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Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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Or, you know, Locke or Tanaka.

The two most useless characters

You know what's a shame? Locke had a lot of potential if they just actually went with the whole manhunt story. They could have used his past encounter with Randal to influence his opinion on Master Chief and his going AWOL, but no, he's relegated to the role of a sidekick with too much screen time. There's moments you can tell he definitely has an admiration for Chief (and a generally respectful attitude toward everything  that talks) but he's still horribly bland for the most part.

Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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I'm sure everyone would've loved Thorne's strong character and personality.

Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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I'm sure everyone would've loved Thorne's strong character and personality.

They were clearly building him up to me a major character in Spartan ops and he got a fair bit of development in Escalation (In fact his arc was one of the few that wasn't completely awful) but they threw him away for Buck to appeal to the nostalgia fags and to cash in on Nathan Fillion's name, since BUNGiE were doing it. Sure New Blood was a great book, but they don't even realy use him well in the game (Although  to be fair this does applies to almost everyone) they briefly mention Dare and that's it. When Cortana brings up everyone's history she could have used the whole incident with Micky and Rookie to fuck with him but she doesn't.

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Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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Or, you know, Locke or Tanaka.

The two most useless characters

You know what's a shame? Locke had a lot of potential if they just actually went with the whole manhunt story. They could have used his past encounter with Randal to influence his opinion on Master Chief and his going AWOL, but no, he's relegated to the role of a sidekick with too much screen time. There's moments you can tell he definitely has an admiration for Chief (and a generally respectful attitude toward everything  that talks) but he's still horribly bland for the most part.

He was advertised as very adversarial towards Chief, like he had a personal vendetta against him and what he was doing. Instead, he's just a "yes man" who follows orders and has no personality.

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Look at these themes that were explored in Halo 5


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I really think the script must have went through some changes. I wanted to see a Guardian cause total destruction to a city, have the Infinity crash land on Meridian. Civilians die, Locke finds Chief, fights him, but he escapes on the Guardian. Everyone thinks Chief is a traitor for activating it, which he really didn't because it was Cortana. But then that really doesn't work because we know Cortana's back from the beginning...so many things the game could have done better. I loved those trailers.

Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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I actually would have quite liked Thorne, apparently it was a scheduling issue with Ethan Peck
https://youtu.be/S04emcXPJTU?t=9m21s
But then Frankie says that they could have got someone else to play Thorne, soooo

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Look at these themes that were explored in Halo 5


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I really think the script must have went through some changes. I wanted to see a Guardian cause total destruction to a city, have the Infinity crash land on Meridian. Civilians die, Locke finds Chief, fights him, but he escapes on the Guardian. Everyone thinks Chief is a traitor for activating it, which he really didn't because it was Cortana. But then that really doesn't work because we know Cortana's back from the beginning...so many things the game could have done better. I loved those trailers.

I'm thinking that as well. Every build up we got for Halo 5 was just pointless due to the game not in corroborating any of it. There's that trailer of the MC walking in the desert and he comes across that guardian. Due to him wearing the cloak he most likely wore it as camouflage to stay hiding. When it comes to the game he was not hiding from anybody at all and instead of being on the run he's just finding Cortana. Then for him searching for her like what we seen in the trailer we did none of that. We just had one level where we already knew the location of her and we just went to it by her telling us where it is.
 
For the those two point of view trailers there wasn't a level where we came across the Chief like that and there was no real conflict at all between the two. In the Locke trailer you can tell he has something against the guy and wants to make him pay for whatever he thought he did. When it comes to the game there is no hate for the guy and there's no real reason at first why him and his team were looking for John. The whole AWOL thing was a dumb reason for us to track him down. There should have been a stronger reason than that to put the events into motion.

I haven't listened to Hunt The Truth but from what I read the game treats it like it never happened and I an tell in the game it has nothing to do with it.

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Look at these themes that were explored in Halo 5


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I really think the script must have went through some changes. I wanted to see a Guardian cause total destruction to a city, have the Infinity crash land on Meridian. Civilians die, Locke finds Chief, fights him, but he escapes on the Guardian. Everyone thinks Chief is a traitor for activating it, which he really didn't because it was Cortana. But then that really doesn't work because we know Cortana's back from the beginning...so many things the game could have done better. I loved those trailers.

I'm thinking that as well. Every build up we got for Halo 5 was just pointless due to the game not in corroborating any of it. There's that trailer of the MC walking in the desert and he comes across that guardian. Due to him wearing the cloak he most likely wore it as camouflage to stay hiding. When it comes to the game he was not hiding from anybody at all and instead of being on the run he's just finding Cortana.

For the those two point of view trailers there wasn't a level where we came across the Chief like that and there was no real conflict at all between the two. In the Locke trailer you can tell he has something against the guy and wants to make him pay for whatever he thought he did. When it comes to the game there is no hate for the guy and there's no real reason at first why him and his team were looking for John. The whole AWOL thing was a dumb reason for us to track him down. There should have been a stronger reason than that to put the events into motion.

I haven't listened to Hunt The Truth but from what I read the game treats it like it never happened and I an tell in the game it has nothing to do with it.

Hunt The Truth wasn't ecen concieved until february this year (And it was originally a five part series to air over the course of one week). By that point, the game was in late development, so it's hardly fair to criticise the game for not mentioning events which hadn't been thought of when it was written.

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Look at these themes that were explored in Halo 5


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I really think the script must have went through some changes. I wanted to see a Guardian cause total destruction to a city, have the Infinity crash land on Meridian. Civilians die, Locke finds Chief, fights him, but he escapes on the Guardian. Everyone thinks Chief is a traitor for activating it, which he really didn't because it was Cortana. But then that really doesn't work because we know Cortana's back from the beginning...so many things the game could have done better. I loved those trailers.

I'm thinking that as well. Every build up we got for Halo 5 was just pointless due to the game not in corroborating any of it. There's that trailer of the MC walking in the desert and he comes across that guardian. Due to him wearing the cloak he most likely wore it as camouflage to stay hiding. When it comes to the game he was not hiding from anybody at all and instead of being on the run he's just finding Cortana.

For the those two point of view trailers there wasn't a level where we came across the Chief like that and there was no real conflict at all between the two. In the Locke trailer you can tell he has something against the guy and wants to make him pay for whatever he thought he did. When it comes to the game there is no hate for the guy and there's no real reason at first why him and his team were looking for John. The whole AWOL thing was a dumb reason for us to track him down. There should have been a stronger reason than that to put the events into motion.

I haven't listened to Hunt The Truth but from what I read the game treats it like it never happened and I an tell in the game it has nothing to do with it.

Hunt The Truth wasn't even conceived until February this year (And it was originally a five part series to air over the course of one week). By that point, the game was in late development, so it's hardly fair to criticism the game for not mentioning events which hadn't been thought of when it was written.

It's perfectly fair to criticize the game for it when it's another misleading build up for it. Since it has nothing to do with the game then it should have not been created in the first place. It's complete bullshit releasing something like that to build up hype that isn't there. 

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Look at these themes that were explored in Halo 5


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I really think the script must have went through some changes. I wanted to see a Guardian cause total destruction to a city, have the Infinity crash land on Meridian. Civilians die, Locke finds Chief, fights him, but he escapes on the Guardian. Everyone thinks Chief is a traitor for activating it, which he really didn't because it was Cortana. But then that really doesn't work because we know Cortana's back from the beginning...so many things the game could have done better. I loved those trailers.

I'm thinking that as well. Every build up we got for Halo 5 was just pointless due to the game not in corroborating any of it. There's that trailer of the MC walking in the desert and he comes across that guardian. Due to him wearing the cloak he most likely wore it as camouflage to stay hiding. When it comes to the game he was not hiding from anybody at all and instead of being on the run he's just finding Cortana.

For the those two point of view trailers there wasn't a level where we came across the Chief like that and there was no real conflict at all between the two. In the Locke trailer you can tell he has something against the guy and wants to make him pay for whatever he thought he did. When it comes to the game there is no hate for the guy and there's no real reason at first why him and his team were looking for John. The whole AWOL thing was a dumb reason for us to track him down. There should have been a stronger reason than that to put the events into motion.

I haven't listened to Hunt The Truth but from what I read the game treats it like it never happened and I an tell in the game it has nothing to do with it.

Hunt The Truth wasn't even conceived until February this year (And it was originally a five part series to air over the course of one week). By that point, the game was in late development, so it's hardly fair to criticism the game for not mentioning events which hadn't been thought of when it was written.

It's perfectly fair to criticize the game for it when it's another misleading build up for it. Since it has nothing to do with the game then it should have not been created in the first place. It's complete bullshit releasing something like that to build up hype that isn't there.

You do know that it was another company that did HTT than 343, right? They were told as much about Halo 5 as we were.

Even so, I guess we should also condemn Halo 2 and Halo 3 for their marketing campaigns which had little to do with the plots of the games themselves. Because Bungie didn't do Believe or ilovebees, either.

Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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So?
Thorne was lame as fuck. I'd rather fan service than more of a shit character.

Daily reminder that Thorne should have been Osiris instead of Buck and they only did it to appeal to nostalgiafags

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Daily reminder that Thorne is as forced as Locke is

BTB out now

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/battle-of-shadow-and-light-update-is-here

The Battle of Shadow and Light Content Update, our first drop of free content goodness for Halo 5: Guardians, is now available. The next time you log in, you will be prompted to download this update.

The following are included:

Added 48 new REQs, including new armors, helmets, weapon skins, weapon and vehicle variants, a new visor and assassination, and new emblems. See below for a breakdown of what’s included.
Added Big Team Battle playlist to Arena matchmaking
Added BTB (Big Team Battle) Capture the Flag, Strongholds, and Slayer to matchmaking and custom games. The mode details are as follows:
 
For all BTB game types, the Motion Tracker is the same size as Warzone at 25m (larger than the Arena Motion Tracker), and match length is 16 minutes.

BTB CTF – Score to win: 3 Captures
BTB Strongholds – Score to win: 150 points
BTB Slayer – Score to win: 100 points

Added 4 new BTB maps, also available in both matchmaking and custom games:
Basin by the 343 Multiplayer team
Deadlock by Nokyard & the 343 Multiplayer Team
Guillotine by The Psycho Duck & the 343 Multiplayer Team
Recurve by The Fated Fire & the 343 Multiplayer Team

Fixed an aiming issue that could occur due to variance in controller hardware. Head here (Halo 5 Aiming & Controllers) for more details.

Made a variety of tuning tweaks to Warzone Assault, including the below. Head here (Warzone Assault Tuning Changes) for more details.
Faster REQ leveling
Decreased base capture time from 20 seconds to 16 seconds
Reduced starting grenade count to 1

Added the “deliver” nav point for vehicle drivers who have a friendly flag carrier as a passenger.
Fixed an issue where players were able to use the driver and gunner seats while holding the flag. Now, the flag carrier can only sit in the passenger seat.
Improved Post-Game-Carnage-Report consistency.

Convenient.

My last day of the week was today.   

Solid update for a game that's less than a month old.

I guess everyone is used to Warzone, because teammates in BTB throw grenades at you every 5 seconds ;-;

Oh yeah I forgot Halo is a thing

Still trying to figure out what took 6 Gigs, The forge Maps?

>first btb game
>in the first 5 minutes it's 133 to 40
>somehow turn it around and win

Yeeee

Maps are ugly as fuck tho

Yeah, maps are ew

Games are fun.

Nobody likes Longbow!

Might dl the update later. Which is the best map so far?

Might dl the update later. Which is the best map so far?

The Valhalla re-imagined map, Basin.

Yeah, maps are ew

Games are fun.

Nobody likes Longbow!

That shit's not even close to the original version.

Recurve is about as close to Sword Base as it is Longbow
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon has more faithful recreations of longbow than Recurve is

Yeah, maps are ew

Games are fun.

Nobody likes Longbow!

That shit's not even close to the original version.

Recurve is about as close to Sword Base as it is Longbow

Its terrible, yeah

Both in 4 and 5.

And Headlong has severely fucked up initial spawning.

I've spawnwned on the wrong side of the map behind the enemy team, each time ive played

I stocked up on my Arena XP/RP boosts for BTB too, so I have lots of Rs, URs and common boosts.

Now that BTB is out, I'm going to plug http://www.bigteambattle.net/

The folks in charge are still working things out. Might have to wait until the Forge update for things to kick off in full swing, but keep an eye on this website for updates either way.

BTBnet is responsible for churning out some of the best BTB teams Halo has ever had. Wake Up, for example, was a BTBnet competitor.

Now that BTB is out, I'm going to plug http://www.bigteambattle.net/

The folks in charge are still working things out. Might have to wait until the Forge update for things to kick off in full swing, but keep an eye on this website for updates either way.

BTBnet is responsible for churning out some of the best BTB teams Halo has ever had. Wake Up, for example, was a BTBnet competitor.

>Competitive Big Team Battle