Quote from: BaconShelf on September 29, 2015, 03:50:49 PM

Besides, mystery for the sake of mystery is bad writing.

I don't agree at all. I mean, sure, if you're using it as an excuse to leave some elephant in the room going completely unexplained, then that's bad writing. What I was thinking of, primarily, is this Starwarsian idea of giving every single character on-screen a name and a detailed backstory.

The same kind of thing is happening with Mad Max, which pisses me off. The Doof Warrior (flamethrower guitar dude) apparently has his own backstory. Why? Because we want to know more about him, sure, but why do we have to know more about him?... For me, it kills the novelty.

I was more referring to the large scale stuff. In halo, you spend most of your time poking through forerunner structures for whatever reason. You're going to have to address forerunners at some point instead of just dodging the issue or blowing up whatever artefact was about to tell us everything we wanted. That's what most people mean when they say there's no mystery in Halo. With something that is such an integral part of the franchise, you're going to have to acknowledge them at some point.

But I get your point on the flamethrower guy.

Quote from: BaconShelf on September 29, 2015, 03:13:46 PM

Quote from: Coco on September 29, 2015, 11:13:42 AM

Did you play much online?  I think you'd appreciate the BR more if you did frequently.

Because it's the only fucking useful weapon in the multiplayer

There's no point picking up power weapons because the BR just out-guns literally everything

What is a skill gap?

I'd be okay with rewarding an automatic weapon that is actually hard to aim, but that's never existed: guns like the AR do the aiming for you.  Why should that be rewarded?

BRs don't outgun rocket launchers, swords, shotguns, etc... just incompetent people with rocket launchers, swords, shotguns, etc... The BR is a central weapon, but you're exaggerating how powerful it is.

No weapon should be useful in every circumstance. The BR has no downsides, aside from no anti-vehicle capability. This is game design 101, you don't have one weapon that can outclass everything else and can perform a role as good as more or less any other. Not without restricting it's availability or ammunition, anyway.

CQC? BR dominates
Medium-Range? Optimal range
Long-Range? Shoot a guy with a sniper once and he has no way to hit you back unless he's lucky
And dodging rockets is easy. Their effective range is pretty much CQC (for infantry who are aware of you), so you simply dodge the rocket an ten unload a magazine.

The BR is broken design, and the chief reason I don't play Halo 2 at all on MCC. It's te only halo game I'll actively quit out of.

So... is this issue, like, a regular occurrence now?

I'll calender it in for about december-time.

What if we came from Mars?

That doesn't make much sense. Like, at all.

The only way that would be possible is if some civilisation had the technology to launch spacecraft - and there are literally zero signs of any kind of life having existed, much less intelligent life.

I thought you were busy working on a story with your friends >>

I am. It's more of my personal project, with a couple of people who I get feedback from regarding a bunch of stuff.

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Quote from: BaconShelf on September 28, 2015, 10:55:24 AM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on September 28, 2015, 09:57:50 AM

If I was to join the military I'd want it to be something I have a pretty good chance of dying in. Like EOD

Why? That's an interesting outlook on things.

Well for me at least the military would be the last stop for me. It's my back up plan if I flunk out of college or massively fuck up my current plan for life, nothing left to lose at that point. Not to say that I view the military as that. I commend anyone that chooses to enlist and think it's a good life choice with plenty of advanced viable career paths but simply not for me. It's also because I would want to see some action rather just sit on base dicking around.

Fair enough. It's certainly a unique perspective (the last bit) but I get where you're coming from.

Quote from: BaconShelf on September 27, 2015, 11:59:50 PM

Aside from 3 and Reach, I'd consider CE to be the weakest plot of the shooters. Keyes only really becomes all that interesting after reading Fall of Reach and Cole Protocol, because he becomes an actual character. Same for John (Chief) in Fall of Reach. Cortana is cool anyway.

But John doesn't stop being generic military b@d@$$ until Halo 4. However, we get Thel (Arbiter) in Halo 2 who is pretty good.

