This looks to be a very exciting update, It is filled with Awesomeness, but has just a few bumps. Here are the pros:
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The armor of Noble Team - some of the emblems - (?) Possible Falcon? (behind O.N.I. card) - INFECTION! - New weapons - Awesome Forge additions (corpses, decals, textures) Thanks Tom French and the team!Here are the cons of the update:
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Jorge’s machine gun - Brute plasma rifle - re-released weapon skins - All Noble Team armor is “Mythic” (both for Ultra Rare and Legendary) - No Reach shotgun (at least for now? hopefully :/)Overall, I wouldn’t call the update “Memories of Reach”, here’s why: I don’t have memories of using Jorge’s machine gun (because you couldn’t), I don’t have memories of using a Brute Plasma Rifle (*because the Brute plasma rifle wasn’t even in Reach), and I don’t have memories of playing on the map called “Stasis” (because it’s not a Reach map). I have memories of Forging on Forge World for hours at a time, flying a Falcon, customizing my spartan with a vast amount of options…and sadly, this update brings none of that (from the looks of it). They should really name it: "Armor of Noble Team", because that’s about the only thing relating to Reach that I see.
Yeah I wanted a normal plasma rifle as well, storm rifle just wont do, even though halo 5 has the storm rifle as a much more viable weapon it’s still trash compared to the plasma rifle in terms of design No one wanted the storm rifle to replace the plasma rifle… NO ONE. Don’t fix whats not broken 343. Now give us back the normal plasma rifle.
The Plasma rifle is also better at range, and is more iconic and original…plain and simple 
Im finding it weird they gave us a Brute one too.
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> Im finding it weird they gave us a Brute one too.
Why? People have been asking for brute weapons just as well as the original covey weapons…
OP: it is memories of reach, these updates don’t need all 100% of it to correlate with its theme. So we couldn’t use Jorge’s turret in reach, we can now, it still correlates being how he was in reach.
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> Why? People have been asking for brute weapons just as well as the original covey weapons…
Probably because it should have been a variant.
- Regular PR
- Brute BR
- Scarab Gun
It’s strange that they added the brute plasma rifle, but is that really a con of the update? It’s still a plasma rifle nonetheless.
The title wasn’t supposed to taken literally. Battle of shadow and light wasn’t an actual battle, hammer storm wasn’t an actual storm of hammers, and ghosts of meridian had nothing to do with ghosts. These are just some things from reach. Also, I don’t know why everyone wants reach’s shotgun. It’s not OP or anything.
AMEN! I couldnt have said this any better
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> It’s strange that they added the brute plasma rifle, but is that really a con of the update? It’s still a plasma rifle nonetheless.
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> The title wasn’t supposed to taken literally. Battle of shadow and light wasn’t an actual battle, hammer storm wasn’t an actual storm of hammers, and ghosts of meridian had nothing to do with ghosts. These are just some things from reach. Also, I don’t know why everyone wants reach’s shotgun. It’s not OP or anything.
If your going to put “Memories” and “Reach” for the title of the update, then it should involve actual assets and memories of reach.
Why is Jorge’s turret a con?
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> Im finding it weird they gave us a Brute one too.
The brute version Is better than the normal version, they probably choose it so that it could counter the storm rifle better than the original ever could.
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> Why is Jorge’s turret a con?
sorry, I wouldn’t exactly call it bad, but here’s why: The update is called “Memories of Reach” I would’ve rather got Forge World, Falcon (?), classic shotgun, or even the grenade launcher…The machine gun had little to no significance in Reach, so why add that instead of the things I listed above?
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> > It’s strange that they added the brute plasma rifle, but is that really a con of the update? It’s still a plasma rifle nonetheless.
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> > The title wasn’t supposed to taken literally. Battle of shadow and light wasn’t an actual battle, hammer storm wasn’t an actual storm of hammers, and ghosts of meridian had nothing to do with ghosts. These are just some things from reach. Also, I don’t know why everyone wants reach’s shotgun. It’s not OP or anything.
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> If your going to put “Memories” and “Reach” for the title of the update, then it should involve actual assets and memories of reach.
Is the turret not from reach? It wasn’t usable but still from reach. The plasma rifle was in reach, it wasn’t red, but it was still a plasma rifle. The ONI req will also be from reach (most likely the falcon), and all of nobles armors were from reach. Does that not count as actual assets?
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> > > The title wasn’t supposed to taken literally. Battle of shadow and light wasn’t an actual battle, hammer storm wasn’t an actual storm of hammers, and ghosts of meridian had nothing to do with ghosts. These are just some things from reach. Also, I don’t know why everyone wants reach’s shotgun. It’s not OP or anything.
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> Is the turret not from reach? It wasn’t usable but still from reach. The plasma rifle was in reach, it wasn’t red, but it was still a plasma rifle. The ONI req will also be from reach (most likely the falcon), and all of nobles armors were from reach. Does that not count as actual assets?
What I’m saying is if 343 is doing a “Memories of Reach” update, they should do something about our memories of Reach…Like Forge World, the Grenade Launcher, Falcon(?), great customization…NOT the wrong version of the plasma rifle, an un-usable weapon from reach, Osiris and Blue Team weapon skins…It all just seems off.
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> > > > The title wasn’t supposed to taken literally. Battle of shadow and light wasn’t an actual battle, hammer storm wasn’t an actual storm of hammers, and ghosts of meridian had nothing to do with ghosts. These are just some things from reach. Also, I don’t know why everyone wants reach’s shotgun. It’s not OP or anything.
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> > Is the turret not from reach? It wasn’t usable but still from reach. The plasma rifle was in reach, it wasn’t red, but it was still a plasma rifle. The ONI req will also be from reach (most likely the falcon), and all of nobles armors were from reach. Does that not count as actual assets?
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> What I’m saying is if 343 is doing a “Memories of Reach” update, they should do something about our memories of Reach…Like Forge World, the Grenade Launcher, Falcon(?), great customization…NOT the wrong version of the plasma rifle, an un-usable weapon from reach, Osiris and Blue Team weapon skins…It all just seems off.
Don’t forget about infection. I’m pretty sure we’re getting the falcon, and the grenade launcher would’ve been cool, but they have to decide on what they want to do. Jorge’s turret, though unusable in reach, seems pretty cool. I don’t think you can just add “great customization” in the game. The UI would need to change drastically and the game might not even be able to render it while keeping 60 fps.
I think they used the brute plasma rifle because it is more powerful than the standard plasma rifle and thus can compete with the storm rifle.
It still is a reach themed update, but the whole update was never going to be just reach things.
I just don’t like that the weapon skins are being added that were originally exclusive to the Spartan armory pack.
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> I just don’t like that the weapon skins are being added that were originally exclusive to the Spartan armory pack.
But they were presented as early access to the skins.
The description for the Noble skins then said:
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Noble Team Assault Rifle and Magnum Weapon Skin: Can’t wait for the Memories of Reach content update in April? Get your nostalgic kick now with the Noble Team Assault Rifle and Magnum Weapon skins.
It would have been great if they made a noble armour variant that looks more like carters and noble sixes armour. Perhaps they will release the standard plasma rifle in a future update but it doesn’t make sense. I’m just praying that the req item covered by the Oni symbol is a falcon.
Pro - It’s free.
Con - It’s not out.
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> This looks to be a very exciting update, It is filled with Awesomeness, but has just a few bumps. Here are the pros:
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> - The armor of Noble Team
> - some of the emblems
> - (?) Possible Falcon? (behind O.N.I. card)
> - INFECTION!
> - New weapons
> - Awesome Forge additions (corpses, decals, textures) Thanks Tom French and the team!
> Here are the cons of the update:
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> - Jorge’s machine gun
> - Brute plasma rifle
> - re-released weapon skins
> - All Noble Team armor is “Mythic” (both for Ultra Rare and Legendary)
> - No Reach shotgun (at least for now? hopefully :/)
> Overall, I wouldn’t call the update “Memories of Reach”, here’s why: I don’t have memories of using Jorge’s machine gun (because you couldn’t), I don’t have memories of using a Brute Plasma Rifle (because the Brute plasma rifle wasn’t even in Reach), and I don’t have memories of playing on the map called “Stasis” (because it’s not a Reach map). I have memories of Forging on Forge World for hours at a time, flying a Falcon, customizing my spartan with a vast amount of options…and sadly, this update brings none of that (from the looks of it). They should really name it: "Armor of Noble***Team", because that’s about the only thing relating to Reach that I see.
I wish there was an uncommon normal Plasma Rifle, and a rare brute version, which we have as an uncommon. But I’m still pretty hyped to find out what’s coming.