OK, so I was at work all day wishing I was at home playing the Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta. I finally got home and popped in my Halo 3 ODST disk and downloaded the beta. It took less than 30 minutes to download the 1.15 gigabyte beta. I connected to a match and I had the first kill which announced I believe first strike or something to that nature. I was playing team slayer. For a good portion of the match I had the most kills on my team. Later I lost that lead on my team. Not that I am competing against my team but its always nice to be able to say I have the most kills on my team. lol My team did end up losing. Now for glitches I can definitely say there are some glitches in the beta but that is to be expected. Bungie wants us to find and report these glitches so they can fix them for the game's release in the Fall. Now the glitch that I and probably everyone had noticed was that on the map it shows way too many red dots (the red team) than there actually were playing the game. I saw probably 20 or more red dots on the map when there was actually way less than that playing the game. Respawning after a death usually went without a hitch till one death when it looked like it was going to start a new game. I died and then it said something like starting game. I was like what??? The game isn't over yet, just respawn me. Eventually it did respawn me back into action. I went back to fighting the good fight. When the game ended and my team lost, the servers went down and I could not connect to another match. Now before I go onto the server problems let me talk about the experience points and rewards. So after a match has ended you are shown your experience you earned from the previous match. You gain experience points for things you accomplished in the game. For example, I had the first kill in the match so I was awarded points for that and along with all the kills I had. It also puts a cool icon next to your accomplishment which is a nice feature. I waited around for 20 minutes with no luck so I shut my Xbox off and here I am now blogging about it. I enjoyed the one and only match that I was able to connect to and I want more but I am not going to wait around all day. I definitely will be getting the game on day one of release in the fall. Like I said before I only played one match but I was definitely having fun and I really enjoyed the new additions to the game. Bungie is aware of the problem and they are actively working on getting the servers back online. I think I am done gaming for today and I will give it another shot tomorrow. I am sure the servers will be working fine by then. How about you guys, have you played the beta and if so how do you like it? What don't you like? What do you like? What glitches have you found so far?
