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GhaleonEB

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Dax01 said:
I noticed the rockets!
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First thing I did was scroll through the weapon lists. All the main guns have a limit of 16, so it's easy to see how many of what is on the map.

Plus, Bungie posted map overviews before that showed them:

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Edit: urk, is it okay to post video/pics? I could do a walkthrough of the maps and render them for the GAF crew suffering without.
 
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Blue Ninja

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Hmm, I've been playing a lot of multiplayer lately... Might as well pick these up for some pan-cam and explosionfest action. The maps look amazing, though I'm kind of disappointed Tempest apparently uses the same Forge palette as Forge World.
 
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Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
SailorDaravon said:
Did you get the codes from Gamestop? I was told that I couldn`t pre-order more than one due to how it ties to the new card/account thing they have going now. I have seen some other chatter online that their Gamestops did not even know how to do the pre-orders though, so it may just be a local store failing though.
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Yeah from GameStop. The manager at my local GameStop is really nice and laid back. She managed to work everything so I could pre-order 15 at once.
 
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MrDaravon

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Domino Theory said:
Yeah from GameStop. The manager at my local GameStop is really nice and laid back. She managed to work everything so I could pre-order 15 at once.
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Glad that worked for you, me buying codes for other people was a bust for me :/
 
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Raide

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Blue Ninja said:
Hmm, I've been playing a lot of multiplayer lately... Might as well pick these up for some pan-cam and explosionfest action. The maps look amazing, though I'm kind of disappointed Tempest apparently uses the same Forge palette as Forge World.
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Would be nice to have some new things to play with but just having a new Forge Space is awesome enough for me. It does get boring trying to find spots in ForgeWorld where you have not made something before. :lol
 
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feel

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only tried Anchor 9 so far, it looks really fantastic (planet Reach, gorgeous), and seems like it could play really well, with the Pit-esque layout (middle dividing wall, a mini-arena on each side), I like it all except for the jetpack-only stop on top of the aircraft.. boo for that bungie, boooooooo

And of course, I have no idea how the outside part will work when the griefer douchebags get their hands on it.
 
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Raide

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Letters said:
only tried Anchor 9 so far, it looks really fantastic (planet Reach, gorgeous), and seems like it could play really well, with the Pit-esque layout (middle divising wall, a mini-arena on each side), I like it all except for the jetpack-only stop on top of the aircraft.. boo for that bungie, boooooooo
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On A9, how far outside can you go before it gives you the Soft Kill warning?
 
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Blue Ninja

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Raide said:
Would be nice to have some new things to play with but just having a new Forge Space is awesome enough for me. It does get boring trying to find spots in ForgeWorld where you have not made something before. :lol
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I got a bit tired of building Forerunner structures, though. :p
 
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NH Apache

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First off, Ghal you are one hell of a gent and a scholar. Same goes for you Urkster.

In Forge on Breakpoint currently, and I want to go ahead and say that I love BTB. Defintely the most fun playlist IMO.

This map will rock with 16 players. It can't wait to play it. It reminds me of an inverted valhalla with a mix of Avalanche, two maps that I love.

I will make sure I'm on tonight and, hell, I'm ready to mess around with them right now if someone is up for it.
 
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Falt

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With new achievements popping tomorrow I figured I'd buckle down and unlock the final achievement I needed for 1000/1000... 40 minutes later.

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God damn... Once I got the method down I was hitting assassination after assassination after assassination. I went into a sort of zen
(senile)
like autopilot. Finally blink bloop. Roll on tomorrow already! :D
 
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feel

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Tempest seems fantastic too, lots of routes for flanking and etc, and I love the setting, it's just a great looking outdoor environment to fight in. :)
 
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big ander

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Hi HaloGAF. I'm hoping this post will be ignored among all the Noble Map Pack discussion.
After beating campaign once, I sort of stopped playing Reach. I loved the campaign. I still love it, and I want to play it more, but I don't quite have the time to do legendary runs.
And I've really tried to get into MP. But I just can't with this game. Some of the basic combat is still so good. But things like armor lock and DMR starts really are game breaking to me. I know you've heard it a thousand times, but AL just completely breaks the flow of gameplay for me. It's not the game I want to play. As for DMR starts: I damn adore the DMR as a support weapon. AR/Pistol starts are perfect to me, and the DMR being a pickup in those gametypes is the ideal use for it. That way, it's like a middle tier specialty weapon.
By now I doubt you care though. You've all heard this so many times :lol I'm still going to come back to this game every once in a while, and I'm hoping to play campaign a bunch over break. But the MP clearly isn't for me.
Enjoy the Noble pack, it looks awesome.
 
