Halo: Reach Discussion

[Kornman00]

and what about harvest, the arbiter and his troops following regrets advice managed to use the forerunner map room to find arcadia.

That's never a proven fact (the map display is inactive during the cutscene and they mention nothing of activating it). In fact, right when the invisible elites decloak and start attacking them at the map room, the map display immediately shuts down.

[FRain]

All good things must come to an end. As we march ever closer to the release of Halo: Reach, the server team continues to prepare for the upcoming onslaught of players and their stats and content. To that end, consider this your approximate 24 hour notice for rendering films from the Halo: Reach Beta. Tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon, we will disable video rendering for Reach. After that, you will have an additional 24 hours to grab anything else from the beta that you wish to save. On Wednesday afternoon, we will be disabling all Reach beta stats and file access.

Let's say that again, so everyone notices: Halo:Reach beta stats and files will be disabled on Wednesday (July 21st) afternoon, Video Rendering will be disabled on July 20th.

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[jcap]

Uh, you can still render Reach beta films? What? Who even cares anymore? Also, Bungie is massively stupid for requiring Pro to render films for the beta. They could have gotten even more bug proof if anyone could render.

They're getting too into the game details.

"I'm a bigger halo nerd than you!!1!"

[Kornman00]

"I'm a bigger halo nerd than you!!1!"

Says the guy who helped spawn a website for a flopped game then for a flopped modding community

[=sw=warlord]

Says the guy who helped spawn a website for a flopped game then for a flopped modding community

Grenanade bungie day 09.

[Arteen]

Uh, you can still render Reach beta films? What? Who even cares anymore? Also, Bungie is massively stupid for requiring Pro to render films for the beta. They could have gotten even more bug proof if anyone could render.

It could have been too expensive, overwhelmed their video-rendering hydra, or just not be necessary to extensively test.

[=sw=warlord]

That's never a proven fact (the map display is inactive during the cutscene and they mention nothing of activating it). In fact, right when the invisible elites decloak and start attacking them at the map room, the map display immediately shuts down.

"we must protect what we have learned here"
There it is right there, the prophet of regret mentioning they had gained information from forerunner tech without human assistance.
Also they re-purposed the dreadnought to power high charity long before they encountered humans.

Your move friend

[DarkHalo003]

I think anyone can activate standard Forerunner tech, but I think only Reclaimers can activate major things, like the switch at the Ark that sets off all of the Halo rings.

[Arteen]

It's just a map room, not a doomsday device. Covies have always been able to use most Forerunner technology; all of their technology is Forerunner-based. They just don't have full security clearance to release intergalactic horrors or sterilize the galaxy.

[Siliconmaster]

Think of it as computer hacking- even if they don't have clearance, they can still hack into the lower stuff, like doorways, map rooms, etc. But there's so much security on the major switches that you need the actual password/DNA to activate them.