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Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Whether it's faster or not, it doesn't stop assholes from doing it, unfortunately.BladedExpert said:
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Halo: Reach Beta Thread
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Shake Appeal
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The pistol is such a fucking beast, wow.
Thagomizer
Member
God I love Covy Slayer.
BladedExpert
Member
Shake Appeal said:
Very much agreed. Im still learning, but its getting there...
Have Bungie mentioned somewhere if they're taking note of all the most common complaints, and planing to fix them before release?? As much as I like it, there's so much stuff wrong with the game, my hopes for them to actually make it all right before release are very low.
After all the AA pimping, a huuuuuuge nerf to cooldown times on the abilities (or any other kind of major nerf to them) is something I'm not really expecting sadly, but at least weapon damage, melee, reticules, UI stuff, etc would be nice to see fixed.
Is there an email or some place to send serious well thought out feedback?
After all the AA pimping, a huuuuuuge nerf to cooldown times on the abilities (or any other kind of major nerf to them) is something I'm not really expecting sadly, but at least weapon damage, melee, reticules, UI stuff, etc would be nice to see fixed.
Is there an email or some place to send serious well thought out feedback?
I like how you removed the beard too, in protest of all the problems with the sandbox.GhaleonEB said:
Thagomizer
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Letters said:
The only cooldown time that need a nerf, IMO, is the Camo. Everything else is fine. Having a long cooldown on Sprint or the Jetpack would just make using them frustrating.
Shake Appeal
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I think all of the armour abilities are fine. Nothing feels overpowered. I'd say my sprint usage is like 60% now. Haven't gone negative in 20 games.
Agree on Sprint, but on Jetpack, IMO, people would need to use them more responsibly like a Grav Lift that you can use once every minute (or maybe make the wait 30 seconds until it recharges), instead of constantly floating everywhere cheaply annoying everyone and making knowing how to navigate properly the layout and routes meaningless.Thagomizer said:
I don't agree with that; what's satisfying? To me, I'm glad there's no lunge that's akin to Halo 2 and Halo 3. The timing is just something I'll have to get down while using it with an AR, Pistol, or something else. No lunge is a good thing to have.Dax01 said:
Unless I'm missing your point.
Nah, still happens much so in 1-CTF. My team had a quitter, so it was 3 vs. 4, and that's all they did.BladedExpert said:
Flag dropped, Flag taken, Flag dropped, Flag taken, and it gets there as fast as folks would in Stockpile, or at least it seems that way.
I was under the impression it was fixed, as Urk mentioned it several weeks ago. Sigh.
Shake Appeal
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Clay pigeon shooting: it's what your pistol is for.Letters said:
Like the Stockpile scoring, it's fixed, but not in the beta.Striker said:
Shake Appeal said:I think all of the armour abilities are fine. Nothing feels overpowered. I'd say my sprint usage is like 60% now. Haven't gone negative in 20 games.
I rarely use anything but Sprint, jetpack maybe sometimes. I like the increase in mobility those two bring into play. I don't even remember when I've last used armor lock. Tried active camo a couple of times and managed to fool a few enemies, but in the end I just wanted to sprint away.
Thagomizer
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Letters said:
This is balanced by the fact that abusing the jetpack gets you swatted out of the sky by anyone who is halfway decent.
Captain Blood
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Invisibility?SailorDaravon said:
Diablohead
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Was just in a team game where some dude and his friend were complaining about the magnum, saying "man I shot him like 20 times the pistol is so weak" and the other half of their discussion was about being killed in 5 shots, did it not occur to them to aim for the head?Shake Appeal said:
Diablohead said:Was just in a team game where some dude and his friend were complaining about the magnum, saying "man I shot him like 20 times the pistol is so weak" and the other half of their discussion was about being killed in 5 shots, did it not occur to them to aim for the head?
I'm gonna guess that it's too late for you to talk again? :lol
Shake Appeal
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Yeah. I've had a few amazing armour lock moments (hitting it just as a guy hammers me to take his shield down, coming out immediately and headshotting him), and even fewer amazing camo moments, but mostly I just want to be able to get in and out of trouble as fast as possible.Popeck said:
Thagomizer
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Shake Appeal said:
I haven't had any Armor Lock moments, mostly because I almost never use it, but I've had some amazing camo moments including one awesome double assassination. Knifed one guy, went to camo, snapped the neck of his buddy as he came around the corner
I know, but I just personally hate the fact that an enemy can be anywhere now, instead of the regular paths that you can be on the lookout for them on, like in the previous Halo games. Makes me uncomfortably paranoid.Thagomizer said:
I think I will be embracing MLG rules/playlist this time, sigh...
