Req, do you ever wonder why you even bother playing video games at all?

NOTE: I am not picking on you in any way, shape, or form. This is an honest question.

Try the search filters? It should hook you up with "chatty" people. 'Psyche Options' or something.

This is not so much a problem as it is a fact of life. Team games are team oriented; you want lone wolf they have Rumble Pit. :-\


I bet 40$ you're not shooting it right.

The AR is awesome. As a sort of 'chip damage' support or a mid-range rush down. Fire in burst or spray when you're supporting someone. Everyone I play with love it. The 'rush-to-whack' issue you have is most likely lack of adjusting to the stronger shield.

Learn the map in custom games. Also most people vote DMR games. What hoppers you frequent?

I agree that their map philosophy this time around was vague and perhaps lazy. All the blogs and analysis over their H3 style only to return (literally) to maps they specifically said were lacking their purpose. Eventually DLC and community maps will rectify.

Should the game abort and match-make again even after everything's loaded? What other game solves the issue of players quitting/DCing at the top of a match? How is that a 'Halo Reach' problem?
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Anyway, people need to start voting and when they do - stop voting for Sniper games. SWAT I don't mind as much but I'm sick of people essentially recon whoring BC2 style.

Also great to hear the legions of suburban ganstas reppin their elementary school. Halo attracts this like no other game.

<font color=goldenrod>My best friend beat this within a few hours of buying it. Hope he likes online cause otherwise I'd feel like punching myself for beating the game that quickly.</font> :o

Just did a 4 on 4 team slayer on Ivory Tower (gonna call it that, cause that's what it is)

My team blew balls.. I ended up going 28-2-11.. meaning positive 17. Everyone on my team had 9-1-12, 8-1-11, and 5-2-13.. lol

Held my team together by myself pretty much, and we won 50 to 47

Got Bronze in Jack of All Trades during the game, 12 beatdowns, 7 headshots, 2 killing sprees, , 2 needle kills, 2, assists, 2 revenges, 1 double kill, 1 killjoy, 1 first strike, 1 reload this, 1 headcase, 1 pull, 1 avenger, and 1 assassin. Might not be that 'amazing', but it was pretty rofl for me when I kept demolishing people. They kept using sword/shottie, until I killed the shottie and stole it and kept them from taking back the top of the tower.

Good shit.

Post your stats. Let's compare.

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/de...C%20Pwnography

Does the spartan model eventually update to look like your current armor setup? Would be cool.

That's an issue with a lot of peeps right now, the armor isn't updating for anyone (including me). Halo 3 had a similar problem.

Hope they fix it, as that would be a pretty cool part of the bungie.net profile.

Gonna get started on my suite of custom games to keep up tradition. Can't wait to put together an epic Invasion game.

Anyone who wants to, add me. Miotch55.

xoxo

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Thought this was pretty cool.

Finished Campaign now :), my favorite so far, so many little things just make the game a complete win...
Loved the easter eggs.
Played the matchmaking too, classic

Could have sworn I posted this somewhere...

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...74&size=medium

Just finished campaign alone on herioc. It was a bitch cant even imagine on Legendary. Didnt get an achievement for it though...wierd.

You should of, there is one for beating it on everything but easy.

Gonna get started on Legendary, would like to co-op it. Started on the highway for my Jeep Wars map. So tedious, but it would not have been easy on Halo 3.

I know its wierd. Gonna try again later.

35 minutes to get 1 Million points in firefight. Good thing too, don't think my ears could've taken anymore shell shock sounds.

Yeah, started on legendary co-op first, turned into a cluster fuck so I went lonewolf...
Each mission took atleast an hour...

Reach didn't go over so well at the Halo party tonight. Split-screen is not very polished. They made a big deal about all this awesome stuff they can do with Forge now, but with 4-player split screen the render distance is HORRIBLE. Can't even play blood gulch because you can't see across half the map. Honestly, it looks extremely cheap graphically as well. Like they just toned the renders way down in order to do what they wanted with the ginormous Forge map, and it just looks poorly done with 4-player on one screen (we play 4 on 4s). Mostly, it was just the render distance that killed it. Small maps, and Bungie maps weren't bad.. but any big map was virtually impossible to play, and was not fun.

