The Lamonster
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That doesn't make sense because the majority of that 20k comes from commendations, which you can only get once.IronRinn said:
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Shake Appeal
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My spartan is still what it was on day one and I don't have a division percentile. I'm sure they'll show up sooner or later.pyrealnova said:
17 games in one sitting may seem easy, but damn, 17 games can be long... :\
pyrealnova, your Spartan's armor is NOT supposed to update, because those servers are now down and will not be up again until there's less people hammering them.
But things like the CoOp run... it's odd.
But guess what, back when i had never played a single CoOp Campaign level, my B.net profile said i was playing it in Normal. and after some time, it said that i completed it in Normal.
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pyrealnova, your Spartan's armor is NOT supposed to update, because those servers are now down and will not be up again until there's less people hammering them.
But things like the CoOp run... it's odd.
But guess what, back when i had never played a single CoOp Campaign level, my B.net profile said i was playing it in Normal. and after some time, it said that i completed it in Normal.
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The Lamonster
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Thanks Bungie for encouraging us to play tons and tons of Gruntpocalypse so our Spartans can look like we want them to.IronRinn said:
I love filling bars!
Shake Appeal
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Wait, how does Firefight suck in Reach?
metareferential
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Wizpig said:
Well, you don't deserve that voice, after all.
The Lamonster
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Why did they have the voices for Firefight only? This is the 5th Halo game and all the Spartans still sound exactly the same...
Hypertrooper
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Firefight needs more luv here. There are so many customization options. I'll try to start a weekly firefight challenge(graphics are made by mik2121) and i guess it'll start this weekend.Shake Appeal said:
Too expensive for me now, I'm not farming credits, just playing normally, so it'll be a good while till I can afford higher tier stuff.Wizpig said:
Damn :lolWizpig said:The problem is that, since it's just for firefight (and firefight sucks in Reach) it's like a waste of good credits.
At least let me explain.metareferential said:
In ODST, everyone played in the same way, and there was no lag at all, just like in Campaign.
In Reach, first of all, I experience input lag in at least 8 games out of 10.
We tried to switch "party leader" and when i had no lag, another member of my party had lag.
And i have the same connection I had back when i played ODST. and Open NAT of course.
And that's not the only problem i have with Firefight.
The other problem is that all of this "cool customization" is ONLY used to cheat Achievements (how sad) and ruined the whole high-score thing.
Nobody plays Firefight for the hi-score like they did in ODST, the play it to cheat achievements and for the daily challenges.
Firefight Matchmaking is the shittiest thing ever.
1-set only? wtf? and of course, input lag.
Hopefully, we'll get Classic Firefight in Matchmaking sometime soon, but if they don't fix the lag...
DJ Lushious
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Would you mind explaining the "Target Locator thing on ONI?" I've not really pursued how to cheese Reach into giving more credits, but this interests me greatly. :lolThe Lamonster said:
xxjuicesxx
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Chorazin said:
I think his point was why don't we hear those voices in things other than Firefight...
metareferential
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Wizpig said:
But this has nothing to do with Firefight in Reach as a game mode.
It's you ranting about people playing it in a wrong way and problems with your connections.
I agree though on the classic firefight part: we need to get it into matchmaking.
I don't have lag problems, luckily.
Sure, my connection.metareferential said:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&...=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=84f34ab5383c7ee9
It's certainly not the game's netcode.
metareferential
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Wizpig said:
It is the game's netcode.
Since it is completely different from matchmaking netcode, you need just one player to lag, to drag everyone into the lagfest.
As I said, I've never had any problem. Just like many other gaffers here, If I correctly recall.
xxjuicesxx said:
Oh, well, I get that. But I wouldn't want my dude in MP screaming RELOADING!! when there is an enemy player around the corner.
Wizpig said:
At least the connection isn't dropping 50% of the time, and you can find other people to play with via Matchmaking.
And Score Attack is the new high score, when the Firefight playlist updates I'm sure we'll see a unlimited round SA for 1 person and for 4.
Photolysis
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Wizpig said:
A broken player investment system does that. You don't get credits for playing Firefight (outside of MM), so people won't play it much.
I totally forgot about the arena last month so I'm going to play it this month to get a rating but I have a quick question. I know you have to do three games for a certain amount of days to get a rank, but what after then? Do you have to keep playing 3 games a day to keep that rating or can you just forget about arena until the next season?
The Lamonster
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What is the motive to get a rating? Why should I care? Credits? I know there isn't an achievement for Arena...OMG Aero said:
Scarecrow
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bungie must have done something to the credit farming. when i first started doing a bunch of Gruntpocalypse, I'd get b/n 1500-2k. That's without the occasional commendations that would come with it. Now I get maybe 150-200 as a mode completion stat with the extra stuff thrown in, barely making to even 1k.
On the Oni level, you also don't get much credit for killing dudes with the target locater. Watching old vids, you can see people getting 200cr at a time. By the time I tried it out, the max I got was in the 90s, and it has reduced precipitously since. The only advantage to the level now is getting the commendations.
