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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed

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Sordid

Member
Was playing some Big Team earlier and we were getting pumped so 4 of our guys quit early on. It was just me and my brother left against 5 of them and they have a hefty lead. So what do they do? Grab a warthog with 2 banshees and have a dude in the middle with the laser/sniper of course :lol I thought it was a bit much considering. Link to the game (yes we're not very good).

Pretty late with this but I enjoyed the podcast. The DMR sounds awesome (even if I will be rubbish with it!) and the new reticule behaviour should be handy too.
 
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Striker

Member
Sordid said:
Was playing some Big Team earlier and we were getting pumped so 4 of our guys quit early on. It was just me and my brother left against 5 of them and they have a hefty lead. So what do they do? Grab a warthog with 2 banshees and have a dude in the middle with the laser/sniper of course :lol I thought it was a bit much considering. Link to the game (yes we're not very good).
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Sucks, of course, but those are usually what Valhalla resolves to after a while.
 
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Arnie

Member
GhaleonEB said:
Well said. I think it's quote fortuitous that Reach will have a (apparently pretty meaty) public Beta, so it can speak for itself and get out from under the the shadow of the last two games.
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Agree with you and Eazy. If this game was the first Halo title since 3 then I believe there would be much more hype currently than there is. Obviously, like you say, the multiplayer beta can negate this fatigued effect by showing the less hardcore that Reach is a true Bungie Halo game.
EazyB said:
Queued it up a while ago. Just starting ME2 though so it'll be a while.
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Yes you will. ME2 is possibly one of the best games I have ever played. I'm not the sort of person to sit and play a game for really extensive periods of time, unless the game is unbelievably engrossing; and I have played ME2 7 hours today. I can't believe it, I feel like some WoW addict. I may go and take a bath to wash the stench from my palms.


Also, I listened to the Bungie podcast last night and was mightily impressed by Sage. All the decisions he has made regarding weapon changes and removals were explained clearly and logically. He even managed to convince me that the DMR will in fact be a worthy replacement to the BR, a feat I never imagined possible. I'm also glad Luke managed to convince the team to put conventional assassinations back in as well.
 
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tomchoucrew

Member
I think these screens are new:

http://www.xboxygen.com/Medias/Images-Xbox-360/Halo-Reach-des-images-exclusives


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Thagomizer

Member
Those are grabs from the trailer, but damn do they look good.

EDIT: I wonder if that data pad on Carter's arm is just for show, or if it will have some actual purpose...
 
Kibbles

Kibbles

Member
:lol they call them exclusive images. They are ripped from the trailer.

The visors look so much better though than in the screens.
 
T

The Librarian

Banned
MirageDwarf said:
I'm totally out of loop from Halo: Reach updates but I want this twist in the end.

All 4 team members (or 6, don't remember) are fighting against enormous odds before final mission. They will fall if they don't get reinforcement. The Camera pans out and there comes reinforcement lead by Master Chief. Eventually all 4 team members die. And you play final mission as Master Chief.
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Well, that's not going to happen, considering MC wasn't on Reach at the time.
 
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Sordid

Member
Currently the Magnum, DMR, Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle are all hit scan, but other weapons such as the Shotgun and Rocket Launcher are, for obvious reasons, not. When the beta hits this spring you’ll be able to get up close and personal and see for yourself.
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Oh yeah :D should help with my duffer connection!
 
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Striker

Member
Great news on hit scan.

Also, Urk, you should have put the audio bits near the top. You know people will jump on that immediately.

AR sounds great actually. Hoping it plays as it sounds. DMR sounds like our single shot BR with more power. Mysterious weapon is... hmm. At first I thought of the Spartan Laser, but I doubt it.
 
Kibbles

Kibbles

Member
AR, DMR, Sniper, and Frag sounds are delicious. Thanks!

Mystery Weapon sounds crazy. Some type or mortar weapon? Not sure.
 
M

Magni

Member
Editor’s Note: We did drop in on David Candland, Bungie’s Lead UI designer earlier in the week to ask if HUD customization is something he’s ever considered implementing and the answer is yes. The problem with the multi-colored approach, it turns out, is that it can often blend into the color palette on display in a given environment, rendering it effectively unreadable. Since those color palettes can change dramatically from space to space (and even from room to room), it’s more problematic than just hooking up the technology and hoping for the best.
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Thanks urk for asking for me =) Wish we had the option though (maybe a disclaimer: "Bungie suggests you use the default HUD color for optimal readability" or something).

Most of the primary human weapons were moved to hit scan while the Covenant weapons remain as various speed projectiles.”

Currently the Magnum, DMR, Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle are all hit scan, but other weapons such as the Shotgun and Rocket Launcher are, for obvious reasons, not. When the beta hits this spring you’ll be able to get up close and personal and see for yourself.
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Hell yeah! :D

Last week I promised I’d try to scare up some source audio from some of the Halo: Reach weapons we’ve been detailing. I did you one better. I convinced Jay and C Paul to hand over five weapons you should already be familiar with and one you’ll never see coming.
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You rock urk ! :D :D :D These are great :D

(Anybody else notice there's not that much delay between Sniper shots :D )

That's a lot of :D => great update (much like I use DPM to rate montages, I use :D PP to rate BWUs :lol )
 
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kylej

Banned
Currently the Magnum, DMR, Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle are all hit scan, but other weapons such as the Shotgun and Rocket Launcher are, for obvious reasons, not. When the beta hits this spring you’ll be able to get up close and personal and see for yourself.
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BR?

BR?






BR?
 
