Not activated yet brudda... Bungie are 'flippin the switch' about 4pm here (UK)... rough estimate (11am/12pm) there.
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Not activated yet brudda... Bungie are 'flippin the switch' about 4pm here (UK)... rough estimate (11am/12pm) there.
Oh, damn. Shat ma pants then haha. Cheers :)
gotten to spooky chapter in BFD, maybe i'll finally be able to beat the game
or if anyone is interested I need to get a few last FF achievements in ODST, anyone up for gettin a few of the 200K point ones?
Which maps you need doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
If I were you guys, I'd have waited until tomorrow to take the day off, then you'd have a full day instead of waiting until 9am PST or w/e
stupid move on our part...oh well I'll have the whole weekend to play it uninterrupted hopefullyQuote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I got the entire week to mess about in it so I'm not worried.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
sevlag, what maps you need doing?
umm security zone, chasm ten
I can help you with security zone if you can find two more players.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
hpc cobby87
9:17 here
I just woke up from sleeping at 3 am.
Nothing still.
I wouldn't bitch too much, its 5:20PM here.Quote:
Originally Posted by DEEhunter
Most of the day has come and past for me.
Blargh, I'm 21 but my XBL account was created way back when I was 15, therefore it's still considered a child account. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get it through their thick skulls that I am legally an adult and I pay for my own goddamn XBL account.
its a thing under account management, xbox 101 covered changing a child to an adult account along time agoQuote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
Who want's to firefight until the beta is available?
DEEhunter1
Hahaha, bungie's website is grinding to a halt right now, tried loading just a few minutes ago and got server too busy warning.
lol noobs.
umad?
Btw, arena is up.
It's out now...
...so many bad kids about to ruin all the Reach fun I've been having, nooo! :(
Anyone know a good way to DIY myself a mic? I have a xbox 360 mic and a few other mics. Should a cut and splice work?
its not out yet...im still getting "preview the beta"Quote:
Originally Posted by Atty
It is out. Go to dash and load up the game again.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
36% already :D
gamertag is General Routon add me if you guys want to hit up some Reach
34% already downloaded =)
Now hope the LIVE servers don't crash
EDIT: Done, gt is nabeele80
95%!!!!
This game sucks you all suck.
Vote Slayer Pro more often kids.
Lol. Slayer Pro confused me because I couldn't quite figure out what the differences were, and then I got killed.
I have homework to do, but thankfully I spammed the beta all weekend so I wouldn't feel obligated to procrastinate today. Tonight however- heh.
Stuck at 28%
Oh jeez- I won't be surprised if there's a total bandwidth drain now that everyone is downloading the 1Gb+ file.
ok so cant connect to servers after like 3 EPIC games
Servers are borked.
hah, I'm not surprised.
heh, another reason why it would have been better for people to skip work\school\life tomorrow instead of todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Siliconmaster
Well this sucks I can't join any games either......
Free For All works after taking forever to download, but Grab Bag is fucked.
grab bag is fun, TOO MUCH STOCKPILE ON POWERHOUSE D:
xbl's bandwidth people must hate bungie right now lmfao. getting to be that time in the US where all the little kiddies get out of school so im sure theyre all downloading and getting ready to cuss incessantly at random people. iv been at 1% for about 5 minutes now.
fake E: turned to 2% while i was typing
noes uQuote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
I dominate on that one, especially on Red Team. The Plasma Repeater is absolute win, just like I thought it'd be. The pistol is also surprisingly useful, even against the DMR. You know what the best part about Reach is, so far? NO MELEE LUNGE! FUCK YES, FINALLY! (or the lunge is so small that I'm not noticing it)
Also, fuck everyone using Stalker. I fucking hate that thing.
i got an open season with shotgun and camo on sword baseQuote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Where is the Shotgun on Powerhouse? I can't find it.
I can't play any matches just keeps on saying "Playlist data pending downoad" only been able to play one match so far.
Mine keeps saying that the reach server is currently down. QQ
I'm happy about this. Positive k/d here I come!Quote:
Originally Posted by Atty
Hilariously enough, today was Senior Ditch Day. (Jee I wonder what a lot of them did >_>)
...damn me for not being a senior.
some problems, but sometimes my armor wont load and that prevents me from joining
Well, I'm at 35% complete, and I've been downloading for the past 45 minutes.
I'll have to find something else to do in the meantime, it seems. :p
they are "working" on the servers at the moment
now to fix the load times
Something about the graphics seems off to me. I dont know if its just my monitor or what.. but they seem.. really low def. if that makes any sense.
its your monitor
Any one else having an issue, where when they hit Sergeant, they get like 26 credits per game, when before I was getting hundreds.
Servers aren't borked anymore, but there's an issue with loading the map sometimes.
