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Halo: Reach |OT4| This Thread is Not Your Grave, But You Are Welcome In It
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Hitmonchan107 said:
-Too many quitters
-Gameplay mechanics restrict the rambo backpacking you could do in past games
-Laughing about how bad the game is with friends takes away some of the frustration of actually focusing on just how bad the game is when you're alone.
I don't feel like listing anymore, I guess it basically just boils down to the game just not being as fun as past games for me. This sweeps across gameplay, maps, gametypes, etc. At least when I'm playing with friends we're chatting and generally having a good time trolling Nutter or something.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Ramirez said:
I still don't understand why there isn't a region filter that players can choose from. And don't give me that "but teh game has an automatic filter!!!" because it doesn't. Just let the player choose the region they want to get matched up in. If it takes 5 minutes to search for a game as a result? So what, the player made the decision on their own, now let them deal with any consequences of that decision that may or may not occur.
Devolution
Member
The secret to success is playing RATM while you game.
Tawpgun can vouch for this; we went into Arena as a team of four and got worked by one of the worst hosts ever. Found out at the end that they were all German. German host.
Ok, whatever. Try another game. New group of four people with horrendous host. Check gamertags after game.... all German.
Prefer good connection on.
Couldn't play anymore after that horseshit. Reach is hysterical.
Ok, whatever. Try another game. New group of four people with horrendous host. Check gamertags after game.... all German.
Prefer good connection on.
Couldn't play anymore after that horseshit. Reach is hysterical.
The Real Napsta
Member
Tashi0106 said:
Xlink Kai Halo 2 customs in Columbia ANL.
Devolution
Member
Plywood said:
Psst, they all have broken spawns. And it's even worse if it's objectives.
Devolution
Member
Ramirez said:
My favorite is playing doubles and they spawn my buddy across the map.
A27_StarWolf
Banned
do any of you really think they could make a Halo game that Halo GAF actually enjoyed... lol.
J-Roderton
Member
Spending most of my weekend drinking and completely missing out on my Reach festivities. Tomorrow is a sober Reach day. Haven't made a cR all day. Gotta enjoy my time up until Bungie day.
J-Roderton
Member
Trasher said:
Unless you get the occasional amazing teammate. Even when neither of you are using mics, but you both just completely play amazing together.
Devolution
Member
Jroderton said:
Oh Trasher and I were playing together but we kept getting crap maps, hosts and then we'd spawn literally on the opposite end of a map from each other. It was a piss off for sure.
Not even just Forge maps, but every map (although Forged maps do amplify the problem, you're right), since spawns and spawn zones are placed with Forge. Part of me wonders if this is the primary reason for the awful spawns in the last two games. I remember one of the Bungie guys here saying to place two spawn points on top of each other instead of just one, to give the system more choices, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the spawn system. Note: I am completely ignorant of the technical details of any of these systems and am just speculating.Trasher said:
No, the last two games have been the first to implement respawn zones...Havok said:
It's a problem with not having any standard spawn set up principles, and using neutral spawns. If you're going to use neutral spawns you have to use redundant zones and anti-zones, which even bungie (shishka?) failed to set up properly in reach and 3
Hitmonchan107
Member
Tunavi and I are unstoppable when we play doubles together.Jroderton said:
Isn't that right, Tunavi?
Oh wait...
LOL I kid because I care.
J-Roderton
Member
Doubles partners = Serious connection
Havok said:
I think two spawns on each other have the same weight.
People generally like my spawns, however none of my maps have made it into matchmaking. But you are correct, the more choices you give the engine (ie more spawn points), the better they work. It seems weird but people that forge maps almost always have them spawn starved, because they think "I want someone to spawn in this area, so I'll throw down a point or two" then they need to be putting down 5 or 6 to account for deweighting by nearby players or increased weighting by nearby teammates. I wrote an entire FAQ for it for Halo 3 over at HBO.
Notable changes from 3 to Reach as confirmed by Jonnyothan is that Reach has Line-of-Sight spawn blocking depending on what weapon the enemy player is holding.
tl;dr Spawns work better if people think of spawning players in areas and not points. Especially since you can place up to 250 now, which is over twice the amount you had access to in Halo 3.
tl;dr2 Most maps should not ever have sided spawns because they're either a) not big enough or b) not enough safe locations on both sides to put the team. It just barely works on Valhalla, definitely does not work on Highlands or Tempest, etc. The only map in Reach that should have sided spawns in Slayer is Coag, because it's the only one that's long enough in one direction to justify it. Otherwise people should be making heavier use of buddy spawning to spawn a team next to each other (which is why you need to place more than 2 spawnpoints at a location). If you want locked spawns there needs to be more than 2 ways out of the base.
Heads up for those on my xbl friends list, I changed my gamertag slightly to better reflect my real portuguese name, and so I don't get dumbasses on live getting joy out of pronouncing it with a retardedly exagerated latino accent (or calling me a beaner) every single game.
VVVV haha
VVVV haha
My friend decided to make his GT Noche Negra, an awful decisionLetters said:
14 year olds call him "Nacho Negro"
PNut said:
Died on Oni Sword Base.
Since it was a speedrun, I aimed the Target Locator for the usual spot to take both of them out at once, and ran by to the right to go activate the AA gun.
A little while later, apparently one of the wraiths survived and decided to kill me across the island over the mountain. I couldn't even see it from where I died. I guess Kat/the other AI didn't move up and attack it so it tracked me across the map and killed me because I stopped moving
Amusingly, I was power sliding around the mountain on Winter Contigency and ran sideways into a BOB near the upper holdout spot. I didn't even know there was a BOB there on that level in that spot - first time I ran into one there - almost killed me.
Devolution
Member
This will teach me to never play offline.
Message him back that I took no one off.
Message him back that I took no one off.
squidhands
Member
I'm glad I missed it.MrBig said:
The thing that makes me puke in my mouth a little is the fact that it's voted on with such voracity. More than half the group of 16 people voted for it, both time I played it. I even backed out to re-start the search, but I got paired up with a few of the same people and it was an overwhelming majority in favor of the same gametype on the same damned map. The stupidity of people is still baffling to me.Devolution said:
Steelyuhas
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Devolution said:This will teach me to never play offline.
Message him back that I took no one off.
Oh LOL
A27 Tawpgun said:
Sent you a PM.
Is this what you need?
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=19592125&player=dc89
Barrow Roll
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Holy shit.Devolution said:
