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Halo: Reach Beta Thread
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Son of Godzilla
Banned
Yea, lord knows nobody else can possibly have anything more important to be doing than finishing a game of Halo with you.remz said:
Anyways, the Focus Rifle is absolutely disgusting. It needs to burn through more ammo or something. Lasting nearly 10 kills is hilarious.
Shake Appeal
Member
Netcodenetcodenetcodenetcode. Netcode.Pandoracell said:
It's the netcode.
Wow.
Thagomizer
Member
dilatedmuscle said:
Reach Covie Slayer is the best thing to ever happen to Halo.
Bungie, please leave Evade exactly the way it is, excluding glitches, in the final. It is soo much fun to quickly do a double roll to go from 15 ft. in front of an enemy to shoving a plasma wrist dagger through their skulls.
The Librarian
Banned
The Needler needs to go back to the way it was in Halo 3. Please, Bungie.
Thagomizer
Member
Dax01 said:
I think it's fine. It's more of an ambush weapon now, which is a role it's perfectly suited for.
Shake Appeal
Member
The netcode is so good that I have beatdowns as my number one weapon, by a small margin. I can play SWAT and enjoy it. The hammer works. The sword works (except for when people block it!). The DMR, Nerfle, and pistol all feel like instruments of destruction.
Does it take more needles to supercombine now? I haven't picked it up much, but that was my impression.Dax01 said:
Son of Godzilla
Banned
I really don't like Covie Slayer. It gets boring using the same weapons over and over again.
It's great that Matchmaking is super fast now, but it needs to make some sort of sound effect when you get to the vote screen; it's so fast that I'm still usually just looking at my K/D for the last match and I'm barely getting in a vote. And I'll forgive it for now since it's a Beta, but along with being super fast it does also seem to make randomly poor choices about team make up. We were playing with a group of 4 of us, and it would be all over the place where we would get totally donged on (every single one of us went negative, their whole team went positive) but it would keep it matched, and then the other way around. Then we'd have actual close matches and it would drop the other team. Makes no sense, but it doesn't seem fair to bitch about it at this point yet.
That said, if the current caliber of players is any indication, I'll be passing on playing this weekend and waiting until it opens up next week; getting donged on constantly by people who are waaaaay better than me. The last several games I played were basically reminding me of why I stopped playing Halo 3 online :/
At this point the Beta is so limited that I still don't know how I feel about the game. It's a mixed bag for me personally, but we still haven't even touched vehicles and large maps. At the end of the day I spend 90% of my time playing BTB with my friends, and I will get NO indication of how that is really going to play at all in this Beta, so I don't even know if I'll feel like I can make a judgment even after the Beta's over. Still really, really bummed there's no BTB in the Beta (and no, Invasion is similar but not the same and with smaller player counts).
That said, if the current caliber of players is any indication, I'll be passing on playing this weekend and waiting until it opens up next week; getting donged on constantly by people who are waaaaay better than me. The last several games I played were basically reminding me of why I stopped playing Halo 3 online :/
At this point the Beta is so limited that I still don't know how I feel about the game. It's a mixed bag for me personally, but we still haven't even touched vehicles and large maps. At the end of the day I spend 90% of my time playing BTB with my friends, and I will get NO indication of how that is really going to play at all in this Beta, so I don't even know if I'll feel like I can make a judgment even after the Beta's over. Still really, really bummed there's no BTB in the Beta (and no, Invasion is similar but not the same and with smaller player counts).
Played with this one asshole last night. Was playing stockpile and a guy on our team was hanging around our teams collection area. About halfway through the game I notice only one person on our team has been getting points for collecting flags. SO I go to our collection area and every time one of our team mates would drop the flag in the area the shithead would run up throw the flag out and back in basically giving himself all the collection points. So I tell him he's being a piece of shit and not to do that anymore, let us earn our hard earned points. He tells me to stop having a sandy vagina and team kills me. I promptly kicked him with that but seriously what a dickhead.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Merguson said:
This is no longer F+F, it's now the everyone and their grandma beta.
I think once everyone and their mother had EZ codes, seemed like it was kind of pointless to hold back at all. Plus it builds goodwill since the people who really want to play it were probably not happy about thousands of people creating fake accounts and getting it immediately. Good on Bungie for sure though.
Shake Appeal
Member
Grab sword, focus rifle, or plasma launcher. I love that gametype, it's such a palette cleanser, and Evade is my second favourite AA after Sprint.Son of Godzilla said:
Just checked my stats and I have played 80 games of Reach. I'm not sure I played many past a hundred games in the Halo 3 beta. At this rate I'll have surpassed that before the beta proper rolls out.
I love this game.
Not a huge fan of it on Powerhouse, like it a little more on Sword Base (both capture points feel too exposed and spammy on PH). In general, I find it to be an incredibly stressful gametype, and the other teams always seem frighteningly coordinated. And I had to play a lot of it with randoms this afternoon, which didn't endear me to it.Wren said:
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Merguson said:
Yup, they're amazing
Thanks Urk and everyone else at Bungie!
Cornballer
Member
Anyone want to get a party going? GT is my username.
Washed_Out
Member
Loving the beta. Only thing that's been pissing me off is my teammates, for quitting or doing dumb shit.
....And I scored.
....And I scored.
Thagomizer
Member
Cornballer said:
I'm not on now, but I'll add you. GT is the profile I linked to last page.
SephirothRK
Member
Do you need to be gold to get in the beta?
FilthyLies
Member
Landed enough needles in someone that they exploded in a glorious pink mist.RSTEIN said:
It's three needles with the rifle on an unshielded opponent and... seven? I think for the vanilla needler
Digital Enhancement
Neo Member
The more I play Swordbase, the more I hate it.
My list for improvements:
Add to the clip of the pistol
decrease grenade damage
add a Team DMR playlist
FIX THE BLOOM AND AIMING ISSUES. HOLY SHIT I can't even see my crosshair at times because of the bloom.
IMO Bungie really dropped the ball with this game, I don't think I'm going to get it
I also think Swordbase is a terrible map
Add to the clip of the pistol
decrease grenade damage
add a Team DMR playlist
FIX THE BLOOM AND AIMING ISSUES. HOLY SHIT I can't even see my crosshair at times because of the bloom.
IMO Bungie really dropped the ball with this game, I don't think I'm going to get it
I also think Swordbase is a terrible map
Washed_Out
Member
SephirothRK said:
yup
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
I'm loving what I've played so far, but god do I suck. Reach makes me feel like everyone else is better than me in a way that no previous Halo game has managed to do. :lol Please tell me I'm not the only one that feels this way?
The Librarian
Banned
I don't think I like the Focus Rifle. Too easy to aim in close quarters.
Thagomizer
Member
Now that I've figured out Swordbase's layout, I'm liking it a lot more. The flag route is far too linear, but it works great for Slayer gametypes.
UltimaPooh
Member
I GOT A CODE!
Download is in the 70's right now. So I'll be on soon. Still not looking at the thread.
I want to get owned in my first official Reach game.
Download is in the 70's right now. So I'll be on soon. Still not looking at the thread.
I want to get owned in my first official Reach game.
Digital Enhancement
Neo Member
It seems that in CTF, the flag carrier will often drop the flag and then pick it up again. What is the point of this ?
The Librarian
Banned
The bathroom area, where the Pro Pipe spawns, needs a third way in. Just played a game of Oddball in which the enemy team managed to get the ball into that bathroom and my team couldn't get it out. The guys just camped there.