Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
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Halo: Reach Beta Thread
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The Librarian
Banned
:lolWu-Gambino said:
The fuck? After playing Invasion, everything else in the Beta seems so bad in comparison. I can't believe I tolerated playing Stockpile on Sword Base or Oddball on Powerhouse for so long. This is Reach to me.
dslgunstar
Banned
Damn all you for playing Invasion while Im stuck at work! 
EDIT: Fuck it, Im going to tell my boss I dont feel well...I havent taken a sick day in months anyway.
EDIT: Fuck it, Im going to tell my boss I dont feel well...I havent taken a sick day in months anyway.
Shake Appeal
Member
The games go too fast. They're too good. Make them less awesome to compensate.
AwesomeSyrup
Banned
It's just you.Wu-Gambino said:
I on the other hand am not playing anything besides Invasion for the rest of my life. :lol
dslgunstar
Banned
WJD said:
...Dont have they have more health, more shields, a faster run speed to compensate for the less useful spawn weapons?
NullPointer
Member
At least provide us working folk some Invasion YouTubes to wile away the day with.
I won't be able to join the mayhem until tomorrow night
I won't be able to join the mayhem until tomorrow night
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Cant0na said:
Am I doing it right?
Wu-Gambino
Banned
nevermind.
elites fuckin suck, spartan side is really fun.
elites fuckin suck, spartan side is really fun.
Genesis Knight
Member
First match I'm going to get Guard out and stand in front of a warthog in middle of Boneyard and scream "hit me! come on, come on, I want you to HIT ME!".
Shake Appeal
Member
Just shut down the Elites at the first phase.
backflip10019
Member
That sounds wildly unbalanced.Oozer3993 said:
Good thing Bungie listened to the masses about party splitting.
dslgunstar
Banned
Genesis Knight said:
:lol Awesome.
Maybe Elites should have vehicles unlocked at the start to even things up.
randomlyrossy
Member
While the mode itself seems pretty awesome I've had terrible luck with the people in my games.
First match dude in the lobby says "Come on you fucking n****rs" trying to get people to chose Slayer over regular Invasion. Spent the first few minutes of it reporting him and his buddy.
Second game is filled with whiney fucking idiots constantly screaming about every annoyance that's currently bothering them.
Third game my battle bro has the Service Tag "BNP!".
I really wonder sometimes.
First match dude in the lobby says "Come on you fucking n****rs" trying to get people to chose Slayer over regular Invasion. Spent the first few minutes of it reporting him and his buddy.
Second game is filled with whiney fucking idiots constantly screaming about every annoyance that's currently bothering them.
Third game my battle bro has the Service Tag "BNP!".
I really wonder sometimes.
AwesomeSyrup
Banned
I think I just played a glitched match of Invasion Slayer. There were no loadouts, both teams spawned with ARs, and one of the territories was like messed up. It said 0 above it but the circle was gone and it wasn't moving.
The Librarian
Banned
Don't know if this is a problem with the spawns or intentional, but even if I'm at a base-spawn location, it doesn't spawn me as soon as the countdown goes up. I have to wait a couple of seconds more.
thunker 9000
Member
Welcome to online gaming. Well, Xbox Live online gaming...... :|randomlyrossy said:
EarsOfASnake
Member
randomlyrossy said:
_tetsuo_ said:Invasion isn't that great. Its actually kind of dull. At least the matches I've played have been. Dissapointment
This is GAF, you need not play with idiots again!
Shake Appeal
Member
Love people saying it's unbalanced after one or two games. Good job, guys, you never fail to depress me.
P.S. even if one side did have a definitive, obvious advantage, you will play both side in a full game in the retail version.
P.S. even if one side did have a definitive, obvious advantage, you will play both side in a full game in the retail version.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Work friends! Waypoint is live streaming Invasion here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/halo-waypoint
Gareth Bale
Member
Dax01 said:
I feel the exact opposie, but I think people are entitled to their opinion.
soujiro_seta
Member
fuck all the people who quits when the team is losing.....
Spartan side is much easier to deal with than Elites. The camo that Elites start with is useless since you can still make them out at distance with the DMR and take them out with ease. If somehow you manage to make it through you're going up so they also get the advantage of higher ground.
Plus you can guarantee an Elite fail every time. If somehow you manage to make it to getting the core, if you drop it outside you're f*cked. The Spartans can just park the Scorpion on top of it. You can't pick it up, and if the Scorpion is destroyed the core won't reset and it's impossible to win.
Even Invasion Slayer is pretty boring, what with having to capture territories just to get access to new stuff. The map is so large to begin with that you get bored killing the occasional player who happens to make it towards a territory.
Spawning needs to be fixed too. Several times I have been unable to spawn on my teammate, despite the fact there isn't an enemy in sight. Often they'll be on the other side of the map and it won't spawn (apparently the area isn't safe... what, flat ground isn't safe?) and other times I've spawned on him whilst he's flying a Banshee! So I just fall out of the sky! Great stuff!
Oh, and maybe a bug, but if you've been waiting for a teammate to find somewhere safe (i.e. the other side of the map) and they die, selecting another spawn point never worked for me. I had to wait for at least 10 seconds before it would eventually respawn me, even if I'd been waiting for 30 seconds to spawn on my teammate previously.
/rant
Back to Arena and Grab Bag for me. My 1650 average needs some work!
Plus you can guarantee an Elite fail every time. If somehow you manage to make it to getting the core, if you drop it outside you're f*cked. The Spartans can just park the Scorpion on top of it. You can't pick it up, and if the Scorpion is destroyed the core won't reset and it's impossible to win.
Even Invasion Slayer is pretty boring, what with having to capture territories just to get access to new stuff. The map is so large to begin with that you get bored killing the occasional player who happens to make it towards a territory.
Spawning needs to be fixed too. Several times I have been unable to spawn on my teammate, despite the fact there isn't an enemy in sight. Often they'll be on the other side of the map and it won't spawn (apparently the area isn't safe... what, flat ground isn't safe?) and other times I've spawned on him whilst he's flying a Banshee! So I just fall out of the sky! Great stuff!
Oh, and maybe a bug, but if you've been waiting for a teammate to find somewhere safe (i.e. the other side of the map) and they die, selecting another spawn point never worked for me. I had to wait for at least 10 seconds before it would eventually respawn me, even if I'd been waiting for 30 seconds to spawn on my teammate previously.
/rant
Back to Arena and Grab Bag for me. My 1650 average needs some work!
randomlyrossy
Member
Pookaki said:
I've had a fairly decent time with the Beta thus far, minimal idiots. Kinda disappointing to have 3 games in a row with such terrible people.
Wizman23 said:
:lol
I'd ask if anyone has a slot open but I can't talk for a bit so I wouldn't want to burden anyone with a random silent dude.
randomlyrossy said:
This is special. I spent a few matches last night with two kids basically screaming about how much they hated Halo and "all those games where you can respawn," and then got into an argument about some of MW2s weapons and which would win in a fight.
Awesome.
mescalineeyes
Banned
Someone ran me over with a Warthog.
First, I was sad, but then I realized ZOMG WARTHOG!!!
First, I was sad, but then I realized ZOMG WARTHOG!!!