Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
I'm falling in love with the Elite evade. Looks like such a skill oriented move :D

I love how neatly its handled. It doesn't go into third person or anything and it doesn't to screw with your orientation or ability to know just where the hell you are, and where your crosshair needs to be after pulling such a thing.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
I know what I like, I can definitelys eee Powerhouse being easily one of my favorite maps. I love the look of it visually and it generally just looks like there are so many fun places to play around and have fun in.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/26/halo-reach-pre-b...

Check the powerhouse playthrough. Guy was kicking ass on powerhouse :P
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc56vri0SGw

An entire game of invasion!!!

Good god, the game looks amazing :D
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
Yep, I'm so sold on MP right now, it isn't even funny. I'm excited as hell about Invasion, but especially Invasion Slayer. The videos that I've seen have pretty much managed to do for me what simply reading about the various modes couldn't. After seeing the Invasion videos, I've pretty much gone ahead and done as much reading as possible on both modes of Invasion to ensure that I'm not left sitting clueless as to what the heck I'm suppose to do.

I'm considering either the Boxer or Recon control schemes... leaning towards boxer.



Nevermind, scratch that, I wouldn't want to perform Assassinations using the Left Trigger.

Decision made, Recon it is!

I like the thought of using b for melee and Left Trigger for my nades. Using the X for switching grenades, I can see me easing into that. I also love the thought of RB for reload. It just seems so intuitive.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7010 Days
How can you be so hyped about Reach MP and not play Halo 3? Halo 3 is fucking awesome.
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6769 Days
I always liked green thumb. I love having my melee on the right thumb click. That way my three are all instantly useable. R trigger shoot, L trigger nades, and thumb click melee!
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6769 Days
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I always liked green thumb. I love having my melee on the right thumb click. That way my three are all instantly useable. R trigger shoot, L trigger nades, and thumb click melee!

Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
It's weird, besides the time I spent on the Halo 3 Beta, which I absolutely loved by the way, I just never gave it a real shot once the actual game came out for two reasons.

#1 Counter-Strike dominated my time as far as MP games were concerned.

#2 I, i guess foolishly, never felt I'd be missing out on much, as fun as it appeared to be.

With consideration to Reach's MP, things are a bit different this time.

#1 It was hard, but I've managed it, to stop playing CS 1.6 altogether. I don't ever see myself really getting back into it. I think I've played enough of the damn game at this point. If I ever do play it, it won't actually be something that I take seriously. It will be even more hyper casual than was ever the case before. It's time to move on.

#2 With Reach's addition of Arena and all the improvements they are making to the competitive experience, it's something that excites me, especially with regards to how players are rated in seasons, and such.

#3 The awesome improvements to the community experience.

#4 The additions of things like invasion.

#5 Armor Abilities. (Equipment in Halo 3 always felt a bit too overwhelming and chaotic to me, never really knew what the hell you had sometimes and didn't really have the time to look, it was the same in SP where i just tossed out anything and felt like I wasted it for nothing once things were done with) With armor abilities, things are no longer like that. I know what I have, and I don't feel like I've wasted it and need to find it again once I've taken advantage of it. They've added a sense of classes to the system of Halo in a way that really pulls someone like me in and, even better, I really am legitimatelly excited to play with all the different types. I see the strengths, I see the weaknesses, It's putting a bit of that rpg feel into the game for me.

#6 Invasion, spawning on your fire-squad teammate if he isn't engaged in combat and the tactical benefits of such. There are the voice over cues as to when certain things are in endanger or when objectives have been met. I'm not talking about the typical announcer, I'm talking about a dude that sounds like campbell from Metal Gear Solid as you play invasion on the Spartan side of things lol. They even have subtle touches like the addition of music to fit what's going on in the game. Invasion feels substantial in a way that I never viewed Halo MP before. I know there are other game types, but I've never delved so much into their specifics before Reach, now I'm trying to learn all about the stuff I didn't pay attention to in Halo 3. Invasion, to me, feels like the closest attempt at an outright incorporation of some of the things that makes any Halo SP or even the Halo novels so interesting to me. There's a story to MP now, in a sense. It also isn't one that I mind playing over and over again.
Invasion on Boneyard begins exactly as you would expect it to. A team of Elites has been deployed to a UNSC dry dock facility in hopes of getting their claws on a data core packed with invaluable tactical information, and a squad of Spartan-IIIs have been dropped in to stop ‘em
- from bungie update.

I believe I even specifically heard the mention of navigation data in one of the invasion gameplay videos I watched. This a very big focus of the Covenant in the novels in an attempt to find the human home world, and I'm glad to see this degree of respect for the fiction showing up in, of all things, MP! That's why I'm excited about Invasion so much. I've been thinking it and I'm pleased to see that some on various forums have said it. There was seemingly more references to the novels in just the Halo Reach premiere trailer than there generally seems to be in the Halo games as of late. Reach strikes me as a game that is going to more closely feel like the novels than the previous games, so that to adds to my excitement for every aspect of the game.

#7 Elites in MP OMG. They are no longer just avatar replacements for Spartans. They are bigger, faster (unless you have sprint), they have more health, better shields, their shields recharge faster, their health can actually fully recharge without the need for a med kit they have their own species specific ability in evade that is SOOO impressively incorporated into the game, and it has other advantages like getting rid of a lock on and such.

#8 The maps... the damn maps! I've never found myself visually that interested in halo maps. There were some that I thought looked nice, but they always struck me as lacking something compared to campaign, another reason why I tended to have a bias towards the SP. That may sound unfair, but for Halo, it's important to me. Now, even while knowing that these MP maps still won't be on the scale of campaign or will be adjusted and balanced for MP play, I'm actually looking at them and finding myself genuinely interested in all the fun possibilities for the maps. There is now a complexity to their design that is a switch from the more simplistic looking nature of some maps I played in Halo 3 beta, or have generally seen in videos of halo mp.

#9 Then there is generator defense, which may ultimately just be a network test sorta thing, but it could also end up turning into one of these things where they try to bring a story of some kind, no matter how small into MP.

I mean, there are just tons of things I'm excited about in this game. I've never played Halo MP beyond the Halo 3Beta, but that will surely change for Reach. It's also because of Reach that I'll do something I've never done. I'll purchasing Xbox Live Gold in year by year intervals, no longer will it be a monthly thing for me, which is basically what it has been and I generally never cared so much when it reverted to silver -- usually reverting back to Gold when there was a specific title I wanted to go online with.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7010 Days
Does anyone know when they're rolling out the beta on the 3rd?

And seriously, read all of that Optimus, but I think you're being a little crazy. You mention things like maps, which has always been one of Bungie's strengths. They're absolutely awesome at level design. The multiplayer level design in Halo 1/2/3 trumps most (if not all) of what you see in the campaign. And then you have stuff like equipment, which was far from confusing and pretty easy to understand, especially since it boils down to weapon and item placement on the maps. It doesn't take much experience to know where things like the bubble shield is on whatever map in whatever play list. I'm actually considerably less hyped about some of the changes to Halo's multiplayer dynamic, because I know how awesome it already was. That's not to say I don't trust in their ability to craft something new and interesting, as I'm quite excited about the beta myself, but stuff like uber elites and changes to the frag and melee dynamic concern me because that stuff was all nearly perfect to begin with.

But I do have faith in Bungie.

I didn't really stick to Halo 3 either, though I keep returning to it from time to time, but mostly because I prefer PC FPS. That said, Halo is easily in my top three (or four or five) favorite FPS franchises ever.
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dcdelgado
dcdelgado
Since 6870 Days
Posted by Optimusv2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc56vri0SGw

An entire game of invasion!!!

Good god, the game looks amazing :D
Amazing stuff!!

@ Grift:

I heard the US get it from Midnight on the 3rd? Uk have to wait untill the 4th?
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** Yes We CAN!! **

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7010 Days
Posted by dcdelgado
Amazing stuff!!

@ Grift:

I heard the US get it from Midnight on the 3rd? Uk have to wait untill the 4th?
Hmm.. I guess I'll have to check with Bungie's site. Might pull an all nighter (all dayer?) if that's the case.
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6953 Days
What time on monday does BETA begin ? Thanks to the holidays i got the day off RAR!
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I want my games room finished now :(

deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 6878 Days
Posted by Frozpot
I always liked green thumb. I love having my melee on the right thumb click. That way my three are all instantly useable. R trigger shoot, L trigger nades, and thumb click melee!
Green thumb is full of WIN, even if I did only start using it originally because I couldn't restrain my tendancy to click the thumbstick when things got frantic only to wind up zooming in and dying.
Posted by dcdelgado
I heard the US get it from Midnight on the 3rd? Uk have to wait untill the 4th?
It's a bank holiday on the Monday here so I should bloody hope not! I thought it was midnight May 3rd PST which is what, 8 am here?

I think everybody should be prepared for the inevitable server overload. Even if MS have learned from the Halo 3 beta / Crackdown malarkey those servers are going to get smashed and they should be prepared for a torrent of wailing from the Internet all day because people can't get on straight away.

