Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo:Reach For PC

Halo 3 for PC over Reach any day. I'd love to have a PC community like Halo 2's for Halo 3 any day.

  • 10.17.2011 5:35 AM PDT

Halo Reach PC über alles!


Posted by: awinnik1
wait... why do we care? i'm not sure about you guys, but i only play reach for the chicks.


Well, you play for chicks, we play for kicks.

  • 10.17.2011 4:18 PM PDT

Halo 3


Posted by: TH3 RICH3R BR0
Halo 3 for PC over Reach any day. I'd love to have a PC community like Halo 2's for Halo 3 any day.


Halo 3's multiplayer.
<3
....but I think it'd suffer the same as Halo 2 if it were to be servers and not matchmaking.

  • 10.17.2011 8:12 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Ben2974
....but I think it'd suffer the same as Halo 2 if it were to be servers and not matchmaking.

Ben's logic to making a PC game: Make it less like a PC game.

  • 10.17.2011 8:25 PM PDT

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Yeah, CE survives simply because it's not matchmaking.

PC games usually have user hosts, and anyways, it's way better to be able to find a good match without matchmaking.

The only real problem is ranks, which the stupid porters never put in h2v.

Well, and now microsoft has learned about silly server restrictions for silver members, maybe they could pull off a legitimately good game.

Hey, has anyone else noticed microsoft doesn't sell h2v online, but there's a page for it?

  • 10.18.2011 7:50 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Posted by: I RaveN I
Hey, has anyone else noticed microsoft doesn't sell h2v online, but there's a page for it?

And even though there has not been a patch released in nearly 4 years (which the game desperately needs) MS states that they still support Halo 2 Vista?

  • 10.18.2011 7:57 PM PDT


Posted by: Super PolarBear
Posted by: I RaveN I
Hey, has anyone else noticed microsoft doesn't sell h2v online, but there's a page for it?

And even though there has not been a patch released in nearly 4 years (which the game desperately needs) MS states that they still support Halo 2 Vista?


that's right guys, only one more year of support! lol

  • 10.18.2011 8:50 PM PDT

Halo 3


Posted by: I RaveN I
Yeah, CE survives simply because it's not matchmaking.

PC games usually have user hosts, and anyways, it's way better to be able to find a good match without matchmaking.

The only real problem is ranks, which the stupid porters never put in h2v.


How so? Matchmaking is straightforward, organized, and fun. Plus we get ranked like you said. In servers you never know exactly what you're going to get (mods, weird game types, etc) and teams are almost always skewed.

  • 10.18.2011 8:59 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Ben2974
How so? Matchmaking is straightforward, organized, and fun. Plus we get ranked like you said. In servers you never know exactly what you're going to get (mods, weird game types, etc) and teams are almost always skewed.

Please, PLEASE go back to your consoles and stop trying to pollute PC gaming with terrible ideas.

Dedicated servers works for PC gaming. Matchmaking doesn't. That's just the way it is.

  • 10.18.2011 11:50 PM PDT


Posted by: Ben2974

Posted by: I RaveN I
Yeah, CE survives simply because it's not matchmaking.

PC games usually have user hosts, and anyways, it's way better to be able to find a good match without matchmaking.

The only real problem is ranks, which the stupid porters never put in h2v.


How so? Matchmaking is straightforward, organized, and fun. Plus we get ranked like you said. In servers you never know exactly what you're going to get (mods, weird game types, etc) and teams are almost always skewed.


I'm going to have to agree with Dusk here. This is a terrible idea.

  • 10.19.2011 4:02 AM PDT

Halo 3


Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Ben2974
How so? Matchmaking is straightforward, organized, and fun. Plus we get ranked like you said. In servers you never know exactly what you're going to get (mods, weird game types, etc) and teams are almost always skewed.

Please, PLEASE go back to your consoles and stop trying to pollute PC gaming with terrible ideas.

Dedicated servers works for PC gaming. Matchmaking doesn't. That's just the way it is.


Well I've never played any cod games for the pc, so i guess i'm a little ignorant with the outcomes n' stuff. Servers are best, in my opinion, for customs and nothing official (as my experience tells me with Halo1, H2, BF2, and TF2)

  • 10.19.2011 7:13 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Ben2974
Well I've never played any cod games for the pc, so i guess i'm a little ignorant with the outcomes n' stuff. Servers are best, in my opinion, for customs and nothing official (as my experience tells me with Halo1, H2, BF2, and TF2)

Your experience in PC gaming must be next to nothing. You really need to stop throwing console terms like "customs" into your arguments if you want to come off as a PC gamer. "Servers are good for nothing official," as if CAL/CPL matches were never held on dedis?

PC gaming is clearly another thing you don't know anything about, so it might be a good idea for you to just leave the conversation to those of us that do.

  • 10.19.2011 9:15 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


Posted by: Ben2974

Posted by: I RaveN I
Yeah, CE survives simply because it's not matchmaking.

PC games usually have user hosts, and anyways, it's way better to be able to find a good match without matchmaking.

The only real problem is ranks, which the stupid porters never put in h2v.


How so? Matchmaking is straightforward, organized, and fun. Plus we get ranked like you said. In servers you never know exactly what you're going to get (mods, weird game types, etc) and teams are almost always skewed.


It also means the game will die out faster.

