Halo: Reach Discussion

It's fun but I can't say I had more fun playing the beta than I did playing H2 or 3 multiplayer. It just feels like another iteration of the same game with a few tweaks here and there. It's not bad or boring by any means but I'd say don't kid yourself into thinking it's something massively special. Armor abilities are easily more smoothly integrated into combat than equipment was, so I give them praise for that.

I can't understand why they switched the controls though. I really don't get why X isn't for armor abilities. Kinda bugs me, though I'm sure I'll get used to it.

You've always been able to change the layout of the controls. Shouldn't be that big of a deal because of it. Oh and people who think that there's innovation left in FPS': There really isn't ever going to be anything huge added that will completely and utterly revolutionize gameplay. The only thing we'll see in First person shooters are changes in style, and refinement of the current set ups basically from here on out, until people start bringing in more wii-like motion control.

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Originally Posted by ejburke

You don't "stop" assassinating, you can only assassinate when a guy would have died from a normal melee attack. That's the only time it engages. The fact that these guys are shooting you means they had too much health to be taken down from the front.. It's not a power attack, it's purely a visual treat that has no impact on gameplay, other than possibly leaving you vulnerable.

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You assassinate when your not in the guys FOV.

Dwood, you have no idea what your talking about, there are some pretty revolutionary FPS gameplay elements being worked on right now.

Yeah I love reach. END

Played nearly 60 games since the beta came out last night for me in the UK... I'm addicted... taking a break though.

Examples please, 9mm man.

It won't let me play the Beta :( I've been searching for a game for like an hour now, and it didn't give me anything...I was really excited to play this...but I guess it's not gonna happen. Anybody got any ideas?

I just realised why I can't assassinate anyone, you hold B not RB right? Well, it said that in a video...

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Originally Posted by Hunter

I just realised why I can't assassinate anyone, you hold B not RB right? Well, it said that in a video...

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You hold whatever button your melee is mapped to(B if you chose the Recon controller configuration)

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Originally Posted by Dwood

Examples please, 9mm man.

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NDA, although theres other info on the web.

Beta has got very laggy recently and takes ages to find a game now, before it was near to instant. Least theres noobs who have no idea where weapons are and all that jazz :D

Found the beta menu remix for download.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_YZlNXe_U
Downloading it at the moment.