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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO

One of the main reasons I'd never go to Australia. The heat and the damn insects and reptiles and whatever else would probably kill me. I'm not even scared of spiders, but damn.
It's not as bad as it's made up to be over here, as long as you keep your anti-venom pack on you at all times.
 
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I was drinking milk oh my god!

this is why you cant casually scroll through HaloGaf in the early morning..


It's from RvB that's Griff.

No stormtrooper fans? I don't bite. Unless you like it that way...

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Vico

Member
There was just a MASSIVE spider on the outside of my window. Motionless but so big it was plain as day. I am not a spider babby like half of GAF. But it was so huge I didn't even want it outside my house. So I tapped the window right where it was.

GAF. IT WAS INSIDE THE WINDOW!!!


I literally heard it hit the floor. That's how big.


AND NOW I CAN'T FIND IT!!

Look at the bright side: this is what will happen to you and your baby.
 
You know, If Halo 2 Anniversary isn't real then I don't know what I'll be playing next year. Maybe destiny if it's good.

I'm riding on Halo 2 Anniversary being a thing so I can get some real enjoyment out of my X1
 

Omni

Member
You know, If Halo 2 Anniversary isn't real then I don't know what I'll be playing next year. Maybe destiny if it's good.

I'm riding on Halo 2 Anniversary being a thing so I can get some real enjoyment out of my X1

Well we know there's a Halo coming no matter what, don't we?

Either way we should have something
 
There was just a MASSIVE spider on the outside of my window. Motionless but so big it was plain as day. I am not a spider babby like half of GAF. But it was so huge I didn't even want it outside my house. So I tapped the window right where it was.

GAF. IT WAS INSIDE THE WINDOW!!!


I literally heard it hit the floor. That's how big.


AND NOW I CAN'T FIND IT!!

You're already dead.

If it makes you feel better, you might eat it while you're asleep.
 

Booties

Banned
I hope our resident zoo keeper brings you comfort.

Heavies out yet or are y'all going to force me to browse waypoint on my phone?

Isn't that for what the site was designed? Is heavies going to have the DLC? I'd like to try and get that flying warthog kill achievement one day. I think the ashes to ashes achievement is the only one that is bugged for me.
 

willow ve

Member
Would be great to have a permanent DLC playlist that let you play with ANY of the map packs and just matched you accordingly. I'm never buying the frame rate stuttering first map pack but I would love to actually play on the Pit.
 
There was just a MASSIVE spider on the outside of my window. Motionless but so big it was plain as day. I am not a spider babby like half of GAF. But it was so huge I didn't even want it outside my house. So I tapped the window right where it was.

GAF. IT WAS INSIDE THE WINDOW!!!


I literally heard it hit the floor. That's how big.


AND NOW I CAN'T FIND IT!!
I once rolled over in bed to face the wall and a spider was right in front of my face.. lmfao so I fuckin THREW my gf off the bed as I did 5 backflips away from the wall. I had her go after it, but she failed and the fucker fell onto my bed and got lost!

So what did I do?

Slept downstairs.
When two people very much hate each other...
How are our kids doing?
 

Booties

Banned
Would be great to have a permanent DLC playlist that let you play with ANY of the map packs and just matched you accordingly. I'm never buying the frame rate stuttering first map pack but I would love to actually play on the Pit.

Yeah, the pit should have been free a la Cold Storage. The map is GOAT and people would actually vote for it all the time if they had it.

I'm curious as to how much of the active population has which DLC. Can anyone tell?
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
I FOUND IT.

It was a monster. Now it is in the sewer. I should have taken a picture. But I was scared it would escape again. It was fast. And I was scared it would run up my leg and eat my junk.

This is a picture of a smaller one from last year. Same kind. Hobo Spider. Genus: Arachnia NopeusNopeus.

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So you take a picture of your finger as you're inches away from death but not one of the spider? Just goes to show spiders are SERIOUS business hahah

I'm so glad I'm at work and have these images blocked.. Pages 210-211 will never be looked at again.
 
Great stealth advert for new Jamie Foxx movie, Frankie. That's some subliminal shit.

Oh, and by the by:


Fuck playing Spartan Assault on a Windows Phone 8. It was, by far, the worst Halo game experience I have ever had. Of course, this was after I had played it on Windows 8, Xbox One, and Xbox 360, after which I knew what I should be able to do (with a controller).
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
So you take a picture of your finger as you're inches away from death but not one of the spider? Just goes to show spiders are SERIOUS business hahah

I'm so glad I'm at work and have these images blocked.. Pages 210-211 will never be looked at again.

