WickedLaharl
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ah well that's not the entertaining explanation that i'd hoped for 
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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed
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dilatedmuscle
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WickedLaharl said:
Yup, it was meerly a bug in the screen capture process
Thagomizer
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Merguson said:
"Your mission is to infiltrate a Covenant ship that is stationed on the other side of this valley. The ship is on high alert, filled with thousands of Covenant forces, and possesses a thick defensive screen 300m in all directions before you even reach the ship. We'll give you three grenades, a sniper rifle, and a squad and a half of Marines. You will have no air, artillery, or diversionary support of any kind. Don't worry, we'll drop in reenforcements two at a time, as they die."
Demoncarnotaur
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NullPointer
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Next time I'll use interpretive dance, promise ;PWickedLaharl said:ah well that's not the entertaining explanation that i'd hoped for
Listening to the Bungie podcast, I like the bit with the sandbox designer. he basically made the point that if you drop a player into a box with some scattered cover and enemies you should automatically have a great time again and again with the tools the game has to offer. The Halo sandbox does a pretty great job with this, especially with how the enemy behaviors and their collective action as a group. Not many games get this basic point right.
It's not because of a bug. Deconfirmed.Trasher said:
Let me break it down for you.
This post/message from Evil Otto made it seem like the reticule was a result of a bug in the first person saved films. But shortly after, Sketch comes in a clarifies it a bit for us:
So while there was a bug in the saved films, Sketch didn't even use the saved films to capture the screen so whatever bugs were/are in there didn't have an effect on the reticule in the screen. Whatever is making the reticule off-center, as Sketch reveals, will be covered in tomorrow's update. Until then it's anybody's guess what element of gameplay does has this effect and only one thing's confirmed; it's not a bug.
You've just been palmdaled, son.
Thagomizer said:
I'm doubting those are fake. Same way everyone thought Morello
s were fake?
Menu layout is identical to in Toms screen, and, you know, it's taken off screen. That'd be pretty hard to fake.
Not to mention the BETA is at WORST 2 and half MAYBE 3 months away, so you'd think they'd be a nice chunk of the way through it.
J-Roderton
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All i know is that the sniper from Noble Team looks the coolest. Halo ghillie!
Neverender
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Why For? said:
How would it be hard to fake? Make the image, display it on a tv, and take a photo. Bam. The designer could have easily copied the TM screen to make it seem more legit.
Pretty sure Urk confirmed its unauthenticity anyway.
I really like the new Elites. The one in the trailer was the most awful, ugly thing, but all the screens and renders are very attractive indeed.
Glad that Grunts remained basically identical, except for some new tank designs. Won't make my dol--... ACTION FIGURE collection obsolete.
Glad that Grunts remained basically identical, except for some new tank designs. Won't make my dol--... ACTION FIGURE collection obsolete.
I feel your pain.DiabolicalBagel said:Not really, most of it is one contiguous section of armour. No breaks in it helps for it stand out.
... It might help somewhat that I live next a shitload of deer.
But fine, I'll keep my faces to myself. First one I posted.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I'll be dammed. Gameplay looks amazing then.ManCannon said:
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I actually have the Action Clix series. I don't play the Clix games, but all of them make for a pretty cool diorama I built in my brother's room. Hopefully there are Reach Clix figures.Flipyap said:
mr afghan jones
Neo Member
Thagomizer said:
If you were playing on legendary it was really useful to turn it off in the hub world at night as outting it on basically lit you up like a christmas tree.
If you turned it off you could really sneak around a lot of patrols in the shadows.
Thanks a bunchelectricpirate said:Hey thanks for posting those
Also, your Reach preview was my favorite, your honesty about it's visual shortcomings made me more confident about your honesty in regards to the rest of the awesome stuff going on. Are you guys planning to do more features?
We are probably not going to do more on Halo: Reach from this trip to Bungie, but hopefully, we'll get the chance to visit them again in the future.big ander said:
Uhh, there's no new Reach music that podcast. The only nuggets of info are about the assassination 3rd person animations - some of them include opponent neck-breaking. They discussed the possibility of people in MM using camo to sneak up behind people and do this, or hiding behind cover and using dash to run up to passing enemies and assassinate.
Just listened to Game Informer's podcast, and was pretty satisfied. Some of the info was factually wrong and there wasn't too much stuff that could be called new, but they did explain some things which were only hinted at before.
The discussion regarding the lack of commandable squads and the inability to play as the other members of Noble team seem in line with what Bungie seem to be going for in keeping with the basic Halo gameplay. Yet by playing as a blank template like Noble 6, it's possible to customise your character as you play according to which role you prefer to fulfill, as represented by the other members of your team.
This will translate over to co-op and multiplayer, allowing players to customise their characters to suit certain roles. It's kind of a mix between Halo and a squad based shooter without being one.
Some of the other tidbits about graphics and the scale of the game are pretty sweet too.
The discussion regarding the lack of commandable squads and the inability to play as the other members of Noble team seem in line with what Bungie seem to be going for in keeping with the basic Halo gameplay. Yet by playing as a blank template like Noble 6, it's possible to customise your character as you play according to which role you prefer to fulfill, as represented by the other members of your team.
This will translate over to co-op and multiplayer, allowing players to customise their characters to suit certain roles. It's kind of a mix between Halo and a squad based shooter without being one.
