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Subject: How active is Halo 2 on PC?I

I was considering getting Halo 2 on PC lately because I could get it fairly cheap and it's still my favorite multiplayer version of the halo series. Though, I was wondering after about 3 years, how active is the community still on PC? Can you find games easily or does it take forever?

  • 10.22.2010 2:12 PM PDT
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Its pretty active. Not millions of players on it, but the players that do get on it (Such as myself) are on basically all the time. I always find a good match when I am on, so, in my opinion, it was a great buy.

  • 10.22.2010 2:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

No it is not pretty active. There are very few people who play it, and the community isn't going to grow only decline at this point. You are basically talking less than 200 players, probably more like 75 online at once. Halo PC is "dying" has still has several hundred online at once.

  • 10.22.2010 2:37 PM PDT
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Its still active enough to where you can get on and have a good match at any time of the day. Of course, this is coming from the guy who still played Starsiege Tribes up until last year.

  • 10.22.2010 2:40 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: Dr Syx
Its still active enough to where you can get on and have a good match at any time of the day.

That was a good one. Tell another.

  • 10.23.2010 12:14 AM PDT

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That was a good one. Tell another.
Halo 2 Vista now works on Windows XP. :D

  • 10.23.2010 5:14 AM PDT

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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

You can find a match at any time, but it won't be a good match. Unless yet another coag/lockout ctf game is a "good match".

  • 10.23.2010 6:11 AM PDT
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I haven't played one CTF match on Lockout. I've always played Slayer. Slayer on Lockout, Foundation, Turf, Headlong, and Zanzibar. That is my most visited gametype/most visited maps.

Also, DusK, you hate Halo 2 in general. So, did/do you play Halo 2 Vista? If you do, why did you buy it if you think it was garbage in the first place?

[Edited on 10.23.2010 6:41 AM PDT]

  • 10.23.2010 6:32 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: Dr Syx
So, did/do you play Halo 2 Vista?

Nope. I played H2X, it sucked terribly, and then when H2V came out I watched some videos of it showing that everything that made H2X suck was ported over. And then I came here and watched as people who bought the game pointed out its new problems in droves.

  • 10.23.2010 8:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
So, did/do you play Halo 2 Vista?

Nope. I played H2X, it sucked terribly, and then when H2V came out I watched some videos of it showing that everything that made H2X suck was ported over. And then I came here and watched as people who bought the game pointed out its new problems in droves.


So, you're basing your judgement on the game from other people's completely negative comments on it that have been posted here. None of it is actual first hand experience other than your hate for H2X. I'm talking from first hand experience of playing the game frequently, including this morning. Who should be taken more serious on the subject of whether or not Halo 2 Vista is a decent game or not/how active it is/what the game experience is like?

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I picked up the game yesterday, played for most of the night. Plenty of people playing though only a few games were packed (14-16 people playing). There a couple more where theres like 4-8 people playing, and a long list of empty games.

Expecting a couple more friends to buy it as well, we might even make a dedicated server.

  • 10.23.2010 11:39 AM PDT
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I picked up the game yesterday, played for most of the night. Plenty of people playing though only a few games were packed (14-16 people playing). There a couple more where theres like 4-8 people playing, and a long list of empty games.

Expecting a couple more friends to buy it as well, we might even make a dedicated server.


Nice to hear from another person who likes it :D Should add you on XBL.

  • 10.23.2010 11:44 AM PDT

:3 I will die. :[

I find the "community" lacking mostly Team slayer games and Team snipers cause most people play CTF.Oh -sighs- :[ and most tryhards on H2V who host FFA most of the time,so no TS :[

  • 10.23.2010 11:29 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: Dr Syx
So, you're basing your judgement on the game from other people's completely negative comments on it that have been posted here.

And first-hand experience with the original, and the slew of confirmed information stating that everything that made H2X crap is still in H2V. Aim assist, magnetic bullets/projectiles, lack of fall damage, melee lunge, massive hitboxes, all that jazz. A platform change doesn't make a trash game become a diamond. It's still Halo 2, failtastic gameplay preserved in its entirety. Why would I bother buying that?

Posted by: Dr Syx
None of it is actual first hand experience other than your hate for H2X. I'm talking from first hand experience of playing the game frequently, including this morning. Who should be taken more serious on the subject of whether or not Halo 2 Vista is a decent game or not/how active it is/what the game experience is like?

It's simple logic, really. More people have already stated that H2V is terrible compared to H2X. I've played H2X, and I know that there are free PC games that are better than H2X. Therefore, there are free games better than H2V.

tl;dr: Pretty much any PC FPS > H2X > H2V.

