[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Fuck, wish I had known about this on my Legendary run

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For Tails, Devo, and anyone else who plays with them, Jagged Wedge posted this on another forum this morning regarding me having to carry Shimms in multiplayer (which is a common re-occurence/joke in that thread):

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Hey Daravon, don't be so sad
take a bad shims, into big team slayer
remember, with an AR he'll start
then you should find him something better

hey daravon, don't be afraid
you were made to go out and splatter
the minute you let shims under your skin
then he'll begin to think he's better

and any time you feel the pain
hey daravon, refrain
don't carry shimmergloom upon your shoulder
for well you know that its a fool who plays it cool
and spawns his battle bro behind a boulder

na na na na na na na na na
hey daravon
don't let me down, you found the flag, now go and score it
remember, don't get shot through the heart, going back to the start, won't be much better
shims won't let you out or let you in
hey daravon begin, you're waiting for someone to spawn with
and don't you know that its just you, hey D you do, the movement you need is on left shoulder

yeah...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, with pretty much any "group" of people I play with, the last few days we are just getting dominated all over the place, in any playlist. I still do fine in Multi-team (and seemingly SWAT), but everything else is me taking it up the ass no matter who's playing or what we're playing. I asked over on GAF, they HAVE to have flipped some kind of trueskill switch but it's still not calibrated right yet or something. Almost to a man starting Friday it seems it went to shit for pretty much everyone I play with.

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

Originally Posted by Ramenbetsu

It's all about Kat's voice in FireFight <3

Roll with Auntie Dot for a while; I bought it because several people recommended it to me, and it is hilarious and awesome. She will sometimes call out things like "Jumping" or "gaining altitude" when you jump, and she has good enemy death quips like "vital scans indicate that you are dead."

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

Blame MW2 for getting away with jacking up the prices on map packs. I'm genuinely surprised they're not putting in one or two Firefight maps and charging 1200 for it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Weekly Update is up here. New info, and lots more on new Playlist stuff happening Tuesday. tl;dr version:


-When the DLC maps hit on 11/30, they'll be seamlessly integrated into current playlists, but there was also be a dedicated DLC playlist if that's your thing.

-Campaign Co-op Matchmaking playlist is up NOW.

-The 10/19 Playlist changes, bolded what I thought was of particular note. Real good shit, at least on paper this seems to address a good chunk of the current outstanding issues:

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Playlists

* New Playlist: Team Snipers
* New Playlist: Living Dead
* Rumble Pit
o Lineup rebalanced to offer more kill, less frill.
o Removed Infection, Safe Havens, Race, Rally, Headhunter Pro
o Removed “Classic” gametypes
* Team Slayer
o Removed all Snipers gametypes
* Team SWAT
o Added SWAT Magnums gametype
* Team Objective
o Removed 1 Flag Classic
o Removed Headhunter Pro
o Removed the following gametypes from Hemorrhage due to the size of the map with only 8 players:
+ Multiflag Classic
+ 1 Flag CTF
+ 1 Flag Pro
+ 1 Bomb Assault
o Removed Oddball and Hot Potato from Boardwalk
* Multi Team
o Removed SWAT
o Removed Classic gametypes
o Removed The Cage
o Changed weighting for Rocket Race so it does not have a 100% chance to appear in Slot 3
* Big Team Battle
o Removed Multiflag from Boneyard and Spire
* Invasion
o This playlist now offers 3 voting options
* Firefight
o Updated Firefight playlist gametypes to be a full set instead of 1 round. Adjusted skull progression.
o Removed Friendly Fire
* Score Attack
o Removed Crash Site
o Added Mythic Score Attack
o You can no longer pickup other weapons in Sniper Attack


Maps

* Zealot/Arena Zealot
o Arena Zealot is now used for all Slayer gametypes
o Players can no longer stand on the edge of the generators in space and crouch to shoot below the shield
* Asylum
o Softkill zones added to the tops of the Sniper buildings
* Boneyard
o Modified respawn zones for Slayer gametypes
* Hemorrhage
o Modified respawn zones for both bases
o Respawn timers for all Warthogs on Hemorrhage should now be 120 seconds


Gametypes

* CTF
o All CTF gametypes should now have a player respawn of 10 seconds
o All Classic CTF gametypes now feature Flag At Home To Score and Touch Return
o Flag At Home To Score disabled for all non-Classic CTF gametypes
o Modified Flag Return and Flag Reset times:
+ 1 Flag on Small maps use 10 second return and 30 second reset
+ All other CTF gametypes use 30 second return and 45 second reset
* Assault
o Assault gametypes now have a player respawn time of 10 or 15 seconds depending on the map


In addition to the Playlist changes, we’re also introducing two new Forge Map Variants with this update, Cliffhanger and Atom. Atom will be on display in the Team Slayer, Team Snipers, Team Objective, Multi Team, and Big Team Battle Playlists. Cliffhanger will be found in Rumble Pit, Team Slayer, Team SWAT, and Team Objective.

-The Firefight playlists are getting updated. Full listing below, main highlights are bolded (lol'ing forever at the Hunter Bonus Wave in Sniperfight now):

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Score Attack Playlist Updates:

* Score Attack:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 15 minutes.


* Gruntpocalypse:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 15 minutes.


* Sniper Attack:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 15 minutes.
o Weapon pickup is now Disabled.
o Increased Melee Modifier to 150% to match Damage Modifier.


* Mythic Score Attack:
o The same set up as Score Attack but with the Mythic Skull on.



Firefight Playlist Updates:

* Firefight:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 30 minutes.
o Increased Wave Limit to 1 Set.
o Round 1 has only Tough Luck skull.
o Round 2 has Tough Luck and Catch skulls on.
o Round 3 has Tough Luck, Catch, and Cloud skulls on.
o Friendly Fire is Disabled.
o Betrayal Booting is Disabled.


* Generator Defense:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 30 minutes.
o Increased Wave Limit to 1 Set.
o Round 1 has only Tough Luck skull.
o Round 2 has Tough Luck and Catch skulls on.
o Round 3 has Tough Luck, Catch, and Cloud skulls on.
o Friendly Fire is Disabled.
o Betrayal Booting is Disabled.


* Rocketfight:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 30 minutes.
o Increased Wave Limit to 1 Set.
o Friendly Fire is Disabled.
o Betrayal Booting is Disabled.


* Sniperfight:
o Added Glacier map.
o Increased Time Limit to 30 minutes.
o Increased Wave Limit to 1 Set.
o Bonus Wave Squad 1 set to Hunters.
o Bonus Wave Squad 2 set to Hunters.
o Bonus Wave Squad 3 set to Hunters.
o Friendly Fire is Disabled.
o Betrayal Booting is Disabled.

-Level cap will be raised when a total of 117 million Daily and Weekly Challenges have been completed. A tracker will go up shortly on the front page of bnet, according to their engineers we're currently on track to hit that number in probably early November.

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Yeah, I've got two Onyx Commendations in Firefight, which are pretty much whatever. I really like playing Grunt Party though

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I completed all the Challenges yesterday.

And yeah, I bet you'd fucking like it if I was a girl.

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

Apparently the multiplayer assist challenge today is broken; it's only counting assists you get before you first death in a match(?), once you die you get a Challenge failed and it doesn't count any after that towards the Challenge. Good shit Bungie.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

FFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

e: my sig is basically my reaction to said challenge

ee: literally the only person who will get this is Shake

eee: OH WAIT THEY TOOK OUT THE SCORPION WHAT WILL YOU WHORE NOW SHAKE

Multiteam with randoms dude. I regularly score in the upper 20s with a (shitty) random in there, I'm sure you can do it. Or failing that, a good long game of Invasion will do it too probably.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yup, only took 4 games of multi-team to get the 30 kills, odball on reflection. Almost had it on my first game but just missed it.

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

New Playlist and changes are up. SWAT Magnums is actually pretty neat. Played it on one of the two new maps (Cliffhanger), which isn't bad.

Also Shake I looked at the numbers wrong, if the halowiki rank #'s are accurate, it's a total of 310,000 cR to go directly from Lt. Colonel Grade 3 to Colonel (completely bypassing Commander), not 240,000. I'm sitting at around 270,000 cR earned since I hit the cap, so I'm pretty confident I can pull that off before the cap is raised easy.

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

Someone posted this on GAF, way too hilarious to not post here. We have to get this in the rotation:

Originally Posted by NameGenerated

Yeah, I occasionally do that too. My friend and I got into an conversation with this one guy in Invasion. It somehow ended up where the dude was going to do a bombing-run with airplanes, but instead of bombs it was going to be him dropping dicks on our houses and we were going to be there ready to receive them.
A lot of the conversion contained racial slurs which I have left out. :lol

I was speaking idiomatically.

Shake was actually on for a good while yesterday, wondering where you were.

Also Grunt Party For Life!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Time for me to go into offline mode, play two rounds of Grunt Party, and be done for the day?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

You are so mean. ;___;

Yeah, like I am going to play long enough to get 200 fucking pistol kills with randoms in regular Firefight. Plus last night I was getting off when you invited me, I have some shit I need to do that I did not get a chance to because I got dragged into Matchmaking yesterday.

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

You can just set your preferences to have you show as away, busy, or offline if you want. You can also set yourself to always show offline if you want.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

because if I don`t I get 5 different people sending me invites.

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I did the other 3 Challenges this morning, hopefully I can hook up with some dudes later to get the ONI one (again, wtf Bungle). I got lucky on the multi-kill one, got it after a few games of multi-team objective games but still even then it took a few and I still barely managed it.

How ya doing, buddy?

It won't be the same unless we can get Team Linebacker together

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It's a lose-lose, because once they do you get douchebags intentionally getting killed at your hand so they can boot you. I don't think there's a good answer either way, although I haven't personally noticed a lot of fuelrod gun whoring.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I love the cR Challenge reset/ban thread on Bungie.net so fucking much. Justification for completing a Challenge 30 times in less than an hour:

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I have 100's of cats and they continuously scratch out my ethernet cable, and i have to redo the challenges.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

My favorite ones are when they say their account was hacked, but then they post the timestamp and actual serial # of the machine that the account was on during that timeframe they say there were hacked, and it was the same machine.

FELIPE NO

You can't just link to shit if it's not rendered >=(

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

Like I have time for that!

Jam it back in, in the dark.