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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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wwm0nkey said:
Yea. We flew. Course we still have 400 more posts to go so we're not done yet. lol
wwm0nkey said:Halo 2 was very very good with objectives and the contesting system.
Sucks that we wont have hour long Assault and 1-Flag battles on the new version of Head Long
Not really, Halo 2's sudden death was really lame. Not saying 3/Reach is the answer, but 2 is no example to go off of either.
Striker said:
Well, like I said, 3/Reach are not the right way either, but the trolling you could do with sudden death in Halo 2 was lame. People will always find a way to abuse that type of system, there has to be some type of time limit to a match. Getting flashbacks of people throwing the bomb up top on Midship where you couldn't grab it, ugh.
wwm0nkey said:Sucks that we wont have hour long Assault and 1-Flag battles on the new version of Head Long
Yeah, infinite sudden death was not a good idea. Proximity contesting was awesome, if it had a hard sudden death cap, that'd be awesomer-er.Ramirez said:
Even the menu UI isn't as functional as it should be - Reach's Active Roster can't even display a party of 8 people in a match. It shows seven gamertags and then (MORE). Did anybody even think that Big Team was in the game?MrBig said:
The Librarian
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I just realized the guy who played Regret in Halo 2 played Byron on Babylon 5.
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Deleted member 21120
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You didn't like searching for that one dude outside your base on Headlong who was jumping up in the air extending the sudden death? lolRamirez said:
Cocopjojo said:
Real pros hid on the outside cliffhanger ledge up top
I wonder if that ledge is still there, only like 2 people ever found me on it.
wwm0nkey said:
I believe these are Megalo options, and I asked Jeremiah about being able to change
K
kittens
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Did customs happen? I need to add more HaloGAFers to my friends list. I'm gonna start mass adding yall from that HaloGAF gamertag spreadsheet. BE MY FRIEND. I'M NICE.
K
kittens
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omg your k/d is amazing, now I see why you're a pro.Tashi0106 said:
Well it does show all 16 players while in the pre-game MM lobby, its just the customs lobby that doesn't because of the extra tab at the top.Havok said:
Reach has one of the damn best functional UIs I have ever layed eyes on, and I have seen many technical articles trying to dissect its success and display of information.
xxjuicesxx
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A27_StarWolf
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Dax01 said:
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woah.
It shows all 16, but if you tab over to see who is in a party with who, parties of eight will cut off the last member. It's just a weird oversight that is glaring in an otherwise awesome UI. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay all the stuff that it does right.MrBig said:
Barrow Roll
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I don't religiously watch the show and just catch it when I come across it on cable but it consistently cracks me up. Their Third Star Wars episode was hilarious.wwm0nkey said:
Deputy Moonman
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I definitely liked Halo 2's system the best. There were only a couple of ways to really abuse the system, and only a fraction of teams that would actually do it. Other than that, it was awesome. Sadly, I'm sure there were several people on gaf that would toss the bomb on midship. "Oh we were just doing it for the lulz and because the game lets you do it... WHAT??? It's not my fault the game let's me be a complete douchebag." pffffffttttreggie said:
For every game where people exploited the system in some way I probably had like a hundred where it worked well and made the game fun as hell. Halo objective will never be as good as it was unless 343 models the next game after the settings in Halo 2.
- Flag throwing/juggling
- Arming mechanic (no instant arm bullshit)
- Sudden death
- Flag throwing/juggling
- Arming mechanic (no instant arm bullshit)
- Sudden death
Blue Ninja
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Yeah, more games should use an UI like Reach. Absolutely amazing. I started playing Crysis 2 afterwards, and the menu looks clunky, uninspired and incomplete by comparison.
Tha Robbertster
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Blue Ninja said:
Yeah, everything works really fluently, no loading times to go from the main menu to matchmaking etc. Gears of War 3 also has a prety nice UI.
Hypertrooper
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The whole game is shitty. And the soundtrack... god dammit, which idiots are thinking that Hans Zimmer is a good composer? He just copy and paste the whole stuff over and over again. I'm happy that I haven't paid the full price for Crysis 2. Unfortunately I bought Crysis 1 without clue. Shouldn't do that...Blue Ninja said:
Blue Ninja
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To each his own. I think the game is great, even though the story is shitty. Hans Zimmer only composed the game's main theme, the rest was composed by other people. I paid full price for it, and I'm glad I did.Hypertrooper said:
I bought Crysis 1 for both PC and 360. It's awesome.
