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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

urk said:
No we don't. It's already been fixed. Just didn't make the cut for beta. :)
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<3

Best news of today, thanks.

Oh, Urk, should I download the beta again from ODST or can I stick with the F&F one? any differences?
It seems the "killing spree!" voiceover wasn't translated in my language in the beta, but of course you can't know anything about this; just odd.
 
It still keeps asking me if I want to download again after completing the download instead of letting me play. It took six hours the first time and I can't find and delete the information to start it again. There's only 2 gigs left on the HDD so redownloading it isn't an option. So annoying.
 
Wizpig said:
It seems the "killing spree!" voiceover wasn't translated in my language in the beta.
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the guys doing LT on this game are probably not very good at Halo :lol
quick, someone get Boris Schneider-Johne on this, he will fix it for free!
 
Dax01 said:
I never thought I'd meet other GAFfers randomly in matchmaking again. Lo and behold, Neoism, Laszlo, and Merguson face a team of randoms and I.:lol
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I randomly got matched with and played a couple games with backflip and bladed expert(?) the other day. Nice guys, but they dumped me after a couple games because I was sucking too much :(

Also, it's fun running up against Bungie employees. I played Achronos [sic] the other day. He used Armor Lock constantly. One of they guys I was playing with said it reflected is open and unguarded personality :lol
 
urk said:
No we don't. It's already been fixed. Just didn't make the cut for beta. :)
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This will probably be shot down, but I was wondering if you could post a log of what you fellas over there have already taken the liberty of changing/fixing from the beta so far?

Seems like you would probably do this in a BWU much later down the road, but it never hurts to ask. Figure it might help in preventing you from answering such tedious questions in the future. :)

Also, another question: Will we have our Arena rating posted on our stats page for retail? Can't believe it doesn't currently show us that.
Or maybe I'm not looking hard enough?
 
Trasher said:
This will probably be shot down, but I was wondering if you could post a log of what you fellas over there have already taken the liberty of changing/fixing from the beta so far?

Seems like you would probably do this in a BWU much later down the road, but it never hurts to ask. Figure it might help in preventing you from answering such tedious questions in the future. :)
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There's a sticky thread of known issues in the feedback forum on bungie.net. Right now, it's not a super high priority to update it with the servers being all melty and whatnot. Eventually, that's where all this stuff will end up.
 
Thagomizer said:
I randomly got matched with and played a couple games with backflip and bladed expert(?) the other day. Nice guys, but they dumped me after a couple games because I was sucking too much :(
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this is my greatest fear when playing with other gaffers, luckily I have been first or second in most games played with gaflings.
 
urk said:
There's a sticky thread of known issues in the feedback forum on bungie.net. Right now, it's not a super high priority to update it with the servers being all melty and whatnot. Eventually, that's where all this stuff will end up.
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Have you tamed the beast yet?
 
Trasher said:
This will probably be shot down, but I was wondering if you could post a log of what you fellas over there have already taken the liberty of changing/fixing from the beta so far?

Seems like you would probably do this in a BWU much later down the road, but it never hurts to ask. Figure it might help in preventing you from answering such tedious questions in the future. :)
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Lots of visual effects didn't make it into the beta. IIRC, urk said that there would be a higher jump in graphical quality Reach beta>>>>>> Final than Halo 3 beta >>>>Final somewhere in this thread, but I'm not going to spend an hour searching for it.
 
I have no idea if I've played with Gaffers. Probably would need GAF in the callsign to tip me off, unless you would be in the top 3 wall of shame for this thread.
 
Trickster said:
I managed to die several times in the first 3 reach games because I couldn't melee while turning, so it's a big problem for me :P

I just wish they had a layout like recon, but with melee and reload switched.
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Trust me, I agree completely. If those two buttons were switched, it would be the best control scheme of all time. But for now, Recon is sufficient. Bolded so bungle notices: MAKE RECON BUMPER PUNCHER A CONTROL LAYOUT.
And congrats on membership. :D
 
Dabookerman said:
Just want to chime in and say that Headhunter is the most funnest FPS game mode ever.
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I won a couple and felt like the biggest badass in the world but if you keep getting ganked its fucking frustrating. I love the guys with cloaking on and the big arrow over their heads.
 
urk said:
There's a sticky thread of known issues in the feedback forum on bungie.net. Right now, it's not a super high priority to update it with the servers being all melty and whatnot. Eventually, that's where all this stuff will end up.
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Urk fix my halos because its all broken.
 
I wish the Spartans could Evade like Elites. I just absolutely love it. It's hilarious to do 2 evades going in opposite directions like a basketball crossover, and watch how confused your opponent gets.

ELITES BE BREAKING THEM ANKLES YO!
 
Can I get some people to play with who has mics and actually knows how to play Stockpile?

Gamertag is SquirrelNuckle.
 
brain_stew suggested earlier that the TAA be made optional. I really don't mind it anymore, but I was curious if this is something that would be considered? The fact that you no longer notice the effect on guns means that my largest issue with it has been fixed, but I still may prefer the game without it, who knows :)
 
So I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there's no way to join matchmaking games while they're mid-match correct?

Matchmaking, just like Halo 3, is incredibly slow.
 
striKeVillain! said:
So I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there's no way to join matchmaking games while they're mid-match correct?

Matchmaking, just like Halo 3, is incredibly slow.
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I seem to be getting matches in Reach significantly quicker than in Halo 3, still not as fast as MW2 however. But I'm not waiting so long that I flip over to tv channels while waiting like I do in halo 3 :lol
 
What's up with the timing with switching weapons. Trying to finish off someone with a pistol takes a lot of time, kind of annoying. However, I only played 10 games so far so I'm not sure yet just didn't feel so smooth. Really like the DMR though.
 
striKeVillain! said:
So I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there's no way to join matchmaking games while they're mid-match correct?

Matchmaking, just like Halo 3, is incredibly slow.
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Is this the first day your playing? Matchmaking in the F&F, with considerably less people, was much faster than it currently is. Wait a couple of days.
 
I just can not seem to string together a series of positive kill/death games. I was pretty good at Halo 3, and am having a blast playing Reach, but have a .77 k/d ratio.

May be due to all the objective games and focus on those, but still, bah.
 
Shake Appeal said:
Hopping off for the night, because the fuss over getting into a game is too much to bear. Shame I didn't get to play more with my friends who weren't in F&F, but there are weeks left and I expect the issues will be resolved soon enough.

End of day five:

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Deemer is still in its rightful place, melee is still totally awesome and not broken, pistol is still a beast with a k/d close to 2, grenades are still mininukes, and the Nerfle is slipping out of favour, likely because the reticle is too solid and obvious. Jesus, Bungie, show some fucking subtlety, that shit is like a hole bored into the middle of the screen.
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Let's meet up on Reach and you can teach me how to use this new, supposedly not broken melee system. :P
 
Full disclosure: I use it because I'm a gigantic shotgun whore.

Although, sometimes I just go with Sprint + Shotgun. Prox voice of "oh god he's got a shot*BAM*" is hilarious. :D

Thagomizer said:
Also, it's fun running up against Bungie employees. I played Achronos [sic] the other day. He used Armor Lock constantly. One of they guys I was playing with said it reflected is open and unguarded personality :lol
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Had some really good games of Grab Bag with Hydra, wanted to play Arena with you guys. Hopefully if I get on the beta again my stuff will be operational like it was before I accidentally backed out.
 
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