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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

Devin Olsen said:
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/default.aspx?player=Dax01

It says you have been playing Arena for 30 minutes.

Then hit the 'Standard Tab' and it says you've been playing for 16 Hours and 50 Minutes

edit: holy shit it is up!
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I could fucking kill you. I saw this picture. Jumped up from work. DROVE 20 FUCKING MILES back home. To download this and try it for a small minute on a early lunch................................



In retrospect... I still have to laugh. :lol :lol :lol
 
SnakeSlashRO said:
I could fucking kill you. I saw this picture. Jumped up from work. DROVE 20 FUCKING MILES back home. To download this and try it for a small minute on a early lunch................................
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oh my :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
darkressurection said:
Sitting at a 1520 for my day rating. If I am clear on the way Arena works, playing more games won't reduce my day rating right?
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No it won't. It takes your three best games only. So even if you have horrible games you will stay right where you are.
 
metareferential said:
There's a health bar and a shield indicator.

What's difficult about it?
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Because when you are shooting someone, you are looking at your cursor, not your health bar. Audio cues work in Halo 2 and 3, why are they so rubbish in Reach?
 
SnakeSlashRO said:
I could fucking kill you. I saw this picture. Jumped up from work. DROVE 20 FUCKING MILES back home. To download this and try it for a small minute on a early lunch................................



In retrospect... I still have to laugh. :lol :lol :lol
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SnakeSlashRO said:
I could fucking kill you. I saw this picture. Jumped up from work. DROVE 20 FUCKING MILES back home. To download this and try it for a small minute on a early lunch................................



In retrospect... I still have to laugh. :lol :lol :lol
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Lol :D
 
darkressurection said:
Sitting at a 1520 for my day rating. If I am clear on the way Arena works, playing more games won't reduce my day rating right?
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Sounds right, I been playing and my score has improved a bit because I had some good games, but after a bad game my rating is untouched since I think it goes by your 3 best matches.

All the shitty games go into your invisible trueskill though.
 
darkressurection said:
Sitting at a 1520 for my day rating. If I am clear on the way Arena works, playing more games won't reduce my day rating right?
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Nope, but if you do better than your three best games, you can make it go up.

e: beaten like a rug
 
bobs99 ... said:
Agreed, a dude kept betraying me to ruin my score by the looks of things. Griefers who dont care about theyre score will have a field day in the arena.
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someone from bungie, or the bwu itself, mentioned that habitual betrayals will be met with the ban hammer.
 
Eric WK said:
So do only Day Ratings affect your Division placement or do all games affect that too (like your TrueSkill)?
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I believe your division placement is affected by the aggregate of your daily ratings, so it only takes into account the best that you've done over a few days.
 
I may be really daft and missing something, but is there a way to check your 3 highest Arena Rating's so far? This would be awesome as you could constantly see which rating you need to beat to up your score.

Damn finals, I want to go for Onyx, but theres no way im going to do that in the beta. I think ill just play my 3 games a day and end up in Bronze :lol

Op_ivy - thanks for the info, but I can imagine a lot of annoying people putting you to 1 shot and then leaving you to get killed by an enemy =(
 
Grenades are fine, it's that all the weapons in this game other than the power-weapons are pea-shooters. Plasmas need a boost considering they don't even come close to compare to the power of frags.
Without powerful nades, firefights would even be more boringly long and people would rely more and more on melee. Not because it's fun, but because it at least guarantees an end to the fight.

The way this game works now, you're almost as likely to get killed by a third party that's not in the firefight than you are by the person you're actually shooting at (and is shooting at you). When it takes 4 or 5 seconds to actually kill someone without using nades or melee, all you're doing is getting attention when you decide to fire at somebody. Add another 4 or 5 seconds for the victor of the fight to recharge their health and you got yourself 10 seconds to find the firefight and just simply chuck a nade in their direction for an easy kill or an easy double kill if you're lucky. Or you can just walk on in and finish the remaining enemy with half health. The only thing stopping you is if someone else had the same idea you had and is behind you waiting on an opportunity to finish you off.

