Halo: Reach

I remember the day where I had so much fun playing multiplayer that time just flew. That's how it was for me with Socom 2, I looked forward to playing online, stats were an afterthought. Was amazing to see the time logged though :) And they also even reset online stats a few times too.

With Halo reach and alot of online games these days, it just feels bleh. Like nnthomas said, it just feels like a chore. If socom 4 doesn't return that Socom 2 feeling of multiplayer I might just say screw it and quit playing online games altogether.
 
Got my first MM ban. WTF.

Playing Rocketfight and I guy runs in front of me. Then boots me. And I get banned. Wow. They can't fix that fast enough.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']You're mixing up two ways to judge game.

1. Success--this comes down to sales, how many people are playing it online for games like this, and how long the online community stays active.

2. Quality--that's more subjective and up to the individual and whether the enjoy the game or not.

And I'd hardly say the general consensus on MW2 is that it "sucks." It got great reviews, and millions are still playing it online. There's consensus that there are a lot of problems with the online play compared to MW1--but not enough to make it suck.

It's fine if you think it sucks, but that's not the general consensus.[/QUOTE]

I'd really have to disagree with your last statement regarding MW2, find me a board that doesn't have more than 5 posts somewhere comparing another game to MW2 in a derogatory manner with respect to both games. Example: "OMFG this game sucks (X) feature is just like MW2!!!"

Don't get me wrong I know there are A LOT of people that love the game, but I think MW2 is unique in that on almost any board you can find more than a few posts just like that, or something regarding the COD franchise that's negative. I know you can make that same remark regarding the Halo franchise I just personally feel that it's more consistent with COD and MW2, but you'll probably disagree with me too.

On topic: They are making changes to the playlists come 10/5 next Tuesday I believe and aren't adding grifball, pretty disappointing but hopefully they add it soon. I think grifball will be one of the only uses of this game for me till some other mechanics change.

And I'll be honest I've done Sword base credit farming tricks to help get me from WO3 to Captain because that's a ridiculous gap considering the rest of the other ranks and I don't see any problem with doing it cuz once you top out the commendation ranks you get dick for credits after. But what I do have a problem with is how shitty the Bungie boards are run. There's constantly threads about people whining about people credit farming cuz they get newer armor than someone else or someone crying about something stupid and meaningless or another thread about how many credits do you have. They let these threads run rampant and plunge the serious constructive threads to the bottom.

Yet if I call someone a douchebag for being a douchebag which there are a lot of on those boards I get banned for a week.
 
Here are a couple pics i took today. Im still tinkering with my color scheme. I dunno if i want primary violet and secondary rose, or primary rose and secondary violet.

Here is one i call Last Breath

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Is there a trick to killing people on the ghost when you jack them? When They jack me they kick me in the head and I die. When I jack them they are still alive. Does it have to do with shield amounts?
 
[quote name='kylerg']Is there a trick to killing people on the ghost when you jack them? When They jack me they kick me in the head and I die. When I jack them they are still alive. Does it have to do with shield amounts?[/QUOTE]

I would imagine that having any amount of shield left equals living while having no shields would cause a kill.
 
Wow that was strange. I turned on my game and it asked me if i wanted to be a male or female. Everything in armor had a star by it like it was new, and my colors/logo was different. But i was still a lt. colonel grade 3 rank. Thank god all the stuff i bought was still "purchased" so all i had to do was equip them to my character. But for a minute there i thought i got reset. But i read the only people who got reset was those who did a daily challenge, disconnected from the internet, so they could do it again and get the bonus again. Which i never did.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Wow that was strange. I turned on my game and it asked me if i wanted to be a male or female. Everything in armor had a star by it like it was new, and my colors/logo was different. But i was still a lt. colonel grade 3 rank. Thank god all the stuff i bought was still "purchased" so all i had to do was equip them to my character. But for a minute there i thought i got reset. But i read the only people who got reset was those who did a daily challenge, disconnected from the internet, so they could do it again and get the bonus again. Which i never did.[/QUOTE]

Same thing happend to me last week but I lost all my campaign progress
 
[quote name='fatmanforlife99']Same thing happend to me last week but I lost all my campaign progress[/QUOTE]

Shit i lost all my campaign missions. Now if there is a daily challenge for a mission im going to have to play through the whole game again just to get to that level. :bomb:
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Shit i lost all my campaign missions. Now if there is a daily challenge for a mission im going to have to play through the whole game again just to get to that level. :bomb:[/QUOTE]


I feel you man, I was half way done with the campaign, with the 9th mission beat and it erased it all. Thats why I will attack it later on down the line.
 
[quote name='kylerg']Got my first MM ban. WTF.

Playing Rocketfight and I guy runs in front of me. Then boots me. And I get banned. Wow. They can't fix that fast enough.[/QUOTE]

You must have quit or got booted via teamkill a LOT.
 
Whats the deal with the halo reach controllers. I got one from gamestop and the analog was messed up. It would move up even when i wasnt touching it. So i bought one at target, and will return the gamestop one at target. But the new one from target has a squeeky right trigger. So has there been problems with these controllers or am i just unlucky?
 
I recall reading earlier from fatman about how from warrant grade 3 to captain was a 66,000 cR gap, well seems like all the ranks are now public knowledge


Recruit
Private - Awarded at 7,500 cR |
Corporal - Awarded at 10,000 cR |
Corporal Grade 1 - Awarded at 15,000 cR |
Sergeant - Awarded at 20,000 cR |
Sergeant Grade 1 - Awarded at 26,250 cR |
Sergeant Grade 2 - Awarded at 32,500 cR
Warrant Officer - Awarded at 45,000 cR
Warrant Officer Grade 1 - Awarded at 78,000 cR
Warrant Officer Grade 2 - Awarded at 111,000 cR
Warrant Officer Grade 3 - Awarded at 144,000 cR
Captain - Awarded at 210,000 cR
Captain Grade 1 - Awarded at 233000 cR
Captain Grade 2 - Awarded at 256,000 cR
Captain Grade 3 - Awarded at 279,000 cR
Major - Awarded at 325,000 cR
Major Grade 1 - Awarded at 350,000 cR
Major Grade 2 - Awarded at 375,000 cR
Major Grade 3 - Awarded at 400,000 cR
Lt. Colonel - Awarded at 450,000 cR
Lt. Colonel Grade 1 - Awarded at 480,000 cR
Lt. Colonel Grade 2 - Awarded at 510,000 cR
Lt. Colonel Grade 3 - Awarded at 540,000 cR
Commander Grade 1 - Awarded at 650,000 cR
Commander Grade 2 - Awarded at 700,000 cR
Commander Grade 3 - Awarded at 750,000
Colonel - Awarded at 850,000 cR
Colonel Grade 1 - Awarded at 960,000 cR
Colonel Grade 2 - Awarded at 1,070,000 cR
Colonel Grade 3 - Awarded at 1,180,000 cR
Brigadier - Awarded at 1,400,000 cR
Brigadier Grade 1 - Awarded at 1,520,000 cR
Brigadier Grade 2 - Awarded at 1,640,000 cR
Brigadier Grade 3 - Awarded at 1,760,000 cR
General - Awarded at 2,000,000 cR
General Grade 1 - Awarded at 2,200,000 cR
General Grade 2 - Awarded at 2,350,000 cR
General Grade 3 - Awarded at 2,500,000 cR
General Grade 4 - Awarded at 2,650,000 cR
Field Marshall - Awarded at 3,000,000 cR
Hero - Awarded at 3,700,000 cR
Legend - Awarded at 4,600,000 cR
Mythic - Awarded at 5,650,000 cR
Noble - Awarded at 7,000,000 cR
Eclipse - Awarded at 8,500,000 cR
Nova - Awarded at 11,000,000 cR
Forerunner - Awarded at 13,000,000 cR
Reclaimer - Awarded at 16,500,000 cR
Inheritor - Awarded at 20,000,000 cR

http://www.mlgpro.com/forum/showthread.php?t=337551

The gap just gets larger and larger oh man @_@. The story was also ran on Kotaku, and their link is from the mlg forum.

@the 7th number :: If you need help with going through the campaign again than myself, and I'm sure others, are cool with it.

@fatman :: thanks for the tips, and the link the forums, almost worked my way halfway through wo grade 3 just today :)
 
the rank list looks promising in the sense that there will most likely be armor unlocks well beyond commander. I'm hoping they put the Hayabusa armor in.
 
