Twinreaper

Actually iPro that is completely false. Halo 2 could be an arcade game very easily. In order for Halo 2 to become an arcade game, they would have to write a brand new emulator to be compatable with the current dashboard and library of the code base. The only thing that would be missing from the arcade title, would be the matchmaking. Matchmaking would require the studio to update or re-write the netcode to be compatable with current version of Live. The whole reason Halo 2 was taken down to begin with was because fo the nagging time and resources it took to update the emulation and to keep it's netcode compatable with the evolution of the Live platform. Once it became no longer possible to keep every title supported in terms of direction and progress, 1st generation xbox titles had to be removed. The only reason Halo 2 pc still works is because the version of Live in use, is designated and designed to provide only a shell form of friend contacts and direction for your gamertag. In no way shape or form does Live direct, control or directly utilize the halo 2 resources.

There in lies the problem Biggles. Even if we do see more solid footage, you cannot be 100% guaranteed that what you see in the vid, is how it will feel or atually play out. In the past, the only proper way to guage a game is to play a Beta, or tweak a current game to match what you see on the vid and hope it is close enough for you to play it and get a general feel. If I can get a hold of any map content period in any form, I will solemnly swear to post up my decompiling findings about tags and settings, and hope that thru that, I can explain how and when things will happen. But all that aside, everyone needs to relax a bit. Everyone is entitles to his/her opinion about and based upon, what information we have seen thus far. Not everyone is going to respond well to it, and by judging them and bashing them, we become no better than the next guy in line talking about the subject.

Final Fantasy VII. Member below me, What is your favorite instrument?

Nope...although the reaper does livith in the shadows.... Next up....Donut?

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First off, it depends on the gametype you were playing. If you want me to kindly and properly explain why you spawned where you did, I need more info then just OMG-I-FINZ-SPWND-RPAD-BY-GYZ-4-TIMZ!!!!! I need to know exact details.... what team game was it? What was the score? What section did you respawn in? All these things matter.

True that Azaxx. When I talk about making a living... I mean living completely independent of your parents or roommates etccc. Im not talkinv about college kids. Secondly, I know exactly how the devs tbink and I was around before the Halo community really took off. Forge? Please. Im a true map maker and programmer. Ive made more.commjnity content above Bungie grade than you could possibly dream. Anyone who sees the future of the Halo franchise as going the same old tired route of Halo 2 and 3 are either too blinded by previous heydays, or are afraid of change. If these people who make a livinv are true to their MLG fame....in terms of skill, then their "skill" should show across all titles...not one single title in particular. To me, tbat shows no true range of skill. A one bit wonder if you will.

I don't see what the big issue is. Even if the information were true, so what? It's a game and it evolves like everything else. And no offense, but show me one single person who lives off of solely playing Halo for a living outside the owners of MLG. MLG is a hobby "sport" that you "can" make some money from. Leading people to believe that players solely play and make money to live from MLG games is very misleading. Even the top players or tourney winners have to rely on a steady normal job to support themselves. All that aside, if Halo had evolved the way it should have, it would be the Infinity Ward or Crytek guys copying off of us now. If you wanna blame someone for holding the franchise back from evolving quicker than it should have, look no further than the fractured community. BTW, Hey ShockGasm...can you believe this is going to be the last season of Bleach?!?! Like wtf man?!? Ichigo just gets his Spiritual Pressure back adn now it's the last season?!?

Referring to me are we?

Rest assured modding via jtags and mod chips is quite alive and well over XBL. There is little that can be done aince banning is done via console ID....and modded boxes can have replacemwnt ID's written to them.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it wont happen. The amount of data for.the player base just from Halo is likely in the hundreds of terabytes. Think of all the profiles people have created over the five years alone just for Halo 3. Neither Microsoft nor 343i will want to now house, maintain and provide new data protocols for this amount of information. You have to look at it from both a companies fiscal and gamers perspective. It is not financially beneficial nor beneficial to the community to waste resources and development time into this. I know it may seem wrong, but there comes a time in every titles life, that you just need to.wipe the slate clean and go on. Halo is no.exception and as previously stated, this is simply the begining. Excluding titles prior to Reach is a move to ensure proper storage, dispersal and collecting of newer title data. Halo 3 servers will shut down once Hali 4 is released and transition of newer services goes into effect. It is just the way of the beast I am afraid.

