I can drop the Ball… but not the flag.
…
What.
Why?
Oh because of…
Nothing?
Okay.
Basically
It’s to make you feel like a liability when you have a flag. Everything depends on you getting back to your base. No pressure though.
I actually don’t mind not having the ability to drop the flag. My only gripe is the auto pickup.
> I actually don’t mind not having the ability to drop the flag. My only gripe is the auto pickup.
Yeah, that’s a large issue for me too, but you have to auto pick-up the ball too…
Wait.
you don’t?
But then why do I ha…
Oh I just do?
Okay.
In all seriousness, how hard if it to add dropping the flag if they were able to fix dropping/picking up the ball? I would imagine it’s the same coding sequence. Wouldn’t you just copy and paste the action with a few tweaks here and there as far as visual sequence goes to have the same effect?
I actually don’t mind auto-pickup and no-drop, as OPTIONS. In customs we should have the option to take off auto pickup, no-drop, and pistol use.
> I actually don’t mind auto-pickup and no-drop, as OPTIONS. In customs we should have the option to take off auto pickup, no-drop, and pistol use.
If I have to carry the flag I better have that flaggnum, That was the only thing they did right by taking out dropping the flag.
Although that was such a completely useless addition It hurts my head to attempt to rationalize it.
And in that idea, why is there not a ballnum?
> > I actually don’t mind auto-pickup and no-drop, as OPTIONS. In customs we should have the option to take off auto pickup, no-drop, and pistol use.
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> If I have to carry the flag I better have that flaggnum, That was the only thing they did right by taking out dropping the flag.
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> Although that was such a completely useless addition It hurts my head to attempt to rationalize it.
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> <mark>And in that idea, why is there not a ballnum?</mark>
You can’t throw the flag. You can throw the ball though.
I think the only reason you can’t drop the flag is because juggling was a problem in previous Halo’s. It was EXTREMELY annoying to hear, “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” over and over again. At least now we don’t have to hear it over and over again.
It’s also worth noting that the flagnum is stronger than the magnum as proven by halo mythbusters
> In all seriousness, how hard if it to add dropping the flag if they were able to fix dropping/picking up the ball? I would imagine it’s the same coding sequence. Wouldn’t you just copy and paste the action with a few tweaks here and there as far as visual sequence goes to have the same effect?
It’s not a thing that needs to be “fixed”, and it’s not something that they couldn’t figure out how to do. It was an intentional game design decision. For gameplay reasons they do not want you to be able to drop the flag after you pick it up.
For the ball, they want you to be able to pass it around in a team game, and in FFA, they want you to be able to drop the ball and fight.
> I think the only reason you can’t drop the flag is because juggling was a problem in previous Halo’s. It was EXTREMELY annoying to hear, “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” over and over again. At least now we don’t have to hear it over and over again.
That was fixed in Reach, and even then, such an issue with a simple solution should not have been an excuse to completely change the 10 year old mechanics of CTF (but I know that that wasn’t 343i’s primary reason.)
> > I think the only reason you can’t drop the flag is because juggling was a problem in previous Halo’s. It was EXTREMELY annoying to hear, “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” “Your flag taken.” “Your flag dropped.” over and over again. At least now we don’t have to hear it over and over again.
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> That was fixed in Reach, and even then, such an issue with a simple solution should not have been an excuse to completely change the 10 year old mechanics of CTF (but I know that that wasn’t 343i’s primary reason.)
Just another 10 year old mechanic that was taken out for absolutely no reason at all.
The flagnum was cool for like 2 games. Seriously, I was so into it at first. And then I got into a competitive game, and realized that the flagnum is just idiotic and unfair to the flag carrier. you move way too slow and it’s a poor excuse for balancing not being able to drop it.
Again, cool idea, but just sucks.
Also, no excuse at all to enable auto-pickup. Ridiculous.
> In all seriousness, how hard if it to add dropping the flag if they were able to fix dropping/picking up the ball? I would imagine it’s the same coding sequence. Wouldn’t you just copy and paste the action with a few tweaks here and there as far as visual sequence goes to have the same effect?
I could swear i heard someone from 343 state that they would add flag dropping if enough people ask. I guess people havent been asking for it enough i see little smerks where its passed of as a little side thing they wanted in some posts but overall DMR is the main issue now ( Boltshot was before DMR)
To be honest I don’t dislike losing the ability to drop the flag. It adds a pretty interesting competitive layer to flag.
> > In all seriousness, how hard if it to add dropping the flag if they were able to fix dropping/picking up the ball? I would imagine it’s the same coding sequence. Wouldn’t you just copy and paste the action with a few tweaks here and there as far as visual sequence goes to have the same effect?
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> I could swear i heard someone from 343 state that they would add flag dropping if enough people ask. I guess people havent been asking for it enough i see little smerks where its passed of as a little side thing they wanted in some posts but overall DMR is the main issue now ( Boltshot was before DMR)
Eh, I would take a DMR rate of fire nerf before I could pick up/drop the flag anyday. Tha’s not what I’m saying. I’m just confused as to why at the same time the added in grifball and implemented picking up the ball, why could they not just go the extra mile and add the same thing to the flag.
and why take it away at all.
WHY.
Weirdly enough, I kind of like CTF now. Sure it has problems but…
There’s definitely more emphasis put on teamwork. “Protect your carrier!”, “Protect your flag!”, etc.