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Halo: Reach |OT5| A Monument to All Our Sins
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Blue Ninja
Member
This kid, all enthousiasm, asks me to render a video for him of "one of the greatest things he's ever done in Halo: Reach". I decide to oblige him, and render it...
Only to find out it's a video of him armor-locking against a sword, and then meleeing the sword-wielder with some help from the EMP. His comment?
"People are always bitching about armor lock, but I think it's awesome."
Le sigh.
Only to find out it's a video of him armor-locking against a sword, and then meleeing the sword-wielder with some help from the EMP. His comment?
"People are always bitching about armor lock, but I think it's awesome."
Le sigh.
squidhands
Member
Same. I've also never played with a regular group, so my team skills are severely lacking.Devolution said:
Sorry to hear about your screwjob, Tashi. :-(
I'm expecting more along the lines of concept art and maybe, MAYBE an in-engine trailer. Big maybe.StalkerUKCG said:
probably not
Let's just get this damned work week over with, shall we?
squidhands
Member
I wonder if a separate HaloFest thread would be in order.A27 Tawpgun said:
ElzarTheBam
Member
squidhands said:
This would be the best, one seperate thread to catch up with everything from the fest.
The Librarian
Banned
Ooh! I'd love to do it.A27 Tawpgun said:
Tha Robbertster
Member
squidhands said:
That would good for the non-regular HaloGaffers as they can also catch up about the things anounced on HaloFest.
squidhands
Member
Agreed, but they'd only shit up the first couple of pages before moving on to another shiny object.A27 Tawpgun said:
geez dude, what kind of schedule do you keep? I never see you online...FyreWulff said:
ahh, that explains it.
i nerini del buio
Member
One team camped up there with rockets, sniper, stickies and very likely sword too and the other team resorting to crouch-walking trying to break the enemy set-up just to end up facing a shower of overpowered and unavoidable nades/rockets/sniper shots.Striker said:
I mean, seriously, fuck reflection, fuck countdown, fuck every small, corridor-like map where every issue the game has, from overpowered frags to sprint swording, is exacerbated. And fuck every map that has more than 2 power weapons.
/rant
squidhands said:
Depends on the job and what I'm doing. Right now I'm nocturnal, trying to get to daytime before PAX starts.. so as soon as a few of those go up at 5am CST, I immediately start working on them.
Also I've been absolutely swamped with my current contract so getting the weekly out of the way early frees up my time for the rest of the week.
Only thing about working from home is that your sleep schedule (or at least mine) tends to drift. One week I'm going to sleep at normal hours, then it gets later and later, then you realize you're going to sleep at 9am and waking up at 3pm..
Ghaleon will do the OT6, he will be in a place with a million internet devices and it only takes a minute to get it up (he can clean the OP later). Someone other than him willing to keep the first post updated constantly through the weekend do the necessary Halofest thread for the Gaming folks, we'll keep the majority of discussion and gif spamming here with the occasional comment there, as usual.
SailorDaravon said:
Grifball.
Kill a guy.
Now he wants to kill you. He kills you.
Find him (sweep reticule over enemies on other side of boxed in map)
Kill him.
There was one game where I stopped to let a guy on the other team kill me. He nodded with his Spartan and I nodded back, he got the message and we traded about 12 Revenges back and forth without ever talking or sending text messages to each other :lol Sometimes I love this game's community.
But even without that, you can average from 5 to 10 Revenge medals per game in Grif if you're patient and target only the last person that killed you.
Weeklies like this are pretty much the only reason I ever even actually play Grifball, can't quite stand the gametype otherwise.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I love it when something like that happens.FyreWulff said:
Captain Blood
Member
A weekly with a credit reward that I can get from playing 3 normal games of matchmaking.... Remember when juices you to say "not enough credits will not put in disk"? I think we need to bring that back. I know we will all just play Reach anyway but we don't have to be happy about it damnit!!!!
Grifball isn't worth a quick weekly.
I suppose I'll get it naturally. But it is funny that its a weekly that requires you to die... And that it only pays 7777... Super lame. Hopefully 343 can switch it midweek, if not lets hope the next weekly works.
As for the threads, it would make sense to have a Halofest one. You could probably start one now if we call it Halofest OT since its less than 7 days to it. Put the panels up, mention the tournaments, contests, IGNs coverage, etc.
Speaking of the contests... Hopefully I get my confirmation I'm a finalist by today... They really pushed it to the last minute. IGN was supposed to give the finalists PAX passes... But unless a finalist lives in the Area I don't see how someone is supposed to make travel plans on such short notice.... Unless they somehow set you up with a plane ticket/hotel.
Maybe they'll offer some sort of compensation...
Anyway, I hope 343 will be at PAX East. Show the Beast Coast some luv. And so I could go also.
I suppose I'll get it naturally. But it is funny that its a weekly that requires you to die... And that it only pays 7777... Super lame. Hopefully 343 can switch it midweek, if not lets hope the next weekly works.
As for the threads, it would make sense to have a Halofest one. You could probably start one now if we call it Halofest OT since its less than 7 days to it. Put the panels up, mention the tournaments, contests, IGNs coverage, etc.