Fingers crossed I blag an early invite to avoid these shenanigans!
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6953 Days
Posted by ManThatYouFear
What time on monday does BETA begin ? Thanks to the holidays i got the day off RAR!
Sorry did not see it had already been mentioned 2 posts above me :(

8am please god I hope so :)
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I want my games room finished now :(

szaromir
szaromir
Since 6767 Days
LOL Optimus is in full hype mode :)
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"That just happened 'cause that was awesome" - Randy Pitchford, Gearbox

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7010 Days
Posted by deftangel
It's a bank holiday on the Monday here so I should bloody hope not! I thought it was midnight May 3rd PST which is what, 8 am here?

I think everybody should be prepared for the inevitable server overload. Even if MS have learned from the Halo 3 beta / Crackdown malarkey those servers are going to get smashed and they should be prepared for a torrent of wailing from the Internet all day because people can't get on straight away.

Fingers crossed I blag an early invite to avoid these shenanigans!
Crossing all of my fingers too :P
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deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 6878 Days
Early Beta access GET!

Various sites are running competitions to give away early access "Friends and Family" codes for the Beta. The codes won't work/aren't given out till Thursday so that'll be when most of the action is but a few people are sorting out the winners now. Halo.Bungie.Org is doing decent coverage of those doing so.

Some of these competitions are Twitter based so to help you guys out, this is how I managed it.

I've created a list on my Twitter account which I'll keep up and add to here;- http://twitter.com/deftangel/reach-beta-codes

The twitter competitions can be based on first response which is hard. The first question had over 100 correct answers in 10 seconds so you'll need a bit of luck. To give you the best chance, get a Twitter account, then get the client TweetDeck and add my list. In the options, you can adjust the API limit to around 95% to refresh the list every ten seconds.

That'll give you the jump on most people. Knowing the answer helps, though the question @EddieMakuch asked me about Tron I still Wiki'd to check (god bless Chrome being blisteringly fast, get that too!).

Eddie's giving out a few more codes in a few hours but they'll be other things going on before Thursday.

And yes, I know this is a lot of aggro for the sake of three days but a) it's Halo, b) it's Halo! and c) The ODST authentication is going to meltdown on Monday so I'm glad I won't have to worry about it :)
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6769 Days
My wife's birthday is on the 3rd, so Hopefully that will occupy me when all the shit hits the fan. Hopefully it will be sorted out by tuesday when I can get in...
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/29106

Probably the first video where one of the journalists was actually good. The video, in typical gamevideos fashion, isn't the best quality, but the person playing was kicking some serious ass.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/29106

Damn, this is how i know i haven't done much of any Halo MP.

I didn't know something like this was possible in Halo.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/29104

Swat gameplay where it appears that there is no shields at all and you can't take too much punishment. Also seems no health packs will be involved, either.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Since 6363 Days
I'm just pissed b/c I have a ton of exams next week AND finals the week after that so I'm not even gonna buy a copy of ODST 'til after the 14th so I'm not tempted to commit academic suicide due to not being able to put the beta down...

just. not. fair. (falls to knees with arms outstretched to the sky asking why such a wolrd exists...)
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6769 Days
I'm there with you Nietzche. Hopefully the Beta will last long enough that I can get in on a decent chunk of it. As it is, I can play a little at lunch time. Other than that, I'm in the last 3 weeks of this semester, and have a nice huge load to juggle...
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
60 second Carter, leader of Noble Team, live action ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a4Wu6h5AXE

2 minute + version coming tomorrow, I think.

Carter a-259, Alpha Company Spartan III, baby :D

What a friggin awesome ad. It's so awesome when he's staring at the Mjolnir armor that becomes his. God, I want a movie so bad :P
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

blmbox
blmbox
Since 6341 Days
I'll tell you what I find particularly impressive: the sound effects. The panting noise your Spartan makes when sprinting and the sound effect when a grenade goes off nearby are just awesome.
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6902 Days
Yea, Bungie made special care to point out the grenade sounds in earlier updates or podcasts.

I'm happy that they gave the Spartans those sprinting sounds. I even specifically made a thread on bungie.net that I believe one of the sound guys responded to regarding us having the same sound from the starry night halo 3 trailer when Master Chief started sprinting.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

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GriftGFX
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Ugh! The guy you got your code from is a pain in the ass Deft. I sat here refreshing his damn feed all night and missed every single oppertunity, and then he says he's finished, so I leave to go play Bad Company, only to see that he handed out two more after I left! Lies! Deception! Arg!
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