[Stogieman]

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Fails of the Weak Volume 10 (Funny Screw-Ups and Bloopers)

[The Final Dakar]

*tip of the hat*

[Stogieman]

That's weird. I click on that link with my MacBook and I still get the ad in the beginning. On the iPad I don't.

[Leonard]

Man, the big Cr payouts ended quick! We're back to the small Cr payouts, again.

[Stogieman]

Yeah, the payouts this week have sucked. A measly 4,000 cR for a weekly challenge? Lame.

[Stogieman]

I played some Firefight last night and came across a player that had the Inclement Weather armor effect. It looked cool but damn, 2 million cR. I'm currently sitting around 760,000 cR.

Here's a video I rendered that shows the armor effect in action. Oh... and there's a "fail of the weak" type moment with a Banshee at the end.

Kamikaze Banshee

[Leonard]

And speaking of fails of the week... it's time for Fails of the Week 11 and 12

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Fails of the Weak Volume 11 (Funny Screw-Ups and Bloopers)

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Fails of the Weak Volume 12 (Funny Bloopers and Screw-Ups!)

The sticky fails are hilarious.

[Stogieman]

FYI to all you achievement whores out there (yeah Bogues, I'm talking to you). Six of the seven new achievements DO NOT require the DLC maps. That is all. Hit me up for some multi team bitch!

[Leonard]

Yeah, I guess that's true. Most of the new achievements don't require the DLC. Only 1 requires the DLC and I think it's worth the least.

I wanna get that shotgun double-kill.

The stockpile one is going to be hard to get.

[Leonard]

Achievement Hunter � Fails of the Weak Volume 13

More hilarious FAILS.

[Stogieman]

Lots of noobs must have got this game for Christmas. I've been kicking ass these past few days.

[The Final Dakar]

That's what makes Christmas so great.

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

Lots of noobs must have got this game for Christmas. I've been kicking ass these past few days.

More cannon fodder for us to kill! I did have a good day today too!

[Jack-o-Bower]

Its sad that Bungie is giving the reins to someone else, but at least they made a huge contribution to the gaming community. Its off to bigger and better things for Bungie!

[Stogieman]

220,000 cRs from Colonel grade 3 to Brigadier! This may take me awhile.

[Stogieman]

Well today I experienced an achievement hunter worthy fail of the weak.

I was playing multi-team slayer on Tempest and my teammate had the rocket launcher. He shot off one rocket at the Warthog and it killed the driver. I decided to throw a grenade to finish off the gunner. My throw came up short and I was gun downed by his turret. My teammate shot off a second rocket and as it headed towards Warthog, my grenade went off and deflected his rocket. The Warthog gunner ended up killing my teammate as well.

My view:
http://www.bungie.net/Silverlight/bu...x?fid=11965251

Warthog Gunner's view:
http://www.bungie.net/Silverlight/bu...x?fid=11965297

[Stogieman]

Alright. 10,000cR weekly challenge last week. 16,000cR this week. I hope they keep this up.


Dedication/Time - 16000cR
- Complete 16 Daily Challenges this week.


Fire When Ready - 1000cR
- Kill 50 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking

A Great Friend - 2000cR
- Earn 15 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.

There Are Many Like... - 1000cR
- Kill 50 enemies with precision weapons in the Campaign today.

Roast 'em, Toast 'em - 1200cR
- Kill 10 enemies while jet-packing in Exodus on Normal.

[Leonard]

Yeah, the last 2 weekly challenges have been good! It would be nice if they increased the daily challenges. Or if they added a second weekly challenge.

[Stogieman]

I'm ok with the daily challenges. You can get anywhere between 5,000-6,000cR if you complete all four of them. It seems the new minimum for a daily is 1,000cR which is a lot better than the 250-400cR crap we were getting in the beginning.

[KCrosbie]

Yeah, I did 3 of the 4 challenges yesterday and finally got my captain rank! Grade 3 warrant officer seemed it took forever! How much longer till I get to Corporal? Definitely going to go for the weekly challenge!

[Stogieman]

You gonna be on again tonight? All four daily challenges total to 7500cR. That's the most I've ever seen it. It's usually between 4000cR and 5500cR.

Secondary Fire - 4000cR
Earn 25 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking.

More than a Handful - 1250cR
Kill 125 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking.

Light Fuse, Run Away - 1000cR
Kill 4 enemies with grenades in a multiplayer Matchmaking game.

Go Right Ahead Folks - 1250cR
Earn a First Strike in a multiplayer Matchmaking game.

[Stogieman]

January Playlist Updates

As of right now, our matchmaking support team has deployed two major playlist additions, introducing Arena FFA and Community Slayer, the latter of which is completely comprised of some notable Forgetacular maps. They've also made other, more minor modifications, which we've lovingly listed below. Go nuts!

PLAYLISTS
Arena
* Added FFA Arena playlist, test your might in this 6-8 player Arena
* Added Unanchored map variant to all Arena playlists
* Players can now change their votes in Arena playlists

Community Slayer
* The first of several new community playlists
* Unaltered maps made by you, the Halo community
* Play and vote. Your voting data controls what rises into the ranks of official playlists!

Team Objective
* Cleaned up entries in the Team Objective playlist, we now offer the best of the best

MLG
* Maps updated to v2.1, this includes fixes to weapon spawn times

Team Slayer
* Adjusted weightings in response to voting data, default “Team Slayer” should now be available more often

MAPS

Asylum
* Added soft kill volumes to the rocks leading up to the ledge on the right side of the Red Base (AKA, Infection camping grounds)
* Adjusted the placement of the large rock on the outside ledge of Red Sniper spawn

The Cage
* Added soft kill volumes to some lower areas outside of the intended playable space

Anchor 9
* Modified the size and shape of the center hill object to better fit the area in KOTH games

Breakpoint
* Reduced the radius of the safe haven in the greenhouse

GAMETYPES

Big Team Slayer
* Now 100 to win!

Elite Slayer
* Modified loadouts, Armor Lock is now accompanied by a Plasma Rifle instead of a Needler
(They forgot to mention that you now start off with only one plasma grenade instead of two.)

Rocket Race
* Motion Tracker is now Enabled
* Hud-widget for KPH is now in the bottom center

Powerups
* In gametypes built from the latest matchmaking variants, powerups should now function as they do in Forge
* You’ll need to save off the latest game variants from your temporary history to take advantage of this!

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

Community Slayer
* The first of several new community playlists
* Unaltered maps made by you, the Halo community
* Play and vote. Your voting data controls what rises into the ranks of official playlists!

Team Slayer
* Adjusted weightings in response to voting data, default “Team Slayer” should now be available more often

Big Team Slayer
* Now 100 to win!

I like those adjustments. The community maps idea is a nice way to play customized maps with a better CR level for doing it. I also play alot of BTB so I like the increase in the score level (except if you have too many team members desert).

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Elite Slayer
* Modified loadouts, Armor Lock is now accompanied by a Plasma Rifle instead of a Needler
(They forgot to mention that you now start off with only one plasma grenade instead of two.)

I don't like these changes. The class with Armor Lock and a Needler rocked! This just killed the best class. And what's with the one plasma grenade? Those stickies came in helpful.

[Stogieman]

We haven't posted these up in awhile.

YouTube: Fails of the Weak volume 14
That last shot is pretty amazing.

YouTube: Fails of the Weak volume 15
@ 2:12 - This is some of the best (and luckiest) driving I've seen with the Warthog. Count the number of times the tank misses him.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Leonard 

I don't like these changes. The class with Armor Lock and a Needler rocked! This just killed the best class. And what's with the one plasma grenade? Those stickies came in helpful.

I liked using that class as well but the Needler with Armor Lock was just too powerful in combination. Everyone was using it in Elite Slayer. But I agree with you about the sticky grenades. I've lost count on how many deaths from the grave I scored with that second sticky.

