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By ANDYLOW: HaloPC didnt follow the original Halo for Xbox's respawn patterns.
It does follow the same patterns, the timings are just a couple seconds off on PC. In fact, I used Xbox respawn times to time in a scrim today (I had the PC times recorded somewhere, but I lost them), just adjusted everything so it was about 4 seconds later than the Xbox times. It worked fairly well, close enough to always get the powerups before the other team really had a chance. Except for the OS on Rat Race, which has a wierd timing on PC.
By ANDYLOW: For example, when the CPL held its HaloPC tournaments, they did not find many of the standard competitive formats for Xbox competitions very spectator friendly.
MLG has their own TV show on USA network now. It runs on Saturdays at 10 a.m. EST. I'd say they've made it pretty spectator friendly. MLG knows what works and what doesn't for competitive gametypes. I dare say, no league for H2V can ever hope to be half as big as MLG.
By ANDYLOW: If you want to play Halo 2 with a controller, chances are highly likely that you have it for Xbox and youre not going to drop $250 to play it on PC.
I want to play Halo 2 with a controller, but also want to have amazing graphics, new and custom maps, mods, dedicated servers, and more. I can't do that on Xbox.
By ANDYLOW: However, this makes for two issues. Any major tournament, should they choose to hold a tournament for H2V, probably wont allow controllers unless that option can be turned off. Also, eventually someone will develop a hack which allows you to use keyboard/mouse AND whatever reticle magnetism is implemented.
As long as they keep the reticle magnetism at a low level, I don't see why not. It's not like it's aimbotting (although sometimes, I will admit, it does feel like it sometimes on Halo 2 Xbox, which is why I suggest toning down the magnetism quite a bit from the Xbox version). Oh, and look at my post above for a possible solution to the problem of keyboard and mouse players with magnetism. Thank you, though, for at least discussing your opinions in a civil manner.
By Kyle_W: This is the PC world and if someone wants to play on the PC with an X-Box controller, they deserve to get P-W-N-T!
Could you please tell me why we deserve to get "P-W-N-T!"? You only think Xbox controllers are dumb because you're used to keyboard and mouse. Some Xbox players think the same thing about you and your keyboard and mouse. You only think PC = keyboard and mouse because that's what people commonly use, when actually, the 360 controller is just as much an input device as keyboards and mice.
By Kyle_W: Let them learn to use the mouse and keyboard or go back to the X-Box if they don't like it.
I, for one, can use keyboard and mouse. And like I said, you only assocciate keyboard and mouse with PC because that's what most people use. 360 controllers are as easily recognized by computers as input devices as keyboards an mice are. The keyboard and mouse are not 'more PC-ish' than 360 controllers.
By Kyle_W: I doubt that controller players could be competitive against mouse/keyboard players even with reticle magnetism
For the record, there are Halo (1) Xbox players that could stick a 360 controller in their computer, 1v1 you on Halo PC LAN and destroy you and your keyboard and mouse (and by destroy, I mean obliterate). You underestimate Halo Xbox players. Heck, they could probably do it with you aimbotting.
By Kyle_W: I would quickly lose interest in playing and mothball the game because I would feel that I had been beaten by an algorithm instead of a person.
"Auto-aim" doesn't do the playing, so if you really got beaten by just the "auto-aim", you're the worst player on Earth. If the reticle magnetism is kept at a low level (not like the high level on Halo 2 Xbox), the controller player still has to have good aim to be good at shooting (just like in Halo (1) Xbox).
[Edited on 12/26/2006]