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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

CozMick said:
Will 48hr trials get me in the beta or does my Account have to be Gold?
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Someone earlier said that 48 hr trials work to play it. Not sure about the initial download, though.
 
Shake Appeal said:
It should be DMR/pistol start, no loadout selection, everyone has Sprint. Then it would be fine.

(Although it would help if the hammer lunge was significantly reduced.)
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I think a few minor adjustments would help it a ton, pistol and DMR as spawn loadout would help, everyone already has to use sprint in pro I think, it's just that things like swords, hammers and sniper rifles become a little too dominant, I need practice of course but right now it's a ton of stress compared to playing with regular AR pistol spawn with a good mix of gear on the maps.

Swordbase just isn't a nice map for the more tough gametypes like pro and multi flag, it can become so imbalanced.
 
Diablohead said:
I think a few minor adjustments would help it a ton, pistol and DMR as spawn loadout would help, everyone already has to use sprint in pro I think, it's just that things like swords, hammers and sniper rifles become a little too dominant, I need practice of course but right now it's a ton of stress compared to playing with regular AR pistol spawn with a good mix of gear on the maps.

Swordbase just isn't a nice map for the more tough gametypes like pro and multi flag, it can become so imbalanced.
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Stop posting and come back to your party. You have people waiting on you :lol
 
Cuban Legend said:
My bad.

That is what trying to catch up with this thread does to my selection of posts to reply to...
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Jokes aside, what I meant with that post was that sometimes (maybe too often?) people tend to play objective-based games as if they were playing slayer.

And this just for k/d ratio's sake.

Now the skill in Reach is hidden; let's hyde kills and other stuff in non-slayer games.
 
So, I'm playing Stockpile on Powerhouse for the umteen thousandth time last night and I spawn in on the low end of the map. I notice a blue bastard coming through the small building to the left and greet him as he comes out the door. So starts my bad ass execute animation in which he moves around my back and whacks me DEAD. I noticed I clipped through the wall a bit but that really sucked.

Log that shit in the bug tracker and fix it. :D
 
Do deaths by betrayal count against you in the Arena? They shouldn't.. And Assists should be included on the first page of the PGCR on Bnet IMO, right now the only way to see how many assists you got in a game is through the Medal page UIM..
 
MMaRsu said:
The gameplay is awesome, but the feeling is heavier, like you have weights on you. Which seems strange to me, and hopefully they can make it a little smoother. Aside from that I'm loving it!
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You guys will warm up to it. Reach feels is soooo good.
 
Lakitu said:
When is the BETA coming up on Halo 3: ODST, what's the timeframe?
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I'd say around 150 minutes from now (10 PST / 13 EST / 18 GMT). They said mid-to-late morning PST.

It's through the ODST disk, there is only one ODST disk, the other is a Halo 3 disk ;-)

Read the OP guys, Ghal didn't do all this work for nothing, just because he doesn't like the game doesn't mean you should disregard his OP :lol
 
metareferential said:
...and it has an incredible netcode too.
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You're not kidding. Wife streaming from teh CW, me playing Halo: Reach (SWAT!) all on my 1.5 down, 384 up DSL. Worked like a champ. :lol
 
dilatedmuscle said:
So, what makes you call him a kid? did you hear him over the mic?

Theres so much annoying slang in multiplayer games these days...
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You don't even recognize my gamertag. Total sadface. :(
 
Trasher said:
You don't even recognize my gamertag. Total sadface. :(
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I believe I saw you, not sure though.

Love the arena rating, only one with a negative k/d spread in my team, almost lost because of that, but because of my many assists I got the highest rating from my team.
 
Im beginning to really appreciate and use a lot of the core game mechanics and weapons.... The melee system was driving me insane but ive gotten used to it now and im far better at it then before. The rythm of the Pistol is great, i actually like the bloom but i would preffer if it was far more visible.

The only thing still bothering me are the frags. The strategy of frags in Halo 3 was to take down shields and shoot people, seems like many players strategy in reach is stand back, toss grenades, pick a few more up and toss some more 'nades until you get kills.
 
UGH, can't go back to sleep.
Heavily considering going for croissants and enjoying the last few hours of the early access before shit gets crazy.
 
Omiee said:
is it up already ..?
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No. Not until around 3PM EST.

And still no code from MS yet. *sigh* Guess they'll get to me around Wednesday knowing the rate they're going.
 
