Halo Reach: Where's me washboard? Have you seen it?

[Momiji]

You won't, Justin, because the servers are dead.

And there were only 130,000 people online when they first got smurfed (now there's 170,000+ - probably more as the count has stopped updating) so I have to wonder how the hell they'll handle the load for the full game release.

They'll still be dead in more than 24 hours from now? :eyebrow:

Man, the fanboys who have been waiting so long for this must be reeeeal mad right now. :p

[Fonzie]

It's happening!

[Psychotic]

The fanboys were already fucking furious that people (like me :D) got into the Beta early. They are probably going to kill.

[Aerith's Knight]

I'll play Wednesday, or maybe tomorrow.

[Psychotic]

We got in a game and I got to a 14 spree and then fucking Steve betrayed me :colbert:

[Aerith's Knight]

As it should be.

[Iceglow]

I didn't do it intentionally, but it was awesome. Also in a free for all match I actually took Psy out when he had a rocket launcher and I had a normal rifle.

[Psychotic]

Remind me again who won that match and who came very last? :greenie:

[Goldenboko]

Game's been downloading for... a while. I plan on testing it out for a bit tonight, but I don't know how much time I'll get over the next few days, atm my schedule goes, Mon: Study Tues: Study, Wed: Test, Thur: Birthday. lulz.

[Psychotic]

I plan on testing it out for a bit tonightNot gonna happen. :p

[Fonzie]

does anyone want to play regular Halo 3? :[

[Goldenboko]

I plan on testing it out for a bit tonightNot gonna happen. :p

Why do you say that?

[Meat Puppet]

Remember the time Pooh got stuck in Rabbit’s hole?

Huh, after all these years, I never noticed how messed up that sounds.

[NorthernChaosGod]

We got in a game and I got to a 14 spree and then smurfing Steve betrayed me :colbert:

:lol:

No more problems since I left?

[Iceglow]

We got in a game and I got to a 14 spree and then smurfing Steve betrayed me :colbert:

:lol:

No more problems since I left?

Actually it's been so up and down like a french whore's knickers we decided to call it quits tonight.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Well, that's :bou::bou::bou::bou:ty. I'm going to try and play some more.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Downloading.

Shaking with excitement.

[Fonzie]

where is the multiplayer function on ODST?

I don't see matchmaking :[

[Goldenboko]

I don't see what the big deal is, I've played a bunch of games, there was no problems here.

[Psychotic]

Must've been fixed. :p

Anyway Colton ODST has two discs. Campaign and Multiplayer. Just put the Multiplayer disc in instead.

[Fonzie]

ah, thanks


we shall play tomorrow my good men

[NorthernChaosGod]

If it's Reach you want to play, you need to pop in the campaign disc and then download the beta. You need to have the campaign disc in every time you want to play the beta.

[Meat Puppet]

Reach multiplayer felt a bit like Halo 2 to begin with! I’m digging the magnum though :)

[Aerith's Knight]

I played it, it's okay. It's a little more like CoD, but that's it.

[Psychotic]

I think the armour abilities are really well balanced, in that I don't know which of the four I really want to pick. I usually get dicked over by another abilility whenever I don't have it myself so I always switch to that. Although I often go with jetpack because I am lazy and cba to walk around obstacles.

[Quindiana Jones]

I liked the look the the armour lock. And apparently it's EMP blast kills all nearby shields? Seems like a good team tactic to have some dude pull a suicide mission into a small room ful of enemies, then throw a grenade or three in after him. :D

[Madame Adequate]

I liked the look the the armour lock. And apparently it's EMP blast kills all nearby shields? Seems like a good team tactic to have some dude pull a suicide mission into a small room ful of enemies, then throw a grenade or three in after him. :D

Betrayals fuck your score up if you are the sort of person who is not Paul and thus remotely gives a :bou::bou::bou::bou:.

Played a couple of games of Reach earlier fgj it was good times. Only problem is that sprint feels so identical to CoD's that I completely forget it is a choice and not a default. And then I go sailing merrily through the air :(

[Aerith's Knight]

I like the scout one. I kill 2 or three guys, then run away with low health. Got a 2 to 1 K/D rating that way.

[Quindiana Jones]

I liked the look the the armour lock. And apparently it's EMP blast kills all nearby shields? Seems like a good team tactic to have some dude pull a suicide mission into a small room ful of enemies, then throw a grenade or three in after him. :D

Betrayals smurf your score up if you are the sort of person who is not Paul and thus remotely gives a :bou::bou::bou::bou:.

Pussy. Take one for the team. :colbert:

I think the idea of setting up and timing some epic suicide tactic is far more awesome than my uber 1337 online penis compensator score.

[Madame Adequate]

okay then harle-paul

[Quindiana Jones]

Dude's my idol, yo'.

And you bastard. One day, some smartass admin is going to rename me Harle-Paul thanks to your post. I'm gonna go hang myself. xD

[Psychotic]

Did someone call for a smartass admin? :smug:

Also for the record, you can actually get banned from the Beta for betrayals. So I'm glad I used an alt account first :)

[I Took the Red Pill]

I played it for a while today. I liked it, I think the DMR is cool, I'm not really digging the 4 classes deal and I don't really like the new grenade physics. I mean it's mostly just stuff that I'm going to have to get accustomed to and will likely eventually warm up to, but for now idk. I do like how they have a preset name for every area so calling out enemy locations will be made infinitely easier.

I'm going to go play some Halo 3 now.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I think the armour abilities are really well balanced, in that I don't know which of the four I really want to pick. I usually get dicked over by another abilility whenever I don't have it myself so I always switch to that. Although I often go with jetpack because I am lazy and cba to walk around obstacles.

I'm definitely using armor lock or the jetpack as my preferred equipment, depending on the situation mostly.

Armor lock is pretty damn useful when defending the flag in 1 CTF on Powerhouse. I also like to use it as an alternative to bagging someone, it looks cooler.

[Psychotic]

Bungie.net : Reach : Game Details (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=1997125&player=PsychoticWalrus)

I don't suck anymore :cool:

[Quindiana Jones]

That's not what your dad told me.

On a serious note, that's pretty freaking amazing.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Lol. Was everyone else just sitting with their thumbs up their asses?

[Psychotic]

It was my tryout for an MLG team so I thought I'd make the effort.

[Quindiana Jones]

Aaaaand the status quo returns. You're lame.

[Momiji]

I. smurfing. hate. Oddball.

Just throwin' that out there.

Oh yeah, and jetpacks are pretty freaking cool.

[Psychotic]

Armour Lock is the most hilarious :bou::bou::bou::bou:. I'm taking down sword users and they have no idea what the fuck. Me and Steve had a game where our two team mates quit because we were up against a rape squad. So we just trolled the fuck out of them by camping and then armour locking. :lol: The amount of EMP kills, particularly on sword users, was hilarious.

Still lost, but made them work way harder than necessary to get that win :p

[Goldenboko]

Stalker+Sword=Unfair and therefore I do it all the time. Just throwin' that out there.

