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Isn't it ironic that grenades are actually scarce in this game? Seriously though, Grenades are a legitimate tool of destruction. I use them to put dents in teams or make people 1 shot in 1v1. I doubt you will see a change in this.

Because that is what drives success, even in the real world, let alone barely-competitive Halo 4. It is what drives our economy and our businesses and is the basis for free-market capitalism. It keeps corporations that are smart and can adapt ahead of the game and individuals that can fight for what they want the will to elevate themselves in the social heiarchy. That is why people are competitive and if you are not, sooner or later somebody who is will smash you into the ground like a little bug on the way to THEIR goals and ambitions. Wanna know why they will succeed? Because they have a competitive drive and you don't. So if you must, society is by nature highly competitive and games like Halo should follow suit if they have a decent model to work with. The point of multiplayer is to be better than your opponent and win. That is why ranked playlists were initially introduced--to facilitate this innate drive within a good amount of Halo players. You can play Halo casually and that is fine and you are entitled to play how you want, but know that the heart of the game is the competition and being better.

Very simple yet profound question with many moral and philosophical consequences. Just toy around with the idea, like if you lived in a universe where there was definitely a force permeating everything and there were good parts and bad parts to it and you could tap into it for your own ends.

As long as you can hang up that BoltShot, buddy.

I am a bigger fan of Jedi robes. Cool costumes though.

I like metal. Slaying on Halo to everything from A7X to Necrophagist, from Metallica to The Black Dahlia Murder. I like metal. Slaying on Halo to everything from A7X to Necrophagist, from Metallica to The Black Dahlia Murder. Oh, I like some dubstep too.

When I think of a social playlist I tend of this of this: All joking around aside though, I agree that there should definitely be separate Ranked and Social playlists. It also has the benefit of easing the friction between casuals and Competitives.

Yeah. I was playing with this guy who was very vocal on his mic on Adrift Infinity Slayer. He kept telling us to camp on one corner and hold it down like a fort. Well, it didn't work out so well and we got raided twice and went down by 8 kills. Then THEY started to camp and tried running the clock. So we went into the center and drew a couple out from the top tunnels. They died and I guess it was like kicking a hornets nest, cuz they call came out after that full force and a minute and a half left into the game. They made a lot of stupid mistakes an we ended up tieing. ...But that isn't the best part. After the match they sent my cousin a voice message saying, "only females camp", and another guy (these dudes were like all together on a team) sent me a text saying, "You are such a high level and you camp.... That is sad". I tend to believe they were just butthurt cuz we tied. BTW, that was my first and only tie.

I just went +49 on my first ever game of Griffball, with a Rampage, two overkills, and I am getting up my Energy Sword/Hammer commendations How is this not a boosting playlist?

DMR should definitely be a pickup weapon. I just don't see a reason for it not to be.!If you want a DMR, learn where it spawns and fight for it like people do for the sticky detonator or sniper. It would be cool if they allowed custom skins on the BR and magnum if you have them unlocked.

What about the Radar? God help me if Radar is on. If it is it should at least be dropped to 25m. And is it BR start or will there be a choice between BR and DMR like on some of the competitive settings being played? If so, why would anyone pick a BR over a DMR besides tryhards looking for bragging rights? All these questionsnand no answers.

They'll fix their mistakes alright. Then they will sell it to you for $60+ under the name Halo 5. That is how it will happen. It will be the reason Halo 5 will probably be a very good game but in the meantime we're stuck playing unfinished Halostein.

The last few games I have played there has almost always been at least one guy that used the BoltShot as their primary. They would even go so far as to blazingly charge at you out in the open corners on adrift knowing full well they would be 5-shot and dropped.

This shows there are still people out there that believe in the idea of being a pro in Halo. They attend leagues such as AGL as a way to get exposure and validity (and money) even if it isn't on a big of stage as MLG. Halo can still be competitive as long as there are people out there willing to make it so, so it boils down to that.

You gotta light a fire under a company's *** sometimes.

If the Needler is OP then we may as well say all ordinance is OP. I don't ever get a Needler in my ordinance and go, "Oh, a Needler! Now my enemies will rue the day they crossed my path! MWAHAHAHAHA!" BTW, I know you said "possibly".

Well I suppose we could just cross our fingers and hope Xbox survives and thrives in the next generation. I will admit I am a bit ignorant on Xbox 360's falling out of favor. I didn't know it was that bad or why it is happening, as a matter of fact. For one such as I, I can only speculate that people are just spending more time away from games? I don't think it would be because Xbox is failing and everyone is going out and buying PS3's, but then again I don't know the numbers and statistics. Do you have an idea as to why the system is failing? I'd like to hear it as you're a pretty knowledgeable guy on these forums.

Listen, if Xbox is dying I doubt I would keep up with video games much anymore. I barely caught up with this generation. I was huge on the original Xbox but my family never really had money so I was really late, and I mean really late to the XBox 360 party. Halo 3 and Halo 4 are really the only two games I have played extensively on the 360, and that isn't even really much by anyone's standards. That being said, I don't see myself doing too much gaming on the new generation of Xboxs or systems in general. I just don't have it in me to keep up with it anymore. And when I hear news about how the next generation won't be nearly as impressive as this generation was years ago... well, those kinds of statements only discourage me further.

Sprinting is great when you are not running out into the open like a madman. You make great DMR practice for many a marksman.

Now that I have thought about it a little I have come to realize Halo 4 is just the logical progression of the series and the genre in general. 343i just didn't sit down in their board meetings and say: "Alright guys. This will be a no-brainer money maker. We are gonna make Halo 4, alright guys... But get this... It will be exactly like Halo 3. We'll just give them a new campaign and some toys to play with in multiplayer and call it a day." I mean, I am sure the thought wasn't passed around the offices a little to cheap out and take the easy way and make just another Halo. That would have been the easy thing to do but I don't think it would have sit right with a lot of people, and I don't think we can say for sure that a more Halo 3-like Halo 4 would be as commercially appealing as it was years ago. The environment is different nowadays, the same tactics don't always work. That is how we ended up with this Frankensetin of a Halo game that seems to be a poorly patched up Halo 3 borrowing elements from other shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield. There is a learning curve and I imagine Halo 4 will go down as this company's rough draft, with a better version yet to come. They took a chance with this Halo and it sort of blew up in their face. This company was obviously not ready to release this product when they did, that is for sure. However, you have to give them a little credit for trying to take a chance and bring something new to the game. While a lot of things could have been done differently, or not at all, I know someone up there is like, "Well we can't just keep giving them the same Halo". Granted, they unnecessarily stuffed it with features that saturate the FPS genre, I think they know they screwed up. I think the population numbers will speak for themselves. Halo 5 will probably be this generation's Halo 2. Call it wishful thinking but I put enough faith in them to learn from their mistakes and not do any more damage to the series than has already been done. If I am wrong than this game will just fail, but If I am right than it may be possible that we have yet to play the best Halo and that Halo's best times are not behind it.

That is quite a chain of effect.

I have been busier than I thought I would be this weekend. Anyone got some highlights from the event so far?

Yeah, and I am sure 343 isn't going to dip into their profits just to please us. They are saving all those bucks and man-hours for Halo 5.

I find those Kamikaze Plasma Nade rushers to be annoying. Like, I kill someone on Haven and they spawn behind and rush me with the sole purpose if trying to stick me. They fail like 8/10 times too. But you better believe when they do get me it is frustrating.

How do you troll Haven?