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Maestro

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  1. Male Yellow Circular Beast Capable of Eating Endlessly
  2. Vancouver Island is awesome, just thought you should know.

  3. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    1. Delpen9
    2. Sadly Just AL

      Sadly Just AL

      Yeah, Nose is right!

    3. I_Make_Big_Boom

      I_Make_Big_Boom

      He noes that I noes that he noes that I am right.

  4. Let's see if Halo will work today, or if it'll be lag-tacular again!

  5. "No, I don't play video games. But since it has been more than eight hours of driving, we're actually approaching Portland now. I figure we'll be in Anchorage to see what happened to that plane in two or three days."
  6. I'd like to see a PC spin-off of Halo Wars. Given the diversity of vehicles and races in the Halo universe, the potential for a very fun Halo RTS game is huge, especially with the Prometheans recently entering the fray. Add some gametypes from the FPS Halo games, like King of the Hill or Infection, and a forge mode to create your own maps, and PRESTO! You have a Halo Wars game to make the rest of the franchise proud. One major problem with a lot of console RTS games would be the controls; nothing matches the precision of having a mouse to tell your units where to go, what to attack, and where to build. Instead of having to open a little sub-menu and navigating through it with the d-pad or right joystick or something even more awkward, you can just click a button on a menu off to the side of the screen to prepare units and buildings. One aspect of Halo Wars that needs to be scrapped is the fixed base component of the game. The lack of freedom of determining where your barracks or where your research lab go limits the potential to utilize the geography to your advantage. In Command and Conquer, I loved setting up Sensor Arrays and Obelisks of Light on the high ground to obliterate those stupid AI controlled Stealth Tanks or blast those vile Disruptors to bits as soon as they attempt to enter my base. I'd build a bunch of SAM sites in the little gaps between buildings and cliffs so none of those wretched Orca Bombers could even touch me. You can't do anything like that in Halo Wars. Each of the skirmish maps are unique in their own right and have all sorts of terrain to fight on, from Flood-infested flatland to maze-like Forerunner structures. But instead of using that terrain to your advantage, you just build stuff in your designated building spots, then set up your turrets and spam units. You can't set up a decent defense so that your base is able to defend itself while you go pillage other players' bases. To get a decent base defense, you need units. But then you can't deploy a lot of units to fight other players. This is the second annoying aspect of Halo Wars: the population cap. It was too low to make a decent-sized army of anything aside from marines or hordes of Covenant cannon fodder. I would utilize an alternate structure for population cap, such as having x amount of infantry squads, y amount of ground vehicles, z amount of aircraft, and n number of super units. Having all types of units share the same population pool severely limited the player's forces. Why buy a Scarab when you could have six Wraiths and two population points to spare? Finally, I'd like to see multiple campaigns. The option is there in other RTS games. You can play as GDI, Nod, or Scrin in Command and Conquer, each with their own objectives and motives. If I want to be a prophet hellbent on humanity's demise, I'd like to see a campaign sculpted around that! The potential is there for an awesome Halo RTS game, given the lore and the different environments in the Halo universe. But, it needs a lot of work before it can be a great game. TL;DR version: another RTS spin-off please
  7. Gather around, men and women of congress, it is time to assemble yet again to sculpt the very future of the forums! Today's topic: Should ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) be censored in a similar fashion to those silly baby horses that are magical or something?
  8. Law Enforcement Officials Determining How a Person Got Killed in Public: Large Metropolitan Area in Southwestern California (CSI: Los Angeles)
  9. "The first leg of the trip will be from Tucson to Las Vegas. The bus can only go at 45 American generic distance units per hour, also known as miles, and it will take exactly eight hours. There will be nothing to look at and no signs of civilization between here and there. Also I'll have to steer the bus to the left occasionally, as it drifts to the right." (This is a reference to a game called Desert Bus, FYI)
  10. "Never mind worrying about people hopping the fence, why are your legs on backwards, your arms in a permanent wing like position, and why do you have feet where your hands should be?"
  11. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    1. Sadly Just AL

      Sadly Just AL

      I can't load the nose...

    2. Delpen9
  12. It was only a matter of time until this bomb went off. Way to go! #RedneckSelection
  13. Here's how you post links to anything in your file share: 1. Go to Halo Waypoint on your computer and sign in. 2. Hover the cursor over the Career tab and click File Share. 3. Choose whatever category of file you want to share (screenshots, map variants, etc.), then click on the file. 4. Copy the URL in the address bar, then open a new tab and paste it. It will lead directly to the file with a different link. 5. Post the new link in a thread or make a new thread. I'd recommend making a new thread devoted to your map, or if you forge a lot, make a thread devoted to all of your maps. It's strongly encouraged that you post screenshots too! 6. ????? 7. PROFIT
  14. Have it return as equipment, just like it was in Halo 3. But add that animation from the Halo 3 trailer, and it would be amazing. It was perfect just the way it was. It protects you from fire; yet, if someone chucks a couple grenades in there, you're pretty much doomed. Destroy the generator, and the whole thing goes down. If the Halo 3 incarnation of the Bubble Shield returns, I will be a very happy guy. If the Halo Reach incarnation returns, I won't be so happy. In Reach, it always felt rather weak against enemy fire and it was clunky to use. By the time you go to deploy it to save yourself from a Wraith mortar or a rocket, chances are you get hit before you get the shield up. It was awkward to get the timing just right, and most of the time it goes down on just a couple hits. Then again, I suppose Armour Lock is the ability that's supposed to save your hide from explosives.
  15. Circle 3: Military Guys Falling from Space
  16. I have this urge to play Halo 3 co-op on Legendary. Who's in?

  17. I think I'll make a Q&A thread. I'll call it: "Ask Someone"

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    2. Sadly Just AL

      Sadly Just AL

      Tis Maestro, he's the one being asked. :]

    3. Yoshi1176

      Yoshi1176

      You get a Q and A thread, you get a Q and A thread, everyone gets a Q and A thread!

    4. Helix Amell

      Helix Amell

      That's the spirit Maestro.

  18. Somebody once told me that Mythic's gonna own me, I ain't the sharpest sword in the shed...

  19. So... third ending of Tangents is nearly finished. Only 20 more to go!

  20. Matter Influence 3: Beginning at Soot
  21. The latest hit Pixar movie: Cold
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