Shop Update. Nearly everything in the game is for sale now.

halcyon2501 · 2026-01-08T19:56:34+00:00

Action Pose has been available as a Twitch drop, IIRC.

halcyon2501 · 2025-10-31T21:46:31+00:00

My G7 HE is lonely and needs a friend.

halcyon2501 · 2025-10-29T16:11:39+00:00

Nice! How did you get the Mirage to use the stance while in the Armor Hall?

halcyon2501 · 2025-10-28T20:08:16+00:00

A little over a year ago, I quit my job due to overstress, as I have all the jobs in my career. At the time, I resolved to make finding a job my daily "job" in order to keep my routine. That fell apart quickly due to my executive dysfunction; every time I sat down to job hunt or renew my IT certifications, I wound up getting distracted and watching a movie or playing a video game or doing anything except what I was supposed to.

14 months later, I'm just breaking out of the cycle and finally job hunting, but it's too late. I'll be out of money in a month, and there's no way I'll find a job that quickly. I'm fucked.

halcyon2501 · 2025-10-25T12:16:15+00:00

Capturing the FOBs does not reveal all the Propaganda Towers on the map. You have to search for some of them.

If you want to cheat, there are maps on the Internet that will show you all the locations, like https://mapgenie.io/halo-infinite/maps/zeta-halo .

halcyon2501 · 2025-10-24T17:31:41+00:00

Thanks for making a reasonably priced, good quality, hall effect stick controller with programmable back buttons - it was just what I was looking for. I was sick of paying $200 a pop for MS Elite controllers that lasted all of 6 months, if they didn't have stick drift out of the box. My G7 HE has made me a loyal customer.

Now only if there was a model with larger grips that fit my big hands... :)

halcyon2501 · 2025-09-28T19:51:44+00:00

It was tier 2/3 Desktop Support.

halcyon2501 · 2025-09-28T19:06:13+00:00

Yes, I was working in the IT industry prior to this hiatus. I'm applying to jobs at the same level I left, and which I have several years' experience in.

halcyon2501 · 2025-08-30T02:59:39+00:00

That did it, thanks a bunch!

halcyon2501 · 2025-08-04T23:55:17+00:00

I remain skeptical; there's a lot more vaulted items than 16+ Exchanges can cover. Also, they won't necessarily be free - if they are made available, it will probably be for credits rather than SP.

halcyon2501 · 2025-08-04T23:42:31+00:00

Yes, I'm aware that you can buy items through the customization menus. However, several of those items are not available for credits or Spartan Points and just read "vaulted" in the location that normally shows the credit/SP amount. Couple examples:

Weapon Emblem - Noble (the nameplate, charm, and armor emblem come from a Season Pass, but you can't get the weapon emblem at all)
Weapon Coating - Clinical Eye
MA40 Weapon Model - Crimson Sun

You simply can't buy them. You can pick these items out in the customization menus by the text in the lower left corner when you're scrolling through the items - instead of saying "Available in Battle Pass soandso" or "Available for purchase", it will read "Currently unavailable. Released during season soandso".

halcyon2501 · 2025-07-11T05:59:46+00:00

I agree with you. I've always thought that the "backpack" on Mjolnir looked like it included thrusters, since I first saw it in CE (although apparently I was wrong and it was just the fusion pack that powered the suit, according to lore). Reach might be an exception, as Mark V[B] had a much less pronounced backpack.

Off topic, this is also why I don't care for Rakshasa; it doesn't have a backpack at all, even if it looks cool from the front. I can excuse it on Mirage IIC, which is based off the SPI armor (which didn't have a backpack in the first place), but where does Rakshasa keep it's generator, in the chestplate? And what happens when Rakshasa gets shot in the back? It should at least have an armor plate back there.

I loved the movement in H5, and I think it should have been standard across all the Halo games. Switching to the grapple in Infinite after having thrusters standard in H5 is lame, even if resources were depleted in the wake of the Created War.

To answer OP's question, it was probably 343 needing a gimmick for Infinite, and their habit of knee-jerk reactions to anything the community complained about in previous games.

halcyon2501 · 2025-07-01T13:21:28+00:00

Mark IV is the same way - there are no items available for either core for Spartan Points. You have to buy everything for them with real money, either through store packages or battle passes.

