I’m an aspiring machinima maker, I also live in the -Yoink- end of nowhere. So I have to make all of my films with guests (ala playtime) or online with characters who posses a rare mental disorder requiring them to pint guns at everything. Please post here if you’de like to be able to lower weapons over live in custom games. Preferably with a quick down on the d pad control. Also if possible, can this be done to Halo 3 if it’s impossible in Reach. I don’t mind which game get’s it, but it’ll help immensly.
> Also if possible, can this be done to Halo 3 if it’s impossible in Reach.
I think it may be impossible in both.
Take this with a grain of salt because it’s just speculation, but I think that the reason that weapon-lowering is only possible offline is because it doesn’t sync. The netcode completely ignores it, just like how it ignores corpse positions and blood splatters. If this is true, then simply “flipping a switch” would allow lowering online, but you’d only ever see your own weapon being lowered – no one else’s. It’d take netcode modifications – changes to very sensitive parts of the game engine – to sync it.
But again, it’s just speculation. I actually hope I’m wrong, too, because it would be a really useful feature to have.
> > Also if possible, can this be done to Halo 3 if it’s impossible in Reach.
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> I think it may be impossible in both.
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> Take this with a grain of salt because it’s just speculation, but I think that the reason that weapon-lowering is only possible offline is because it doesn’t sync. The netcode completely ignores it, just like how it ignores corpse positions and blood splatters. If this is true, then simply “flipping a switch” would allow lowering online, but you’d only ever see your own weapon being lowered – no one else’s. It’d take netcode modifications – changes to very sensitive parts of the game engine – to sync it.
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> But again, it’s just speculation. I actually hope I’m wrong, too, because it would be a really useful feature to have.
They could probably do it with a modded gametype and a title update, But I think Halo 4 would be the one to shoot at for lowering your gun over live.
Good so theres still hope. Making machinima is unbeliavably hard as you have to compete with red vs blue. But this would make things so much easier.
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My theory is it’s to prevent people running around Xbox Live matchmaking with their weapons lowered for funzies and the best way to prevent it being accessed online via a glitch or… I dunno, swimming up and down next to Cinnabar island or something is just to not add it to the matchmaking code… Type… Stuffs. Maybe.