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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?
- Thread starter The Librarian
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Zeouterlimits
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What do you mean? Have you not played offline before?Homeboyd said:
Thagomizer
Member
Why, why, why can't the writing in the regular game storylines be as good as the Terminals and Data pads?
We Already Do.
The Librarian
Banned
GAF going down in about fifteen minutes.
Whose heresy will stay their feet and will be left behind?
Whose heresy will stay their feet and will be left behind?
Hydranockz
Member
Reach/Anniversary's update today has seemingly caused Zalin to be unable to find matches when he's in a party. He can when playing alone. Some weird stuff happening but it isn't specific to Halo either. He wasn't getting messages on XBL and couldn't delete game invites. Sound familiar to anyone?
The Librarian
Banned
I just haven't installed them yet.Homeboyd said:
ElRenoRaven
Member
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Hypertrooper
Member
bobs...onGaf
Member
Ooh that was happening to me, I thought I just couldnt connect to someone in the lobby, but the notifications issues and deleting issues where happening aswell. It did resolve itself after a while though. (I think)
As for getting the new Defiant achievments. I had a thought yesterday. Since 343 have tuned it to try and give you dlc. If you get someone in your lobby to delete the anniversary and Noble map pack. Then surely matchmaking will give you a defiant map in its first round of search?
That worked for me yesterday. Managed to get the 1 flag achievement in Team Objective and the zombie achievement pretty quick aswell.
Oh, GAF is back up, cool.
So, my team got fucking screwed at the MLG event. We get bracket fucked and play our first match against Luckside's team, which doesn't seem the bad except 1. our fourth didn't get to the venue until 5 minutes before check-in's closed, and 2. our MixAmp dock kept fucking up and would randomly switch between allowing all four of us to hear each other and only the two people on the same side hearing each other. We ended up losing to them 2-0, the first game kinda slipped away at the start just because everyone was trying to get warm and figuring out what the hell was going on, and the 2nd game, I dunno, we were playing really well, up until they'd get the flag to their side of the map, and for some reason we wouldn't pull their flag to try to get a return.
So, after that I go walk over to the info board and see written up on the board "If you lose Winners Round 3, you're playing TONIGHT at 8:30!" There were a couple refs hanging around that I asked to confirm, because the time sounded kinda odd (but I boiled that down to the lack of teams.) So we're like, alright, we have an hour to kill, so we decide to go back to the hotel and get something to eat and talk about what we need to do and all of that. While we're doing that, I have the open bracket open to see who we'll be playing against, and then at 7:44 they updated the bracket and gave us a Did Not Show, because they apparently decided to bump up the time of our next round. To add on top of their retarded staff management, the same exact thing happened to a couple other teams that went to the head ref and pointed out the refs who told them the incorrect time, to which all the refs denied that it ever happened, making me question the mentality of the event staff (the customer is always right and you're fucking stupid if you think that your staff members are going to admit to doing anything when it'll end with them getting consequences.) And the sad thing is that the team we were suppose to play, we absolutely destroyed them in warmups, and we even walked over to ask them if they wanted to play, to which they responded "Uh, no, I mean that sucks and everything but we've had that happen to us 3 times now and we finally got a break." smh.
So we're going to go find Sundance today and tell him what happened to see if our teammate Pat can get some form of compensation for their screwup since he covered the pass completely (which we all wanted to chip in for, but he completely refused.)
/rant post
So, my team got fucking screwed at the MLG event. We get bracket fucked and play our first match against Luckside's team, which doesn't seem the bad except 1. our fourth didn't get to the venue until 5 minutes before check-in's closed, and 2. our MixAmp dock kept fucking up and would randomly switch between allowing all four of us to hear each other and only the two people on the same side hearing each other. We ended up losing to them 2-0, the first game kinda slipped away at the start just because everyone was trying to get warm and figuring out what the hell was going on, and the 2nd game, I dunno, we were playing really well, up until they'd get the flag to their side of the map, and for some reason we wouldn't pull their flag to try to get a return.
So, after that I go walk over to the info board and see written up on the board "If you lose Winners Round 3, you're playing TONIGHT at 8:30!" There were a couple refs hanging around that I asked to confirm, because the time sounded kinda odd (but I boiled that down to the lack of teams.) So we're like, alright, we have an hour to kill, so we decide to go back to the hotel and get something to eat and talk about what we need to do and all of that. While we're doing that, I have the open bracket open to see who we'll be playing against, and then at 7:44 they updated the bracket and gave us a Did Not Show, because they apparently decided to bump up the time of our next round. To add on top of their retarded staff management, the same exact thing happened to a couple other teams that went to the head ref and pointed out the refs who told them the incorrect time, to which all the refs denied that it ever happened, making me question the mentality of the event staff (the customer is always right and you're fucking stupid if you think that your staff members are going to admit to doing anything when it'll end with them getting consequences.) And the sad thing is that the team we were suppose to play, we absolutely destroyed them in warmups, and we even walked over to ask them if they wanted to play, to which they responded "Uh, no, I mean that sucks and everything but we've had that happen to us 3 times now and we finally got a break." smh.