We are going to give it more time, to make custom game types and maps, but about half the people didn't like it, and we didn't really have much fun most of the night. Still, I insisted that most of the problems were from not having our own maps yet, and not having the games set up the way we like to play yet.

After a terrible first few nights, me and my guys are finally getting into the groove. I'm stabilizing my win/loss ratio in Team Slayer. My Objectives record is pretty good. My K/D is stabilizing as well.

A little shaky cam and a quick save from my buddy:

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And somebody makes me pay for being a 12yo:

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Man, I hate Paradiso. Seriously.

1 more level to go on legendary, probably could of finished it, but had to stop, hands were killing me, played from 3 to 7.

I don't see how there would be since the ending sets up Halo. Unless you are talking about this

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Which doesn't need to be on legendary.

Anyone know how to change the thing on your name bar next to your rank on multiplayer. I always see people with different ones and I always thought it had to do with you doing something on bungie.com but I cant figure it out. I see people with the halo 2, odst, and 3 logo and others but I was curious how you change it.

Yeah so I bought this.

Played some Arena Doubles earlier and got my 3 games. Think I have like a 1535 rating or something. Played like 8 games or so I think. Was absolutely destroying some faces and even made a team quit out. Lost like 2 games though. One was close.. the other was an absolute thrashing. Couple people knew the map better than we did, and camped a spot with sniper/shottie and sniper/rocket for MOST of the game. Couldn't do anything about it.. We'd kill them, and 15 seconds later they'd be back with the same guns again. Felt like they were spawning with the weapons, as they'd have them back instantly.

Shots of my Halo 3 map "Holdoff" remake, Holdoff 2:

Front and back:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...70&size=medium
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...86&size=medium

Bases:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...70&size=medium
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...88&size=medium

Back area:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...18&size=medium

"War Room":
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...13&size=medium

Can I download it from you? I want to check it out.

It's in my file share. Go for it.

Good lord, I think I might be spending all my time in forge world. Can you unlock a bigger budget, or is that it? Not complaining mind you, just curious.

That's it.

I found just messing around in forge and randomly dropping building blocks around nets you like 4500 xp/credits/whatever you wanna call them in this.

You sure about that? I only ever get 60cR.

Yeah, I almost went through Warrant Officer 2 solely from doing forge.

Bungie are cracking down on Cr farmers

Assassinations are new. Hold the melee button behind your enemy and you'll go into an assassination move. It costs time so you might wanna kill with conventional means during certain games. The animation doesn't change the status automatically, there is a ''kill' frame that can be cheated. Someone could save you during an animation and people can even steal your kill right before you knife a fool.

I don't have live, so doesn't really matter.

There is a 'Legendary' Ending, just like there is with every other Halo game.
Bungie have mentioned it...
People think it is something to do with either, the data pads.
Or
The golden ranger elites, which on the bungie.net medals are called BOBs.
Reference to Marathon for the guys who are Born On Board.
There are 1-2 on each level... Not all have been found yet.
Pretty interesting stuff though, there's a huge thread over at Bungie.net dedicated to finding all of them.

There is also a tribute room with loads of stuff like Red vs Blue and HBO, a secret race track...
And random buttons in rocks which have been found, people don't know what they activate yet.

Really hope they eventually add matchmaking to forge, like like they did with halo 3. Don't really know enough people to get a custom game going.

I beat it on legendary and the ending was exactly the same as normal.

Work in progress map


http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...18&size=medium

Can either grab a jetpack and get to platforming...
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...19&size=medium

....Or take the longer(but less exposed) route to the objective. Whatever that's going to be.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...20&size=medium

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...34&size=medium

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...15&size=medium

Trippy. Be a while before I make my 'sky map'.

You using the coordinates? Very helpful. I lay all my pieces that way now.

Nah, just dove right in.

I'll help playtest anybody's map. WOOOOOOO

Someone mentioned this to me a few hours ago so I decided to look it up a bit.

Bungie is cracking down on those who are somehow resetting the challenges in order to max their score. But from I heard there is a trick in firefight gruntpocalypse that people have been using and Bungie has threatened to ban people but no one has gotten the kick yet. The main thought behind that is Bungie can ban for the challenge thing because they are resetting the system. Cant ban firefight players because they are actually playing the game.