  • 10.19.2011 10:32 AM PDT

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Im a Bungie veteran. I have and always will serve them well.


Posted by: joe campbell
Halo 3 PC hasn't even came out yet, Halo Reach PC won't come out for years, that is if it ever comes out.


This is true. If they have not even come out with Halo 3, I doubt they would come out with Reach before H3. Plus if they did, you have to worry about the possibility that the game will end up how Halo 2 on Vista did. Meaning how it sort of died off I guess.

  • 10.19.2011 11:22 AM PDT

i've always hated matchmaking, but for those people who can't bear to click on a server, how about a "random" button in the corner that finds a server with a good amount of people and throws you in?

  • 10.19.2011 12:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: awinnik1
i've always hated matchmaking, but for those people who can't bear to click on a server, how about a "random" button in the corner that finds a server with a good amount of people and throws you in?
Quickmatch=/=Matchmaking. Matchmaking is where you go into a certain playlist/whatever categories the game has, it finds the most desirable players according ping/etc, and one person hosts the match. Quickmatch takes a few filters from you and slaps you into a random game.

Matchmaking is for more than just being lazy and not feeling like searching for a match.

[Edited on 10.19.2011 12:49 PM PDT]

  • 10.19.2011 12:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: awinnik1
i've always hated matchmaking, but for those people who can't bear to click on a server, how about a "random" button in the corner that finds a server with a good amount of people and throws you in?
Quickmatch=/=Matchmaking. Matchmaking is where you go into a certain playlist/whatever categories the game has, it finds the most desirable players according ping/etc, and one person hosts the match. Quickmatch takes a few filters from you and slaps you into a random game.

Matchmaking is for more than just being lazy and not feeling like searching for a match.


i don't know, it's a game... i like to play with the same group of friends a lot, keeps it fun for me. i don't really like the nameless faceless people in matchmaking, so i wouldn't know what people who DO like matchmaking would want.

  • 10.19.2011 12:55 PM PDT

Halo 3

I cannot recognize as to why Servers > Matchmaking. Oh well.

  • 10.19.2011 3:20 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Posted by: Ben2974
I cannot recognize as to why Servers > Matchmaking. Oh well.

Dedicated Servers >>> P2P Connection.

I wish he had dedi's for the box, but instead we have to play on bad host all the time. Unless I pull host =)

  • 10.19.2011 7:05 PM PDT

Halo 3

Well lag is like 95% free when I play(ed) Halo 3. . . and on PC game servers I do find myself lag every now and then.
lmao

  • 10.19.2011 7:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: awinnik1

Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: awinnik1
i've always hated matchmaking, but for those people who can't bear to click on a server, how about a "random" button in the corner that finds a server with a good amount of people and throws you in?
Quickmatch=/=Matchmaking. Matchmaking is where you go into a certain playlist/whatever categories the game has, it finds the most desirable players according ping/etc, and one person hosts the match. Quickmatch takes a few filters from you and slaps you into a random game.

Matchmaking is for more than just being lazy and not feeling like searching for a match.


i don't know, it's a game... i like to play with the same group of friends a lot, keeps it fun for me. i don't really like the nameless faceless people in matchmaking, so i wouldn't know what people who DO like matchmaking would want.
If you want to play with friends you put them in your party. You don't have to go it alone.

Posted by: Ben2974
Well lag is like 95% free when I play(ed) Halo 3. . . and on PC game servers I do find myself lag every now and then.
lmao
Two different netcodes. That's a bad comparison.

[Edited on 10.19.2011 7:36 PM PDT]

  • 10.19.2011 7:35 PM PDT

Halo 3

So PC doesn't handle matchmaking well because of that? Meaning that PCs are, for the most part, forced to have servers?

  • 10.19.2011 8:09 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Matchmaking is an attempt to make P2P suck less, nothing more. It's an attempt to make P2P a viable platform against dedicated servers, and it fails miserably. Nothing beats a dedi for FPS gaming. If you don't know this yet, you haven't done enough PC gaming.

Protip for your "y do i lag in pc games hurr durr" problem: Sort your server lists by ping and choose something below 50.

  • 10.20.2011 1:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: DusK
Matchmaking is an attempt to make P2P suck less, nothing more. It's an attempt to make P2P a viable platform against dedicated servers, and it fails miserably. Nothing beats a dedi for FPS gaming. If you don't know this yet, you haven't done enough PC gaming.

Protip for your "y do i lag in pc games hurr durr" problem: Sort your server lists by ping and choose something below 50.
Much better way of putting it. Very blunt, but that's what you're best at.

Posted by: Ben2974
So PC doesn't handle matchmaking well because of that? Meaning that PCs are, for the most part, forced to have servers?
You've got it backwards. PCs are never too weak to do something a console can do. Consoles are often too weak for things PCs can do. PCs are easily capable of Matchmaking, it's just that we have dedicated servers and server lists. PC gamers don't ask for Matchmaking most of the time. I believe Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PC is going to have Matchmaking, but I know I'm not going to be using it instead of server lists.

[Edited on 10.20.2011 5:33 AM PDT]

  • 10.20.2011 5:31 AM PDT

Halo 3

So then back to my first question: Why prefer Servers over Matchmaking? What do PC gamers (i'm clearly not a true PC fps gamer) praise?

  • 10.20.2011 12:41 PM PDT