>implying single player modes are still an important part of gaming nowadays

I think there will be a cameo in the Legendary ending featuring Master Chief.

But Bungie always know how to pleasantly surprise.

some pretty boss sandbox gameplay.

>>58532820
>implying your not a faggot

>>58532901
>your

shitty 4 hour campaign

>implying the single player mode wont be neglected in favour of the rehashed multiplayer just like Halo 3

>>58532960
>ololol i got trolled

Some new maps for Invasion.

40+ helmets and armor.

>>58532852

Master Chief didn't fight on Reach, but you never know what Bungie will do.

>>58532733

I'm cautiously optimistic, I think.

>>58532901

>your not a faggot

>Picture related

Looks shit. Could we discuss video games worth discussing instead?

The Beta is pretty damn good. Now as far as campaign... Just want a good story, nothing much.

I play it for about an hour or two but then get bored due to alien sword spam in invasion and DMR DMR DMR DMR DMR in arena slayer or any other fucking game mode

>>58533028
That would be impossible. There has never been a good videogame. So, could you elaborate on your feelings about Reach?

>implying bungie have given the slightest shit about single player since Halo 3

>>58533028
like what, hardcore PC games for hard core PC gamers such as yourself?

>>58533024
No, but he was pretty damn close.

This seems to becoming a shit storm as usual.

Honestly though, this game has been the most fun I've had in Halo since Halo 2. Halo 3 was the epitome of mediocrity, and Bungie seems to be making up for that mediocrity with Reach. No stupid ass Battle Rifles, no pointless weapons, no glowing balls, just fast paced UT type game play.

anybody know if that new gametype invasion is any good?

would it be worth it to get live again considering how much time is left in the beta?

>>58533706
well if your as poor as you sound, then you can just wait till the 14th when its gonna be free to play for, lol, silver members

>>58533419

Yeah, he was on that station with Linda and James. Bungie might retcon it, though; a lot of that has been going on with Halo canon lately.

>>58533542

Reach seems to be taking a lot of features from CE, from what I've seen on it. The human grenade, for example.

At the end of the game, Noble team's surviving members (minus 6) will get hit with a glassing cannon.

6 will live and have to do the endgame by himself.

I hope.

>>58533818
>6 will live
>by himself

>>58533706
Probably, but I read on Joystiq or someplace that Silver accounts are going to be able to play within the next week or so.

>>58533954
Or herself.

>>58534038

It's a guy.

>>58533818
>>58533818
Fuck yeah man. Was thinking maybe he would be Master Chief too... could be funny since Bungie said they won't really follow the book.

>>58534038
I laughed too hard at your idea

>>58534169
No, Six can be male or female.

I just want some better graphics.

I know the screenshots look great when you get them off of Bungie.net, but the game itself looks awful. The screenshots look nice because they're touched up/rerendered after you take them. Or something.

Also, I love Invasion.

ALRIGHT MOTHER FUCKER HERE IS THE ENDING OF REACH.

A NEW TYPE OF SPARTAN IS CREATED CALLED SPARTAN 117. BUT HE'S A FUCKING PRINCE FAGGOT SO THEY TAKE HIM OFF REACH TO UNDERGO SPECIAL TRAINING SHIT. SO THEY DRIVE HIM TO HIS SHIP ON A FUCKING WARTHOG WITH THE HALO THEME PLAYING (DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH,DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHH,DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHH,DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH) AND THEN HE FLIES OUTTA THAT MOTHER FUCKER WHILE ALL THE OTHER MASTER CHEIFS DIE.

Halo reach legendary ending:

You board the pillar of autumn and get ready to make an emergency evacuation. You see your spartan take off his armor as it falls to the ground and he walks in another room. Several seconds later you walk out and it pans up to master chief in his new armor from Halo1.

>>58533793
The Pistol is fucking great like it was in CE, the grenades are powerful as fuck (like they were in CE), and there is fall damage. More than anything, however, it's a combined version of all the games; It's an orgy of the best features in the series.

Sure, the grenades are annoying as fuck, cloaking makes the sword invisible, and the plasma launcher is grade-a bullshit, but GODDAMN am I having fun.

>>58534297

Cannon that it's male.

>>58534258
What the hell is going on in that picture?

i was thinking that since master chief is the one that assigns each team where to go. we'll see him at the beginning do just that. or maybe a cameo appearance at the end (legendary) or simply hear him on the radio. I bet noble team are responsible for getting MC out of there safely.