How ever there is a credit cap that you can reach where you wont receive credits anymore. Im not sure if thats just the day or the whole week.

Thought I would never say this, but the spawns on this game are worse than Call of Duty. Other than that been having a pretty good time with Halo. Never really much got into the series, but this game isn't half bad. The community is shit, but the game itself isn't too shabby.



Oh yeah I fucking detest grenades.

Same here, there's loads of stuff you need to do though...
Sort of like the jumping through rings skull on Halo 3...

Me and my bud being unseen:

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The opponents went on to quit the match.

Also, Holdoff 2 is 'finished', as I just placed the weapons down and it's time for playtests. Catch me online!

I wish I had live just so people could play my maps and tell me if they suck or not :( Everyone's been busy so we haven't been able to get our 6 player lan stuff going since before I made my shotgun love and rocket whore maps.

Lol that's class, didn't notice shotty guy at all first time viewing, but when you know he's there lol... Awesome

Fignuts, it looks like your level was fairly irritating to make.


And just because the end is amazing

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At times, yes. Dissapointing that most walkways aren't very long. To save on the budget, I used the only one that is fairly long, but it has an ugly support structure sticking out the bottom.

Also, lots of trial and error with the gravity jump in the middle, and plotting the jet pack platforming.

Also, are there any vehicles that can go across water? Because there should be.

Hoping they release more material to build with as DLC. Would be nice to have more exotic structures, to add a little variety to things. Even just adding covenant stuff would add a lot.

It seems that you can only have so many objects from the building category, no matter what your budget is. Won't let me put any more buildings down unless I delete an existing one. Gay.

Also kalyx, what is this coordinates you speak of?

I had a hell of a time making a bridge for one of the levels I did, trying to combine the biggest one made it to long for what I wanted to do.

The only vehicles that can technically go across water would be the banshee and the falcon.

You have a memory unit? I guess you can take your maps to an online enabled 'Box and upload to your File Share.

Press B while holding a peice and you'll get positioning options, namely rotation snap and coordinates. With coordinates you use the game's cubic positioning and you'll pretty much set every peice in a perfect lock. Even after you move the peice in a position, pressing B and going into the coordinates page will automatically shift the peice to the closest cubic unit. It makes things so fucking smooth and organized you'll wonder why you set pieces yourself.

I showed Khuntry how all of that works and it's better than me talking about it. We should join up later.

Shameless plugs:

Please download and play my Boosh Ball gametype/map. Best with six players. Enjoy and give feedback!

Also playtest Holdoff 2 with friends (FFA and TDM enabled). Give much feedback!

Working on "The Hill 3", an epic KotH map that will give you vertigo.

Project "The Hill 3":

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Sc...26&size=medium

This was a bitch to build because halfway through I discovered a gross mis-measurement and had to readjust the whole damn map. Like the first two 'Hills' in Halo 3 the basic premise of this structure is a KotH game with one hill up top and four teleporters being the only way up there - with a 1/5 chance of being teleported in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a rocket to end your misery.

Should be done by this weekend, no playtest needed.

lol, on one of my levels I have 3 that teleport you up in the sky and you fall to your death. Didn't feel like messing around with wall pieces to wall off such a little area so said fuck it, if anyone tries to get out of the level or hide under the ramp, instant death.

I downloaded Halo 3: The pit, all it was is as soon as you spawn instant death :mad:

People have trouble understanding the distinction between kill zones and safe zones.

My teleport gamble was a key fun-factor in The Hill 1/2. Never had complaints.

I haven't really mess around with to many of the features for forge, but is it possible to create something like the giant spinning turbine fan thingy from Zanzibar?

No.

I wanna build a custom game community, have it look more like the Halo 1/2 days.

Also, BTB is dead to me. Fucking sick of SWAT/Snipers getting crazy votes. Shit needs its own playlist. Actually, SWAT I don't mind, Snipers needs to be in its own shit.

I think any snipers game is gay, and I don't see the appeal for it to have so many votes. Pussy shit.

lol ok

You people must suck at sniping in this game or something. I on the other hand have found that I am better at sniping in this game than in Halo 2 or 3, and so I love playing sniping games.

