The jet pack is more epic

I found the jetpack fairly useless in the campaign for anything but movement. Enemies track you way too easily, especially Skirmisher snipers.

Oh yeah, and Cheese...there's a clip of how to do "If They Came to Hear Me Beg..." on my fileshare.

It's "Feet First Into An Elite".

I know, I already unlocked it.

Goddamn, I wish I'd saved the film.

I tried to do it on matchmaking on invansion on the spire. Jumped off the top and missed.

It made me laugh so ah well.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Elites can kill you with the single mele kick as well. Reach is deffinitly harder then the others which is a good thing, even the Grunts are a bit tougher now. I am having trouble hijacking a banshee though, anyone got any advice? which level and such?

I for one am also very happy that you don't face the Flood in this one. I knew from the story line that The Flood woulden't be in the game but once I played it and realised I didn't have to play through a single narrativly pointless mission filled with alien zombies I was very happy

Seriously! Wasn't the flood originally added because they just ran out of time making the first game? Or did that only cause them to play through all the levels backwards, and they'd planned to include the flood, anyway?

Good riddance, what boring levels those made... and if I wanted to play resident evil or whatever, I'd go play it instead...

Very happy with the game! Not very far on the campaign yet, however.

No I think they where actually apart of the original story it just wasen't a good part even the critics said that while the plot twist of the Halo ring itself was a good point for the game it was slightly ruined by the inclusion of The Flood. And even though Bungie tried to make The Flood be "not zombies" we all know that's exactly what they are.

Back to the Banshee problem, I finally did it (about 6 times) but it won't give me the achievment? has this happened to anyone else?

Managed to get a LE two days ago, and I've played to start of mission five so far in campaign.

Loving the game so far. Going to continue tonight, and I do think I'll be reactivating my Gold to play online. I'll probably want to finish the Campaign first mind.

The biggest surprise for me is you could make noble 6 female, always a bonus.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:No I think they where actually apart of the original story it just wasen't a good part even the critics said that while the plot twist of the Halo ring itself was a good point for the game it was slightly ruined by the inclusion of The Flood. And even though Bungie tried to make The Flood be "not zombies" we all know that's exactly what they are.

Back to the Banshee problem, I finally did it (about 6 times) but it won't give me the achievment? has this happened to anyone else?

Are you playing the game on easy? You cant collect achievements in Reach on easy.

Um, no I'm not playing it on easy. I've already beat it on legendary and I normally play
heroic.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:No Um, no lol. I've already beat it on legendary and I normally play heroic.

I got nothing...

Just had a great time with Kanluwen. Messed around in Forge, kicked arse in Firefight, and discussed my perverse sexual lust.

I'm not sure how you managed to make that sound that creepy, considering you were the one chasing balls all during the Forge

I'm often told my voice alone is creepy and threatening, so it's no big deal.

And you were chasing balls too, remember? In fact, you even tried attacking me with yours!

So I have heard from my brother who has the game that this is basically Halo in name only, most of the weapons are changed and such, how much truth does he speak?

He also says Head Hunter is a blast.

Slarg232 wrote:So I have heard from my brother who has the game that this is basically Halo in name only, most of the weapons are changed and such, how much truth does he speak?

He also says Head Hunter is a blast.

This is a bigger change than CE>2 or 2>3, but it's still good old Halo.

And yes, Headhunter is hilarious.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:So I have heard from my brother who has the game that this is basically Halo in name only, most of the weapons are changed and such, how much truth does he speak?

He also says Head Hunter is a blast.

This is a bigger change than CE>2 or 2>3, but it's still good old Halo.

And yes, Headhunter is hilarious.

Good to know, thanks. Might have to pick it up, but I'll probably wait for a bit, still.

Kanluwen wrote:I'm not sure how you managed to make that sound that creepy, considering you were the one chasing balls all during the Forge

I hope he has not been inside you (r hologram) like I have - I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL TOGETHER! :(

SilverMK2 wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:I'm not sure how you managed to make that sound that creepy, considering you were the one chasing balls all during the Forge

I hope he has not been inside you (r hologram) like I have - I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL TOGETHER! :(

Five times! He was like a wild stallion!

Cheese Elemental wrote:Five times! He was like a wild stallion!

FIVE TIMES?

*gets his anger sucked out*

SilverMK2 wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Five times! He was like a wild stallion!

FIVE TIMES?

*gets his anger sucked out*

That's not all that got sucked out today!

Cheese Elemental wrote:That's not all that got sucked out today!

But I didn't think you had any sense of style to start with

SilverMK2 wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:That's not all that got sucked out today!

But I didn't think you had any sense of style to start with

Dammit!

Completed my first campaign, dang that was good. It made me want to boot up Combat Evolved and play through the trilogy again.

Okay, I think I'm about ready to emerge from my reach-induced internet exile. That was fun. Also, Halsey's Journal? Nerdgasm.

Gamertag is The Dreadnote, mention Dakka in any friend requests...

Christ on a bike, reaching Captain is ridiculous.



It's like that, only the desert is made of bears and is twice as large.

Strangely enough I'm almost to Captain and it was pretty easy thanks to Forge World. I love the option and have made multiple maps already (although I don't have Live to share them). The current map I'm making is a castle, I've only spent about 2k credits and have earned about 8k in return and I'm not even close to done on the map.

How are you getting credits in forge? I don't ever seem to get many...

I finally did it! All that grinding in Gruntpocalypse and Sniper Attack finally paid off!

Ironically, getting to major is pretty easy

how so?

Soladrin wrote:how so?

It takes no where near as many Cr to level to major from captain as it tdid from Warrant Officer to captain. Don't ask me why XD. It took me three days to get to captan from warrant 1, and I'm already a major the next day.

what i take from this is that you have no life

Soladrin wrote:what i take from this is that you have no life

Life? What's that?

SilverMK2 wrote:How are you getting credits in forge? I don't ever seem to get many...

I think it depends on how long you spend working on a map and how much you do on it, when I got the game Forge World was the first thing I played. I spent 5 hours making a map before I even started the Campaign (which it took me longer to make that map then it did to beat the campaign).

Each time I do it though I never really get more then 4k give or take a couple hundred. On the castle I'm doing I did a bit then saved it and exited out, got 4k then went right back in and did some more, saved again exited out n got another 4k. But also each time I did it I made significant additions.

I'll most likely be getting the chance to play Reach this weekend when my friend and i hang out.

The anticipation is killing me.

I'm almost a major, and I finally got the banshee achievment to work

Still about 30k cR to reach Major.

How am I supposed to do this by the time I go to bed? I'm not staying up past 3am for it.

*Fires up the 360 for the first time in a while*

Anyone fancy some Reach?

Has anyone been watching Bungie's Banhammer Spree? It's utterly hilarious.
Behold the delicious tears!

What was the exploit?

By disconnecting in a certain way, you could reset all your challenges. A lot of people were also using bots to farm with the target locator on Sword Base.

I admit i did the Target locater trick on sword base to work up the commendations a bit but i mean using bots and glitching to level up is kind of silly...
no matter how badly i want that EVA helmet..

Oh and leveling up the grades is far harder than leveling the starting levels of anything, Its like 66k CR to go from Warrant officer G3 to Captain but the first level of Captain gets banged out with i think less than half of that.

That bungie website made me giggle.
"I never abused. I want unban this instant bungie."
Hehe, I can imagine the response:

"Oh, very sorry, we apologise for our mistake in our computers spotting a telltale sign that you had cheated, we will now undo the ban, as your insistence of your innocence has swayed us"

Or not...

I attempted that trick and got loads of credits, then did so again yesterday and got virtually none, i wonder if they fixed it....

Yeah leveling up the 1st 2 grades of a rank seems to go quickly, it's that last grade before your next rank that is a pain and takes forever. Especially when they show you what you'll be able to get next (Like Juns ghillie-esk torso) but then you have to work and work to get it. And if you're like me and don't have xbox live it takes even longer to earn

I will tell the truth, I really disliked the other Halo games, but this one was pretty fun.

tiny5th wrote:I attempted that trick and got loads of credits, then did so again yesterday and got virtually none, i wonder if they fixed it....

You get less each time you get the splash damage and walking tank commendations, the first few times i did it i was gettings like 550ish cR every locator drop now i get about 8-10

Hmmm, I'm lost on telling what commendations I'm getting / need to get. It seems like I get a lot more for single player / cooperative? Maybe it's just because I haven't done it hardly at all so there's a lot of single/campaign stuff for me to get . Been mostly doing team swat!

To view your commendations, you have to connect to XBL, then hit Start>Player>Service Record.

If you've got a Bungie.net profile, you can check them there too.

You dont need xbl to check your commendations, but yeah just go to service record and its all there, you get some great exp for getting them.

I think you *do*. I can't access my service record offline.

