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Subject: "ADAPT." No. Armor Lock and Sword Block are moronic.

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haha Good point!

  • 06.29.2011 7:05 PM PDT

If when I was playing H2, someone told me that one day the sword would be a 4 hit kill with slower time between swings, and that people could spawn with a counter to it, I would have lost my -blam!-.

  • 06.29.2011 7:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ducky_832
If when I was playing H2, someone told me that one day the sword would be a 4 hit kill with slower time between swings, and that people could spawn with a counter to it, I would have lost my -blam!-.
HALO 2 > reach

  • 06.29.2011 7:29 PM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrvj4xTcFg8


Check it out im sure ull agree

  • 06.29.2011 7:31 PM PDT

DJ M13K d.


Posted by: Zomechin
They are simply garbage. Nothing more.

Armor Lock is an abomination to the 'smarter combat' that AA's supposedly breed.

Look at this senselessness. Is that Halo? Is that really the game we've come to love and know? Sure, AL can and does make you think about how you're going to use it and/or battle someone using it. The thing is, the logic and reasoning involved in doing so is pre-school level at most. Anyone can play good with Armor Lock, and anyone can play good against it. The problem is that you simply shouldn't be denied what you've earned, and Halo really shouldn't be played that way. If you get a cross-map stick, the guy stuck should be dead. This same logic should also be applied to minor situations and annoyances.

Sword Block. "Adapt." Sure, good suggestion. I'll just start using my Sword mid or long range. I'm the best Sword-sniper there is. "Now it's balanced." No, now it's an Assault Rifle. You have no reason to rush or setup for it. You've turned a deadly power weapon that brought flourishing movement to the map into a near-worthless and completely random poking stick that isn't really worth wasting your time going for. "Oh, well just adapt to situations and use it like a 'sneaky ninja'." Look, you have 2 nuclear grenades in your pocket, an Assault Rifle that is so easy that guests can master it (in AR starts), or a DMR that takes 5 super quickly spammed shots in close range (in DMR starts). We have enough counters to this power weapon. The funny thing is, power weapons don't need counters at all, at least in DMR starts where power weapons (and much more) isn't broken.

Sword and Sprint is not an overpowered combination, and even if it was, hello, why not just increase the weapon draw time on the sword? You're taking a problem and fixing it indirectly. This ruins other aspects of the game. Go for a direct approach, for Christ's sakes.

Stop trying to turn Halo in to something it's not. Adding broken, illogical, and flat out retarded game mechanics is not the answer to giving Halo depth and skillful prerequisites. I really enjoy Reach, but there are seriously way too many things that are making it feel like Halo: Combat Dissolved.



SOMEONE GOT THAT ASS KICKED TO MAKE THIS THREAD LMFAO ROFL x7

  • 06.29.2011 7:36 PM PDT

Hi.

Derp.

  • 06.29.2011 7:37 PM PDT


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
I typed this once and I'll type it again, this time with an italic text:
ARMOR LOCK WILL NOT BE REMOVED
The reason:
ACHIEVEMENT: POPPIN'& LOCKIN'
Hmm... Do you recall a cancelled Live game called "1 vs 100". It had achievements; a total of 200 gamerscore. To earn those achievements, you had to play the game's online multiplayer (which is all the game actually was). The game was then completely removed from Live due to a low population.

The moral of this story is that MS can do whatever the -blam!- they want with their games.


Since when did 1 vs. 100 have to do with this? They'll be people buying this game that want to experience it. How would they know how Armor Lock is in MM if they will never experience it or get the achievement?. When a person buy's a game they expect to have everything on it. Stop thinking of complete removal of an armor ability if you don't know how to counter it. I mean seriously: "Damn I wasted a clip on a Hologram. It's overpowered".

[Edited on 06.29.2011 7:58 PM PDT]

  • 06.29.2011 7:56 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
I typed this once and I'll type it again, this time with an italic text:
ARMOR LOCK WILL NOT BE REMOVED
The reason:
ACHIEVEMENT: POPPIN'& LOCKIN'
Hmm... Do you recall a cancelled Live game called "1 vs 100". It had achievements; a total of 200 gamerscore. To earn those achievements, you had to play the game's online multiplayer (which is all the game actually was). The game was then completely removed from Live due to a low population.

The moral of this story is that MS can do whatever the -blam!- they want with their games.


Since when did 1 vs. 100 have to do with this? They'll be people buying this game that want to experience it. How would they know how Armor Lock is in MM if they will never experience it or get the achievement?. When a person buy's a game they expect to have everything on it. Stop thinking of complete removal of an armor ability if you don't know how to counter it. I mean seriously: "Damn I wasted a clip on a Hologram. It's overpowered".
That was a very well thought out paragraph.

>.>

Anyways, you ask "Since when did 1 vs. 100 have to do with this?"

What I'm saying is that there is no rule or guideline saying Microsoft or its affiliates can't remove something to make an achievement unobtainable.

  • 06.29.2011 8:03 PM PDT


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
I typed this once and I'll type it again, this time with an italic text:
ARMOR LOCK WILL NOT BE REMOVED
The reason:
ACHIEVEMENT: POPPIN'& LOCKIN'
Hmm... Do you recall a cancelled Live game called "1 vs 100". It had achievements; a total of 200 gamerscore. To earn those achievements, you had to play the game's online multiplayer (which is all the game actually was). The game was then completely removed from Live due to a low population.

The moral of this story is that MS can do whatever the -blam!- they want with their games.


