Halo: Reach Discussion

[Llama Juice]

^this is awesome.

[=sw=warlord]

First person passenger seat in warthog?
Oh my...

[sevlag]

First person passenger seat in warthog?
Oh my...

fuck yes

[annihilation]

First person passenger seat in warthog?
Oh my...

They better have an option to switch between 3rd person and 1st person.

[=sw=warlord]

They better have an option to switch between 3rd person and 1st person.

By the looks of it from the video, there is no option and there wasn't a weapon in view either.

[Siliconmaster]

We also don't know what the context is. They said it isn't in the beta- that could either mean that the passenger seat has 3rd person view just for the beta, or that what they showed was from a campaign cutscene. Do remember that Bungie is doing a lot more "in-character" cutscenes, veering away from the full out cinematic style. That could be part of one of those scenes. We won't know until the final game, I suppose.

[Pooky]

Having seen it in action, a lot of stuff about the new sandbox is annoying me. First of all, all the new Covenant weapons look so god damn similar I can hardly tell one apart from another at a glance. Also, what's the point of having the pistol and the DMR if the former is just a shitty version of the latter? Finally, they took out the SMG but I'm not seeing any kind of point blank bullet spam weapons to replace it, the like of which have existed in every Halo game in some form or another.

[Rob Oplawar]

Having seen it in action, a lot of stuff about the new sandbox is annoying me. First of all, all the new Covenant weapons look so god damn similar I can hardly tell one apart from another at a glance.
They seem pretty distinctive to me...
Also, what's the point of having the pistol and the DMR if the former is just a shitty version of the latter?
Preference? I think the pistol is there as a nod to all fans of the H1 pistol. Why shouldn't it be there?
Finally, they took out the SMG but I'm not seeing any kind of point blank bullet spam weapons to replace it, the like of which have existed in every Halo game in some form or another.
Um... yeah, the type of weapon you're talking about that was in Halo 1 was the AR, which is in Reach...
Look, the SMG and the AR were very similar but subtly distinct weapons. You can't complain about the presence of the pistol and the absence of the SMG in the same breath.

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[Pooky]

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I knew someone was going to say that. The Reach AR is NOT equivalent to the SMG (To clarify, the Halo 1 AR and Halo 2/3 SMG had virtually no range and an extremely high rate of fire. The assault rifle in Reach appears to have a decent range and not that high a ROF, much like the MA5C), and the Halo 3 AR and SMG were a lot more distinct in functionality than the pistol and DMR in this game seem to be.

I'd like to know how the focus rifle, needle rifle, and plasma grenade launching thing are distinct from each other though. They're all roughly the same size, purple, and made up of segmented parts.

[=sw=warlord]

Set your calendars for April 27 at 5AM GMT; that's when the live action Halo: Reach short “Birth of a Spartan" will be hitting "multiple" U.K and U.S. TV stations as well as movie theaters that day. It will also be all over the internet and Xbox Live, but you should watch it here at G4TV.com.
According to Bungie, "Birth of a Spartan" gives viewers a look deep into the main character in the upcoming shooter. The short is described as a "stirring depiction of the transformation of Carter 259, the future leader of Noble Team in Halo: Reach, from an ordinary young man to a superhuman Spartan warrior.


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