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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

derFeef said:
I can not tell if I kill someone or not :/ ?
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Do they fly into the air or crumple into a heap, and at the same time spew weapons and grenades? If the answer is yes, Congrats, you just got a kill.
 
DrBo42 said:
Eh? I don't usually bitch about graphics in games. If you stand still and switch to your pistol, watch your arms/pistol closely. It looks like the game is dropping frames but it's ghosting. At least on my TV that's what's happening.
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The ghosting is due to how Reach does it's anti analysing, some sort of blend frames together method to reproduce 2xmsaa when you stand still, but it also produces some ghosting.
 
FunkyMunkey said:
What? Not if you're rotating. Motion blur is related to distance. Objects at one end of a spinning rope will move faster than the center will. Thus more blur.
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Ooh, if you're rotating then ok.
wait, there's motion blur on arms and gun when rotating ? those things are not supposed to move at all on screen if you're just rotating.
I don't have the beta (yet) but aren't you talking about the already infamous ghosting effect ?
 
DrBo42 said:
:lol I used to be a tester and I do editing work, so even slight stuff will catch my eye. I'm sorry. Overall I think the game looks good, but there are some weird things going on. Not saying it's a huge deal(although strange for such a high profile title), but it's there. Gameplay is fun so far so I guess that's all that matters in a game, ever.
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Fixed
 
ZOMG!! Even Africa is connecting Xbox 360's to Live in order to play Reach !

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filipe said:
So you base your opinion of graphics on how they look standing still? Go judge every other release for 360, then. The game looks good. Best graphics? No, but Halo 3 had some ugly textures, but people loved the crap out of that game.

This is a case of "anyone will find anything to complain about".
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This is a case of you not knowing what I'm referring to, and jumping down my throat anyway because you're some self-made forum white knight. I'm not basing graphics on how they look stationary. I'm not talking about textures at all. I'm talking about the bizarre ghosting effect when taking out your pistol. That's it. I'm not counting pixels, I was just saying that it looks weird.

Tashi0106 said:
Fixed
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Yeah, I'll agree.
 
Holy crap, now that it's open to the public, I'm pooping on everybody. Just had three games where the lowest I got was +13, and I was struggling to get into the positives over the weekend :lol
 
GhaleonEB said:
Agree. I've noticed very few IQ issues on my 32" set. Much, much better than Halo 3 (though I was never really bothered by the graphics in that game).

Edit:

10:20 AM 21,444
10:40 AM 37,685
11:00 AM 82,226
11:20 AM 112,924
11:40 AM 166,084
12:00 PM 192,289

Good grief.
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that's crazy :D

My first load up had 365 ppl online :)

The question is, can it hit something like 500k? 1mil?
 
Thagomizer said:
Holy crap, now that it's open to the public, I'm pooping on everybody. Just had three games where the lowest I got was +13, and I was struggling to get into the positives over the weekend :lol
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Get your teabags in now before it's too late!
 
Kimosabae said:
Guy, seriously, if you can't handle contrarian opinions get the hell of the internet. So what if people want to talk about the graphics? It's an integral part of the gameplay experience, even at the aesthetic level. I'm playing on a 50 inch Panny G10 and I think the game looks average. Does that offend you somehow? Yes? Then leap off a precipice.

You wouldn't be bitching about people agreeing with others about how awesome the game looks. That shows a lack of integrity and maturity, there.
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The douchebaggery, it drips from this post.
 
Thagomizer said:
Holy crap, now that it's open to the public, I'm pooping on everybody. Just had three games where the lowest I got was +13, and I was struggling to get into the positives over the weekend :lol
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This is good news for me; I have a wretched k/d ratio after 100 games so far. I'm in awe of all of HaloGAF that is above 1.00 so quickly.
 
JesseZao said:
that's crazy :D

My first load up had 365 ppl online :)

The question is, can it hit something like 500k? 1mil?
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I'm not sure if that number is total unique players, or concurrent. Either way, it's goin' vertical.
 
LMAO, Im just gonna stop going for melees.

Im like +150 with the AR, +250 with the DMR, +eleventy billion with the grenades but -60 with the melee.

Guess that piece of the shoot/grenade/melee trifecta is out for me in Reach. Too bad, it was a nice little gameplay element once.

Thankfully my K/D is still 1.16, which is about what it was in Ranked Halo 3. Im usually +3 or +4 in Halo games. How do people go +10 or +20?
 
dslgunstar said:
LMAO, Im just gonna stop going for melees.

