RebornYeti
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Man, why do I have to be at work? So much footage I have to wait 6 hours to watch!
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Halo: Reach Beta Thread
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Neverender
Member
i still hate the fact that this game has health, not sure why they're including it to be honest.
"that was my health pack rrraaaarrr *betrayal*"
"that was my health pack rrraaaarrr *betrayal*"
Diablohead
Member
I like the toilet looking emblem :lolCuban Legend said:
AWESOME.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Getting caught up watching vids right now and man the Pistol looks good.
D
Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
It's determined by connection. When it looks great, it looks really great, but if it determines that you have a crappy connection, then it gives you a low-quality stream.minasodaboy said:
AwesomeSyrup
Banned
The video with Luke Smith's commentary was hilarious. Luke needs to do commentary in all the Halo vids from now on. :lol
SolidEyeSystem
Member
Love the new footage I've seen so far.
InvincibleAgent said:
Shake Appeal
Member
I think it's mainly the upscaling to 720p that makes the sub-HD quality obvious. My Waypoint stream is probably comparable to the Joystiq/GB videos, but scaled up to HD rather than showing in a (relatively) small window.Cocopjojo said:
Let us download it!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
InvincibleAgent said:
Shake Appeal
Member
What? My understanding is that the colour of your stockpile zone is the same as your team, and Giant Bomb were just consistently heading to the wrong one.DopeyFish said:
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Azar said:
It's probably worth pointing out that our streaming tech currently only checks your bandwidth at the beginning of the video. If the footage looks less than ZOMG, it sometimes helps to back out and restart the clip.
The Librarian
Banned
The way you take out the plasma sword is very cool looking.
Edit: The Giantbomb dudes are kinda - How can I say this nicely? - not that helpful. :lol
Edit: The Giantbomb dudes are kinda - How can I say this nicely? - not that helpful. :lol
armor looks like the most bullshit, over powered, annoying piece of shit thats gonna ruin the game
i didnt know your shields came back, but jotstiq just showed how a full meter of armor lock gives you enough time to get full shields back and it also lowers other peoples shields when they get near it........wow
i didnt know your shields came back, but jotstiq just showed how a full meter of armor lock gives you enough time to get full shields back and it also lowers other peoples shields when they get near it........wow
Diablohead
Member
I was always thinking it used up your armour so the shield was like a last resort to block a rocket or something, but yeah using it fully to charge up your shield seems a bit OP, we will have to see in the beta ourselves.Lunchbox said:
Shake Appeal said:
the shield/marker around the blue teams drop point were blue but the UI is what is wrong, it was red. (so they kept thinking it was their zone because of the red UI marker) when you have 3 different elements (team colour, zone colour, ui colour) doing different things, it's completely unnatural.
Bungie for halo 3 and (from it looks like) reach think about keeping the UI down to 2 colours, Red for being enemy and blue being friendly. there are teams that have the colours of red and blue - and they're the primaries. so ultimately having the UI using those colours is completely confusing... hence one of the long list of reasons that Halo 3 objection completely failed.
in Halo 2, UI was your team colour, even if up to 8 teams it remained consistent. seriously i don't want to have to go through an entire halo beta again bitching about this to not see it fixed. me? I'm not confused about it but it's a travesty of UI design and very damn confusing to rather new players.
Shake Appeal
Member
Pre-Beta "Don't Tell Sage" Threat Top Five:
5. Evade
4. Focus Rifle
3. Plasma Launcher
2. Armour Lock
1. Spartan Laser
(To be updated when I've had hands-on time.)
5. Evade
4. Focus Rifle
3. Plasma Launcher
2. Armour Lock
1. Spartan Laser
(To be updated when I've had hands-on time.)
bobs...onGaf
Member
Lunchbox said:
Its not that different from the bubble shield really, that thing gave the user enough time to get theyre shields back. Using armour lock seems to be like putting a bit sign above your head for everyone with a sniper or rocket launcher to kill you as soon as you unlock.
The first day of the beta is going to be weird I predict a lot of people jumping by accident when they wanna swap nades and stuff :lol
The Librarian
Banned
If one played manages to deposit 10 skulls all at once in Headhunter, that's an automatic win. Didn't know that.
Only after the shields are down.chess said:
bobs99 ... said:
what? nooooo
you can hurt someone by forcing them out/going in. they are not invincible in the bubble. and once they use it, its done until it spawns back
the guy in the joystiq vid, was getting shot, hit armor lock got his shields back killed the dude that was about to kill him. hit armor again to get shields back and went off to kill another guy......its like instant shields in your pocket
if that happens to me, im hitting the quit button
It does seem crazy powerful, but it also announces to all the world where you are and that you're stationary. A well timed grenade will have people making sad faces coming out of armor lock.bobs99 ... said:
I'm really digging how the sound get muted when you go into camo. It's like slipping on The One Ring and waching events from some kind of netherworld.
les papillons sexuels
Banned
wow... that comment section on gametrailers is just brutal.
squidhands
Member
I can't wait to do this to someone with the grenade launcher. Just cook that baby right in front of their eyes. They know it, I know it. Big smiles.GhaleonEB said:
YOU CANNOT HIDEGhaleonEB said:
Shake Appeal
Member
My biggest grievance with the game right now is that there is no button layout that puts Jump on LB and Armour Ability on RB.bobs99 ... said:
That's seriously my biggest complaint.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
les papillons sexuels said:
Pretty much any video, news piece, or really just anything I see on the internet that has a comment section I have trained myself not to read any of them because really they are just very annoying and full of a lot of ignorant people. :lol
The Librarian
Banned
The guy in Giantbomb preview during the Stockpile game took his flag to the other team's capture point three times.:lol
bobs...onGaf
Member
Lunchbox said:
In use it has about as many drawbacks as the bubble shield even if it doesnt play the same. A bubble shield guy isnt invincible in the bubble, but with smart movement can certainly use it to evade/ kill any enemies. I do think the bubble shield lead to better play and personally think I would prefer it if armour lock didnt exist but a bubble shield dropped in place where you activate it. That would be a nice way of integrating Equipment back in, but I doubt Bungie wants to do this from a design viewpoint.
If anything I think the timers should be toned down on AA's, especially Armour lock this, would be good counter scenarios like that.
Shake Appeal said:
Agreed!
les papillons sexuels
Banned
Not a Jellyfish said:
Yeah, but even N4G has a shred of decency at times...
loving the look of the game, it looks spectacular. SSAO and motion blur is really paying off. I can't wait to see what the campaign will look like, with a ton of enemies and vehicles flying around in the map.
on the whole armour lock thing, I think it's a pretty fair game, you're a sitting target, so as long as you wait it out you can pretty much ensure a kill as the player exits out of the lock. The wraith does it properly, in the armour ability HD gameplay movie on gt.
Shake Appeal
Member
Dune already has at least two good videogames made about it that I am aware of, though.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I've already a dozen ideas about fun Loadouts/gametypes for Customs. =\
Photolysis
Banned
I have to admit, Luke's commentary in that one video was awesome.
Shake Appeal
Member
Customs need to include the option for unlimited use of Armour Abilities.
Neverender
Member
is the video with luke's commentary on waypoint?
Captain Blood
Member
So much to watch! I think I might just skip over the giant bomb stuff since people don't seem to be digging it.
