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[BladedExpert]

:lol DOIT.

Probably already taken :lol

 

[DeadFalling]

Also, toss in an OMG and an iTz for good measure

OMG iTz IxlMLGlxI

perfect gamertag?

Nope. You forgot the numbers instead of letters.

0MG iTz IxlMLGlxI

Now we're talking.

 

[Numbers]

Probably already taken :lol

The gamertag you entered does not exist on Xbox LIVE.

 

[Super Johnson]

The gamertag you entered does not exist on Xbox LIVE.

Then it is destiny. :lol

 

[Kibbles]

It needs to be 16 characters.

 

[The Librarian]

What the fuck. We FINALLY do the annual achievement and EVERYBODY gets the achievement except for me.

FUCK.

 

[Merguson]

What the fuck. We FINALLY do the annual achievement and EVERYBODY gets the achievement except for me.

FUCK.

You are not one of the chosen ones.

 

[t4ng0]

OMG iTz lxMLGxl


i'll boost up to 50
and then sell it for profittttttt

 

[Ramirez]

Regret.

They'll regret that too...

 

[Blueblur1]

What the fuck. We FINALLY do the annual achievement and EVERYBODY gets the achievement except for me.

FUCK.

I'll help you again but I may have to log off Live soon.

 

[Kuroyume]

Standoff Heavy stinks.

 

[JdFoX187]

What the fuck. We FINALLY do the annual achievement and EVERYBODY gets the achievement except for me.

FUCK.

Join the club Dax. Join the club.

 

[Falagard]

Standoff Heavy stinks.

No, it doesn't.

 

[Slightly Live]

No, it doesn't.

I think that the inclusion of the sniper rifle makes it significantly less enjoyable than it's vanilla counterpart.

 

[Falagard]

I was telling people about this video while partied with them and they asked me to post a link to it. It was up on Bungie Favorites a while back.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbjKWcE1ng

A dude fires a missile pod, then dies. When he respawns 5 seconds he dies again with a suicide when his own missile kills him. Watch how.

 

[Kuroyume]

It does stink. You have a bunch of one hit kill weapons and a terrible spawning environment. The game spawns you out in the open on that map. It's retarded. Factor that in with the slow speed of running back to the base, gauss hogs, sniper shots, and lasers, and you're pretty much toast. I hate it.

 

[Deleted member 21120]

I was telling people about this video while partied with them and they asked me to post a link to it. It was up on Bungie Favorites a while back.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbjKWcE1ng

A dude fires a missile pod, then dies. When he respawns 5 seconds he dies again with a suicide when his own missile kills him. Watch how.

Haha, that's awesome.

 

[kylej]

I would pay $15 a month for dedicated servers. Latency is killing me (no pun intended) right now.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

It does stink. You have a bunch of one hit kill weapons and a terrible spawning environment. The game spawns you out in the open on that map. It's retarded. Factor that in with the slow speed of running back to the base, gauss hogs, sniper shots, and lasers, and you're pretty much toast. I hate it.

I agree when you're coming from. My biggest problem with any of the Heavy variants is that if you're not in a vehicle, you're pretty much fucked. Especially on the more open maps like Sandtrap and Standoff.

While I'm here:

I have to say, I love Big Splockets. I've had it a few times today, and it always makes everyone in the room go 'WTF is this?', when it loaded up one time on Sandtrap and we were in the game, this guy just comes on the mic and says 'Oh, my God. This gametype is like a dream come true for me.' :lol

 

[GhaleonEB]

http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Halo_3/GeeVee/Trying_to_Team_Kill/954536

This is me apparently doing my very best to murder someone on my own team. And somehow failing.

Or, as he put it when I tossed the power drain, "Dude, what the FUCK!?"

 

[Dirtbag]

I was telling people about this video while partied with them and they asked me to post a link to it. It was up on Bungie Favorites a while back.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbjKWcE1ng

A dude fires a missile pod, then dies. When he respawns 5 seconds he dies again with a suicide when his own missile kills him. Watch how.

Wow, what a terrible editing job.
I wish we just had a fileshare link to that mayhem.

Most people start recording after the game is loaded up, not while they boot up the game. What an idiot. No wonder he podded himself.

Pimp ass font though.

Oh wow, I didnt stick around till the end on my first viewing.
I had to go back and see what all the hoopla was about.

So terrible... so tasteless.... so


green.

 

[urk]

Wow, what a terrible editing job.
I wish we just had a fileshare link to that mayhem.

