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Halo: Reach |OT3| This Thread is Not a Natural Formation
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Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
So I've been clamoring for a 343i studio tour for some time, but now that we know they moved into Bungie's old building, this does wonders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6n8ytkhyzk&feature=channel_video_title
I swear Frank is Benjamin Button. Dude gets younger every year.
I swear Frank is Benjamin Button. Dude gets younger every year.
Steelyuhas
Member
Domino Theory said:
Yeah, this would be very nice. Those of us that would happily wait a little longer in matchmaking in order to play the maps we paid for would love it.
At least I would!
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Domino Theory said:
I found something better.
DAX's personal Bungie studio tour!
Over four minutes of the most exclusive access money can't buy!
Hydranockz
Member
Devin Olsen
Member
I can give my opinion on this... Your video is heavily weighted with sniper kills... Sniper kills are nice and all, but kind of bland to watch.Tashi0106 said:
That's my opinion, and I am assuming it is what Dax was trying to get at.
Just got matched up with JonnyOThan and Evil Otto in the Classic playlist. Near the end of the game, my router decides to restart itself, and disconnect me from XBL. smh
At least I still get a Thank the Maker medal.
At least I still get a Thank the Maker medal.
Barrow Roll
Member
Anyone want to hop on for some games so don't chuck my controller at the wall from bad teammates and shitty gametypes?
Edit: Haloball Xtreme is some of the worst shit I have ever played. I can't even believe it.
Edit: Haloball Xtreme is some of the worst shit I have ever played. I can't even believe it.
Steelyuhas
Member
Karl2177 said:
Evil Otto has 100% commendation progress. What?
Hydranockz
Member
I love HaloBall in its two variations. My only problem with that and Hockey is that aiming with the Hammer seems entirely random. There has been many a time where the ball goes behind me when I hit it...Barrow Roll said:
I'd imagine all the Bungie employees have 100% armory completion from the start. I remember urk did too. Blue flames + all armor + 5% damage.
Steelyuhas
Member
Hydranockz said:
Not talking about armor completion though, commendation completion.
When you want to move the ball precisely in Hockey, use the AR.
Steelyuhas
Member
Decom said:
People have figured out how to hack other players accounts? Crazyness
Just had my first game of Fistfight in Firefight Arcade since weapon pickups were disabled, and it was a thing of beauty. Two guys drop off a few minutes in - I think they wanted to scoop up FRGs - so it was me and one other guy on Courtyard, which works out perfectly; we each took up camp in our own side. There's a level of unbridled carnage that other playlists just don't come near. It's delightful.
Three clips culled from the game.
First, pure, joyous stress relief.
One feature of Arcade that I really wish Limited also included is Elite Heretics; Elites that use UNSC weapons. Round one has regular Heretics, with pistols, AR's, shotguns and the odd DMR. Round 2 brings in the snipers - DMRs and sniper rifles. Round 3, the heavies hit: rocket launchers, grenade launchers and Spartan Lasers (!!!).
I just love how they look using them:
Of course, the snipers tend to be a bit nasty when you are using melee weapons:
I generally don't last long against them, but this was my longest streak against some Heavies. Just insane levels of anarchy going on.
Lastly, the bonus round, which when viewed from afar has so many moving elements it's sort of beautiful.
Playing with weapon pickups turned off makes the mode play like I hoped it would play all along. It's wonderful, and my favorite change made in the current playlist update.
Three clips culled from the game.
First, pure, joyous stress relief.
One feature of Arcade that I really wish Limited also included is Elite Heretics; Elites that use UNSC weapons. Round one has regular Heretics, with pistols, AR's, shotguns and the odd DMR. Round 2 brings in the snipers - DMRs and sniper rifles. Round 3, the heavies hit: rocket launchers, grenade launchers and Spartan Lasers (!!!).
I just love how they look using them:
Of course, the snipers tend to be a bit nasty when you are using melee weapons:
I generally don't last long against them, but this was my longest streak against some Heavies. Just insane levels of anarchy going on.
Lastly, the bonus round, which when viewed from afar has so many moving elements it's sort of beautiful.
Playing with weapon pickups turned off makes the mode play like I hoped it would play all along. It's wonderful, and my favorite change made in the current playlist update.
Steelyuhas
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Nice to see the gametypes actually play out as that gametype now. Still a major peeve of mine that Elites use human weapons in most of the firefight gametypes though.
Action Sack is a mere shadow of its former Halo 3 glorious self. Why is it only crappy versions of regular game types and then HALO BALL and HALO BALL XTREME? Throw in a bunch of goofy games. Throw in Rocket Race. Throw in stickies only. Bring back that king of the hill game from Halo 3 where two teams drive warthogs into a middle arena and try to be the last team standing.
I feel like these Power Slayers and Speedflags and whatever miss the point of the playlist. These matches still feel like standard competitive matches and not the goofy fun-fest that it was in Halo 3.
I feel like these Power Slayers and Speedflags and whatever miss the point of the playlist. These matches still feel like standard competitive matches and not the goofy fun-fest that it was in Halo 3.
Account Attempt #4
Member
Just ran against Lunatic Puma on Eclipse. Good game sir! We got into a few gun fights which were fun and challenging. I'm loving Classic so far now that I'm finally playing it. Now if I could just win one. -.-
Emperor Bohe
Member
Will there ever be a title update? Does 343i handle Reach now?
Steelyuhas
Member
Emperor Bohe said:
There won't be one from Bungie, and that is all we know really, but considering its been out for over 6 months and we haven't heard of any such thing, I think it is extremely unlikely.
the 4 gb are internal memory, but don't count as a hard drive. You can't play firefight on an xbox slim without a HDGamer98 said:
Edit: Lol Tawpgun and I made the IGN top ten plays of the week. http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/03/30/halo-reach-top-10-kills-033011
We're number 2. The comments mention my clip a lot haha.
Man those other clips are horrendous
Barrow Roll
Member
GGs Plywood, my shattered faith in Reach has been somewhat restored. The Defiant maps play amazingly with the weapon fixes, I had a blast rolling that playlist.
But I won't be touching Classic again, not while you still spawn with 2 portable nukes. As far as I'm concerned, Slayer Pro>Classic.
But I won't be touching Classic again, not while you still spawn with 2 portable nukes. As far as I'm concerned, Slayer Pro>Classic.
Barrow Roll said:
I love the slayer pro settings as well. I like it even more than the MLG way. Is Slayer Pro also the variant used on Arena ?
Either way I wish pro had its own playlist.
Or does it? I haven't found a place I can just play that all day. I think it'd be a wet dream if there was a big team slayer pro. Classic feels like a sloppy amateur attempt at fixing the game, while I enjoy the faster kills, I hate the grenade power, and the movement speed is just all over the place depending on what map you play on, and the power weapons are way OP, the conc rifle on Prolonged is like a mini rocket launcher, heh.
Dare I say, I enjoy default Reach to these settings. The absence of terrible AA's is really the only thing keeping me there I think.
Dare I say, I enjoy default Reach to these settings. The absence of terrible AA's is really the only thing keeping me there I think.
Barrow Roll
Member
I think earlier seasons of Arena used Slayer Pro settings. These are the current settings:zlatko said:I love the slayer pro settings as well. I like it even more than the MLG way. Is Slayer Pro also the variant used on Arena ?
Either way I wish pro had its own playlist.
DMR/AR
1 Grenade
Sprint, Jetpack, Hologram
Motion Tracker On
It's a little closer to vanilla Team Slayer but it cuts out a lot of the BS, specifically Armor Lock, Evade and grenade spam. It's pretty nice but I would also love a Slayer Pro playlist to replace The Arena. Throw in some Flag and Assault gametypes and I wouldn't leave.
Classic has more problems than just the grenades, but yeah, default maps>Forge stuff.Plywood said:
And I just looked up Truancy Bot. :lol
Lake Minnetonka
Banned
firefight!!!!!GhaleonEB said:Just had my first game of Fistfight in Firefight Arcade since weapon pickups were disabled, and it was a thing of beauty. Two guys drop off a few minutes in - I think they wanted to scoop up FRGs - so it was me and one other guy on Courtyard, which works out perfectly; we each took up camp in our own side. There's a level of unbridled carnage that other playlists just don't come near. It's delightful.
Three clips culled from the game.
First, pure, joyous stress relief.
One feature of Arcade that I really wish Limited also included is Elite Heretics; Elites that use UNSC weapons. Round one has regular Heretics, with pistols, AR's, shotguns and the odd DMR. Round 2 brings in the snipers - DMRs and sniper rifles. Round 3, the heavies hit: rocket launchers, grenade launchers and Spartan Lasers (!!!).
I just love how they look using them:
Of course, the snipers tend to be a bit nasty when you are using melee weapons:
I generally don't last long against them, but this was my longest streak against some Heavies. Just insane levels of anarchy going on.
Lastly, the bonus round, which when viewed from afar has so many moving elements it's sort of beautiful.
