all?

Half pf you folks that say you never encounterss an aimbot wouldnt know if one was stansing right next to you. The whole purpose of an aimbot is to.go undetected. Even at an MLG problevel, if someone inba match has a higher accuracy than 70% for shots and a nearly.double digit heqdshot count.....it aint legit.

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You could say the same for Halo. every game featured a Covie vs Humananity approach adn they changed things up just as little as CoD did. CoD is not really a fantasy game as they tend to take a more "realistic" approach. You cannot deny that the CoD games have great storylines attached to them. MW beign a great example. The way they tied all 3 together with #3 was just fantastic. CoD is going to be around for quite some time. Do I see aliens gettign invloved....no. We have plenty of great human conflict here on our planet that could keep the CoD franchise spinning for decades to come. the only question to really ask is, "How will they adapt the multiplayer to meet the future needs of the newest generation of FPS gamers?"

More than likely you did not encounter an aimbot, but rather a modified set of maps. Aimbots require a modded console with a sideloading piece of code as you all know. The secondary method to cheating and giving the appearance of an aimbot, is to modify global and weapon data inside the map iteself. Since Reach depends on dedicated hosting being passed off to a player, it is possible to have a large group of friends each containing the same modified map. hence, when you go into play, and one of those chaps has a modified map, anyone with the shared modified data, will be prevy to it's effects, or anyone who is designated as such. To explain further...here you go. Map: Sword base. Mod: In the weapon tags, each weapon is modified to have an absolute magnatism range of the whole length of map. Anywhere the player looks towards an enemy, no matter how far away, the reticule will move in and seek that player. Next, they modify the magnetism ranges in the globals.global tag, to have an instant magnetic effect...in other words, it doesn't gravitate towards the player...it directly snaps to them. Next, they modify the firing error angles (bloom) to be an absolute of zero, and do this again in the globals.globals tag. This gives a player the presence of an aimbot, but is simply a map modification, nothing more. The effects are that of an aimbot but better since the player does not have a sideloading code that has to "seek" anything. Furthermore, because of the way the game is different than any other, you can actually specify in the globals, whom the effects pertain to based on team designation. So even if you had the map mod....you would have to be part of their team, to get the effects. Unfortunatly, Live only seeks out map size and not individual tag checking. Changing values in a mpa in what we call "float" fields, does not increase or decrease the map size. Live servers only check overall map size and map signature (check-sum) before declaring a legit map or not. In the end, I am sorry that my overly smart modding companions have caused such trouble in the game for you. not all us modders do this kind of thing, as generally we do it for research and to see how things work. I guess it is only a matter of time before ******-bags such as this ruins everyone fun....

Unfortunatly, bipeds are not anywhere near as easy to spawn as standard objects. In order to spawn dead bodies, you would have to spawn a character, either player or AI, and have a script force death on them in order to get them to be ragdoll items in the map. neither of which are included nor very easy to get working with the current Blam! engine or previous ones. It is quite possible that with halo 5, being on a new console and a completely new coded engine with much more capability...that we may see this in future Halo titles. I like the creative possabilities your idea seems to lean towards. For something like this, keep hounding them and spamming their main site with this type of idea...and I am sure they will see and read what people think about it, and hopefully conscider it. Good job mate!

Bashfull, you can keep the respect and words in general for someone who cares. I called Kayla out because she like the rest of the ignorant community has no mind or opinion of their own. every single response I usually see is a lemming cookie cutter post that mimics another, or is based on what some no-name member posted. People around here need to wake up and get their own sense of gaming know-how. Stop imitating people just because your too lazy to do your own research or form your own opinion. I'm sure Kayla is a wonderful young lady in the physical real world...but this is not that. This is a forum which divides us amongst the world over, and in no way provides us any real friendship. For the record, let her and anyone else who feels slighted by me, take me on one on one. I doubt very much she needs an advocate here to defend and help her. If she has a problem with me, she'll let me know. You guys wanna know how Twin really feels?!? I don't think anyone does.......

Lol, yeah objects don't have a "light" built in so to speak. Basically the shadows are standard shadows and shadering based on the skybox...which is already pre-built with various positions, lighting, etc.. already created. Many people seem to think that this new feature actually goes thru and re-lightmaps the entire map....which is false. it doesn't, which is why we can't create pitch dark rooms.

I'm I think, the third oldest member here, coming in at 34. The other two oldest would be Absolute Dog, who is about 79, and Spectral Jester whom I believe is 70? Just kidding guys, but yeah welcome man. Good to have some older guys on here. I smell a dad's or old guys gaming club forming here...

Actually calling it true "dynamic lighting" is not accurate. From what i have seen, I believe that every forge object has pre-rendered shadow occlusion built into the way the model is handled. This is why we need to wait until the map is reloaded with an updated light tag, in order to see our shadows. If it were true "dynamic lighting, we would see the shadows instantly. I may be wrong about this, but I cannot see how they would possibly change the core engine settings to be able to do this, all the while still having tag relationships and dependency's for [ligh] and [lens] tags for handling shadow casting. Guess we will have to wait to see. But then again, I now recall what they said about pitch dark rooms. If the lightmapping was re-mapping everything, then you would be able to make dark rooms. but since they specifically stated you can't....that means the lightmapping is not new or creating a new lightmap for the maps. It is simply just rendering shadows already baked in, based on sun direction and origin and when you place the object down.

Yes the likely hood of super-bouncing being in a remastered version is almost zero. To enlighten a few people, super-bouncing was an error with physics and collision detection during certain areas (portals) or a map structure. The game basically failed to detect that had hit the ground, and instead placed your collision position inside the floor. The resulting reaction from the engine was to force the player in the opposite direction to release the player from the ground, or whatever object he/she had been detected inside of. When the game is remastered, certain aspects will fail to work as we saw in CEA. where some glitches did not operate the same way. Since they would be remastering it to work with a newer engine that the Blam! v2 variant, it is only logical that the Havok code processing the collision and physics detection would be updated for maximum compatibility, rending certain glitches like super-bouncing, or ramming a player through a barrier useless.

Not sure if anyone else got his yet, but apparently they just started emailing the Didacts sysmbol out and at the bottom right of the image there is a symbol. If you click it you are taken to a cropped puzzle piece of a larger picture. Here is a link for the one i got.. http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/000000sec3op36516/c6a150bd-ebb5-4f6c-93cb-1c5ebe53bd1d.jpg?uid=15972079&tid=

Whether or not the Halo Series is destroyed is all opinion, and not one ounce of fact. The only measurement of how well the series will do is by looking back on the numbers once it has had enough time to be digested by the mass population. Halo is not becoming CoD nor is it mimicking it in any way. Halo is simply using techniques found in other games, and has improved and expanded upon them. This is normal in the game industry. If you wanted to be quite literal, you could so far as to say that every title is trying to be Quake, or Doom, etc... 343 is comprised of all employees whom share a great passion for the Halo Universe. From what I have seen from all the VidOC's and other videos posted, they are coming out of the gate with more passion and love than Bungie ever did. 343 is taking Halo to it's rightful place in terms of evolution and continuing the many untold stories that lie within the Halo Universe. There is more to Halo than just a battle between the Covenant and Humans. If the series were to mimic the books, we would likely have over 50 Halo titles, each telling a new portion of what is found in the Halo Universe. Killerdude and other like minded peeps....I really don't appreciate the "True fan" comments. I was a gamer long before you were all born, and followed the development of Halo long before it became a FPS. In terms of being a fan, I am an old old old school original. I feel as if 343 and Halo is taking the proper steps to become the dominant force in the FPS market. I have played, contributed and still contribute today, to the Halo franchise in terms of community content. So no, YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ANY FAN BUT YOURSELF!!!!

Correction, none of the weapons were hitscan. As I had previously stated, all the weapons had a defined speed, friction and gravity scale. True hitscan weapons do not need these as they have infinite velocity and are not effected by secondary constraints. Halo 3 had "bloom" as you call it. every Halo title has had it, only the degree of it at a certain range changes. It is only logical that the closer you are to a target, that the less spread you will see or come into contact with. The true test of how all the newest session of spread will play out, is only by playing it ourselves. Videos can show you many things, but they cannot give you the feeling or actual first person expereince.

Bullet spread always operates the same way regardless of title. The question you are more so asking is how much is there, and on what weapons. To answer that one, I would have to look at the data from the weapon tags to tell you that. Also, the weapons in Halo 2 were not "Hitscan". Hitscan means a weapon shoots a projectile with infinite velocity and range, and simultaniously hits it's target as it leaves the barrel. Halo 2 weapons had projectile speed defined and it varied from weapon to weapon. Recoil on the other hand is going to be an issue. They stated before that the BR in particular would have a "z axis" recoil similar to the SMG, but from the gameplay I have seen, it is either very small recoil, or they decided not to include it. Overall we really have to wait to play the game, and wait till we modders get a hold of the files and try to crack them open before you will know for sure.

47% comes from my personal interactions with playing Halo 1 and Halo CE for PC. At average I game with over 1,000 individual unique players a week. By my estimate, 47% of those I asked about Halo 3 and Reach stated that they didn't play either or don't have an xbox. that comes in at roughly 5k community PC members alone just in my gaming time that have not played. Hypothetically you could calculate that roughly 10k unique people a day play Halo at some point and have never played a title outside Halo 1 or Halo 2. 10k at $49.99 is a net sale of $499,999.00 just on that one interaction base alone. How many people around the world could you then estimate that don't play Halo 1 or 2 for PC, that have yet to play 3 or Reach? You could easily at best say in the millions. The potential target audience is wide enough that if the development cost was split between 2 studios, it would generate into a massive gain. Let's not forget also the countless numbers of Halo 3 and reach players, that would undoubtedly pick it up for PC anyway just because they could. And Kayla, please don't try to pass off a lame excuse like modding and hacking as a reason why it would not work. You need to get your facts straight and eat your Wheaties before you try to take me on in this type of technical / Corporate product aspect.

Cost > Profit is not accurate. The compiled format in which the game is spit out by tool.exe is derived and processed on the PC platform. Therefore making it automatically compatible with the DirectX codebase for whatever target platform they want. The real time and issue comes from making it open ended via a HEK (Halo editing Kit). This is where the time and resources come in mostly. To make it a full HEK every bit of the game has to be decompiled and interchanged to a standard format capable of being reproduced by an installed consumer version of the tool-set. By my estimate it would take no longer than 6.5 months to completely recompile the entire source and have it ready for tool usage. Add maybe an additional 4 months for secondary items like networking, Live etc... The total cost in man hours would roughly come to $1,512,000.00 Now that is assuming they use the max needed team of about 42 employees for a full year at industry standard pay. It could be far less depending on the contract with a secondary studio or less team members. But the cost does not outway the profit on that one. Even though Halo 3 sold a lot of copies in it's time, there is roughly still about 47% of the PC gaming population that has not played anything past Halo 2.

Downloading additional SpartanOps missions as they are released is a fine idea. What IS NOT a fine idea, is Microsoft yet again, forcing anyone who wished to play Halo 4 outside the campaign...to HAVE TO BUY LIVE. I'm not a big fan of companies forcing me to pay for a service that I DON'T need. Spartan Ops can be played standalone or co-op locally on the Xbox, so why should I have to pay for Live, if I DON'T NEED or WANT IT?!?