On another matter, it seems a halomodder is having too much fun without Cortana,
Yup, Captain Keyes is the worst Pilot and it doesn't seem like this will be banned for. xD
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On another matter, it seems a halomodder is having too much fun without Cortana,
Yup, Captain Keyes is the worst Pilot and it doesn't seem like this will be banned for. xD
still no word, guess urk has put his tail between his legs on this one
I would like to post this everywhere on all sites ever associated with Halo reach.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
Whether it be forums, game reviewers..anything. :D
Just give me the links, and I will personally post it myself. -_-
hell people on halomaps might be smarter than those on bnetQuote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
also, post it on /v/..let a shitstorm commence, link them to the bungie topic
I am not registered to them. I will do Halomaps. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
Please post there, for me and link meh.
http://boards.4chan.org/v/Quote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
just dont even put your name in in the name box
I think Urk is thinking more about his current vacation than bnet...or anything Halo related...or anything even work related.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
He hasn't been posting on GAF either, he's probably busy playing the new maps with press etc. That's his job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
1 hit with DMR + Grenade = Death.Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
I'm pretty sure thats how it was in Halo 1.
If you want the radius back to what is was in the Beta you are insane.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
sounds right. :-3Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonse
Double post, guys I r liek in trouble what do I do?
I've never been in e-fight, wanting me to game fight to settle something, is it like pokemon, where IQuote:
Originally Posted by ScottyRay
winsteal their money?
Nah, it's just so you can destroy them in a game they think they're so good at :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
Oh, and while we're talking about things being too powerful, and I the only one that thinks that the DMR should have stayed at 12 rounds per clip instead of being brought up to 15?
DMR should stay 15, pistol need to be 12. Either that, or completely nerf the bloom on the pistol.
That could work too, but if they brought down the ammo in the DMR it would discourage people from spamming it at close range as much as they do now. Nerfing the bloom on the pistol would make people use it more at close range than the DMR as well, fixing the problem even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
But then they'd be the same gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
aww, Dennis deleted my post on halomaps.org :'(
dennis is terrible anywaysQuote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
That's why we at modacity don't talk about halomaps, it's a bad site and hosts so many bad people.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevlag
If the ammo was increased and the bloom was the same, they would still be different. DMR has great precision at long distances, and a slightly higher rate of fire. The pistol has shit precision at close range, even with zoom.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
If the bloom was decreased but ammo was kept the same, it might be about as powerful as the DMR, except it wouldn't be good at long range, it would still be less accurate than the DMR, and it has less than half the clip of the DMR.
So while damage is about the same, the two weapons have very different uses and behavior.
E: Also don't talk down about other sites/people. While I don't exactly see eye-to-eye with him and I don't like many members of his site, I still have a great amount of respect for him.
Well there's yall's problem, thinking the DMR has a higher rate of fire than the pistol. No it doesn't. It has a much slower effective rate of fire. There; argument for bloom borking DMR = killed.
Also, I wish the DMR had 12 rounds like in the beta. The reason they changed it was because people were complaining about not being able to make enough kills on a single magazine. The problem was that they were all placing body shots when the gun is designed to reward those who make the effort to place headshots. Bungie even implied this several times when they talked about the DMR pre-beta.
And yet the assault rifle can barely get a kill with a entire mag...Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
You're obviously using it wrong
I have come to the conclusion that people can't evolve with each new game. Therefore, I purpose we bork (read: kill) everyone who has whined about tactics which they think are underpowered or overpowered. There. Problem solved; no more whiners, no more complaints about bloom, people can get on with their lives (or meet their maker :iamafag:).
You scare me when you talk like that.
The problem for me with reach is objective games. The weapon set is the most balanced of the series. Probably of any game I've ever played.
Objective for me is completely broken. There's no on screen indication that your flag is being carried etc like there was in H3 and 2. Making it worse, the flag indicator doesn't show up half the time wen your flag or the enemies flag is dropped, so you have no idea where it is.
And then on top of all that AAs just shit on everything and make what was a tactical use of equipment to get the flag or any other objective in the game (where the fuck is assault in Reach?) into a shitfest of randomness.
It really just results into an unfun standoff in which no team can win unless they are terribly unbalanced.
I stay out of Team Obj. as I have never found any fun in the 4v4 objective matches it provides. Big team, multiteam and rumble pit get some decent CTF and oddball/king matches though.
