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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

zewone said:
Agreed. All these people talking about how great Covy Slayer is blow my mind.

It's terrible.

I just wish the DMR was a little bit better in close range, but that's what the magnum is for.
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Its pretty beastly in close range, its smaller reticule bloom means in a 1v1 against a pistol user you will beat them. Thats what I found at least.
 
Been getting slaughtered since I fired up the beta last night. Such a huge adjustment curve that I didn't anticipate. Not a bad thing, but it's going to take some getting used to.

Biggest complaint so far is the match commentator's voice. Is there an option to turn this off? I end up turning the volume down to avoid hearing "Ball dropped/Flag dropped/Skull dropped" every goddamn second.
 
Isn't the DMR supposed to be a hitscan weapon? Because somehow I managed to get into a 1v1 in swat and headshot the guy and get a revenge medal the moment after he killed me. He also had a DMR I believe...?
 
At the point where I'm starting to think Reach embarasses the shit out of Halo 3. So much about this game feels designed. I might not like a few decisions, but it feels like goddamn work has been done to make the game play how it plays. Halo 3 seems an utter mess by comparison.
 
bobs99 ... said:
I really doubt both players shot eachother at the exact same time, it seems more like theres a window of a few frames after the first player shoots the second where it allows the second players actions to still count. If that makes sense? I dont think this window should exist, or it should be at the very least, shortened.
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It's true. If these bullets travel at an infinite speed it all comes down to who pulled the trigger first. There's no way these people are pulling the trigger at the same exact instant. I mean sure, it's bound to happen once in a while but it's already happened to me a decent amount of times. It's very unsatisfying when it happens too. I wonder where the opening is. When are these players getting this last shot off?
 
I love Covie-Slayer <3 <3. But after i finished the game, i think about Invasion. Is it really balanced? A Elite is much powerfuel than a spartan...
 
When playing in split-screen with two separate accounts, the credits screen doesn't come up telling you how much each of you earned. Is this intentional?
 
Hypertrooper said:
I love Covie-Slayer <3 <3. But after i finished the game, i think about Invasion. Is it really balanced? A Elite is much powerfuel than a spartan...
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You can only drink so much powerfuel at a time, though, so it balances.
 
Tashi0106 said:
It's true. If these bullets travel at an infinite speed it all comes down to who pulled the trigger first. There's no way these people are pulling the trigger at the same exact instant. I mean sure, it's bound to happen once in a while but it's already happened to me a decent amount of times. It's very unsatisfying when it happens too. I wonder where the opening is. When are these players getting this last shot off?
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but with things like lag, i would assume there is a certain margain of error that has to be built in. i wouldn't be surprised if without that, the whole of magic of xbox live would be way worse.
 
Son of Godzilla said:
At the point where I'm starting to think Reach embarasses the shit out of Halo 3. So much about this game feels designed. I might not like a few decisions, but it feels like goddamn work has been done to make the game play how it plays. Halo 3 seems an utter mess by comparison.
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You have never liked Halo 3 much anyway based on your posts here. :lol

I agree that Reach seems really well implimented though, the level of care taken in every aspect of the game is astounding. I may not like some decisions from a very personal level, but its clear Bungie have done the best for the majority of players and for that I applaud them.
 
My roommate and friend played this game for four hours after I went to bed last night, until 6:30 am. :lol

Some more things I've noticed from playing this afternoon:
  • I reiterate my complaints about skull visibility in Headhunter. Awesome gametype, but the skulls are simply too easy to miss when you're trying to pick them up. There should be some arrows or some HUD element making them easier to track, and making it more obvious when you have picked them up.
  • Everyone is completely right about the crosshairs. Too hard to see. I love the pistol, but after a couple rapid shots I lose sight of the crosshairs completely.
  • Playing a game of 3 Plots, I had no idea what the score to win was during the entire game. The indicator in the HUD showed how many points we had, but should've been a progress bar so I could gauge how close we were to victory. So glad 3 Plots is back, though.
  • English Nerd criticism: the notification area uses "their" in a singular context, which you should never do. Eg. "Player took their revenge" is just wrong. I know his/her is clumsy, but you should pick one and go with it (or, better yet, read the gender of the gamertag and apply the appropriate pronoun) instead of using an improper plural. I know this is debatable, it's just something that's been drilled into me.
  • This is a video from yesterday that seems to be a Sword Glitch. I slashed a guy twice and he took no damage from either attack. Can't render because I don't have Bungie Pro anymore. Could just be lag, but the game seemed to be running fine so I'm not sure why he was totally unharmed.
 
Azar said:
Some more things I've noticed from playing this afternoon:
  • English Nerd criticism: the notification area uses "their" in a singular context, which you should never do. Eg. "Player took their revenge" is just wrong. I know his/her is clumsy, but you should pick one and go with it (or, better yet, read the gender of the gamertag and apply the appropriate pronoun) instead of using an improper plural. I know this is debatable, it's just something that's been drilled into me.
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Oh something else. I don't know if it's wrong or not (probably not), but seeing "Sai kun was killed by a Dax01 headshot" just looks weird. :lol It bothers me, for some reason.
 
My first Reach render (for a friend) is #666 overall.

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wape.
 
