I dont personally know if thats a problem for me, but I think that was the issue?

And every once in a while, I get killed by a sneaky-sneaky hunter who fires 3 golden gun shots, then pauses. I make the wrong assumption that he doesn't have the 4th shot, step out to kill him, and eat that 4th bullet. I'm usually annoyed - but at myself, for being fooled, not at the system for not giving me enough info. ;)

While the match is loading, check out the enemy team via the inspect player option. Should give you an idea if any of them can fire 4 shots :-)

And every once in a while, I get killed by a sneaky-sneaky hunter who fires 3 golden gun shots, then pauses. I make the wrong assumption that he doesn't have the 4th shot, step out to kill him, and eat that 4th bullet. I'm usually annoyed - but at myself, for being fooled, not at the system for not giving me enough info. ;)

Don't get me wrong, nothing makes me happier than popping a bubble with Symbiote and surprising the enemy team by having two shots instead of one :)

If they do start introducing ideas like this I think they need to identify perks to viewers (maybe even to some of the perks they already have like blinding bubbles and extra GG shots).

Heh. We had a discussion the other night about potential misinformation campaigns; a striker who wears a Helm of Saint-14, for example, and simply hangs out in his teammate's defender bubble. Enemies will be loathe to come in, because it'll look like a blinding bubble - even if it's not. :)

And every once in a while, I get killed by a sneaky-sneaky hunter who fires 3 golden gun shots, then pauses. I make the wrong assumption that he doesn't have the 4th shot, step out to kill him, and eat that 4th bullet. I'm usually annoyed - but at myself, for being fooled, not at the system for not giving me enough info. ;)

Signiature Perk: Nope.
Ward of Dawn doesn't grant Armor, Blessing or Weapons of Light, but cancels and Supers active inside of it (maybe allies too, for balance). Could still be broken by a Nova Bomb, Gunslinger, FoH from outside or a Bladedancer Shockwave, but Bladedancers would have to stay outside, Voidwalkers couldn't suicide Nova. More hilariously, FoH would just stop mid-smash as soon as the Titan entered.

Not gamebreaking I think, as anyone inside would be much more vulnerable to Normal attacks than they are with Armour/Blessing, but it would make for a different bubble game than the current "See bubble, use Super" approach that we have now - you'd be better off dropping in from above or going for the melee kill/sticky grenade etc.

This one sounds pretty cool. I'd find it super-frustrating as a striker who doesn't always do a great job of pinpointing his landing zone... but that's my problem, not a weakness in the idea. :)

Not gamebreaking I think, as anyone inside would be much more vulnerable to Normal attacks than they are with Armour/Blessing, but it would make for a different bubble game than the current "See bubble, use Super" approach that we have now - you'd be better off dropping in from above or going for the melee kill/sticky grenade etc.

Doesn't it mostly do this already? A bubble will (generally?) protect you from a Nova Bomb, will block two Golden Gun shots, and offers great protection vs Radience. Sure, the bubble is a great big target, but nothing says you have to stand on the bullseye. I get a lot of kills after a Striker has nuked my bubble with me safely off to the side.

I thought a nova bomb would kill you if you were in your bubble when it hit, perhaps I'm mistaken. Also, can't a GG over-penetrate a bubble with the "keyhole" perk?

About all I feel a bubble is good for is blocking gunfire from a specific direction as standing in your bubble is a sort of death wish in PvP. I guess it comes down to this for me, a bubble just doesn't feel super like other supers, instead if feels vulnerable.

A bubble would feel more super and less vulnerable if it was mobile.
Perhaps a perk could be a mobile, weaker, and shorter-lived bubble; moving it would cause it to disappear even faster. The potential of a short lived rolling ball of shotgun death sounds super fun! I don't see it being any more powerful than a blade dancer. You'd see the giant purple pac-man a mile away, and you could run away from the mobile bubble, you can't really run away from a blade dancer.

I wish there was a little more dimension to a bubble, and it wouldn't take much to make it more interesting. Bouncing back gunfire could be one, pushing enemies out of the way when it's dropped is another, or even slowing down movement (similar to how a poison cloud slows you down). I imagine these would be tied to exotics.

As usual, me win. And with that, I retire undefeated. ^_^

I believe that you believe in your mind that you are a winner.

Keep in mind, Korny likes to make such statements directly after getting slaughtered in the Iron Banner... I don't think he's ever made said those words in earnest ;)

I just enjoy giving you a hard time when you deserve it :)

When I deserve it? Given the huge bugs I'm running into, I'd say that I've been exonerated...

