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I still have no clue what snipe swiping is,so I dunno.

The pistol is extremely weak now,it's very hard to get a kill with the SMG/Pistol combo now.
 
Ramirez said:
I still have no clue what snipe swiping is,so I dunno.

The pistol is extremely weak now,it's very hard to get a kill with the SMG/Pistol combo now.
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They made it weaker? Hahaha, my friend that swore by the pistol in Halo 1 isn't going to like that news.
 
Ramirez said:
I still have no clue what snipe swiping is,so I dunno.

The pistol is extremely weak now,it's very hard to get a kill with the SMG/Pistol combo now.
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remember that Ripp0n guy or whatever, the video of him killing people in random matches or whatever and how he showed some of his crazy sticky grenading.

what he was doing with the sniper was swipe sniping...

swinging the sniper gun by a target so fast that the auto aim goes out of wack and counts it as a headshot even thoe the bullet doesnt even go anywhere near the head...he slowed it down on his first shot to show how far he missed the target but still got a head shot.
 
I have never ever come close to doing a "swipe snipe" I try it all the time too. The only time I really notice the auto aim is where I am chasing someone and shooting them, then their buddy runs directly across my path. MC just about turns a corner....
 
one thing i just realised today that they need to fix in halo 2 (hopes for next update)

The wraith can turn at a decent speed, but when a banshee is low shooting at you, and you go to turn to shoot it... the "auto-aim" ends up kicking in and the cursor drags behind the banshee and you can barely get a shot off that hits them.

Why does wraiths have aim assistance anyways?

JayFro said:
To be effective with the pistol now it's all about head shots.
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Fortunately for me, my reticle never leaves the head of an opponent. So people are basically screwed playing against me if I have that combo and start circle strafing. It's so fun seeing the body flip backwards and land on his head ;)
 
DopeyFish said:
Fortunately for me, my reticle never leaves the head of an opponent. So people are basically screwed playing against me if I have that combo and start circle strafing. It's so fun seeing the body flip backwards and land on his head ;)
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like that big of a difference for me. I was always going for headshots anyway :D
 
Just got through a two hour session. Every single game plays better now, and is way more varied. Guys can't camp because grenades flush them out too fast, the Brute Shot was actually squabled over (I blew up a ghost in three shots with it!), and plasmas were tossed as fast as people could grab'em. Way more fun, way more balanced, way more crazy.

In other words, it felt a lot like the first Halo.

:D :) :D :) :D :)
 
Snipe auto-aim hasn't changed (from what i've read), so there is still swipe sniping and all that good stuff.

And Dopey, you should probably be good at dualing before you start talkin smack :)
 
I played the Auto-Update for about two and a half hours last night, and I'm loving it. I feel like the old Halo player that I used to be. I love it. I think it's closer to the way Bungie wanted Halo 2 to feel.
 
:D Ah, April 25th can't come sooner. Oh, and June for the rest of the maps.

It was the first time I played on Colossus with brute-shots only. It was pretty awesome. The melee on it is badass. I always had a grudge against how the grenades were thrown and that they weren't very powerful. This grudge is now severed. It feels more like Halo now.

Pedigree Chum said:
Wait, what changes did they make to the pistol?
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It's just been weakened, so that trusty SMG+Mag combo doesn't work as well anymore. I know, I'm sad too. I owned with it, as did everyone else, especially on Beaver Creek.

Also, I read that auto-aim on the sniper rifles were toned down a bit? Is it noticeable? I'm glad anyhow, because it made everyone seem good with snipers.
 
TeTr1C said:
Hm...I haven't noticed it. I still had all my old ones.
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Yeah this morning during matchmaking, my rank was down to 1 and so was everyone else.

never mind that. I checked again and my rank back to normal.
 
duderon said:
Snipe auto-aim hasn't changed (from what i've read), so there is still swipe sniping and all that good stuff.

And Dopey, you should probably be good at dualing before you start talkin smack :)
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Dude. Not my fault my team couldn't carry weight.

I had very reasonable k:d in those games compared to everyone.



and it's funny you should say that... the only time i died dual wielding against you was with two needlers! I felt sorry for you so I went in with a forgiving combo.
 
Scoot said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
are you kidding? i've played with you
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Yeah and I recall losing to Ironclad ninja only. And it was by 1 kill. yay.

There was one game where it was too many people in burial mounds and i kept getting spawned in the middle of firefights over and over.


I normally die only when there's more than 1 who attack (which is what happened on burial mounds, ugh)

I hate playing the MLG gametypes because they're lame. So that's why you've only played with me like twice.

"oh hey! let's try to counter the snipers by giving people a powerful weapon!"
 
I'm diggin the update,I've lost like 2 team slayer matches out of 14 or so,beatin 20+ levels like it aint nothin :lol

And ladies,quit your squabbling before daddy Ramirez lays the smack down on all of ya :D
 
Ramirez said:
I'm diggin the update,I've lost like 2 team slayer matches out of 14 or so,beatin 20+ levels like it aint nothin :lol

And ladies,quit your squabbling before daddy Ramirez lays the smack down on all of ya :D
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don't make me systematically kick your ass >: D
 
Is it me or is the update bringing out the all the douchbags that haven't been playing for months, or is that just a result of the level reset?

I just had a slayer game where half my team quit and then have the other team scream into their mic how they raped us.

Did throwing physics get changed? I'm trying to look for a good excuse on why my aim was off tonight?

Also is it me or are the mounted base guns and ghost guns more powerful now?
 