Speaking of the contests... Hopefully I get my confirmation I'm a finalist by today... They really pushed it to the last minute. IGN was supposed to give the finalists PAX passes... But unless a finalist lives in the Area I don't see how someone is supposed to make travel plans on such short notice.... Unless they somehow set you up with a plane ticket/hotel.
Maybe they'll offer some sort of compensation...
Anyway, I hope 343 will be at PAX East. Show the Beast Coast some luv. And so I could go also.
Tashi0106 said:
Man that's awful... so late to be backing out of a team - I don't care if they knew other people IRL or not. Unfortunately it really is all too typical for kids in that community, or many others for that matter.
In H3 I tried to go to 3 different events before finally hitting Dallas. It was next to impossible getting 4 people on the same page, who were going for the same reason, who were reliable... and when I finally did go, it was a last minute request from a friend who had a guy not show.
FyreWulff said:
I love random stuff like that on XBL. The 1% of the time awesome stuff like that happens almost makes up for the other 99% of the time. I played a few games of Infection last night (I can't believe they never fixed any of the abusable spots that were on these maps day 1 BTW) with a random whose name was "Gundam 1993", and another random kept chasing him around screaming "GUNDAAAAAAAMMMM" every round, good times.
I should really go back in my Halo 3 game history and find the match urk and a bunch of us played against the cat clan, I honestly think that was the pinnacle of our XBL careers and we should have just stopped playing after that.
bobs...onGaf
Member
I tried Grifball earlier, I only got the 1 revenge BUT I did notice that its full of new gametypes that I didnt know existed. What is the mode thats called something like jetpack thrusters. No one ever picked it but I assume everyone has a jetpack lol?
When did they do this update? What other playlist updates have I missed lol?
When did they do this update? What other playlist updates have I missed lol?
Gabotron ES
Member
Uploaded the collage to imgur, they should keep their original size now.
New download links:
Spartan Collage 1980x1020 (Darker)
Spartan Collage 1980x1020 (Brighter)
Cleaner version featuring Yeti
Cleaner version featuring Dug
New download links:
Spartan Collage 1980x1020 (Darker)
Spartan Collage 1980x1020 (Brighter)
Cleaner version featuring Yeti
Cleaner version featuring Dug
Deputy Moonman
Member
Gui bringing the lawls!Gui_PT said:
I probably fit in this same category.squidhands said:
Spartans don't need teamwork
Leaving Thursday morning with my wife and kids to play at a theme park near Seattle, and then staying overnight in a hotel (taking a compressed vacation to make up for the one we canceled last week - sick kid). That was it's just a 20 minute or so drive to the Convention Center in the morning.Gui_PT said:
bobs...onGaf
Member
FyreWulff said:
Is there a list of the stuff that update added anywhere I cant find anything on Bnet. :/
Cuban Legend
Member
is that all of HaloGAF? cool.Gabotron ES said:
I have a couple of those moments. One of my favourites is when a dude in Rocket Race had one of those headset attachments where you could play audio macros. We got into the game and as he'd approach and fly past you could hear him on proximity voice playing Yakety Sax in the distance, getting louder as he got close and then blowing past and fading away. I don't think I've laughed harder playing Halo.SailorDaravon said:
The other moment was also in Rocket Race, actually. I'd gone in with a friend and when we got into the lobby a dude on an opposing team left. The other guys started jeering and making fun of him for having to play the match on his own, but he stayed, which we thought was worth rewarding. So I gunned it over to him, my passenger got off, and honked my horn and told him through proximity voice to get on. In Halo 3, only the passenger going through the point counted, so I motored round the map getting him points while my teammate went round on foot and screwed with the other guys. We came second, and the lone guy came first on the back of my Mongoose.
Gabotron ES
Member
Mostly Waypoint and GAF with some ForgeHub folks.Cuban Legend said:
Gabotron ES
Member
Thanks guiGui_PT said:Great work. Thanks for the new wallpaper for my work computer
Gabotron ES
Member
Should I use dropbox instead?Letters said:
Reagan's BR
Banned
We should call it This TU will make us brothers.Gui_PT said:
Captain Blood
Member
I miss rocket race. That shit was a blast in H3 :/
thezerofire
Banned
I'll be playing Halo 3 this week. Send me a friend request: thezerofirei nerini del buio said:
Rocket Hog Race is a poor substitute.Captain Blood said:
Tha Robbertster
Member
Awesome Barlow said:
Maybe ad: This game has made us enemies, but this TU will make us brothers
Although a little bit dramatic now I read it :lol
ElzarTheBam
Member
I don't think i have ever posted this here but if you are bored then check this out:
Why was i banned?
Delicious tears!
From page 5
"It has taken me 80 GT changes to realise my mistake!"
Yes that's 80 gamertag changes!
Why was i banned?
Delicious tears!
From page 5
"It has taken me 80 GT changes to realise my mistake!"
Yes that's 80 gamertag changes!
So good. Remember when it had its own playlist too? Unfortunately Reach Rocket Race sucks because of the physics changes. Can't launch effectively anymore.Captain Blood said:
Same goes for grifball. Loved that shit in H3. Boring as hell in Reach.
What Reach still really needs is a Race playlist. There are so many great community tracks.
Speaking of Playlists... is 343 planning on revealing their playlist manager? What about forming an optimatch forum?