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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed

Gui_PT

Member
Church RvB said:
Yep. They could definitely pull something off like that. VIP maybe? IDK about every player though.

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Nutter

Member
Jonsoncao said:
amazon haz matched this deal

with free release day delivery and no tax, much better than walmart

Isnt that only if you have amazon prime?

Otherwise I dont see that listed anywhere.
 
Blueblur1 said:
On second thought, I'll pass on the online retailers. I'll need my Halo fix on launch night, not 4 days later.
Agreed. Going at midnight makes the experience that much more enjoyable. I did it with Halo 3 and I'll be doing it for Reach.
 
I got halo 3 two days early, I kind of want to do the midnight launch this time around, I had a lot of fun doing it for Halo 2.

Of course, for h2 we had a huge LAN planned, I didn't even have 360 capable internet when H3 came out, so it was less of an event.
 

kylej

Banned
Again, as both friend and family of Bungie I expect a complimentary copy of Reach at least a week before release. urk PM me for my address. Thanks.
 
When it comes to Halo, I go with a brick and mortar store purchase because I know for a fact I can pick it up when I want and not have to worry if my online order will show up or not.
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Blueblur1 said:
On second thought, I'll pass on the online retailers. I'll need my Halo fix on launch night, not 4 days later.

Lining up outside of a store on the morning of release is a fantastic part of the gaming hobby for me. Hardware releases and major software releases are few and far between and a more than enough reason to leave the house to pick up the goods.

Although ODST's release was rather muted in my town, no one was bothered to pick the game up when the shop opened. Can't complain, meant I was in and out in seconds with my prize that morning and back in the house in no time enjoying the new game smell.

I wonder how Reach will fare? The less people there the fast I get playing. :lol






Congrats folks, we past 19K replies and 1million+ views. Hype train is going full steam ahead!

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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
CrazedArabMan said:
When it comes to Halo, I go with a brick and mortar store purchase because I know for a fact I can pick it up when I want and not have to worry if my online order will show up or not.


After my COD pre-order Fiasco (pre-ordered, pre-paid, was told to stand in an HOUR LONG line the day AFTER the game launched to pick up one I already paid for), I am going to Target this year.

"Have any in stock?"

"Yes sir, plenty."
 

Nutter

Member
Striker said:
They need to make it so if a player is inactive for so many minutes, he's booted from the game.
It already does that.

If you are inactive and your controller "turns off" then next game it boots you out of the active lobby (the matchmaking loop)
 
Nutter said:
It already does that.

If you are inactive and your controller "turns off" then next game it boots you out of the active lobby (the matchmaking loop)

I think people like tape something to their controllers so they just jump and shoot. I think it's how they exp boost.
 

NOKYARD

Member
Bungieware said:
Quidditch? *Files for copyright*

Seriously though, if that ends up in matchmaking I want credit. Because the more I think about it, the more I realise it could work. There's your arena right there:

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Yup! That's how it works. :lol

Seriously though, if there is a Jetpack Grifball i think we should let the Rooster Teeth guys name it.
 

ManCannon

Member
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
 

Trasher

Member
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
Niiiiccceee. Whoa @ friends and family starting in 5 weeks.
 

Kibbles

Member
Good to hear about the MP news tomorrow. I hope Invasion is revealed. Shame about the videos, unless other media outlets will have their own videos. The beta is closing in! F&F huh? *nudge* *nudge*

Sounds like you guys are going to have your hands full. I'm glad the hype-train and marketing power is pushing forward though :D
OuterWorldVoice said:
After my COD pre-order Fiasco (pre-ordered, pre-paid, was told to stand in an HOUR LONG line the day AFTER the game launched to pick up one I already paid for), I am going to Target this year.

"Have any in stock?"

"Yes sir, plenty."
Yeah I pre-ordered BFBC2 at my local Game Crazy and paid it off. I went to go pick it up and they said they didn't have enough, despite my pre-order (eh, wtf?), so I took my money back, went to the K-Mart right next door, and they had a crap load of copies.
 

Lazslo

Member
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
You had me at Sage and Carney.
 
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
Podcast early next week? Perfect way to start off my spring break. Nice to know Bungie will be keeping the same level of generosity with the Reach beta as they did with the Halo 3 beta (F&F).
 

Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Trasher said:
Pumped to finally see what this is all about.

Ditto. Funny how, despite the early leak, we still know next to nothing about the ranking/cR feature at all. Kinda glad we've been kept in the dark about as I'm sure tomorrow we'll have it properly explained with the same treatment Arena and matchmaking received last week (perhaps without a bonus Q&A!).
 

EazyB

Banned
Thanks for the update. Seems like a steady stream of hot and sticky awesome is headed our way.

Dani said:
Ditto. Funny how, despite the early leak, we still know next to nothing about the ranking/cR feature at all. Kinda glad we've been kept in the dark about as I'm sure tomorrow we'll have it properly explained with the same treatment Arena and matchmaking received last week (perhaps without a bonus Q&A!).
Tomorrow is the game journalists' attempt at explaining the content. Friday is the day Urk properly explains it.
 

Blueblur1

Member
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:
Once again, thanks Brian. :)

OuterWorldVoice said:
After my COD pre-order Fiasco (pre-ordered, pre-paid, was told to stand in an HOUR LONG line the day AFTER the game launched to pick up one I already paid for), I am going to Target this year.