If you don't get the idea after that... well... then I'd see why you play H2V.

  • 10.24.2010 12:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
So, you're basing your judgement on the game from other people's completely negative comments on it that have been posted here.

And first-hand experience with the original, and the slew of confirmed information stating that everything that made H2X crap is still in H2V. Aim assist, magnetic bullets/projectiles, lack of fall damage, melee lunge, massive hitboxes, all that jazz. A platform change doesn't make a trash game become a diamond. It's still Halo 2, failtastic gameplay preserved in its entirety. Why would I bother buying that?

Posted by: Dr Syx
None of it is actual first hand experience other than your hate for H2X. I'm talking from first hand experience of playing the game frequently, including this morning. Who should be taken more serious on the subject of whether or not Halo 2 Vista is a decent game or not/how active it is/what the game experience is like?

It's simple logic, really. More people have already stated that H2V is terrible compared to H2X. I've played H2X, and I know that there are free PC games that are better than H2X. Therefore, there are free games better than H2V.

tl;dr: Pretty much any PC FPS > H2X > H2V.

If you don't get the idea after that... well... then I'd see why you play H2V.


I play a lot of games and my favorite is Halo PC. The original. h2v can't really compare to it, but what I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who LOVED h2x that are thinking about getting h2v. When you post hate about h2v it seems as though its specifically h2v that's the problem when its just Halo 2 in general. Again, my statement before stands, I think I have a bit more authority on saying if the game works well or not because I have first hand experience with the specific game.

I'd also suggest we stop talking about it cause at this point we're just flaming.

  • 10.24.2010 5:33 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.

So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.

  • 10.24.2010 8:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: DusK
So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.


You're assuming I've not had the game long? I've had it since it came out. I just haven't played it online MUCH until recently.

Also, I don't want to add onto any flaming anymore. I'm sorry to all the moderators if they see this.

[Edited on 10.24.2010 9:06 AM PDT]

  • 10.24.2010 8:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: DusK
So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.


You're assuming I've not had the game long? I've had it since it came out. I just haven't played it online MUCH until recently.

Also, I don't want to add onto any flaming anymore. I'm sorry to all the moderators if they see this.

what are these "moderators" you speak of

[Edited on 10.25.2010 9:07 AM PDT]

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: DusK
So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.


You're assuming I've not had the game long? I've had it since it came out. I just haven't played it online MUCH until recently.

Also, I don't want to add onto any flaming anymore. I'm sorry to all the moderators if they see this.

what are these "moderators" you speak of


They're ninjas. They're not meant to be seen... >.> <.<

  • 10.25.2010 9:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: stefen99

Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: DusK
So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.


You're assuming I've not had the game long? I've had it since it came out. I just haven't played it online MUCH until recently.

Also, I don't want to add onto any flaming anymore. I'm sorry to all the moderators if they see this.

what are these "moderators" you speak of
They're ninjas. They're not meant to be seen... >.> <.<
or they never existed in The Maw.

  • 10.25.2010 10:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: stefen99

Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: DusK
So it's all about having H2V? In that case, n357's a much better source of information following that logic, considering he's had the game much longer than you.


You're assuming I've not had the game long? I've had it since it came out. I just haven't played it online MUCH until recently.

Also, I don't want to add onto any flaming anymore. I'm sorry to all the moderators if they see this.

what are these "moderators" you speak of
They're ninjas. They're not meant to be seen... >.> <.<
or they never existed in The Maw.


Let's do this the Stephen Hawkins way. Mods.... if you're here.... show yourselves!

  • 10.25.2010 10:15 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: Dr Syx
Let's do this the Stephen Hawkins way.

One cannot prove the mods do not exist, but science makes the mods unnecessary.

  • 10.25.2010 12:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Let's do this the Stephen Hawkins way. Mods.... if you're here.... show yourselves!

lolmods

  • 10.25.2010 12:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
Let's do this the Stephen Hawkins way.

One cannot prove the mods do not exist, but science makes the mods unnecessary.


Posted by: stefen99
lolmods


Yes, so, now we've proved that they do not exist. We realize that even if there might be clues to them being here, they aren't here and that if they didn't come out for me, cause I am so important/worthy to come out to, they're not here.

Stephen Hawkins ftw

[Edited on 10.25.2010 1:10 PM PDT]

  • 10.25.2010 1:07 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Dr Syx, do you use an xbox controller when playing H2v, or do you use the mouse and keyboard?

H2v is only worth buying if you haven't played H2 before and just want to enjoy the campaign. The multiplayer is horrible because the game was totally noobified.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7KE9xUVTk



[Edited on 10.25.2010 2:59 PM PDT]

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