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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 09/17/10

That's a lot of launch data.

I approve.

  • 09.17.2010 10:43 PM PDT

Don't want no negativity. :)

Halo Reach is so epic, I have started playing this weekend and I can't stop. It is too good. Thanks Bungie for the amazing game and forever thing else.

  • 09.17.2010 11:05 PM PDT

Whats going to happen with Firefight matchmaking for those without hard drives?

  • 09.17.2010 11:29 PM PDT
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"Dear Bungie.net, we regret being stubborn bastards, we regret coming to this forum, and we most definitely regret that Darth Kooky blew up our raggedy-ass opinion!"

So there will always be one problem with Halo: Reach and it isn't something you can fix either.

I can't play it all the time! I need to sleep and live life! Totally takes away from my Reach time :P

Seriously, you guys did an amazing job and I have found nothing I don't like in the game. I love to hate Jackals, Skirmishers are easy to kill yet hard to hit once mobile, Drones explode into buggy bits (That's for ODST Firefight you bastards!!! Oh and I take full credit for coining "Buggy Bits" just now :P), Grunts are smart and have good tactics, Brutes are smarter while completely balanced in armor stength, Hunters are an absolute blast to fight and make good use of their shields for the first time, and Elites... Elites get their own paragraph.

Elites are a real joy to fight. They are smart, cunning, and strong. They will kick you "This is Sparta!" style, they will laugh in your face as they pummel you into oblivion, and the higher-raking Elites like to give me easy Assassinations when I kill their shields. Out of respect I don't take the oppurtunity and instead just headshot them. They command underlings very effectively and I find them very fun to outshoot. Take out their shields as we both strafe, throw the odd sticky 'nade that only takes down half their shields, and then go for the ever-satisfying headshot with my favourite weapon, the DMR.

Overall, the AI is the best it has ever been. But there is one problem. The Marines. They do not know how to drive. I had one on the 3rd mission (2nd playable mission) actually drive forwards a few feet and then backwards a few feet repetitively. I ran into the one Marine who never got his driver's liscense. It's something I can overlook however, the game is just too awesome for it too matter. Kat can drive though so it wasn't a big deal.

Since I could go on forever, I'll talk about one more thing; the Revenant. I love it! It is so useful and so user-friendly. Thank you for making all combat in the game absolutely awesome.

Oh and my Bonus armor doesn't work on other consoles. Is it the same as Recon in Halo 3 or is it just because the Xbox has never been online?

Great game Bungie, I'll see you on Bungie Day. We're going to settle that score. Bungie: 1, World: About to be 1.

  • 09.18.2010 12:02 AM PDT
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  • 09.18.2010 12:05 AM PDT

:)

Reach is awesome, thanks Bungie! :)

  • 09.18.2010 12:16 AM PDT

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My wife and I are enjoying the game very much and having a blast. My wife was not a Halo player before she met me. Now she texts me from work wanting to play some Reach when she gets home. She says it's very addicting. To think she told me it's not her thing when she first saw me play. Go figure.

There is so much to do! Thanks bunches!

~Delta

  • 09.18.2010 12:32 AM PDT

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I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

That bathroom sounds epic. Also, thank you so very much for Reach, Bungie!

  • 09.18.2010 1:45 AM PDT

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I just about died laughing on the last segment of the update.

  • 09.18.2010 2:10 AM PDT

Lock 'n' load!

Thank you so much for the best game ever! :D
About the "fix" for the download problems, I got my Elite permutation and the special Spartan armor, but I did not get my Recon :p
I have tried downloading multiple times and restarting Halo Reach but it didn't work...
Well nontheless THANK YOU BUNGIE FOR THE BEST GAME EVER!! :)

  • 09.18.2010 2:11 AM PDT

Woot my vid made Blame Stosh! Thank you Bungie for such a great game.

  • 09.18.2010 2:40 AM PDT

LW45 TS40 TO40 TSW35 TSN35 TT30 SB30 MLG25

Couldn't you have just made the FF achievements more specific? Seems like 'cut' or 'allow everyone to boost' are far from the only two options...

  • 09.18.2010 2:47 AM PDT

You've taken your first step into a larger world

Great job Bungie I love Reach!
One thing I wish I could tweak though is the Spartan voice volume in campaign and firefight. I was hoping after picking up the cool Buck Fillion firefight voice that I would hear it better but it gets lost in all the other wonderful music and weapon noise.

You guys rock, see you online!

  • 09.18.2010 4:34 AM PDT

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Awesome!

