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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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First BTB game, Big Team Slayer on Paradiso. After they vetoed Stockpile Tempest.
I get the banshee, and get half of my armor chipped off by friendly fire from people mad they didn't get it. When I come back I find 3 of them camping the spawn. Wow.
Next game, Stockpile on Hemorrhage. I get the sniper. Proceed to get shot at my teammates, and eventually betrayed. I of course booted him. Another person grabs the sniper, gets betrayed, and boots the guy.
Wow.
I get the banshee, and get half of my armor chipped off by friendly fire from people mad they didn't get it. When I come back I find 3 of them camping the spawn. Wow.
Next game, Stockpile on Hemorrhage. I get the sniper. Proceed to get shot at my teammates, and eventually betrayed. I of course booted him. Another person grabs the sniper, gets betrayed, and boots the guy.
Wow.
Wow, just played with one of the Forerunners, an Eclipse and a Nova. We Lost but put up a good fight, thanks to my Blueberry Gun.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=508315633&player=SIP Crucio
Some people were dissing the high ranks, saying they've got a fake rank and all that. I have to agree, most of those high credit ranks are simply farmed to the max.
Though it was fun to finally see that icon.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=508315633&player=SIP Crucio
Some people were dissing the high ranks, saying they've got a fake rank and all that. I have to agree, most of those high credit ranks are simply farmed to the max.
Though it was fun to finally see that icon.
neoism
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=26299840&postcount=1566Lazslo said:
beaten :/
I don't know that gif is amazing looking
I just played with (well, almost almost - he quit before the game started) some high ranking dude (full moon rank). Whenever I see guys like that I check their Commendations to see how they got there. He's nearly maxed out the close quarters combat Commendation for multiplayer.Crucio said:
Farming Griffball.
Also, I'm noticing that a fair number of games never make it over to bungie.net. The game I just played is not in my record, nor are several others. What they all have in common are players who quit or lagged out. Likewise with the ONI LASO run last week, the game never showed up on b.net, but we had one player quit/lag out early on. I just played a game solo because the other two players disappeared from the menu to the game start; that seems to be enough for b.net to lose track of the game. Kinda wanted to look at it, since I held down Beachhead solo for 30 minutes.
Tashi0106 said:
Until they fix bottom snipe and the small tower, that map is horrible. Make a one way teleporter down by the shotgun spawn to the rocket spawn or something and change the elevation of small tower. Make it much higher, almost above that of the cage, to make it somewhat not of a goddamn spawn trap.
Also, putting a 'return to battlefield' area ontop of the cage was dumb. That was the best part of the map, holding that fixed position down.
xxjuicesxx
Member
KevinRo said:
Nah they should definitely just remove the roof on the middle cage, having an area people can't shoot someone unless they have jetpack? That's broken. Remove the roof, keep the walls, thats fine, but the roof needs to go. The barrier isn't even enough. I had some douche in doubles hiding there in Doubles I had to physically wait for him to come down to kill him. It was a really sad game, you used to have to glitch out of the map with a superbounce to get to places like that.
OldMattacus
Member
Is it "farming" grifball if you love grifball with all your heart?
Summary Man
Member
KevinRo said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Bungie said that the Cage was a precursor for the map that eventually became Lockout? In other words, during development of Halo 2, the Cage was refined and tweaked multiple times until it became Lockout.
But now in Halo Reach, they give us a crude, unrefined, and inelegant map and are surprised by the backlash it's received? It's as if someone designed a map, put no additional thought into it, shipped it, and then acted surprised that people dislike it.
Not necessarily (though not unlikely). I had my Close Quarters commendation to Onyx before Grifball was introduced into matchmaking.GhaleonEB said:
Also, just because somebody is a high rank, that doesn't mean commendations had much to do with it. I've seen Eclipses with only ~50% commendation progress. Whereas, I had 80% complete while still a General.
How far has this game come in the past months? I still kinda miss it, and somewhat regret selling it, because I could still have fun with it in controlled bursts of play.
Did the DMR bloom get any attention? Has the map variety become less Cage type in design now with the map packs? Lastly, and most importantly, has Armor Lock been looked at and tweaked at all? I know last time I asked people said MLG playlists got added and they don't use Alock which is a good start, but I wouldn't say fixed Armor lock for the other game modes.
Did the DMR bloom get any attention? Has the map variety become less Cage type in design now with the map packs? Lastly, and most importantly, has Armor Lock been looked at and tweaked at all? I know last time I asked people said MLG playlists got added and they don't use Alock which is a good start, but I wouldn't say fixed Armor lock for the other game modes.
Zeouterlimits
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Because we still have memories of it from the beta, before AL, when it was great, and some part of us deep inside hopes it'll be as good again.Ramirez said:
Also being Urk's favourite internet guy is a kiss of death it seems.
Shogun needs to take a second and think about what he's saying more often.
It has a less chance to happen than Rocket Race getting its own playlist. So you do the math.Ramirez said:
Also Paradiso might be worst game map EVER. Oooo but look, its on an island.
Someone dig a quote up from one of the pre release Halo 3 bungie weekly updates that detailed the banshee not being able to look directly downwards because its secondary bomb was too powerful. I know they said something along those lines, and now reach... what happened to that? why did they go from Halo 3 banshee to this POS in Reach? Did they really forget how to balance Multiplayer during the development of Reach? Or they phoned in the whole MP side of things. This post has nothing to do with the campaign, they put serious effort in that and it shows, however it seems like MP was really phoned in and some new guy was given full control over how it plays, oh wait they DID do that. YIKES!
The Librarian
Banned
So Bungie isn't making an MMO? Whatever it is, still hyped for their next game.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Nostalgia.
I rather enjoy these nade physics (h2's launching) much more than H3 and Reach's new "chain explosion" garbage.
Most of whats shown is luck but theres no doubt to timing a nade launch just right that can work perfectly as skill.
Also when they broke the 1v1 spawn system, it was amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOidoXWVD0
That allowed for so many insane spawn sticks.
I rather enjoy these nade physics (h2's launching) much more than H3 and Reach's new "chain explosion" garbage.
Most of whats shown is luck but theres no doubt to timing a nade launch just right that can work perfectly as skill.
Also when they broke the 1v1 spawn system, it was amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOidoXWVD0
That allowed for so many insane spawn sticks.
Hypertrooper
Member
Enjoy the next two weeks, because then he will be back.
I want to play the map! I WANT TO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW!
http://twitter.com/#!/FourteeTwo/status/43880858981113856
I want to play the map! I WANT TO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW!
Had a thought on the way to work this morning.
What if this 'Defiant Map Pack helmet' we've been seeing is nothing more than the 343 equivalent of Recon/Blue Flames?
I'd be disappointed, as I want more armor too. Still, food for thought.
Glad to see Alpha Zombie will be making a comeback. I was very confused when it wasn't there. Infection is one of my favorite 'custom' gametypes (not a huge fan of the playlist. Needs more variety).
What if this 'Defiant Map Pack helmet' we've been seeing is nothing more than the 343 equivalent of Recon/Blue Flames?
I'd be disappointed, as I want more armor too. Still, food for thought.
Glad to see Alpha Zombie will be making a comeback. I was very confused when it wasn't there. Infection is one of my favorite 'custom' gametypes (not a huge fan of the playlist. Needs more variety).