UltimaPooh
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Mayyhem said:
Yeah. I was okay at it in Halo 3 and 2... but in Reach... I'm like a surgeon with the DMR.
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Halo: Reach Beta Thread
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Yeah. I was okay at it in Halo 3 and 2... but in Reach... I'm like a surgeon with the DMR.
Mizzou Gaming
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UltimaPooh said:
Terrible wording I used there. I should have said a medic/healing/revive armor abilty. Adding something like this just for Spartans could really help balance Spartan vs. Elite game types.
Ajemsuhgao
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UltimaPooh said:
:lol
UltimaPooh
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Mizzou Gaming said:
There's plenty of health on the map, and they respawn pretty fast. Whenever I needed health I found it fairly fast.
Also Elites vs Spartans is already pretty balanced. I have won and lost on both sides.
Ajemsuhgao said:
i know it's wishful thinking out of the small amount we got for Halo 3... but still, it would be cool. And when I say leg permutations... I don't mean completely different looking legs... just different styles.
Ajemsuhgao
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UltimaPooh said:
Neither of those things will happen. Especially not together.
UltimaPooh
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Ajemsuhgao said:
So, here's a funky bug.
After being assassinated, an opponent managed to throw a sticky backwards to stick one of my teammates.
After being assassinated, an opponent managed to throw a sticky backwards to stick one of my teammates.
Jinjo
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So last night I had a game end in a shitting tie. :lol Can't remember something like this ever happening to me in Halo 3. Basically at the end it was 49 - 48. I make a quick double kill with the shotgun, but I get beatdown at the moment I kill the second person (they were coming at me with 3 people).
I also had an awesome triple kill. I toss 2 nades at random and think nothing of it as the throws were totally off. I proceed to DMR some guy up top then all of a sudden: Triple kill. :lol I'm like wth just happened here? Upon inspection in the theater mode one nade actually bounced of that glass ceiling at the stairs in sword base and dropped directly in the lap of an enemy. And another enemy runs straight into my grenade that's lying there on the stairs.:lol
It's on my fileshare, but you really need to download it and follow the grenades.
The more I play the more I get frustrated by the bloom and damage radius of the grenades. The sole reason I always use AL is to survive those damn grenades.
I also had an awesome triple kill. I toss 2 nades at random and think nothing of it as the throws were totally off. I proceed to DMR some guy up top then all of a sudden: Triple kill. :lol I'm like wth just happened here? Upon inspection in the theater mode one nade actually bounced of that glass ceiling at the stairs in sword base and dropped directly in the lap of an enemy. And another enemy runs straight into my grenade that's lying there on the stairs.:lol
It's on my fileshare, but you really need to download it and follow the grenades.
The more I play the more I get frustrated by the bloom and damage radius of the grenades. The sole reason I always use AL is to survive those damn grenades.
Darkflight
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Awesome, I only have one in 3 (though part of the game got duped when I check online, so I have 2 medals), felt so good seeing that medal pop up - That should teach them to bunch up so much around there.GhaleonEB said:Got to try out CvE Slayer on Sword Base. Doing so resulted in my first Overkill of the Beta, and my first Extermination ever, between Halo 3 and Reach. Those tasty, tasty humans.
I enjoyed it so much I rendered it twice, since I'm not likely to replicate the feat any time soon. :lol
Successful test. Probably gave them a flashback to Halo 1, when a sword-toting Elite instilled unbridled fear in the heart.
UltimaPooh said:
Same here. It just seems so much easier to kill people than it did in 3. I think this is why a lot of people are having a cry on the bungie forums.
All those people with supposed "leet skills" are unable to use the shitty net code to lag jump everywhere and instead they die, just like they are meant too.
The Librarian
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:OGhaleonEB said:Got to try out CvE Slayer on Sword Base. Doing so resulted in my first Overkill of the Beta, and my first Extermination ever, between Halo 3 and Reach. Those tasty, tasty humans.
I enjoyed it so much I rendered it twice, since I'm not likely to replicate the feat any time soon. :lol
Successful test. Probably gave them a flashback to Halo 1, when a sword-toting Elite instilled unbridled fear in the heart.
It really isn't. Saying SvE Slayer is well-balanced is as true as saying Invasion, in its current form, is well-balanced.UltimaPooh said:
Hydranockz
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... but Invasion is in its current form. The AR start does so much for the game. I have a 50% win ratio on Invasion. The balance is there. I have won as both sides many times. Why the hatin'? Oh it's DaxDax01 said:
This page says it's up.
So maybe.
In Invasion Spartans have:
Shotgun vs sword
grenade launcher
tank vs wraith
spartan laser
Sniper rifle
So it's more balanced. I haven't played enough Invasion slayer to say if it's balanced but even your average Halo fan can tell SvE slayer is broken.
So maybe.
In SvE slayer the only advantage spartans have is starting with a DMR as opposed to a NR. Not even a contest, elites will win unless they're terrible.Hydranockz said:... but Invasion is in its current form. The AR start does so much for the game. I have a 50% win ratio on Invasion. The balance is there. I have won as both sides many times. Why the hatin'? Oh it's Dax
In Invasion Spartans have:
Shotgun vs sword
grenade launcher
tank vs wraith
spartan laser
Sniper rifle
So it's more balanced. I haven't played enough Invasion slayer to say if it's balanced but even your average Halo fan can tell SvE slayer is broken.
Hydranockz
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I know, but dax was saying they were both not balanced. I was arguing that Invasion is, but SvE may not be (I have yet to play it)EazyB said:
Zeouterlimits
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Been away from GAF and Reach for most of the past week, finals & moving to another city getting really crazy.
Hopefully get back to it tonight
Hopefully get back to it tonight
Hydranockz
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lolwut? We should totally study Reach's netcode as a case study for the Networking exam lol.Zeouterlimits said:Been away from GAF and Reach for most of the past week, finals & moving to another city getting really crazy.
Hopefully get back to it tonight
When Bungie say stressful conditions should I be worried about latency issues?
Miggytronz
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i know.Letters said:
im such an asshat.Thagomizer
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EazyB said:
It's supposed to be unbalanced. Bungie's testing how superior the Elites are to the Spartans in a vanilla Slayer setting.
Hazimov said:looks like the other thread is dead...
anyways
After playing the beta I went back and watched the Carnage Carnivale ViDoc.
I dunno if someone has already pointed this out but we're definitely going to play a campaign mission on a covenant's ship
Hopefully its also an Invasion map where Spartans attack the Covenant head on.
I think you might be onto something here:Thagomizer said:
The grenades are overpowered because Bungie's testing how overpowered they are.
The gunplay is loose and inconsistent because Bungie's testing how poor the gunplay is.
This Beta is supposed to be mediocre. Bungie's testing how mediocre the game is.
Thanks for putting my mind at ease.
squidhands
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Seems like it would be a no-brainer, but they must want specific data for some reason. Still haven't played more than the one horrible game of it, though.Thagomizer said:
Shake Appeal
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Well somebody's not getting invited to the private Epsilon.EazyB said:
squidhands
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Aim for the forehead in SWAT, not the face. Headshot every time. I was pretty ambivalent about SWAT in H3, but I vote for it every time in Reach. Love it.kaskade said:
electricpirate
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squidhands said:
Yea, I'm not sure if it's a function of the auto aim, or if DMR bullets just hit low in the reticle, but that really seems to be the key with the DMR. Even when the DMR is bloomed out, the bullets hit pretty reliably in the lower 3rd, near the midline of the reticle. I was having a great game with it this morning.
So quitting ban hasn't totally sunk in yet, I had 2 quit out early in this CTF game, then a third quit out for the final round. Me defending the flag against 4. I held the line for this one epic round, including resetting the flag twice in the flag cap room.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=10631512&player=electricpirate
Thagomizer
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Anyone now what time NT1 goes up? 11 EST?
bobs...onGaf
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The Halo god's love me, a bunch of Elites VS Spartan games in a row (aliens vs predator?), Every game except 1 I was Elite.
Thagomizer
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urk said:
Cool, got some errands to run in that case
bobs...onGaf
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urk said:
Sweet!
(Anyone have a ETA? Im guessing thats in about 2 hours?)
DeadFalling
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Ajemsuhgao said:
Somebody here said (luke?) that they'll have more types of armor customization than just the head/shoulder/chest available in the beta.
electricpirate
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I have to say, I'm really lookin forward to gen. defense, I really enjoy the third tier loadouts in invasion, and I really love the S vs E gameplay with them, but I really don't like the third tier vehicle play. This sounds about right to me.
Blergmeister
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Does anybody know what to do to earn Technician medals. Highlighting it says "perform an incredible feet in matchmaking" but, as awesome as that sounds, it doesn't help at all. I have assists and technician at rank 3 or whatever with most everything else at 2 and I'm just wondering what incredible things I've been doing so much! :lol
The Librarian
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Invasion is a far cry from being called "balanced." The vehicles, the loadouts, and the weapons available all need considerable modification.Hydranockz said: