BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Zenith said:
They WHATed the WHAT?
How big is this game going to be exactly.
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The Halo 3 Beta Thread
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They WHATed the WHAT?
How big is this game going to be exactly.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Mojovonio said:
RL?
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Alright, anyone care to explain to me what RP actually means and how to raise the skill point?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Striker said:
I see.
I only ever really used them in a few Rockets matches and they seemed pretty good to me.
As far as the graphics go, I don't know what to say to that. I think Snowbound especially looks phenomenal. The only problem I see really is the textures on some of the grass and rocky areas seem a little bland. Other than that, the geometry detail and lighting as awesome.
I hope such misgivings don't have an impact on sales. Of Halo 3.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
someone hasn't been reading the leaked stuff...soco said:
RP=Experience points ie How long you've been playing. If you want to raise it, just play more.Buggy Loop said:
http://www.bungie.net/content.aspx?link=h3betamatchmaking
Sure it is.MMaRsu said:Nah we just wanted you in the match
As I said then, they were the ones who invited me in the first place. Which was the reason I signed on. So if there wasn't enough space for all, I didn't just want to abandon them.
Plus, Snake would cry.
Diablohead
Member
All my bad feedback has been from people from the other team or something in many games, it's such a broken system but I supose no matter how you do it people will find a way to abuse it.
There are only around 500-700,000 people on the Beta, so I really don't think the opinions of people on it will affect sales too much. And the rocket launcher isn't gimped except for the lock-on which I think is great. The Assault Rifle helps take out vehicles a lot easier than the SMG or BR could in Halo 2. I think the vehicles are used more predominately but still have plenty of counters with the rocket
, spartan laser
, missile pod and mines.
if you can aim
if you can aim
BenjaminBirdie said:
While I don't think it looks like utter shit, I sort of agree with some things they mentioned. I told them not to compare it to GoW, but then one friend mentioned to just look at UT3 for a reference point, and I found it hard to disagree with.
Its not that the game looks technically bad, it just looks almost exactly like Halo 2 in the level design.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Mojovonio said:
:lol
Where do you work? I listen to recaps of Dancing With The Stars all day. I would love to have these conversations.
We have seen these kinds of levels before. Valhalla is similar to Blood Gulch/Coagulation. High Ground is similar to Zanzibar. Snowbound is....scratch that one.
But there's no comparison in the visual fidelity, despite the similar locations and art style. TAPOUT's comparisons:
Halo 2 snow:
Halo 3 snow:
Halo 2 base:
Halo 3 base:
I dunno. Halo 3 MP looks just like what I hoped it would. I do hope we see some very differnt kinds of environments in the final game, and some radical new map designs. But what we have is pretty solid, and very polished.
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=525405
Some things they need to change(probably has been mentioned already):
1) The firing rate of the human snipe has to be increased. It is a power weapon for a reason.
2) Needler seems too powerful.
3) It's way too hard to see when getting shot.
4) I want BXB, BXR, and YY back :lol
1) The firing rate of the human snipe has to be increased. It is a power weapon for a reason.
2) Needler seems too powerful.
3) It's way too hard to see when getting shot.
4) I want BXB, BXR, and YY back :lol
thekad said:
It's perfect now. You actually have to aim instead of spamming shots hoping to get lucky.
It's still only good in fairly close range. Needles are easy to dodge.
The flashes aren't that bad. If anything, it adds to the frantic nature of the game.
No...hell no...just no.
