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Subject: Vanilla Reach was playtested and praised by MLG before release

From Urk over on the HBO forums

"Default" Reach was playtested, and lauded, by MLG players long before it ever shipped, marking it as the first and only Halo title that was exposed to professional players and their feedback prior to launch. I distinctly recall players like Hysteria and Elamite Warrior noting that systems like bloom would be an incredible boon to skilled players. It's sort of en vogue now to trash it as a non-competitive, "casualized" game, even though it was vetted and influenced more significantly by MLG players than any other Halo title, ever. Part of me thinks that's sort of funny and ironic. Another part of me reads these posts and realizes that it's mostly sad. Live and learn.

  • 12.03.2011 2:29 AM PDT

it was a mistake either way

  • 12.03.2011 2:31 AM PDT

If the pros would have played it more, they probably would have realized that it was broken.

  • 12.03.2011 2:41 AM PDT

Call me Stu

So the mlg kids thought al was al-right lol way to go back on their word.

[Edited on 12.03.2011 2:47 AM PST]

  • 12.03.2011 2:46 AM PDT

Well we don't know a few things. We mostly need to know how much and how often they played it.

  • 12.03.2011 2:48 AM PDT

Planking : Parkour for people who don't move very fast.

This really isn't all that surprising. So MLG pros -knew- there wasn't going to be a 1-50 since before the game released, why didn't they say something to Bungie back then, instead of wasting their breath now?

  • 12.03.2011 3:04 AM PDT

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Only regret is I didn't play more of it.

If you haven't noticed by now, I'm sort of a jerk.

Playing 1-2 games doesn't mean you can make a full, true judgement call on the game. Because after release, when they actually started playing it, they all said they hated it more than Halo 3. And they did not like Halo 3 much either.

[Edited on 12.03.2011 6:17 AM PST]

  • 12.03.2011 6:14 AM PDT
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That thread was full of idiots. I cringed at half those posts because of how ignorant they were about MLG and Halo

  • 12.03.2011 6:15 AM PDT

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lol Urk.

  • 12.03.2011 6:36 AM PDT

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Urk? xD

  • 12.03.2011 6:38 AM PDT

The reason it's not competitive is because there are no ranked playlists and Arena is wank.

  • 12.03.2011 7:10 AM PDT

Digging Foxholes by Profession
Accept No Substitutes

Maybe some of us don't care what professional opinion is, and just want to enjoy the damn game.

  • 12.03.2011 7:16 AM PDT
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You sure about that OP, or where they told to agree with Bungie and weren't allowed to have an opinion or say like in the past? Start 28:22 to 29:08.

[Edited on 12.03.2011 7:28 AM PST]

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RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

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Clone is an internet God.

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RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

The funny thing is the influence he is talking about is when they increased the movement speed and jump height slightly from the Beta.

Too bad they didn't change enough.

  • 12.03.2011 7:54 AM PDT
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Why do Bungie employees never post on their own site...

  • 12.03.2011 9:39 AM PDT
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Why do Bungie employees never post on their own site...
Look in the Community Forum. Almost every topic has a response by an employee.

  • 12.03.2011 10:58 AM PDT
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"In Halo 3 not all 50's were good players, but all good players were 50's."

Your opinion is invalid.

I don't care if every pro in the world said Swordbase was good. They'd be wrong.

  • 12.03.2011 11:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

Posted by: Duardo
Posted by: Learn
Why do Bungie employees never post on their own site...
Look in the Community Forum. Almost every topic has a response by an employee.

Exaggerations can get you banned. . .

  • 12.03.2011 11:33 AM PDT

I acknowledge my user name is stupid. However, I promise I'm not.

Disclaimer: The latter is a lie.

If what Urk said was true, then the only reason these professionals praised Vanilla Reach is because of being at Bungie studios, and playing the new Halo game...

Even if it was the most unbalanced game ever created, they would have praised it, due to the envoirnment and rush they would be immersed in.

Vanilla Reach bad bad.

  • 12.03.2011 11:49 AM PDT