Yeah, for all the things mentioned earlier, re: sudden death and objective contesting being all but forgotten in Halo 3 and Reach, it's those details in game modes that made things like 1-flag on Turf, or 1-bomb on Ivory Tower work so well.Kuroyume said:
In Halo 3, they had no variations for a One Flag or One Bomb game (until WAY late; even after Ranked Objective and BTB were gone, lolwat). It was the same for One Flag on High Ground as it was on Sandtrap. Multi-CTF had the same settings in Valhalla as it did in a small map like Narrows. Where did One Flag Fast go, same question for One Bomb Fast? Those settings in H2 were finely detailed for the quicker return times. CTF Classic was all but absent. The objective gametypes were absurd in H3, terrible.
In Reach, they tried remedying this by using the Pro variants, and they turn into grenade and melee fests. Yeah, the quicker returns are nice, but it also enables different weapon setups, thus making it play completely different. Better than nothing, but still not quite the same.
Oh, and instant arm assault has to be one of the five worst additions to the series. Awful. H2's assault was the most intense stuff I've played without a doubt. Sticky arming and the map setups - it's a glorious thing.
Gabotron ES
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Why don't they make ZB DMR and AR starts, Magnum is such a joke?
I really hope 343 is listening to all the helpful feedback regarding the TU changes, they really need to cap Magnum's rof, decrease the ammount of damage received to knock you out of AL and fix the bleedthrought bug.
I really hope 343 is listening to all the helpful feedback regarding the TU changes, they really need to cap Magnum's rof, decrease the ammount of damage received to knock you out of AL and fix the bleedthrought bug.
What's sticky arming?Striker said:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Sticky_ArmingGabotron ES said:
Best served to look down while doing so, because if not you raise the chances of the bomb falling out of the circle, or worse (off the ledge, hi Headlong!).
ElzarTheBam
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Striker said:
Sticky arming on terminal was always awesome.
Gabotron ES
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Sounds really cool.Striker said:
Gabotron ES
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How to fix Spire step by step:
-Remove both Falcons.
-Replace neutral Banshee with a Falcon.
-Add moongooses to both bases and around the river zone.
-Replace FRG with a Plasma Launcher.
Add soft kill zone to the upper zone of the Spire (only for non invasion gametypes).
-Increase sniper spawn time to 150.
Regarding objective placement they obviously need to be fixed but I can't think of anything right now, any suggestion GAF?
As for Zealot and Countdown, replace both versions with MLG's actual weapon layout.
Edit: sorry for DP.
-Remove both Falcons.
-Replace neutral Banshee with a Falcon.
-Add moongooses to both bases and around the river zone.
-Replace FRG with a Plasma Launcher.
Add soft kill zone to the upper zone of the Spire (only for non invasion gametypes).
-Increase sniper spawn time to 150.
Regarding objective placement they obviously need to be fixed but I can't think of anything right now, any suggestion GAF?
As for Zealot and Countdown, replace both versions with MLG's actual weapon layout.
Edit: sorry for DP.
Zeouterlimits
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Hmm, you know, I never really got "into" the datapads. I've found 4 of them I think, but not because I sought them out, just came across them when exploring.
Are they particularly interesting? Is FUD the best place to break them to down? Or should I just read the text because FUD hasn't finished Part 3 yet?
Are they particularly interesting? Is FUD the best place to break them to down? Or should I just read the text because FUD hasn't finished Part 3 yet?
Slightly Live
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Zeouterlimits said:
Part 3 should be hitting in the next week or so. I'm actually working on Part 3 right now.
I'd say you should read a few of them then decide if you want a condensed summary, ala Halopedia, a detail run through of each on FUD or just read them individually yourself.
They are best read in order though. Bear that in Mind.
Also, they rival Halo 3's Terminals in terms of scope - it's funny because they introduce so much and some it is contradictory to established canon.