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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed

Gui_PT said:
Lots of fun last night, especially playing against you SouthPaw Pro's :lol

I got these 4 from last night:
Sensitivity 10, normal Y(I'm an invert), southpaw buttons, legacy sticks, auto-centering - The only way to roll.


My god was it horrible. I didn't recover for a full three games afterwards. Being completely embarassed by Tashi and his dual SMGs because I'm still trying to figure out how to move forward without looking in every direction except towards him; twas not fun, to say the least.
Though the 2 minute long and thoroughly confusing dances Dax and I performed while trying to trade beatdowns... that was entertaining.

Also, damnit, I didn't find anything worth saving for the montage. Anything even slightly worth showing has already been shown. :(

Gui_PT said:
Is that Bagel jumping the gap to help destroy the tower? :lol
Yup, you know I've got your back in Jenga, man. :D
 

Slightly Live

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Although these aren't from the Customs last night, these rendered clips do a job of showcasing some of the zanier moments with HaloGAFers.

Two Hogs One Pipe - A contemporary art piece

Wheel Pro
- Unintended side effect of attempted vertical wall mongoosing

Tankki - Party splitting results in friendly enemy tank teabagging
 
Dax01 said:
Cool clip, and that map looks like a ton of fun. What is it?
It's called Facing Worlds... It's based off the UT map called... Facing Worlds!

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It is a TON of fun to play... And quite honestly is the closest thing to Halo 1 BG I have ever experienced playing Halo 3.... honestly
 
Devin Olsen said:
It's called Facing Worlds... It's based off the UT map called... Facing Worlds!

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It is a TON of fun to play... And quite honestly is the closest thing to Halo 1 BG I have ever experienced playing Halo 3.... honestly

You sir just convinced my to put in my Halo 3 disc for the first time since Oct. Thank you so very much. Can not tell you how many times I tried to make this board and failed miserably.

:D Fucking loved this UT level!
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
@Shiftycoot We just did a show on X10 a few weeks ago, and probably a Halo Reach episode soon.

@geoffkeighley But i thought Peter Molynueux is doing a presentation there?

@Shiftycoot Talk to Xbox about that! Hopefully we'll have some great Reach and Fable 3 coverage soon.

Reach at GDC maybe? Halo episode? Do you think there's a chance we'll see Reach at the GDC or maybe there will be new footage coincidentally around the same time?

Looking on HBO, Bungie folks will be giving various presentations there.

HBO said:
* Jaime Griesemer, Gameplay Designer, has a talk called "Design in Detail: Changing the Time Between Shots for the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 to 0.7 Seconds for Halo 3" (did you even know?).
* Brian Jarrard, Community/PR Director, is participating in a session (along with a number of other developers from other companies) entitled "Community 2.0: Integrating Social Design into the Production Pipeline". How important are you? Brian's gonna let you know!
* Marty O'Donnell is on a panel called "The Musical Recipe of Emotion" - it'll make you cry.
* Harold Ryan, Bungie's President and Studio Manager, is part of a group offering a full-day tutorial entitled "The Best of Times The Worst of Times: Building an Independent Dev Studio in 2010". (Heh.)
* Brian Sharp, Lead Engineer, will be speaking on "Concrete Practices to be a Better Leader" - he currently leads 3 teams that develop all of Bungie's tools, so he probably knows what he's talking about.
* Jay Weinland, Audio Lead, will be giving a short lecture entitled "Materials vs. Audio: Object Interaction Sound Design in Halo" - maybe he'll bring pumpkins to smash!
 

Cuckooo

Member
If clips are still being collected for the montage here's a sweet killtac I got a few months in the original ranked objective playlist (best playlist).

I don't have bungie pro, so can't render the clip but you can view it in by clicking here.
 

Sean P.