B

big ander

Member
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:lol :lol

Ah, and I remember somebody talking about the sniper safety text here:
Myth: Some of the high resolution assets released on Bungie.net feature flipped and mirrored art. Bungie is lazy!
Truth: Astute observers noticed that the weapons on display in our high resolution galleries feature flipped/mirrored art. Seems a few people weren’t too happy with that. Seems even a few went as far as to call our team lazy. Suffice to say, those people are jerks and the texture issue on display was identified long before we published the shots. It’s definitely gonna be fixed for ship.
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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Awesome sound clips. Also, rate of fire of Sniper doesn't seem to be all that slow. I'm not sure but I think it sounds faster lol. I would put the audio into an editor and find the exact rate of all Halo snipers and compare them but...that's a little ridiculous. :lol

edit: Also, it doesn't sound like it was fired at the same interval for every shot.

The mystery one sounds fucking insane!
 
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electricpirate

Member
Urk, can you describe the kind of space you took those sound clips in? it sounded like the reverberations in a small canyon or large warehouse. It sounds really awesome :).
 
D

Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
Those audio sounds were amazing. The weapons really pack a fucking punch and I love it.

Anyone notice how fast you can reload the AR judging from that audio clip?
 
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Princess Carl

Member
The mystery weapon sounds like mortar weapon. It charges up and fires the projectiles and after contacting a surface for a moment of time, detonates.

Sounds like a high tech ONI weapon or Covenant.
 
F

Flipyap

Member
tomchoucrew said:
Hum yeah those screens are taken from the trailer, sorry. I thought they were taken from a different angle.
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No need to be sorry. The shots might not be new, but the quality certainly was far better than any version of the trailer I've seen.

Thagomizer said:
New weapon is almost certainly Covenant. It sounds like a cross between a Needler and a FRG.
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Really? Sounded like a slightly crazier missile pod to me.
 
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big ander

Member
Jun's thing is pretty cool, no info though. EDIT: Didn't see the Noble 6 profile. Awesome.

The weapon sounds...damn! So good. They all sound so deadly. DMR sounds so awesome.
Mystery sounded like a plasma grenade launcher, to me. The plasma sound and the 3 sounds at the end of the mystery sound similar.

Yeah, well, I also read that all of the Spartan-III’s save two were dead. Explain that!
The idea that SPARTANS never die is a key element of the SPARTAN mystique--and was wholly manufactured by Section 2 of the ONI when they made (limited) info on the Spartans public back in 2547. The fact is that SPARTANS do die. But chances are that if the fighting is bad enough to kill a SPARTAN, nobody else is likely to live to tell about it. Directive 930 states that SPARTANS can only be listed as WIA or MIA.
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But that doesn't answer the question! :p
How did the Spartan-IIIs get moved from their companies to Noble Team? Is it as simple as Kurt and Mendez deciding to give some of their assets to the Army? If they did survive operations like TORPEDO and PROMETHEUS, how did they survive and why were Kurt and the other Spartan-IIIs told they didn't?
 
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TacticalFox88

Banned
New weapon sounds rival KZ2 and BF2...o_O. Holy shit Bungie I fucking bow to you.

And
Sketch called the Falcon, the “Warthog of the Skies.” Does that mean we’re going to get to pilot it in campaign and multiplayer?
Truth: Yup.
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I think I might cry. Seriously. Best news out of all the previews we had.
 
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EazyB

Banned
Love the new sounds. The echo makes for a good feeling of force. The frag's concussion leaves an amazing impression as well though the plasma's explosion sounds a little too similar to the frag's now. The sizzle before the detonation is really the only difference between the two.

Kinda bummed none of my questions were addressed though.

The new covie gun sounds like a laser-equivalent anit-vehicle gun. Hopefully it fits into the sandbox better than the laser does.
 
A

AwesomeSyrup

Banned
The AR sounds amazing, I think I like it better than the sound of the Halo CE AR. DMR also sounds great. Also hitscan weapons and Falcon in MP makes me very :D
 
K

Kapura

Banned
Holy shit what an awesome update. I take back what I said about Urk being sloppy, he left a whole mess of cool shit in that text box. Warthog of the skies CONFIRMED. Hitscan CONFIRMED. Reach not for Natal AWESOME.

Regarding this:
Sketch’s Note: See, Urk gets to use sweet assets in his stories too!
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I think that might be a response to a tweet I sent. Maybe I'm just pulling it out of my ass, but it seems pretty coincidental.

Regarding the sounds: That echo makes them sound damn impressive. I noticed the AR reload time seemed to take a while, but I don't remember the reload time in Halo 3, so maybe it just seemed longer in comparison. Liked the fizzle on the Plasma, seemed to remind me more of the CE grenades. Will analyse post-ME2 to figure out the timing in comparison to current weapons, understanding that it is subject to change. Gonna take a closer look at the new sound too. From the waveform, you can clearly see the charging and the four shots fired.

Lol at emblems.

Sad monitor is sad that Oonsk will replace him.

Also, not sure if it's conscientious, but the Falcon has the number 23, which lukems expressed desire to see as an emblem in game.
 
strikeselect

strikeselect

You like me, you really really like me!
Hooollyyy fuck. The new sounds are FANTASTIC. Blows away Halo 3's fisher price toys by a country mile.


Now put reload on the X button and I'm ready for the beta. :D
 
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Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
xDangerboy said:
The mystery weapon sounds like mortar weapon. It charges up and fires the projectiles and after contacting a surface for a moment of time, detonates.

Sounds like a high tech ONI weapon or Covenant.
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YES THIS...I immediately thought of the Gears 2 mortar gun.
 
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