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Do the announced changes at Halo Studios (prev. 343 Industries) have you optimistic for the future of the franchise?

Yes 16 50.00%
 
No 12 37.50%
 
Still need convincing (sp... 4 12.50%
 
Total:32
Angelus said:

So, I've been playing Halo co-op with some friends on the side the last few days, and I gotta say, it's honestly still something of an embarrassment. There's pretty regular freezes/lag spikes. If you wanna replay certain segments of a mission, you can't then simply exit the mission straight back into the overworld without exiting the whole session, or playing the mission through to the end. If you're playing with 2 or 3 people, and another buddy or two wanna join at some random point cus they just got online, everybody has to exit out to the lobby cus it's not drop in/out (which seems particularly weird, cus distance wise you're bound to host, and also there is no apparent difficulty scaling whatsoever). Every time you do back out to the lobby, you'll get like 5 spam messages about how you're unable to connect to host (even if you are the host) for no apparent reason.

I mean, honestly, considering it took them a year...a fucking year...to add co-op back into Halo, this coulda been a whole hell of a lot less messy than it is.

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There's no way to tell times for missions either (unless I'm missing something) because I did all collectibles on my first run I didn't get the 8 hours or whatever achievement, I thought I could just go back and play the longer ones but there's no times afaik

Another thing is doing the LASO run doesn't work with replaying missions it has to be a new run, which is just mind boggling. idk how they fucked up mission replay so badly.

My first playthrough went mostly smooth but this 2nd one has been laggy af and it keeps freezing where I think my game crashed but it's just frozen for like 20 seconds. And yeah the message spam going back to the main menu is annoying af 

All in all, a poor showing considering the time it took. Kinda expect this stuff at launch 



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coolbeans said:

@BasilZero

I must've forgotten that PS4 controller color b/c that rich blue looks awesome.

Maybe it's the lighting but isn't that one the standard blue DS4? 



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gtotheunit91 said:

Ninja Theory finally finished motion capture for Hellblade II. Not sure what kind of timeline we’re looking at. Holiday 2023 suddenly seems a little too soon.

I'm assuming you saw Idle's tweet?

He sourced it from Exta who is assuming based on not very much that it's a wrap up photo whilst providing no source of his own.

It's actually from Melina's Instagram where she mentions nothing about wrapping up, it looks like a typical team photo.

So, they probably haven't finished motion capture or if they have, we don't know it based on that image.



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Spade said:

1,000 & fuck @Ryuu96 

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coolbeans said:

@BasilZero

I must've forgotten that PS4 controller color b/c that rich blue looks awesome.

VersusEvil said:

Maybe it's the lighting but isn't that one the standard blue DS4? 

Yeah, its the standard blue one released back in 2018.



Ryuu96 said:

Wonder if Microsoft would accept only acquiring Blizzard/King and selling off Activision to someone else, although, I don't know who would buy them.

This would be an extreme last resort; I do believe mobile is more important in this deal than CoD to Microsoft, it's key to a number of things, for starters, actually getting into the mobile market which they've done an awful job of so far and secondly having big guns to use against Android/iOS. Regulators don't seem to give a single fuck about King or Blizzard, Lol.

Realistically, this 10-year offer should be more than enough for regulators who are overly concerned about Sony, but it's just an interesting scenario.

That's an interesting point, Blizzard and King are definitely the more important parts (IMO) Blizzard would help MS in the PC area and King obviously in mobile. I'd prefer Xbox get to keep all of ABK though, Activision has some some nice IP's like Crash, Spyro, Prototype etc... would suck not to get those. 



Also, on the off chance that the deal gets blocked; Maybe Phil will rethink how Xbox operates and start moneyhatting big games like Sony. I'd argue they should start doing that anyway even if the deal passes.



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Spade said:

Isn't it 8:30am where you at?

When they said the early bird gets the worm, I don't think they meant this.



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