[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Cleaned up the OP some, added how to get the Halo Waypoint-required Armors, and added links to the very top of the OP that take you to the current Daily/Weekly Challenges and Playlists.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

I've only played Swordbase once or twice in the retail release, also like it and the little graphical touches they've made are good. Haven't played any objective games on it though, can't recall if they said they were changing the flag issues people had in the Beta or not.

The flag is now along the corridor and up a ramp from the objective, a very short distance and capture the flag is a lot more balanced now. You can either try to get it there direct and have to fight every step of the way or be a tricksy hobbit and take it one of several long way rounds while your team distracts the enemy. I think it's a great map personally.

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I'm actually not a huge fan of Spire; it seems to suffer from the same problem as Boneyard in that it seems to have good chunks of the map that are not used at all, and the map just doesn't seem to flow very well at all. It's interesting though. On the other hand any gametype on it where Falcons get going seems to be completely jacked, as if the Falcon pilot is at all decent is becomes extraordinarily difficult to take it out with the weapons on the map; definitely wish there was a laser on there.

Jacking a falcon is even easier than jacking a Banshee using a jetpack, especially if you jump off the spire to do it. Then you can either fly off and face the gunner in to a cliff to annoy him (There's never two gunners, Halo players don't cooperate that well) or just jump out and jetpack safely to the ground while the thing crahses with no pilot. Spire is too big though, as is Haemmorage. I can't understand why when most games put a lot of effort into keeping people together and the action intense, Halo seems determined to place you in big, open, empty expanses. I mean, even Ghost Recon, a game all about precision headshots and sneaking around the joint has multiplayer maps no bigger than Zealot and those are designed for 16 people.

The only lag/connection issues I've had have been occasional waits while we stare at a black screen but if anything those are less frequent than in previous Halo games.

FELIPE NO

Nah, we continue to have major matchmaking issues with people. Omangus gets dropped frequently, as does Roflfox, Goodhand, and two of my other friends. Last night I think we spent over 10 minutes actually trying to get everyone into a lobby then a game without dropping.

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

I don't know what it is with you guys getting dropped. A group of 7 friends and myself were playing for 4 hours straight last night and Devo even showed up late after the party was dwindling down to the last three of us. We had a bit of lag here and there but none of us got dropped once or had a server pause.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

No idea either. It happens with my friends in multiple groups across different area/continents, and everyone is always green across the board on the Network Status screen. Looking online there's a TON of people bitching about this, so it doesn't seem to be just us or anything. Sometimes we can have a group of 8 players fine no problem, but other times it's a nightmare.

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Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Omangus gets dropped frequently

Actually last night was the first time I've had issues where I was getting dropped, but I've definitely been in parties with people and there's been regular issues with at least one person. Hopefully don't run into issues like that again as it was really annoying and in the end I just gave up.

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

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Nah, we continue to have major matchmaking issues with people. Omangus gets dropped frequently, as does Roflfox, Goodhand, and two of my other friends. Last night I think we spent over 10 minutes actually trying to get everyone into a lobby then a game without dropping.

I think that might be to do with Harvey's router, it does seem to be him that suffers from lag and dropouts when we're playing as a group. I've had no problems playing with Phong and other Americans and certainly none when playing with other Brits. Like I said, if anything my connection suffers fewer problems with Reach than it ever did with H3 or ODST. The one problem I have noticed though is that sometimes after matches it'll drop someone out of the party which is a bit annoying if you're reviewing the post-match stats and don't notice they've gone until you've already rolled into a new game.

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

Yeah, it's not just Harvey or his router.

The game has been really problematic for a lot of people.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I guess my online experience has been limited to fewer people than most of you and for me to be the one without any connection issues is incredibly rare. I swear my housemate has got some kind of bandwidth limiter on my Xbox when he's uploading websites.

I shall count myself lucky to be thus far free from such issues in Reach.

How ya doing, buddy?

Just a heads up: From now on the Needle Rifle shall be known as the Elite DMR.

I swear to god, Shake's buddies are a riot.

FELIPE NO

finally found a use for armor lock




no homo

Speaking of things that can fuck off, 1 Flag on Boardwalk is pretty hilarious, for those of you who remember this game. Literally the easiest flag cap ever. Guest appearance by Daravon holla

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Tails, I am ranked silver in Arena so far. Look forward to seeing your gold star!

P.S. Where are you? I want to play Arena.

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Originally Posted by DieSeLFueLeD

I like doing Firefight with randoms if I'm grinding out credits though, since often they don't know what the fuck they're doin' and I get a hilariously high score.

My favourite thing about Rocketfight is waiting till there's only one bad guy left and running as close as possible, waiting to get betrayed by a random firing rockets in then booting them so they don't get any credits after the match. I've only had one match of Firefight where lag was an issue and bizarrely I came out top in that. I think Firefight is my favourite game type so far. You've got to love it when your first two shots in a sniper game result in a killamanjaro and first strike medal.

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

Originally Posted by Shake Appeal

Tails, I am ranked silver in Arena so far. Look forward to seeing your gold star!

P.S. Where are you? I want to play Arena.

SUP SILVER BUDDY. ;____;

I would be on now but I had kind of a long day and had to run errands early in the morning, plus I have work tonight so I had to bounce to get some sleep. I'm off tomorrow though, so after I get back from the Dentist (ugh) and taking a short trip to the hospital to see my Grandmother I'll probably be on early afternoonish.

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Also they still get all the credits they've earned except for the Game Complete bonus, and maybe the performance bonus (not sure on that one).

Aside from Shin's douchery, there is supposedly some sort of Matchmaking update coming on Friday. Thank fucking God.

I was speaking idiomatically.

YOU HAVE STARTED DOWN A DARK BUT GLORIOUS PATH RR

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Roflfox, we have been downgraded to Bronze in the Arena. Apparently we suck some balls at Halo.

FELIPE NO

Damn, already? I didn't even play yesterday after getting rated.

Oh well, we'll just have to turn up the heat today. Those two bad days probably got us pretty good.

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

Assassinating folger and then teabagging him made the 360 purchase worth it.

Also, right afterward folger and I got into a firefight and right after my shield went down and I had to reload one of you guys slammed him with a shell from a tank.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I saw the tank, I just keep forgetting about FF and how easy it is to roadkill someone in Halo. I've been an engineer too many times in BF2 and gotten used to tanks just driving through me when I'm on their team.

Just played the zombie mode (safe havens) earlier today for a few rounds. I think it's my favorite mode in the game since it's small scale, quick action, and doesn't take a billion shots to kill someone.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hahaha Shake, that performance yesterday got me back into Silver.

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

Goddamnit. I need to work on my DMR. I swear I was better at this game in the first few days when I was concentrating more on the changes from Halo 3.

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

I'm telling you, it's all about your constant rate of fire. I've been going easy on the trigger lately (spacing my shots a little more to help with the bloom) and even though people are getting way more shots off on me 1-on-1 I'm usually the victor because it only takes me about 5-7 shots on average as opposed to a 6-10 it takes others to finish me.

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I know, I know, it's just hard to remember in the heat of raging battle.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?