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Halo: Reach |OT5| A Monument to All Our Sins
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Domino Theory
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You guys do realize that something as big as a beta is part of a much larger marketing campaign and that campaign isn't going to start by some french journalist guessing that there's going to be a beta included wth CEA and have it confirmed by a forum post.
If there is a beta (and I'm guessng there is), it'll be announced when much of the press' attention is in one area (Halo Fest/PAX). My guess is that it'll be talked about during the Halo 4 panel.
If there is a beta (and I'm guessng there is), it'll be announced when much of the press' attention is in one area (Halo Fest/PAX). My guess is that it'll be talked about during the Halo 4 panel.
Slightly Live
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Domino Theory said:
Agree with the first bit.
Though Frankie pretty much confirmed there won't be anything of the sort talked about at Halofest.
Hypertrooper
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Roy just got pwned by bloom.
Really? Frankie denied the rumour, that Saber Interactive is working on Halo:CE:A, when the Halo: CE rumours surfaced. (Or we thought that he denied it)Dani said:
They NEED a beta. And one where big changes can be made after the fact. Perhaps 343 realizes this and is doing a full on open beta. Anyone can download and play.
At the same time... I kind of liked how the Reach Beta was bundled with ODST. It meant more or less only Halo fans would provide input. Sort of disappointed CEA no has Beta.
At the same time... I kind of liked how the Reach Beta was bundled with ODST. It meant more or less only Halo fans would provide input. Sort of disappointed CEA no has Beta.
The Henery
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Dat Flamesword strafe
Hypertrooper
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You know, that the Bulletstorm Epic Edition was very limited in Europe? You only could get it at exclusive retailers. Otherwise in America the epic edition was pre-order exclusive in NA. And that was the problem with the game. If every 360 copy of the game had had the Gears 3 beta, the sales would have been different.FyreWulff said:
Edit.: Instinct steaked sQ. Wow.
Hypertrooper
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+ You got a Gears 3 beta key for pre-ordering Gears 3. So that was the problem.FyreWulff said:
Halo: CE:A should give buyers the beta one or two weeks earlier and then it should be open. Otherwise a lot of people equate a beta with a demo of the game. And you could loose some buyers.
Steelyuhas
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Been interwebz dark for a couple of days now, any new Halo news, HaloGAF fights, eazyb sightings?
Pretty good clips in this fails and laughs video.
Hypertrooper said:
It probably doesn't help that Halo 3 and Reach's betas were actually true betas. The beta of most over Live games HAS been the demo, it's just they wait until the retail game comes out to make it normally downloadable. Recently: Crysis 2, Blur, etc.
I mean, Blur was very frank about it: "Blur Beta Demo". Heh.
Also, for no reason at all, I decided to do a population sweep:
Reach:
Halo 3:
Halo 2 PC: (roughly 60 people are playing, only 2-3 servers full, rest are 1-4 people. You can see every server with population in the first browser page.)
Halo 2 Xbox:
:lol
Halo PC/Mac:
Halo PC Custom Edition:
Even Team Objective has higher population than Halo 2..
Reach:
Halo 3:
Halo 2 PC: (roughly 60 people are playing, only 2-3 servers full, rest are 1-4 people. You can see every server with population in the first browser page.)
Halo 2 Xbox:
:lol
Halo PC/Mac:
Halo PC Custom Edition:
Even Team Objective has higher population than Halo 2..
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Hypertrooper
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A beta should be played by players, who knows the previous game(If the game is a sequel of course). And I didn't mean that only hardcore fans should play the beta. Casual fans too.FyreWulff said:
Especially I hate to read: I played the beta and it was horrible experience, so I ain't buying the game and you should do it too. etc.
KidA Seven
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This Instinct team is scary. Potentially as scary as early Halo 2 Final Boss (won 8 events in a row).
Dani said:
End of an era, really. That forum has been up and active since Halo 2 came out in 2004. I've made a lot of online and IRL friends from that forum.
It's also the only and last forum that requires you to be linked to a gamertag to post in at Bungie.net, too.
They should make it so they loop this music when you view the forum for the next two days.
wwm0nkey said:
I was the one that broke the news to the other Halo 2 holdouts when Bungie.net stopped being able to see us all online. They were not pleased in the slightest
Public betas so far have not been a good thing for Halo. Ever since they started doing public betas the Halo games have not turned out well. Oh, please nerf the good weapons. Beef up the bad ones. Get rid of flag juggling. Sure, a few good things have come out of them but generally speaking more bad than good.
Steelyuhas
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Kuroyume said:
As much as I say that public betas are a must for AAA multiplayer shooter games these days, you really may be right.
Still to this day, upset about many of the changes post-Reach beta.
They haven't been announced yet but 343 reps have mentioned that they will provide new playlists with the TU that will allow users to play Reach's MM with more 'classic' settings they may remember from CE. They aren't going to overhaul (or hardly touch) Reach's current MM settings. These playlists will exist side by side.JB1981 said:
Bregmann Roche
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JB1981 said:
Letters, where is that Frankie "I'm here" GIF when we need it?
Barrow Roll
Member
I will never understand why the Scorpion is in Multiplayer. Yeah, tanks are cool, but they just aren't fun for anybody except the guy in the tank.Plywood said:
xxjuicesxx
Member
Thats classic Halo! Fuck that was a good game.
The Librarian
Banned
I hope there is a beta for Halo 4.
ElRenoRaven
Member
OH GOD!!!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!!!!! Someone knock me out till Thursday please!!!!!
I want that vidoc damn it. I want it now.
I want that vidoc damn it. I want it now.
Devolution
Member
Plywood said:
BTB is pointless in a non-full party, and sometimes just as pointless with a full party.
The problem is it's very hard to spread 16 players across that map, and without movement aids (teleporters, man cannons) if you spawn on the phase 1 side of things, it can be a lonely trek over to where the action is. It's just way to sprawling a space for traditional Halo BTB.Hey You said:
I find the entire Boneyard area quite perplexing. It's huge, intricate and detailed, yet most of the space is unused in both multiplayer and Campaign.
I once tried to forge a Boneyard variation where one team spawned at the bridge where the Elite fireteam on the right side spawned in the first phase. The other base was the little loading bay on the other side of the map (the one that didn't have vehicles spawning in it). The ship in the middle would be the middle ground. It's too bad the only viable forge piece on Boneyard is the ramp.Hey You said:
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