I know a lot of people don’t care about this or probably don’t even think about this. But a lot of people in the Machinima Community do care about this, the weapon lowering mechanism kind of sucks when you move…
You have to set your controls to default just to lower your weapon, in Halo 3/Reach you never had to do that. You could lower your weapon with all controls, and when you DO lower your weapons. When you crouch, and look around. Your guy is completely still, his head doesn’t even move, and the weapon just moves right back up. Also, when you run it just comes back up. You have to stand completely still for it to stay lowered, this is a problem for a lot of Machinima creators. Halo was the most popular game for machinimas to be made on and it was also very enjoyable. A lot of people switch back to Reach for this purpose, NOT just this reason. But others, but this is a thread of weapon lowering on Halo. So I won’t go off topic.
Also, I’m pretty sure Frank O’Connor at some presentation of Forge was asked of weapon lowering online and he said that it will be there online. Not just local or system link, in Halo 2… it was there, but I believe they took it out in newer Halo games because of the BR glitch. But they could solve that by having different controls for weapon lowering. Why isn’t this fixed? I don’t know how it works, but it wouldn’t be that complicated to change compared to other updates. Well, I don’t know about the mechanism…
I was hoping this would be fixed ages ago. I hope they’ll fix this for Halo 5, and let us lower our weapons online again without holding 20 buttons at once.
You do not need default controls to lower your weopon. I use bumper jumper and weapon lowering works just fine. In one of the title updates 343 proved that they can add animations by adding a flood vehicle animation to the game. This gave me hope that they one day might get to weopon lowering but I doubt it… We can always hope.
> You do not need default controls to lower your weopon. I use bumper jumper and weapon lowering works just fine. In one of the title updates 343 proved that they can add animations by adding a flood vehicle animation to the game. This gave me hope that they one day might get to weopon lowering but I doubt it… We can always hope.
Oh, really? Well, it doesn’t work for Recon as the other person stated. I thought since it never worked for that, I just assumed it never worked to all.
> > You do not need default controls to lower your weopon.
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> it doesn’t work for Recon controls >__<
Oh… well, that’s what it was.
> I was hoping this would be fixed ages ago. I hope they’ll fix this for Halo 5, and let us lower our weapons online again without holding 20 buttons at once.
I hope so. I expected it to be fixed way back also.
I myself was also wondering about how rooster teeth dealt with this problem, and if their solution could be shared with us. Perhaps they just made do with bad weapon lowering. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
> I can’t believe they haven’t done something about it, I wonder how the Rooster Teeth guys coped when making season 11 of Red vs Blue.
there are probable more still hod bobbing scenes with other CGI animations, im currently planning a machinima and im scripting it so there are as many still scenes as possible with the least amount of unnecessary movement and when there is movement its usually combat. I would like for the weapon to stay down thou, i mentioned this in a post about what would we want to see fixed next after the weapons earlier this week.
totally want it fixed with all the non-working things with machinima in halo 4 and there is not even theater for campaign or spartan ops. hopefully 343 addresses this because they really crapped on the machinima community, and i loved machinima. i used to make and watch it all the time with my friends and nephews
also war games shouldn’t be canon because machinimas wouldn’t make sense if it was IN MY OPINION lol
> totally want it fixed with all the non-working things with machinima in halo 4 and there is not even theater for campaign or spartan ops. hopefully 343 addresses this because they really crapped on the machinima community, and i loved machinima. i used to make and watch it all the time with my friends and nephews
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> also war games shouldn’t be canon because machinimas wouldn’t make sense if it was IN MY OPINION lol
I agree. I’m pretty sure I saw a future update thread saying they will add in theater for Campaign sometime around December or January. I’m not sure about Spartan Ops though, I’m disappointed as a lot of people are. I will tell all my issues about Machinimas on Halo 4, not ALL of it. But some…
Elites aren’t in the multiplayer, so the story wise wouldn’t be as interesting. But there are other kind of stories you can come up with… so it’s not that big of a deal…
Hornets or Falcon (UNSC Air-vehicles)
Weapon Lowering of course
Maps are pretty good…
I can’t think of more. But these are the main reasons why I use Reach more now. I will still continue to film on Halo 4, but for now. I will use Halo Reach.
One thing 343 did do good on Halo 4 was green screen… but that won’t really do much or change much. It was still a good feature, and I appreciate 343 for adding that in with the free Forge Island map (Only if you can underwater Forge like in Reach a bit…) But PLEASE 343, please… take a look at the main issues posted in this thread. The weapon lowering problem… I sent bs angel this thread, I hope she replies about this or atleast takes a look at this. The Machinima population sure went down on Halo, and there are barely videos posted of Halo 4 compared to older Halo games.
Haha, it was called the BXR glitch. It was a long time ago, so I can’t remember much. But it was pressing a few buttons, it’s where you beat down and double shot with the BR real fast. A two second kill if your up close. In Halo 2, you had to hold the left trigger to lower your weapon and it could be done online. But I heard they took it out of Halo 3 due to that reason, and changing the controls.
