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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed
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So gonna adopt Oonsk as the official Halo: Reach mascot. Already have Visual Design reworking the initial posters and visual ID and we're regrouping with agency to spin up the brand new, Oonsk-inspired marketing campaign. Expect the official paperwork on Monday, Letters and Flipyap.
Birth of Spartan-101.
Birth of Spartan-101.
Captain Blood
Member
You probably just need to turn down the suck.Ramirez said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Letters, PMz.
Arnie said:
My voteboot option required every player on the booted player's team (none on the other team of course) to vote. If you're playing with a friend you risk nothing. If you're playing with at least ONE decent guy you risk nothing. If you're playing by yourself with a party full of jerks, you'd be better off in another game (and you don't lose EXP/skill by my system).
How abused do you seriously think this would be? (I don't have L4D2 or SOCOM but in PC games with voteboot I never ran into any problems..)
edit: :lol :lol :lol at the proportion Oonsk has taken. Bungie will have to rethink the storyline, if Reach gets delayed, I blame Flipyap and Letters :lol
Stormtrooper30
Member
The Halo fanbase could never have this. If there is anything that resembles an exploit in Reach then half of the population will be abusing it. It will be the new veto. You know the bastards that veto Team BRs on Citadel? Yea, they'll be booting you out of half of your games come Reach.MagniHarvald said:
CrazedArabMan
Member
this Oonsk thing has gotten out of control and I love it. 
Stormtrooper30 said:
Bastards! (I haven't met them yet, luckily
Citadel BRs <3)Veto needs a revamp as well. Either X votes for gametype_a/map_a and Y votes for gametype_b/map_b, or X vetoes gametype and Y vetoes map. Oh, and once again load map after vote.
edit: Glad to see Demon D & Believe the hype shat on Classic after last night's fiasco
StUnNeR H2K
Member
Stormtrooper30 said:
Agree, the option to boot a party member in World of Warcraft during a random instance is abused. I have no clue how many times I was kicked by vote of the rest of the group for no reason. I think a better way of dealing with the system is to create a seperate prefer/not-prefer feature after playing a game with someone that will avoid you from being matched with them specifically on your team. I use the XBOX Live system for the prefer/not-prefer but I don't know how many times I've put someone on don't prefer to end up playing with them the next few games.... :|
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Ugh, everytime someone bumps this thread, I keep thinking it's because they're saying that scans and new info on Reach have leaked online.
The Librarian
Banned
Love what you've done with your avatar.Domino Theory said:Ugh, everytime someone bumps this thread, I keep thinking it's because they're saying that scans and new info on Reach have leaked online.
The Librarian
Banned
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Dax01 said:
That really is awesome.
Steal Gears 2's voting system (choose between two maps and two gametypes) and make the votes hidden. I can't stress how important it is to have the votes hidden. It makes no sense why they need to display the current votes, all that does is turn it into a game of what does the other team want to play and lets pick the opposite one. The voting process should only be about what each person really wants to play.MagniHarvald said:Bastards! (I haven't met them yet, luckily
Veto needs a revamp as well. Either X votes for gametype_a/map_a and Y votes for gametype_b/map_b, or X vetoes gametype and Y vetoes map. Oh, and once again load map after vote.
Halo 3's system sucks because while playing Team ARs on the Pit sucks ass, I'd rather do that veto and find out I have to play team rockets on the pit.
Team Dual's on Snowbound? Veto.. oh wait we will get Team Slayer (AR Start) on Valhalla.EazyB said:
And what is up with the Banshee not being in Team Slayer BR's on Valhalla, but on AR starts it is there? seriously WTF..Its like, oh hey look you got a shitty start weapon and you will spawn in shitty places, so we are going to give the other team a vehicle that can rain plasma on you while you try to pick up a weapon that doesnt suck or you try to get back in the base.
Dear God what have you created HaloGAF?Louis Wu said:
The Gears system does sound unique, and more balanced for users.Nutter said:
As for the Team Slayer stuff, there's only one answer; that's quite clear.
Can't wait until we get more information of some sort of Halo: Reach in the GI magazine. Beats the past current weeks of 'conversation' in here.
To be fair, the BR is useless in bringing down a Banshee, while the AR works pretty well for that task. And there are at least 14 BRs on the map on AR starts TS on Valhalla (4 in each base, plus 3 more on each side), so finding a BR when you need one really isn't that hard. Taking down a banshee when you're out of missiles, though, is pretty rough if there aren't any ARs on the map.Nutter said:
I cringe every time I hear this brought up.Louis Wu said:To be fair, the BR is useless in bringing down a Banshee, while the AR works pretty well for that task. And there are at least 14 BRs on the map on AR starts TS on Valhalla (4 in each base, plus 3 more on each side), so finding a BR when you need one really isn't that hard. Taking down a banshee when you're out of missiles, though, is pretty rough if there aren't any ARs on the map.
Why?EazyB said:
(I've been playing a lot of social slayer recently, so I've been playing a lot of games on Valhalla, with AR starts. Almost 40% of my ranked kills are with a BR (only 19% social, but that's because I played a lot of Grifball), so I can say it's a weapon I look for - and it's rarely one I can't find.)
The Librarian
Banned
You're on the verge of pissing in Eazy's Master Chief cereal. Be careful.Louis Wu said:
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Louis Wu said:
We should be able to choose our own weapon period. I hate not having a BR when I need one. Regardless of how many BRs there are on the map, there is always not enough. It is also incredibly stupid that I need to go to a location to pic up my weapon of choice. What was accomplished with it? I don't understand the design decision. I am by no means a BR whore, its just that Valhalla its unplayable when the enemies have BRs and you don't.
I'm assuming teams of 5. Each base has 4 BRs but a 5th can be grabbed of the mancannon. That's fine assuming all 5 have spawned.Louis Wu said:
The problems arise when you (and a your teammates) spawn at river (0 BRs) cave and hotgates (1 or 2 BRs). There are a ton of circumstances (BRs aren't always there) where you'll find yourself without a BR and rendered useless to your team until you travel for a good while and only then can you actually resume playing. Even in an ideal situation, where there's always 5 BRs a couple feet away, not spawning with one serves no point other than to be an inconvenience in the best scenarios and as too often the case, a terrible disadvantage to respawning players who are already disadvantaged by map control and maybe power weapon control. IMO it's not that AR combat is worse than BR firefights that makes AR starts so painful (though I do believe it to be true), it's the disadvantages of having the respawning team face off BR vs. AR that really remains Halo 3's most frustrating aspect. In deathmatch games it's almost managable because the AR wielders can just camp or draw the BR players into close range, but in objective games it can be miserable.
Valhalla actually does have one of the best distributions of mid-range weapons but that only speaks to how poorly other maps handle it. This is why I consider "but there's mid-range weapons all across the map" to be a terrible argument for not spawning with a mid-range weapon.
Before I go to bed every night I say a quick prayer that Reach doesn't maintain these issues.
Oh, don't even get me started on the spartan laser. That fucking, baby raping piece of goat shit breaks Valhalla more than anything else.Louis Wu said:
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Letters said:
omg....epic! :lol
Revengeance
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:lol :lol :lol So amazing.Letters said:
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CrazedArabMan
Member
How can a thread be so awesome even before we get new info. :lol