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I've not been too impressed with AL - I keep on going to use it, getting half way through the wind up phase and then dying, or the AL not engaging (even when I have full power reserve) and then drying, etc.

And I can't even count the number of times I have just waited for someone in AL to just run out of power before either assassinating them or piling grenades around them for when they run out of power.

played it last night, if anyone is interested playing, pop me a msg (sticks93)

cov assasins are so coooool!

Your avatar disturbs me, Murray

SilverMK2 wrote:I've not been too impressed with AL - I keep on going to use it, getting half way through the wind up phase and then dying, or the AL not engaging (even when I have full power reserve) and then drying, etc.

And I can't even count the number of times I have just waited for someone in AL to just run out of power before either assassinating them or piling grenades around them for when they run out of power.

I dunno its not like Im good.. 1614 was todays rating.. But I often see people die waiting for me to un armor.

It is really reliant on team mates to help you out and capitalize.. So if your whole team are jet pack lone wolves, then well it won't work as often. But when I was following my team and they were footsloggers it was awesome.

I'm not saying it does not have its uses, I am just not a player that finds them very handy - not really my style of play (lurk/stalk and kill).

Feel free to add me (my user name is my GT) and we can compare and contrast

Might not be online much tonight as I am taking my wife out to teach her driving and then going to see Iron Man 2(!), but I may be, and will probably be online tomorrow.

I don't think anyone on here would want to play with me I don't talk ever and I use universal mute to avoid hearing all the BS complaints/insults. It would be like playing with randoms.

If you wanna compare stuff. . http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/CareerStats.aspx?player=Stylish%20Fred&vc=arena

I don't mind - I don't tend to talk much unless the people I am with talk too. It is just sometimes cool to play against someone who you kind of know, or at least play against the same people semi-regularly.

Peesonally I agree with silver on the AL thing, I just can't seem to find a use for it, second silver sorry for the screechy guy yesterday, he's a loser.

No problem.

Shaman wrote:I don't think anyone on here would want to play with me I don't talk ever and I use universal mute to avoid hearing all the BS complaints/insults. It would be like playing with randoms.

If you wanna compare stuff. . http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/CareerStats.aspx?player=Stylish%20Fred&vc=arena

Private chat with the party.

You don't have to listen to the other team, and can have ridiculous conversations going on while playing.

The other night, my friend Taylor and I discussed if Zooey Deschanel's breasts were real or fake while playing Covvy Slayer.

^ What was the conclusion?

Definitely real.

It'd be crazy to have paid for fakes that small.

XD!

lol

I think AL will be good when your using teamwork, if you're fighting someone and your teammate is close by, that's when AL becomes most useful. Otherwise it's kind of gak.

Stalker Is pretty useful in Stockpile, great fun to sneak over to enemy pile and start moving flags out of the circle.

Worth adding:

Invasion is NOW PLAYABLE!

*Rushs to Xbox and starts playing Reach*

Played a few games of invasion.. was real confused..

First game I turned off mute so many I would understand what was going on. Game starts with the spartans shooting each other.. lol

I didn't understand that it was basically the elites capturing generators which are like territory. Ithought they had to blow them up with grenades.. lol.

Vehicles appear but I have no idea where.. once they arrive the open ground is my grave.

I think this would be fun with a friend but with some random complainer not so great..

Don't understand why it takes so long to re spawn either...

I wanna fly a damn banshee!

The other version of the game is like capture territory and as it goes more dangerous vehicles appear..

Changed my service tag to feth because of my confusion .. I am noob. (the censor doesn't recognize the euro looks like c.. haha)

I would prefer regular map with vehicles and slayer..

My xbox360 got the red ring of death (as I said before.) but I went to my friends house today and retrieved my GamerTag and played it at his house. It was amazing!!! It kills modern warfare. Plain and simple.

So, any more feedback on Invasion besides Shaman's overall confusion?

I need to live vicariously through others...

Invasion is great! Everyone's placed in pairs so that you can respawn on your partner, and teamwork is really important. I've played several games today, and did best in one where my whole team was smart enough to use their effing mics.

yakface wrote:
So, any more feedback on Invasion besides Shaman's overall confusion?

I need to live vicariously through others...

Invasion plays very similar to Bad Company 2's "Conquest" gametype. There's two objectives that are the centerpieces for the starting phase(the UNSC generators powering a rudimentary shield system) and the second phase(wherein the Covenant's Elites have to capture the generators that power the shielding on the core of a UNSC NAV-AI), either of which being taken can cause the "invasion" to progress to its next phase.

Once the NAV-AI's casing is cracked, it becomes a CTF styled mission, wherein the Covenant has to run the core from its housing to the waiting Spectre dropship.

Now, here's where things get *really* interesting.

As the phases progress, different loadouts become available(ex: Spartans at the start have a "Scout" loadout, which is an Assault Rifle, Magnum, and 2x Frag Grenades--wherein that loadout in the second phase becomes the "Point Defense" loadout. The "Marksman" loadout, which is a DMR and a Frag Grenade at the start becomes the "Recon Marksman", adding in a Magnum and another Frag), weapon caches are unlocked, and vehicles come into play(starting with a Wraith and a Ghost v. a Warthog in the second phase--with the Warthog backed by Spartans on the ground with Rocket Launchers and a single Spartan Laser ).

As Cheese mentioned, you're split into rudimentary Fireteams(it seems Spartans have Fireteams of two--which makes sense as that's how the Spartans tended to break up their operations anyways--and Elites have Fireteams of 2-4 depending on the phase). You can spawn directly on your teammates, provided they're out of combat. Your teammates receive a warning that one of their Fireteam is wanting to spawn on them, but can't due to them being in combat--so they can get out of combat and provide you a leap right into the action.

All in all--I like Invasion.

And not just because I pegged a Wraith with a Spartan Laser from across the map and hit it at an oblique enough angle to have the shot keep travelling and kill 5 more Elites.

Nope, not that at all

8) at that last comment, and I found it quite like BC2 aswell, tip if you guys want fun and don't care about winning, let them have the first one or 2 if your spartans, then the last fight is extremely fun, I'm doing that right now while I'm typing!



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Nearly warrant officer grade 1 now! I'm addicted to this game, last match played as elites won with a 13 kills no deaths streak!!

I found my first Invasion match to be much like Shaman's, It was pretty confusing and I had no idea what the feth was going on. The Elites team seemed to know what they were doing more, so they took our front generator thingys.

I should also say I am biased against objective games. And I was unable to get any vehicles (except one ghost) during my games.. So to me that mode is gak. Because I nub at it.

I have played 127 games of the beta I think I'm bored now.

I'll still get the game when it comes out.. campaign should be pretty awesome.. and regular arena slayer with more maps would be cool.

Phase 3 seems really, really hard for the Elites. The Spartans have easy access to a Scorpion, sniper rifles and splasers, so they can counter all of your vehicles and hang back while picking you off. It needs a lot of teamwork, something that half the people I play with seem to lack.

I don't know, in the games I have played that get to stage 3, it is about 50/50 as to who wins I think.

A lot of people playing spartan don't seem to know where the tank etc is, ditto for the elites and their vehicles.

Oh, I know what you mean about the tank. I had an EPIC overkill with that this evening... I'd better get a clip of it onto my File Share.

It's not letting me add anything to my fileshare, even with the default file name and description.

After playing a few more games of invasion I think it's awesome.


Anyone seen the new banshee, weird or what?