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[urk]

Okay, dude on my friend's list says he was playing a game with some friends and he got hammered underneath Snowbound into a small "hallway" of sorts. Turns out if makes for some of the most insane, mindless, "holy shit I got three killimanjaros that round!" gameplay.

Hallway.

This is the entire map. Behind this Spartan is the back wall. You can see the "far" wall in the "distance."

Basically, it's a shooting gallery. We dropped shields and tried just about every weapon set. The only drawback were weasels who would get to the opposing team's side and camp for a pile (and I do mean pile) of easy assassinations. Remedy: -10 points for hits to the back of the head. Fixed that right up. Fishhooking, as always, is allowed.

I think Plasma Pistols made for the most mayhem. Just insane to see hundreds of green flashes whizzing by your head in such close proximity.

Needlers brought the fireworks as well.

Snipers are fun, even with full shields. And Magnums are more than interesting.

Again, this is mindless fun. If you want a fair match or something tactical, look elesewhere. Map Variant is in my fileshare. Urk the Red. It's called "hallway."

I was thinking about trying out capture the flag on this mother.

 

[Dirtbag]

Halo-Tron / Laser Tag ?! NICE!

 

[Deleted member 21120]

Wow, Urk. Awesome. Downloading...

 

[ToyMachine228]

Just taking a deeper look at some of my Halo 3 stats. My overall K/D Ratio is about 1.3, I'm a Major, and my highest level is a 38 in Team Slayer (Haven't focused on levels at all). But anyway, I have a 1.8 k/d ratio a Valhalla, and a 1.0 k/d ratio at Guardian.

 

[MrDaravon]

.....I think it was me and my boys ( the 5 generals) lol

Actually I think it was, I thought your name was familiar. Every match I was the ONLY person on our team to have a positive ratio. I think the second match some dude on our team was going on at the beginning about how all of your team boosted to get to General and sucked. I think I ended with a +3 and him a -5 :lol

I really fucking wish they'd have some sort of ranked playlist with 5 people though, because no offense but getting raped by teams of hardcore people because there's too many to play ranked fucking sucks, and it's happening more and more frequently to me and all my friends now. Today was a good example of why I never play this game by myself anymore.

 

[KookyBastard]

Hey guys I REALLY need your help. I just had my house robbed, and the guy took, among other things, my xbox 360. As I am writing this, he is online in halo 3. I am wondering if I could somehow get his ip address from where he is playing RIGHT now. We called microsoft but they said we need a warrant or something to even disclose the ip information. If you guys could help, I would REALLY appreciate it.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Hey guys I REALLY need your help. I just had my house robbed, and the guy took, among other things, my xbox 360. As I am writing this, he is online in halo 3. I am wondering if I could somehow get his ip address from where he is playing RIGHT now. We called microsoft but they said we need a warrant or something to even disclose the ip information. If you guys could help, I would REALLY appreciate it.

Call the police?

 

[MrDaravon]

Hey guys I REALLY need your help. I just had my house robbed, and the guy took, among other things, my xbox 360. As I am writing this, he is online in halo 3. I am wondering if I could somehow get his ip address from where he is playing RIGHT now. We called microsoft but they said we need a warrant or something to even disclose the ip information. If you guys could help, I would REALLY appreciate it.

Uh, call the cops? What the hell.

 

[Domino Theory]

Holy FUCK Urk.

Queued for download. Gonna try it out right now.

 

[Trasher]

WOW, NICE FIND!

 

[KookyBastard]

Of course, the cops were the first people i called, but this ip address is the most solid evidence i have to where the guy lives.

 

[urk]

Of course, the cops were the first people i called, but this ip address is the most solid evidence i have to where the guy lives.

Cops will issue a warrant. They can use that to get the IP info from Xbox Live and they can in turn use that to get info from the issuing ISP and throw this douche in the slammer where he can "get raped" real world style.

 

[MrDaravon]

Of course, the cops were the first people i called, but this ip address is the most solid evidence i have to where the guy lives.

So that's why you tell the cops that. Of course the cops or MS aren't going to tell YOU the guy's IP. If you've already told the cops that the guy is online right now with your system they should be able to take it from there, I'm not sure what the problem is here.

