Halo Reach

[TommyG]

New map pack leaks

http://www.haloreachforum.eu/forum/s...ad.php?t=58047

[TommyG]

And some video footage of the Defiant Map Pack

Linky as I can't get the first video to embed

[JohnMcL7]

Great to see a new Firefight map, I'm enjoying the new Score Attack modes.

John

[MJ]

I'm really hating the fact that on the majority of maps the sniper rifle just dominates , too many people are too good at using it and you don't have any kind of defense against it.
In a double team game you have one player who will have a weapon that can basically 1 hit kill a player 12 times in a row, whilist that player has said weapon you can't collect one for yourself to fight back.

4v4 on Hemorrhage. Horrible when you haven't got the sniper and a silly sized map for 4v4.

[jimtendo]

Official trailer for the 'Defiant' map pack coming this March:

[marcus]

Completed the single player mode on Heroic this morning, felt it is a typically high quality Halo affair. Only dislikes were the sections where you were asked to pilot a craft, its a shame that they feel the need to divert from a winning formula seemingly in an attempt to make the game feel more 'epic'. Those sections do little to excite, and I always wanted them to be over so I could get on with the normal combat.

I died pretty quickly at the

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Survive bit at the end

, can you actually live past that or is your demise inevitable?

[JohnMcL7]

I was the opposite, I thought the space combat section worked surprisingly well and would have liked to see a longer session.

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No, your demise is inevitable as far as I'm aware unfortunately. Great way to finish the game

John

[MJ]

I died pretty quickly at the

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Survive bit at the end

, can you actually live past that or is your demise inevitable?

You can replay it via the level select and choose an easier difficulty if you want to scout the area.

[MJ]

I hate 4v4 on Hemorrhage! It's a joke of a map for so few players and just becomes a sniping stand-off.

[TommyG]

Anyone still play this?

I'm loving the new playlists. Classic is brilliant and harps back to the good old days of Halo 1 + 2. The battles are just much more fun and pure as there's no running away or locking up to get out of situations therefore forcing you to fight back! It's brilliant old school Halo. I'm really enjoying the new BTB community maps as well.

Here's some pwnage for your enjoyment...

Mancannon snipe



Mancannon GL



Some Classic playlist



and a random video I found in my file share from a few months ago

[MJ]

I bought the Defiant Map Pack recently, because of the 400 MS Points back offer, and caved in and bought the Noble Map Pack whilst it's 400 MS Points and now I've spent time on both packs it has reminded me why I rarely waste money on additional game content. Not many players and not very good maps, they're certainly not worth 800 MS Points. It's a shame you can't get a refund on digital garbage.

[EvilBoris]

That's my biggest issue with these DLC multiplayer maps, no ****er buys them, so you can't play many games.

Bring back the Halo 2 days where they made the last map pack free!

[JohnMcL7]

I thought with Halo 2 each map pack was initially a set price, then dropped then finally free? It's so long since I played the game I can't quite remember but I agree with the frustrations about not enough people buying the map pack although Unearthed comes up quite a few times in Firefight Matchmaking which I like as a map but on FF Ltd it needs a good team which I can rarely find.

I had my first five figure jackpot after a second game of Action Sack with a nifty 11298 credits which makes all the work for the weekly a bit of a joke but it's good to have the credits.

John

[MJ]

I played in a match earlier with an Inheritor and they had the Haunted helmet, but not 100% armoury completion. I thought this helmet required all other items to be purchased before paying 1 cR for it. Either way, they've clearly earned a massive amount of cR!

[JohnMcL7]

You don't need all the armour items, just all the helmets I believe. And yes, it's a crazy amount of CR to get up to inheritor, I'm currently Hero and apparently at my current average rate it will take 1200 days to reach Inheritor. I'll be surprised if I hit Legend which is another two months away.

John