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Subject: Official Halo 2 PC Suggestion Thread
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Pardon me being extremely nieve, but whats an ODST?

  • 02.14.2006 2:49 PM PDT
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Ooooooo, they should make a skull where you turn into a grunt.

  • 02.14.2006 2:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggwilv
Posted by: Boo_Diddly
I think that everyone should post their Connection upload and download speeds that you can get off this site: http://myspeed.visualware.com/
Download: 33.4 kbs
Upload: 12.9 kbs
Horrible isnt it? My internet icon says that it is connected at 45.2 kbs. Guess what? I am suposed to be getting a 52.2 kbs connection. Whats even worse? My computer has gigabit ethernet, two of them actually.


Please do not hijack this thread, make a new one.

I did not hijack, I am collecting data to make a point later in this thread.


You know what? Having a 20 player game should be fine! its only an increase of 4 players, 2 pere side.
Im jsut going to ignore the post about that grunt skull...

  • 02.14.2006 3:25 PM PDT
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But if they do that how are they gonna balance it out, a elite vs marine, ummmmm the elite is gonna win. Becasue marines are just regular soldiers with lots of battle experience, they just have regular armor, and no sheilds or any other advances like the Spartans.

  • 02.14.2006 4:59 PM PDT
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An ODST is a Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, the first level of delta halo with the black guys, their ODST, they are also refered to as Hell Jumpers, "jumping feet first into hell" is their motto.

Hey they could go all out and you could wear Mark 6 Mjolnir armor grunt style, kinda like that avatar you can choose to use.

20 players wouldnt be too bad, but then people say "why not two more?", personaly i just prefer 16 players because it is already a standard and people are used to it, but there is nothing wrong with supporting more people for customs and what not.

also 56k does not "pwn", infact with the current speeds being many times faster and growing (world record of 150 gigabits per second thats 130 dvds in one minute), so i think im going to go ahead and not "shut it".

-Fooluaintblack

ps. i know you were being sarcastic, should i be wrong i meant what i said ;P.

[Edited on 2/14/2006]

  • 02.14.2006 5:08 PM PDT
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well im sory but im not gonna be able to continue on what is being talked about but i have on suggestion that almost every one would like to see in H2 PC...weaker BR, pistol with a scope, covie that come in diffrent flavors, and the good old fashioned elite backwards speach ( dinm ym no ghone evah tnod i ekil)
luv it when they say that =D
also if possible let us fight juggernut flood (i would so like that)

  • 02.14.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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the BR is fine. the pistols coudl be a littel stronger, diffrent flavors of covie? does that mean the diffrent headgear *and heritic things?* that i would say yes to. I don't think it would pay for the elite speech to be put back to how it was, too many people woudl complain.

and about my siggy:
56k pwns so shut it

its a take off of my battle.net siggy:
Dial-Up Pwns jo A$$

It is sarcastic, but at the same time it says to your opponent *when he gets slaughtered by you* "you jsut got your butt kicked by your granny"

  • 02.14.2006 5:23 PM PDT
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if they really wanted to make it work they could just say that he has a personal shield generator, with modified armor, the problem is the biological enhancements, including, muscle and bone density, ocular enhancements, hearing enhancements, hormonal adjustments, and overall "durability", so i guess it would be a bit of a stretch for it to work within the confines of the halo universe, other than that, im sure someone will grab a model form the campaign and slap it into the multiplayer.

Weaker br would suck 4 shots is good, the pistol without a scope is realitic, how do you look through the scope of two weapons at once, besides having a PISTOL that destroys your shields, AND kills you in 3 shots is alittle bit much. more covenant soldiers or weapons? there are enough of both by the way. backwards speach is wicked awesome, but alittle simple (and you spelt mind wrong its dnim, and isnt it just the words that are backwards and not the entire sentance?). and what exactly is a juggernaught flood? just enourmous and very powerful flood? a hunter flood would be interesting.

oh i cant believe i almost forgot, the biggest problem with the pistol is that to kill someone with it, it takes 13 shots to the head, so you have unload every shot into his head, and then reload, and loose one more, thats just plain annoying.

and nice Boo_Diddly.

-Fooluaintblack

[Edited on 2/14/2006]

  • 02.14.2006 5:28 PM PDT
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right now "destructable" enviroments arent truly destructable. onyl dynamic objects can be destroyed. what the map uses for teh ground and all the geometry *not including props. Im talking about what is built in 3ds max* is called a BSP. All it says is:
-Where the vertecies are
-where and what direction the faces are
-what shaders are on the faces
that is it. It can not be changed in game. What you are asking for is something in the distant future. The game would have to be able to modify the terrain on the fly, distribute it to all the pcs, and do a radiosity on it. That and now you have created more facets and thus more things to draw on screen and all fo that must be stored into memory.

