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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Had some epic co-op moments the other night. There's three (related) that I want to talk about, but I'll just use this one so I don't drown the forum in screens.
It starts in the encounter on The Ark right after the two Prowlers, near the downed Pelican. Voc and I sailed over the ridge on a Mongoose, then headed out to tackle the encounter on foot. I stick and toast this guy....
...then head up on the ridge to survey the situation. I get spotted by a Chopper.
He boosts to try and splatter me, and I step aside. The dude goes sailing....
I had to go back and watch the saved film to catch most of the rest here. His landing was a little rough - upside down - and he bailed from the Chopper. Upon getting out, the Brute rages in my direction, apparently blaming me for the crash.
Not seeing me, he turns to get his bearings, and spots the three Marines that hung back. The Brute approaches and opens fire....then gets pasted by a Marine in the turret on the Prowler.
Rather than get hammered that way, he falls back and gets back into the Chopper, and starts to tear into the Prowler with it.
That's when I came up from behind and boarded him.
Just as the Brute hit the ground - right before he died - he yells, "There he is!" as if he's surprised. It was perfect. :lol
I thought it was a cool bit of emergent AI, where an enemy AI lands in an area outside the immediate area, encounters friendly AI, sizes up a threat, and retreats to a better position. All outside of the encounter he was designed to be in. It's a testament to Bungie's dynamic AI that it can adapt to stuff like this.
Anyhoo. Then the Marines sacked up and we rolled onwards.
It starts in the encounter on The Ark right after the two Prowlers, near the downed Pelican. Voc and I sailed over the ridge on a Mongoose, then headed out to tackle the encounter on foot. I stick and toast this guy....
...then head up on the ridge to survey the situation. I get spotted by a Chopper.
He boosts to try and splatter me, and I step aside. The dude goes sailing....
I had to go back and watch the saved film to catch most of the rest here. His landing was a little rough - upside down - and he bailed from the Chopper. Upon getting out, the Brute rages in my direction, apparently blaming me for the crash.
Not seeing me, he turns to get his bearings, and spots the three Marines that hung back. The Brute approaches and opens fire....then gets pasted by a Marine in the turret on the Prowler.
Rather than get hammered that way, he falls back and gets back into the Chopper, and starts to tear into the Prowler with it.
That's when I came up from behind and boarded him.
Just as the Brute hit the ground - right before he died - he yells, "There he is!" as if he's surprised. It was perfect. :lol
I thought it was a cool bit of emergent AI, where an enemy AI lands in an area outside the immediate area, encounters friendly AI, sizes up a threat, and retreats to a better position. All outside of the encounter he was designed to be in. It's a testament to Bungie's dynamic AI that it can adapt to stuff like this.
Anyhoo. Then the Marines sacked up and we rolled onwards.
The Librarian
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:lol :lol
What I do in that situation (even when I am in coop) is I grab the rockets from the downed pelican, give it to a marine, get in a mongoose and have that marine ride passenger.
What I do in that situation (even when I am in coop) is I grab the rockets from the downed pelican, give it to a marine, get in a mongoose and have that marine ride passenger.
Pics or it didn't happen.Ramirez said:
Edit: I've been forgetting to post these screens but a few nights ago Omlet and I did some Ark co-op. He'd grabbed a chopper at the Scarab encounter and instead of tossing it when told to venture inside like most fools would do, he took that bad boy with him.
We proceeded to blow through the level with the aid of the BR of vehicles
And made it all the way to the end of the level, chopper intact.
+1 Chopper
Like it needed it 
Kibbles
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Tomorrow, don't know the exact time though.
The kids at N4G think the SuperIntendent is not Bungie's new project, rather hinting at a remake of Terminal.
The kids at N4G think the SuperIntendent is not Bungie's new project, rather hinting at a remake of Terminal.
JdFoX187 said:
Dun wry, Fox. My love for the BR is as strong as ever. The biggest problem with AR starts on Narrows was that there weren't enough BRs at the two bases so if a team controlled the center of the map with BRs it was really hard for a team spawning with ARs to fight back. At least on the old map they would either have to fall back or push all the way forward to get more BR ammo. Now all they've done is give the team controlling middle a healthy supply of bullets to further the respawning team's misery.
Indeed.EazyB said:
Dun wry, Fox. My love for the BR is as strong as ever. The biggest problem with AR starts on Narrows was that there weren't enough BRs at the two bases so if a team controlled the center of the map with BRs it was really hard for a team spawning with ARs to fight back. At least on the old map they would either have to fall back or push all the way forward to get more BR ammo. Now all they've done is give the team controlling middle a healthy supply of bullets to further the respawning team's misery.
This is the same clusterfuck as a multi-flag game at a map like Ghost Town. Stupid shit decisions is stupid shit.
Captain Blood
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EazyB said:
In the couple games I have played on the map I don't that it is the worst spot for them. With the new spawning on that map It is pretty difficult to hold the middle. You don't know which side they will be spawning on and if they spawn behind you they just have to throw a few nades up the middle and they catch you on the wrong side of cover.
EazyB said:
Dun wry, Fox. My love for the BR is as strong as ever. The biggest problem with AR starts on Narrows was that there weren't enough BRs at the two bases so if a team controlled the center of the map with BRs it was really hard for a team spawning with ARs to fight back. At least on the old map they would either have to fall back or push all the way forward to get more BR ammo. Now all they've done is give the team controlling middle a healthy supply of bullets to further the respawning team's misery.
The base BR spawns were nuked down to the lowest possible setting according to what Luke told me the other night, and on top of the team not knowing where you are spawning at, it's ok really.
Hmm, I didn't know teams switch bases on Narrows now. I know for a fact that was not the case before. I could've sworn that I never saw an incident of that on the few times I've played the map. If they did actually make the spawns switchable then good by them.Cap7ain Blood said:
Captain Blood
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EazyB said:
Would I lie to you EazyB........Just that new spawn stuff fixes most of the things that were wrong with Narrows IMO
Captain Blood
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Ram and I have now formed the NNDF or New Narrows Defense Force if anyone else has any problems step up! :lol
I know it is good for certain maps, but for Default Foundry it's lame, and it makes the map (not to mention the Rockets, Snipers, etc. in the back) unplayable and for the most part, not enjoyable.Ramirez said:
The Battle Rifles spawning up top, though, is not a good decision.
xxjuicesxx
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Ramirez said:
The problem is team objective games you'll never spawn their side. So when its slayer its decent. Problem arises when their team has rockets and sniper you are basically trapped in any objective gametype spawning somewhere in your base, usually near where the default BR's are or on the sides for easy snipe fodder. Especially if you haven't gotten killed around that area at first, which is very common, dieing around the middle or under middle is more common according to heatmaps. The escape spawns are under where rockets spawn behind the ledges and on r1 l1.
Its just not really a good level geometrically speaking (Straight line)
xxjuicesxx said:
This can be a problem on ANY map in Objective, if you start getting spawn camped at any point in an objective game type the round is usually over...
I still don't see the problem with the BRs being up at the top-mid, as I said, the respawn timers have been nuked on the base BR spawns, and with rockets being down low instead of up top it is possible to break the mid pretty easy now.
I still don't like the map, but it's definitely a lot better than the old version.
Buttonbasher
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Twas a good time last year.the disgruntled gamer said:
Mr Vociferous
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The Librarian
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I agree completely.Ramirez said:
Narrows is an awesome map.
E3 IRC chat what?!?!?the disgruntled gamer said:Yeah, it was...
Plus, we had AJ guys in there, and the ocassional random GAFer looking for the party. Good times.
Narrows is a fun map about 1 out of every 8 games I play on it.Dax01 said:
During last year's E3 (this might have been during your middle school days), we had a big, fun, crazy, drunken IRC chat during MS' press conference as we waited for the Halo 3 trailer Luke had hinted at. It was good times. Gross, but fun.
The Librarian
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The fuck? Fuck you. I was done with my freshman year of high school by the time last year's E3 reared its head.the disgruntled gamer said:
Edit: And what the fuck is wrong with you, logging off when I had sent you (think it was) four invites?
Captain Blood
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Dax01 said:
Badass Confirmed
Fuckity fuck fuck? Fuck.Dax01 said:
Pre-edit:I'm just playin', chill.
Post-edit: I declined your invited because I was busy doing stuff. Sometimes, when people invite me, I say, "Hey, I'm not doing anything, I think I'll go play with them." But sometimes I'm already playing with someone, as I was tonight (doubles with a pal), or I'm trying to play campaign alone and I decline the invites. If the person continues inviting me after I've declined, I appear offline, so the person knows that I can't play, and doesn't send me any more invites. Simple as that, pal. No h8.
The Librarian
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the disgruntled gamer said:
Fuck?
Oh yeah, well, you still haven't finished High School! Soooo, ha!
We best be playin' 2morrow, boi, on Cold Storage or else there will be gang warz.
Actually, I'm a:Dax01 said:Oh yeah, well, you still haven't finished High School! Soooo, ha!
Beauty school dropout,
No graduation day for me.
Beauty school dropout,
Missed my midterms and flunked shampoo!
Well at least I could have taken time, to wash and clean my clothes up,
After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix my nose up!
Buttonbasher
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:lol :lol :lolCap7ain Blood said:
xxjuicesxx
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I'm 8/11 tonite in SWAT anyone upper 40's wanna try and get 50's?
Buttonbasher said:
That was nothing short of epic.
I was in New York and my Internet was crapping out right around the time of the conference. I remember scrambling around and pulling out all the stops to somehow get that shit to work. And that chat. The chat was just pandemonium. Man, good times, Halo GAF, goooood times.
I miss Drew, too.
Yeah, normally it would have been up 37 minutes ago, I guess the time difference changed sometime in the last few weeks/month or so...
Made some time today to play it right away, so if anyone wants to play, I'm game today - already on GAF Halo 3, GT: DXLR8R...
Made some time today to play it right away, so if anyone wants to play, I'm game today - already on GAF Halo 3, GT: DXLR8R...
Private Hoffman
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So is this going up soon?
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