[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi It is truly ridiculous, considering Reach was meant to be Bungie's "Swansong". Another odd thing, if you watch the ODST ViDocs, you see Joseph Staten explaining those small opening clips before every mission (Such as the start of ONI HQ, where you see Dutch hold up his Laser and look at the Wraiths with the HUD being displayed) as bringing the player into the character to make the experience more immersive. In Reach, I only witnessed three such occurrences (Winter, ONI and The Package) and these are much shorter and aren't even remotely immersive.[/quote]Don't forget about LNoS mission start. Anyways, I liked it better when we could instantly get into gameplay (CE, H2). First person cutscenes are just lame. They only worked in ODST because the human experience was new at the time. Reach tried to be like ODST when it could have shown Reach, instead of some team I've never heard about and never care for given their invincibility and incompetence. Bungie should have realized that we don't want friendly AI doing our work all the time in H3. Arbiter was a great partner and all but he's simply too effective and could be used [i]mightily[/i] (and by that, I mean slay every enemy in the area). Instead of making us do solo most of the time like in ODST, Bungie gave us nerfed teammates. Carter told me to drop the lone wolf stuff yet throughout the Reach campaign I had to do nearly everything. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi The Noble AI doesn't even register you (At least Jun doesn't). I was playing Nightfall (The place where many of my glitches occur) and Jun (Being an idiot) shoots me in the chest, killing me.[/quote]The friendly AI should have regard for player proximity but they don't. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi On the matter of the BOB's, It is truly ridiculous. I stuck one with a sticky just as it vanished. Not only did it vanish with my sticky, it attempted to run away so no one would notice it disappearing. That is just pathetic in my opinion. I mean seriously, why make it run? Why make it disappear in the first place? It is just cheap in my opinion, a way to hide their attempts at deleting enemies.[/quote]I've noticed some Bobs fade out to camo but most of them just disappear instantly with no signal. I like how H4 Promethean Knight's teleporting can be anticipated. Teleporting with a sticky is as annoying as Ranged Forms absorbing grenades and armor lock shedding grenades. I'm glad H4 is restoring 4 grenades for campaign. I'm also glad that Promethean Watchers can be killed causing them to drop the grenade. Yeah, running away is pretty annoying. They have tough shields. They should be in the front lines. Leave the spec ops stuff to the Spec Ops Elites, like the one at the beginning of Winter Contingency. Agreed. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi And AI collections? I tried making one of Winter. I trapped Noble in the falcon (See the Falcon glitch on YouTube). I got about 10 extra enemies, but when I got to the area with those Marines that are trapped, the Marines died and guess who spawns in? Noble team! Their invincibility made them wreak havoc on my small collection, and the stragglers were killed by the Falcons.[/quote]AI collecting is just not worth it in this game. AI are too often territorial. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnltgAAZBrs]This Nightfall collection[/url] is hardly an engaging battle. I turned on Thunderstorm so I could get Ultra Elites but Ultra Grunts just ruin the fun with their 2-3 headshot rule. Most of the Elites are territorial and ammo deficiency really makes this battle mind-numbingly slow. And you can forget about Legendary. A General, 4-5 Ranger Elites. It's too brutal. I found that it's better to just use Liberty (modding) to gather the AI and to move Jun. Yesterday, I had great fun with this task. The only hard part was finding the best coordinates. Want to see a vid of it? [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi When compared to CE Legendary (Even CE easy), Reach uses pathetic tactics. Exodus? Let's not add a challenge, let's just spam suicide Grunts! Pillar of Autumn? Elites that evade your every shot and Grunts that use their weapons to deadly effectiveness by popping around corners and taking you by surprise. And let's not forget Exodus's "Hold out until the elevator arrives". Truth and Reconciliation hold until the elevator activates. Sure it has less enemies, but Exodus still gives you the upper hand, with the ability to camp with the Shotgun at the doors, a ton of grenades at your disposal, Civilians that can be used as distractions and Brute [b]Captains[/b] with Hammers? Even more similar to these two missions is when you get to the top of the lift in CE you have to fight more Covenant. Sword Elites, Jackals etc. Once you get to the top of Exodus's lift, you get Rockets, Shotguns and a ton of Marines and ODST reinforcements against a ton of Concussion Rifle spamming Brutes, and a Hammer Chieftain. Even this scenario can be avoided, whereas CE forced you to kill every enemy.[/quote]That's a lot to reply to. I'll start with the Grunts. Giving them the ability to overcharge their plasma pistol could have been done in CE (in fact, some settings are already set) but it wasn't, because that was when Bungie had better people with them. Now it's all about difficulty. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Multijirachi Reach makes me feel as Bungie was just tired of making Halo by this point, and just wanted to make a Halo game which looked flashy and modern. Even if this was the case, I don't believe they succeeded as the graphics and models were very cartoony and pasty when compared to Halo 3.[/quote]I doubt they even wanted to make a Halo game at all. [Edited on 07.08.2012 8:50 PM PDT]