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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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ElRenoRaven
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Dani said:
Same here. Give me a game that keeps it close. It's a hell of a lot more exciting to have a game come down to within 5 and seeing if that losing team can come back or if you can pull it off and keep the lead. When you get that last kill it's like HELL YES!!
Give me that any day of the week.
Devolution
Member
Dani said:
The game I had with some gaffers where we fucking tied, I never saw that before in Reach, ever. Was pretty awesome.
Photolysis
Banned
Tunavi said:
I haven't given it much consideration for quite some time on why I don't find Reach's MP that much fun (I'd probably be here for a while if I did), but I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
When I was playing SWAT earlier, I was actually enjoying it. Surprising to me, because normally I hate it. In retrospect, I think it was because there were no AAs (save for Sprint), and pretty much every single time I died, it was my fault.
Sure, bloom still exists and you can get lucky or unlucky with it, but for the most part if it gets to that stage then it's entirely your fault for missing that first shot. Gameplay felt far more consistent, and I felt much more in control than regular Reach.
Devolution
Member
orznge said:
"You lost at the loadout screen."
heh.
Devin Olsen
Member
The problems I have with customs are the following:
- Bad Host
- Too many bad forge maps. I appreciate the selection of maps, but its hard to play the game when you're always having to figure out the map flow
- Uneven teams
- Tryhards
- People don't talk enough, I enjoy a team that communicates
- Zero Bloom Slayer, Zero Bloom Slayer, Zero Bloom Slayer, etc. It gets boring playing only ONE gametype. I really cannot wait for objective gametypes.
- The settings in slayer are always getting changed... Some times run speed is 100% other times it is 110%, Sometimes damage is 120 other times it is 100, etc.
Not to bitch, just bringing up my issues with GAF customs.
With all that said, I love GAF customs.
- Bad Host
- Too many bad forge maps. I appreciate the selection of maps, but its hard to play the game when you're always having to figure out the map flow
- Uneven teams
- Tryhards
- People don't talk enough, I enjoy a team that communicates
- Zero Bloom Slayer, Zero Bloom Slayer, Zero Bloom Slayer, etc. It gets boring playing only ONE gametype. I really cannot wait for objective gametypes.
- The settings in slayer are always getting changed... Some times run speed is 100% other times it is 110%, Sometimes damage is 120 other times it is 100, etc.
Not to bitch, just bringing up my issues with GAF customs.
With all that said, I love GAF customs.
The Librarian
Banned
I'd say coincidence. The only game of CTF/Assault in matchmaking I remember that didn't end in a tie was when I played with you.OuterWorldVoice said:
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
OuterWorldVoice said:
I'd love to see this phrase smuggled into an interview somehow.
Photolysis
Banned
orznge said:
That whooshing sound would be the point flying over your head and off into the sunset. A very pretty sunset.
If I live or die based on the randomness of bloom, then that's out of my control and not my fault. This is a large problem with Reach. You know, that's kind of why there's an entire update to alter the setting, and 343i posted on how bloom breaks the intended dynamics of the game.
Certain AAs also negate hard-won advantages. If I stick a player with a plasma grenade before he can kill me - which would ordinarily win the encounter for me - and he uses armour lock to block it, then that's not an equal playing field. I was better; I should have won. I stuck him without him doing the same to me, or otherwise killing me. Even if I also have AL, he still didn't stick me, either because of my superior evasion, grenade skills, whatever. So it's not a symmetrical exchange where it all evens out.
Or how about if I earn the Rocket Launcher through map control or otherwise via superior skill? I can't block my opponent's rocket because he doesn't have one. Again, it's an uneven exchange. Despite having the same ability, I gain nothing, and he gains an advantage.
And yes, I know the grenade example is being changed but it illustrates the point.
KidA Seven
Member
Judderman said:
Cloud.
Devolution
Member
Photolysis said:
Oh dude orznge was being sardonic.
The 100 kills and the Campaign Challenge fit together nicely. I appreciate that doing Campaign ones actually pay out something decent now.
Winter Contingency is a nice mission, and wonderfully spacious (though I wish some of that space were used better). I backtracked a bit and managed to de-spawn all the vehicles on the map, so I did the entire mission on foot. Beautiful, detailed, empty environment.
Winter Contingency is a nice mission, and wonderfully spacious (though I wish some of that space were used better). I backtracked a bit and managed to de-spawn all the vehicles on the map, so I did the entire mission on foot. Beautiful, detailed, empty environment.
The only playlists I am into are the Premium ones. Only because the Forge world maps are killing this game's matchmaking on every other playlists. I cannot stand them, they look worse than Halo 1 and play terribly.
I would really like to play BTB, but every time some stupid Forge World map is voted in, at which point I quit out. I've just given up playing anything but the DLC lists.
I would really like to play BTB, but every time some stupid Forge World map is voted in, at which point I quit out. I've just given up playing anything but the DLC lists.
Devolution
Member
kylej said:
Lul. I keep forgetting call outs on maps that aren't Sanc/Zealot.
xxjuicesxx
Member
can we dong tonight?
