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BetrayedTangy posted...

So I ended up watching a speedrun of Reach instead of playing it and man do I love how many alternate approaches there are to get through the levels.

Yeah, that's definitely neat. I think it also shows a kind of open-endedness toward how you play even if you just take the regular path, as demonstrated to a certain extent by my lost warthog misadventure.

Now that you mention how the games reward exploration, I'm reminded of one of the few things I knew about this series before I really played any of them, which are those weird semi-humanoid monkey creatures that are hidden in the corners of the maps in one of the games (was that Halo 3?) I still think those are kind of funny.

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This was one of those nights where I slept in much too late and barely had any time to do the things I need, but I still managed to boot up the game and finish off the spire section of the Tip of the Spear mission. It actually went quite quickly and smoothly, much to my surprise. There isn't a lot of opposition on the Spire itself: it's mainly large waves of Grunts and a few of the Skirmishers. You also start out with the rapid-fire sniper rifle weapon (I forget what it's actually called,) and an assault rifle with a lot of ammo. I was able to get some satisfying headshots on the early waves, and found the sniper rifle pretty effective against the shield guys.

There's also a chance to swap sprint out for a jetpack, which of course I took, but I didn't really end up using it. I had a hard time finding a good time to give it a shot. I got through the whole section without losing any lives except at the very end, where there is an energy sword guy guarded by some grunts who seemed to have some really heavy firepower. The first time I peeked into the room where they were standing I got blown to smithereens in a matter of seconds. I ended up tossing a grenade into the room and then taking out the swordmaster with the old plasma pistol into assault rifle method, and that was the end of the mission.

With Noble Six's mission to disable the spire's shield complete, the army sends a large assault ship after the structure, but it turns out to be a trap: the spire can warp in a massive Covenant mothership that tears the battlecruiser in half like a sheet of paper. The human position on Reach suffers catastrophic losses, and the seemingly lone Noble team have two objectives:

1. Hold out for reinforcements in 48 hours
2. Destroy the mothership using an experimental warp drive in a hidden base, where Noble 6 used to work.

So begins the next mission, Long Night of Solace, which I'll tackle next time I play. Hopefully tomorrow.


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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 9/129
Currently Playing: Halo: Reach