[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Originally Posted by Shin

Genuine question, surely the incentive to play a game is that you enjoy playing it? Do you actually like playing Halo or are you just playing it to get to the top rank because that's a pretty weird way to approach a leisure activity in my opinion.

Comes back to the carrot on the stick thing again; even going back to Halo 2, 99% of people would never hit the top rank, but it was always something to aspire to. Let's say that I hit the max rank cap before they lift it (and if I hit the max rank cap and they haven't raised it, they've got some serious fucking problems), the game has a billion ways in-game to track my progress and improvement, and that will be for all intents and purposes shut off. Dangling dozens of commendations and ranks and whatnot in front of a player but offering them literally no way to proceed one iota towards any of them is kinda fucked. Absolutely none of this applies to me since I doubt I've ever come that close to the daily cap, I just find this interesting as an observer. I also don't really understand why they have a daily cap and a max rank cap, they should have just managed the daily cap a little more effeciently so people could still progress (even if not as much as they would like) without just hitting a total brick wall. I'm curious to see how this works out and how they handle it; with CoD coming out in November, if they fuck it up they WILL lose players to that, especially with CoD being the ultimate carrot on a stick game.

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Comparing Arena numbers? Fucking nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrds

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, I've already reverted to my Halo 3 status where I'm always either really "on" and raping dude's faces, or totally sucking ass.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

More Easter Eggs ahoy!

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

If only there was some way to prevent that

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So am I, and I have a ton of Majors of various Grades on my list. This is what happens when you don't play for a while.

How ya doing, buddy?

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The headshot :lol

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wait, so you're implying that....never mind.

How ya doing, buddy?

Awesome, apparently it is literally impossible to complete one of the Daily Challenges today :lol

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Good thing you have the rest of the season to climb your way back up!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Grifball was very frequently a weekend playlist in Halo 3.

How ya doing, buddy?

If anyone's interested, someone apparently did some haxors and has the cR requirements and names of every rank:

Spoiler:

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

There's also pics of the ranks here.

Also apparently the 17 games played Challenge today is borked; if you turn off your system or go to dashboard (basically leave Halo Reach at all) it resets the number of games you've played. So unless they've fixed it, you have to do 17 games in one go. What the fuck are they doing over there?

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

*Daravon hears explosions*

Daravon: What's going on, where is that?

Tails: LOL

*Daravon has died in an explosion*

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Originally Posted by Agent Di Gun Him

Are Daravon and/or Shake still on their streaks of no missed challenges, or did that eventually falter?

I still haven't missed one yet, and I'm fairly sure Shake hasn't either. At some point (probably sooner rather than later) I'll miss one, at which point I'll care considerably less. Also part of my caring right now is to get the extra cR to hit Lt. Colonel, which I should in the next day or two anyway. Shake has much more free time than me, as well as considerably less games to play, so I imagine he'll probably keep his streak going for quite some time.

I was speaking idiomatically.

They're all super easy except the Sword kills one, which doesn't take terribly long but is just really annoying.

Also only 5,375 cR from Lt. Colonel, fucking FINALLY. Will probably wake up early in the morning and hit it before work maybe. I'm seriously considering taking a break from Reach once I hit it, either by playing a lot less or possibly not at all. My performance has gone to complete shit 90% of the time days in a row now, and it's just frustrating me.

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Hit Lt. Colonel; awesome how apparently my Achievements are glitched because on the 360 it says I have 48 out of 49 achievements at 995/1000, but on xbox.com it correctly shows 49/49 1000 (also one of the 360 screens shows 49/49).

Anyway, I'm done with Reach for a while. Now that I have the last achievement, I have no desire to play Matchmaking at all. Playlists mostly suck, BTB and Invasion desperately need more maps, spawns are broken on several maps, I could go on and on.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Alright, I need one of you folks with Pro who has a spare render minute to do this clip of some guy trying to splatter me and failing so it can live on in hilarious eternal glory. I do not understand what he was thinking.

