Bregmann Roche
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Alienshogun said:
I can't wait 'til your book gets published and we can hear you telling this to the audience on Oprah.
Working title: "Bungie's Design Choices and You: A Get Shit On Story".
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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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I can't wait 'til your book gets published and we can hear you telling this to the audience on Oprah.
Working title: "Bungie's Design Choices and You: A Get Shit On Story".
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Bregmann Roche said:
:lol :lol :lol
Alienshogun said:
Reposting this for a new page, free Banshee avatar props for everyone!
Bregmann Roche
Member
Gui_PT said:
The first of 2011( that gif needs updating)
Civil War of 2011 is already over. Big shot everyone in the opposition from the top of Hemo. Perfection.
The Librarian
Banned
Not me cause I camped in the base with the shotgun.Bregmann Roche said:
Hypertrooper
Member
Week 2 | Gametype: Vidmaster [First Place: 77,777 cR]
The Rules:
- Legendary Only.
- Solo: Corvette (preferred), Waterfront only | 4 Players: Waterfront, Holdout only.
- Just you, your Magnum, 4 of every grenade, and a whole lot of Covenant. There's more to Halo's weapons than a DMR and Magnum. Experiment.
- 15 lives.
- No defense play. Keep on moving. Don't hide behind cover so your shields can recharge. If you're hit, run so you don't get hit again. Exception to this rule: any wave with Skirmishers.
- Must be online when attempting the challenge. Also, please provide a link to a saved film (don't have to render it). Don't be boring.
- Style counts. Multikills, assassinations, sticks, you name it. The flashier, the better.
Options:
- You can either play Solo, or in a party of 4. Player with most points in 4 Player will get combined score.
- For extra difficulty (why?), you can play melee only, no hits from Grunts (or try to not get hit at all), and/or no health packs.
Week 1 Results
Rankings:
I'll expand it for another week. Come on, guys! You can win a awesome Banshee Avatar Prop! That has a value I don't know 50ct? But it is totally awesome! And your XBL friend will be totally jealous I promise! I'm so jealous at Alienshogun, because he has the Banshee Avatar prop. Totally jealous, dudes! Totally!
I know, I know, Second Repost on this day, but this is just for the new page. Because no one at HaloGAF reads the previous page. *lol*
bobs...onGaf
Member
Alienshogun said:
The site hasnt emailed me and I signed up this morning with 2 email's
- can someone test that they are still handing em out?Hypertrooper
Member
Can't you read german?bobs99 ... said:The site hasnt emailed me and I signed up this morning with 2 email's
All codes are gone. But you can still win one in this Weekly challenge.*LOL*
NullPointer
Member
You don't have to let her in the warthog, so there's that. I mean, really, just leave her at the AA or Comm Tower.GhaleonEB said:
I didn't even realize I could take her past that point until my second playthough of Sword Base - figuring she just stayed with the anti-air defenses.
Barrow Roll
Member
Put Kat on turret.GhaleonEB said:
Give Rocket Launcher from Comm Tower to Marine in passenger seat.
Drive well.
I was down to the last Revenant outside of ONI. I was in line of sight, but she wasn't firing because it was a touch too long. I boot her out of the turret, get on it myself, and she hops in the driver seat right away and drives me into the line of fire before I can kill it.Barrow Roll said:
Princess Carl
Member
Attempting the Vidmaster in a little bit Hyper
Barrow Roll
Member
In that situation a firm back hand shows her who's boss.GhaleonEB said:
NullPointer
Member
Avoid... blowing stuff up? I just don't even...Havok said:
RebornYeti
Member
Man, I miss Reach.
My 360 died about a month ago, and I haven't been able to get it fixed.
Have I missed anything? Have they chosen the winners for the Forgetacular Contest?
Sorry, I don't wanna sift through the thread to find out for myself. :lol
My 360 died about a month ago, and I haven't been able to get it fixed.
Have I missed anything? Have they chosen the winners for the Forgetacular Contest?
Sorry, I don't wanna sift through the thread to find out for myself. :lol
I'm just going to go ahead and say the friendly AI is the worst in the entire series. It's one of those things where the more I pay attention to it, the more I see how idiotic they are. If they're not murdering me outright they're wandering around aimlessly of no use whatsoever. And now that I'm trying to manage them on ONI, they're doing a combination of the two - but not actually helping in any way.
I get that Halo asks the AI to do a lot more heavy lifting than most shooters, especially when it comes to vehicles. But this is the fifth Bungie Halo game, and these guys are morans.
I get that Halo asks the AI to do a lot more heavy lifting than most shooters, especially when it comes to vehicles. But this is the fifth Bungie Halo game, and these guys are morans.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Sai-kun said:
Don't be all crazy now, your orc warlock won't let you.
