:O Difficulty? I just reached 100k, still nothing I want to spend it on =\.
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:O Difficulty? I just reached 100k, still nothing I want to spend it on =\.
Finished campaign on Heroic, screwed around in Firefight a bit, and played precisely one Matchmaking game before stopping.
The campaign's not nearly as smart, affecting, or well-written as Bungie seems to think it is, but it's still far ahead of the convoluted tangle of retcons and loose plot threads that was Halo 3. Having a self-contained story that makes the game approachable while still tying it in to the trilogy was a much better plan. Oh and it's pretty fun to play too, although I never really got the feeling that I was participating in a planet-scale war. There's still a lot of improvement and change from H3, which is very nice seeing how similar H2 and 3 were. Looks like Bungie really can make a great sequel if they try.
I only played one Matchmaking game because I have other shit to get done as soon as I finish this post, but it was a Team Elite Slayer match on Reflection, and it was actually quite enjoyable. Holograms are so fun to screw around with. No doubt I'll start hating it again as soon as I get up into higher ranks, but first impressions are very, very good across the board.
Oh, and I looked at Forge World for ~10 seconds before getting overwhelmed and backing out to go play around with the Firefight settings.
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I've only spent 4k on armour, the rest has been saved. Lots of matchmaking, lots of FF :D lots of winning. Apparently I've won 26 competitive games.
I think I'm already addicted =\, I've never seen anyone above my rank, and I've never seen any one same as my rank (Warrant Officer Grade 1) and I'm so keen to keep that up lol. Once you hit warrant officer, wow it goes super slow. 33000 is my current target.
I don't know how I missed it the first run through the campaign but to anyone who wants the "If They Came to Hear Me Beg" achievement
Yeah Timo, but its CRAZY hard. You need to NOT be sprinting in the air, otherwise it won't count. So run jump, then when your above him push back on left stick, then go for assassination.
So uhhh, where is the legendary commentary?
Finished the campaign, now I can return to Modacity without getting spoiled by the front page's summary bar XD
Anyone not able to trigger credits if playing coop on live? Also, I was playing with a few friends from Bungie and they have the coolest visor ever...
I saw someone with a flaming helmet earlier.
The see through one that shows the skeleton? Link or it didn't happen
Also WTF how did this guy level so quick and why does it say next rank is captain, if he's a general, the leutenait level requires 450k
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/De...azgriz+pl&sg=0
This game is just amazing, I can keep playing it :)
One thing I didn't find however is how to set the halo CE badge (I entered my key on b.net)
just beat legendary by myself...last part of mission 10 is a bitch...fucking banshees are more accurate than the phantoms
also i cant get the survive a fall by assasinating an elite in that one mission, i keep pulling it off, but its not counting it
Playing my way through sp legendary now, on the third mission the bloody covenant are evil, they pan out in teams and hunt you down, I was hiding in a room with invisible on, and a team of 2 jackles and an elite walked past me , stayed in the room , looked around abit then walked off looking for me after I had just hit them and took out 2 grunts from their squad. Anyone else notice how smart the AI are?
AI is very smart when it comes to you using your armour abilities. Like they know when your just coming out of armour lock, they know to wait till you step out of the overshield thingy.
Just got Warrant Officer Grade 2 :D 115k cR.
Ugh, progress-halting bug on the 6th mission. At the end of the "Bullfrog" jetpack section, you have to clear a landing pad and two shade turrets are marked. I used the jetpack to get to the upper balcony of a building full of Brutes and walked around to the back, using an FRG to kill the turrets. Because Shades is dicks, right? Anyway, a Phantom shows up to drop off Brutes and jackals and I kill everyone. Nothing happens. Load checkpoint, repeat, nothing happens. I back out of the game, load it up, kill everything, nothing happens. Just a bunch of random civilians running into walls and getting stuck.
I figure it's because I killed the turrets before the phantom shows up and broke some half-assed script. Now I have to go back to Rally Point Alpha and redo the whole goddamn thing on Legendary. Rally Point Bravo picks up right after this part that won't advance.