And I propose we kill anyone who bitches about forge variants on foundry [IE: grenanade] or any other forge variant used in match making including special one off's IE: Bungie VS World.:haw:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Those, gamespot ads for Halo Reach's Noble Map Pack, are soo childish and fucking annoying. -_-
Everyone agrees :D
I haven't seen any of the Gamespot ads, so I wouldn't know. *shrugs*
I think he means this:
On another note, I watched the official trailer for the Noble Map Pack, and it actually makes the game look really fun:
For someone who is suppose to be "English", you sure don't know how to use "IE".Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
Don't worry, I'm sure Limited will cut your throat as gentle as he can when the Queen gives the order to OFF WITH YOUR HEAD.
Damn shame the queen got the flu and has seemingly lost her voice permanently.:haw:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I have come to the conclusion that I don't find Reach multiplayer entertaining, as have the majority of people I game with. I vote we bork (read: kill) everyone who doesn't share our opinion about this online video game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Damn shame (for you) orders are given by word of pen, not by word of mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
":haw:"
http://www.whatcracksmeup.com/upload...iggaPlease.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
Lol korn.
What urks me is how when I play a game of team swat or invasion the dumbass teammate goes in front of me while shooting and he gets killed by me. It's like everybodys fucking dream to see the boot option to a player, well this happened 4 straight games :lolugh: and I got temp banned from MM.
Damn kiddies.
i've jsut been playing MT with a pal of mine and going for rear admiral.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartan094
never play a 4 v 4 playlist without a full team, you will get stuck with an idiot.
me and two other guys decided to do snipers, random on our team never helped us, only went after guys that we had weakened in a fight or that had killed us AFTER we had weakened him...fucker also took 5 of my assassinations
Should have expected dumb image macros from you, KM00. :downs:
Expect...the unexpected :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
Long as I'm here, Black Ops has the shittiest maps and spawning I've ever seen in anything, and it's still more fun than Reach. Kthxbai :)
Now this is a weekly challenge; complete 16 daily challenges this week for 16K Cr.
Yeah, they finally got the weekly challenge right.
Kornman, you wanted a video of how to Nightfall in less than five minutes? I just did it today for the challenge.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Fi...yer=Mr%20Kwatz
Its rendering now
You're welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5361/45063705.jpg
Oh, someone on GAF was going to render it, I assumed it was him. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by =sw=warlord
lol Nice weekly challenge. It sadly isn't enough to tempt me from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer right now, or L4D2 =\ I'm really busy with studies so I'm taking it easy on my gaming. Can't afford to fail a class just because I want to play Reach or something. :P
Does the VIP gametype exist in Halo Reach? (I don't mean left over files, I mean gametype globals or w/e)
I just need to know. ;D
Nope, VIP was taken out for some reason. I always loved playing that in Halo 3 though.
I can't wait for the new map pack and hopefully some cool new forge variants to come out...I can't even play thru a whole game anymore without feeling bored straight out of my mind.
Looking at your stats, I'm not surprised it looks like you've burned yourself out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I mean, you've nearly maxed out the majority of your commendations in all three sectors.
Just play Invasion and Living Dead. That's all I do anyways. That or campaign sheerly because the campaign is rather addicting on Heroic+ this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Yeah, I've burned myself out on the stuff they've been using for player investments the past 2.5 months. The only thing that was motivating me before was getting to GEN so I could have the armor config I wanted. Now I don't have a general motivation to just play. Daily challenges may give me some brief motivation (duh, they're there to give some kind of daily reason to play)...but it's still the SSDD.
To top it off, there is a complete and utter lack for playlist fixes. They (MS/343/Bungie) fix-up Zealot...but haven't done shit for other maps which people get on top of or hide in some cranny and snipe (looking at you Bloodgulch. Look at you Boardwalk and Asylum in Living Dead).
If campaign didn't rob you of cR after you finish Bronze then I would play it legitly. I tried that for a while even after I was past Bronze on a few comms. Now instead, I just farm to get what little cR I can now get out of it. What the hell was the point in giving campaign commendations if they were just going to castrate it at Bronze? It's like working for someone who only pays you in yearly bonuses instead of wages PLUS yearly bonuses. Why work for them when you can work for someone else who does both full time instead of just for the first year?
I think Reach is suffering from the same issues H2V had: administration issues. Bungie has moved on. MS is of course MS. 343 is...well I'm not even sure what to hell to call them. They're guilty until proven innocent to me.
I look forward to Grifball and hopefully a dedicated Race playlist...the new maps will probably add some much needed variety too, but hopefully they're followed up with some new Forge variants. Signs of good faith from 343 would be maintenance to Reach, not just that little thing they call Waypoint. Unless they waited until now to get familiar with the engine so they can even do future maintenance...which is still not a sign of good faith. Unless they didn't have the man power to even train people on the engine...which is still just a sign of bad faith on MS and 343 management's part.
For me, contingency plans for Reach is MS's third strike in batting for Team Halo. They must have ate some of my Weak. Sauce. If they had read the cooking instructions on the bottle they would have known they had to preheat to 350 first.
[/rant which isn't about some "flawed" gameplay, go figure]
One of the guys heading griffball was in the gaf customs last night and was talking about it being in matchmaking. They're going to have an action sack playlist like in halo 3 but with more community stuff soon.
I kind of want Bungie to move on already and give 343GS full control of Reach.
I think "full responsibility" would be better. Better to say that is, maybe not better for Reach.
Besides Frankie, are there really any original Bungie-Halo employees at 343I? Just curious considering they'll be the new Halo producers.
Yes there a few people from bungie that wanted to continue working on halo and switched over. Don't remember their names.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Yes, 343 and MS are so very community-friendly. HEY, ANYBODY WANT TO PLAY SOME (soon-to-be) STAT-LESS HALO WARS!?
My friend played Halo Wars like 16 hours a day, even losing sleep, just to get to his General rating so he could unlock the achievement and have 100% complete gamerscore in all of the Halo games before Reach came out.
He's just a little pissed.
So, I was playing some matchmaking last night, and I ran across the worst case of tampering I have ever seen in a Halo game and Xbox Live in general. Guy's gamertag is "| 3D |" and he had both a lagswitch and an aimbot going on at the same time; I've never seen such jaggy movements and awareness of every player's exact location at all times on the entire map. Even threw grenades in places where he should not have known there was somebody, period, since there were no motion trackers. I check his profile, and turns out that he's MLG. Who'da thunk it? :downs:
That's Microsoft's problem -- they cut and they run. Hey, did anyone hear that they've rededicated themselves to PC gaming for the 14th time? The previous 13 were ill-conceived abortions, devised by flatulent howler monkeys, but I have high hopes that this time will be different (no, I don't).
I'm not convinced that Microsoft has the culture to foster internal studios that can produce AAA games. Bungie had to fight to retain its identity. 343 doesn't have an identity. They might as well be Hired Gun II.
To be fair, you have to give them credit for their Flight Simulator series. It has remained the most complete and highest-rated flight sim so far.
The Flight simulator guys get left alone, sort of like MS' trophy wife. And that application has a long history of iteration dating back to the 70's. Notice I said application, rather than game. When I think of Microsoft Games Studio, I think of MechAssault, Crimson Skies, and Shadowrun. Decent games, but that's about all you can say about them.
aaaaaaaaaaaand Frankieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Oh wait, and who?Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
Maybe 343i will make a single game then get broken up, with whatever remaining people being divvied up among the rest of MGS, kinda like HG1 oh, and Ensemble!
343 Guilty until proven Innocent Spark.
I personally think Microsoft are just as bad as Activision in term's with how they will literally milk their franchises.
Look at it this way, Last year there were two Halo releases, this year there was Halo legends as well as Reach.
As much as I like the Halo series, I would much much rather prefer quality over quantity.
What's the point of running a franchise if you plan on beating the dead horse until it's bones start to show?
What's even worse is Microsoft have proven themselves more than happy to buy out entire studios outright, use them to make a game for another franchise and then liquidate that studio while absorbing the studios IP assets.
In short, I miss the day's where publishers were purely for publishing content onto developers supported mediums not today's standard of absorbing studios and then disposing of the people who made the IP the publisher literally thrives of.
Simulation is still a category of videogame, though your point is understood.Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
Upon extended though, I now realize how stunning it is that Ensemble broke up. They brought so much to the table in terms of RTS; why the hell did they break up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
If Hired Gun is what 343I turns out to be, then I swear I will probably never buy another Halo PC game again. In other words, I'm waiting a week before I buy any PC material 343 happens to offer.
Since I don't care much for Reach anymore, I can't say it matters to me if 343 makes Reach worse, if there's a slight chance they can make it better. Right now, I'm not particularly satisfied with the support we're getting from Bungie, and considering all of their inane gameplay design decisions in Reach, I don't trust their ability to create quality content anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
"Ooh, let's hire some guy from FASA as our lead sandbox designer! Because Shadowrun was such a critical and commercial success and FASA wasn't closed a few months after its release or anything like that!"
Errr, they didn't break up...MS closed their studio...kinda like how they're closing the siteQuote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
No one ever seems to want to remember him for Crimson Skies...an airplane based game...aeroplane. Hmmmm, wonder what Bungie is working on next...Quote:
Originally Posted by Arteen
He and his team made the space combat in Reach work pretty well didn't he?
The space combat in Reach was shallow, boring, repetitive and tedious, and I try to skip it whenever I play that level. Space combat is completely tangential to the core Halo experience anyway, like a glorified mini-game.
He was just keeping Jaime Griesemer's seat warm. I wouldn't be surprised if Sage moves on from Bungie, unless Jaime is moving on from sandbox lead into a producer role. The space combat was pleasant, but I think it needs to stay in a supporting role. Too much exposure will surely.... expose.... it.
Did anybody do that challenge where you had to shoot the drop pods? There must be a lot of assistance when shooting ships and none when shooting those things.
Put the film on your file share and link here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
When was this announced? I know Microsoft said this back when Fable III was announced for the PC and Xbox 360. Since then, Fable III's PC launch was postponed to an undetermined date and they haven't announced any other games coming to the PC. Great effort, guys!Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
E: I know this is going even further off topic, but check this out. Looks like Microsoft even removed H2V from their catalog of Games for Windows - LIVE games! Isn't it great to know they are even supporting their flagship series this well?
Catalog: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games/
This is funny too: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Search/?q=halo
I think only 2 of their dozen attempts at resurrecting PC gaming have involved them actually publishing games. They just launched their Games for Windows marketplace recently, so we'll see how that languishes and becomes soon-forgotten.
If they would have done things right from the beginning and stuck with it, they would be where Valve is already. But they approach PC gaming like a fly-by-night operation. They come in, try to impose their will on everyone, while only offering things that benefit themselves, and then when that fails, they disappear. Then they come back with another scam and the cycle repeats, almost like clockwork.
343 is in its honeymoon period right now. They're fucking around with Waypoint and anime, but sooner or later, they have to make a game. And if they screw that up in any way, be it critically or commercially,, I can see "Restructuring" in their future.
Do we even know for sure that Bungie will hand over Reach's/Halo 3's administration to 343i? I don't see any reason Bungie couldn't handle them as long as MS wants to keep them going. It's called servicing your back-catalog.
Sounds like the letter got noticed at last.
What bell do you hear which has that sound :raise:?
I would have to say the cloister bell sounds somewhat similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Shit, I played too many games since then, not sure I still have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
Same difference, either way I find it mind boggling. Ensemble was great at RTS, so of all the studios to shut down why did MS decide to shut them down?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Ensemble was basically costing more and more and producing less and less. Even some ex-Ensemble employees admitted it was pretty fucked up toward the end. Did you see those Halo MMO concepts? Bad ju ju. I won't really fault MS for shutting them down, but I will blame them for possibly contributing to that downward spiral and I damn sure blame them for killing the Halo Wars community, because they were too cheap to keep a forum and store a few lousy stats.
Yeah that makes me a bit mad. Halo Wars was a fun game I played for about a couple of months and although my own shortcomings kept me from being great, I still had a ton of fun and all of that junk in the process. I honestly don't understand how a Multi-Billion dollar corporation could drop something so dear to some fans when it's just a small site. Is Robot still operating?Quote:
Originally Posted by ejburke
Support for Halo Wars went from Robot to 343i way back in February.
The packs out now just not showing on the xbox market place.
Tempest seems very pretty but it definitely seem's inspired by relic.
Breakpoint is giving me a nice Nightcamp/Avalanche vibe. It should play a lot better in non-Invasion gametypes than Boneyard and Spire, depending on how well Bungie populates it for those gametypes.
I still haven't decided whether I'm going to get these maps or not. At least until they make major playlist/voting changes, I don't see any point in paying 800 MSP to play Big Team Slayer all the time on different maps.
Hopefully their search algorithms are different this time. I could never get a map that wasn't on-disk or Heroic when the Halo 3 BTB playlist was open to anyone. I'm still holding onto a shred of hope that Bungie can get their act together, so I bought 'em. Already got the "double kill from the grave" achievement too, in my second match.
Halo is a AAA title, however the support for the games are not what I call AAA support.
Thanks Microsoft for a support lifecycle, I guess Bungie has learnt a thing or two from that, I wish they could be like Valve who supports their titles, for what amounts to forever.
On a different matter,
343 working on Halo 1 remake - Report, seems like a big F U to PC gamers, and Halo 1 Custom edition modders in general. :'(
Playing Halo 1 campaign on co-op, is so hawt, no need for the h1x mod. :D
They mentioned a while back that you won't get matched up with people who don't own the map packs, unlike Halo 2 and 3.
I'm passing. 3 maps has never been enough to get me back into any multiplayer that I've already stopped playing. Maybe when the new variants get introduced.
I hardly like any of the default MP maps, so I almost feel I should be compensated for this by a FREE mappack. Obviously we can't have that, but there's no way I'm paying 800 MS points for something of which (based on their default maps) I already doubt the quality.
I really don't see how you could take that as an insult. Also, I'm pretty sure they're just reporting an already-debunked rumor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shock120
From my experience so far, the new maps are pretty sick and are much better than most of the maps that shipped with the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by L0d3x
No idea if any of these codes still work or not but..
First come, first serve.
46DTC-WV4KV-RGRDV-XCYP7-HYMHZ
FVF2C-RM27T-WCWWM-JKTGR-CVQJZ
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CHD7K-G6FYG-QVYYR-QQWYT-WR6YZ
7WJ2X-VCJT7-DCRFV-D2G9T-DRCHZ
VGTVC-HHVQ9-4C6RD-WRV3X-VGMTZ
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HTVVY-Q9WJ7-JCDKR-C3CKF-DWCXZ
RXP3T-KQHJQ-D24VR-PHXJ6-DXDHZ
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443PF-QW69G-FDFG3-H739V-TDYQZ
MQQW2-FXQM3-6TMHC-FWKR2-XFCDZ
I decided to get the maps, because although I strongly disagree that they should be 800 MSP, I realized I usually spend $10 on nothing, whereas this would actually last me a long time.
I really, REALLY hate Anchor 9. It has that feeling that I don't like about Atom, where everything is multi-story and you are either looking up or down to get a kill, since nothing is ever at eye-level. Whatever IS at eyelevel is blocked off by a wall or some stupid fucking column so you can hardly aim in close quarters combat, and usually end up getting meleed. But that's not what kills it for me. The biggest fault of the map is the fucking horrendous framerate when you are in a battle with more than 1 person. Fuck, it felt like I was watching a fucking slideshow when I was watching 4 people battle it out and throw grenades. I also stared the game on the red side facing 3 enemies.
I love that guy.
Got mine for free. yay
Thank you so much Warlord!!!!
:O Love you cobby. This softens the blow that Man Utd are getting dicked 2 - 0 even before HT :(
For the record, ALL of these are used. (I used the bold one)Quote:
You have successfully redeemed a code for:
Halo: Reach - Noble Map Pack
It has been added to your Download Queue. If you have an additional code to redeem please enter it above.
HTVVY-Q9WJ7-JCDKR-C3CKF-DWCXZ
RXP3T-KQHJQ-D24VR-PHXJ6-DXDHZ
7J6PC-2GM4R-WRYJ7-M293H-P227Z
Q23JC-QKJWJ-3HQV6-K7X3W-PGK3Z
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I used G46KR-49JW9-HXTVJ-QPHTH-WG9TZ
Skyline used Q23JC-QKJWJ-3HQV6-K7X3W-PGK3Z
The link appears to not load for me.
Also I missted this because there was a fire in my street D=
Oh snap also got me some free DLC :D
E: sorry for excitement double post :(
I used 3CWTH-XXHC2-6CFKM-R9THX-6FFHZ
Why the fuck did I have to buy the map pack like 10 minutes earlier...
What a fucking waste. It really isn't worth it. I have yet to play Tempest, but that's the only one I've been looking forward to. Breakpoint is massive vehicle whoring and camping. Anchor 9 sucks due to the reasons I mentioned earlier. This is not what I want to play. :mad:
Because you're a scrub and don't check halo waypoint.:downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap