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[Skarloth]

So discuss the amazing video games series here.

Yanno, if you think about it, Halo 4 is the Eighth game of the series, not the Seventh (if you count the CE anniversary as one of the games).

Surprised this wasn't slammed up immediately... and I swear I didn't see any Halo topics anywhere in CoT.

-Skar

[~Allegretto~]

^I know, I was kinda thinking of putting one up, but you beat me to it, lol.

Anyway I was kinda skeptical about Anniversary at first from E3, but the newer screenshots look great, not to mention the remake of Headlong.

[Rausaro]

Aside from the updates, I'm looking forward to the new Terminals.

I'm also hearing rumors that the chapters released from "Glasslands" suggest that the Huragok are being recalled all across the galaxy by an unknown force. If this is true, could this mean a return of a hidden group of Forerunners?

[A Happy Buzzsaw]

I hope the Gauss Hog isn't overpowered, I'm just thinking that the Banshee will somehow balance it out. I hope it won't become what Hemorrhage was, with Scorpions sniping people from across the map. At least the buildings provide cover.

[Ultimate_Kardas]

It's gonna take forever to get to inheritor in Reach. I just became an eclipse, but to get to nova, The amount of credits I have to get is 2.5 million. That's more than it took to get from recruit to general. Ugh.

Really lovin' the title update playlist though.

~U_K~

Edited by Ultimate_Kardas, Oct 14 2011 - 06:18 PM.

[Bundalings]

Aside from the updates, I'm looking forward to the new Terminals.

I'm also hearing rumors that the chapters released from "Glasslands" suggest that the Huragok are being recalled all across the galaxy by an unknown force. If this is true, could this mean a return of a hidden group of Forerunners?

asdf I do not recall ever hearing about that map. But it's one of my old favorites, so no complaints! I just miss Epitaph, Valhalla and Midship now, really.

[Enzee]

I haven't played Reach online since 343 took over, what's BTB like nowadays?

I really only play Big Team Battle and Action Sack.

Also, is Halo 3 dead yet?

[~Allegretto~]

Matchmaking kinda is, although UK, Arby, and me go play custom games once in a while. H3 Monster Trucks > Reach Monster Trucks any day.

[Silver the Hedgehog]

I got Xbox live.Gamertag is Pr0 GaMuRz447.I want Halo 4 to come.I pre ordered CE anniversary.It looks pretty nice.

[Electric Turahk]

I just became a Hero a few days ago... Yeah, Inheritor is looking more and more impossible. Yet I keep seeing more and more of them. And they usually have mics. And they're usually pretty rude. *sigh*

Looking forward to Anniversary a whole lot, since I never owned the original game.

~|ET|~

[-TD-]

I just became a Hero a few days ago... Yeah, Inheritor is looking more and more impossible. Yet I keep seeing more and more of them. And they usually have mics. And they're usually pretty rude. *sigh*

Looking forward to Anniversary a whole lot, since I never owned the original game.

~|ET|~

It's amazing and IMO the best Halo.

I'm stuck at Brigadier Grade II, but a lot of my friends are still Lt. Colonel, Major, Captain, and Colonel. I'm the highest ranked out of all my friends

[Ultimate_Kardas]

Just saw the achievements for Halo CE anniversary. Some make me want to crawl up in a corner and cry.

Though it should be interesting considering I haven't played it for ages. Not sure if I should play it on heroic or legendary first. Sonu, maybe we could do legendary together? It's not like there's any achievements for solo.

Spoiler

Campaign Completion Achievement List

Pillar of Autumn
Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on any difficulty.
25 points

Halo
Complete the level “Halo” on any difficulty.
25 points

Truth and Reconciliation
Complete the level “Truth and Reconciliation” on any difficulty.
25 points

The Silent Cartographer
Complete the level “The Silent Cartographer” on any difficulty.
25 points

Assault on the Control Room
Complete the level “Assault on the Control Room” on any difficulty.
25 points

343 Guilty Spark
Complete the level “343 Guilty Spark” on any difficulty.
25 points

The Library
Complete the level “The Library” on any difficulty.
25 points

Two Betrayals
Complete the level “Two Betrayals” on any difficulty.
25 points

Keyes
Complete the level “Keyes” on any difficulty.
25 points

The Maw
Complete the level “The Maw” on any difficulty.
25 points

Birth of a Spartan
Complete every level of the game on Normal difficulty.
10 points

Believe in a Hero
Complete every level of the game on Heroic difficulty.
20 points

Living Legend
Complete every level of the game on Legendary difficulty.
50 points

Standard Operating Brocedure
Complete any level on Normal difficulty cooperatively.
10 points

Brovershield
Complete any level on Heroic difficulty cooperatively.
20 points

Bro Hammer
Complete any level on Legendary difficulty cooperatively.
50 points

He’s Unstoppable!
Complete any level on Heroic difficulty or higher without taking health damage.
20 points

Level-Specific Achievement List

Overshields are for Sissies
Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on Legendary without picking up an Overshield.
10 points

Walk it Off
Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on Legendary without picking up a health kit.
25 points

No-Fly Zone
Destroy three Banshees in the level “Halo” on any difficulty.
10 points

How Pedestrian
Complete the level “Halo” on any difficulty without entering a vehicle.
25 points

All According to Plan…
Kill all the enemies in the first encounter of the level “Truth and Reconciliation” without being detected.
10 points

Close Quarters Combat
Complete the level “Truth and Reconciliation” with at least four rounds left in your Sniper Rifle.
25 points

Beachhead
Storm the Beach on the level “The Silent Cartographer” without losing any marines on Heroic difficulty or above.
10 points

Grenadier
After activating the map in the level “The Silent Cartographer,” complete the rest of your mission without firing a shot on Heroic difficulty or above.
25 points

Wraith Hunter
Destroy four Wraith tanks in the level “Assault on the Control Room.”
10 points

I’ll Be Taking That!
Pilot a Banshee on the level “Assault on the Control Room.”
25 points

This One’s for Jenkins!
Kill 50 Flood Combat Forms on the level “343 Guilty Spark” on Heroic difficulty or higher.
10 points

Breaking Quarantine
Escape the Forerunner facility on the level “343 Guilty Spark” in 21 minutes.
25 points

That Just Happened
Complete the level “The Library” on Heroic difficulty or higher without dying.
10 points

Speed Reader
Complete the level “The Library” on Legendary difficulty in 30 minutes or less.
25 points

Look Out for the Little Guys
Complete the level “Two Betrayals” on Heroic difficulty or higher without killing any Grunts.
10 points

Leave It Where It Lay
Complete the level “Two Betrayals” on Legendary difficulty without picking up a new weapon.
25 points

Tying Up Loose Ends
Kill every Elite on the level “Keyes” on Heroic difficulty or above.
10 points

Popcorn.gif
Kill 100 Flood Infection Forms on the level “Keyes” on Heroic difficulty or above.
25 points

This Side Up
Complete the Warthog ride on the level “The Maw” without being forcibly ejected from your vehicle.
10 points

Never Tell Me the Odds
Complete the Warthog ride on the level “The Maw” on Legendary difficulty with at least a minute remaining on the countdown.
25 points

New Feature Completion Achievement List

What have we here?
Read a terminal.
10 points

Heavy Reading
Read half the terminals hidden throughout the campaign.
25 points

Dear Diary…
Read all of the terminals hidden throughout the campaign.
50 points

Looks like the Oddball
Find your first campaign skull.
10 points

Skulls Taken!
Locate half of the skulls hidden throughout the campaign.
25 points

Headhunter
Locate all the skulls hidden throughout the campaign.
50 points

Tsantsa
Complete any level with iron and two other skulls active at Heroic difficulty or higher.
50 points

~U_K~

[~Allegretto~]

Waitwaitwaitwait.

