/v/ - Video Games

I actually bought a sealed copy of the PC version of Halo 2 a few weeks ago and I thought to myself "Lucky me, 3 bucks". Little did I know that the shit only worked on WIndows Vista.

>>14213613

That sucks. At least this works on modern systems.

>>14213613

>Little did I know that the shit only worked on WIndows Vista.

Halo 2 installs fine on anything from Vista on up.

>>14213626

you sure? I don't want to open it and just ruin its collectible value.

>>14213604

is it just multiplayer maps?

>>14213714

It includes the full game.

>>14213655

I've always hated this premise. If someone threatens me I have half a mind to kick their ass. If it's some little shit then it's doubly so (making it a full mind). What sort of retarded midget would willfully choose to put herself in the danger zone like that? Is the kicker that she's inviting you to rape her to death or what?

Also nice dubs.

>>14213723

But can I play co-op with up to 2-4 players on the campaign?

>>14213726

This is a Halo thread.

>>14213728

Devs said campaign is too buggy too bother with at the moment, but they're trying to get it working.

You can talk to the devs directly on the disagreement by the way

>>14213791

my benis will be realized if I could play with a few friends on gaylo 2's campaign on legendary even if someone dies the mission interrupts.

>>14213794

disagreement, not disagreement. Fuck my phone.

Wait, am I stupid? Can I not say disagreement?

D I s c o r d

What. Why.

>>14213809

Because we got tired of niggers shilling their NSA spyware in every thread. Thanks for stopping by.

If you're gonna shill your shit at least do it right and post a fucking link

>>14213813

Well to be fair, nobody forced you or no one else to click the links.

>>14213814

Sorry you can't take 10 seconds to Google it. I'm not shilling anything. If you like Halo 2 then you should be interested in this. It's not like I gain anything other than more people to play with by doing this. I'm posting this because no where near enough people know about it, and I'd like to change that.

>>14213869

I haven't fucked with dewrito in a while. What happened?

The netcode is great, even the old glitches like BxR is still usable. Reminds me of the good old days of Halo multiplayer. It even has a full functioning single player on top of it all. The only problem is there's not a lot of people online. I've played a few games and it was fun, but I'm sure it would be a hell a lot more fun if more people were playing.

Is the crosshair still slightly below the center? I remember playing this with no problems whatsoever, but now it irks me beyond reason where I just can't play the game without stomping away disgruntled.

>>14213968

No but if works fine on the campaign and you'll get used to it.

In Halo Online you can center it, if you prefer to play that.

>>14213613

>>14213626

>>14213639

I installed Halo 2 for vista on a 7 x64 with a windows live patch just fine.

>>14213791

>(online) co-op of the single-player parts of games

That's fucking awesome. That's the kind of mod we need to see more of. Imagine co-op MGSV. In before "LOL, so… even easier, then?" Dwarf Fortress. Hitman. Someone was working on a co-op Kerbal Space Program mod and got pretty fucking good at it, too.

>>14215131

I installed it on xp just fine

>>14213613 is just retarded

How's it run on Loonix

Also game night when

>>14213869

Project Cartograpgher has been active for awhile now and still sees updates.

ED is a meme and won't be releasing anytime soon.

>>14215240

go to the goycord and ask. I dunno if they got it to work on linux or have a working build for linux.

>>14213968

Reticule is adjustable as is FoV

OP is a retard and didn't post the trailer for it. The launcher is now also integrated into H2 so everything is done in game

>>14213728

Halo 1 and 2 only had co-op of 2P. 3 and onwards had 4P.

TECHNICALLY H2PC's Co-op, while early supports up to 16 players.

>>14215294

There's vids of the earlier builds of them doing like 8 man metropolis and getting a way in before the entire thing crashed.

A big issue is getting devices to synch. In Halo, devices arethings like doors that open when a player approaches, or when they hit a button. The co-op is moving at a snails pace because the main focus is on polishing the netcode and fixing things up.

Someone hosting?

I'm up for a game

>>14213827

It’s the basis of making a good thread, newfag. “Just google it” is a cancerous excuse for you to not do your job as a thread creator.

