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Halo 3/ODST: Reach 9/14/10, E3 trailer up!
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Halo 3: ODST is Bungie's newly released first-person shooter.You are the Rookie, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper deployed to New Mombasa in Africa at the same time the Master Chief is fighting there in Halo 2. The Prophet of Regret's ship enters slipspace as your pod falls to earth, and the ensuing blast throws the city into disarray and separates you from the other four members of your squad. You wake up at night in the city, and are tasked with finding clues in the open world to the whereabouts of the rest of the squad, and relive their experiences through playable flashbacks.
Halo 3: ODST comes with two discs. One contains the ODST campaign, and a Horde-esque co-operative multiplayer mode for four people called Firefight. As time progresses, gameplay modifiers are added such as the enemies throwing more grenades or your HUD vanishing. If the team wipes, it's game over.
The second disc (known as Halo 3:Mythic) contains the standard Halo 3 multiplayer that we know and love, as well as all previous free and paid DLC maps. Also included are three new maps, Citadel, Longshore and Heretic. This disc is fully compatible with anyone playing vanilla Halo 3 multiplayer and has all the features you'd expect except for the Halo 3 campaign.
Still confused? Charts usually solve that problem - at least, for me.
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Halo 3 is a first-person shooter, the third in the trilogy after Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. You are the Master Chief, an artifically-augmented seven-foot supersoldier known as a Spartan to the United Nations Space Command Marine Corps and the Demon to the Covenant, a collected alien force made up of several different races. The Covenant believe that their purpose is to usher in Judgement Day, based on the teachings of the Prophets, of which only one remains. To do this, they must light the Halos, structures in space. Their real purpose, however, is to extinguish all sentient life in the universe, as they are a last resort weapon created by an ancient race, to eliminate any food source for the all-consuming hyperintelligent parasite known as the Flood.
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Halo 2 was the game that started this thread/clan, which was named after the "I Love Bees" ARG. The first Halo for Xbox LIVE, it set the standard for matchmaking style games, and that still holds up and beats out games to this day. It also featured clan lists and clan matchmaking playlists, which unfortunately died out to people gaming the system. While fun, the game was riddled with exploits and people getting outside of the maps. The game was later ported to Windows Vista, and a few people on PA play this game once in a while, so if you'd like to get some achievements, just ask in the thread.
AVAILABLE FALL 2010
Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter. Little is known at this time, other than it takes place immediately before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and will tell the story of the attack on the human-occupied and defensive cornerstone planet Reach by the Covenant.
If you want to view the newest trailer, hop on over here and check out all the media. No, the trailer didn't reveal much.
A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be included with Halo: ODST. And how will you play the beta? It it show up on the bottom of the main menu like so:
"I'm not here for that campaign nonsense! I'm here to play online with cool dudes," I hear you cry, in that unlovely way of yours. Well, you're in luck! TBK, The Bees' Knees, have been around since 2004 and take their name from the Halo 2 ARG, 'I Love Bees'. No matter what gametype you like playing, you'll find someone who shares your interests here to team up with. Unless you play Lone Wolves, in which case you'll have trouble teaming up.
You don't need the paid maps to play with us, and if you don't have them already, I'd suggest not buying them, as they all come packaged for free with Halo 3: ODST, as described in the post above. However, there's no reason not to grab the free maps, and if you want to grab the paid ones, these images will come in quite handy.
And the map pack DLC for Halo Wars has some people eager to play it if you choose to buy it.
Since all of Halo 2's content is on the original Xbox Live, we cannot provide easy links to grab the DLC. However, all of it's DLC is free, and all of it's DLC is required to play any of it's playlists.
Now you have the arenas, you need gladiators to fill them with. Fortuitous, then, that I happen to have my class register right here.
If you want your gamertag added up there, PM ME with your gamertag. Please also state which country you live in so I can sort you properly.
This list collates people who want to play Halo, and you can become one of them very easily. Post in the thread, say hi, add a few of us as friends and play some games with us. As long as you're not the typical shit-flinging retard that Xbox Live seems to cultivate, you're welcome to do so and to call yourself a Bee. If someone is acting like a shit-flinging retard, contact FyreWulff or Lookfreegrenade.
Halo 3: ODST comes with two discs. One contains the ODST campaign, and a Horde-esque co-operative multiplayer mode for four people called Firefight. As time progresses, gameplay modifiers are added such as the enemies throwing more grenades or your HUD vanishing. If the team wipes, it's game over.
The second disc (known as Halo 3:Mythic) contains the standard Halo 3 multiplayer that we know and love, as well as all previous free and paid DLC maps. Also included are three new maps, Citadel, Longshore and Heretic. This disc is fully compatible with anyone playing vanilla Halo 3 multiplayer and has all the features you'd expect except for the Halo 3 campaign.
Still confused? Charts usually solve that problem - at least, for me.
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Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble, the company behind Age of Empires. It takes place before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, and tells the story of the previous Arbiter of the Covenant and the battle for control of the planet Harvest. The Covenant have uncovered a Forerunner artifact that leads to a site now occupied by humans. After travelling from planet to planet, a plot is uncovered that could threaten the survival of humanity.OUT NOW
AVAILABLE FALL 2010
If you want to view the newest trailer, hop on over here and check out all the media. No, the trailer didn't reveal much.
A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be included with Halo: ODST. And how will you play the beta? It it show up on the bottom of the main menu like so:
"I'm not here for that campaign nonsense! I'm here to play online with cool dudes," I hear you cry, in that unlovely way of yours. Well, you're in luck! TBK, The Bees' Knees, have been around since 2004 and take their name from the Halo 2 ARG, 'I Love Bees'. No matter what gametype you like playing, you'll find someone who shares your interests here to team up with. Unless you play Lone Wolves, in which case you'll have trouble teaming up.
You don't need the paid maps to play with us, and if you don't have them already, I'd suggest not buying them, as they all come packaged for free with Halo 3: ODST, as described in the post above. However, there's no reason not to grab the free maps, and if you want to grab the paid ones, these images will come in quite handy.
And the map pack DLC for Halo Wars has some people eager to play it if you choose to buy it.
Since all of Halo 2's content is on the original Xbox Live, we cannot provide easy links to grab the DLC. However, all of it's DLC is free, and all of it's DLC is required to play any of it's playlists.
Now you have the arenas, you need gladiators to fill them with. Fortuitous, then, that I happen to have my class register right here.
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Great Britain & Europe
If you want your gamertag added up there, PM ME with your gamertag. Please also state which country you live in so I can sort you properly.
This list collates people who want to play Halo, and you can become one of them very easily. Post in the thread, say hi, add a few of us as friends and play some games with us. As long as you're not the typical shit-flinging retard that Xbox Live seems to cultivate, you're welcome to do so and to call yourself a Bee. If someone is acting like a shit-flinging retard, contact FyreWulff or Lookfreegrenade.
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There's the benefit of it being a prequel, so there won't really be any external knowledge you'll need except for missing some in-jokes and references I imagine.
their singer just left, I wonder if I should audition to be in the band
do you get Big Kid ride tickets from the fair now?
Trueskill now hidden and used like it's originally designed
no military ranks
no "playlist exp"
global indication of player "experience" through some sort of universal system that can be increased/earned without even ever going into matchmaking (probably that cR system thing)
no more ranked playlists and social playlists, playlists are just playlists now
she said when I'm 10 she'll take me to six flags though!!!
this thread = off to a bad start
I'm still not sure how I feel about segregated spartan/elite playlists. it seems to me a bit like they had a balance issue and decided to take the easiest way out, so when people complain about one of the classes (read: elites) being unbalanced, they can just go "well here's a whole playlist without them!"
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I CAN JUST AVOID THEM NOW
Next time one of those ask-a-dev things pops up, someone shout. I want to ask if Rocket Race made it into Reach.
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then you go back to play Final Fantasy and Modern Warfare
I mean I'd be glad to but it's like PAPERWORK
Also Urk said no military ranks/exp, so who knows what's up with the LT rank thing
:winky:
This is what I think Reach's setup generally equals:
instead of "Ranked" or "Social" we now just have "Playlists".
So instead of pulling up the game and seeing
Ranked
Team Slayer
Team Doubles
Team Throwback
Squad Battle
SWAT
etc
Social
Social Slayer
Social Skirmish
Multi Team
Big Team Battle
etc
it'll now be
Arena
Arena
Playlists
Team Slayer
Team Objective
Big Team Battle
Team Rifles
Rumble Pit
No more population splitting from making both ranked and social versions of the popular playlists.. Bungie just makes them. Going in at the team size will try to find other teams, going in with oversized parties will be less strict and pull in more randoms to fill the slots.
tl;dr think of it as "I want to play this gametype" instead of "We're going to go play this playlist". With the new feature where they can make a playlist keep everyone that stays around and just load a new map, this is basically the best of matchmaking + essentially a custom games browser (since people can be retained over and over again)
hell we suck at driving them (t4ct) destroying them without killing each other (right beeb?):P
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more importantly I'm going to play this game so if anyone wants to play this game too we could play this game together.
they should rename chatroulette to penisroulette, cause that's all i ever see
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