 

[KookyBastard]

Cops will issue a warrant. They can use that to get the IP info from Xbox Live and they can in turn use that to get info from the issuing ISP and throw this douche in the slammer where he can "get raped" real world style.

Thx for the help. We were on with xbox live forever just for them to tell us that they can't give out ip addresses. We already filed with the police what was stolen and some items we knew the serial numbers, so that may help. This is the only last thing that I know that is definite proof of where they can find him. I'm just afraid the warrant may take forever to get, and by that time, the xbox maybe sold off or something.

 

[urk]

Thx for the help. We were on with xbox live forever just for them to tell us that they can't give out ip addresses. We already filed with the police what was stolen and some items we knew the serial numbers, so that may help. This is the only last thing that I know that is definite proof of where they can find him. I'm just afraid the warrant may take forever to get, and by that time, the xbox maybe sold off or something.

Doesn't sound like these guys are too terribly bright. If they jumped on with your tag, they're morons. Best case scenario is that they got online at home.

 

[MrDaravon]

Thx for the help. We were on with xbox live forever just for them to tell us that they can't give out ip addresses. We already filed with the police what was stolen and some items we knew the serial numbers, so that may help. This is the only last thing that I know that is definite proof of where they can find him. I'm just afraid the warrant may take forever to get, and by that time, the xbox maybe sold off or something.

They'd be able to at least track where they played at though, which would probably be enough to track them down even if it wasn't their house.

 

[KookyBastard]

So that's why you tell the cops that. Of course the cops or MS aren't going to tell YOU the guy's IP. If you've already told the cops that the guy is online right now with your system they should be able to take it from there, I'm not sure what the problem is here.

I know this sounds all easy and stuff, and it should be, but where I live the police don't do their jobs very well. We were lucky to get a cop that actually did more than just say "Not my problem" this time. Hell, the investigators haven't even contacted us from the las time we were robbed. I'm just trying to do as much as I can to nail these guys.

I thank you guys for the help, though.

 

[Domino Theory]

Oh man that 'new' map is freaking amazing. Spike Grenades go crazy under there! :lol

I love it. I'll be playing a crap load of custom games in that map tomrrow with my friends.

 

[Striker]

It's one of the better Halo 3 maps IMO, but there's some weird design choices.

1) Equipment - the defense (base) team gets the radar jammer, why? What use is it to them exactly? The offense needs that much more for sneaking into the base and stuff. And why is the power drainer inside of the defense base too, it should be up top (where the radar jammer is) so that it can stop vehicles as they're coming in.

I think these changes would make the map flow better:
- Radar jammer on the seawall (where bubble shield is)
- Regenerator inside the defense base (where power drainer is)
- Power drainer on top of defense base (where radar jammer is)

2) Vehicles - they redid the inside of the defense base to allow vehicles to go in there more easily, yet they took away all of the useful vehicles from the offensive team. WTF? There's no more ghosts and no more gauss hog.

3) Most importantly, no 1 Flag CTF or 1 Bomb Assault games in the playlists. I simply don't understand that decision, that's the modes the map was originally fucking designed for. I've played VIP, Territories, Infection, Slayer, everything but the maps strongest gametypes...

1) That scenario sounds good to me. I mean, there's already a Bubble Shield in the old invisible tower. Why another? The grav lift is perfect where it is, I think. As for the Power Drainer -- perhaps my most favorite equipment! I love dropping it through the middle of the wheel onto the small hill into the oncoming traffic.

2) Huh? Two Mongoose, Warthog, and Ghost. Gauss Warthog hasn't been in any Matchmaking, as I've noticed. Why? I have no clue. But the chain gun is suffice and can handle nicely.

3) There is 1 CTF and One Bomb in Team Objective. In Social Skirmish, I am unsure. Maybe play more? Because there is CTF/Assault on Last Resort.

 

[Sean]

1) That scenario sounds good to me. I mean, there's already a Bubble Shield in the old invisible tower. Why another? The grav lift is perfect where it is, I think. As for the Power Drainer -- perhaps my most favorite equipment! I love dropping it through the middle of the wheel onto the small hill into the oncoming traffic.

2) Huh? Two Mongoose, Warthog, and Ghost. Gauss Warthog hasn't been in any Matchmaking, as I've noticed. Why? I have no clue. But the chain gun is suffice and can handle nicely.

