Halo: Reach Discussion

[annihilation]

so thoughts about the "chess" feature

Chess feature?

[Kornman00]

I think he's referring to the april fool's vidoc

[Choking Victim]

I really wish Detox would have said no to his begging of posting pictures and a video :|. If you're going to do crap like this, at least try to be somewhat respectful. At least jester hasn't gone rouge and put it on the interwebs...well yet anyway. Who knows with these kids.

I'm personally not surprised. What makes it funnier is the fact that during h3 mappack testing, detox was whining about people leaking pictures of sandbox from partner net. Hypocritical, no?

[sevlag]

I think he's referring to the april fool's vidoc

oh so that was a joke, would have been funny to actually play that

I don't get on often so i tend to just check B updates when i can and forget to look at the dates

[annihilation]

I would have pwnd everyone at chess.
Damn Bungay for participating in april fools.

[sevlag]

I would have pwnd everyone at chess.
Damn Bungay for participating in april fools.

except me, you could probably beat "the cow" though, if her spelling is an indicator she is sorta mindless

[annihilation]

Well, if Reach had chess then we could see.

And since they have all these new polygons to work with I would hope they would do something special with Forge. (I'm assuming it will have Forge)
Maybe something like AI placement. That would be awesome.

Looks like they improved the shotguns range at least.

[Kornman00]

I highly doubt Reach's forge will have anything relating to AI.

I'm personally not surprised. What makes it funnier is the fact that during h3 mappack testing, detox was whining about people leaking pictures of sandbox from partner net. Hypocritical, no?

Jester was an ugly truth he had to face at the time in order to come full circle in getting that Reach beta (actual beta; not delta). It was either play along with Jester's whining or the potential of having him go rouge and put this shit on the internet. Politics. In the end, I'd rather see leaked images than a leaked game. If I didn't have to choose, I'd rather just see the public Beta when it's due to come out, but we're not in a perfect world.

[Futzy]

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pa...=0&cId=3178811

[Pooky]

rep lol, idc.

It was what it said, not the little green points.

I see what you're saying, but balance is way more important than realism. Most of these guns would destroy most of the other guns realistically, but that isn't fun. In videogames, shotguns are well known as mostly useless at long range. They realized this and shortened its range. Its simple balancing.

E: Argh, yes. The plasma repeater looks like it would be some fun. I like the idea of having to vent it to make it fire rapidly again.

I'm not arguing for realism, I'm arguing for game balance. I don't think the shotgun having its balls crushed to the point where it can only work as a shitty corner camping weapon constitutes any sort of balance. Keep in mind that the shotgun doesn't necessarily have to instantly kill people out to its maximum effective range, but if it could at least hit people from more than 3 feet away, it would be a much more enjoyable and versatile weapon to use.