Buttons are remappable for all controllers in the NXOE that is being released November 12.
The elite controller lets you remap any button. It can save two configurations in it's internal memory. Problem is, it costs $150.
The elite controller lets you remap any button. It can save two configurations in it's internal memory. Problem is, it costs $150.
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I 100% agree about creating a video to fill users in on the background leading up to the game, and it needs to play at the beginning of the game too, not just some link you can visit on the web (then you're just filling users in on out of game content with more out of game content). That said, I disagree a little bit on Halo 5 about the Didact and Cortana.
Halo 4 Spoilers:
For all intents and purposes a player who never looks at the external lore assumes the Didact is dead at the end of 4 (grenade to the chest, falling into a void) and nothing about the story line is changed because he wasn't dead and ended up being hunted down and killed in a comic book.
Halo 5 Spoilers:
Cortana's story is covered by Halo 5, nothing interesting is happening to her in the lore.
All that said, I finished last night and am pretty disappointed with the way things went. I kind of wonder if, in the near future, we'll hear some Destiny-esque rumblings over whether the story was changed at the last minute. There are some plot holes, some things missing from trailers, and an overall feel that something is unfinished.
Mildly spoiler-y. No direct information but didn't want to make anyone angry.
I'm annoyed at how Man vs Machine the series has become over 4 and 5, and I'm starting to get a strong Mass Effect vibe from everything. I kind of wish this had been used as an opportunity to reintroduce the nightmare that is the flood and bring the story back in line with the original antagonists. It seems like they're looking for ways to add enemies but have some great ones at their disposal from Halo's past that they aren't really leveraging.
Halo 6 better be spot on to keep the story from falling out from beneath them.
I just figured out that there's no split screen... W..T...F!!!!!!
This game was the foundation for my local co-op and split-screen multi-player. F U 343.
I just figured out that there's no split screen... W..T...F!!!!!!
This game was the foundation for my local co-op and split-screen multi-player. F U 343.
I'd rather the graphics be lowered to the point that it is roughly 30 fps than this.You would be here complaining about the frame rate being low with split screen. This was known before the game released.
Over simplification to the extreme. I shouldn't need 2nd Xbox to play with the person sitting next to me on the couch.Yeah, and the foundation of gaming used to be arcades. It's 2015, we use the Internet.
Agreed, and I get it tooWhile its a bit weird to have the framerate tied into the game to such an extent that changing it would break everything, I can understand if thats how it is, that they wouldnt want to screw up whats otherwise been working pretty perfectly.
Even arcade games allowed for 2 people to play on the same machine. Having to pass the controller around for people in a room is just not HALO.I am elated, however, to learn that theyre reconsidering all this for the inevitable Halo 6. I wont rehash my last few articles about how valuable splitscreen is to the Halo experience, but suffice to say I am tired of having get-togethers with my old gaming friends and having to pass around the controller so one person can play at a time while everyone else is half-watching, but mostly checking their phones.
Exactly - My roommates and I play on the 110" screen in the living room. Again, ever since the day Halo came day when i was in college, it was about competing/cooperating with people in the same room.But I think Halo, more than any other shooter on the market, has splitscreen fundamentally tied into its DNA. Yes, online play means our friends dont have to come over to play games with us, which can be useful to connect those living far away. But that doesnt mean players dont want to do that when they have the opportunity.
But hey, that framerate!
This is ultimately the biggest tragedy of Halo 5. Its a complete and utter return to form and the best competitive shooter Ive seen in years, but now the series Ive enjoyed with friends more than any other is something I will now be playing almost entirely alone
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Over simplification to the extreme. I shouldn't need 2nd Xbox to play with the person sitting next to me on the couch.
Got the game last week from the Newegg $40 deal and my Xbox One (Walmart deal w/ 500GB Gears, Forza 6, and extra controller) finally came on Saturday. Got it hooked up and played Arena Slayer for ~2.5 hours.
Seems there's only 4-5 maps in the rotation, and I'm not a fan of 4 of them. The only one I like is ... Plaza, I think? The one with the van on the street in the lower part. The others have too much verticality and / or too many doorways/corners -- let me explain. Proper tactics in a game *should* allow you to move deliberately to cut off line of sight angles so you can only be hit from one direction, basically. Yet so many of these maps have people across the map that can hit you from the other end of a hallway or through a window or whatever. Basically, just run and hope you don't get hit. If you do get hit, you only have 37 spots to check for an enemy! Kinda irritating.
I'll probably check out the other modes, but I think Halo 5 will be more a SP game for me. I'd like to do coop with my brother if he ever gets it. However, when I get around to picking up MCC, I'll probably play MP there if there's enough active players.
EDIT: Also, what's up with not replacing dropped players? 4v2 isn't exactly fun.
So I'm working my way through the game on legendary now. One way I can tell it's pretty faithful to the gameplay of the old games is how much it rewards you for patience. Taking the time to slowly pick off lesser enemies with a ranged weapon before engaging the tougher enemies is just as viable a strategy in this game as it was in the first one. That's essentially how I remember beating the first one on legendary. Being cautious, patient, and accurate with ranged weapons works. I'm not looking forward to fighting the Warden though. I think it would be really fun to play with a group at this difficulty as well, but all my friends either don't have the game yet or are never playing when I am. That's why I was hoping for matchmaking in co op...
And yes, the maps are pretty crappy. Fathom and The Rig are the two I hate most. Orion and Plaza are pretty good. I don't mind Regret, though I'm wondering where Truth went from the beta, along with Empire and its variants.
I like Plaza the most, followed by Regret. The rig is ok. Fathom is dumb because everyone just runs circles around the outside. And The Rig? I uh ... there aren't words for my feelings on that map. I think it's a poor design, and the textures look like something out of 2005.
Warzone is really promising, but I need a team to run with. I've played it like 10 times, and probably lost 9 I believe. I like the concept, the req system, the leveling system, the AI, bosses.. it does really feel like a massive fps/moba.
One of those Rigs is probably supposed to be Orion. Given my hatred for The Rig, I assume it's the first. I honestly don't even notice the visuals from one map to the other. I just hate The Rig's style of having random holes to fall and die in. They had that in Black Ops 3's beta, and it's a big reason I'm not getting the game.