3) There is 1 CTF and One Bomb in Team Objective. In Social Skirmish, I am unsure. Maybe play more? Because there is CTF/Assault on Last Resort.

My bad, I should've said I was talking about the Big Team Battle playlist. There's no Ghosts and no CTF/Assault on Last Resort in that playlist.

I haven't played Team Objective much, I tend to stay away from ranked gametypes because oddly enough people seem to quit more often in those. And the few times I've tried that it seemed to have a small group of players (just a little over 3,000).

I am trying Social Skirmish right now and the gametypes are the kind I like - I just wish these were in BTB too. It's sad that 1 Flag CTF on Valhalla comes up more often in a 4v4 game than it does on BTB.

 

[def sim]

I don't worry much about my K/D ratio even though it's supposedly pretty good. It's bound to go down soon though since my friends play on my account a whole lot and are pretty terrible.

Underground tronbound is pretty cool, by the way.

 

[urk]

Underground tronbound is pretty cool, by the way.

Yeah, it's pretty nuts. One thing I noticed is that it's only setup now for Red vs. Blue play. If you swap to a different color, you'll spawn up top and be really bored. I'm going to go in and edit the other spawns out completely, but for now, just keep it to standard color variants.

Was playing with Lamonster and he made a slayer variant that had everyone with overshields, gravity hammers, and slowed movement. Was pretty funny watching everyone "charge" down the hallway to meet their doom.

 

[The Lamonster]

Yeah, it's pretty nuts. One thing I noticed is that it's only setup now for Red vs. Blue play. If you swap to a different color, you'll spawn up top and be really bored. I'm going to go in and edit the other spawns out completely, but for now, just keep it to standard color variants.

Was playing with Lamonster and he made a slayer variant that had everyone with overshields, gravity hammers, and slowed movement. Was pretty funny watching everyone "charge" down the hallway to meet their doom.

How would you get out of the Hallway to edit other spawns?

Also, we had 2x overshields on, but it should probably be 4x. And the movement wasn't slowed, maybe it just felt that way.

Also, I made a variant of it with a flamethrower in the middle and horizontal grav lifts on the opposing walls to sort of 'push' you towards the middle.

 

[urk]

How would you get out of the Hallway to edit other spawns?

Put yourself on the green team. You'd always want to leave one spawn up top, now that I think about it. At least if you want to alter other things on the map for whatever reason. You could have two people editing in forge it you wanted to make a teleporter that took you back up top.

Also, here's some fiction for Hallway. How's this for being bored at work?

Hallway

Unknown until after the [redacted] and subsequent military treaty with the Sangheili, these Elite-caste shooting galleries, or Combat Reflex Simulators, were used to hone each combatant's twitch response to a razor's edge. Inside the CRS a warrior does not think, he reacts. And if he reacts too slowly, he dies. Simulated, of course. No sense wasting perfectly good warriors.

Though the primary function of these ranges is reflex training, the confined space and close proximity of the opposing "enemy" combatants also stresses the nervous systems of each test subject to the brink. Anxiety, physical tension, and adrenaline all work in chaotic concert to accurately simulate battlefield conditions. In fact, the environment is often so taxing on a soldier's CNS, that a form of combat euphoria may take hold, resulting in fits of uncontrolled laughter and what some UNSC testers have dubbed "The Hyena Effect."

"It's nuts in there, man. You strap that sim helmet on and in thirty seconds flat, you don't even see those unnerving blue lights anymore. You're just grinning ear to ear and you don't know if it's you, your own squad, or your target downrange, but that mike foxtrot place is just washed out with laughter. And not the good kind. The crazy kind. Hell, you don't even notice you're standing in a pile of bodies until your weapons go cold."

"You ever hear an Elite laugh? Yeah. Wort wort wort. This explains a lot. I mean, I don't think I can stand one more dose of that mess."

 

[The Lamonster]

Put yourself on the green team. You'd always want to leave one spawn up top, now that I think about it. At least if you want to alter other things on the map for whatever reason. You could have two people editing in forge it you wanted to make a teleporter that took you back up top.

oh yeah. dur.

Also, here's some fiction for Hallway. How's this for being bored at work?

