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[InvincibleAgent]

The image I saw was an animated jpeg... And I have no idea how they did it.

 

[Slightly Live]

I remember someone posting a gif from the flying assassination on nobleactual.com, but I can't seem to find it in the previous pages.

Anyone saved it?

Letters made this. Wu posted it with the news article on HBO.

 

[metareferential]

Letters made this. Wu posted it with the news article on HBO.

Thanks a lot Dani, precise and extremely helpful as always.

 

[Blueblur1]

Posting pictures of shit: a new low for HaloGAF. smh

 

[metareferential]

By the way,

It's the one I was looking for, and it wasn't posted here xD

 

[Ramirez]

Throwback... so good.

Add a few more maps in there, take out Valhalla, and replace Skirmish with it.

It needs to be a social playlist during the double XP, was impossibly for me to find games in a timely manner by myself...

 

[InvincibleAgent]

It needs to be a social playlist during the double XP, was impossibly for me to find games in a timely manner by myself...

Or merge it with Mythic. I want my classic Skirmish back

 

[Shake Appeal]

Thanks for the bearded Ellis, Letters.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Letters, could you engage some Beardification on mah avatar? Might ginge up the tache too, por favor

 

[Gareth Bale]

Was it this game?

Yup...I'm not going to tell you which one I was though. Let's just say I was abysmal.

Mind you, me and one of my teammates were discussing Reach the whole time.

EDIT: Also, why's everyone going for the ginge beard? I lifted mine from the vidoc and that's what colour it was.

 

[ChrisD84]

All this excitement of waiting for the beta has pulled me back to playing Halo 3, and now I'm struggling to see why I ever stopped playing it in the first place

The main thing that I'm looking forward to in Reach is the DMR. Now that i'm playing 3 again, the BR isn't frustrating me as much as it used to, but i'll be glad to not have to worry about bullet spread and whether or not i'll be able to 4 shot someone or not (not that I do that often anyway!)

I'm also trying to convince a friend of mine to buy ODST so that i'll have someone to team up with in the beta :lol

 

[Louis Wu]

The image I saw was an animated jpeg... And I have no idea how they did it.

Nah - he just posted it at tinypic, which labels EVERY picture a jpeg, even if it serves them correctly. If you actually SAVE the 'jpeg', you get a .gif.

Stupid tinypic.

 

[BladedExpert]

Yup...I'm not going to tell you which one I was though. Let's just say I was abysmal.

Mind you, me and one of my teammates were discussing Reach the whole time.

EDIT: Also, why's everyone going for the ginge beard? I lifted mine from the vidoc and that's what colour it was.

You have by far the greatest Avatar on the internet!

Spoiler

Gareth Bale is Godly! As is the beard!

 

[ToyMachine228]

Holy shit. That's gotta be all kinds of awesome when you pull that off in-game.

 

[metareferential]

Can someone please avatarize that gif for me (just the two spartans)?

It would be soooo awesome. Thanks in advance to whoever is willing to do me this great favour xD

 

[Chinner]

just got word from frankie that there will be a duck variant for armour.

 

[Apath]

By the way,

It's the one I was looking for, and it wasn't posted here xD

I love how the back drop in the way distance becomes more distinguishable through the light as it comes more into focus.

 

[metareferential]

I love how the back drop in the way distance becomes more distinguishable through the light as it comes more into focus.

Yeah it's awesome.

I also like the fact that they didn't spoil the actual assassination, it's stuck forever a very moment before unleashing power and brutality.

I love Bungie. xD

 

[JaggedSac]

It would be extremely awesome if the guy that is getting slammed down, were to do damage to anything below him. Spiking an enemy onto a warthog passing by would be, quite possibly, the coolest thing eva!

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Preview event happening in the UK today, embargo'd till Wednesday, as Brian was saying.

God I can't wait to understand/decide how useful jetpacks are (in different contexts of course).

 

[Raide]

Yeah it's awesome.

I also like the fact that they didn't spoil the actual assassination, it's stuck forever a very moment before unleashing power and brutality.

I love Bungie. xD

Or someone sniping the assassin and saving a squad mate.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Preview event happening in the UK today, embargo'd till Wednesday, as Brian was saying.

God I can't wait to understand/decide how useful jetpacks are (in different contexts of course).

That makes me so jelous, hopefully this means as early as next week they will do a Reach episode on The Gadget Show

 

[InvincibleAgent]

It would be extremely awesome if the guy that is getting slammed down, were to do damage to anything below him. Spiking an enemy onto a warthog passing by would be, quite possibly, the coolest thing eva!

Don't want to steal thunder from armour lock smashing, though

 

[GhaleonEB]

I've inquired as to whether I can post the Beta thread this Tuesday or Wednesday, after the embargo goes up. It would make sense since that's when it's unveiled, just over a week from the F&F start. I'll let y'all know.

Hopefully the theater and b.net features come out soon this week; those and the last playlist and gametype details are what I'm missing in the OP.

 

[InvincibleAgent]

I think the embargo notice said 1500 hours, but I don't remember the date or timezone.

 

[BladedExpert]

Preview event happening in the UK today, embargo'd till Wednesday, as Brian was saying.

God I can't wait to understand/decide how useful jetpacks are (in different contexts of course).

Playing Invasion (Halo Reach) beta multiplayer. Intense!
about 2 hours ago via Tweetie

Damn you Bradbury! *shakes fist*

 

[Dirtbag]

Don't want to steal thunder from armour lock smashing, though

There is no way we are going to be armor lock smashing

 

[Raide]

There is no way we are going to be armor lock smashing

I think he meant using Lock in the air and smashing to the ground. I could very well be mistaken though!

 

[chess]

I've inquired as to whether I can post the Beta thread this Tuesday or Wednesday, after the embargo goes up. It would make sense since that's when it's unveiled, just over a week from the F&F start. I'll let y'all know.

Hopefully the theater and b.net features come out soon this week; those and the last playlist and gametype details are what I'm missing in the OP.

Just realized your fish has a beard. Nice!

(looking forward to the thread post)

 

[InvincibleAgent]

I think he meant using Lock in the air and smashing to the ground. I could very well be mistaken though!

Correct.

 

[Lunchbox]

does armor lock also give you full shields back?

this thing is gonna be the first thing mlg bans.

 

[Raide]

does armor lock also give you full shields back?

this thing is gonna be the first thing mlg bans.

It drains shields to make the EMP burst if I remember correctly. Miss-time it and you're going to be dead. :lol

 

[Dirtbag]

I think he meant using Lock in the air and smashing to the ground. I could very well be mistaken though!

I know what he meant. Smashing and killing things under you also, like some super mario bullshit. It would be overpowered to lock in the air.

 

[Dirtbag]

does armor lock also give you full shields back?

this thing is gonna be the first thing mlg bans.

So far I can only picture MLG allowing sprint/evade. And only allowing evade in Elite only gametypes. There will never be a time they have spartans vs. elites. I also picture them having DMR / Pistol starts across the board given the range argument of pistol vs. DMR.

 

[Olivero]

http://i43.tinypic.com/j6izpx.jpg



wtf eazy..

Man, Reach looks soooo good. Seriously.

 

[Subtervotion]

saw this while trolling through the bungie.net forums:

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=43067298

looked interesting, and reminded me, are any of those new gamemode making abilities mentioned in the update going to be available to the public?

I really like this guys idea. Having one 'leader' that's in monitor mode, helping you along the way. And you earn him a budget to buy you new things. Also, spawning in AI would be soooo awesome.

'Leader! We need a Hunter at the base!' Of course Hunters would cost a pretty penny.

 

[Apath]

Man, Reach looks soooo good. Seriously.

Am I the only one who thinks the Halo CE Assault Rifle is actually really comparable to the Halo 3 one? Like, it actually looks better in some ways :lol

 

[Odrion]

Halo 3 was such an ugly game. This looks next-gen by comparison. :lol

 

[Apath]

Halo 3 was such an ugly game. This looks next-gen by comparison. :lol

I wouldn't call Halo 3 ugly, but its engine did have the amazing power to look either fucking amazing or completely shit-tacular.

 

[Dirtbag]

Halo 3 was such an ugly game. This looks next-gen by comparison. :lol

I can't wait till we start seeing some of the 30+ A.I. battles from campaign at E3.

 

[metareferential]

Assassinations are way cooler than fatalities in the first Mortal Kombat :lol

Someone should photoshop an assassination with the classic Mortal Kombat UI and add "spartanality" instead of "fatality".

 

[Kapura]

So far I can only picture MLG allowing sprint/evade. And only allowing evade in Elite only gametypes. There will never be a time they have spartans vs. elites. I also picture them having DMR / Pistol starts across the board given the range argument of pistol vs. DMR.

MLG will allow no AAs, guaranteed.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

MLG will allow no AAs, guaranteed.

If Reach was REALLY radically different, would MLG just stick with Halo 3?

What made them make the switch from H1 -> H2 and then to H3? Was it just to keep up with the times type thing?

 

[Kapura]

Yes.

 

[Schmitty]

MLG will allow no AAs, guaranteed.

Most likely.

 

[The Librarian]

MLG will allow no AAs, guaranteed.

AAs not pro enough?

 

[Lunchbox]

If Reach was REALLY radically different, would MLG just stick with Halo 3?

What made them make the switch from H1 -> H2 and then to H3? Was it just to keep up with the times type thing?

new game, more people

mlg -
- no armor things
- AR/pistol (like halo1) or Dmr/pistol
- no grenade launchers/swords/vehicles
- spartan vs spartan only
- no bro spawns
- no assassinations
- higher movement speed cause reach spartans are slower than halo3 ones
- lower gravity for higher jumps cause they jump lower
- no accessories on your dude, BASE MODEL only

 

[electricpirate]

Watching the trailer this morning i was struck by how far the visuals have come in two months. The textures and lighting in bone yard have come especially far. In the trailer they were grainy and flat, now they are bright and vibrant.

When gttv was switching between old and new footage it was striking.

 

[kylej]

new game, more people

mlg -
- no armor things
- AR/pistol (like halo1) or Dmr/pistol
- no grenade launchers/swords/vehicles
- spartan vs spartan only
- no bro spawns
- no assassinations
- higher movement speed cause reach spartans are slower than halo3 ones
- lower gravity for higher jumps cause they jump lower
- no accessories on your dude, BASE MODEL only

I wouldn't be surprised to see MLG decrease damage resistance by 15-20% so people have the ability to 4-shot with the DMR.

 

[BladedExpert]

I wouldn't be surprised to see MLG decrease damage resistance by 15-20% so people have the ability to 4-shot with the DMR.

Probably. They'll also switch radar off.