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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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Barrow Roll
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Word, bro.Plywood said:
How well do vehicles play under the Classic settings? Do they get wrecked like I have hypothesized?
Haven't played customs on them yet but I did check out the multiplayer maps in Forge. No Banshees means the likelihood of these maps sucking is cut in half. Once 343 takes control either nerf the Banshee or remove it from multiplayer. I can't say anything about gameplay yet but as far as the art is concerned they look uglier than the noble maps. Anchor 9 is prettier than Condemned and they did a better job with the whole space battle thing. Probably would have liked it more if the windows didn't have some ugly tint and texture to them. Highlands has some really ugly spots below the cliffs and the textures on the rocks are like xbox quality. Doesn't matter if the gameplay is good but just felt like noting that Bungie's maps look better. Didn't feel like playing Firefight so I have nothing to say about the FF map.
Barrow Roll
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Isn't there like an invincible vehicles option or something similar in the game settings?wwm0nkey said:
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Barrow Roll said:
They screwed it up sadly, unless you hit the player DIRECTLY, they are unstoppable.
Barrow Roll
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:lol
Didn't Halo CE have invincible vehicles? Anyways, what I meant was something along the lines of vehicle health being tied to player health instead of just getting ass raped. So in a sense they would be invincible until the player died.
Perhaps my memory is poor but I seem to recall my Warthog looking like a burning turd but still chuggin along in H2 as long as I wasn't dead.
Didn't Halo CE have invincible vehicles? Anyways, what I meant was something along the lines of vehicle health being tied to player health instead of just getting ass raped. So in a sense they would be invincible until the player died.
Perhaps my memory is poor but I seem to recall my Warthog looking like a burning turd but still chuggin along in H2 as long as I wasn't dead.
Yes but that's because it was tied back then, nowadays you drive over the wrong rock and your Hog will explode. Vehicle 'health' is not tied to player health basically. Also there is no in game setting for it.Barrow Roll said:
I was literally just reading that thread.Sai-kun said:
You may not be a junior in name but you'll always be a junior in his heart.Tunavi said:
Tashi0106 said:First how does Ram not have a code?
Also, I have a HighLands full gameplay video uploaded and ready to go if you guys want to see it. I go I think positive 22 on it. It's where the opening to my montage happens
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Also, Reach look so good on my new TV set, I'm having a hard time adjusting to the extra 15 inches of screen, but man, it's good to look at. Especially maps like Tempest/Forge World, colors really pop out.
Since the moment Defiant has been revealed, I thought the maps look like they belong in Halo 3. The geometry is much simpler and CA doesn't seem too concerned with making the spaces look believable (some of the ramps look really oldschool, they're not really supported by anything, just basic shapes sticking out of walls).Kuroyume said:
Technically, they look "worse", but I love this look. The maps look really clean, there's very little clutter and the spaces feel much less claustrophobic. They makes me nostalgic for Halo 3 and that feels pretty good.
The art also has some sloppy (though really, really minor) technical issues - for example, you can see the edge of the sky bubble if you look straight down out the window on Condemned and there's some weird blocky geometry sticking out outside the play area that looks like remains from a much earlier draft, also the lower waterfall on Highlands looks terrible from the player's perspective (like a chunk of the surface is missing).
Hypertrooper
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Tunavi gave you butterflies. And you don't know what you have to do.Tashi0106 said:
I'm happy that I don't care about that. But I guess you too. Highland is on a higher standard than every other shipped Mappack in the aspect of gameplay. Even better than Tempest. CTF is so much fun on Highland. I hope people are going to vote more for CTF. Otherwise Unearthed looks really awesome. It is awesome and makes more fun than any other firefight mapFlipyap said:
Going to post impression later today.
Yep. HaloGAF beats everything. HALOGAF!(That was on friday, where we win always against VeroHime and Voc and soem others dudes or girls, right?)Tashi0106 said:
So uhm, since we can talk about the maps.
Condemned = Desolation and The Pit Combined, but much better.
Highlands = Avalanche and Valhalla Combined, but much better.
Both are by FAR, better maps then anything on disk. And no this isnt the new polish that is making me think this way. Even after 4 months I still think Tempest pre-Defiant is the best map in Reach, which is also an DLC map. So with that said DLC continues to impress. I have played 1 game on unearthed, and its well firefight, I do not play firefight too much so proper impressions will have to come from people like ghaleon.
I personally like Condemned over Highlands if you want to compare them to each other. It works well in 4v4 and also scales well to 8v8. One thing that stands out for it is that almost all rooms have 3 different entrances which keeps the players moving and not camp.
In closing, Reach... and eventually Halo 4 is in good hands.
Condemned = Desolation and The Pit Combined, but much better.
