Halo 4 review

[MrKirov]

Doesn't bother me at all, more than enough enough Cheevos to focus on in the meantime! Although getting the one on the new spartan ops mission to keep a marine alive on heroic or harder was a bitch...

Stop standing below a drop ship next to 12 elites damnit!!!

[jimtendo]

Top 10 kills Episode #1

[bash]

How are these people killing like that using a fricking 360 pad? Its a peice of ****.

[EvilBoris]

Practice! And a liberal sprinkling of luck. Also, you are probably **** , so it looks more impressive

[bash]

I think its fricking raining and thunderstorming luck rather than a liberal sprinkling. I wonder why make a top ten at all.

[EvilBoris]

The sheer insane number of man hours being played right now and the fact it's recording every game means just through sure statistical chance , crazy things will happen.

Even a 1 in a million chance is going to be a fairly regular occurrence when 300k people are playing 24/7!

[JohnMcL7]

How are these people killing like that using a fricking 360 pad? Its a peice of ****.

Practice makes perfect - I find I'm usually terrible with the 360 pad if I go straight from the PC to the 360 but after a bit I don't find it too bad. That said I didn't think any of the kills in that video were that great and quite a few of them were very lucky, there will be far more impressive kills in time with Halo4 as there were in Reach.

John

[bash]

No FPS should have auto aim, its just gay.

[EvilBoris]

They have to on consoles, otherwise it feels bad. Halo perfected it with its Sticky aim.

[bash]

Sticky Aim sounds even more gay, any auto locking of any kind makes it much harder to separate the men from the boys as far as FPS's are concerned. I remember doing headshots with a rail gun on a PC in Quake 3 at over half the map distance. I've yet to play one console shooter that can provide that kind of buzz.

[BaronSqwelch]

Would I be able to miss a standing target as accurately as I do at the moment with a mouse and kb?
Finally got dragged into the MP of this last night...had great fun...

As my shooting is not the best I was concentrating on other roles as I did in Bad Company 2...mostly I was stunning and hijacking vehicles with the plasma pistol and grenade! Did manage a 4 person multi kill after I called in an incinerator cannon and blasted a crowd

Expect me to randomly appear in some of your games from now on!

[MisterBubbles]

I've got a great clip of myself in the warthog, which im going to call, 'Step on the Gauss' Think i do a triple kill, and then 2 double kills.

[JohnMcL7]

They have to on consoles, otherwise it feels bad. Halo perfected it with its Sticky aim.

Not even remotely true, the sticky aim is a real pain in the neck as you go to sweep the reticule to the target but the sticky aim thinks you're going for something else so nudges you in the wrong direction, this was particularly noticeable in Reach's Firefight mode when there were a lot of enemies on the go. I'm not a fan at all.

John

[Synthesthesia]

Sticky Aim sounds even more gay, any auto locking of any kind makes it much harder to separate the men from the boys as far as FPS's are concerned. I remember doing headshots with a rail gun on a PC in Quake 3 at over half the map distance. I've yet to play one console shooter that can provide that kind of buzz.

Played gears of war? Pretty much zero auto aim in that as far as I'm aware (at the very least I'm 99.9% sure it isn't on the sniper).

[nonny]

It's even worse in BO2 though... the auto-aim is seriously OTT in that. I've had instances where I am trying to snipe two guys in a window and it kept going for the wrong one and pulling me away from my target. The good news is I've since realised you can turn auto-aim off in that game but of course its' still on for everyone else...

I dont find the auto-aim here to be anywhere near as intrusive. It's still there but it isnt as sticky?


So I noticed today something very, very cool in Halo4. The file searching functionality isnt working at the moment and wont be turned on for another couple of weeks (December apparently) but I found out that if you search solely on Gamertag it does work. As such I've downloaded a couple of Halo2/3 remakes and they're pretty damn good.

I just downloaded this map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtEDTctR7g

I got some of the remakes by visiting www.forgehub.com and looking at the Halo4 forum section