>>14216500

Having a big ass is a nigger thing, right? Who wants a chick with obesity pushed down from her stomach to her thighs? Fitgirls are where it's at.

you can't change the FOV in project cartographer

>>14216500

Bursting with ==THICC==

>>14213730

On topic tbh

>>14216613

So? Could you in the original? Locking it makes the playing field even anyway. No quake dickheads with their 180 degree bullshit preventing you from sneaking up on them.

You can supposedly automatically activate any combination of skulls, too. I’m not seeing a difference, though.

>>14216814

>MC a God instead of a super soldier

Is there a difference?

>>14216814

I don’t see how you can object to a fanatic theocracy framing their enemies within the structure of their religion. Why is that so difficult to stomach?

Halo 3 on PC when ;_;

If this works should be pretty rad for a game night.

>>14216908

These brutes remind me of my first

which I lost my virginity to while I was 15

>>14216965

>That

>Chad

Off yourself lad

>>14216982

Look at her shirt.

>>14216988

>Chadshit

>Cuddles

No

>>14216952

We can dream anon but I wouldn't hold my breath.

>>14216866

Halo 2 is fine, he's just a faggot.

The problem is Halo 2 suffered a lot during it's development and Halo 3 only got that level of polish that it did thanks to the wake up call Bungie got from H2.

>>14216952

>The jeep and ghost designs being the same on urban warfare also pissed me off, those designs were obviously intended for exotic places/planets.

What? Both a have military structure to them. You'd be under the impression anyways that the warthogs and Scorpions are standard issue mechanized units Why would the ghost change shape or function when it could be a different vehicle handling that role.

>Makes Halo a shitty sci-fi space opera

It already was a space opera, even Bungie admits to trying to aim for that when making the games.

>>14217046

You had better not be talking about Halo 3, the greatest game ever made.

Does this have voice on PC? I'd call for a gamenight but I can already imagine the mic spam if so. Not that I'm opposed.

>>14217813

It does, don't know if Project Cartographer has implemented it yet however.

>>14217884

This

Even the most hardcore halo fans I have known despise halo 2 as being one of the worst in the series (And by series I mean everything up to reach). A lot of the problems become even more glaring on the legendary difficulty.

>>14217884

>Halo 2 is poorly designed

Again because they got fucked and had to chop so much out

The warthog in universe is a scout vehicle first and foremost. The entire design for it is "light armored vehicle". Same as the ghost, both serve as scout vehicles, the warthog has a level of modularity to it due to the back being able to be refitted with either a chaingun, which is the most common, a 3 tube rocket launcher, a gauss cannon , or even anti air rockets. I don't think Halo has what you'd be looking for as a in between the warthog and the Scorpion, which sit on opposite ends of the spectrum.

The ghost again is in universe light armored rapid attack and infantry support recon vehicle. The problem is there is no realy middle of the road as the prowler is just a replacement to the spectre which is just a analogue of the warthog, but with boost and 2 passenger seats on the side ontop of the gunner.

>That last point

where are you pulling that from because I didn't say shit about that.

The only time you fight a wave of enemies in H2 is outskirts during the drone segment. There is no waiting for elevators in H2, you're thinking of Halo 1's library level which is basically what you're describing. Ever use an SMG outside campaign? It actually works against things like tanks, BR shots don't really affect scorpions. Bungie even admits they fucked up Halo's weapons by making the AR a SMG and the pistol a rifle. H2 was them trying to fix that.

>People fellate it out of nostalgia

Same can be said about any game really, including Halo 3. It's not a perfect game but it's core mechanics are improved over Halo CE without needing the gimmicks of equipment or armor abilities.

Also the covenant don't hold many planets most of the human colonies they come across they glass and leave them. The few planets they do hold are typically refueling stations that already have defenses mainly in space. Outside the homeworlds of the various races that make up the covenant the only major hub is High Charity.

>>14217927

I see, I'll get it downloaded later and check.

>>14218120

the Mjolnir suits have a 90 minute supply of oxygen. the MkVI introduced biofoam injectors to heal the wearer till medical attention could be administered. This is the reason they use to not show a health bar even though in H2 and H3 you still DO technically have player health ontop of the shields. it's just not shown. There's an old vid floating around of two guys showing this off. they did it on lockout using a sniper rifle and shooting a player in the foot.

>>14217813

I dunno, but early on they were working on trying to get something similar to H2 to run using voice codecs from Teamspeak

>>14218143

Okay biofoam aside, my point still stands. He could survive in space jumping from ship to ship like in that cutscene.

>>14218148

Yep. the Mjolnir, disregarding Halo 4, supposedly has MINOR EVA capabilities ontop of it. Taking the entirety of the end of Cairo station cutscene the chief probably had a good 45 minutes or so left of air

My college roommate literally did nothing but play Halo 2 on his days off. I'd kill to go back to those days, but I feel that the PC version would kill the flare that the Xbox gave it. Live back in the day was something REALLY special, something that just can't be matched by modern standards. Don't know what it was, it just had "it".

>>14218188

Give it a shot.

>>14216952

>Microsoft is supposedely planning a huge MCC update this April

It's been 11 years, friend. Doubt it's coming after this long. If so, well, consider me interested. Release Halo 3 on PC and I won't need anything else ever again.

>>14218203

It's basically just bug fixes that have been plaguing MCC since launch.

They are literally hyping up bug fixes after years of doing nothing. Stop caring about microsoft because they don't give two shits about you unless you're buying shit from them

>>14218209

I am willing to buy shit from them, though

>>14218232

how many people are playing right now?

>>14218232

Don't

Also MCC being win10 exclusive would be a fucking joke. I remember when MS said "Oh H2V is only going to work for vista" and yet not long after a patch to make it run on XP was released.

Not to mention MCC will be a pale shadow compared to Custom Edition and H2 in terms of user content. Only so much Forge can do, since all it is is a stripped down version of Sapien, the tool Bungie uses to populate maps. and when I mean stripped down I mean heavily. With Sapien you can place even shit like rocks and trees, though you have to rebuild lightmaps. Forge is just weapons, vehicles, minor objects based on the object pallets for the map, and spawns and objectives.

Sapien, Guerilla, and TOOL will always be superior.

>>14218327

It doubt it will remain exclusive to Windows 10. Halo Wars: DE, Quantum Break, and Killer Instinct all came to Steam with support for Windows 7.

>>14215176

>When you play KSP Co-op and everyone else is less technologically advanced than you

>When you hit a planetary transfer there and back flawlessly on the first try while they are still crashing rockets into the Moon

It's a glorious feeling. Gamenight soon maybe.

>>14218362

I dunno. Again this is microsoft.

Also we'd never get anything on part with Custom Edition in terms of user created content with anything they'd bring to PC

>>14219645

Ok so that brings the total to 3

>Refit it with armor

so lose speed, especially when the enemy is firing super heat plasma at you and can invalidate that armor. great fucking idea

>Those examples

The elevator on the 2nd Arbiter level granted was fucking annoying. but the elevator to the bomb room and the ride through the underwater area on regret you're seriously bitching about?

>MJOLNIR is retarded

Mk I- Mk III suits were basically just exosuits fitted with either a power cable umbilical or a massive fucking battery. the Mk IV was the first suit that could be worn practically and at the time even then the slightest muscle movement would be exaggerated by the suit's systems. This resulted in the death of a few marines who had a muscle twitch which was exasperated by the system and from there it was a bunch of technicians watching horrified as basically the marines died via their own muscle spasms.

the Mk V introduced shielding based off not the elite's energy shielding, but captured Jackal shield gauntlets.

>Just realized you unironically like furshit

>>14219711

>Who gives a fuck in an urban environment

Again you seem to miss the fact that covenant weapons melt shit, the wraith mortar is described in the books both early on and later as basically vaporizing shit it comes into contact with.

>MJOLNIR isn't retarded

You said it was you fucking flip flopping retard. the armor itself was specialized from the start for the SII program even before the covenant invasion. In the books there is even EVA gear built for the MJOLNIR for extended operations in vaccum as the armor itself only has minor capabilities of EVA

>Xenopihlia isn't fur faggotry

Furries are xenos. Suffer not the Xeno to live

>>14219749

>You said it was you fucking flip flopping retard.

I dindn't, I said Mjolnir having spacefaring capabilities is.

>Furries are Xenos

>Suffer not the Xeno to live

Reminder that the Imperium Cult is no more thanks to Girlyman.

>>14219815

>A suit of powered amor is only retarded when it has the ability to manuver in Zero G

>Implying Papa smurf is not just a vehicle for black library to wank their mary sue eldar

>>14219830

>>A suit of powered amor is only retarded when it has the ability to manuver in Zero G

Not only that but it has life support capabilities.