Also, on my first Heroic run through, I got a checkpoint as I was sliding off a cliff into water. I'm still not sure how I pulled out of it. The previous checkpoint failsafe code wasn't kicking in, because I was taking too long to die. I watched Giant Bomb's video review and they showed a Warthog get a checkpoint as it was flying off a cliff. Embarrassing.
I've worked out, I've only spent 3k on armour, it takes 112k to get to Warrant Officer Grade 2.
Yeah, but Invis rocks their shit when I use it. I'm mean with it. I just crouch walk my way to the Elites standing guard, thinking the worst thing that will happen is some Marines hopelessly trying to win back their planet. Man, were they wrong. I'm also cruel with it in Matchmaking. Not only do I wait (I mean, for like, 30 seconds) for people in matchmaking just to happen to walk by while I have invis on, but I also do it to purposely use the assassination animation and make them be like "OMG WHERE DID HE COME FROM?!!!"
Is anyone else tremendously scared of betrayal booting now? One betrayal and the menu pops right up to kick the probably accidental betrayal. I know mine are and thankfully I've only been kicked once for a rocket explosion that took another enemy with it (I think).
Next: Captain (13 of 66000)........WTF? Thats double, what I just had to do to rank up. It doubles every time? :(
That happened to me one the Sword Base. Try posting your possible script breaking bug on b.net. Too bad they don't allow you to upload saves...so gamers could help them with repos.
Yeah, but thankfully it's a cumulative process. I waited until I got 100k to get Cortana as my FF voice.
You could easily get that much in a day. Also, Bungie didn't want people getting Interceptor or w/e the highest rank is in the first 5 days of the game coming out so yeah, it's gonna at least double for each new rank (and each grade will probably be the same as the one before).
I'm after the thunderstorm armour effect, that's all B)
I was uh playing the space mission, around the parts where you have to shoot down the phantoms, I got killed after I killed the last phantom right when there was a checkpoint and it looped for about 15 times until it went back a checkpoint to the part where you need to destroy the phantoms.
I almost thought I had to redo the entire level :smith:
C:
spolier btw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrv6...layer_embedded
Question: Does anyone else have the problem with Xbox live disconnecting?While playing a game?Specifically Reach?
Yeah, it always happens to me about 3/4 through the game.
Also, got this when I signed into Reach just now:
Quote:
You have left too many games recently, if you leave anymore you will not be able to join games quickly
http://www.bungie.net/ban
66,000 credits in a day? Yeah its probably do able, but you would have to go nuts all out. It wouldnt be 'easy'. Daily challenges do help alot, although todays is 150 MP kills. It wouldnt be too bad, if you didnt miss a huge chunk of the challenge time :P
I have 150k saved, when I level up I will be able to purchase the Scout helmet, which I probably wont. Basically I gotta wait along time to buy a helmet I really want.
Now I have 70k
I've never had that disconnect problem.
Searched a little on google, and it could be my NAT. However i don't see how that could disconnect me in Forge or Campaign as well. Did you perhaps install Reach on your xbox? Maybe that could have unfortunate problems with xbox 360 slim :/
Oh also i checked this morning on Xbox Live status and it seemed like there was problems with logging in, So i thought it would work now, but i guess not.
Got the Ban warning as well..
My NAT is open, so it can't be that. I also don't have it installed onto my HDD, because I have a 60 gig. I'm pretty sure it's just my internet.
I'm using the integrated wireless adapter, Going to try a different game as well as a wired connection. What are you currently using?
Sorry for going offtopic in the Reach discussion thread. Also didnt have the problem the night i installed Halo reach - Completed five levels and then it happened the day after.