Since when did 1 vs. 100 have to do with this? They'll be people buying this game that want to experience it. How would they know how Armor Lock is in MM if they will never experience it or get the achievement?. When a person buy's a game they expect to have everything on it. Stop thinking of complete removal of an armor ability if you don't know how to counter it. I mean seriously: "Damn I wasted a clip on a Hologram. It's overpowered".
That was a very well thought out paragraph.

>.>

Anyways, you ask "Since when did 1 vs. 100 have to do with this?"

What I'm saying is that there is no rule or guideline saying Microsoft or its affiliates can't remove something to make an achievement unobtainable.


So you're saying that Halo, the game that helped Microsoft enter the game industry, isn't popular?
I doubt Microsoft would do such a thing on their flag ship game.

  • 06.29.2011 8:08 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
So you're saying that Halo, the game that helped Microsoft enter the game industry, isn't popular?
I doubt Microsoft would do such a thing on their flag ship game.
WTF where'd you get that from? LOL?

I'm saying Microsoft can do whatever the hell they want, and if enough people are raging about Armor Lock, there's no legal issues with 343/Microsoft/Bungie taking it out, regardless of the fact that there's an achievement directly designated for it.

  • 06.29.2011 8:15 PM PDT


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
So you're saying that Halo, the game that helped Microsoft enter the game industry, isn't popular?
I doubt Microsoft would do such a thing on their flag ship game.
WTF where'd you get that from? LOL?

I'm saying Microsoft can do whatever the hell they want, and if enough people are raging about Armor Lock, there's no legal issues with 343/Microsoft/Bungie taking it out, regardless of the fact that there's an achievement directly designated for it.



You know, I'm just gonna leave it here. Your opinion is your opinion, my opinion is mine. I'm not gonna had more wood for the fire. But expect to see the forums full of rage like: "WHERE'S ARMOR LOCK!?!?".

  • 06.29.2011 8:21 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: xX eurobmr01 Xx
So you're saying that Halo, the game that helped Microsoft enter the game industry, isn't popular?
I doubt Microsoft would do such a thing on their flag ship game.
WTF where'd you get that from? LOL?

I'm saying Microsoft can do whatever the hell they want, and if enough people are raging about Armor Lock, there's no legal issues with 343/Microsoft/Bungie taking it out, regardless of the fact that there's an achievement directly designated for it.



You know, I'm just gonna leave it here. Your opinion is your opinion, my opinion is mine. I'm not gonna had more wood for the fire. But expect to see the forums full of rage like: "WHERE'S ARMOR LOCK!?!?".
And I will tell all those people to adapt. Doesn't bother me.

  • 06.29.2011 8:23 PM PDT
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Reported for flaming, OP.

  • 06.29.2011 8:30 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: PWR LVL
Reported for flaming, OP.
Even though telling someone you've reported them is technically spam and therefore report-able itself, where exactly have I flamed? I'll be sure to edit it out, just for you.

  • 06.29.2011 8:35 PM PDT

Viper Skills is my personal trainer. He is addicted to working out.. and, of course, trees.

Wow, this was reported?

Idiots.

  • 06.29.2011 9:04 PM PDT
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Jk it's 5.

lol

I agree. This crap is not Halo, it's pure retardation.

Luckily it probably won't be in the new Trilogy.

  • 06.29.2011 9:12 PM PDT

Please...stop getting butthurt when I noscope you from the passenger seat of the vehicle I'm riding in :D

WTH is with all the reported posts? Don't get mad because people speak their mind and just because you don't agree doesn't make it inappropriate. As for Sword Blocking, yes, I agree it's stupid, but you have to take it for what it is and ADAPT. This is Reach, not any of the other Halos'.

  • 06.29.2011 9:14 PM PDT
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[Posted by: moar 7 fish
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Posted by: blindx1
Don't try and make your opinions facts, they're not.
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We have a name for holding opinions that contradict facts: being wrong.]

Lol at all the people reporting Zomechin's post.

  • 06.29.2011 9:15 PM PDT

Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
Goat was famous. Irie was infamous. Gh0st was FaMaS.

My stats in Halol 4

Typical Waypoint post.
no it's "its got to go" you wouldn't say the "it is got to go" would you?


Posted by: The search_bar
Lol at all the people reporting Zomechin's post.

  • 06.29.2011 9:16 PM PDT
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Jk it's 5.

lol

Ya, it's kind of sad.

  • 06.29.2011 9:25 PM PDT
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fkn Reachtards.

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: PWR LVL
Reported for flaming, OP.
Even though telling someone you've reported them is technically spam and therefore report-able itself, where exactly have I flamed? I'll be sure to edit it out, just for you.

He's obviously just butthurt that you dissed the Bungie gods and their holy game.

  • 06.29.2011 10:03 PM PDT
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Why is this reported...?
Posted by: Zomechin
Sword Block. "Adapt." Sure, good suggestion. I'll just start using my Sword mid or long range. I'm the best Sword-sniper there is.
I lol'd.
Posted by: Zomechin
"Now it's balanced." No, now it's an Assault Rifle. You have no reason to rush or setup for it. You've turned a deadly power weapon that brought flourishing movement to the map into a near-worthless and completely random poking stick that isn't really worth wasting your time going for.
QFT

  • 06.29.2011 10:33 PM PDT

I don't know how far off this thread has gotten from the OP because I'm too lazy to read 26 pages but on the OP:
I don't mind sword block but I think it should be removed because whenever I see someone block a laser sword with their bare hands i think of this

  • 06.29.2011 10:39 PM PDT
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Horrible, horrible game.

  • 06.29.2011 11:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Teeth
Horrible, horrible game.
It's not that bad, but I will agree with the OP, these game mechanics are pure abominations.

Also, LOL @ his fileshare.

  • 06.29.2011 11:16 PM PDT