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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

The Lamonster said:
This is a competitive online shooter. Not a corridor AI fest. you saying we should be able to hold 10 guns at the same time to?

:lol
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I know the other guy complaining about strafing is just grasping at straws...but thats taking it a little too seriously. Guess they've never heard of Unreal and Quake.

Also stinks of taking things too seriously.
 
FunkyMunkey said:
that make the game less fun
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Somebody already mentioned Confirmation Bias. An understanding of that, and this portion of your failed satire is about all that's needed in response.


There's not a lot of "Beta Feedback" just a lot of bitching about abrasive changes.
 
AllIsOneIsNone said:
Ghaleon, I haven't read much of this thread because its going so fast, but I saw that your first impressions of the game were quite negative. How are you feeling about it after playing a lot more?
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Sill4 got the short version. Shorter big picture:

I'm getting used to the gunplay and movement, which was the source for my initial vitriol. Anger soothed. Most of the rest of the game rocks, with the exception of some things that are already being tweaked, and the melee system.

The game is great.

Longer: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21067007&postcount=11004
 
Salami Inferno said:
In Halo 1 a single grenade would leave a completely healthy player with no shields and yellow (2 blocks) of health. Essentially, if you had any damage to your health a single grenade would kill you.
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Well, in Halo 1, a Pistol would kill in three shots without any reticle bloom.
 
Letters said:
This is not something I get to read often. :lol

Slayer Pro is so good.
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It's all so good.

Two things I've been thinking about/having trouble with:
1.) Sprint as an armor ability. I keep wanting to click the right stick to run, like in virtually every other modern shooter. I don't know how much of a difference it would make if sprint were a default ability. This isn't a huge issue, but it's weird considering you don't have to press "x" to run in any other 360 FPS.

2.) Clicking the right stick instead of the left trigger to zoom. I play bumper jumper, but I'm still so used to aiming with the left trigger in console games. I've thrown so many accidental grenades that way :lol
 
Kimosabae said:
Somebody already mentioned Confirmation Bias. An understanding of that, and this portion of your failed satire is about all that's needed in response.


There's not a lot of "Beta Feedback" just a lot of bitching about abrasive changes.
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Is that the long version of "I can't think of a good response that actually addresses what you're talking about"?

A game's design choices =/= infallible from the fact that someone else made it how they wanted to. Or else all games would be near perfect.
 
DeadFalling said:
MMkay Can somebody please tell me what I need to do to be decent in Slayer Pro? I fail so miserably at it...
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Change to bumper jumper, get the jetpack, play powerhouse slayer, then find and map all the weapon spawns in your head and run the map. Oh and the DMR is the shit you'll be pro in no time!
 
DUDE WE FUCKING WIN GAMES IN ARENA BUT I GET SO FUCKING MAD EVERY GAME

WHY DOES THIS GAME PISS ME OFF SO MUCH????

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
 
I'd like if the blue sections of the in game HUD were a darker/deeper blue, that way you could see them regardless of the lighting conditions.
 
Crunched said:
It's all so good.

Two things I've been thinking about/having trouble with:
1.) Sprint as an armor ability. I keep wanting to click the right stick to run, like in virtually every other modern shooter. I don't know how much of a difference it would make if sprint were a default ability. This isn't a huge issue, but it's weird considering you don't have to press "x" to run in any other 360 FPS.

2.) Clicking the right stick instead of the left trigger to zoom. I play bumper jumper, but I'm still so used to aiming with the left trigger in console games. I've thrown so many accidental grenades that way :lol
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Stop playing MW/BC and start playing Halo ;-)

The MythBuster vid is pretty nice :D
 
Trasher said:
DUDE WE FUCKING WIN GAMES IN ARENA BUT I GET SO FUCKING MAD EVERY GAME

WHY DOES THIS GAME PISS ME OFF SO MUCH????

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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You must be crazy. I've been reading around that the game is perfect in every way, and that nothing needs or will be getting a nerf.
 
Cuban Legend said:
I don't know if I should report this as a Bug in the Feedback Section, as it is a Feature Request... 'Other Players in Party' menu for Active Roster

So me and a couple other GAFers (some of which seen in my Screenshots) have been realizing a Feature that is in the Matchmaking Lobby is missing from the Active Roster... I know, sounds crazy right? At first we thought it was a bug or missing feature because of the game's incomplete "beta" status.

But when it's usefulness is higher being located in Active Roster vs Matchmaking Lobby, you can see why we'd like to ask about this before it becomes too late not to add it in for release.

Would put us at ease if i could get a solid answer from Bungie on this!:D



Please forgive the screenshot quality, CRT/camera sucks Brute Balls. :lol
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Yes! Dear sweet lord almightly, PLEASE make this a reality Bungie!
 
MagniHarvald said:
Stop playing MW/BC and start playing Halo ;-)

The MythBuster vid is pretty nice :D
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I've played like 10 matches of CoD4 total in my lifetime and haven't ever played Bad Company :lol

Been playing Borderlands on 360 lately, which is probably where the control confusion comes from.

Another note: I think Reach may have the most immaculate netcode I've ever seen. At my apartment, I typically get between .3 and .8 Mb/s download speeds, and I've seen maybe 15 seconds of noticeable lag between about 20 total games. It's incredible. Before Reach, I'd essentially given up on gaming online because of my terrible connection, but I set Reach to find me a good connection, and it's like I'm playing on a LAN. It blows my mind.
 
MagniHarvald said:
Well, in Halo 1, a Pistol would kill in three shots without any reticle bloom.
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Not entirely true. If you hold down the trigger, the pistol fires with a pretty severe amount of bloom. But yeah, the rhythm of the bloom is a lot quicker than that of the DMR.

MagniHarvald said:
pringles said:
Well, Halo 1 is the best game ever created.
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Fixed.
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IAWTP
 
Arena is awesome first game i played i played against 1200 rank people boy that was my only good game all day =(. Next game i was up against 1700 people boy did my ass hurt. Now i'm in the 1500 group being mediocre =( put me back at the 1200 people i like winning :lol :lol
 
ZZMitch said:
So, GAF, when can I buy the Reach soundtrack? Because it is fucking awesome already.
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Hopefully by launch. <3 Marty's music.

Got rid of the beard and went with something a little easier to look at :p
 
Time to show off your spartans doing cool poses time! I will warm up the thread with my olive green and black spartan bad-ass pistol whore:

r1winq.jpg
 
Cuban Legend said:
I don't know if I should report this as a Bug in the Feedback Section, as it is a Feature Request... 'Other Players in Party' menu for Active Roster

So me and a couple other GAFers (some of which seen in my Screenshots) have been realizing a Feature that is in the Matchmaking Lobby is missing from the Active Roster... I know, sounds crazy right? At first we thought it was a bug or missing feature because of the game's incomplete "beta" status.

But when it's usefulness is higher being located in Active Roster vs Matchmaking Lobby, you can see why we'd like to ask about this before it becomes too late not to add it in for release.

Would put us at ease if i could get a solid answer from Bungie on this!:D


Please forgive the screenshot quality, CRT/camera sucks Brute Balls. :lol
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I really like this idea. Take note Bungie.
 
Can anyone from Bungie (or anyone in here who knows) confirm whether the insane stupidity of a decision to have stockpile base/indicator colours reversed, is being...reversed?

Why in god's name would the Blue base have a RED indicator? and vice versa.

Utter stupiditiy of the highest order.
 
There is something seriously wrong with the combination of Slayer Pro, No radar, Sprint, and Spawns.

You can call be noob or bad or whatever, but I was playing with dani and bagel in slayer pro on Powerhouse and it was god-awful.

We had the same problems even when we won.

People are spawning way too close to each other. The game switches spawns way to quickly. I can't tell you how many times I've had a surprise spawn by one or two people RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.

Combine that with the closing distance of sprint and it becomes a real problem. Please take out sprint in Slayer Pro and I am going to try and find my clips of terrible spawns.
 
Lead Based Paint said:
There is something seriously wrong with the combination of Slayer Pro, No radar, Sprint, and Spawns.

You can call be noob or bad or whatever, but I was playing with dani and bagel in slayer pro on Powerhouse and it was god-awful.

We had the same problems even when we won.

People are spawning way too close to each other. The game switches spawns way to quickly. I can't tell you how many times I've had a surprise spawn by one or two people RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.

Combine that with the closing distance of sprint and it becomes a real problem. Please take out sprint in Slayer Pro and I am going to try and find my clips of terrible spawns.
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Can't you choose your spawns?
 
2 Minutes Turkish said:
Why in god's name would the Blue base have a RED indicator? and vice versa.
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Never once in my Halo career have I paid attention to what color team I'm on. Or any game for that matter. I shoot people without names and call signs over their head. It makes perfect sense to me for the friendly base to be blue, and the enemy base to be red.
 
urk said:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=43735184

Enjoy.
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Great, now I have to post in there

Also, I had this weird ass glitch happen to me today but I fucking forgot to save the film. Do games in your history remain where they are if you change discs or play another game?? Anywho the glitch was this. The host changed in the middle of a match, when the match started up again, I couldn't use my armor ability. The icon wasn't even in the HUD. When I died, it came back.

edit: Also, that idea where you can see everyone in a party in the active roster and not just pre game. I kind of figured that would be in the game but just couldn't make it for the beta. Halo 3 had that with party details and I can't imagine Reach not having that in gold build.
 
Wait, so once you get your Arena rating for the day any Arena matches after that don't contribute to that days ranking? After I got my number, I kept playing more Arena matches and my rating stayed the same.
 
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