Gui_PT said:Get used to escort/rescue missions.
All units.
Gui_PT said:Get used to escort/rescue missions.
"Pick 'em up, set 'em down."Ken said:All units.
You'll never hear "tank beats everything!" in that game.Ken said:All units.
C&C Red Alert 2 or Tiberium Sun lol. Gimme a few more minutes for my brain to work out which...Hitmonchan107 said:"Pick 'em up, set 'em down."
"High speed, low drag."
Wait, that's not right...
A million kudos if you can guess what game that's actually from.
I'm hopping back on Halo 3.
Ramirez said:lol, I don't know much about twitter, but his little stream there is full on awesomeness. "Hey, I'm Larry Hyrb (sp?), aka Major Nelson on XBL", "Hey I'm Ghostayame on XBL", "Hey I'm Treit and True on XBL", hahahaha. Dude is just roleplaying a different videogame personality every day, look at the elite company you're in Therms.
urk said:Wow, lame. He already has like 150 more followers than you do, too!
MrBig said:Why? I sell every game I get bored with except for Halo games, but I sold Halo Wars after about a month. It was developed by a studio consumed and torn apart by Microsoft, they didn't put their hearts into the game.
What in gods name are you talking about?MrBig said:Why? I sell every game I get bored with except for Halo games, but I sold Halo Wars after about a month. It was developed by a studio consumed and torn apart by Microsoft, they didn't put their hearts into the game.
In bro slayer you can spawn off any other player or the maps default spawns... Pretty sure Boneyard or Hemmorhage don't have spawns that far into the map.Kuroyume said:Wow, Bro Slayer is freaking terrible. Spawned out in the middle of Hemmorhage like 5 times in a game. Played ANOTHER GAME after that (for fuck's sake) on Boneyard and wow the spawning on that map is just unbelievably bad. People were spawning behind me all the time inside the middle structure. It wasn't like they had a buddy there just hiding so they could pop out. They would just spawn right behind me because the game put them there.
Insaniac said:is the weekly for matchmaking only? Or can you do it custom/private game?
Hydranockz said:C&C Red Alert 2 or Tiberium Sun lol. Gimme a few more minutes for my brain to work out which...
[Tiberium Sun, final answer!]
Edit2: Almost certain it is TS. GDI transport unit of some kind.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck So close too!Hitmonchan107 said:
Hitmonchan107 said:The Running Riot Podcast is live! Go here and join in!
It'll be worth it to watch David Ellis choke.I kid! I kid! You'll be awesome, as always.
I was on there this morning. But couldn't find many players, and I wasn't sure if my stuff was working correctly if I hosted. We should try tomorrow or Friday.wwm0nkey said:Probably going to start up some Halo 2 customs here on XBC in a few minutes, anyone still up for them?
Oh, I'm in your game now, bro. It's on.lybertyboy said:Don't get cocky kid.
Less than 20 viewers...Hitmonchan107 said:The Running Riot Podcast is live! Go here and join in!
It'll be worth it to watch David Ellis choke.I kid! I kid! You'll be awesome, as always.
Im good for FridayStriker said:I was on there this morning. But couldn't find many players, and I wasn't sure if my stuff was working correctly if I hosted. We should try tomorrow or Friday.
Kibbles said:Totally agree with lyberty boy on Halo 1 favorite Campaign and Halo 2 favorite MP.
"Don't get too penisy!"lybertyboy said:Don't get cocky kid.
Hydranockz said:It was a good show. Props to Duncan for wiping the floor during their quick game
Bro Slayer is being removed from BTB with the May updateKuroyume said:Wow, Bro Slayer is freaking terrible. Spawned out in the middle of Hemmorhage like 5 times in a game. Played ANOTHER GAME after that (for fuck's sake) on Boneyard and wow the spawning on that map is just unbelievably bad. People were spawning behind me all the time inside the middle structure. It wasn't like they had a buddy there just hiding so they could pop out. They would just spawn right behind me because the game put them there.
You just described Gears 3's spawning :lolKuroyume said:Wow, Bro Slayer is freaking terrible. Spawned out in the middle of Hemmorhage like 5 times in a game. Played ANOTHER GAME after that (for fuck's sake) on Boneyard and wow the spawning on that map is just unbelievably bad. People were spawning behind me all the time inside the middle structure. It wasn't like they had a buddy there just hiding so they could pop out. They would just spawn right behind me because the game put them there.
Now just combine the 2 and BAM! perfect Halo game.Kibbles said:Totally agree with lyberty boy on Halo 1 favorite Campaign and Halo 2 favorite MP.
Yeah, my aimbot only works in custom games... and with the sword...lybertyboy said:I'm totally wrecking him in the post-show matches. Just had to made it look good for the show.
Permabanned.ncsuDuncan said:Yeah, my aimbot only works in custom games... and with the sword...
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Damn, missed it. Will have to watch the replay.Hitmonchan107 said:Great job, Ellis.
NOKYARD said:Damn, missed it. Will have to watch the replay.
Did the map break again?
I didn't realize I was making so much noise until they joined us up top.ncsuDuncan said:What, the Running Riot map? Seemed fine. Nothing broken except for us audience members making too much noise...
Yeah. He has the mixing equipment. I don't see why he doesn't split the guest's mic from the game sound and lower the background noise. I do it quite easily using only Soundflower and a few cables.ncsuDuncan said:What, the Running Riot map? Seemed fine. Nothing broken except for us audience members making too much noise...
