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Halo: Reach |OT4| This Thread is Not Your Grave, But You Are Welcome In It
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Heh. Got you confused with the fellow who was spamming the thread with random Halo news. Apologies.A27 Tawpgun said:
(Edit: don't mean spamming in a bad way. Just posting lots.)
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Two videos from tonight's gaming, both from Unearthed. (This is my lazy equivalent of Tashi's montages.)
I shoot a Wraith really, really hard.
A lengthy Last Man Standing segment partly against the four pack of Elite Ultras. This isn't my best playing, but it's some of my smartest in terms of knowing the odds and taking strategic stands. (That means I run like hell a lot.)
It starts at the top of a wave right when the drop pod lands. I'd hoped to toast them with the rocket launcher, but they're made of sterner stuff that that. It's one of three Hero medals I got from the game, the other two during some nasty Elite boss waves; the last one was during the final boss wave and I had to take nearly everyone out solo to get us to the bonus round. At the start of the second wave of Set 2 here we were at zero lives left, and I carried us all the way through to the end. Was a fitting game to hit Legend on.
Steelyuhas
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O D I N said:
You saw THE Rush? That's awesome!
GhaleonEB said:
Wait, is that Unearthed outside of score attack? Teach me your ways. (Actually, I played a game on Condemned today in Action Sack, which I was shocked about considering I've never even played Anchor 9 in Team Slayer.)
Also, we use the same firefight voice, love that one. Anyone else have an issue with your firefight voice resetting to the default Noble 6? Happens to me about once a week.
NullPointer
Member
Laggy firefight limited matches for me tonight - and still no unearthed 
Only in the past couple weeks have I taken to setting the custom search filters to include everything (not sure if skill applies to Firefight - I doubt it - but I check it anyways). I've found it to mean I get a much better connection that I used to for most games. Not sure if it's related or not, but it's helped me get Unearthed more often as well.NullPointer said:Laggy firefight limited matches for me tonight - and still no unearthed
Steelyuhas: I haven't had that Firefight voice issue.
Not really. Some of the new folks blur together a bit; I'm bad with names.Tunavi said:
Not bad, but you could have fleshed it out a bit to make it more believable.Plywood said:
Steelyuhas
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Plywood said:
see what I mean.
No words about this shit
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Deleted member 21120
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Now that's just mean.
Slightly Live
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Plywood said:
Make a thread. I dare you.
ElRenoRaven
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You're so mean to them. Obviously Halo 1 will come first. Halo 2 will come in a few years later on it's 10th anniversary minus the online play of course. lolPlywood said:
Princess Carl
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Notcool!
Steelyuhas
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GhaleonEB said:
Interesting about the search filters. I always select good connection for firefight games.
thezerofire
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does anyone here play Team Classic?
Lake Minnetonka
Banned
TEAM CLASSICthezerofire said:
380 Players
no
Slightly Live
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Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Crappy dailies are crappy. =/
The Librarian
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3/10Plywood said:
The Real Napsta
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Tunavi said:
Me too, I was disappointed when Reach didn't have it.
vhfive said:
Backpack antenna...
Reminds me, the lack of back-armor customization was a bit surprising.
I guess the jetpack trumps all. (Not that I mind)
Tunavi said:
Eh, game-ending kills in slayer gametypes are usually pretty mundane. If only there were a way to highlight the truly magical/insane moments (besides Theater)...
Hypertrooper
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/13/halo-waypoint-getting-an-upgrade.aspx
And Mona Lisa? I'm interested in!
Some information about Xbox Live Avatar Items that will launch tomorrow:
Awesome! Now I can show my friends how better I am in Halo on a BIG SCREEN!
This Friday, Halo Waypoint will be getting a number of significant upgrades, adding some performance tweaks and new features to the Halo hub. Halo: Reach players will be able to access their complete service records through Waypoint for the first time, allowing them to check out detailed stats and progress toward in-game challenges. Competitive types, or basically every Halo player out there, can look forward to a new comparison feature, which lets you hold your records up against other players' to see how you measure up. And if you've purchased the Games on Demand version of Halo: Reach, you'll be able to launch it directly from Waypoint.
In addition to that update, 343 Industries will be premiering the Mona Lisa animated comic on Waypoint on April 23. The story, set after Halo: Combat Evolved, focuses on a prison ship and a threat even worse than the Covenant.
And Mona Lisa? I'm interested in!
Some information about Xbox Live Avatar Items that will launch tomorrow:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-13-the-mona-lisa-halo-motion-comic-dated
ncsuDuncan
Member
I already knew Mona Lisa was getting a motion comic, but it's great to see a release date.
The Waypoint stats... it's nice to see more functionality added to the Xbox app, this kind of integration makes me hopeful for some neat features in the next game.
The Waypoint stats... it's nice to see more functionality added to the Xbox app, this kind of integration makes me hopeful for some neat features in the next game.
Miggytronz
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At what point will BUNGIE discontinue web support for Reach and let 343i take it over?
Hypertrooper
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Yeah I knew it, too. It was annoucned at the San-Diego Comic Com last year. Back there it was planned to release it last winter. But 343i delayed it. Today we got a release date and i'm really interested in.ncsuDuncan said:
The Real Napsta
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thezerofire said:
Yes, that's all I play. Default reach is so slow after playing it, I can't go back.
Hypertrooper
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Okay there are two easy challenge today: Mostly at Night and Kill 100 enemies in Halo reach. The rest I don't know. I guess I'll skip them.
Maybe if the score was tied or the winning flag was captured within the last 10 seconds, they could show the POV of the final kill or flag capper and the 10 seconds leading up to it or the person who scored the flag.Pennybags said:
You mean stats? Do you think Reach stats will stop going to Bungie.net after all that work they put into it? I'm sure Reach stats will always be supported by Bungie. It's a system that manages itself I would assume.Mikasangelos said:
ncsuDuncan
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thezerofire said:
I play it. Usually I'm in Team Classic or BTB, depending on my party size.
Had an amazing game on
I'd still like the initial grenade count reduced to 1, and the number of grenades on map cut in half, but other than that all I want is more maps. I think most of the default Reach maps would play great with Classic gameplay (but if nothing else throw in Reflection).
I'd rather get BTB Classic and Classic Objective than a 5v5 Slayer playlist, but maybe Jeremiah knows something I don't.
Miggytronz
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I stick with Classic playlist mostly as well. If i have a BTB group then its Community BTB. Me and my friends actually enjoy those maps.
ElRenoRaven
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Louis Wu said:
Not that I've seen. They've only said they're working toward that.
Miggytronz
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Louis Wu said:
ah so its gonna happen. This year?
The transition is clearly building toward that. Sometime this year, certainly. Getting Waypoint up and running is probably a big part of it; I wonder how long Jeremiah and team are to be on the job of updating the playlists before 343i takes over.Mikasangelos said:
I'm guessing Bungie had a one year sustain and support commitment before 343i takes over, but we'll see.
Edit: 40,000 in matchmaking is actually quite difficult. I'm looking back at Limited games where I went +160 and +180 on kills, seldom dying, and didn't clear it. Going to have to hope for Beachhead and rock a whole lotta Wraiths.
ElRenoRaven
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GhaleonEB said:
If I had to guess I think we're closer then people think. My bet is that the transition is done by E3. That's what I would put my money on anyway.