I really love thursdays. All Firefight challenges. 7000 CR in just challenges (+ another couple of thousands) in about 30 mins.

Weekly challenges need to be worth more points. Seriously, this weeks challenge is a 1000 kills for 4000 CR, and I managed to get more than double that by playing 3 games of Firefight. And does wargear have to be that expensive, really? xD

Hit Lt. Colonel Grade 3 recently. Rocking a robotic arm and HUEG PAULDRONS; feels pretty good, man.

Me has been waiting for the new ranks for some time now, damn bungie making an elaborate plan to make us play more! For any Lt. Colonel Grade 3's here that don't already kow, any cR you earn now will go towards your new ranks when they are released, so you might shoot up in level on rank release day.
If anyone wants the list of all ranks you can find it here: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Rank_(Halo:_Reach)
If you want to know what armor can be unlocked at these new ranks, or any for that matter (scroll down past H3 stuff), you can find them here: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Armor_Permutations
And last but not least there is a bar on Bungie.net homepage telling us how far we are to unlocking new ranks past Lt. Colonel Grade 3 (When the halo reach community with xbox live hit the total of 117 million completed daily or weekly challenges.).


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Snap I almost forgot, my friend was issued a 2 week ban and his ranks, credits and armor were reset from him continuosly doing the ethernet cable glitch, so I don't reccomend that to anyone. He'd just hit Lt. Colonel aswell and was the first of my 'usual party'. He was bragging about Kat's arm, when he turned it on the next day, recruit!

*sits as warrant officer or something still*

Not been on in a while though. First time back on today though

If anyone has figured out how to do all the different gametypes on forge and wants to help me set them up for a map (ie talk me through it), send me a message or something

Right now I'm making a map that is an inclosed octagon shaped tower with ledges and cannons and floating platforms so the whole map is verticle. It is very dependant on jet packs and everyone spawns on differant levels with the differant weapons on differant platforms some have shields, gun turrets, cover etc..

if your needing playtesters, give me a shout, GT= username

I would but can't, don't have Live. it's mainly for me and my friends

Think of it more along the lines of inspiring you to create your own versions

Did my message get lost or something?

Getting our hoes up

Is halo Reach worth it?
Or should I just buy more marines for my other chapters that I need to start on?

Asherian Command wrote:Is halo Reach worth it?
Or should I just buy more marines for my other chapters that I need to start on?

Definitely get Reach, you may be able to play with your marines once or twice a week, but you can always go on reach if you have spare time, and if your a marine player you would certainly love the weapons and armor that spartans use.

HALO: REACH IS THE gak!!!!!!!!! BEST GAME EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!!!!

Cheese Elemental wrote:Hit Lt. Colonel Grade 3 recently. Rocking a robotic arm and HUEG PAULDRONS; feels pretty good, man.

How did you get the Robotic arm!?!? I so want a robotic arm!!!!!!!!!!

I want the haunted Helmet SOOO BAD

Have fun getting to max rank. The time it would take (based on getting the maximum credits allowed, every day) was estimated at about one and a half years.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Hit Lt. Colonel Grade 3 recently. Rocking a robotic arm and HUEG PAULDRONS; feels pretty good, man.

How did you get the Robotic arm!?!? I so want a robotic arm!!!!!!!!!!

Just get to a Lt. Colonel, you can see it and buy it for 75k but you have to buy a prerequisit torso first. Personally I don't think it looks good on male spartans. It looks to small, on females it's ok.

I just finished the game..... and hated the ending.....

Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

The plot had lots of holes in the game. Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach. (Even though I think Halo 4 will be Onyx, ruining the story plot even more but eh, it would still be cool.) But yeah, I loved the ending. I almost cried.

Mewiththeface wrote:Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach.

"Way after Reach" is a period of about six months, after which the war ends. I think you have your timeline backwards. S-3 began over 20 years before the fall of Reach.

Mewiththeface wrote:

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

The plot had lots of holes in the game. Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach. (Even though I think Halo 4 will be Onyx, ruining the story plot even more but eh, it would still be cool.) But yeah, I loved the ending. I almost cried.

remeber that 'Fall of Reach' was written from a 2's perspective, they didn't know about 3s

also

"On December 27, 2531, the first group of Spartan-IIIs, known as Alpha Company, were sent to Onyx to be trained at Camp Currahee."

get your times in order, although Ghosts of Onyx was a very jumpy book

Sorry to many dates to keep track of.

So, still no hints at a Windows release for Halo Reach?

Heh, I imagine that by the time it actually gets released it'll be long out of date...

There hasn't even been talk of a windows version of Halo 3 yet, and that came out 3 years ago. I'd save up for a 360, or find a friend with one.

Only if I can use my mouse+keyboard. I hate the 360 controller.

Are you more of a playstation girl or do you just not like gamepads?

I don't particularly like gamepads. I'm a PC gamer at heart, having played PC games from Apple 2 all the way to Windows 7.

Oh, I wish I liked PC games more but they are hellova hassle. Software and hardware always will need to be upgraded which can be time consuming and costly. The thing with consoles is the one update you have to do it the occasional system update. So I spent 40 bucks on dawn of war II only to realize I couldn't play it on any computer and a new graphics card would be about 100 bucks+. Also, the xbox does have a usb port which you can plug in any usb keyboard and type with it. However, I believe you meant in game so sorry.

I spent 1000 USD on my computer (not including my monitor) three years ago, and I expect it to be useful for another two years at the current rate of technological advancement in gaming (barring, perhaps, an upgrade to Windows 7 so I can play new games that require it) before having to do any hardware upgrades.

AND my computer has use outside of gaming, as well.

I custom-built mine, and it's built to last whiel not being expensive. Meanwhile my friend with the 360 has had to send her 360 in numerous times.

To be honest I'm worried about the next Halo game since Bungie won't be at the helm

I hope there won't be a next Halo game.

Do we really need Halo to become another Medal of Duty / Call of Honor?

Well, there is certainly more scope in the Halo universe for new games, settings, characters and technology.

I would be interested to see what future games bring to the series, especially with a new company at the helm.

It just won't be the same, they may be able to pull it off but personally I'm sceptical.


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And at the same time I doubt the Halo franchise would become another Call of Duty/ Medal of Honor. Halo will always have its own pedistal slightly above and off to the side from other shooting games.

I wouldn't know, I haven't been able to play it because they're too douchey to release it on PC before it comes so horribly outdated that it not only feels like I'm playing a decade old game, I actually am.

Melissia wrote:I wouldn't know, I haven't been able to play it because they're too douchey to release it on PC before it comes so horribly outdated that it not only feels like I'm playing a decade old game, I actually am.

Well, you could always ask Santa (or Satan) for a console for Christmas

HEh. I'm very, VERY tempted to sell my PS3 and games to get a 360 at this point. There's very few PS3 games that I want that don't have a PC port that's 100x better.

I find that gamerscore on the 360 keeps you hooked to the system. But then I am a mug

My wife has a PS3 and I have to agree that there are few games on it which I want which are not on PC/360.

The only game I would have gotten a PS3 to play was MGS4. I just watched all the cutscenes on youtube instead.

The Dreadnote wrote:The only game I would have gotten a PS3 to play was MGS4. I just watched all the cutscenes on youtube instead.

You had 8 years free to do so?

I watched my wife play it and there seemed to be about 5 minutes of playing, then an hour of cut scenes (rinse and repeat).

I think it was about four solid hours of cutscenes.

Honestly even though I'm a huge fan of X-box and the games that come out for it I HATE how bad it is when it comes to breaking down. I'm on my 4th console because there has either been something wrong with the fan or with the tray gears or the disk scanner. I love it, but hate it at the same time.


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As we speak I'm playing Firefight with some friends

Hehe

Quite a fun video of myself killing many zombies

Earlier in the thread I asked if there was a rank cap for players who don't play X-Box live. I can now say that there isn't because I have just reached Commander Grade 1.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Earlier in the thread I asked if there was a rank cap for players who don't play X-Box live. I can now say that there isn't because I have just reached Commander Grade 1.

The rank cap was removed awhile ago (By that, I mean last week I think). Do you never hook your X-Box? If your xbox is never hooked up to Live, I gotta say, that's a rather big programming bug there Bungie

I know that it was removed. But no I've never done X-box live, and I woulden't put it past the. Most games these days aren't about the game itself it's about the multiplayer so there is alot that can't be done unless you play Live.

My advice is not to take Reach online if you want to keep earning credits offline. There are limits that come into play once you go online that you can't remove. For example, there are only so many credits you can take online; anything over that limit is lost. And there is also a limit to how many credits you can earn offline before going back online. To get around this, I think you would have to make a new account to go online with.

You could also just find a way to spend all your credits before going online. That's what I did. There's plenty of stuff to burn credits on.

