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[Blueblur1]

I JUST WOKE UP! WTF!

 

[Revelations]

Anyone know what track # the music from the vid is on the ODST soundtrack?

 

[broony]

Yeah I thought it was a shield overcharge rather than a bubble shield. You can just about see afterwards his shields look like the fizzle out, as if they are drained.

 

[Imperial Hot]

LOOKS SO AWESOME! I can't wait for the HD footage to go up on B.net.

 

[metareferential]

Wow, it really looks like a charge.

Even better than a simple shield. So it is an active ability, an offensive one.

 

[Raide]

Yeah I thought it was a shield overcharge rather than a bubble shield. You can just about see afterwards his shields look like the fizzle out, as if they are drained.

Imagine getting 8 people together and all overcharge when a tank goes past. :lol

 

[chapel]

These are the loadout icons I have seen and what I believe they are.

Jetpack

Bubbleshield/Armor (Though this is not for sure as iSimon showed, very likely could be a charged explosion.)

Speed/Run

Invisibility

No idea, but after further analysis, it looks like only the elites have it, and it would mean two things. Elites have different armor ability loudouts or none at all.

Those are all that I saw.

 

[Gui_PT]

They do, look closer.

Tell me where you see a Spartan rolling

 

[Joel Was Right]

Had to keep the size down

 

[Not a Jellyfish]

K so after some thought I think that "Active Roster" is clan support or better yet team support. I think that with SP being about noble team, this Active Roster will be you and some buddies that play online customizing armor, setting your loadouts, and really playing as a team.

Gonna pretty awesome to have a Team of Spartans and just go wreck elites all day, or vise versa.

 

[Revelations]

Is the music selection the ODST track "More than his share" ??

 

[derFeef]

Tell me where you see a Spartan rolling

I already got corrected, it is also an Elite. Sry :/

 

[derFeef]

Had to keep the size down

Does the Ghost even touch the spartan/shield? I am not sure right now.

fedit: Looks more like the charged blast destroys the ghost after he passes him.

 

[Flipyap]

I can't make this one out.

Speed/Run

I think that's the same icon.

 

[Pennybags]

Maybe Elites spawn with roll, and Spartans spawn with sprint?

 

[metareferential]

Why the hell did we need a separate thread for the trailer?

They're already bitching about the graphics:lol

 

[chapel]

I think that's the same icon.

Okay cool. Was really hard to tell and not high quality enough to mess with color settings to make it out.

 

[Flipyap]

Why the hell did we need a separate thread for the trailer?

They're already bitching about the graphics:lol

I think you have answered your own question. Let them have their fun somewhere else.

 

[squidhands]

Holyjumpedupflyingmonkeyshit, that was amazing! I'm pretty sure I had the same look on my face as Shiska did in this picture:

Between this and what happened on Lost last night, I'm pretty overwhelmed.

*goes to watch video again*

 

[chapel]

Does the Ghost even touch the spartan/shield? I am not sure right now.

fedit: Looks more like the charged blast destroys the ghost after he passes him.

It looks that way, but sounds like a sticky grenade. My first inclination was that he threw a sticky on the ghost right after activating the shield.

Also, look at the icon, it is a shield shield shape with a lock on the inside. Doesn't give off the vibe of an explosive ability.

Holyjumpedupflyingmonkeyshit, that was amazing! I'm pretty sure I had the same look on my face as Shiska did in this picture:

Between this and what happened on Lost last night, I'm pretty overwhelmed.

*goes to watch video again*

I felt the same way. Seriously my jaw was dropped and I couldn't close it. I have watched the video at least 20 times now, I have Lost waiting for me, hmm this is an awesome night.

 

[chapel]

*unnecessary*

 

[Devin Olsen]

We need more gifs! Or someone tell me which program to use to make the gifs and I'll make some!

This game is so incredible... This 1 1/2 minute trailer has SO much new information in it...

As for showing Head Hunter... What do you think it means when the Spartan died and dropped four skulls... Do you collect skulls, die, and then lose all the skulls you had collected?


New Gametypes that we have seen:
Spartan vs Elite
Head Hunter
(Blowing up Generators)

Any others?

 

[Magni]

Brought from Shadowrun. So awesome!

YAY! I asked for this a couple months back, thanks Bungie! Can't wait till I get home to see this in 720p and with sound, from what all of you are saying

 

[Primethius]

Just woke up to study for my exam today and BAM! Holy shit that looks amazing. I was expecting changes, but dear god, I don't even

 

[Flipyap]

It looks that way, but sounds like a sticky grenade. My first inclination was that he threw a sticky on the ghost right after activating the shield.

Also, look at the icon, it is a shield shield shape with a lock on the inside. Doesn't give off the vibe of an explosive ability.

It looks like someone also threw a frag grenade at the crouching dude. There's a lot going on at that exact second.

The lock icon might have something to do with the animation locking you in place? Total stretch, but I don't have a better idea.

Holyjumpedupflyingmonkeyshit, that was amazing! I'm pretty sure I had the same look on my face as Shiska did in this picture:

http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline10/0226/Abyss.jpg

Between this and what happened on Lost last night, I'm pretty overwhelmed.

Yeah, Claire's cleavage did get quite a lot of screen time.

 

[Blueblur1]

Hey Bungie:

Also: Headhunters was cut from Halo 2.

 

[squidhands]

Yeah, Claire's cleavage did get quite a lot of screen time.

inorite? Muscle-bound, tight-clothing-wearing Kate FTW

 

[Devin Olsen]

BIG FAT SPOILER

So hard to reply to this without reading it.

But please keep the lost spoilers out of here. Or at least spoiler tag them. FFS

edit: lol ok well I actually read it (before I just saw the word Claire)... Realized it isn't really a spoiler. But still! Lets be kind here.

 

[EazyB]

Man, must've watched that video like 30 times already. Really mindblowing, not all blatently awesome but just sooo different. Really excited and at the same time a little afraid. Kinda like Shishka in that picture, but I'm sure it's for completely different reasons. Random thoughts and observations:

• At :19 you can see that the grenade tosses have definitely returned to their Halo 3 ark.
• Interested in seeing what role the phantom plays in Invasion.
• Wondering what the point of Invasion slayer is. Seems to me it would require a shitton of balancing to make sure each side can slay equally and human vs covie seems to fit objective games much better. There are enough slayer modes anyways. I wanna jump into the invasion playlist to play unique one-sided objective matches not slayer with different skins.
• Couldn't tell if elites were customizable. Think it'd be kinda dumb if they weren't, sure it wouldn't have to be as elaborate as the spartan customization but something on par with Halo 3's would be nice.
  Spoiler

  hint hint
• Elites can roll eh. The roll is pretty pathetic in distance and speed so I'm not sure why they'd ever use it. Must be something more to it we don't know.
• Kinda worried about the grenade launcher. At one point the guy is carrying 7 shots with it yet it's a single shot weapon with a one-hit kill ability. Definitely not the bruteshot replacement I was hoping it'd be.
• The assassination at :12 has me puzzled. It seems like we've caught it midway through but the spartans are facing eachother, does that mean there are front assassinations in MP or did the animation cause them to end up facing each other?
• The anti-vehicle needler seems to be a missile pod replacement. I like the missile pod and don't see how this replacement improves anything. The homing seems to be more vigilant but the missiles move just as slow. Seems to be a three round burst, doubt it's semi-auto as the first and second bullet took 6 ammo off and the third took 7 off. You'd be able to unload a shitton of those if you could keep firing at that rate.
• Jetpacks are fucking awesome. Hope it doesn't result in me running into invisible walls all the time though. If elites can use jetpacks...
• The player name tag thing .seems to be like in those in ODST, four letters, maybe three letters and a number. Not too sure, just check see it at 1:07
• Seems like radar jamming is an ability 33)
• The player at 1:24 doesn't have a radar. Could just be the gametype.
• The two spartans beyond the window at 1:19 look different in size, could just be my eyes.
• I said something about wanting a sentinal beam/quake lighting gun weapon in reach and funny enough the one at 1:20 could fit the bill. Radius seems a bit sloppy though.
• My roommate suggested "active roster" means joining in-game. I hope to hell not and the evidence doesn't exactly point to that but just throwin it out there.
• I think the game is just so different that the arena mode will be like a classic Halo mode. No loadouts and smaller, symmetrical maps. I'd be glad they're delivering something they wouldn't be otherwise but at the same time afraid they could be spreading the Halo experience too thin. Kinda stopping it from having a strong identity.

Tried to get a sense of how many maps were shown. Don't think they showed any map that wasn't in the Halo 3 beta before the beta launched so thought it could be worthwhile. Really hard to do given I don't know jack shit about the size or makeout of the map but I gave it a shot:

• One of them is definitely the powerhouse level shown at X10.
• Hard to tell if the invasion map with the brown cliff walls was not powerhouse. Mentions a smelter in a lot of the locations.
• The scene at :18 seems rather dark so it might be a different map.
• At 1:14 the map seems to be straight from the campaign footage we've already seen. "Barren Fields"
• Some scenes (e.g. :22, :29, :41, :53, 1:24) look like a cleaner environment. A really vertical area labeled "Atrium" that reminded me of prisoner as well. Some of the locations read "CIC (Combat Information Center?) Hall", "Lower Conduct Room"

Graphics and animation look great. REALLY can't wait to read some explanations/clarifications for these things from the Bungie folk. Podcast can't come soon enough.

 

[Louis Wu]

Just noticed this. Was there revenge ever in halo?

I don't remember it ever being there.

No, it never was - and both it and 'killed with a headshot' now have new medals.

(Headshot on the left)

 

[electricpirate]

We need more gifs! Or someone tell me which program to use to make the gifs and I'll make some!

This game is so incredible... This 1 1/2 minute trailer has SO much new information in it...

As for showing Head Hunter... What do you think it means when the Spartan died and dropped four skulls... Do you collect skulls, die, and then lose all the skulls you had collected?


New Gametypes that we have seen:
Spartan vs Elite
Head Hunter
(Blowing up Generators)

Any others?

Headhunters in other games works just like that. It's a fun FFA gametype .

Would "ARENA" be counted as a new gametype? Is it something along the lines of rocket Arena, or some subset of Reach's features designed for competitive play?

 

[pringles]

Why the hell did we need a separate thread for the trailer?

Because with the way this thread has gone page after page after page after page after page without ANY news whatsoever some of us have stopped checking it and would have completely missed this new trailer if there wasn't a new thread?
Besides, the trailer is awesome enough that it deserves it's own thread.

 

[big ander]

Graphics look awesome and everything but...

All this did was worry me for Reach. :/
I don't know why either. I just feel like I need to get my hands on the game. Because right now, after the video, I'm not sure if it will still be fun.
Eh, back to the hype party.

 

[Devin Olsen]

Can you guys help me out here... I was pretty sure that Reach was NOT using a new engine. But the people in the other thread are swearing that it does.

Confirm/Deny?

 

[UltimaPooh]

Can you guys help me out here... I was pretty sure that Reach was NOT using a new engine. But the people in the other thread are swearing that it does.

Confirm/Deny?

It's using a heavily revamped Halo 3 engine.

They discuss it in the last vidoc.

 

[Flipyap]

So hard to reply to this without reading it.

But please keep the lost spoilers out of here. Or at least spoiler tag them. FFS

edit: lol ok well I actually read it (before I just saw the word Claire)... Realized it isn't really a spoiler. But still! Lets be kind here.

Do you happen to suffer from a fear of

Spoiler

boobies

? I'll make sure not to mention

Spoiler

cleavage

ever again in this thread.
My most sincere apologies.

(no BIG FAT SPOILERS in my posts. Relax, I care <3)

 

[Peff]

Can you guys help me out here... I was pretty sure that Reach was NOT using a new engine. But the people in the other thread are swearing that it does.

Confirm/Deny?

It's using a new engine... built upon the old engine, but it's so heavily modified that you might as well call it that.

 

[squidhands]

• Interested in seeing what role the phantom plays in Invasion.

Maybe it actually brings the invading team into the map. Sounds awesome to me, anyway...

 

[metareferential]

Because with the way this thread has gone page after page after page after page after page without ANY news whatsoever some of us have stopped checking it and would have completely missed this new trailer if there wasn't a new thread?
Besides, the trailer is awesome enough that it deserves it's own thread.

Well, I was obviously beeing sarcastic there.

But yes, it deserves its own thread, although it does not deserve to be bashed for its graphics, since it's a shitty quality MP vid.

Then again, who cares :lol

 

[Not a Jellyfish]

[*]My roommate suggested "active roster" means joining in-game. I hope to hell not and the evidence doesn't exactly point to that but just throwin it out there.

I don't think joining in-game would be that bad of a thing with how many people quit matches. I also don't think that is what it is though. I don't think they would advertise something like that, seems odd to do.

