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Subject: The only idea I have NOT seen in this forum...
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I was the first Spartan. And I will be the last. Mythic on 9/1/2012 never forget
PAX 08, Third Team against Luke and Shishka, AR dual to
the Death, won by one point... Assembly hasn't changed.

urk: "This is a bad idea."
DeeJ: "Hold still..."

For starters, it someone HAS posted this idea before, I apologize for taking your idea, just post a link and you will get credited.

Now, for this IDEA...

I have seen numerous posts saying; "I want this," or "I don't want this." Instead of saying this beforehand and not knowing if it should have been put in, or shouldn't have been taken out, lets do this:

Make a poll forum for the reach beta when it comes out, and while the beta is going on, have new, popular, idea added, and subtracted, as it goes.

Imagine this:

Your playing the beta, you and your friends wonder how it would play if they removed the BR, or AR, and you post that idea in that forum. You get a lot, and I mean A LOT, of people agreeing with you. So Bungie takes the servers down for a day or two (or however long it would take) and removes the BR/AR. Servers go back up, and now, no BR/AR.

This would allow more detailed testing of all aspects of REACH and would allow for a more enjoyable experience when the game finally did come out.

Even if it took another year, I think we could wait.

[Edited on 11.01.2009 3:53 PM PST]

  • 11.01.2009 3:51 PM PDT

poop

agreed

  • 11.01.2009 3:54 PM PDT
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I think there should be a melee only playlist, each team is equipped with Boxing Gloves. Flags and Bombs are in the places where the Power Weapons would've spawned.

  • 11.01.2009 3:54 PM PDT

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Shutting the Beta down in the mids of the action would be internet suicide, for whatever reason, let alone for taking out ARs/BRs.

  • 11.01.2009 3:56 PM PDT
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They should make it simple and have an option to vote for or against gametypes that you have just played by opening up a menu from the post-game lobby.

  • 11.01.2009 3:56 PM PDT

I used to get on these forums back in the Halo 1, anticipating Halo 2 days...I'm back :)

Posted by: Meteor78
I think there should be a playlist completely comprised of no AR/BR in Reach. Yeah.


I like this guy

  • 11.01.2009 3:58 PM PDT
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I was the first Spartan. And I will be the last. Mythic on 9/1/2012 never forget
PAX 08, Third Team against Luke and Shishka, AR dual to
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urk: "This is a bad idea."
DeeJ: "Hold still..."

Posted by: Mooreiuz V
Shutting the Beta down in the mids of the action would be internet suicide, for whatever reason, let alone for taking out ARs/BRs.


They would give a date and time when the beta would shutdown, that way no games were interupted.

  • 11.01.2009 3:58 PM PDT
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Why would they need to take the whole beta down just to change some playlists? That would be a more inefficient way of doing things to how Halo 2/3 operate. Shishka could just do it with a few button presses I assume. Certainly not a whole days worth of work.

  • 11.01.2009 4:08 PM PDT
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I was the first Spartan. And I will be the last. Mythic on 9/1/2012 never forget
PAX 08, Third Team against Luke and Shishka, AR dual to
the Death, won by one point... Assembly hasn't changed.

urk: "This is a bad idea."
DeeJ: "Hold still..."

Posted by: Pokeh
Why would they need to take the whole beta down just to change some playlists? That would be a more inefficient way of doing things to how Halo 2/3 operate. Shishka could just do it with a few button presses I assume. Certainly not a whole days worth of work.


you seem to misunderstand.

I didn't mean remove weapons from playlists.

I meant remove the weapons/objects from the games existence.

Meaning no ability to forge a map with that item, or remove a a geographical feature from a map.

[Edited on 11.01.2009 4:14 PM PST]

  • 11.01.2009 4:13 PM PDT
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urk: "This is a bad idea."
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Posted by: Shivers
I think that a no AR/BR playlist would be shut down becuase 80% of people love BR


I would say 65%, not 80%.

  • 11.01.2009 4:16 PM PDT

Posted by: Panzeereapa
I think there should be a melee only playlist, each team is equipped with Boxing Gloves. Flags and Bombs are in the places where the Power Weapons would've spawned.


Well, uh, wow, um, this actually sounds quite amazing.

+10 cookie points for you, Mr. Beasty idea dude. wow.

  • 11.01.2009 4:17 PM PDT

It's a good idea although it would take RIDICULOUS amounts of work to take down the game and alter it majorly by adding/removing components of it, that's a -blam!-load of program in a very short period.

I'm not knocking your idea, it's a GREAT idea! It's just one of those things that, in theory, is awesome, but in reality is HELL for the developers.

[Edited on 11.01.2009 4:41 PM PST]

  • 11.01.2009 4:29 PM PDT

if you have any questions about halo i am one of the few people on this site who will gladly help you. Even though this account has been active for only a year, my past accounts go all the way back to 2002.

this is the sort of thing they do during INTERNAL testing. The public beta is really only PUBLIC so they can have the system stress tested under millions of active players. they aren't testing gameplay (as i just said that is done internally) they are testing latency and codec.

  • 11.01.2009 4:32 PM PDT

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I hope there isn't a BR in Reach. I like your idea though, maybe they have several (2 or 3) versions of the beta come out over the course of its availability, each one with certain tweaks to gameplay or weapons

  • 11.01.2009 4:35 PM PDT
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I was the first Spartan. And I will be the last. Mythic on 9/1/2012 never forget
PAX 08, Third Team against Luke and Shishka, AR dual to
the Death, won by one point... Assembly hasn't changed.

urk: "This is a bad idea."
DeeJ: "Hold still..."

Posted by: westpointusma15
I hope there isn't a BR in Reach. I like your idea though, maybe they have several (2 or 3) versions of the beta come out over the course of its availability, each one with certain tweaks to gameplay or weapons


You, my friend, understood my point.

You get a cookie.

  • 11.01.2009 6:07 PM PDT

They can do this now at this very moment. We can log in tomorrow and have no BR or AR. Any small tweaks can be done in the beta but any major changes will be impossible since the beta is basically the retail version with a few kinks here and there.

  • 11.01.2009 6:26 PM PDT