Ramirez said:
416 kills with the Magnum, next closest gun is 126 away, and it's the DMR. I really hope Bungie doesn't listen to the majority of you, this game is so much better than Halo 3
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QFT

Some of the complaints that I have read here seriously blow my mind. This game is what Halo 3 should have been. The complaints that really blow my mind are the ones that say the weapons feel like toys. Seriously?? The weapons in Reach blow away anything in Halo 3 from sound to impact to everything. My guess is most of the whiners are complaining because they are getting their asses handed to them. I continue to get my ass handed to me, but none the less I'm having a hell of a time and appreciate the NEEDED changes bungie made to the game. I'm looking forward to Monday when I can get matched up with people more on my level. One thing I noticed from the beta is that there are A LOT of good players. Still after 70 games of getting donged on in the beta I'm loving it.
 
RdN said:
Just played urk and company.. fun game of swat!
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Hitscan plus livestream video card lag = one single kill in an entire game of SWAT. :-(

Back to CTF until the stream is disabled...

Sai-kun said:
Oh something else. I don't know if it's wrong or not (probably not), but seeing "Sai kun was killed by a Dax01 headshot" just looks weird. :lol It bothers me, for some reason.
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I bolded the part of the language that is truly bothering you.
 
Son of Godzilla said:
At the point where I'm starting to think Reach embarasses the shit out of Halo 3. So much about this game feels designed. I might not like a few decisions, but it feels like goddamn work has been done to make the game play how it plays. Halo 3 seems an utter mess by comparison.
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+1
 
Question for GAF: If I upgrade my DSL from 1.5 down 384 up to 3.0 down and 512 up, will this allow me to comfortably play Reach whilst my wife is streaming Netflix on the PC?
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
Deep throating a swod does sound evil.
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:lol

Still waiting for my beta code from MS, the bastards. :(

I bolded the part of the language that is truly bothering you.
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Oh, come on! replacing a with 's shouldn't be hard for Bungie to fix. ;)
 
soldat7 said:
Question for GAF: If I upgrade my DSL from 1.5 down 384 up to 3.0 down and 512 up, will this allow me to comfortably play Reach whilst my wife is streaming Netflix on the PC?
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Sometimes streaming effects my 50meg line so it depends, I would say no if she wants to stream video files, mp3's and music should be fine though as it's smaller data.

If you have a router check to see if you have any priority options, set video to low and games to high if you have anything like that, then it should stop any chokes you get via gaming but the lady might's get video buffers.
 
bobs99 ... said:
You have never liked Halo 3 much anyway based on your posts here. :lol
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Heh, no idea what gave you that idea. I think I've got a justified amount of playlist hate, and hey there's plenty of time for them to screw that up. Maybe they already have!?
 
soldat7 said:
Question for GAF: If I upgrade my DSL from 1.5 down 384 up to 3.0 down and 512 up, will this allow me to comfortably play Reach whilst my wife is streaming Netflix on the PC?
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Yeah you should be fine. The only thing that would hurt you is if she was uploading at the same time.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
Deep throating a swod does sound evil.
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Apparently "swod" is what you call your penis if you use it as a navigation tool.

Midshipman: For chrissakes, cap'n. Ye cannae guide is through the Pacific wi' nought but yer swod.
Captain: Ayeee, ye've a lot tae learn about the ways of the sea, boy.

Who knew? Thanks UrbanDictionary.
 
soldat7 said:
Question for GAF: If I upgrade my DSL from 1.5 down 384 up to 3.0 down and 512 up, will this allow me to comfortably play Reach whilst my wife is streaming Netflix on the PC?
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512kbps upload is normally fine if you're only gaming. I would recommend a little higher for upstream if you can get it. Streaming video, can easily use multiple megabits of download bandwidth. Again, if you can get it I would suggest higher if you want to do both at once. With those speeds you should only do one or the other to be honest, if you have to make this work get a router with QOS so you can prioritize traffic but even that might not give you a good experience.
 
One quick question, I love Headhunter but im still trying to pick a loadout that works best for it. When invisible does the nav point above your head also dissapear?
 
bobs99 ... said:
One quick question, I love Headhunter but im still trying to pick a loadout that works best for it. When invisible does the nav point above your head also dissapear?
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I don't think so. Just use sprint.
 
Just had a game where we couldnt pick a class and started only with AR while the other team could pick a class and had Pistol/AR. WTF!

It went to a migrate host screen before this happened. was on Oddball
 
Sai-kun said:
<Big Assassination Post>
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That's too awesome. :D Just realized Bnet also has YouTube versions of their rendered videos. That's cool and insane. Their YouTube account will probably get the record for most videos on an account, whatever that may be.

I'm going to gif that assassination in a bit.
 
Metalic Sand said:
Just had a game where we couldnt pick a class and started only with AR while the other team could pick a class and had Pistol/AR. WTF!

It went to a migrate host screen before this happened. was on Oddball
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Something similar happened to me earlier... Chose a class, spawned, host migrated. When I came back into the game I had no armour ability. :(
 
Slayer Pro or w/e for FFA needs radar, and also needs all weapons but the DMR/BR removed. Guy was raping hard with the Hammer just now, kinda lame with no radar+hammer going around.
 
Interesting. I'll try out 3.0 down and 512 up and if that doesn't work, I can go as high as 6.0 down and 768 up. I think that's it though. I'm not going to Time Warner. :lol
 
Ramirez said:
Slayer Pro or w/e for FFA needs radar, and also needs all weapons but the DMR/BR removed. Guy was raping hard with the Hammer just now, kinda lame with no radar+hammer going around.
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agreed
 
Warrant Officer Grade 2. Levelling up is surprisingly fun, even though I've bought all the gear I actually want. Suppose I'd better start saving for Oonsk.
 
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