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Control room, more glass shattering VID

Rockslider — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:01:36 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 11/1/25 4:01 pm
A further dose of glass shattering in the control room here, principally to show an extended 'wing slice' episode in which I got some excellent shard production going: BCM602.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Player sprinted past fights

scarab — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:25:56 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/31/25 2:25 pm
: That's kind of been a way of playing since the beginning (like, Silent
: Cartographer itself.) If people want to bypass combat they're going to do
: it, sprint or no sprint.

Yes, but with regenerating health, if you escape a room with a sliver of health then you will be back up to full health for the next room. Rinse and repeat.

And I'm sure you can run by more fights with sprint than without.

A new, PS5, player might learn to breeze through the game and wonder why people thought that the original game was a big deal.

But, anyway, I don't want to continue the sprint drama, if you don't see it then you don't see it.
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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

scarab — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:19:42 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/31/25 1:19 pm
Looks like it's a mixture of Reach engine with Unreal 5 graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7alSPblzr0&t=364s
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Re: Thanks OT

davidfuchs — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:57:34 GMT

By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>
Date: 10/29/25 12:57 pm
: Thanks for the news item on my 600th movie. Just to mention though, it's
: currently linking to the wrong forum post. Oops!
Sorry about that, fixed!
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Re: Freakiness and fun #34 VID

Rockslider — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:53:35 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 10/29/25 12:53 pm
: Did the explosions take out all the covies in the area?

No, you can see a red Elite at the bottom of the screen at the end. But I suspect I got the majority.

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Freakiness and fun #34 VID

Captain Spark — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:50:06 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 10/29/25 12:50 pm
: Yeah, it seemed to just keep on going!

Did the explosions take out all the covies in the area?
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Re: Freakiness and fun #34 VID

Rockslider — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:23:27 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 10/29/25 12:23 pm
: Those explosions at 4:40 was spectacular.

Yeah, it seemed to just keep on going!

Bad Cyborg

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Re: Freakiness and fun #34 VID

Captain Spark — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:08:41 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 10/29/25 12:08 pm
: Getting the next hundred movies off to a start, here's my 34th compilation of
: freakiness and fun, BCM601 . Been almost nine months since the last one
: of these!

Those explosions at 4:40 was spectacular.
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Re: Player sprinted past fights

davidfuchs — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:42:47 GMT

By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>
Date: 10/29/25 11:42 am
: https://youtu.be/j5YURjw6DGc?si=Rds5YT0TN4U6vzlU&t=524

: Halo: Combat Optional.

That's kind of been a way of playing since the beginning (like, Silent Cartographer itself.) If people want to bypass combat they're going to do it, sprint or no sprint.
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Freakiness and fun #34 VID

Rockslider — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:53:04 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 10/29/25 10:53 am
Getting the next hundred movies off to a start, here's my 34th compilation of freakiness and fun, BCM601. Been almost nine months since the last one of these!

Bad Cyborg

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Thanks OT

Rockslider — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:25:57 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 10/27/25 4:25 pm
Thanks for the news item on my 600th movie. Just to mention though, it's currently linking to the wrong forum post. Oops!

Bad Cyborg

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Player sprinted past fights

scarab — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:01:05 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/27/25 12:01 pm
https://youtu.be/j5YURjw6DGc?si=Rds5YT0TN4U6vzlU&t=524

Halo: Combat Optional.
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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

davidfuchs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:53:22 GMT

By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>
Date: 10/27/25 7:53 am
: I have seen images of suicide grunts and I've seen a player EMP a hog.

: In the original game: Grunts panicked when you kill the Elite and you can
: take advantage of that. It's fun.

: In later games: Grunts run at you carrying stickies and you have to back
: pedal or shoot them.

: I find the original gameplay more fun. The later games have a soup�on of suck
: added to them, and I find that people love to rationalise why you should
: add a touch more suck to the game, it lets all the games suck equally, it
: homogenizes them. To me it prioritizes other concerns over fun. I think
: that that is a mistake.

: I had one moment of pure fun in a Halo 3 beam tower when every Grunt in the
: building went into suicide mode, started warbling and came running at me.
: Dozens of suiciding grunts. I couldn't escape or react because I was too
: busy laughing. But I would trade that one moment for years of better
: gameplay.

: A guy from IGN said that human vehicles can take damage, I never saw that in
: gameplay clips.

: It's a bit of a cop-out to make gameplay features, user selectable, but...
: they could be.

