[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

BWU is up! GOOD NEWS FOR ABOUT EVERYONE!

Highlights:

-As previously mentioned, there will be a DLC-only playlist when that hits on the 30th, as well as the DLC being integrated into all playlists (but not being required). The DLC-only playlist will be 2 teams of 5-6 players and will have a variety of gametypes, "pretty much everything but Invasion and Infection."

-Arena Season 4 updates effective November 30th:

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Arena Season 4 gametypes will be updated on November 30th. Gametype changes will be made for both Doubles and Team Arena playlists. We’re removing the Armor Lock loadouts and bringing back options for Needle Rifle starts. Full details below!

* Doubles Arena
o Motion Tracker Enabled
o Starting Grenades Reduced to 1
o Armor Lock Loadout Removed
o Jet Pack Loadout Added
o Loadouts
+ DMR, Needle Rifle, 1 Frag, Sprint
+ DMR, Needle Rifle, 1 Frag, Hologram
+ DMR, Needle Rifle, 1 Frag, Jet Pack


* Team Arena
o Starting Grenades Reduced to 1
o Armor Lock Loadout Removed
o Loadouts
+ DMR, Magnum, 1 Frag, Sprint
+ DMR, Magnum, 1 Frag, Hologram
+ Needle Rifle, Magnum, 1 Frag, Sprint
+ Needle Rifle, Magnum, 1 Frag, Hologram

-MLG has submitted their final playlist stuff, and barring any hiccups in final testing, the MLG playlist should go up sometime in mid-December.

-Firefight Versus is still in the works, "destined for the very short term future as part of a rotating Grab Bag playlist." No details yet on Grab Bag or when it's going up.

-Good news regarding Cabbages:

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In stark contrast to Jeremiah’s relaxed state, I’m pretty sure Luke wanted to keep you on your toes this week. That daily looked a lot like a weekly, didn’t it? Egads.

Earlier in the week, he sat me down and showed off the full matrix of daily and weekly challenges we have at our disposal. I have to say that there’s some decidedly difficult stuff packed inside. SLASO runs? Ho, boy.

Before Luke showed off his adults only tool-set, I’d thought the challenges were mostly set in stone. Not the case. Over time, we’ll be able to roll out additional challenges and scale the payouts for the existing set to track with trending overall player progress.

So that's good news, at least potentially. Also for those who don't know SLASO = Solo Legendary All Skulls On.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You would probably enjoy Black Ops, ahhh remote control bomb cars.

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Pretty much everyone outside of the Halo group is playing it, although that's not necessarily a ton of people on my list. I've only played the multiplayer a little bit though, not enough to have a good opinion yet. Core gameplay is still MW2 with some slightly changes (you can dive into prone, you can now bring up LMG's faster coming out of a run, little things like that) it's just mostly the stuff around it that they've added in that you earn money and chose exactly what weapons/attachments/perks to buy and whatnot. I know that they also tweaked and removed some of the perks and killstreaks (deathstreaks are completely gone). It seems pretty neat, but I wouldn't necessarily tell you to go out and buy it quite yet. I'll probably get some more time in with it this weekend and see.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, I'm willing to throw down for it, but apparently people are saying on GAF that you individually have to get 1 million points for the Cabbage? LOLZ

I'm game though Shake if you still want to do it to try to get the Achievement at least since I guess you don't have it? If the lag is super bad though that might not be a go though, mainly only because it'll just wind up getting me killed a bunch which will end it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Nah, then you have to become a Time Cop like me and save the future from the past.

FELIPE NO

Not really; literally the only Armory piece that is left that I would want to buy is the crazy scuba attachment for my robocop helmet, which requires me to be fucking mythic rank. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see a good Weekly that's actually worth a lot, but I have no particular drive to rank up or earn cR anymore. That said, I will still totally do the Challenge, but I'll have to be careful as to when I unlock it, as 16k is a lot and as far as I know Challenges still count towards the 60k. Assuming I do all 4 every day, that 4th day I'll have cR from the 4 Daily Challenges as well as games played that day (I average over 2k a game now at my rank). Really, really wish Challenges didn't count towards the Daily cR cap :/. I may just hit 15 then wait until the next day and earn the last Challenge straight-away or something.