Popcorn.gif? What?

[Promised Land]

Gosh, I haven't played Reach online in so long. I can't even remember what rank I'm at right now, but I'm pretty sure it was nothing all that high up.

[Electric Turahk]

Oh lord... I'm thinking unlike with Reach, I'm not going to try and get every campaign achievement on my first run through... That was simply horrendous, and there's so many more here. Co-op ones are going to be especially hard for me unless we can do co-op online. Well, at least I'll have somethin' to do.

~|ET|~

[Ultimate_Kardas]

Much less scared of legendary now. I have it downloaded on the 360, so I tried out legendary and I am waaaay better. That achievement for losing no health is gonna be super difficult if I'm doing it alone though.

I mean, it's still really hard, but Reach did a pretty good job of replicating the difficulty. In Reach I would almost say it's harder because the enemies actually run at you instead of waiting for you to come out of cover.

~U_K~

[Bundalings]

I'm not even sure I've beat a level in Halo CE/2 on Heroic. Those achievements are intimidating.

Also I just realized that Rausaro meant the Terminals that you READ (an excellent addition, I agwee). And here I was getting my hopes up for a remake of Terminal. =///////////

[~Allegretto~]

I beat Halo: CE on Heroic up to Keyes. Then I kinda lost interest, especially after how hard The Library was.

Halo 2 I never could play on Heroic because of those stupid Jackal snipers.

[A Happy Buzzsaw]

I never beat Halo CE on Legendary, but I beat Halo 2 on Legendary. I'm starting to think I should go back and try beating it. The Library scares me, though.

[~Allegretto~]

Yeah, it's really bad when Spark leaves you to go open the door and the Flood conveniently appears to keep you occupied.

I ended up hiding in one of the alleys next to the door with a shotgun, shooting at anything that moved.

[VBBN]

And with updated graphics...The library is going to be making children across the world cry grand amounts of tears

I'm probabaly not going to get anniversary right when it comes out though, I've tired myself out of halo for a while. I know, it's a tragic eventD:

[Electric Turahk]

Which is why I'm sort of happy Assassin's Creed: Revelations comes out the same day. If I get frustrated with Legendary (which I'll definitely be playing on for my first play through - it's what I've done up till now, so why change things?), I can switch to that.

~|ET|~

[Silver the Hedgehog]

I beat all the halo games on ledgendary.Got me some good gamerscore as well.

[~Allegretto~]

I beat 3, ODST, and Reach on Legendary. ODST was definitely the easiest, then Reach (I don't get why everyone thinks it's so hard), and H3 because of those FREAKING JACKAL SNIPERS.

[Ringoster]

I'm not allowed to play Halo, which is odd, and annoying, since literally 90% of all the kids i know play Halo, and none are younger than me!

[WORT WORT WORT]

I'm not allowed to play Halo, which is odd, and annoying, since literally 90% of all the kids i know play Halo, and none are younger than me!

The first game (combat evolved) was quite tame compared to other M rated first person shooters. Well, halo 2 got a bit mild but was still kept tame, halo 3 i could say the same thing. Halo: Reach got much more violent with the neck-wringing stuff.

And also, you play as a good guy who shoots hostile aliens. You even defend earth at one point

I dunno. Compare to grand theft auto.



I heard halo 2 on Legendary is quite hard. anyone ever tried it? i might!1

Edited by RED JELLY BABY, Oct 15 2011 - 11:26 AM.

[SuperStickman117]

The achievements that will be featured in Halo CEA are up over at the Waypoint website!

http://www.halo.xbox...evements/285109

Dangit, someone beat me to it!

Edited by Super Stickman, Oct 15 2011 - 11:31 AM.

[Nytrone]

Can't wait for Anniversary! I'm trusting that Bungie left the Halo series in good hands, and I can't wait to see what 343 produces in the saga!

By the way, my gamertag is Nytrone814.

[~Allegretto~]

I heard halo 2 on Legendary is quite hard. anyone ever tried it? i might!1

Iron is basically on during co-op, and melees on you are almost always one-hit kills.

It's not fun. Also Jackal snipers.

[Hank Moody]

I'm looking forward to Anniversary and, like with Reach, I'll be at the almost-definitely snow covered Midnight release.

Edited by ShardKal, Oct 15 2011 - 06:02 PM.

[Rausaro]

I'm not even sure I've beat a level in Halo CE/2 on Heroic. Those achievements are intimidating.

Also I just realized that Rausaro meant the Terminals that you READ (an excellent addition, I agwee). And here I was getting my hopes up for a remake of Terminal. =///////////

Yeah, sorry I didn't make that more specific. I'm quite interested in the hints toward Halo 4.

Read the two chapters that were released from Glasslands... wasn't really all that impressed by Karin Travis. ONI is being incredibly stupid by trying to create a Sanghelli Civil war (What could possibly go wrong with alienating our allies?) and Dr. Halsey is acting....different than how the books used to present her. Still, I'm looking forward to Primordial...

[Hank Moody]

It's because someone different is writing the stories and is trying to make himself stand out.

[Rausaro]

It's because someone different is writing the stories and is trying to make himself stand out.

I don't mind Greg Bear... Karin Travis is just setting up another Human/Alien war over a lack of conflict. Can't they have a period of peace for even a short time? Do we NEED to troll the Elites so we can "Conquer" them? Can't we just have a truce with the Arbiter's faction? The UNSC is having it's first period of peace in over 28 years....the entire military is depleted...and they want to pick another fight?

Still, at this point, I hope they kill off Parangosky. She's basically running the UNSC at this point.

[Mr. Fluffy]

I was on my way to reaching the rank of General in Halo Reach. But then, darn!, Gears of War 3 came out, so bye-bye Halo. For now...

Definitely playing the Combat Evolved remake.

[Electric Turahk]

...Traviss is writing for Halo now? She's the one who gave us Star Wars fans much of our Mandalorian/clone trooper fix before the cartoon. It's no surprise she's just writing about fighting.

~|ET|~

[Michael J. Caboose]

I've been playing reach a lot lately (well, until FM4 came out) and I did like 3 weekly challenges and played a ton of grifball and tu update and went from major 3 to colonel 2

[Ultimate_Kardas]

According to an interview with 343, Waypoint will be able to allow players to create any custom challenge that we can complete to earn credits. Our friends can compete in it too. Here's the quote:

"Custom challenges is another new feature that 343 Industries is excited about. The feature is a riff on the daily and weekly challenges that 343 issues. It allows friends to create their own challenges for one another, such as scoring 50 headshots in a multiplayer match within 24 hours. The custom challenge option will be available in Campaign, Matchmaking Firefight, Multiplayer, and Custom modes.

More than just bragging rights, completed custom challenges yield Halo: Reach credits, at a rate that fluctates depending on the difficulty and circumstances of the task. Reach credits can then be spent on cosmetic upgrades, such as new Spartan armor."

Also, there's a windows phone app that has real time location of weapon drops and teammates on the map as you play.

Thoughts?

~U_K~

[~Allegretto~]

They'd have to find a way to keep people from abusing it for credits, though. Otherwise I think it's pretty nice, especially custom game challenges.

Kinda wondering why they never have non-Matchmaking Firefight, though.

[A Happy Buzzsaw]

People can just set it so they're invincible and have 300% damage, kinda like how people got the Endure challenge.

I'm still deciding over which to get first, Battlefield 3 or CEA. I'm thinking Battlefield can wait, I really want to Forge on the new maps. Also, I'll be doing a Halo co-op marathon starting with Reach and ending with Halo 3 when I get CEA.

[VBBN]

My guess is the challenges are nothing more than Call of Duty contracts, different ones eachday that can be chosen and such.