A new podcast has been recently released in the GameInformer site. In it, Creative Director Josh Holmes is answering some of the reader questions submitted on the site. You can hear the Podcast here, or you can listen to it through iTunes.
I hope my submitted question is among the rest to get answered by 343i crosses fingers
Thanks. I will give this a listen during my morning drive. Were there any high/interesting points? (Anything new?)
> http://www.gameinformer.com/b/podcasts/archive/2012/05/03/special-edition-podcast-halo-4.aspx
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> Summary of Information:
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> 1. Forge returning, more information coming later
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> 2. No dual wielding, although this was confirmed previously
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> 3. Female Spartans returning
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> 4. No plan for multiplayer bots in competitive games
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> 5. Easter eggs and some form of skulls returning
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> 6. No “glitches” (I assume this was referring not only to game glitches such as the glitch on Nightfall which allows for a fast completion of the level, but also perhaps to those button glitches in Halo 2 while using the BR)
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> 7. No plan for dedicated servers
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> 8. Matchmaking will be skill based
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> On Skill Based Matchmaking:
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> Not much info in terms of matchmaking
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> Wish I could explain, but the podcast wouldn’t really go into much detail on it.
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> All it said was that they were hoping to remove that secret knowledge the more experienced players had (weapon spawns) so that new players would have a better chance.
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> This info was put into more detail with Frankie, saying the weapon drops weren’t really random. So far we know there’s an indicator saying that a weapon will drop in an area in 30 seconds, and that’s about it.
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> In terms of competitive matchmaking, they didn’t elaborate, they just kind of said it was going to be there. Hopefully more info soon.
> Were there any high/interesting points? (Anything new?)
http://halo.xbox.com/Forums/yaf_postst80972_New-Game-Informer-Podcast.aspx
The whole podcast was a waste of time, half the stuff that was asked was classified and they couldnt talk about it.
No Spartan bots to fight. My heart is broken. Looks like I’ll be buying Halo 4 AND Black Ops 2. Gotta fights me some bots when I’m breaking from MM.
> The whole podcast was a waste of time, half the stuff that was asked was classified and they couldnt talk about it.
sad face / there was some news