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Ajemsuhgao
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Okay... I completed both Gunslinger challenges, but in game it still shows that I have 100/150 for the second one. 
Barrow Roll
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I haven't completed it yet, but from what I've read from others in this thread that just seems to be the case. You get the credits but the counter for the second Gunslinger seems bugged.Ajemsuhgao said:Okay... I completed both Gunslinger challenges, but in game it still shows that I have 100/150 for the second one.
Ajemsuhgao
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Barrow Roll said:
Yeah. Oh well, not a big deal at all. Doesn't hurt anything. :lol
Barrow Roll
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Pretty weak sauce challenges though. Just do what you already did 50 more times!
Barrow Roll
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Lawl.
So I finally got around to watching the Legendary Edition Commentary and wow, what a let down. I paid for this content, why can't I just download it straight to my hard drive instead of streaming it through Waypoint? Constant buffering sucks. And that wouldn't be so bad if the commentary itself wasn't so friggin boring. Does it get better later? I lost interest after 7 minutes.
So I finally got around to watching the Legendary Edition Commentary and wow, what a let down. I paid for this content, why can't I just download it straight to my hard drive instead of streaming it through Waypoint? Constant buffering sucks. And that wouldn't be so bad if the commentary itself wasn't so friggin boring. Does it get better later? I lost interest after 7 minutes.
timetokill
Banned
I've come to the conclusion that Pinnacle is the worst (my least favorite) map in Reach. The weapon spawns are unbalanced toward the blue team in a big way. Near instant access to the rockets, shotgun and sniper rifle? Oookay.
Also, Elite Slayer is already ruined due to Armor Lock, but Elite Slayer on Multi Team may be the worst experience one can have in Halo.
Also, Elite Slayer is already ruined due to Armor Lock, but Elite Slayer on Multi Team may be the worst experience one can have in Halo.
Zeouterlimits
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Yeah, I poked Frankie about it at launch, he said "they'd look into it, but no promises" and guess it never happened.Falt said:
Which is why I haven't watched it, which is terrible considering I love the Halo 3 Dev Commentary, is fantastic.
ZeOuterlimits said:
That's a pity.
Jason Jones, Joe Staten and Marty O'Donnell ripping on each other for 2+ hours made the H3 commentary. Jason Jones full stop. I don't know why, but I'm facinated by him.
After watching the Reach commentary I went back and watched the H2 and H3 stuff. So much content with H2 and 3. Reach? Not so much. Little disappointing.
Gui_PT said:Who wants to do the co-op challenge?
post dem challenges.
Blastin' and Relaxin' - 2000cR
Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach.
Where There's Smoke... - 500cR
Kill 50 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking.
Iron With Friends - 750cR
Complete a Campaign mission co-op on Heroic or harder with the Iron Skull on.
Linked Up with Bungie.net - 3000cR
Link your gamertag with Bungie.net and play a game in Halo: Reach Matchmaking.
Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach.
Where There's Smoke... - 500cR
Kill 50 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking.
Iron With Friends - 750cR
Complete a Campaign mission co-op on Heroic or harder with the Iron Skull on.
Linked Up with Bungie.net - 3000cR
Link your gamertag with Bungie.net and play a game in Halo: Reach Matchmaking.
The Librarian
Banned
Dani said:
Man... I just had some 3 weird games back to back.
Playing slayer early this morning and I get like 2 minutes in and the game freezes. Then my team and the other team all quit except for me. I'm like "Wow, Not cool." Started playing another slayer game....it happens again. At this point I'm like "hmmmm is this my fault?"
So I load up a Big Team Game and started playing...I get like 40 seconds in and it happens again. I put the controller down and stop playing for awhile :lol. Really weird man... They all quit at the same time too. Not one then two....all the same time.
Playing slayer early this morning and I get like 2 minutes in and the game freezes. Then my team and the other team all quit except for me. I'm like "Wow, Not cool." Started playing another slayer game....it happens again. At this point I'm like "hmmmm is this my fault?"
