Major Updates Coming to Halo Reach

[IL TJ]

Title Updates will include
- Bloom removal
- Beatdown bleed-through
- Magnum/DMR headshot bleed-through (potential 4shot kills)

Can be seen in this video



EDIT:
from g4tv

Another example of a possible change that might come to Combat Evolved Anniversary is the fan-favorite pistol. While the overpowered little beauty will still be the same beast it always was in campaign mode, the multiplayer version might -- emphasis on might -- be changed a little bit.

"People really want it in multiplayer," O'Connor said. "The multiplayer component [in Anniversary] all runs in the Reach engine. We didn't want to cannibalize the existing player base for Reach in the middle of its lifespan, so what we did was we picked a group of multiplayer maps that would work well with that Reach stuff."

"More importantly," he added, "we're working on a title update for Reach and obviously for this that'll allow us to add some of the classic functionality and gameplay from the original multiplayer component Combat Evolved. In some ways taken backwards, taken back to the sort of simpler... more elegant Halo experience."

"We haven't revealed what all of those pieces are that we're putting in the title update because, frankly, we're testing a lot of them right now. I don't want to say we'll have the original pistol back in multiplayer if some unperceived circumstance could come up during testing and it doesn't work. But right now we're pretty confident that everything we're shooting for is going to make it into the title update. We'll give that list out and sort of talk through it at Halo Fest on August 26."

Read more: www.g4tv.com/.../#ixzz1UHeULxzN

From Official Xbox Magazine

[n1gh7]

I saw bloom in the video...

[mannon]

They obviously haven't removed bloom completely, but it did appear that the DMR did not bloom when fired, only when reloaded, which doesn't really matter since you can't fire yet anyway. The assault rifle on the other hand certainly did bloom appropriately when fired.

Not sure how I feel about it. Feels like it removes some nuance to the DMR where you had to make trade offs to find the best ROF for a given situation. Without bloom there won't be any reason not to just fire as fast as possible all the time. I'm sure the MLG crowd will love it.

Oh well I'm not that into Halo multiplayer so I guess I don't really care ATM. ;p

That video, BTW was hard to watch. It was more herky jerky than my BO theater vids. heh

[IL TJ]

Additional info added

[raxcoswell]

this looks like pretty good stuff to me, to be honest. but i'm a pretty mediocre halo player and I don't know it so well. beatdown bleed through seems nice especially

[basuuuuu]

This is amazing. I'm so glad Bungie has given control over halo to 343 industries

[raxcoswell]

did a little reading, seems like the no dmr bloom and potentially other stuff will just be variable from playlist to playlist?

[ParaGoombaSlayer]

As long as the Magnum and NR also get no bloom, I'm fine with it. The Assault Rifle should still have bloom, but perhaps it should get a little bit of a buff power wise to make it at least somewhat viable against the max fire rate, no bloom semi-auto weapons. Actually a lot of the weapons might need a buff to bring them up to par with the new DMR and Magnum and NR.

I have a feeling that no bloom is going to turn Halo back into an OP BR or Magnum fiesta. But you know what? I like Halo being an OP BR or Magnum fiesta.

Also, it'll be so fucking nice to melee someone that has 1% shield and kill them as opposed to the current situation where the person with the 1% shield is equal to a person with full shield in a melee fight.