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@Trespa5s Global rank is indeed a little buried. In lobby you can hit X, select your own tag, then player details, in the upper left hand corner it will tell you your rank (though I don't think the symbol is displayed) and how much xp you are at.

I think I remember reading that ZBNS will be a toggle-able option within the settings, we could very well have Bomb/Oddball. Maybe @Tashi can confirm or deny?

I'd be very interested in trying these settings out. I enjoy v7, but as has been stated there wasn't really time to improve upon them and there are issues that can/should be addressed.

If we're going to play Reach, then we need to talk about Penance. The soulless remake of Damnation is not fun to watch, it's not fun to play. 1 team sits up top and camps while the other team gets picked trying to grab power-ups/weapons. The rest of the time is just a lot of sitting and waiting. Please remove it from the rotation.

Day before an info drop, feels like we've been here too many times... Here's hoping the announcement is good and gives us lots to look forward to.

Doom (2016) would like to introduce himself to you.

I've seen it said by multiple people that the games industry and the number of people in it is smaller than it looks. It could be less of companies copying each other and more of just the same devs bouncing between studios making the same changes/design choices that they made everywhere else. Kinda tin-foil hat stuff, but not completely unrealistic.

Jaime Griesemer talking about the Plasma Rifle through the first 3 Halo games and Reach, a long video but really interesting.

Was there a crab on the beach?

Another year, another meme #Believe

I suppose, considering we just watched a tournament on a twitch channel created a week before the event with what to me seemed like limited promotion from Dreamhack themselves it just feels like the Halo scene is getting shafted because of this arrangement. I don't get how having /Halo host the channel takes control away from the TOs.

They'd be getting exposure that they wouldn't normally get due to the potential audience that the Halo channel could bring in, allowing them to build their brand up. If the end goal is to build the scene then 343 should be doing everything they can to show off the events that their partners are bringing to life. IDK, it seems counter intuitive to me.

My only real issue with the announcement is that the blog restates that TOs within the grassroots program and their new style of partners will be streaming from their own channels. I think that the /Halo channel should host regardless of who is putting on the tournament. I suppose I just don't really get why they (Halo/343) wouldn't host and if that could be answered sufficiently that would be great.

Not the end of H3, time to grind