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Halo: Reach |OT6| There Are Those Who Said This Day Would Never Come
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Tashi0106 said:
Tashi0106 said:
Since CEA's 3d was being pimped with LG 3d cinema TVs, I bet dual play is one of the unannounced features in CEA. Would be pretty awesome to play same screen Halo CE coop like this with my friend who used to play Halo1 coop with me back then, in the sweet LW9800 I plan to purchase later this year.
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just impulse ordered
halogaf owns me
Everyone needs to watch this match. The whole thing.
Here's the setup.
Gamebattles, get into the first game. They have host and it shows. Everyone is complaining about these guys eating shots. It's definitely an issue. We take the first game though. Nice shit. 2nd game was arguably our best gametype, Sanctuary CTF. We lost 2-1, major bummer. Rubber match now, series is at 1-1 and Element Slayer isn't a gametyped we're practiced much at. I won't say anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcGxWKs8Mg
Here's the setup.
Gamebattles, get into the first game. They have host and it shows. Everyone is complaining about these guys eating shots. It's definitely an issue. We take the first game though. Nice shit. 2nd game was arguably our best gametype, Sanctuary CTF. We lost 2-1, major bummer. Rubber match now, series is at 1-1 and Element Slayer isn't a gametyped we're practiced much at. I won't say anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcGxWKs8Mg
Captain Blood
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I go to the lake for 2 days and come back to a crazy amount of HaloGAF catch up to do. That Halofest waypoint video was pretty rad. I somehow snuck in there 3 times and Ramirez was a whopping 0 because he was puking in the parking lot all night which was the suck
It was kinda cut off in the video but Omlet had objective holding FTW on that white board haha.
It was kinda cut off in the video but Omlet had objective holding FTW on that white board haha.Captain Blood said:I go to the lake for 2 days and come back to a crazy amount of HaloGAF catch up to do. That Halofest waypoint video was pretty rad. I somehow snuck in there 3 times and Ramirez was a whopping 0 because he was puking in the parking lot all night which was the suck
A27_StarWolf
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A27 Tawpgun said:
I'm really disappointing in this post as well... the knowledge of various people here and in other communities could have helped you get a higher quality TV for a cheaper price I bet.
I'm sorry for your loss.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Those Samsung smart TV's with like no edges look pretty nasty. I wish I would have got that instead but I got a really really good deal on my 46" Bravia 2011 model.
Actually "dual play" has been out for awhile, it can be done on pretty much any 3D TV that can do top bottom 3DLetters said:
works for ANY game as well.
Video of it working on Gears of War
I will probably end up getting a 3D TV just to do Co-op like that to be honest XD
Hydranockz
Member
This.Tashi0106 said:
You sucked SO BAD p) but oh my, "that was some good shit right there" indeed.
p) but oh my, "that was some good shit right there" indeed.Gotta love true skill in Reach. Honestly it gets boring though. Arena does have its flaws, but you can get some really good matches.
oh god yesKen said:
lol, so I disconnected about 3 times two nights ago, been on "probation" since then, just get into a game where we're all stuck in blackscreen for a good 5 minutes, then it boots all of us back to the menu, and now I'm temporarily banned from MM. What an absurdly broken system.
Devolution
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Tunavi said:
To be honest I couldn't remember who it started with since I discussed it with a couple people.
You did get wreaked, but the ending was worth watching all the way through. Nice job.Tashi0106 said:
Semi-related, we had a huge comeback tonight in Halo 3. BTB Slayer, Avalanche. They get both Hornets and tear us up pretty good, we go down by over a dozen with 4 minutes left. Around 3 minutes left we take their vehicles out and begin to crawl back. I pick up rockets and head to their base and tear through it with the rest of the team, we win by 4, only pulling ahead in the last 30 seconds.
I missed that game. Not getting pinged from all sides of the map, huge man cannon jumps with no fall damage, much better vehicle balance....so much in that game is just so spot on.
biosnake20
Member
Tashi0106 said:
Reminds me of my halo 3 mlg days. Every game i joined a mlg playlist game that wasnt against pros/semi-pros they would just lag switch me to get there 50's lol. Great comeback, that connection was awful.
