Halo 3 - now coming to Xbox One. MC Collection.

[Ben]

I know what you're saying. It seems like Halo 3 tries to match pretty exactely. So if you have a 1,1, 5, 9 then it will try and find a good match for each player, not the team. I don't know if that is the case but it seems that way.

Doesn't Halo 2 give lower-ranked players a temporary rank for matchmaking? You could see at the end of the game what rank it had assigned you.

[BeeJay]

Doesn't Halo 2 give lower-ranked players a temporary rank for matchmaking? You could see at the end of the game what rank it had assigned you.

IIRC it would bump people up to something like 5 below the lowest team mates.

[Straps]

I never liked the way halo 2 done the ranks. I think the ranks should be based on invidual merit rather than how the whole team does. For example i met this group of people online and we all played big team battle for months and we all got to around the 36 - 40 ranks. But the thing is one of the guys was super shit and only killed about 3 people max every game and died millions even making us lose on occasions so he hardly merited a 36 rank.

All I wanted to say was: bloody hell, that's pretty fucking high for BTB. I honestly thought that there were no legit, say, 42+ in BTB.

[henofdoom]

Ranks are far too annoying to take seriously, don't you think? I don't want to take the fall for my team, given that I've been doing the most. I certainly don't want to take the fall if someone quits.

The whole system drives me mental.

[Chow]

[LongHairStu]

Thanks for getting me that score! B)

[Kryptonian]

Awesome!

I did this a while ago and just remembered earlier this evening:

http://www.kryptonian.co.uk/barrel.wmv

[Chow]

Awesome!

I did this a while ago and just remembered earlier this evening:

http://www.kryptonian.co.uk/barrel.wmv

I love kicking those barrels and chucking trip mines through the man cannon. Random kills are ace.

[Monkeyspill]

I keep getting slaughtered as I'm crap! I came last in most of the matches I played last night. Everyone else seemed to be really familiar with the maps/weapons etc. I keep forgetting where the reload and melee buttons are!

[Shepperton]

Ha ha qaulity

i love being able to go back through replays, gonna miss it when the beta ends

[Phelan]

Brilliant driving!

Loving it!!

I was playing last night with my noise cancelling headphones on so as not to wake my sleeping girlfriend but was only getting around two kills per match and dying every few seconds. Was freaking me out.

Took the headphones off and was averaging 10 to 14 kills and dying a lot less.

Put them back on. 1 kill. Off. 12 kills.

I'm guessing because they cancel noise around you, they mess with the equilibrium in your body or something because my reaction time is totally different when I'm wearing them to when I'm not.

Just thought I would add that

[Nagrub]

I handed in all my uni work today, and I'm looking forward to going home for a few days so i can catch up with friends and family and have a bit of a crack on the beta.

from what i'm hearing everyone on there has been playing a hell of a lot since day one and is pretty shit hot now. Am i just going to get obliterated over and over when I play now? (I dont know if I could ever get used to the new controls)

[Talvalin]

I handed in all my uni work today, and I'm looking forward to going home for a few days so i can catch up with friends and family and have a bit of a crack on the beta.

from what i'm hearing everyone on there has been playing a hell of a lot since day one and is pretty shit hot now. Am i just going to get obliterated over and over when I play now? (I dont know if I could ever get used to the new controls)

You should be okay since the ranking should have sorted the various levels out. I emphasise the word 'should' because it is still a bit random. Try Rumble Pit and see how you get on.

[sir stiff_one]

How much did you play Halo 2, nagrub? I played it a fair old bit up until the first big patch. Having not really played it for 2 years, it took me about 30 games to get the controls and accuracy back to the sort of level where I could think about what I was doing tactically. I'm still pretty rusty skill wise, but it's much less frustrating.

Good games yesterday. Except when Alex joined and noobed us up.

[Jumble Jumble]

I found the fun! I went into Team Slayer instead and didn't feel so persecuted. It's great if you get a nice team too.

[sir stiff_one]

I had a few rumble pit games yesterday - I find it a lot better with just 6 people rather than the old 8. Anyways, I was doing quite well so I thought I'd do a Team Slayer. I went on to have the worst game ever, 1 kill and loads of deaths. Sure we all got whupped, but man, the shame, the shame!

