Halo series - Crimson Map Pack out now!

[RuNNing Riot]

Doesn't it depend on how many kills you got or how well you did in general for the ranking thing?

Though that did happen to a friend of mine too... -_-'

 

[F8AL]

Halo Reach Beta trailer shows jet packs, assassinations

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/03/leaked-halo-reach-beta-trailer-shows-jet-packs-assassinations/

ZOMG JETPACKS, ROLLING AND SPRINTING!!!!111ONE!!1

 

[RuNNing Riot]

Woohoo, assassinations in multiplayer! Jetpacks! Invasion mode (whatever that is. Firefight in Reach?)! Head Hunter!

That multiplayer beta'd better hurry up.

 

[F8AL]

Woohoo, assassinations in multiplayer! Jetpacks! Invasion mode (whatever that is. Firefight in Reach?)! Head Hunter!

That multiplayer beta'd better hurry up.

May 3rd, 2010.

Spoiler

Too bad I don't own a copy of ODST...

 

[The Real Gamer]

JETPAAAAAAAAAACKS!!!!!!!

Wow it looks like Bungie is going all out for their last Halo game! The multiplayer in Reach already looks 5 times more fun than Halo 3/ODST combined!

 

[F8AL]

JETPAAAAAAAAAACKS!!!!!!!

Wow it looks like Bungie is going all out for their last Halo game! The multiplayer in Reach already looks 5 times more fun than Halo 3/ODST combined!

They never said this was their last Halo game. Someone from Bungie said in a recent interview that this doesn't mean no more halo games from them.

 

[The Real Gamer]

They never said this was their last Halo game. Someone from Bungie said in a recent interview that this doesn't mean no more halo games from them.

Oh really? I've heard the opposite but I guess that was just a rumor.

 

[smash brawl player 99021]

The next game looks great. I can't wait!

 

[rhan]

Jetpacks are stupid.....

 

[darksamus77]

Jetpacks are stupid.....

I can see there being potential for these, but if they're anything like the Brutes' jetpacks, they're worthless and pointless to implement. It could either ruin multiplayer or make it loads more fun

 

[smash brawl player 99021]

Yeah, if they explode after being shot a few times, it might be dumb. I think if the just exploded when you died, it'd be much better.

 

[darksamus77]

Yeah, if they explode after being shot a few times, it might be dumb. I think if the just exploded when you died, it'd be much better.

That'd be much better

 

[F8AL]

Spartans can already jump ridiculously high anyways. I guess it'd be useful if you wanna get to the top of an enemy's base and drop in to grab their flag in CTF.

 

[F8AL]

*BUMP*

Halo: Reach beta matchmaking and UI details surface

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/18/halo-reach-beta-matchmaking-and-ui-details-surface/

The first big addition is Arena playlists, a set of Slayer and Team Slayer playlists for the more hardcore players, complete with its own ranking system. Ranks will be determined through a variety of factors, and will section off players into one of five groups: Onyx, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Steel. As such, Ranked and Social will now be one combined playlist.

Other improvements come to the lobby system, giving players the power to vote on potential games that come up in matchmaking and an auto-queue feature that lets you join friends immediately after they complete a match. There's even a throwback to Halo 2 in the Active Roster screen, an area that shows all of your friends who are playing the game.

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

So...

a friend of mine who follows the game way closer then i do says bungie released in a podcast that the DMR is confirmed 5 shot.


And if anyone hasn't seen it yet, youtube: Halo Reach Tik Tok remix

i'd post the link, but i'm in school. its hilarious.

 

[Xianglian]

*BUMP*

Halo: Reach beta matchmaking and UI details surface

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/18/halo-reach-beta-matchmaking-and-ui-details-surface/

The first big addition is Arena playlists, a set of Slayer and Team Slayer playlists for the more hardcore players, complete with its own ranking system. Ranks will be determined through a variety of factors, and will section off players into one of five groups: Onyx, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Steel. As such, Ranked and Social will now be one combined playlist.

Other improvements come to the lobby system, giving players the power to vote on potential games that come up in matchmaking and an auto-queue feature that lets you join friends immediately after they complete a match. There's even a throwback to Halo 2 in the Active Roster screen, an area that shows all of your friends who are playing the game.

That made me real happy

 

[RuNNing Riot]

So...

a friend of mine who follows the game way closer then i do says bungie released in a podcast that the DMR is confirmed 5 shot.

