Halo 3 online mutiplayer beta.

[Soi]

Sorry for double post, I answered some of your questions above about matchmaking, but the others I will answer here Soi. Let me edit them in.

Cheers for taking the time out of playing to answer my questions.

I look forward to joining in on the fun this Wednesday.

[El Leone]

New gametype (or offical gametype of a custom game of Halo 2) is VIP. Each team has a VIP on their team who they have to protect. The VIP him/herself also has a overshield to protect them and once you're dead its assigned to someone else. Game is won by killing the VIP a certain amount of times. It's pretty fun as you have to design whos going to go out as a hunting squad and how you're going to defend your VIP.

[El Leone]

I can also confirm (not fully, but I had a quick go against a vechical so im pretty sure ) that the rocket has indeed losts its homing abillity. Fear not, noobz will no skillz, as there is a replacement.....

Throws you into third person, it does home, but the rockets are hella slow, slightly less flexible than the rockets in Halo 2 and it takes like quite a few shots to kill depending on the vechical. game does look like that btw.

[TommyG]

Which to me looks mint

Thanks for all the impressions Leone, i have a burning question though.

Has the ability to double shot and B,X,B and B,X,R been removed from the game?

*fingers crossed it has*

[El Leone]

Yup, it's gone. In H2, the reload button would also act as a cancel button, right? Not anymore as the cancel feature has been removed. BXB along with BXR are dead .

[fishbowlhead]

whats that then El Leone? some sort of mini launcher?

[El Leone]

Pretty much. Kinda like water downed Rocket launcher from H2 (as my desciption said in my last post) and it also slows your character down and limits your jumping range.

Just dropped a SMG into the sea, to see the waves splash it back onto the shore. Groovy.

[TommyG]

Yup, it's gone. In H2, the reload button would also act as a cancel button, right? Not anymore as the cancel feature has been removed. BXB along with BXR are dead .

awesome news thanks matey

[fishbowlhead]

Pretty much. Kinda like water downed Rocket launcher from H2 (as my desciption said in my last post) and it also slows your character down and limits your jumping range.

Just dropped a SMG into the sea, to see the waves splash it back onto the shore. Groovy.

ah cool, i guess there might be a couple of weapons in the beta that wont make it into the final game, mabe that mini launcher wont (looks pretty useless to me), but i guess thats what testings for.

[El Leone]

It'll make it into the game as its part of the new type of 'heavy' weapons which take you into third person. Beta is for testing to matchmaking and code, everything else is secondary.

[PeteJ]

Do the heavy weapons reduce run speed\jump hight?

From the sounds of it they've really ramped up the depth of the game this time, with all the items in particular. I honestly cannot wait until Wednesday, its gonna be immense

[Uli]

Assault rifle is bad ass. Its got a medium firing distance to it, and if your aim is good and use short bursts, you can get a kill and have a few rounds to spare. Sometimes its wise just to empty your clip though. Reloading is fast and simple so you dont have to feel like you're too revealed when reloading. Very pleased with it tbh, Bungie has really nailed it as it encourages the golden three things of Halo (weapons, melee and grenades) as you're always looking for a way to get the advantage with the AR.

that sounds encouraging. though i highly doubt that some higher accuracy makes up for 28 more rounds to pump out! for my liking Bungie toys too much around with weapons and balance stuff. i said it before, every weapon must have clear and strong advantages over others.

what about fire modes? any available for the Battle Rifle? or is it Burst mode only again?

[El Leone]

Do the heavy weapons reduce run speed\jump hight?

Yup. Heavy weapons diminish running speed and jump height as well as making it third person. There seems to be no variation of running speed or jump height between the two heavy weapons.

what about fire modes? any available for the Battle Rifle? or is it Burst mode only again?

No fire modes. Just burst.

[fishbowlhead]

It'll make it into the game as its part of the new type of 'heavy' weapons which take you into third person. Beta is for testing to matchmaking and code, everything else is secondary.

ah, dissapointing really, take the scope off the pistol and you pretty much had the best weapon set ever in Halo1(couldnt of been any more ballanced or well thourght out).
Bungie just seem to shove stuff in nowadays, smg, carbine, 3rd person mini rocket that is in fact not as powerfull as the normal rocket launcher (i dont get that one bit, slows you down but isnt as powerfull)?

[El Leone]

ah, dissapointing really, take the scope off the pistol and you pretty much had the best weapon set ever in Halo1(couldt of been any more ballanced or well thourght out).

Disagree. Leave it at that as this could easily turn into a generic H1 vs everything weapon balancing debate.

Bungie just seem to shove stuff in nowadays, smg, carbine, 3rd person mini rocket

Disagree.

that is in fact not as powerfull as the normal rocket launcher (i dont get that one bit, slows you down but isnt as powerfull)?

There are other heavy third person weapons. You can now take gun turrents of their stands and the same for plasma turrents (not in beta).

As for rocket and mini rocket. Try it out on wesenday and see what you think.