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[Frost]

the Battle Cat, on 22 September 2010 - 06:00 PM, said:

::Looking in at DrJohnFever through a tiny window in the heavy door::

Nurse: He's been repeating that all day long in his padded cell ever since we brought him in 2 months ago.
Doctor: Increase his thorazine drip to 300 CCs a day.

I don't think that's gonna work. This is so severe it may well call for Dr. Adams' Neural Neutralizer.

[DrJohnFever]

Frost, on 22 September 2010 - 06:30 PM, said:

I don't think that's gonna work. This is so severe it may well call for Dr. Adams' Neural Neutralizer.

You are comparing me to this crazy guy? COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!

[Frost]

That's me on the right, in my sweet ride. On the left is a player hater who was jealous and thought he'd try his hand at tankjacking. It didn't go so well.



Later on in that same game:

(My cousin is the red guy toting the Bomb to the blue base)

Blues: Hey, look at that cocky guy trying to run a bomb right in our front door with no backup and no gun. Let's kill his dumb ass.

Blues: Hey what's th-

Blues: OMFG

No backup, eh?

[Frost]

For your viewing pleasure:

Halo: Reach Invincible Scorpion Perfection Film

(Need Halo: Reach to view)

I had a horrendous streak of bad games lasting like 14 games long last night where EVERYTHING was going wrong on every game and I kept getting teamed with abject retards against excellent players, and I got so pissed I refused to go to bed until I had a game that at least didn't go horribly. The streak finally broke with this one. This is among the top 5 best rounds of Halo, any Halo, I have ever played. I was short three hours of sleep but it was worth it for this.  

If you want to know what it looks like to get an Invincible medal (30-man killing spree) and the legendary-level Perfection medal (complete a Slayer match ending with a victory, 15+ kills, and never dying) in a single game, this is it.

Best views are from my perspective, Bloobert's, and Manx17's. Or, if you want to see a masochist at work, watch from the hapless Vendetta4's perspective as he tries to get to me and kill me unsuccessfully for almost the entire game.  

[Sneaky Snake]

Dang it frost! Your making me wanna get a 360 again!   I'm actually seriously considering it

[Frost]

Well, I don't know what the hell's going on, but I'm lagging so bad in both competitive and firefight in almost every game now it's almost unplayable. Games are about 95% frustration, 5% fun. My connection hasn't changed in the last 3 days, so I guess the Joe Blows with the 56Ks finally finished the campaign and are going online now in droves or something. Score Attack's the only mode that I can play normally all of a sudden.

Oh well, was fun for 2 weeks at least.  

[DrJohnFever]

Frost, on 30 September 2010 - 12:58 AM, said:

I guess the Joe Blows with the 56Ks finally finished the campaign and are going online now in droves or something.

56ks? Thats way too new. Me and my droves prefer the 9.6Ks.

[Frost]

Bungie removed the Scorpion from multi!  

[The Liberator]

Frost, on 07 October 2010 - 08:06 PM, said:

Bungie removed the Scorpion from multi!  

What the Firetruck?

They should at lest kept it, and let the server admin remove it upon their own volition.

Liberator.

[Sneaky Snake]

Frost, on 07 October 2010 - 08:06 PM, said:

Bungie removed the Scorpion from multi!  

Are people glitching with it?

[The Liberator]

Sneaky Snake, on 07 October 2010 - 10:37 PM, said:

Are people glitching with it?

Sorry, what do you mean?

Liberator.

[Tetsuya]

The Liberator, on 07 October 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

What the Firetruck?

They should at lest kept it, and let the server admin remove it upon their own volition.

Liberator.

its funny how games take a huge step backwards.

in Halo 1, you had control over which vehciles were on the map, how many of each type, split by teams or not.. all sorts of stuff.  

there were dozens of unique game types you could craft up (invisible sniper tag, where you must kill in order, and you have a waypoint on your current target - an old favorite) that in Halo 2 - POOF! gone.

... i wonder why developers insist on *removing* choice.

[Frost]

Sneaky Snake, on 07 October 2010 - 10:37 PM, said:

Are people glitching with it?

