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SNOWBOUND
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VETO
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Based Arby n the Chief fag
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>this better not be Snowbound again
How come nobody camps the middle with the shotgun anymore? They’re obsessedw ith the snipers and coming down the pipe hole with the brute shot.-
Camping with shotgun isn’t viable since they took out the shield doors.
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Take me to Sandtrap, the best map.
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>not the pit
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>not valhalla
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god i love the bungie forerunner aesthetic.
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>all those hours spent driving the Mongoose over the Valhalla hill and having a Brute Shot-wielding passenger launch us towards the enemy base
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>new MCC update added custom games browser for Halo 3
>got to hop into a game of infection on sandtrap and do laps around the map while zombies try to murder me with swords and grav hammers
Just like old times.
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The Pit is by far the worst map in the game. It’s so fucking generic and uninteresting design, and the flow is just circling the map, sometimes broken by enemies spawning behind you.
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>sometimes broken by enemies spawning behind you.
The Pit spawns are side static in team playlists, you will only ever spawn on your side unless all spawns are blocked.
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Halo had lots of cool maps, what happen
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343 happened
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Literally all industrial too. It got stale fast and they are doing it again with recharge and livefire.
Thankfully they are not completely retarded with infinite. Bazaara and behemoth are the best map so far. those two maps better be fucking amazingly diverse or I might get sick of it quickly
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*twenty
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I get the point that anon was making but Recharge is a fantastic map, easily my favorite of the tech test.
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There’s nothing unique about any of the Infinite maps. Absolutely 0 atmosphere.
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It’s still like this in Infinite. There’s no gimmick in any of the maps they’ve shown. They’re all just 3 lane arenas, and I believe 3 of them are symmetrical.
The BTB map was fucking terrible.-
How in the fuck is Recharge a 3 lane arena?
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Really? Are we really at the point where Chiron and Elongation are being praised and fondly remembered?
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Chiron is a fun map nerd. 343 blobmaps are not.
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Elongation and Longest CTF are fun if you’re not with people who are trying.
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Better than any 343 map.
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>This nigga didn’t play ffa rockets first to ten on Chiron
Boy
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Stripe of color.
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boarding action is my favorite gimmick map, love that shit
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343 used forge to make all the maps
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Bungie did that with Reach long before 343 took over.
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Veto
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Why did they put a call of duty map into Halo 3
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i only ever saw that map in customs
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This map visually aged like wine
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Unironically ghost town was an experimental map and they even said so back then.
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It’s a good map, especially for swat and snipers.
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Why does this map come up all the fucking time?
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Prisoner kicks ass
Lockout kicks ass
Guardian kicks ass
Reach’s comp maps suck
4 has no comp but Haven is ok
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"VETTO!"
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Fucking Snowbound
Veto Veto Veto fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck -
Skyboxes are a lost art
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Halo 3 had a very nice aesthetic.
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it still holds up to this day. the texture work and baked lighting are amazing.
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Meanwhile 343 maps for the most part not all are have shit vistas and look dead
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bungie still knock it out of the park with their skyboxes
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>no HUD elements overlapping the weapon
I wish more devs followed this rule, it looks so much cleaner.-
CE’s HUD will always remain the best. Less so the Anniversary one, but I don’t feel like digging for an original Xbox screenshot.
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shame that can’t be said for anything else about the game
destiny could’ve been amazing-
I dunno, it plays vastly better than any other shooter I’ve ever played. I just play the campaigns and do the raids and dungeons a few times each, it’s good fun.
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The shooting mechanics are admittedly rock solid considering it’s from Bungie and the Raids (and a few strikes) are great with a group, but the complementary elements all kind of buckle within the constraints of the format. Without a versatile sandbox of weapons, vehicles, and enemies, combat scenarios usually boiled down to repetitive bullet-spongy shooting galleries. Destiny lore is also astoundingly poor for the potential it’s baffling.