[Psychotic]

YouTube - Return Fire! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-p0kvL7OAc)

[Goldenboko]

...I just.... orgasmed...

[Aerith's Knight]

Holy moley, that seems awesome.

[Iceglow]

It's a bit like what happens when I see your mom Dennis, she shoots at me and I spray all over her.

[Madame Adequate]

YouTube - Return Fire! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-p0kvL7OAc)

Hahahahaha holy :bou::bou::bou::bou: that is a thing of beauty

[Aerith's Knight]

It's a bit like what happens when I see your mom Dennis, she shoots at me and I spray all over her.

Don't talk about your grandmother like that.

[NorthernChaosGod]

It's a bit like what happens when I see your mom Dennis, she shoots at me and I spray all over her.

Don't talk about your grandmother like that.
You did the same joke on Live. :colbert:


YouTube - Return Fire! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-p0kvL7OAc)

That's amazing. I didn't even know armor lock did that.

[Quindiana Jones]

I'm now worried that they're gonna dumb down the awesomeness of armor lock. :(

[Aerith's Knight]

It's a bit like what happens when I see your mom Dennis, she shoots at me and I spray all over her.

Don't talk about your grandmother like that.
You did the same joke on Live. :colbert:


Yeah, and we've never heard Steve's mom jokes before.

[Psychotic]

Huxley as my fucking witness, I just did the armour lock rocket deflection. He fired one at me and assumed I was dead and ignored me. I charged at him again, locked, and it smacked him in the face :lol:

My Reach K/D is 1.67 too, which is pretty fucking fantastic. Higher than my Halo 3 one!

[Madame Adequate]

I bear witness to the truth of his statement. It was fucking glorious.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I'm now worried that they're gonna dumb down the awesomeness of armor lock. :(

I just played a match with a bunch of twelve-year-old kids that were complaining about it to no end.

[Iceglow]

hahaha my ranked k/d ratio is better than my social!

Arena K/D ratio: 1.35

Standard K/D ratio: 0.78

[Aerith's Knight]

My Reach K/D is 1.0 right now.

My Halo 3 one is .92

It's lower because I always play with you guys. Freaking colonels and whutnot.

[JKTrix]

I still don't know why the game doesn't work when I join you guys. Aside from the first day's networking issues, I've been able to get into games just fine with no issues at all.

Your Xboxes are racist :P

[Psychotic]

Hey hey hey, the holy teabag of justice does not discriminate. Unless you're French...

We'll try playing with you again. Hopefully it'll actually work!
hahaha my ranked k/d ratio is better than my social!Haha so is mine actually, 1.77. We're both terrible terrible men who should be ashamed.

[Momiji]

I still don't know why the game doesn't work when I join you guys. Aside from the first day's networking issues, I've been able to get into games just fine with no issues at all.

Your Xboxes are racist :P

I must be a different race under this pasty 'oh my good golly gosh I haven't had sun in months, gee whiz' whiteness, then, since I had no trouble getting into the couple games I played so far.

Either that, or my Xbox is an equal-opportunity console. :p

[Madame Adequate]

Christ do I have some varied performances in this game.

Atrocious (http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=3416703&player=Mister%20Adequate) :(

Awesome (http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=3439056&player=Mister%20Adequate) :jess:

Superb (http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=3421191&player=Mister%20Adequate) :love:

I actually like Swordbase a lot, but I suck big scrotey hairballs at it. I loooove Powerhouse though, smurfing glorious map in all respects.

My K/D is 1.09 in both Arena and Standard, lol.

Oh also coming up against a team of four people who stick together and are ALL using armor lock is the worst thing I have ever experienced, I hope they get cancer and then the cancer gets AIDS.

[Aerith's Knight]

I hope they get cancer and then the cancer gets AIDS.

That would cure the cancer, you nutcase. xD

[NorthernChaosGod]

Oh also coming up against a team of four people who stick together and are ALL using armor lock is the worst thing I have ever experienced, I hope they get cancer and then the cancer gets AIDS.

That actually sounds epic, I want to do that.

[Psychotic]

I love that I have done the same amount of games as Steve but I am two ranks higher than him. The new performance based EXP rules.

[Madame Adequate]

I love that I have done the same amount of games as Steve but I am two ranks higher than him. The new performance based EXP rules.

"Only 200 difference, my rating is close I am pretty much as good as you Paul :)"

[NorthernChaosGod]

I love that I have done the same amount of games as Steve but I am two ranks higher than him. The new performance based EXP rules.

I need to play more and catch up to you, you have a few more played games than I do.

[Goldenboko]

K/D Ranked: 1.34
K/D Social: 1.12
Winning Percentage Ranked: 100% (lulz 3 games)
Winning Percentage Social: 59%

Lovin' the game. Few issues, the punching takes some time to get used to, overall wouldn't ask them to change much.

[black orb]

>>> Lol, I remember when Halo started as a lousy combat game for the Mac, I wonder when it became so popular..:luca:

[Aerith's Knight]

>>> Lol, I remember when Halo started as a lousy combat game for the Mac , I wonder when it became so popular..:luca:

...Either say you were joking or start running.

[black orb]

>>> Huh? well yeah, Halo was originally developed as a real-time strategy game for the Apple Macintosh platform..:luca:
Im not surprised if the non-mac users didnt know this anyways :D..

[NorthernChaosGod]

I knew that, Bungie decided they didn't want to suck.

[Madame Adequate]

Yep, it was gonna be an RTS. On the Mac. xD I also heard that their very first idea was a Planetside-esque MMO, which is kind of what I thought they might be going back to at some point, now that they could actually do it.

[black orb]

>>> hehe, I remember that time 1999/2000 like it was yesterday. The apple comunity was very excited with the game, personally I never cared much about Halo (games in general) in that time since I dont use computers for gaming. The truth is that the game looked awesome for the time.
So you better thank Apple, without them Halo probably would not even existed :D..:luca:

[Meat Puppet]

I always enjoyed that:
Halo was supposed to be a killer app for the Mac and now it is owned by Microsoft
Halo Wars sucks balls

[Aerith's Knight]

You're all dead to me.

[Quindiana Jones]

Why, did you pull another mass betrayal?

[Aerith's Knight]

No, but every Mac enthusiast can expect one.

[Psychotic]

I'm enthusiastic about Stevie Nicks and I'm sorry if you don't like that.

[Aerith's Knight]

Encountered the first few glitches. One where the system didn't allow anyone to vote, and in that game at a point where someone dropped out, my shields wouldn't recharge anymore.

[Goldenboko]

game at a point where someone dropped out, my shields wouldn't recharge anymore.

I had this problem for a little bit, but in the game I was in, after a while it fixed itself :confused:

[Aerith's Knight]

I had to die for it to fix itself.

But then again, without shield, that didn't took that long.

[Madame Adequate]

I had hoped in the early days that the greater amount of armor customization would mean it actually made a difference, eg giving you higher shields or a speed boost or more charge for your jetpack and so forth. Sadly not :(

[Aerith's Knight]

Sadly?

Smurf that. That would mean that the dudes with no life have even more leverage over you. Can you imagine the 12yo smack talkers that become a 5 star general have 3 times the shields you do?

