Halo Reach Beta

So I just played about an hours worth of the halo reach beta. And I had a great game of single flag CTF. Trying desperately to figure out how to get video's from my file share to youtube for free =( Coming up short on answers here.

Anyway here's a quick view on the classes/abilities:

• Sprint: So far its been the most useful, especially when coupled with melee weapons like the gravity hammer in particular. I havn't tried it with the sword yet but, I do not believe you can lock on while sprinting, thus making it weaker then the gravity hammer which can Whack opponents right out of a sprint. PS. Sprint is a toggle ability
  
• Jetpack: I was most excited about jetpack. I don't wanna say I'm disappointed now but every time I take off into the clear blue yonder it seems to be suicide as I'm shot outta the sky like a chicken trying to escape a KFC chef. (yes im aware they arrive to the kitchen dead already. thats my point). It does however seem to be a necessity on maps like sword base unless you know the base inside and out.
  

To use the jetpack you hold LB for as long as you wish to climb, or burn your thrusters rather. The reason I say burn your thrusters, is because you don't climb right away unless you start your push while jumping up, or at a standstill. If you are falling, expect to burn through about 40% of your fuel fighting your downward momentum to even out and ultimately begin climbing while picking up speed. I hope this uncovers the mystery behind the jetpack for you!

• Armor Lock: To Armor lock you hold LB for as long as you'd like, tho it does wear out after about 6-8 seconds. For this time you jam your fist into the ground and are invincible as you know, here's something you may be interested to hear tho. Since we all know you release a shield thwarting EMP when you finish your ability, leaving enemies open to 1 shot kills one would expect enemies to steer clear of your armor lock. This is somewhat true but I found most enemies rushing too me, which excited me thinking I had an easy kill lined up, until they instantly assassinated me when my shields wore. So keep this in mind!
• Stealth: ah, active camo. Well heres the good thing, it lasts a good while, even when your moving, and easily twice as long at least when not moving. That being sad heres the bad, scrambles your radar and your enemies radar; and you still have the classic camo distortion of the environment. Meaning your silhouette can still be made out quite easily if someone is looking for you, which enemies are sure to be doing if they're radar is jammed. So yes it has its uses, and if your team creates a good diversion you can sneak into their flank and get some pimp assassinations. This is also a Toggle ability.
  

As for elites that will be coming soon, but I havn't actually played as one yet!

Game Modes

• 1 flag ctf: take turns on offense and defense for 4 rounds.
  
• Stockpile:s multiple neutral flags spawn and are counted every minute. Stockpile yours in your base and snatch enemies out of theirs.
  
• Oddball: havn't played yet
• Team slayer: Rack up kills

Ratings/5

Graphics: 4.5 - Everything looks crisp and clear but sorry bungie, 5/5 is reserved for final fantasy and similar games that just totally push the envelope. Plus I had the melon size grenades.
Gameplay: 5 - Just a fun ass game. Lots of different weapons and armors to choose from to pick a gameplay style that suits your needs, your teams needs, or your mood.
Sound: 4 - Weapons, effects, and of course the typical classic halo guy saying "slayer" are all back and as good as ever. But it's sounds. It's nothing spectacular, the only game I would give a 5 or close to a 5 is Call of Duty b/c you really need to listen to whats going on out there.
Controls: 4 - There are some borderline retarded controls, and the fact that you can't fully customize your controls button by button in this day and age is questionable but not uncommon, however they do offer something like 8 defaults so they deserve a good score here regardless.
Network/ Menus: 5 - As of rightn ow the network score is realistically a 2, however if you see everything they're doing with it, its bound to be a 5 if it works out the way I'm expecting and hoping. Searches set by how much people talk and their play styles, interactive menu's right now are cool but are confusing and could use some touching up. Once it's fixed it will blow away any other game menu to date, and its party friendly.

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The effects of Composure in some detail.

So today I'm going to explain composure to all the noob RDM's out there since last night one called me some names and said that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just a dick who quits and comes back and thinks he's still the shit. Well, first and foremost, I still am the shit, and the dick part has its own validations as well; now lets get down to business.

So let me start by further explaining my reasoning for this. I ran into an old "friend" and we were talking about the level cap, I expressed my displeasure and she expressed how excited she was to spend the rest of her life leveling her 6 75's and more jobs to 99 plus subs, and that for veteran players theres nothing to do in this game. I find that interesting for someone without king gear, full homan, full nashira, and 15/15 salvage gear. Not to mention no 100 craft, or gil. I suppose farming and actually finishing your gear now is so easy that you just think its nothing? This surprised me because this was a person with some really nice gear, duelist chap, nashira legs, I think full blm af2 anyway whatever.

