"Halo Online" Beta Coming to PC

[fojacko]

 Might actually be good if they dont fuck it up by making it P2W

[Victorious Secret]

Well if it's anything like Halo 4, MCC, or Halo 5, it won't be Halo, just an FPS with Halo-themed skins and the stupid/childish premise of all multiplayer actually being TRAINING SIMULATORS.

 

 

Let me play as elites and I'll be happy.

 

How is that childish and stupid? 

You realize its been a running joke (ever since Red vs Blue commented on it) about why Red and Blue are even fighting each other. 

 

Screw MS and 343 for actually giving it a canonical reason as to why Red and Blue spend their free time pounding each other into smithereens. You really have an issue with that simple of an explanation? That is nit picking of the highest order. And have you actually played MCC or Halo 5 

Halo 4 was too far removed from the simple balancing that made Halo what Halo is. I'll give you that. But MCC? Thats Halo CE, 2 and 3. The more traditional Halos with their balancing and holy trifecta of gunplay, melee and grenades. Halo 5 is closer to Halo 2/CE than any game before it with the same style of balancing. 

 

So once again, nit picking and quite frankly talking in a way that suggests you have in fact, no idea what you're talking about. 

[LAwLz]

<trailer>

Its Halo 3 with a hell of a lot of weapon skins/variants and most importantly - EVERY SINGLE MAP EVER MADE. 

 

You'll notice that it has English. Weather this is for translation purposes or it suggest a proper worldwide release, who knows. You'll also notice that the graphic aren't complete shit. Well, slightly. PC components are expensive in Russia, hence the need to keep the game light. But this is the Halo 3 engine and that is hardly the worst looking thing to have even today, despite being nearly a decade old. 

 

It'll be curious to see how the balancing works. Halo works because everyone is the same. So if all they have for the "pay" portion is getting access to skins and design variants (but all having the same attributes) then this could work pretty well for Russia's market.  

 

@MadSprite, update OP with the trailer? 

Other than having loadouts (which sucks) and having to pay/grind to unlock weapons, it seems pretty good.

[UnknownEngineer]

I am literally more exited about a halo mod for ARMA 3 as opposed to a F2P halo. One of the things I used to love in halo was the single player, CO OP in the campaign was THE best thing to me about H3 and reach, multiplayer was secondary.

 

Now it is just looks to be MP with F2P elements that will probably make the game completely different from the halo I want, hopefully not.

Maybe if the gameplay is similar to Halo 5, that has looked very interesting to me.

 

EDIT:

 

Just saw the trailer.

1. If you pause at 0:33 to 0:35 you will see that you can rent the guns for apparently insane amounts of ingame currency, and only for 30 minutes, 6 hours, or 24 hours.

Even at this stage it is not looking good.

2. I can see the players twitching all over the place, even in the trailer, that doesn't make me feel confident in the game.

 

I can't describe my disappointment.

[xeromynd]

How is that childish and stupid? 

You realize its been a running joke (ever since Red vs Blue commented on it) about why Red and Blue are even fighting each other. 

 

Screw MS and 343 for actually giving it a canonical reason as to why Red and Blue spend their free time pounding each other into smithereens. You really have an issue with that simple of an explanation? That is nit picking of the highest order. And have you actually played MCC or Halo 5 

Halo 4 was too far removed from the simple balancing that made Halo what Halo is. I'll give you that. But MCC? Thats Halo CE, 2 and 3. The more traditional Halos with their balancing and holy trifecta of gunplay, melee and grenades. Halo 5 is closer to Halo 2/CE than any game before it with the same style of balancing. 

 

So once again, nit picking and quite frankly talking in a way that suggests you have in fact, no idea what you're talking about. 

 

I do know what I'm talking about thanks, it's called an opinion, and we seem to have differing ones, which is *gasp*... normal. I'm someone who misses the Halo 1-3 days, and doesn't like anything past 4.  Am I insulting MCC and Halo 5 MP? Yep, am I insulting you? Nope, so don't get all uppity.

 

The fact that this game is being developed by the same people who developed MCC, a collection with a terrible launch that is still being patched up, doesn't exactly leave me with high hopes for this title.

[UnknownEngineer]

Its Halo 3 with a hell of a lot of weapon skins/variants and most importantly - EVERY SINGLE MAP EVER MADE. 

 

You'll notice that it has English. Weather this is for translation purposes or it suggest a proper worldwide release, who knows. You'll also notice that the graphic aren't complete shit. Well, slightly. PC components are expensive in Russia, hence the need to keep the game light. But this is the Halo 3 engine and that is hardly the worst looking thing to have even today, despite being nearly a decade old. 

 

It'll be curious to see how the balancing works. Halo works because everyone is the same. So if all they have for the "pay" portion is getting access to skins and design variants (but all having the same attributes) then this could work pretty well for Russia's market.  

 

@MadSprite, update OP with the trailer? 

Pause at 0:33, check the apparent weapon rental options.

 

Why did you bring this trailer to my attention, it has only brought me sadness :'(

[Victorious Secret]

Pause at 0:33, check the apparent weapon rental options.

 

Why did you bring this trailer to my attention, it has only brought me sadness :'(

 

Hey, at least we know MS takes a part of the segment seriously enough to hand off their engine to get it done. Hope remains. 

 

Arguably, I want nothing but a proper Halo 5 port. But if they're gonna make a purpose built, MP only game of Halo? Yea, not gonna complain. Halo MP is the epitome of replay value, especially with Forge and the ability to make whatever level of insanity of a map you want.

Actually, there is your grand irony. MSs star franchise has a fully feature map maker. The same map maker that the devs themselves use. Bungie and 343 have been known to actually take community made Forge maps and put them in their OWN playlists, alongside selling their own DLC maps. 

What a world we live in. A console series is more friendly towards your wallets than most games period. 

[UnknownEngineer]

Hey, at least we know MS takes a part of the segment seriously enough to hand off their engine to get it done. Hope remains. 

 

Arguably, I want nothing but a proper Halo 5 port. But if they're gonna make a purpose built, MP only game of Halo? Yea, not gonna complain. Halo MP is the epitome of replay value, especially with Forge and the ability to make whatever level of insanity of a map you want.

Actually, there is your grand irony. MSs star franchise has a fully feature map maker. The same map maker that the devs themselves use. Bungie and 343 have been known to actually take community made Forge maps and put them in their OWN playlists, alongside selling their own DLC maps. 

What a world we live in. A console series is more friendly towards your wallets than most games period. 

Halo 5 is the only halo I would want to play for now, it seems so well suited to the "halo universe" if you have read any of the books. (I am a bit of a fan)

So far it has looked amazing to me, the only issue is that MS would never put that on PC, not if it is able to inspire people like me to buy an entire console (which I will probably never do).

 

The thing is, we are talking about a F2P game, how likely is it that they are going to put in the co operative campaign that I desire, and even more, how likely is it that they are going to put in forge?

F2P games usually don't charge for maps, EVER, but they don't seem to have tools for making them either.

 

EDIT:

Post number 1001, hah.

[Cookybiscuit]

 Might actually be good if they dont fuck it up by making it P2W

Yeah, pause on the buy screen, this is 100% a shitty Battlefield Play 4 Free type game. This will be dogshit, as much as it pains me to say it.

[Albatross]

Its Halo 3 with a hell of a lot of weapon skins/variants and most importantly - EVERY SINGLE MAP EVER MADE. 

 

You'll notice that it has English. Weather this is for translation purposes or it suggest a proper worldwide release, who knows. You'll also notice that the graphic aren't complete shit. Well, slightly. PC components are expensive in Russia, hence the need to keep the game light. But this is the Halo 3 engine and that is hardly the worst looking thing to have even today, despite being nearly a decade old. 

 

It'll be curious to see how the balancing works. Halo works because everyone is the same. So if all they have for the "pay" portion is getting access to skins and design variants (but all having the same attributes) then this could work pretty well for Russia's market.  

 

@MadSprite, update OP with the trailer? 

 

Thanks for posting this!

 

Not liking the rental system (or maybe it is buy once and keep, I don't know) but other than that it looks pretty fun. Hopefully it will have more people on than Halo 4 does...last time I was on it had like 5000 people playing total. Matches were SO slow.

[MadSprite]

Thanks for posting this!

 

Not liking the rental system (or maybe it is buy once and keep, I don't know) but other than that it looks pretty fun. Hopefully it will have more people on than Halo 4 does...last time I was on it had like 5000 people playing total. Matches were SO slow.

 

Added to my OP about my opinions about the rental system. Its much better than the buy 2 win weapons that will stay with you forever so developers have to inflate prices to make you work a lot for them. A lot of the weapons of you watch carefully are balanced to themselves so that there isn't the fully upgraded weapon.

 

@MadSprite, update OP with the trailer? 

Updated OP and put in my opinion of examining the video further to hopefully qualm everyone about it being free.

[Valentyn]

I don't get why some people are complaining. This is at least something. You shouldn't complain about getting more options, especially if it's for free.

With a bit of luck the game will be good and a hit, which might make them bring Halo 1, 2 and 3 to PC again.

 

Such a shame that it's Russia only, but hopefully that will change.