Playing with weapon pickups turned off makes the mode play like I hoped it would play all along. It's wonderful, and my favorite change made in the current playlist update.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I stepped into Arena today for the first time since Reach came out. It's definitely one of the better playlists. I just wish it wasn't Arena, meaning one of the more competitive playlists (aside from MLG). I'd love to see the motion tracker removed and the assault rifle and concussion rifle completely removed. The concussion rifle is another weapon that I don't understand. It basically hits you no matter where the shots go, and it has just as big of a clip as the pistol; so there is no escaping it if you get halfway close. Does that make much sense to anyone else? It's also one of the power weapons that people tend to rely upon, heavily.Barrow Roll said:
One of the most neutral maps that I can remember in all of the Halo games was Warlock. No sniper rifle, no rocket launcher, and only your wits about you. Yes, there was the shotgun, but it took some fine handling to rack up the kills with it. Why can't there be more maps like that where teams have to rely more on team work and their skill with weapons as opposed to being lucky with power weapon pickups? That's my halo dream.
BlueScrote
Member
Last night I had the biggest succession of super close games (most of them ending in losses).
First time playing on uncaged as well. It seems like a welcome improvement over the cage.
First time playing on uncaged as well. It seems like a welcome improvement over the cage.
Hypertrooper
Member
Sai-Kun's clip made it, too.Tunavi said:
but the clips are totally boring...
KidA Seven
Member
Deputy Moonman said:
Power weapons aren't bad. They just have to be placed in a location that is dangerous (equal distance for both teams as well), and have a set spawn time. Fighting over power weapons brings out teamwork. Halo CE had this down to a t. In more recent games, power weapons have been there to start the game which makes acquiring them a little easy. They're also put in positions where they can be used as soon as you pick them up. They should be placed down low because height is used as a power position.
Prisoner did it right.
Edit: Agree with Striker on the maps.
The Librarian
Banned
Yup. It's cool otherwise.Devin Olsen said:
I wouldn't mind, personally, if Team Slayer got axed and allow Team Arena to become the regular, usual Slayer playlist. It has no precarious pieces ruining it like Armor Lock Evade, or Camo. I think the trio of Sprint, Jetpack (meh) and Hologram are decently balanced. The jetpackers will most often just be putting themselves out for target practice.Deputy Moonman said:
If they want to keep both Arena and Team Slayer, they should add Assault, CTF, KotH, Oddball, and 3 Plots to Arena.
As for maps, I wish we had more basic structures like Warlock. That, along with others like Elongation and Turf were great small maps that weren't overrun by power weapons. That's been missing from the smaller Halo 3 and Reach maps. At least one power weapon runs the map in some form or another.
xxjuicesxx
Member
OK those were cool but I thought #3 Triple threat kill was the best. Two sticks one from mad far away and an assassination on the third guy, thats pretty badass.
The montage itself was fine - it was a montage. Nothing really special. (No offense; I'm not dissing the gameplay or anything.)Tashi0106 said:
The start? Fantastic.
Loved the timing of the music intro. Dani said:
That is seriously creepy.
Edit:
Apologies - I knew it wasn't you, should have made that clear.Dax01 said:
It was seriously creepy all by itself.
The Librarian
Banned
That ain't me. Dude didn't even touch the doorknob.Dani said:
electricpirate
Member
Halo Ball Extreme is so amazing. destroying a guy with a golf ball is one of best things ever.
Uncaged is a fun map, I can't help but feel like if this had been the first iteration of the map people would have a different perception of it.
Uncaged is a fun map, I can't help but feel like if this had been the first iteration of the map people would have a different perception of it.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Still not a huge fan. There is one spot right next to the gravity lift, where people can snipe forever, assuming they have a halfway decent team watching out for him. Maps that have a really protected area for snipers, or multiple areas, really irks me. Areas that allow a team to lock down a game, no contest. If it's pro slayer it's even worse. At least a jetpack might be able to surprise him.electricpirate said:
Likewise, while I don't mind asylum as a map, seeing snipers able to just hide in their own bases for good chunks of the game just pisses me off. If I had a direct line of communication I'd say, "dude, show me you can actually play this game!" Snipers to me are cheap skates that allow everyone else to do the hard work while they sit back and rack up easy kills. Wimps. This applies to pinnacle as well.
I guess the hatred is more of a result of Reach's weaker precision weapons. No way a sniper dies to a DMR/Pistol/Needle Rifle when all 3 take 5-6 shots to kill a person. At least in earlier Halo games, there was more of a risk to pick up the sniper rifle and stand idle during a game. Reach practically invites you to stand still. No risk whatsoever.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Deputy Moonman said:
If a team is locking down an area there is no problem. It's called map control.
If one person is able to lock down an area it's broken.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Deputy Moonman said:
Why, thats how you should snipe? Going anywhere past half point risks giving the other team your sniper rifle.
They used to have MLG Snipes on Sanctuary and Colussus for awhile back in Halo 2. The accuracy of a team of pro snipers was amazing to watch.