: I'd switch off:
: enemy EMP
: suicide grunts
: hog turret overheats
: human vehicle damage
:

: I'd turn on:
: grenade piles
: rocket wash danger
:

: They could add telemetry to use the toggles as a form of A/B testing,
: especially if they had a public beta. They could see what proportion of
: people use the toggles, then, in that group, track their options.

: If there was a marked preference for what I call fun features then they could
: back-port them to the later games to restore consistency.

Yeah I'm kind of hopeful that they add some "classic" toggles. You can sell it these days as an accessibility thing, but I think that having a more streamlined classic experience is probably better for me and people like me, while also admitting as a casual "first introduce PlayStation players to a Halo game" you want something a bit more modern for the majority.

I agree the suicide Grunts thing always felt like way too common an occurrence. It was extra weird in Halo Reach where they have that one segment where Grunts are just going suicide for... no discernible reason.
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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

scarab — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:05:45 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/27/25 6:05 am
: I wouldn't be surprised if that's stuff's in there, save for the overheating
: guns. They definitely seem to be trying to port a more modern game
: experience back to CE and then wiggle around to find the right level of
: "close" to CE. One advantage of this being campaign only is they
: don't have to tune it for multiplayer considerations.

I have seen images of suicide grunts and I've seen a player EMP a hog.

In the original game: Grunts panicked when you kill the Elite and you can take advantage of that. It's fun.

In later games: Grunts run at you carrying stickies and you have to back pedal or shoot them.

I find the original gameplay more fun. The later games have a soup�on of suck added to them, and I find that people love to rationalise why you should add a touch more suck to the game, it lets all the games suck equally, it homogenizes them. To me it prioritizes other concerns over fun. I think that that is a mistake.

I had one moment of pure fun in a Halo 3 beam tower when every Grunt in the building went into suicide mode, started warbling and came running at me. Dozens of suiciding grunts. I couldn't escape or react because I was too busy laughing. But I would trade that one moment for years of better gameplay.

A guy from IGN said that human vehicles can take damage, I never saw that in gameplay clips.

: There's a lot of polish I hope happens, just because stuff like that I think
: is going to make the biggest difference to feeling more like a Halo game
: and rather just "generic job we did in Unreal", even as this is
: clearly the cutting the teeth project for starting the next big project. I
: missed stuff like the chapter names and the like sorely. I was kind of
: hoping the additional content would be The Flood elements like Alpha
: Base and the like rather than prequel stuff (although maybe that's the
: fight above Reach from TFOR or the newer teamups from the novel Silent
: Storm ? Could be cool.) but I'm here for any of it. The old game isn't
: going away so I'm more open to considered deviations.

It's a bit of a cop-out to make gameplay features, user selectable, but... they could be.

I'd switch off:

enemy EMP

suicide grunts

hog turret overheats

human vehicle damage

I'd turn on:

grenade piles

rocket wash danger

They could add telemetry to use the toggles as a form of A/B testing, especially if they had a public beta. They could see what proportion of people use the toggles, then, in that group, track their options.

If there was a marked preference for what I call fun features then they could back-port them to the later games to restore consistency.

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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

davidfuchs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:46:21 GMT

By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>
Date: 10/26/25 8:46 pm
: Some observations...

: I think i saw the Chief being struct by a warthog and survive. (In the
: original trailer)

: I saw an Elite try to board the warthog but something stopped him. Was he
: struck by a tree as the hog drove past it?

: The hog gun glows red but doesn't seem to overheat.

: Nobody tried to drive a hog when the Chief wasn't in it.

: Didn't see any suicide grunts or emps from covies. The Chief can do vehicle
: emps.

: Covies don't seem to teleport away from grenades though frags don't see to
: have as large a blast radius.

: Didn't see grenade piles detonating.

: Not sure if rockets detonate when fired close to walls. I saw firing
: close(ish) to a rock but maybe outside of the CE blast range.

: The assault riffle seems to be more powerful.

: The gameplay difficulty was not legendary. I hope that legendary doesn't
: reintroduce the things that detracted from later campaigns.
:
: emp
: suicide grunts
: uncanny grenade avoiding
: overheating hog guns
:

I wouldn't be surprised if that's stuff's in there, save for the overheating guns. They definitely seem to be trying to port a more modern game experience back to CE and then wiggle around to find the right level of "close" to CE. One advantage of this being campaign only is they don't have to tune it for multiplayer considerations.