So we're going to go find Sundance today and tell him what happened to see if our teammate Pat can get some form of compensation for their screwup since he covered the pass completely (which we all wanted to chip in for, but he completely refused.)
/rant post
Barrow Roll
Member
Sounds like a good plan, I'll have to try that.
So... question about Halo stats. HXC says I haven't played Halo 2, 3, Wars, or 3:ODST, when I did (and still do occasionally for 3/ODST). I'm guessing this is due to me changing my GT. Is there any way for me to get my stats?
Oh, just checked Bnet.. my stats disappeared there as well, wth? This didn't happen (on Bnet) the last time I changed my tag.
Can anyone help?
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Edit: Bnet has stats for Halo 2/3 under my old tag. Says latest activity: 9/9/10 for Halo 3, but I played it (with my new name) just last month, what is up with that? Guess I'm SOL for Halo 2 since there's no way for me to log on now :'(
Oh, just checked Bnet.. my stats disappeared there as well, wth? This didn't happen (on Bnet) the last time I changed my tag.
Can anyone help?
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Edit: Bnet has stats for Halo 2/3 under my old tag. Says latest activity: 9/9/10 for Halo 3, but I played it (with my new name) just last month, what is up with that? Guess I'm SOL for Halo 2 since there's no way for me to log on now :'(
bobs...onGaf
Member
I think if you play 1 game of each all your stats should just pop in. That doesnt really help with Halo 2 though. :/
I wouldn't mind if it is, which I would assume it will be.
Halo 4 hype marketing should be speeding up this spring, perhaps a beta as well.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Just another gameplay. Haven't posted anything in awhile. That 3 shot pistol's bloom is SO FUCKING RANDOM its ridiculous. Watch my clean 3 shots on a not moving character twice that game mess up yet I get super random 3 shots at non-paced speeds against moving players. It just plays brutally bad and the deaths and assists are so fast they make no sense at sometimes and almost mimic the look of a really laggy game.
http://youtu.be/XC2CfzGai0c?hd=1
http://youtu.be/XC2CfzGai0c?hd=1
So yesterdays chievo hunt with GAF was fun.
Highlights:
- Dax is so lazy, that he didn't even install the Anniversary mappack to be used in Reach.
- Hypertrooper likes headhunter.
- I sacrificed myself for the whole team for the headhunter chievo, yet people didn't get the chievo :|
- Bob's connection kept fucking with my connection, 343i fix your shit.
- Zombies on Defiant mappack will never show up, EVER.
Highlights:
- Dax is so lazy, that he didn't even install the Anniversary mappack to be used in Reach.
- Hypertrooper likes headhunter.
- I sacrificed myself for the whole team for the headhunter chievo, yet people didn't get the chievo :|
- Bob's connection kept fucking with my connection, 343i fix your shit.
- Zombies on Defiant mappack will never show up, EVER.
Gabotron ES
Member
Damn, how the hell I didn't get the Dive Bomber achievement yesterday.
Had a lot of fun yesterday, thanks guys!
Had a lot of fun yesterday, thanks guys!
bobs...onGaf
Member
Yeah dude that sucked so much. Although apparently other people had the same issue I did after the patch, so maaaaaybe I was wrong about not being able to connect to you. It may have just been my game messing up.
Also for zombies on Defiant, just get someone to delete the Noble and Anniversary map pack, that way im sure Defiant has more chance of popping up.
Theres a cool easter egg on the Firefight map:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XFCokLAZs_4#!
I get the feeling theres more to the fact that you can take Guilty Sparks rifle.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Yeah that switch is crazy lol. I think im going to trigger it in every game just for the hell of it. I wonder if theres anything similar on Prisoner.
HiredN00bs
Member
Guys, the update was for Halo: CEA, not Halo: Reach.
The problems we were having in Matchmaking I ran into for the first time weeks ago. Basically, when you try and search in Matchmaking it times out and gives a message like "Matchmaking has been aborted." It seems to occur with certain combinations of players at certain times. Yesterday, every time our group tried to search with bobs99, in would do this. But he could search fine in matchmaking on his own. We could not figure out a solution. He tried resetting his router, rebooting his system, clearing his HDD cache, all to no avail.
The problems we were having in Matchmaking I ran into for the first time weeks ago. Basically, when you try and search in Matchmaking it times out and gives a message like "Matchmaking has been aborted." It seems to occur with certain combinations of players at certain times. Yesterday, every time our group tried to search with bobs99, in would do this. But he could search fine in matchmaking on his own. We could not figure out a solution. He tried resetting his router, rebooting his system, clearing his HDD cache, all to no avail.
question: i downloaded all the reach dlc with the exception of the anniversary map pack.
i tried to play the "premium" playlists last night and matchmaking wouldn't allow me. am i now able to play my dlc because i have not downloaded anniversary? if so, that is the height of bullshit.
i tried to play the "premium" playlists last night and matchmaking wouldn't allow me. am i now able to play my dlc because i have not downloaded anniversary? if so, that is the height of bullshit.
HiredN00bs
Member
Premium Battle is the only playlist to require DLC, and it requires all DLC (Noble, Defiant, and Anniversary).
bobs...onGaf
Member
The weird thing is though, I left for like an hour, came back and im sure the vast majority of the people were still the same and it worked. Which was so odd.
After reading Cryptum the description for the map Solitary rings a few bells...
how can i play the two other map packs? the only way is thru premium playlist? if so FUCKING BULLSHIT
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I asked frankie he wouldnt say
bobs...onGaf
Member
I guess thats a yes. I tried pressing on random control panel looking things. They didnt do anything. :S
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Im not so sure i dont think he replys to xbl messages from random n00bs so i wouldnt put much stock in it. Me a Hired found some odd looking things on solitary but nothing that came to anything. I should look some more.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Send a inv if im on when you have a look, could be a good excuse to go around and look at the visuals.
ElRenoRaven
Member
There has to be. There is no way to get to it unless in forge. So there has to be a switch that opens that door to get into that room then.
Speaking of that it fixed one of my complaints. It changed the opening cutscene and fixed the cracking the case line having that cut splice effect I mentioned where the one line was cut off mid word.
As I said there has to be. That doll as is can only be gotten to in forge using teleporters and there is a door there. So there has to be a switch somewhere to open it. I'm so searching that map today. And thank god. XBL headset ordered. Hopefully it's here by the end of next week.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Im guessing whatever happens would be akin to Damnation where the switch doesnt really modify the map but just pushed the doll into the map. I doubt a switch would let you get into that room, that would be aweful in terms of multiplayer.
For sure we are overlooking stuff. Other potential eggs could include something to do with the fact
Guilty Spark shows up on Installation 04 and you see 'press to take focus rifle',
ElRenoRaven
Member
I dunno. The spot it's sitting really doesn't look like it could push it out. And that spot next to it from the insdie really looks like a door. I do agree that this could ruin matchmaking so there has to be more to it maybe. hmmm
StalkerUKCG
Banned
me and hired noticed this and if you look along the roof a blue beam links them however i tried everything and even pan cam'd past that "door" and found nothing so i dont think its that.
Hydranockz
Member
Good to see other people having the problems too. It seems to be exactly what happened to bobs. The weird thing was that Zalin couldn't receive essages whe he was playing Skyrim aswell, which is why I thought it wasn't a Halo problem. Today, the box seems fine though. So odd.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yea. I've played around and clicked on everything I can on that level. Maybe it is just the only one you have to use forge with. Speaking of forge though. That room not having a kill barrier could make for some interesting ideas with forge.
BlueScrote
Member
I'm gonna be hopping on for some Anniversary Playlist shenanigans if anyone wants to play.
GT: BlueThunder850
GT: BlueThunder850
Thanks guys for the chevo's yesterday. Just have the Infection anniversary achievement and the new defiant ones to go.
I think that was you I accidentally assassinated yesterday in that headhunter game? :lol Sorry.
They need to update the in-game description. Still says only Noble & Defiant. Fooled me a couple of days ago.
Pray they come up in other playlists.
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If they added new achievements for defiant, why can you only access them if you downloaded anniversary? Seems kinda weird.
Haven't said either way. I remember hearing that its possible we'll get another DLC. Probably depends on how well these maps sell,resources,population etc
I think that was you I accidentally assassinated yesterday in that headhunter game? :lol Sorry.
They need to update the in-game description. Still says only Noble & Defiant. Fooled me a couple of days ago.
Pray they come up in other playlists.
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If they added new achievements for defiant, why can you only access them if you downloaded anniversary? Seems kinda weird.
Why is this bloom and armor abilities bullshit in the Anniversary playlist? I thought this shit was going to be classic. Anniversary. Celebrating classic Halo. Play a game and guys are rolling all the fuck around and I have to pace my god damn DMR. What is this crap? Then I jump into the BTB playlist and in one game it has armor abilities and in the next it has none. WTF? Bipolar much? Just f'ing settle on classic already. There are like 40 goddamn playlists with armor abilites. Does this shit really need to be in classic too? I mean come on...
Btw, as neat as it is to be playing Headlong again I really don't like the look of it. It's not radically different from Headlong compared to Lockout/Blackout, but it's different enough for me to not like it. Only played one game on it so far so can't comment about gameplay but it feels like Headlong although Reach's retarded gauss hog and Banshee kind of ruin the gameplay just a bit. Ridgeline is pretty good although it's not as big as I thought it was going to be.
Btw, as neat as it is to be playing Headlong again I really don't like the look of it. It's not radically different from Headlong compared to Lockout/Blackout, but it's different enough for me to not like it. Only played one game on it so far so can't comment about gameplay but it feels like Headlong although Reach's retarded gauss hog and Banshee kind of ruin the gameplay just a bit. Ridgeline is pretty good although it's not as big as I thought it was going to be.
Let me know next time you'll be going for achievements. I might not be able to use a Mic due to the head brace I'll be using for awhile but maybe I can just plug it in and leave it on my chest or something.
Strange that the infection ones seem to require Defiant maps. Wish they all worked in customs.
Strange that the infection ones seem to require Defiant maps. Wish they all worked in customs.