In matchmaking, the least fun games for me are when my team is totally running over the other one. Completely boring and unfulfilling, I just feel honestly bad for them and I would prefer to be on the side receiving the beating because that way I would be getting challenged. I find that in Halo 3 teams are way more balanced usually, you're constantly getting a nice challenge and the games are close, even in Social. In Reach more often then not one of the teams is way better.Tunavi said:
*back to the roleplaying awesomeness that is Deus Ex*
xxjuicesxx
Member
Letters said:
Thats true, Social H3 is great!.
Social is Social in H3 and Reach, the only difference is Reach has Arena (which sucks) and H3 had individual ranked playlists to get good games in sometimes a good playlist (SWAT, Snipes, MLG)
xxjuicesxx
Member
Letters said:
They are for work ass. Its hard to stare at a computer screen for ~65 hours a week. At least my shitty eyes.
Tunavi you're such a scrub lol. He just needs me on his team, one game with me on the other team, -11, next game with me on his team, +11. Also, some of you peeps need to think about map control more when you are playing, instead of constantly running toward where you see the other team, get some kills, pick up power weapons, go to/stay at power positions on the map and let them come to you. Admittedly this is tough to do when it's the first time playing a random forge map and you don't know where anything is. Just speaking in general though.
I was distracted most of those games, talking to my friend on the phone, who then came over and hung out while I played. I was talking to him mostly and we were playing on some random forge maps where I wouldn't even know where to begin to call out. I got some really silly no scopes and snipes in general tonight. Some of the ones I got on Devo were just stupid lol. I had a pretty good time playing, but I get kinda bored of just Slayer over and over, jogging on grey maps doing the same thing repeatedly gets old. We need Objective soon.
I was distracted most of those games, talking to my friend on the phone, who then came over and hung out while I played. I was talking to him mostly and we were playing on some random forge maps where I wouldn't even know where to begin to call out. I got some really silly no scopes and snipes in general tonight. Some of the ones I got on Devo were just stupid lol. I had a pretty good time playing, but I get kinda bored of just Slayer over and over, jogging on grey maps doing the same thing repeatedly gets old. We need Objective soon.
Devolution
Member
Booshka said:
People thought I was raging but I just found the host we had at first so tedious.
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It's easiest to go by weapon or objective spawns. Calling out and learning the maps goes hand in hand though, the more you play on a map, the more specific the call outs become. Elevation is important to call out, low high mid, then a base or colored area they are at. An example would be like Green 1, Green 2, or you could say something like bottom red, that is usually standard call outs.Teknoman said:
On maps that don't have distinct colors for areas, weapon spawns and landmarks come in handy. At bottom lift, top bridge, their radio, stuff like that. Almost all of the Pro teams load up a map with just their team and run around assigning and clarifying call outs, while there are general callouts that everyone uses. Even just playing with friends on a regular basis you can come up with unique inside joke kind of call outs. It's all about playing often and getting more familiar with the map though, that is the main aspect.
The real problem with GAF customs is that they are taken way too seriously. People bitching about bad host's, campers, tryhards and lag? Really? In custom games? Who cares? lol. Just play some shit that's fun. Whether it be zero bloom, regular bloom, mini-games or whatever.
Devolution said:
Slightly Live
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Sai-kun said:
I let my fiance's brother play the other night and he made Frankie look like an MLG pro. He doesn't play Halo or even own an Xbox and yet he was dumped into Zero Bloom serious business customs.
He had fun though - that's the important part.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Heh, sounds like a PSA.Karl2177 said:
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Hypertrooper
Member
Maybe a bit too late. There will be a "Campaign Discussion" with bs angel, Dan Ayoub and Kevin Grace at the New York Comic-Con.wwm0nkey said:
Slightly Live
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Deputy Moonman
Member
Temporarily banned this morning for quitting out of one game. A few days ago, when I was foolishly trying to get a killtacular in the grifball and living dead playlists, I quit out of a few games. Nice penalty system... As if the Living Dead playlist has anything to do with teammates, and Grifball is the most mind-numbingly brain dead game type of all time.
I like how the game can tell that you quit out of a bunch of games within a short timespan but it doesn't ever clear your record for playing a bunch of games straight for multiple days. Does it really just keep accumulating on your account so that eventually you will get temp banned? That is really, REALLY, retarded if so...
I wish people could see the tiny fraction of a number of the games that I have actually quit out of compared to the overall total and time played. It would be absolutely absurd. I mean look at my service record. I don't quit out of matchmaking and i've had plenty of reasons to quit out. This morning the host was so unbelievably bad, and I had already gone through 4-5 straight losses, I was like, "Screw it!" and quit. Oh great. Temp banned.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/default.aspx
I like how the game can tell that you quit out of a bunch of games within a short timespan but it doesn't ever clear your record for playing a bunch of games straight for multiple days. Does it really just keep accumulating on your account so that eventually you will get temp banned? That is really, REALLY, retarded if so...
I wish people could see the tiny fraction of a number of the games that I have actually quit out of compared to the overall total and time played. It would be absolutely absurd. I mean look at my service record. I don't quit out of matchmaking and i've had plenty of reasons to quit out. This morning the host was so unbelievably bad, and I had already gone through 4-5 straight losses, I was like, "Screw it!" and quit. Oh great. Temp banned.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/default.aspx