Hypertrooper said:
Yeah I'm sorry about that situation, I only recently started playing Reach again and I'm kind of broke right now. I hate that we need to play not so great playlists while I'm around.
I'll get 'em eventually I'm sure, so until then I'll stick to playing Deus Ex
Deputy Moonman
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Back home after visiting family and now I'm at work. Just did a speed perusal of this thread to see what i missed. Too many flippin pages. When do the beta hoppers come out? Is it mid-September or the day before October
please don't say it's the latter
Devolution
Member
wwm0nkey said:
Kept running into douchebags in SS who would vote for Slayer on Countdown just to be "contrary."
Didn't do them a bit of good though.
Douchebag Group 1
Douchebag Group 2
Which reminds me of two points. (One) I don't understand why squad slayer isn't DMR and AR start. Surely any stats would tell you people pick up long range precision weapons even when they vote for that crap. (Two) I think the first tie vote should result in a new selection, if it still ties, then yeah it can be whatever stupid crap is on top.
I wouldn't say easier. We got demolished in a team slayer game (Last Resort), and beaten in a CTF game (Sandbox). And we rolled in a three games, including that Avalanche game (I went +10 thanks to whoring rockets/laser).Tashi0106 said:
I think Halo 3 is more fair. In the games we lost, we deserved to lose. When I got out BR'd is was because they got the jump on me or juked/strafed better than I did. I never once cursed the game mechanics (other than 'whoops that was the wrong button' a few times) or felt like I got a kill I didn't earn. And even though we lost, I had fun.
With Reach, even when I win it's often not very fun. And I feel like I'm constantly battling the core game mechanics, the game is constantly pushing back against basic actions such as pointing and shooting and jumping and dodging. Blood put it best when he felt like the shackles came off going back to Halo 3 and we could just play. Jumps that looked like we could make were made, strafing had an effect, firing was about the dance between distance, aim and selection. There's a purity and freedom to Halo 3's combat (and all the other Halos) that is lost in Reach.
Here's something else lost in Reach: tactical use of power weapons in BTB. They got a Banshee up on Valhalla, I snagged our Missile Pod and moved into position, ambushing it and taking it down. They brought a Warthog and Chopper tearing us up, I went for the Power Drain and dropped the 'Hog. They got two Hornets up on us, I went for a Warthog and then a turret, when we took them down. I was constantly reacting to what the other team was doing by seeking out specific weapons to try and counter their tactics. There was this constant game of chess being played in BTB.
With Reach, none of these kind of moves and counters ever take place. I'm never thinking about how to counter what they're doing and don't have these kind of 'they are doing this, so I'm going to counter with this' situations. I just DMR the Warthog, or DMR the Ghost, or we bum rush a position....Halo 3 felt like we had to move and strategize as a team much more, and got rewarded more for doing so. Weapons and vehicles felt like they had much more clearly defined roles. Reach's BTB just feels sloppy and chaotic by comparison.
Devolution
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Were you there when I said there's something rather inherently messed up about the best counter to vehicles being the sniper (and not because it kills passengers)?
I think you've expressed the sentiment a often, because I've heard it from you a few times. :lolDevolution said:
And I share it. Every time the helpful hint about how sniper rifles "wreak vehicles" pops up, I cringe a bit. That was a very poor design decision and entirely indicitive of Reach's BTB game.
Captain Blood
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GhaleonEB said:
Yup.
Deputy Moonman
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Yeah, that's pretty lame. I would have been pissed, too.wwm0nkey said:
bobs...onGaf
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wwm0nkey said:
Wanna edit out that link? I still play Halo 3 a lot, putting that up on Gaf is opening it up to a ton of people to go try out.
If that happened on Reach for sure 343 would try and fix it, but Halo 3 is past that kind of support now.
Deputy Moonman
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I like how the excuse they use is that they're getting rid of bad teammates. I've been fortunate not to have experienced that when I've played. But mostly, it's just really hard to do Halo3 when compared to Reach's smoother network code. I don't jump into Halo3 matchmaking unless I've got a friend that really wants to play.wwm0nkey said:
EDIT: I removed the link as well.
StalkerUKCG
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Out of interest what was the removed link?
The Librarian
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lol Tashi died more than once.Tashi0106 said:
I love endings like that.