Now, allow me to address a point: Earth. Earth is basically the capital planet. In the same way that our military protects the capital city, the UNSC likes Earth. It's where the important people are. That's why it's so important - what remains of the military and leadership is there. If it goes down, then the rest of the war is basically just mopping up by the Covenant.

But yeah, Bungie doesn't like exposition. There's a month gap between Halo 1 and 2, and they dont even bother saying how you return to the unsc. they hust say "It's classified" then never bring it up. Don't expect that much, because you don't get it in their games. But I guess it's also crucial to understand that they planned to have one game then move on, they never expected a multi billion dollar franchise, so didn't plan for one. It's partially why that game is do disconnected from the other things that are going on.
 Still, I can happily say that there's only two cases of level repitition in the rest of the series. Coincidentally enough, both are in the worst campaigns.

If only they released a book after the release of Halo 1 that shared the events of what happened.

Oh wait.

Try using aim assist. Maybe you won't miss the point next time.

If I was to join the military I'd want it to be something I have a pretty good chance of dying in. Like EOD

Why? That's an interesting outlook on things.

Quote from: Ingloriouswho98 on September 27, 2015, 10:51:51 PM

I swear to god if anyone here actually wears cargo pants

Uhm...

Aside from 3 and Reach, I'd consider CE to be the weakest plot of the shooters. Keyes only really becomes all that interesting after reading Fall of Reach and Cole Protocol, because he becomes an actual character. Same for John (Chief) in Fall of Reach. Cortana is cool anyway.

But John doesn't stop being generic military b@d@$$ until Halo 4. However, we get Thel (Arbiter) in Halo 2 who is pretty good.

Now, allow me to address a point: Earth. Earth is basically the capital planet. In the same way that our military protects the capital city, the UNSC likes Earth. It's where the important people are. That's why it's so important - what remains of the military and leadership is there. If it goes down, then the rest of the war is basically just mopping up by the Covenant.

But yeah, Bungie doesn't like exposition. There's a month gap between Halo 1 and 2, and they dont even bother saying how you return to the unsc. they hust say "It's classified" then never bring it up. Don't expect that much, because you don't get it in their games. But I guess it's also crucial to understand that they planned to have one game then move on, they never expected a multi billion dollar franchise, so didn't plan for one. It's partially why that game is do disconnected from the other things that are going on.
 Still, I can happily say that there's only two cases of level repitition in the rest of the series. Coincidentally enough, both are in the worst campaigns.

Quote from: BaconShelf on September 27, 2015, 05:43:17 PM

I can do about a mile in about 16 minutes

you need to change that pronto

I'm only quoting this one but it applies to anyone else who said it too.

Role I'm looking at is about 14 minutes. Infantry is 11 and paratroopers get 9.

I can cut 16 minutes down to 13 minutes fairly easily, I think. 16's like my standard walking speed.

[Posted in serious so I an actually have a proper discussion. I'd kind of appreciate if people don't make shitty jokes or whatever as it's something I'm serious about.]

When I say considering, I mean. Like, thinking about it. By no means sold on it, saying 50% certain would be an overstatement. But if I did, it would be September 2016 at earliest.

Basically, I've been looking at IT roles in the Royal Army. Because, I'm really interested in te military in general and computers are my thing. It seems like a perfect fit, really. I don't really know what I want to do after college as the more I see about university, the less I want to go, to be honest.

My only concern would be the health requirements. I do a lot of walking and I can do about a mile in about 16 minutes, so cutting that down a couple of minutes wouldn't be too difficult, I don't think.

So yeah. Has anyone here been/ done something similar? Is there anything I should consider And is it worth it? I want to know that of I decide to do it, I'll be doing it after considering as much as I can.


Oh yeah, I'll reply to any posts in here in the morning.

Since there would be a majoir nuclear winter going on from all those nukes how exactly did any type of plant and animal life survive those years after it?

>Fallout
>scientific accuracy

I write science fiction. Well, I do more world building than actual proper writing, I find making lore more fun than actually making any stories to put in it. Mainly because I can never stay interested in one set of characters for long.