Might hit up some games before heading off to bed, long long day it was today =\
would play more but nope...my cunt of a sister has to play modern letdown 2 with her circle jerk of guy friends
So i have to wait till 2:30 pm tomorrow to play and get kicked off AGAIN...I'm gonna go sell modern shitfest this week
Say you had it first...claim seniority...or is she older than you?
I wonder how long it'll be before we see some real Halo CE work done on Reach. Now that the beta's dropped, that is.
Anyone else not downloading Playlist data?
That would be most of us. Too many people on their servers all of a sudden.
i joined in with onotix and thearbiter, arby was playing fine before, and onotix apparently managed to get into a server. i still havent played a game yet :saddowns:
been waiting for over half an hour. main menu's music is p cool. thats all i can tell you about this game
So has anyone played invasion or generator defense yet? Or is that coming later. Because I haven't seen them.
fileshares work with you guys? I can't upload anything.
Perhaps adding them into the playlists is part of the reason why the servers are down? All I've played are team slayer, stockpile, and one-flag CTF.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
Nah, they're getting added on later dates. The only thing that got opened up today was the Arena playlist, and I doubt that caused the server issues. I think it's just the shift from 10,000 people to 1,000,000 in a day that's killing the servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Mine seems to work http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Fi...aspx?fid=32297Quote:
Originally Posted by DEEhunter
Well.
This game is fun.
Yeah, don't see what you guys are complaining about.
Also, pistol is win.
additionally,
Stockpile on Powerhouse is epic fun
E:
Invasion doesn't turn on till Friday, and Generator Defense (Network Test 1) doesn't start until the 14th.
Stockpile is indeed a lot of fun. Powerhouse works the best for it, though Sword Base is pretty fun too. Much more of a clusterfuck though, with all the levels, and falling flags, etc.
After 3 games, I officially suck. I haven't really played any significant amount of competitive Halo since Halo 1 and that was on the PC. Apart from playing BF1943 last summer, I haven't really played competitive FPS since 2005 or so. Oh well, if there's a time to suck, it's now. I just need to find my shot, learn the maps and weapons, and pay more attention to the radar and I'll be okay.
Played a few games with Rob before he left.
<3 Armor Lock. Killed a dude with the burst while he was waiting for me to come out of it.
Armor lock is an interesting ability- on the one hand, you can own the hell out of anyone nearby with the EMP. However, if the other guy has any sense and a few seconds to spare, he can just sit back and then grenade spam you to hell as soon as you emerge from it. In my opinion, pretty darned balanced.
Also, it sounds cool. :downs:
After an hour session, one thing was apparent:
DMR Airborne supremacy :iamafag: No longer will I have to wait for them to pop up their heads. Instead, I can follow them and harass them from the air like the super soldier I was meant to be. Im liking the Halo 1ish features, but am still waiting for the PC version to be announced :\
I heard they were gonna release it right after Halo 3 and ODST PC get released.
IE never ;(
SWAT on Powerhouse is super fun.
I've been downloading it on a 10mbit connection for the past 5 hours and it's still only 70% complete, lol.
Well, I've found that the only way I can truly enjoy this game is by playing it as unconventionally as possible with a bunch of friends.
Pooky, Teekup, and I went in to Free For All with tentative cease-fires and did all sorts of shit to fuck with players. We'd gang up on one person that was being particularly pro and knock them clear off the 1st position on the scoreboard, I'd have them guard me while I sat there with the Oddball, we sat, invisible, on the edge of the destroyed bridge in Powerhouse and took potshots at people as they flew around the center area on jetpacks (nobody ever found us), and we found that the needle rifle is awesome and better than the DMR in every way possible.
Grenades still need to fuck right off, and I managed to cop an awesome mutual kill after an epic profag standoff.
Most fun I've had with the beta since it came out. I just can't play alone.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFF
Just turned the TV on and the 360 controller to see where the download was at. The screen was still dimmed after I turned the controller on so I retardedly press B to wake the 360 up. I was greeted with a "download cancelled" message, and that I could resume the download. However when I went to resume it, it just started again from 1%. It took 7 hours to reach 80%. Now it's at 1.
I accidentally did the same thing yesterday, but after it sat at 1% for a while, it jumped back up to where it left off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timo
OMG, This game is amazing. I was up till 3AM last night waiting for it to download, then I had a game and fucked around in theater.
Go up close to most objects and look at the amount of detail they have put in the textures, its intense. Loving the jetpack :P
There always always seem to be a way to counter someone if your good enough so you can get out of most situations if you are good. I can't seem to assassinate anyone though :( I hold melee which hits them but then I am left standing there holding melee and end up getting killed.
