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Darunia said:
I might be wrong here, but isn't turning a lot slower with lower sensitivity? I only played a few games of Halo 2, but when I used low settings and some guy shot me in the back, I was already dead before I could see him.

Oh yes. But I find that I can't aim as well. So I get better and keep raising the sensitivity little by little.
 
I'm having trouble getting the "Used Car Salesman" achievement in Campaign, it might be glitched. I've blown up those 4 person brute hovercrafts and a bunch of phantoms with passengers and still never got it. Any tips?
 
a Master Ninja said:
I'm having trouble getting the "Used Car Salesman" achievement in Campaign, it might be glitched. I've blown up those 4 person brute hovercrafts and a bunch of phantoms with passengers and still never gotten it. Any tips?


I blew a turret off one of the flying Covenant troop carriers and got it.
 
I guess it differs for maps and gametypes for me. If i'll be playing rockets/swords/shottys, by all means I'll go on 5+. But Team Snipers? No way.
 
people always balk at my mouse sensitivity since it's ridiculously high, and i like the same thing with console fps'. i can't play anything lower than 10. i just suck, i can't aim properly, i can't move fast enough, i just blow.
 
a Master Ninja said:
I'm having trouble getting the "Used Car Salesman" achievement in Campaign, it might be glitched. I've blown up those 4 person brute hovercrafts and a bunch of phantoms with passengers and still never gotten it. Any tips?

I got it randomly by just shooting the turret off the bottom of a phantom.

Edit: Bah beated.
 
a Master Ninja said:
I'm having trouble getting the "Used Car Salesman" achievement in Campaign, it might be glitched. I've blown up those 4 person brute hovercrafts and a bunch of phantoms with passengers and still never gotten it. Any tips?


I thought I should have gotten that too, but then I checked the two prowlers I rocketed and they were still driveable so while the rocket killed all the passengers, the vehicle was left intact :(
 
a Master Ninja said:
I'm having trouble getting the "Used Car Salesman" achievement in Campaign, it might be glitched. I've blown up those 4 person brute hovercrafts and a bunch of phantoms with passengers and still never got it. Any tips?


What armor perm are YOU using?
 
So I made a fun little map variant where you blow stuff up. That's right. Blow stuff up. Namely, a bunch of mongooses (plural spl?) and ghosts. Here's some screens:

The setup:
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That last pick shows how one of the ghosts actually flew OVER the catwalk where you can't even fly the camera.

If you want to try it out without building it yourself, you can download it from my Service Record HERE. It's called "boom!"
 
Just checking in. I don't think I'll be able to keep up with this thread, now that I have the actual game to play. (And I'm still trying to finish Bioshock and EDF. It like an overload of awesomeness. Great, but very time consuming.)

Anywho, I picked up my copy yesterday after work, and managed to get a couple hours in. The first level took me a bit over 2 hours to complete, so I don't think I'll be finishing the campaign in 6! I'm a "casual" Halo player, but decided to play on Heroic to get the full effect. The first level didn't seem too terribly hard, although I did take my time, and according to my stats page, I died 13 times. About 5 minutes into the second level, I hit a wall. Description of scene-->
Brutes in a hanger
I died about 7,000 times, and seem to be stuck. I'll try restarting the level tonight in hopes of keeping my Marines alive a bit longer, and perhaps getting more ammo and/or better weapons.

Impressions: Nice. Very polished. Graphics are nice, certainly not "jaggy", but not really "OMG, honey! Come in and look at this!" either. (Bear in mind I've only seen 1.1 levels so far.) The lighting effects are indeed lovely. The character animation in the cut scenes is pretty poor, but the dialog and "direction" seem good. The audio mix seems fine. I can hear my own guns with no issues.

Well, I need to play more before I can comment further. But so far, so good!
 
Is no one else having trouble getting into matches? I was flying into games last night and earlier this morning, but now it takes upwards to 10 minutes to join a game, if it will even connect me to one. I checked my network connections and everything is fine. I'm hoping it's just a hiccup in the Bungie servers, which would be totally understandable.
 
Fletcher said:
Is no one else having trouble getting into matches? I was flying into games last night and earlier this morning, but now it takes upwards to 10 minutes to join a game, if it will even connect me to one. I checked my network connections and everything is fine. I'm hoping it's just a hiccup in the Bungie servers, which would be totally understandable.

yeah I'm having the same problem
 
Man, the soldiers' chatter is really awesome. During the Tsavo Highway mission, while I was battling a bunch of brutes that were dropping from a Phantom, a soldier behind me started ranting about combat (I don't quite recall,) but what I do remember is that when
I took the phantom out
, he just stopped and said "HELL!". Real funny moment.
 
Will the game give a notice when you unlock a permutation? I think I'm two thirds the way through the game on Legendary and I don't know if I've unlocked anything.
 
Scarecrow said:
Will the game give a notice when you unlock a permutation? I think I'm two thirds the way through the game on Legendary and I don't know if I've unlocked anything.
How do you unlock things anyway? Isn't it through multiplayer matches?
 
GhaleonEB said:
He's a really nice guy. A bit older than I (he's early 40's and I'm 30). We had some good conversation, almost too good: we were up talking until 4:00 am after the lock-in was over.