>>58534445
>cannon

Seeing as we'll probably never see his/her face, it wont matter.

>>58534519
>>58534519

You don't see his face because it ends up being master chief.

>>58534678
That's just stupid. John wasn't on Reach.

>>58534445
>cannon

Did he died?

>>58534373

I know that this post is trollan, but my knowledge of Halo can still makes me sorta angry at this post.

>>58534678

Master Chief isn't a SPARTAN-III, which Six is.

I heard it's gonna be more open-world like? Wtf is this all about?

>>58534727
n 2517, John and seventy-four other children his age are covertly taken from their homes and replaced with clones to hide the kidnapping. The original children are brought to planet Reach

k

Master Chief was in space when this happened. He practically fought at the end of the war on reach. Still to my amazement he manages to lose half his team even when they started getting the new shields.

My only disappointment is that I won't get a game involving John's Spartans now that Bungie's done. I wanted to play as delicious Linda.

>>58534962
I assumed to knew I meant John wasn't on Reach during the war.

I overestimated you.

>>58534962

Game is set 2552, bro.

>>58535040

Linda? On Reach? Or just anywhere?

>>58535040

yeah i thought we were going to be able to play as her (badass sniper). also, it does explain the other spartan on board as shown in halo ce

I expect manly tears

i was hoping to do a space mission with master chief to destroy that one data thing on that one ship where you meet sergeant johnson for the 1st time

>>58534962

Okay, to clear this up, he was in Reach orbit. He and a couple other Spartans were trying to take a Orbital MAC Gun, or something. When they were leaving they (they being John and Linda[?]; Linda was fucked up) boarded the Pillar of Autumn, which then jumped out of system.

>>58535055
Master chief WAS on reach during the war, that is where the pillar of autumn comes from in halo1.

>>58535145
Anywhere. I can't remember though, was she able to be revived?

Master Chief was in cryogenic sleep while Reach was being destroyed. I doubt he'll show up in this game.

>>58535348
see
>>58535320

ITT: faggots who didn't read the book.

There is one team of Spartans left on reach after the covenants glass the planet. MC never goes down there until the end.

>>58535427
>>58535427
Nigga you lie. This ain't Kingdom Hearts 2

>>58535320

He was on that station to remove the navigational data of a new prowler so the Covenant wouldn't find Earth, which they proceed to do anyway.

>>58535348

He was NEAR Reach not ON it.

>>58535379
Oh wait, yeah she was. That makes her one of the few remaining original Spartan IIs. AND a lady sniper.

Obviously making her the best character in the series.

anyone else excited for the newly announced Halo: Ghosts of Onyx game. hard to believe since Reach isn't even out yet.

>>58535505

>>58535451
There was HOWEVER another Spartan II team on Reach which end up underground with Dr.Halsey, in a Forerunner structure. They never interacted with Spartan III's.

There are a bunch of spartans left if I remember right. A few teams are MIA by the end of halo3.

THIS JUST IN
THE BETA FUCKING SUCKS

>>58535505

>>58535666

>>58535666
It's been a while since I filtered somebody.

>>58535660
Fred, Kelly, and Linda are the only Spartan IIs left, trapped in a Dyson Sphere with a bunch of IIIs.

>>58535740
Shit I didn't get his tripcode in time. Anyone wanna help a bro out?

>>58535740
>>58535738
Manly Tears?

>>58535379

Yeah, she was; she's with the rest of the SPARTAN-II's in Onyx as of the newest information, I think.

>>58535461

The Covenant never actually glass Reach; they glass somewhere around a quarter of it so they can dig up Forerunner stuff.

>>58535660

There are four SPARTAN-II's left, not counting Grey Team. There may be a shitload of SPARTAN-III's left, though.

>>58532733
I'm expecting it to be a terrible game
(because it is)

>>58535738
I deleted it happy?

>>58535790

>>58535812
>>58535812
Cool story bro. You played the game and all? I want your time machine.

>>58535859
Nah
There's still a few
And I believe all of the Spartan III's are still alive

>>58535812
Only one in here with some sense in his head. The beta is fucking casual garbage, and that's why /v/ loves it.

>>58535886
What was it?

>>58535966
Since you asked....


Now this is the story all about how,
My life got flipped, turned upside down,
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there,
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

In West Philadelphia I was born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days.
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin all cool,
And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school.

When a couple of guys who were up to no good,
Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood.
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared,
And said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in bel Air."