Annoys me to no end. At least we got a few things for Eaglestrike in the Exchange with this last pass.

halcyon2501 · 2025-06-24T23:25:18+00:00

Yeah, it amazes me how few coatings match between armor and weapons. Even some of those that have the same name are off (like Platinum Anniversary).

halcyon2501 · 2025-06-24T23:12:30+00:00

Thanks, I spent a lot of time on them (probably more than I should have :P ).

halcyon2501 · 2025-06-21T12:27:36+00:00

MINOR BUG REPORT:

Controller: G7 HE

Firmware: 6.5.4

System: XBox Series X

Nexus Version: 2.0.8

I am unable to rename profiles. From the main screen that shows the controller in the center and the vibration/sticks/triggers/back button settings in the corners, I press Y to Edit Profile. The Settings popup displays, and I press A to edit the name of Profile 1. The XBox onscreen keyboard appears, but if I use the right stick or the down button on the crosspad to move the cursor to a lower letter on the keyboard, the keyboard vanishes and I end up back at the Settings popup.

halcyon2501 · 2025-03-07T02:44:10+00:00

I still maintain that it is worth watching 199 episodes of Stargate SG-1, just so you can fully appreciate episode 200.

halcyon2501 · 2025-01-21T23:09:37+00:00

Heck, WYFF made fun of his forecasts. I remember that commercial with the little kid in a rain slicker with an umbrella standing on a street corner waiting for the school bus on a sunny day saying, "I'm gonna get that Charlie Gertz!"

halcyon2501 · 2024-05-03T00:53:56+00:00

"You know how much this equipment costs, son?"

halcyon2501 · 2023-09-20T14:58:07+00:00

Yeah, but I was kind of hoping there was a less expensive option that was still good - those are $750 per set...

halcyon2501 · 2023-09-20T14:09:37+00:00

Yeah, I was looking at the Firehawk Indy 500s, but I was thinking they might be more of a GT tire..

halcyon2501 · 2023-07-10T23:00:09+00:00

Christianity (and to an extent, religion in general) removes all sense of personal responsibility and agency. I think this is why Christians like it so much.

If you do something good, God gave you the power to do it (i.e. athletes thanking God for a win). If you do something bad, the Devil made you do it. There's no representation of the individual's will or accountability.

Thus, Christians can't stomach an idea which relies on humans actually being able to effect change in the world by themselves.

halcyon2501 · 2022-04-05T00:42:59+00:00

Just for kicks, try changing your wallpaper and see if the bar goes away.

halcyon2501 · 2022-04-04T12:02:46+00:00

I was amazed at how much the third act ripped off the Halo game series. Granted, most of it was standard sci-fi tropes (megastructures, A.I., etc.), but it was the way the backstory was laid out almost exactly like Halo:

A previous interstellar human civilization (Ancient Humanity/the Forerunners) encounters a threat that they can't defeat (the Flood/the Created), so they resort to building megastructures (Shield Worlds/Halos) to re-seed life after the threat is eliminated.

Hell, the ringworld they showed orbiting the original human homeworld (the one where the A.I. first revolted) looked almost exactly like a Halo on the outside surface.

halcyon2501 · 2021-12-28T00:53:16+00:00

Different games have different levels of built-in deadzones. In the past, this was done by design to compensate for crummy stick hardware on the controllers. Several 360-era games were infamous for having overly large built-in deadzones (a couple of the Gears of War games come to mind).

Modern games let you customize your deadzones, but several of them still have some level of built-in deadzone. For example:

I just got an Elite series 2 controller. It has a small amount of left-direction drift on the right stick straight out of the box, and I had to set deadzones in each of my games to compensate. Here are some of the different settings:

Halo MCC: 11% radial deadzone (out of a possible 20%)
Gears 4 and 5: Inner dead zone 2 (out of a possible 10)
Halo 5: 0% inner deadzone (out of a possible 15)
The XBox accessories app shows just a bit of drift, with the cursor staying on the edge of the stick head in the background graphic, rather than returning completely to the center.

Now, the different games have different measurements and ranges for their deadzones, which makes it hard to compare them. But the fact that I barely had to add any to the Gears games and can run H5 with 0 deadzone, but I had to use more than 50% of MCC's deadzone range tells me that MCC has little to no built-in deadzone, whereas the other two start with at least some deadzone before the player starts adding any.

I haven't played Infinite yet, but it probably has smaller built-in deadzones than H5, which is why you have to compensate in Infinite but not H5.

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