I know that it was removed. But no I've never done X-box live, and I woulden't put it past the.

Well ain't that the derndest thing.

What? is it that hard to believe that someone has an X-Box and dosen't do Live? I don't really plan to either

Now just because I don't have Live dosen't mean I haven't played Live. I just have never wanted to do it myself.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:What? is it that hard to believe that someone has an X-Box and dosen't do Live? I don't really plan to either

No no no. I just think that's a rather obvious bug (EDIT: then again maybe it's not a bug). You'd think they'd catch something like that. I never intended to question you. I only use and buy live when I need it myself. I mean, paying all year round for something I probably use maybe two or three months out of the year? I'm not made of money

Then I don't follow? what bug?

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Then I don't follow? what bug?

That the rank was supposed to be locked but apparently isn't. Weird.

I really don't see why it would be locked if you'd never gone online. They would just be consigning every player without an internet connection to the bottom ranks.

I figured as much. I just assumed it would be locked in the initial game. Appears that they lock it only after you log onto Live for the first time... Which would explain other things...

See when I had the question it got me to wondering if you could still buy the items that come with the credit amount you just didn't earn the actual rank.

Trying to Solo Legendary atm, only got to the second level so far, but i am going to fight my way there even if it takes ages.

Can't get over how much I'm loving this game, taken a few weeks off from it, and straight back in.

Is it bad if you constantly call UNBC (University of Northren British Columbia) the UNSC?

I'd say that's a clear indication that you can no longer separate reality from fiction. You should be locked away immediately for your own safety.

dude,it's a joke.

Ya know I played the game on Normal before I played on Legendary and when I played I had almost every skull on. And then when I got to Legendary without skulls it was easier then I thought it would be.

Oh by the way does anyone know a way where you can play straight through campaign without having to select each mission one right after the other?

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Ya know I played the game on Normal before I played on Legendary and when I played I had almost every skull on. And then when I got to Legendary without skulls it was easier then I thought it would be.

Oh by the way does anyone know a way where you can play straight through campaign without having to select each mission one right after the other?

Surely if you just select "campaign" at the start?

I played through the first few missions in coop when I first got it without having to go in and out... but when I came to play it on my own afterwards, I had to keep choosing the missions as well, which was quite annoying. I seem to recall I went "main menu" then "campaign" when I played through myself though...

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:dude,it's a joke.

So was my response, genius.


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Also, if you have scoring turned on, it will only play single missions. I'm pretty sure that without scoring it should just continue to the next mission.

The Dreadnote wrote:

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:dude,it's a joke.

So was my response, genius.


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Also, if you have scoring turned on, it will only play single missions. I'm pretty sure that without scoring it should just continue to the next mission.

Well,my Appoligize. It's hard to tell Sarcasm on the 'net.

I found this realy funnah easter egg on the "New Alexandria" lvl.
You now the last jammer,the one that when you activate it the buggers come out? Go on to the balcony and turn right. You'll find a UNSC trooper debating wether to shoot himself or not. LOL.
Do this BEFORE you destroy the jammer. It's real awesome.
lololololololololololololol

I prefer ODST's crazed marine. Now that I think about it, I think that's mainly because he's talking to Chips Dubbo. "Careful...I think you strained a metaphor."

I found him, got tired of listening to him rave so I answered the question for him and shot him in the head

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:I found him, got tired of listening to him rave so I answered the question for him and shot him in the head

LOL. I video taped in the entire thing in theater.

Anyone else found the glitch to get outside of winter contingency yet? You can practically fly to the halo ring. What about the one where you fly a falcon or a pelican? The grunt rave? If anyone wants to see any of the above I'm welcome to show. GT: PSYCH0PATH1CAL

I've found the Brute DJ/Grunt rave with both songs, the panicked marine, the radio broadcasting the cut off marine and the weaponless spartan glitch.

I know you can get a banshee in Winter Contingency but I didn't know anything about piloting a Pelican?

RoosterTeeth have a video of how to do it.
I think it's in their achievement hunter section.

I just got the " Wake Up,Butter Cup. " achievment. I dont see why it's worth 25 microsoft points, It's real easy. But I aint complaning.

I didn't know you could get a banshee in winter con tingency. But yes you can infact drive a falcon on it, and drive it out of the map.

The other glitch is seperate, you can get a pelican or a phantom on new alexandria, it's pretty simple once you know how, just gotta hit a switch and drive throught this circular sort of building.