"Have any in stock?"

"Yes sir, plenty."
Wow, I know the economy is in the toilet but MS wouldn't even provide senior employees at the publishing company with a copy? :lol
In all seriousness, I'm sure you'll get a copy ahead of time of all people at 343.

EazyB said:
Tomorrow is the game journalists' attempt at explaining the content. Friday is the day Urk properly explains it.
Tomorrow is "Get the Details Wrong Day". Even reputable outlets will fudge the details.
 

feel

Member
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu :D Do the tokens sent by Microsoft to Halo 2 players count as friend and family? And will we have those in our emails inboxes by the time the F&F starts?? PLEASE SAY YES TO BOTH
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
After my COD pre-order Fiasco (pre-ordered, pre-paid, was told to stand in an HOUR LONG line the day AFTER the game launched to pick up one I already paid for), I am going to Target this year.

"Have any in stock?"

"Yes sir, plenty."

Luckily the Gamestop near me doesn't get those long lines unless it is a midnight release, which I don't go to.
 

ManCannon

Member
Letters said:
Do the tokens sent by Microsoft to Halo 2 players count as friend and family? And will we have those in our emails inboxes by the time the F&F starts?? PLEASE SAY YES TO BOTH

I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
 
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I was wondering about this too, so thanks for replying to Letters' question.

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
Bungie is so awesome.
 
My tooth hurts, and I have an appointment to get a root canal done on Monday. I think a Halo Reach toothbrush could have prevented this! I might have used it more:lol
 

Kapura

Banned
We're all somebody's friends and family, right?

Any chance that some of the small content drops will be about campaign? or is it all multiplayer related?
 
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D

I'll be the drunken uncle, yelling at luke to get a haircut.
 

feel

Member
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
:') <3 <3 <3
 

Kibbles

Member
FourDoor said:
I thought there wasn't a F&F invite for Reach this time around. Happy news indeed!!! :D
I remember hearing that earlier as well, on twitter I believe. Glad it's coming back.

<3 Bungie.
 

vhfive

Member
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
vhfive's status: currently praying (fervently)
 

GhaleonEB

Member
ManCannon said:
LTTP but here are some answers to recently posted questions and a few other unsolicited ramblings:

The March podcast with Sage & Carney looks like it's going to land first thing next week.

The next round of multiplayer coverage should surface tomorrow morning courtesy of some media partner websites and then Urk will spin his own special version of it for Friday on Bnet.

Expect to see some new info dropping in similar fashion over the next few weeks.

It'll be a while before any official Bungie videos emerge but April should be a fun month on a few different fronts, hopefully making the wait a little more bearable.

It's hard to believe that the Friends & Family portion of the beta begins just 5 weeks from tomorrow! :lol (with the remaining several million joining the fray on May 3rd)

Oh and the e3 meetingpocalypse is in full swing, gaining momentum every week. Can it hurry up and be fall plz.
Each individual one of these lines, by themselves, is bursting with awesome. The combination has be smiling so hard it hurts. :D

Dax01 said:
Bungie is so awesome.

The truth.

I remember when Frankie was raining down F&F codes for the Halo 3 Beta in the GAF thread. It was epic.

m0dus is on board for artwork for the Beta thread, BTW. Plans are forming. Thinking of posting around 10 days before the official Beta start date, and from the sound of it less than a week before the F&F.
 
Kapura said:
We're all somebody's friends and family, right?

Any chance that some of the small content drops will be about campaign? or is it all multiplayer related?

6 Degree's of seperation man, im pretty sure my friends mum has a cousin who has a friend of a friend whos a relative of a Bungie employee :lol

Will be awesome if you could share some codes aroung here, SHOTGUN.
 
ManCannon said:
I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
Don't make a girl
y man
a promise...

:D
 

Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D
I love you, too, pa!

It's great to know the Reach floodgates open tomorrow once again. You're making my 8 hour stay here at my college for finals a hell of a lot easier. :p

I need to get the hell out of here :(.
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Zeouterlimits said:
Don't make a girl
y man
a promise...

:D

:lol :lol

Oh btw Gui you missed my steam the other day, I got the 50 on the account. I wish you could have seen it, I shit on the people that match. lol
 

Doodis

Member
OuterWorldVoice said:
After my COD pre-order Fiasco (pre-ordered, pre-paid, was told to stand in an HOUR LONG line the day AFTER the game launched to pick up one I already paid for), I am going to Target this year.

"Have any in stock?"

"Yes sir, plenty."
Oh puhleeeze, as if you aren't going to get a free copy.

But I have to agree, Target is the way to go.
 

Magni

Member
ManCannon said:
I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe those tokens will apply to May 3rd access to the beta. My guess is that the codes would be sent out on that day but I don't have the final details yet. The sheer volume and scope of those offers would exponentially increase the scope of the "friends and family" weekend (which is really just a smaller scale ice breaker to make sure we're ready for prime time before we open the flood gates on Monday).

I don't want to write any checks I can't cash but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with some number of extra early invites to spread around as we can. We're all family here, right? :D

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

(what are those tokens? Are those the MS Halo 2 emails? I never got mine *sadface*)
 
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