I had no idea that there were so many ranks, and come on...what is that 20 million credits to get to the highest? Reach will be 6 years old by that time :lol: unless you are one of the people who reached General in like 2 days. :shock:
 
[quote name='100xp']the rank list looks promising in the sense that there will most likely be armor unlocks well beyond commander. I'm hoping they put the Hayabusa armor in.[/QUOTE]

I agree, the armor and helmet set was very sweet, but the fact that EVERYONE got it so easily, kind of killed it. After that point I was happy once I had security helmet.
 
Hm... Am I the only one that didn't think WO Grade 3 to Captain isn't that long? I just got WO Grade 3 the other day and am at 180k credits already, so I'm just about there. This was in just 2 days of playing I think and I only played for 3 hours each day.

I don't know where the hell I got all the credits though. I somehow gained 20k today. The only notable things I did was complete all the challenges and beat 2 levels on legendary alone. That's about it. Kind of went by fast.

That's a shit ton of ranks though. Unless they start including daily challenges worth 10k credits, I don't think I'll ever get anywhere near 1 million. The next multiplayer game me and my friends are getting is probably the new Ghost Recon, so I'll probably put enough playtime into this game to get to 1 million. Averaging about 700-900 credits per game helps too.

I'm sick and tired of seeing Lt. Colonel Grade 3's that have boosted all the way there though =/. It's quite obvious by their skill level that they shouldn't even be that rank by now, much less a Warrant Officer or something. It's kind of sad when someone that high goes 8-15 and when you look at their commendations, you figure out why.
 
@dabebop - it's just cool to be asian. *snickers* Originally the field marshell elite armor seemed lacking but when you see it in a saturated color of red or blue, it really does look good compared to the general armor. (nice avatar pic btw)

@darkrider23 - WO ranks are the longest grind, afterwhich it's much easier since the cR's between each rank are much smaller. It really all depends on what ppl decide to play, if they do the challenges, and of course manage to crank out those commendations. As for Lt. Colonel's etc who have bad games, it happens. Some ppl are better at some game types vs others. I'm Lt. Colonel and I dominated a SWAT match are a certain map, but then got completely pwnd on another...and I hate SWAT. Did it have to do with my rank? Not really, part luck, part skill, part team. ...but I understand where you're coming from. Just enjoy showing them your bullets upclose.

1 million cRs? Yeah, ppl have reached the cap in a day of 120k. 1 million + is attainable, it won't happen over night or in a week but ppl with more determination than others and a heck of a lot more freetime will get it.

As for the really high ranks and cR to get them, the game hasn't even been out more than a few weeks and already ppl have capped rank and cR per day. Those higher ranks will come with time. My guess is that's one of the reasons why bungie has them still locked.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Whats the deal with the halo reach controllers. I got one from gamestop and the analog was messed up. It would move up even when i wasnt touching it. So i bought one at target, and will return the gamestop one at target. But the new one from target has a squeeky right trigger. So has there been problems with these controllers or am i just unlucky?[/QUOTE]

the black controller that came with my 250 gb console one of the triggers is squeaky and drives me nuts
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']
I'm sick and tired of seeing Lt. Colonel Grade 3's that have boosted all the way there though =/. It's quite obvious by their skill level that they shouldn't even be that rank by now, much less a Warrant Officer or something. It's kind of sad when someone that high goes 8-15 and when you look at their commendations, you figure out why.[/QUOTE]

Your "rank" has nothing to do with skill. It's just a pretty name and symbol indicating how many credits you earned. Kind of like the playlist military ranks in H3.

I have to say I'm so glad they're tanking the tank out of Hemorrhage. Even though I don't have a problem with it, 99% of the time if you get in the tank your teammates are going to shoot/betray you. Then your tank is already weakened and if they haven't betrayed you yet they bitch and moan when you die to the other tank.
 
Anyone want to party up for firefight matchmaking to get the 5 sword kills? It seems like there is only one sword guy and he is on the last wave of firefight and I just can never find him. Or randoms choose rockets, snipers etc which doesn't seem to spawn elites with swords. Let me know if there is a better way to do this.
 
[quote name='Kaelestis']I have to say I'm so glad they're tanking the tank out of Hemorrhage. Even though I don't have a problem with it, 99% of the time if you get in the tank your teammates are going to shoot/betray you. Then your tank is already weakened and if they haven't betrayed you yet they bitch and moan when you die to the other tank.[/QUOTE]

It's probably because the tank dominates too much on that level. I haven't had much of a problem with team members weakening the tank if they don't get in though. Usually I'm the one to get it and hang back until allies take out the other tank or he walks into my sights.
 