See, and that's what I don't understand, is that it's still a fucked up product. Even if you bought it at 50% off, you still bought a broken product, with money. If you got it used thought craigslist or something, I can kinda see that as better, because you're subsidizing some schmuck's bad buy, but if you bought it thought a retailer, MS gets that money.

They don't deserve that money, they didn't earn it.

PS4 5Ever

As usual, me win. And with that, I retire undefeated. ^_^

I believe that you believe in your mind that you are a winner.

I just enjoy giving you a hard time when you deserve it :)

When I deserve it? Given the huge bugs I'm running into, I'd say that I've been exonerated...

PS4 5Ever

As usual, me win. And with that, I retire undefeated. ^_^

...all I can think of:

I just enjoy giving you a hard time when you deserve it :)

When I deserve it? Given the huge bugs I'm running into, I'd say that I've been exonerated...

PS4 5Ever

As usual, me win. And with that, I retire undefeated. ^_^

No idea why you keep drawing attention to it. You act as though I threw our PS4s away and started playing it instead. All of my prior statements are still valid, and I never said that I'd never buy one... It's not a big deal, especially nothing to get butthurt about.

For what it's worth I've literally put about an hour into it since I bought it, so there's that...

Because if I don't, who will!!?

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children!?

I just enjoy giving you a hard time when you deserve it :)

In any game. Ever.

Take the most broken aspect of the game, and break it even more! That'll go over well!

What's next, a chest that makes you invincible and triples the duration of the Blade Dance?

Sure! Why not?

(Titan bubble is broken as it is now? I don't play enough pvp to know....)

45 seconds of nigh invincibility on a capture point, only counter-able by a couple of Supers? Pretty borked.

I must suck then. I have a few memories of plopping a bubble on a point, then getting swarmed by 3 people and getting killed. Granted, I could usually take one or two of them with me, but still.

You need to use Armor of Light. You can get stuck, run back into your bubble, and survive mostly unharmed. You NEED to get swarmed simultaneously by at least three people with shotguns to get killed... Or you really do suck. It's a possibility...

I hope Jackie's rats give you rabies.

I don't know man, you're the one who JUST BOUGHT AN XBONE and MCC after ripping on everyone who already had one from your PS4 throne, so maybe you're the one with rabies, or some other brain infection.

I mocked the poor chumps that opted for an XBONE over the vastly superior PS4. That we exploited loopholes to get a stupidly cheap Xbone a year after release is a completely separate thing... Heck, if anything, I'd say it's a sign of brainwave...

OH ho ho NO you don't get to rationalize it like that after being the mega-doucher you've been to those poor folks.

It doesn't matter that you got it for "stupidly cheap" you STILL spent money on it, you didn't get it for free [insert homer simpson logic "I'd be stupid NOT to buy it" here]. The point is you were a dick to a lot of people about it and now that you have one (regardless of reason) you should eat some humble pie.

I mean, I want one and I want Halo but I also know it still doesn't work as advertised so I'm not going to give them my money for a broken product, even if it was 1/2 of the original asking price. That would be going half343!

The difference is you made fun of other people for buying one instead of a PS4 and yet you guys bought one too ; but I (and others) didn't make fun of anyone for their choice though we wanted both, even though the PS4 is still clearly the better console at time of writing this.

I'll admit it, that it bothers me just a tiny bit that you are mostly going to slide under the radar with this when what you really deserve is to have a bunch of people give you a hard time about it.

No idea why you keep drawing attention to it. You act as though I threw our PS4s away and started playing it instead. All of my prior statements are still valid, and I never said that I'd never buy one... It's not a big deal, especially nothing to get butthurt about.

For what it's worth I've literally put about an hour into it since I bought it, so there's that...

I never forget the way I felt when I first played that last level, when I realized that there would be no more respawns and this life was all I had. It was genius--it underscored the gritty realism of the game--something less prevalent in previous Halos--and was a fitting way for Bungie to say goodbye to the series.

It's the sort of story-telling the medium of vidya can deliver where other mediums can't.

I know and that is exactly what I DON'T want it to be. My post is in jest. It would be boring as hell. Halo was at it's best for me when there wasn't one gun to rule them all, like the BR.

Which is why Halo Reach is best Halo.

Reach is my deserted island Halo. Gameplay-wise, it has the most variety, and for the most part it is a greatest hits package of the best of the other Halos--it's a culmination of everything Bungie learned.

I even liked the (much maligned by loud people on the internet) story--the cracked visor gets me every time. I never forget how I felt when I first played that last level, when I realized that there would be no more respawns and this life was all I had. It was genius--it underscored the gritty realism of the game--something less prevalent in previous Halos--and was a fitting way for Bungie to say goodbye to the series.