Yeah you just have to be quick, grab a plasma pistol and shoot a banshee before the falcon destroys it.

Fair doos might have to try that.

This will sound irrelavant at first but ay well. I dislike Harry Potter, but I was inspired by there is a lot of quidditch maps out there. The thing is, the people who make them can build the arenas well, they just suck at making bomb spawns and plant areas. So yeh I stole an arena and made my own interior, and it works great. If you've no clue what I'm talking about, basically there is an arena with 2 big sticks and hoops, 1 on either side (I know theres meant to be 3 but I find gameplay works better with 1, atleast for 2v2 games anyways.), and the players have unliited jetpacks and low gravity. They have to grab the bomb and fly it through the enemy hoop to score a point. Players are armed with concussion rifles and gravity hammers and the bomb has a 3 second drop-reset period.
Anyways I'm looking for testers if anyones interested to maybe get a large 3v3, 4v4 game going?

Ah good old queer ditch (I'm aware it sounds bad but it's the original name of the "sport" as it was invented at queer ditch marsh), I constantly swear that one of the best sports games for the xbox was Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup. I always played as America or Austrailia.

Sorry back to Reach. I wish I could share my maps via Live as I've got some maps made and maps I'm going to make that I think are pretty cool. I'm currently making a night map lit by orange lights (it works with the combined special effects making it night) in the colliseum that's a POW camp with a litteral jail that the occupant litterally can't get out of untill someone friendly to them sets them free (via shooting a fusion coil atop which rests a jet pack that falls through a one way shield allowing the prisoner to fly up and through the same said shield.

I've made a map completly centered around the Lagoon complete with a river boat, dock with ghosts and a revenant, a lighthouse and bouies. I've also made the Temple of Doom which is a boobie trapped maze. As soon as the level starts the players have to run as they're being chased by a kill ball then they go on to a mine field, a color coded step stone with mines hidden in certain stones, a quicksand section, kill zone jumping level, teleporter avoidance where if you step in one you are teleported to the middle of the air where you fall to a glorious death and a kill zone cannon guess section where if you choose the wrong one you land in a kill zone. The "idol" is a golf ball

I'm also making decorative maps of the Statue of Liberty, the Deathstar and in relation to 40k I'm going to be making a giant statue of the Emperor Enthroned.

I'm going to make an old wild west town with the old time special effect complete with a paddock full of Mongoose, magnums at either end of the main street for a high noon shoot out, a warthog as a "coach", a jail, blacksmith/barn, docs place, general store, Hotel/Saloon and a church. Each building will have specific weapons and other equiptment like the general store having armor abilities, docs will have healths, church will have power ups etc.

wow,that forgeworld stuff sounds quite sweet,Warboss Imbad Ironskull.

Thank you. I've also recently decided to make a giant playable pyramid with all sorts of booby traps and other goodies.

Oh has anyone else figured out how to make button activated booby traps? It's possible (and very fun) to make a hidden landmine that won't explode untill a button is pushed in a differant location which then arms it turning a safe area into a tricky piece of death. Want to lure someone into a trap? well lure them through a door way that is safe for the moment, push the button then when they run through the door they're dead here is a hint. It includes landmines, shield doors and merged objects

Could I ask a question? What happened to Jun? We dont see his death,And it says Jack sh@t about it. So,did he survive,and,in the conspiracy department,could HE be Master Chief?

Jun is the only surviving member of the squad and I don't thing anything has been released on what happens to him later. And no he is not Master Chief because Master Chiefs location is already established during the events of the game. Plus why would they be so focused on never showing his face and then turn around and change his voice, show his face and change his armor/personality:

In First Strike (Hinted?) Halsey tells of her Spartan escort that was with her on her way to CASTLE base, who dies... Though I'm not sure if this is canon or not, true, or not...

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:...And no he is not Master Chief because Master Chiefs location is already established during the events of the game. Plus why would they be so focused on never showing his face and then turn around and change his voice, show his face and change his armor/personality:

True,good point,srry. But still,why does he survive while the rest of Noble is gettin' there @ss kicked? Does He cower away and flee from the planet?

No he does what he is commanded to and escorts DR. Halsey. Like I said though I don't think anything official has been released on what happens to him but in a later book Halsey is found on Reach in the ONI facility and she's alone so he either got seperated from her or was killed. And I think you'd be hard pressed to find any Spartan that would just cower away and flee.

Well I've not read enough of the cannon to know, but according to the Halo Wiki, Jun, Dr Halsey and some other spartans end up trapped in a Dyson Sphere, and thats the last time they are noted in any type of fluff.