Diablohead
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12:25am so yeah, feel free to play anyway i'll do a few more games before sleep.JambiBum said:
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
Would love to see a MVP mode back for reach. always loved that mode.
AwesomeSyrup
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You mean VIP?Metalic Sand said:
Mr. Lemming
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Not sure how I feel about melee attacks blocking the sword. Most encounters where I know the sword is in play I just starting yamming on melee and I usually come out victorious. On one hand it is a nice way to tone down the sword but maybe the timing window for the block should be shorter or something... it's just too easy at the moment.
bobs...onGaf
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Swat just brings out the worst in people, just had 3 games where people either camped in the lift room of Sword Base or the Generator Room of Powerhouse. I also got shot through the wall in that Powerhouse game, I did have people from abroad playing with me, but I hope that kind of thing is kinked out a bit more by the final game.
3 plots is pretty awesome though.
3 plots is pretty awesome though.
Demoncarnotaur
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I have a lot of catching up to do in this thread so sorry if this has been posted. I cant remember who posted the link to that weird assassination glitch earlier, but I downloaded it and took this pic:
I am so looking forward to seeing all the armor variants in the game. Also, if you download that video and move the camera you can even see an untextured helmet that looks like the pilot from Halo 3.
A few more pics here
I am so looking forward to seeing all the armor variants in the game. Also, if you download that video and move the camera you can even see an untextured helmet that looks like the pilot from Halo 3.
A few more pics here
Diablohead
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Demoncarnotaur said:
Lazslo
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Dirty bro. The sniper feels amazing. I played against you a couple times today, it was good stuff.Eric WK said:
Also, yo Cuban I rendered this for you homes. 30 seconds of fun, extended cut.
Diablohead
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Looking now, I think it's the one with the small yellow dots for eyes and the large cheek tubes.ZayneH said:
I also noticed some of the spartans are female, so I am guessing we can play as female looking spartans in MP now, maybe even single player if the character carries across. Interesting.
One of the body parts also has grenades across the front, the tube like smokes.
Yeah, I'm all for Reach-ifhying Soffish there, but I can't say I'm a fan of Sage's work after getting my hands on it.Letters said:
I'm getting used to many elements of the game, but the sandbox definitely has a host of issues. I hope to be surprised at how many changes are made from Beta to ship.
I've moved from disappointed surprise, to disgust, to semi-coherent critiques in the span of the first couple days. Today I'm moving toward constructive criticism and acceptance. It's in my nature to vent what I don't like a few times and move on. There's a LOT of good stuff in here, but it's a lot creakier than I was hoping.
Too late to call a mulligan on making the Reach thread? At the rate I'm going...
Hopping back on now, hope to hook up with you guys.
Diablohead
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If this is not allowed Bungie I will delete it, but since a lot of people know about it now it's interesting, another arm item there too.
AwesomeSyrup
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Yes, this. The Security helmet has to return.ZayneH said:
The game is beginning to click with me now. Initially, I kept taking slow careful head shots with the pistol and DMR to keep the reticle accurate rather than rapidly shooting to pop the shield and then taking one careful shot.
Flag throwing was removed for the game but still in the beta or was the BWU about something else? I can still get a decent boost by throwing it in CTF. It would be really difficult to walk the flag around the long way on Swordbase if the flag wasn't thrown. You're pretty damn slow running with it meanwhile enemies have access to jetpacks and the sprint. I understand some people don't like the announcer but it's necessary.
Flag throwing was removed for the game but still in the beta or was the BWU about something else? I can still get a decent boost by throwing it in CTF. It would be really difficult to walk the flag around the long way on Swordbase if the flag wasn't thrown. You're pretty damn slow running with it meanwhile enemies have access to jetpacks and the sprint. I understand some people don't like the announcer but it's necessary.
Diablohead
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No that would be your team mates helping you by covering your back, not lame ass flag juggling to saftey, you are slow with the flag for a reason. Can't wait for retail reach so nurf the juggle so hard that we can stop hearing that flag dropped flag taken speech repeat itself.Kuroyume said: