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The Halo 3 Beta Thread
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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a Master Ninja
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Sean said:
I saw that. They should have made it "lifesize". I wouldn't have been able to pass up the opportunity to have a 7 foot tall Spartan on my wall.:lol
Hitler Stole My Potato
Banned
Valhalla will be a hell of a lot better when they open up the player limit. 4 vs 4 on that map generally doesn't work all that well.
tahrikmili
Member
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Valhalla is OK for Team Slayer, but I ****ING HATE Shotty Sniper games on that map.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Does anybody feels the Missile Pod is not that much powerful. I get tons of kills with the rail gun but the Missile POD just makes me slow and its missiles do way less damage than the rockets.
RiskyChris
Banned
I'm LTTP, but does anyone else hate stickied threads? I completely lost this thread the past X hours... =(
VIP is really a lot of fun; was this mode in previous Halos?
VIP is really a lot of fun; was this mode in previous Halos?
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
No, and its a great addition.RiskyChris said:
soulja224466
Member
having a lot of fun so far...i just wish i could get CTF, teamball or VIP more often in team skirmish.
stats:
Combat Stats Games: 42
Last Played: 5/20/2007 9:15:17 PM
Total Kills: 597
Total Deaths: 372
Kill/Death Ratio: 1.6048
Total Assists: 165
stats:
Combat Stats Games: 42
Last Played: 5/20/2007 9:15:17 PM
Total Kills: 597
Total Deaths: 372
Kill/Death Ratio: 1.6048
Total Assists: 165
Virtua Ben
Member
Team Skirmish is killing my K/D Ratio 
Hitler Stole My Potato
Banned
tahrikmili said:
Any gamemode on Valhalla should instantly be disregarded. It always devolves into a Shotty Sniper Warthog Laser Cannon kill-a-thon.
CreepingDea7h
Member
Sullichin said:
Pretty much. Its so satisfying to blast enemies half way across the map with the thing, and I have no idea how I manage to hit with it so often at such ranges. Up close its really strange though, like I can never use the proper amount of lead, but I have gotten some pretty nice lucky kills with it. Its also great for taking out warthogs, its just that it takes just about the whole salvo of rockets to completely destroy one
WHOAguitarninja
Member
the disgruntled gamer said:
Agreed. Especially the second part:lol
It's actually my favorite map in the beta. I love the rolling terrain. Makes you think about your grenade throws a bit and it can be used very strategically.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
In my last slayer match on snowbound, I was down 7-0 at one point, came back to win my game. :lol
tahrikmili
Member
Snowbound is pretty cool, I go on neverending laser killing sprees on that.. hehe
What's the easiest way to make a video of your replays, btw?
Oh, and snowbound needs better footstep sounds, like snow squishing under your foot etc.
What's the easiest way to make a video of your replays, btw?
Oh, and snowbound needs better footstep sounds, like snow squishing under your foot etc.
Had some amazing games tonight. Believe it or not, a Team Slayer double-header was the highlight. Round One was a blowout on High Ground until the last few minutes, when we closed the gap by a good eight kills or so. VIP on Valhalla came up next, and was instantly vetoed by seven of the eight in our group. Naturally, Team Slayer on High Ground came up again - the perfect place for a rematch.
Round Two was simply an incredible game. We had this theory that since momentum was on our side at the end of the last game, we could carry it over to this game. It was kind of a pep talk to carry us through, but it worked - we jumped out to a lead of five or six and held it through to about 35 kills. Right then Vociferous dropped the Bubble Shield down under the gate, and it was a standoff. I headed in and landed a mêlée - which didn't do much good since he pulled out the shotty on my face. I watched as two more dropped in similar fashion. By the time I respawn, it's a tied game.
The rest of the match was absolute carnage, where neither team pulled ahead by more than one kill. Two exchanges stand out. First, finally prying that goddamn Spartan Laser away from Vociferous on the beach - and then lasering him in the face when he come barreling through the gate to try and take it back. Words cannot describe how very delicious that was. :lol
The next was getting the jump on their team moving as a pack - they'd just passed under the gate toward the beach, one carrying the turret. He fell behind due to his slower speed, and one grenade toss and a mêlée later, the turret is mine. The rest of their group ran into my team under the cave and tried to double back - but I had the turret now. Mwahahahaahaha! *kills Voc*
The game ended when we were tied at 49 each. Both groups met just outside the gate, and grenades were raining from the skies like unusually explosive hail. We landed the kill - right before our entire team blew up. Really, it could have gone either way.
I would not describe myself as a fan of Team Slayer - but I'm coming around. With a well-matched social party going, it was un-****ing-believable.
My stats are slowly crawling upwards, but more importantly I'm having a good time every game now.
Combat Stats
Games: 86
Last Played: 5/20/2007 10:33:21 PM
Total Kills: 611
Total Deaths: 981
Kill/Death Ratio: 0.6228
Total Assists: 285
Round Two was simply an incredible game. We had this theory that since momentum was on our side at the end of the last game, we could carry it over to this game. It was kind of a pep talk to carry us through, but it worked - we jumped out to a lead of five or six and held it through to about 35 kills. Right then Vociferous dropped the Bubble Shield down under the gate, and it was a standoff. I headed in and landed a mêlée - which didn't do much good since he pulled out the shotty on my face. I watched as two more dropped in similar fashion. By the time I respawn, it's a tied game.