Of course I've no idea how sound Halo Wiki is, just raising it.

Anyone any good at making invasion maps?

I've got phase 2 & 3 objectives to work on a map, but am struggling to get phase 1 objective to work.

Phase 1 is supposed to be planting a bomb to shut down some force fields, but for some reason it wants me to capture the area, rather than plant a bomb.

For anyone who is interested, the map can be found here (titled BLAM! as for some reason Tempest Fugit is filtered).

Phase 1 and 2 of the map are pretty much done in terms of building work, phase 3 still needs building.

C&C welcome, but I would really like someone to help me set up the bomb




As an aside, this tutorial has been very helpful in building this map.

Of course "Fugit" is filtered hahahaha.

Sound it out real fast, use a stereotypical New York accent. Whaddyaget?

In the custom game options make sure the first objective is set to a bomb plant, it should work.

That works, thanks


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Ok, finished off the map, I can now reveal: Raging Tempest.

If anyone is interested in playing it, please let me know your feedback

Srry for the lack of knowledge,but Im just getting in to the Halo genre,so I need to read some books an' look stuff up.

I don't blame you, I myself have only ever read First Strike and the Cole Protocol, however, I've heard that Ghosts of Onyx is supposed to be really good... ^Tough-as-Nails Ork boy I see

Yes, Indeed I am one Tough-son-of-a-Squig Ork Boy .


" I like lotz of noizy dakka "
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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Well I've not read enough of the cannon to know, but according to the Halo Wiki, Jun, Dr Halsey and some other spartans end up trapped in a Dyson Sphere, and thats the last time they are noted in any type of fluff.

Of course I've no idea how sound Halo Wiki is, just raising it.

I'm not sure what a Dyson sphere is but that dosen't sound very accurate. There is a book that came out before Reach (can't remember the name) that takes place after Halo: combat Evolved where John and Cortana end up returning to Reach and discover that the Covenant havent completly glassed the planet because they're looking for something. John and Cortana then find survivors including the rest of his squad which he sent planetside and Dr. Halsey in a ONI facility.

They find some artifact that bends time and space and the Covenant want it so bad they kill 2 of their own Hunters (plus a number of grunts and jackals standing near by) who fired on the group while they had the item. After escaping they take over a Covenant Cruiser and are trying to get back to Earth but are damaged and all this other stuff. Well anyway Dr. Halsey and a female spartan take a ship stolen from some rebel human faction and dissapear. As far as I know that is the last time they're heard of.

A Dyson Sphere is an artifact which is believed to be pretty much the peak of technological development.

It is a sphere which completely surrounds a star, collecting all the suns energy. Other forms have been postulated where people actually live on the inner surface of the sphere as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

Jun didn't make it to the dyson sphere, he was never mentioned in GoO (unless they did a revised version)

There's a very long gap between Ghosts of Onyx and the Fall of Reach.

Hell, there's a long gap between Reach and the fall of Reach.

I just became Lt. Colonel last night and got the " Make It Rain " achievment. Rockin' the Collar/Breacher chest,saving up for the mechanical arm Collar/Breacher chest.

Oh! I also have all the voices for noble team except for Carter

What religion do they belive in the halo universe?
Also my friend said that if you hold out for long enough in the lone wolf mission a pellican crashes off the map, when you go to it you can see juns body??? anyone know if this is true???

Humanity? Ya, they are likely still the same way they are now, with minor religions likely being phased-out.

I think humanity's religion is the same as now,you know,different religions.

And I would go and see if Jun's body is in the Pellicon thing on lone wolf,but I have never survived for more than a minute.

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:What religion do they belive in the halo universe?
Also my friend said that if you hold out for long enough in the lone wolf mission a pellican crashes off the map, when you go to it you can see juns body??? anyone know if this is true???

This is not true. I'm pretty sure someone other than your friend would know about it if it was.

As for religion, I'm pretty sure all the main ones still exist. The covenant also have their religion - they believe they can attain godhood via the halo array as the forerunners did.

Juns body thing is bull, survived 14:30 and nothing...

scarskull5 wrote:Juns body thing is bull, survived 14:30 and nothing...

Wow,better than me.........

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:

scarskull5 wrote:Juns body thing is bull, survived 14:30 and nothing...

Wow,better than me.........

I did do it with 2 other people on easy like. xD

scarskull5 wrote:

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:

scarskull5 wrote:Juns body thing is bull, survived 14:30 and nothing...

