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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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BladedExpert
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EazyB said:
E3 2010. Believe!
I started to listen to the podcast last night before I knocked out and got to the part where Staten was congratulating his future self for doing such a good presentation at E3. Then a line came out along the lines of "yeah that great shot on the bridge". At that point I flashed back to the IGN demo where Staten missed the banshee with his laser on the bridge and immediately said, that he was going to get grief at the studio for that. Now I know why... :lol :lol :lol
Past Staten jinxed future Staten during the IGN demo. :lol
Past Staten jinxed future Staten during the IGN demo. :lol
Grimm Fandango
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Thanks for the support, d00ds.
I'm really liking the Gametrailers coverage. Firefight looks sweet.
also new avatar got
I'm really liking the Gametrailers coverage. Firefight looks sweet.
also new avatar got
June MM update out already? Mythic maps required for all but 5 playlists?The Crawf said:
I can't wait for the shitstorm that's about to erupt from the casual population.
Question:
Are action sack matches considered custom matches on the service record or social matches? It's always been a nice guide to look at someone's exp efficiency to see if they're a decent player or not, but if action sack games just increase the amount of MM games without rewarding exp it'll throw that off.
backflip10019
Member
It's out?!The Crawf said:
The Librarian
Banned
June update is up? Sweet. Gotta tryout Actionsack asap.The Crawf said:
Any statements on where Punishment and Utah Mambo went to since Team Objective is currently gone? Social Skirmish? Team Slayer?
ATLAS shouldn't be given "themes" anyway and just accept maps from all varieties -- FFA, Slayer, Skirmish, 12+ players, Infection, Actionsack style, Multi-team, etc. Basically for each playlist that is currently out. I have never made a Group in Bungie.net, but I'm sure there's a way to sub-divide those group-wise.
ATLAS shouldn't be given "themes" anyway and just accept maps from all varieties -- FFA, Slayer, Skirmish, 12+ players, Infection, Actionsack style, Multi-team, etc. Basically for each playlist that is currently out. I have never made a Group in Bungie.net, but I'm sure there's a way to sub-divide those group-wise.
Yeah, that's one thing I couldn't quite grasp when Ghaleon was trying to get the necessary amount of players to qualify for BTB and Shiska said that you submit the map for the playlist you think it should be in. As if maps are only viable in a single playlist or something. Utah Mabo was submitted as a 4v4 map for TO and was also in Team Mythic. So now that both playlists are dead does that map just disappear because it wasn't tested for Social Team DLC's 5v5 or BTB's 8v8?Striker said:
Utah mambo has been vetoed every single time its come up for me primarily because it is "too big" for 4v4 in mythic. I can't imagine it not making it into BTB now... But weirder things have happened.
Also I played Wastelands for the first time in BTB. Interesting map and design. There were a few moments when you would pop your head out of a corner and be instantly dead since you have 4BRs aimed at your head. Good times. Here's hoping to seeing more Sandbox variants in BTB...
Also I played Wastelands for the first time in BTB. Interesting map and design. There were a few moments when you would pop your head out of a corner and be instantly dead since you have 4BRs aimed at your head. Good times. Here's hoping to seeing more Sandbox variants in BTB...
neoism
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Check this guy's File share out, his name is a Ovy!
here!
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=68229347
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=39332122:lol :lol
sorry if OLD! thought it was cool!!
here!
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=68229347
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=39332122:lol :lol
sorry if OLD! thought it was cool!!
Also just played two rounds of Wastelands. It's definitely really hectic, which isn't surprising since I'm guessing Sandbox maps will be some of, if not the smallest maps in BTB. Definitely glad that Sandbox variants are making it into MM (Entrenched next, pl0x); hopefully now I'll have better luck with my Perfection achievement.FourDoor said:
2 Flag Shottys could have been a fun little gametype, but it's completely ruined by having a 15s (maybe even 30s?) flag return time combined with flag-at-home-to-score.
It's just about impossible defending against three or four rounds of respawns when you have no shields and your only weapon is a shotgun, so the game ends up a boring stalemate.
I really don't understand what the deal is with Bungie's flag return times. It's probably the most annoying thing in matchmaking for me now, after the quitter-fest that is MLG with randoms. There's just no reason I can see for having flag return take so long in every gametype.
Otherwise I had a lot of fun with Action Sack. A good idea for a playlist at this time in the game's life.
It's just about impossible defending against three or four rounds of respawns when you have no shields and your only weapon is a shotgun, so the game ends up a boring stalemate.
I really don't understand what the deal is with Bungie's flag return times. It's probably the most annoying thing in matchmaking for me now, after the quitter-fest that is MLG with randoms. There's just no reason I can see for having flag return take so long in every gametype.
Otherwise I had a lot of fun with Action Sack. A good idea for a playlist at this time in the game's life.
List of Halo GAFers from best to worst. ctrl+f to find a specific GAFer or gamertag.
GAF Name - Gamertag - ?
GhaleonEB - GhaleonEB - Thread king, too nice for the internet. Ancient.
Louis Wu - It's not TV. It's HBO
Vociferous - Mr Vociferous - Halo scholar extraordinaire, MS lackey
Coco. P. Jojo - Cocopjojo - Yearns to be Voc; maybe next time Huckleberry Fin
OuterWorldVoice - AR NO SCOPE - Halo's Bobby Kotick, franchise overseer
Captain Blood - TJ Capt Blood - Pack of smokes, bowl of GG, epic mount; good to go
Ramirez - TJ Ram - The Don Quixote of Halo. Used to be good but doesn't play anymore
Trasher - TJ Trasher - The Susan Boyle of HaloGAF
Thermite - Thermight - Friggin' id-eee-ought can't decide how to spell his name
Domino Theory - Oml3t - Halo 4 by Bungie
Nutter - NutterB - Doesn't know how to play anything other than Halo
Voltron64 - Voltron64 - The real Voltron. Fucking tired of this shit (Halo)
Vhfive - vhfive - Coordinator of Customs, Forger, and donger of KevinRo
Merguson - Merguson - shy
Botolf - May not play Halo but redeems himself by posting funny things in the thread. Had reconstructive surgery to look like Gabe Newell
Kibbles - xI Ace xI - HaloGAF newscaster, serving them hot scoops
Self Induced - Self Induced - Don't let him drive/rocket while he's high
and that's all the time
Striker - Striker029 - No obvious evils but puts up with MasterFox so there must be something wrong with him
A Penguin - Two Penguins - Vhfive's cheerleader/sidekick
Falagard - Falagard - "I'm a genius, aren't I so smart guys!"
Sir Fragula - Sir Fragula - Thinks he knows a lot because he's a Bnet mod. You can tell from his avatar he's cultured
Stormtrooper30 - Stormtrooper30 - "Why isn't Halo 3 Halo 2?!" *devolves into a pathetic blubbering mess*
neoism - ne0ism
Dani - Slightly Live - breaks his 360 so he doesn't have to get donged on in Halo
Revengence - HouseofOrange - Constantly overshadowed by his brother Vh
LunaticPuma - LunaticPuma - absolutely nothing remarkable to say
Grimm Fandango - GrimmJob - Still can't learn how to use a BR
Shake Appeal - Shake Appeal - English bloke who wants Urk to play with him
SailorDaravon - Mr Daravon - needs to get over Urk. He's moved on, why can't you?
Smokey - dboythaGr8 - manages to play FFA
t4ngo - t4ng0 - here's what I know: plays Halo every now and then, has a brother
Sai - SaiST - Uhh... he has a deep voice and doesn't talk much?
Willeth - Willeth - Our PAF spy
backflip10019 - backflip10019 - Uses the thread as his personal shitter
Nokyard - runNOKYARDrun - Grifball guy
Devin Olsen - DevinOlsenn - The Devin Olsen!
*psst* I don't know who he is either.
Zeouterlimits - Zeouterlimits - the one person looking forward to anime Halo
GM Bullfrog - NEC Bullfrog
Shafto - Crafty Shafto - English fellow
DualX - DualX
Metroidvania - Metroidvania - Tall and awkward... METROWNED
Fin - Finjitzu - The keeper of the HaloGAF tag, player of all games other than Halo
Tashi0106 - NYSTOFMIND23 - plays MLG and
FourDoor - FourDoor
ShinAnamo - ShinAmano
Jironimo - Jironmo - Aye Jay!
