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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed
- Thread starter Slightly Live
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Would be nice if they cranked up the rage factor of the brutes and made them less likely to take cover, instead fighting more aggressive now that the elites can fill the 'take cover, battle intelligent' roll. Not necessarily Halo 2 bumrush straight forward, but more likely to try and dump a full clip on you and THEN back down to reload.GhaleonEB said:
I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of the fuel rod gun. IMO they never really got that gun right yet, but the Covenant need a worthy heavy weapon.. and hopefully it can finally appear in multiplayer proper this time. Would be great if it was more of a plasma thrower this time since there is this new emphasis on burning plasma shots I keep reading about. Something that has that wow factor the fuel rod never captured. Definitely a gun in-need of a reworked sound FX for fear factor.
metareferential
Member
nobleactual.com said:
So ViDoc # 2 MP Blowout today?
Yes, please.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
iSimon said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Whilst no one actually cares, I will post this cause I find it fun.
My stats finally finished..
39d 10h 52m 56s
So in roughly 800 days, I spent 39 days worth of time playing Halo.
On that account.. probably played well over 1000+ games on other accounts.
Would hate to think how much customs, campaign and forge would add.
Shows a decrease in interest (or increase in secondary accounts) over time.
My best maps are:
Avalanch (1.94 - 198 games) - I hate this map
Longshore (1.93 - 11 games) - Barely touched
Sandtrap (1.67 - 228 games) - Good map
Assembly (1.67 - 48 games) - pretty meh
Standoff (1.65 - 411 games) - hot and cold on this
Worst maps:
Epitaph (1.12 - 195 games) - shit.
Guardian (1.14 - 506 games) - not a horrible map
Construct (1.17 - 398 games) - again, not horrible, not great
Snowbound (1.19 - 418 games) - shit
Blackout (1.20 - 159 games) - decent
Not surprising that these maps mainly come up in doubles (my 3rd most played), which is probably a more competitive playlist then most.
My 2 favorite maps in the game (also most played):
The Pit (1.22 - 882 games) - Great map, even though I'm not that great on it
Valhalla (1.49 - 644 games) - Laser! Pure awesomeness. (I have 2300 laser kills on this map. Out of 7800 total)
My stats finally finished..
39d 10h 52m 56s
So in roughly 800 days, I spent 39 days worth of time playing Halo.
On that account.. probably played well over 1000+ games on other accounts.
Would hate to think how much customs, campaign and forge would add.
Shows a decrease in interest (or increase in secondary accounts) over time.
My best maps are:
Avalanch (1.94 - 198 games) - I hate this map
Longshore (1.93 - 11 games) - Barely touched
Sandtrap (1.67 - 228 games) - Good map
Assembly (1.67 - 48 games) - pretty meh
Standoff (1.65 - 411 games) - hot and cold on this
Worst maps:
Epitaph (1.12 - 195 games) - shit.
Guardian (1.14 - 506 games) - not a horrible map
Construct (1.17 - 398 games) - again, not horrible, not great
Snowbound (1.19 - 418 games) - shit
Blackout (1.20 - 159 games) - decent
Not surprising that these maps mainly come up in doubles (my 3rd most played), which is probably a more competitive playlist then most.
My 2 favorite maps in the game (also most played):
The Pit (1.22 - 882 games) - Great map, even though I'm not that great on it
Valhalla (1.49 - 644 games) - Laser! Pure awesomeness. (I have 2300 laser kills on this map. Out of 7800 total)
metareferential
Member
I love this thread xD
It only needs a sparkle to start up a hype fire.
Too bad I live in Europe, I'll have to wait sooooooooooooo much. xD
It only needs a sparkle to start up a hype fire.
Too bad I live in Europe, I'll have to wait sooooooooooooo much. xD
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
So glad I stayed I stayed uo for a an extra hour or so, great news to finish this day.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Wow, awesome news, I wonder what theyre gonna reveal, im hoping for some of the new secret stuff but have a feeling they wont drop that on us just yet.
As for the person who's only just getting back into Halo. From my own personal experience with Lone Wolves, getting too 40 wasnt that bad, but the difficulty went through the roof after that, I would say before playing that anymore definitely get some 'practice' in by playing social.
Losing games in a particular playlist also slows down how quick you rank up in that playlist, which makes it all that much harder. I would say rather than playing ranked just yet, play some customs/ social. I have only been here a short while myself so I feel awkward saying this, but join in the Gaf customs, its a good way to have fun with it.
Dani, you finished your day at 9 am! :lol
As for the person who's only just getting back into Halo. From my own personal experience with Lone Wolves, getting too 40 wasnt that bad, but the difficulty went through the roof after that, I would say before playing that anymore definitely get some 'practice' in by playing social.
Losing games in a particular playlist also slows down how quick you rank up in that playlist, which makes it all that much harder. I would say rather than playing ranked just yet, play some customs/ social. I have only been here a short while myself so I feel awkward saying this, but join in the Gaf customs, its a good way to have fun with it.
Dani, you finished your day at 9 am! :lol
Im just jealous im not also able to stay up so late
edit: Was just thinking about this MP bomb...ya think there's gonna be a huge reveal? For instance we learned in the MP ViDoc for Halo 3 about the use of the X button it was shown in that ViDoc. What about Reach? We already know about the armor abilities and have seen one in action already. What else is there to reveal? I'm actually hoping it's a feature reveal and not necessarily a gameplay changes. These gameplay changes scare me lol. Oh beta, hurry up!
metareferential
Member
Tashi0106 said:
Well, I think there is a lot to reveal.
Mainly new game modes, i think. Then there's firefight. And all the changes they've obviously done to it.
Who knows, maybe we'll get to see some of the new stuff that some of us here were hoping, like some L4D-esque (firefight) or battlefield-style game (MP).
I don't think they would be referring at the reveal as a "bomb drop" if it is not something important. Even though we all know how the hype machine rethoric works xD
The Librarian
Banned
A MP bomb is going to be dropped today? Can't wait!
metareferential
Member
Come on, where are all the Bungie employees when we need them?
Urk? Anyone?
xD
Korez sei tu?
Urk? Anyone?
xD
Korez said:
Korez sei tu?
squidhands
Member
Dax01 said:
That was posted this morning, so I'm thinking tomorrow.Marcus said:
EDIT: what the hell is going on with tinypic?!
metareferential
Member
squidhands said:
It was posted yesterday, March 1st.
So today is the day the bomb drops.
EDIT: memory fail, nevermind :lol
They're in Seattle, not Chicago. (You're living 10 years in the past.metareferential said:
)It was posted near midnight, PST, so 'about a day' almost certainly means '30+ hours' and not '12 hours'. (They're not going to announce something big at night, after all.)
You can hit F5 all day today if you like - but my money's on Wednesday.
metareferential
Member
Louis Wu said:They're in Seattle, not Chicago. (You're living 10 years in the past.
It was posted near midnight, PST, so 'about a day' almost certainly means '30+ hours' and not '12 hours'. (They're not going to announce something big at night, after all.)
You can hit F5 all day today if you like - but my money's on Wednesday.
Lol.
There was something lingering in my mind, like "Am I forgetting something?" :lol
Well, nontheless my statement remains correct, so later today we might get to see it.
Hope it's not tomorrow morning. But it's probable it will be Wednesday like you said.
Speaking of ViDoc and sort:
This was in the last update. So ViDoc # 2 confirmed?
Again, please xD
electricpirate
Member
I'm going to assume mr. wu is correct here so I can actully get shit done, instead of f5ing bnet all day. It's for my sanity.
metareferential
Member
:lolelectricpirate said:
Yep.
Though that won't prevent me from hitting f5 all day anyway.
After all, I'm at work (which also explains my blackout about Bungie's location), so no problem (ninjas mercy me).
metareferential
Member
Damn you, yankee.Kibbles said:
xD
electricpirate
Member
Louis Wu said:
STOP PLAYING WITH MY SANITY.
HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
squidhands said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19536646&postcount=285 ? Tons of people had these, seems I'll have to rehost mine.
metareferential
Member
Louis Wu said:
STOP PLAYING WITH MY HOPES.
:lol
Hmmm.. that post was Monday.. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGLS_frFR353FR354&q=time+belfort
I know Bellevue is different from Belfort, I've lived in both cities ><
squidhands
Member
DualX2 said:
Last two, since I wasn't able to play this weekend:
Flipple (that's fellow HaloGAFfer urk in the ghost)
2 for 2
Use 'em if you want; if not , no biggie. Thanks again for doing all this.
weird. I had two versions of my avatar, and the one I currently have seems to be fine. Strangeness abounds...MagniHarvald said:
electricpirate
Member
Louis Wu said:
You make it sound like that would be such a weird surprise
. Haha, I'm just messing around. about the hype and stuff, I'm lacking any good kermit freakout gifs.
electricpirate
Member
Holy shit, reading about Infinity ward and Activision makes me really glad Bungie went independent.
DualX
Member
Now that Bungie is including the sprint action, the lunge may go away altogether. Not really sure how it would work while you jump though.kylej said:
You know, I was thinking, if there won't be any dual weilding they would have to improve the power and usefulness of the weapons that you would normally dual up with. Back to good ol' CE mechanics? Man I would love to be able to have that short turning stun power back on the plasma pistol and rifle. That would definitely make them worth-while again.
Yeah no prob man, but PM those to me please.squidhands said:Use 'em if you want; if not , no biggie. Thanks again for doing all this.
Also, small status update on the montage, it seems that with 31 clips already in the video thus far is already causing it to be over 6 minutes. We've been given an estimated 150 clips so we may have to cut down the size of only using two from here on out.
It's k. I'm at work as well. Normally don't start up recording until an hour or two after I get off.Blueblur1 said:
squidhands
Member
PM sent.DualX2 said:
I can't wait to see how the new Covenant weapons work. I'm all about making them worthwhile to use again as a singular weapon. Their sounds should be awesome too.