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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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HiredN00bs
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BigShow36 said:
It's a date. We should play before too, though. For science.
BigShow36 said:
And then Shishka goes and does something like this and TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF! ;-p
Devolution
Member
HiredN00bs said:
Understanding the mechanics of the game and what gametypes work well with the player population has some overlap, but I'd wager he's better at one than the other.
Reach maps are big for 2v2s, 1v1s would definitely need specialized maps.
Devolution
Member
Striker said:
Doubles also suffers from some of the funniest spawns I've seen.
Honestly, a 1v1 variant of Zealot could work better than the small Halo 3 maps did (at least in terms of launch maps). Bringing in DLC would give Anchor 9, which could be pretty great. Maybe Countdown? I dunno.GhaleonEB said:
...and then there's Forge I guess to fill in the gaps. But 1v1 playlists never kept their population that well at any rate.
I was being sarcastic, given the general concensus on Reach's map quality. There are a few that would work and Forge maps can fill in the gaps. But in general I think it's such a small niche that it's not worth the effort needed to create and maintain the playlist.BigShow36 said:
I wouldn't say it flopped in Halo 2. It was around long enough and had enough players to get some players up to a high rank. Note: a friend of mine played it all the time and was in the low 30's for H2.
It definitely flopped in 3 because of the waypoint above the player, terrible maps, and so forth.
It definitely flopped in 3 because of the waypoint above the player, terrible maps, and so forth.
GhaleonEB said:
I already explained why it "flopped." It was a pretty healthy playlist for Halo 2 prior to all the cheating issues.
Team Classic has 200 people on a good night. Who know's how many either of the Arena playlists have, but I doubt its much more. Why do we need 5 different variations of a TS playlist but we can't have a 1v1 list? Its the one niche that isn't filled.
If you go high you do encounter those players, but that wasn't the issue for only H2H. It's duration for being online (a year) and search times were convenient enough. The playlist itself wasn't an issue, but if you want to argue Bungie's networking was, go ahead.Havok said:
It's a different playlist, but so is most other stuff we commonly see nowadays. If there's a good selection of maps, it works.
Zeouterlimits
Member
this game... me...
The TU probably won't fix things, so.. Should I play something that ends up making me feel terrible?
/has had particularly terrible night
Devolution
Member
Zeouterlimits said:
this game... me...
The TU probably won't fix things, so.. Should I play something that ends up making me feel terrible?
/has had particularly terrible night
We can revel in its terrible shit together. We need some sort of cyberbar for HaloGAF.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Devolution said:
Please no! cyberbar leads to cyber one night stands which lead to cyber children and then we have created tron.
On a more serious note the TU adresses some problems not all but some and its better than nothing, headlong and the other maps look sweet.
Devolution
Member
StalkerUKCG said:
Slut.
The Henery
Member
Had an amazing night of reach. When the game is 'clicking' it feels so good.
Played a douchee team who were camping entrances with sword AND shotgun AND using camo to scramble radars AND using the terrible armour lock. However, I reverse incepted one of the armour lockers and his teammate in a quite astonishing fashion. Here is the clip
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=23431215&player=The%20Henery
Felt really good.
Now, when I first saw armour lock in its conceptualisation my immediate fear was of a big multkill being ruined by it. That day has now been realised. I was highly displeased when this happened
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=23431225&player=The%20Henery
Could've had a killtastrophe had he not AL'd. Why is it still in the game?
Played a douchee team who were camping entrances with sword AND shotgun AND using camo to scramble radars AND using the terrible armour lock. However, I reverse incepted one of the armour lockers and his teammate in a quite astonishing fashion. Here is the clip
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=23431215&player=The%20Henery
Felt really good.
Now, when I first saw armour lock in its conceptualisation my immediate fear was of a big multkill being ruined by it. That day has now been realised. I was highly displeased when this happened
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=23431225&player=The%20Henery
Could've had a killtastrophe had he not AL'd. Why is it still in the game?
Devolution
Member
thee henery said:
You mean you don't like it when someone takes no damage? Pfft. Casual.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Im.. Im so proudDevolution said:
. You all love it.StalkerUKCG
Banned
kylej said:
Likes customs? what am i missing?
The Henery
Member
Devolution said:
lol
To be honest one part of the TU I feel was a waste of resources was the 'balancing' of armour lock; remove it from the game and pretend like it never happened. The effort that went into that could have been spent on adjusting grenades or the banshee, things that actually need balancing instead of removing.
Is that it for TGS?
Devolution
Member
thee henery said:
Why shouldn't Banshees have unlimited maneuverability and lock on bombs. They're under constant thread by other vehicle...oh wait.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
This is a pretty large problem, all vehicles got nerfed but the banshee. At least the hornet could of be on most maps and serve as a semi-okay banshee killer but now the falcon is too powerfull for most maps.Devolution said:
Rickenslacker
Banned
The way I see it, at least the TU adjusts the one thing we didn't have power over ourselves. This way, they can fumble about with crappy matchmaking settings but at least customs can be truly fun now.StalkerUKCG said:
thee henery said:
While I don't user armor lock (evade is much more useful), we are at least getting an option for customs where we can go with the percentile they have or even adjust it to 0% drain for damage like it is now.
I wonder if you could set it to something like 1000% percent and make a gametype centered around deflecting rockets back at the people firing rockets at you. You'd have to do it at the right time or you eat a rocket from waiting for the recharge.
Devolution
Member
Homeboyd said:
Drop shield in objective. MFW.
Devolution
Member
Havok said:
One of my distinct early Reach memories was playing a whole team of them, on Uncaged, 1 flag ctf. I still managed to get it out at the end for a score but god damn was that an exercise in futility.
BlindSwordsmanZ
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What up Halo Gaf, I have a strange Halo issue and was referred to the bnet forums by live support. I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything else and have not heard back from anyone on those forums. My service tag was banned. I11 is not allowed as a service tag. Of course, this is not a big deal but what the hell? Any thoughts on what could be offensive about I11?
BlindSwordsmanZ
Member
Havok said:
Grrr. I hope that's not it. I thought that it might be too close to 9/11 but either way that's weak sauce.
Ha, Golden Ranger Elite on WC was so shockingly easy, I was laughing my ass of at it. Because, you know... I hit him with a fucking truck and he went sailing overhead and almost face-first into the camera.
Only way it could have been better is if he had 'stuck' to he lens and then made a squeegy noise as he slid off it.
Anyways, I'm about to hop on (GT: Retrogames) and wrap up my daily challenges and suffer through whatever part of Matchmaking I decide to fall into.... figure I might as well partake before the TU comes along and makes the game better. So I can point my cane at people and say "In my day, we had to deal with fucking 100% bloom, and Armor Lock everywhere, and when we wanted to capture the flag, it was uphill both ways"
And, as usual, my little multi-level urban combat map would love to be tested if anyone feels like giving it a go.
Only way it could have been better is if he had 'stuck' to he lens and then made a squeegy noise as he slid off it.
Anyways, I'm about to hop on (GT: Retrogames) and wrap up my daily challenges and suffer through whatever part of Matchmaking I decide to fall into.... figure I might as well partake before the TU comes along and makes the game better. So I can point my cane at people and say "In my day, we had to deal with fucking 100% bloom, and Armor Lock everywhere, and when we wanted to capture the flag, it was uphill both ways"
And, as usual, my little multi-level urban combat map would love to be tested if anyone feels like giving it a go.