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Halo: Reach Beta Thread

They should just turn the servers off and back on, works for everything.
-OR-
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works for Halo2
 
Man, this hidden minigame of Pass The Party Leader is pretty great. We've been playing for forty minutes now and I can't imagine playing anything else for a while.
 
I've stuck with Bumper Jumper for 158 games, and it's been fine. Sprint is a toggle, Camo is a toggle, Armour Lock is a hold. The only restriction is how well you can Jetpack, and I don't do much Jetpacking. Being able to aim while jumping or meleeing is still awesome.
 
Ouch 60 something matchmaking games played, 28 won.

Oh is the Assault Rifle somewhat useful at long range, or should I just shelf that completely for the beta?
 
Willeth said:
Man, this hidden minigame of Pass The Party Leader is pretty great. We've been playing for forty minutes now and I can't imagine playing anything else for a while.
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They need to nerf "Promote to leader" though, there's basically no way to defend against it.
 
Teknoman said:
Oh is the Assault Rifle somewhat useful at long range, or should I just shelf that completely for the beta?
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The Assault Rifle should be dropped for another weapon as soon as possible.
 
Willeth said:
Man, this hidden minigame of Pass The Party Leader is pretty great. We've been playing for forty minutes now and I can't imagine playing anything else for a while.
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:lol Hope bnet gets the stats for that minigame. And remember to render the film!
 
Teknoman said:
Ouch 60 something matchmaking games played, 28 won.

Oh is the Assault Rifle somewhat useful at long range, or should I just shelf that completely for the beta?
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I've relied on the AR at longer range than Halo 3, and it's more effective.

However, I peeked through the curtain last night at the new pistol, and it was full of light. From what I've seen and read, someone who puts the time into mastering the new pistol will dong on anyone using the AR from close and medium range.

Learn the new pistol. That's what I'm going to spend this week working on.
Rapping Granny said:
What's the halo gaf gamertag?
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Top of the OP, homie.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It says: "The Halo: Reach server is not available at this time. Please try again later."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

450k users online xD
 
pringles said:
They need to nerf "Promote to leader" though, there's basically no way to defend against it.
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Yeah, it sucks. People keep quitting all the time. Plus there is some weird and annoying ghosting effect when you Promote someone.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I've relied on the AR at longer range than Halo 3, and it's more effective.

However, I peeked through the curtain last night at the new pistol, and it was full of light. From what I've seen and read, someone who puts the time into mastering the new pistol will dong on anyone using the AR from close and medium range.

Learn the new pistol. That's what I'm going to spend this week working on.

Top of the OP, homie.
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He speaks the truth. I've started to believe too. Soon all will follow or fall.
 
Shake Appeal said:
I've stuck with Bumper Jumper for 158 games, and it's been fine. Sprint is a toggle, Camo is a toggle, Armour Lock is a hold. The only restriction is how well you can Jetpack, and I don't do much Jetpacking. Being able to aim while jumping or meleeing is still awesome.
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I used Bumper Jumper (for aiming whilst jumping) religiously in Halo 3, but as I use Jetpack a lot in this, the only control scheme that feels natural is Default. Melee on RB, Jetpack/Sprint/AL on the LB, Jump as A. I don't jump that much when using Jetpack, so Default feels almost like Bumper Jumper in H3.

The fact that jumping is pretty useless in these maps in Reach makes jetpack all the more important for "jumping whilst aiming".
 
GhaleonEB said:
I've relied on the AR at longer range than Halo 3, and it's more effective.

However, I peeked through the curtain last night at the new pistol, and it was full of light. From what I've seen and read, someone who puts the time into mastering the new pistol will dong on anyone using the AR from close and medium range.

Learn the new pistol. That's what I'm going to spend this week working on.

Top of the OP, homie.
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I love the new pistol. As soon as I respawn I'm switching directly to it. Wish it had two more shots in the clip though. :D
 
Olivero said:
Oh my... look at the meltdowns on the bungienet beta forums.
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Just took a peek over there and found this gem.

First of all the graphics are horrible. The characters look like something off of super mario brothers. Next, the redicules and words are extremely hard to see. My biggest problem however, is how the game is so much like Modern Warfare. This is Halo! So can we please keep it like Halo. I would like to see Reach have the exact same controls as halo 3 and the same power up traits. Just change the story line, maybe add a few new weapons, and supply us with all new maps. I also found the matchmaking screen setup to be very confusing. Halo 3 had a perfect matchmaking setup. Please fix these things Bungie. This is just flat out horrible! Dont let COD win the gamer war.
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:lol :lol :lol :lol
 
Pistol is baller. I love the DMR a little bit more (and get more kills with it), but the pistol is the most flexible weapon in the game. Outclassing an AR user with it at point-blank is the best feeling.
 
it will be interesting logging on tonight with all of the players online.

Also with all of the difficulties arising from day 1. Hopefully they extend the beta for a few more days again. :lol
 
Cerrius said:
Just took a peek over there and found this gem.



:lol :lol :lol :lol
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Man, anyone that thinks Halo: Reach plays like a Call of Duty game must have never played a Call of Duty game. Just because it has load outs does not mean it's anything like the clusterfuck that is Modern Warfare 2.
 
big ander said:
:lol Maybe. I tried BJ for my first 3 or so games, then switched to Recon and did exponentially better
well not literally, but still a lot better
. It's just so difficult to use AAs with Bumper Jumper, and with Recon I feel like I can manuver the easiest.
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I will be campaigning for this as an option till September 1st, possibly beyond!
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TL;DR, same as BJ, with AA and Crouch switched.
 
I don't get how people are getting such high arena ratings? In my first 3 games I went +4, +6 and +4. And I ended up with a rating of 1572...? That puts me in Aluminium right? What is this....I only lost one of those 3 games as well (the one I went +6 in).

I can see people getting very very angry of arena ratings, and people finding ways to exploit the rating system.
 
Bungieware said:
I don't get how people are getting such high arena ratings? In my first 3 games I went +4, +6 and +4. And I ended up with a rating of 1572...? That puts me in Aluminium right? What is this....I only lost one of those 3 games as well (the one I went +6 in).

I can see people getting very very angry of arena ratings, and people finding ways to exploit the rating system.
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Yeah, it goes by that formula they were describing. Deaths don't account for much, but assists are worth the same as kills apparently.
 
Cerrius said:
Just took a peek over there and found this gem.



:lol :lol :lol :lol
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Yeah, I read that one. You see the MLG Pro guy talking about the DMR and how unless Bungie fixes it all of the MLG players will go to a new game?
 
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