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I'll be flat out honest, I don't even care enough about this game anymore to call out, I'm just so over the game, I log on to shoot some guys, and then log off for another month+.
To say that a good group of plays can't break maps with jetpacks, like they did last night is laughable though. Anytime we'd get control of middle you'd here about 3-4 jetpacks lifting up over the rings, it's retarded and goes against everything I've ever loved about Halo.
Steelyuhas
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So what time zone did you use?
Played this game for a year, bro. I actually un-adapted, I liked Reach at first.
I tried getting into MLG too. Playing against full parties with idiot randoms. Then when I did get a full party, it was just back and forth flag-pulling/dropping for 15 minutes. Wasn't very fun.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Boy, how do you NOT mention Alien?
Oh my God. Imagine an Alien-type movie (directed by Ridley Scott) but with the Flood.
I knew I was forgetting one of his big films.
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kittens
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US Pacific. Sorry, I figured it would say somewhere on the poll.
Slightly Live
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Jetpacks just aren't fun to play against. The forced verticality just isn't fun.
I thought jetpacks were good idea, on paper, but after Reach I just never want to see them in Halo ever again. Along with Armour Lock and Evade.
The Librarian
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It can be! Adapt it for the screen, put Ridley Scott in the director's chair, and you have a guaranteed fantastic movie.
Oh please no. He has fallen so far.
Agreed. It'd look pretty, but that's about it.
I'd say Peter Jackson for sure. Its a shame that deal died. I'm not sure I'd want a movie now, but Peter Jackson could do it right for sure. The guys who did "Deliver Hope" might be able to as well, though that was all action and not any acting going on.
Let's not open old wounds
Let's not open old wounds
i STILL want to see the CGI work that they had done. If I am remembering correctly they said they finished a CGI model of a Flood.
xxjuicesxx
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I dunno man, I think Asylum and Sanctuary have huge amounts of map control offered. We failed to get control, especially of Ring 2. Controlling Ring 2 makes it easy to put heat on their snipe and thats what they did to us.
Didn't use a variety of AA's and got beat up pretty good.
Its fine if you don't wanna callout but I feel thats exactly why they beat us, they did callout and we didn't. Didn't have shit to do with gamebreaking AA's (which both teams have the option of using again)
Demoncarnotaur
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He would have been great. =(
Hey, if anyone wants to help me get the updated Infection maps tested, I'll be running a test tommorow (tonight's didn't have anyone turn out) at around 10 or 11am CST.
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1121122
I need only about 8 minimum to start, and it won't take long. Just need to make sure none of the updates have anything explode.
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1121122
I need only about 8 minimum to start, and it won't take long. Just need to make sure none of the updates have anything explode.
Yeah, it says Vancouver Canada. But I'm sure alot of people don't know where in Canada Vancouver is located.
DcLevartho
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Any opinions on Joss Whedon, Jon Favreau, or Kenneth Branagh (all around awesome at sticking to source material, love his Shakespeare work and Thor) ?
Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens and Iron Man 2 where a mess.
Kenneth Branagh work on Thor was just... bleh.
Joss is just.... bleh.
Steelyuhas
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Haha it totally says San Fran on there and I just missed it. Hiding in plain sight.
Yea, it has plenty without AA's, with AA's it just boils down to who can play like a bigger douche. Jetpacking and raining grenades is not my idea of them outplaying us for map control, it's just a flat out broken game.
And I'll never use a variety of AA's because I hate them, I wouldn't even pick sprint if their was an option, AA's are not Halo to me, and if the franchise continues down that path for 4, I'm done with it.
Hire Kyle
HiredN00bs
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Jetpacks work in Reach. They're balanced by being extremely slow and extremely loud.
I completely understand why people want a more classic style, and there are options for that, even in Reach.
Just because you prefer a different style doesn't mean the style is inherently flawed.
I completely understand why people want a more classic style, and there are options for that, even in Reach.
Just because you prefer a different style doesn't mean the style is inherently flawed.
Give me a good mode that emulates Halo 2 while still playing Halo Reach. Then we'll talk.
