IT'S TRUE I TELL YOU

E: Also Shake is jealous because my number is better

EE: Daravon and I'll be getting on in about an hour and a half, in case anybody else is around. I'm about to make breakfast and YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PANCAKES SAILOR. See you at 8:30 ^_^

I'm in work right now but might be home by 10am EST.

I WANT TO GO BACK TO SAN HHHHHJUAN

Sorry I'm late Tails, I slept in for an extra hour (was really tired) and I've just had a ton more stuff to do around the house then I thought. I see that you just got off; I'll be done with everything I'm doing in about 20 minutes or so (just waiting on my stuff in the dryer), then whenever you get back on I should be around all day.

Additional Spam:
Also finally got my Bungie Pro to show up, here's some clips:

Leading someone on a merry chase
Getting an Overkill and a kill after; I'm super proud of the Grenade Launcher kill at the end
Poor Shake.
Awesome planned grenade toss that I probably should not have gotten away with. WHAT NOW TAILS
Possibly my greatest moment in the Beta, this guy had been wrecking us up there.

FAG. It's alright though, I had to go tend to fixing up the driveway while you were away, it's all good. Have to go out later around 1-2ish to set down some sealant and such.

HALO TIME. Also that grenade was some bullshit.

Owned owned owned owned owned Tails y u fail math

Ahaha, that made the ten minutes sitting waiting for a game all worthwhile.

I think the Comedy Gun would work better as vehicle lock-on only.

Good playing with you guys today. The early games were pretty good; not so much the latter (for me at least). I think I hit a point where I had played too long today and was just getting progressively worse.

TEAM FAIL FOREVER

My only gripes with this Beta... well, pretty much probably not gonna get fixed in the final release, is the new melee system. I abso-fucking-lutely hate it. 2 punches to the face in less than a second is plain dumb, and the lunging distance... ridiculous. Thought these were supposed to be the normal UNSC troops. Also, punches when shields are low should result in a beatdown. And I'm not too fond of that new assassination system. If I wanted to watch someone knife me in the back, I'd come out of retirement from MW2 and watch every Killcam involving me getting knifed from behind.


Other than that, and the pointless addition of social settings that won't matter, because people will trash talk and become a nuisance no matter what you set it on, it's pretty much a solid beta. Loving the DMR when I actually get my hands on it. The needle launcher is a pretty good replacement to the Corbine, considering that I actually used the corbine sometimes when BR's were taken in Halo 2 and Halo 3. I'm also liking the new ranking system, as now I may no longer have to worry about simply winning the match to hit General, or whatever the hell the highest rank will be, just do enough shit in the match relating to the objective.

Me, Daravon, Moo and Garr against some pubbies:

YouTube Video

I rendered this video on accident so, yeah. Don't expect anything amazing.

What? Are you still playing ODST by accident? Reach is clearly about Spartans.


Eh, I don't mind the new melee system. It means people can't rely on just ARing you for a bit and then trying to go in for a quick melee. Makes it more about skill than before. Although if you're close enough and things turn into a BEATDOWN CITY fight, well, it is what it is.

Also you mad about assassinations. Stop getting assassinated then, problem solved.

I also like the new melee system. I only get slightly angry when someone double melees me faster =/

I'm fine with the melee system. If I can't keep my distance, 90% or so of the time I counter rush THEM, and they're almost never expecting it. So even though they were trying to close with me for melee, my superior mind games let me get the first melee in any way. The only problem I seem to have a lot is losing people at melee range that dodge to the left or right. My sensitivity is pretty high, so I don't know if it's the movement speed or FOV, or I just need to get used to something or what.

BEATDOWN CITY

Also:

I love the idea of the Arena and how it works.

It is STRESSING ME THE FUCK OUT :(

For whatever reason I do much, much better in Arena, I super focus on what I'm doing and what I think everyone is doing. I basically maintain a much higher level of situational awareness than normal. I'm normally someone who plays BTB and is sort of messing around with my friends, and in Halo 3 I have a K/D of 1.08 in Ranked and 1.15; I would probably consider myself a little above average. And in Grab Bag/FFA for Reach my K/D is 1.03. That said, my Arena stats are crazy:

http://i44.tinypic.com/693s50.png
The one game I went negative it was -1, and 5 of the 8 games were playing with randoms who weren't talking. And yes, that's a fucking PERFECTION the first game, of which I have ONE of in Halo 3 in over 3,000 games.

I think so far the best thing I like about Arena is that it basically forces me to think more and play smarter, which I definitely see see improving my game outside the Arena. But fuuuuuck man I can barely play my 3 placement games without losing my mind :lol

I am mad that the assassination animations are not weapon based, goddamn bungie spending all their dev money on making sure sword base is set up for max bullshit.

Funny thing with arena, my first 3 matches of the day are almost always my best.

Provisional Divisions are out for the Arena, if you grabbed three Daily Ratings since Monday.

Tails and I are in Onyx. Baller status: elevated.

I figured as much, given I pulled 1650~ or so the first two days, but the 1733 I got yesterday was just damn funny. I need to make clips from some of those games.

e: someone render the shit out of this

My thoughts exactly. I love the fact that the only thing you can do is improve, and you don't have to worry about a bad game messing people up.

I'm the same way, too, I heighten my situational awareness and as you saw last night I spend half my time calling shit out. If I'm not getting the kill, my team is, god dammit.

Watch me get Steel anyway, though :(

How do you see people's divisions, anyway?

edit: ffffffffff

http://card.mygamercard.net/apps/reachbeta/SuperMo0.png

Oh, I should probably mention I am totally out of days off from work this week, so I won't be around as much. Especially tomorrow since I have work, shit to do during the evening AND Baller Man 2 comes out, and I'm not missing out on that.

I'm down for whatever during the morning/afternoon though. INVASION YEEAHH