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lybertyboy said:
They've been given out. If you didn't get a PM in your 1UP box you didn't win.
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:( I guess that means I didn't win. And I thought the odds were so good, as well, if you actually gave away 50 codes. There were only about 300-400 posts in that thread.

Well, let's hope I win one of the OXM ones then!
 
Hi

Im bought Halo Wars LE and have no intention of playing the Halo 3 maps, since Im pretty much done with Halo 3.

Im willing to trade for MS points.

Im in Canada so I dont know if Usa / Pal mspoints are going to work for me, or only Canadian points...

Just PM me.

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Updated version now with smaller bases and Killballs!


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Could someone post a step-by-step on how to merge the walls like that to make floors? I spend literaly hours lining mine up, and they are still a bit bumpy. :\
 
Tashi0106 said:
damn, I wanna play halo right now but there's like no one on : ( I guess I can get my ass kicked in Street Fighter IV some more
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Protip: I use my bungie.net friends list as a XBLive check to see who's on, I only bother if people I know are on unless I'm actually fiending for 'lo.

Also I didn't win 1up contest either. Fuckin shit.
 
Beaulieu said:
Hi

Im bought Halo Wars LE and have no intention of playing the Halo 3 maps, since Im pretty much done with Halo 3.

Im willing to trade for MS points.

Im in Canada so I dont know if Usa / Pal mspoints are going to work for me, or only Canadian points...

Just PM me.
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Don't you dare give that code to someone who doesn't deserve it as much as someone else or to anyone you remotely like!
:p very cool of u to offer the code in the thread.
 
Captain Blood said:
Don't you dare give that code to someone who doesn't deserve it as much as someone else or to anyone you remotely like!
:p very cool of u to offer the code in the thread.
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I PM'd him, but I'm probably way too late. :lol
 
dagZ said:
lol. so did I.
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You probably beat me to it because it took me 10 minutes to notice I'd clicked your name by mistake. I'm still trying to figure out if points can even be transferred from the US to Canada
 
Azar said:
You probably beat me to it because it took me 10 minutes to notice I'd clicked your name by mistake. I'm still trying to figure out if points can even be transferred from the US to Canada
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I'd like to know this, too.
 
Azar said:
From what I've read:

  • You can't transfer anywhere outside the US
  • The system has been down for months, so you can't do it anyway.
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Well, I know about the system being down, but I thought you could just give a code to someone outside the US and they'd still be able to use it?
 
Well, I didn't win a code from 1UP, but here is my favorite Halo memory. I had a lot of fun writing this:

My friend and I have been playing Halo together since 2004 and we've had our fair share of great Halo memories. However, none of these good times can compare to a single fateful game of Team Snipers on Waterworks in Halo 2 many years ago…

I've never been very good with the sniper rifle and neither has my friend, so at the time we would play a lot of Team Snipers in order to gain practice with the weapon. One evening we entered into a match of Team Snipers on Waterworks. The match began with a very enthusiastic team mate (much younger than either of us) pumping up the gang with his delusions of victory and grandeur. The flames of his enthusiasm were quickly doused however, as my friend and I proceeded (as we usually did) as lambs to the slaughter. Despite our heads being taken off at regular intervals, the game was fairly even all the way through, with our now angry (and bossy) cohort leading the charge with a slew of kills. Throughout the game his strained voice could be heard yelling at us to either quit or simply hide. To his chagrin, we did neither of those things but played as best we could.

Finally, the end of the bloody match came. With 20 seconds left and a tied score of 49-49, one single kill from either team would mean victory. It was at this point that our overly-enthused (and incredibly frustrated) team mate exhorted us at the top of his lungs to NOT DIE and JUST HIDE! I finally complied, narrowly missing being headshotted as I ducked into the blue base. My friend, perched high above, decided to do the same and cowered behind a large outcropping of rock. For the next 10 seconds or so not a single shot was fired, leading us to believe that the enemy was likewise hiding out. A tie game was inevitable.

As I sat there, heart pounding, waiting for the game to end, I noticed some team movement on my HUD. My friend's team indicator, a distinctive green icon, began to move. I thought that this was quite unusual since we were supposed to be hiding and the game literally had a mere 3 seconds to go. Then again, I knew that feeling of restlessness all too well, making hiding for 20 seconds seem like an eternity. For those final seconds, I tracked the movement of my friend and noticed something disturbing about his path: it was straight down and faster than normal walking speed. As the final seconds melted away, I saw my friend's icon break that horizontal plane known as the ground and descend into the watery pit below. With a single second left on the clock I saw that familiar bright green icon turn into a red X, and the opponents final score roll over from 49 to 50.

My friend and I spent the next 10 minutes without conversation. This was not from anger or disappointment, but from laughter. As our angry team mate cursed us and our posterity, inventing swear words that would make sailors cry, I backed out of the lobby completely breathless and unable to speak. After several minutes of stitch-inducing laughter, my friend explained that he was curious to see if he could squeeze out the winning shot so he leaped triumphantly onto the outcropping that he had so boldly been hiding behind. In his excitement at the possibility of being the hero, he overshot the jump and proceeded to fall silently into the abyss of Waterworks, thus breaking the tie game at the last possible moment.

In all my years of playing Halo, with all the crazy situations and people that I've come across, nothing comes close to topping this experience. It really reinforced the fact to me that games are not about winning or losing, but about having fun and laughing with your friends.
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Adding Ghaleon's new map as well as updated an updated version of both Dax's and my own map. Bladed, you should update your fileshare with the new version of Mage if you haven't already.


Map maker - Map
Bladed Expert Bnet – Mage v2
Dax01 Bnet – Geminie
EazyB Bnet- Rise v2
Ghaleon Bnet - Bifocal (BETA), Skyline
GM Bullfrog Bnet – Kulkukan
Grimm Fandango Bnet – Turf II
Havok Bnet - Agartha
Insaniac Bnet - Sky Perch
Merguson Bnet – Firmament v1.1
Spirit Bnet– Pitfall V2
Spudbud Bnet - Skybad BETA
Vociferous Bnet - Abaddon

Tools
Vociferous - All objects on the ground moved aside so that they aren't in the way. (Updated 2/28)
Vociferous - All default objects moved to the skybubble
 
Thx to beaulieu I have the map pack and I did not have to pay for Halo Wars.

Thx again buddy it was a good trade
 
alisdair said:
Eazy, here's Bladed's Mage v2.
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Thanks, updated map list and queued for download. I wasn't able to get a whole lot of games in on Bladed's map but the ones I did play were just as, if not more, fun as Assemble. Assemble's excess of cover and broken sight lines are really starting to bother me.
 
Captain Blood said:
Does the article specify wether it is frank or the chief that is still alive?
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Since both Frank and the 'Chief are still alive, that article pretty confirms my suspicions -- that Frank is indeed the Master Chief.
Can't wait to see Halo 4 made by Microsoft!
 
soldat7 said:
Well, I didn't win a code from 1UP, but here is my favorite Halo memory. I had a lot of fun writing this:
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I didn't win a code either, but I thought I should share my entry as well.

Beware, it's highly sappy.

My fondest memories of Halo gaming have to be the 1v1 Slayer games I played on Lockout (in Halo 2) with a good friend of mine. Pretty much every time we came online to play (which was quite often), we would do a 'warm-up' 1v1 match on Lockout before jumping into Team Doubles.

Both of us really loved Lockout, so we always had a real blast. I would usually lose, but not by much, and the occasional win was good enough for me. I learned a lot of tricks from him, though, such as good grenade strategy and a few useful jumps. Lockout was pretty much the perfect map for that at the time.

Many months later, Halo 3 was about to be released, and it was time to say goodbye to Halo 2. So my friend and I had one last 1v1 game on Lockout, to give the game that had kept us entertained for nearly 3 years a proper farewell. It was an amazingly tense game, and with the score at 14-14, my friend landed an extraordinary grenade kill on me to win the game. We would have both gladly seen a replay of that game, but alas the Saved Films feature would only be released with Halo 3 a few weeks later.

And so it was that we left Halo 2 for Halo 3 and its expanded arsenal of weapons, equipment, vehicles and, most importantly, features. Halo 3 has brought us a lot of joy, but somehow we never returned to our regular 1v1 matches. Perhaps it was because Halo 3 lacked good, small maps such as Lockout. Perhaps it was because Lockout's remake, Blackout, changed a few crucial details for the worse. Or perhaps it was because we had simply moved on, and found other aspects of Halo 3 to be amused by.

Either way, this match was the end of an era.
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Thermite said:
Since both Frank and the 'Chief are still alive, that article pretty confirms my suspicions -- that Frank is indeed the Master Chief.
Can't wait to see Halo 4 made by Microsoft!
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Honestly, I took the quote more to mean that we might be seeing more of the Chief, but not necessarily in game form. Considering how well they have been selling, I wouldn't doubt that there's another novel in the works. Or perhaps something completely different. There is still that Peter Jackson project after all. Or has that been cancelled?.
 
EazyB said:
Adding Ghaleon's new map as well as updated an updated version of both Dax's and my own map. Bladed, you should update your fileshare with the new version of Mage if you haven't already.


Map maker - Map
Bladed Expert Bnet – Mage v2
Dax01 Bnet – Geminie
EazyB Bnet- Rise v2
Ghaleon Bnet - Bifocal (BETA), Skyline
GM Bullfrog Bnet – Kulkukan
Grimm Fandango Bnet – Turf II
Havok Bnet - Agartha
Insaniac Bnet - Sky Perch
Merguson Bnet – Firmament v1.1
Spirit Bnet– Pitfall V2
Spudbud Bnet - Skybad BETA
Vociferous Bnet - Abaddon

Tools
Vociferous - All objects on the ground moved aside so that they aren't in the way. (Updated 2/28)
Vociferous - All default objects moved to the skybubble
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Thanks for keeping this list going. I pulled Skyline down, might put it up again if I do a 2.0 version...but I think I'll just retire it. It was a fun "Ghaleon learns how to Forge" map, but not much else. :lol
 
Ha there must be a God.

I stayed up till 5:30AM doing my lab only to be awoken, no not by my alarm that I set to ring at 7:30AM because I have an uber important class at 9 and lab at 11, no I was awoken by my iPhone(i worked hard for that bitch) at 10:10AM that said I had received a Mythic Map code. Needless to say I got to school at 11:10AM by going 100MPH down i95 RRAAAPPPEE

1st thing up, work on Wizard, Sanctuary, and then my own map that I have been dreaming about the past 2 weeks.
 
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