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Reviews Halo: Reach PC Review

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  1. bit-tech

    bit-tech Supreme Overlord Lover of bit-tech Administrator

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  2. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    Options, network, turn off relays as it buggers up wait times.
     
  3. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    For me the only Halo game that's really stayed the same play wise is ODST.

    Reach was good, at the time, and I am still enjoying it now, but it's .. A lot more "meh" than I remember. Perhaps because I still know when and who goes where.

    Still, as a PC port my only complaint is the achievements don't seem to earn right on Steam. I got the deluge of achievements I've had from the Xbox MCC, but I'm seemingly unable to earn any in Reach.
     
  4. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    Did you disable anti cheat when launching the game? Cause that disables chievos as well.
     
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    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Nope, I launched in full fat anti-cheat mode with all the trimmings.
     
  6. Anfield

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    Prob gonna be stuck then until they release a patch (at least there is a chance of that actually happening since they will want to look good when charging money for the next five lol).
     
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    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Yeah. I'm not that fussed, it's going to take me a month of Sundays to get through on legendary anyway.
     
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    jon Chief Phrenologist

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    It’s nice to be able to pull-off pinpoint sniper shots with east.

    snipers shoot the east? :)
     
  9. Aterius Gmork

    Aterius Gmork smell the ashes

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    Played halfway through the campaign with a friend on Saturday. I really forgot how much of a bullet sponge most enemies are - and we only played on Heroic difficulty. I also remember the sounds to be... fuller? More cinematic?

    Still, we had a blast. A trip down Nostalgia Lane for less than a tenner? Yes please!

    My personal dream would be a co-op Doom game. Or rather a co-op game with the gameplay of Doom 2016.
     
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    The sound thing is a known issue apparently.

    The bullet sponge thing.. Try the skulls that increase enemy health and upgrade the ranks. That's even worse. Hundreds and hundreds of rounds to kill Elites.

    Edit: After some thought, I turned my PiHole off for my PC, and suddenly got achievements. I did a quick search on the Pihole subreddit and the following domains need whitelisting:

    halowaypoint.com
    vortex.data.microsoft.com
    telemetry.svc.halowaypoint.com
    playfabapi.com
     
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  11. Wakka

    Wakka Yo, eat this, ya?

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    The Master Chief Collection is one of the big draws to me building a new PC - There will be weekends put aside for co-op time and reminiscing.
     
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