StUnNeR H2K - StUnNeR H2K
Spudbud - SpudxBud - To avoid sucking at Halo he plays other games but sucks at those as well
Spasm - Spasm
Soldat7 - cherdman
Sai-kun - Sai kun - Guaranteed to have a crush on multiple members of HaloGAF
Laughtrey - Laughtrey - doesn't play but chips in ever now and then
CrazedArabMan - CrazedArabMan - desires physical relations with Trasher
Bladed Expert - BladedExpert - racist by association
BackedPigeon - II TR4NCE II
Alivor - Alivor
Timan - Timan25
Sean - Shadow540
TheSeks - wants to play custom but doesn't reveal his GT
Eric WK - Eric WK - hasn't played in months
Alisdair - Dr Alisdair
Ajemsuhgao - Ajemsuhga0 - Secretly a member of Halo GAF
NH Apache - NH Apache
DcLevartho - Levartho
Ace 8095 - Ace 8095
Azar - Azar42
goldenpp72 - goldenpp72
Ssparks - LaszIo - Junior
Squidhands squidhands - junior
Numbers - Rampant Numbers -
Flipyap - Flipyap Yapflip - Nerd junior
SquallASF - Junior.
lazytonberry - lazytonberry - BR Junior
Letters - Acronos Seven - Junior. Some sort of fascination with Numbers... the person
DiabolicalBagel - DiabolicalBagel - BR Junior
FooFighter - Will J D - BR Junior
Plywood - ICSI Reaver - BR Junior. failed squad battle commander
minasodaboy - minasodaboy - BR Junior
pet - ICS Pet - Junior
Grady Durden - Grady Durden - BR
(everytime)
MagniHarvald - SAE Magni - BR Junior
Neverender - Moosetwik - BR Junior
user_nat - nanaw - Junior
Reluctant-Hero - Reluctant Hero - Junior
Tintin - Fyrh - Junior
Fistula - Doctor Drugs - Junior who uses a keyboard to play Halo 3
barcafc - FC Barca FTW - Junior with a stupid gamertag
BlindSwordsmanZ - pontifex PRIME - Junior
LosDaddie - Junior
enzo_gt - arvinater - Laser Junior
Niblet - Unsavory Niblet - Junior
kamikazemartian - kamikazemartian - Junior
Schmitty07 - Schmitty07 - Junior
Biscuits - Hunchbiscuit - Junior. "Too good for Flight"
Stackboy - Stackboy Royale - Junior
enewtabie - ENEWTABIE - Junior
georgc - georgc - Junior
Miguelangelo - DaftPunk35 - Junior
big ander - big ander - Junior
Killer - Killer 36o
Huttie0 - Urafaerie - AR/worthless Junior.
kylej - jelyk - has nothing better to do than play the shit out a game he thinks is shit, then complain about it
K2Valor - K2Valor - Terrible, worthless Junior who likes rat's nest but not Valhalla
KevinRo - KevinRo - "Oh I'm so mad at Bungie!!!" - guy that could use some of Dax01's Ritalin
Silly.Mikey - SillyMikey
Oozer - Oozer3993
Havok - Havok CXVII
Spirit - TheVeilrae
Juices - SometimesImEpic - The playlist equivalent to penis envy, "I wish I was shishka"
Insaniac - TheLintendo - Made a Foundry map and got recon for it, hasn't done anything noteworthy since
The Lamonster - The Lamonster
DeputyMoonman - XxDeputyMoonman
Exfixate - exfixate
Dax - DaxO1 - The cool Dax
Dax01 - Dax01 - Wants to be Ghaleon but lost his Ritalin at summer camp. Dedicated: touched Bungie's knob and hasn't washed his hand since
Has anyone posted about the new article at Bungie.net? It's called "Feet First", and apparently details the weapons and equipment (in the general sense) available to the ODSTs. Nothing new, really, but somewhat interesting nevertheless.
xxjuicesxx
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Ha I'm watching UT Gamer on JTV and he gets in a match and they all see the Bungie logo and they just start fucking swearing at the dude... orguz or something.
Like
"Fix your fucking shitty BR you bungie man!"
"Ima teabag you!"
etcetera.
I laughed my ass off. I can imagine every Bungie employee probably has all communication turned off.
Like
"Fix your fucking shitty BR you bungie man!"
"Ima teabag you!"
etcetera.
I laughed my ass off. I can imagine every Bungie employee probably has all communication turned off.
backflip10019
Member
:lolxxjuicesxx said:
Had a pretty good time in Action Sack last night. My two suggestions are:
1) Move the hill around in the Pit of Joy on Assembly. Once a team got all four players in, it's pretty much over.
2) I think the rounds on Ninja Assault on High Ground were a bit long and could be dropped to three minutes from four. It's a faster-paced Assault game, and four minutes felt like forever.
Still, both were fun.
Recon has it's advantages: I've armed the bomb (being the titular Ninja in Ninja Assault), but the lack of radar and general self awareness gets me assasinated.
There's two of them, but the guy who took me out goes off to teabag the hell out of my corpse; he spotted the Recon. While he's doing that, his buddy disarming the bomb gets taken out.
My team mate doesn't even try to disrupt the love-fest. He likes to watch, apparantly.
At least he went out with a bang.
Also, new map is just about done (this version anyways). Some geometry touch up, then spawns/weapons/objectives.
The ramps below the overpass jump the 'hog much higher than I expected. But I decided that's a good thing. :lol
1) Move the hill around in the Pit of Joy on Assembly. Once a team got all four players in, it's pretty much over.
2) I think the rounds on Ninja Assault on High Ground were a bit long and could be dropped to three minutes from four. It's a faster-paced Assault game, and four minutes felt like forever.
Still, both were fun.
Recon has it's advantages: I've armed the bomb (being the titular Ninja in Ninja Assault), but the lack of radar and general self awareness gets me assasinated.
There's two of them, but the guy who took me out goes off to teabag the hell out of my corpse; he spotted the Recon. While he's doing that, his buddy disarming the bomb gets taken out.
My team mate doesn't even try to disrupt the love-fest. He likes to watch, apparantly.
At least he went out with a bang.
Also, new map is just about done (this version anyways). Some geometry touch up, then spawns/weapons/objectives.
The ramps below the overpass jump the 'hog much higher than I expected. But I decided that's a good thing. :lol
backflip10019
Member
This is gonna make for some excellent 8v8 customs. Looks great so far.GhaleonEB said:Also, new map is just about done (this version anyways). Some geometry touch up, then spawns/weapons/objectives.
The ramps below the overpass jump the 'hog much higher than I expected. But I decided that's a good thing. :lol
The Librarian
Banned
Action Sack is pretty fun. I have some complaints about 2-Flag shottys, though: why do we have to have our flag at home to score? I played one game where each team had the other's flag, and it remained like that for the rest of the game (five minutes). Needs adjusting.
Tug of War is basically a very long version of TS. It's still fun, though.
Tug of War is basically a very long version of TS. It's still fun, though.
The Librarian
Banned
Not sure what you're getting at, but the way it is is really frustrating.EazyB said:
backflip10019
Member
MLG CTF on Narrows/Onslaught say "HAI!"EazyB said:
Sarcasm meter says "Whattup, Backflip!"backflip10019 said:
Flag at home to score is as Halo as it gets. Halo 3's kinda screwed that up and made it easier to score with its long flag respawns and easy scoring but before then CTF was a place of intense stalemates where the flags were at opposite bases where teammates were defending the flag carrier while trying to get theirs back.
I miss classic CTF.
backflip10019
Member
:lol I knew you were being sarcastic. I merely wanted to exert my superiority over non-MLG playing noobs who don't even know the maps and gametypes in it. Gosh what losers!EazyB said:
Also, I'm just now playing Action Sack for the first time. Has Bungie given a reason as to why it doesn't give XP? I wanna get my General in Action Sack!
Edit2: Nevermind, no I don't. Pit of Joy is bad enough to make me never want to play Action Sack again.
Striker said:
Here is a shot from that BTB game I played. It was ok for BR Slayer but I don't see how one team would be able to grab a flag on this map.