Oh and Daravon, here's that amazing setup we pulled on that one idiot during the start of that 3 Plot match. Why the fuck did he stop and stare at me.

Rendered both.

FELIPE NO

This is pretty goddamn awesome:

Bungie.net : Halo Reach : File Details

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The abominable snowman playing chess with Optimus prime comment is :lol

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Here's the playlist changes, not sure if they're already live or not, but should be sometime today. Challenges for today are pretty good as well, will probably play for a bit.

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PLAYLISTS

Rumble Pit
* Added Crazy King
* Added Juggernaut
* Removed Oddball on Asylum

Team Slayer
* Removed SWAT
* Removed Classic
* Weights adjusted based on voting data

Team SWAT (New!)
* Based on existing Team Slayer SWAT offering
* Removed Hemorrhage
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant

Team Objective
* Added Crazy King
* Added several gametypes on Powerhouse (CTF, Assault, Stockpile, Crazy King, 3 Plots)
* Removed heavy vehicles from all 4v4 Team Objective gametypes

Multi Team
* Added Rocket Race

Big Team Battle
* Added Crazy King
* Removed SWAT
* Removed Snipers from Boneyard
* Weights adjusted based on voting data

Doubles Arena
* Removed Slayer Pro for Season 2
* Removed Boardwalk
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant

Team Arena
* Removed Slayer Pro for Season 2
* Replaced Zealot with Arena Zealot map variant



MAPS

Arena Zealot (New!)
* Added a softkill zone to the space area
* Modified initial spawns so enemies cannot see each other

Zealot
* Objects can no longer be dropped into the boot_base

Asylum
* Removed multiple duplicate Headhunter score zones

Boneyard
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand
* Objects can no longer come to rest on the out of bounds cliff behind the scaffolding where the Invasion core is captured
* Players can no longer sit in the out of bounds area under the ship scaffolding

Pinnacle
* Health Packs should not respawn after 15 seconds

Hemorrhage
* Landmine removed from Red team's west cliff
* Respawn time for all Mongoose vehicles is now 45 seconds
* Scorpions replaced with Wraiths (4 minute respawn)

Paradiso
* Respawn timer for Concussion Rifle at Red base is now 30 seconds to match Concussion Rifle at Blue base

Reflection
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand

Boardwalk
* Changed the base object for territories from a hill marker to a flag stand

Powerhouse
* Respawn timer for all Needler weapons is now 45 seconds


GAMETYPES

Global Changes
* Slayer DMR now has motion tracker enabled
* Evade has replaced Hologram for all gametypes in which players can hold objects (CTF, Assault, Stockpile, Oddball)
* Evade has replaced Dropshield for gametypes which create concentrated gameplay in specific areas (Crazy King, Territories, Oddball)
* All Classic gametypes should now include Sprint as default equipment

King of the Hill
* Teams are now always able to correctly score points
* Players standing in the hill no longer receive extra points upon returning from a host migration

Rocket Race
* Players now attached to vehicles after being on foot for 10 seconds
* Flipped vehicles will be detected to prevent players from attaching to a non-upright vehicle
* Added functionality for tracking and reporting rotations
* Fountain of Mongeese should no longer be possible (don't ask)
* Players are no longer able to jack another teams Mongoose
* Players are no longer forced into a specific role of driver or gunner
* All players start with a Rocket Launcher
* Players move at 50% speed, do dignificantly reduced damage and are marked with a nav icon
* Players on foot are now able to score points in Rocket Race

Juggernaut
* The Juggernaut no longer sees other players as allies upon returning from a host migration
* New clients after a host migration will no longer lose their Juggernaut status

Territories
* All teams now have separate capture timers for each territory
* Locked territories will no longer prevent players from using equipment
* The flag in the territory is now attached if the territory is a flag stand object
* Added a HUD_Widget to display contested status to players inside a territory
* The progress bar for a territory will now show as full when that territory is being contested (capture progress is saved and will appear again once the territory is no longer contested)
* Random flag clothes will no longer disappear after a round transition

Oddball
* Bombs in Hot Potato now properly report carry time
* Multiple hot potato bombs will no longer spawn in the same location
* The carry time reported stat will now always be correct after a host migration has occurred
* Players carrying the oddball during a host migration will no longer receive extra points

Stockpile
* All stockpile flags are now attached to their spawn location if it is a flag stand

Invasion
* The game score is now set per frame tick based off of the current phase
* A failsafe game end timer has been added to catch any possible bad cases of Invasion games not ending properly

Invasion: Boneyard
* The core will now reset whenever it is thrown through a shield door into a spawning location in Phase 3

Invasion (Assault) and Assault
* Added sudden death to Invasion (Assault) and Assault gametypes

Race
* Players who die before the first checkpoint will no longer spawn in a random location on the map

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I think today's update removed the Drop Shield from objective games, or at least some of them. I'm pretty sure they've said that they'll be removed from all of them, as that was fairly obviously broken from day one.

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

Shake is a dirty kill-stealer. Bet he was in a tank when he did it too.

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

The problem that Reach seems to have for some reason (as opposed to other XBL games) is that every time I put it on Everybody, there's always a billion people talking on lobbies over one another because multiple people apparently have it on Team and Party. I tried rolling on Everyone for a while tonight, but aside from being told I was going to be raped a few times, it was just unbearable cross-talk.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Yeah, dudes like that on XBL blow, but I can never bring myself to do Team and Party or Friends Only, because proxy chat is always funny, like those dudes who were getting so pissed earlier when Shake and I were playing Team Slayer.

Nothing tops that one time Daravon and I were on H3 and this dude had some serious techno blasting through his mic and Daravon swore we were playing against the Techno Viking. It was like a party every time he got near enough for you to kill him, I couldn't stop laughing.

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That was SO GOOD. I remember it was on the Pit, and I could literally hear him through the proxy voice chat before he would even blip on the radar. It was like I was killing the party every time I killed him

I was speaking idiomatically.

The Freelancing one is also kinda bullshit. Most of us can probably pull that off on a regular enough basis to not make it impossible or anything, but for most people that's probably unobtainable.

Multi-team is Assist Central though; bet I could probably have at least half of those assists if not more by the time I hit 150 kills if I did it all in there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

BWU is up. tldr version:


-As you can see above, the vocal minority is bitching about the cap; sketch mentions in the update by hitting Major he is now in the top 97%.
-You are still earning cR even at the cap; when the cap is raised you will have all of the cR while at the cap. So capped players will likely skyrocket ranks and armory options once the cap is raised.
-The Cap is in place for security reasons (to identify/prevent abuse, etc). The second reason is that they have "cool ideas" on how to raise the cap via "communal effort."
-According to Sketch, he expects that the cap will be raised "in the next month or two."

-2nd October Matchmaking update tentatively expected 10/19. They are hoping to roll out dedicated Infection and Snipers Playlists, as well as "one or more" Forge map variants into Matchmaking. Nothing final yet, will be be posted when dates and details are available (likely next BWU).

-Trueskill is still collecting data in the background for player matching, which may explain why there sometimes still appears to be a disparity in skill level in matches, etc.

-Only ~5% of players have completed the Legendary Solo achievement, and ~10% have the Elite assassination Campaign achievement.


The cap bullshit is largely rendered moot by the fact that you continue to still earn cR at the cap, and I can understand the security reasons (although it still sucks). Still think it's somewhat bullshit that it's going to be a month or two before it gets raised, although if only a fraction of a percent of players are actually at the cap I don't know how much I can blame them. Also would be fucking awesome if Infection gets a playlist, or at least gets into other playlists outside of Rumble Pit.

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So one of the Daily Challenges today is kill 400 enemies in any game mode in Reach for 4,000 cR (which is awesome). However:

-4 games of Score Attack today = 4,000 cR
-50 games of Firefight Matchmaking for Weekly Challenge = 3,000 cR

Do not understand Bungie.

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