Reeeeeeeach!
wabbitseason couldn't make the Ren Faire last weekend, so we went out and got Reach instead. New canon, squee! Have done the first two campaign missions so far and a ton of solo and co-op Firefight. So if you're playing, please don't spoil me with anything about the campaign past the meeting with Halsey (Halsey! In game! And she's completely badass!).
So far I'm still getting a feel for the weapon changes and the way they've changed things around. Like my controller, having RB be melee just fucked with my head so much that I had to change it back. Kept walking up to jackals and wondering why B did nothing!
Love: the needle rifle! Actually, pretty much all the Covie weapons, especially the higher capacity needlers. Seeing Halsey in game! The scenery is gorgeous. The knowledge that you're fighting a completely losing battle really means something when you're playing. The Skirmishers! They're like Super Fashionable Jackals, or something. The fact that you don't have to go skull-hunting all over again. That you can get PVP medals in Firefight! We'd otherwise never, ever see Killionaire or Killimanjaro.
Don't love: The music, and I never thought I'd say that about a Halo game. I found the music on the first level to be completely intrusive and just not epic. I hope it gets better.
The team, yet. IDK, maybe they'll grow on me. I just find myself missing John and Cortana a lot more than I expected to, and I don't know these new Spartans.
The new armor abilities, or at least some of them. Like the jet pack, love the new bubble shield, hate the camo and the lock-- still not sure what you're supposed to do with abilities that only work when you *don't move*, unless you're in co-op and you're sniping?
Hunters. I haven't figured them out yet! Okay, did they change the rear hitbox on them or something? Because we melee'd one of them on the first level and he went down fast, and the rest are being obnoxiously hard. I don't know if we're not hitting them in the right place, or with the right weapons, or what. They're unusually pesty.
The lack of understandable enemy voices. I know, they're supposed to be scarier and more alien, and they are. I just miss the snarky Grunt comments. I still kind of want to adopt them, though. :)
So, Halo players, what do you think of Reach?
So far I'm still getting a feel for the weapon changes and the way they've changed things around. Like my controller, having RB be melee just fucked with my head so much that I had to change it back. Kept walking up to jackals and wondering why B did nothing!
Love: the needle rifle! Actually, pretty much all the Covie weapons, especially the higher capacity needlers. Seeing Halsey in game! The scenery is gorgeous. The knowledge that you're fighting a completely losing battle really means something when you're playing. The Skirmishers! They're like Super Fashionable Jackals, or something. The fact that you don't have to go skull-hunting all over again. That you can get PVP medals in Firefight! We'd otherwise never, ever see Killionaire or Killimanjaro.
Don't love: The music, and I never thought I'd say that about a Halo game. I found the music on the first level to be completely intrusive and just not epic. I hope it gets better.
The team, yet. IDK, maybe they'll grow on me. I just find myself missing John and Cortana a lot more than I expected to, and I don't know these new Spartans.
The new armor abilities, or at least some of them. Like the jet pack, love the new bubble shield, hate the camo and the lock-- still not sure what you're supposed to do with abilities that only work when you *don't move*, unless you're in co-op and you're sniping?
Hunters. I haven't figured them out yet! Okay, did they change the rear hitbox on them or something? Because we melee'd one of them on the first level and he went down fast, and the rest are being obnoxiously hard. I don't know if we're not hitting them in the right place, or with the right weapons, or what. They're unusually pesty.
The lack of understandable enemy voices. I know, they're supposed to be scarier and more alien, and they are. I just miss the snarky Grunt comments. I still kind of want to adopt them, though. :)
So, Halo players, what do you think of Reach?