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yeah, I wish there was more unique elements with the enemies, something like diablo style elite affixes would be great, and could easily work with all of the sci-fi tech and magic that the setting provides. Vehicles should totally get more play, especially in a big team style crucible mode, which is sorely lacking, and it’s a shame, because they feel pretty great to drive on the rare occasion that they show up
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Destiny is a beautiful looking game all around
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Invasion was a pretty fun game mode.
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Infantry only or vehicle map?
Which was superior in Halo?
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Personally i prefer vehicle maps since they tend to get more chaotic with warthogs flying all over the place and ghosts exploding like it was new years eve
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1 2 and 3 combined arms maps were better but in Reach onwards Infanity only maps are better because the vehicle balance in Reach onward is beyond broken, and by that I mean they are practically useless and way too easy to destroy.
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why does the map rotation on MCC suck. i play on the same maps over and over
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Because for some reason the maps have arbitrary weights to them rather than all having an equal chance of being selected.
Epitaph has a 2% weight for instance in AR slayer, so 1 in 50 games you will get it.-
why
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Because 343 diverse folk tongue my anus.
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VETO THIS FUCKING SHIT. VETO!
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https://store.steampowered.com/developer/XboxGameStudios/sale/halomccfreeweekend2021 gaylo is free 2 days
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Only 2 and it fucking aged like milk. Game is shit now.
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fuck off
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Explain halo to me
To me the game always looked like some cheap eastern European shooter about space
I never owned an Xbox so maybe thats the reason-
I’d say it’s the Star Wars of video games. Original trilogy is pure kino, the newer ones aren’t nearly as good as the originals but still have *some* draw to them, and the expanded universe is quality.
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the EU is shit after 343 got their dirty hands on it, the rest of this post is accurate.
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What makes it look Eastern European? It was the American college dudebro of FPS games at the time.
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Take a classic arena shooter and gut it to make it suitable for console players.
>floaty jump physics
>slow movement speed
>longer ttk
>aim assist for everything but sniping
Instead of fast-paced gameplay as usual for arena shooters, it focuses on slower team strategy, map control, and vehicles. It effectively does its own thing and is pretty fun in that sense.
It also took other design decisions like regenerating health and two weapon carry limits. While these gameplay elements work well enough in Halo, they were copied by nearly every other medicore shooter of the 00s/10s and killed the entire fps genre for a decade.
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>Arby ‘n’ the Chief
>Custom games on Foundry
>Screaming in matchmaking lobby
>Pressing X as the custom game lobby faded to black
>Absolute hype before Halo 3 came outI miss those times.
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> Pepsi Samba
> Big bag of skittles
> Pizza
> Crackdown, Halo 3, Dead Rising
I want to go back anon..-
That Pepsi looks comfy Anon, we didn’t get that in Bongland. I used to grab 2L of supermarket brand energy drink on a Friday and play until stupid AM. Stopped doing that shortly after CoD WaW as I was getting chest pains during the day. These days I rarely bother with vidya, hundreds of games on Steam and nothing to play.
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It’s crazy the shit we ate and the stupid hours we stayed up to
I’m 30 now and I feel fucking exhausted and wanting to sleep by 10am-
I’ve been know to go to bed before 9pm, you’re not the only one. Nobody teaches you that once you start working it’s just an endless Monday->Friday->Weekend loop. Time flies.
Pic somewhat related, I took that screenshot over 10 fucking years ago.The butthurt was incredible in hindsight.
It does subside after a while, depending when you stopped drinking the energy garden gnome of course. Not much older than you, so was just a little shit when binging on caffeine drinks and went cold turkey. Now it’s the alcohol garden gnome I need to kick.
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>alcohol garden gnome I need to kick
I have about 10 beers a day, I need to be slaughtered to fall asleep-
damn anon tone that shit down that’s a kick to the wallet if true
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I used to drink monsters and stuff all the time, now I get chest pains whenever I drink anything stronger than coffee. I only just turned 24
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based retards.