Member
I wish we had a separate thread for Halo 3 and Halo Reach. I come here and read through pages of Halo 3 stuff everyday expecting new Halo Reach info :[
 

A Penguin

Member
Sean P. said:
I wish we had a separate thread for Halo 3 and Halo Reach. I come here and read through pages of Halo 3 stuff everyday expecting new Halo Reach info :[
I like having one central Halo thread. Call me lazy, but following multiple threads when one will suffice is a hassle.
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Sean P. said:
I wish we had a separate thread for Halo 3 and Halo Reach. I come here and read through pages of Halo 3 stuff everyday expecting new Halo Reach info :[

Are you expecting new Reach information every day? =P

When new Reach media/information drops, such as magazine articles, the trailers and vidocs, we all know in advance and it's anticipated. In between those times we have the Noble Actual blog with it's random updates (a great one today if you have missed it), the Bungie Weekly Update on fridays (we're expecting a Reach friendly podcast any update now) and the occasionally bit of news such as voice actors revealing they are recording lines and GTTV hints about their upcoming Reach episode.

Even with the constant news flow, it's hardly an ongoing daily thing but all the news is posted on here and is thoroughly discussed.

The HaloGAF montage is a long overdue project and it would be great treat to see it before the Reach beta hits, and we're also in the final days of Halo 2 on Live so you're going hear more about that here too (never mind that Halo 2 players will be getting some form of reward via Reach). All the Reach news and media has gotten us all quite dizzy with anticipation which probably explains why a lot of us are hopping on Halo 3 regularly to the get our Halo fix.

GAF seems to support only one Halo thread at a time and that thread becomes the main thread for the entire HaloGAF community. Halo is such a beast these days and there's so much related content.

With the multiplayer reveal on the horizon, the Official Beta thread will spring up and you'll see everyone quickly migrate to that thread, although the Beta craziness will ensure that that thread is much more focused than this one.

So chill and relax. We have tons of stuff to come. Feel free to start speculating. =)
 

EazyB

Banned
Sean P. said:
I wish we had a separate thread for Halo 3 and Halo Reach. I come here and read through pages of Halo 3 stuff everyday expecting new Halo Reach info :[
RIP
Merguson said:
Everyone please disregard my -21 k/d spread.
Couldn't have done it without this dude. It was awesome because they got the flag off our base and Omlet said "we need someone to sneak over and grab their flag while they're rushing" and as he was saying it you had already gotten over there somehow and tossed the flag off. Which led to me providing some chop fire to soften them up and a healthy push to get their flag scored.

If anyone still has the film in their recent game I'd love a fileshare link to it. Accidentally played another game which cleared the cache.
 

Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
EazyB said:
RIP

Couldn't have done it without this dude. It was awesome because they got the flag off our base and Omlet said "we need someone to sneak over and grab their flag while they're rushing" and as he was saying it you had got over there somehow and tossed the flag off. Which led to me providing some chop fire to soften them up and a healthy push to get their flag scored.

If anyone still has the film in their recent game I'd love a fileshare link to it. Accidentally played another game which cleared the cache.

I'll snag it.

Edit: Snagged: http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=107178772
 
EazyB said:
Two thousand one hundred and twenty four pages.

That is a whole bunch of posts...

Good times <3

Edit: Oh god... After reading the last page of the thread I have to apologize. I feel partly responsible for the lock....

Though on a lighter note... This is why I love Ghaleon

GhaleonEB said:
Do me a favor, Dax. Disagree with me on something. Please.

I mean, I don't know how to tell you this but you care about me too much, and I'm married. I just can't reciprocate. I took down my avatar and you sent me worried PMs and lamented the lost Soffish in the thread multiple times. You care about my avatar more than I do.
 

big ander

Member
Dax01 said:
Sounds good to me too. I never looked at it like that before, but it does have a certain pro-white resonance, especially if you consider the races.

Prophets are like Jews and are even similar appear in appearance. Their race is called "San 'Shyuum", (sounds jewish to me). They run a hierarchical theocratic oligarchy based on class and caste. They use other races to achieve what they can't by themselves.

The Prophets made a pact with the Elites ((Sangheili), which means "I honor my father's blood") because they couldn't defeat them. They were a proud race but, like White culture, infilitrated by jewish (San 'Shyuum) interests, were stripped of thier homeland and inflicted with diversity.

The Sangheili eventually see that they are being decieved and join forces with humanity.

