Official Halo: Reach Thread! Last Hurrah For the Beta!

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="CwlHeddwyn"]

ive yet to try the Beta (college work) what are the graphics like?

TintedEyes

Yes, it looks this good...

I'm a Needle Rifle fella myself, though the DMR is nice... it just doesn't have the pink "boom" that makes it awesome. ;)

Stevo_the_gamer

[QUOTE="racing1750"][QUOTE="jg4xchamp"] big team objective type deal. Spartans vs Elites. At first the elites need to open something, and then they need to steal a core and take it to a phantom. The more phases into the match goes the more loadouts get unlocked, the more vehicles are found, the bigger the weapons get. It's a more progressive multiplayer mode. It looks like it will kick all kinds of ass :)PAL360

invasion

:D

Looks like a great mode. They should have put this in the beta to start imo.

Kind of reminds me of that one mode on Unreal 2k4 for pc.

[QUOTE="PAL360"]

[QUOTE="racing1750"] Sounds awesome :)kozzy1234

invasion

:D

Looks like a great mode. They should have put this in the beta to start imo.

Kind of reminds me of that one mode on Unreal 2k4 for pc.

Maybe this is old news but did anyone else read that Bungie's servers caught fire from all the activity yesterday?

Thats awesome. Well kind of.

I like it, but alot of balancing issues.

Pistol, grenades, and Rocket launcher are all overpowered (imo)

I hate the armour lock. People are always invisible, and run too fast. I wish that everyone had the same things and were no perks.

Needless to say it IS a fun beta. Spent alot of time playing with friends.

I like it, but alot of balancing issues.

Pistol, grenades, and Rocket launcher are all overpowered (imo)

I hate the armour lock. People are always invisible, and run too fast. I wish that everyone had the same things and were no perks.

Needless to say it IS a fun beta. Spent alot of time playing with friends.

deathtarget04

I don't know..........

Camo is pretty underpowered in my opinion.

Bungie increased the speed, as people were complaining (Jerks.), that it was too slow.

I think that Bungie did talk about the rocket spawn in Carnage Carnivale, and how it could be changed for the better in the actual build.

Also, there will be customisable loadouts, so in yourplaylist, in the actual game, you could change it so that there is only one loadout, with everyone the same.

Maybe this is old news but did anyone else read that Bungie's servers caught fire from all the activity yesterday?

Thats awesome. Well kind of.

h575309

Maybe this is old news but did anyone else read that Bungie's servers caught fire from all the activity yesterday?

Thats awesome. Well kind of.

h575309

Yeah. Not surprising though; over the weekend I never saw more than ~4000 players online, whereas when I fired the beta up yesterday there were about 160,000.

[QUOTE="h575309"]

Maybe this is old news but did anyone else read that Bungie's servers caught fire from all the activity yesterday?

Thats awesome. Well kind of.

PBSnipes

Yeah. Not surprising though; over the weekend I never saw more than ~4000 players online, whereas when I fired the beta up yesterday there were about 160,000.

[QUOTE="D00nut"]

Well no, what I meant was that when you drop the flags in your spot, no one on your team can move it, but the other team still can. It's just annoying when teammates pull stunts like removing the flags from your capture spot.

musicalmac

I'm not a fan of armour lock. Every time someone's used it i've died, which doesn't seem fair. Getting someone down to one-shot, having them pop armour lock on then dying yourself. It's because you have to wait around for an age for them to come out of it, which usually results in someone else taking you down while you wait. Also, it shouldn't be long enough to let your shields come back on.Ninja-Hippo

Only big problem with the game, matchmaking in beta sucks. I keep getting up against teams of 4 who are coordinated and destroy any pubbing team. It's just not fun.

I seem to only beable to play when I have a group of 4 as well.

Only big problem with the game, matchmaking in beta sucks. I keep getting up against teams of 4 who are coordinated and destroy any pubbing team. It's just not fun.

I seem to only beable to play when I have a group of 4 as well.

Wasdie

Only big problem with the game, matchmaking in beta sucks. I keep getting up against teams of 4 who are coordinated and destroy any pubbing team. It's just not fun.

I seem to only beable to play when I have a group of 4 as well.

Wasdie

I'm not a fan of armour lock. Every time someone's used it i've died, which doesn't seem fair. Getting someone down to one-shot, having them pop armour lock on then dying yourself. It's because you have to wait around for an age for them to come out of it, which usually results in someone else taking you down while you wait. Also, it shouldn't be long enough to let your shields come back on.Ninja-Hippo

I agree.

I need to play more to see how it pans out, but as of right now it seems like armor lock is a broken gameplay mechanic. Any of the other abilities you can still damage or kill your opponent when they activate, so they're tolerable. In my limited experience armor lock breaks the flow of the gameplay. Kinda lame imo.

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]I'm not a fan of armour lock. Every time someone's used it i've died, which doesn't seem fair. Getting someone down to one-shot, having them pop armour lock on then dying yourself. It's because you have to wait around for an age for them to come out of it, which usually results in someone else taking you down while you wait. Also, it shouldn't be long enough to let your shields come back on.gamecubepad

I agree.

I need to play more to see how it pans out, but as of right now it seems like armor lock is a broken gameplay mechanic. Any of the other abilities you can still damage or kill your opponent when they activate, so they're tolerable. In my limited experience armor lock breaks the flow of the gameplay. Kinda lame imo.

Only big problem with the game, matchmaking in beta sucks. I keep getting up against teams of 4 who are coordinated and destroy any pubbing team. It's just not fun.

I seem to only beable to play when I have a group of 4 as well.

Wasdie

Maybe switching to "lone wolf" in your social settings will help? At the very least things should improve when Bungie opens up the Invasion playlist on Friday.

It is a pain-in-the-ass though, especially since you inevitably get a teamwork-heavy gamemode like Stockpile or Team SWAT. I played a game of one-flag where the other team didn't even make eye-contact with the flag -- they just ran around as though they were playing slayer.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

Only big problem with the game, matchmaking in beta sucks. I keep getting up against teams of 4 who are coordinated and destroy any pubbing team. It's just not fun.

I seem to only beable to play when I have a group of 4 as well.

PBSnipes

Maybe switching to "lone wolf" in your social settings will help? At the very least things should improve when Bungie opens up the Invasion playlist on Friday.

It is a pain-in-the-ass though, especially since you inevitably get a teamwork-heavy gamemode like Stockpile or Team SWAT. I played a game of one-flag where the other team didn't even touch the flag the entire game, they just ran around as though they were playing slayer.

Pistol, grenades, and Rocket launcher are all overpowered (imo)deathtarget04

Here's a little list of things they need to change imho: - reduce the shotgun's power, or at least give it less ammo. - I like how deadly grenades are, but they need to reduce the default amount to 1, and maybe put less on the maps as well. There's way too much spam as it is. - slightly increase the DMR and needle rifles damage, and also increase ammo capacity by 1 or 2 - same goes with magnum - make the focus rifle overheat quicker That's all I can think of atm.angelkimne

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]I'm not a fan of armour lock. Every time someone's used it i've died, which doesn't seem fair. Getting someone down to one-shot, having them pop armour lock on then dying yourself. It's because you have to wait around for an age for them to come out of it, which usually results in someone else taking you down while you wait. Also, it shouldn't be long enough to let your shields come back on.Anjunaddict

I agree.

I need to play more to see how it pans out, but as of right now it seems like armor lock is a broken gameplay mechanic. Any of the other abilities you can still damage or kill your opponent when they activate, so they're tolerable. In my limited experience armor lock breaks the flow of the gameplay. Kinda lame imo.

It's all cool if it stays 1-on-1 for the duration of the encounter, but the main problem is when your battling a guy and you're about to kill him, then he goes armor lock, then his teammate comes in changes the whole situation. I would have normally killed the guy and his teammate who was coming around the corner, but now both of them run off holding hands and giggling because of some cheap perk. It's like an invulnerable Last Stand that you can recover from.

Like I said before, it breaks the flow of gameplay, so as of right now I don't like it much. I like gunplay and flow, you know.

wait wait wait. Team Swat is the easiest game on earth to actually get away with lone wolfing it :P Since it's all abbout headshots with the DMR it even works in your favor to be under manned. Less headshots for them to get, more for you to kill. It's one of the easiest modes where one player can dominate the other team. Ofcourse if you get a really kick ass team on the other side it won't help :P

jg4xchamp

Maybe on Sword Base, but I've only played SWAT on Powerhouse, and it's way too open for a lone wolf to tackle a team. You can more-or-less lock down the entire map with three guys, so if your team isn't communicating you're going to get beaten like a red-headed stepchild (especially since the DMR has such a large accuracy-bloom -- if you miss your first shot things are pretty much a coin-flip).

[QUOTE="angelkimne"]Here's a little list of things they need to change imho: - reduce the shotgun's power, or at least give it less ammo. - I like how deadly grenades are, but they need to reduce the default amount to 1, and maybe put less on the maps as well. There's way too much spam as it is. - slightly increase the DMR and needle rifles damage, and also increase ammo capacity by 1 or 2 - same goes with magnum - make the focus rifle overheat quicker That's all I can think of atm.lafiro93

I think most people will agree that the beta isn't as well balanced as it could be.

[QUOTE="lafiro93"]

[QUOTE="angelkimne"]Here's a little list of things they need to change imho: - reduce the shotgun's power, or at least give it less ammo. - I like how deadly grenades are, but they need to reduce the default amount to 1, and maybe put less on the maps as well. There's way too much spam as it is. - slightly increase the DMR and needle rifles damage, and also increase ammo capacity by 1 or 2 - same goes with magnum - make the focus rifle overheat quicker That's all I can think of atm.angelkimne

Just the focus rifle, grenades and shotgun.

I think most people will agree that the beta isn't as well balanced as it could be.

angelkimne

Focus rifle is balanced on account of the big ****ing laserbeam pointing out your position. Grenades need to be powerful to avoid camping and stalemates -- Swordbase is cluster****y enough as-is (that said, the game needs to do a better job communicating where live grenades are). I haven't had any problems with the shotgun either, although I can see how Sprint+shotgun could cause issues.

The only major balance issues I have so far is the Assault rifle needs to do slightly more damage, Cloak needs to be slightly less visible while moving, and the DMR has too much accuracy bloom.

Everybody is complaining on how the grenades are overpowered and are able to kill you in a single explosion, yet nobody complaing about how that happens in Modern Warfare 2 or numerous other FPS games.

Now Halo has never been known for its Realism, and yes you play as a super soldier but here's the thing.

Halo 1-3 had you play as the SPARTAN-II John-117, aka Master Chief. Spartan-II's were bred to be able to handle anything that was thrown at them, in turn they had better survivability than anyone in the UNSC (Sarge was a Spartan-I, though that was never quite covered aside from the the Halo: Novel, the Cole Protocol and bits of the novel The Flood). Spartan-II's wore MUCH stronger armor than the Spartan-III's, allowing them to withstand more damage from enemy fire and explosions.

In Halo:Reach, a majority of Noble team are Spartan-III's, one is a Spartan-II. SPARTAN-III's wore armor that was less powerful than the SPARTAN-II's. SPARTAN-III's were bred for advanced recon warfare, built-in active-camo in their armor, faster but not stronger than the SPARTAN-II's. Grenade damage is fine in the sense of canon in the universe of Halo.

Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

i dont like it at all its the same as halo3 but u can barrell roll with elites. i deleted the beta already and i hope i dont get that unstylish beta tester avatar sweater

[QUOTE="FatedX360"]

Everybody is complaining on how the grenades are overpowered and are able to kill you in a single explosion, yet nobody complaing about how that happens in Modern Warfare 2 or numerous other FPS games.

Now Halo has never been known for its Realism, and yes you play as a super soldier but here's the thing.

Halo 1-3 had you play as the SPARTAN-II John-117, aka Master Chief. Spartan-II's were bred to be able to handle anything that was thrown at them, in turn they had better survivability than anyone in the UNSC (Sarge was a Spartan-I, though that was never quite covered aside from the the Halo: Novel, the Cole Protocol and bits of the novel The Flood). Spartan-II's wore MUCH stronger armor than the Spartan-III's, allowing them to withstand more damage from enemy fire and explosions.

In Halo:Reach, a majority of Noble team are Spartan-III's, one is a Spartan-II. SPARTAN-III's wore armor that was less powerful than the SPARTAN-II's. SPARTAN-III's were bred for advanced recon warfare, built-in active-camo in their armor, faster but not stronger than the SPARTAN-II's. Grenade damage is fine in the sense of canon in the universe of Halo.

Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

white_sox

This should go without saying, but I hope anyone with complaints or feedback is posting them on the Bungie forums where it may actually count for something.

Everybody is complaining on how the grenades are overpowered and are able to kill you in a single explosion, yet nobody complaing about how that happens in Modern Warfare 2 or numerous other FPS games.

Now Halo has never been known for its Realism, and yes you play as a super soldier but here's the thing.

Halo 1-3 had you play as the SPARTAN-II John-117, aka Master Chief. Spartan-II's were bred to be able to handle anything that was thrown at them, in turn they had better survivability than anyone in the UNSC (Sarge was a Spartan-I, though that was never quite covered aside from the the Halo: Novel, the Cole Protocol and bits of the novel The Flood). Spartan-II's wore MUCH stronger armor than the Spartan-III's, allowing them to withstand more damage from enemy fire and explosions.

In Halo:Reach, a majority of Noble team are Spartan-III's, one is a Spartan-II. SPARTAN-III's wore armor that was less powerful than the SPARTAN-II's. SPARTAN-III's were bred for advanced recon warfare, built-in active-camo in their armor, faster but not stronger than the SPARTAN-II's. Grenade damage is fine in the sense of canon in the universe of Halo.

Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

FatedX360

i dont like it at all its the same as halo3 but u can barrell roll with elites. i deleted the beta already and i hope i dont get that unstylish beta tester avatar sweater

_SWAG_

My biggest complaint is the removal of the Marathon and Tycho emblems.

Why, Bungie... WHY?! :cry:

My biggest complaint is the removal of the Marathon and Tycho emblems.

Why, Bungie... WHY?! :cry:

musicalmac

Just wait for the campaign or more multiplayer maps. I'm sure they'll be in there somewhere.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]

My biggest complaint is the removal of the Marathon and Tycho emblems.

Why, Bungie... WHY?! :cry:

SpiritOfFire117

Just wait for the campaign or more multiplayer maps. I'm sure they'll be in there somewhere.