So I load up a Big Team Game and started playing...I get like 40 seconds in and it happens again. I put the controller down and stop playing for awhile :lol. Really weird man... They all quit at the same time too. Not one then two....all the same time.
Hypertrooper
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Gui_PT said:
Mmh. Looks nice. I guess the coop mission will not work or for me, because my connection is too bad for coop modes like firefight or campaign
But the other stuff is kind of easy
Maybe I'll do the 180kills in MM.Zeouterlimits
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Good day for credits, hope I'm feeling better later.
Hydranockz
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Good day for credits sure but why are Bungie so keen on not rewarding players with more credits for more difficult challenges? It seriously feels like they are arbitrary numbers placed next to existing challenges. No consistencies... Game really doesn't feel polished at all
Hydranockz said:Good day for credits sure but why are Bungie so keen on not rewarding players with more credits for more difficult challenges? It seriously feels like they are arbitrary numbers placed next to existing challenges. No consistencies... Game really doesn't feel polished at all
Inconsistent cR for challenges. Sure. Game not being polished because of it? :lol
xxjuicesxx
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I don't have time to play any Halo but I'll pop in the MM lobby to get the linked up achievement. :lol
rofl - I got a phone call this week from a neighbor; they were having trouble getting online, and when they called tech support, they were told that it might be their modem. She asked if I had a spare they could test, so she didn't have to go buy one if that wasn't really the problem.Plywood said:
"Sure, no problem. A cable modem, right?"
"What? No, no - a regular modem. You know... for dialup."
There was total silence from my end - because I didn't realize anyone around here was still USING regular modems, and was too stunned to speak. After about 5 seconds, she laughed and said "we're not THAT far behind the times, are we?"
"I really wish I could help you - but I haven't had a spare modem around in almost 10 years." (I actually still have one - but it's an emergency line that connects my T1 lines to AT&T directly; it's required by my contract with them. It's certainly not something I can yank out and lend to a neighbor for a bit.)
So yeah... redbars aren't COMPLETELY out of the question yet.
electricpirate
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These one's aren't even really inconsistent at all, cept for maybe the link your account one.
The Librarian
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Would people who have dialup even be allowed to go on XBL?Louis Wu said:rofl - I got a phone call this week from a neighbor; they were having trouble getting online, and when they called tech support, they were told that it might be their modem. She asked if I had a spare they could test, so she didn't have to go buy one if that wasn't really the problem.
"Sure, no problem. A cable modem, right?"
"What? No, no - a regular modem. You know... for dialup."
There was total silence from my end - because I didn't realize anyone around here was still USING regular modems, and was too stunned to speak. After about 5 seconds, she laughed and said "we're not THAT far behind the times, are we?"
"I really wish I could help you - but I haven't had a spare modem around in almost 10 years." (I actually still have one - but it's an emergency line that connects my T1 lines to AT&T directly; it's required by my contract with them. It's certainly not something I can yank out and lend to a neighbor for a bit.)
So yeah... redbars aren't COMPLETELY out of the question yet.
Zeouterlimits
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Yeah, I believe so. Heard of people doing it by sharing their dialup connection via their pc.Dax01 said:
electricpirate
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Dax01 said:
You could theoretically do it if you put your dial up modem on a router, or shared the connection through a normal PC. Though somehow I doubt anyone who is still rocking a 56k modem is going to have the wherewithal to set THAT up.
oddworld18
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Dax01 said:
If you really wanted to you could probably spoof it using Internet Connection Sharing or something similar, but I doubt it would be playable. I bet even something like pulling up the dashboard w/all those ads would be an unpleasant experience. But I don't think Live does a generic bandwidth check when it tries to connect, so yes, in theory, possible.
[edit] dammit, beat.