Hallway

Unknown until after the [redacted] and subsequent military treaty with the Sangheili, these Elite-caste shooting galleries, or Combat Reflex Simulators, were used to hone each combatant's twitch response to a razor's edge. Inside the CRS a warrior does not think, he reacts. And if he reacts too slowly, he dies. Simulated, of course. No sense wasting perfectly good warriors.

Though the primary function of these ranges is reflex training, the confined space and close proximity of the opposing "enemy" combatants also stresses the nervous systems of each test subject to the brink. Anxiety, physical tension, and adrenaline all work in chaotic concert to accurately simulate battlefield conditions. In fact, the environment is often so taxing on a soldier's CNS, that a form of combat euphoria may take hold, resulting in fits of uncontrolled laughter and what some UNSC testers have dubbed "The Hyena Effect."

"It's nuts in there, man. You strap that sim helmet on and in thirty seconds flat, you don't even see those unnerving blue lights anymore. You're just grinning ear to ear and you don't know if it's you, your own squad, or your target downrange, but that mike foxtrot place is just washed out with laughter. And not the good kind. The crazy kind. Hell, you don't even notice you're standing in a pile of bodies until you go weapons cold."

"You ever hear an Elite laugh? Yeah. Wort wort wort. This explains a lot. I mean, I don't think I can stand one more dose of that mess."

Nice!

So maybe we could have a teleporter on each end of the Hallway. Both teams spawn outside of the hallway in each base. They rush to the teleporter to get in the hallway where a hill/flag/oddball is.

There is so much potential with this enclosed space! I look forward to more clausterphopic action this evening.

 

[urk]

If we could get down below the second base (assuming the same "hallway" exists underneath) we could set up teleporters to loop between the two space. Of course, you'd have no clue what base you were under, but it would make it pretty interesting.

King of the Hill might work as well. We could play with hill effects. No shield in the hill maybe.

 

[The Lamonster]

Yes. We should hammer each other silly until we get in the other hallway too. Maybe it's the one under the broken base and the lights flicker?

Think about bubble shields down there, or power drainers. There would be no escape!

 

[urk]

Yes. We should hammer each other silly until we get in the other hallway too. Maybe it's the one under the broken base and the lights flicker?

Think about bubble shields down there, or power drainers. There would be no escape!

Good name for the map too.

Power drainers might be too much down there unless you're spawning with overshields.

After I added the -10 penalty for assassinations to prevent spawn camping, a few of the players on the other team began running backwards toward our position in an attempt to sucker us into smashing the back of their head's in and siphon points away from our lead. Pretty funny and it actually worked more than one in the midst of the frenzied action.

I also noticed two thoughts on the map. It was either, "God this is lame" or "OMG! Let's play again, only this time with lasers!"

I think the map is lame and as long as you go in knowing that it's a complete and total clusterfuck of unfairness and stupidity, it's a lot of fun.

 

[OverHeat]

I think the Level's in Halo 3 dont mean much.

Its not normal for Players in their upper 40 to get owned like this.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=115612611&player=OverHeat
:lol

 

[Striker]

My bad, I should've said I was talking about the Big Team Battle playlist. There's no Ghosts and no CTF/Assault on Last Resort in that playlist.

I haven't played Team Objective much, I tend to stay away from ranked gametypes because oddly enough people seem to quit more often in those. And the few times I've tried that it seemed to have a small group of players (just a little over 3,000).

I am trying Social Skirmish right now and the gametypes are the kind I like - I just wish these were in BTB too. It's sad that 1 Flag CTF on Valhalla comes up more often in a 4v4 game than it does on BTB.

Oh, my mistake.

Add me if you like. I mostly play Team Objective and Big Team Battle.

Enter MM with a party FTW!

GT: Striker029

 

[urk]

I think the Level's in Halo 3 dont mean much.

Its not normal for Players in their upper 40 to get owned like this.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=115612611&player=OverHeat
:lol

It's definitely much easier to level into the 40's. I had very few people on my list who ranked that high in Halo 2. In Halo 3, it seems like half my friend's list is 30 or above.

I don't play a ton of ranked matches, but I have noticed that I move up pretty quickly, even when I play terribly.

 

[MaX_PL]

I think the Level's in Halo 3 dont mean much.

Its not normal for Players in their upper 40 to get owned like this.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=115612611&player=OverHeat
:lol

omfg youre so good.

