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Halo: Reach |OT4| This Thread is Not Your Grave, But You Are Welcome In It
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ncsuDuncan
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Plywood said:
I just hope Bungie cuts initial grenade count down to one...
And only one grenade at each point on the maps. Tired of mini-nukes.
Barrow Roll
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Are those the new MLG maps? I think I saw some of them in Tashi's montage, they looked pretty cool. MLG really sounds like a solid playlist, but I dare not enter it alone and no one on my list really enjoys it.Letters said:Retroactive, Nexus, Android and Element say hey what's up!
Barrow Roll
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What's the general consensus? Good, bad? How do they play?Tashi0106 said:
Barrow Roll said:
I'd say that people enjoy the maps a lot. They're also just happy that there are brand new maps to play on. I think people like Element more than they like Nexus. I feel the same way. Element is a lot of fun, especially when you're playing CTF. Good times.
Barrow Roll
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Shiiiiit, they should throw those maps in regular matchmaking so I don't have to get stomped in MLG to enjoy new maps.Tashi0106 said:
Just played my first game of 4SK in Team Classic. Sooooo bad. It's painfully obvious that the DMR was never meant to be a 4 shot kill weapon, and it's rhythm just feels terrible with those settings. To be fair though, it probably didn't help that the game was on Dreadnaught, so the enemy team just rained death down from the upper ring.
As close as I'll get to the 188 kill Challenge. I cleared it once, but vehicles don't count. Here I had a beastly game - zero deaths, 166 kills. Mopped the floor most of the game. Still can't get it.
Did I mention I'm grumpy about this? Not for the Challenge or cR so much. But because from day one I've been asking for a way to play a longer game of Firefight in Matchmaking, at the very least solo. There's a pretty steady chorus on Optimatch asking for it, lots of viable solutions. And no one from Bungie has even commented on it, ever, in six months. And then they drop a Challenge like today's that all but demands one, as a tease. Not cool. :\
Done grumping for the day. I look forward to the Thursday Firefight Challenges, but this one was rather cruel.
(Part of me wonders whether it was typo - the House of Blue Leaves was the location of the Crazy 88's fight, not the Crazy 188's.)
Did I mention I'm grumpy about this? Not for the Challenge or cR so much. But because from day one I've been asking for a way to play a longer game of Firefight in Matchmaking, at the very least solo. There's a pretty steady chorus on Optimatch asking for it, lots of viable solutions. And no one from Bungie has even commented on it, ever, in six months. And then they drop a Challenge like today's that all but demands one, as a tease. Not cool. :\
In Score Attack you'll top out at around 128 enemies, assuming you get lucky and get two drop pods. There's 120 to a base set, a few less to boss and Hunter waves in Limited and Arcade. In the game I linked, there were 354 total enemies, including ~50 from the bonus round. So I'd have to get 53% of them to clear the Challenge.randomlyrossy said:
Done grumping for the day. I look forward to the Thursday Firefight Challenges, but this one was rather cruel.
(Part of me wonders whether it was typo - the House of Blue Leaves was the location of the Crazy 88's fight, not the Crazy 188's.)
randomlyrossy
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Is it essentially only doable of you steal all the kills in a match? I tried to do it in score attack and there just aren't enough enemies, I finished all waves and came up short.GhaleonEB said:
Does seem like a pretty flawed challenge.
Barrow Roll
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Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Hydranockz said:Teh pretties... Where did that tutorial on making panaorama shots like that go?
Also... what is the secret of the purple box?
Tutorial? Ah, I dunno. Use google or maybe check HBO. There seems to be a lot of pan's popping up there so you'll probably find something.
The secret of the purple box is
I think he's talking about these guys. They had a panorama "how-to" back in the day (as in the Halo 3 days I think haha).Dani said:
GhaleonEB said:
Seriously? The Wraiths didn't count? I would've been pissed! After all that intense gameplay and survival.. Wow! I feel sorry for you man. WTF.
I only managed it because of Courtyards spawning system lines up grunts. I was sitting on the middle bridge the whole game, the bonus round lines up so many one shot multiples. I was really lucky to hit 189.
xxjuicesxx
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Squall ASF said:
If I recall Ogre 1 always outshined 2, Ogre 1 was always getting best sniper on the circuit awards in H2, dunno about H3 but that game was shit and required the skill of a chimpanzee.
Halo 2 was a mans game. Halo 3 is for boys.
Also there is this quiz post on Facebook about which cereal is the best and Cinnamon Toast Crunch is fucking destroying Golden Grahams. Righfully so...Rightfully so.
Tiny vessels. All about getting it wet. Probably one of their best songs.