What do you mean, five shot? Five shots to a magazine?

And if anyone hasn't seen it yet, youtube: Halo Reach Tik Tok remix

i'd post the link, but i'm in school. its hilarious.

Saw it. The mouthing's a little off, but it was still funny regardless.

I really like this idea of being able to vote for a match, giving you some flexibility in the matchmaking. The veto system in 3 wasn't so bad, but you could end up with an even worse match than what you wanted, since you had no idea what was going to come up. I hope the game doesn't follow pre-made gametypes, though. It might end up becoming biased when players start voting for the same match over and over.

On a different subject, any idea in Reach supports clan tags like they did in 2?

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

Five shots to kill, I'm pretty sure.

 

[F8AL]

Today is the last day to play Halo 2 on the original Xbox. You can still play it online on the Vista version but at midnight today, Microsoft will be shutting off the original Xbox servers.

Be sure to download all the Halo 2 map packs if you haven't already. Or if you already have the MP disc, then you're good to go.

 

[ECHO_R24]

*Salutes farewell to Halo 2* Ahh those were some **** good times.

I would post my thoughts and comments on Bungie's beta news, but i fear mass amounts of recursion, even if i do consider myself very knowledgeable on the topic. All i can say is i CANT WAIT for this! If anyone else is the halo junkie like me, consider checking out the community website i'm from, the Halo3Wheelmen:
http://www.h3wheelmen.com

we're quite the laid back group of gamers, still active on halo3 and certainly will be all over the beta so check us out if you'd like

 

[RuNNing Riot]

I hate advertising.

So I suppose this means that we can be expecting that improvement Microsoft promised they'd give after the original Xbox servers were shut down any day now?

Dude, you'd think with the beta less than a three weeks away this thread would be more active.

 

[F8AL]

I hate advertising.

So I suppose this means that we can be expecting that improvement Microsoft promised they'd give after the original Xbox servers were shut down any day now?

Dude, you'd think with the beta less than a three weeks away this thread would be more active.

Me too. Too bad we can't do anything about it. *face palm*

And yeah, it's rumoured to have benefits such as 100+ friends list and such.

Yup, well I stopped updating this thread a while ago. We'll see when the beta is out next month.

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

There's just not that much to talk about really. We've pretty much covered it all, lol. DMR and Barrel rolls.

Speaking of, how the hell is the camera going to work with that? Reach is still first person, right?

 

[O D I N]

There's just not that much to talk about really. We've pretty much covered it all, lol. DMR and Barrel rolls.

Speaking of, how the hell is the camera going to work with that? Reach is still first person, right?

As far as I know, yes. Any video featuring a third person perspective would be from the save film theater.

I'd imagine turrets will still be third person, but I haven't heard anything about that.

Media embargo for reach expires at 7am tomorrow morning. I'm assuming that's pacific time. See you guys then.

 

[Stormcrow2]

No more battle rifle? I might suck at the multiplayer for a while when reach comes out if this is the case

BR is my weapon of choice hands down, but I've seen there's going to be another long range type weapon, some sort of single shot rifle, I'm assuming.

All this aside tho, the graphics are supposed to look reallllly nice and it's probably going to be pretty good overall.

 

[RuNNing Riot]

Just in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-YaHOpIa1s

So that's what that new weapon was! A Covenant Focus Rifle... I like the look of it. And I'm also really excited for the appearance of being able to select what kind of player you want to play with, too. Whether I'd count as chatty or serious I can't decide, though...

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

Yeah i watched this on Halo: Waypoint. The focus rifle looks awesome.

and I'm not worried about the loss of the BR (my god, serious MLG players will be crying over this forever) but the DMR is supposed to be just as cool.

Headhunter looks freakin' awesome. I'm gunna love that.

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

Sorry to dub post, but I feel you all should know. There are vids pouring in from sites.

All abilities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0lSWOrIE0Q

Invasion gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-GPWOL35Y

Race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3HU593okU

just to name a few. one week people! We should start throwing up gamertags to add, for the people who are playing the beta

 

[RuNNing Riot]

Nice finds, JKBUK. I watched them just now.

Abilities: ... meh. I'll be honest, I was expecting a bigger number than that. Unless this is just a sample compiled for the beta and not the full amount, right now it's just underwhelming.

Invasion: Personally I can't see much difference between this and a Team Slayer match. But I did see in the feed of one of the clips 'Ghost delivered'. What does that mean?

