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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed

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Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Dax01 said:
The people who come together in the custom games...?
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Yeah, think I know who you're talking about now... =P

No plans at the moment for Halo 2 Customs, the weekly H3 Customs are still planned for tonight.

Like I said before, there's little point going ahead with a Halo 2 night until we know for sure the status of Halo 2's DLC on Live. It may be worth holding out for a bit longer and hope the DLC gets put back up so we can have a proper evening. May not happen either, so best wait for clarification.

And Customs technically start in about 30 minutes, but generally it be a bit late depending on the numbers.
 
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Stormtrooper30

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Halo 2 is shutting down? Damnit. Best MP game ever. The DLC issue is a dick move by Microsoft, I paid full price for all of those damn map packs.

Since XBL functionality is going down, can you use Xbox Connect to play LAN games like you could in H: CE? I've never heard of anyone doing it in H2. But yea, we definately need a Halo 2 night or two to go play on some godly maps and with guns that work. Dax, I never used BXR/BXB but I'd imagine some people playing know how to do it all too well.

Oonsk is getting copywrited? WTF is this shit?

May get on Customs... I kinda want to play Mass Effect.
 
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les papillons sexuels

Banned
Sabotage said:
Halo Legends...

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I like how the non scope zoom works in this one... like how you can still fire but at the cost of your crosshair.
 
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Kapura

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It'd be more realistic/awesome if the tank were torn apart by the centripetal force.


Bungie, make it happen for Reach. Become an industry leader in tearing things apart whilst spinning.
 
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Ramirez

Member
Nothing like BTB to make me hate Halo 3.

Seriously, remove guest function from online, it is such a drag to the overall quality of matches. Also, if someone's entire team quits, make a pop up message telling them it's ok to quit and that they won't lose their precious 1 XP point.

I hope rank is hidden in Reach, or I hope they go the COD route and everyone can achieve max rank, but have the true skill hidden. Tired of people quitting out before the match even starts.
 
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Sean P.

Member
Kapura said:
It'd be more realistic/awesome if the tank were torn apart by the centripetal force.


Bungie, make it happen for Reach. Become an industry leader in tearing things apart whilst spinning.
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Well with his spinning occurring by glitch, I think many people would become quite angered when they not only find out their tank is glitching and flying across the map, but it's also ripping itself to shreds.
 
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EazyB

Banned
Ramirez said:
Nothing like BTB to make me hate Halo 3.

Seriously, remove guest function from online, it is such a drag to the overall quality of matches. Also, if someone's entire team quits, make a pop up message telling them it's ok to quit and that they won't lose their precious 1 XP point.

I hope rank is hidden in Reach, or I hope they go the COD route and everyone can achieve max rank, but have the true skill hidden. Tired of people quitting out before the match even starts.
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Haha, yeah, guests will be with us forever and I welcome that feature. The exp system in Halo 3 does more harm then good though. Expect a huge revamp in Reach so I hope the system is as you suggest with hidden trueskill, preventions for 8v2 10 minute matches, and alt accounts.
 
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Kapura

Banned
Sean P. said:
Well with his spinning occurring by glitch, I think many people would become quite angered when they not only find out their tank is glitching and flying across the map, but it's also ripping itself to shreds.
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It's not a glitch, it's an improbable occurrence of impulses in the correct order, direction, and magnitude that create a spinning tank-o-death. And seeing as he died anyway, it'd be a lot cooler if the vehicle were eroding in mid air. Also, a tank chunk could hit a random dude, which would be a great splatter.
 
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Kapura

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You know why COD seems to have less boosters than Halo? Because Halo matches players by skill. COD doesn't care. People in Halo play players of the same skill, and sometimes they lose. Losing isn't fun, so they create accounts that are new to the game and therefore have lower skills, allowing them to play opponents considerably less skilled than they are. Call of Duty you're playing a mix no matter what level you go in on. Additionally, level has absolutely dick all to do with skill in that game; it's more about persistence.

But how can Halo hope to both remove boosters and keep the stonger team aspect over COD? I was thinking that players who are getting pooped on shouldn't have to wade through shit games until the end. They should have an option to resign with dignity. If the score in Slayer is something like 30 to 8, the worse off team should have the option to leave the game, have it count as a loss, and look for a new game without additional penalty. If more than 50% of a team quits/resigns, it counts as a win for the dominating team and a loss for the outmatched team, and the game ends quicker. That way, really good players could get to matches of similar skills faster, and losing teams wouldn't be so goddamned humiliated.

A similar system could be put in place for objective games. If, say, on flag, one team has two caps to zero, the losing team would again be allowed to resign without penalty. You wouldn't have to, but if the other team is objective holding, it'd be a way to end it faster to get back to the fun.

Just some thoughts.
 
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Nutter

Member
Ramirez said:
Nothing like BTB to make me hate Halo 3.

Seriously, remove guest function from online, it is such a drag to the overall quality of matches. Also, if someone's entire team quits, make a pop up message telling them it's ok to quit and that they won't lose their precious 1 XP point.

I hope rank is hidden in Reach, or I hope they go the COD route and everyone can achieve max rank, but have the true skill hidden. Tired of people quitting out before the match even starts.
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BTB + Wife = Me not playing the last couple games : [

BTW, EVERY playlist in Halo Reach should be ranked, just Hide the TrueSkill. Borrow a few things from COD.
 
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Sai-kun

Banned
Kapura said:
Just some thoughts.
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I like how WoW does it, where if a Battleground is really uneven, it'll just shut the match down with no one winning/losing it. *shrug* Usually works.

EazyB said:
Wut?
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Haha sorry. In the PvP matches of World of Warcraft, there's a 15/25/40 player limit on each of the different stages. But if during one match there's an imbalance of like 15-7 people, the game will just say "This battleground is uneven, shutting down in 00:20 seconds", and then the match ends as a tie no matter what. Of course, WoW is drop in/out like CoD, so it doesn't happen too often, but it works when a game is just really uneven.
 
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Kapura

Banned
Part of the idea is to get the better team to advance towards their "true" skill level faster, so not having them level up would be a waste of a match.
 
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Sai

Member
Anybody pick up Halo 3 from Games on Demand? Is it just the same as installing Halo 3 to your HDD(meaning, slower load times 'n' all)?
 
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Nutter

Member
Sai said:
Anybody pick up Halo 3 from Games on Demand? Is it just the same as installing Halo 3 to your HDD(meaning, slower load times 'n' all)?
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When was H3 added to Games on Demand?

And yes, expect slower load times.
 
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NOKYARD

Member
vhfive said:
good customs night. lots of fun
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To an average player like myself getting a clutch double snipe to prevent a score, then running the Bomb in for a score on the same play is like getting a hole-in-one on the same day as winning an Oscar.

Rendered (so i can send a copy to my mom) here: Water Park
 
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EazyB

Banned
Ramirez said:
In WoW if people left the game and it became uneven, it would end after a certain amount of time if people didn't start joining it.
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It was this part, "it'll just shut the match down with no one winning/losing it" that baffled me.
 
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Nutter

Member
EazyB said:
It was this part, "it'll just shut the match down with no one winning/losing it" that baffled me.
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I wouldnt see any problem if both teams get a win if that ever happened. No one should get Skill/Rank exp, just regular old win exp.

But please do put in some sort of delay from starting another matchmade game if you quit out of one.
 
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Sean P.

Member
If Bungie adds any sort of "even out quitters" system it will just promote quitting because the people will think that it won't hurt their team.

Seems like a lose-lose to me.
 
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