Hey everyone. College will be winding down for me soon so I’m thinking about picking up Reach again. I played reach for 2months when it first came out but quit because i hated bloom and there was no mlg at the time. After some research i see 343 removed bloom and watching some streams the game ‘looks’ better but how does it play?
Do i need to buy map packs to run in the playlist?
Is there a competitive scene online?
Overlooking the BS and annoyances of grenades and AA does the game feel more like halo?
Reach? My favorite halo,
Ive had some wonderful memories in matchmaking, the game plays like a dream (at least postTU), fun playlists, game chat trash talking in BTB, daily challenges, and just having fun in forge world are a few off the top of my head.
The game is really fun to play when you stop nitpicking it, and if you take a trip back to halo 3, you are always reminded what makes reach so great. Netcode/hitscan (no lag/shots land)
IMO, 343 haven’t made enough changes to vanilla Reach, but I guess enough people like bloom and armor lock for it to stay in almost all playlists. You don’t need to buy map packs (and I would recommend not getting them anyway: no one else has it so you never play on the maps online), and there are only few playlists that are worth playing on. For me, the only competitive playlist is MLG, which is of course the most balanced and skill-based combination of the Reach variables. If that’s too competitve/too difficult (like it is for me) then you may like to play Super Slayer, which has the TU features.
I see. A lot of what you said in the above post is the general consenus of the MLG forums as well. Im glad to hear the playlist is competitive, ill definitly will be re-buying Reach then.
Also does anyone know if 343 is using the reach engine in h4? I would guess that h4 will have a closer feeling in terms of display and cursor movement as reach than h3.