I did sneak behind someone and managed to jump on his back until I got shot in the back.. typical.
Seems like a new game but still Halo, the Beam Rifle is awesome, I had like a 5 kill streak with it, and it was a pisser, killed the same guy like 3 times and I could hear him bitching through my TV (Always loved that feature on Halo 3) and at one point heard him shouting shit whilst he was running off lmfao.
Can't wait to get home now :) Just wished more of my mates would stop being arses and give the game a chance and play it, but they are stuck on Mw2 (Understandable, too many campers these days though). Add me on XBL people, but tell me who you are when you add me: MLB Destroyer (Bitch about my British accent and I will rape you).
Turns out this was the case, thank god.Quote:
Originally Posted by PlasbianX
Also, note that i'm probably no going to be the one playing this most of the time, it'll be one of my flatmates on my account. I don't have a mic either :\
I'm older...but she of course has the parents on her side >.>Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Covy slayer is the best its made of pure win
also alot of profags whining about no BR in Reach-around beta
Can someone explain to me how you assassinate people? Does the player stop assassinating if you get hit by a bullet? Because I have tryed plenty of times and it does not work, apart from once when I took him from behind ;P
you hold down the melee button when you go to hit em in the back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
at school ATM
You don't "stop" assassinating, you can only assassinate when a guy would have died from a normal melee attack. That's the only time it engages. The fact that these guys are shooting you means they had too much health to be taken down from the front.. It's not a power attack, it's purely a visual treat that has no impact on gameplay, other than possibly leaving you vulnerable.
Edit: So wait from the shields to pop and then assassinate?
You can only assassinate from behind. You cannot assassinate from the front, it doesn't work (from what I know!). There are 3 animations, one if you're both in midair, one if you're landing ontop of him, and one if you're both at ground level. You have to melee, make it connect, and hold down the melee button.
But in a video you see a player get punched in the stomach - Of course it may have been removed, but I don't see why :(
WE NEED CUSTOM GAMES BUNGIE!
Now that things are running smoothly If anyone wants to play add me my gamertag is General Routon.
Sorry mate, but it's a beta, not a demoQuote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
If you go look at the Bungie feedback forums its sad. People think Beta means free game. You should have to take an intelligence quiz to play the Beta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I thought they explained that as being the tail-end of an assassination: having hit them from behind, and spun the enemy around to finish with a gut-paunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
I could have sworn I did a couple of head-on assassinations in the 8-10 matches I've played. Times where I'm in a close-quarters fight and I wind up pulling an assassination unexpectedly. Maybe I just got lucky, but it seems unlikely that a guy I'm trading bullets with would turn his back on me. Oh well, it's really not worth all this consternation.
Played a couple rounds yesterday with a friend. Was pretty awesome. It still feels like Halo, but it does feel fresh with the abilities. Expected a bit more, but it's still beta so it could be that much better at full release. Was pretty funny; had my friend baiting people into a room with an over-hanging area, I'd then drop down behind and assassinate them. Lulz ensued between us.
It's fun but I can't say I had more fun playing the beta than I did playing H2 or 3 multiplayer. It just feels like another iteration of the same game with a few tweaks here and there. It's not bad or boring by any means but I'd say don't kid yourself into thinking it's something massively special. Armor abilities are easily more smoothly integrated into combat than equipment was, so I give them praise for that.
I can't understand why they switched the controls though. I really don't get why X isn't for armor abilities. Kinda bugs me, though I'm sure I'll get used to it.
You've always been able to change the layout of the controls. Shouldn't be that big of a deal because of it. Oh and people who think that there's innovation left in FPS': There really isn't ever going to be anything huge added that will completely and utterly revolutionize gameplay. The only thing we'll see in First person shooters are changes in style, and refinement of the current set ups basically from here on out, until people start bringing in more wii-like motion control.
You assassinate when your not in the guys FOV.Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
Dwood, you have no idea what your talking about, there are some pretty revolutionary FPS gameplay elements being worked on right now.
Yeah I love reach. END
Played nearly 60 games since the beta came out last night for me in the UK... I'm addicted... taking a break though.
Examples please, 9mm man.
It won't let me play the Beta :( I've been searching for a game for like an hour now, and it didn't give me anything...I was really excited to play this...but I guess it's not gonna happen. Anybody got any ideas?
I just realised why I can't assassinate anyone, you hold B not RB right? Well, it said that in a video...
You hold whatever button your melee is mapped to(B if you chose the Recon controller configuration)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
NDA, although theres other info on the web.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwood
Beta has got very laggy recently and takes ages to find a game now, before it was near to instant. Least theres noobs who have no idea where weapons are and all that jazz :D
Found the beta menu remix for download.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_YZlNXe_U
Downloading it at the moment.