This shit was just as retarded in Crysis 2.

>Implying Papa smurf is not just a vehicle for black library to wank their mary sue eldar

That's just as bad

>tfw this is perhaps the first time in years that you have had fun in a multiplayer FPS

>>14213895

It still has an active player base of sixty to one hundred twenty players at most hours, but there hasn't been an update in several months.

I hope that we get a playable campaign from Project Cartographer and keep Halo Online as the go-to multiplayer.

>/v/ suddenly likes Halo

What happened?

>>14220033

U DARE TO LIKE BIDEO GAME ON MY BOARD?

>>14220033

bad news my friend:

kids from around 2000 and onwards did grew up

they all have the shit taste we feared and ended up being worse scum that we thought

>>14217341

what do the runes say?

>>14220033

>>14220048

Gee whillikers, gramps! It's almost like people who were 10 in 2000 are 28 today. But of course your 40-some year old ass who played the original doom as a teenager has much better taste. All of us being here forever, one would think that you'd realize that something something opinions on imageboards.

>>14220261

I have every Halo game sans Halo Wars 2, including the physical Map Pack release for Halo 2, and I'm here to say that you write like a faggot.

>>14220261

> It's almost like people who were 10 in 2000 are 28 today

Damn, you almost had me

>>14219851

Not as bad as age of sigmar

That being said, who wants to be elites and flood a CTF server and spam chat with elite dialogue with me?

I can already picture it, you cancerous faggots spamming nigger and build the wall all over the chat while screeching like retards on the mic.

>>14221876

at the moment H2PC has no built in voice codecs.

I would rather have it like that HCE server that one anon put up. just text, because even then you don't have time to spam shit like that

Did they ever fix the issues with campaign? I recall hearing that Project contingency made the campaign have issues if you installed it, and that since it isn't a seperae install, but an actual hack to tthe base Vistta release, that you can't just launch the base vista game without contigency after you install it.

>>14216500

Halo 5's MP and forge is actually good, it's just the campaign/art design that's awful. I'm cautiously optimistic for Halo 6. If they can improve the SP as much from 5 as they did the MP from 4 to 5, then 6 could be outright the best game in the series.

I'm sure they;'ll fuck something up though.

>>14216952

>>14216814

>actually fleshing the covenant out to not just be mindless badies for you to kill is"ruining" them.

CE nostalgifags are even worse then 3babies. I love all the bungie Halo games, but fuck me if the Halo fanbase isn't the most fractured, insufferable pile of shit.

>Halo 1 had some subtletly and left things to the imagination purposely, Halo 2 just kills the magic completely, especially by giving us a glimpse of the Covenant society which is too close too ours.

This is complete bullshit, 2 had far more actually intentionally mysterious things and forshadowing and lore hints as well as envoirmental storytelling then CE did. There's literally shit in 2 that wasn't even explained or followed up on till 10 years later that they planned in advance.

>>14220033

Halo was always good, and /v/'s reasons for hating it was always bullshit. It boiled down to contrarianism and misplaced rage at the death of arena FPS's even though arena FPS's were still alive till around 2007 when CoD4 came out, which is what actually killed them, and also what crippled Halo, since Halo is an arena FPS itself (albiet a slowed down one)

>>14222274

>Project Contingency

Different mod. They fixed a lot of issues with PC and campaign, one of the things I think is dumb is they added an option now in the settings to turn on skulls. The menus now are all built into H2 and replace the button that would open the GFWL dashboard normally.

Originally it was an external launcher that you set and logged into before playing H2V. Now they've built it into H2 and you sign into your PC account you make on their site before going to the character profile, just like you would on say XBL or GFWL. The downside is you lose the network tab, which is the LAN feature as PC uses that for their server browser.

>>14222302

No, I'm thinking of Project Cartographer, I just blundered and said Contigency instead even though I meant cartographer.

>They fixed a lot of issues with PC and campaign, one of the things I think is dumb is they added an option now in the settings to turn on skulls. The menus now are all built into H2 and replace the button that would open the GFWL dashboard normally.

>Originally it was an external launcher that you set and logged into before playing H2V. Now they've built it into H2 and you sign into your PC account you make on their site before going to the character profile, just like you would on say XBL or GFWL. The downside is you lose the network tab, which is the LAN feature as PC uses that for their server browser.

