Came out 3 days ago

>Came out 3 days ago.
>No threads.

I guess everyone is playing RTS of the year.

>console rts
>halo

I'll get it if it's optimized well. I want that full 60 at 1440p when the screen is full of shit.

>Master Chief
>simple story
>split screen
>black undersuits
Fuck this, I'm buying Halo 6.

It's really, really good but not a game to grab everyone's attention and make them buy game.

I'll wait for them to cave and put it on Steam like they did with Quantum Break and Dead Rising 4.
Not because I like Steam, but because I refuse to use their shitty Windows store.

Co-op's fun, but the PC controls are kinda shit and it really is babby's second RTS.

At least it runs well.

I've played way to much CoH to really enjoy HW anymore. Frustrating how little control I have over units.

Fuck 343 and their art style

Not buying yet I begged bungie for a halo wars 2 back in 09

Fuck 343

QB and DR4 are third party games though, i really can't see them ever releasing HW2 on steam.

>implying there's anything wrong with pic related's art style
Blind hating everything they do doesn't help anyone user.

>Shitty UI for PC
>Pretty shallow for a PC RTS
>Windows 10 exclusive

Yeah, nah.

Picked like a cherry


Show an in game pic from a 343 halo

>Absolute over designed industrial, blocky textures everywhere

pretty sure this was done already but whatever

>classic vehicle design with hard, blocky shapes and military sci-fi look

I actually think that looks kinda cool

HW2 is almost entirely bungie era halo influenced in art direction user.

I love Halo Wars 1, and it's on PC now and even comes bundled with HW2, but still no one plays it...

As for the banished:
>classic covenant designs but repurposed by the brutes to their own needs, giving them their unique and more "brutish" look

>its limited to xbox one and windows 10

thats probably why, no one is playing it

I heard they're still sending out the codes for HW1, that could be a reason.

The Banished should've had a campaign, even a short one. Now they're just another throwaway enemy that's supposed to be almost unstoppable, but the player kicks their asses in every single mission.

The plus side is that HW1 is now on PC so you can play that with your friends instead.

This game makes me think of the recent Ben Hur remake. How did anyone think it'd be a good idea? Let alone make any money.

Take it with a grain of salt but some guy found a supposed Banished campaign as possible DLC for the future. The leaders and UNSC mini campaign have already been confirmed, so the Banished might actually happen.

Anyone preorder ultimate? How do you get Halo Wars Definitive?

Is it Win10 exclusive? Can we play on Win7

>Consoles
>Windows store

Win10 only I believe, all xbone games are

>How do you get Halo Wars Definitive?
By buying HW2 UE.

>Is it Win10 exclusive?
Yes
>Can we play on Win7
No

>he thinks CoH is having control over units
Try MoW you fucking reddit trash

Yeah that's what I did, do you get the code sent to you or something?

On PC i'm guessing? I think they send an email with a code but it's taking longer for some people.

>Massive powerful faction that the Covenant at their strongest could not defeat
>Had never been mentioned until just now

I see, I'm on xbone btw.

Could be easily explained that they were hiding or gathering their forces while the UNSC/Covies were fucking each other.

Oh, it's even easier then, check in your "ready to install" games section.

Halo Wars 1 was nothing special and this seems a little too slow and shallow for a PC rts.

It's not there for me. I only have a 10mb file in my manage game section for Halo Wars 2. It's not the full game just an unlock.

Just make another fucking Age of Empires

How is the multiplayer? I played the shit out of Halo Wars 1 multiplayer. Also how is the PC version? Obviously it's a port of a console RTS so does it feel like shit on the PC?

Are you checking inside HW2's add-ons? Because it's not supposed to be there, mine showed up in Games & Apps ---> Ready to Install

I don't think the game is listed in ready to install for me, I'll check

>tfw halo wars multiplayer doesn't work.

I just want to go back to 2009 lads

It looks cool but Halo 5 killed my hype for the series' story. Until Brian Reed stops leading the writing I'm probably not going to touch another Halo game.
>all those B.Net and HSP lore threads before Halo 3, Reach, and 4's releases with those unbelievably twisted theories connecting Marathon, the ARGs, and the novels together
Beyond hype desu, doubt the series will be able to muster that again until it goes back to the Flood mystery. Though if Reed ends up writing the Flood I'll exit gaming immediately

XBL just sent me the code for it, nvm.

