Halo : Reach Beta

[Family Fry]

Will quote myself Generator Defense isn't live until 14th May unfortunately.
If it was up now I would be playing on it right now.
We do have Spartan VS Elites to look forward to on Friday (should add the Boneyard map too). That should be fun, Elites are cool to play especially with the crazy dash move they have.

Will pop this info in here too.

The Reach beta will run from May 3rd til May 19th.
May 3rd the beta will launch with 3 gametypes.
May 7th Bungie will add a fourth playlist focusing on large-scale Spartan vs. Elite matches.
May 14th they will introduce the "Generator Defense" match type into the battles.
Also from May 14th through to May 17th Silver members will be able to play online.

[nonny]

I still havent played as elites yet, I take it that is the Covy gametype stuff I've seen popping up? Unfortunately every time I've played the rest of the lobby has voted for something else!

[Charlie]

Is it me or could the general Halo love be waning.

It does seem that way and it's reflected by the low level of interest generated in this thread.

[MJ]

BetaBusters:

[Womble9]

BetaBusters:

Wow, I doubt I'm anywhere near skilful enough to use half (read all!!) of those but all the same it's pretty damn impressive that they're in there.

[EvilBoris]

There are loads of crazy little tricks like that in Halo, it's like the Streetfighter of FPS'

[Synthesthesia]

Wow, I doubt I'm anywhere near skilful enough to use half (read all!!) of those but all the same it's pretty damn impressive that they're in there.

I knew about the grenades killing people when they hit- I've done it twice now

[EvilBoris]

The new map and game mode are up.
Invasion: Spartan vs Elites.

Te map is f-ing epic, it's like the size of a singleplayer map. crazybig

[Richie_uk]

I had awesome epic invasion matches tonight, the bone yard map is huge !!!

[JohnMcL7]

I didn't want to play this as it makes the wait for the full game all the harder to tolerate however seeing a few of my friends on it I cracked and gave it a shot.

Fired on in with the invasion mode which aside from not really knowing what to do it seemed pretty good, it's great to finally have proper Spartans vs Elites - I can't believe it's taken this long. I like being paired with another player although it went a little wrong in a game when my team mate didn't have a clue what to do either.

It took a little fumbling with controls to work out what they were although I was highly amused that when frantically trying to find the reload button I hit the melee and killed an Elite accidentally. Shortly after I decided I needed to find the grenade button and tossed a grenade down an empty spot and killed a cloaked Elite.

John

[EvilBoris]

Haha you sound like the Mr Magoo of Halo Reach!

[nonny]

The new map is good and it's great to have vehicles back but am I the only one who is enjoying invasion slayer more than the actual invasion mode?

Everything seems over so quick in Invasion even if it goes the distance. The slayer matches though are epic when there is good team balance. I think bungie should fiddle around with the timings a little.

[mr_sockochris]

I think I'd prefer it in Invasion if the attacking team had to get BOTH objective point ala Battlefield. At the moment it's a little too easy just to send all 6 Elites to one while the Spartans can't really afford to do the same for fear of leaving the other totally exposed. It's great fun as it is but I would bump the timer up and change to both for some more lengthy matches personally.

[JohnMcL7]

I find it the other way round, it's way too easy for all the Spartans to sit near the core evac point - as far as I can see there's no heavy weapons loadout nor is there much in the way of heavy weapons which means when a couple of vehicles get there you're screwed.

John

[EvilBoris]

Yeah it can be very hard inside that room, especially if you have 4 spartans all with armor lock sitting there!
I've been getting very frustrated with this, yet again playing with people who don't play properly