Whoops.
Ah, awesome. He's always seemed like a great guy from the years I've been interacting with him at HBO. Glad to hear that holds true in real life.

30, okay. I'd been wondering, what with the wife and kids.
 
Aulatori said:
I got it randomly by just shooting the turret off the bottom of a phantom.

Edit: Bah beated.
Thanks, I wish the description of the achievement actually reflected what I had to do to unlock it. Blowing up the front turret on the Phantom, leaving the rest of the craft intact seems to have done the trick.
 
Finally finished the game on Heroic and it took a bit over 9hrs. Thought the ending was great especially after the credits, but it’s too bad Frankie spoiled some of ending for me when he linked to the other thread last night. The graphics are good considering the size of the levels. I don’t get why so many people hated the 8th level. The level looks great and you just need to be strategic when fighting the “special” enemy. I just took the Brute shot to knock them down then one whack with the energy sword kills them. I thought the worst level was the 2nd because it looked very stale and uninteresting. The 5th level had the best atmosphere and I had the most fun on the 6th.

1st lvl: 54min, 11 deaths
2nd lvl: 31min, 0 deaths
3rd lvl: 1h9min, 37 deaths
4th lvl: 57min, 5 deaths
5th lvl: 24min, 2 deaths
6th lvl: 1h38min, 15 deaths
7th lvl: 1h23min, 2 deaths
8th lvl: 1h40min, 7 deaths
9th lvl: 28min, 7 deaths
 
tissot said:
1st lvl: 54min, 11 deaths
2nd lvl: 31min, 0 deaths
3rd lvl: 1h9min, 37 deaths
4th lvl: 57min, 5 deaths
5th lvl: 24min, 2 deaths
6th lvl: 1h38min, 15 deaths
7th lvl: 1h23min, 2 deaths
8th lvl: 1h40min, 7 deaths
9th lvl: 28min, 7 deaths
I admire your persistence.
 
2nd level sort-of-easter egg spoiler maybe:
Did anyone else go to that side area in the Crow's Nest with the marine banging on the door, and the guy inside demanding the password?
 
Scarecrow said:
:lol I wonder if it's too late to implement dedicated servers.

no theres no need for dedicated servers. the netcode is excellent based on the games ive played thus far. it just seems like theres an xbox live issue related to halo right now.
 
Stats and medals so far:

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Most proud of

1): The Extermination up there at the top (wipe out an entire enemy team of 4 or more)

2) The Sword Spree (I didn't know this medal existed)

3) The Flag Kill. So demoralizing for the enemy.

:D :D :D
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
2nd level sort-of-easter egg spoiler maybe:
Did anyone else go to that side area in the Crow's Nest with the marine banging on the door, and the guy inside demanding the password?


yeah, i got there. I was very funny!
 
Why isn't there a solo slayer ranked playlist? I'm not that good at the game, but I can at least have a chance in slayer matched. I'm terrible at modes where you have to hide like a bitch (oddball, crazy king). ugh
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
2nd level sort-of-easter egg spoiler maybe:
Did anyone else go to that side area in the Crow's Nest with the marine banging on the door, and the guy inside demanding the password?

I'm pretty sure there's a handful of different ones. Plus it's all the
dudes from Red Vs. Blue.
 
We need a post for gametypes created in forge a long with voting on these gametypes. Anyway love the game and think it was definitely one of the best games for the value. I have not played around with forge but I think this will really give the game legs.

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Im in the blue...
 
We at least need a "Halo 3 File Sharing" thread, so everyone can posts their maps and screenshots in the same thread without clogging up the story or gameplay discussions going on here.
 
Xdrive05 said:
We at least need a "Halo 3 File Sharing" thread, so everyone can posts their maps and screenshots in the same thread without clogging up the story or gameplay discussions going on here.

Someone get too it. I suck at starting things. Can I get credit for the idea???

MThanded said:
We need a post for gametypes created in forge a long with voting on these gametypes. Anyway love the game and think it was definitely one of the best games for the value. I have not played around with forge but I think this will really give the game legs.
 
Fifty said:
Why isn't there a solo slayer ranked playlist? I'm not that good at the game, but I can at least have a chance in slayer matched. I'm terrible at modes where you have to hide like a bitch (oddball, crazy king). ugh
I think its called Lone Wolves.

Rumble Pit is the unranked version.
 
Hm... I'm playing on Normal and I just found one of the two remaining skulls that I'm missing. I picked it up, saved and exited, and went to my campaign options to see which one it was. But I don't have it! So, I went back in to the game and walked around till I hit a checkpoint while holding it. But I still don't have it. Wtf?
 
MThanded said:
Someone get too it. I suck at starting things. Can I get credit for the idea???

Sure! As long as you actually make the thread yourself. :P

What do you think? Do we need rules (like 'no posting screenshots, only links to them') or anything like that? But then again, if it's a file sharing thread, screenshots shouldn't be a problem.
 
There's already a screenshot thread. Someone should talk to the OP of that and get the mods to change the name to File Share Thread.
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
2nd level sort-of-easter egg spoiler maybe:
Did anyone else go to that side area in the Crow's Nest with the marine banging on the door, and the guy inside demanding the password?

Definite egg. It's an RvB thing.
 
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