I've actually had the Xbox LIVE disconnecting thing. The worst part is that it happened halfway through the campaign, and I went through 4 levels before realizing that I was disconnected...And it cost me the weekly challenge (although I'll just go replay them this weekend)
Has it happened more after that?
now im not having a problem and my 360 has been to the repair shop once and the adapter is crapping itself from time to time
also go to bungie.net and look ath the reach forums, so much whining...its like they never played the original halo and know nothing about tank camping in blood gulch
Think i fixed it. For me it was as easy as changing the position of the antenna on the router. I hope thats it.
You do get credits, but its limited to 1,000 a day. Seems like me and Korn are having a race to Captain.
Yay I got my account back finnaly, hit me up for anything reach related on my GT: pLaTiiNuM vX (im gonna change this soon)
So I just got a blue visor :) And to prove that things come in multicolours, I also got the red rings of death :)
:/
Is it even possible to hold court in the mass driver? I couldn't even do it on Heroic. The only way I can pass that part is to get out and hide until the music kicks in. I just don't get it.Is it as stupid as it seems?
I'm having a tough time figuring out which is my favorite mission, but I can say my least favorite is New Alexandria. Infinitely spawning Banshees, a night club full of Hunters, a seriously pathetic use of Ivory Tower featuring infinitely spawning Drones, and the cumulative damage on your Falcon that makes it a brittle, smoldering wreck emitting smoke to impair your ability to aim.
On a positive note, I actually enjoyed the space combat after being very skeptical. I really like that mission overall. Great sense of scale.
Just got up to New Alexandria on Legendary SP, Exodus was abit of a bitch, worst so far has been Nightfall then Long Night of Solace when your in the ship. I am dreading the final stand off at the labs enterance on the last level atm.
Long Night of Solace when you are leaving the bridge is like impossible. Other than that, the level is pretty reasonable.
Nightfall was OK...seemed like a normal legendary level to me. Tip of the Spear, however, really angered me at the part right before you get on to the falcon. The two hunters in the AA turret SUCK, and there's literally no ammo or healthpacks anywhere on that level.
New Alexandria was fine for me. I ran past all of the hunters, destroyed the jammer, and ran past the hunters out the door. Ivory Tower was done the same way.
The last battle on The Package actually isn't too hard. I beat it twice on legendary. You can let the AI back you up, so it's not as difficult as playing firefight on legendary alone.
The last battle on The Pillar of Autumn though.......my god. Talk about an absolute lack of any useful weapons... Hope you are really good with the plasma repeater!
Campaign rant. The campaign was actually really good overall, but there is some awful stuff I want to rant about.
I'm half way through Legendary Solo at the moment (Just started the level Exodus) and I am scared as shit for the final encounter where your waiting for the pelican because I ran out of useful weapons and ammo in that encounter on Normal ffs!
I was gob-smacked at how easy Long Night of Solace was on Legendary, I even got the achievement for disabling the corvettes engines and then taking out all its escorts in under 3mins... and I wasn't even trying to get it. <3 Achievements like that.
Anyway, only Exodus (my most hated level), The Halsey Lab Battle and the final encounter that are going to pain me to complete on legendary now... Unfortunately I'm moving 300 miles to Bournemouth tomorrow morning so i probably won't have solo legendary done for a good few days yet.
Me, pook, sever and tobi played a game of 1 flag on Hemorrage. I was decimating in the tank, but at the start of a new round the enemy tank shot my turret off. Me and pook were still alive driving around in a turretless tank. I'll get some screens up on my file share later.
I hated the campaign to be honest, the gameplay was too much like ODST. I have to agree with Arteen alot on most of the things, there was never a true Halo mission in the entire game either. The story and how it affected gameplay was also boring as well in my opinion. I've been liking the multiplayer in the game however.
It feels like most of the missions I've played so far, if not all of them, include a "capture this point" objective, followed by a "defend this point" objective. Is the whole game like this?
Arteen, completely agree with you on almost everything. I didn't mind the character deaths, however. Sure, some were predictable and others were stupid, but they were limited to a 1 minute cutscene. I just wish they spent more time building personalities and connections with the other members of Noble Team, so I would actually care when they died.
Despite what you said about Long Night of Solace, I really liked the level. My only gripe with it is how there were too many waves in space. Otherwise, I loved being on Reach, in space, and on the Corvette. It was a great balance between air and foot combat.
I hated how they didn't elaborate on anything about the forerunner structure or Cortana... I was praying they were going to touch on the forerunner construct they excavated in ODST (forerunner_bridge is the name of the bitmap), but we'll have to wait for Halo 4 :|.
When I finished The Package for the first time, I was like "oh shit the next 4 levels are going to be sweet" only to be met with the credits screen after the closing cutscene of the next level. The Pillar of Autumn wasn't a last level. Other than Noble Team being dead, there was nothing else to mark it as the last level of the game. You had an extremely simple objective with hardly any "panic" at all. There wasn't even any winding down of the plot, or any "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD" event. In Halo 1, the goal of the latter half of the game was to stop Halo from being activated, which eventually leads to the most awesome level ever of you destroying the Pillar. In Halo 2, the second half is about stopping Tartarus from activating Halo, which leads to a big control room battle AFTER the ring has already been activated and is charging (pretty intense). In Halo 3, you stop Truth from activating the rings, but the flood come in and you need to stop them, so you find Cortana who has the Index and activate the ring, which is this huge classic warthog run of awesome.
Halo Reach had none of that. The only goal was to deliver Cortana to Keyes. Wow. And it was only one level.
Oh, and about your comment on Tip of the Spear's wasted potential. Agree agree agree. I believe Bungie originally planned for a massive ground vs air battle as we saw in one of the early internal preview videos Bungie showed at PAX. I really wish they didn't remove it. A huge vehicle battle in a desert would have been pretty sweet.
To clarify, I wasn't trying to say New Alexandria is too hard, I was trying to say how it was bad (relatively). It probably is the easiest level on Legendary. I don't appreciate infinitely spawning ANYTHING. I want the satisfaction of being able to clear a zone. Killing enemies that are just going to be replaced is something I expect to avoid when I'm playing a Halo game. Leave that crap to Call of Duty, so I can not play that.
And yeah, it is easy to run past the 4 Hunters, but I don't want to run past them. That's my problem with it.
There's really only one part of that level that's hard on Legendary -- a bunch of jump-pack Elites show up out of nowhere. I found a spot where I could get close and shotgun them, but they couldn't get at me. I'd probably still be there if I didn't find that spot.
So, I completed Legendary, but the game screwed me out of credit for Exodus. I ran into that progress halting bug and had to redo the previous Rally Point. Apparently, that's not good enough. You have to redo the level in its entirety. Fucking lame.
tweaking a map in forge called opposing forts
i could use some testers later on in the day, the weapons on map are alittle on the barren side and i need some decent input
I just did this bit, I agree it was a pain with those hunters, so I went around the corner, pushed the coveneant weapon box thingy where you get that sticky launcher, and pushed it to the edge of that cliff, jumped up and blew up the AA gun without encountering hunters. Although you do have to defend the area, thats just slowly picking away at the hunters, nothing too hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jcap
Welcome to Dorset :D Enjoy your stay, you'll be living 40 miles in distance from me :D
Jorge, for someone that has a fucking mini gun, he sure does bitch alot that hes taking fire from a single grunt.
For that part, I just used a Plasma Pistol and DMR combo to beat the Zealot. I shower the grunts with frags and bullets as they walk into the arena though.
The Hunters have a major weakness at last! The needler explosion does so much damage to them. It takes 2-3 in Heroic and probably more on Legendary. Still, it's a start. Also, the Rocket Hog angers me; it doesn't lock on to anything but phantoms, which it really needs to lock onto ghosts, revenant, and Wraiths mainly because they're more obnoxious and frequent (although the Phantom is damn obnoxious now).
I just ran over the Hunters with a Revenant. It takes a couple of passes to bring one down, but it's the easiest way I've found. Also, you can use the Revenant as a platform to get up to the AA.
I just beat Exodus again on Legendary. Anyone notice how inconsistent the checkpoints are? Much more than usual. If you play the same level twice, you'll notice checkpoints that you expect to be there from the first run don't pop, or vice-versa. So annoying. Also of note: if you have an FRG than you plan to backtrack and recover after you finish a battle, it will disappear if you kill more than 1 enemy that has a FRG. It's happened to me twice.
So I'm playing through it again on Heroic, and based on how much I'm raging at the bullshit I find myself subjected to, I doubt I'm doing Legendary anytime soon.
I cannot stress just how retarded friendly AI is. Tip of the Spear, that marine that guns on the rocket warthog managed to wipe out the entire platoon of marines on the bridge before the zealot encounter. Pillar of Autumn, Emile refuses to uncrouch with his shotgun as I'm sitting in a vehicle under fire for him to get in. In fact, I always love how friendlies take their sweet time in walking up to the vehicle seats to get in them when I'm under fire and OH SHIT WRAITH MORTAR INCO- shit I'm dead. I don't see why friendlies, especially other spartans, need to let the warthog chaingun spin down as they fire in bursts at single targets.
Enemies, on the other hand are too smart or otherwise annoying as hell. I can't count how many times an elite decided to take one step to the side the very nanosecond I pull the trigger on my sniper rifle and it misses, how many times I've died from grunts constantly spamming fuel rods, or how often I try to sneak up on anything to have it turn around at the very last second and bitchslap me into next week (e.g. elites, hunters).
I also agree with jcap and Arteen's view on Noble team's members. They're underdeveloped and there isn't enough interaction between them and the player to make one really care about their hastily thrown-in deaths when they happen. Also, was Halsey that much of a bitch in the books? On that note, anyone else notice how the main female characters in Bungie's games have the same exact "serious business turbobitch with the brains to run an op" personality?
Yea, I'm doing a heroic playthrough now. Enemies have a ridiculous pin-point accuracy and there needlers lock on from great distances. Friendlies are just stupid beyond belief, as p0lar explained. During the bull-frogs encounter, at least 4 of my friendlies jumped into the abyss.
The only time I even give a shit about the friendly AI is when they're on my Warthog. That last part of Exodus that uses the firefight map, I gave a Marine my FRG, so he could ride shotgun. He was already in the passenger seat, I ordered him out, swapped weapons with him, and then got in the driver's seat. The dude just started running off with the FRG and some other marine hopped in the passenger. I pretty much had to kill every other Marine in the area, pull up right next to the FRG guy, and lay on the horn to get him in.
But on my next playthrough, the AI cooperated and did things properly. Weird.
I really wish they'd stay the fuck put when I hop out of the hog to flip a switch or something. At least wait 30 seconds before hopping out and stealing it. Shit. Do I have to crap the seat or something?
Anybody else miss Halo before the invincible inept AI companions took root? Felt more bad-ass on Legendary when all the humans are obliterated in 10 seconds and I was the last man standing.
Completed Legendary Single Player , Its easier when you use the hologram and also in the Alexandria level do the Easter Egg on the Disco room, that way the hunters are not in there it makes it alot easier.
Only 2 more achievements to get :D
Needlers and Charged Plasma Pistols have ridiculous mid-air tracking.
Wow, who wrote these achievement descriptions? Halo Reach is the first game I've ever seen that numbers their 9 missions 2-10.
Mission 1 was the opening cutscene, just like H2 and H3.
I was the one who said it, damn you Korn and your fuel rod whoring ;)
Is anyone elses armour not updating on B.net?
I found my legendary play through much easier than heroic. Heroic sucked because for most fights there was generally only one way to go around them (like when you crash your warthog you have to immediately head far off the right if you don't want to instantly die). The only part I found lame was when you were defending the landing pad for Keyes to come down to. There was like two pistols and no DMRs, just assault rifles and shotguns. It was pretty interesting having to change my play style to sprinting ninja though.
