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Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
XSX said:
Can you has check Pimz?
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Deleted member 21120
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Yeah, there's a big problem.
We started out in a party with eight players. It took us literally fifteen minutes to find a match. We got to the "players found, game ready" screen about ten times and it just reset us back to the beginning. Finally, some people in our party gave up and went to CoD4 and then some others joined us, bring our party to seven people.
We played a game of Territories on Valhalla - five rounds, offense and defense. Like, the other team got three chances to capture and we only got two. Both teams ended up with four territories captured each. It gave them the win. On the Post Game Carnage Report page on b.net, it says both teams placed first, but in the post-game lobby after the game, it gave us second - and when you view the game from my Game History screen on B.net, it puts us as second there, too.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=292664983&player=Cocopjojo
Now we're on a Valhalla Covies game and there's no Wraiths.
EDIT: It's in my File Share, slot 3.
We started out in a party with eight players. It took us literally fifteen minutes to find a match. We got to the "players found, game ready" screen about ten times and it just reset us back to the beginning. Finally, some people in our party gave up and went to CoD4 and then some others joined us, bring our party to seven people.
We played a game of Territories on Valhalla - five rounds, offense and defense. Like, the other team got three chances to capture and we only got two. Both teams ended up with four territories captured each. It gave them the win. On the Post Game Carnage Report page on b.net, it says both teams placed first, but in the post-game lobby after the game, it gave us second - and when you view the game from my Game History screen on B.net, it puts us as second there, too.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=292664983&player=Cocopjojo
Now we're on a Valhalla Covies game and there's no Wraiths.
EDIT: It's in my File Share, slot 3.
IMO, Valhalla Covies is not fun. It just turned into Ghost Wars as 4 or 5 Ghosts drifted around the map killing dudes on foot. The fact that it was Assault, where the only transportation was the easily flipped and destroyed Mongoose, didn't help matters. The match ended in a stalemate: 0 - 0.
I didn't really like it nor did anyone on my team. Did they really play test all of this stuff? And the lag, terrible as ever. It got down to Halo 2 caliber horribleness.
I didn't really like it nor did anyone on my team. Did they really play test all of this stuff? And the lag, terrible as ever. It got down to Halo 2 caliber horribleness.
To: Domino Theory
Subject: WTF
Dear DT:
WTF are you doing? You expect us to believe you're doing this to be nice? Please. We all know that nobody is nice anymore unless they have hidden, evil intensions. You can't fool me. This isn't 1920.
Unless you 'fess up and cut it out, I'll figure out what you're up to.
Yours,
TDG
Subject: WTF
Dear DT:
WTF are you doing? You expect us to believe you're doing this to be nice? Please. We all know that nobody is nice anymore unless they have hidden, evil intensions. You can't fool me. This isn't 1920.
Unless you 'fess up and cut it out, I'll figure out what you're up to.
Yours,
TDG
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
the disgruntled gamer said:
Do you SERIOUSLY think I'm doing this to 'trick' people? When I started doing the points gifting, not once did receiving an award (or Recon armor) EVER cross my mind. I gift points to people for two reasons:
a) The new maps are amazing. Everyone deserves to have them and play them. So I'm helping out some of those who don't have the points to purchase the map pack.
b) When I found out some people in the FOX Free MS points were making up email addresses to get 20,000+ MS Points from the promotion when they're supposed to get only 200, it pissed me off and made me upset to know there are people out there willingly to do such a thing and rob other people of their 200 points.
To think otherwise about my intentions is stupid.
Unless, that letter was sarcastic, then I'm pretty much embaressed to have yelled to you 
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
eternal prize said:i can has new maps too?
Give me a day or so to figure out if I can gift anymore [at the moment].
no, you're stupidDomino Theory said:Do you SERIOUSLY think I'm doing this to 'trick' people? When I started doing the points gifting, not once did receiving an award (or Recon armor) EVER cross my mind. I gift points to people for two reasons:
a) The new maps are amazing. Everyone deserves to have them and play them. So I'm helping out some of those who don't have the points to purchase the map pack.
b) When I found out some people in the FOX Free MS points were making up email addresses to get 20,000+ MS Points from the promotion when they're supposed to get only 200, it pissed me off and made me upset to know there are people out there willingly to do such a thing and rob other people of their 200 points.
To think otherwise about my intentions is stupid.
Unless, that letter was sarcastic, then I'm pretty much embaressed to have yelled to you
ly good at being the man
BakedPigeon
Banned
Will work for Team Snipers ranked MM.