Merovingian
Banned
I really like the small touches in the game, the particle effects on the Snow are rather cool.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Huh? Just checked my Rep, it says that 66% preferred or did not submit review and 34% avoided me. Is that the default if no reviews are in? Also, all other figures are 0% but I have 50% for unsporting behaviour. Is this that people get irritated that I'm not a great player or what? I always try to play a team game and aside the occasional RL / grenade betrayals I can't think of any reason to call me unsporting.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
JdFoX187 said:
I'm counting my blessings as so far I haven't gotten a single negative feedback from Halo 3 play, and actually got a fair number of positives. I have been playing with a full party of friends most of the time on my side, so I'm not sure if that's skewed things or not - the matchups with random people so far has produced only a handful of griefers and morons. My group was just commenting last night how so far, most people were bizarrely well-behaved for Halo online :lol
I disagree with everything you just said.thekad said:
1-They slowed it down from H 1/2's firing rate for a reason. It's fine where it is, but I would've slowed it down even further. They should've done the same with the Beam Rifle however, 'cause it's too good now. Same thing with the Carbine/Battle Rifle. They were relatively even before with the Carbine being slightly better. Now the Carbine is much better than the BR.
2-It's also shit from long distance. Even more so if the target is strafing, so it balances out. That's almost like saying that the Shotgun it too powerful up close. Or the Snipers are too good at killing people from far away.
3-Eh? Nah.
4-Hopefully the ":lol" means you're joking. Either way, hell no.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Chittagong said:
People are crazy and childishly petty - one time I got the "unsporting" feedback from a game of Ridge Racer 6 and for what? The guy who left it and was pissed off at me during the race, *kept slamming into my ass* by hitting nitro when he was right up behind me, as if he thought it would just knock my car out of the way. If anything /he was griefing me/, not the other way around. Though of course, such convenient little boosts just helped me win...
I've passed your note along to the network engineers, so that they're aware of it. My understanding, though, is that this is addressed by giving the exploiting player a progressively worse host rating, so that he ends up where even a guy on a 28.8 modem would be chosen as host before him. It's sort of a waste of a nice fat connection. He won't be able to find games if he restricts his connection, either. Too bad, so sad.GeoNeo said:Cheating
People are using Zone alarm to drop you from the game. I've played games where people on the other team were saying they found out how to force host and use zone alarm to cheat. The host connects his 360 via ICS then one by one limits how much upload each person from the other team gets.
I really hope Bungie can some how over come this, but I'm starting to fear that even in the final game we will see it pop up due to the P2P nature of the game.
It does take some time, though. Some of our systems (like skill based matching, host selection, etc) learn over time. The trick is keeping them from becoming self aware and initiating Judgement Day, but we're pretty sure we have that in hand.
Well not sure why Blimblim didnt announce this here but he put a video up of one of my games. Albeit not my best because it was an earlier game, second day or so. Thanks Blim though, didnt expect you to put it up.
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3850_en.html
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3850_en.html
I played halo2 online for about 1 hour in total never really got into it, i prefer tactical shooter like rainbow six but i have to say ive already played the halo3 beta for at least ten hours, im loving it!
I never thought having 4 a side would seem like more than enough people but it does , i never realised how many game types there were but it definitely suprised me..
Cemented my decision to buy the game day one.
I never thought having 4 a side would seem like more than enough people but it does
, i never realised how many game types there were but it definitely suprised me..Cemented my decision to buy the game day one.
JdFoX187 said:
The rocket has undergone some major, major changes. It's a lot different than the Halo 2 rockets.
Splash damage seems reduced, lock on (of course) is gone and I think there is now an added delay. It has definately been gimped, majorly. But I think it's better balanced right now, it was way too powerful in Halo 2.
StriKeVillain
Banned
Deepblue said:
If you're gonna try, send me a FR: strikevillain.
SolidSquirrel
Member
Games: 79
Last Played: 5/19/2007 2:03:01 PM
Total Kills: 776
Total Deaths: 776
Kill/Death Ratio: 1
Total Assists: 315
Woo.
Last Played: 5/19/2007 2:03:01 PM
Total Kills: 776
Total Deaths: 776
Kill/Death Ratio: 1
Total Assists: 315
Woo.
pooteeweet
Banned
MMaRsu said:raYne wanna play 1 on 1 ? I think I figured it out
How do you play 1 on 1?