 

[OverHeat]

omfg youre so good.

.....thx (even if that sounded sarcasitc)

 

[Photolysis]

I think the Level's in Halo 3 dont mean much.

Its not normal for Players in their upper 40 to get owned like this.

Very good teamwork does that. Wish I had people to play with who worked that well as a team. (I think I'll be stuck at 46 unless I can get some better teammates)

 

[TheWolf]

i don't think i'll ever be able to hit 50 in Team Slayer. just seems like odds are you will get a bad team every few games. i'm still stuck in the mid 30s.:lol

 

[Photolysis]

The trouble is, for the most part, it's my team that lets me down; they're not as good as me.

A good indicator is the KD ratio in ranked play. The people I play with have between 1.1-1.3, whereas I have 1.88.

I definitely need some better teammates. Anyone interested (46 in Slayer, 45 in Doubles - GT in profile)?

 

[TheWolf]

yeah, it's frustrating when you will have a +10 for one game and someone on your team has -17...

 

[LunaticPuma]

The more I play by myself in team slayer, the worse my K/D ratio gets. I'm a 45/46 right now. I used to be up over 1.1, but I'm nearly 1.0 now. I will be very sad if it goes under 1.

 

[The Lamonster]

I will be very sad if it goes under 1.

Why?

My K/D ratio in Halo 2 was horrible, but I never cared. As long as you're having fun with the game, your performance shouldn't matter.

 

[urk]

Why?

My K/D ratio in Halo 2 was horrible, but I never cared. As long as you're having fun with the game, your performance shouldn't matter.

I was gonna say something about your ratio last night, but I didn't want to do it in front of everyone else.

 

[The Lamonster]

I was gonna say something about your ratio last night, but I didn't want to do it in front of everyone else.

But...we didn't even do any matchmaking!

 

[urk]

But...we didn't even do any matchmaking!

Still.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Why?

My K/D ratio in Halo 2 was horrible, but I never cared. As long as you're having fun with the game, your performance shouldn't matter.

Mine is horrifically bad. But I keep playing. Because it is fun.

 

[Ramirez]

I think the Level's in Halo 3 dont mean much.

Its not normal for Players in their upper 40 to get owned like this.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=115612611&player=OverHeat
:lol

Well if the other guys don't know each other and you're rolling around with a team of 50's that you play with every day, it's very possible. Beating up on a team of randoms with your buddies doesn't make you great.

 

[Nutter]

So is it really just bad luck to have -4 exp for laggin out, or are people cheating?

I say cheating because in a game of team slayer, 3v3... 2 of us get lagged out?!?

 

[OverHeat]

Well if the other guys don't know each other and you're rolling around with a team of 50's that you play with every day, it's very possible. Beating up on a team of randoms with your buddies doesn't make you great.

It was a party of 4. It was a single bar next to their names.

You should now that they dont mix you up with player who are alone when you got a party of 4 ( most of the time) in TS

 

[TDG]

Mine is horrifically bad. But I keep playing. Because it is fun.

Mine is around 1.15, but it's rising. I'm much better at this than H2, where I had a terrible K/D.

 

[Ramirez]

It was a party of 4. It was a single bar next to their names.

You should now that they dont mix you up with player who are alone when you got a party of 4 ( most of the time) in TS

I was just sayin', there's things called off games, they could have possibly been placed in a match and decided to party together with the check boxes, a lot of possibilities.

Hell I played with Nutter/Iron the other night and had an 8-15 game, people are human, they're going to suck and have bad games from time to time.

 

[StUnNeR H2K]

Ok... this is my first venture into the world of YouTube... If someone wants the original video file PM me and I'll give you the direct link to the high quality version of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW0EMNaGc0o

This was from a VIP game on Last Resort awhile back. It cost us the game cause had I not died I would have probably been able to save our VIP. The video is funny non-the-less. I had just spawned... ran past our sniper and BAM!!! I at first thought they had a sniper shoot me, but MasterFox says he shot me and had no clue how. Just watch the bullet trail in the video and the direction MasterFox is facing...

Hey Frankie... can I get recon armor? Masterfox is shooting magical bullets and I died...

 

[urk]

I think Frankie's on vacation. Bad timing. Yes, I'm stalking him. His dog is starting to pace, I think he's due back soon.