Can I just install H2V twice, once to one hard drive and then again to anotther, and then only install cartographer on one of them, so I still have an unmodified install to use?

>>14222328

I’m finding that NPCs have absolutely no fucking idea how to drive, but maybe that’s how it always was. I haven’t played the physical copy of the game since… Shit, probably before 2007.

>>14222358

AI in H2 was the first AI that drove if you got in the passenger or gunner seat. Marines in H1 COULD get in ghosts, but that was all you ever saw them drive despite having AI to handle driving hogs.

>>14222372

>I tell it as it is

So you're just a faggot?

>Advancing in a line with a tank

So the ark in H3?

How about all those forced scarab battles?

>Bungie didn't plan

Bungie, even in their own words typically plans things, doesn't execute them and saves them for later. The original plan for Silent Cartographer was you'd go to the island to kill a covenant prophet, who at the time was nothing more than an elite with a silly hate according to Staten. The idea was scrapped, but guess what. It got reused with H2.

Also a concept that never made it into Halo 1, now remind me if this is ringing a bell but; giant covenant walking tank. I'd also like to point out in the H2 dev commentary they did originally have a game plan, starting all the way back to the cortana letters. Which were the original marketing plan for H1 to the end of the series.

>3 fucks up the lore

The problem is does it really? We're never given a clear cut answer on if humanity really is forerunner. All the players know is in the first 2 games is that humans are considered "reclaimers" and that they can access things that the covenant can't on Halo. 3 tells the player that they ARE forerunners

Here's what spark says verbatim

>You are the child of my makers, inheritors of ALL they left behind…you ARE forerunner, but this ring…is MINE"

>>14222448

>2014

>Bungie

>Halo 3 terminals say Forerunners and Humans are different species when everything frokm 1 and 2 was telling you that Humans were Forerunners and were the ones that fucked themselves over technologicaly so they wouldn't find the Flood.

>All that planning bullshit I didn't ask or doubt

You're an absolute retard who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Just like most Halo cocksuckers

>>14222547

>Halo 3

>2014

Halo 3 came out in 2007, 343i Halos came out in 2013

>Calls people Halo cocksuckers

>There was never any direct indication of this in either H1 or 2

Also what you're mentioning is post Bungie Halo and the glasslands shit. That was 2011 with Reach being 2010 and Bungie's last Halo game. For someone who wants to spend his time shitting his pants in rage at least read a book nigger goddamn

>>14222607

It's a first person shooter, anon.

The genre itself is fine, but it attracts almost every kind of person, which isn't a good thing.

>>14222607

It's primarily just the one retard posting images from cuckchan and claiming things and then denying he said shit

>>14222607

What photoshop filter is that? It looks really good.

>>14222607

>Starting of a30

>What looks like a brute

>AR is the MA5C not the MA5B

>>14223116

Given how blurry the image is I don't think you can really say if it's the MA5B or C, the MA5B model in CEA looks pretty damn similar to the MA5C

>>14223339

>SPv3

>Good

Played it, it's ok

CMT as it is has no fucking clue how to design encounters and think it's best to just heap on enemies. What was really tension breaking was 343GS in that in the base game you never once encounter anything stronger than grunts and jackals which gives the player a sense that something is off, even on the higher difficulities there are no elites.

CMT didn;t get this memo and you find brutes and elites on noble and legendary. A lot of the new areas are nice but again heaping enemies into an area doesn't make it good. Weirder still was the sleeping grunt design choice on a10 when the ship is supposed to be under attack.

Weapon sandbox was shit too. literally 3 needlers, The shredder (Power), The Needler itself (Default) and the impaler (3burst). The sparrowhawk was shit since it had a shit shield system that was independent of yours and ONLY the sparrowhawk had it. Not to mention that's the same model that has been kicking around for years and they didn't really make their own. the underbarrel nade launching AR appears for all of 1 level and after that is never seen again despite levels being littered with the ammo for it.

My faovrite bit of fact is that Masterz is such a 343i cocksucker he removed a easter egg from b30 evolved that was a picture with the words "Halo 5 sucks".

>>14213626

It also works on Windows XP if you remove some some tiny amount of code that is just there to gimp it for "DX10 exclusivity". Good old Microsoft.