She was wearing this red body piece, one of those synergy things I believe, 'OK' now that stuff is all new too me but I think its stats are some mp, 2 int or maybe some MND anyway no where near that of an errant body, and she augmented it to have fast cast. Now thats great, fast cast is a great stat for any job, especially if you don't have a duelist tabard.

Here's where it gets a little dirty

Her second augment was to be "Enhancing magic recaswt -3%". Now, where to start with this? Enhancing magic -3% means you'll get your spells out 3 percent quicker. Let me stress, This will ONLY HELP YOUR FIRST INITIAL CYCLE AND ANY RESTARTS. Once your cycle is started, no good rdm will every let anyones refresh and haste drop. In fact the time difference may even make haste and refresh recast overlaps thus causing you problems, but thats just a side thought which happens no matter what really.

I pointed out that it was a waste of a buff, but if theres nothing else then its better then nothing so what the heck. She insisted "do the math I can full-time composure if I have that". Really? Who in their right mind would fulltime composure? I stated that it is pointless and could cause problems if you need to curebomb a tank or someone. She pointed out that "the people im playing with must suck if I need to cure. RDM has changed since you've been gone we don't cure anymore". Really? I've been gone 6months and rdm's don't main heal or even backup heal anything anymore?

(I got interupted here to take some meds trying to remember what part im up too)

As if that wasn't a bad enough argument, she pulled up my ffxiah page after I pointed out that if she never has to cure shes obviously not fighting tough things, (or she sucks and is always stuck in blm parties probably) and said "You act like your the shit but your only 400 on ffxiah look at me". What? Are we serious? FFXI ah? Because you leveld 6 jobs and did all the mini expansions I havn't touched while my 3 jobs are far better then any of your 6 your pulling that card on me? "I don't care about ffxiah" I pointed out, "it bases off expansions and jobs leveled not how good they are"

Heres the final part of the argument
Composure: The Effects of
I called the subject LAZY for not wanting to click composure on and off once every 5 minutes. I pointed out the recast is 5 minutes and all buffs under the effect of composure pretty much last more then 5minutes. Furthermore I'd like to add, according to wiki
"

* Activating Composure will impose a 25% recast time penalty upon all magic, including songs and ninjutsu.
* The duration of most Enhancing Magic spells that are cast upon yourself while under this effect will be tripled. Buffs casted on other players do not receive this benefit, nor will buffs cast by other players onto someone with Composure active. "

So I'm sorry but your -3% recast will not allow you to cast with composure fulltime. Your still out 22%. I'm going to give exact numbers for my build but first let me use my estimates that I based the conversation on. for arguments sake lets use easy numbers and say with our recast is 12s. 25% of 12seconds is 4 seconds added onto your recast. Making it take 16seconds to recast instead of 12. Now 3% of 12s is ~.36 seconds. Less then half a second. Can someone tell me how adding 3.64 seconds onto the recast of your spells warrants being lazy and not clicking composure on and off. I casted composure + refresh+ haste about 7 or 8 minutes ago now, my composure timer was obviously ready in 5, and my refresh JUST wore. I'm still staring at my haste.

In my build
Main: 7i's
Head: Warlocks chap
body: Duelist Chap
Legs: Nashira sarawheels
Hands: Dusk
Belt: Swift Belt
feet: (dont have dusk b/c in my testing with them I didn't break a tier

I ran these tests. And here were the results: (recast of "enhancing magic spells")

Without Composure
Refresh 12
haste 12
With Composure
haste 15
refresh 16

So where is the need to FULLTIME composure? In the mind of someone who is sheer lazy, and thinks they're cool because they're doing HALF the things I did 3 years ago?In a sense by clicking it on and off YOU ARE full timing it, cause you'll always have its affects on your active spells. Do people not know you only need to cast with it on??

P.s. Get your facts straight, I'm the king, and titles DO NOT count on ffxiah. So no you did NOT "fight more then me". I'll unzip my pants and drop the AV title I keep there since I was outside healing and slap you in the face with it.

EDIT: Double edit soon to come. With haste included my timers are as follows:
Refresh 9
Haste 9
With composure coming soon: In dynamis on blm right now.

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