GhaleonEB said:So the past few days my Firefight connections have been quite poor. And I just checked the in-game Network Status via the Start menu, and it has a big warning on my upstream bandwidth, saying it's suboptimal and such.
I did a speed test, and I'm running at 20 down and 3.6 up, after a few tests. I have no idea if that's good (enough) or what I should do. Any advice?
GhaleonEB said:So the past few days my Firefight connections have been quite poor. And I just checked the in-game Network Status via the Start menu, and it has a big warning on my upstream bandwidth, saying it's suboptimal and such.
I did a speed test, and I'm running at 20 down and 3.6 up, after a few tests. I have no idea if that's good (enough) or what I should do. Any advice?
Totally different subject: Please turn on betrayal booting in Firefight, I'm sick of high ranking asshats spattering me so they can get vehicle kills or otherwise just screw around. David, Urk, someone, please turn it on. Jeremiah said in Optimatch that the options Bungie has to configure Firefight are the same we have. I'm sure the interface and matchmaking integration are very different, but this should be a no-brainer setting. It's enabling griefing like nothing else right now.
Your connection is fine (certainly better than mine, given those numbers), I've had the warning pop up several times over the last couple of months for no reason. With Firefight, unfortunately, the latency is dependent on the weakest link in the group. If somebody has a shitty connection then everybody gets that lag because their box has to wait on his inputs. Hooray for synchronous lockstep models :/ The off-host input lag in all the campaign and firefight stuff since Halo 3 has been one of the biggest bummers for me (it's better in Reach, at least).GhaleonEB said:So the past few days my Firefight connections have been quite poor. And I just checked the in-game Network Status via the Start menu, and it has a big warning on my upstream bandwidth, saying it's suboptimal and such.
I did a speed test, and I'm running at 20 down and 3.6 up, after a few tests. I have no idea if that's good (enough) or what I should do. Any advice?
Totally different subject: Please turn on betrayal booting in Firefight, I'm sick of high ranking asshats spattering me so they can get vehicle kills or otherwise just screw around. David, Urk, someone, please turn it on. Jeremiah said in Optimatch that the options Bungie has to configure Firefight are the same we have. I'm sure the interface and matchmaking integration are very different, but this should be a no-brainer setting. It's enabling griefing like nothing else right now.
Havok said:Your connection is fine (certainly better than mine, given those numbers), I've had the warning pop up several times over the last couple of months for no reason. With Firefight, unfortunately, the latency is dependent on the weakest link in the group. If somebody has a shitty connection then everybody gets that lag because their box has to wait on his inputs. Hooray for synchronous lockstep models :/ The off-host input lag in all the campaign and firefight stuff since Halo 3 has been one of the biggest bummers for me (it's better in Reach, at least).
Yes. The number of low lag games in ODST I could count on one hand. With Reach, poor connections are (usually) the exception for me.Steelyuhas said:Is it really that much better?
GhaleonEB said:Totally different subject: Please turn on betrayal booting in Firefight, I'm sick of high ranking asshats spattering me so they can get vehicle kills or otherwise just screw around. David, Urk, someone, please turn it on. Jeremiah said in Optimatch that the options Bungie has to configure Firefight are the same we have. I'm sure the interface and matchmaking integration are very different, but this should be a no-brainer setting. It's enabling griefing like nothing else right now.
Short film, rendered.Recarpo said:Would you even get the option to boot though? I didn't think it actually counted as a betrayal. At least there's no indication I've seen that it counts as a betrayal in game.
This is true. But I've also had mostly good connections in custom games (or games with parties) as well, and which was as I said almost never the case in ODST.MrBig said:Well that could be accounted toward it being custom games and not matchmaking. In ODST all you could do was bring in friends and they could be in any part of the world. Reach's FF matchmaking looks for people in your region and tries to filter for best connection.
Well that could be accounted toward it being custom games and not matchmaking. In ODST all you could do was bring in friends and they could be in any part of the world. Reach's FF matchmaking looks for people in your region and tries to filter for best connection. The way that the networking system in the campaign networking model makes distance a huge factor, and distance exponentially increases delay.GhaleonEB said:Yes. The number of low lag games in ODST I could count on one hand. With Reach, poor connections are (usually) the exception for me.
GhaleonEB said:Yes, it counts as a betrayal. As with Multiplayer, it often won't register if you're taking damage from the enemy and a team mate finishes you off. But the straight up splatters I'm talking about count as betrayals, and are recorded as a penalty in the post-game stats; they would trigger the boot player prompt if betrayal booting was enabled.
I've noticed a really large improvement. It's still not great, but it's better. Firefight in ODST and Campaign in Halo 3 were a total mess for the people off-host, with inputs taking practically a full half second to register at times, while I've done every single LASO run with a friend online, which flat out wouldn't have been possible before. However, I hope they either find a way to make it perfect, or move to a different model (Gears never had this issue as far as I remember, for example. On a related note, and this is pure speculation on my part, I think that the synchronous model might be one of the major barriers to doing jump-in jump-out coop in Halo.).Steelyuhas said:Is it really that much better?
I was very pleased with the HUGE networking improvements on the multiplayer side for Reach, but I don't really feel like it got that much better for Campaign/Firefight.