Halo: Reach / 3 : Go to the new thead

Arrath

RepoMan1023 wrote: »

Local H Jay wrote: »

pinnacle, the ascension remake[/URL]
some nice hologram work in there, and then at the end you can see the new melee in action. notice how it takes a few DMR shots and then two melees, one to finish off the shield and then kill him. i'm thinking it's three melees to kill now

Wasn't that how it was in the beta? I remember it was a few shots of whatever to damage the shields, then two melees to finish.

Its just that now melee damage doesn't carryover between shields and health. If they still have a single point of shields left all the melee will do is knock that down. If the shields are out, then they die.

Viedo: Ascension. Fuck yes. I really can't wait.

LordNibbler

Wow Reach is going to own so hard.

Willeth

When was the last time we all got together and played BTB?

LookFreeGrenade

pretty sure it was 2 or so days from MNC's release, and it was commentary night

Ratsult2

Arrath wrote: »

RepoMan1023 wrote: »

Local H Jay wrote: »

pinnacle, the ascension remake[/URL]
some nice hologram work in there, and then at the end you can see the new melee in action. notice how it takes a few DMR shots and then two melees, one to finish off the shield and then kill him. i'm thinking it's three melees to kill now

Wasn't that how it was in the beta? I remember it was a few shots of whatever to damage the shields, then two melees to finish.

Its just that now melee damage doesn't carryover between shields and health. If they still have a single point of shields left all the melee will do is knock that down. If the shields are out, then they die.

Viedo: Ascension. Fuck yes. I really can't wait.

This.

The 2 grenades didn't damage him.... then he hits him with 3 DMR shots (misses the other). This left the enemy with a tiny amount of shield. One more DMR shot hit and he could have used a single melee to finish him off. It is a good clip to see the new, slightly longer (at least compared to the beta) melee cooldown.

So... I'm going to be standing still in the middle of the map at least once every game. People will assume I'm a hologram, then BAM. Also, I guess if we have one person AFK, everyone should use hologram and just make all the decoys stand still.

Nocren

You know... I need to find 6 other players so we can go achievement hunting on some of the maps.

Angel177

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

pretty sure it was 2 or so days from MNC's release, and it was commentary night

AND IT WAS AWESOME.

Leonius

I am going to be on Halo shortly...I don't know if I'm on anyone's friends list anymore but I'd be happy to throw down some squad battle or whatever. Just don't ask me to do ranked team slayer. I don't think I can ever go back to that.
GT: Leonius7

BlueDestiny

Can anyone give me some tips on Frag grenade usage in H3? I'm getting back into multiplayer in anticipation of Reach but I can never seem to hit people with them.

GT is BlueDouble if you want someone for team games.

Willeth

Throw them at the ground. Grenades in Halo work on a contact fuse - they explode a certain amount of time (I think three seconds) after hitting an object. You need to learn to count your fuse from the first impact, not from the throw.

CyborgZeta

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d53085b/?did=f0000001-0000-4000-8000-00004d53085b&bt=0&sb=1&mt=4&gu=66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d53085b&p=1&of=6

What the shit?

FyreWulff

MS sends review copies via codes to press now. They did it for Crackdown 2.

Also I like how Urk linked the FW interview I did with Ferrex with the tag "Nobody wants to remake Chiron. Nobody!" Ahahaha

Kor

I'm kind of sad we haven't seen any sign of an ARG for Reach yet.

FyreWulff

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/08/16/xbox-360-limited-edition-halo-reach-console-sounds.aspx

major nelson uploaded the sounds the reach 360 makes

eject - shield charge
power - deployable cover deploy sound (and I guess the overshield/camo spawning noise)

Emerlmaster999

I guess if you really wanted Reach 28 days early, you'd only have to plunk down 1,250 dollars.

Ninja Snarl P

Seeing people react to those holograms makes me a lot more excited about them. Seeing the guy launch the holo and then safely follow it while it drew fire is exactly the sort of thing I've been hoping it would work for. Not to mention the guy using it as a decoy to draw out the entire enemy team and then killing three of them with one rocket.

Emerlmaster999

One day, we should get a full group of 8 guys all with hologram and pretend that we're all AFK with our holo-selves standing next to us, just to screw with the other team.

xzzy

Emerlmaster999 wrote: »

I guess if you really wanted Reach 28 days early, you'd only have to plunk down 1,250 dollars.

I think there's a cap for MS points.. which is why they set it at 9999. No one can buy that many, which means no one can buy the game.

Nocren

Yeah... I've never been tempted to try some of those MS point key-gen programs but now.... <sigh> If I were to use one it would be pretty damn obvious and I'd be banned and not be able to play...

Actually... this brings to mind a question I had earlier...

Why wasn't Halo 2 ever released as an Xbox Original Download?

FyreWulff

Why wasn't Halo 2 ever released as an Xbox Original Download?

I don't think anyone is ever going to know

Also sweet forklift theme for 360:

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1003151

Angel177

Kor wrote: »

I'm kind of sad we haven't seen any sign of an ARG for Reach yet.

theres one in toronto and another in vancouver....

Ninja Snarl P

Emerlmaster999 wrote: »

One day, we should get a full group of 8 guys all with hologram and pretend that we're all AFK with our holo-selves standing next to us, just to screw with the other team.

I'm hoping for some crazy hologram-related gametype shenanigans. Things like one team on the ground with lots of intervening terrain, weapons in exposed place, and infinite holograms and one team in towers with low-ammo sniper rifles. A target-rich environment, but choose wisely or else suffer the wrath of an incoming plasma grenade.

joshgotro

Field General looks stupid.

FyreWulff

Worst game ever with Holograms

joshgotro

FyreWulff wrote: »

Worst game ever with Holograms

Everyone is still going to fire at the middle.

Nocren

FyreWulff wrote: »

Why wasn't Halo 2 ever released as an Xbox Original Download?

I don't think anyone is ever going to know

Also sweet forklift theme for 360:

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1003151

It's kinda sad too, given that all the other Halo titles were/are available.
(I'm sure once Reach is in full swing, the "campaign-only" version of ODST will be posted eventually.)

Angel177

link

hoodie13

Angel177 wrote: »

link

but what about god's country

Angel177

hoodie13 wrote: »

Angel177 wrote: »

link

but what about god's country

Your God is Dead.

Kadoken

What is this God's country?

Leonius

Kor wrote: »

I'm kind of sad we haven't seen any sign of an ARG for Reach yet.

I have to say I felt pretty underwhelmed by the Halo 3 ARG. What I saw of ILB seemed far more awesome, even if it wasn't tied into the campaign of H2 at all.

jimbo034

You can tell by the light bloom that the xbox.com canada web development team are a well funded and well staffed bunch.

Willeth

jimbo034 wrote: »

You can tell by the light bloom that the xbox.com canada web development team are a well funded and well staffed bunch.

YOUR MISSON

Recoil42

Angel177 wrote: »

link

Oh snap. So there.

Anyone else going in Toronto, then?

Kor

So I was sharing some of this with Rat the other day, but I figure I could post it here to get some minds thinking.

None of this is new information, but because I'm using bits from more recent BWUs, I'll be putting it in a spoiler anyway.

Spoiler:

So, ever since I saw the achievement list, I've had something bothering me: Why is there no achievement for beating level 1?

Initially I just shrugged it off as them simply wanting the achievement space to go somewhere else, and that was that. Then I started to notice something about the reviews we've been seeing. Now, if I'm wrong about this, then the entire theory is retarded, and everyone can go about there way, but I've yet to see any reviewer actually talk about level one. Most reviews have specifically talked about leveld 3, 4, and 5. In fact, the level we saw at E3 wasn't level 1, like I think most of us initially thought.

What this leads me to, is wondering why level 1 still has yet to see the light of day. I kept trying to think of a reason, a good reason why nothing about the introductory level had been shown. Then I had an idea (which humorously enough, TeaParty had the same revelation as I did only moments after).

Maybe the first level isn't played as the new Noble 6. Maybe level one is played as, Thom-293, the guy Noble 6 replaces. We know that this guy died recently, and Noble 6 is there to replace him. Maybe you play the intro level as Thom, and you simply die at the end of the level. You're not technically beating the level, and thus, no achievement and such.

This all doesn't have any real meat behind the theory, just something that I don't understand, and thus, am trying to explain.

Have I missed some detail that makes this idea impossible?

Emerlmaster999

I think you might be onto something there, Kor.

Spoiler:

While I wouldn't really enjoy the whole, "Oh whoops, you're dead" thing since it'd feel a bit too much like MW2's habit of stupidly killing off the player for no reason, it would make a whole lot more sense for Reach, given how desperate the situation is.

Ratsult2

Emerlmaster999 wrote: »

I think you might be onto something there, Kor.

Spoiler:

While I wouldn't really enjoy the whole, "Oh whoops, you're dead" thing since it'd feel a bit too much like MW2's habit of stupidly killing off the player for no reason, it would make a whole lot more sense for Reach, given how desperate the situation is.

Spoiler:

I agree. Didn't they say that some Modern Warfare-like plot... story device... or something was going to be in Reach?

Emerlmaster999

Ratsult2 wrote: »

Emerlmaster999 wrote: »

I think you might be onto something there, Kor.

Spoiler:

While I wouldn't really enjoy the whole, "Oh whoops, you're dead" thing since it'd feel a bit too much like MW2's habit of stupidly killing off the player for no reason, it would make a whole lot more sense for Reach, given how desperate the situation is.

Spoiler:

I agree. Didn't they say that some Modern Warfare-like plot... story device... or something was going to be in Reach?

Spoiler:

Maybe? I dunno, but if it's true, it'll be fine since Bungie actually knows how to make a sensible plot.

Recoil42

Emerlmaster999 wrote: »

One day, we should get a full group of 8 guys all with hologram and pretend that we're all AFK with our holo-selves standing next to us, just to screw with the other team.

I just want to fill up a blood gulch base with a 16-man holo-orgy.

Is that so wrong?

B for Business

Nocren wrote: »

You know... I need to find 6 other players so we can go achievement hunting on some of the maps.

here's 1.