forgeworld is awesome. its not like the h3 forge were you can sit down and play with when your really bored, you can make some really cool stuff with it.
heres a tip, use grids and make them float above the ocean near the indoor place and the plateau, you get yourself a huge flat land. works great for me.

I made Blood Gulch! :D
with several new things...
lol

I added some rocks into bloodgulch, now i'm gonna release it!
Anyone else think this is gonna happen with reach?

I'm looking forward to more multiplayer maps and more stuff for Forge world.
And an expansion for Halo Reach? I hope so.

I never found the campaign to be hard... I got lost a few times but I never found it hard besides running out of ammo a few times

any one got xbl if so add me, "stephenj411"

dont worry dude i dont even own reach yet i might tomorrow depends if my bro asks his friend like he said.

That's because the Elites were cupcakes in Halo 1 and Halo 2. In Reach, they will own you if you don't take them seriously like the leading faction of an alien race. You also must be terrible at playing in Campaign because Elites are very easy to defeat on Normal if you don't just run and gun at them the entire time. Use the DMR and use the Pistol a lot to defeat them: headshots are their greatest weakness. I find their reactions very genuine, realistic for their demeanor, and they react nicely to whatever you throw in their direction. They also show no fear and they don't back down, something that can happen in Halo 1. Oh, and please bring the original Halo bullcrap out of here. The first campaign wasn't really THAT good. Hell, I can barely play through it when I'm bored just because it's repetitive as pounding holes into a table with a hammer.
Either way, I think I can also agree that the Brutes are a bit more fun to play than past games, but their movements with melee and the hammer kind of agitate me when I get melee'd just because I'm barely hit when I die (from the hammer when it doesn't even go boom). The Spiker is probably one of my favorite weapons, along with the Plasma Rifle, which is now back in its pedestal as a great campaign weapon (since Halo 1, which is one thing I will give it credit for).
The Elites made the game more vibrant in my opinion and I loved the massive encounters. It's far more realistic in terms of design and correlates well with how the Covenant carries out an invasion. The only thing that made me a little weary was the lack of frontline encounters in the game; you were usually playing the smaller battles while others were kind of there in the distance. However, this very small shortcoming is easily displaced by the fact that I was playing on Normal and that there were plenty of other good things to take it's place. For example, New Alexandria was a great level, along with Tip of the Spear and the Swordbase level.

Protip: One is entitled to their opinion, and you don't have to take every attack on the game as an attack on yourself.

Ever consider that maybe Higuy isn't an MLG pro such as yourself, DarkHalo, and maybe he finds the game's encounters a little harder than he'd have liked? No need to type an essay attempting to prove him wrong...

The HR encounters were vastly better than the Halo Trilogy's encounters, but I'm fairly sure that is because of the more diverse enemy ranks. However, they aren't perfect.

Like Higuy said, the elites become harder at times, because you often find that where there is one elite, there is an elite officer nearby. This doesn't necessarily make it such a bad thing, but it truly makes legendary a helluva difficulty to complete.

I jumped into Heroic first thing I got the game and I only got to 2 levels done before soiling myself and reverting to easy (MW2's switch difficulty in the middle of the game was nice). I think it's truly the most difficult Halo to date.

I mean really, it took me 20 minutes to fight off a pair of hunters with a shotgun and an automatic rifle on Heroic.

Everyone can have an opinion. But an opinion can be uneducated.

You're kidding me.

Do elites chase you into your cover now? Otherwise the Noob Combo would still work.

it took me 20 minutes to on legendary it took forever

then the first mission where you fight the three zealots me and my friend couldnt do it for a half hour the sword one rushes u while the other ones shoot you i tried the shotgun dmr plasma pistol notin worked

Well, 20 minutes cause I died like 50 times (damn armor lock kept running out)

Elites dodge bad things a lot more, making the noob combo quite ineffective unless in close range. But don't even get me started about elites in close range.

It's to show that Spartan III's have a much harder time fighting elites than Spartan II's. In fact, elites should be this hard for any Spartan, they're not idiots.

you're telling me there's 3 zealots in 1 encounter? and 2 of them use PR's? that is ridiculous. lemme guess, the sword one is red?