The rest of the match was absolute carnage, where neither team pulled ahead by more than one kill. Two exchanges stand out. First, finally prying that goddamn Spartan Laser away from Vociferous on the beach - and then lasering him in the face when he come barreling through the gate to try and take it back. Words cannot describe how very delicious that was. :lol
The next was getting the jump on their team moving as a pack - they'd just passed under the gate toward the beach, one carrying the turret. He fell behind due to his slower speed, and one grenade toss and a mêlée later, the turret is mine. The rest of their group ran into my team under the cave and tried to double back - but I had the turret now. Mwahahahaahaha! *kills Voc*
The game ended when we were tied at 49 each. Both groups met just outside the gate, and grenades were raining from the skies like unusually explosive hail. We landed the kill - right before our entire team blew up. Really, it could have gone either way.
I would not describe myself as a fan of Team Slayer - but I'm coming around. With a well-matched social party going, it was un-****ing-believable.
My stats are slowly crawling upwards, but more importantly I'm having a good time every game now.
Combat Stats
Games: 86
Last Played: 5/20/2007 10:33:21 PM
Total Kills: 611
Total Deaths: 981
Kill/Death Ratio: 0.6228
Total Assists: 285
MirageDwarf
Member
Me think the same. Valhalla is big for Shotty Sniper. In one game, 2 playes left and with 4 players I was searching for target for almost 2 minutes.tahrikmili said:
Spaceman Spiff
Member
GhaleonEB said:
What did I tell you?
WHOAguitarninja
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Damn that sounds awesome. Will you guys be playing tommorow? I'd love to play with you guys.
My stats.
Games: 38
Last Played: 5/19/2007 9:37:37 PM
* Total Kills: 311
* Total Deaths: 381
* Kill/Death Ratio: 0.8163
* Total Assists: 123
Spaceman Spiff
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Glad it helped. I saved the film of that match; gonna rewatch it solely for that amazing 49-49 battle in front of the gate. Good times.
GhaleonEB said:
Sounds like some epic shit mate, but it wouldn't have been nearly as great without being a rematch or what not. Social groups where you know people make this game unbelievable.
Good improvements on those stats, just gotta keep bringing them up.
BTW, I was on page three before I thought about looking up for the thread. Cool that it hit 13,000 though.
got2bekidding
Member
Wouldn't mind playing a game or two with you Ghaleon. My matches have been shitty lately b/c nobody talks or does anything remotely or respectively that can be called "teamwork". It's disheartening to have a team like that which just runs around while the other is grouped together. Needless to say I've been on a losing streak and it's not the losing that is crappy, it's that nobody communicates or they are just saying random b.s. It would be nice to be on a team that actually would like to do well. I did have a few good matches the other day with ianswoody and some people he knew. We won more than we lost and even though we lost a few of those games, it was still fun. Oh well, off to try again.
Spaceman Spiff
Member
Truelize said:Man I wish I had the energy to get online and run with you guys tonight. Spiff is awesome to play with. Sounds like you guys had nice night.
Aw shucks, man. You're doing pretty damn good out there, too.
Let's just pretend the last TS match we played together on Valhalla never happened
And yes, the games were awesome.
Spaceman Spiff
Member
GhaleonEB said:
Done!
Too bad it'll be from my perspective. Don't remember how good my view of the final battle was.
FVCK, I missed pretty much the whole damn thing! Looked up, and just like that it was all over. :lol Oh well, there's some good stuff in there. I think.
tahrikmili
Member
I wish I had a way to capture these videos to AVI files.. I might grab a cheap SD capture card for this purpose. 
Karma Kramer
Banned
JB1981 said:
Hey JB... why didn't you, lj, rod, and spooka not join up with our party? Were you guys not in the mood for 4vs4 team training?
Also spud, arm, and vagrant, awesome games! Warthog was killer.
team skirmish games... not so killer
I'm not much of a fan of the missile pod.
Seems like it's already easy enough to take out vehicles between the sniper and spartan laser (and most of the things on valhalla are mongoose's which are pretty easy to take out with just a BR since there's no turret gunner on it). The missile pod gives off a warning of a few seconds to the people in the vehicle too meaning they can just drive over to cover or something. And it leaves you vulnerable to snipers from the slow movement speed.
Maybe I'm just not very good with it, but it doesn't really seem needed. I guess it would be nice against banshees though.
Seems like it's already easy enough to take out vehicles between the sniper and spartan laser (and most of the things on valhalla are mongoose's which are pretty easy to take out with just a BR since there's no turret gunner on it). The missile pod gives off a warning of a few seconds to the people in the vehicle too meaning they can just drive over to cover or something. And it leaves you vulnerable to snipers from the slow movement speed.
Maybe I'm just not very good with it, but it doesn't really seem needed. I guess it would be nice against banshees though.
Eh?Karma Kramer said:Hey JB... why didn't you, lj, rod, and spooka not join up with our party? Were you guys not in the mood for 4vs4 team training?
Also spud, arm, and vagrant, awesome games! Warthog was killer.
team skirmish games... not so killer
We had a party of 4 of our own going. You didn't send me a message (or an invite of any kind) so I'm not sure what you're referring to, exactly.