Highlands = Avalanche and Valhalla Combined, but much better.
Both are by FAR, better maps then anything on disk. And no this isnt the new polish that is making me think this way. Even after 4 months I still think Tempest pre-Defiant is the best map in Reach, which is also an DLC map. So with that said DLC continues to impress. I have played 1 game on unearthed, and its well firefight, I do not play firefight too much so proper impressions will have to come from people like ghaleon.
I personally like Condemned over Highlands if you want to compare them to each other. It works well in 4v4 and also scales well to 8v8. One thing that stands out for it is that almost all rooms have 3 different entrances which keeps the players moving and not camp.
In closing, Reach... and eventually Halo 4 is in good hands.
Also Bloom sucks, AL sucks, Evade sucks.
Huh? I said those issues are really (REALLY) minor, but they do exist. I thought it's worth pointing out since I was replying to a post about graphics.Hypertrooper said:
I also said that I like the way those maps look. I like it more than (technically superior) Bungie multiplayer map art...
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Appreciate the mini/montages.
Nutter said:So uhm, since we can talk about the maps.
Condemned = Desolation and The Pit Combined, but much better.
Highlands = Avalanche and Valhalla Combined, but much better.
Both are by FAR, better maps then anything on disk. And no this isnt the new polish that is making me think this way. Even after 4 months I still think Tempest pre-Defiant is the best map in Reach, which is also an DLC map. So with that said DLC continues to impress. I have played 1 game on unearthed, and its well firefight, I do not play firefight too much so proper impressions will have to come from people like ghaleon.
I personally like Condemned over Highlands if you want to compare them to each other. It works well in 4v4 and also scales well to 8v8. One thing that stands out for it is that almost all rooms have 3 different entrances which keeps the players moving and not camp.
In closing, Reach... and eventually Halo 4 is in good hands.
Also Bloom sucks, AL sucks, Evade sucks.
Whoa whoa Miss Lippy...Are you saying that Condemned is better than The Pit? If you are, I don't know how you could say that after you've only had them for a few days and you've played hundreds of games on the Pit. I'm not saying that it's not as good and that it can't be as good, I'm just saying that I think you might be jumping the gun a little. It is a good map, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I agree with the Highlands stuff though. I won't compare it to other maps but as someone who only plays MLG, I really enjoyed the games I played on that map. It's a very busy map. You're hardly ever running in open spaces or feel like it takes you forever to get somewhere. There are portals which seem to be in very good places and help map movement a ton.
What's interesting about Condemned is that it's like a series of large rooms connected by door ways, other rooms or halls with short sight lines. The only real deep sight lines are across the middle where rockets spawn when looking from one sniper to the other. There are no cross map stand offs. It's immediately better than Anchor 9 because of the shield doors and actually the whole outer space section. I'm not a huge fan of the low grav section on Condemned but it works pretty well. I'm just not sure if it's hit its full potential.
edit: Also, this is what my montage ALMOST was...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrmdoLIO4GE
Miggytronz
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me and my friends tried the classic settings and i tell you what.
WE LOVED IT!!! Bring it 343....Bring it ON!
WE LOVED IT!!! Bring it 343....Bring it ON!
squidhands
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One moar sleepGhaleonEB said:
edit: the montages were great. Soo looking forward to these.
HiredN00bs
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So you can get the 3 new achievements in custom games. All you have to do is play a compatible gametype in matchmaking, then start a custom game with the gametype and map you just played, drawn from your temporary history. I accidentaly discovered this while trying to determine if returning the flag was possible in a 1 Flag CTF game (return time and reset time are both 30 seconds, I believe, and it is possible to return).
â Narayan
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Footage of Condemned would be great.
HiredN00bs
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Yeah, just out of curiosity, I tried to use the same method on the Noble 1 Achievements on another account. No dice.Willeth said:
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Last week messed around and got a triple double.
Little Guardian Classic for anyone who missed it.
Classic playlist is fun, I actually have to get my strafe and DMR down now that it actually matters in a playlist!
Little Guardian Classic for anyone who missed it.
Classic playlist is fun, I actually have to get my strafe and DMR down now that it actually matters in a playlist!
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Kibbles said:
After watching Tashi's clip I think I'm a believer. Everything from aesthetics to design (dat skybox! @_@) just seems to be at another level. Between this and the noble map pack it does appear that the Halo franchise is in good hands.
electricpirate
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Lead Based Paint said:
i was worried about this too, but division placement is now being updated daily once you qualify.
Worry more about evade in the arena.
Im_So_Pringles said:
I played on Ash55's Lockout remake in Tempest and I have to say it didn't feel as bad as the maps on Forge World with the colours etc. Maybe people should try more remakes in Tempest but obviously it would require noble map pack which would limit the population.