Halo: Reach beta logs over a million players on first day

Nice numbers.

I hope this does well for Bungie on their way out of the Halo game.

Of course, it's freakin' Halo, so of course it's going to do well.

Pretty impressive numbers. I'm honestly surprised that the Halo brand has done so well over the years. I've never really been into the whole thing myself, though I've still managed to play through about half of the games.

This means the Xbox team must have served over 1.1 petabytes of data... That must break some kind of record.

I'm enjoying it. Its a lot more tactical than the old run, gun and slap techniques from Halo 3.

And yes, the jetpacks are probably the most used AA in the game. They're also surprisingly easy to defeat so I ain't complaining

Personally Halo Reach Multiplayer has been a fun experience I just hope they can build from it and make it better.

So over 1,170,112 people bought ODST?

Having fun with the beta so far. I can't wait to try invasion.

I'll probably get down-ranked into a dark nexus for this one, but I think the beta is good, but not great.

Graphics: gorgeous for Halo games

2 beta maps: Sword base is pretty cool, don't care too much for the other one

Guns: I really like the new additions. I do think the damage needs turned up a tad. I don't feel the DMR is a suitable replacement for the BR. Glad to see the pistol back in it's old glory.

Leveling system: I like the new credits you can earn for new armor.

Health System: Don't like the health pack idea.

Armor Abilities: This is what turned me off the most, none of them feel like big game changers. Sprint should be added as a standard ability for everyone. Jetpacks should be attainable in game items. Armor lock just delays the inevitable. Invisibility is cool but shouldn't jam the user's radar. The Elite/Covenant Evade should be a standard ability for the Elite's.

I understand the game is still in beta form but Bungie please reconsider the new AA's and tweak them. Maybe create like 8 new abilities and see what should be regular abilities, and what could change the Halo Loadouts to create really unique classes/loadouts. Don't make it (heaven forbid) COD, but make the last Halo game uniquely fresh and go out with a bang!

I've been having loads of fun with the beta (I played 8 hours strait the first day and I don't usually get into multiplayer that much) but damn near everyone uses up all the Covenant weapons so I'd love bungie to add more to the maps of even better offer more loadouts with Covenant weapons.

I heard that there were going to be 4 maps, but I've only seen 2 after several hours of playing, so far.

I totally didn't get the 10 flag ctf mode. It was too confusing with little indication of when I was doing it right. I'm willing to admit that I'm mostly to blame, but it still wasn't fun for me.

I've really been wanting to play other modes besides ctf and team slayer, but haven't been give the opportunity to yet.

I like the voting options for game types/maps, but I don't like how it starts with everyone on a choice. There should be 0 votes for any choice by default and force people to be engaged or miss out. Boring gametypes are chosen by people not paying any attn between gametypes and I refuse to be that desparate guy screaming at people to vote for the map I want. I have PTSD flashbacks of shrieks of kids yelling "veto!, veto!"

I die a lot with them, but I can't stop using jetpacks. jetpacks are the shit. I can see that Guard could be cool with good teamwork.. As in when a teammate is in trouble using guard while you spam his battle area with grenades.

Pretty, mostly petty comments for a game I can see myself playing for quite a while. Good times, indeed.

No wonder I couldn't get a proper game going. I only managed to get into one match that day and even then it was laggy as hell.

Although its great now so its super fun!

"If you prefer your jaw-dropping facts to be less numerical, Bungie concluded that the Reach beta saw more action on its first day than the Halo 3 beta did over its entire three-week run."

Yeah, but that's because ODST sold a lot more than Crackdown did. Not everyone was willing to buy a "cartoony" sandbox game for a FPS demo, but lots of people will buy a FPS to play a bonus FPS demo.

(Not dissing Crackdown- bought my copy on ebay the day after the beta ended for $15... best $15 game I ever bought)

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-Chris

did anyone else read that as "lags over a million players on first day"? ^_^

That said, looking forward to trying to this out. Jetpacks!!

Whoa, addition!

I love it, it's really fun. Headhunter is like crack! The one AA that I do wish was a standard feature is the Sprinting. Damn it feels so good to be able to run in Halo. I'm ready for the new map tomorrow! I love Powerhouse, Sword base is just aight.

I'm absolutely loving the gameplay but I do hope they fix up parts of the interface. The font seems too small especially in the aftergame battle report. Also, you can't see how many of each medal you earned. It's the little things like that I hope they fix.

This looks intriguing.

Bungie: All your hours are belong to us.

Say what you will about the franchise but there is very little doubt it's the most popular multiplayer game of all time.

I was actually suprised, unlike Halo 3 this game doesn't suck.

Love the game, hate that stupid laser beam weapon.

Something's not right. There's only 158M deaths over 14M games played. That averages out to only 11 deaths per game. Kind of a low number, isn't it?