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Subject: Questions about CEA multiplayer. Veterans, please answer...

I know that the multiplayer takes place in the reach engine on the same disc and all. I also know that later on they will be releasing the 7 multiplayer maps in reach as well which we could play in a revamped classic playlist in reach's multiplayer what i want to know is:

When the seven maps are released as DLC for reach, since halo cea multiplayer players will be on the same maps, on the same engine, will they be playing online together?

The reason i asked this is that 343 said they did not want to split reach's community with another multiplayer in CEA but wouldnt making them unable to play together even though on the same engine inevitably split up the community anyway?

Please answer.

  • 08.08.2011 5:32 PM PDT

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I'm under the impression that it will work the same way as the multiplayer disc with ODST, only without the second disc.

So the people who decide to download the maps instead of getting CEA will still be play with CEA owners.

  • 08.08.2011 5:50 PM PDT

They said that it's all gonna be Reach multiplayer, even though its the Halo CEA, its not goin to be that type of multiplayer. Its all reach now, no split for multiplayer

  • 08.08.2011 5:50 PM PDT

CEA's multiplayer will have one playlist called Classic Playlist. Which is Reach's multiplayer with classic halo gameplay. Reach owner's will have the same playlist too. That means both games can play together.

  • 08.08.2011 6:12 PM PDT

It's not just the same engine as Reach. It is Reach.

So yes, the peoples will be able to play together. People with just Anniversary will only have those seven maps, but the game will come with a voucher or something to download the maps and play them from their main Reach game if they have it.

  • 08.08.2011 7:25 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

Will players that decide not to buy CEA still be able to buy the 7 maps from the marketplace or something?

  • 08.08.2011 7:54 PM PDT


Posted by: Super PolarBear
Will players that decide not to buy CEA still be able to buy the 7 maps from the marketplace or something?
Yes.

  • 08.08.2011 8:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: NAStheMagiking

Posted by: Super PolarBear
Will players that decide not to buy CEA still be able to buy the 7 maps from the marketplace or something?
Yes.

To elaborate, not the day CEA is released. 343i doesn't want a huge gap between the CEA release and the marketplace release but there's no timeframe as to when the DLC will actually appear on XBL.

  • 08.08.2011 9:29 PM PDT

To: sdnomdE
Ugh, no its not...
The menu:
CAMPAIGN
HALO REACH MULTIPLAYER
WAYPOINT
EXTRAS
It takes place in the reach engine in the halo CE disc, thats a fact.

[Edited on 08.09.2011 4:28 PM PDT]

  • 08.09.2011 4:25 PM PDT


Posted by: JohnyRL
To: sdnomdE
Ugh, no its not...
The menu:
CAMPAIGN
HALO REACH MULTIPLAYER
WAYPOINT
EXTRAS
It takes place in the reach engine in the halo CE disc, thats a fact.

What exactly in my post disagrees with what you just posted?

I said that people who only have Anniversary will only be able to play Anniversary's seven maps, but that you will be able to play those maps from your Reach game if you have Reach as well.

My guess would be that you somehow misread me as "you will only be able to play the multiplayer maps from your Reach game."

[Edited on 08.09.2011 5:09 PM PDT]

  • 08.09.2011 5:07 PM PDT

What? Thats nothing like what you said... You said the multiplayer isnt in the reach engine only, but rather IS reach, but that is incorrect.
You totally misquoted yourself.
And besides, you original post was irrelevant to what i was asking.
Posted by: sdnomdE

Posted by: JohnyRL
To: sdnomdE
Ugh, no its not...
The menu:
CAMPAIGN
HALO REACH MULTIPLAYER
WAYPOINT
EXTRAS
It takes place in the reach engine in the halo CE disc, thats a fact.

What exactly in my post disagrees with what you just posted?

I said that people who only have Anniversary will only be able to play Anniversary's seven maps, but that you will be able to play those maps from your Reach game if you have Reach as well.

My guess would be that you somehow misread me as "you will only be able to play the multiplayer maps from your Reach game."

  • 08.10.2011 6:17 PM PDT


Posted by: JohnyRL
What? Thats nothing like what you said... You said the multiplayer isnt in the reach engine only, but rather IS reach, but that is incorrect.

I think you don't understand how broad the term "running on the same engine" is. Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2 are in the same engine, but are totally different games. Halo 1 and Stubbs the Zombie are in the same engine, but are totally different games. Heck, Mass Effect and Bulletstorm both run in Unreal Engine 3, an engine which has even found applications outside of gaming! CEA isn't like that; the multiplayer has the same framework, patches, MP ladders and network, and everything as Reach, the only difference being that some of the map files are missing. It is Reach multiplayer.

Usually when people say that two games are "running on the same engine," they're talking about them as two totally different games. If CEA is described as merely "running on the same engine" as Reach, it would be expected that there could, and probably would, be some tweaking in the rendering pipeline or the netcode, or the standard data files implimented into the maps.

You can play CEA multiplayer from Reach. It is a subset of Reach's multiplayer, not some other game that just runs on the same engine.

Or, let's put it this way: Would you argue that playing on the defiant map pack isn't "playing Reach multiplayer"?

And besides, you original post was irrelevant to what i was asking.
You asked about what the situation was with game engines, and whether people playing on one could play on the other. My post answers that question. It was not irrelevant.

[Edited on 08.10.2011 6:48 PM PDT]

  • 08.10.2011 6:37 PM PDT

are they bringing back halo ce weapons and vehicles though? and will that playlist use them? so if you are on your reach disc you would have to not only download the maps but the whole arsenal as well right? or are they just putting regular reach gameplay but on halo ce maps?

  • 08.12.2011 11:56 AM PDT


Posted by: Maximus17
are they bringing back halo ce weapons and vehicles though? and will that playlist use them? so if you are on your reach disc you would have to not only download the maps but the whole arsenal as well right? or are they just putting regular reach gameplay but on halo ce maps?

The extent of any gameplay changes in the playlist are presently unknown. We know that 343i is going to release a TU for Reach meant to go alongside CEA, and that it will at least include new gametype options.

They have said that they're trying to recreate the experience. Hopefully they do a less atrocious job of it than Bungie's "classic" playlist.

[Edited on 08.12.2011 12:00 PM PDT]

  • 08.12.2011 11:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: sdnomdE
Hopefully they do a less atrocious job of it than Bungie's "classic" playlist.
Actually, 95% of that playlist is the Community's work (Gametypes and Maps), so, in reality, it was our "atrocious" work. :P

  • 08.12.2011 12:04 PM PDT

Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: sdnomdE
Hopefully they do a less atrocious job of it than Bungie's "classic" playlist.
Actually, 95% of that playlist is the Community's work (Gametypes and Maps), so, in reality, it was our "atrocious" work. :P

Regardless of who made the little pieces, it was Bungie that assembled and approved the resultant pile of meh.

I don't think they've ever been good at selecting fan content, though. It's frustrating to see so much junk get loaded into so many playlists, for instance, when Invasion gets left alone, never to receive anything from the large collection of masterpieces out there, like Hushed Apprentice.

  • 08.12.2011 2:53 PM PDT

the dlc will be released at a later date, so you can only on the maps if you bought halo cea until a later date that is tbd.

  • 08.12.2011 8:04 PM PDT