[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

I stole that kid's assassination, it's true. And I'd do it again, and not just because he was a teenage mouthbreather.

I will never play Team and Party. You have to drink from the cornucopia of Live behaviour.

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

Yeah, I discovered the secret is to go in with people who haven't played it yet, or haven't played it much. Their TrueSkill offsets yours, and you get to play people who are not, in fact, ninjas. When I took Sparrows in I got two 1500+ games.

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

Freelancing over the course of both turns of an Invasion game shouldn't be unobtainable for most people. But yeah, it's easier to just play Multiteam or Rumble Pit. And they are meant to be 'Challenges', after all.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Uh, that crate was there on my Legendary run, and I did not know about punching a wall to make it appear. Bizarre.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Tails, I finally discovered how to win in the Arena. Turns out you just have to be listening to Lil B. Finished my last game in first, ahead of an Onyx guy and two opponents who were Gold last season.

FELIPE NO

Noble Map Pack announced. 800 points, 30 November. Looks good. One symmetrical BTB map with a large Forge palette, one symmetrical 2-8 map, and one more Invasion/BTB map.

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

Changes are great.

I love how the wording of the 'double or nothing' ban policy is deliberately obtuse so whining kids won't even know what hit them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Gold MP Commendations are legit. They are a proof of honour.

Gold Firefight badges are like things you find free in cereal.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I had to do your mom to get it.

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

To be fair, yesterday was the first time in about three days that I played more than a couple of games. What's weird is the game bumped me to Silver in the Arena without me even playing. I guess sum bad kids (BKs) got rated!!!!lol

Also, Daravon has passed me out in both Daily and Weekly Challenges now.

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

I'd play FF Matchmaking more if the latency wasn't so awful. Maybe if I just took in some of the Eurogamer people.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Also I've found Arena searching using the Closest Skill modifier results in a lot less idiots and quitters. Takes way longer to find games but it's very much worth it.

This is a Pro Tip. First game with it on, I go 13-6-7 and finish second with 1567.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I approve of this thread title change.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Games today: -6, -4, -9, +5, -2, -7, -4, -3, -3.

Raptorfox is my kryptonite.

FELIPE NO

I think I have like 900 kills to go.

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

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Well you have apparently given up on Halo recently, so

I've been busy! And I also played it for eight hours straight over a LAN at a friend's house on Sunday night.

Every game was a lag-free wonderland where I donged righteously and often. I went +58 in a 45-minute game of 6v6 Multi-Flag Asylum.

Then I went back online and remembered what it is like to 'communicate' with American hosts.

And then I bought Bayonetta 4 cheap...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

45 minute CTF splitscreen at 1am after having played for six hours already, having got to sleep the previous morning at 8.30am on a house party couch with two other people before going to work at 11.30am, not eating, and then going straight to the LAN (where at least there was pizza).

Edit: and I had a cold.

And I still rained cats and dongs. You should see me without latency, you bad kid. I even climbed on top of the bases with sniper and shotgun because that shit is not fixed in the default Asylum variant, and I only felt a little guilty.

(I have also been playing the Football Manager 2011 demo and The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom and the Alan Wake DLC, so stop judging me on my single-game fanaticism. It's not my fault Reach is simply the best one.)

How ya doing, buddy?

None of those achievements are very taxing. The hardest one is probably You Ate All the Chips, and it's just encouraging you to play the gametype well. It could have been a lot worse, honestly.

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

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Lmao, 19k-4d-3a in my first game of NEW ARENA. People are literally running past the other team and all kinds of shit you shouldn't do in non-radar gametypes.

I could get used to this.

It's good, yeah, but bear in mind even I did well in my first game this season..

They just need to take out armor lock now and it will be perfect!

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

I want to play Halo Reach again soon.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

If only it was within your power to do so.

Football Manager 2011 came out this week.

Spoiler:

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

SailorDaravon, your attitude really stinks.

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I will read and/or respond to your hate letter at some point, Mr Daravon (and I'm sure I agree with the bulk of it*), but I'm pretty sure I've already made my position on cabbages clear a month ago or more on GAF: fun bonus, but not the reason you should be playing the game. If the main motivation for you to log on every day is to clear cabbages and fill bars, I can see why you would be disappointed with that aspect, and I heartily agree that side of things could have been implemented better.

But you complain, and GAF complains, about the cabbages every single goddamn day, without fail, until it has become a droning, infernal lament that will never quite reach the money throne upon which Bungie sit and scoff like lords. It's like you are collectively crossing your fingers and telling yourselves "today it will be different"... day after day after day. You should know you're disappointed by now, and yet each day you go back for more.

If the girl keeps breaking your heart, stay away, she's no good for you.

*I'm also pretty chill with it, because they've steadily addressed a lot of my problems with the game (I think the Arena's got better season by season, for instance, and they jumped on some of my very personal complaints like the spawn zones on Boneyard or the soft kill zones on Asylum), and will likely continue to. A lot of people on GAF seem to have forgotten how messy Halo 2 and Halo 3 were at launch compared to what they offered six months down the road. Is it bad that Bungie can't get most of these things right out the gate? Yes. But they will work on it.

How ya doing, buddy?

It helps that I mostly play the Arena this point (or other 4v4 stuff where possible, because that is where the Halo games have always been most fun for me). If I played BTB/Invasion regularly I would go insane because I find the maps and gametypes and the whole organization of those playlists is for the most part wretched. I played some BTB with the Eurogamer guys last night and even with 14-16 of us going into the playlist (and me donging on all but one or two of them like Brainboy and Sparrows), I just didn't have a very good time. The number one thing I agree with you about is the map selection being awful, especially the BTB selection. It was the thing I was most worried about prerelease (and urk was all company with it: "no, it's fine, the Forge World maps are the real deal!"), and my worst fears have pretty much come true. Luckily for me, the best maps (Countdown, Asylum, Powerhouse, Zealot...) are sized for 4v4.

Worth pointing out that most of those Eurogamer guys I mentioned are still warrant officers or below; they love the game but play it once or twice a week at most. I imagine they're more representative of the bulk of the fanbase. Hardly anyone is going to make General inside six months, and I think your perception of what 'hardcore' is is skewed by posting on and reading Internet forums. Remember how shocked everyone was when Bungie put up the graph of how few people had hit Lt Colonel? Yeah. We hear a lot of whining on GAF because that's a place populated by really dedicated, bar-filling guys. I was one of them for the first few weeks because I just loved any excuse to play the game incessantly, but it's dropped off now and I get my kicks just from the matches themselves, with challenges as a bonus; at this point you've done 60 dailies and 4 weeklies more than me. The variability of cR and difficulties, and the repetition, all of it... I can see why it's disappointing, but I just can't imagine getting so mad about it that you would dump your own thread as a consequence.

(And from Bungie's point of view, it's gotta be demoralizing to put up this side attraction that you never considered the main show -- something that's entirely optional -- and have people just rail about it endlessly and do everything they can to exploit and grind it.)

I mean when you say you wouldn't melee an enemy because it won't work towards a commendation or earn as much cR... dude, I just want to hug you, because that way madness lies.

How ya doing, buddy?

The GAF dudes do have tags, as far as I recall. It's probably easier to just join in customs on a Saturday night and then sling invites.

Also I am iron in the Arena despite doing the best I have ever done. I guess not enough people are rated yet?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

First season I placed silver and bounced back and forth between that and bronze, then finished bronze. Second season I placed bronze and stuck there, but should have kept playing because I was top 10%. This season...£*@?!

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