Wow,better than me.........

I did do it with 2 other people on easy like. xD

Oh...that explains it lol

What's your guys' fav level(s)?

Mine is either the one were your piloting the Saber and your on the Covinent ship or Pillar of Autum.

I'm guessing this means this topic is dead?

Got bored of this game in about 1 week :S

Soladrin wrote:Got bored of this game in about 1 week :S

Even with Live?

Yep, took me 1 day to complete the game, and then went on live, after a week it was just meh, more of the same.

Campaign was far to easy(IMO) btw.

Soladrin wrote:Yep, took me 1 day to complete the game, and then went on live, after a week it was just meh, more of the same.

Campaign was far to easy(IMO) btw.

On Legendary then?

Yep. Halo 1 was harder :\ I play all games on max diff from the get go.

Even Legendary was easy, to me at least. I still like the game though, I use Forge World alot.

Almost all modern games are easy, at their worst you need a few tries to get a hang of something new and then you just steam on through.

Defiant Map Pack has been anounced (unoficially) by the french site Halo Destiny. The links below are to a swedish site though.


Condemned:
Apparently takes place on a condemned human ship.

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/62/halo_236226.jpg

Unearthed:
Not sure what's happening here, but it looks like some mining operation.

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/62/halo_236229.jpg

Highland/High Ground/Training Reserve:
Looks like a human base. In the background, the glassing of Reach has begun. Not sure on the name though. The french name (damn their localized versions) for the map is Haute-Terre, but I've seen the map being called Training Reserve as well. :/

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/62/halo_236232.jpg
http://www.gamereactor.se/media/62/halo_236230.jpg
http://www.gamereactor.se/media/62/halo_236231.jpg

Wasn't this announced a while ago?

Bored with the game after 2 weeks anyway.

Then why post on a thread dedicated to it?

Cause I'm not bored with Halo's setting.

Soladrin wrote:Wasn't this announced a while ago?

I believe this is actually quite new. Bungie are banning people from their forums who are posting those pictures. It was no mystery that more maps were to be expected, and perhaps the name Defiant has been mentioned by Bungie or someone else, but these are some of the first pictures of the new maps AFAIK.

BTW, are you sure you're not thinking of Noble Map Pack?

Oh yeah, thats it. Stopped following the releases after I completed it. Bungie flipped off Microsoft anyway so I expect only misery to come to the franchise now.

Defiant Map Pack debut trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_xV0UrJ8M

March release, 800 MSP and some extra achievements.

Any1 still playing this?

I am! Almost every day!
I finally got the Mark V helmet!
My level is Commander Grade 2!





Yes I am aware that I have no life.

Lol, I hardly still play reach as Im still a Warrant Officer Grade 3.
I also got it the day it came out

I'm loving the new unlimited firefight mode. Seriously pimped my rank in quite a short time (as well as being very fun).

Almost a major now.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:I am! Almost every day!
I finally got the Mark V helmet!
My level is Commander Grade 2!





Yes I am aware that I have no life.

You think you have no life, I play WoW now so I haven't been on recently, but I hear one of my mates is now a legend...

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:I am! Almost every day!
I finally got the Mark V helmet!
My level is Commander Grade 2!





Yes I am aware that I have no life.

LOL, I find your statement quite offensive! I'm Colonel Grade 2, and I have a life. But I do get matched up with a lot of guys who are the crescent moon rank (Mythic?) and have Onyx'd practically every commendation available. They, on the other hand, can't have much of a life.

SilverMK2 wrote:I'm loving the new unlimited firefight mode. Seriously pimped my rank in quite a short time (as well as being very fun).

Almost a major now.

I didn't get why they didn't put unlimeted firefight online before. I mean it was the only multiplayer of ODST and was good.

LOL, I find your statement quite offensive! I'm Colonel Grade 2, and I have a life. But I do get matched up with a lot of guys who are the crescent moon rank (Mythic?) and have Onyx'd practically every commendation available. They, on the other hand, can't have much of a life.

My apologize. and holy crap, they fail. at life.

I think I may go play Reach now... See ya guys later.

Mmm i recently re-arrived at reach and am having a ton of fun!

It sucks that you can't get that many credits offline. Just like 60 for finnishing.

Alas, that is the pain of having Reach on Xbox LIVE.
That's why Im trying to level up and buy stuff as much as I can before I go on LIVE (Because I don't have xbox live yet).