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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

Another Halo, another group of people who tread Oddball as slayer = an easy win for me. Kept forgetting where the meele button was!
 
snack said:
It takes forever to find matches in Arena. Anyone else notice this?
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I think it could be the smaller amount of players in the Arena hopper. Most of the new players are jumping to Grab Bag to ease themselves in. :lol
 
CozMick said:
Servers down for anyone else?

I'm stuck in a party and no one else can get in Matchmaking.

And................120,000 online? kinda low numbers.
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Considering I can see a number of people on my friends list still downloading it.. I think they will be fine with numbers. It is still the afternoon.
 
snack said:
It takes forever to find matches in Arena. Anyone else notice this?
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More than likely Arena will ALWAYS have the least amount of people in it cause its such a stripped down experience aimed at an elitest niche.

I'll play a few games a day to keep my Gold rating, but other than that Im staying the hell away.
 
Those who have lost their emblem should rock out with Cowboy Pirate:
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oh lord, you think for something planned a year in advance they'd be better prepared than this....ugh
 
Perhaps the players online list is ALL players, and what is displayed in game is regional. Or the in game numbers could be people currently in matches, while the number on bungie.net is all players that have Reach launched (as in, they're sitting at the menu or looking for a match)
 
akmcbroom said:
Are stats not saving for anyone else? This is frustrating
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Yeah, I've played four arena matches and only the first one registred on B.net. Ah well, gonna stop for now got a final in a few hours anyways.
 
hai guyz, this kid in matchmaking told me since Activision owns bungie, Reach is coming to the ps3 and theres gonna be a halo every year
 
Ok, I encountered a very strange glitch last night. Basically, I went to assassinate a guy, via snapping his neck. I knocked him on the ground, but then I went back to first person, on top of him while he was laying down, alive. It my confusion, I hit him with another melee killing him. :lol

Here is the Vid

If someone wouldn't mind rendering it so others can see that would be cool. Has anyone else had this happen?
 
akmcbroom said:
Are stats not saving for anyone else? This is frustrating
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They're probably just backed up for now considering the massive influx of people all at once. I'm sure they'll post online in a little while. Used to happen in H3 all the time.
 
I could connect fine, but my friend couldn't so to test his connection we played a co-op game of ODST, no problems, he ran a network test, no problems, we went back to Reach and now I can't play either.

Those poor, poor Bungie servers must be getting killed. I did manage to play 2 game though, one Flag Stockpile and one Juggernaught FFA, I won both. I may retire now, undefeated.

In Juggernaught, are you invincible for a short time? Or do you have a really kickass long energy bar? Because I destroyed people and got a killstreak that was better than anything I ever managed in Halo 1, 2 or 3.

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People are complaining now? It's a BETA.

It's also launched about ten times more smoothly then in 2007 - I downloaded in an hour and actually played a game!
 
Backfoggen said:
Haha :lol
See it this way if you send your console in right now you might just get it back when the servers are up again.
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my console was more than 3 yrs old so I wonder M$ will repair it for me or not...

I am doing the towel trick on it, see if it ll work...if not I ll just buy a new arcade at my local walmart
 
Dead Man Typing said:
In Juggernaught, are you invincible for a short time? Or do you have a really kickass long energy bar? Because I destroyed people and got a killstreak that was better than anything I ever managed in Halo 1, 2 or 3.
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Yeah, you're invincible for a few seconds once you become the Juggernaut. That's how I was able to get my Killionaire in Juggernaut a couple days ago :D
 
dslgunstar said:
More than likely Arena will ALWAYS have the least amount of people in it cause its such a stripped down experience aimed at an elitest niche.

I'll play a few games a day to keep my Gold rating, but other than that Im staying the hell away.
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Well, I'm not convinced of that. It looks like when finding a game, on the right hand of the screen little squares pop up to signify the amount of lobbys there are active, and those lobbys get a cross in them if they aren't suitable. From what I have seen, there are loads of lobbys, but hardly any are suitable.

Bungies matchmaking system really is specific in finding you a good group to play with.
 
Demoncarnotaur said:
Ok, I encountered a very strange glitch last night. Basically, I went to assassinate a guy, via snapping his neck. I knocked him on the ground, but then I went back to first person, on top of him while he was laying down, alive. It my confusion, I hit him with another melee killing him. :lol

Here is the Vid

If someone wouldn't mind rendering it so others can see that would be cool. Has anyone else had this happen?
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Yeah, it's happened to me two or three times since last Thursday.
 
Duo014 said:
quick question:
can a player change his gender (my gf wants to be a female spartan)
If yes where
If no - dear god ; _ ; she will be pissed
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I've got the same situation. My wife wants to roll as a female Spartan, sans robotic arm, in multiplayer. But Kat (Catherine, Spartan-320) is obviously sporting a smaller physical profile than Noble Six (campaign/multiplayer character).

So I'm not sure if Bungie could provide her character model for multiplayer. I guess the could give her a larger, invisIble, hit box to bring her in line with the male model. But that sones like a lot of work. I'm guess it'll only be male Spartans and Elites for multiplayer.
 
Eric WK said:
In game numbers are only for the selected playlist. Bungie.net will display the total users connected across all playlists.
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Bungie.net is total unique players who have logged in, in the past 24 hours. In game shows how many are actually in the game at that moment.
 
Raide said:
I am finding AL more like a team-player AA. I love to use it to soften shields up and deflect incoming damage into my AL and not into my team. For defending flags etc, it is also an awesome team support AL when used correctly.



The Beta seems to be all focused around Team based modes, so if people cannot play as a team and contribute to a team, then this might not be the best game to play. :lol
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Well, first off that has nothing to do with FFA, but I see your point when it comes to "grab bag."

The game definitely is more team-oriented friendly, but I find most team combat scenarios really dull. Due to the overly informative radar, we all know where we all are and neither one of us wants to break the choke point because nades are too prevalent and too powrful. SO, everybody chucks their nades and waits for some shmuck to break the choke point barrier. Melee and nade chucking ensues. That or everyone waits for an opportunist to find the flank and win. Winner team wins, and then 75% of the time gets picked off by some opportunist that spawned at the right time and place or finally showed up to the party anyway.

I've played games of headhunter, oddball, 1 flag ctf on sword base, King of the Hill, Juggernaut, etc etc that are essentially 10 minute long opportunist lines. What else are you going to do? Ignore the guy 10 feet from you that has his shields down after winning a melee fight? No, you're gonna go after him. Then the next guy sees you with your health slightly down and your attention elsewhere, and he comes after you, then someone goes after him...10 minutes later the game ends. It's stupid and numbing.

Armor Lock would work great in H2. It's fast, it's furious and it's really small and intimate. Reach isn't any of those. Reach is quite slow and deliberate and doesn't need a time-out ability. If anything it needs more time-in abilities like running and jetpacks. THe game needs a kick in the pants...especially since it's no longer 1998 and games like COD, BattleField and L4D have ramped up the action.
 
Jexhius said:
Another Halo, another group of people who tread Oddball as slayer = an easy win for me. Kept forgetting where the meele button was!
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:lol

Have you played Headhunter yet? I got popped with 7 skulls and the dude that killed me kept on runnin'.
 
Letters said:
ugh...

1- Sprinting with melee weapons needs to be cut or nerfed somehow.
2- Blocking a sword attack needs to go.
3- Button combos again Bungie, really? :(
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That's why it's a BETA... Tell it to Bungie, if you think there's something that you don't like...
 
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