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>Pressing X as the custom game lobby faded to black
Sometimes it would take like 10 mins just to get a match started cause of everyone doing this lmao
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stupid fucking snowbound
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>Free MCC weekend
>Install Halo 4
>Beat Legendary in one day and will never buy it / touch it again-
Halo 4 campaign is just irredeemable garbage. Multiplayer is still passable but really, really weak compared to any other in the series.
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Fuck off reach is the irredeemable garbage. 4 at least had a decent campaign.
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Please stop drinking formaldehyde.
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4 has the worst enemies ever put into an fps, the a.i. got worse, and all the weapons are borderline hitscan.
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343i hands made this post
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Reach is probably the worst Bungie campaign, but it can’t even be compared to how bad 4/5 are.
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lol, lmao.
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We’ve reached peak retardation fellas
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Half of 4’s campaign is complete fucking garbage. Anything that involves the Prometheans, or whatever the fuck they were called, was just a bunch of samey looking gray rooms using the same 4-5 weapons over and over again that looked like heaps of metal magically floating together to fight bullet sponge Knights that teleported around or dog things you one-shot.
I cannot believe anyone that actually played Halo 4’s campaign could think it was decent.
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>press x to kill elite
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>mcc has a 12gb update
what the fuck-
season 8 baby
more f2p shit
except the new map I guess
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I remember being a teenager and thinking this level specifically was as good as graphics were ever gonna get.
probably just because it was one of the first times I saw something on an hd tv tho.-
Halo 3 visually has aged in a lot of ways but the lighting is still godlike and does a great job and hiding how a lot of textures clearly indicate an xbox 360 game.
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Halo 3 definitely had the best blend of minimalism, colors, and great lighting to keep it good looking today. CE’s look is more cartoony with its blockish textures and even brighter colors, while Reach had a little too much going on with the character/gun models and scenery to pull off the same aesthetic as 3.
Still I feel the only Halo game that aged poorly was 2. It was trying to do way too much with the limited Xbox tech at the time. It pushed that console to its limits but looks worse than CE today because of it. At least 2 got one of the greatest HD remasters ever made. H2A looks way better than 5, and it’s easily the visual peak of the entire franchise.-
It wouldn’t be weird of me to say that OG Halo 2 is unplayable for me after experiencing H2A is it
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As long as you also agree that CEA (or at least the second half of it) is utter dogshit and one of the biggest cases of wasted potential ever released.
I don’t play H2 with original graphics anymore, because it looks like ass. I also really like modding that campaign with the ruby rebalanced patch, since the original gun balancing and difficulty scaling were also absolute trash. Level design is also a little boring compared to CE and 3 too lol, but can’t fix that. 10/10 writing, characters, and music though. -
The only reason I don’t play in H2A graphics is because the muzzle flash on most of the guns is over the top and so you can’t see shit once you start shooting.
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I don’t play H2A because that remaster ost is worse than the original and I cant just use remastered graphics with original ost because 343 are fucking retarded.
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Halo 3 holds up a lot better at high resolutions vs games of that period like Gears of War and COD4. It used a lot of layered decals and normal maps that are going to scale better at higher resolutions than whatever constituted as high res textures from 2007. And good lighting is always going to age well.
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Pretty much yeah, the painted backdrops that clearly weren’t authored for high resolutions stick out like a black sheep but everything else looks fantastic in higher resolutions.
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It honestly holds up better than most games from the 7th gen. Whatever magic they pulled on the lighting seriously paid off, despite the low-poly assets.
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Good lighting can save old games, just like a good artstyle can. It’s why STALKER to this day is still called a really good looking game despite the age
Personally there’s something about Halo 3’s artstyle I dislike though I can admit it still looks good. It almost seems too bright or too colorful or something to me.
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Funnily enough this level was as good as graphics got.