  • 02.14.2006 5:39 PM PDT
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teh needlers are fine, its jsut that no one uses them *except me* I find that it is satifying to meet someone head on coming around the corner and pumping them full of pinkness and watching them explode in a cloud of pink death *with the satisfying "poof"*.

  • 02.14.2006 5:54 PM PDT
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You wouldn't nescesarily have to do radiosity on them. There are other ways of lighting a map. I personaly think needlers need a facelift in multiplayer, atleast from halo 1. They are the cooliest weapons, but they suck.

  • 02.14.2006 6:27 PM PDT
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what is so bad about needlers? I cant really think of anything. They have a great ammo ammount, fire fast enough, and on explosion deals massive damage.

  • 02.14.2006 7:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: HaloMan321

Ummmm I don't see why you typed that up, talking about the first two par.

Anyways you don't need to add more weapons but still more weapons the better as long as the weapon isn't unbalanced. I'm talking about more weapons in multiplayer not singleplayer

Heyyo,

The Reason why I typed that up is cause you posted earlier...

Our technology hasimproved that much. Who knows maybe in another decade well be supporting 400 something players in a single online match. Hey our advances in technology are becoming faster and faster.

And I was just pointing out that our technology has already surpassed 400 this decade.

  • 02.14.2006 11:55 PM PDT
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ive played that game. it does the destructible environment in a rather simple way. more like instead of taking a chip out of a rock, taking a chunk out of the ground. and the graphics werent nearly as advanced as halo 2's, which arent all that wonderful anyway.

  • 02.15.2006 1:37 AM PDT
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Man, i can't wait for this game, cant wait indeed ...

  • 02.15.2006 10:56 AM PDT
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bungie do not make this game a simple port of the xbox version make the graphics next gen !

  • 02.15.2006 11:58 AM PDT
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perhapes your not too familiar with how games are made... everything the game does is all done in one place, the engine. because the engine (sorry i forget what halo 2 uses), was never designed to support destructable environments. so to put in what you want, the bungie/microsoft team, would have to either do some extensive reprograming of the current engine (which i would assume they are already doing, but dont need more), or they would have to write an entirely new engine, doing that and testing, would take a long ass time. so now you have a new engine, now you need to remake all the maps so that things break... they pretty much be recreating the game at this point, just keep in mind, its a port ; ). and wasnt pretty much everything in Red Faction just geometry? there wasnt jack for static meshes or anything was there? but enough bashing that is something i hope is to be implemented into halo 3, even though it would probably cause more problems and screaming from the community than it would be worth :).

The bad thing about needlers, is that i suck with them : /. its so easy to dodge them too. i would like them more if they had alittle more speed to them, that way they might be alittle more like an actual gun.

halo 2 without that little bit of auto aim would be damn hard, when i go to play halo pc its really hard to snipe, but then again the latency in that game is pretty bad.

but all in all im sure the game will come together well.

-Fooluaintblack

  • 02.15.2006 12:02 PM PDT
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I have something to say...

>Even if you bought Halo 2 and didnt have Vista but you had XP instead, do you think it will work anyway even if you didnt have Vista? I think it would...

  • 02.15.2006 12:03 PM PDT

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Blackness is right, if the Halo 2 engine does not allow descructible environment you will not see it in the port. A port just makes the game play on a different platform, it doesn't change the way the game plays. If you find a Halo 3 suggestion thread I would put that idea in there.

Spartan012 -- M$ has already decided DirectX 10(DX10) is going to be on Vista only. The Halo 2 PC guys probably decided that they were going to use DX 10, so they are going to have to be using Vista.

Now this does bring up another question. When they make Half-life 3 or COD3 or BF3 and they want to use DX10, will those games have to be played on Vista?

  • 02.15.2006 12:38 PM PDT
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Ah good point...

-Delta 012 and ODST is an Obital Drop Shock Trooper.... aka the soldiers out of the E3 Demo...

[Edited on 2/15/2006]

  • 02.15.2006 1:16 PM PDT
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I think they should add the ODST skin, the Marine skin, and skin to Multiplayer.
The one I want them to add most of all is the ODST skin. I saw those guys in a picture, and they look really cool.
Also, along with the addition with the new pistol, they should keep the old one too, with all its abilities. Just make it so you can't duel wield the old pistol.

  • 02.15.2006 1:45 PM PDT