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Halo Reach: LESS THAN A WEEK AAAAH

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    joshgotro wrote: »
    Did someone ask if Reach is going to be better on the disc or HDD installed?

    It's not a question that needs to be asked. The only reason Halo 3 had issues being installed is because they didn't know Microsoft was going to add a HDD installed option.

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Well you see my probelm. Lose my collection of gamer pictures or install Reach!

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    You have room for 174,762 gamer pictures before you have to worry about uninstalling Reach.

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  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So they've officially said that Reach's multiplayer modes won't have any problems running off the HD? I thought it was just something to do with some sort of latency problem as a result of reading the information off of the HD.

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    <3 for continuing this.

    Oh shit guys.

    EDIT: DAMNIT BEEB.

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So they've officially said that Reach's multiplayer modes won't have any problems running off the HD? I thought it was just something to do with some sort of latency problem as a result of reading the information off of the HD.

    They don't need to officially announce it. If they had known about HDD installs when making Halo 3, they wouldn't have used the caching trick in the first place. Now that they know about HDD installs, of course they are going to take advantage of it.

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Co-op question:

    Does every player control their custom Noble 6 at all times? I remember reading an interview some time ago that seemed to say that at some points Noble Team would have fewer AI members if you were doing co-op. Does this mean that sometimes other players would control a Noble Team member?

    I ask, as I'm currently debating whether to join some friends in midnight co-op or to play it solo the first time. I know I'll enjoy co-op, but I don't want to get cheated of atmosphere.

    Also, they want to do 4-player legendary and I am scared

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    They said that single player was a mix of full squad, squad of 2, and solo play. When playing co-op, *sometimes* they drop the spartan AI help, sometimes they don't. I'd assume that you always play as your version of noble 6.

    You should be scared. Not only is this supposed to be the hardest Halo... but this is also the first time they have scaled the toughness of the enemies with how many co-op buddies you have with you.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Wait, how much of the armour is available from the start? Do I have to earn a shit load of cR points in MP before being able to make my Noble Six look badass?

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    He looks badass from the start.

    It's not like he shows up for duty in his boxers.

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  • LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Wait, how much of the armour is available from the start? Do I have to earn a shit load of cR points in MP before being able to make my Noble Six look badass?
    You’re looking at – in condensed form – every item that is visible to players in the Armory on Day 1. The word ‘visible’ is particularly important because it underscores an important couple of notes about how the Armory functions in Halo: Reach.

    More items become available as players Rank up.

    As you Rank up in Reach – via Credit earn, not via Skill a la Halo 3 – there will be more customization options made available to you. Many of these aren’t even visible initially, but you’ll be able to see them as you progress.

    Additional items become available based on Purchases players make.

    You’ll notice in the below images that some Helmets don’t have attachments at all – well, they all do – you’ll just need to acquire the Base variant in order to see what’s available next. Furthermore, last Spring’s Halo: Reach Beta had the prices of helmets increase as you acquired more variants. In many cases, in the shipping game, the reverse is true – the initial Credit investment is in the base helmet, and adding augmentations to it is cheaper than the actual base variant was. That said, there are certainly some aug combinations that significantly change the helmet and those are priced accordingly.

    the entire visible armory at day one, below
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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I intentionally played the beta very little because I know if I let myself I would have spent hours and hours spending time attaining credits to customize my Spartan. Customizations that would be lost when the beta was over.

    I really love the amount of customization they're giving though. I hated the lack of it in Halo 1 and 2. Liked it in H3, but knew it could have been greatly expanded.

    Now I just want to know what exactly unlocks what armor because I've got plans already.

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  • MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    What kinda of color schema are they allowing in Reach? Same system as before in Halo 3?

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    they have a few different layouts they've said

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    Urk confirmed that Reach is hdd install safe a few days ago.

    Also according to LW, the amount of Halo Reach Legendaries produced is roughly 10% of the total amount of H3 Legendaries produced.

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  • B for BusinessB for Business Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    anybody up for some fiesta?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    I'll be on in a few

    edit: i seem to be having issues connecting to live

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    internet finally unfucked itself

    gt: fyrewulff rex, waiting for badman to get on then FIESTA TIEM

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  • LordNibblerLordNibbler Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Leaks! Here's a video with shitty music of some Firefight levels that may spoil Campaign locations.

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  • LordNibblerLordNibbler Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Some people are saying modders got the whole game off the Microsoft servers. Probably just a media person, I dunno.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    eh probably just some lucky person who got a hold of a copy from a walmart or some shit
    doubt microsoft would let that happen in anyway

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  • LordNibblerLordNibbler Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I don't think retailers have it thiiiis early yet. The game is on their servers so it can be accessed.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    Some people are saying modders got the whole game off the Microsoft servers. Probably just a media person, I dunno.

    If it's leaked at this point, it'd be a media person leaking it. You can't force the MS servers to send you something your account is not allowed to get.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Some people are saying modders got the whole game off the Microsoft servers. Probably just a media person, I dunno.


    If and when they catch up to them, they will be in a world of hurt.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i just find it weird that this is the first game ever hacked out of the website/servers
    but there are physical copies of reach so i find that more plausible.
    now if some jerk ripped it and put it on a torrent for modded 360, welllllll that seems a bit more likely

    but then again i'm probably wrong

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  • 043043 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i just find it weird that this is the first game ever hacked out of the website/servers
    but there are physical copies of reach so i find that more plausible.
    now if some jerk ripped it and put it on a torrent for modded 360, welllllll that seems a bit more likely

    but then again i'm probably wrong

    I'm not gonna lie, I tried to just make up random bullshit and see if I could put Reach in my download queue. Just the one time.

    Not exactly odds I'd bet on, but I just had to try.

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Fucking leaks, I just say a picture that I wish I hadn't.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    maybe it would be a good idea to downloaded Adblock and put it into whitelist mode so you can only see images you have specifically approved

    I'm actually considering doing this

    Also probably a good idea to not search for anything halo related on Youtube and to grab something that disabled Youtube comments

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  • billwillbillwill Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Yeah I'm going to try and stay away from anything Halo online for the next month or so. Can't risk it.

    Today I really missed the Halo Reach beta for some reason. I actually started the beta up, and watched the three or four saved films I have in there haha

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Dammit... I deleted my Reach Beta download. Wouldn't mind reviewing some of my videos/pictures.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    So, they changed Fiestanaut a bit

    betrayal booting: off
    juggernaut weapon damage: 150%
    200% resistance

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The only spoiler I want to know about is if there will be flood. because no matter how much logic you apply to the question I cant shake the feeling that bungie will squeeze them in somehow.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    No

    For the love of god there better not be

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'm hoping not in campaign.
    Woudn't mind the option to go against them in firefight.

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Fiesta is awesome and we need to be playing it all weekend.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    Yup.

    Also had fun mindfucking a booster group. They'd go all pink in a game, one would be the 'slayer' guy and cut down people while his buddy held the ball or hill.

    So after a few games of running into them, we change our color to pink to match them while in the lobby. They change their colors to something else. We match them to that. Then they make the mistake of changing to Steel as their color, which meant that almost everyone else in the game was that color. Right before the countdown, only one managed to change his color at the last second to white.

    So in that game, you could tell they were just lost without both being pink. They hesitated whenever shooting at someone, and ended up shooting each other a lot. Completely fucked with their momentum for the night. To add a bit more mental pressure to them, I start sniping their bodies after killing them and teabagging them.

    Then we got them again for Oddball. They tried to change colors to avoid us again, we match them, then they both manage to change to white before we could. But the damage was done.. they spent most of the match humping me, and their rhythm was just all fucked up.

    Next game, they didn't even get any EXP. Also to make it funnier, they were boosting the account that was already a 5 star general.

    tl;dr we trolled people with armor colors

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  • TheAngryDealerTheAngryDealer Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I just watched a 5 min. firefight teaser video....OMG.

    it was like
    firefight turned up to 11. Jackals were freaking rowdy, sprinting across the map, jumping up ramps. it's like they were actaully trying to KILL you

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Didn't they say they gave jackals a bunch of new behaviors?

    I have a feeling they're going to be the enemy in Reach that everyone hates. For the first three games we all hated the flood, in ODST we all hated drones, and this time I bet it's going to be jackals.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Those aren't technically Jackals, but their cousins the Skirmishers who are faster, more agile but shield-less and altogether more frail versions.

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