GhaleonEB said:
It's REALLY annoying on Legendary when you need all the help you can (at certain times). At one point, I honestly preferred that I use the Warthog turret with no driver because of the AI's atrocious driving. But the dumb AI WANTS to drive you so you have to try and get the car as far away from him as possible before he gets in and inevitably does something stupid.
And I want to complain about armor lock again.....
I really wish it that it was removed from the game completely.....along with the hologram thing. I was playing a match last night and it was like something from the circus; it was the most gimmicky match that I had ever played: holograms running around everywhere, seeing my teammate and an opposing team member in an armor lock standoff (holy shit this was so dumb to watch).
I'm surprised that you can't perform a teleport. That would SERIOUSLY help out. "Are you one shot from death? Well, just hit LB and you'll teleport safely to a designated spawning point!" -_-
Regarding the friendly AI, I seem to remember the old metal-plated Marines in the first Halo being really efficient, losing intelligence each game (even in Halo 2, I loaded the Marines on High Charity up with Carbines and they tore stuff up). It might be nostalgia speaking, though. They seem to want to take cover more and more through the past few games, stacking up on bits of geometry and then not doing anything with it, and immediately pulling off and going to another piece of cover. It makes them seem braindead, because they're not offensively capable in the slightest. Doing ONI today made it very obvious that the Warthog gunner AI needs to be fixed, with better prioritization of targets ("no, not the Grunts, the GHOST, you asshole!"), and full automatic capabilities, rather than the tiny, ineffective bursts they shoot now.
On another topic, I wasn't a big fan of the map pack achievements when they were first announced, but somehow I lucked (the emphasis is important, because these aren't really skill-based achievements) myself into getting all of the difficult ones (the stockpile and double kill from the grave, specifically). That they exist seems to contradict what Bungie said they learned from the Halo 3 achievements: not to encourage the player to play in a specific way. But there's a shotgun-only achievement right there, along with the 'get a kill in rocket race' achievement that encourages players to be dicks and not seek the actual objective of the gametype. It really makes me wonder what they really took away from the Halo 3 achievement outcry.
On another topic, I wasn't a big fan of the map pack achievements when they were first announced, but somehow I lucked (the emphasis is important, because these aren't really skill-based achievements) myself into getting all of the difficult ones (the stockpile and double kill from the grave, specifically). That they exist seems to contradict what Bungie said they learned from the Halo 3 achievements: not to encourage the player to play in a specific way. But there's a shotgun-only achievement right there, along with the 'get a kill in rocket race' achievement that encourages players to be dicks and not seek the actual objective of the gametype. It really makes me wonder what they really took away from the Halo 3 achievement outcry.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
One of my favorite things to do in Halo 2 was load up a Marine with a BR and another with a Sniper Rifle on the level where you ride the big gondola when going after Regret (I think it was Regret). I could keep them alive all the way from the start of the mission to the boss battle on Heroic. They were accurate and sharp and would work with me all the way through the mission.Havok said:
I wish the AI were that good in Reach.
The Librarian
Banned
I remember, by habit, after replaying the campaign so many times, I made a new mini-game for myself of which the objective was to keep as many Marines alive as possible. I tend to do that whenever I replay the games now. In Halo 1, you were rewarded for it on AotCR when you got Charlie team to a certain point and there was two extra lines of dialogue.GhaleonEB said:
xxjuicesxx
Member
Plywood said:
Sniping is so easy in Reach you legit relax your skills after playing it for awhile. Taking a break re-ups those skills to normal sniping skill requirement level.
HEY GUYS LETS ADD A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME THE MOST POPULAR WEAPONS CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY SO THERES A BIG FAT WINDOW FOR QUICKSCOPING SNIPERS TO DONG ON KIDS WITH! (great thinking there mr lets spend a billion hours on a presentation why .05 seconds makes the sniper SO DIFFERENT when really you hardly know shit about your own game)
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Blueblur1 said:
Don't you be dissin' Foxy Shazam!
bobs...onGaf
Member
xxjuicesxx said:
Yeah I dont get why they felt the need to 'idiot proof' the Sniper, the road to actually getting good with the thing in Halo 3 kept me playing far longer than any games ranking system has, and getting impressive kills with it was actually satisfying before.
I guess its more fun for everyone this way, but at a irritating cost.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
MrBig said:
:lol
bobs99 ... said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I probably am, but isn't the only difference hitscan?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Alienshogun said:
Basically the window frame of bloom inaccuracy time on the DMR/Pistol/Nerfle makes it easier to noscope/quickscope, makes leapfrogging harder too, because of that the gunplay changes a lot in game.