Race: Heh. Bungie took an awesome improvised gametype and made it a full one. I do hope that Rocket Race gets through as a subtype, though... I loved that game. And I noticed that the game spawns items in the way of the racers while the game goes on to make it a bit more varied. Clever.

I agree with the gamertag posting. But should we put it in here or just leave it in another one like the MW2 thread?

 

[The Real Gamer]

It should be here. Unfortunately I will not be participating in the beta. I don't think buying ODST for the beta is enough to warrant a purchase from me.

Once more ODST videos and stuff come out this thread will get a lot more popular trust me. The MW2 thread didn't really kick off until the game finally came out.

 

[RuNNing Riot]

It should be here. Unfortunately I will not be participating in the beta. I don't think buying ODST for the beta is enough to warrant a purchase from me.

Come on, ODST wasn't that bad...

We'd have to persuade Cashed to edit his OP then...

 

[S l o X]

Reach looks fantastic from what I see. I don't like some of the new aspects but we'll see how it does in the multiplayer. I don't have live so I won't be playing until the official release which is . . . ?

 

[F8AL]

It should be here. Unfortunately I will not be participating in the beta. I don't think buying ODST for the beta is enough to warrant a purchase from me.

Once more ODST videos and stuff come out this thread will get a lot more popular trust me. The MW2 thread didn't really kick off until the game finally came out.

Good, save your money.

Come on, ODST wasn't that bad...

We'd have to persuade Cashed to edit his OP then...

...

And Cashed hasn't logged in for a few months. Maybe I should take over this thread like I did with the MW2 one?

Reach looks fantastic from what I see. I don't like some of the new aspects but we'll see how it does in the multiplayer. I don't have live so I won't be playing until the official release which is . . . ?

Fall 2010.

 

[Stormcrow2]

What I'm wondering is if they'll have split screen supported for the beta; like the guy above, I too am not going to spend the money on ODST to get the beta... I'm gonna head over and try it out with a couple of friends who have ODST, likely.

 

[O D I N]

Come on, ODST wasn't that bad...

THANK YOU.

I will be rocking the beta next week. My on times will be weird (I'm married now (Though I've told the wife she won't be seeing me until we leave for japan on the 9th), and have a job). But hit me with an invite. If I join you, I do, if not, don't pester me.

 

[F8AL]

What I'm wondering is if they'll have split screen supported for the beta; like the guy above, I too am not going to spend the money on ODST to get the beta... I'm gonna head over and try it out with a couple of friends who have ODST, likely.

I dunno, did the Halo 3 beta have split-screen online capabilities?

Also the multi-player beta will last from May 3rd to the 19th.

http://halo.xbox.com/en-us///transmissions/article/2010-04-28--Halo-Reach-Beta-Details

EDIT: Since no one here posted the live action trailer, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBAovLezNs&playnext_from=TL&videos=pW_b-kBLZZ8&feature=sub

 

[O D I N]

I dunno, did the Halo 3 beta have split-screen online capabilities?

Yes it did, and so will the Reach beta ( 4 player split, but only 2 player split for network test 1/generator defense).

Generator defense is not to be confused with Invasion.

 

[The Real Gamer]

EDIT: Since no one here posted the live action trailer, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBAovLezNs&playnext_from=TL&videos=pW_b-kBLZZ8&feature=sub

I was about to post it once I got back from Pizza Hut.

But that trailer was great! When I saw that was Carter I nearly yelled out "Hell yeah!"

 

[F8AL]

Halo-developer Bungie enters 10-year partnership with Activision

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/29/bungie-enters-10-year-partnership-with-activision/

http://ca.kotaku.com/5527137/bungies-first-post+halo-game-coming-to-all-platforms

http://ca.kotaku.com/5527119/halo-developer-joins-forces-with-activision

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/29/pachter-first-activision-bungie-game-well-along-in-developmen/

 

[O D I N]

Halo-developer Bungie enters 10-year partnership with Activision

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/29/bungie-enters-10-year-partnership-with-activision/

http://ca.kotaku.com/5527137/bungies-first-post+halo-game-coming-to-all-platforms

http://ca.kotaku.com/5527119/halo-developer-joins-forces-with-activision

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/29/pachter-first-activision-bungie-game-well-along-in-developmen/

Yeah.... Yeah I saw that...

My rage was taken out on a child at work today. He'll be lucky if he makes it to his 10th birthday without extensive trauma.