Btw any stealth elites?
Edited by IcePhoenix on Sep 16, 2010 at 10:52 PM

lol zealots with swords in close range -_-

1 ultra, 1 officer, and 1 zealot. Zealot has the sword.

I just lured the zealot away from the other elites near Jorge, then just mowed him down in the hallway. He doesn't seem to reveal himself to Jorge for some reason, so he'll retreat from that hallway once you go near Jorge. You can use this to your advantage.

The encounters are very difficult, I have yet to see what the rest of the game is like on heroic. I stopped on that one sniper mission, ran out of sniper ammo and was stuck with a plasma pistol and a plasma repeater with turrets raining death on me.

I finished playing through the Campaign on Heroic last night, and I have to say, I was blown away. The gameplay itself was a jump from the usual Halo because of the comparative weakness of the Spartan III's, and by the skill of the AI, especially the elites, even the regular low rank elites are tough to fight, the dodge and move quickly, very rarely taking a hit from something like a plasma nade or a plasma pistol overcharge, and they are ridiculously accurate. The elites overall, are similar to the Halo CE elites, except stronger and more agressive.

The size of the encounters and the variety of environments just adds to the overall experience. In my opinion, a pretty sweet ending to an awesome line of games.

The liked the ending even though I died and everyone else in our team except for that russian bad@** Jun. The AIs are much more difficult to take down except for the grunts and jackals
Though I really liked Reach it's still sad that this is the final Halo game. Anyone up for a Halo Reach expansion??

OMG legendary is just insane, i died like 1000 times, awww i just feel sad the way Kat dies...
also... damn focus rifle jackals....

I thought there were too many elites and it ruined the feeling that they were menacing, there should have been less but more powerful (Not including spec-Ops, thats a good amount).
Zealots were WAY too easy to kill on normal and Ultras (The white ones right?) were just like all the other elites to fight.
Also the ultras sometimes dual Plasma rifles, Look at the last few levels if you don't believe me.

Playing Heroic (hopefully finishing it today). The game is a LOT more fun and a bit more challenging than Normal. Usually, I just use the DMR with a close quarters weapon (like the sword or AR) and the sniper when I don't have enough ammo in anything else. The Pistol is useful too, but you run out of ammo incredibly fast, making you have to switch it for weapons you normally wouldn't consider. In this sense, the Needler is a life saver against Elites and Hunters, while the Plasma Pistol weakens Elites easily and takes out any remaining grunts.

I'm about to play the level with the Brutes and I honestly hope it's been as consistently fun as what I've played so far, although nothing is incredibly different; it's like Halo 2's Heroic in terms of changes.
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Sep 18, 2010 at 07:42 AM

did you guys see the master chief easter egg in the end? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrv6rcu90Y

Yeah i saw that but i'm not sure it was chief, because he wasn't in cryo until they had just left the system.
I think it was Linda, because she was put into cryo and transferred onto the autumn.

Halo 4
Relive The Fight, AS A GIRL.

Reach has not the same storyline of the book

Tell me a game or a movie that has ever been on with the books

Twilight.
Not sayin' that I ever read the book or saw the movies , but it has to be accurate, there just dosen't seem much to change or deviate from an orginal story about teenage infatuation.

Lol, the massive helmets on the ultras are weird...

Officer is only for people that purchased Limited Edition of Halo Reach.

Alright.... I am going to post several easter eggs in Halo: Reach with a vid....

-Master Chief in the level Pillar of Autumn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrv6rcu90Y&list=SL
-Night Club with 2 songs... in the level New Alexandria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxuLOpuKTPw
-Dr. Halsey Lab, Accessible : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98a__oKml0&list=SL
-Oni, Sword Base: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovafv-sxUQ8&list=SL

I am also making a zombie escape map... so any good places where i should spawn them... game types.. etc... any help will be nice. I will also keep posting easter eggs as soon Achievement Hunter finds some more

Lol, nice tie-in with masterchief there.
I also like the final loop around in "The Pillar of Autumn".

linda not master chief

we gonna start that now?