Halo: Reach Discussion

Screw you guys. Using "Armor Lock" to geomerge a barrel through the floor, to use in the room below, will be a much better puzzle!

...Oh crap I shouldn't have given that one away....

 

This just made me think about something. I'm 90% sure this will be an option for customs. This will expand even beyond puzzle maps.

The ability to pick up different AA in multiplayer, and place them in forge! Imagine a rush for Jetpack or AL! Then when that person died you could pick it up!

Everyone would start with say sprint or nothing, and then you would be able to have strategic locations to pick up a new armor ability. Like there could be a cloak placed outside of the base to help you to sneak in.

This is just an idea that Bungie may have thought of to change the experience with Armor Abilities.

 

Actually this is how AA's will work in campaign. I'm not sure if you can pick them up from dead guys, but they made it sound like you can pick up an AA and they will be in weapon caches or something. It would be pretty cool if that was an option in customs

 

On the note of AA, I just wondered something. When playing customs with friends will you have your own custom classes, or will the leader set classes up with the options in gametype or such. I imagine they won't let us create our own, so I think the latter is a better choice. This is going to be awesome.

And hopefully placeable AA's will be available in Forge, not only in campaign. It would totally open up soooooooo much more options for games. ****in' game is going to be epic now.

 

Look at Juggernaut settings, it's clear that in Reach you can force player's traits to change and give them AAs and different weapons. That means we'll be able to do the same thing with a custom powerup. So even if Bungie doesn't make placeable AAs in Forge, you'll be able to use a couple customs for a similar effect. When people looked through the code from the Beta there were three different custom powerups, so that helps.

 

Yea, this game is going to be incredible! I can't wait to try out Forge!

 

I can this game being played for years to come, longer than halo 3 will be played. I really want Bungie to release some info about forge, but I know they won't. Next update sounds like it could be good as well... so we'll wait and see.
Also the new armory photo cleared up a lot of stuff.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they gave a sneak peak at Forge at comic con along with the many blood gulch secrets. I mean there is less than 2 months left until release also and they are bound to go in depth at some point if not now, then in August.

 

Mm hopefully...
What I really want to see though is some screenshots of the multiplayer maps.

 

Is one multiplayer map worth releasing something about at comic con? Unless they used forge or theres something really special about it, why would info on a single map be worth it

 

Media stormed Bungie last week and are going to release some info as soon as this Thursday. This also may be a hint at what we will see at comic con which happens on the same day. Here's some of the stuff they talked about:

Brian Jarrard:
"The media preview visit was a full day with hands on across two campaign missions, forge, firefight and competitive multiplayer. There will be a ton of screenshots including direct feed video of parts of the day (mp related only). Some content Is allowed to be released next Thursday, the rest (campaign+) is embargoed until early August. Muliple U.S. and Int'l magazines and websites participated..."

 

oooh look. Comic Con pictures of monitors holding vehicles on Blood Gulch. Forge will be revealed in the near future?

 

Just saw that a few mins ago. Those are the three same girls from last years booth at the Con. I remember them all too well.

 

All 3 of them except maybe the one on the right are don't-know-if-want status.. I know they can find hotter girls at comic con.

 

yep. lazy eye, horse jaw, and an angel. I think those were their actual names.

 

Notice how there's monitors (Forge) yet there's a brute about to swing at the spartan (Possibly Firefight). I wonder if that's just a poster, or that's actually trying to show something......

 

thats an elite. no brutes in that poster. you can view it much larger at @bungietweets

 

Wow you're right. Couldn't tell from that size. The elites obviously do look more menacing now.

 

It'd be so hot if when you picked up the something that blue light from the moniter comes out of it's eye. OHHHH.

 

I personally think that the three girls there just convinced me NOT to get the game. All of them made me retch. >.>