Tim, there is a full crate of DMRs, along with a Sniper Rifle on the top deck of the central shack. Explore more.
WTF, I swear I went all the way through that building and only found a sniper rifle (just remembered) and a bunch of ARs :||
They turned it off for a while to reduce server stress
Finished my legendary run today. Was pretty easy.
I have to say, the last level is my least favorite in the game, its pretty boring and monotonous. The rest are absolutely fantastic, except for that the oni environments are used in two distant levels and the courtyard was used at least 3 times.
Is it just me, or did Bungie forget about the idle animations? Or did they stop with that a while ago?
Sick of playing infection on default maps where there's always a spot for the humans to camp the living shit out of zombies. All I want to do is play some FFA and everyone keeps voting for fucking Infection >:C
Kornman rapes with a tank. Hope yall have a big ass hole.
Is it just me...or are skirmishers the new drones?
Everytime I play firefight or score attack...they are the ONLY reason I die. The only.
The hop around and run at RETARDED FUCKIGN SPEEDS, and evade like elites on crack. It doesn't matter if they die fairly easy, there's always 20 of the fuckers
....JUST LIKE GODDAMN DRONES.
I. HATE. SKIRMISHERS.
Also NO ONE ever votes for any race gametypes and it pisses me off. Everyone is too MLG or MLG wannabe to play race. This game is fun but I hate matchmaking for the sheer amount of the fucktards playing this game. Every game is a race for the sniper rifle or a stand off with some stagger walking/strafing DMR faggot.
I'm almost to Captain finally. I've only got about 21k Credits to go, I was going to make it last night but I was falling asleep with the controller in my hand so I said fuck it and went to bed. I should have Captain in a few hours though, and then I can finally slow down and take my freaking time with this game.
beat the game 6 hours 30 minutes, solo legendary, got all the campaign achievements... in one sitting
god DAMN, I don't want to do that again
Warrant Grade 3.
Thanks Tim.
So I've been seeing rumors across multiple forums that the original Mark V helmet is viewable at Captain but unlock at Lt. Colonel. Can anyone confirm this?
Mark V confirmed then. That's my target helmet. I have little under halfway, roughly 52,000+ cR. Looks like I won't be spending big soon.
mk V is 130K with it requiring a rank of LT colonel to purchase...
god damn
So is firefight matchmaking the fastest way to get credits?
Depending on the map and type I can rank around 1300+ per match, sometimes higher in score attack. The only issues I have with score attack are goddamn skirmishers....Oh wait I have issues with anything involving skirmishers...nevermind.
hoppy shit Lt. Colonel is 450000 total cR
Doesn't matter anyway, Bungie has cR capped at Captain right now.
The more and more I play this in standard matchmaking, the more and more it's starting to feel like previous iterations. That is, all everyone ever wants to play is Slayer DMRs; it's still strafing BR-wanking... plus sprint! Oh and don't forget the one person that keeps a mental alarm clock set on the rocket spawn.
I want to play a normal game of Team slayer instead of Swat... I don't like Swat. But everyone else seem to:/
Don't have a problem with Skrimishers. I just headshot them with the pistol or a Needle Rifle, and it's over for them. =|
Also, not getting where this whole "it's just like Halo 2/3 mathcmaking" hate is coming from. The only time I see whoring of the DMR-type weapons is when that's what you spawn with. I have yet to run into a case where the sniper rifle is whored (except on Bloodgulch, but hey, it's been that way since Halo 1). I dunno, maybe I'm just lucky.
Just got to Warrent Officer Grade 3 today, cant wait to get to Captain love the damn Daily Challenges they are addictive.
It's much easier to get headshots with the sniper rifle now :(
I'm only playing BTB, invasion, and firefight, since all the others are filled with swat and snipers kids.
On my way to CPT3 :-D
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/de...er=RhyNoMiiiTe
This guy must have never turned off his xbox in the last week