On the Oni level, you also don't get much credit for killing dudes with the target locater. Watching old vids, you can see people getting 200cr at a time. By the time I tried it out, the max I got was in the 90s, and it has reduced precipitously since. The only advantage to the level now is getting the commendations.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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Agreed about the shortness of the games, ODST was way too ling (1 to 2 hours per game) but now the only modes to pick in MM are 10 minute, unlimited lives and no bonus round affairs.Wizpig said:
Not to mention Lost Platoon was way more fun then any of the maps on offer.
With DLC and update these thing could get better but it doesn't seem like enough people think theres a problem to make Bungie take notice.
I dunno, I play Firefight with my "old" ODST friends, the 4 of us had no problems there, but since there's obviously input lag here, something has to be done.
Basically, we want to do the 1 mil Achievement "legit", without infinite ammo and health or things like that.
But with that amount of lag... the shitty thing is that when i had this really smooth game (just like playing offline) one of my friends was lagging, as i said.
Living in Italy, i have a shitty connection that doesn't reach 1 MB of Upload. (around 10 MB of download though)
But if this connection was enough for Halo 3 and ODST... :'(
OMG Aero, you need to play 3 games per day.
And you need to play those 3 games per day for 7 days. (or 10 days, sorry, i forgot).
Since the Arena lasts more than 10 days, it's not that hard to obtain a rank.
Basically, we want to do the 1 mil Achievement "legit", without infinite ammo and health or things like that.
But with that amount of lag... the shitty thing is that when i had this really smooth game (just like playing offline) one of my friends was lagging, as i said.
Living in Italy, i have a shitty connection that doesn't reach 1 MB of Upload. (around 10 MB of download though)
But if this connection was enough for Halo 3 and ODST... :'(
OMG Aero, you need to play 3 games per day.
And you need to play those 3 games per day for 7 days. (or 10 days, sorry, i forgot).
Since the Arena lasts more than 10 days, it's not that hard to obtain a rank.
OMG Aero said:
I believe if you read their break down of arena it talks about how only a certain % will get into divisions. For instance, the top 5% will get into Onyx. If someone were to play and beat the last persons ratings (for 7 days assuming that person stopped once they got into onyx) I don't know if they would take over that position or what.
Gui_PT said:
Nope, it just reset. Maybe it's my connection or something but this really sucks, especially because matchmaking in this game is terrible.
Edit: Holy balls another game of SWAT after like four god damn games of snipers. I'm just going to hide in the corner and get a drink I guess.
Neuromancer
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The Lamonster said:
The motive is to test and see how you matchup against everyone. It's for those of us who are competitive and enjoy that sort of thing. Part of the fun with video games is measuring yourself against the competition out there. It was lots of fun to get placed in a division in Starcraft 2 and work my way up to the highest rank. I'm glad Bungie took a similar route that Blizzard did with ranking its players.The Lamonster said:
Btw, for whatever reason my gamerscore is saying that I'm missing an achievement when in fact I have every achievement completed now. When I look at my Reach score on the dashboard it shows 48/49, but when I compare the game with a friend it shows I have all 1000 points. Anyone else having this problem?
The Lamonster
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Until my Spartan looks the way I want him to, I'm in it for the credits.OMG Aero said:
Someone on your group must be screwing things up for everyone. Are you asking for everyone to shutdown their porn torrents before initiating the games??Wizpig said:
I live in Venezuela, in my local group we all have about 1.5 down and 0.5 up, and we play lagless Firefight customs. We always felt lag on ODST, the FF netcode has definitely improved here. We're all on the same ISP though.
It's reasonable, you're not supposed to be unlocking everything on month one. Where's the satisfaction on finally buying some amazing stuff if you only had to walk around with inferior items for a few days or weeks?Neuromancer said:
Neuromancer
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Not that many people want to play never-ending Firefight. I know I don't. I thought it got really boring in ODST. I'd much rather have matches that lasted 10-15 minutes personally. You could always do custom games, you know.Wizpig said:
Me too, I got it real bad. Need those ODST shoulder pads and that wrist tacpad... Anything after that will just be gravy so I'll probably spend more time in custom firefights then.The Lamonster said:
bobs...onGaf
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Woah modders have got past the rank limit and have managed to rank up to the highest rank. Im not sure I should post the link here but some of the later ranks are insane - literally millions of CR between ranks!
Even getting from colenal to brigadier for example is going to take 220K - all the ranks are within that sort of limit. Ranking up is going to take AGES.
Even getting from colenal to brigadier for example is going to take 220K
- all the ranks are within that sort of limit. Ranking up is going to take AGES.Glowingmonx
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bobs99 ... said:Woah modders have got past the rank limit and have managed to rank up to the highest rank. Im not sure I should post the link here but some of the later ranks are insane - literally millions of CR between ranks!
Even getting from colenal to brigadier for example is going to take 220K
Yeah getting to 5 star general in halo 3 only took like 4 days
zero margin
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two killing sprees in the same game, hmm. Probably be easiest in BTB or invasion.
spoiler tag it and post it!bobs99 ... said:Woah modders have got past the rank limit and have managed to rank up to the highest rank. Im not sure I should post the link here but some of the later ranks are insane - literally millions of CR between ranks!
Even getting from colenal to brigadier for example is going to take 220K
Sai-kun said:
Here's a link to the thread with images and Cr amounts
http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/topic/316145-more-reach-ranks/
All Halo Reach ranks+images click at own risk.
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