Alright, chillax... no need to be an arse about it.

I do read the books, I know all about TCP. I'm not talking about the time it takes to travel, I'm talking about leaving one of the most strategically important UNSC planets open to that kind of attack in the first place, and the command structure's many fumbles during the planet wide assault.

It just doesn't make sense for Reach to have been left open when at that time the Covenant was systematically destroying all human colonies in their path. Did they think that the Covenant was just going to avoid Reach?

It doesn't take omniscience to know what DMR stands for. If you had followed any of the Reach stuff before release(previews, official releases, etc...), it was covered ad nauseum.

Also, Noble Six was able to survive his fall back to Reach because he was clearly wearing a "re-entry kit."'

Halo defence force, mobilize!

lol... :)

finally got my UK-game yesterday ... really like it, but there are a few things I already hate, and I'm talking big flaws ... as in: why is there no "aiming-zoom" anymore, I could live without that sprint ...

And I play on heroic and the enemies suck up those bullets, it ain't pretty. Even on their heads they can take and take ... it wouldn't be as bad if I wouldn't permanently get stuck in some fu**in piece of environmental crap

Otherwise I love it, it's really an action-extravaganza so far ;))

"aiming-zoom" ?

I played the first 4 missions on Legendary on my own and I have to say it's not been very difficult so far. The Hunters felt tame and sometimes it's just a matter of finding a good weapon to dispatch them quickly.

The last section of Nightfalls was pretty hard though (read: I almost threw my controller across the room). Some of the Elites were nasty, the white ones gave me the biggest headache. As soon as they can't be hit by the green shit it gets difficult. Best way to get them is to get close.

well, usually on L-trigger you "aim" with the gun and the camera zooms in a bit ... but I just checked ODST, there was never and aiming zoom in Halo, must have mixed it up with some of the other shooters, my bad.

sorry ;)))))

Hey, if you want to complain about legitimate things, be my guest. If you are complaining about frivolous things like having to actually learn the maps in multiplayer, well, that's a different story.

Learning the layout of the map is one thing, when they willfully cover weapon pickups with grass and hide them in hard to reach places, that kind of pisses me off. I mean really, should you actually have to walk over a gun by accident to notice that it's there? I don't think that's very good design. And before you start freaking out over how that is not true, yes it has happened to me on several occations. Not to mention the bloody camp-spots on some of the maps. Try a game of Infection on like Zealot or Boardwalk, i can guarantee you that there will be one or two guys sitting in that one totally safe spot just racking up score until the timer runs out. It's happened so many times.

besides, since when did this have anything to do with the maps? I didn't know what gun the DMR was and i said that the game really doesn't give much info on anything, you basically call me stupid for not knowing and then it's about my complaints about the maps all of a sudden?

Very good read.

You've been pretty much bitching non-stop. I was mentioning the map thing as it's simply another example of something ridiculous you've been complaining about.I don't quite recall the exchange going like that.

There is your problem. The maps are not made for Infection and have to be forged in order to be playable.

And seriously... complaining about Infection?

Viginti:

Yes, infection and it's variations (when played on the maps that don't completely break it) is one of the modes i enjoy the most and obviously not just me becasue they get voted to play ALL the time. But i can't play it on customized maps, because that requires you to make a custom game, right? That means friends only, right?

Ron:
So i haven't seen the smat AI everybody is talking about, all i notice is that the enemies take ridiculous amounts of punishment while i can take at most tho or three hits before it's time to run into the corner and fart about for a while. The challenge feels very cheap and i think it would balance out better with more human controlled players. I feel this is a legitimate complaint.

Second i don't like that they actively hide weapons from the players on MP maps, it doesn't make the game more fun it just means that i have a hard time seeing if a gun is available or fiding it even when actively seraching and it slows the pace of the game completely without any actual cause for it. I feel that is a legitimate complaint. Mainly applicable on the Forge World outdoors levels.

I feel that the game offers absolutely no information on any of it's modes, weapons or other functions. It took me a good hour of googling and experimenting just to figure out how to use the grid in Forge. It just assumes that you know everything. For a player like me that's just not that huge of a Halo fan and haven't spent any significant amount of time on titles other than Combat Evolved, that creates problem. I don't know what oddball means in terms of gameplay, i don't know how head hunter works and so forth. This is, without any hesitation, a very legitcomplaint. Why can't the manual have a brief description? Why can't i look up descriptions of the standard modes somewhere in the game?

Sorry, i just think there are things here that hinder my enjoyment of the game. I've been rather frustrated when writing most of my posts in this thread and i have used strong language, but i still think i have completely legit points.

...and falling from orbit is still silly.

Custom maps are part of Matchmaking since Halo 3. It's just a matter of time before you'll see them featured in MM regularly.

I don't enjoy Infection myself. It's not an integral part of Halo and it never will be, that's why it's not as polished as the rest. The community will take care of that, though.

Just finished mission 6, this is by far the best Halo period for me!!

Flipping cars and ripping turrent i can buy, it's when we start seeing these DMC3-esque escapades (like falling from space) in games that otherwise have a rather serious tone that it starts bugging me. I can suspend my disbelief for the aliens, the spaceships and all that stuff, but when a guy falls from space that is jsut too much :P

I alsoa gree that the gears of War 2 worm thing is way over the top and quite stupid and out of place.

I don't know how to respond to this. It seems the majority of people are impressed with the AI in the game. I don't know what difficulty you're playing on, but on heroic, I find the amount of damage the enemies take as well as the damage I take perfectly fair. My roommate and myself have both experience tactics exhibited by the Elites that are better than that of any other AI in any other games. If I die in firefight and am relegated to watching the match, I often pick an aerial camera and watch with a ton of enjoyment how the Elites and Skirmishers move about the terrain.
Obviously they aren't anywhere near human-level capabilities, but they're still above and beyond what's out there.Honestly, if you play a map a couple of times, you should know where the weapons are. Sure, it sucks not knowing where a shotty is the first time through, but requiring knowledge of weapon placement is common to online shooters.I agree with this completely. I was playing some Invasion Slayer, and some kind of "zone" kept appearing, and it wasn't until half way through the round when I figured out what nabbing said zone entailed....but is at least subtly addressed.

I wouldn't call "he has a re-entry kit" more than a cop-out, but sure...i guess it's an explanation :)

With the AI, i haven't really just watched anything i'm just playing the campaing on Heroic and thus far (i think i'm at mission 7 or something) the enemies aren't legedarily stupid in any sense, i just don't find them to be impressively smart either. I've seen nothing of the flanking and stuff myself, they just seemingly run towards you and circle around the cover you might hide behind or hide themselves if you take their shields down. But who knows, maybe i'm just so damn good at positioning myself that i haven't given them a chance yet :P

As for the weapons on the maps, sure you learn after a while but it takes longer than it should (imo). Games like Quake and other shooters at least let the guns hover a little above ground and spin or signal them in some other way, they are easy to see when you find the spot they are in, that's how i like it. Also the weapon respawn rules seem a little strange. Seems almost like a weapon doesn't respawn until the guy who picked it up first empties it and tosses it? I don't know, the seeming scarcity of weapons possibly contributes to my whining on this point.