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Halo Wars 2 |OT| Warranty For Suckers
- Thread starter Tecnniqe
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Unless I'm remembering wrong there were at least two missions that let you do that. I know what you mean though, maybe try out skirmish vs AI if you're into trying the mp.
gamerguy2002
Member
Leader update:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/know-scope
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/know-scope
Yeah PvE could do with XP. I said that day 1 about Firefight, makes no sense.
Going through it with advantageous skulls on is a cakewalk, leader power spam or not (just drop a healing beacon and it barely kills any units.)
Sutton Dagger
Member
Any news on a Steam release. Playing through Halo Wars one at the moment and loving it.
Finally made it through the demo
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So - HW2's on sale for the MS Summer Sale - $30 for the base game, and $40 for the Ultimate with Season Pass. From what I understand, the Ultimate version with Season Pass would get me:
after several tries on Easy mode
So - HW2's on sale for the MS Summer Sale - $30 for the base game, and $40 for the Ultimate with Season Pass. From what I understand, the Ultimate version with Season Pass would get me:
- A few extra single-player Campaign levels
- Some "Hero" DLC character units for multi-player
- New multi-player ground troops to match each Hero
dancrane212
Member
You also get a remaster of the original game.
If you plan on playing the multiplayer, the ultimate version is well worth it. In terms of campaign, I believe it's 2 new missions releasing next month.
RedSparrows
Member
So, who is everyone's go-to MP guy/gal?
I have yet to play with a friend, so I usually play MP as a solo guy as one of two/three, often versus AI but sometimes against humans too, so my read of the MP is a little off.
I really like the IDEA of Shipmaster, but find brute force the most effective strat against AI. Perhaps against humans it's different?
I have yet to play with a friend, so I usually play MP as a solo guy as one of two/three, often versus AI but sometimes against humans too, so my read of the MP is a little off.
I really like the IDEA of Shipmaster, but find brute force the most effective strat against AI. Perhaps against humans it's different?
I've been mostly staying away from Matchmaking, haha. My early skills and access only gave me a few weeks of being competitive before the hardcore people started getting into gear 
I think overall I still prefer Anders, but I've been really liking Jerome in skirmish too. The mass aura build is an interesting one, but I like how it allows you to punch above your weight with a small army, meaning you have a chance to recover if you lost a big fight, or you can purposefully field a smaller army to bide your time while you tech up.
I think overall I still prefer Anders, but I've been really liking Jerome in skirmish too. The mass aura build is an interesting one, but I like how it allows you to punch above your weight with a small army, meaning you have a chance to recover if you lost a big fight, or you can purposefully field a smaller army to bide your time while you tech up.
The Halo Wars 2 Prima Guide (Hardcover) is on sale for $12.99 for today's Amazon Prime Day, fwiw.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0744018021/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It comes with a code for a downloadable copy, too, as well as a few other digital goodies.
Just ordered mine; I need all the help I can get. :'(
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0744018021/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It comes with a code for a downloadable copy, too, as well as a few other digital goodies.
Just ordered mine; I need all the help I can get. :'(
New update will drop today. Serina Leader and the Operation Spearbreaker Mission:
- Patch notes
- Balance notes
- Patch notes
- Balance notes
Nerfs will always break your heart.
Chaps over at HBO pointed out that Kotaku pulled a bunch of the HW card art from the artist's portfolio, if people are interested:
https://kotaku.com/a-spartan-and-his-very-large-rocket-launcher-1797178863
It's semi live. 9.6GB.
Why is the update process for Halo Wars 2 so fucked? Not downloading, redownloading the entire game and causing issues with other games that you have installed. Can't even start other games that I have installed... Just 343i things...
That's the second time that I have been hit with a complete reinstall... 32GB...
Why is the update process for Halo Wars 2 so fucked? Not downloading, redownloading the entire game and causing issues with other games that you have installed. Can't even start other games that I have installed... Just 343i things...
That's the second time that I have been hit with a complete reinstall... 32GB...
Gai Murakumo
Member
It is also the second time it has happened to me as well. The download of the patch would not go so I would have to force restart my Xbox then it would start downloading but the whole thing 32 GB. It is the only game that had ever done this to me. Thank god Doom never did this or I would lose my fucking mind because of how large that game became.
kitschykitty
Member
Doom made me download 58gb earlier this week. Around the time of the free season pass stuff.
Gai Murakumo
Member
I unistalled Doom quite a few months ago since I felt I was completely done with it. That sucks though.
It should be up now.
CrimsonEclipse
Member
Will try it this weekend, been going through backlog and finally caught up to finishing this. Finished the campaign and have been doing firefight and AI skirmish matches with a friend (not good enough to go online).
Anyone down for playing sometime?
Anyone down for playing sometime?
You can hit me up, while I'm playing other stuff I'm always down for some Halo. GT same as GAF name.
Hawkeye 131
Member
Unfortunately it's been like that since the game released. Every single time an update is released the whole game needed to be re-downloaded. It was incredibly frustrating and annoying to the point where I just uninstalled it, it's beyond ridiculous. And as you mentioned I've never had the same issue with any other game, only Halo Wars 2. I've asked about it in the past on their forums and was told it was being investigated and it might be an issue with XBL.
Sure. You can find my gt under my profile page.
CrimsonEclipse
Member
If there are, they aren't up. There was a delay on the Jerome/Arby ones last time.
EDIT: And now they just popped up on TrueAchievements.
The new missions were pretty fun, pretty meaty. The odst squad was a cool unit.
Also, Serena is absolutely destroying me online. Her ability to freeze my units then drop a Mac cannon or whatever that is, it's too much. I guess it's my fault for keeping my units together at times but it is really annoying.
Also, Serena is absolutely destroying me online. Her ability to freeze my units then drop a Mac cannon or whatever that is, it's too much. I guess it's my fault for keeping my units together at times but it is really annoying.
Just got back at Halo Wars 2, man this game is fun. I've been trying out Arbiter on Blitz and he is a lot of fun. Jerome seems to be a little bit overpowered compared to the rest, but still, so much fun to play. Serina I believe is much better on Deathmatch than Blitz, in Blitz I feel she is UNDERPOWERED. Is the flood going to be playable? I would love to have a new faction to mix things up.
I don't think the flood will be playable. Maybe in Wars 3 if they make it.
The Vidmaster achievements are garbage and not as fun as Vidmasters used to be.
Literally getting punished for playing in co-op, too. Can't even use the Nightmare skull to compensate for the point loss. 3 minutes over par time and we are 6k points short in the 1st mission.
The missions are not even good, so HW2 continues to be a disappointment.
Literally getting punished for playing in co-op, too. Can't even use the Nightmare skull to compensate for the point loss. 3 minutes over par time and we are 6k points short in the 1st mission.
The missions are not even good, so HW2 continues to be a disappointment.
Welfare
Member
Preview for the August Balance and Patch update is out. https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/...ew/be80fd3b-d5c1-40ca-b1c7-e20ccbae12a6/posts
It's like your wish is being answered, m.
Interested in the grunt mechanics. Seems more of a conventional hero than the previous leaders we've been getting.
Hawk269
Member
I have been critical about the issues with this game and the way they launched it, but I have to say the amount of support MS has put into this game and the amount of content being added is pretty impressive. Game has been getting better and better and the constant balancing has been great. One of the issues with so much more content is that there are always balance issues, but it appears that the team is responding and making adjustments.
I think we have enough leaders in the game now and I hope they introduce more MP maps and a few more Blitz maps. I would love to see at least 4 new MP maps and 2 additional Blitz maps. The original ended up with almost 18 MP maps when it was all said and done, but right now there are only 8 MP maps and 1 Blitz map. While I love the added leaders and the new 2 additional single player missions, it is time to focus on the maps to use all these leaders.
I think we have enough leaders in the game now and I hope they introduce more MP maps and a few more Blitz maps. I would love to see at least 4 new MP maps and 2 additional Blitz maps. The original ended up with almost 18 MP maps when it was all said and done, but right now there are only 8 MP maps and 1 Blitz map. While I love the added leaders and the new 2 additional single player missions, it is time to focus on the maps to use all these leaders.
It's like your wish is being answered, m.
Interested in the grunt mechanics. Seems more of a conventional hero than the previous leaders we've been getting.
Took them really long to get it fixed. Anytime I'm paired up against Forge, it's pretty much impossible to win. 90% of the time, I'm up against Forge.