Also yeah, population on this game seems to have taken a divebomb after Black Cops came out, it's actually taking me a full 5 minutes to get into a Multi-team or SWAT match, and I gave up after about 5 minutes of trying to get into BTB. I'm sure the map pack will bring people back, but I don't remember Halo 3 being anywhere near this desolate after MW came out, damn.

How ya doing, buddy?

Been playing Multiteam for a while now, these are all really bad signs that the population is really, really low:

-Still taking 5+ minutes to find a match
-My goddamn teammate almost always quits before the match even starts
-Keep getting matched against almost exactly the same people, half of which are utter garbage, and the other half keep completely pounding my shit in
-Tons of migrations issues

I've literally been trying to get the 20 assists in Multiplayer for over an hour now, and doing nothing but Multiteam I'm STILL only at fucking 14/20 because my teammate keeps quitting, and I keep running into the same motherfuckers who kick my ass. This is fucking miserable.

Black Ops has been patched and is still Call of Lobby to some extent, but it's much better; I don't expect any real numbers returning to Halo until the map pack.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

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I'm 42 away from that

I've had Onyx Close Quarters for a week or two though, suck it down!

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I've got Onyx Get Out Of Your Chair

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh shit, of the guy I played with and the truck? I'll try to remember to pull those the next time I'm on, hopefully they're still in my recent history (they may not be).

Whatever motivation I had to play this game is largely gone. I couldn't even bring myself to do the 50 multiplayer kills one today, which is super easy. There's no further unlocks I really care about, and while the Arena/TS maps and playlists seem to be pretty solid, Invasion and BTB still kinda suck for reasons we've all covered in detail. And all I'm seeing at other forums are people feeling the same way, and the people who are still playing still continue to bitch incessantly about Armor Lock and/or reticule bloom. I'm hoping the DLC ropes me back in a bit, but at this point pretty much everyone is playing Black Cops now (Shimms and Wedge both play that now as well, so you and Shake are the only real holdouts on Halo). I'm also having almost constant issues even trying to get matches going now; I was thinking about getting the 50 kills today, but after 5 minutes it literally could not get a full lobby together, and I've had that experience almost every time I've tried to play matchmaking in the last week or so. When I can't get a game on a Sunday afternoon of Halo, that's baaaaaad. Assuming their shit is accurate, it claimed there was 146k players, and then I hopped on Black Ops and there was over a million -_-.

Try to remind me about the videos though, otherwise I will probably forget.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Marketplace usually updates at 5am EST yeah. I`m pretty shocked you did not get a free code like the other GAF regulars apparently did though, especially since you got a beta code. I totally forgot the DLC even came out tomorrow, was getting hyped for Dead Nation on PSN and then saw that Halo was tomorrow too lol

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well let me know if you can`t get out to get a card tomorrow and I can hook you up.

How ya doing, buddy?

I find that hilarious only because I remember waaaaay prior to urk working at Bungie the two of us having a conversation about how he hated how Ghal and others would suck Frankie's dick in the Halo threads and things like that. But whatever, there's no "fair" way to distribute anything on Halo GAF, so that's really as good as anything honestly, and Ghal's a good guy.

Right now I've only got the maps pre-ordered at Gamestop because I needed to use $7 of credit so I could switch off the old Edge card onto their new bullshit. Originally I was going to pre-order some codes for people and then buy the maps myself as soon as they went up, but they would only let me pre-order the one. And honestly at this point the only reason I'm getting the DLC is to maintain full Achievements; the maps seem great, but almost everyone I would want to play them with is gone really. And I'm still looking more forward to Dead Nation tomorrow than Halo. Kinda depressing.

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Sure, I'll give my Gamestop one to Phong then, since I know his brokeass can't afford it anyway.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

IT'S THE PO-PO

(I should be on in a few Tails)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

What, did you re-up your Gold and get a new Xbox or what?

How ya doing, buddy?