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Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | |
Posted By: Brian <brian@mythica.org> | Date: 12/11/03 11:09 p.m. |
In Response To: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. (guy who doesn't post....too often) I've been really thinking about the HPC situation over the last few days, and these are my thoughts. On the one hand, I sympathize with Gearbox. They've got some pretty big shoes to fill in order to live up to the standard that Halo for the Xbox has set, and their hands are tied -- everything they do has to be approved of by Microsoft, then sent through extensive testing before it can be released. They can't just produce a patch and release it the same day, so they've got to make a lot of broad sweeping changes all at once and this no doubt amplifies any complaints that people have. On the other hand, I'm disappointed with some of the decisions Gearbox has made since Halo PC's release. They haven't implemented many of the features that people have requested, and some of the features that they have implemented don't appear to have been very well-thought out. Take the teamkilling solution, for instance -- I can't undestand how this is superior to a simple vote-kick option. The fact that teamkilling rules can only be set on a per-server basis and not on a per-game basis is also disappointing. Another complaint of mine is the lack of a "favorite servers" list. Having to browse through dozens of pages of servers to find the one I'm looking for is just silly. Obviously Gearbox can't implement everything at once, but I would certainly have preferred a favorites list to the "persistent teams" feature they added in 1.03. The persistent teams thing is the only feature that I can't understand at all. I don't think I've ever heard anyone have any complaints about the randomized teams of the earlier versions. I don't think persistent teams is necessarily a bad idea, but why on earth is it PERMANENT instead of a configurable option? As I was playing tonight, though, I realized something: even with the several complaints I have about HPC, I still really enjoy playing it. In the end it's still a fun game, and that makes it (for me, at least) easier to forgive some of the issues that it has. If it were any game but Halo, however, I don't think I'd be quite so forgiving. I think that Gearbox is really at a crucial point right now. Obviously a lot of people aren't happy with the changes in 1.03, but it doesn't seem like many of them are so dissatisfied as to give up on Halo PC at this point. But all of these people are going to be anxiously awaiting the release of the next patch, and I think that this next patch is going to be what makes it or breaks it for many of them. It seems to me that Gearbox is going to have to really "make things right" in the next patch or they're going to lose a LOT of their users. |
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Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/11/03 3:39 a.m. |
EXACTLY! *NM* | Ben Roth | 12/11/03 4:19 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Dustin aka Bean83 | 12/11/03 4:27 a.m. |
this might help | Ben Roth | 12/11/03 4:33 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Petrit | 12/11/03 4:30 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Petrit | 12/11/03 4:39 a.m. |
umm why the ping? | Iceman1330(at school) | 12/11/03 11:28 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Viscily II | 12/11/03 4:41 a.m. |
can't go wrong w/ xbox halo :] *NM* | mc_killa [01ah] | 12/11/03 8:07 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | nof | 12/11/03 9:05 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | 2 Cents | 12/11/03 9:28 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/11/03 1:51 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | halofan141 | 12/11/03 9:53 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | halofan141 | 12/11/03 9:47 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | KP | 12/11/03 9:11 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Konrad9 | 12/11/03 8:49 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Louis Wu | 12/12/03 4:04 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Konrad9 | 12/12/03 5:33 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Louis Wu | 12/12/03 5:44 a.m. |
That's what happens when you pressure the devs. *NM* | halofan141 | 12/11/03 9:49 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Captain Spark | 12/11/03 9:11 a.m. |
Good Post Brandon! I AGREE 110% *NM* | 2 Cents | 12/11/03 9:13 a.m. |
well said! | Master of SPARTAN's | 12/11/03 10:14 a.m. |
Bravo, bravo. Well said! *NM* *NM* | Mhaddy | 12/11/03 1:22 p.m. |
Beautiful, man. *nm* *NM* | Texrat | 12/11/03 2:56 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Dan Chosich | 12/11/03 3:12 p.m. |
my comments | Break Point | 12/11/03 3:56 p.m. |
Re: my comments | Captain Spark | 12/11/03 4:58 p.m. |
Concurrence | MikeMan445 | 12/11/03 4:09 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/11/03 5:37 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Louis Wu | 12/12/03 4:21 a.m. |
hehe... | Louis Wu | 12/12/03 4:26 a.m. |
Re: hehe... | KP | 12/12/03 10:58 a.m. |
Re: hehe... | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/12/03 12:56 p.m. |
Stop Bitching is what i say... | Spenser | 12/11/03 9:58 p.m. |
Re: Stop Bitching is what i say... | Brian | 12/11/03 10:26 p.m. |
Re: Stop Bitching is what i say... | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/11/03 11:27 p.m. |
And to think, some say we don't have trolls... | Socrates | 12/12/03 2:57 a.m. |
Re: And to think, some say we don't have trolls... | Ben Roth | 12/12/03 5:13 a.m. |
Re: And to think, some say we don't have trolls... | Texrat | 12/12/03 11:06 a.m. |
you're both right... | Socrates | 12/12/03 2:01 p.m. |
Grow up is what I say | Texrat | 12/12/03 11:03 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Brian | 12/11/03 11:09 p.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Louis Wu | 12/12/03 4:38 a.m. |
I've said it before... | Miguel Chavez | 12/12/03 11:15 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Texrat | 12/12/03 11:41 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | guy who doesn't post....too often | 12/12/03 1:28 a.m. |
Re: Halo PC Complaints. Say what you will. | Ducain | 12/12/03 9:42 a.m. |
Couldn't agree with you more | ViolentlyHappy | 12/12/03 4:19 p.m. |
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