Hydranockz
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Because of it and just about every other tidbit of the game that when you pile them up, leave the game feeling very unpolished for a game of this calibre, yes.Falt said:
electricpirate
Member
It's also kind of a silly comment, because no one complaining ever actually defines a metric to use for assigning the point value of challenges should be. Should it be time to get the challenge? Should it be difficulty (Throwing fireballs as an example of a high difficulty one), should it be that completing it adds value to your experience (see Armoury challenge and todays)? Should co-op challenges be worth more than campaign challenges because you need to be playing with friends?
So basically yea... comments about the inconsistency of an undefined/nebulous concept are basically really silly, so mostly it's just used as a codeword for "The challenge I will do in the course of my standard playsession isn't giving me enough credits."
So basically yea... comments about the inconsistency of an undefined/nebulous concept are basically really silly, so mostly it's just used as a codeword for "The challenge I will do in the course of my standard playsession isn't giving me enough credits."
cuevas. PhD.
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Quick question about Halo 3, my friend got a new GT on the same Xbox he bought the maps on but when we tried to play it said he didn't have the maps. How does he connect that dlc with his new gt?
brokenwatch
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electricpirate said:
It should be a function of both time and difficulty. Why is that hard to understand? Example- Kill 100 enemies in multiplayer matchmaking is not the same as kill 100 enemies in firefight. Yet in the past they have both had the same credit reward.* 100 enemies in firefight will take about 5 minute in 1 game, and 100 enemies in mm will probably take 10 games at 10 minutes each, at least. Does it make sense to reward them the same? No, not really. But is it the end of the world, no not really either. I think there was also weekly one to get 1000 kills in mm, and it was only worth 4000 credits.
electricpirate said:
OK, I guess that's your opinion. I would just like to see it a bit more fair in how much effort goes into getting a challenge being commensurate with the reward. But again, like I said it's just a tiny reward for playing (and the playing is supposed to be what you enjoy, not the credits) that isn't really worth anything, so I don't understand why so many people get really upset about it.
* Maybe the challenges weren't both 100, but if you divided # of kills by credit reward, it came out to 10 always.
brokenwatch said:
I don't know if this is how Bungie thought when deciding how many credits a challenge is worth, but in my opinion, you'll get way more credits for getting 100 kills in MM because you'll have to play more matches to get those kills than you do in FF.
So, the base credits for both challenges are the same, but you end up getting more for the MM one.
electricpirate
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brokenwatch said:
You'll probably need to be more specific though, credit values have constantly been tweaked along the way, so saying, "It's happened" is much less effective than, "It's happening now."
Onto another subject!
So Reach seems to have lost about ~20% of it's player base from the COD release, (Yesterday at this time the 24 hour rolling count was 920k, today it's 750k). We'll see how the days goes on, but that seems about within expected "Holy shit new game" movement, we'll see how upcoming playlists and map pack releases, affect it.
brokenwatch
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Gui_PT said:
That's a very fair point.
electricpirate said:
Not really check out the history of challenges this month for kill x enemies:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Challenges/2010-November
Kill 250 enemies in any game mode in Reach. 2500 cR
Kill 125 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking. 1250 cR
Kill 250 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking. 2500 cr
Kill 150 enemies in any game mode in Reach. 1500 cR
Kill 10 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking 100 cR
Kill 40 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking. 400 cR
Kill 150 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking. 1500 cR
Hypertrooper
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Spartan: "Hey, this is my best and odd friend Mr. Grunt"TheOddOne said:
Grunt: "Why is there a camera, idiot? I'm really angry right now. Look me into the eyes. LOOK INTO MY DAMN EYES." :lol
I know it isnt funny. :/
Primethius
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Kajiba said:
Sure you weren't getting disconnected? Everyone quitting except you is what it looks like when you DC, at least it did for the one time it happened to me.
Genesis Knight
Member
I do know that the CoD launch in the Midwest where I live was huge compared to Reach. Take that how you will.
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