Their speed is completely offset by their vertical ability and bloom. I swear bloom is even more broken when trying to aim at someone jetpacking as well.
The classic emulations in Reach are subpar at best, MLG coming the closest, and the anniversary stuff being largely as inconsistent as default Reach.
You can still toss grenades at the ground at somebody chasing you, you can still hop over obstacles, and even wider distances than ever before with sprint, and what's with using your mic have anything to do with it? The main difference between this and previous ones is inertia, and I do agree it's a problem and I hope none of it returns. However the reasons you list as "interesting" can currently be done in the game now.
Most of which a regular player cannot do, especially on a consistent basis or in combat. I'll welcome the general Halo base settings of a decent jump and fast movement speed over anything in these past two iterations. Both had wildly slow "run" speeds and you either had awful moon jumps in H3 or the awful inertia holding you back in Reach. Both are poop and should never return
no thank you
You're correct, because their reticle covers your entire head, while you can only shoot a small section of their head that you can see from the angle below.
It's not that simple, but you like jetpacks and I don't, so there's no way we can convince each other otherwise.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Related to jetpacks working and general Reach gameplay.
It's not that people hate all of that existing. They just hate that it is in a Halo game. They feel Halo should be derivative of that classic style with minimal change. AA's completely change the flow of a Halo match. If Reach did not carry the Halo title with it, people would think that it was a great game. The thing is when people see the word Halo they think of moderately movement speed, a sizable jump height, a full range of motion, a pinpoint accurate gun capable of landing a headshot cross map, two weapon slots, energy shields etc. People don't think of selectable loadouts, Sprint, Jet Packs, evading, and bloom. On it's own Reach is phenomenal people just have a problem with the way it plays with the word Halo in the title.
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kittens
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Yup. Trying to land a headshot on a jetpacker is insanely frustrating. The slow Y axis movement makes it even more so.
That part's debatable.
Some people think cross mapping is a good thing, and some people want a more limited range (like the BR).I hate this so much.Yup. Trying to land a headshot on a jetpacker is insanely frustrating. The slow Y axis movement makes it even more so.
That part's debatable.
Its the controller, not the game
And yet I haven't played any other map in that rotation. It's funny to think of what the average player thinks is good.
HiredN00bs
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Sounds like you have some slowturn.
No way, that's different. Its really difficult to go from looking straight out to aiming way up above you in time to defend yourself. If you up your sensitivity it throws you off by changing both horizontal and vertical. It'd be nice to have Y-sensitivity separate.
The Librarian
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What are they? Can't seem to recall any of 'em.
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kittens
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Yup. I just ordered one of them fancy silver 360 controllers, so we'll see if that makes any difference.
Slightly Live
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Just a hunch, but I think we'll be hearing Tim Dadabo just as much in the next ten years as we have in the previous ten. That's no bad thing at all.
I get it
HiredN00bs
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I've gone through several. One had slowturn, another drift, and the one I have now actually zeroes your turn if you push the stick to its extreme. If my sample is indicative of a larger trend, Microsoft has some pervasive issues with their analog sticks. I think it's not as apparent in other games as it is in Reach, because of the way Reach reads input from the analog sticks. Out of the 5 controllers I own, only one at the moment is acceptable to use with Reach, in my opinion.
I agree with you that it should be a discrete setting, but it still sounds like you have some slowturn, too. The controller I've been using for months now just started exhibiting it, so I bought one of those $28 wired ones from Amazon, even though the guide ring of light and the rumble make noise on the voice channel (which is exacerbated by my Astros).
K
kittens
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Well shit, I've already got buyer's remorse and the damn thing isn't due to arrive till Friday.
Hope I have a better experience.
HiredN00bs
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Someone here was saying they had success in opening up the controller and making some modifications, was it Tashi?
Besides their obvious cover defying, map breaking abilities...
THEY ARE NOT SLOW. Maybe if you suck at them. But you can traverse maps faster than sprint. Most maps are pretty vertical and have walls you can fly over.
Jetpacks fucking ruin this game like other AA's.
The music at he beginning of that Audiobook preview... Halo 4? Probably not...
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