Halo ODST Impressions thread.

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nightsurge said:

So far I have thought it has been amazing! Some of the graphics in this game are down right gorgeous considering it is running on the old H3 engine. The lighting is superb as always. I also saw the hint of Film Grain affect which made it look beautiful.

Did anyone else have extreme lag for about 15 minutes on Xbox Live between 12:15-1:00 AM EST on launch night? My whole group did as soon as we launched Firefight and I noticed even my dashboard was lagging, but then after about 15 minutes it all settled down and was likely just Xbox Live adjusting to hundreds of thousands of concurrent logins.

So far I am on Data Hive of the campaign in Normal mode after about 4.5 hours (so it will take me about the same time as H3 campaign did). And I played about 2 hours of Firefight. It should be pretty easy to get 200k firefight achievements, but only if I am playing on Easy and that will take a while. Playing on normal got rather difficult after the first set (with just 3 people), but we were playing on the smallest enclosed map.

Squilliam, me, and a buddy of mine played firefight on Normal for about 75 minutes.  We got to Set 3, Round 3, Wave 3 before we were overwhelmed.  I was lagging quite a bit due to it being hosted by a Kiwi I believe :).  It was still fun though.  I got about 200 head shots with that pistol.  It isn't very powerful for things other than that though.  Plasma pistol and the regular pistol are quite the combo for taking down brutes though.  It was a blast.  Squills was actually the hero in a couple rounds.