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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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7echnicolor
Member
wat.Letters said:
Are you serious
You're probably joking..
ElRenoRaven
Member
7echnicolor said:
I hope he is. I like Urk and would be sad to see him not giving the updates to the community.
Hydranockz
Member
Can we expect some form of customs this weekend?
I enjoyed the BWU. I eagerly anticipate whatever changes are coming our way.
I enjoyed the BWU. I eagerly anticipate whatever changes are coming our way.
Domino Theory said:
We can't do this for a very important reason: these community threads tend, over time, to condense down to a core of players (perhaps a dozen, perhaps a few dozen) who maintain interest in the game and treat the thread as a place to talk and meet up. Putting these threads back in the gaming forum would result in TF2, Halo, WoW, GT5, etc. all being effectively stickied to the first page of the forum for years, which is decidedly inconvenient for people who want news and information that is current, and/or have no interest in this select handful of titles.
That's our reason. This is not a debate: I did not bring this over so that you could question the infinite wisdom of the infallible moderators. I did it to be nice, for fun, and to offer a game you presumably love some exposure. With that in mind, I recommend we all get back to talking about why Halo is so much fun and why other people might enjoy it. And also why Ghaleon is a much better PoliGaf poster than he is a Halo player (I would assume).
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I'm back mother bitches!
When is armor lock going to be moved? Eh?
When is armor lock going to be moved? Eh?
Hydranockz
Member
There goes his hopes of taking urks postOpiate said:
It was a good run Ghal, now back to Halo is fun at its core. Plenty more playlists in the rotation now than there were at launch with the diversity of playstyles providing an attractive source of entertainment for most kinds of players. Players without the DLC, while being prompted to purchase it, are not required to do so in order to enjoy the game like the rest of the fanbase so you aren't losing touch with the bulk of players. Game is fun... that is all.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Mush said:
What did they do to AL to make it worse?
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
cuevas said:
It's still not BTB/Multiteam only.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Kuroyume said:
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BTB and MT only. It doesn't belong in 4 v 4 slayer IMO. MT is chaotic enough that it works there.
How does it make more sense in Multi Team than Team Slayer? In MT it's 2 vs 10. You're constantly running into Armor Lockers and you can't just turn your back to them or wait because there are 10 other people out to kill you. Compare that to the 4 that argainst you in TS. AL slowing you down in MT is much worse than TS since you're always fighting someone.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Kuroyume said:
I find it MUCH less frustrating in MT than in TS, but you probably play a lot more MT than TS.
MT is a chaotic shit fest, AL works in that kind of environment just like it works in BTB.
Indeed. I literally jumped up from my seat, it startled me to death.ZayneH said:
On the subject of Firefight and why Reach is so great, I'll post a few of my highlight clips to illustrate the joys contained therein.
From the recent (and upcoming) Firefight Arcade playlist, I get to go ballistic with a large hammer, or detonate heaping piles of Grunts.
Alternatly, I get to go on sprees methodically taking out Elites or Skirmishers, demonstate the usefulness of Armor Lock, survive impossible odds only to fail spectacularly and, when all else fails, set off massive piles of explosives and watch things go boom.
I could play it every goddamn day, forever.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Yea no Urks's writeups are great. They do need to get me or vhfive or kyle in charge of playlist's or helping out once we get settled down though.
btw ive gotten like 4 submissons for montage so forget about it.
btw ive gotten like 4 submissons for montage so forget about it.
cuevas said:
More and more people are using it everyday because of how obviously broken it and they have no shame, or are using it to defend themselves against the legions of other armpr lockers. People are also getting better and better at squeezing every last drop of cheapness out of it, mostly by doing the quick lock that gives them glitchy shield-frosting bs.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
GhaleonEB said:
You mean become Director of the Community and Public Relations without directing the community and not being public? Looking forward to it.
The Librarian
Banned
There's so much stuff you can do in Reach that even if you don't like one particular game mode, that doesn't mean you stop playing the game. Don't like MP? Fine, just stick to Firefight and you'll have a blast. Then there's Forge and Campaign.Opiate said:
Barrow Roll
Member
If you're still on in half an hour and I'll help you with it.Gui_PT said:
Zeouterlimits
Member
Reach is standalone, and not as weighed down as the others in terms of knowing who the characters are & the backstory.Opiate said:
Reach has the best production value cinematics and character writing of the series to date.
You're part of a squad of characters, rarely not with at least one of the npcs.
Space combat! With some of the most beautiful skyboxes you'll have ever seen.
Armour abilities - sprint, armour lock, hologram, jetpack, etc all change how you want to play it. Feel Halo is too slow - sprint. Like being able to take a breather when things get hectic - drop shield.
CR/Credits - Create your Spartan as you want him to look and take him into Campaign too (cinematics included)
Daily and Weekly Challenges - Earn 'big' credit payouts by performing certain tasks in Campaign, Multiplayer or Firefight
Firefight - Matchmaking, both typical and crazy modes. Customise it to how you want it.
Forge 2.0 - Just go look at list of great maps fellow GAFers have created. Seriously.
Jack Scofield said:
Sounds like you had fun! =p
I tried that ghastly weekly challenge yesterday and figured that it wouldn't be TOO hard.
Yeah, ummmmm....I quit after 5 minutes.
And once again, fuck armor lock.
Hypertrooper
Member
Today are customs, right? I'll join definitely.
@ZayneH wanna do the Weekly today?
@ZayneH wanna do the Weekly today?
Bregmann Roche
Member
I think Urk's done a very good job on the updates. I enjoy them every week even when there isn't much going on. Need more podcasts though.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
xxjuicesxx said:
Seriously? You would think everyone would be submitting.
wwm0nkey said:
Uh, that's great and all, but they are just driving around, the beams aren't deadly.
Opiate said:
I think as with any online game these days it's not a very good ratio. I'd say though that since Call of Duty has taken over in popularity, a lot of the little douche bags are playing that rather than Halo. For any GAF poster that wants to play though, there are playing people in HaloGAF who play just about everything and range from the worst players ever (Dax) to the best players ever in history (KevinRo lolol)
A lot of us are huuuuge jerks.Opiate said:
Actually, inside the game, pretty much every regular poster here is super friendly and fun. Oh gosh :]
But every other person is mean. Or doesn't have a mic. There are a lot of mean people, but it's super easy to not have to put up with that kinda crap at all since it's so easy to mute people.
BTW what's the weekly this week?
It used to be much worse back then when Halo was the only popular xbox online shooter and all the screaming racist kids had nowhere else to be online. Nowadays decent people are more prevalent, in the lobbies at least, once the games start, most will try and use every cheap tactic available, but that's not really their fault.Opiate said:
I've noticed that really interesting to watch clutch plays in Reach seem few and far between. Most people probably think their clips are just not that great.Alienshogun said:
Welcome back btw.