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=80786508
Also Actionsack is cool. It's a nice place to hang out and not worry about xp. Then I noticed that the actionsack games were counting towards your social games played. LOL So this hopper is trully the opposite of any double xp playlist. Once you play, it's as if you automatically lost a social game already in your service record. :lol
Shafto
Member
My experience with Action Sack was dreadful I have to say.
VIP Escort on Zeus is the single worst Halo experience i've ever had, and i love the concept of Escort. It'd be awesome on Valhalla, or something similar. On a sniper shooting range, it gets shit, and it gets shit fast. I've rarely quit from H3 - I did it twice last night thanks to this game.
2-Flag Shotties was ok, but the flag return should be the same as normal. Again, i'm not sure about using Sandbox to show it off. Utah Mambo or Punishment maybe, but not the default. Better when we played Orbital.
Tug of War is ok, but needs a shorter time limit. It's basically TS but with a quicker way of separating the winners from losers, but then, the game lasts forever anyway.
Pit of Joy is fun-sapping at it's worst. Exclusively sword combat is not fun. It's not fun at all.
Splasers is as rubbish as it always has been.
I realise i'm doing a lot of complaining, and i'm not the 'fire shishka' type, but this playlist has got me really worried. My friend, who is my regular team mate, and I were just totally dismayed at the creative bankruptcy of Matchmaking. Halo is one of the most versatile shooters ever to be released, and yet here we are with this frankly poor variations, 18 months after release. The mediocrity of the Mythic Map Pack, plus the piss poor release of it, added into the poor matchmaking and insane decision to limit so many of the playlists has really taken the shine of Halo 3 for me.
I'm excited about ODST and the possibility of new maps, but the way i'm feeling right now, i'm just plain bored of it.
Reach speculation: Anyone think this'll be a persistent planet-sized battleground ala Planetside? Because that, if made with true Bungie flair, would be fucking awesome.
VIP Escort on Zeus is the single worst Halo experience i've ever had, and i love the concept of Escort. It'd be awesome on Valhalla, or something similar. On a sniper shooting range, it gets shit, and it gets shit fast. I've rarely quit from H3 - I did it twice last night thanks to this game.
2-Flag Shotties was ok, but the flag return should be the same as normal. Again, i'm not sure about using Sandbox to show it off. Utah Mambo or Punishment maybe, but not the default. Better when we played Orbital.
Tug of War is ok, but needs a shorter time limit. It's basically TS but with a quicker way of separating the winners from losers, but then, the game lasts forever anyway.
Pit of Joy is fun-sapping at it's worst. Exclusively sword combat is not fun. It's not fun at all.
Splasers is as rubbish as it always has been.
I realise i'm doing a lot of complaining, and i'm not the 'fire shishka' type, but this playlist has got me really worried. My friend, who is my regular team mate, and I were just totally dismayed at the creative bankruptcy of Matchmaking. Halo is one of the most versatile shooters ever to be released, and yet here we are with this frankly poor variations, 18 months after release. The mediocrity of the Mythic Map Pack, plus the piss poor release of it, added into the poor matchmaking and insane decision to limit so many of the playlists has really taken the shine of Halo 3 for me.
I'm excited about ODST and the possibility of new maps, but the way i'm feeling right now, i'm just plain bored of it.
Reach speculation: Anyone think this'll be a persistent planet-sized battleground ala Planetside? Because that, if made with true Bungie flair, would be fucking awesome.
xxjuicesxx
Member
You know what would be awesome in Actionsack?
Instagib!
Instagib!
backflip10019
Member
This. This. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!xxjuicesxx said:
i was more commenting on the 2 flag shottys talk that was going on not trying to brag to everyone. d-bagbackflip10019 said:
much love
but really 2 flag shotty was mad fun for me. i think it was because i realized the distance to kill before everyone else and went out of my way to pick up grenades. grenades murder in that game type
backflip10019
Member
:lol Yeah I know. 2 flag shottys with such a long return time is such a terrible idea. Also, it's hilarious that everyone that I've been matched up with in Action Sack has been around a level 16. That's just so not fair for the other team.vhfive said:
backflip10019
Member
If enough people are interested, I'd be down for creating an AIM chatroom.GriffD17 said:
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