 

[big ander]

Can you guys help me out here... I was pretty sure that Reach was NOT using a new engine. But the people in the other thread are swearing that it does.

Confirm/Deny?

They're doing the same thing they did for CE->2 and 2->3: they gut the engine and improve it all over, but reuse the basics so it's still actually Halo. That's how I understand it.

 

[Devin Olsen]

It's using a heavily revamped Halo 3 engine.

They discuss it in the last vidoc.

Yeah that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

It's using a new engine... built upon the old engine, but it's so heavily modified that you might as well call it that.

ermm.. That post is quite conflicting... I don't think you can build a new engine on an old engine. I am pretty sure what UltimaPooh said is correct.

 

[electricpirate]

• Really don't like the ballooning reticule for the sniper. Leads to stupid shit like what's shown in at :48, he was clearly not aiming anywhere near their head but the random dice roll that makes up that giant circle rolled in his favor and gave it to him. Only increases the randomness of the weapon and gameplay.

He isn't aiming anywhere near his head?

 

[pringles]

[*]Really don't like the ballooning reticule for the sniper. Leads to stupid shit like what's shown in at :48, he was clearly not aiming anywhere near their head but the random dice roll that makes up that giant circle rolled in his favor and gave it to him. Only increases the randomness of the weapon and gameplay.

The reticule is tiny, like normal, UNTIL he shoots. The first shot is accurate, but if he was to fire a 2nd shot right afterwards that would be much less accurate.
Which is as it should be.

 

[Not a Jellyfish]

Graphics look awesome and everything but...

All this did was worry me for Reach. :/
I don't know why either. I just feel like I need to get my hands on the game. Because right now, after the video, I'm not sure if it will still be fun.
Eh, back to the hype party.

For me all that video looked like was fun, with not just how much chaos was happening but the fact that it really all looked like controlled chaos. Looks like I won't put the game down for a looooong time based on that trailer.

Also thank god for Bungie making the Elites larger in MP this time around, just looks so much better that way.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Video is awesome, but has a very different vibe to it than Halo 3 does, Halo 3 seems pretty slow and methodical while the footage shown here makes the game look like Quake. Im guessing if they made a trailer of Halo 3 now though, they would only use frantic clips so fair enough. Still I loved the insanity and it would be fun.

It also seemed like someone was camping at 1.07 with the Nube Tube :lol, That thing looks like a rocket launcher! They need to tone that down or make it very uncommon :lol

Maybe its just my take on this trailer, but it seemed like a BETA trailer, not a Multiplayer trailer, so the headings are showing what we get to play May 3rd, which is pretty sweet. Maybe theres more to come in the final version!

I also wanted to say, with the new equipment, the jetpack is clearly visible, but I couldnt see a indicator that a enemy was using any of the other ones like camo, I really hope theres some visual armour perm for each perk.

 

[The Librarian]

Was watching the video again and I noticed the "Spartans vs. Elites" title. Delicious.

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

So hard to reply to this without reading it.

But please keep the lost spoilers out of here. Or at least spoiler tag them. FFS

edit: lol ok well I actually read it (before I just saw the word Claire)... Realized it isn't really a spoiler. But still! Lets be kind here.

Yeah man, not a spoiler at all. You already knew Claire is super-hot, right??

Back on-topic, this trailer made my nuts tingle (like Claire) it was so good. It looks like bungie have really listened to a lot of complaints regarding halo 3's stagnation (which I don't necessarily agree with, but nobody on my FL will play Halo any more). Spartans vs Elites looks like a great idea, I think I'm most hyped for that.

Does anyone know if the XP system is getting a tweak in this? The biggest complaint I've heard from my friends is that, compared to CoD (obvs), Halo can be very un-rewarding. I think that all players should be rewarded for playing and the winning team should be rewarded more-so. It's very demoralising to lose and have nothing to show for the past 10 mins of gaming, and even worse when your rank dips after a loss.

 

[DualX]

Today is already going to be a great day. Awesome way to start it.

 

[Cetra]

Is the music selection the ODST track "More than his share" ??

I'm listening to the ODST soundtrack right now, and I can't find the piece used in this trailer. I'll keep listening, and trying but I'm pretty sure it's not there.

EDIT: Yeah if that tracks on the ODST soundtrack then I'm a wallaby.