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How Bungie Has Changed The Controls In Halo: Reach

Information that only an extreme Halo fan could love.

At the risk of saturating this website with Halo-related content... When Bungie says it's made significant changes to the control schemes in Reach, I won't pretend to offer any thoughtful analysis (I'm not hardcore enough about Halo for that), but I will let those of you who aren't in the beta yet take a look and decide for yourselves. 
 

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So, who's serious enough about Halo for this to mean something to you? What are your thoughts? And what do you think of the beta, if you started playing it already? 
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The_Moorasaurus

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@SythonX7 said:
" @The_Moorasaurus said:
" Doesn't anyone let you create your own controls anymore? Is that so difficult to program?  Boxer for me though, :)  All of these except bumper jumper seem viable now though.  Bumper Jumper is really strange how the equipment is on a face button, like someone else said, you can't possibly look where you want whilst jetpacking... or turn whilst sprinting... or even move properly whilst active camo... that's a serious flaw! "
You don't hold the equipment button whilst jet-packing, sprinting ect. you only tap to activate and tap to deactivate. So its not as bad as its seems, but yeh games nowadays really should allow for custom control options. "
Ah, ok, well that serves me right for assuming doesn't it... :( 
 I figured you would hold it, as to me that makes more sense, 
 I can't imagine jet packing where i have to keep tapping the button to feather my landings and stuff, i had always just assumed you could pulse the button! 
 That's gonna be weird for me i think... 
 Do you have the beta? Can you or somebody else that reads this confirm whether if you hold the button to activate it stops when you let go? 
 And i'm not saying i don't believe you, i swear,  in some games you can tap to activate and tap to deactivate, or just hold and release to activate and deactivate stuff. I'm really trying to think of an example, cos i know i'm not mad! 
 
But i can't think of one. 
 
Can anyone help me out? :)
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All these look terrible to me. I want the old scheme back.
 
Guess I'll get used to it. *grumbles*

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Edited By superfriend

I´ll have to go for the "recon" scheme. The other layouts would require a lot of relearning for me. Dude, I can´t wait for the beta!!

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Edited By NarcolepticBat

bumper jumper ftw

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Edited By NarcolepticBat

Invert Y Axis =]

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Paging Dr Greenthumb, Calling Dr Greenthumb!

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@Bionicicide said:
" Why is the menu on a tilt? "
i think its lame.  
 
i also think this article is lame.  
 
i mean.  
 
 
seriously? 
a whole article just about a control layout? come on dude. there are more interesting things in the videogame industry going on im sure.
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Damn, this is going to be a hard choice between bumper jumper and equipment use.

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Well I am most definitely going to be using Recon.  Seems to be the most like the Halo 3 setup to me.

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Bumper Jumper FTW

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Edited By b2theEnji

Thank God bumper jumper is still there.

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Gotta go with Bumper Jumper.

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Edited By Green_Incarnate

Do you guys really not care about having equipment as one of the bumpers? I'd trade melee for equipment, if I could still keep the jump.

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Edited By Light_Bahamut
 @freakin said:
" So what's the Natal layout? "
I lol'd.
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Edited By Light_Bahamut

So, here's the real question: why hasn't anyone made a third-party controller that places the four face buttons on the controller's face to the underside of a controller, to be activated by your ring and pinkie fingers? That way, the player never has to move their thumb off the right stick. We have ten fingers, and yet to play games we only use six. I've never understood that.

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Why not take the Recon type and switch around the equipment and switch 'nade buttons, then it would be just like normal and people like me would not get angry at their tv every time they tried to switch to a sticky and find they threw a bouncer that ended up no where near their target instead.
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Edited By sdauz

did anyone see the night vision button, whats up with that remember cod 4 in all mp maps had night vision, even in daytime maps?

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First you spoil Mass Effect, now this. Come on, Brad. Let me learn something on my own for once!

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I'm default kind of person but if they switched the melee and the grenade swap that would be fan-freakin-tastic

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@Pie: the night vision won't be available in the beta neither are brutes, mongooses, and race mode but you know can't have everything
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@Light_Bahamut: amen
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@pwn4g3IEE7:  Well I don't think they're going to have brutes in the game at all, are they?
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What the hell is with developers refusing to allow users to fully customize their controls without forcing control schemes? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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Edited By Champoo

This is amazing! The reload button is where it should be! Now I never hated the bumper reload for Halo 3, but when you play MW2 and BC2 all the time and any other FPSs, bumper reload gets annoying.

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Why the FUCK is it so hard to make a fucking interface that lets us map our own fucking buttons?  Really?  Triple A 50 - 100 million dollar games can't have a fucking interface that Wolfenstein did?  Really?

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Edited By InsanePotato

Green thums or Recon... though why this game doesn't have a fully customisable control layout i'll never know.
Or is that feature in this one?

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I tried to hit someone and reloaded. And vice versa

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I tried to hit someone with "B", when that was swap grenades.