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Cheese Elemental wrote: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.

That's kind of the point.

If the Elites were able to get to Phase 3, then there's a teamwork imbalance in regards to the Spartans v. Elites.

Agreed about the banshee, I like the weapon change ability though. New controls suck however, prefer old ones, can't even put my finger on whats different, it just is.

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

I need to live vicariously through others...

Ditto. I lack a Live Gold account(and currently the monetary units for it), so downloading it would do nothing for me...

scarskull5 wrote:Agreed about the banshee, I like the weapon change ability though. New controls suck however, prefer old ones, can't even put my finger on whats different, it just is.

I still keep on hitting the wrong buttons - blown myself up a couple of times with grenades rather than reloading/getting into vehicles/picking up guns

Big changes in controls then?

Not huge, just annoyingly different

Not as big as the difference between controls in some FPS games, but it is a halo game and you expect halo controls

So what is different to halo 3? control-wise?

Well, for the control set I use, the "throw grenade" and "pick up stuff/reload/get in cars" buttons have switched over, which is annoying

And there are a few changes in how the banshee works as well.

Never really like the flyers so that doesn't affect me.
So its really because you use a different control scheme compared to the norm?

No, I am using the same style of controls as I do in Halo, it is just a couple of the buttons have changed place.

Not sure if I've already mentioned this but if you hop over to the controls menu you can change to recon controls which are practically the same as halo 3 controls, just grenade swap is X and ability is LB. Also for anybody who's wondering theres no dual wield anymore, sadly. :/

Yeah, I went through the controls and picked the one which looked the closest for me.

The Recon controls set is pretty close to what it was in Halo 3.

Invasion is so damn hard as the Elites. XD

No dual weilds :/
I wonder what made them make that change...

Possibly balance issues.

The new magnum+plasma pistol dual-wielded would be insane.

Havent been on in a few days (MW2 addiction again)
I take it there are some new things about now?


Also, if you want to complain about controls, try running bumper jumper on H3, then going to the new setup lol.
No button is the same as such :K

About my only piss off with reach is the new SWAT system.
With a game like this they need an element of speed, and for me, reach seems slower than H3.
You also need an ability to jump higher.
The whole idea of reach was to add another level of character to the series. however, they have nerfed SWAT with the baby jumps. (ever had to nade jump onto a ledge? have to do that alot more often now, and in SWAT, you die if you dont do it right lol)

Cheese Elemental wrote:Possibly balance issues.

The new magnum+plasma pistol dual-wielded would be insane.

I used to do that one a lot in 3.
So does that mean stuff like the smg are just weapons to aviod now? Or have they been removed?

Platuan4th wrote:

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

I need to live vicariously through others...

Ditto. I lack a Live Gold account(and currently the monetary units for it), so downloading it would do nothing for me...

Im pretty sure if you make a new account it will get 1 month free gold. Worked for me a while ago..

VikingScott wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Possibly balance issues.

The new magnum+plasma pistol dual-wielded would be insane.

I used to do that one a lot in 3.
So does that mean stuff like the smg are just weapons to aviod now? Or have they been removed?

The magnum+PP would be broken because the magnum fires insanely fast now and it has a scope.

The SMG is gone. Completely.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

VikingScott wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Possibly balance issues.

The new magnum+plasma pistol dual-wielded would be insane.

I used to do that one a lot in 3.
So does that mean stuff like the smg are just weapons to aviod now? Or have they been removed?

The magnum+PP would be broken because the magnum fires insanely fast now and it has a scope.

The SMG is gone. Completely.

Which is kind of logical seeing as it was introduced in halo 2, and halo:reach is a prequel.

Actually, SMGs were around for decades before that. They were in Contact Harvest, which was set in 2524.

Spent the morning shooting people with Kanluwen. He really doesn't like the Plasma Launcher

Invasion is so fun but it's also so anoying because half the people on your teams don't have mics or your partners in a party, I kind of hope that bungie put the mic setting to what modern waarfare 2 has.

If anybody want's a game GT is same as username say your from here or i'll just ignore it.

I never use mic, and it's not needed either.

Invasion is to easy and the objectives to straight forward IMO. I prefer slayer.. the Invasion objectives are just too boring. camp here for 20sec, camp there for 20 sec, now ctf.

I want something completely different not just more of the same...

SilverMK2 wrote:Spent the morning shooting people with Kanluwen. He really doesn't like the Plasma Launcher

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

I still think that Overkill was amazing.


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Oh yeah, I looked at my stats.

Melee has more kills than Plasma Launcher

Got my replacement console today...awesome, I still have time to try out the beta.


Aaaannnnndddddd the new console constantly freezes everytime I turn it on.





I'm going to call Microsoft. Unless they offer me some serious compensation I'm going to go buy a PS3 instead. This is frickin ridiculous.

Wow yak, that blows. Do you have any friends with the beta instead?

Wow.. Sympathy +1

Generator defense is out.

Is it any good?