Miggytronz
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wow at the Piano cover of Ashes from the OST. So well done.
squidhands
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Definitely. Bungie treated their arrival as if The Covenant were completely expected party crashers ("aw dammit, it's The Covenant! Put away the good alcohol!"). As I spend more time on the campaign looking for subtle things to help me enjoy it more, I end up finding/listening to things that really get on my nerves. I cannot claim to be a great writer of stories, but even I could come up with better dialog to convey how terrifying The Covenant's arrival should have been. Really liked Duncan's idea of fighting insurrectionists first, then be blindsided by a Covie strike team.GhaleonEB said:
Indeed. I listen to it on my way in to work in the early mornings.Steelyuhas said:
edit: A painting of the cover is even better.
I agree with the complaints in regards to longer games. I love score attack, but the games are over way too quick. Would it be that difficult to add a longer score attack playlist? Playlist population doesn't even matter since it is all solo.
Also when FF was announced one of the main sticking points was the limitless amount of options for the game. Reach has been out almost 8 months now and we still get the same old predictable order of Grunts, Jackals, Brutes, Skirmishers, and then the final wave with the occasional drop pod here or there. Spice it up a bit and add some variety already. Yeah I know I can do it myself in the FF options but without matchmaking you don't get jack shit for credits so its pretty much pointless.
Also when FF was announced one of the main sticking points was the limitless amount of options for the game. Reach has been out almost 8 months now and we still get the same old predictable order of Grunts, Jackals, Brutes, Skirmishers, and then the final wave with the occasional drop pod here or there. Spice it up a bit and add some variety already. Yeah I know I can do it myself in the FF options but without matchmaking you don't get jack shit for credits so its pretty much pointless.
Tha Robbertster
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So my friend and I went back in campaign today to check out if the switch we found was still there on normal difficult and using a rally point and it was still there.
Here is a picture and a video(renderd) of it:
(pic) http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=16244354&player=yanno900
(video) http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=16244363&player=yanno900
I do think that it's too big of a coincidense that there is a pelican whose turret is usable and a switch to deactivate the shielddoors when you shouldn't be able to do it at that time of the mission.
It's a shame I'm not a Eastern Egg hunter or something like that but I think this has potential.
What I think that could help is make it so that your K/D only goes up/down in slayer playlists.
I mean, when I play MLG and I go for the objective, I may go -10 but we will win that game. And this is a problem for many people, they just don't dare to go for the objective becasue of the K/D.
When it's gennerally know that only your slayer K/D counts, people will be encouraged to actually go for the objective and not be encouraged to camp in the base with their shotgun.
But then, you still have the problem with the easy credits that you can get for kill whoring in objective.
This is very, very eazy to solve: Just make it so that you get around 1500 credits for actually winning a game. It doens't matter in which playlist. Getting so many credits for just comleting a game is quite stupid and, as many have said before me, promotes kill whoring.
THAT would be one step to solving the objective playlist but then there is the low population which is a lot harder to battle at this time
Here is a picture and a video(renderd) of it:
(pic) http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=16244354&player=yanno900
(video) http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=16244363&player=yanno900
I do think that it's too big of a coincidense that there is a pelican whose turret is usable and a switch to deactivate the shielddoors when you shouldn't be able to do it at that time of the mission.
It's a shame I'm not a Eastern Egg hunter or something like that but I think this has potential.
JonCha said:
What I think that could help is make it so that your K/D only goes up/down in slayer playlists.
I mean, when I play MLG and I go for the objective, I may go -10 but we will win that game. And this is a problem for many people, they just don't dare to go for the objective becasue of the K/D.
When it's gennerally know that only your slayer K/D counts, people will be encouraged to actually go for the objective and not be encouraged to camp in the base with their shotgun.
But then, you still have the problem with the easy credits that you can get for kill whoring in objective.
This is very, very eazy to solve: Just make it so that you get around 1500 credits for actually winning a game. It doens't matter in which playlist. Getting so many credits for just comleting a game is quite stupid and, as many have said before me, promotes kill whoring.
THAT would be one step to solving the objective playlist but then there is the low population which is a lot harder to battle at this time
KidA Seven
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xxjuicesxx said:
Ogre 1 was the best H:CE player (followed by Ogre 2) in my opinion with a beast sniper. In Halo 2, I think Ogre 1 had the better sniper but Ogre 2 was flat out the better player. He was voted by other pros as the game's best player all 3 years Halo 2 was on the circuit. Complete dominance.
In Halo 3, Ogre 2 was the better player of the 2 again (Ogre 1 didn't play Halo 3 much even when he was actually competing), but wasn't the best player in the league. Yet, he only managed to go negative in one event out of the 3 years Halo 3 was on the circuit (I think like -2 or something like that). So, he wasn't the best player, but very consistent.
The Real Napsta
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xxjuicesxx said:
Never mind that Halo 2 had way more aim assist than Halo 3 and the noob combo. A chimp could snipe in Halo 2 with the huge amounts of sticky aim and huge hitboxes.
Tha Robbertster
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Willeth said:
Well yes ofcourse it is, but why does it still say I can activate it when I'm past that part. Remember, this is the part where you have to defend the pelican....
Man I'm surprised the gametypes people are coming up with the Haloball variant.
Golf,Bowling, Avalanche type game where you have to run to the top while tons of Golf balls are rolling down at you and another gametype where you have to shoot these trip mines and the golf balls fall into these slots at the bottom. Each slot is worth different points.
I'll throw them up in my fileshare later today in case some people want to try them out.
Golf,Bowling, Avalanche type game where you have to run to the top while tons of Golf balls are rolling down at you and another gametype where you have to shoot these trip mines and the golf balls fall into these slots at the bottom. Each slot is worth different points.
I'll throw them up in my fileshare later today in case some people want to try them out.
Hitmonchan107
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I bought it at Borders during its blowout sale (R.I.P.), and I loved it.O D I N said:Did you actually read Retribution? I hope you did. It was my favorite of the books.
But my order goes Ascension -> Retribution -> Revelation (I didn't like this one at all. I kept reading through the books, because I love Mass Effect.)
I still need to read the Illusive Man comics. And I need to play all of ME2's DLC. I'm so broke, lol.
News: Halo: Reach won 13 awards at the MI6 conference last night, which includes eight Gold awards, three Silver awards and two Bronze awards. Some of those awards were in the same category: Reach won both the Gold and Bronze awards in the Outstanding Promotional Trailer category.
CheeseJam over at Forge Hub posted a Halo Wars 2 gametype. If this works half as well as it does on paper, this will be awesome.
Blue Ninja
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Eh, Ascension never got me interested. I started reading, and gave up about halfway through. Maybe I'll go back to it eventually, but it just didn't work for me. I liked Revelation, and haven't tried Retribution yet.Hitmonchan107 said:
TrueSkill does not seem to be as prominent in clashing you with similarly skilled team mates and opponents like it did in the ranked playlists of Halo 3. This is actually an issue that spans all playlists outside of Arena, but due to the higher skill level of players seen in the MLG playlist the problem is just more apparent.
Parties/teams of 'X' amount of players should only match up against their equivalent (eg. A team of four players should only match up against another team of four). - Fixing this issue alone would also make matches more competitive.
With the scoring in Arena now solely being based off whoever wins, why cant we see the MLG playlist and objective playlists being moved to Arena?
Also, opposing teams should not be able to hear each other in-game. Players are forced to mute the other team pre-game, resulting in many avid MLG gamers being automatically mic muted. This results in me having a diluted communication experience when dabbling in other playlists.
Parties/teams of 'X' amount of players should only match up against their equivalent (eg. A team of four players should only match up against another team of four). - Fixing this issue alone would also make matches more competitive.
With the scoring in Arena now solely being based off whoever wins, why cant we see the MLG playlist and objective playlists being moved to Arena?
Also, opposing teams should not be able to hear each other in-game. Players are forced to mute the other team pre-game, resulting in many avid MLG gamers being automatically mic muted. This results in me having a diluted communication experience when dabbling in other playlists.
I completely agree. But it seems to be the first one that kept almost the exact same spawn algorithm from the previous game. I got pissed at the spawns in Halo 3, but I always remember saying to myself, "at least they tried to make it better than Halo 2." For Reach, it feels like they said to themselves, "Halo 3 was good enough, let's keep it the same."Striker said:
ncsuDuncan
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Forgive my ignorance, but why is it important that proximity chat be turned off in the MLG playlist? Are you annoyed that you can hear the other team, or that they can hear you? Worried about people hearing your strategies or locating you by voice?eeblogue said:
If it's the former, I thought there was an option in the menu to set voice chat to "Party and team only."
For the latter, if every MLG team in matchmaking just joined an Xbox Chat Party, the other team wouldn't be able to hear any of you... I guess that doesn't work for randoms, but if you're going into MLG as a random are you really that worried about chat?
Hitmonchan107
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One more thing, and then it's class time:
Halo3Helpers uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating what it calls the "Stone Angel Glitch," which removes your weapon and walking animations while in Forge. Pretty cool!
Halo3Helpers uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating what it calls the "Stone Angel Glitch," which removes your weapon and walking animations while in Forge. Pretty cool!
Decom said:
People dont know about/use that feature. And even if people did, you would still have the option to mute the other team at the start of the game. To solve this problem Bungie just need to apply the Arena settings where youre unable to communicate with the other team until the game is over.