I bought Halo for the PC and am still wondering how it became so popular.

TrackIR while watching porn? hands free playback and control? hmm.

Yeah. The lag sucked in the PC version. Not as bad as trying to fool the xbox into going online though. This game is meant to be played on 3 or 4 crappy xboxi system linked together over a room or two's worth of shitty old televisions. With many drunken mates and impressionable cousins on a balmy southern hemisphere christmas day. Good times.

Actually, I still have those good times. But the tellivisions, booze, controllers and game (Halo 3 or Gears of War 2) are much better and if someone cannot make it they can join in the LAN party remotely over live and get abused by the one guy with a microphone passing on messages.

For some reason whenever I boot up the PC to show my mates how awesome TrackIR, Sins of a Solar Empire and Total War are nobody is impressed. They look at me as if I am showing them a kiddy porn collection. WTF?

Having to lead targets by 3-5 feet (varies depending on the ping of the person you're aiming at) with instant shot weapons like a sniper or pistol rifle completely neuters the potentially good time I'd otherwise have been having.

Yeah, the netcode was atrociously bad to the point it's hard to imagine without having actually played it. It was even worse pre community edition.

I seem to remember hearing that there's some minor amount of bullet physics/travel involved with all the guns in Halo, i.e. no true hitscan-weapons. Unless I'm misremembering (it's been a few years ;P), you would notice this on some of the longer/open maps like Blood Gulch where you had to aim slightly above someone's head to actually hit them there from across the map.

The thing I've never liked about Halo multiplayer is the reliance on powerweapons, much like Goldeneye on N64 though not so extreme. Though at least in golden eye you could smack your opponent with a pillow when he whored the golden gun.

Besides the fact that it suffers from some of the worst lag I've ever seen. High-ping bastards and ghosters actually have an advantage versus low-ping bastards due to the server-side nature of the networking, or so I hear is the reason why, since the original engine was never designed from the ground-up to support TCP/IP over the Internet.

Having to lead targets by 3-5 feet (varies depending on the ping of the person you're aiming at) with instant shot weapons like a sniper or pistol rifle completely neuters the potentially good time I'd otherwise have been having.

Multiplayer was fairly average as a result and it was a HUGE pain in the ass having to re-adjust my leading of targets everytime I went to play a different FPS like CS:Source or Tribes II.

This comment was edited on Nov 10, 2009, 01:17.

This patch removes the CD-check and fixes some security bugs. Also, the mod scene for this game is HUGE. They've basically modded to replicate Halo 2 + 3, with all the guns, levels, models and such. Hell there was even a Zelda mod in the works which sadly got shut down by Nintendo.

I used to play this like crazy, it's hella good on PC.

Yeah to bad Halo is still a highly played MP game on PC eh?

Is there a changelog anywhere? I couldn't find it in that thread....or I'm blind :-/

A tribute to all 50 people who bought this game on PC.