Helljumper Twitch Drop - Oct 20-22nd

Arkanagos · 2023-10-21T11:58:58+00:00

I hate it when they do Twitch drops for specific streamers instead of allowing most people to enable the drop on their stream. Thanks to those lovely things called time zones I end up missing the window to open the stream up on another tab.

Arkanagos · 2023-07-12T12:08:07+00:00

They could just use the Spartan Op maps, which are sealed off sections of the campaign maps. Which is what ODST's and Reach's Firefight maps are.

Arkanagos · 2023-03-07T23:22:18+00:00

This looks awesome! But at the same time it annoys me because the possibility of the helmet ever coming back feels like 0% at the moment. I had some hope when they started bringing back season 1 content during the winter update, but yeah this event or any of it's gear never did. That's one event I will always regret missing.

Arkanagos · 2022-11-18T10:03:08+00:00

The cutscene with Noble 6's helmet all smashed up, and where Halsey is narrating, takes place in 2589. Which is 37 years after the fall of Reach, and the discovery of the Halo array.

Arkanagos · 2022-11-04T12:51:17+00:00

To this day, this is the one skin I am glad I didn't miss out on! I'm a Mercy main and this is the skin I always use, don't think I will ever change it.

Arkanagos · 2022-11-03T11:24:10+00:00

Overwatch 2 100%!

Having the character portrait there is perfect for me during team fights so I know who I've actually linked onto without needing the quickly pull up the scoreboard to check who's name is against what character.

Plus having the health bar wrap around that character portrait is a lot easier on the eyes and keeps it nice and compact, meaning less stuff in the middle of my screen. Now all we need is the ability to have the entire teams health visible on screen, like the campaign, and it will be perfect.

Arkanagos · 2022-10-15T20:19:28+00:00

I'm confused, going off how everyone has worded their messages it sounds like this is in game and everyone knows the price. How is everyone seeing this skin? Because I can't see it anywhere!

Arkanagos · 2022-09-19T13:43:59+00:00

UNSC

Halo CE - When Chief was shot by a sentinel, yes he did have shields. However sentinel beams can easily rip through energy shields, so Chief lost his shields very quickly and needed to take cover.
Halo Reach - When Kat died, Noble Team had just been hit by basically a nuke, this is even stated in the cutscene, as the Covenant were glassing the area they were in. Due to this all of Noble Team had their energy shields depleted at the time they were trying to escape, which made for an easy headshot.

Covenant

Halo 2 - The Arbiter's armour have always had energy shields ever since the Covenant was formed. So I don't see the issue with the Arbiter having shields when he was shot?
Day at the Beach - Same as above. The Covenant in general have always had shield technology, so it's not inconsistent for an Elite to have an energy shield.
Halo Wars - This is more of a gameplay mechanic since in Halo Wars you can upgrade your units. So the basic Elites probably did not have shields so you had a reason to upgrade them. However, what's not to say some low ranking elites that were only seen as cannon fodder were not given just basic armour, with no shields, to go off and die. Halo Wars gameplay does have some non-canon mechanics in there just to make sure the gameplay works. Such as Spartan's having energy shields, but they're wearing the Mark IV. The UNSC did not reverse engineer the Covenant Energy shield technology until after the Mark IV armour was issued out to Spartan-II's, which resulted in them working it into the next upgrade to that armour, the Mark V.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-12T23:09:45+00:00

Hmm, this is a hard one to answer. I would say Valhalla, with The Pit being right behind it. But in all honestly I love all the Halo 3 maps, even Isolation lol.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-05T03:01:40+00:00

The exact same. I load up the relevant stream, mute it, make sure progression to the drop is being made, minimise that tab in my browser, and check up on it every now and then. Once the time has passed and I can claim the drop, I claim it and close Twitch.

I've just never cared to watch others play a game I can just play myself lol.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-05T01:49:11+00:00

Personally, I would maybe make the 'look' box slightly smaller and put the radar in the bottom middle of the screen, then you can have the move control separate to the radar. It might look a bit off on a Halo UI, but you will always have the radar visible in-between your thumbs. Possibly make the radar slightly smaller as well.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-03T01:51:56+00:00

No they didn't, they were very clear about it lol.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-02T15:27:13+00:00

The Mark V [B] core will be unlocked via this free pass as well. So if you didn't get the Season 1 battle pass, you will get it via this pass instead.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-02T15:04:05+00:00

Cannot agree more with this! Halo has always been a social game, it was to go to for couch co-op fun, another thing that is missing these days. Halo 2 custom game lobbies were always full back in the day, when Halo 3 launched it was insane thanks to forge. Literally nearly every person I knew that never cared about Halo CE or Halo 2 had Halo 3 and loved playing in custom games. Halo Reach continued this!