Some of the other tidbits about graphics and the scale of the game are pretty sweet too.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I miss numeros... :'(Flipyap said:
dilatedmuscle
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Look at the rediculous comment this guy made about halo 3
http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/82?ch=2&sd=1
Everytime i see this guy in a feature he makes comments that are facepalm.jpg worthy
In that episode he also sais he beleives Gears of War 3 will come out this year even though Epic has said they want to wait until the next generation fo consoles to continue the Gears of War series (3)... not impossible but improbable.
http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/82?ch=2&sd=1
Everytime i see this guy in a feature he makes comments that are facepalm.jpg worthy
In that episode he also sais he beleives Gears of War 3 will come out this year even though Epic has said they want to wait until the next generation fo consoles to continue the Gears of War series (3)... not impossible but improbable.
randomlyrossy
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dilatedmuscle said:
Yeah that was a stupid comment, but you can't expect everyone to know everything about every game.
I wasn't aware Epic had said anything like that but I honestly doubt that Gears 3 will wait till the next console generation especially when at this point that seems like it'll be at least a year or two away.
A more likely reason for Gears to not come out this year would be that Reach is out and Mircosoft would likely want to spread those releases out a tad. If Gears does't come outt his year I'd fully expect it early next year though.
Chip N Chance
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Hearing that the reticule expands when you shoot sounds so simple, yet one of the most effective concept that's in Reach so far. Static reticules are a thing of the past.
Holy crap. Nice one, Garnett.dilatedmuscle said:
There's been a lot of talk like that on the Giant Bombcast. Everyone's convinced Reach takes place many years before Halo and that you play young Master Chief.
According to Mark Rein "That's a gross misinterpretation of what he [Michael Capps] actually said."dilatedmuscle said:
dilatedmuscle
Member
Flipyap said:
I see. Yeah i doubted that they would wait until the next console but i highly doubt it will be out this year. Microsoft will want to whore the franchise but they wouldnt put one of their dirtier whores against their bottom bitch lol
So, i hear you Halo Waypoint guys want to take me on in my backyard.
let me know if you require any ringers
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Tashi0106 said:
Garnett is not a Halo fan so it shouldn't be surprising that he can't tell his Spartan's apart.
Slightly Live
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Finally caught up on the recent articles and podcasts. The amount of tweaks, changes and new stuff really have me all fired up, wish Spring was here sooner.
Arhal_Katarn
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lybertyboy said:
So why was he talking about it? I really don't understand games journalsim sometimes, could you imagine if a Football pundit was saying that John Terry was the captain of Man United? He would get fired. I am not hating on Garnett here btw there is loads of stuff like this going on, IGN are the worst at it.
Syracuse022
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Just listened to the podcast. I'm really liking both the design decisions that Sage is making and his reasons for making the tweaks. While it doesn't sound like the spread is any different than we've already seen in Halo games, representing it visually with the reticule is going to make it a lot easier for people to understand what's going on under the hood. The DMR and needle rifle both sound great - Sage seems to understand that direct Covenant counterparts ("beam rifle vs. sniper rifle" or "BR vs carbine") are not compelling additions to the sandbox. Differentiating Covenant weaponry is going to bring back some of the fun of Halo 1, before design decisions like this made half of the available weapons not even worth a second glance:
Also, I hadn't heard the story behind the accidental greatness of the M6D before - I have to say, it's weird to think that at one point it would have taken 24 shots to kill a red elite on Legendary or 6 to kill a multiplayer Spartan. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here posting on HaloGAF if Halo 1 had shipped that way, so it's a little bit surprising that they still sound so upset about letting that "glitch" slip through the cracks. That mistake was a game changer, in a good way.
Also, I hadn't heard the story behind the accidental greatness of the M6D before - I have to say, it's weird to think that at one point it would have taken 24 shots to kill a red elite on Legendary or 6 to kill a multiplayer Spartan. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here posting on HaloGAF if Halo 1 had shipped that way, so it's a little bit surprising that they still sound so upset about letting that "glitch" slip through the cracks. That mistake was a game changer, in a good way.
Bungie is going to have one hell of a time convincing casual players you are not the master cheif. He'll need a definite name that is repeated frequently throughout the game, even if it's just a number or rank. If people know they're playing as an unnamed spartan just before halo CE, they'll assume you're the MC. Even better would be at least one cameo of 117. Let us see him, identify him, and let it be known we are separate. Anybody steeped in the fiction would know that the player character isn't the same as in the trilogy, but we are a niche audience.
A rank won't be enough.Kapura said:
Last time I heard him talk about Reach, Jeff from Giant Bomb was convinced that it can still be the Master Chief, he's just not called that, because he had a different rank "back then".
People who don't give a damn about the story will find a way to convince themselves that it's Master Chief. Why? I have no idea.
dilatedmuscle
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I just think its sad that Garnett, a videogame "journalist", would say something so false after bungie has stated that Master Chief is not the main protagonist... They should do a Noble 6 mini media campaign so people can get familiar with the character because so far the most noticed characters are Jorge and Emile.... Jun is almost non existent at this point.
Zeouterlimits
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As much as I love Garnett, I've kind of got to agree with dilatedmuscle to an extent. Garnett's appearing on a show where Reach was bound to come up, it wouldn't take 5 minutes to do a small bit of research to be anyway clued in. If he didn't feel like doing that, then he needn't have said anything at all.lybertyboy said:
Ultimately it's only a small thing, Master Lee rocks.