I've had the worst experience with the tank; I've been playing BTB hoping to get a playlist that'll make Killtacular easy work, and unlock my last avatar award. I got some form of Slayer on Hemorrhage, and I was lucky enough to get the tank, and my buddy rode as the gunner.

I got a couple kills and was working my way towards the medal, when all of a sudden my teammate jetpacks onto my tank. Now I'm thinking he's trying to get into the turret and doesn't realize my friend is already in there, so I turn to shoot another ghost speeding toward me, and this motherfucker steps RIGHT INTO MY TANK BARREL. I obviously betray him and get booted.

The next time I got it on BTB Slayers in Paradiso, some kid does similar shit, trying to melee me while I'm driving it (dumbass) and stand in front of my barrel. Fortunately for me my buddy from the first retard encounter took the fall for me and betrayed this second douchemonger to get him off the tank.


tl;dr Playing with randoms is a guaranteed headache


I've yet to run into a single decent (random) teammate in this game, both team play and ratio-wise.
 
Yeah, that's my biggest gripe with the game. The team modes are useless if you don't have a party of friends to play with as playing with randoms.

And Rumble Pit gets old as there are too many game types lumped in there that need split out into their own play lists. Would be much better to have Free For All Slayer, Infection (and Safe Havens and some new variations) and the Vehicle ones (Race, Rally--makes some new ones with ghosts etc). as separate playlists. Get rid of Headhunter and Oddball as those really only work as team games where teammates can defend people to score skulls and keep possession of the ball.
 
Rumble Pit = Infection playlist

Doesn't help that Infection is probably the worst gametype I've ever played. I don't think Oddball or Headhunter should be taken out of Rumble Pit, and I would gladly take them over Infection
 
I like Infection, but in small doses.

Hate oddball and Headhunter in Rumble Pit. Just too chaotic, tend to last the whole time, etc. as they're both modes where you really need teamwork.

At the same time, Infection and Safe Havens don't make much sense in there either since you really need the human and zombie teams to work together as well.

Really only slayer works as a free for all mode IMO.
 
Inheritor - Awarded at 20,000,000 cR / 400 (average amount of credits earn for example) = 50,000 games / by 8 minutes (average length of game, some games take longer) = 6,250 hours / 24 hours = 260 total days of gameplay time. Holy shit.

Now I'm sure you guys will agree that 400 can be quite low for a average, but It's just saying if you finish last a lot or get int a lot of race types on FFA and what not - just an average. I'd say people would have higher averages of 600+ which could reduce your time by a bit.
 
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Hmmm, so one of the daily challenges is to kill 5 enemies with the sword in Firefight. I know I have encountered some Elites with the sword, but I can't remember if they are random, or will be spawned on particular maps in particular game types.
 
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I've read a few posts one specifically about SWAT on Hemo and can't remember if anyone mentioned snipers on Hemo but that map is COMPLETELY broken and lopsided/geared towards red team.

They spawn with the higher ground while blue has the lower ground on the ocean side. There's really no terrain to go to where you can have somewhat of an advantage where as red can get up to the highest point on the map at the very back corner and hide there the whole time.

Red also has trees and rocks on their right side, where as blue has a cave that ends up being a murder hole.

Saw someone posting about the tank too, it's so overpowered on invasion slayer. I managed to mount an enemy scorpion to board it, I stuck a grenade in the cockpit and the guy driving manages to shoot me with the cannon while I'm attached to the tank. WTF? Then he kills me, the grenade I stuck in goes off, and the tank doesn't even blow up and keeps rolling. Such complete bullshit.
 
Wow I was playing a little CTF on Swordbase last night. I grabbed the flag and walked like 15 feet before a teammate killed me and took the flag. I never boot people but holy shit that's pretty lame so I booted him. I get message after message saying wtf dude, "you are the people ruining this game" and so forth. Turns out he was coming around the corner and I scared him so he shot me!? WTF idiot, AND I never BOOT ANYONE! How does a guy with the same color as you carrying a freakin' flag look like a dude from the other team!?
 
Friendly fire should be turned off for all playlists except for the Arena. End of problem. Let the people who want to play ranked deal with team killing.
 
Spybreak8: Reminds me of an episode of COPS.
Cop: "Why did you lead us on a high-speed chase resulting in a felony and thousands of dollars in property damage?
Criminal: "I was scared!"

This is also a good reason to have a headset on. So you can apologize if you accidentally betray someone. Shit happens. I'm totally with you on this boot, though.
 