Devin Olsen said:
I am about to hop on right now do to some Arena... Are there three other good GAF'ers that are willing to hop on and play?
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We have a group of three now if you want to join us. Although I just had a pretty bad game. Had a hell of a lot of assists but hardly any kills :(.
 
Devin Olsen said:
I am about to hop on right now do to some Arena... Are there three other good GAF'ers that are willing to hop on and play?
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I don't know about good....

...but I have just jumped on. Maybe it wouldn't been a better idea to play some grab bag before trying out the arena. Oh well, we'll see how it goes, it's certainly taking its time finding people.
 
Devin Olsen said:
I am about to hop on right now do to some Arena... Are there three other good GAF'ers that are willing to hop on and play?
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If you have an opening, I'll join for a bit. Highest Arena game so far is 1719. Daily Rating is at 1633.

Gamertag is Eric WK.
 
Agreed, the effectiveness of grenades is fine. The only change needed is to reduce the number of them. Starting with only 1 grenade, or simply making them another pickup on the map (with no grenade starts) might do the trick.
 
Man the Arena is intense... I play so much differently knowing I am going to be judged so harshly.

My first game I got a rating of 1,674... I honestly have no idea how good or bad that is, but at least we won our game!

Erik I'll add you right now, I have a friend who just woke up who is going to be playing so I'll have a party of two right away.
 
Rogosh said:
Agreed, the effectiveness of grenades is fine. The only change needed is to reduce the number of them. Starting with only 1 grenade, or simply making them another pickup on the map (with no grenade starts) might do the trick.
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That's actually a pretty good idea.
 
Devin Olsen said:
Man the Arena is intense... I play so much differently knowing I am going to be judged so harshly.
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I did the same I think, I'm actually physically tense right now. Just had my first match and it was epic as hell, we were down for most of it then came back right at the end. So much fun.

Edit: Oh and my rating was 1630, if that means anything to anyone.

Hit me up if you need another player Devin.
 
Rogosh said:
Agreed, the effectiveness of grenades is fine. The only change needed is to reduce the number of them. Starting with only 1 grenade, or simply making them another pickup on the map (with no grenade starts) might do the trick.
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Start with 1 grenade. (at least in Slayer, Territories, Oddball etc.)
Find other grenades on the map, cap is 2 grenades but make it so that's hard to find 2.

Perfect!
Just don't nerf them, Grenades are already perfect in Reach <3.
 
My problem with Reach so far is that I just can't kill anybody.
Maybe it's cause the 5000-7000 people playin over weekend represents your core Halo players, serious clanboys, pros, league players, etc.

Or maybe it's cause I've always sucked at Halo, and I suck even harder now that it takes more skill to kill people 8)

Yeah, I'd say it's the latter. Still, part of me thinks that if I rail a guy 5 times with the needle rifle he should at least die or something. (Maybe that's the battlefield/cod talking). Headshots are everything, that's for sure.

Looking forward to playing again this evening, now that the beta is open to the general public. I expect the influx of hundreds of thousands of people will serve to water down the talent pool such that ordinary people like me can have a bit more fun with it.
 
PaNaMa said:
My problem with Reach so far is that I just can't kill anybody.
Maybe it's cause the 5000-7000 people playin over weekend represents your core Halo players, serious clanboys, pros, league players, etc.

Or maybe it's cause I've always sucked at Halo, and I suck even harder now that it takes more skill to kill people 8)

Yeah, I'd say it's the latter. Still, part of me thinks that if I rail a guy 5 times with the needle rifle he should at least die or something. (Maybe that's the battlefield/cod talking). Headshots are everything, that's for sure.

Looking forward to playing again this evening, now that the beta is open to the general public. I expect the influx of hundreds of thousands of people will serve to water down the talent pool such that ordinary people like me can have a bit more fun with it.
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rail harder
 
When playing the arena im VERY tempted to rush for kills, yet my team seems to want to always camp for the win. Camping for the win isnt going to provide good arena ratings right? Finding the balance between pushing for kills and camping for the win is going to be tough.
 
bobs99 ... said:
When playing the arena im VERY tempted to rush for kills, yet my team seems to want to always camp for the win. Camping for the win isnt going to provide good arena ratings right? Finding the balance between pushing for kills and camping for the win is going to be tough.
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There is that app that explains the rating formula. But essentially <ignore most of the things I say, listen to others>

Let me find that app... One second

Edit: Thirty pages later.. Jesus we post lots in here

Link to App
 
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