Despite 14 more years and infinitely more processing power available to use, video game graphics have not budged a fucking inch since 2007.Probably because modern devs are hacks that blow 90% of the performance budget on dogshit environmental AO when baked lighting works just fine for static lights.
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have 343 ever acknowledged or even plan to fix these playlists for mcc
LITERALLY constantly playing on the same two goddamn maps ever with no change in both halo reach and 3, endless reach dlc maps and endless sandtrap/box on 3 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkGtVJVYps
>something like this will never EVER happen again on this planet -
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I decided to keep going through Halo 4’s campaign despite anons in an older thread saying it was mostly bad/mediocre and I gotta say
I kind of liked it. Some of it anyways. It had enough moments that I liked to say that I likes the game even if I could pick a ton of things that I didn’t like
Chief and Cortana suddenly having as deep a relationship they did felt weird but I could tell Bungie was hinting that by the end of 3. Maybe 343 just rushed it too far forward.
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What do people mostly play in the new seasons for MCC? 3 or Reach or 2 or what?
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>seasons
Fuck off and fuck 343-
okay i’ll just play halo 2 singleplayer on my xbox by myself then
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Based
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343 are incompetent but their inclusion of custom games browser is undeniably based
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>people ask for PC halo with server browser for years
>they literally promise server browser for MCC
>"we did it guys, we put in a custom game browser!"
>retards rejoice
No they aren’t and it isn’t the first thing they straight up lied about in the promo material either
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I hate this map
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how do I use the h3 mod tools
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Do you think 343 will ever have the balls to kill off the Chief?
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They already did that by milking him for 3 more shitty games.
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>Do you think 343 will ever have the balls to kill off the Chief?
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They had the balls to kill Halo
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His story ended for me in Halo 3.
I wouldn’t mind if they gave him a final sendoff.
I might be pissed if they kill him, but I could stand having him disappear.
Spartans never die, they’re just mia, and all that.-
>Halo infinite
>Chief Dies
>Portal Opens and another chief steps out
>another portal opens another chief steps out
>multiple portals open with different chiefs stepping out
>Halo "infinite"-
ooh i hate that
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don’t fucking jinx it
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the only way it’d be cool is if the multiplayer was a lore accurate Master Chief civil war
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How the fuck have I not linked the game to Bioshock Infinishit after all this time?
>hyped up marketing
>delayed for years
>scrapped and reworked from the ground up
>"soft reboot"
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Unless I missed it, there isn’t an overt Halo MCC shill thread rn, so I’m posting this here.
I am a salty Bungie purist who is pretty critical of 343i, but I bought the MCC last night and have been playing it all day.
I like that you can customize your downloads and only download certain parts of games: and I noticed that I had downloaded the multiplayer for Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach, but the campaigns for only Reach, ODST, and 4.
I love the Halo trilogy campaigns to death, I love Big Chief’s story in that trilogy, but stories about anyone other than Chief are just what I need right now. Reach and Spartan Ops are a lot of fun particularly because you get to customize your character. There’s a roleplaying element to that, where there’s space to imagine who your spartan is, what his specialty is and all that. My Noble 6 is a scuba boi…
Spartan Ops is also the best thing 343i has done with Halo, as far as campaigns go. Some of the writing is really really bad, like you have some "I’m going to science the shit out of this!" lines, but the premise of being operators out in the field with a team behind you is great, and refreshingly smaller scale compared to Mister Chief’s big adventure.-
I really hated Spartan Ops because there wasn’t any semblance of balance. No time or life limits, so it just throws a ridiculous amount of enemies at you and expects you to die a hundred times.
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I can agree about that, but I’ll take it over what they did for their actual campaigns.
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for me, it’s going into maps alone (because i had no friends) and just soaking in the atmosphere and ambience
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VETO VETO VETO
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The MCC is free until monday, don’t forget to play with your fellow anons https://discord.gg/93XghqjrrJ
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