Screw that, I like it better this way.

[VexNet]

yeah, having advancements would make it unfair for the other players.

I finally grabbed my copy of ODST today and got Reach installed.
I was in RAGE before since my original copy of ODST I bought (second-hand) was scratched to bits and my 360 couldn't read the disc, but I kept it since I could use the Multiplayer disc to play online with friends.

Will try out Reach a bit later, hope it's good.

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah except that you would simply make the gameplay choices available to all from the start and keep the cosmetic stuff as ordinary unlocks. Was my thinking. All I can tell you is that this is an area where CoD severely, severely beats Halo.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Sadly?

Smurf that. That would mean that the dudes with no life have even more leverage over you. Can you imagine the 12yo smack talkers that become a 5 star general have 3 times the shields you do?

Screw that, I like it better this way.

This, Halo puts everyone on the same level. That's one of the worst things about CoD

[Psychotic]

Invasion is up and it is the best :bou::bou::bou::bou:.

[Madame Adequate]

Honestly not grokking invasion for some reason. Just not doing it for me in any way.

[Psychotic]

It's the new Multi Team.

[Madame Adequate]

But Multi Team is awesome :(

[Iceglow]

I think invasion is good fun, though the way Bungie went on about how awesome elites were in it isn't quite right imho, I played 1 game as an elite and the rest as a spartan and well we won almost all our games as spartans. I feel whilst being faster and bigger in close quarters is better the spartans so long as they know how to utilize the marksman class available from the offset well can prevent the elites ever getting close enough to be truly effective. I think it only happened in one match but we actually did stop them cold, the other 4 spartans held the left side of the initial battlefield and myself and Psy held the right side alone, the elites just didn't stand a damn chance.

[NorthernChaosGod]

OH, THAT'S WHAT INVASION IS.

I haven't played at all today, I will after Iron Man 2. :cool:

[Aerith's Knight]

That sounds pretty awesome, actually.

[VexNet]

I love INVASION!!

Invasion Slayer and normal Invasion are my favorite modes so far.

I really like how each class has their own move set. The gaurdian Covenent is such a joy to play as!

I also got my first taste of ODST Firefight today, and I'm loving that up aswell.
I can't wait to set up a party and then try playing Firefight

[Goldenboko]

I definitely feel that Elites are stronger, however, I also feel that humans have access to better beginning builds late, and what people don't realize is the Elites have a much, much, much tougher job. Elites don't have to win once, but 3 times, including getting the core which is incredibly frustrating.


Speaking of getting the core, I destroyed my friends yesterday. They were mere centimeters from scoring the core and I was WAY out of range, few awesomely placed grenades, and when he died, the core was literally in the circle, merely picking it up would've been victory. I turn around to see my other friend zooming at me with a ghost to try and splatter me and attain victory. What happened? Two words: Grenade, smurfing, launcher.


I hope they decide to make a version of invasion where you can play without getting split from friends though as it seems perfect for the Call of Duty War Mode fun we used to have in the past, shouting "DEFEND THE BUNKER" "BRING DOWN THE RIECHTAG" only as badass smurfing Elites.

[Psychotic]

Elites aren't badass, they are worthless alien scum and you'd do well to remember that.

[Madame Adequate]

I am torn, because on one hand all aliens are alien scum who should be purged from the universe so that it is pure for Humanity, but on the other hand if I do have to fight or be aliens, I'd rather be Elites than almost any other.

[Psychotic]

Deep down inside, we all want to be Grunts.

[Madame Adequate]

You've caught me :shobon:

[Aerith's Knight]

Anyone playing now?

[NorthernChaosGod]

Dude, Invasion is pretty sweet. I've only played two matches, both as Elites, and it was sweet. I really don't see it being that difficult for them to beat out the Spartans.

I think both jobs are fairly even, but I just do well as Elite.

[Psychotic]

Nah, to me, Invasion clearly has a Spartan bias. Spartans get lasers, rocket launchers, sniper rifles, a hog and a scorpion, as well as shotgun and 'nade launcher spawns.

Elites have their power weapons (Fusion Rifle and Plasma Launcher) spawn right in the middle of the old Spartan base when the Spartans are still in there. Their Ghost/'shee/Wraith are all laser/launcher/scorpion fodder, and they get what, Sword spawns? Fantastic, easily countered by the shotgun. If push comes to shove, the Spartans can camp that final room with shotguns and rocket launchers and there's smurf all the Elites can do.

If you own the Spartans hard on Invasion then you are probably playing against a bunch of incompetent people to be honest.

Not that I care, more often than not I am a Spartan anyway and I enjoy absolutely raping the alien bastards :shobon:

EDIT: If you want proof Spartans are better, I looked at my last 20 games of Invasion, and Spartans won 17 times, Elites won 3. And the 3 are the oldest 3 games, when presumably people still didn't know what they were doing. Enough smurfing said. :p

[Iceglow]

Yeah Jules, Elites are way way way down in terms of advantage. Lets compare support weapons:

Rocket launcher > Plasma Launcher - I say this because, Plasma Launchers take time to charge up for every shot but the rocket launcher only needs a reload every 2 rounds, much like the fuel rod, damage per hit for the Plasma Launcher is lower than the individual rocket fire though you do get a much bigger ammo repository.

Sniper Rifle > Fusion Rifle > Needle Rifle - The snipers two bullets kill for the poor of aim and 1 bullet kill for the fair of aim, compare it to the 5 or so seconds of constant contact the fusion rifle requires and the 9 or so needles on target required by the needle rifle. The sniper is far superior even if you give it a bigger bloom, the Elites really, really need the beam rifle back in to make it somewhat even in this regard, the best way to use a fusion rifle is for the rifle man to pin the targets down whilst his team flanks and kills them.

Spartan Laser > all - lets face it, the spartan laser has very little competition a glancing blow will kill infantry on foot and a hit on a veichle is an instant kill on the veichle the Covenant have NOTHING to compete with this, personally when I first heard about the fusion rifle I was hoping it would be something of an equalizer of the splaser unfortunately for us it was a worse version of the beam rifle. Though the fusion rifle is more effective against veichles than the beam rifle.

I've even said on the Bungie forums feedback about weaponry how I feel on weapons in Halo Reach but as it stands, barring weight of numbers I fail to see how the Spartans really lost Reach based on the distinct advantage they have technically which if I recall the Halo storyline well, weren't they at a disadvantage technically?

[Rad Bromance]

I wish I could play Halo but sadly multi-player FPS games are boring without voice chat and with voice chat, Halo is and endless string of incoherent racial slurs.

I liked the original Halo because I could play on PC and the sheer number of idiots/spoiled manchildren was significantly less.

[Psychotic]

That's completely untrue!

There's also incoherent homophobic slurs! :p

[Rad Bromance]

That's completely untrue!

There's also incoherent homophobic slurs! :p
lol

Ah hell, I may as well give it a try. I did enjoy Halo 3 for the week or so I played it while borrowing it from a friend. But then I got the Orange Box soon after and I found Half-Life 2's single player mode to be more fun. :p

[I Took the Red Pill]

I played for the second time today and had a +21 game on Powerhouse Slayer, I was happy. The pistol is such a badass in this game.

[Iceglow]

Personally I prefer grabbing a DMR that gun is amazing, 3 good shots to the face and they're flipping over as if their head has been pinned to that brick wall 20 meters behind them.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Paul, Steve: get on my level. :p

[I Took the Red Pill]

Personally I prefer grabbing a DMR that gun is amazing, 3 good shots to the face and they're flipping over as if their head has been pinned to that brick wall 20 meters behind them.Well yeah obviously I prefer the dmr, I'm just saying the magnum is a pretty beast weapon to start out with if you're playing normal slayer, especially with the 2x Zoom.

And the dmr takes 5 headshots to kill so idk where you came up with 3 good shots to the face :-/

[Iceglow]

I've been playing invasion lots as spartans, me and Psy work together so maybe I'm plugging targets he's already hit twice. I'm sure he's had similar experiences at this.

[Aerith's Knight]

I've even said on the Bungie forums feedback about weaponry how I feel on weapons in Halo Reach but as it stands, barring weight of numbers I fail to see how the Spartans really lost Reach based on the distinct advantage they have technically which if I recall the Halo storyline well, weren't they at a disadvantage technically?

The human ships were outnumbered 500 to 150 (they usually won an engagement if they were outnumbering them 3 to 1) , the only thing they had going for them were the Super MAC cannons in orbit. A few ships got through to the atmosphere and dropped about a million covenant on the ground. Now the Spartans always won ground engagements, but having to protect the nuclear reactors (powering the MAC), they eventually had to move and leave the reactors to be destroyed (they set off a nuke themselves). This made the super MAC guns useless and got the rest of the fleet wiped out. Then the covenant did what they always do. Glass the planet.

[Madame Adequate]

Dennis already said stuff about it but he's Dutch and honestly, it's Dut really even a country? :p

But yeah because I am a halofag I know the lore. Canonically, the Humans actually won ground engagements a surprising amount of the time even without Spartans. The problem was never, really, the ground engagements, which were messy and costly but where we could do well enough to win. In fact we had been so damned tenacious that the Elites, especially, were starting to ask "Hey why haven't you made peace and incorporated them into the Covenant yet?" because they reckoned we'd earned it, and Truth's little crusade had always been a little fishy. It was in space where we lost the war, because Covie ships both outnumber and outclass Earth's on a huge scale (The Pillar of Autumn being an exception because Keyes is a smurfing badass and Cortana is also rather neat at being in control). The Autumn has a crew of around 2500, of which not even close to all survive down to Halo, but the humans still provide severe resistence to the numerically far-greater Covenant, and would have done so even without the Chief there.

[Aerith's Knight]

Not to mention The Pillar of Autumn was refitted like a bull. 6 times the Archer missile pods, a MAC cannon that could fire 3 slugs in a short time and a full load of Spartans?

Daaaaaaaamn. *whistles*

[Quindiana Jones]

Didn't Cortana rob a load of info and stuff from a Covenant ship too? So she basically pimped whatever ship she was in.

[Psychotic]

Paul, Steve: get on my level. :pOk, let me cut off a few of my fingers first.

Also, and I am sure Keith will agree, the best thing about Reach is that shots you fired just before you die still go through. So much frustration avided.

idk what the smurf the rest of you nerds are talking about.

[Aerith's Knight]

Anyone up for halo tonight?

[Psychotic]

You know it. PM me when it's showtime.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Paul, smurf you.

Also, I'm down for some Halo tonight. Hit me up with details.


Where did you guys find out all the Halo backstory?

[Aerith's Knight]

Game on in 40 minutes.

[Madame Adequate]

Where did you guys find out all the Halo backstory?

The books, mostly. Also the comics and the Halo Encyclopedia. Halo wiki too.

I was playing earlier but I sucked and ended up :mad2:quitting

[Aerith's Knight]

Didn't Cortana rob a load of info and stuff from a Covenant ship too? So she basically pimped whatever ship she was in.

Oh yeah, but that bitch allowed a smurfing covenant AI to steal the data on how to slipspace jump from within the atmosphere, causing the destruction of New Mombosa in Halo 2.

But she did really pimp out the covenant flagship.

[Psychotic]

They need to fix Invasion so that people in parties are put on the same side. As fun as it is to hunt Steve down and make his life a living hell (cue a big long post from Steve telling everyone how he managed to kill me once or twice ;)), that's not the reason I go into a team playlist with a party of friends.

[Iceglow]

Nah I thought it was funnier when we went hunting Dan and his boyfriend "OoO Hakim XxX" I remember noticing that these two disappeared for most of the 3rd phase of that mission.

[Psychotic]

Hahaha yeah just imagining Dan spooning with some big Turkish guy and going "Ooooh, Hakim!" killed me.

[Quindiana Jones]

That's a pretty embarrassing way to die, Psy.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I need to read the damn books, which ones are good?


That's a pretty embarrassing way to die, Psy.

:lol:

[Aerith's Knight]

You start with "The Fall of Reach", of course. It covers everything from Master Chiefs birth up to the point of Halo 1.

"The Flood" is okay, but not necessary. It covers Halo 1, but shows the stuff that happens outside of Master Chief himself.

"First Strike" is another one I highly recommend. This shows the transition between Halo 1 and 2, and is just awesome.

"Ghost of Onyx" is a read if you want to know what happened to Dr. Hasley.

[Meat Puppet]

The books just delve into the history of Spartans such as say, Lenny, who was the tallest, most handsome, strongest, fastest Spartan that slept with all the female Spartans and beat up all the male Spartans, (except for Master Chief who was his best friend) and was too busy defeating 100 scarabs and The Prophet of SUPERNESS during Halo 3 it was where all the action and important events happened but that doesn't matter did I mention he was the most handsome and had cornrows and blue eyes and a strong chin (written by a fat kid named Lenny and it somehow becomes official canon).

[NorthernChaosGod]

You start with "The Fall of Reach", of course. It covers everything from Master Chiefs birth up to the point of Halo 1.

"The Flood" is okay, but not necessary. It covers Halo 1, but shows the stuff that happens outside of Master Chief himself.

"First Strike" is another one I highly recommend. This shows the transition between Halo 1 and 2, and is just awesome.

"Ghost of Onyx" is a read if you want to know what happened to Dr. Hasley.
Alright, cool. Thanks. I'll look for these cheap.

[Madame Adequate]

He forgot Contact: Harvest. :p I've not read that one myself yet though so I don't know how good it is; seeing as it covers the start of the war I would assume it's the one to read first?

[Aerith's Knight]

I actually ordered that yesterday. I didn't even know it was out.

[NorthernChaosGod]

So "Contact: Harvest" then everything AK said?

[Aerith's Knight]

Hmm, no, I would still recommend going with "The Fall of Reach" first, mostly because I haven't read the newest one yet and I know Reach is an awesome book.

But that might change when I read contact:harvest.

[Iceglow]

This is why me and Psy rock... (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9482450&player=Iceglow) :cool:

[NorthernChaosGod]

Screw that, I rule. (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9725020&player=ANIMALcalico) /smug

And again. (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9746015&player=ANIMALcalico)

And again. (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9741995&player=ANIMALcalico)

And yet again. (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9750640&player=ANIMALcalico)

[Madame Adequate]

This is why me and Psy rock... (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=9482450&player=Iceglow) :cool:

Awwww that was nice of you Paul. It could backfire though, you know how Steve is.

[Iceglow]

the game data might be purged, but your death count still proves NCG that no, it is me and Psy who indeed rule... (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=1613850258&player=PsychoticWalrus) :cool:

[Aerith's Knight]

Me and Paul played some invasion today and actually won half the times we were Elites. It was pretty awesome, although it sucked that out of 5 or 6 invasion games, we were Spartans once.

[Psychotic]

Embrace change! We've just made some adjustments to the Halo: Reach Beta and introduced a new flavor of Slayer inside the Grab Bag playlist. Along with a host of under-the-hood technical type stuff that you don't need to be too concerned about, here's the list of alterations you'll definitely wanna know about:

* Grab Bag’s “SvE Slayer” pits Spartans vs. Elites
* Spartan DMR Loadout removed from Invasion Phase 1
* CTF Flag return proximity slightly increased
* Headhunter skull pickup radius increased
* Same team Stockpile flag removal and re-scoring resolved

Emphasis mine.

Well, that's a start.

[NorthernChaosGod]

the game data might be purged, but your death count still proves NCG that no, it is me and Psy who indeed rule... (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=1613850258&player=PsychoticWalrus) :cool:

Bitch, plz. Irrelevant game is irrelevant.

[Psychotic]

So irrelevant you spammed up my XBL inbox with rage about it ;)

[NorthernChaosGod]

I sent like three messages tops, ho-bag.

And it was because you lead me to believe it was going to be a fair fight. :colbert:

[Quindiana Jones]

Dude, everyone knows about the cage. Just accept it like a man, and take pride in the fact that you lasted for freaking ages. xD

[NorthernChaosGod]

I have no problem with what happened, just bitches can't be running their mouths when they refuse to fight me fair. :doublecolbert:

Sluts.

[Iceglow]

I'm a big fan of the DMR but even I agree that that rifle needed to be removed from the spartan hands so early on in the Invasion game type because it made it nearly impossible for the entire elite team to get to the objective as a group to fight it out with their close range weaponry. Theres still gaping problems in there such as the fact that a Ghost can kill the Scorpion with only around 20 - 50 seconds of sustained fire on the rear armour. If I look at the two tanks I'd have to say that where the Scorpion has power and traverse the wraith has the defense and also due to the boost speed.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I guess that's OK, but I never had a problem reaching the first objective as an Elite.

EDIT: What's the most credits you've gotten in a match? I just got 1245 credits in commendations in Invasion.

EDIT2: Oh yeah, +21 (http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=10480491&player=ANIMALcalico)

My invasion K/D ratio is 1.5

[Psychotic]

I don't know how much of the new game type you guys have played, but god damn if it isn't hilarious when someone gets nailed by a weapon drop.

[Aerith's Knight]

I don't know how much of the new game type you guys have played, but god damn if it isn't hilarious when someone gets nailed by a weapon drop.

I lol'd hard.

[Iceglow]

We need to play some Halo.

[Aerith's Knight]

Going online now to check.

edit: and there was nobody.

[Iceglow]

we'll be online soon I guess...

Edit:

I quite like Generator Defence (Gametype Network Test 1) because it's pretty damn awesome sort of team objective game. Could be interesting on a big team scale imho. Though theres several things I think need changing:

Spartans running in to another spartan and hurting themselves/each other. I don't know why this happens but even if explained as their shields interfere with each other I figure that's a crappy mechanism. It must be a bug/glitch.

Damage dealt to the generators as Elites is too low for ranged weapons, melee attacks do far more damage to them than anything else including the rocket launcher and the spartan laser or grenades. I found the chain gun turret is useful if ripped off from Charlie and used to shoot them since damage is worked per bullet on target and the turret has no bloom growth but is "bloomed" already, considering how easily you can chew up a target if you're constantly guaranteed a hit with this gun it seems almost overpowered, though the 200 rounds and the slow carry speed of the gun does help the spartans defend it. However, Dennis and Paul can testify to my chewing my way right through Charlie and then destroying Bravo in short order because they were pushing for Bravo anyway forcing the Spartans to "camp the doors" I just stood back, aimed and let rip for a double splatter kill medal.

Lack of DMR on map when the needle rifle is available. Ok the NR is underpowered imho. However the Spartans should have access to the DMR though spawning with it much like the shotgun, grenade launcher and the energy sword for the elites should be forbidden. As far as I am concerned these guns are all power weapons (with exception to the DMR which is a battle rifle replacement) the shogun spawns are easily superior to the sword spawns for most games and the grenade launcher needs to be removed from the spawns.

The UNSC are trying to hold these generators and the Covenant are trying to destroy them. I feel that the map doesn't adequately reflect this, if I was Covenant general I'd position light weight portable support weapons on the field to provide support fire as the elites approach I would also as a UNSC general put more turrets in the general area of Alpha site and perhaps on the roof of Bravo. These could be countered with the positioning of more purple barricades the covenant seem fond of.

[Psychotic]

Gentlemen, the Beta ends in two days.

What say we get ourselves banned from it by betrayals and trolling first?

[NorthernChaosGod]

On the last day, maybe. I like this too much to do it with much game time left.

[Aerith's Knight]

Halo tonight?

[Madame Adequate]

Oh haha I totally stopped playing this after Invasion came out and now it comes to an end :shobon:

[NorthernChaosGod]

Halo tonight?

When is "tonight?"

[Iceglow]

He means tonight, the evening of 18/5/2010 approximately 19:00 - 20:00 gmt thats in around 30 - 90 mins time.

[NorthernChaosGod]

OK, thanks for clearing that up.

[Aerith's Knight]

Actually, I meant in like half an hour or so.

[NorthernChaosGod]

That would go along with the upper end of his estimate.

[Aerith's Knight]

Oh, right. Anywho, I just checked and there was nobody there.

[Psychotic]

I will turn my Microsoft Xbox 360 Console Unit on immediately.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I can play around 2:30 PDT or PST whichever it currently is.

Basically in 45 minutes from now, hope you guys are still on.

[Psychotic]

You don't want to play with us. We are just going on a pure betrayal spree and I am pissing myself with laughter. Invasion, line of spartans shooting at elites on the ground floor, and me and Dennis just charged into them and beat our entire team down without them knowing what the fuck.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Oh, then fuck you guys.

[Psychotic]

Lighten up, at least it's not you this time :p

[NorthernChaosGod]

Hmph. :colbert:

[Aerith's Knight]

I love the look of someone getting betrayed by a splaser in the face, standing there when it charges.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Why is that I get more points when I do well and lose than when I do well and rape?

I just finished an Invasion match +16 and ended up with a measly 100~ points overall, but I've done the same thing and lost and gotten like 1500 points.

[Psychotic]

They give out pity points to bad Halo players. Don't worry, you'll rake in the points with the retail release!

[NorthernChaosGod]

You shut your whore mouth, Paul. :colbert:

[Psychotic]

You are my favourite person to troll :love:

You actually get more points for getting commendations. Eg if you just got your 50th assist in your Halo career you'll get a commendation and 1,000 more points.

[NorthernChaosGod]

You limey Brit.

Hmmm, that makes sense. I need to get more fucking medals then.

[Psychotic]

Well, I just signed on and received a message telling me that if I carry out any more betrayals, I will be banned.

Sounds like a challenge to me!

EDIT: BANNED! :D

[Aerith's Knight]

BANNED!

:D:D:D

Face sticky's are the best.

[Quindiana Jones]

I wish I could just run in now and get myself banned straight away. :(

I want to be like a walrus.

[Psychotic]

You got banned too? Hahahaha Dennis you hero.

[Aerith's Knight]

I'm merely emulating you.

But you should see how pissed people get when you betray people with a plasma pistol.

[Ragebrain The Enraged]

I am really bad at Halo. :D

[NorthernChaosGod]

Well, I just signed on and received a message telling me that if I carry out any more betrayals, I will be banned.

Sounds like a challenge to me!

EDIT: BANNED! :D

Lol, you cheeky fucker. I love it.

[Iceglow]

I got banned earlier too. I done 4 games of Generator Defense on my own and never finished one. Bungie ban hammered me down for it.

[Meat Puppet]

It would be cool if you unlocked secret armor for getting banned in the beta. Like legs made of... penises.

[NorthernChaosGod]

That is quite disgusting.

[Momiji]

That's a very painful mental picture.

[Iceglow]

It would be cool if you unlocked secret armor for getting banned in the beta. Like legs made of... penises.

You cannot change leg armour unfortunately, However if this armour was actually there, I think myself and Paul would probably wear it on occassion so we could Teabag people.

[Psychotic]

"on occasion" nothing. 420 wear penis legs everyday.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Um, wtf did you just say?

[Psychotic]

"on occasion" nothing. 420 wear penis legs everyday.hth

[NorthernChaosGod]

Cheeky fucker.

[Psychotic]

Lol, you cheeky smurfer. I love it.:shobon:

[NorthernChaosGod]

The least you could have done is edit my post so that it actually looks like I said that.

We both know you don't have a problem with editing my stuff. :colbert:

[Quindiana Jones]

Lol, you cheeky smurfer. I love it.


Cheeky smurfer.

Separate posts, dude. :D

[Aerith's Knight]

4 O'clock.

Time for some..

http://www.chetakcattlefeed.com/full-images/tea-bag-722527.jpg

[NorthernChaosGod]

Lol, you cheeky smurfer. I love it.


Cheeky smurfer.

Separate posts, dude. :D

You can't expect me to remember what I post. :zombert:

[Loony BoB]

Wait, so all you guys are banned? Is that permanent?

I'm considering buying ODST. Danielle and I played through Resistance's campaign recently via splitscreen co-op and now I'm keen on finding another FPS game that allows for campaign splitscreen co-op and this seems to tick all the boxes. Question: How long is the campaign compared to, say, Halo 3 or Resistance?

[Madame Adequate]

Wait, so all you guys are banned? Is that permanent?

It would be pretty fucking legendary if it turned out to apply to the retail version.


I'm considering buying ODST. Danielle and I played through Resistance's campaign recently via splitscreen co-op and now I'm keen on finding another FPS game that allows for campaign splitscreen co-op and this seems to tick all the boxes. Question: How long is the campaign compared to, say, Halo 3 or Resistance?

It's not a terribly long campaign, not as long as Halo 3, but not too short of it. It's definitely worth getting and playing through, I'm sure the price just came down a lot with Reach demo behind us xD

[Psychotic]

Wait, so all you guys are banned? Is that permanent?No, the Beta is over. ;)
Question: How long is the campaign compared to, say, Halo 3 or Resistance?It is extremely short and can be done in four hours.

[Loony BoB]

Damn. Not worth the cash, then. Maybe I'll get that Tom Clancy Vegas 2 thing instead.

[NorthernChaosGod]

The campaign is quite good though, it's a good story and it's pretty fun to play.

Maybe you can pick it up cheap on eBay or something.

[Iceglow]

Damn. Not worth the cash, then. Maybe I'll get that Tom Clancy Vegas 2 thing instead.

BoB I have Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 I'm going to say straight up, average retail price for a new copy of the game will be £19.99 you can generally pick up a copy of ODST (especially in sales at around £20) now on terms of completion times:

On Normal, both Rainbow 6 and ODST last in the region of 5 hours for a single player campaign in terms of the hardest difficulty Rainbow 6 will take a single player 10 - 15 hours. ODST will in the same circumstances take longer because unless you're actually very good at Halo then you'll not get through in less time.

The main advantage of Halo ODST over Rainbow 6 is simple. Multiplayer, Halo has a thriving multiplayer experience. On the other hand, Rainbow 6 used to have a very active multiplayer network but now it is dead. Now I know you're not exactly in to Halo 3 online but there is also firefight, firefight is something worthwhile even for the most relaxed halo player, 4 player party versus endless waves of Covenant forces? Sounds awesome to me. Rainbow 6 is an amazing game, it should definitely be played but the game is short (as are most FPS games)

[I Took the Red Pill]

I'd say the endless replayability of Terrorist Hunts with a friend make Vegas 2 the better buy than ODST; if you're not an avid online gamer that is. Vegas has some fun online modes but Halo obviously trumps it in that field. On the other hand, I always had more fun playing Terrorist Hunts on High Density, Realistic difficulty with a friend than I ever had on any Halo offline campaign, all of which I have personally found to be run-of-the-mill.

[Iceglow]

IMHO, ITTRP you're simply wrong about terrorist hunt being better than firefight. I play competitive FPS games a lot but mostly I play social games because I just like teaming up with my friends and shooting stuff.

Theres several games BoB ought to consider for co-op experiences and one is not one you'd expect.

Straight off the batt, Gears of War for 3rd person it's amazingly great gameplay, the third installment is on the way, the second and first both rocked and if BoB decided to play online Horde is one of the finest built survival modes in any shooter game.

Secondly comes Halo, Halo was an obvious option for co-op the game is built around it. ODST's firefight is amazing and I can't stress this enough that when it comes to co-op anything that can keep 4 people interested for 4 - 6 hours is a good thing. However, Horde is superior to Firefight because in Horde if you get to level 30 and need a break or someone loses their connection to the game you can restart from level 30 on Firefight it's back to the start.

Third game is the oddball choice. Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2. The main campaign is single player however you have the special ops which can be 2 player via either split screen or xbl/psn. These missions are similar in structure to the Terrorist hunt missions of Rainbow 6 but come with the highly polished engine of CoD MW2 to support them, they're fast paced or slow crawls depending on how you choose to do them. I prefer these over terrorist hunt especially when you throw it on Veteran difficulty.

Then comes Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, sure the main story is co-op which is props over MW2 and it has snap to cover and pop out shooting but frankly Gears always felt more solid in this (aside from the 3rd person perspective) Terrorist hunt is the weakest of the extra modes imho because it simply isn't as polished as spec ops (some of which are actual levels from the game or from CoD 4 with the objectives changed).

[Hythloday]

I miss the beta already... What'd everyone think? As a fan of the first two Halo games I enjoyed it.

[Madame Adequate]

Remember that Paul is actually very good at Halo and the campaign probably took considerably less time for him than it would for 95% of people.

Just looked on Amazon and there's new copies of ODST from £12 and used from about £9. At that price you can't go wrong even without firefight. With firefight that's an insanely good deal because Steve is not wrong, it is an epic game mode.

[Loony BoB]

What the hell is ITTRP?

EDIT: When talking of suggestions, it should be noted I'm looking for local co-op, not online co-op. Not sure how many games of those you mentioned allow for splitscreen.

EDIT: Ah, GoW2 has splitscreen allowance, neat. :) Maybe I'll get that sometime. Not too bothered about the online multiplayer - the only people I know online that I played with regularly were Dan and Psy, and after a lot of initial awesomeness in Halo 3, in the end they must have had enough of my inadequate skills and spent most of their time killing me for giggles. I got bored of that after a while. :p

[G13]

I Took The Red Pill is right above him, BoB. ;)

[Loony BoB]

Oh, right. I just call him Red Pill, or Keith. Never seen him called ITTRP before. xD Or if I did, I probably thought something like "What the hell is ITTRP?"

[Quindiana Jones]

Reach! For the stars! Climb every mountain high and reach! For the stars!

[Psychotic]

New thread title for September found.

[Madame Adequate]

Oh, right. I just call him Red Pill, or Keith. Never seen him called ITTRP before. xD Or if I did, I probably thought something like "What the hell is ITTRP?"

Yeah I had no idea either xD Steve is a very strange chap.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Ya'll people just be slow.

I can't wait for the full game out in September. :jess:

[Iceglow]

EDIT: When talking of suggestions, it should be noted I'm looking for local co-op, not online co-op. Not sure how many games of those you mentioned allow for splitscreen.

EDIT: Ah, GoW2 has splitscreen allowance, neat. :) Maybe I'll get that sometime. Not too bothered about the online multiplayer - the only people I know online that I played with regularly were Dan and Psy, and after a lot of initial awesomeness in Halo 3, in the end they must have had enough of my inadequate skills and spent most of their time killing me for giggles. I got bored of that after a while. :p

Well, all of them do. As stated, MW2 only has split screen co-op on the spec ops but is well worth playing. If you're intending to get Gears 2 get Gears 1 first it also does 2 player local co-op and is equally as awesome, second hand in HMV you could find both games for under £20 together.

As for Halo well, I know only too well what happened with you getting betrayed, to be fair it's something we do all the time to each other (we have a policy, if you are betrayed betray them back if you can. If you are betrayed by someone outside the party all internal disputes are forgotten and forgiven and the outsider gets owned by everyone) It's something we've done to Kari more times than enough and to NCG too (caging = the best :bou::bou::bou::bou:!) But firefight is very different because it's co-op status and survival mode style of gameplay theres a limited pool of lives to share out between the group therefore dying is bad enough but betraying someone intentionally is pretty much out of the question because at the end of it the 8th set on easy, it's so difficult to kill enemies, especially after respawning so you need every life saved up for this point in time.


Oh, right. I just call him Red Pill, or Keith. Never seen him called ITTRP before. xD Or if I did, I probably thought something like "What the hell is ITTRP?"

I like to be different :)

[Loony BoB]

When referring to Halo, I just meant in deathmatches and stuff. Psy/Jess/Danielle/myself went through the main campaign without issue. :) But as for Dan and Psy, don't worry, I played with them many a time before that so I know how they work... but that doesn't make it less boring for someone like me who lacks the skill to betray back. I kept playing with Danielle/Jess for a little while afterwards but we all moved on to other games and whatnot. Halo 3 was fun, but I'm probably not going to pay for Xbox Live again anytime too soon unless a new and absolutely awesome game comes out that features really good multiplayer action. It's rare I do online gaming, in all honesty.

[Madame Adequate]

News out of Comic-con. The most important of which is demonstrated here (http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/vidaudio.aspx?c=58).

Dear holy smurfing god.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Wait, what am I supposed to watch? D:

[Madame Adequate]

The top one, Forge World Vidoc

[Iceglow]

Do want! I also want Halo with more than 16 players which would be freaking amazing for huge kick ass fights :D

[Psychotic]

I watched that video and I have to say I was not impressed, several PS3 titles such as Wayne's World 2 and Where's Waldo: Online look far superior and furthermore

(it looks the fucking BUSINESS)

[Ouch!]

I'm fully willing to admit I'm more excited about Forge World than anything else.

[JKTrix]

I have to say my Halo fandom stretches about a mile short of 'hardcore', but watching the Comic Con panel made me pretty excited. Particularly this moment.

YouTube - Halo Reach Panel at Comic-Con 2010 - Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs93sdUUPtw#t=6m34s)

Watch from the beginning of that video up to the end of the presentation (Part 4) for a little more detail into the new forge that the ViDoc might gloss over. Part 1 of the presentation basically talked about the new Firefight, how you can customize the waves and play in matchmaking and stuff, but more importantly now you can play it 'Versus' as an Elite. They also showed off how the Sword has its own unique melee kill animations, and a new vehicle.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Holy Balls. HOLY FUCKING BALLS.

I have to say, that looks amazing.

brb pre-ordering Reach.

[Psychotic]

Part 1 of the presentation basically talked about the new Firefight, how you can customize the waves and play in matchmaking and stuff, but more importantly now you can play it 'Versus' as an Elite. This sounds pretty awesome. I want to make a wave of grunts with energy swords.
Holy Balls. HOLY smurfING BALLS.

I have to say, that looks amazing.

brb pre-ordering Reach.You do realise this is going to lead to an even greater version of The Cage, don't you?

[NorthernChaosGod]

You can't trick me into that again. :colbert:

[Madame Adequate]

When it comes to the cage, the only winning move is not to play.

[Iceglow]

New campaign trailer came up this week, no one posted the link so I will...

Holy mother fucking :bou::bou::bou::bou: I want to play campaign! (http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/news-features/news/Halo_Reach_Trailer_30072010.htm)

[NorthernChaosGod]

I haven't wanted a game this much... like ever.

[Iceglow]

With Reach comming and since the beta us Halo nut jobs have really been slipping. We've not gotten together properly for a frag fest since the beta for reach ended. Now, I understand we fell in love with the beta and that Halo 3 is just too uncomplex for us now. However lets get together for a frag fest lets dick people like we never have before and lets do it tomorrow 8/8/10!

[NorthernChaosGod]

I work tomorrow. How about Monday? I have a DMV appointment at 10:45 AM PST, but should be available some time after 12 PM.