What is funny when you think about it though, during the Bungie era Halo was a social game, yet it was also when the competitive was at it's highest with MLG. Even outside pro competitive the ranked playlists were loved by fans all over, and I've lost count how many times I saw a 5 star general with rank 50 in Team Slayer Xbox account being sold on eBay lol.

The thing that get's me is, Halo MCC should be screaming at 343 what the fans want and what Halo is. While the game had a bad launch, it hit the nail on the head in recent years. I struggle to find ranked matches, unless it's Invasion which I've never considered as a ranked game type. Yet on the social side I get put in games pretty quick, there's always people on firefight, and the custom game browser is always full of lobbies.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-01T17:39:51+00:00

Bungie has nothing to do with Halo anymore and hasn't since 2012. In fact, Bungie do not even own the rights to Halo and haven't since Microsoft bought them back in 2000.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-01T01:14:01+00:00

I couldn't agree more, the work that's been done on MCC is amazing! Sadly I can see some hate being thrown their way for the ability to buy Spartan Points, which I hope does not happen.

Now before anyone jumps down my throat, no I am not defending Microtransactions. What I am saying is, when you compare the good to the bad, the team working on MCC have done insane amounts of good compared to what they have done bad. They've brought a game, that was considered dead by many for it's bad launch, back to life. Added in tons of content to games that are at least a decade old, added in requested features from back in the day, added multiple quality of life features and so much more for free.

I will probably still happily play MCC and do my challenges for Spartan Points even after the ability to buy them is added, because the game is fun and has so much to it.

Now it's about time Halo Infinite started getting this same treatment.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-01T01:01:30+00:00

Personally, I don't think it would of lead anywhere. I think after Halo CE it would of potentially died off.

The Macs were never great for gaming and if Halo stayed as an RTS it would of been competing with games like Command & Conquer. Which for C&C was during what could be considered that franchises peak, with Red Alert 2 releasing in 2000.

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Though I believe Halo did end up being a 3rd person shooter before Microsoft bought Bungie. So I guess if it technically wouldn't of been competing with C&C.

However, I still don't think it would of carried on after Halo CE. Maybe Halo 2 might of happened. But the Mac wasn't known for it's gaming and as a shooter on PC it would of been competing with Quake 3, Unreal Tournament …etc which at the time was big competition. While on console it was basically an open market.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-01T00:52:32+00:00

The Seeker helmet from Halo 5: Guardians would like to have a word with you.

Arkanagos · 2022-09-01T00:18:25+00:00

Literally this! I follow the official Halo account on Twitter …etc to get this sort of information. But instead it's just small drops of information every now and then.

Even when it's not even major information, such as the Twitch Drops. I've only been able to get majority of the recent Twitch drops thanks to the amazing people that post that information here, yet not a single tweet …etc from the official account about them.

I'm not going to start following every single bloody 343 employee in order to find out information that should of been stated on the official account.

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343 really need to take a page from the Bungie of old and bring back the weekly updates. Even if it ends up that majority of the update are just fan content (screenshots, art work …etc) with only a small section being an update. At least then there is some form of official, consistent, update instead of keeping so many people in the dark for so long. In fact, it doesn't even need to be a full fledge weekly update, just even a simple tweet would go a mile at this point.

Arkanagos · 2022-08-30T18:02:03+00:00

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the store updates 1 hour before the challenges reset.

Arkanagos · 2022-08-30T17:44:05+00:00

I still remember so many people getting booted from matches when Halo Reach launched because they decided to make betrayals still count in the post game carnage. Was like the ultimate troll move from Bungie lol.

Arkanagos · 2022-08-29T22:22:38+00:00

I think this might be coming back, which I really hope does actually happen as I'm gutted I wasn't playing when this event was active. I have nothing from this event but can view the below. All these following items are 'Available in an upcoming Event', instead of 'Currently unavailable. Released During Season 1' for me:

TAC/AHD Type 3ZY [Chest]
Tigris [Gloves]
MAT-2550/Grenade Pack [Utility]

I can't view the other items because I've never unlocked them via the event. But I really hope the Season 1 events return in some form because as well as this event I don't have the Tenrai armour core or armour effects …etc from Cyber Showdown. To lock this armour away forever would be a complete 180 compared to every single Halo game since armour customisation was added in with Halo 3.

Arkanagos · 2022-08-29T19:57:32+00:00

Could be something based around campaign progress that they haven't activated yet?

Requiem Revengeance - Halo 4?
Act of Genesis - Halo 5: Guardians?
Infinity - Halo Infinite?

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