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Elite slayer and the Needler as a start weapon? Bad idea. Everyone is using it and Elite Slayer isnt really fun 
In fairness, today's challenges are super easy. The only one that takes any amount of time is the 77 kills.LosDaddie said:That's kind of a bummer for me. I was hoping the Weekly Challenge was something I could commit an hour (or two) a day to complete. Now I have to try to find a 3hr block of time on a certain day.
The Lamonster
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Why is everyone hating on ODST? Did I miss something?
cuevas. PhD.
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Why do you need challenges to play in different ways? I just play what is fun, I don't really enjoy firefight or doing the campaign over and over so I'm never gunna do those challenges even if its a 5k CR reward.xxjuicesxx said:
I adore this game but it is so frustrating at points:
- If my 2 guests and I are half your team in Invasion don't boot us because you ran onto one of our grenades! It was probably an accident and you're not going to win afterwards. %$&%
- I had no idea how ridiculous the approach to the
My friend and I threw ourselves at that for probably 45 minutes last night. We'll have to start over and keep the tank alive next time.
- If my 2 guests and I are half your team in Invasion don't boot us because you ran onto one of our grenades! It was probably an accident and you're not going to win afterwards. %$&%
- I had no idea how ridiculous the approach to the
Sword Base gate on The Package is until I tried to play it co-op on Legendary. There are 2 Shades turrets, 2 normal turrets, and a bunch of ghosts and revenants.
xxjuicesxx
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cuevas said:
I dunno how I can explain it any other way.
I usually have fun by crapping on kids with the DMR. It works for me, why do anything else? That's where challenges come in...tempts me to partake in a learning to like portion of something I wouldn't normally care for. It mixes the game up.
The Lamonster
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And the music is awesome and it has Nathan Fillion.darthbob said:
Neuromancer
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Yeah me too, it was awesome. Still short of Major though. =(Santiako said:My first Weekly challenge completed! In about an hour and a half! On Monday!
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I NEED SCISSORS said:
there are 2 snipers, 2 rockets, at least one grenade launcher and a fuel rod gun on the map, not to mention plasma pistols.
Vehicles on spire should not be an issue. I spend my rounds knocking them out of the air.
Darkflight
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Anyone crazy enough to have attempted a Legendary ALL skulls on run yet?
brokenwatch
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The daily challenges don't really seem to take the difficulty of the challenge into consideration, just a fixed ratio of 1 kill = 10cr.
More than a Handful 750cR
Kill 77 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking.
If I do well and get 12 kills per game, this will take 7 games.
One Spartan Army 1000 cR
Kill 100 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking.
This will only take one game of firefight.
There was also a 4000 cR one a few days ago for killing 400 enemies in firefight which only took 2-4 games.
More than a Handful 750cR
Kill 77 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking.
If I do well and get 12 kills per game, this will take 7 games.
One Spartan Army 1000 cR
Kill 100 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking.
This will only take one game of firefight.
There was also a 4000 cR one a few days ago for killing 400 enemies in firefight which only took 2-4 games.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I don't understand how anyone can hate ODST. It was my favorite of all of the Halo campaigns, and right up there with Reach's campaign IMO.
ultron87 said:
Pick up a fuel rod from a dead Grunt (there will be at least one right before that part), learn where the turrets are (one dead ahead on the little hill, and one up-and-left of it, back on the cliff face, and then two normal plasma turrets off the right), and just learn physics
You have to aim a little high because the FRG plasma will slowly descend as it goes forward.But hitting both FRG turrets with the FRG in one try each felt fucking amazing, then I just took my tank in there and blew the Revenant to bits
J-Roderton
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Well looks like a have a good shot at getting all the dailies and the weekly in one day today.
Alienshogun said:
Because everyone isn't you? :lol
I don't understand why every girl I'm with won't let me put it up their ass... I mean I enjoy it and I've had at least one of them enjoy it.
Yeah, I realize I set myself up there... but sometimes you just gotta make the point and damn the consequences! :lol
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
TommyT said:
Hmm, you must have also missed, the fact I said "I don't understand how they can't like it" when I think it's one of the top Halo campaigns.
So yeah, no shit.
I didn't say they were wrong for their opinion, simply that I can't understand where they are coming from.
I know several others who felt the same, but for a lot of people it was more mixed. Personally, I loved about half of it, liked a quarter and really didn't care for another quarter; there are missions I played once and didn't want to play again. But in totality they did some pretty remarkable stuff given the constraints: the mood and scale of the hub city, the first mission, the soundtrack, core combat and Sadie's story (from the implementation down to the actual story) were simply wonderful. But I have no idea how I'd rank the ODST campaign among the rest, as it's very much its own beast.Alienshogun said:
I was surprised by it, as there's already an achievement for the same. But hey, the moment there's one that doesn't require MP, I'll go for it.Letters said:
Thagomizer
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bobs99 ... said:
Once again, Bungie's background writing is better than their main game stories.
