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Subject: The Pregame Lobby

Assuming that Halo Reach is anything like the other Halo games made by Bungie, it will be Xbox Live friendly. In both Halo 2 and 3, loading times for matchmaking games is pretty long, and if you're not going into combat with your friends on Xbox Live, it's lonely as much as it is boring. Unless you like staring at the same screen for extended periods of time.

I'm pretty sure we all just wind up staring at how pretty are armor is.

Anyhow, what i'm asking for is not for you to make it go faster (must be hard, if you can it would be nice), but to give us something to do in our pregame lobby while it searches for a game. Perhaps something interactive, or something that changes over time so we're not staring at a wall the whole time. Maybe have the lobby load a small map with a pelican, and you and your buddies are sitting in the back and can look around. Maybe put some grunts to shoot at. That might make loading times worse though... hell i don't know.

What do you guys think? Any ideas?

  • 06.24.2009 10:57 AM PDT

Leave it as is because its not really a big deal.

  • 06.24.2009 11:24 AM PDT
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it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Posted by: GAMEWINNERS
Leave it as is because its not really a big deal.

I agree

  • 06.24.2009 11:34 AM PDT

Adding a pelican or a mini game would make it longer.


Maybe just a different background every time you go to MatchMaking.

  • 06.24.2009 11:42 AM PDT
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wow this is worth starting a new thread for? really? adding anything but text will make it take longer to load and if they did add a small mini game while you wait wouldnt you regret that the time they spent making that could have been spent making something that actually improves the game itself.

  • 06.24.2009 11:53 AM PDT

Posted by: xunoshotkillax
Adding a pelican or a mini game would make it longer.


Maybe just a different background every time you go to MatchMaking.


Yeah you're probably right.



Posted by: DISTR1CKED
wow this is worth starting a new thread for? really? adding anything but text will make it take longer to load and if they did add a small mini game while you wait wouldnt you regret that the time they spent making that could have been spent making something that actually improves the game itself.


Is it wrong to ask for something little? For players that don't play as often and often play alone, it's a turn off for when i play halo. It's quiet and boring.

  • 06.24.2009 1:37 PM PDT
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We should be able to watch videos that are on the file share that way it we don't have to load another level. Also veto should take place before the level is loaded, that would help out a lot.

  • 06.24.2009 1:47 PM PDT