Not really a fan of the new dashboard. I don't see how it's an improvement, but at least it's more-or-less as functional as the old one.
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Not really a fan of the new dashboard. I don't see how it's an improvement, but at least it's more-or-less as functional as the old one.
IIRC, I disliked the last dashboard change too.
But that doesn't mean I'll fucking grow used to this one. Do they fire the entire design team after every new launch and hire an entire fucking new goon squad? I'd like my old dashboard UI back or at least the option to use it please. Thx.
Just because you launch a new freaking product doesn't mean you have to go and change the whole thing. Unless their research shows that over 50% of consumers will have a higher liking to a new product if everything is fucking new...if that's the case, I blame the average user (and then some) for this fucking ridiculous shit and wish "an unnatural selection would, I don't know, send a power surge directly into their controller killing them, or at least disable them from buying anymore xbox junk.
I thought the avatars would look better, but they just look like they spent time on the rack or had that bone lengthening procedure that insecure dwarfs get.
It would be nice if they actually worked on improving the dashboard so it doesn't take 2 seconds to click between menus.
The new dashboard fucking blows.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
I noticed a slight improvement in reaction speed actually, though it came at the price of a very ugly black and white theme.
Agreed, If I wanted a console with what resembled linux mint for it's GUI i would have got a PS3 and installed linux mint.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
I miss the old blade system where the Xbox 360 actually looked like a console not a cheap ATM rip off.
They're trying to get all their products under the Metro UI. Which is a good thing.
I've been using it since the beta. At first it was as slow as or slower than the NXE, but as they continued adding updates it got faster. I had a second xbox I could compare it to.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds the new UI to be this horrible, buggy, atrocious piece of shit. Not only is it incredibly buggy but it wouldn't let me accept the Terms of Service for half an hour which prevented me from signing on. Not to mention the Avatars themselves look.. off. They didn't look -good- before, but now they just look even more OFF than they did. I can't put my finger on what it is.
Wow what is up with POS xbox? I turn on, have my standard setup of a bridge so I try to download update, it fails a few times and then starts to download.
Stops and fails half way through, so I try again. Now for some reason I have the new UI colours, but I only get My Xbox and some Welcome screen.
I've downloaded the $SystemUpdate9199.zip file, pulled out the folder, tried to burn it to a CD TWICE, and it won't load up...Tried to put it on a USB, still won't see theres new updates.
WTF!?
Wow what is up with POS xbox? I turn on, have my standard setup of a bridge so I try to download update, it fails a few times and then starts to download.
Stops and fails half way through, so I try again. Now for some reason I have the new UI colours, but I only get My Xbox and some Welcome screen.
I've downloaded the $SystemUpdate9199.zip file, pulled out the folder, tried to burn it to a CD TWICE, and it won't load up...Tried to put it on a USB, still won't see theres new updates.
WTF!?
Not really a good thing if it look's worse than it's predecessors.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
I hate when new updates fuck over everything. It seriously is inexcusable with all the supposed beta testing they put this thing through. o.O Anyway, I'm annoyed that Reach's ranks still aren't unlocked. They gotta milk one more day out of it so they can take them off on tuesday, as if a bunch of ranks and armor pieces are going to stop anyone from buying Black Ops if they want it.
I still don't care about the rank cap. I'm only going to care once I'm a brigadier with a few hundred thousand credits to spend.
Also, I hate the dashboard. There is something slightly nauseating about navigating it, especially the friend's list. It's just not smooth like in NXE 1.0.
They really fucked themselves over by associating the xbox brand with the color green. Pretty much forces you toward either a black or white interface. Whatever, I really don't give a shit about the dashboard. They decided that rounded corners were out this year and swim-y animation was in. Amazing. I hope they get paid handsomely for being such geniuses.
Is the only reason why they made a new Dashboard the release of the Kinect? Who the hell is going to even buy it? If I haven't bought a Wii by now, why the hell should the Kinect be any different? I see why it's obnoxious to have a new Dashboard every couple of years (at the least); it's like Microsoft releasing a new Windows everytime you get a new OS. In other words, I hate it when Microsoft uses valuable resources for Dashboards. But whatever. If it's required to run connect, then I'm sure SOMEONE will like it.
Metro UI is awesome. It is smooth, looks good, and performs well. The new Dashboard is essentially a mockery of Metro; Metro has WHITE TEXT on a DARK BACKGROUND. Fuck you Microsoft.Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
Well after what, 4 hours I still havent downloaded it, this is total BS. Wtf Microsoft? Even the support link they quote doesnt work, what a shambles.
Also, UI is in style of PES 2010, which was fugly.
Edit, oh yay its finally installed the update, but guess what, the terms of use won't load and it says its unavailable right now, what does that mean? Yup I can't play any online games.
I think we should take this "this dashboard is so awesome not really" to the tech talk or so, aint reach related but yeah.
E:
http://www.bungie.net/images/News/gr...ge/0Ko634n.jpg
Tomorrow, it better be tomorrow.
It will be, its a playlist update so it ties in reaaaaal nicely, what a coincidence.
What a strange happenstance that it just happens to be on the same days as a playlist update. Go figure huh? Oh well, I'll pick up Reach again when the new ranks hit today. Get to Brigadier and then stop caring. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Limited
CAP LIFTED!!!
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/de...yer=Mr%20Kwatz
Almost to Commander G2
Player model still hasn't updated since the first day :C
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/de...ayer=Limited55Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
My model has NEVER changed.
About 40% to go to Colonel G1.
I know this is you when you finally become a Commander/Colonel/Brigadier (I question you if your a Brig)
I'm saving for gold now. I'll still need to get 50k more cR once i hit Colonel. Then I'm saving for Mk V shoulders, haven't calculated if I'll have enough to buy anything else before buying them.
Gold visor seemed worth it to me, people got mad in-game about my flames and gold visor :realsmug:
Korn's almost a Brigadier. Lol...
The problem with the models appearing on B.net hasn't been figured out yet said Bungie on one of the updates. They don't know exactly why it's happened and they said they're trying to find out daily. I think it's because there are so many people and files playing the games and so many assets that there's clogging of some sort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Limited
You guys should check out my alt Reach account...http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/De...xXSAVIORS0ULXx
Jokes, but DAMN that guys a freaking General.
Wow, http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/de...er=cloudspider, that dudes fairly legit (although he played firefight alot, least he didnt circle jerk).
http://halocharts.com/reach.php?other=topranks
Did Bungie ever say they could add armor perms, and firefight voices through DLC?
(it sounds preposterous and impossible).
Seeing as how it was impossible yet highly demanded in Halo 3, maybe they've included that possibility this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
its still a no...sad to sayQuote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
Well that sucks :(Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
Probably better that way. If it did happen, you know morons would be raging 'BAWWW BUNGIE HELD BACK ARMOR JUST TO MAKE US PAY EXTRA'.
Yeah, that's true...but you can't say that it wouldn't have been nice to have more armors.
I am lol'ing at the many idiots (on Bungie.net) who believe Bungie can actually add new armors as DLC. I mean wow.
Unlocking is something already on the disc, not DLC. -__-
Edit:
Part of me feels sad, because there will never be any variety in DLC, remember when Halo 3 armors were in high demand?
Bungie finally answered, and now people are saying hopefully Halo Reach isn't like Halo 3.
Soon it'll be high demand again, and Bungie will answer the same.
New armor is just going to make the old armor obsolete. Especially if it's bought with cash and not rank/credits.
I'd rather have engineering time spent on getting films working for parties and development time spent on more forge objects/maps than new meaningless fucking armor and the systems needed to make them expandable via DLC.
I'll just wait for their next engine for add-on content.
What if they made it on a bonus disk or something?
I'm loling at the people who say the game is dead going by the population numbers. 3 million copies sold and the game never jumped up on my meter above 400k, so either those are inaccurate or sales numbers are off. Besides people play multiple games. Just today I played Reach, TF2, and L4D2. I mean c'mon you can have too much of a good thing, have to take a breather sometime.
I'm sure the counter is broken.
Last I checked Halo 3 had almost a million players onlyine while Reach had 100k.
I'm calling bullshit on that.
its script kiddiesQuote:
Originally Posted by annihilation
also rob how goes trying to fix your DVD tray
Reach player count is players currently online, Halo 3 has always been last 24hrs.Quote:
Originally Posted by annihilation
Ah, I always forget.
Why does Bungie have some sort of bitmap box present inside of covenant cruisers?
The fuck.
It certainly is odd. :S
Cause they're cool like that? Sure is fucked up though...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
Pretty much completely lost interest in this game. Big Team was interesting for a while, until I realized that the Warthog and Ghost are both completely fucking useless now, and armor abilities pretty much shit up everything. The DMR has taken the throne as the new most annoying mid range weapon in the series (topping Halo 2's BR when you only had SMG starts).
Whatever.
I've lost interest for a while now, started playing pokémon platinum...
I probably haven't played the game in almost a month.
popped in reach yesterday, arena with no motion trackers is FUN
people are more likely to fall for holograms, my main gripe was one match on sword base where the other team was just herp derping with sprint
one time I underestimated the sniper jackals on legendary, near the spire, one of them used the hologram, and as I approached for a melee kill, the sniper who was in cover beamed me.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
I was so surprised, jackals using AA. xD
Question.
Was Kormman00, the 1st to "discover/leak" the Pelican/Phantom event in New Alexandria?
He was the first one to do it, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
No mention of that in the weekly update, was there? I guess they're hoping the toothpaste will go back in the tube. Their silence reminds me of the H2 Vista launch.
Urk said they're hoping that the majority of hunters won't find the video and that it will still be found legitimately by some communities.Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
Also
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...ostcount=15134
They can't create new challenges. What they shipped with is what we're stuck with. I can't find the other quote right now, but there's about 500 in all and we haven't even see a quarter of them used.
"legit" is relative. You could travel to Alpha Centauri at near the speed of light, taking a handful of years, or you could fold/bend space, arriving in less than four. It was Halloween weekend. I was browsing the bnet forums and saw all sorts of people just booting up the level trying to find a switch. Then I saw some people trying to get teams together for legendary runs. That's was sparked me to even find out what the conditions were. My initial thinking was "damn, Bungie posted about this egg in their WU and now this is going to be consuming people's Halloween weekend, how can I aid?". It was not "damn, look @ all of dez n00bz and f4gz trying to find diz easter egg, lolololol, i wonder how i can ruin their funz lolololol". Like Louis Wu mentioned, I wasn't around for the IWHBYD skull. Had I known there would have been this big of a drama over saying "The Earth is round", I probably wouldn't have said anything or even went through the work involved.
If MS/Bungie also didn't stop making Silver+ campaign commendation progressions (points, not level) from giving you cR, I probably would have joined the aimlessly-searching-like-a-chicken-without-a-head search myself. It's like putting StarForce or any other kind of nonsense protection on a game: in the end, you're only fucking the end user.
Bring it up again Shock and you'll receive an infraction.
And I'm hoping I can start minting coins out of my asshole.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
So, Urk thinks there's some kind of isolated, aboriginal pocket of fanboys out there that spend time hunting down things that -- as far as they are aware -- may have already been found? If that's the case, wouldn't they be too busy trying to crack the Konami code to bother with this? Shit.
They really do think they can re-toothpaste that tube. By staring at it hard enough.
EDIT: That's the last I'll say about it.
Where did those numbers come from? That quote doesn't include any.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
I think by scenarios he means they can't include "Play Halo Reach then go play Halo 3 then come back and play Reach again fro 500cR". We're stuck with the conditions their challenge system already includes. Eg, Do X in game mode Y, or Perform X, etc.
Thats because they keep using the same ones over and over. How many damn times have we seen "Get a double kill in a game, X amount of times"...."Kill X amount of people in ANY game mode!".Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
I was really hoping we'd have some creative challenges, not just bog standard "mini-dlc shite achievements", i.e. kill 2 dudes with a shotgun.
E: Ha, waduyaknow, I check what the challenges are today and surprise surprise.
He's going to check the exact numbers on Monday. We've seen 97 unique challenges so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I'm pretty sure they just have a big set of challenges with which they can just change variables like that.
BS, less than that. Say Reach has been out for 45 days roughly, thats 180 total challenges. No way has each challenge only appeared twice, the Gunslinger one I've seen at least 8 times. I've see the double kill one for sure 5 or more times. The list goes on...Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
I still want a challenge like on the first week to complete 9 missions on Heroic or Legendary for 5000 cR, I didn't complete it because my account was hacked and I only got my account 3 days after it was released and was only given 2 days to finish it and got 8/9 :smith:
I want any other freaking campaign mission on legendary without dying besides ONI and freaking Nightfall. Then maybe I wouldn't use the stupid checkpoint work-around and actually TRY to play without dying.
But that's just me. The Anti-Easter Bunny (gasp, does that make me the Anti-Christ??[/rhetorical question]).
Fake E: My bad, mis-read your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
And true I want another level then just those 2.
I'd like to see them screw that one up one week and tie it to Noble Actual.
Not to mention you can play though nightfall without firing a shot in less than five minutes.
I agree. Those two (i think I saw WC once) are the only ones I see on a regular basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartan094
Has anyone else played Multi-Team? It's probably one of my most favorite gametypes, up there with Living Dead and Invasion. For Living Dead, though, they need better map variants; there is almost no cover for zombies on Pinnacle and some other maps.
Multi-team is the best playlist.
I got 30 kills as a human in one life camping in that room with the stairs on Boardwalk. It's really shitty and needs custom maps asap.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Multi-team is the shit, I can't express how much I love that playlist. And yeah, all the maps suck balls for infection. There's always one hiding spot that everybody goes to that makes the game hell for zombies. Then again, Countdown and Zealot aren't bad, cause there aren't any spots like that.
In less than five minutes :v:? video?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
I wonder if they had more time, if they would have re-included the H3 forge maps (either on disc or DLC) then provided a way to "transfer" your old map variants into Reach for use in them...that would have been really neat...and probably isn't too late to do. Well, for 343i anyway. Bungie has bigger and better things to work on.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
Video wouldn't really show much. Melee (don't assassinate) the first elite and then sprint along the right. Then just keep sprinting to the part with the beacon, you don't have to kill anything. Park the forklift against the door and get out and then you can just run to the end without any enemies spawning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I couldn't agree more. I'm also saddened that there are only close-quarters maps available instead of big maps like Hemorrhage and a map i saw called Zombie World (which looks really cool IMO).Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
Look up ghost busters.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Aw hell no, all my campaign levels are gone, now I have to start from square one. I still says I completed it on Legendary thou.
I really wish two things for Reach right now:
1.) Forge allowed more building blocks and less inclines. I swear, why would we even need 99 inclines in the first place? Then again, some people just randomly throw stuff in Forge World and call it a map, so I guess it depends on the user. I just wish I had more building blocks or that there were bigger sized walls (besides super-size-me Coliseum Walls).
2.) We could edit campaign and create our own encounters or something. I just feel like so much potential was lost in the game that could have been another step forward for the Halo franchise (and the gaming industry).
2.) I think Bungie would save some of their more serious editing tricks (Forge/HEK) for their next engine/game. Don't want to give up all their tricks to what is now a rival game franchise.
Well now, that's an intriguing thought: competing against your own creation.
Been done before in practically every robot apocalyse story, video game, or movie ever created. :v:Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
I would have liked the ability to zoom out really far when holding things in Forge, ESPECIALLY objective triggers, and kill/safe zones.
Also, Pooky showed me the most retarded Firefight gametype I've ever seen made pretty much for the sake of getting Heat In The Pipe and Game, Set, Match easy. Best bonus round I've ever seen. :lol:
Not quite the same thing. You know what I meant. :haw:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Pl...xXSAVIORS0ULXx
We have a Field Marshall.
Yes, the bungie forums have been filled with threads about that guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by PlasbianX
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5713/wath.png
What is this, I don't even..
Is bungie derping today? :v:
The automated system challenges are running on HAS to be bugged.
Does anyone remember the first General in Halo 3? It was in the first few days, now lets see whose first to be Reclaimer, hell Inheritor.Quote:
Originally Posted by PlasbianX
Just imagine what rank he'd be if they hadn't stop making silver+ commendation points give you cR in campaign :v:
I wish I had a quick way to get up to Brigadier. Only a Commander Grade 3 and 1/3 of the way to Colonel. This is going to take forever. :P Oh well...
Hey man, I am still Warrant Officer Grade 1. No complaining.
I would be that rank, if I played Halo 24/7. Looking at his game history, it seems he doesn't have a job, go to school, or have a social life. I'd take the previous 3 before halo...
Hes played 23D, 19H, 20M
Heh, maybe it's just a shared account on which multiple people take turns playing.
This. My friends and I were discussing doing this. The account would be played 24/7, but it would be us taking 'shifts' were we are playing for like 2 hours at a time on rotation.Quote:
Originally Posted by L0d3x
I'm always mystified when people do this. It's a game. It's supposed to be played, not treated as a task to be completed.
saw a thread on Bnet, apparently MLG will be switching to SCII as their flagship game...hope they enjoy being destroyed by koreans
No, I'm sure they'll find some glitch or bug to abuse to gain an upper hand and make a big fuss about it so it'll become a legit tactic and encourage it in tournaments.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
I just want to reach Lt. Colonel. I have 130,000 credits for the helmet, and yet I still have to sit through... what, 4 ranks in the Major rank? Damnit.
You'll still need to hit brigadier to finish it off. Gold visor at colonel and Mk V shoulders at brig.Quote:
Originally Posted by MXC
I don't know about the shoulders, I've been doing some looking back and forth and the ODST shoulderpads look alot more like the halo 1 shoulderpads than the ones that are actually labeled as Mark V. Maybe it's because the mark V shoulders in the game stick out too far, while the original Halo 1 shoulders circle around the shoulders more.
Good riddance.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