Nah,people are acting like they've been acting... :lol

Turrest felt the same to me,ghosts did too...someone was talking about grenades went more flat now when you throw them,but again I didn't notice.
 
Same as my GAF user-name. Problem is I'm in Japan so finding time when anybody else is on is difficult.

Feel free to send me a freind invite if you want to though.
 
DopeyFish said:
Dude. Not my fault my team couldn't carry weight.

I had very reasonable k:d in those games compared to everyone.



and it's funny you should say that... the only time i died dual wielding against you was with two needlers! I felt sorry for you so I went in with a forgiving combo.
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What are you talking about, one game i had 17 kills and 10 deaths.

But yeah i am not really into custom games at the moment so i dont care if i lose or win.
Hence me shooting the ground most of the time.

Matchmaking on the otherhand... anytime, anywhere bring it on.
 
Pudding Tame said:
Same as my GAF user-name. Problem is I'm in Japan so finding time when anybody else is on is difficult.

Feel free to send me a freind invite if you want to though.
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Feel free to add me, Wesker UK, as I have bizzare sleeping patterns and play hours so you may catch me online. Of course this is providing you don't mind the odd "feck" thrown around in conversation.
 
DopeyFish said:
Dude. Not my fault my team couldn't carry weight.

I had very reasonable k:d in those games compared to everyone.



and it's funny you should say that... the only time i died dual wielding against you was with two needlers! I felt sorry for you so I went in with a forgiving combo.
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You want to have a dual wielding duel (:O) bring it on dopey. I'll show you how noobtacular it really is.
 
It's been more than a day and no one has reported results with linking the updated Halo 2 against an Xbox/Halo 2 that hasn't been updated.

I would really like to know if the other Xbox gets updated automatically or you revert back to pre-update, or not being able to play at all.

It's disturbing how no one has said anything about it yet.
 
Hero said:
It's been more than a day and no one has reported results with linking the updated Halo 2 against an Xbox/Halo 2 that hasn't been updated.

I would really like to know if the other Xbox gets updated automatically or you revert back to pre-update, or not being able to play at all.

It's disturbing how no one has said anything about it yet.
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it has been said, more then once (though admittedly, maybe not in this thread).

the morning it was released, i hoped on, grabbed the update, then played with dopeyfish, who didnt get the update (it wasnt available for him at that time). we played a round a bit, not sure if changes had taken place (it was my first updated match), then quickly realized; 1.) that he didnt have it and 2.) that we both were playing the un-updated version (1.0).

so, yes, you can play together, but you'll both be playing v1.0
 
op_ivy said:
it has been said, more then once (though admittedly, maybe not in this thread).

the morning it was released, i hoped on, grabbed the update, then played with dopeyfish, who didnt get the update (it wasnt available for him at that time). we played a round a bit, not sure if changes had taken place (it was my first updated match), then quickly realized; 1.) that he didnt have it and 2.) that we both were playing the un-updated version (1.0).

so, yes, you can play together, but you'll both be playing v1.0
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Okay, well, I was speaking of GAF.

Thanks for that news.

It's a shame that non-LIVE H2 players are going to have to wait for the expansion disc.
 
Looks like the BR just got one hell of an update.

Last night there were people complaining that the BR was too powerful now - but really, it's just waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy more accurate. It's now a useful weapon for hammer snipers with - which is a GOOD thing.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Looks like the BR just got one hell of an update.

Last night there were people complaining that the BR was too powerful now - but really, it's just waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy more accurate. It's now a useful weapon for hammer snipers with - which is a GOOD thing.
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i'm pretty sure bungie said that there was a difference between a hosts BR and other players BRs in v1.0, and that all they did was make it so everyones BR preforms as it should now.
 
For the lazy:

Old BR spray from long range:

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New BR spray from long range:

br_1.1.jpg


Whoa. :)
 
op_ivy said:
i'm pretty sure bungie said that there was a difference between a hosts BR and other players BRs in v1.0, and that all they did was make it so everyones BR preforms as it should now.
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The test was not done online, but with just one guy on the map testing stuff on his own.
 
GhaleonEB said:
The was not done online, but with just one guy on the map testing stuff on his own.
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i'll find the quote.

and it says MLG FFA in the bottom corner... are we sure it wasnt online?
 
The other weapon that Bungie didn’t specifically mention changing but seems to have benefited from the patch is the battle rifle. It seems that the spray of the three-shot burst has been reduced, making it more effective from further distances. Of course, when shooting a horizontally moving target, your three shots will still cause a spread due to the time of their release, but it now seems much more possible to get a four or five shot kill from mid-long range. Since the BR is the main dish in most MLG gametypes, the extra long range will help you to land kills and assist your teammates from farther away and keep snipers out of their scope more effectively, but will also mean that you are vulnerable from greater distances than you may realize (until you get used to it). This is really a great tweak, and it at least offers something to those who are still crying abut their Halo: CE pistol.
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Not sure how just tweaking the host/client stuff would directly impact the spray of a weapon. The TIMING of the shots, sure. But not the pattern.

http://www.mlgpro.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=581&topic=21

op_ivy said:
i'll find the quote.

and it says MLG FFA in the bottom corner... are we sure it wasnt online?
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I'm pretty sure he's playing a custom MGL game, but not on Live. I've got to run but feel free to prove otherwise. Either way - the effect is the same. The BR is really more effective. Like I mentioned earlier, lots of people seem to notice it. (I sure did - half my kills were with it. :D )
 
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