Current Events > Trying to play Halo 3 multiplayer on PC

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Now I remember why I never tried to play Halo multi

I'm bad at it and it's hard

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*installs campaigns*

The AI can't do this to me

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Stay very far away from halo 2 on legendary lol
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Yeah I've always heard Halo 2 is a little harder

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The gimmick with Halo 2 on Legendary is that the balancing was rushed, so Elites and sniper Jackals have aimbot-level reflexes, target acquisition, and tracking while, in the case of Elites, having substantially greater fire rate than is possible for the player to have. Grunts are less notable, but also still dangerous.

All of this together with the fact that you are literally the second weakest entity in the game, second only to the Flood infection form.

Yeah. That's right. The fucking marines and grunts are tankier than the gat danged Master Chef.

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JMPzero posted...

Stay very far away from halo 2 on legendary lol

I once got a checkpoint in the nanosecond between a jackal seeing me and blowing my head off. Had to start the whole mission over.

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I used to be half decent at in when I played in high school with my friends, but I'm probably awful now.

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I'm doing better

Just took that first 30 minutes to regain any skills (which were always low)

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Be aware that in the other Halo games, controller with aim assist has a big advantage over manual mouse aim due to how strong the aim assist is. It's a big complaint right now, and some people want there to be no aim assist lobbies. So if you're getting smacked with M+KB, try controller.

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go play .hack//gu

wheres the gu topic

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

JMPzero posted...

Stay very far away from halo 2 on legendary lol

I once got a checkpoint in the nanosecond between a jackal seeing me and blowing my head off. Had to start the whole mission over.

If you keep dying from the same checkpoint with zero progress, the game will rollback to your next previous one. Had that a few times in my co-op and solo runs of H2.

Drones/buggers, shotgun flood, and vehicle enemies gave me more trouble than jackal snipers. Regret gondolas and ending room, Quarantine Zone elevator ride, and Gravemind's opening room were probably the worst parts for me on Legendary.
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armandro posted...

go play .hack//gu

wheres the gu topic

Wasn't normie enough

I have played more since then

trying to get my avatar with the old hag

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JMPzero posted...

If you keep dying from the same checkpoint with zero progress, the game will rollback to your next previous one. Had that a few times in my co-op and solo runs of H2.

Is that an MCC feature? This happened on Xbox. I only did it like four or five times before thinking I was screwed though.

I never finished legendary H2 on Xbox. Did it solo on MCC a couple of years ago and it was one of my proudest gaming moments. I had finished every other Halo on solo legendary before then.

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wow dot hack gu isnt normie enough

but we got a few hipsters here

sword art online = mainstream
dot hack = OG

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It's been over a decade since I played the original so not sure, but it is definitley a thing in MCC now.
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I stickied a warthog

Double kill

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armandro posted...

wow dot hack gu isnt normie enough

but we got a few hipsters here

sword art online = mainstream
dot hack = OG

I meant to sustain a CE topic

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Are all the multiplayer 1-3 similar in the MCC or would it interfere gameplay wise

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Different times to kill, but mostly similar. I notice hit registration issues more often with 2 Classic and 3. 2 Anniversary, CE, and Reach play perfectly for me.
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I played some last night. I got stomped most of the times

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JMPzero posted...

Different times to kill, but mostly similar. I notice hit registration issues more often with 2 Classic and 3. 2 Anniversary, CE, and Reach play perfectly for me.

So would you recommend 2 anniversary over classic? I wasn't sure which to install

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i havent played Halo in years. when i finally grabbed Halo MCC on Steam and started playing online, i felt like a fucking noob!

and i used to kill it when i was playing Halo 1 online on PC back in 2003-2004... lol

Jabodie posted...

Be aware that in the other Halo games, controller with aim assist has a big advantage over manual mouse aim due to how strong the aim assist is. It's a big complaint right now, and some people want there to be no aim assist lobbies. So if you're getting smacked with M+KB, try controller.

What the fuck, really? That explains so goddamn much.

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not to say i dont get to kill it every now and then but most of the players i find on MCC are pretty hardcore af.

I managed to beat every Halo 2 level without dying EXCEPT Regret

Holy shit that level is evil.

TroutPaste posted...

So would you recommend 2 anniversary over classic? I wasn't sure which to install

I prefer 2A since it gives hitmarkers when you connect, but the map pool and player size are both pretty small. I have all the games downloaded and queue up searches for all games just to play mp quicker. If I have a party, I'm fine with doing certain game searches since I know I'm only looking for the other half of players.

When I search, feels like it goes 3 > Reach > 2C > CE > 2A for priority and in game popularity. Of course, I'm not playing at peak game hours during the weekdays so others may differing results.

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i only queue for SWAT and i always exclude 1.

spawns in 1 are wack

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halo mp is so boring unless the level has vehicles. you move way too slow in those games for fighting to be interesting so it almost wholly revolves around who can put together particular weapon combos instead of map control or movement

at least with vehicles you can run planes and jeeps into people

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I was pretty decent at it in high school. I'd probably suck now as my overall online shooter skill seems to have decreased.

Vehicles are the main reason I play Halo, so it's always big team battle for me.

One thing I always have to remember is that Halo 3 does some weird things compared to a lot of FPS games:

1) There are no hit scan weapons at all, so unless you have a sniper (which has really fast traveling bullets) some weapons are very impractical to use at long range

2) As long as shields are up, headshots do not do extra damage. Only go for headshots when shield are down or when your weapon has enough damage to break through the shield with some damage left over.

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MorganTJ posted...

Vehicles are the main reason I play Halo, so it's always big team battle for me.

Yeah I always go BTB as well, but I generally avoid using vehicles myself. I'm just awful with them. Even worse now that I've been using a keyboard and mouse. But I prefer larger maps and I like the presence of vehicles.

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Grinding socials like i'm a pleb, this is great