- Flint27
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- Exalted Legendary Member
God made 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Bungie Team,
Thank you for making such an awesome game. I'm a company commander in a Signal unit in Okinawa where our primary mission is to control military satellites. This weekend we were struck by Typhoon Bolaven. When a typhoon does strike, we're forced into lockdown as the weather doesn't allow for safe travel yet we have to maintain our mission. We rotate shift workers to continue 24 hour operations.
So what do you do with a bunch of Army guys locked in a secure facility for up to three days who aren't of shift? After PT, you play Halo. What makes Halo the best choice is obviously the multiplayer, but it's also the little things that you have thought of to make multiplayer work. I would like to highlight a few of these things briefly.
First off, I own all of the DLC including 1.1 for Reach on my 360. Some of my fellow 360 owners didn't. Did that affect our ability to network and still play all of the available maps? Not one bit. I'll be honest, I knew that the game update would cross over, but the maps were a significant bonus. Thank you for that.
I have a dozen games that I've played over the years, from Gears to Black Ops to Rock Band. Most of these run into snags while trying to create a LAN party. I understand that developers have a limited budget of time and resources thus they have to cut corners. Bungie, I salute your choices and I am grateful that you have fully supported system link games.
For example, some of my troops played Black Ops on two 360s. Not a big deal one would think, especially after it was working fine for Reach. Not only did it take 4 times as long to figure out the UI to "link" the two systems, but a) you could only play 4 players and b) we had to clear the cache on the updated system to baseline that 360. Black Ops doesn't support incongruent game versions. We came back to Reach very quickly, and loved ALL of the variants whether it was Juggernaut, Infection, CTF or slayer.
To sum up, you guys rock. I had guys that hadn't played Halo for a long time on shift with me. I had guys who competed in a local tourney the day prior to the typhoon for a reserved copy of Halo 4 (and won *cough *cough). Regardless of the level of play, your legacy will leave an imprint on this gaming generation. Memories like this weekend for a community of U.S. Army Signaleers will endure. They will continue to occur and you should be proud of what you've created and accomplished.
Well done Bungie.
Very Respectfully,
JTS
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