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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed
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SimpleDesign
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That's good news.Trasher said:Ramirez wanted me to give you guys this update:
Little Ram gets to come home finally!
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Oozer3993 said:
I wouldn't mind it.
Devin Olsen
Member
Mind explaining it?kylej said:
InvincibleAgent
Member
Sounds good. I thought of a different one I think might work better.
You get three options, and you get to vote against one of them.
Say you're in a party of 4, in a mm group of 12. Options are Boundless, Valhalla and Narrows. Most people will vote against Boundless, with maybe a couple of votes against Valhalla and Narrows. But say your party just played on Valhalla and you want something different. Your party can vote against Valhalla, and the map least-voted-against would be Narrows.
EDIT: bobs's point below goes along with what I'm saying. If it was a vote-for system out of two, you'd always play on Valhalla. Always.
You get three options, and you get to vote against one of them.
Say you're in a party of 4, in a mm group of 12. Options are Boundless, Valhalla and Narrows. Most people will vote against Boundless, with maybe a couple of votes against Valhalla and Narrows. But say your party just played on Valhalla and you want something different. Your party can vote against Valhalla, and the map least-voted-against would be Narrows.
EDIT: bobs's point below goes along with what I'm saying. If it was a vote-for system out of two, you'd always play on Valhalla. Always.
Hydranockz
Member
Great news Ram
4:30, so that's 9:30 GMT right? Just realised I will be coming off a Halo themed weekend pretty much. Friday night/Saturday morning being the Halo lockin. Halos CE/2 and 3 all night long baby. Mixed in with Zeouterlimit's copy of Halo Legends for the down time for some good measure. I will have all of Saturday and a lot of Sunday to recuperate. I will pm the one gametype that should be shot to vhfive in a bit. If it comes up, I will cry.
Are the B.U.N.G.L.E pro maps/gametypes still available? Me and Zeouterlimits were musing the idea of 2 hours per Halo, with an hour in between for general shenanigans. I may just borrow some of the NeoGaf maps that were posted the other day
4:30, so that's 9:30 GMT right? Just realised I will be coming off a Halo themed weekend pretty much. Friday night/Saturday morning being the Halo lockin. Halos CE/2 and 3 all night long baby. Mixed in with Zeouterlimit's copy of Halo Legends for the down time for some good measure. I will have all of Saturday and a lot of Sunday to recuperate. I will pm the one gametype that should be shot to vhfive in a bit. If it comes up, I will cry.
Are the B.U.N.G.L.E pro maps/gametypes still available? Me and Zeouterlimits were musing the idea of 2 hours per Halo, with an hour in between for general shenanigans. I may just borrow some of the NeoGaf maps that were posted the other day
bobs...onGaf
Member
kylej said:
Ah yeah thats like Gears of Wars veto system.
The system has flaw's though, I played Gears fairly late, and some maps I never got to play simply because a favorite of peoples would show up. At least with Halo's vetoeing system after veto the second time round any map could show up. If you hate a map that the vast majority adores in Gears your screwed, same vice versa if your favorite map happens to be a map most people hate.
With Halo's system though were subjected to things we dont like more :lol
Subtervotion
Member
kylej said:
Yeah that sounds almost exactly like Gears 2.
Also, in the event of a tie, a random map is chosen.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Good news Ram, also the teasing in this thread is not nice.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Coco P just invited me to play the Xbox 360 Dashboard.
I think I'll go cry in a corner for two months now, kthx.
I think I'll go cry in a corner for two months now, kthx.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Domino Theory said:Coco P just invited me to play the Xbox 360 Dashboard.
I think I'll go cry in a corner for two months now, kthx.
Totally not cool.
BladedExpert
Member
Domino Theory said:Coco P just invited me to play the Xbox 360 Dashboard.
I think I'll go cry in a corner for two months now, kthx.
I saw Voc on the dashboard for about 4 hours yesterday... now it all makes sense.
D
Deleted member 21120
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I was actually trying to invite Mr Vociferous to a party and hit Omlet instead.Domino Theory said:Coco P just invited me to play the Xbox 360 Dashboard.
I think I'll go cry in a corner for two months now, kthx.
D
Deleted member 21120
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My box sits on Xbox 360 dashboard for most of the workday, since I'm constantly switching betweeen Halo discs for various work related stuff and I have my box set to boot to Dash.Gui_PT said:
bobs...onGaf
Member
Confirmed, Xbox Dashboard = BEST GAME EVER!!!
So what happens if you accept a invite to play 'dashboard', it would be amazing if it gave you the option to download the alpha :lol
So what happens if you accept a invite to play 'dashboard', it would be amazing if it gave you the option to download the alpha :lol
Hydranockz
Member
It's a hard knock lifeCocopjojo said:
Hydranockz
Member
Install it on to your hard drive tooMerguson said:
Zeouterlimits
Member
Oh you 343 sons of ..awesome.
Congrats to Ram, that's great news.
Congrats to Ram, that's great news
.I feel like I'm jutting into a conversation here...
I did some math and found put many hours into splitscreen Halo 3 gaming with friends. Yet we haven't unlocked many armour pieces for our Spartans because to unlock most of them you have to play the single player campaign.
Can't really do that because we all meet up to play MP and that's it. So the guy who owns the Xbox has a lot of pieces unlocked but the rest of us have only one other helmet unlocked.
Any indication that this time around those unlockables will be based on multiplayer stuff like medals?
That makes sense to me because the more experienced multiplayer guys will look fancier during gameplay.
A sniper who got 1000 headshots would have the appropriate armour to show it off.
Doesn't this make more sense or am I the only one thinking that?
I did some math and found put many hours into splitscreen Halo 3 gaming with friends. Yet we haven't unlocked many armour pieces for our Spartans because to unlock most of them you have to play the single player campaign.
Can't really do that because we all meet up to play MP and that's it. So the guy who owns the Xbox has a lot of pieces unlocked but the rest of us have only one other helmet unlocked.
Any indication that this time around those unlockables will be based on multiplayer stuff like medals?
That makes sense to me because the more experienced multiplayer guys will look fancier during gameplay.
A sniper who got 1000 headshots would have the appropriate armour to show it off.
Doesn't this make more sense or am I the only one thinking that?
practice02
Banned
So who wants to bet their is a modern warfare like unlock system for weapons and equipment in the multiplayer game?
The A button on Omlet's pad must be on a mission right now to find its way back out from inside the controller, such was the force applied to it when the Accept Invite option was on screen.GhaleonEB said:Samething as when you accept an invite to a game you don't own: it asks you to install/insert the game to join the party. I tried during the Halo 3 test.
Hydranockz
Member
That reminds me... Someone in the house broke the jack of the mic nd now the top of it is lodged in my ODST edition controller. Help! I have seen it mentioned before about opening the battery pack and using something small to push it free, but there are some exposed circuits very near it and I want to know if there is a safer way to take it out... any ideas?Letters said: