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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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Gabotron ES
Member
I once tried forging invasion on highlands, I had some pretty good ideas but failed misserablyFyreWulff said:
Devolution
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Then the easiest thing to do would be to throw it into playlists with a big fat BETA CHANGES on it. And have a little dialogue box on start up (like when they want us to buy shit) detailing said changes. Maybe even BETA 1, BETA 2, BETA 3.
xxjuicesxx
Member
3 questions.
Whos in charge of the playlists at the moment? Can I have that job?
Wheres the easiest and quickest way to kill a Gold Ranger?
Adding a fourth...Why does the service tag EPIC get changed to H488 after I sign off?
Whos in charge of the playlists at the moment? Can I have that job?
Wheres the easiest and quickest way to kill a Gold Ranger?
Adding a fourth...Why does the service tag EPIC get changed to H488 after I sign off?
Gabotron ES said:I once tried forging invasion on highlands, I had some pretty good ideas but failed misserably
I'm working on one right now, and yeah it's hard to figure out. Would have helped if there was more than just Crates to redirect player flow. Some natural scenery objects would have helped.
Headlong should work as an Invasion map pretty naturally, though.
xxjuicesxx said:
Winter Contingency. After getting in the truck, take the first right and keep going straight. Keep right when the road splits at the first house. One might spawn to the left in some rocks and pass in front of the bridge after the the road turns. There is never a 100% chance that he will be there. You have to play the mission from the start on Heroic/Leg.
I think we'll probably see a more gradual evolution, though the playlist update process. It would fit with how methodical the rollout is, starting with one custom game type, then one playlist, then a bunch of playlists, then...Devolution said:
I think we'll see something like this:
September 21st | Title update released.
September 23rd | Custom game type released (making this date up based on "shortly" after TU hits)
October 4th | Beta hopper hits (one playlist)
November 15th | CEA released, XX number of Classic/Updated playlists hit.
January Playlist Update | "Based on feedback gathered, we're making the armor lock nerf standard in all Reach playlists, adding an 85% DMR start game type to Squad Slayer...." etc.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Yay for Headlong! Hoping to waste endess hours shooting at a blank wall hoping for a non-existent golden warthog again.
Devolution
Member
Domino Theory said:Yay for Headlong! Hoping to waste endess hours shooting at a blank wall hoping for a non-existent golden warthog again.
I just randomly recalled team mates getting shotty and betraying me with it for some reason, especially if I picked up bomb. Halo, so weird sometimes lol.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Gui_PT said:
Steelyuhas
Member
The TU changes that seem like no brainers to add to all default Reach playlists is the Armor Lock and Camo changes, along with the sword block change.
The Librarian
Banned
Gears is gonna keep me busy until the Beta hoppers.
Devolution
Member
Ot, but randomly search around for stuff related to a classmate's project and I come across this.
it's soap
Hydranockz
Member
Devolution said:
Steelyuhas
Member
Karl2177 said:
Yeah I'm on it right now.
Syracuse022 said:
Are those the only people that got all 52 weekly's? That list is impressively small. Congrats Firewulff.
BackdoorBeauty
Member
I agree with some of the previous statements about paring down the playlists.
One of the things I enjoyed about the Reach beta was having the all-in-one hopper mix of objective and slayer. This has the upshot of not splitting the population.
I am really looking forward to the October 4th all-in-one, and I go into MLG for this reason.. it is the only way outside of the tiny Team Objective playlist I can play CTF.
Here is my nobody asked, two bit suggestion for how playlists should be organized:
(Slayer and Objective offered through voting options)
Lone Wolves
Doubles
4v4 Team Battle
8v8 Big Team Battle
DONE.
Less is more. Get the jist?
One of the things I enjoyed about the Reach beta was having the all-in-one hopper mix of objective and slayer. This has the upshot of not splitting the population.
I am really looking forward to the October 4th all-in-one, and I go into MLG for this reason.. it is the only way outside of the tiny Team Objective playlist I can play CTF.
Here is my nobody asked, two bit suggestion for how playlists should be organized:
(Slayer and Objective offered through voting options)
Lone Wolves
Doubles
4v4 Team Battle
8v8 Big Team Battle
DONE.
Less is more. Get the jist?
Devolution
Member
Hydranockz said:
Touché.
Steelyuhas
Member
BackdoorBeauty said:
Yeah I'm a big fan of having the "grab bag" style playlist instead of the slayer and objective split.
Devolution
Member
Steelyuhas said:
It would make a lot more sense in terms of testing everyone. I feel like if you separate them, the stigma objective already has might make people avoid it.
Gabotron ES
Member
No invasion playlist? DISSAPOINTED!BackdoorBeauty said:
BackdoorBeauty
Member
Gabotron ES said:
Right. One of those. Just one though.
BackdoorBeauty
Member
Brain dump, solution for quitters:
Have the 'Leave Game' option completely removed. You have to actually turn your Xbox off if you want to go. Just about harsh enough.. and you can throw away the automated nanny state quit-ban crap. It doesn't prevent quitting anyway.
At the very least, "Leave game" should be replaced with "Rage quit" for shits.
Have the 'Leave Game' option completely removed. You have to actually turn your Xbox off if you want to go. Just about harsh enough.. and you can throw away the automated nanny state quit-ban crap. It doesn't prevent quitting anyway.
At the very least, "Leave game" should be replaced with "Rage quit" for shits.
The Henery
Member
CyReN said:
OOOOHHH the Pit is back officially!
That Headlong vid looks amazing. When the Gauss (<3) rolled up the hill with the Banshee hovering over it, it reminded me of classic, chaotic, enjoyable btb says of yore. I really hope they nerf the Banshee for that map, much in the same way Bungie did to the Hornet on Avalanche.
I also hope 343 are a bit bolder when it comes to homogenising the Reach experience. If they are confident that 85% bloom makes the dmr a 'more reliable precision' then make that standard across all playlists. The same with AL, camo and the sword. If they are improvements implement them broadly. The few that love Reach unconditionally as it is will have to adapt; games change all the time with title updates, that is the nature of them.
Hydranockz
Member
Xbox Button > 'Y' > up > 'A' > ProfitBackdoorBeauty said:
BackdoorBeauty
Member
Hydranockz said:
The Xbox guide button would be disabled in this ideal world I have created for us. You're locked in, people. Suffer!
Devolution
Member
BackdoorBeauty said:
I've been thinking long and hard about this. If you give people a white flag option, then many games won't play out or end. Which is an issue. If you don't, then you're left with people quitting anyway, others left in game, waiting for the end. Much of the time they go afk, giving up altogether.
The last person in game should definitely be given a white flag option though. It's terrible that in sticking out a game they basically get farmed, while the team that deserted them just runs off to another game.
There needs to be more of a loss to your experience, rank, whatever for quitting. Most people who quit, the bans don't do shit. They still earn credits in other games. You know what? You quit however often, you get a credit freeze. There. Done.
BackdoorBeauty
Member
Gui_PT said:Why not just create a world where no one quits?
That would be too perfect.
Hopefully just the Reach variant.reggie said:
And doing multi-flag on Headlong just screams hilarity. Reminds me of when they had Neutral Bomb on Ghost Town in Ranked Team Objective in Halo 3. That was a brilliant idea. :lol
Looks great. Hopefully there is a Classic BTB playlist featuring the natural state of the map without the new quirks.