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The Halo: Reach Thread
And Also Other Previous Halo Titles Discussion
And Also Other Previous Halo Titles Discussion
Halo: Reach is the fourth and final Halo title to be developed by Bungie Studios and the fifth overall game to be released by Microsoft Game Studios. A prequel to the Halo trilogy, the game takes place on the planet Reach, a major planet of the Halo canon and home to many ONI secrets. The story follows Noble Six, a new replacement for the Spartan III-filled Noble Team. Six's gender and appearance are completely determined by the player; the gender and customizations are recognized across the board in both Campaign and Multiplayer, with properly matching voice acting in cutscenes to boot.
Just like Halo 2 and 3 before it, Halo: Reach eschews the old clumsy server list model for the Matchmaking experience. Instead of manually trawling through a gigantic server list, Bungie attempts to lay out a suitable cross section of gametypes and maps that the community will enjoy. You can't be kicked out of a game for playing too well, nor do you have to put up with 5 hour games of CTF set to 50 points to win (those are available as part of Custom Games). New to Reach is matchmaking support for both Campaign and Firefight. Below is an overview of the Reach playlists as best as the OP can keep up with them, gleaned from the Bungie.net Playlists Page.
Competitive Playlists
These playlists are the tried and true versus multiplayer you've been playing for many years. Teams and groups of Free For All players try their best to out-gun, out-flag, out-bomb and out-play their opponents. There is no more distinction between Social and Ranked like Halo 3 anymore; every Competitive playlist supports parties up to the maximum player count, and the Trueskill rank system is now hidden from view.
Cooperative Playlists
Don't feel like shooting other humans in the face? How about some Covie AI? They can't play loud music over voice chat and can't send you racist text messages. Sounds good to me. This is where you will find the matchmaking for both Campaign and Firefight. Both of these modes use a different networking model than Competitive multiplayer which relies on everyone having low latency internet connections, so if you are lagging in this category but not Team Slayer... there you go.
Title Update Playlists
Like Reach but with more Halo 2.
The Noble Map Pack (800msp)
The Noble Map Pack also comes with 250 extra gamescore for you achievement whores out there.
The Defiant Map Pack (800msp)
Created by the fine folks at Certain Affinity, who did the Blastacular Map Pack (Tombstone and Desolation) for Halo 2. They've also made DLC for Black Ops, and created fun games like Age of Booty. They're also involved in Left 4 Dead 1 and 2's development, and was founded by Max Hoberman, a long time Bungie alum. You know what, I'm not going to even give you a download link to this pack, you're not going to see it in matchmaking anyway.
The Anniversary Map Pack (1200msp)
Featuring 5 maps from Halo 1, a map from Halo 2 (Headlong) and a Firefight map based off Halo 1 (Installation 04), this pack has the most bang for your buck and is the most available in matchmaking s.
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Halo: Combat Evolved
Buy for: Xbox, 360 GoD, PC
Halo 2
Buy for: Xbox, PC (Vista and higher required)
The Xbox version's online was taken offline on April 15th, 2009 as part of a complete ending of support for the original Xbox. If you were lucky enough to have ever played Halo 2 on Xbox Live, you have the option to wear a Halo 2 badge in the Reach lobby if you link your gamertag to Bungie.net. If you didn't.. there is no other way to get it. Bungie is apparently choosing to ignore Halo 2 Vista owners.
Halo 3
Buy for: Xbox 360, 360 GoD
It was also the first game to recieve a bump up to 1750 gamescore via DLC. 4 of those achievements called "Vidmasters" will set you on the road to unlocking the coveted Recon armor within Halo 3 - you'll also need 3 achievements from ODST to get it. Note that ALL of these maps come for free with the purchase of a brand new copy of Halo 3: ODST, and allows you to play all of Halo 3 matchmaking without a hard drive.
Halo 3: ODST
Buy for: Xbox 360
Drop down into the streets of New Mombasa in a storyline that takes place during the middle of Halo 2. The Chief has just followed a carrier's slipspace jump; where did he go? Brute squads are patrolling the night streets, your squad is seperated and there's an annoyingly positive AI trying to help you out. Introduces the Firefight game mode to the Halo featureset, and was the first game post Halo 3 to ditch dual wielding. Is probably the only Halo LIVE compatible game that will never have a patch or DLC.
