Well, the Halo 3 Beta is finally over. I wasn’t able to play it nearly as much as I would have liked to, in fact, I just barely passed the 200 games mark. Overall though, I had a blast playing the Beta. I would have to say my favorite map of the three was High Ground. I thought that SnowBound and Valhalla were alright, but I definitely think that High Ground proved to be the most popular map among the people I spoke with. I also think that my favorite new gametype is the twist on territories where your team has to lock them down to get a point.
One other thing I thought was odd about the Beta was how easy it was to level up. I think that the reasoning behind that was to test out Bungie’s matchmaking system accross a broad group of players with different levels, and what better way to do that then make it easy for people to level up quickly. Perhaps when the final game is released it will be more difficult to level up, but when I was playing team slayer I only played a little over 50 games and made it to level 44. I’m sure if I had a little more time I would have reached 50 easily. I believe I only received a couple losses legitimately, whereas the other times we lost team slayer games were due to disconnects.
I’m also a little bummed out that they changed the emblem system and removed a few of the backgrounds that were available in Halo 2, most notably the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds. The only way to create the emblem I used all through Halo 2 is by using one of the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds, both of which were not in the beta. Because they kept in nearly every background from Halo 2 for the emblem system, it leads me to believe that the ‘quadrants’ backgrounds will not be in the final game and if that’s the case I’m not sure which emblem I’ll switch to.
In any case, I had a lot of fun playing the beta did you? What was your favorite map and gametype? Let me know by posting your comments.
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Highground was also my favorite map.
i enjoyed the beta needless to say that i could see some improvement coming. cant wait till halo 3 though the story mode should be exiting.
I have to say i liked snowbound the best… the BR seemed to be more active because the map was alittle more ranged than high ground. I Wasn’t really a big fan of Valhala because of the size, it was big and spawns wern’t always the best. The game itself was amazing. I very rarely lost, my only losses were due to bad teammates, d/c’s and lag (get that alot when your british).
Great game 10/10, can’t wait for the release.
I personally thought Vahalla was the best because it was an even spawing field.