Spawn placement is not an easy subject matter. The spawn zones, individual spawn flags, respawn zones and so forth are a lot more tricky than just dropping them down and that's it. While yes, some spawn locations or zones may not work for every gametype, but there is not a whole lot that can be done about it. There is a limited amount of netgame flags that they can use to designate spawns and zones. Some maps just don't have a well enough layout to give you a 100% guaranteed working spawn placement. If you think that for one minute spawn placing is easy, you are dead wrong. Spawn dropping in Forge is completely different than in the sandbox in which it is done before final map compiling. Instead of calling people and developers names, why not simply send 343 a nice e-mail message outlining the issue areas kindly, and give them some positive direction to work towards? Noone is going to take you seriously if all you do is curse and put things down.

Veteran, please do not insult Mystic like that. She is no longer her to defend herself, and myself and the rest of the staff included will not tolerate it. Please be more careful and respectful. Thanks.

Yeah I got the BXR and Double shot confused. my bad. It's still cheap tricks that don't require any skill. When we talk about skill in games, we refer to ones ability to aim and out maneuver the opponent by means of proper weapon usage and environment....not some lame 3 button combo. BXR was a no-skill technique. With settings on high, all you had to do was run at someone and pull the BXR...and they were dead. No big out moving or out thinking the opponent...just a simple 3 button combo with little to no aiming and they died. Double shooting and quad shooting are in the same ball park. Halo 2 for PC sees this way to often. Players will run around with their keyboard or mice setup to do double shooting, quad shooting and BXR, by means of button programming. Your really gonna tell me that it is skill, and not some lame trick? As for Bungie...there is nothing they could do to patch this glitch. Halo 2 did not support host/client script syncing so they could not update anything via script. <------- (the way they do it Reach via Megalo). I was always under the impression that MLG did not allow BXR or superbounces and conscidered them cheating. I will have to confirm this with someone I work with who used to play the MLG circuit in Halo 2. And yes, I was and still am good at H2. I out BR most double shooting and quad shooting players.

It's your ports. You have to have very specific ports opened manually thru your firewalls. Both Windows and router ones. If you have halo 1 PC installed also, you will have to dedicate the halo 1 ports to halo 2, and change the ports Halo 1 uses when you launch it. I know it's very confusing and a pain, but well worth it once you get it setup right.

Great times guys. Today was a total blast. We really had everyone going. I just wish I had signed on earlier and shouted about he totally bogus way we took over. Almost had Theorix, Caboose and a few others ready to leave! lmao!!! great fun! Praise to be Twam :unworthy: On a side note, any chance we could get a mod to post up some screen caps from the shoutbox.....just to show everyone in case they missed it?

The BxR combo does not show more skill. I can hands down rape pretty much anyone with a BR standard in halo 2. The only time I lose is when someone finally hates me enough to use the BxR to take me out. And even then, using the BxR almost always results in me killing them anyway, or they almost die and kill me. BxR takes no degree of skill. You still have to aim and pull the trigger, and using BxR does not increase amount of time needed to align a shot or properly aim or track your target. All the BxR simply does is give you a double burst shot instead of one. BxR is an exploit and has no grounds of being implemented into a title on purpose.

I am still confused as to why everyone still says Reach is the biggest "bloom" noticing title. That honor still remains to halo 1 and the magnum. The spread on that thing is still wildly greater than any weapon in any other title...yet is still regarded as the best MM. ZB is not native to any Halo title. Anyway on to the point, you guys really need to more carefully choose your words. By stating ZB needs to be in Halo 4 alone, makes it sound as if you want "only" ZB in it, and not a system in which Halo 4 can thrive and support the various sub-cultures within the community. While yes, ZB should be available, you should all re-word it to support the "option" of having ZB as a default or changeable range of gameplay changing features.

I definatly think that the destroyed rings were indeed reproduced by the Ark, wether it's the Greater or Lesser one...who knows. We know the Lesser Ark resides just outside our galaxy...like just outside, like literally probably just miles. And it was the Lesser Ark that reproduced Alpha Halo, in which we used to destroy the flood and damage the Lesser ark during Halo 3. Makes you wonder how many other Ark's or Rings there are in what ever many galaxies there are in the universe doesn't it?

I'm not signing nothing...NOONE CAN TAKE AWAY MY POWER NOW!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA

The Installations after 7 are a tricky subject. We know that 8-12 were destroyed prior to being sent to their resting destinations. We also know that the Ark (lesser) reproduces destroyed Rings in our galaxy. In Glasslands, Prone to.Drift tells Kelly that the Ark is outside of our galaxy, and when she asks about the rings, they say eludingly...that there are many in "this" galaxy. This would lead us to believe that there is a greater ark and other rings in other galaxies. Also...if rings 8-12 were deatroyed, by default, an Ark would have reconstructed them and sent them to their predesignated destinations. Installation 10 may very well be alive and running somewhere.

Yeah Parangosky is a snive old.***** aint.she. I hope.Chief meets her face to.face one day and.cracks.her neck.