Most people start recording after the game is loaded up, not while they boot up the game. What an idiot. No wonder he podded himself.

Pimp ass font though.

 

[Deleted member 21120]

Pimp ass font though.

:lol

I thought it was in another language at first.

 

[EazyB]

Wow, what a terrible editing job.
I wish we just had a fileshare link to that mayhem.

Most people start recording after the game is loaded up, not while they boot up the game. What an idiot. No wonder he podded himself.

That wasn't even him (Decoy Dale) playing unless he changed his gamertag from (hard to read looks like) BigHeryScaryMan. :lol

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Looks like I'm the new Juices:

I've been banned from earning EXP.

I wasn't even trying to get EXP, I was trying to get the Oddball achievement with a couple of buddies in DLC FFA and Multi Team. We weren't hurting anyone.

God, I'm pathetic.

 

[MIMIC]

I was sniped in the head and survived (and no, there was no lag to speak of). Then, I HID behind a corner to escape a needler; not a single needle latched on to me and I STILL exploded.

The Halo gods trying to balance the BS? :lol

 

[Deleted member 21120]

Looks like I'm the new Juices:

I've been banned from earning EXP.

I wasn't even trying to get EXP, I was trying to get the Oddball achievement with a couple of buddies in DLC FFA and Multi Team. We weren't hurting anyone.

God, I'm pathetic.

Wow, really? This new banhammer system (I thought it wasn't online yet?) is fierce.

You'll only be banned for a short while, though, I think.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Wow, really? This new banhammer system (I thought it wasn't online yet?) is fierce.

You'll only be banned for a short while, though, I think.

Yeah, really. It was only about 2 hours or so ago that we stopped playing, too, so the bans come thick and fast!

Pretty annoying having 2 messages pop up everytime I load the game up, though. One saying my console is banned from earning EXP, and the other saying this account is.

So my quest for the achievement has meant I shall never obtain 2 of them. Seems a little unfair, as like I said, I don't care about the EXP (I just want my achievements, damn it!) :lol

 

[Striker]

I've seen people using their normal accounts and guests gaining the achievements. I wonder if they've been smacked by the Ban Hammer too.

 

[GhaleonEB]

What exactly were you doing?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I've seen people using their normal accounts and guests gaining the achievements. I wonder if they've been smacked by the Ban Hammer too.

There was 3 of us and we had a party of 8 with guests, so it's not like we were playing with anyone else.

I guess I truly am one of the Halo communities bottom feeders, huh?

 

[Dirtbag]

Yeah, really. It was only about 2 hours or so ago that we stopped playing, too, so the bans come thick and fast!

Pretty annoying having 2 messages pop up everytime I load the game up, though. One saying my console is banned from earning EXP, and the other saying this account is.

So my quest for the achievement has meant I shall never obtain 2 of them. Seems a little unfair, as like I said, I don't care about the EXP (I just want my achievements, damn it!) :lol

I'll never understand what people consider they 'achieve' by doing this.
Sorry to be a dick.

I can't stand multiplayer achievements that break the game. I'm actually surprised the guys at Bungie have achievements that interfere with their game in such ways.

I cheated my way into my mongoose and laser achievements around launch while trying to play some lone wolves. No one was playing the matches anymore and just huddled around achievement whoring, I just gave in. Never again. Definitely the darkside of achievements.

 

[EazyB]

Yeah, really. It was only about 2 hours or so ago that we stopped playing, too, so the bans come thick and fast!

Pretty annoying having 2 messages pop up everytime I load the game up, though. One saying my console is banned from earning EXP, and the other saying this account is.

So my quest for the achievement has meant I shall never obtain 2 of them. Seems a little unfair, as like I said, I don't care about the EXP (I just want my achievements, damn it!)

:lol :lol :lol
Serves you right. Least you can still play and don't care about the EXP anyways

 

[op_ivy]

I'll never understand what people consider they 'achieve' by doing this.
Sorry to be a dick.

I can't stand multiplayer achievements that break the game. I'm actually surprised the guys at Bungie have achievements that interfere with their game in such ways.

I cheated my way into my mongoose and laser achievements around launch while trying to play some lone wolves. No one was playing the matches anymore and just huddled around achievement whoring, I just gave in. Never again. Definitely the darkside of achievements.

i agree. i'm still missing 3 achievements in halo 3. when (if?) i do ever get them though (in actual, legitimate play), it should be a pretty sweet thing

 

[Self Induced]

What's the Annual record? We did it in 35:34.

The best part was Oml3t's rampant mic blaring static in my head for the entire Ghost run. What, did you have speed/thrash metal playing on full volume behind you the whole time?

 

[Deleted member 21120]

There was 3 of us and we had a party of 8 with guests, so it's not like we were playing with anyone else.

I guess I truly am one of the Halo communities bottom feeders, huh?

Well, regardless of the fact that you were going for achievements, you were technically EXP boosting, since there were only three of ya'll that could earn EXP. So every game, you'd gain EXP as long as you didn't let one of your guests get a higher place (and by looking at your game history, you didn't let them win).

 

[TimeLike]

Looks like I'm the new Juices:

I've been banned from earning EXP.

I wasn't even trying to get EXP, I was trying to get the Oddball achievement with a couple of buddies in DLC FFA and Multi Team. We weren't hurting anyone.

God, I'm pathetic.

How long is the ban? I looked at your games history and you hardly did anything bad at all. The hammer hit a little hard in this case. I guess that hammer swings blindly and can't see that what you did was a one off and not a chronic pattern of abuse.


Update's Up!!

 

[MIMIC]

nm

 

[GM Bullfrog]

BWU is up

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=15595

edit: BEAT!

 

[The Librarian]

Cool update.

 

[TimeLike]

There's not a word in the update about the teaser trailer stuff. Not a single word. Like it doesn't even exist. Hmpff.

 

[Self Induced]

There's not a word in the update about the teaser trailer stuff. Not a single word. Like it doesn't even exist. Hmpff.

Of course they did.

The recently released title update and promise of new multiplayer maps (among other things) isn't all that Halo 3 fans have to look forward to as the game enters its year zwei.

See?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Well, regardless of the fact that you were going for achievements, you were technically EXP boosting, since there were only three of ya'll that could earn EXP. So every game, you'd gain EXP as long as you didn't let one of your guests get a higher place (and by looking at your game history, you didn't let them win).

I wasn't even thinking about EXP, so I guess in retrospect I probably should have tried getting a couple of kills or whatever with some of the guests. But, like I said, I didn't even think about EXP and didn't think I was really doing anything particularly wrong.

It doesn't say a date or anything, so I guess that means no EXP for me forever.

 

[Dirtbag]

There's not a word in the update about the teaser trailer stuff. Not a single word. Like it doesn't even exist. Hmpff.

thank god for football season. gives me something else to read online between projects.
here's to hoping this secret press event, that may or may not have ever happened, yields something for the public.

 

[Deleted member 21120]

I wasn't even thinking about EXP, so I guess in retrospect I probably should have tried getting a couple of kills or whatever with some of the guests. But, like I said, I didn't even think about EXP and didn't think I was really doing anything particularly wrong.

It doesn't say a date or anything, so I guess that means no EXP for me forever.

In tonight's update, they said that the first ban is for two weeks.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Holy shit at the file share changes. Just fucking WOW.

 

[Dirtbag]

Holy shit at the file share changes. Just fucking WOW.

they should have waited till next year and then they could have won edge's game innovation award again :lol
I'm sure that would have pissed off some GAFers

 

[EazyB]

It's been a pretty slow news week thus far for Halo fans, but thankfully we've got some exciting information to share regarding upcoming improvements to Bungie.net!

:lol

 

[MIMIC]

File share changes?

*pops in Halo*

 

[GM Bullfrog]

It is neat to find out why all the power weapons (and everythign else for that matter) respawn on host migration.

To really bang on the Forge, we were running “monkey” tests overnight with host migrations every 10 seconds. One morning we come in and the entire courtyard area of Last Resort was filled with packing crates. We watched the film, and every time there was a host migration, the 2 crates under the wheel respawned. To fix this, Petar decided to just delete all the map-variant objects on host migration and let the map respawn them. During the code review I distinctly remember telling him that I was a little uncomfortable with that fix. “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine,” he said. That night we ran the monkey test again and everything seemed to be OK. But the next day I was investigating a different host-migration related bug and noticed the sky was awfully blue. “Hey Petar,” I said, “Did you delete the clouds?” Sure enough, the entire skybox was gone.

-Jon

ROTFL

Best memory: Sitting in a lobby with a foulmouthed little twerp while signing into my laptop to voice ban him.

Probably not suitable for a “feel good” story. And yes, I did send the proper form to Banhammer afterwards.

-Drew

File share changes?

*pops in Halo*

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