Can they get whoever writes these to do the main scripts?
Thagomizer
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GhaleonEB said:
I disagree. It was awful. There were some nice ideas and really clever symbolism, but the dialogue and especially the voice acting (oh GOD the voice acting) was HORRENDOUS.
To each their own. I loved it, and found the acting mostly excellent. It was my favorite aspect of the game and one of my favorite bits of story telling in the entire series.Thagomizer said:
Those radio transcripts are awesome. Which reminds me to start up the Easter egg section of the OP so bits like that aren't lost.
Neuromancer
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Yeah I hate when they give us easy cR, goddamn themLetters said:
Trickster
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Blueblur1 said:I agree.
I disagree, I found the city enviroment boring, repetive and void of anything to do other than go from point A to B and finding some audio logs. And in my humble oppinion, running around in a repetive city chasing some audio logs is not very fun. When I wanted to listen to the audio logs, I just went on to youtube and saved myself the time of trudging through a boring city enviroment.
I also hated the VISR, it just felt like an ugly, yellow filter they pulled down over the screen (I feel the same about the night vision mode in Reach). It was made even worse because the city at night is so dark that you are practically forced to use it. Give me a flashlight any day of the week I say.
To change the topic. What is the easiest way to get 40 shotgun kills in firefight, don't think I've seen a shotgun yet, at least not in gruntpocalypse.
Neuromancer
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Why don't people like the flood? They're like space zombies! I thought they were OK in Halo 3, except for Cortana which had more to do with horrendous level design.
I wouldn't mind an update or DLC that had flood in the firefight.
I wouldn't mind an update or DLC that had flood in the firefight.
I'm with you on the flashlight. Anyway don't do gruntpocalpse, do regular firefight or score attack. There's a class that has armor lock and the shotgun.Trickster said:
Thagomizer
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GhaleonEB said:
Honestly, I think it would have worked better just as text.
Remember the conversations between Didact and the Librarian or Gravemind and Bias in the H3 terminals? They probably wouldn't have been as good if acted out, mostly because I doubt Bungie would have forked out the money for good actors for a portion of story probably 2% of the people who played the game will ever see when they often hire bad actors for the main characters. (Lookin' at you, Miranda and half of the ODST squad.)
Gravemind could have worked, but they already had a VA for Gravemind, so w/e
Way the hell late with this, but...
Video here.
Yah, Cody Miller pointed this out, too. His solution: let an Elite board you (fly close to the ground); as soon as it does, you're free.God's Beard said:
Video here.
I think you just did it... :lol :lol :lolShake Appeal said:
Slightly Live
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Louis Wu said:Way the hell late with this, but...
Yah, Cody Miller pointed this out, too. His solution: let an Elite board you (fly close to the ground); as soon as it does, you're free.
Video here.
Sometimes an Elite will just stand on top with a Grunt buddy taunting you. :lol
Shake Appeal
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Yep! But then apparently I bested an Onyx guy and two Golds in that one good game today. The swings are crazy in Arena, and I think it's down to my inconsistency more than the matchmaking right now.Louis Wu said:
Must get better...
I'm considering throwing up a small GAF campaign high-score contest for a 1600 points card or something. It'd run for ~2 weeks and have no real guidelines except "you have to choose level X" and "it has to be single-player." I would start a thread in Online for it where people could just post a link to the game on Bnet and throw a recording up on their fileshare, so there's no funny business. Maybe the recording should only be required to verify the winner so TOP STRATEGIES can be preserved throughout the contest.
Any comments/suggestions? Would enough people be interested to justify running it? As far as levels go - LNOS is out due to space fighting rendering skulls pointless for a good chunk of the level, Winter Contingency would be boring, New Alexandria might be a poor choice with the Falcon section, and the last mission is out for obvious reasons. All the other levels I'm considering and will definitely take suggestions, if there is wide support or good reasoning for a specific level it'd only make sense to pick it.
Any comments/suggestions? Would enough people be interested to justify running it? As far as levels go - LNOS is out due to space fighting rendering skulls pointless for a good chunk of the level, Winter Contingency would be boring, New Alexandria might be a poor choice with the Falcon section, and the last mission is out for obvious reasons. All the other levels I'm considering and will definitely take suggestions, if there is wide support or good reasoning for a specific level it'd only make sense to pick it.
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