[Sprite Machine]

I handed in all my uni work today, and I'm looking forward to going home for a few days so i can catch up with friends and family and have a bit of a crack on the beta.

from what i'm hearing everyone on there has been playing a hell of a lot since day one and is pretty shit hot now. Am i just going to get obliterated over and over when I play now? (I dont know if I could ever get used to the new controls)

I'm finding the matchmaking quite accurate at the moment (rumble pit mode). Good opposition and I'm generally coming in second place. Got my first win last night!

I think having just three maps helps the learning process. I know my way around them reasonably well and have already picked some favourite weapons and techniques.

It could all turn around in the full game, though, but right now I'm having a blast with this.

[AnimeExpert2003]

Team Slayer would probably be your best bet, most of the people who would cane you should be out of your level range by now.

[Andy_Why]

Where is the Rocket Launcher on High Ground? I've looked for it every time I'm there, but some bastard always gets to it first...

[geldra]

Where is the Rocket Launcher on High Ground? I've looked for it every time I'm there, but some bastard always gets to it first...

Right outside the front gates, next to a supply cylinder. Its weird, I've found that not too many people go for it.

[Guest alisdair]

From the beach, head up towards the gate. It's on your right just before you reach the bunker/pillbox. It sits next to a green missile casing, or something like that. On the other side of the concrete half-wall are two spike grenades and two SMGs, I think.

[Quexex]

In the firing line of the turret on the right as you come up from the beach.

[Andy_Why]

Cheers guys

[Nagrub]

How much did you play Halo 2, nagrub? I played it a fair old bit up until the first big patch. Having not really played it for 2 years, it took me about 30 games to get the controls and accuracy back to the sort of level where I could think about what I was doing tactically. I'm still pretty rusty skill wise, but it's much less frustrating.

Good games yesterday. Except when Alex joined and noobed us up.

well, I played quite a bit I suppose. But the same as you, i've not touched it for ages. I should be online in the next few days so if you see me and you're up for a game or two, send me an invite.

[Mr Ben]

Update on my Xbox 360 problem: Just rang Dixons about repairing or replacing it, and I'm being sent vouchers to cover the cost of buying a new one apparently. It was under a 3 year warranty, but it seems like its too much hassle for them to do anything other than send the vouchers it seems

Ah well, fingers crossed they arrive and that they cover the cost of a new one at least. I may be able to play some Halo 3 then without any problems.

[scottcr]

N'Gai's blog has some comments on the Halo 3 multiplayer - basically, they haven't taken the chance to make any major changes. Perhaps more for the existing Halo 2 fans than trying to get folks who didn't play Halo 2 online much (i.e. me) to give it another go. Still, mainly apparently, focusses on memorising maps and jumping and shooting at the same time.

[MalevolentPanda]

N'Gai's blog has some comments on the Halo 3 multiplayer - basically, they haven't taken the chance to make any major changes. Perhaps more for the existing Halo 2 fans than trying to get folks who didn't play Halo 2 online much (i.e. me) to give it another go. Still, mainly apparently, focusses on memorising maps and jumping and shooting at the same time.

Errm, that isn't the main focus of Halo 2.

[scottcr]

just saying what he said on his blog. He does admit to online FPS' leaving him cold...

(oh - and when I played Halo 2 online and was constantly pwned by stoned students or whining american kids - it usually involved them doing a lot of jumping and shooting)

Anyway - more to the point... have they done anything to encourage those who didn't enjoy Halo 2 online to play it?

[MW_Jimmy]

Shut up Panda. Bungie clearly should've taken out the jumping and shooting parts to please people like scott.

[Guest alisdair]

N'Gai's opinion on Halo isn't really very interesting, due to it being almost completely uninformed. And did anyone really expect major changes to be made to the series?

Here follows my uninteresting, uninformed opinion: it's still fundamentally the same game, but much better. The major game-ruining glitches have been taken out, you have a wider field of view so that melee is better, weapons are much better balanced so there's less of a rush to get a decent gun, the new skirmish options are great, and the addition of man cannons and equipment gives players more tactics to use in team games.

I'd rather have all that than the journalists' retarded suggestions: Gears-like cover system (Kotaku), handicapping to make it easier for noobs (1up), random unspecified "make it different please" (Newsweek).