If mid range fire fights only lasted 2 seconds, then I wouldn't be able to exploit the stupidity behind this game. It turns every gametype (especially anything FFA based) into an opportunist's gametype. Just wait and listen for gunshots. Then take your blessed time to get to it and finish off the remainders. Everytime I do bad in this game KDR wise, I always have an amazing amount of assists. Then I realize, I shoulda been the one helping everyone else get assists.
 
2 Minutes Turkish said:
So Bungie's Twitter says it's up, but my disc says otherwise.
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Fix this shit bungle!

Why couldn't they have released the download a couple days ago and let it unlock now instead of everyone rushing to download it all at once.
 
I don't think this is getting across to people, but all of your games will count towards deciding what division you will get placed in to. So lets say that right now my best three-game rating average is 1700, but I continue to get a 1500 rating in most of my games, then I will most likely be placed in the division that includes a 1500 rating.
 
I just got back from work, checked the ODST disc, still says preview the beta. Went over to PC checked Twitter and Bungie Twitter says it's up now!(2 minutes ago).

Put ODST back in 360, but it still says preview. Maybe it's being rolled out across the world, bit by bit right now.

Still no sign of my Halo 2 loyalty bonus code...
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
What's wrong with it? I like it. Gives me a bit more of an even playing field.
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It's personal taste but it gives you DMR start, 1 nade, regular shields and items on the map. The main problem is on sword base the level is rather cramped and since one melee can drain 100% shield, people favour it, plus grenades are strong and you will die a lot by them. Then feature in the sword and the ability to sprint up to someone and cut off their balls before they can shoot down your shield due to the shitty dmr up close, and if you do whack them you most of the time die by the sword.

I would say half the kills in pro are done by the fist or explosives.

Normal slayer gives you all the perks to use like armour lock, cloaking and jetpack, you spawn with AR and pistol (lovely combo) and then have to go find your other weapons around the map, it's just a lot more fun, and the reach weapon balance when everything is in play is good. with an AR or pistol it's a lot easier to stop people rushing you for that easy melee.
 
Mr_Brit said:
Fix this shit bungle!

Why couldn't they have released the download a couple days ago and let it unlock now instead of everyone rushing to download it all at once.
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Because we can't decouple downloading the beta early and playing the beta early.
 
Trasher said:
I don't think this is getting across to people, but all of your games will count towards deciding what division you will get placed in to. So lets say that right now my best three-game rating average is 1700, but I continue to get a 1500 rating in most of my games, then I will most likely be placed in the division that includes a 1500 rating.
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Oh, okay, I misread that part then. My bad, thanks for the clarification :)
 
Mr_Brit said:
Fix this shit bungle!

Why couldn't they have released the download a couple days ago and let it unlock now instead of everyone rushing to download it all at once.
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I agree, that way they could just flip the switch and it let th people with ODST play, this way the servers are gonna have millions of people trying to download at once..
 
kylej said:
Some kid yelled at me and told me to go play Call of Duty when I voted for Slayer Pro :/
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Ahahahahahahahahahaha

How is that

How

I don't even understand how that logic works
 
Diablohead said:
It's personal taste but it gives you DMR start, 1 nade, regular shields and items on the map. The main problem is on sword base the level is rather cramped and since one melee can drain 100% shield, people favour it, plus grenades are strong and you will die a lot by them. Then feature in the sword and the ability to sprint up to someone and cut off their balls before they can shoot down your shield due to the shitty dmr up close, and if you do whack them you most of the time die by the sword.

I would say half the kills in pro are done by the fist or explosives.

Normal slayer gives you all the perks to use like armour lock, cloaking and jetpack, you spawn with AR and pistol (lovely combo) and then have to go find your other weapons around the map, it's just a lot more fun, and the reach weapon balance when everything is in play is good. with an AR or pistol it's a lot easier to stop people rushing you for that easy melee.
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I can definitely see that, yeah. I guess it's just with more varied loadouts, there's so many more ways to humiliate my lack of skillz.

:lol
 
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