I managed to complete the weekly challenge against a team where half the guys weren't playing. I also was able get the five multikills. I never thought I'd be able to get 30 kills in one game so I'm pretty happy about that.
But after playing through everything, what exactly was the reason that he didn't board the Pillar of Autumn with Keyes? Seems stupid to stay behind after we're told a couple of times that the fall of Reach was inevitable. Given that he purposefully made the decision to stay behind knowing death was imminent (or at least he should have known), I just didn't find myself caring.
I do have one question about the Reach storyline as a whole. The ultimate end game was getting Cortana to Keyes so they could get off Reach and lead the Covenant away from Earth. Was Cortana even mentioned early in the game? I seem to remember the first mention of her was in the 8th or 9th mission. Looking back on all the missions, the entire story just seems disjointed. I like working towards an end-goal from the beginning, but it seems like Reach is just mini-stories that happened to end with Cortana and Keyes.
Six couldn't hop on the shuttle to the Pillar of Autumn because Emile died at the railgun. The railgun was needed to shoot down the Covenant Corvette that was bearing down on the Autumn.
The whole storyline wasn't about Cortana, it was about the fall of Reach. Starting on how the Covenant established a foothold on Reach to how the entire invasion panned out. Cortana was just part of the ending to link it to the main Halo Series.
In response to peritusONE:
You pick Cortana up at the end of the 9th mission which is why you didn't hear about her before; Noble team didn't know about her. Also, the information which uncovered her was found towards the beginning of the game (before you meet Dr. Halsey) so in between the time you meet Dr. Halsey and the end of the 9th mission she has been working trying to figure out what this discovery was that was contained on the data chip you found.
Is it just me or does it seem that I'm always getting kicked for FF when I'm pwning in a match.
So, I've been kicked twice. Once in a sniper battle where I was 14-3. It was 3v4, and we were pwning them. I accidentally shoot a teammate, and he kicks me. Last night I was 8-0. Saved the guy's life by killing an enemy that was behind him, a few bullets hit him from my gun as well and I'm kicked again. WTF. Maybe I should have my mic on to apologize.
BTW, I usually suck at Halo, which is why I was pissed to get kicked from these matches.
It doesn't normally matter if you apologize, people are dicks and will kick you no matter what, even if it makes them down a man.
I finally broke my Reach multiplayer cherry last night and played a few matches. Most of those were teaming up with Kabob on multi-team matchmaking. Probably not the best idea to start out with, since it absolutely killed my k/d ratio to begin my Reach career, but still had a lot of fun. Kabob picked up my slack quite a bit and we finished high in each of the 3 matches we played (one headhunter and two elite slayer). In past Halo games, I'm typically a team slayer kind of player.
Overall, Reach just feels faster than previous Halo games, but that may just be that I've not played Halo in quite some time. I had a lot of fun though and tried to help Kabob get a few more kills by luring people to him. It actually worked a couple of times I think, but it's not like he needs my help. Those two elite slayer matches were on Reflection, so to succeed in a close-quarters match with 80% of the people in there trying to kill you is hard to do in the first place.
That is 2 Gruntpocalypse for all but the 20,000 points one. I've never tried sniperfight, but if the points are more, I might check it out.
I will have to check sniper fight out tonight then for the easy points. I have gotten extremely good on Corvette Gruntpacolypse. I almost always finish with 0 deaths and over 115 headshots.
Also, is Multi Team Swat still in that playlist?
Yeah, Corvette is probably the easiest map to live through, followed by Outpost.
I dunno if SWAT is still in Multi-team or if they took it out...I sure hope so though. I'm getting tired of Elite Slayer in there.
I've found the opposite to be true. Most of the time if I'm like "OSHIT MY BAD" i'm never kicked.
He should have his mic on anyways since it is a team game. :thumbsup:
Yeah, I got the first 3 in the Gruntpacolypse games, Sniper Fight on any map though is over 20K points. Best map (for me) for Sniper Fight is Courtyard.