I whistled for a cab, and when it came near,
The license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror.
If anything I could say that this cat was rare,
But I thought "Nah forget it, Yo home to Bel Air."

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight,
and I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes, smell ya later."
Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there,
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

Master Chief will be in the game.

Bungie have said time and time and fucking time again that this game is meant to bring the game FULL CIRCLE.

Halo 3 ended how Halo 1 began. Reach will end like Halo 1 began. With Master Chief.

It would be awesome getting a cutscene of MC kicking some ass on the orbital platform, giving orders to 6 and his squad...

If MC isnt in this game, physically, then I am going to be upset.

>>58535859
No, it's just assumed. Bungie confirmed the books as canon. So during the first game, Master Chief knows that Linda MIGHT be able to be saved. After the first game, throughout First Strike, he meets up with the Spartans that survived Reach, and during Halo 2 and 3, they're doing other missions.

>>58536021
You, stop it.

>>58536080
I agree. Master Chef is a legend.

Can always depend on 4 player co-op legendary with hard mode achievements.

>>58536146
No u

>>58536080

>giving orders to 6 and his squad...

MC never learned about the III's, and Noble are III's. So, no. It'll be Fred, if they decide to do something that stupid.

>>58536080

Fuck Chief, actually, I want Buck.

My question is why all the MLG types eem to hate it.

>>58536233

Bucks confirmed.

>>58536241
Aiming and firing with the DMR takes skill and practice now.

>>58536221
Okay.

All of this info was extracted from "ff10_prototype.map" from the Reach beta, which is most likely Overlook as it was taken from Campaign.
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Vehicles

Ghost
Revenant
Wraith
Banshee
Seraph
Mongoose
Warthog
Scorpion
Falcon
Sabre
Pelican (Non drivable)
Chopper
________________

DLC

First DLC will be the Heroic map pack

________________

Playlists

There will be a playlist just for Xbox LIVE Trial memberships
Some playlists will be limited to Xbox LIVE Gold memberships
Some playlists will be region specific
And some playlists require a certain rating to play

There will be a teary last stand scene where they attempt to "hold the line" against 2000 grunts and jackals before being killed and overhwhelmed, cue the sumphonic music and wallah

>>58536338
Hahah! Oh wow!
Yeah, it requires skill with that casual aim assist.
Sure is console casual fags in here.

ITT: People who didn't play Halo: CE. The Pillar of Autumn was a ship fleeing from Reach as it was being attacked by the Covenant, they make a blind jump in space to escape, and thats how they end up finding the Halo rings. The Covenant are already there waiting for them, and they are basically screwed. They decide to unthaw Master Chief, who was in Cryogenic Sleep in the Cargo hold of the ship, to fight back against the Covenant attacking the Pillar of Autumn and eventually land on the Ring

>>58536490
>Pelican (Non drivable)

BUNGIIIEEEEE

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Take your party to combat and objective-based missions that you select and design. Your rules, your maps, your game.

________________

Lobbies

Campaign
Matchmaking
Custom Games (Hints about firefight and other stuff)
Forge
Theater

________________

Gender changes

You can now set your characters body gender to female! (Not just voice change)

________________

Ingame settings

You can now force Elites or Spartans for Gametypes

>>58536398

>>58536643
Well you can't drive a Phantom either.

As neat as that would be.

All I want is the time periods to make sense.

Gravity Hammers during Reach, wat? Also, technology better be fucking worse. Don't want them to pull a Star Trek Enterprise on this.

>>58536490

yay DLC map packs....

>>58536802
Hopefully the grav hammer is MP only

________________

Armour changes

Credits now buy you armour
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ARENA

This is THE ARENA.

The Arena is a measure of your efficiency, lethality and expertise. Its rules are simple:

1. Play enough games each day to get Rated.
2. Get Rated on enough days to earn a spot in a Division.
3. At the end of the season you will see where you rank within your Division.

Good Luck. You'll need it.

Steel: Continued effort will evolve your skill set.
Bronze: Dedication and drive fuel you.
Silver: Proficiency and consistency are your bedfellows.
Gold: Your foes will tremble; your allies will rejoice.
Onyx: You are the way their world ends.

You've played enough games to be Rated for today. Continue playing each day and you'll be assigned to a Division.

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Loadouts

Spartans:

Scout
Guard
Airborne
Marksman
Recon Marksman
Expert Marksman
Operator
Grenadier

Elites:

Warrior
Ranger
Zealot
Royal Zealot
Assasin
Dark Assasin
Gladiator
Champion Assasin
Stalker

>>58536820
They've been doing it since Halo 2. Big fucking surprise.

>>58536490

HELL YEAH, THE CHOPPER IS BACK. FFFFFFFFF.

I love that vehicle. I guess this also means the Brutes are making an appearance.

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Weapons

Energy Sword
Plasma Rifle
Plasma Repeater
Plasma Pistol
Plasma Launcher
Needle Rifle
Battle Rifle [Removed. Probably Leftover Code]
DMR
Focus Rifle
Needler
Magnum
Rocket Launcher
Concussion Rifle
Fuel Rod Gun
Shotgun
Sniper Rifle
Assault Rifle
Missile Pod & Turret
Spiker
Spartan Laser
Grenade Launcher
Machine Gun Turret
FlameThrower [Removed. Probably Leftover Code]
Plasma Turret
Gravity Hammer

___________________

Items

Bomb
Oddball
Flag
Datacore

___________________


Campaign (All I know so far)

Training Misson (With Sgt. Johnson)

>>58536890

If they do, I'll fucking blow a gasket. Brutes weren't in the attack on Reach, for fuck's sake. Bungie has been shoehorning the Brutes into everything.

>>58536975

>>58536975
>Training Misson (With Sgt. Johnson)

Cool.

Skulls

Envy
Grunt Birthday Party
Assasins
Thunderstorm
Famine
I would have been your daddy
Blind
Ghost
Black eye
Catch
Sputnik
Iron
Mythic
Angry
Cow Bell

___________________

Equipment

Active Camouflage
Ammo Pack
Armour Lockup
Power fist
Repulsor
Sensor Pack
Sprint
Super Jump
Jet Pack
Emp Pulse
Shield Generator
Hologram
Evade

___________________

KillStreaks (what other players see)

[Player] is on a Killing Spree!
is on a Killing Frenzy!
is a Running Riot!
is on a Rampage!
is UnTouchable!
is Invincible!
is Immortal!
is Inconcievable!
is UnFrigginbelievable!

>>58536975
>Training Misson (With Sgt. Johnson)
>(With Sgt. Johnson)
>SGT. MOTHERFUCKING JOHNSON

Gaaaah! Da spoilers in this thread. I'm out of here

Gametypes

Slayer
CTF
Oddball
King of the Hill
VIP
Juggernaut
Territories
Assault
Infection
Forge
Race
Bumper Cars
DogFight
Golf
Grifball
HogPile
Soccer
HeadHunter
Invasion
StockPile

>>58537177
Wasn't that his job for a while? Training spartan IIIs?

>>is Inconcievable!

>>58537289

And thats all she wrote.

I went into the beta expecting to absolutely hate the game but holy shit jetpacks on crazy king and the invasion game modes are really fun (granted I never actually played a game of regular invasion where the elites were capable of winning against a clusterfuck of grenade launchers and shotguns)

Also, invisibility power is absolutely useless

>>58537333

No, that was Kurt, a SPARTAN-II. Johnson had nothing to do with the III's.

>>58537333
Yup.

>SERGEANTMOTHERFUCKING JOHNSON

>Halo: Reach thread
>110 posts and 21 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.
>Bunch of betamale military wannabe faggots expecting the next iteration of the shitty series to be anything more then the last game with better graphics

>>58537435
Ah ok. Johnson was a spartan II washout though right?

>>58537493

>>58537488
>Nigger

>>58537538

No, he was a SPARTAN I. Johnson was in the military around the time Master Chief was still a baby, and he's seventy-something by the time of Reach.

The jetpacks and other options are sweet. And the new game modes are pretty cool.

The combat, though faster, is still way to fucking slow. Call me a fag all you want, but Call of Duty's pace is way more entertaining. I shouldn't have to dump an entire AR clip and then have to finish with melee. It should be a couple bursts and they should be down. The speed is the only thing that keeps Halo from actually being fun.

>>58537538
Spartan I, part of the ORION Project. That's how he got Borens Syndrome which saved him from becoming floodified.

>>58537538
He was part of the ORION project (AKA Spartan I). Got shut down due to lack of funding.

>>58537672
>True niggers use the Pistol faggot.

>>58537672

>modern warefare
>combat evolved

lrn2lrn faggot

>>58537672
Would you be able to shoot a person in a goddamn armor suit with energy shields with 2 shots?
NO?

>>58537698

Boren's Syndrome was a cover-up by ONI, actually. It was probably the fact that he was a SPARTAN I that saved him, but we don't know for sure.

>>58537356

whataafunnyguy.jpeg

>>58537672

Yes those genetically altered super soldiers encased in power armour should die just as fast as any other not altered human, DERPEDY TURP.

>>58536231
He doesn't have to know 6 is a III. He could give orders from the other end of the ship or something.

>>58536233

Wasn't Buck on Reach?

What if mastur cheif kiled all da flud by himselff

>>58537898

I was under the impression Boren's Syndrome was a side effect to his Spartan I enhancements. ONI didn't know about it being Anti-Flood because MC didn't report it in the event they took Johnson and dissected him or something.

>>58536609
Because it's so much harder to aim with a mouse.

Look! I can do it too!

How about you try playing it on the console and watch how much your aim sucks?

How is it that John never found out about Spartan IIIs? Are they supposed to be some kind of secret?

>>58538239
Yes. They were developed for the Army (Spartan II's were Navy) and where meant for suicide missions.

>>58538239

Yup, the spartan IIIs were a super secret group ment to be fire and forget. Send 300 or so at a high risk target, they'll all die, but the mission would be complete.

>>58538051

ONI wouldn't allow it. II's are smart; he'll be wondering where this extra team of Spartans are coming from. Besides, Chief wasn't giving orders to the ground, anyway. Fred was.

>>58538188

Boren's Syndrome being a side effect makes sense; they could have been trying to make his reaction time faster, and they screwed up.

>>58538239

Yes, the III's are top secret. Only the upper echelon of ONI and their trainers knew about the III's.

>>58537791
>>58537992
Because the guns can't be scaled appropriately, could they?

Or are you both just fucking disillusion morons attempting to base a game about space marines and aliens around real-world physics?

The combat is too slow. Period. Speed it up. Make shit die faster. Make it harder. Make it more fun. As it is now, its casual as fuck and everyone knows it.

Well... I come in here expecting to talk about the game. Then everyone is talking about the books, which Bungie said they won't really follow anyways.

You guys are all a bunch of nerds.

>>58538630

>nerds
>video game imageboard
>On 4chan

>>58537135

brutes were on the attack at reach, just not encountered by Master Chief.

>>58538868

Master Chief wasn't on Reach, and neither were Brutes. Brutes didn't actually start fighting in the war until the replaced the Elites with them. They were used as guards before.

>>58538630

If you're on /v/, you're a nerd.

>>58538615
>the guns could be scaled

YOU'RE RIGHT, WHY WOULDN'T THE HUMAN MILITARY MAKE THEIR WEAPONS MORE POWERFUL SO THAT THEY CAN EASILY TAKE DOWN THEIR LAST RESORT SUPER SOLDIERS?!

Halo has always been, as you call it, slow. It works, you're just too used to playing military shooters.

I'm expecting a glorious 10lb statue

>>58539076
The legendary edition is fucking ridiculous. Goddamn.

>>58539197
Flaming Helmet dude.

>>58539197
im pre-ordering that mother fucker

>>58538615
>implying ADHD twitch insta-death multiplayer games are hardcore
>implying all others are casual
sure is 12 year old in here. protip: when it takes longer than half a second to die, you can actually work strategy into your games instead of just reflexes

>making flaming helmet not a bungie only

>>58536241
I actually play with the real semi-pros, not the MLG wanna be tryhards that give us a bad name, it's really personal preference, but the general consensus is that it's pretty good, mostly just wanna-be idiots hate it because they worked so hard and just got their 50 and don't want to lose it.
>>58536490
>>58536776
>>58536853
>>58536975
>>58537200
>>58537289
Sorry bro, but these aren't true, this started on Bungie.net and even the OP admitted it was a joke after many posts.
>>58538615
Halo Reach has a sped up pace, but it's still Halo, the focus is general precision combat and teamwork, not just spraying and hoping you kill your extra fast, really weak enemies. Go back to MW2, and if you don't like Halo, don't play it.

Reach Reach Reach

>>58539717
haters gonna hate

>>58540964
>>58540964
Im going to keep on hatin'
Becouse I bet elites wont get flaming helmets ;_;

>>58541985
Not in the Beta, but in the full game they will be, but not nearly as much as your Spartan, you Spartan is supposed to be your identity.

>>58541985
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>>58541537
Na, but you get an elite armor set if you order the limited/legendary edition

>>58542129
FUCK YOU
MY ELITE IS AND WILL BE MY IDENTITY