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

YouTube: Fails of the Weak volume 14
That last shot is pretty amazing.

I've seen a few Spartans fooling around in Firefight on that level bouncing shots off those barriers, but I've never seen 2-3 bounces/ricochets like that.

[Leonard]

Here's something a bit different from Geoff and Jack. They play something called HORSE...

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Achievement HORSE #3

[Stogieman]

Oh man. That looks fun.

[KCrosbie]

I wanna play HORSE! Looks fun!

On another note, I got the weekly challenge done for 16000 credits. First weekly challenge I've done since the first week of its release.

[Stogieman]

I need a teammate for the weekly challenge? Anyone?

Weekly:
Legendary Friends - 2500cR
Complete any Campaign mission on Legendary in co-op mode.

Daily:
Blastin' and Relaxin' - 2000cR
Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach.

A Friend in Need - 2000cR
Earn 10 assists in Firefight Matchmaking.

Return of the Mack - 3000cR
Kill 50 Elites in Campaign today on Normal or harder.

Headshot Honcho - 1700cR
Kill 9 enemies with headshots in a multiplayer Matchmaking game.

[KCrosbie]

I'm down with ya bro!

[Stogieman]

Found a Halo Reach meme generator.

Halo Reach | Meme Generator

[Stogieman]

[Stogieman]

Grifball. **** YEAH!!
Coming again to save the mother****ing day yeah!

Grifball is back! I just finished a 3 hour marathon and got a Killamanjaro early on. Finally unlocked that last avatar helmet I was missing.

[Leonard]

Yeah, I played a few games, tonight, after I got the firefight challenges tonight.

I've lost my timing with the hammer! My k/d is going to suffer, although My teams all won their matches.

I still have a long ways to go to get my General rank.

[Leonard]

I see their sneaking in higher Cr rewards in a few places - a couple of times in the last week, I've gotten 3000 Cr from the slot machine. The highest I used to get was something like 777 Cr.

Bungie loves to reference 7's.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Leonard 

I still have a long ways to go to get my General rank.

Damn, you're already halfway through Brigadier Grade 3? You're a lot closer to General than me. I'm almost halfway through Brigadier Grade 2.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Leonard 

I see their sneaking in higher Cr rewards in a few places - a couple of times in the last week, I've gotten 3000 Cr from the slot machine. The highest I used to get was something like 777 Cr.

Bungie loves to reference 7's.

Yeah, the new mega jackpot is 7777. They say you can increase your chances for mega jackpot if you don't quit out on games. I can't remember the last time I quit out on a game and I've never hit a jackpot over 900.

[Stogieman]

Ha ha. Gotta love Bungie's sense of humor.

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

They say you can increase your chances for mega jackpot if you don't quit out on games.

That ruins my chances. I quit out of two matchmaking campaign sessions today. Nothing worse than the matchmaking only finding one other player to play campaign, especially when you want to lay back and not die.

[Leonard]

I got lucky today, and finally got one of the last three achievements I need in Halo Reach! Just need the last 2.

[Leonard]

Some more Fails of the Week:

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Fails of the Weak Volume 16! (Funny Bloopers and Screw-Ups!)

YouTube - Halo: Reach - Fails of the Weak Volume 17 (Funny Halo Screw-Ups and Bloopers!)

[Stogieman]

The stuff in red is what I'm really looking forward to. I'm glad they finally fixed the armor lock glitch in Assault.

February Playlist Updates:

Firefight:
- The Firefight playlist is going away, but will be replaced by TWO “new” playlists. As you probably already guessed, Firefight Arcade and Firefight Limited are coming back permanently.

- But that’s not all. We’re also making some big additions to Score Attack. We’re filling out the playlist with a whopping 10 different gametypes.
* Gruntpocalypse
* Sniper Attack / Rocket Attack / FRG Attack
* Crashsite
* Mythic Attack
* Fiesta Attack

Multiplayer:

Playlists -

* Multi Team: As far as major playlist changes, the most notable is Multi Team which now features 4 teams of 3 instead of 6 teams of 2. Since Rocket Race doesn’t work with teams of 3, we’re upgrading you to Rocket Hog Race! We’ve also added 3 Ball to the lineup to replace the regular Oddball gametype.

