I bought the noble pack and wasn’t impressed. Haven’t touched the game in such awhile. I’m planning to get the new razor tourni pad so once I get that I’ll be back on Halo.
That’s awesome news about the Halo 2 maps though
Some highlights re: Reach (bolding by me):
The team at 343i has been hard at work on an update for “Halo: Reach” both to bring new experiences to fans as well as address longstanding feedback from the community. The most noticeable change in the works? The return of the wicked, deadly and wildly fun “Halo: Combat Evolved” Magnum pistol to “Halo: Anniversary” and “Halo: Reach” multiplayer gameplay. An addition that will be supported in special, classic playlists, the original Magnum pistol is sure to rekindle some of the madness and carnage players reveled in a decade ago.
In addition, the update, which is targeted for release in October, will introduce several multiplayer fixes for “Halo: Reach” fans have been clamoring for. Armor Lock now absorbs a level of damage based on the amount of remaining energy a player has, diminishing its effectiveness. Active Camo’s duration has been reduced and the ability to block sword attacks using any weapon other than another sword has been disabled. And for fans of precision firing, reticle “bloom” is now configurable, delivering increased accuracy when firing in rapid succession.
This update will also enable “Halo: Reach” players using an Xbox 360 4GB console without a HDD to utilize Campaign and Firefight matchmaking which previously required a HDD.
I totally dissagree witht he removal of Sword Blocing with anything but a Sword. That change is lame as hell.
Anyway I’m back into Reach so I’m down to play with some fools.
Agreed completely. It wasn’t exactly easy to do AND whatever non-sword weapon the other guy has is probably much harder to “block.”
There’s almost always only one sword on a map! How the hell am I supposed to sword block against a sword user when there’s only one sword on a map 99% of the damn time?
You’re not filling me with hope 343i.
We should play some time Specs.
I’m willing, though keep in mind me and my “crowd” play only semi-seriously and while holding casual conversation. 
I only care about going positive. That’s about as serious as I take it so no worries man.
Thought the pistol in Reach was already pretty beastly IMO :wonder:
Have to agree, sword thing is dumb.
sigh Still no sign of CoD or custom gamepad layouts
I’m really glad for the armor lock change, meh about the Camou (I could see how it was a problem, but never really went up with a lot of Camou whores), but hate the sword blocking. I think it’s cool you can adjust the reticle. I’m assuming this is only for private matches, right? Seems unfair for online if a person has absolutely no bloom but another person does.
The bloom thing is dumb to me to. The guns are still going to bloom, like they always have, you just are turning off the visual representation of it. Thank god that shit is option unlike the sword block bullshit.
If the bloom config doesn’t actually negate the necessity to pace oneself with a precision gun, why would you ever want to make it not show the bloom? Fuck, the moment I noticed the bloom is the point I actually started winning a few DMR duels.
For real dude. The constant bitching about the Bloom is fucking retarded. I was happy they added it since the guns in the previous games Bloomed as well but there was no visual indicator for it, took me ever to get the handle on how to pace the guns.