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To be honest, the assassinations will be very impractical in the middle of a firefight, and seem to be a way of saying 'feth you' to your slain foe without resorting to teabagging.

I wonder what the Elite-kills-SPARTAN ones will be like.

Soladrin wrote:

RustyKnight wrote:Hmmm, I have ODST but no X-Box Live. I'm tempted to disconnect the computer and redeem one of those 2-day trials you get with pretty much any game.

While I wait to decide, it is entertaining to watch some of my Halo 3-playing friends denounce Reach as the death of Halo. Some of them seem quite adamant that Reach will never take off.

Really? First time I'm hearing that. What are their arguments/reasons for thinking so?

He's convinced that Reach will have fullly destrutible terrain. He's convinced that their changing too much in Reach. He seems to have some strange hatred of the Marksman's Rifle.

RustyKnight wrote:

Soladrin wrote:

RustyKnight wrote:Hmmm, I have ODST but no X-Box Live. I'm tempted to disconnect the computer and redeem one of those 2-day trials you get with pretty much any game.

While I wait to decide, it is entertaining to watch some of my Halo 3-playing friends denounce Reach as the death of Halo. Some of them seem quite adamant that Reach will never take off.

Really? First time I'm hearing that. What are their arguments/reasons for thinking so?

He's convinced that Reach will have fullly destrutible terrain. He's convinced that their changing too much in Reach. He seems to have some strange hatred of the Marksman's Rifle.

Lol? They haven't featured destructible terrain any of the videos, and it's not gonna happen, cause their still using the same engine. I can't imagine how he thought this one up..

As for changing to much... It's not much more of a change then 1 to 2, or 2 to 3. I mean dual wields, sword, deployables etc.

And the Marksman's Rifle looks like my box of chocolates (along with needle rifle) since i always preferred carbine.

I hope the refreshed pistol isn't the stupid broken 3-shot-kill weapon it was in Halo CE. That thing ruined multiplayer for me because it was too easy once you learned how to lead a target and it made newbies cry.

It does the same per-shot damage as the DMR - which means it will take four (IIRC) shots to take down a Spartan's shields, and five shots to take down an Elite's.

The differences between the two are magazine capacity (DMR has more), range (DMR has more), and rate of fire (pistol has more). So the DMR is better at long range, and the pistol does better up close.

Well at least it won't be the gamebreaker it originally was. It really needs to be put in a proper sidearm role instead of the primary weapon of most players (like in Halo CE).

Cheese Elemental wrote:I hope the refreshed pistol isn't the stupid broken 3-shot-kill weapon it was in Halo CE.

3 shot kill weapon nothing. A single head shot from it was enough. Trust me, my friend was an ace with it.

No, it took three headshots to down a fully shielded player, and one to down a non-shielded enemy of any kind.

For the newb.. Can you tell me what actually takes place in the beta.. online multi?

Yes.
Online multiplayer.

Platuan4th wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:I hope the refreshed pistol isn't the stupid broken 3-shot-kill weapon it was in Halo CE.

3 shot kill weapon nothing. A single head shot from it was enough. Trust me, my friend was an ace with it.

It was a 3shot kill weapon, 2 shots (don't have to be headshots cause headshots dont do extra damage on shield) third shot brings shield down and hits head.

I was in the Dutch halo Championship with Halo 1, I should know (my friend won though :( )

Magnum was still 1 hit kill in halo 3 when the oppenents sheilds are down.

And I'm gettin live for the 1st time this summer (after my exams pretty much) is there any point me playing halo 3 or odst or should i just wait for reach?

Only if your interested in story really.

No then
Campign would be pointless for me to do in multiplayer as i have done legendary on both halo 3 and odst.
When is reach supposed to come out?

Q4 2010.

A store worker at EB Games said it'd be out in August or September.

He was guessing, there's no set date yet apart from "fall".

I didn't say he gave me a definitive date. It's what he heard from the manager, and wasn't sure of it himself.

Still, my money's on September.

Like to wager on the date in Sep?

(reason is my birthday is right in the middle of septemper. Also my 17th so also gonna be learning to driva a car.....hmm.....)

I'm gonna go with an October release. Let's say 17th.

Anyone got an idea what time GMT the beta is up for download?

Glad im not at work tomorrow
Had to get back into halo now since i stopped playing for ages to play MW2 instead lol.


If anyone wants a few games of MLG or TSn drop me your tag and ill play a few.
49 in MLG currently (lost last game) and still 50 in Tsn (locked in now due to having around 500xp in it)

I'll be up early tomorrow to start the download. Should complete itself while I'm at school. Too bad I don't finish until 4pm though, so I won't get home until at least 6.

i lost my job for the time being so i can play it tommorow. i hope the download dont take to long.

Bungie.net says it will be late morning when the download will be avaliable PST, not good for some of us. ;(

Any one hear if they are keeping the customizations, and the Forge from #3? it would be crazy not to.....

Lord-Loss wrote:Bungie.net says it will be late morning when the download will be avaliable PST, not good for some of us. ;(

'Cept they said it will be:
"Early evening for GMT/afternoon for EST/late morning for PST".

Which basically means it'll be in the range of 1-2PM EST.

Lord-Loss wrote:Bungie.net says it will be late morning when the download will be avaliable PST, not good for some of us. ;(

Your complaining, take a look at my flag, I've got school tommorrow and I have to go out tonight. :/

I have the same flag man.

Look at my flag... it has the same colors.