I skipped out on HW1 on 360 but played the C&C games on 360, and that was arguably the best way to do a control scheme on a console RTS even if that isnt saying much.

i really wish halo wars played like mow

At least they released a keyboard and mouse for it. RTS on a console is just terrible and shouldnt be done. Theres just no way at all to get the same kind of speed and control that you do on PC.

>Covenant at their strongest could not defeat
Maybe because they were kind of busy

This came out?

...

You just press a button on the d-pad to teleport to a location, Halo Wars fits console really well

Babbies first RTS: Revengance.

You cannot tell me anyone interested in this is over the age of 20.

>Windows 10 exclusive
>Windows store exclusive
>RTS designed with a console in mind
>The sequel of an already mediocre as fuck game
I wonder why no one cares about it

Halo Wars never had hype to begin with. Brian Reed is no longer the writer for Halo games, he was promoted to Narrative Director so someone else is writing Halo 6.

I'm exited for Halo 6 because it will return to being a Chief game, all games starting with it will have simple stories and no more of that shit expand the universe shit from Halo 2 and 5, split screen is returning and staying, and Spartans starting with Halo 6 will wear black undersuits under their armors. Looks like 343 is already to a good start with Halo 6.

It's fun, Chief even announces medals in blitz

>Baby's first board game

>You can't tell me anyone over age 20 is interested in this

>Chief even announces medals in blitz

Fucking sold, 10/10!

That's not Master Chief is it? I thought it was the classic Halo announcer.

>really want to play this
>don't own an Xbox One
>don't want to install Windows 10

Stick a dumb fucking characterless space helmet over each piece and you have a point.

Connection wise people are having problems. Gameplay wise if it's a tad more fast but if you liked HW1 you will get a hang of it. IT plays pretty much the same. New modes are cool and while I have yet to play Blitz everyone else seems to be enjoying it.

PC wise it's meh. Keyboard controls are a mess and a good 75% of the controls and key bindings can not be changed. Fucking zoom and tilt are tied to alt+mouse 3. There is no attack move (at lest that I could find) and it becomes a problem because there are a lot of units that can not fire while shooting. This becomes a problem cause the few AA units can't fire while shooting while air units can.

Biggest gripe is mainly sound and visuals. Style is meh, voice acting is whatever and I keep forgetting there is music cause it's completely bland.

It's a 7/10 game. It improved on little and made majority of things worse. Good thing is that defenitive edition comes with HW1 and that also has multiplayer so if you have some friends or are willing to wait 3 hours you can play that instead cause it's only a tiny bit better.

yep. fuck windows 10

Run Windows 10 in a virtual machine, or
dual boot from a Windows 10 drive

The game isn't worth the effort IMO.

The cutscenes are nice. I'll just watch those and call it a day.

Though, how did the doctor lady know about Halo? Weren't they discovered after the Spirit of Fire was lost?

>Run Windows 10 in a virtual machin

Doubt the game would run very well like that

>dual boot from a Windows 10 drive

Sounds complicated

I'm sure the AI gave them a quick rundown on the Halo rings, the human vs covie war and the bogdanoffs.

Game ran fine for me a couple days after launch but now I get a black screen whenever I launch it.

Anybody know a fix? Going to try reinstalling it when I get home from work and see if that does anything.

yea man, RTS fans are totalyly really excited about fucking halo wars

Just get fucking Windows 10.

You probably have some variant of Windows right now, getting the newer version won't have any effect on you.

It works, theres just no fucking players.

Windows 10 doesn't support 16 bit games properly.

Two control panels

What's the crew complement of the Spirit of Fire, how many troops and vehicles does it have? Seemed to be quite a lot for "half a crew". Also, can Red Team just replace Fireteam Osiris in Halo 6?

Presumably, Isabel updated the SoF's crew on happenings after the Human-Covenant War ended.

Yeah, Halo announcer. I thought the Halo announcer is just Chief. I think different voice actors do each now that I think of it.

What is it with you faggots nowadays? 6th gen and prior, if a console/platform had a game we were interested in playing, nobody had an issue with getting it. Now, everyone tries their best to not buy other consoles, missing out on games.
Halo Wars 2 xbone bundle is $250, and W10 upgrade is absolutely free. You can save that up in no time

I don't know AMD GPUs, what's the Nvidia equivalent to an r9 fury?

Neither does every other 64-bit OS. Just install the GOG version if it exists or run a Win98 VM