[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Same here, actually. if that stuff works as advertised, it would be one hell of a long lasting multilayer mode.

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God dammit, I have to find ODST now, don't I?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Does it matter if it's used or not? In Crackdown it didn't matter because it was built into the game, so I'm assuming no.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yep, I managed to pick the ONE ebay auction that specifically mentions "doesn't have multiplayer" and bid on that without catching it. Considering the dick wrote "COMPLETE!!!!" as part of the listing title I should punch him in the nuts.

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

Guh, Google lied about the price on Amazon and said it was $40, so I skipped it.

I mean, this auction I'm apparently about to win would cost me $15, and from what I can tell all I'd need is the singleplayer disc and not the multiplayer one.

Ah, I got outbid, so the issue's moot. I'll just pick it up on Amazon and save the trouble.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That shit looks AWESOME.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

If you timed it right you were able to get halo 3 legendary for 20 bucks at toys r us. So yeah, I'd hold off on legendary myself.

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

Originally Posted by Ramenbetsu

My dick is so hard right now.

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Originally Posted by Tails

Seriously if I had a dollar for every time you died because "ran out of bullets and was reloading" or "I emptied a WHOLE CLIP into that guy and he got me when I was reloading" I would be fucking rich.

quotin' dis

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I get the impression, though, that Invasion is going to work like Battlefield BC2's Rush mode, where while it's technically one gigantic map it plays more like 3 to 5 small maps that overlap physically.

And I mean, while it is easy to get back to your base once you get out of theirs, it's pretty freaking hard to get out of the enemy base against a competent team. If there's enough people to cover the entire ap, in theory, then there's also enouugh people to camp the everloving christ out of the flag so that no one's ever getting in to the base to begin with.

Basically I think the point I'm trying to get to is that you overestimate the strategic ability of Halo players

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

Hi Shake! How goes it?

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Originally Posted by Shake Appeal

My favourite time was when Tails thought that his Arena Daily Rating of ~1650 meant he was the 1,650th best Halo player in the world.

Owned owned owned owned owned Tails y u fail math

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

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.

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?

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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't have 3 daily ratings yet. So I'm not in any division.

Don't worry, the world hasn't imploded.

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Originally Posted by Tails

He was probably mad because he didn't wanna punch out there.

I must know what this is about, it sounds hilarious

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Provisional Division assignments, like the ones you received, are derived from qualifying population. At some point you were Gold among those who'd qualified. Now, as more people have qualified you've moved back.

Among your 1550 or whatever yesterday, you probably laid a few eggs, those games counted, too.

Additionally, your daily rating doesn't take into account the quality of opponents (the formula is on bungie.net there's no value for 'Am I playing Steel or Onyx dudes'). So even in Steel - guys are going to have big games and put up 1700s - and that's good.

A high Day Rating is like being a great minor league pitcher, your Mom is proud, but you aren't on SportsCenter.

From Luke Smith, over on GAF, in case anyone's curious.

Oh! I just read the BWU closer, and I think this is how it works.

1. Play 3 games in a day to get a daily rating. This lets you compare how you're doing on a day versus another day, but otherwise doesn't do much.
2. During each of those games, you're ranked based on your rating, rather than your kills, as you can see during a game. This is what's put into TrueSkill.
3. TrueSkill is used to determine the divisions.
4. As more people start playing, the threeshhold for the divisions changes. As more and more people qualify better than you, you start to risk dropping down a division.

How ya doing, buddy?

Speaking of which, unless you take your games really seriously (Skills), most of the time it's fun enough just shooting the shit with friends while you shoot shotguns at people regardless of how well you're doing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hm, I feel like that Bnet update is a step sideways. It doesn't feel cleaner or anything, just reshuffled a bit.

How ya doing, buddy?

From what I hear, there is another wipe incoming on launch day.

It's pretty awesome so far. matchmaking is show to start matches, but the choices in the armory are ridonkulous. I had like 5000cR before doing much of anything though, not sure what that's still about.

It pops up a message telling you thanks for helping us iron out bugs, so at least theyre not being hostile to people who got early copies.

Who ruined my fun of telling daravon I had this?

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I think you misread Broseidon, Broseph. It wants you to have a teammate spawn ON YOU 15 times without dying.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Seems to me like it'd be better if there was Team Slayer, which would have the off chance of having SWAT/Snipers in it, and then a "Pro" list where it's nothing but SWAT/Snipers/Pro stuff.

Was that what you were saying, Daravon, or were you just imagining SWAT/Snipers being removed completely from Team Slayer?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Devo, from what I can find, the daily cap is 60,000 cR.

This begs the question, just HOW MUCH were you playing today to actually hit that cap? That's a pretty damn large amount of cR for one day.

In before "That's bullshit I got nowhere near that much, fucking Bungie"

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The challenges were only worth 5,000 today, but I wasn't taking into account commendations when I was doing the quick mental math about that. Nor how much cR score attack gets you.

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Originally Posted by DieSeLFueLeD

But Shin, what's the point of cutting people off for having fun in gruntocalypse or sniperfight score attack and calling it "abuse of a progression system"?

They're not stopping you from the act of shooting grunts, Devo, they're stopping you from gaining credits. If that's equivalent to having fun for you, then you should seriously reevaluate why you play.

And let's be honest, Devo, if you're playing Gruntpocalypse more than once or twice in a row you're either easily amused or grinding cR/Commendations.

Daravon, I can't help but compare the rank cap in this to WoW raid progression, where a select group of a few people hit the wall early and wait eagerly for Blizz to release the next bit of raid content (all the while complaining that there wasn't enough for them), while the majority of players take their time to get there and half the time don't even see the wall before it gets moved.

It remains to be seen the pace that they move the wall at, obviously, but I see similarities there.

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