My fingertip couldn't scamper to safety.
 

Havoc2049

Member
I hope our resident zoo keeper brings you comfort Frankie.

Heavies out yet or are y'all going to force me to browse waypoint on my phone?

Ya, it is out and even a few of the DLC maps pop up every now and then. I actually got one of the DLC achievements the other day while playing Heavies.
 
Great stealth advert for new Jamie Foxx movie, Frankie. That's some subliminal shit.

Oh, and by the by:

Fuck playing Spartan Assault on a Windows Phone 8. By far the worst Halo game experience I have ever had. Of course, this was after I had played it on Windows 8, Xbox One, and Xbox 360, after which I knew what I was should be able to do (with a controller).

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I FOUND IT.

It was a monster. Now it is in the sewer. I should have taken a picture. But I was scared it would escape again. It was fast. And I was scared it would run up my leg and eat my junk.

This is a picture of a smaller one from last year. Same kind. Hobo Spider. Genus: Arachnia NopeusNopeus.

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So forerunner spider confirmed? In memory of Frankie O'Connor
 

Mix

Member
I FOUND IT.

It was a monster. Now it is in the sewer. I should have taken a picture. But I was scared it would escape again. It was fast. And I was scared it would run up my leg and eat my junk.

This is a picture of a smaller one from last year. Same kind. Hobo Spider. Genus: Arachnia NopeusNopeus.

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FUCK THAT MESS, I'M OUT
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
I don't think I've seen a single spider since I've moved here.

You will see more in the early fall. All summer long they stuff themselves with the weaker spiders and the tasty meat from the inside of your cheeks while you sleep. Then eventually one megaspider wins out and this part I am not making up - eventually decides to come out of the basement/garage/wherever and traipse across your floor. Seeing one this big, this early is NOT a good sign.
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
You will see more in the early fall. All summer long they stuff themselves with the weaker spiders and the tasty meat from the inside of your cheeks while you sleep. Then eventually one megaspider wins out and this part I am not making up - eventually decides to come out of the basement/garage/wherever and traipse across your floor. Seeing one this big, this early is NOT a good sign.

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Woorloog

Banned
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It occurred to me that merely having a Flamethrower, Promethean Crawlers and Flood Stalkers would be enough. No need for specific spider enemies. As long as the Flamethrower is useful, fun to use, unlike the one in Halo 3 (seriously, the slow movement doesn't bother with other "support weapons" but with the flamer... it kills all the fun from that weapon).
 
It occurred to me that merely having a Flamethrower, Promethean Crawlers and Flood Stalkers would be enough. No need for specific spider enemies. As long as the Flamethrower is useful, fun to use, unlike the one in Halo 3 (seriously, the slow movement doesn't bother with other "support weapons" but with the flamer... it kills all the fun from that weapon).

I think the decision to make the Flamethrower a support weapon rather than having a first-person incendiary firearm was deliberate. The fact that incendiary damage is one of the only sustained-damage effects that not only affects shielding and health, but that the player can aim with a consistent level of accuracy, means that significant time had to be poured into it to make sure it was not only fun to use, but safe enough to be employed in encounters. Firebombs were dropped by Stalkers and had a few occasions where you got to use them against Covenant, but those also have a much smaller radius and a potentially shorter amount of fire - not to mention, as with all grenades, you're throwing an area-of-effect weapon away from you, rather than using the attack at a close range like the Flamethrower. Most instances where you got the Flamethrower were against large amounts of Flood, so the support weapon implementation became extremely useful compared to treating it like a run-and-gun weapon. The third-person perspective gives you some extra visual indication that Flood are approaching from multiple directions and notes potential verticality in a way the motion tracker doesn't, it allows for tighter (slower) aiming and as a result more precise burns, and the slower movement speed forces defensive, backpedaling play - a necessity when the flames wouldn't outright kill certain Flood forms in the first few seconds, meaning you have to be coordinated with the Flamethrower or risk having a mass of still-burning infected charging you in CQC.

Halo PC had a first-person flamethrower with wonkier physics, and there would be instances of "invisible flames" depending on what settings your particles were at. As a result, people would end up walking into their little patches of fire a lot more than you'd expect.
 
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