But...But...We didn't get a ARG :'(

[Edited on 09.18.2010 6:02 AM PDT]

  • 09.18.2010 5:52 AM PDT

*CoughIgnoringIfYouCameToHearMeBegComplaintscough*

Other than that, the game is awesome. Legendary is friggin' hard, and matchmaking and Invasion are crazy. The DMR is awesome. I don't know why so many people are complaining about it.

  • 09.18.2010 7:01 AM PDT

Tank Beats Everything!

Just finished my Legendary play through. Now I can say once again I've completed every Halo game on legendary.

Probably the only thing that I was disappointed about was that there didn't seem to be any Marathon stuff in the game. I thought it had just been the logo from the emblem options that had been removed but it seems to be completely gone from Reach. Even a certain someone in the game (don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't played) is wearing the 7th Column logo instead of the Marathon logo. Plus, I've seen pics of the Security helmet, which in Halo 3 was pretty much just like the one from Marathon, but in Reach it looks completely different.

So ya, the only downside of the game to me was the lack of Marathon love.

[Edited on 09.18.2010 7:37 AM PDT]

  • 09.18.2010 7:37 AM PDT

Lolzor. I cheesed the FF achievements because all over them (especially the 1,000,000 point one) are ridiculous and I dont plan to EVER spend that much time in FF.

  • 09.18.2010 8:19 AM PDT

Formerly of Tacchimonster fame.

I still would like to know why they're aren't any weapon spawns (pistol, DMR, assault rifles, etc.) on Firefight maps. Running out of ammunition and having to run back to munition crates is a major drag.

Better yet, why can't we have limited version of forge made available to us for Firefight so we can drop things like weapons and AAs? You know, things that won't affect the AI's interaction with the level.

  • 09.18.2010 8:49 AM PDT

I know he said he expected people to be complaining about the Theater, but my mind is just blown. Partly because no one seems to care (I can't believe I'm the only person who has friends who enjoy reviewing films), but mostly because it invalidates a feature almost completely. Reach might as well not have a theater now for me (and apparently only me). I will literally never use the theater now, and that makes me super depressed, because it used to be an awesome feature.

Look, guys, you can throw down some excuses about Theater not being worth the effort, but I'd love to see the actual statistics that justify the decision. I know you never release that information, but it's mind-boggling that I and my friends are so alone on this. The fact of the matter is that you committed a mortal software-development sin: you reduced functionality on existing features. Was the experience suboptimal? Yes. But do you know what the solution to that is? Fixing it. What you guys did was make it worse and call it better. The other option is to just leave it alone. Acknowledge that it has problems and that you'd love to have done something about them, but time constraints meant that Theater didn't see any significant improvement because other features took precedence. I can accept that, when you don't make the feature worse.

If you wanted to serve your guests 10 cookies, and only managed to bake 9, you don't take three cookies away while adding more chocolate chips. Now you still only have 6 cookies, and it sucks. There's more chocolate, so that's cool I guess, but that's considerably less cookie, and inherently less satisfying. And yes, I'd rate the ability to watch films with my friends as at least 1/3 of the Theater experience. With how slow the upload/download system is on the File Share, it's a god damn egregious task to show somebody something cool that happened while they were at work/watching their kids/getting on with their lives/otherwise unable to play Halo with me.

Honestly, it's really sad. I just assumed it was patchable and would be patched, but this update reads like a definitive "Nope, sorry, what's fun for you isn't widely fun enough to the rest of the world, so you're -blam!-. We create a billion permutations on a hundred different scenarios for everyone else to satisfy themselves, but you, Sean, your niche interest was just a little less important than Forge Art. Sorry, compadre. We'll hit you up next ti-oh, right, we're done. Ok, well, our bad."

  • 09.18.2010 9:12 AM PDT

Reach is awesome great job bungie my only problem is that you toke the Flame thrower out of forge

  • 09.18.2010 9:15 AM PDT

A really fun game at the moment, my only worry though is how Daily and Weekly Challenges are going to be kept fresh and different.

Also hope updates to MP bring out some more maps for Invasion, which is pretty shallow at the moment.

  • 09.18.2010 9:34 AM PDT

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Where can we report bugs?

I have a rather large list as a topic, but it leaves the first page faster then planets blow up in DBZ.

  • 09.18.2010 9:47 AM PDT

Sweet.

  • 09.18.2010 9:49 AM PDT

hey i'm having technical troubles making a race map in forge world does anyone know what the requirements are? it never lets me play the map in custom games!
Thanks
Jacob

  • 09.18.2010 10:48 AM PDT