[quote name='Spybreak8']Wow I was playing a little CTF on Swordbase last night. I grabbed the flag and walked like 15 feet before a teammate killed me and took the flag. I never boot people but holy shit that's pretty lame so I booted him. I get message after message saying wtf dude, "you are the people ruining this game" and so forth. Turns out he was coming around the corner and I scared him so he shot me!? WTF idiot, AND I never BOOT ANYONE! How does a guy with the same color as you carrying a freakin' flag look like a dude from the other team!?[/QUOTE]

Him sending you a message is bullshit, but I can remember back to the days of Halo 2 where I'd accidentally betray someone on my team with rockets or something when we're the red team after being the blue team for the 4-5 games prior.

Best solution is to not play with randoms so if something does happen, you won't get booted.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Him sending you a message is bullshit, but I can remember back to the days of Halo 2 where I'd accidentally betray someone on my team with rockets or something when we're the red team after being the blue team for the 4-5 games prior.

Best solution is to not play with randoms so if something does happen, you won't get booted.[/QUOTE]

I forget which team I'm on sometimes once I have played a few games, but I usually just throw a random melee attack into the air so I can see what color my arms are.

I love the asshole teammates that will shoot you just enough to take your shields down...
 
[quote name='Ziv']Friendly fire should be turned off for all playlists except for the Arena. End of problem. Let the people who want to play ranked deal with team killing.[/QUOTE]

This!

Sometimes in multi team i get confused on who my partner is. Because im colorblind and sometimes green/orange/gold look similar... along with blue/purple. So sometimes i die because i am double checking on if i should be shooting someone or not.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']This!

Sometimes in multi team i get confused on who my partner is. Because im colorblind and sometimes green/orange/gold look similar... along with blue/purple. So sometimes i die because i am double checking on if i should be shooting someone or not.[/QUOTE]

you cant see the tag above their head?
 
[quote name='paz9x']you cant see the tag above their head?[/QUOTE]

It doesnt always pop up, or maybe im just not looking for it. Sometimes it isnt red, and its yellow becuase they are shooting or something. So i cant really go by that when it does show up.
 
just to put the valid tank complaining in perspective.
i put mw2 on to do some sound tests on headphones and ended up dying 38 times in the match because i was put in the middle of a ground war match where the other team had c130's, pavelows harriers, and attack copters cycling through the sky, we all were spawning and i was dying instantly as i spawned. some of the guys on the team had deaths in the 60's.

so yeah, the tank can be a real pain in the ass but it could be worse.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']It doesnt always pop up, or maybe im just not looking for it. Sometimes it isnt red, and its yellow becuase they are shooting or something. So i cant really go by that when it does show up.[/QUOTE]

I know its hard for me to see colors sometimes when a players shields are getting lit up too.
 
[quote name='Spybreak8']Wow I was playing a little CTF on Swordbase last night. I grabbed the flag and walked like 15 feet before a teammate killed me and took the flag. I never boot people but holy shit that's pretty lame so I booted him. I get message after message saying wtf dude, "you are the people ruining this game" and so forth. Turns out he was coming around the corner and I scared him so he shot me!? WTF idiot, AND I never BOOT ANYONE! How does a guy with the same color as you carrying a freakin' flag look like a dude from the other team!?[/QUOTE]
Sadly this has happened to me before in infection..... I turned a corner after killing a dude and a teammate scared the shit out of me so I blew his face off lol. Of course I got booted right away and it pissed me off, I didn't send a message though since it wouldn't unboot me and I understood. I haven't been booted besides that one time but mistakes happen, it would be nice if the boot option did show up on the first boo boo.
 
I boot people about 50/50. Depends if I can tell it was on purpose or not. I got pissed though when I got banned for 10-15 minutes because someone booted me after then got in front of my rockets.
 
I only boot if its on purpose. Some people might accidentally kill me a couple times if the area is heavy with combat and grenades. But i remember one dude went out of his way to kill me, then i booted him, and his friend started to bitch cos i booted him. Another time i was trying to snipe and a teammate hit me 2-3 times in the back and killed me.

I remember one time a teammate killed me because he wanted the sniper, yet i wasnt able to boot him.
 
I haven't had too many issues with booting. Most of the people have been understanding if I accidently lobbed a grenade into a fight, but there are some douches out there. I also don't boot unless it was a total dick move.
 
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