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Re: Why change the grenades?
Posted By: Avateur <avateur@gmail.com>Date: 3/12/10 7:45 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Why change the grenades? (FyreWulff)


: I don't know. I like it. The problem with frags is I never actually see where
: they were, so it's like "what killed me?"

Latency problems. I always know when a grenade hits and kills me, except for when they literally just don't show up. Otherwise, saved films have done a good job of showing me exactly where it is. Why waste resources just to show me where exactly that grenade was when I went down? As for latency, it's like when you throw a grenade and it doesn't explode. Ever. Or you stick someone on the face, it lights up real bright, and then just disappears. I doubt the light will be fixing that unless Bungie finds a way to fix all of the nonsense host and latency issues, but I guess we'll have to wait until the final product to see.

: The tracer gives them a visual ID like the plasma nades, and the warning
: "tink" is equivalent to the plasma "beep" right before
: it goes off.

The beep that has literally done nothing to help you get out of the way since it's there pretty much the moment it explodes. Just looks like a waste of resources to me, or a way to cater to people who maybe aren't as good at the game, giving them a glowing indicator possibly from the moment the grenade is thrown.

: Also, please remember that there are deaf people that play Halo. Hopefully if
: there is some sort of weapon that locks on, they have the screen flash
: somewhere - this was actually brought up by a deaf gamer on Bungie.net who
: was frustrated that he couldn't tell when he was locked on.

Now this is another good thing. Catering to people who are deaf or who are being considerate of others and have to play with the sound off so people can sleep or whatever? Makes perfect sense. Absolutely. Unfortunately, this update seems to imply that those were hardly the considerations in this matter, and that we're just trying to help people survive in a game where the goal to winning is getting kills.

Again, it doesn't make any difference to me, but I think it's pretty lame. Some of the animations on the guns in H3 were removed from the Beta to final release because of resource consumption, but now the grenades have these things that appear worthless added to them. It just appears pointless.

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Update is upChris101b 3/12/10 7:24 p.m.
     Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 7:30 p.m.
           Re: Why change the grenades?FyreWulff 3/12/10 7:36 p.m.
                 Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 7:45 p.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?Hedgemony 3/12/10 7:50 p.m.
                             Re: Why change the grenades?cheapLEY 3/12/10 7:53 p.m.
                                   Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 7:55 p.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?Major Silva 3/12/10 9:49 p.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 10:26 p.m.
                                   Re: Why change the grenades?Hedgemony 3/12/10 8:13 p.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?Narcogen 3/15/10 12:35 a.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?Hedgemony 3/15/10 12:48 a.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?Narcogen 3/15/10 4:31 a.m.
                                                           Re: Why change the grenades?Blackstar 3/15/10 9:08 p.m.
                 Re: Why change the grenades?Another One 3/14/10 1:20 p.m.
           Re: Why change the grenades?The BS Police 3/12/10 7:55 p.m.
                 Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 7:57 p.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?The BS Police 3/12/10 8:02 p.m.
                             Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/12/10 8:09 p.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?FyreWulff 3/12/10 8:13 p.m.
                             Re: Why change the grenades?Metalingus627 3/12/10 11:02 p.m.
                                   Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 12:17 a.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?Chris101b 3/13/10 1:04 a.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?RC Master 3/13/10 8:48 p.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?terminator182 3/12/10 9:04 p.m.
           Re: Why change the grenades?sharpsniper99 3/12/10 8:41 p.m.
                 Re: Why change the grenades?InnerRayg 3/12/10 10:56 p.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 12:29 a.m.
                             Re: Why change the grenades?Phoenix_9286 3/13/10 3:10 a.m.
                                   Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 3:42 a.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?FyreWulff 3/13/10 5:01 a.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?S043 3/13/10 5:13 a.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?urk 3/13/10 11:41 a.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 3:14 p.m.
                                         Re: Why change the grenades?Phoenix_9286 3/13/10 11:29 a.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?Harmanimus 3/13/10 12:04 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?urk 3/13/10 2:16 p.m.
                                                           Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 3:17 p.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?rolandk73 3/13/10 2:34 p.m.
                                               Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/13/10 3:19 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?urk 3/13/10 3:40 p.m.
                                                           Re: Why change the grenades?General Vagueness 3/13/10 4:00 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?Phoenix_9286 3/13/10 4:10 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?Hedgemony 3/13/10 4:14 p.m.
                                                           Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/14/10 3:58 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Why change the grenades?Hedgemony 3/14/10 4:40 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why change the grenades?Bleezie 3/13/10 4:45 p.m.
                                                     Halo 1's grenades should be removedChris101b 3/13/10 8:59 p.m.
                                                           Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedhyokin 3/13/10 9:20 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedIbeechu 3/14/10 12:49 a.m.
                                                           Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedAvateur 3/14/10 4:04 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedChris101b 3/14/10 11:09 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedSonofMacPhisto 3/14/10 12:17 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Halo 1's grenades should be removedAvateur 3/14/10 10:09 p.m.
                                                                             LOL *NM*SonofMacPhisto 3/14/10 11:28 p.m.
           Casual Gaming Strikes Again *NM*Hawaiian Pig 3/13/10 7:54 p.m.
           Halo 1 did it!Gravemind 3/13/10 8:45 p.m.
           Re: Why change the grenades?Narcogen 3/15/10 12:34 a.m.
                 Re: Why change the grenades?Avateur 3/15/10 12:44 a.m.
                       Re: Why change the grenades?Narcogen 3/15/10 4:34 a.m.
     WaterfallZerowind117 3/12/10 8:02 p.m.
           Re: WaterfallTDSpiral 3/12/10 8:05 p.m.
                 Either way...rolandk73 3/12/10 8:21 p.m.
                       Re: Either way...MasterNoob 3/12/10 8:40 p.m.
                             Lol "Press X to swat away water dropletts"Chris101b 3/12/10 11:46 p.m.
                       Re: Either way...Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 3/12/10 10:56 p.m.
                             Re: Either way...SonofMacPhisto 3/13/10 8:53 a.m.



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