[Iceglow]

Next week I'm back at work so can't sit around playing games all night but we'll see what happens! Still tomorrow who can make it? who can't and who goes in the cage? personally I vote Kari goes in a cage!

[NorthernChaosGod]

I vote everyone besides me.

[Iceglow]

This is a call to arms
Gather soldiers
Time to go to war!

This is a battle song
Brothers and sisters
Time to go to war!

With that out the way...

*smashes the glass box and turns the key before hitting the red button making alarms sound throughout the forums*

OK soldiers the UNSC demands our presence! This very night we will enter battle and we will emerge VICTORIOUS!!!! So grab your Battle Rifle, Choose your Helmet and Lets kick some ass!

XBL party will be forming soon, anyone who wants to get involved is welcome!

[NorthernChaosGod]

Goddammit, that was 9 hours ago.

[Iceglow]

God damn you, you missed some intense halo action. There was some Swat going on between me and Psy (was good fun, we had some good games and some close calls lets just say, one team of 3 got lucky against us 2 alone) then we did Action Sack with JKTrix and DK (Big Team seems full of entire teams of generals and second accounts right now, it's really not so much fun when the enemy team consists of 6 or 7 generals/second accounts in a single party!) Then as I got a message requesting access to the party by a random nub well, we invited them in to the cage! I have to say, Latex Sniper (he had a load of kisses in that name too weird choice of name, frankly absurd lol makes me think of a condom sniping) took the cage like a pro, hell he even sung a song for us on microphone to get out of the cage! We then put some other random people in the cage, one swedish guy took it well he, didn't have a mic but we sang abba to him anyway as we cage slaughtered him. To cap it all off we had some great times putting 4 or 5 spawn points in a cage, everyone goes in and no one is allowed to shoot the beatdown king will reign supreme! Followed by general smurfery as we all just ran around with weapons shooting each other in the face a lot. I love how JKTrix is normally such a gent but we corrupted him with several hours of cage antics.

link to carnage report (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=1753402187&player=Iceglow)

As for Psy's brown team kill count (we all began on pink) well as usual Psy being lord of the cage, he decided to be a coward and instead of facing people on the ground he used monitor mode to smash us all around with a wraith. I believe DK put it best....Psychotic has become MILF in every single beardy way including the enjoyment of being anally penetrated :bigsmile:

[Psychotic]

You're right, Steve, I am just not good enough to beat you at Halo without being in the Monitor form.

But I am awesome at getting no scopes with fire bombs, aren't I?

[Iceglow]

Psy you know and I know in a one on one you still win against me, but when it's me, DK and Trix versus you, you can't win without the monitor mode.

[Psychotic]

You know what? I'll take that challenge. 3 vs 1 regular game. Bring it.

[NorthernChaosGod]

But I am awesome at getting no scopes with fire bombs, aren't I?

wat :confused:

[Psychotic]

When you get a kill without using a scope - which means you are very good at Halo - you have to yell "NO SCOPE!" and I got several kills on Steve with fire bombs without using a scope. So I p. much pwned that nub.

[Carnage-]

So one of my friends won the Halo Reach Legendary Edition at the promotional event Gamestop was having a few nights ago. Pretty lucky. Too bad they don't have those in Canada :C

[NorthernChaosGod]

When you get a kill without using a scope - which means you are very good at Halo - you have to yell "NO SCOPE!" and I got several kills on Steve with fire bombs without using a scope. So I p. much pwned that nub.

I feel like I'm missing out on some joke...

[Madame Adequate]

As for Psy's brown team kill count (we all began on pink) well as usual Psy being lord of the cage, he decided to be a coward and instead of facing people on the ground he used monitor mode to smash us all around with a wraith. I believe DK put it best....Psychotic has become MILF in every single beardy way including the enjoyment of being anally penetrated :bigsmile:

Paul can talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me. He is better at Halo than I am and there's no way around that. Dan should't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until he beats our ridiculous firefight score, but he's that funny with his little brummie accent that I allow it. YOU, good sir, can't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until you can get to rank 10 snipers without needing three people to help you. :colbert:

[Iceglow]

Paul can talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me. He is better at Halo than I am and there's no way around that. Dan should't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until he beats our ridiculous firefight score, but he's that funny with his little brummie accent that I allow it. YOU, good sir, can't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until you can get to rank 10 snipers without needing three people to help you. :colbert:

You sir need to keep quiet the UNSC doesn't tolerate your cowardice :P

As for getting to 10 skill in snipers without people helping? I didn't need the help I could've gotten there, in theory I'd have gotten easier games without you there due to the way matchmaking works. I merely prefer playing Halo with friends, I don't want to team up with the usual kind of idiots you find in ranked, I generally then want to betray them. I got Halo with the intention of playing it with my friends, I made you play with me because I would rather team with you than with randoms. I will talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about you all I like because you still suck more than me at MW2 ;)

[I Took the Red Pill]

I will talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about you all I like because you still suck more than me at MW2 ;)your mw2 k/d is atrocious

[Psychotic]

Steve, if you hadn't tried to accuse me of being Huxley I would've had your back here. As it stands, you know the price of betraying me so here it comes, the e-bagging:

It would've taken you about 10 years (no exaggeration) to get to 10 if it wasn't for me single-handedly winning every fucking game in Team Snipers. :colbert:

and don't you dare dispute that because I will post links showing game after game of me being MVP and you coming bottom of our team if I have to so help me god. :doublecolbert:

[NorthernChaosGod]

Haha, I want to play snipers with you guys. :greenie:

[Aerith's Knight]

Oh, BURN!

[DK]

Dan should't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until he beats our ridiculous firefight score,

Your one and only halo achievement means nothing when your medals chest is worse than Steve's, come back and try again when you can go past a running riot :kiss:

[Iceglow]

Dan should't talk :bou::bou::bou::bou: about me until he beats our ridiculous firefight score,

Your one and only halo achievement means nothing when your medals chest is worse than Steve's, come back and try again when you can go past a running riot :kiss:

Dan you beautiful beautiful man!

Psy, I would've done it eventually I never said I'd do it quickly. As it is I would have gotten very bored and swapped to swat before long or even have gone back to lone wolves if you hadn't decided to play ranked with me. (Lone wolves I was a 7 or 8 in to be fair so could've done it) and don't dispute I am pretty good at swat, we've seen that countless times sure I get crap rounds but some of my rounds are awesome and normally I'm quite middle of the field at worst. We chose ranked snipers because your swat skill rank was far higher than mine and snipers was chosen because it was pretty much the only playlist we both had 0 exp in.

Edit to be clear: I never called you Huxley...that was Dan and I just repeated it for the benefit of everyone who was too busy with their cowardice (which the UNSC doesn't tolerate btw you're all so going in a mother fucking cage) to hear for themselves

[Madame Adequate]

You jelly, Dan? :cool:

[Carnage-]

Rented ODST yesterday. Beat the campaign in one sitting and got 495/1000. Still need to play a LOT of Firefight for the other achievements so if anyone's interested then I'm up for it, yeah.