I hate the DMR.

9/20/2010 10:47:59 PM

Quote :

"SWAT is no shields, so 1 headshot = instant death. I'm finding it much more difficult than H2 or 3 to get multikills beyond doubles. I must just still suck at this game."

So far I've only managed 1 overkill and a couple of triples. The timing between kills seems tighter in this game.

The 1 overkill was an active camo assassination spree.

9/21/2010 1:10:56 AM

the timing for multi-kills seems to have gone from 4 seconds between kills to like 2 seconds or less. If you fire one rocket and kill someone, by the time you've fired the next rocket you're almost too late for a double kill

9/21/2010 1:46:22 PM

The best double kills are when you get the YOINK metal for killing someone about to be assassinated and then kill the would be assassinator right after

9/21/2010 1:53:00 PM

i'm starting to like the DMR

9/21/2010 1:54:16 PM

My game is arriving tomorrow.... play with mildew23 while you can

Once Black Ops comes out I will be unReachable (GET IT?!?!?!!??!!?!?!)

9/21/2010 2:02:10 PM

I love the DMR.

It's all about the headshots for me. I usually have the most headshots in the game and the least grenade or melee (or body) kills. SWAT is one of my favorite gametypes (just not on Hemorrhage).

Spawning with the pistol is great, because I have a good headshot weapon to use before I can trade out the AR for a DMR.

The BR was always great in H2 and H3, but I think the DMR is more satisfying to use.

9/21/2010 2:09:02 PM

god Hemorrhage is so horrible and not fun to play.

9/21/2010 3:01:14 PM

I love Hemorrage...well depending on the game-type at least.

I wish you could choose whatever loadout you want in the Sniper gametype...

9/21/2010 3:06:59 PM

Hemorrhage needs to have the Plasma Launcher in the middle replaced with either the Rocket Launcher or the Spartan Laser, right now the Scorpion dominates too much. An extra plasma pistol or two on the map would help as well.

I still love the map, it's always been the epitome of Big Team Battle for me, tons of vehicles on an open field.

SWAT shouldn't be played on Hemorrhage. And I'll be glad when SWAT moves to its own playlist in a week or two.

9/21/2010 3:18:44 PM

I like the plasma launcher...fun little addition to the game. I giggle every time a I stick someone with a homing plasma grenade. I havent taken out anything larger than a warthog with the the PL...does it take more than the full charge (4 grenades) to take down a scorpion?

9/21/2010 3:54:11 PM

Quote :

"the timing for multi-kills seems to have gone from 4 seconds between kills to like 2 seconds or less."

It's still 4 seconds in multiplayer (2 seconds in Campaign and Firefight). I think previous games may have given a little wiggle room to that 4 seconds, kind of a host-granted grace period. Reach's tighter netcode may have reduced that wiggle room.

9/21/2010 4:47:02 PM

Not a fan of this matchmaking. If I wanted to play Snipers or Swat there should be a seperate playlist. I want to play regular slayer, thats why I clicked SLAYER.

9/21/2010 7:27:58 PM

^i'm guessing they'll start having separate playlists like Halo 3 soon?

9/21/2010 8:51:33 PM

^I think you're probably right. The voting system is kind of fun, but there should be concessions made to those that just want to play certain gametypes constantly (big team battle is the worst with objective ans slayer games all tossed together). We should be able to choose a little more discerningly what games we want to play.

Case in point I was trying to finish off the assist challenge from yesterday and had managed to get to 12 assists...then the last two hours I played no matter how many times I switched lobbies all anyone voted on was fucking SWAT and the occasional Snipers. Impossible to get any kind of assist with those game types.

So in MW2 we "mount up" do you think for Reach we should "Reach Out"?

9/22/2010 8:33:09 AM

Yes, sometime next week (or the week after at the latest) SWAT will be made into its own playlist.

They are also going to "tidy up" the Team Slayer playlist.

As well as make some more balance changes and such (adding 2 more Forge World maps).