There's a lot of polish I hope happens, just because stuff like that I think is going to make the biggest difference to feeling more like a Halo game and rather just "generic job we did in Unreal", even as this is clearly the cutting the teeth project for starting the next big project. I missed stuff like the chapter names and the like sorely. I was kind of hoping the additional content would be The Flood elements like Alpha Base and the like rather than prequel stuff (although maybe that's the fight above Reach from TFOR or the newer teamups from the novel Silent Storm? Could be cool.) but I'm here for any of it. The old game isn't going away so I'm more open to considered deviations.
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Jamie Griesmier

scarab — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:41:49 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/26/25 3:41 pm
Jamie might be in a video talking about the remaster: https://youtu.be/CDi0JWua2vw?si=RWON_jfmHPO8EJvd&t=1860

The video above is also pretty good to watch.
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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

scarab — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:55:11 GMT

By: scarab
Date: 10/26/25 2:55 pm
: Xbox page

: The rumored CE remake is coming, and it looks a bit like a reimagining with
: some bonus content.

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efThjRym-ks

Some observations...

I think i saw the Chief being struct by a warthog and survive. (In the original trailer)

I saw an Elite try to board the warthog but something stopped him. Was he struck by a tree as the hog drove past it?

The hog gun glows red but doesn't seem to overheat.

Nobody tried to drive a hog when the Chief wasn't in it.

Didn't see any suicide grunts or emps from covies. The Chief can do vehicle emps.

Covies don't seem to teleport away from grenades though frags don't see to have as large a blast radius.

Didn't see grenade piles detonating.

Not sure if rockets detonate when fired close to walls. I saw firing close(ish) to a rock but maybe outside of the CE blast range.

The assault riffle seems to be more powerful.

The gameplay difficulty was not legendary. I hope that legendary doesn't reintroduce the things that detracted from later campaigns.

suicide grunts

uncanny grenade avoiding

overheating hog guns

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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

Captain Spark — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:00:55 GMT

By: Captain Spark
Date: 10/26/25 2:00 pm
: Ah right, got it. That gives me a much better sense of what things are going
: to be like. Basically it's using the more 'modern' sort of covies (H4?)
: and other stuff, but with the maps echoing the old ones in terms of
: overall features, and with some of the old voice audio used, or in the
: case of Cortana, re-recording her old lines or variations thereof (she
: still sounds great).

: I heard some old Grunt voice audio in there, but I think most of it was more
: modern. Heard Stacker in the hog, but couldn't recognize him. Did the
: Marines all have dark visors? Actually the Marines tended to look almost
: shrouded in darkness. 2:38 was particularly bad, in the vicinity of the
: newly dropped hog. The hog seemed unnaturally dark too.

: But anyway, I won't get into serious analysis, a lot of which would likely
: just echo things I said about H4 or whatever.

: One thing I will quickly mention though: I do think it's terrible how you
: get weapon-swap prompts in the middle of the screen. Very ugly and
: distracting. I was immediately struck by that. Now that I check back to
: my old H4 opinion piece, I see that it's something which came in with H4.
: Maybe it never went away after that, I don't know (I've lost track since
: then).

I'm looking forward to playing the game and seeing what the new skulls will unlock.
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The Road to Halo Part 2

Postmortem — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:54:42 GMT

By: Postmortem <isaac.frankel@gmail.com>
Date: 10/26/25 12:54 pm
The complete story of the SPARTAN-II program from 2510 to 2525.

Off Screen

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Re: Halo: Campaign Evolved

Rockslider — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:57:08 GMT

By: Rockslider
Date: 10/26/25 5:57 am
: There is a gamplay video of the remake on the Halo Youtube channel.
: https://youtu.be/hSjbIM0iegY?si=cFvZBpjZ8lho-Nkk

Ah right, got it. That gives me a much better sense of what things are going to be like. Basically it's using the more 'modern' sort of covies (H4?) and other stuff, but with the maps echoing the old ones in terms of overall features, and with some of the old voice audio used, or in the case of Cortana, re-recording her old lines or variations thereof (she still sounds great).

I heard some old Grunt voice audio in there, but I think most of it was more modern. Heard Stacker in the hog, but couldn't recognize him. Did the Marines all have dark visors? Actually the Marines tended to look almost shrouded in darkness. 2:38 was particularly bad, in the vicinity of the newly dropped hog. The hog seemed unnaturally dark too.

But anyway, I won't get into serious analysis, a lot of which would likely just echo things I said about H4 or whatever.

One thing I will quickly mention though: I do think it's terrible how you get weapon-swap prompts in the middle of the screen. Very ugly and distracting. I was immediately struck by that. Now that I check back to my old H4 opinion piece, I see that it's something which came in with H4. Maybe it never went away after that, I don't know (I've lost track since then).

Bad Cyborg

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