[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Level cap is raised. No official post yet, but word is that it's capped again at General Grade 4. Given the ridiculous amount of cR required to get that, I can't imagine that's much of an issue for most people though. The ranks past the cap for reference (please excuse the lazy copy/paste):

Commander 600,000 cR
(+60,000 cR)
Commander
Grade 1 650,000 cR
(+50,000 cR)
Commander
Grade 2 700,000 cR
(+50,000 cR)
Commander
Grade 3 750,000 cR
(+50,000 cR)
Colonel 850,000 cR
(+100,000 cR)
Colonel
Grade 1 960,000 cR
(+110,000 cR)
Colonel
Grade 2 1,070,000 cR
(+110,000 cR)
Colonel
Grade 3 1,180,000 cR
(+110,000 cR)
Brigadier 1,400,000 cR
(+220,000 cR)
Brigadier
Grade 1 1,520,000 cR
(+120,000 cR)
Brigadier
Grade 2 1,640,000 cR
(+120,000 cR)
Brigadier
Grade 3 1,760,000 cR
(+120,000 cR)
General 2,000,000 cR
(+240,000 cR)
General
Grade 1 2,200,000 cR
(+200,000 cR)
General
Grade 2 2,350,000 cR
(+150,000 cR)
General
Grade 3 2,500,000 cR
(+150,000 cR)
General
Grade 4 2,650,000 cR
(+150,000 cR)

Additional Spam:
Official word: There is NO CAP. Go nuts!

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Bungie.net : New Ranks & Armor Now Available : 11/2/2010 2:06 PM PDT

Originally Posted by Bungie

Forty-nine days and more than a few million Challenges later, you’ve totally decapitated the Rank cap in Halo: Reach. That means there are now more kick ass Rank and Armor options available in the Armory than ever before. To help get you suited up into some hot new gear, we’re introducing huge Credit Jackpots for players who routinely finish their games. Because we love you and we want you to have nice things.

Oh, and we've some "reports" online of a second Rank cap. Those reports are false. You now have access to everything the Armory has to offer, provided you have the Credits.

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It’s the first item on the list. The second and third options are also available, and the fourth is something we’ll talk a little more in depth about at a later date. Stay Tuned.

Thanks for playing. See you online, Seventh Column.

No clarification at all provided regarding the cR Jackpots thing; I'm guessing the longer you go without quitting a match the higher the post-game Jackpot pays out, or the odds of it being higher increase or something. Likewise, no idea at all on that last piece, one would guess it's something to do with Beta testing whatever their new IP is that they're doing with Activision. Rumor mill on that one has been that it will be some sort of online game.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Bungie.net : Reach : Service Record

A possible legit General Grade 2, Jesus Christ. Has almost all Campaign and Firefight Commendations at MAX Onyx.

That aside, with the new higher ranks, the Game Complete bonuses are really improving now. For those not aware, they had said earlier that you would get more cR for games as your rank increased. Now that there's a much wider disparity in ranks, today we were comparing and m00 as a Major Grade 2 was getting say 600 cR for his bonus, and as a Colonel Grade 2 I was getting about double that. Playing this afternoon I was definitely getting more cR, most matchmaking games I was averaging 1,500-2,000, before the raise I was getting about 1,000-1,200. I posted on GAF to urk asking if there's any word that they've raised or eliminated the daily cR cap, but haven't heard back yet. With that much per match plus Challenges and Commendations, 60,000 a day starts to get tight.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I see a lot of bitching going around the internets about the Arena changes. Seems like people are really butthurt about no radar simply because it greatly increases their chances of being assassinated ='(

FELIPE NO

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.

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

I'm going to try Arena again this season and hope that I don't get absolutely boned in terms of matchups like I did last season. I got turned off of that shit right quick.

Someone on SA said they got 7372 cR from the slot machine, so that gives an idea of how big the jackpot is.

This video is awesome.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, someone on GAF said they got something like 7913 from a slot machine last night.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

YES! No radar Arena means I'm finally going to play Halo again.

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

Originally Posted by Gentry Rejected Friend

I'm going to try Arena again this season and hope that I don't get absolutely boned in terms of matchups like I did last season.

For you, doesn't getting boned mean "matched up against other players"

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

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 was speaking idiomatically.

Tails and I, cold chillin'

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Lol man, that whole morning of Firefight. Nothing like randoms leaving when the first round ends. I still can't believe we finished the whole game with time to spare, shit was getting crazy.

e: FUCK YES NIGHTFALL ON LEGENDARY CHALLENGE. DARAVON WE ARE ON.

GET TO WORK NOBLE

FELIPE NO

I'll be on in a bit, I reallllly needed to catch up on my sleep, which I finally did.

I'M GETTING READY TO GET TO WORK

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

Oh my god where is Devo. I just lost an Arena match because I was playing with "BLKpeopleLOL", some dude using the best fucking low-bass SHAFT voice I have ever heard telling our nerdy teammate to "shut your bitch ass up" and "you just got shit on white boy".

Literally could not shoot straight the whole game.

"They got snipes at health pack you pieces of shit"

Jam it back in, in the dark.

BWU is up. Main (new) highlights:

-The new Jackpot thing is confirmed as the Slot Machine giving you 7,777 cR. They confirm that it does NOT count against your Daily cR cap, but don't specify any sort of threshold on how you earn it other than if you're not quitting games you "have nothing to worry about."

I looked, I've played ~75 games in Matchmaking since the Jackpot went live and aside from one time where I got 359, I haven't exceeded 102 on my Slot Machine once. So either it's so rare it's pointless, or I'm super unlucky. It's also disappointing to know that the daily cR cap is still there, at higher ranks with the larger Game Complete bonuses you get that become much more of an issue. At Colonel Grade 3 I'm averaging 1500 cR a match or more, and I'm already hearing Brigadiers complaining about hitting the cap in half a day of play.

-New Anchor 9 video posted, as well as top-down maps of all 3 of the DLC maps. You can get all of that directly at the update here. They'll also be posting some sort of short videos of the new maps prior to release going over what gametypes work well on the maps, etc.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Does the jackpot take into account games you quit before it went live?

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

We have zero idea. We don't even know if it looks at your current "streak" of unquit games and the odds increase that way, or what. I've only heard tale of 2 people getting it, and I don't personally know anyone who has gotten it.

Unrelated, best XBL message, laughing forever.



Also I updated the OP, I have no idea why I even bothered. Removed Beta stuff, and added DLC stuff.

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

I want to play Halo Reach again soon.

How ya doing, buddy?

If only it was within your power to do so.

As usual today's Challenges are super easy, had them all in 5 matches. Bungie's complete squandering of the Challenge system continues to disappoint.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

If only it was within your power to do so.

Football Manager 2011 came out this week.

Spoiler:

FELIPE NO

We all make choices Shake, even if they are poor ones.

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

Originally Posted by Shake Appeal

Football Manager 2011 came out this week.

Spoiler:

Stop bending it like Beckham and get on Reach fool.

Also lollin at the title edit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

We have zero idea. We don't even know if it looks at your current "streak" of unquit games and the odds increase that way, or what. I've only heard tale of 2 people getting it, and I don't personally know anyone who has gotten it.

I got 777 once, possibly about two days after the game launched.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Shake Appeal

Football Manager 2011 came out this week.

Spoiler:

proping as fuck

no homo

Originally Posted by Shin

I got 777 once, possibly about two days after the game launched.

I actually got 777 twice in a row this morning, but outside of that I've only gotten 777 twice total, both of them the first week or so the game came out. And I've played something like 1,200 games -_-.

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