Im like +150 with the AR, +250 with the DMR, +eleventy billion with the grenades but -60 with the melee.

Guess that piece of the shoot/grenade/melee trifecta is out for me in Reach. Too bad, it was a nice little gameplay element once.
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Just change it to Grenade/Grenade/Grenade and you will win!
 
GhaleonEB said:
I'm not sure if that number is total unique players, or concurrent. Either way, it's goin' vertical.
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I think it's the same. On Saturday some one mentioned B.net showing 21k people online, but in game for me it showed 5k.
 
Lead Based Paint said:
actually, I find armor lock to be an anti grenade ability, With the added bonus of turning a melee around on someone and occasionally getting help from a teammate.
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Regardless, you are preventing damage onto yourself and in return preventing yourself from doing damage onto others. You're slowing the already dull game down, allowing opportunists to show up and finish the job...something that is over-abundant already thanks to many factors in this game.

Grenades and melee are the only reasonable way to finish a fight off within 5 seconds. 5 (let alone 10 or 15) seconds is plenty of time for someone to show up and steal kills or at least change the tide of the fight, which had nothing to do with the 1 vs 1 combat going on before hand.

If I pick people off and don't actually try to fight and get attention - I'll go +5 - + 15. If I actually try to fight, I'll go .75-1.0-ish because if I win the 1 vs 1 fight, I will get picked off 75% of the time. This game is already an opportunist's dream and armor lock makes it worse.
 
eso76 said:
Ooh, if you're rotating then ok.
wait, there's motion blur on arms and gun when rotating ? those things are not supposed to move at all on screen if you're just rotating.
I don't have the beta (yet) but aren't you talking about the already infamous ghosting effect ?
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Yeah :/. When you spin and/or get into a hectic fight, your hands and weapon blur just as much as the backdrop around you. It's offsetting definitely.
 
I am doing better than expected. loving camo right now. But there are some things I do not like at the moment.

- I need more time to choose my loadout
- give me some visual or audio clue if I kill someone. that text is too small.
 
yawn, why the fuck did I think that I would be able to play at all .........


" loading information from the Halo : Reach sever "

been saying that for 1h....thats a whole lotta information to download
 
Oozer3993 said:
I think it's the same. On Saturday some one mentioned B.net showing 21k people online, but in game for me it showed 5k.
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Makes sense. Halo 3 and ODST have a cumulative player total as well, so this is probably Reach's figure.

Latest:

10:20 AM 21,444
10:40 AM 37,685
11:00 AM 82,226
11:20 AM 112,924
11:40 AM 166,084
12:00 PM 192,289
12:20 PM 230,911

Kids on the east coast are starting to get home from school. Number is going to explode over the next two hours.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Agree. I've noticed very few IQ issues on my 32" set. Much, much better than Halo 3 (though I was never really bothered by the graphics in that game).
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Yup I'm playing on a 100 inch screen from 12 feet away. This looks a little better than Halo3. No complaints here. It's a very decent looking current gen game. My eyes must have some sort of AA in them also as I'm not seeing these crazy jaggies I'm hearing about.
 
LMAO, you can always tell how your your connection is by how many assists you have. I have 860 kills, 600 assists! That last, killing shot, never comes in time. :lol
 
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.
 
Mr. B Natural said:
Regardless, you are preventing damage onto yourself and in return preventing yourself from doing damage onto others. You're slowing the already dull game down, allowing opportunists to show up and finish the job...something that is over-abundant already thanks to many factors in this game.

Grenades and melee are the only reasonable way to finish a fight off within 5 seconds. 5 (let alone 10 or 15) seconds is plenty of time for someone to show up and steal kills or at least change the tide of the fight, which had nothing to do with the 1 vs 1 combat going on before hand.

If I pick people off and don't actually try to fight and get attention - I'll go +5 - + 15. If I actually try to fight, I'll go .75-1.0-ish because if I win the 1 vs 1 fight, I will get picked off 75% of the time. This game is already an opportunist's dream and armor lock makes it worse.
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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
 
I get loading info from Halo Reach server, or download pended for playlist.

Yet like 6 people on my friends list is playing, what's up?
 
I can see the jaggies, but they aren't nearly as bad as Halo 3. There are a few sections of Sword Base that are pretty ugly, but that has more to do with the art design of that map than anything else.


Also, the skybox of that map (look through the window on flag side) is veeeeerrryyyyyy interesting....
 
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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Yep, down for me as well.

edit- now it's loading info from the server...
 
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