Supports up to 4 players for Live Co-Op, Firefight, and Theater film watching. Supports films and screenshots, but not clips. Shares the same file share with Halo 3, so you can snap screenshots in ODST and view them from inside Halo 3, or vice versa. ODST is smart enough to ignore Halo 3 only files such as map variants and gametypes and films from Halo 3 campaign and multiplayer.
Halo Wars
Buy for: Xbox 360, 360 GoD
Post release, the game was supported by Robot Entertainment, one of the many studios made from former Ensemble employees. They went on to issue 4 title updates for the game in an aggressive support of rebalancing and bug fixes. In mid-2010, Halo Wars was handed over to 343 Studios, who shut down the game's forums on December 15th but continue to support the stats side of the website.
It has one map pack available for release, which you can download below:
Many of us have bought these maps, so you won't be hurting for people to play them with. There's also an overpriced gametype pack, but don't buy that unless you really want the Waypoint gamescore from it.
The what now?!
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These same people said that Team Classic in Reach would have like 70,000 people playing it because "that's what we all want, Halo 1 style gameplay". Then wham bam 200 max population. Halo 1 over Xbox Live would end up the same way, same fate as Perfect Dark on Live.
As I said on Twitter, I'm kinda expecting the Halo 1 pistol as a Forge object and then a gametype that spawns you with it as a bone to throw to the fanboys, but beyond that it's gonna be normal Reach gameplay in all other playlists.
Due to important updates to the Reach Stats API, I'm finally going to be able to do the PA Forums/TBK stats portal I always wanted to do. So instead of the old days where I'd manually run Query Spree for everyone here and post the results, it's going to be a site where all of us can submit our gamertags, and then it'll display stuff like our total kills/deaths/assists as a group, group map performance, how many dailies and weeklies we've collectively earned, etc.
It should be pretty neat, and the beta for it is going to start sometime in late July. Sept 15 is when I'm aiming for it to be final code.
Curious, but what happened with PD? I personally couldn't enjoy it because I though the game felt dated and that it just wasn't meant for online.
Outsold Monday Night Combat, online died within a a couple of weeks, because Perfect Dark was "balanced" for splitscreen play, not online play.
Halo 1 Xbox is neither
a) balanced for the online world
b) possible to bring into the online world unchanged on a technical and balance level.
Unless of course you just want them to do what XBC did, so the clients get to jump around and lag a bunch and there's a 4 player limit on Live sessions.
If you want to play Halo 1 on LAN, you can just buy H1 Xbox Originals for 15$ right now, and then play on XBC where everyone is wanking off on doing the most button and physics exploits they can within the span of a game.
I started with Halo 3, and I'm playing campaign. If anyone wants to join me, or switch to MP, hit me up on XBL.
EDIT: I am waiting on a very important call, too, so if I happen to ignore your invite, don't worry. I'll invite back when I'm done (unless I've gotta go). Basically, try and play Halo with me on my terms or I hate you and go away!
So during the weekend, it's possible to get a Super Jackpot (21k) and a Double Jackpot (6,000) in one game.
My fucked-up headset has finally broken, severing the microphone cable entirely. I've ordered a new one but it won't be here until Tuesday, so I'll be mute for Halo, Gears, L4D, everything. I can still hear you, and the click when I hit the mute switch still happens, so until Tuesday, two clicks for yes, four for no, a constant barrage for FUCKING HELP ME I'M PINNED TO THE GROUND
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Except when you score the flag, it won't give you any points.
It's assumed a hotfix is coming, but until then, if you're in MLG or any other gametype that has Flag at Home to Score on, wait until your flag is home before you try to score.
Is the only other MM gametype with this currently CTF classic?
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that other squarish map? not so much. So terrible.
Flagastravanganza? MOSTLY AWESOME!
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http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=643281661&player=FyreWulff
Score to win: 200, flags are worth 50, kills worth 1.
It's not as Slayer centric as one might have thought. I'm going to make a map + gametype centered around this new mode though.
This could be a terrible thing at times.
As long as it's not like the Mythic 1 & 2 pack rollouts.
Also, that CTF slayer sounds nice. Would have been a nice balance during my underway tournaments.
Hopefully I'll be able to play a few games next Friday while waiting for my dad's surgery to finish up.
I hadn't completely considered that. It caters to the people who love objectives and the people who ruin them at the same time.
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Needs to get rolled into regular objectives.
I see what you did there. Unless you weren't trying to make a evade with flag pun.