I love the pistol but I wouldn't want a pistol exclusive gametype. It's not about how good one is, it's just a lame gametype. Not fun at all played correctly.

And if people like it, whatever. I just think it should have its own playlist.

'Not fun at all played correctly'

What does that even mean?

Still have to laugh whenever kalyx mentions "pussy shit" about any game.

Most people play games for fun. And it is fun to one shot kill some guy from across the map. Has nothing to do with being "hardcore" or other such nonsense.

When I legit try to win at snipers, I'm forced to play in such a way that I don't find appealing. Mind you, I can and will use a sniper in any other gametype, but the dynamics of the sniper rifle within the regular sandbox is spat upon in a game where everyone has a sniper rifle. Taking the universal set-up into account I have to maximize counter-sniping and positioning - and what results is a boring race to the bottom.

It's like when you really wanna win a fighting game at a competitive level some of the characters and tactics required just doesn't appeal to people. Imagine an all Sagat mode in vanilla Street Fighter 4. What you would have to do to use Sagat properly would be against Drakul or Blitz' very gameplay philosophy.

Now imagine that mode being picked consistently in the Endless Battles they join, and them having to learn the character despite their feelings. That's not fun. Especially when you have no control over its appearance in a vote and the game doesn't tolerate quitting after the fact.

Funny thing is the people who go for the game see themselves as the 'hardcore' while me and my guys would be the 'scrubs' for not liking the game.

Another funny note is how I'm not even arguing that it should be nixed. You can still have your fun in another playlist.

Wasn't taking offense to your thoughts on the playlist. You are right about that.

I havn't even really touched multiplayer in halo. Hard to get used to after playing COD so long.

You're too busy creating stages from Mario.

Which you should really do.

Dunno, I'd rather make something completely original.

I like making unconventional things, as evidenced by that first map. Gonna work on weapon placement and it will be ready for testing.

Again, I REALLY hope they eventually add matchmaking to forgeworld, or else this will be for nothing tbh.

So basically, Kalyx, you hate snipers gametypes because you are not as good at it as the people who vote for it. Snipers is different than someone picking up a sniper rifle in a normal gametype, and should be treated as such. You're acting like it sucks because all the strategy of the normal gametypes is taken out. But really, it's no different than Slayer DMRs, etc.. except it's slayer snipers. Play it as such.

How would that work? Would the maps have to pass a certification process? Or would it just search players for a host?

Getting a group of guys isn't easy. I gotta start making new buddies.

DMR games still have other weapons in the sandbox, it's more or less 'DMR start' games. Sniper games begin and end with that rifle.

And yeah, one of the reasons I dislike it is because I don't jive in a game full of snipers. That much I admit.

Whether I think it sucks or not takes a backseat to the idea that it should have it's own playlist. There are no losers in that set-up, and thankfully the fuss at the Bungie forums will probably encourage the decision for the Oct. update.

I don't know. I thought I heard that Forge in Halo 3 entually recieved matchmaking. Or was that bogus. Obviously a lot more you can do in forge world.

Honestly, they should take any gametype with a high volume of votes and upgrade it to a hopper. Not only does that award the popularity, it separates it from people who don't like it but have no chance voting it down. Every other gametype in a hopper that gets played more evenly will remain with other evenly played games. Games almost nobody votes should be dropped of course, or at least have light weight in the hopper.

Essentially how Bungie ran Halo 3 for the most part, so I'm not terribly worried. Just pissed I played big team snipers twice in a row last night.

Also, I started posting at this forum called 2old2play. Basically a site for finding new friends on live and psn that are over 25 years old, and not retarded. Played a few sessions of SSFIV with some people, but no halo, rockband, or cod yet.

Good place to make friends and get custom games going though, it seems.

Don't think that ever happened, you probably confused the news that more community maps would added to matchmaking.

Pretty sure there will be forge expansion either in a new 'world' map or somehow a budget extension.

Would rather have more construction options than either of those, tbh. Why in god's name are there no covenant structures?

Also hoping a multiplayer version of space dogfighting gets added. Would be cool if it was like the last battlefront game, where there was a battle in space on the ground, and you could go to either one.