Halo: Reach

[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Halo: Reach Week 1 – By the Numbers

Even though Halo: Reach wasn’t even out for a full week as of this past Sunday, our latest and greatest game still racked up some mighty impressive numbers. While we’re not privy to the methodologies and data used to compile the Xbox LIVE Activity reports published to Major Nelson’s blog this morning, we do know that last week’s numbers were well off the mark due to what’s now being called a “manual reporting error.”

Fortunately for us, our online team tracks every single aspect of Halo: Reach right down to shots fired, and our own internal data tells a very different story. To help put launch week into a little more perspective, we’ve prepared a handful of stats to compare and contrast Halo: Reach against our stalwart online juggernaut, Halo 3.

• On Tuesday, 09/14/2010 at approximately 1:30 pm PST, just a few hours after launch, Halo: Reach’s online unique user count had already completely eclipsed Halo 3’s total tally for the entirety of the week (09/13 through 09/20).

• To account for the same number of online players found in Halo: Reach during that same window (just six days), we had to run the numbers for Halo 3 going all the way back to 8/6/2010, encompassing a full 45 days of Halo 3 play!

• Ultimately, Halo: Reach’s online population for the first week dwarfed Halo 3’s by comparison, snagging four times the number of total unique users and decimating Halo 3’s all time high of concurrent users by more than 65%.

And here are some more Halo: Reach specific numbers from week-one that are just all kinds of kick *** in their own right:

• 70 Million+ Games have been played
• 235 Million+ Player-Games have been played
• 2 Million+ Files have been uploaded to File Shares
• 5,901 man-years have been spent in online Reach games (sorry, Corporate America!)
• 20 Million Daily challenges have been completed
• 709,840 Weekly challenges have been completed
• 165 Billion Credits have been earned

To say we’re grateful for your continued support would be an understatement. Our sources tell us that we’ve been the number one title on Xbox LIVE for the last seven days. You complete us.

Thanks a million for playing Halo: Reach. (Halo 3, too!). We’ll see you online.

[Steel5]

Re: Halo: Reach

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/de...inist3r%20Alex

My stats. I don't know why my Spartan looks default on the page. My Spartan in game looks a lot different than the one on Bungie.

They had to turn off a few bnet features when the game came out because the site traffic was too high apparently. The Spartan was one of them, should be working properly in the future.

I have the same thing, I have default armor on the site, but not in the game.

[goh]

Re: Halo: Reach

Oh what the hell the game doesn't even save? You have to choose save and quit to mark progress? I thought it was automatic at checkpoints,I go to load it up and I'm back at the start of the game. Screw this.

[thaima1shu]

Re: Halo: Reach

http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/default.aspx?player=thaima1shu

1.28 matchmaking k/d ratio. Slowly, slowly climbing.

[TracerBullet]

Re: Halo: Reach

Here's mine:

Black Mamba205

I have yet to come in last on any game besides Safe Havens/Infection. I haven't come below 6th in any slayer match yet (and even that's only happened twice).

[Candyman5]

Re: Halo: Reach

Oh what the hell the game doesn't even save? You have to choose save and quit to mark progress? I thought it was automatic at checkpoints,I go to load it up and I'm back at the start of the game. Screw this.

Hit save and quit then hit continue campaign when you want to resume. Not that hard dude....

[DickDalewood]

Re: Halo: Reach

Oh what the hell the game doesn't even save? You have to choose save and quit to mark progress? I thought it was automatic at checkpoints,I go to load it up and I'm back at the start of the game. Screw this.

Lol... you're really going to blame the game for you not taking the time to save your game? C'mon goh, even for YOU that's taking things a little to the extreme.

[Steel5]

Re: Halo: Reach

Yeah guys I really don't understand your guys' trouble with saving a campaign game. Press 'save and quit' and the next time you play, press resume campaign.

[Candyman5]

Re: Halo: Reach

Yeah goh I really don't understand your trouble with saving a campaign game. Press 'save and quit' and the next time you play, press resume campaign.

Fixed ...

[Flawless]

Re: Halo: Reach

Love Boardwalk. Really the only maps I dislike are The Cage and Zealot. I think Zealot would be better without the low-gravity top level. Not as good as Halo 2, but as someone who hated a lot of the maps in Halo 3, and was a big reason I didn't play it a whole lot, I'm happy with the selection in Reach. The spawns could use some work on a few of the maps though.

[TracerBullet]

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Love Boardwalk. Really the only maps I dislike are The Cage and Zealot. I think Zealot would be better without the low-gravity top level. Not as good as Halo 2, but as someone who hated a lot of the maps in Halo 3, and was a big reason I didn't play it a whole lot, I'm happy with the selection in Reach. The spawns could use some work on a few of the maps though.

I like Zealot, though I can understand that frustration with it. How The CAge is terrible imo. Way to jetpack and sprint friendly and just not much fun to me at least.

[SinisterAlex]

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Love Boardwalk. Really the only maps I dislike are The Cage and Zealot. I think Zealot would be better without the low-gravity top level. Not as good as Halo 2, but as someone who hated a lot of the maps in Halo 3, and was a big reason I didn't play it a whole lot, I'm happy with the selection in Reach. The spawns could use some work on a few of the maps though.

I like Zealot.... I CANNOT stand Pinnacle. Poor map in my opinion.

I also just found out that my CoD4: Shipment map re-make is on the first page of the Recommended Files and on the third page of the Most Downloaded!!! At the time of posting this is currently has 2,986 downloads.

[Cyros]

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I like Zealot.... I CANNOT stand Pinnacle. Poor map in my opinion.

I also just found out that my CoD4: Shipment map re-make is on the first page of the Recommended Files and on the third page of the Most Downloaded!!! At the time of posting this is currently has 2,986 downloads.

Congrats!

msg2short

[DaveDQ]

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I like Zealot.... I CANNOT stand Pinnacle. Poor map in my opinion.

I also just found out that my CoD4: Shipment map re-make is on the first page of the Recommended Files and on the third page of the Most Downloaded!!! At the time of posting this is currently has 2,986 downloads.

I noticed that COD4 map. Very nice.

Some of the maps are silly though. I'm working on one a little at a time. Forge just blows my mind with its possibilities. I'm sitting there building my moon and then I see a green field in the background and think.."Soccer field."

[mrprice33]

Go to the main menu and you can resume at the mission where you were.

I know a lot of people are making fun of goh, but I'm sorry, it's just bad game design to have a game give the pretense of auto saving, then requiring you to save and quit in order to save your progress. This is a console game, people turn off consoles when they're done playing. At least they should make it easier to figure out where to go if you think you've lost your save. This is an awesome game, but this is horrible design.

Oh what the hell the game doesn't even save? You have to choose save and quit to mark progress? I thought it was automatic at checkpoints,I go to load it up and I'm back at the start of the game. Screw this.