No, people who were good with the Scorpion were rampaging over the other players too much (avert your eyes from here, I had nothing to do with this!!). I actually agree with them for CTF... one good tanker on the field who plays carefully and doesn't lose the Scorpion = flag uncapturable for the entire game no matter how many fancy tricks the other team pulls to try and get the flag. I've been that Scorpion goalie several times, and while it was amusing to control half the map by my lonesome, it IS unfair. It's total bullpopsnizzle for the other gametypes though like Slayer and territories, since there's MUCH more going on than just defending a base. Especially since both teams get one. Well. Got one. It's been replaced by the far less useful Covenant Wraith. Pfffffft.

It actually makes things worse because while the Scorpion was disgustingly powerful if you allowed yourself to be in its direct line of sight, it also controlled Revenant rampaging which is now FAR more out of control. That thing is more powerful than the Warthog yet faster and more maneuverable than a Ghost, so unlike the Scorpion where letting dismounts get too close = guaranteed death, the Revenant is untouchable until the team takes it down through Death by 1000 Cuts with small arms, and it can boost into and out of battle at will. The only real counter to it was the Scorpion being able to blast it off the battlefield if the Revenant drivers got too ballsy. Now? Hope your team's been camping the plasma launcher...

There's also now no counter to snipers sitting out in the open with good views of everything but out of range of other weapons except for another sniper. Previously shooting people across the battlefield from your perch would require you to be careful and keep from exposing yourself too much because the Scorpion might notice you and start firing on your position. Now any SOB can stand on the hills behind the red and blue bases on Hemorrhage (Blood Gulch remake) and hit anyone on almost the entire map. Sure, the Wraith can fire on them, but they can fire off a magazine or two and then move before the plasma ball ever gets around to falling on a target that far away.

Bungie didn't look before they leapt.

Tetsuya, on 07 October 2010 - 11:06 PM, said:

its funny how games take a huge step backwards.

in Halo 1, you had control over which vehciles were on the map, how many of each type, split by teams or not.. all sorts of stuff.  

there were dozens of unique game types you could craft up (invisible sniper tag, where you must kill in order, and you have a waypoint on your current target - an old favorite) that in Halo 2 - POOF! gone.

... i wonder why developers insist on *removing* choice.

Oh, you can customize multiplayer games in any way you like in Reach. Problem is unlike Halo 1 where anyone in the world could then join your server, custom games are friends-only... about expected for consoles though. Meh. Wish Reach and ODST were on the PC, that would be beautiful.

[Tetsuya]

Frost, on 08 October 2010 - 12:04 PM, said:

Oh, you can customize multiplayer games in any way you like in Reach. Problem is unlike Halo 1 where anyone in the world could then join your server, custom games are friends-only... about expected for consoles though. Meh. Wish Reach and ODST were on the PC, that would be beautiful.

A lot of the options were removed, though.  You cant make any of the three custom types my friends and i spent hundreds of hours playing.  (Two Oddball variants and a Sniper-tag, kill-in-order variant)

[Frost]

Best viewed fullscreen in 720p.

Playing Firefight on Beachhead. I'm driving, my cousin is on the gun, and a friend is in the passenger seat with a rocket launcher. This, gentlemen, is how you whip ass properly!

[Sargiel]

Heh .. nicely done!

[Sneaky Snake]

Frost, on 14 October 2010 - 12:16 PM, said:

Best viewed fullscreen in 720p.

Playing Firefight on Beachhead. I'm driving, my cousin is on the gun, and a friend is in the passenger seat with a rocket launcher. This, gentlemen, is how you whip ass properly!

How are you launching that many rockets?? So they got the rocket hog back again from halo PC/Mac ??

[Frost]

Yep, they brought the Halo 1 rocket hog back. Except this time instead of 3 centrally-mounted tubes it's got two sets of 3 side-mounted launchers that fire much faster. And then of course my passenger had two rockets of his own in his SPNKR.

Sadly, unlike the Halo 1 rocket hog which featured prominently in multiplayer, this rocket hog is relegated to campaign and firefight only except in custom games.

[Frost]

Moar!



Doing the shotgun dance with a Hunter that managed to sneak up on me while I was restocking my ammo in a Firefight game. I haven't danced with a Hunter properly since Halo 1!

[the Battle Cat]

I love how the grenade sends the bad guy in through the door and over your head to land at your feet.  Classic.