Halo: Reach Discussion

[Limited]

Armour from preorder, limited and legendary editions is DLC, however its already on the disk. It just downloads a file that says "yeah you have permission" sorta thing. Works like FIFA UT gold packs, but that analogy has flown over all your heads

[Kornman00]

The permissions data which the redeem code gives you is basically DLC. However, the armor it unlocks can still be bought in game. Case in point: Recon. Once you hit commander, you can buy it for 100k. Not that anyone would really want to throw down that much cR for that shoddy helmet...

Bungie's cache system doesn't allow for DLC game data (new armor, a new weapon, etc) which isn't already present in the retail data (read: what came on your disc). Now, a DLC map could include a new weapon (IIRC, they did this with the golf club in that last forge map in H3), but it'd only be placeable in Forge. A game variant wouldn't be able to select it (since the game data wouldn't exist in the mainmenu cache/map file)

[Ellis]

Hey! Hey No! Don't you talk about Recon like that! Recon is awesome. I -will- be throwing down 100k for it when I hit Colonel, as well as 300,000 when I hit Brigadier for the Mark VI Helmet. :P I'm one of those people who -isn't- interested in the Gungnir helmet :P

[Arteen]

Case in point: Recon. Once you hit commander, you can buy it for 100k. Not that anyone would really want to throw down that much cR for that shoddy helmet...

Can you buy all three variants of Recon in the game, or just the two non-DLC ones?

[Hotrod]

@ Arteen : Just the two non-DLC ones.

And perhaps you're all right, but here's another thing : when you download the Recon and Officer armors and all that, they're available for every profile on your Xbox unlike ODST's Johnson that was only available for your specific profile. Sounds to me like they changed things around this time, no?

Hey, perhaps I'm wrong here and just dreaming too much, but that picture sure does show some evidence that it's possible that I'm right, right?

[Arteen]

The gold lancers/hammerbursts in GoW2 are like that, and they're definitely both on-disk already. Nothing unusual.

[TeeKup]

I'm still missing my Mk. V(b) permutation that had the sun visor but no extra armour thingy on top of it...so it looked kinda like the old-school Mk. V but more refined. Damn you Bungie for removing it from the game!

Me and Metroid have been saying this since release day. I'd wear the Mark V[b] if it was just the visor and not the ugly UA attachment. No idea why they scrapped it for the side HUL attachment. It made the Mark V[b] stand out from the other helmets because they were different than anything else. All the helmets share certain attachment models and thats just boring and bland. Honestly all the side attachments are ugly, why anyone wears them is beyond me.

[Arteen]

Yeah, I rocked just the visor through most of the beta.

[Hotrod]

The gold lancers/hammerbursts in GoW2 are like that, and they're definitely both on-disk already. Nothing unusual.

Then what about the picture of the Operator helmet with the HUL[3] attatchment?

[Pooky]

Why is it everytime I come back to this thread someone is over-complaining about something about this game? Yes the game can improve, but if you're seriously crying about this than honestly consider any potential reason why the maps were NOT released. Stop thinking like a spoiled child and consider the different scenarios about the situation. Bungie could seriously move on to another game and we could get no DLC, but instead we have a game developer who actually GAF about what its fanbase says. Please stop this kind of bitching.

People are discussing Reach in the Reach Discussion thread, stop the fucking presses. If all anyone had to say is 'omgawd this game is so kewl absolutely everything is perfect (especially double melee)' the conversation wouldn't last very long, would it?

Typical forum hypocrites complain about complaining then act self righteous about it.

also, copy pasted from the screenshot thread

I was hoping for another forge map in the first DLC. As cool as Forge World is, seeing the same verdant green scenery in every Forge variant ever is going to get pretty stale. Ah well, maybe in the next map pack.

I really do hope they decide to do another Forge map before too long. It wouldn't have to be anything as grand as Forge World. Even a Sandbox remake would be pretty nice. Just something to give a little variety in the scenery.