Will also work for food.
Will also work for food.
BakedPigeon
Banned
Woah Domino you gotz rec0n? Congrats man.
Hey i never did give you my gt its That Boy Baked, add me.
Hey i never did give you my gt its That Boy Baked, add me.
urk said:I was in a full party and left to walk my dog. When I got back, you guys were in the middle of a game and another party sent me an invite. Now I'm full of cake and ready for bed. I played with Spud though.
Why you got to eat cake at bedtime Urk? You know what happens when you have cakedreams.
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Deleted member 21120
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Stinkles, you saw my post (or heard elsewhere) about the five round territories, right?
Buttonbasher
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I BelieveStinkles said:
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Deleted member 21120
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Thank ye kindly.Stinkles said:
God I love multi-flag on Valhalla with two good teams in BTB. I just finished an epic 20-minute game that had a lot of close calls and standoffs. With 19 minutes left, we're still scoreless. I sneak over to their base on foot and meet another team mate sneaking from the other side. We attack from both sides, and finish with a mad-dash steal/Mongoose-aided escape for a cap with five seconds left. A desperate 30-second sudden-death defense of our flag in the middle of the field later and we win a nail-biter.
So many great moments.
So many great moments.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
BakedPigeon said:
Sent.
Can't wait to play with you. 
JdFoX187 said:
Thanks. Ranked BTB is fun with you and Striker and Stunnah and the other peeps. That part where you were playing the ESPN guy flipping out scared me cuz I thought that was you yelling. :lol
Striker said:
<3'd our games tonight. Ranked BTB = awesome sause. Although the connection issues were bleh.
So.
I got "victory lapped" the other night. BTB, CTF, Valhalla. Every member of my team quit when we went down 0-2, leaving me on my lonesome. I tried a futile base defense, then just hung back and let the other team cap it. But they didn't. They had half the guys work on hunting me down and killing me over and over while the other half paraded about. I just put my controller down, and after five minutes or so they got the point and capped it to end the game. It sucked.
Fast forward to this evening.
Ranked BTB, Assault, Last Resort. My team starts on offense and very quickly gets a score; the other team was rather disorganized. Defense. The red team tries to use the same tactic we did - just swing the 'hog around the side gate and pile in - but we were ready and wiped them out. In return, six out of the eight red players quit. Yikes.
Needless to say, they didn't score, and we did on the next round. But on defense, it's eight of us against an assault of two. Not fair odds by any stretch. As we poured out of the base to catch them on the beach and pound them into dust over and over for the duration of the round, someone says the unthinkable: "Let them score." So, we did.
The two remaining red guys were bravely heading our way for a suicidal attempt at storming the base; driving into the hailstorm. What they ran into was the opposite of a victory lap: the Enemy Escort.
At this point they're very confused, and flee madly. For the first ten seconds or so they probably just thought they were awesome.
At this point, I think the idea has crossed their mind that something is up, but they're both jumping like crazy to avoid grenades. Grenades which never come.
Right about here, we've reached the "trusting but paranoid" stage. Probably feeling like they're heading, sheep-like, to a slaughter.
But no. We invite them in, show them the place. Over there's the TV, the wet bar is upstairs.
The bomb plant zone is right this way.
In the post game lobby the two red guys were really appreciative. High-fives all around. It was pretty heartwarming, actually. Often all I hear is how crappy the Live/Halo community is, and here I got matched up with seven other cool guys. We played several more games together as a party.
Oh, and this right here is why ranked BTB rocks. Our team was down by about 15 early on, something like 25-40. We rally back to a gripping 100-99 victory. Incredibly fun, intense game.
I got "victory lapped" the other night. BTB, CTF, Valhalla. Every member of my team quit when we went down 0-2, leaving me on my lonesome. I tried a futile base defense, then just hung back and let the other team cap it. But they didn't. They had half the guys work on hunting me down and killing me over and over while the other half paraded about. I just put my controller down, and after five minutes or so they got the point and capped it to end the game. It sucked.
Fast forward to this evening.
Ranked BTB, Assault, Last Resort. My team starts on offense and very quickly gets a score; the other team was rather disorganized. Defense. The red team tries to use the same tactic we did - just swing the 'hog around the side gate and pile in - but we were ready and wiped them out. In return, six out of the eight red players quit. Yikes.
Needless to say, they didn't score, and we did on the next round. But on defense, it's eight of us against an assault of two. Not fair odds by any stretch. As we poured out of the base to catch them on the beach and pound them into dust over and over for the duration of the round, someone says the unthinkable: "Let them score." So, we did.
The two remaining red guys were bravely heading our way for a suicidal attempt at storming the base; driving into the hailstorm. What they ran into was the opposite of a victory lap: the Enemy Escort.
At this point they're very confused, and flee madly. For the first ten seconds or so they probably just thought they were awesome.
At this point, I think the idea has crossed their mind that something is up, but they're both jumping like crazy to avoid grenades. Grenades which never come.
Right about here, we've reached the "trusting but paranoid" stage. Probably feeling like they're heading, sheep-like, to a slaughter.
But no. We invite them in, show them the place. Over there's the TV, the wet bar is upstairs.
The bomb plant zone is right this way.
In the post game lobby the two red guys were really appreciative. High-fives all around. It was pretty heartwarming, actually. Often all I hear is how crappy the Live/Halo community is, and here I got matched up with seven other cool guys. We played several more games together as a party.
Oh, and this right here is why ranked BTB rocks. Our team was down by about 15 early on, something like 25-40. We rally back to a gripping 100-99 victory. Incredibly fun, intense game.
roosters93
Member
If the offer still stands, I would also likey new maps too please.Domino Theory said:Give me a day or so to figure out if I can gift anymore [at the moment].
It would be fun to play with GAF.
If not, no problems.
How many MS points do the maps cost, btw?
Great stories Ghaleon.
I sent you a friend request.
BladedExpert
Member
That. Is. Awesome. A few times I've been in a game where this suggestion comes up but rarely does it get followed through to the end! Sometimes the stars align and good shit happens. That post was Steaksauce Ghaleon
roosters93
Member
If the offer still stands, I would also likey new maps too please.Domino Theory said:Give me a day or so to figure out if I can gift anymore [at the moment].
It would be fun to play with GAF.
If not, no problems.
How many MS points do the maps cost, btw?
Oh and great stories Ghaleon.
Ah shit sorry.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
roosters93 said:If the offer still stands, I would also likey new maps too please.
It would be fun to play with GAF.
If not, no problems.
How many MS points do the maps cost, btw?
Great stories Ghaleon.
I sent you a friend request.
Patience
(regarding first post)800 beautiful, silk, slobbery points.
Tieno
Member
Good job Ghaleon! I've performed and received the enemy escort a couple of times. Enjoyed it both ways. It's a lot of fun, especially that initial phase of awkward somewhat paranoid confusion, looking at the enemy and a bit uneasy, don't know what to do...But you get over it and enjoy it.
Cool post Ghaleon. I always thought it would be cool if that happened, but have never been in a game where it did. I feel bad for people who end up on a team of 2 vs. 8, and I usually send them a message thanking them for not quitting, since I know how tempting it is, having been stranded many times.
Congrats on the Recon Armor, nice work.
Yep.Domino Theory said:Unless, that letter was sarcastic, then I'm pretty much embaressed to have yelled to you
Congrats on the Recon Armor, nice work.
Holy Crap, Domino gifted me the points O_O
I haven't followed this thread recently, but that's pretty awesome of him. I think I'm obligated to at least play some now :lol . This weekend I'm trying to wrap up KUF and possibly Burnout w/a friend, but if I see some people on I'll try to hop over.
I haven't followed this thread recently, but that's pretty awesome of him. I think I'm obligated to at least play some now :lol . This weekend I'm trying to wrap up KUF and possibly Burnout w/a friend, but if I see some people on I'll try to hop over.
StUnNeR H2K
Member
GhaleonEB said:
:O
You better not post that again. You just did something that was so un-cool. You should have pounded their spawn point to the ground while corpse humping them, declaring your victory!
J/K Though coco probably thinks your a wimp now...
By the way... I wonder how those victory laps are going to work out now that BTB is ranked?
(On a side note... BTB Ranked was a blast last night! I'll be on again tonight looking for some more BTB Action!)
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Deleted member 21120
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That's awesome. What a great idea. We've tried stuff in the past where we attempt to befriend the enemy, but they always end up shooting us and it doesn't work. We'll have to give this number a try, though.GhaleonEB said:
Also, did anyone play the knew Sandtrap variant? Offense, Defense CTF with only the offense having an Elephant? It was a ton of fun and added a completely new take to the map.
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