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Subject: Can a forum ninja create a unified pinned "Halo Reach FAQ"...

Anybody remember this thread?

Shortly after ODST was announced, Duardo was kind enough to create and pin this FAQ thread in the Halo 3 forum. With hard work and dilligence he recorded links to most the announced facts, interviews, and general information about ODST within it's many pages. It became an invaluable resource for both speculating community members (I personally used a quote that I would have missed otherwise from this FAQ to predict that the brute plasma rifle would return in ODST all the way back in February) and also helped to cut down on "simple questions about ODST" spam in the Halo 3 forum.

It would be really nice if we could get another one of those for the Reach forum. I understand that we already have a FAQ for the Reach beta, but I get the feeling that within a month or so the information about Reach is going to hit us like a ton of bricks from multiple directions and this forum is going to be flooded with a thousand newcomers who haven't been following the game for the past six months. I mean, we know that Reach will be a FPS, but there are many who haven't heard that it's been officially announced.

Having a FAQ prepped and ready with all the currently announced information and sources and waiting to be filled with new resources will be invaluable for cutting down on "Will Halo Reach have Campaign?" spam.

...So do any forum ninja have enough free time to put together something like this? I'm sure many of us could help gather the neccesary links and sources to summarize our current knowledge about Reach, as small though it may seem.

And feel free to lock this if the answer is "No" or "The time is not now." or "We have other things planned".

[Edited on 10.14.2009 3:48 PM PDT]

  • 10.14.2009 3:47 PM PDT

PEANUT-BUTTER SLAP!

An excellent suggestion, but I don't think there are enough answers to important questions for it to be useful yet.

  • 10.14.2009 4:01 PM PDT

Posted by: reptile1892
An excellent suggestion, but I don't think there are enough answers to important questions for it to be useful yet.


Well...

It's an FPS...

ah, I got nothing.

  • 10.14.2009 4:02 PM PDT

Posted by: reptile1892
An excellent suggestion, but I don't think there are enough answers to important questions for it to be useful yet.

It still could be useful. For example, I heard that Staten or one of the other Bungie employees confirmed that you would be playing a spartan in a squad of spartans for the single player, and then he said something along the lines of "It will feel like a squad based shooter without the extra baggage of a squad based shooter."

Its a pretty vague statement that is open to huge interpretation, and I have yet to find a linke to the source where he wrote / said this. If we had a FAQ thread, I could easily pop in and find the source to examine it myself or if I needed to prove it to someone I could link them to it.

  • 10.14.2009 7:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: reptile1892
An excellent suggestion, but I don't think there are enough answers to important questions for it to be useful yet.

"It will feel like a squad based shooter without the extra baggage of a squad based shooter."


So it's basically going to be like how Arbiter was in solo campaign in H3. He just followed you around but you weren't able to control him like an actual squad game. I like that.

And yes, OP. I do think a FAQ would be a fantastic idea.

  • 10.14.2009 7:58 PM PDT

-I was here

well, they can't post one yet cuz theres only a few questions that can be answered right now:
it IS an fps
it is set on the planet reach
its a prequel

  • 10.14.2009 8:09 PM PDT

Do you really care? you can't automatically see my signature anyway.

no, foman is the main mod for this forum and he's not as cool as the others. I actually sent him a message requesting that it would be nice if he made a pinned topic about the reach beta (after it got so bad that there are a new beta topic every hour) and still he never made such a topic.

  • 10.14.2009 8:15 PM PDT

Posted by: goatman327
well, they can't post one yet cuz theres only a few questions that can be answered right now:
it IS an fps
it is set on the planet reach
its a prequel

But thats not entirely what the ODST FAQ was. A huge section of it linked to various interviews with various media companies about the game or weekly updates with crucial information or trailers and such.

  • 10.14.2009 8:17 PM PDT

Do you really care? you can't automatically see my signature anyway.

well i think your best option is asking duardo threw a message because posting a topic on it won't get it made.

  • 10.14.2009 8:26 PM PDT

Posted by: Spearmint
well i think your best option is asking duardo threw a message because posting a topic on it won't get it made.

...I tried a really long while back and I got ignored T.T

  • 10.14.2009 8:29 PM PDT

Time my friend.. Give them time.

  • 10.14.2009 8:31 PM PDT