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**jim5cents** · 09-29-2009, 10:35 PM

So i've played through the first couple of levels on this, any opinions so far?

**DrunkN** · 09-30-2009, 05:07 PM

I've only played firefight mode at a friends, and it was painfully easy(on normal of course), even though I had to remember the controls.

**Dudebro** · 10-01-2009, 12:35 AM

What's firefight like? I read it's similar to the Horde mode on Gears 2 where you play coop versus waves of enemies, is that right? If so I might consider getting this game.

**jim5cents** · 10-01-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dudebro

What's firefight like? I read it's similar to the Horde mode on Gears 2 where you play coop versus waves of enemies, is that right? If so I might consider getting this game.

yes.

**Dudebro** · 10-01-2009, 05:17 PM

Well thanks for that detailed description. Would you mind elaborating a little? How many players, how many rounds, how many enemies, ect?

**DrunkN** · 10-01-2009, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Well thanks for that detailed description. Would you mind elaborating a little? How many players, how many rounds, how many enemies, ect?

Yes.

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**Dudebro** · 10-01-2009, 05:47 PM

Aww only two player, you sure? Are you able to set up defensive positions or are you constantly running around killing?

**samejamesbond** · 10-01-2009, 05:57 PM

Apparently skulls have effects in firefight too.
I don't play the game, my brother does, so I wouldn't know.

**DrunkN** · 10-01-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Aww only two player, you sure? Are you able to set up defensive positions or are you constantly running around killing?

There are a lot of maps, I have only played one, sorry.

**jim5cents** · 10-02-2009, 12:15 AM

it is 4 player over xbox live, yes, increasing difficulty in waves.
the biggest difference between gears and halo is since there is no revival, the group shares a pool of lives which resets with each wave. tougher than gears horde mode in my opinion

**Dudebro** · 10-02-2009, 01:21 AM

How is that tougher? In Horde mode if you die, you die no extra lives. If your talking about the first aid thing then that doesn't count, on the high levels the monsters finish you quick anyways.
I'm not liking the sound of lives resetting. One of the best things about the Horde was the challenge. Otherwise it's just a shooting gallery and that's boring.

**jim5cents** · 10-02-2009, 10:05 AM

so, i misspoke, the difficulty of eliminating the enemies is harder than gears.

you only get a health recharge if you find a medkit, as opposed to gears where you regain health while in cover. in gears, you still come back to life after a wave, not to mention, you can theoretically die countless times, just as long as you aren't curb stomped, a teammate can revive you. the pool of lives is really not a significant number, something like 2 or 3 for a group of 4. so if one of your teammates sucks, then you basically have no chance of a revival.

**Dudebro** · 10-02-2009, 09:12 PM

Well I bought this game tonight and I'm about to start playing it soon. Everything I hear leads me to believe the firefight mode is awesome and that's the main reason I wanted it. I'm also happy to get Halo3 with all the DLC maps I never wanted to pay for separately.

So who here has ODST and a Live gold account?

**jim5cents** · 10-02-2009, 09:22 PM

si senor dudebro, if you want to go at it sometime, i'll be happy to play along, out of town on business right now however, if you want, we can figure something out sometime.

**Dudebro** · 10-02-2009, 10:46 PM

Good to know. My brothers are into this too so I should have a steady 3 people and you'd be the fourth.

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I just loaded the game up and for some reason I can't join firefight mode with my brother(says not connected to Xboxlive even though I clearly am). Is there something I'm supposed to do first?

**jim5cents** · 10-03-2009, 02:32 AM

dunno, on occasion, i have had trouble with connected with my bro for either halo or cod games in the past, mostly it is router trouble. most of the time, if you restart the router, it works ok...kinda bs most of the time, nat trouble

**Blue Shoe 2** · 10-03-2009, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Good to know. My brothers are into this too so I should have a steady 3 people and you'd be the fourth.

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I just loaded the game up and for some reason I can't join firefight mode with my brother(says not connected to Xboxlive even though I clearly am). Is there something I'm supposed to do first?

Campaign is painfully short, but rather fun. it's not as stealthy as advertised, but if your carefull, you can beat the game without even getting seen. (or so i've heard, i've gotten into one or two fights in the first 2 levels.)

**Dudebro** · 10-03-2009, 09:14 PM

So I unplugged my router and was able to join parties, must be the router settings for some reason even though nothings changed.
I played for many hours last night and made it pretty far in Firefight. It's still new to me but we got 750k points for the team and I got about 350k for myself, is that good? Btw normal difficultly is too easy. I had to go to bed and so I had to kill myself over and over to lose all the lives we gathered. I think next time we'll have to try legendary since our halo skills are so sharp.

**Timber Wolf** · 10-18-2009, 12:51 PM

Hey if anyone want's my gamertag, PM me I got ODST, and i've had live for some time now, so if anyone want's to play, just give me a shout

**Shades** · 10-27-2009, 02:03 AM

Not impressed with ODST. The story was cliche' and horrific. Firefight was its only redeeming quality.

Firefight should be DLC for ten bucks, waste the rest of the game.

**Dudebro** · 10-27-2009, 02:30 AM

One good thing for me is the Halo3 Multiplayer w/all the maps. I'd love to play more Firefight but the lack of matchmaking makes it almost impossible.

**Shades** · 10-27-2009, 09:33 PM

That's true. I think they may be fixing that soon.

I'm guessing they just had to experiment somewhat before they threw it on the servers.