9/22/2010 9:17:17 AM

SWAT and Snipers is annoying. That's all anyone wants to play. All I want to do is play some regular slayer. Give me my camo you god damn matchmaking.

9/22/2010 10:56:35 AM

I was just about to come in here and rant about the DMR and SWAT. Not really sure why they thought this would go well in Slayer especially after the massive success of Shotty Snipers in 3.



[Edited on September 22, 2010 at 7:35 PM. Reason : ...]

9/22/2010 7:23:39 PM

sirleche, mildew23, herpgonasflaids, and Wallz1441 don't want to play with me

i suck...

9/23/2010 1:02:13 AM

NCSU resnet is lagging my brains out. Shit never works with Halo. Says "Warning" for upload when speedtest results have been anywhere from 30-50 mbps up

9/23/2010 1:04:44 AM

^^ haha i was playing doubles arena with my RL friend. it's hard to balance all my Halo Reach friends. I have 5-10 on at all times. MW2 was much easier to choose who to play with.

9/23/2010 1:36:07 AM

Fun times last night in BTBs with Sik and Joooo and then afterwards with Herp.

I'm scrounging together my points because aparently if you buy all the base versions of all the helmets you unlock a variant of one of them that replaces your visor with a skull...its good to have goals!

9/23/2010 8:23:29 AM

^source? Sounds cool just want to verify before I blow all my points!

9/23/2010 4:46:26 PM

Quote :

"sirleche, mildew23, herpgonasflaids, and Wallz1441 don't want to play with me i suck..."

HAHA nah shadow just trying to get you to jump ship completely.

9/23/2010 4:57:39 PM

So if I buy on thing with my points... what should it be???


I am not really into the whole crazy armor thing especially if they do not provide any actual gameplay changes


I was thinking 150k to be able to use Master Chief's voice... I dunno - What is actually useful in multiplayer?

9/23/2010 5:07:48 PM

Nothing is supposed to be useful in multiplayer, its just ingame accolades to show off how much you play. For myself, I would save up a ton and buy the death effects. That or a voice...probably the girl voice just to fuck with people

9/23/2010 5:16:56 PM

I'll be on for the next hour or so if anyone wants to play with someone who sucks cock

9/23/2010 5:27:16 PM

^^ Do the death effects work in Multiplayer/Slayer matches or just Firefight

9/23/2010 5:31:10 PM

I don't own the game, I just played it once or twice. I thought they were all multiplayer matches. The description should say regardless

9/23/2010 6:16:45 PM

I saw a fucking Lt Col yesterday while I was playing....I had a nice quiet rainy Sunday playing this game and I only went from just getting WO:3 to 1/2 way to captain in around 7 hours....people a fucking ridiculous!

9/27/2010 9:10:30 AM

can someone tell me when the SWAT/Sniper games are in their own lists? i can't handle getting killed by people in one shot i'll revisit this game once the lists are separated. team slayer is challenging enough for now in this game...

9/27/2010 9:39:17 AM

^^ after warrant officers, the ranking up is much faster, only 23 between captain grades and 25 between major grades. he was probably a credit booster anyway

9/27/2010 10:48:13 AM

^^I think I read they're putting out a playlist patch on 10/7 Shadow...probably moving SWAT then. Until that play BTB with me!

^Thats good to know...its depressing to see how little a 1000+ point game moves my XP bar

9/27/2010 11:09:32 AM

yeah warrant officer 3 is by the far the longest taking 66,000 to level.

9/27/2010 11:12:58 AM

^^Everytime I play BTB, everyone votes for Snipers. There's only been one non sniper btb that I've played. It was super fun but not worth wading through all the sniper bullshit.

9/27/2010 11:41:00 AM

I also really hope that separate playlists will be coming soon. Slayer bores me to tears.

9/27/2010 3:07:44 PM

The exact date is unknown, but it should be within 4-10 days. I'm guessing next Monday. They're already planning on having a second playlist update in October, so I imagine they'll push this one as early as possible.

- SWAT and Snipers will be taken out of the Team Slayer playlist and put in a new one.

- The Scorpion on Hemorrhage will be replaced by a Wraith.

- The Drop Shield will be replaced with Evade in most of the objective gametypes.

- A soft-kill volume (return to battlefield) will be placed in the space section of Zealot in Arena games.

There are other changes, but these are the important ones (that I can remember, at least).

9/27/2010 3:34:15 PM

I'm glad they will quarantine Swat... it seems much worse in Reach with bloom and random nonsense.

Not to mention with the autoaim and oversized hitboxes for headshots its really easy to get a kill... so many tradeoff kills.

9/27/2010 3:50:51 PM

Cannot fucking wait for this update. SWAT is by far the worst game mode in the game. It completely defeats the purpose of playing Halo. And I never expected a spawn system this bad in a Halo game.

9/28/2010 1:25:25 AM

^The key, I've noticed, to the spawn system is to use the D-pad to "follow" another teammate during the respwn countdown, and then you'll usually respawn near them

9/28/2010 8:31:17 AM

My gamertag is rapidgazelle

Im working through the campaign now. Anyone want to coop through it?

9/28/2010 11:05:32 AM

The SWAT playlist will be up on October 7th, judging by the bungie.net playlist page.

9/28/2010 11:09:36 AM

I need to take care of the Legendary mission for the weekly. Anyone want to take down one this afternoon?

9/28/2010 11:20:36 AM

According to bungie.net,

*
RUMBLE PIT
14,605 Players
*
TEAM SLAYER
36,646 Players
*
TEAM SWAT
Available 10.07.2010
*
TEAM OBJECTIVE
2,796 Players
*
MULTI TEAM
4,156 Players
*
BIG TEAM BATTLE
11,966 Players
*
INVASION
8,581 Players
*
FIREFIGHT
10,380 Players
*
SCORE ATTACK
9,471 Players
*
CO-OP CAMPAIGN
Available 10.15.2010
*
TEAM ARENA
5,535 Players
*
DOUBLES ARENA
3,670 Players

9/28/2010 11:58:28 AM

yyeah I saw that the other day but was too lazy to post it. Wish there was a team snipers playlist. I also miss action sack. Many good times in those games

9/28/2010 3:17:26 PM

weird glitch in an invasion game today. win trigger never triggered to go to the next round. ended up having to wait till the other team quit.

9/28/2010 4:11:09 PM

alright, so, i know that most people probably don't care what my thoughts are on this game, but i am going to post them anyways to see if my opinions change the more i play.

i have been a long time halo fan. i really enjoyed playing 1, 2, and 3 (campaign and multiplayer). i really didn't like odst, so i switched over to mw2. when reach came out, i picked back up on halo. i have given reach several nights of playing, and i am going to place reach in the same category as odst. the campaign is really weak, and the multiplayer is the worst. i feel like i am having to force myself to play this game, and haven't really enjoyed it, at all.

i'm not done trying, and i hope the halo love comes back like a majority of you guys have...but, right now, i'm not feeling it.

9/30/2010 12:00:39 AM

I must be a fucking awesome Warrant Officer, because I keep getting matched against Captains and Majors.

9/30/2010 12:42:44 AM

Warrant Officer 3 to captain is like the biggest "Fuck You" I've seen in leveling in a while...

9/30/2010 9:32:21 AM

Quote :

"i have been a long time halo fan. i really enjoyed playing 1, 2, and 3 (campaign and multiplayer). i really didn't like odst, so i switched over to mw2. when reach came out, i picked back up on halo. i have given reach several nights of playing, and i am going to place reach in the same category as odst. the campaign is really weak, and the multiplayer is the worst. i feel like i am having to force myself to play this game, and haven't really enjoyed it, at all. "

Im feeling the exact same way. I was a huge Halo fan when 1,2, and 3 came out and played the MP a ton but Im just not feeling this one very much. I dont know if Ive been spoiled by MW2 or if Halo gameplay is not the same but I havent wanted to play this game much after finishing the campaign (finished Legendary solo the other day). My favorite MP game is Invasion because you dont get SWAT.

9/30/2010 10:15:24 AM