Halo Reach discussion

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Rurik

I Dissagree




I cant say about halo 2 or 1, but there are subtle hints in the game that tells you why Halo reach is not more difficult than Halo 3 in legendary (no skulls added).

-Hunters, this is the most noticeable hint that Halo 3 in legendary is more difficult. in Halo 3, Hunters don’t die from a frontal attack unless you laser them, in Halo reach, Hunters will fall from any weapon if shot on front, depending on the weapon the can take some time.

-Brute Chieftains of Halo 3, these guys are the toughest foes so far, there is no enemy in Reach like this, the closest one is a Zealot sword wielding elite, and he is not even half as tough as a Chieftain that is rushing to you with a Hammer.

-The Flood. This is by far the most difficult and annoying chapter to complete, where there are section where the only way to to pass it is by avoiding the enemies, in Reach even in legendary you can pass every chapter by eliminating every enemy in their respective area.

-Granades spamming, I found myself dying even more against plasma or spike grenades in halo 3 than in halo reach.

-You never had to take down 2 scarabs at once in Halo reach (not even one).

To be honest, Halo reach for me playing it alone in legendary was really easy to play, Health pack were never an Issue, Sprint always take you fast out of trouble, or you had always an AA to back you up and and invisble AI spartan that did clean ups, Halo 3 never had such things as permanent abilities to back you up, there were times in halo 3 where you knew your death was coming because you had no way to cover or escape from certain situations.

heres the answer to you're rant, ... ahem...Its before Halo1. things change over time do they not? Maybe Hunters dont have frontal protection until later (finding out they can DIE) No flood yet, not even until towards the end of #1.

eh the scarabs... yea I do think they could have made us fight atleast one =\ But seeing them drop from the sky like that was pretty sweet.

[JRendell]

That's what kinda mirked me off a bit with Reach. The fact that they just re-wrote facts from the books and other games and added in 'extra' info just to make the game make sense.

[Kyero Fox]

I don't like the lazer sniper, its annoyin on legendary, more annoying than being one shotted by the olld ones.

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Cub-Sama

I disagree I found Halo 3 on Legendary easier than Halo Reach, on Halo 3 I breezed past most levels and the flood weren't even too much of a problem either it was easy to take them out and continue. The Elites on the other hand pissed me off because they would always flank me or rush me or run away also my AI teammates were for the most part useless when there was only two of us the only one actually helping me being Jorge.

The Level the flood had two main problem, it was a Maze, and the ammo was really scarce, and those spider flood, took a lot of ammo for them to be taken down.

And You should try Halo reach on legendary again, and this time when you see an elite stay some 14 meters away from them (At this distance the Elites will not come to you
), and let your teammates lower then their shield, put a couple of DMR headshot, and they are toast.

I was reading the latest bungie updates, and only 1% of the total community has finished this game solo on legendary.

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

heres the answer to you're rant, ... ahem...Its before Halo1. things change over time do they not? Maybe Hunters dont have frontal protection until later (finding out they can DIE) No flood yet, not even until towards the end of #1.

eh the scarabs... yea I do think they could have made us fight atleast one =\ But seeing them drop from the sky like that was pretty sweet.

Even if these things didn’t happen before halo 1, it still doesn’t change that they were more difficult to kill in Halo 3. and I failed to see where my post aboout the difference between these 2 are a "rant"

[Kyero Fox]

i just threw the rant part in there in a rush, sorry.

[Drake]

To be honest I think each had certain sections that where difficult but I don't think any of the games as a whole where much different in terms of overall difficulty.

I hope they raise the rank cap soon as I'm stuck on LC now =/

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Drake

To be honest I think each had certain sections that where difficult but I don't think any of the games as a whole where much different in terms of overall difficulty.

I hope they raise the rank cap soon as I'm stuff on LC now =/

In the last Bunige update they say that even if you are a the cap your credits still count for your level up, meaning that anyone that right now hit the Lt. colone grade 3, those credit you get after it will be saved, by the time the cap if lifted you are going to jump directly to your corresponmding rank. So if you are at the cap, keep getting those credits, Im still saving for my gold visor.

In the page they showed a graph were it tells that around 90% of the players are still at warrant officer.

[Zekori]

Originally Posted by Rurik

Even if these things didn’t happen before halo 1, it still doesn’t change that they were more difficult to kill in Halo 3.

Uh, I melee'd things in Halo 3 with Skulls On without the most annoying ones (chapter reload, recharge shield via melee) on; this included hunter pairs and even flood type enemies. You do know (not sure about front armor) that if you shoot a Hunter in reach enough times parts of the armor (atleast the back) gets exposed? Of course this mean you have to enough bullets to nick it off usually produced by shotgun, failed sniper shots on vital neck/below torso area.

Yet in reach, even without skulls Hunters have the tendency to be able to hit you and trash about when in melee range; add a few skulls this is one shot kills; in fact with skulls everything melee (Berserk Brutes, Elite Melees, Sword Elites run faster than you non-sprint and lunge) is pretty much a one shot kill to the player, much like anything with a sniper equivalent in Halo2 Legendary.

I also don't recall a Sword Elite/Chieftan Brute with Thunderstorm, Tilt, and that Double HP one being stickied by four plasma grenades one after another and still able to charge at me in Halo 3, but what do I obviously know; and I definitely don't recall my frag grenades just bouncing Grunts around or having myself sticky a grunt it blows up and from the ashes he's charging with me screaming Jihad.

Nostalgia.

[Rurik]

Originally Posted by Zekori

Uh, I melee'd things in Halo 3 with Skulls On without the most annoying ones (chapter reload, recharge shield via melee) on; this included hunter pairs and even flood type enemies. You do know (not sure about front armor) that if you shoot a Hunter in reach enough times parts of the armor (atleast the back) gets exposed? Of course this mean you have to enough bullets to nick it off usually produced by shotgun, failed sniper shots on vital neck/below torso area.

Without skulls on (I don’t know about how it is like with Skulls on), if you shoot a hunter enough times in the front, the back part of the armor get exposed and eventually he can die by frontal attack, in Halo 3 you had to shot him in the back, unless you had an scorpion or laser (and I’m not sure about that either).

Yet in reach, even without skulls Hunters have the tendency to be able to hit you and trash about when in melee range;

Hunters are like that in Halo 3 as well, and is really difficult to make them exposed their back when you are playing solo. And sometimes the problem came to having a proper weapong to fight the Hunters in halo 3, for example a couple of hunters appear at the beginning of the level “the Arc” and you have a sniper.

I also don't recall a Sword Elite/Chieftan Brute with Thunderstorm, Tilt, and that Double HP one being stickied by four plasma grenades one after another and still able to charge at me in Halo 3, but what do I obviously know; and I definitely don't recall my frag grenades just bouncing Grunts around or having myself sticky a grunt it blows up and from the ashes he's charging with me screaming Jihad.

Nostalgia.

My observation was specific without Skulls on, which is the base Legendary difficulty, I never Played Halo 3 using skulls on (at least not on legendary). I really cant say about how it goes with the skull, now, what I do know is that the hammer wielding brute chieftan could not get sticky unless the stick was made to the hammer, as Stick just bounced off him, while playing reach no Enemy had this attribute

[TrueElements]

halo reach has disappointed me... i wanted epic easter eggs...

[Drake]

There are plenty so far and in fairness it generally takes time for people to find them.

Also theres the gold ranger elites (called bob) that are scattered around various levels that nobody has yet to discovered the significants of.

I'm sure theres plenty still to be found.

[Black0raz0r]

finally got Lt.Col.3

here is my charakter

Spoiler for me Charakter:

[Kyero Fox]

and now... for laughs

[Black0raz0r]

i would say for laughs

i would say... for nightmares

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Black0raz0r

finally got Lt.Col.3

here is my charakter

Spoiler for me Charakter:

Theres me thinking I was only one of a few with the robo-arm D=



Anyway bungie have said they're lifting the rank cap some time in Nov once the amount of completed daily challenges hits 117 million.

Also new maps !

[Black0raz0r]

and here are all armorys

[Alchemist007]

Upon thinking about the game a bit more, I'm liking another thing they stayed true to. They always lose the space battle before the planet, it's the main reason they've been annihilated every planet before Reach too. After that part is lost, comes the glassing. And at that point all that's left is to make the final stand.

I thought this was a pretty beautiful vid. Great tribute.

[LadyKikyo91]

Originally Posted by GN0010 Nosferatu

Got this from Gamefly today, so far, I've put about three hours into it.

Really mediocre... I don't think any Halo game will be as grand as the first, but that's me.

At least the assault rifle doesn't sound all wimpy any more.

Definitely. Halo CE was by far the best game in my opinion. Halo 2 was great and Halo 3 was alright. I stopped buying Halo games past 3 because it seems like the series gets progressively worse with each game. It would just be a waste of my money. I heard that Reach is alright but i'm not interested in playing it.

[Drake]

Originally Posted by LadyKikyo91

Definitely. Halo CE was by far the best game in my opinion. Halo 2 was great and Halo 3 was alright. I stopped buying Halo games past 3 because it seems like the series gets progressively worse with each game. It would just be a waste of my money. I heard that Reach is alright but i'm not interested in playing it.

How can you defiantly agree if you haven't played it ?

To be honest its a little short sighted to dislike something even before playing it and in my opinion you should at least rent it because as far as the series goes Reach is the most polished and enjoyable of the lot.

Sure alot of us enjoyed the first but like I've said before I think people hold CE in higher regard simply out of a sense of nostalgia they associate with it rather than the actually overall quality of the game.

[Alchemist007]

Halo 4 announced.