 

I agree, for all we know they're just testing the waters to see how people respond to it. Both through the amount that play it, and how many want it in other markets.

[creativename]

Make them go away by not partaking. Not sure why this is hard for people to grasp.

Because micro transactions shouldn't go away. Either deal with micro transactions or have subscription based games. Those are the only 2 options games can survive.

[LAwLz]

Because micro transactions shouldn't go away. Either deal with micro transactions or have subscription based games. Those are the only 2 options games can survive.

Or you know... Just release the game at full price and don't have microtransactions or subscriptions. That model worked for several decades so I don't see why it wouldn't work now. Hell it is still working.

[MadSprite]

Or you know... Just release the game at full price and don't have microtransactions or subscriptions. That model worked for several decades so I don't see why it wouldn't work now. Hell it is still working.

And yet Halo will not be as popular in developing markets where Halo will be integrated as a game and AI assistant on computers and phones if they didn't gain a fan base there with the most popular money genre.

 

With a target audience being Russia for beta, it's a completely different scope of console gaming, where pc is the most popular choice of gaming.

Since it's not a single player game, there is more than just creating a fan base.

[LAwLz]

Well crap... It seems like it is pay 2 win. At about 27 seconds into the trailer you can see a ton of bonuses you can get by paying "gold". The armor bonuses ranges from increased melee damage to faster shield recharge.

The weapon bonuses (which you rent) increases things like damage, rate of fire and accuracy. Oh and you can pay to have the magnum modified to be like the Halo 1 magnum (super accurate, deals lots of damage and has a 2x scope).

[Thony]

why do the commies get all the luck !

Because u don't read the whole post. Answer is there

[Animekid117]

The fact that they are using the burnt out Halo 3 engine is impressive, that engine started development in early 2005 so you can imagine how that game is going to run on the lower end PC's that they are targeting. Although in the trailer it looks like they are pushing its limits with more Halo Reach like textures while still remaining the core Halo 3 mechanics and backdrops. Weapon mods are a nice touch that add on to the personality of the game and the new armor sets are pretty decent looking too. I'd play it if I could and I think they should have allowed Saber Interactive to roll it out for all regions. As an Xbox owner I love Halo and as PC gamer I'd love to be able to have a reason to play Halo on my PC.

[TopWargamer]

This guy in the YouTube comments just pointed this out...

 

So phew, and now we wait.

 

[creativename]

Or you know... Just release the game at full price and don't have microtransactions or subscriptions. That model worked for several decades so I don't see why it wouldn't work now. Hell it is still working.

That model only works for single player games. I don't know of a single MMO that doesn't have microtransactions or subscriptions.

[Lord Baal]

Halo died when M$ bought bungie.

MS never bought bungie....

[SHAD0WxF1R3]

Being a die hard Halo 3 lover the Halo 3 Engine make me cringe. I loved Halo 3 don't get me wrong but this is NOT the way to approach this. All I see is an F2P with nostalgia for original Halo fans and interesting new stuff new players.

[LAwLz]

That model only works for single player games. I don't know of a single MMO that doesn't have microtransactions or subscriptions.

Let's make things 100% clear because I don't want you backpedaling after this post. We are talking about Halo, not some MMORPG.

If you want examples of games mainly played online then here are a few off the top of my head:

Previous Halo games.

Call of Duty games

Battlefield series

Diablo 2 and 3

SimCity

Counter Strike

Quake

Starcraft

Warcraft

Minecraft

Titanfall

 

Just to name a few. You can have a multiplayer game without constantly extracting money from your players.

[creativename]

Let's make things 100% clear because I don't want you backpedaling after this post. We are talking about Halo, not some MMORPG.

If you want examples of games mainly played online then here are a few off the top of my head:

Previous Halo games.

Call of Duty games

Battlefield series

Diablo 2 and 3

SimCity

Counter Strike

Quake

Starcraft

Warcraft

Minecraft

Titanfall

 

Just to name a few. You can have a multiplayer game without constantly extracting money from your players.

Never mentioned MMORPGs, a game doesn't have to be a RPG to be an MMO. And most of those games you named were released before the industry moved towards subscription/micro transactions. And CoD and/battlefield/Titanfall has microtransactions, they call it a DLC. Paying to unlock weapons? That is a microtransaction, companies just decided to name it a DLC, when it doesn't add any more content. Just makes you pay to unlock content you COULD get for free.

[Giddyguy]

Rather than weapon upgrades which i think will make this game TOTALLY different that what Halo 3 (what its based on) was. I'd much rather prefer if Microsoft used Valve's format from CS with paid skins/decals for armor, weapons, and vehicles. Nonetheless it is Halo and I will definitely try it!