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GDJustin

stuck my tongue deep inside Atlus' cookies
I hadn't played Reach since Oct 19 (over 5 weeks) until this weekend. I played some MP on my bro-in-law's account. I expected it to take a while to get into the groove, but man, I gotta say... it felt good. I was back to doming fools with the DMR within the first couple minutes.

Really though, my performance doesn't mean anything. I'm a level ~35 truskill player and he's probably closer to 15 (not very good at all) so all I was really doing was going Beast Mode all over some unsuspecting scrubs :lol

The worst was the game of SWAT, though. Bro-in-law had played 0 SWAT so he wasn't ranked. I went +14 and we won 50-17. One poor dude on the opposing team stayed the entire match, and got ZERO kills. ZERO. I can appreciate not being very good. Especially at SWAT. But... I can't believe he truly went 0-14. :lol

Moral of the story: if you've been feeling burnt out on Halo, play on the account of someone much worse than you and clean up against some noobs.
 
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Shake Appeal

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GDJustin said:
Moral of the story: if you've been feeling burnt out on Halo, play on the account of someone much worse than you and clean up against some noobs.
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Bungie could bring a lot of people back to Reach slowly by switching off TrueSkill in a few playlists.
 
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electricpirate

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Any bronze/iron players up for some arena while waiting for the map pack? hit up electricpirate (with a "I'm from gaf" or something) message if you want to get some games in.
 
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Hey You

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bleahy said:
We give what we get. That's what we're getting from MS PR.
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MS said you could only give them to US residents?

For the Reach beta giveaway you guys did (Which I won a code from <3) I don't remember the news story saying US that time..
 
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Shake Appeal

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Raide said:
I know how it is...*grumble*Forgetacular Contest*grumble* Good luck to everyone that enters!
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To be fair, I think ske7ch mentioned they wanted to open Forgetacular to everyone, but Microsoft couldn't/wouldn't allow it.
 
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bleahy

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Hey You said:
MS said you could only give them to US residents?

For the Reach beta giveaway you guys did (Which I won a code from <3) I don't remember the news story saying US that time..
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I think it has to do with region allocations for the codes. MS Europe will be doing some, MS Canada, etc. We were told US only.
 
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Raide

Member
Shake Appeal said:
To be fair, I think ske7ch mentioned they wanted to open Forgetacular to everyone, but Microsoft couldn't/wouldn't allow it.
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I am having my own personal contest, which is actually finish a map I am working on. :lol
 
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GhaleonEB

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urk said:
Yup!
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K.

You guys want a tour of the maps? Or will that enhance the blue balls?

Eh. It's one day, you'll live.

vv There's plenty of gameplay vids out now, such as Bungie's previews. But I didn't get a feel for the maps from them, which is why I thought a walk-through would be nice. But NM.
 
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Raide

Member
GhaleonEB said:
K.

You guys want a tour of the maps? Or will that enhance the blue balls?
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Would actually prefer some games being played. Would be nice to see some CTF action on the new maps if possible. :D
 
MMaRsu

MMaRsu

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Any giveaways aside from the IGN one? Got no cash at the moment but I'm an avid Halo player and can't wait for the new maps :D.

I just don't wanna miss any giveaways ^^. When is Domino doing his?

Anyway just wanna say this is imo THE best shooter out there right now..screw Black Ops ;).

Im just sick of these forge world maps, they are pretty much all boring..

but yeaaa let's hope :D THE MAN :D Domino can provide ^^
 
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Sai-kun

Banned
MMaRsu said:
Any giveaways aside from the IGN one? Got no cash at the moment but I'm an avid Halo player and can't wait for the new maps :D.

I just don't wanna miss any giveaways ^^. When is Domino doing his?

Anyway just wanna say this is imo THE best shooter out there right now..screw Black Ops ;).

Im just sick of these forge world maps, they are pretty much all boring..

but yeaaa let's hope :D THE MAN :D Domino can provide ^^
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Domino and I will be getting our codes tomorrow.
 
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