Halo Reach

[EvilBoris]

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=9885644&player=EvilBoris%20DX

click download and it'll download the replay to your fileshare

[JohnMcL7]

hehe I got Kotaku'd
http://kotaku.com/5693001/great-shot...e-in-a-million

Nice one! I do enjoy some of the 'fail' threads where players die in completely unexpected and random ways.

John

[moonwhistle]

I tried riding on top of a helicopter in level 1 of reach. You can jump on top of it before it takes off. I got excited thinking I might get to see stuff that was never intended but I can only ride it for about ten seconds before falling to my death. Anyone tried this?

[EvilBoris]

You can steal that helicopter a little later on in the map

[EvilBoris]

hehe someone steals a Seraph, even Bungie were surprised as it isn't a pilotable vehicle

[nakamura]

Looking to get this for xmas to play the campaign online with friends. We are all average FPS players, no experience for me with games like MW2 online.
What level would people recommend for co-op campaign for a steady challenge? Want it to be pretty exciting with lots of near death moments.

[Family Fry]

I would say Heroic is a good difficulty, although maybe legendary if your tackling it as a team.
I tried Legendary alone and it started to get annoying as some enemies really do absorb bullets.

[nakamura]

Thanks. Didn't think the standard difficulty would offer enough with team play. Will most likely try Heroic then.

[JohnMcL7]

I don't know how I missed it on the first playthough but I noticed yesterday when your character is on the Covenant ship with Jorge and the slipstream device, Noble6 is wearing a large backpack which isn't a jetpack as I'd assumed as I had armour lock equipped. This backpack has 're-entry pack' written across the back which I assume is meant to explain how he makes it planetside. Sorry if someone else has already mentioned this as I managed to miss it!

John

[nakamura]

Well picked this up last night and sunk a few hours into the campaign with a friend. Got to mission 5 in one play.
Bit boring though so far. Missions are disjointed, areas change rather rapidly. There are moments of excitement for sure but there was a suprising lack of atmosphere.
The visuals were pretty average, it just felt like a HD Halo, all angular and not very smooth. The music was also pretty lacking but the surround sound made up for that.

I will finish it, but it isn't that good so far.

[TBL2260]

Wowsers.....2 Sniper matches and I didn't go negative. Something must be wrong in the matrix.......

[EvilBoris]

Ah the sniper rifle, I hate those players who murder me with it like it's the only gun in the game, but secretly I want to be like them

[JohnMcL7]

I'm pretty rubbish with the sniper rifle although I tend to go for it in the normal matches as it's particularly good for knocking banshees out of the sky. On the sniper only matches though I tend to get more kills from melees rather than the sniper rifle

Anyone else bought the map pack? I thought 800 points was cheeky for just three maps so soon after release but I've been really enjoying them, shame there's no Firefight maps though.

John

[MJ]

Anyone else bought the map pack? I thought 800 points was cheeky for just three maps so soon after release but I've been really enjoying them, shame there's no Firefight maps though.

Now I like Reach online, but to be expected to pay 800 MS Points for three maps two months after release and then have the game spam you about it is cheeky, especially as most of the maps on the disc are re-used campaign sections or Forge maps.

[TBL2260]

Sniping......I tend to pick up the sniper rifle simply to deny others to use it against me if I'm honest. I suck with it otherwise.

New Maps, loving them, want them integrated into normal MP ASAP though as you do get tired playing slayer on Anchor 9 after the 5th time on the trot.........