* Team SWAT: New gametype offerings are now available in the Team SWAT playlist. New gametypes include Oddball, Stockpile and 3 Plots.

* Grifball: The Grifball playlist is returning for an extended stay as a Community playlist. We’ve updated to the latest gametypes and maps, as well as added the new maps Pinwheel and Oracle’s Revenge.

* Community Slayer: The second round of Community Slayer is coming and with it comes 14 maps (10 new!) built by members of our very own Bungie community. Similar to the previous run, we’ll keep this playlist active for a couple weeks. Play, vote and let us know which your favorite Community maps are in the Optimatch forum!

Gametypes:
* Bro Slayer: This new gametype consists of Team Slayer with co-op style spawning, featured on a variety of maps in Team Slayer, Big Team Battle and Noble Map Pack. Similar to Invasion spawning you can cycle through teammates or choose from your backfield spawns, but watch out for backfield spawn campers!

* Invasion Skirmish: Think of Invasion Slayer, with no vehicles and after capturing drop zones you get instant weapon drops that alternate between Spartan and Covenant regardless of who caps the zone. You’ll still experience loadout and weapon drop progression as each tier advances. Three flavors will be available including Invasion Skirmish (SvE), Spartan Skirmish (SvS) and Elite Skirmish (EvE). These gametypes will be available on a variety of maps in the Invasion and Noble Map Pack playlists. Spartan Skirmish on Anchor 9 is my favorite, check them out and tell us what you think!

* Assault: Players may no longer disarm bombs while their Armor Lock equipment is activated, this affects all Assault gametypes as well as Invasion gametypes with an Assault phase.

[The Final Dakar]

What's the difference between Firefight Arcade & Limited?

[Stogieman]

Well I had a very productive weekend in Reach. Played a shitload of Team Swat to complete the weekly challenge and increased my k/d ratio from 0.96 (thank you Grifball) to 1.01. I finally got to the rank of General and purchased the Increment Weather armor effect for 2 million cRs. Just need to purchase a few more items from the armory and I'm all set.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

What's the difference between Firefight Arcade & Limited?

Firefight Limited - Based off classic Firefight with 10 shared lives, once lives run out and all players are dead, the game is over.

Firefight Arcade - Based on Rocketfight with weapon pickup enabled. Hammers and Sword starting weapons, added 200% Damage and Melee modifier, 2 each grenade count, Player Movement 120%, enable Grunt B-day, IWHBYD and Cowbell skulls, disabled dropship, 2X Overshields, Skirmisher Bonus Round, Loadout 5 is Hologram, 5 Second Respawn, added Heretics into Waves.

I found Firefight Arcade to be extremely fun. It's only 1 round so it didn't drag out as long as normal Firefight and the AFK players don't make it a chore.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

It's only 1 round.

That's what I was expecting.

[Leonard]

The modifications to Multi-Team sound fun. Having a group of 3 should be more useful in some games and hilarious in other games.

I'll have to wait and see how the firefight changes and score attack changes play out.

I can't believe that I didn't realize it's easier getting a challenge for Firefight where you need X kills on ZZZZZ map by using Score Attack. Through Score Attack you can cycle through all the maps till you get the right one.

So, Stogie made General. I knew he'd catch up to me.

[Stogieman]

I'm still 1 rank and 200,000+ cRs behind you.

This week's challenge (get 500 kills in multiplayer) should be easy if I stick with Grifball and Team Swat.

[KCrosbie]

Originally Posted by Stogieman 

* Assault: Players may no longer disarm bombs while their Armor Lock equipment is activated, this affects all Assault gametypes as well as Invasion gametypes with an Assault phase.

Thank goodness! That was f'n annoying!

Gotta get into some Grifball games.