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alisdair said:
Has the August playlist update gone live?

If anyone plays Team Objective Oddball/King, or any doubles objective games, could you save the gametype/map and upload them to your fileshare, please? I want to see how they're set up.
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I'm sure they're the same in terms of weapon layout, items placed, etc.

But Hill locations is where I would like to see, and for what maps they'll use these variants on.
 
Team Melee is HORRIBLE. Shines light on all the flaws involved with swords and hammers combat. Anyways my playlist is a bit better than this shit.
 
Stab Out is pretty awesome in Team Melee.

Also, every time I play it, it's usually with 8 other dudes I know so there's no srz bznss thing going on.
 
the disgruntled gamer said:
Let's be honest though; Halo 3's ranking system is one of the best ones out there right now. Seriously, it is. Maybe it's not good for making people feel good about themselves, but it does a fairly decent job of getting people into competetive matches. I don't like the frustration that comes with the Halo 3 ranking system, but playing Halo 3's matchmaking is a hell of a lot better than Gears of War, where you have no rank and simply dive into random games and hope for the best (and end up playing on uneven team 3/4 of the time), and it's a lot better than COD4, where the ranking system pats you on the butt and makes you feel special, but ultimately does little to provide competetive matches and balanced teams.
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The ranking sytem, maybe, but I really, truly, honestly do not get the matchmaking system. Halo 3 is probably my favorite game of this gen so far, and my friend and I meet up pretty much weekly to have fun, catch up, and shoot shit.

We're both Majors, and last week, for instance, we had a Recruit and, like a Commander or something (both of whom quit after we started losing) on our team against a party of Generals and Colonels, all of whom had much higher "experience points" than any of us. So we proceed to get slaughtered to the point where it wasn't even that fun to try and hold our own (and get called "fags" and "losers" at the end, even after saying a polite "good game").

We do very well when matched against similar rank/experience levels, but all too often we go against much higher-ranked foes. I don't care at all about my rank, I just want to be in competitive and fun matches in which I'm not completely outmatched by some MLG wannabe who plays 80 hours a week.

To be fair, I've also been in matches in which I was the highest ranked, but the difference spread never seems to be as vast in those cases.

And I know it's a common complaint, but I really don't get why my Skill level goes down after so readily after a loss, even if I carry the team and play really well but we still lose by a little bit, but moving it in the other direction is a Sisyphean effort.

*whew* Sorry for getting carried away there. /Rant off
 
Striker said:
I'm sure they're the same in terms of weapon layout, items placed, etc.

But Hill locations is where I would like to see, and for what maps they'll use these variants on.
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Apart from hill locations, I'm not really worried about the maps. Objective games in Team Doubles with the full power weapon/powerup set is going to be a bit stupid, but not as stupid as Epitaph. I am concerned that KOTH settings are default: random order, 150s, default hill locations. Those are not much fun, in my experience.

I'm more concerned about doubles CTF, specifically flag return/reset. I hope it's not default (10, 15s return?), which would be completely broken. There'd almost no way you can return a flag on The Pit, it's too easy to nade cross-map. I hope the SWAT Flag variant is used, which has the flag reset instead.

I don't want Shishka's job. It must suck to be in charge of playlists, only to have tons of people complain every time you make a change. So, er, thanks for removing Ghost Town symmetrical games!
 
Yeah, sounds weird. I want it to just be "Eggs" or "Eggz" but they were both taken, so I just added the L there.

Although Buttonbasher says it's code for "XL" (like indicating size) so I'll just go with that. :lol
 
alisdair said:
Apart from hill locations, I'm not really worried about the maps. Objective games in Team Doubles with the full power weapon/powerup set is going to be a bit stupid, but not as stupid as Epitaph. I am concerned that KOTH settings are default: random order, 150s, default hill locations. Those are not much fun, in my experience.

I'm more concerned about doubles CTF, specifically flag return/reset. I hope it's not default (10, 15s return?), which would be completely broken. There'd almost no way you can return a flag on The Pit, it's too easy to nade cross-map. I hope the SWAT Flag variant is used, which has the flag reset instead.

I don't want Shishka's job. It must suck to be in charge of playlists, only to have tons of people complain every time you make a change. So, er, thanks for removing Ghost Town symmetrical games!
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See. That's what I meant.

I wish they would change the hill locations around to make things unique. Make them different than just the same old.

Then again, maybe it will be. I'm not betting on it, though. :(
 
So my question is, is the playlist-specific ranking a "major change to the Halo 3 Online experience"?

From the pre-E3 list:

Major changes to the Halo 3 Online experience
Sweet Announcements
Poignant Clarifications
Certain-point-of-view Truths
Things you will love
Things you will argue about
Things you will make angry videos about

I know this is has been something we've argued about, but that's pretty easy to predict. We argue about everything. Or was that referring to the September playlist update? (First anniversary update!)
 
Domino Theory said:
To my Xbox Live friends:

I just changed my GT from Oml3t to "Eggs L".

So Omlet is dead, now we can all party.
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What, wait. So you changed your gamertag to Eggs... L, but would prefer it if we continued calling you Omlet



WTF
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Domino Theory said:
Yeah, sounds weird. I want it to just be "Eggs" or "Eggz" but they were both taken, so I just added the L there.

Although Buttonbasher says it's code for "XL" (like indicating size) so I'll just go with that. :lol
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Believe :lol
 
Domino Theory said:
Yeah, sounds weird. I want it to just be "Eggs" or "Eggz" but they were both taken, so I just added the L there.

Although Buttonbasher says it's code for "XL" (like indicating size) so I'll just go with that. :lol
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Its because you "eggs-L" at awesome-ness... or something. You should have gone with AA Jumbo Egg ;)
 
No one should drunk XBL account manage

Let me help you out Eggs L, hmm.

Omlet - awesome
Eggs L - ... retarded
Easter Egg - hmm, nope
Easter Fetus - gettin somewhere
Jesus Fetus - almost there
Scrambled Jesus Fetus - I think we have a winner
 
EazyB said:
No one should drunk XBL account manage

Let me help you out Eggs L, hmm.

Omlet - awesome
Eggs L - ... retarded
Easter Egg - hmm, nope
Easter Fetus - gettin somewhere
Jesus Fetus - almost there
Scrambled Jesus Fetus - I think we have a winner
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I like Eggs L. But Jesus Fetus is pretty win.

XL 4 Lyfe.
 
How the hell am I supposed to get the "Mongoose Mowdown" achievement when I haven't had a single map with a mongoose in it on Lone Wolf playlists?

WTH?
 
tahrikmili said:
How the hell am I supposed to get the "Mongoose Mowdown" achievement when I haven't had a single map with a mongoose in it on Lone Wolf playlists?

WTH?
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Isolation?

You'll be able to get that achievement with Legendary Brawl, right? Since it's solo and ranked? You should probably go for that.
 
tahrikmili said:
How the hell am I supposed to get the "Mongoose Mowdown" achievement?
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Keep playing until you get Isolation KOTH. Wait until the hill moves to shotgun. Drive through at full speed and hope for the best. Failing that, there's High Ground Slayer.

It's a stupid achievement. Took me six months to get it.
 
I just got this achievement the other day. It was the last one I needed and I just decided to start Lone Wolves matches and quit until I either got High Ground or Isolation. It took quite a few quit matches, but I finally got it.
 
numbers said:
Isolation?

You'll be able to get that achievement with Legendary Brawl, right? Since it's solo and ranked? You should probably go for that.
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I got it easily on Legendary Brawl - wait for a slayer or hill game on Avalanche, then just grab a mongoose and haul ass around the map. People likely won't be paying attention to you (grab an invisibility for extra lulz) and you can catch someone unawares. You have to pick up a lot of speed for it to be a kill - I think I had to be gunning it from the mongoose spawn to right where the cloak spawned to get enough speed to kill a guy.
 
SailorDaravon said:
Same here, I actually got it accidentally by running a dude over who was in the bunker when I was messing around :lol .
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I sort of got mine by accident, I wasn't playing for it, but I spawned in the trees, just got on the mongoose as I knew all the action was going on up the hill.

On my way up there, there was a guy running up with no armour, so I just ran in to him. :lol
 
damn i don't have mine...i don't really care to get it though...i'm sure it'll be cool when i do it.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I've long since given up on getting some of those Achievements. I just can't get myself to go through with the punishment needed.

Speaking of which, I wonder if we'll ever see additional Achievements for Halo 3?

Also: an ode to this weekend's playlist. My lone highlight: a spree unexpectedly cut short.

http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Halo_3/GeeVee/Hammered/428996
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:lol :lol :lol Snowbound. :lol :lol :lol

Nah, I quite like Snowbound for melee battles.
 
cjelly said:
:lol :lol :lol Snowbound. :lol :lol :lol

Nah, I quite like Snowbound for melee battles.
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I was just glad the entire game didn't center around the shield doors. I assumed they would, so I went down there right off the bat. But no one else did, so I went outside and it was a party.
 
kylej said:
AR starts on Standoff.
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Promotes map movement!

Seriously, I don't know why there aren't another four BR spawns per side on that map. I always run out of BR ammo at least once per game, even in BR start games.
 
spermatic cord said:
bungie no one likes land grab it sucks it's terrible take it out everyone would be happy
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I like Land Grab. I honestly can't remember it coming up in ages though, it's probably at been at least 6 months...what playlist does it even come up in?
 
Cuckooo said:
social skirmish
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It must be pretty low weighted, I don't even remember it coming up to be vetoed in forever. I vaguely remember it being in Team Doubles, but I think they took that out a long time ago.
 
So, my Doubles partner and I just won a Doubles game on Lolsnowbound 12-10. It was crazy intense. My buddy grabbed Ghost and overshield, and I grabbed snipe and overshield. I sniped two guys to put us up 2-0.

... We didn't see anybody for the next 8 minutes. They spent 8 minutes camping the tunnels, hoping we would go down there. As far as we were concerned, we grabbed overshield and snipe whenever it appeared, and stayed up top. The game could've ended 2-0 for all we cared. Near the end they realized that they were in danger of losing 2-0 so they came out, and managed to jack our ghost and make things close. We still won in the end.

The fact that we were playing against two alts made it even more satisfying.
 
I've only had a Heavies map show up once, and it was vetoed. Why? WHY? WHY ARE MAPS EVER VETOED? BECAUSE ITS NOT SLAYER BOOHOO I 2 DUMB TO BRING A FLAG FROM HERE TO THERE.

Fuck, Halo players are such dumbshits.
 
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