Going back to Reach...

Games Other Halo
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so I’ve been playing Halo 4 today. After 3 matches I could not play it anymore. It is broken, but not because of all the issues that are discussed in the forum. The basic set-up is wrong.

Let’s take the main weapons for instance. In Halo 3 the BR had a bigger reticle and the shots took longer. The result was that you had to lead your target. In Reach you had bloom. So you had to pace your shots.

What’s in Halo 4? You just mash the trigger and the enemy falls dead.
They made this game noob friendly, so more people feel like heroes when they can kill somebody. (I don’t want to mention the ridiculously strong AR or the Boltshot)
The result is, the edges get smaller. I play to get better and best a major part of the players. But now 50% of all DMR Duels end up with 2 dead.

I could explain it more detail but it isn’t worth the effort.

The point I’m getting to, is that an hour ago, I tried out Reach again.
I liked Reach, but because it was somewhat worse than Halo 3, I eventually lost the motivation to play.

However, just now I loved it. Not to mention it had more people online than Halo 4 at the time.
Compared to Halo 4, Reach does not seem that bad as I remembered. I realized what a true Halo was.
I suggest you give it a try and play a round of Reach.

So, a few days ago I would encourage you all to do the same thing, go back to Reach to boycott 343.
But I simply don’t care anymore. Do what you want, play what you want. Halo 4 is dead. 343 sold x million copies and now they don’t give a -Yoink- about the Halo fanbase.

Nevertheless I give them a chance to win me back. There are countless posts with suggestions what they could and should improve.

If they continue to do nothing I won’t buy Halo 5. I will borrow it to play the campaign and that’s it.
I won’t support a company that makes false promises and kills a beloved franchise.

If there are too many mistakes in the text, I’m sorry. English is not my native language :wink:

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Good luck, have fun.

Here’s your ball, so you can take it and go home.

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> Good luck, have fun.
>
> Here’s your ball, so you can take it and go home.

I don’t think he wants the ball. He doesn’t like the way it bounces, too noob friendly, ya know?

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Leave him brothers.

The Great Journey waits for no one; especially not one who can be so foolish as he.

We shall continue our defiant march into the divine beyond, and nothing shall stop us.

NOTHING.

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I want the old forge back.

The pieces are now different sizes that dont make any sense. Why the hell is the coliseum wall 10x11.8? Why is the 4x4 corner 4.2x4.2 when the damn size hasn’t changed in the name?

Why am I constantly running into soft kill boundaries on these tiny templates? Why is everything round if the pieces are supposed to be placed together? Why did they get rid of fine adjustments and camera zoom if the magnet system doesn’t work? Why dont the pieces line up with coordinates? Why isn’t there a single open area for vehicle maps? Why does the dynamic lighting system stop working at less than 50% of the budget?

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Halo 4 is trash. I played 2.5 games yesterday, took the game out, then played Halo 3 for 3 hours.

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> Halo 4 is trash. I played 2.5 games yesterday, took the game out, then played Halo 3 for 3 hours.

And let me guess, it was so good, that you had to come and tell us about it.

Oh! I know, you’re on here trolling while your Halo 3 game is taking 10 minutes to find a match! Yeah, that’s what it is. Lol

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lol you like reach.

moron.

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and when halo 5 come out everyone will go back to 4. this happens with every release it’s not even funny.

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> > Halo 4 is trash. I played 2.5 games yesterday, took the game out, then played Halo 3 for 3 hours.
>
> And let me guess, it was so good, that you had to come and tell us about it.
>
> Oh! I know, you’re on here trolling while your Halo 3 game is taking 10 minutes to find a match! Yeah, that’s what it is. Lol

no man, he spent all 3 of those hours in a custom game alone because he couldnt find a match lol

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> and when halo 5 come out everyone will go back to 4. this happens with every release it’s not even funny.

It’s what the Halo community has become.

Well, actually, it’s what we always were.

People on the forums Hated Halo 2 and wanted CE.
Then they hated 3 and wanted to go back to 2.
Hated Reach, wanted to go back to 3.

See where I’m going? It’s a pattern. And it won’t stop.

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reach was better, but there is no point in “going back to reach”. its a dead playlist with no future updates.

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Im playing MLG TeamSnipers and TeamSlayer in Reach and havent more lag than H4.
Reach without perks and bloom is a good halo.
H4 is a Big Bro Slayer…

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Actually, what the OP was really going after was that the skill gap has dropped drastically. Fundamental game play elements have changed, and in some players eyes, for the worse. For those that enjoyed learning how to use the precision weapons well just having those weapons become point and shoot is more than annoying. Same goes for learning map control, weapon spawns and the like.

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I may have read the post wrong, but does the TC argue that Bloom is more skill based than no bloom?

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> the ridiculously strong AR

Why does everyone keep saying this? Up until this point the AR was never really capable of killing anything on its own. You had to shoot and frag or shoot and melee.

Now it’s finally balanced and people are complaining. Wat?

> People on the forums Hated Halo 2 and wanted CE.
> Then they hated 3 and wanted to go back to 2.
> Hated Reach, wanted to go back to 3.

Baseless assumption. People like me get accused of changing our minds on Halo Reach, the truth is I never hated it to begin with.

I’ve never disliked any Halo title up until Halo 4 (and maybe ODST, was sub-par in my opinion).

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> Leave him brothers.
>
> The Great Journey waits for no one; especially not one who can be so foolish as he.
>
> We shall continue our defiant march into the divine beyond, and nothing shall stop us.
>
> NOTHING.

And just like that the prophet bent the covenant to follow his deluded mind; and so they descended into their inevitable fate.

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Actually the way halo 4 looks based on the previous titles is completely different, and looks much more cartoony.

I played reach again to play some good maps and playlists. IDC about the powerups.

I don’t see why reach is really bad.

Its better than halo 4 right now. It has the halo feel mroe than halo 4 does.

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Nobody cares.

/thread

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Yeah you go back to the stain of the Halo franchise. Have fun with Armor Lock.