The Brutes (Jiralhanae) are like blacks and are the bitter enemies of the Elites. They are given the job of personal bodyguards of the Prophets after the events of Halo 1. They're not called brutes for nothing. They are a petty minded, tribally driven race and, from audio cues in Halo 2, we learn that they also practice homosexuality. (sometimes they yell "No! He was my lover" when you kill one of their pack mates).

The Grunts (Unggoy) are the lowest caste and seem to be a fractious conglomeration of ignorance, cowardice and apathy, much like the majority of society. They are like the unwashed masses. Like the "it's" Plato mentions in 'The Republic'. They can be easily swayed to follow agendas, even if it's ultimately detrimental.

So, in light of that, I'd have to agree with you.

There is a release at the moment called 'Halo Legends' and it is a series of 7 animated stories about the Halo Universe. Each story has a different tale about the inhabitants... ODST, Covenant, Spartan. It sounds pretty decent. I might have to check it out and see if it has the same overtones.

Interesting.
:lol :lol :lol :lol
 

vhfive

Member
A Penguin said:
Good games tonight. I got a killtac out of it that that I'll probably end up using for the montage (I don't think I've legitimately gotten over an overkill outside of griffball), so that was cool. Not having vhfive to betray did leave me feeling empty on the inside, though.
:( still no power. crossing my fingers for tomorrow
 

Kibbles

Member
Devin Olsen said:
It's called Facing Worlds... It's based off the UT map called... Facing Worlds!

Halo
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It is a TON of fun to play... And quite honestly is the closest thing to Halo 1 BG I have ever experienced playing Halo 3.... honestly
I remember those long ass games we played back when the maps just came out. :lol Tons of fun.
 
Devin Olsen said:
It's called Facing Worlds... It's based off the UT map called... Facing Worlds!
I remember this map. IIRC it was featured on the front page of HBO with a link to the thread where you had a bunch of pics showing the process of building the map.

I tried getting together some custom games to see how it played, but nobody really liked it for some reason :/
 
vhfive said:
:( still no power. crossing my fingers for tomorrow
I expected an XBL appearence from Panera. Make it happen. How'd you watch the hockey game?

Dax said:
Came across this in the OT:
This is why I don't visit the OT section of GAF. There's enough crazy ass supremists where I live, I dont need more.

Self Induced said:
I tried getting together some custom games to see how it played, but nobody really liked it for some reason :/
Yea, I remember that. The map looked fun, but there are only two walkways to each base and people just camped the bases and BRed people trying to cross. It was a stalemate and lasted forever (because it was CTF). Slayer may work better. Personally did not like the map at all.
 

vhfive

Member
Stormtrooper30 said:
I expected an XBL appearence from Panera. Make it happen. How'd you watch the hockey game?


This is why I don't visit the OT section of GAF. There's enough crazy ass supremists where I live, I dont need more.
was not able to watch. i was huddled up in front of our wood stove trying to stay warm instead. that's almost as good right.... right.... :(
 
Stormtrooper30 said:
Yea, I remember that. The map looked fun, but there are only two walkways to each base and people just camped the bases and BRed people trying to cross. It was a stalemate and lasted forever (because it was CTF). Slayer may work better. Personally did not like the map at all.
Needs lower gravity and increased speed. <3 Facing Worlds (in UT at least)
 

GhaleonEB

Member
Stormtrooper30 said:
Yea, I remember that. The map looked fun, but there are only two walkways to each base and people just camped the bases and BRed people trying to cross. It was a stalemate and lasted forever (because it was CTF). Slayer may work better. Personally did not like the map at all.
Generally I think facing maps like that need at least three routes between them; the map looks neat but I can't see how two fully exposed walkways between the bases would be fun. It did give me an idea for a map but I think I'm burned out on Forging.
 
I cannot figure out why I have such a high ping...

The internet here is great... But seemingly very inconsistent.

I am worried it will cause XBL to lag horribly if I try playing here. . .

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Devin Olsen said:
I am worried it will cause XBL to lag horribly if I try playing here. . .
Shouldn't you be out in the street celebrating and drinking maple syrup out of a beaver hat right now?

vhfive said:
was not able to watch. i was huddled up in front of our wood stove trying to stay warm instead. that's almost as good right.... right.... :(
Dude that sucks. Game was amazing. When we tied it up with 30 seconds left... so good. Offense sucked during OT and everything, but Miller did great. Sucks about your power. Mine went out last month during a snow "storm" (like 6 inches) for a few days. Sat by the fire and read a book.
 

Trasher

Member
Stormtrooper30 said:
This is why I don't visit the OT section of GAF. There's enough crazy ass supremists where I live, I dont need more.
It's another forum...not ours. I'm pretty sure that kinda stuff would not fly in our OT. If that's your reason for not wanting to visit the OT then you have a very incorrect view of what it's like over there. It's not that bad. Actually quite fun.
 
I am going to be getting online in a couple of minutes. *pending the internet here works out

If anyone is up for some Match Making or perhaps even customs hop on!

Add me if you do not already have me

GT - DevinOlsenn

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Stormtrooper30 said:
This is why I don't visit the OT section of GAF. There's enough crazy ass supremists where I live, I dont need more.
I firmly believe that the Candy Swap is one of the only good things to come from Off Topic.

Stormtrooper30 said:
Yea, I remember that. The map looked fun, but there are only two walkways to each base and people just camped the bases and BRed people trying to cross. It was a stalemate and lasted forever (because it was CTF). Slayer may work better. Personally did not like the map at all.
Yeah you're right about that... The map plays out very stale mate'ish... But that's what makes it so enjoyable for me. Getting into their base is such a challenge, and then once you're there you can run around causing chaos or try and make a clean break with the flag. It is a LOT of back and forth trading kills/falling off the sides of the map... But honestly that's what I love most about Halo. I remember BG games lasting hours... Each team would have the enemies flag in their base and trying to get the flag back was SO hard... Facing Worlds re creates that in a lot of ways. And while understandably it isn't for everyone, I personally love it.

To each their own.
 
So Dani organises the customs more often than not... at such a late hour :( 3am???

I was told he rarely sleeps by someone in the same country/island as me and Dani.

I don't suppose with the increasing numbers of people playing these days that having an earlier starting time would be an option?
 

big ander

Member
Hydranockz said:
So Dani organises the customs more often than not... at such a late hour :( 3am???

I was told he rarely sleeps by someone in the same country/island as me and Dani.

I don't suppose with the increasing numbers of people playing these days that having an earlier starting time would be an option?
It was actually a pretty late start last night. Normally Dani, Bagel, Gui, and other EuroHaloGaf members start it up at a reasonable hour their time, and then those kind of morph into customs for all of HaloGaf.
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Hydranockz said:
So Dani organises the customs more often than not... at such a late hour :( 3am???

I was told he rarely sleeps by someone in the same country/island as me and Dani.

I don't suppose with the increasing numbers of people playing these days that having an earlier starting time would be an option?

We tried EuroHaloGAF Customs but there was always a small turnout and I wasn't able to organise those for a few weeks and they fell through. I was present for the last few Euros but no one came.

What is sleep?
 
Dani said:
We tried EuroHaloGAF Customs but there was always a small turnout and I wasn't able to organise those for a few weeks and they fell through. I was present for the last few Euros but no one came.

What is sleep?
Ah right. As much as I love 'em I fear it is too late to join in every weekend. You'll see me again no doubt with Zeouterlimits leeching off of my connection :p
 

Roche

Member
Hey guys if anyone wants to play Halo me and some friends are going to try play some customs, send a message to Roche178 for an invite.
 
Trasher said:
It's another forum...not ours. I'm pretty sure that kinda stuff would not fly in our OT. If that's your reason for not wanting to visit the OT then you have a very incorrect view of what it's like over there. It's not that bad. Actually quite fun.
Oh, I had the impression that people in the OT were agreeing with the people on that forum. My bad. From what I've heard its a lot of fun, but I don't really have enough time to wade through all of the threads on GAF. Sometimes when this thread slows down I'll venture out... but not very often.
 

big ander

Member
Stormtrooper30 said:
Oh, I had the impression that people in the OT were agreeing with the people on that forum. My bad. From what I've heard its a lot of fun, but I don't really have enough time to wade through all of the threads on GAF. Sometimes when this thread slows down I'll venture out... but not very often.
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