Two months later.......Your Favorite Halo 2 Maps?
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Ugggh, I hate Ascension Slayer. Too much open space....heaven for sniper-whores and SMG sprayers. Plus some jackass always gets in the Banshee and the idiot that grabbed rockets wastes them all so there's this annoying banshee flying around the whole time -- he's not good enough to rack up kills, but powerful enough to fuck with you when you're trying to play the game straight. What is it that you like about the map?
Favorite CTF is hard to say. Headlong or Zanzibar I guess. I am slowly warming up to Waterworks, particularly for Wraiths CTF or 1 flag.
Favorite Slayer map is definitely Lockout. Foundation is pretty cool, though they really shouldn't have had two rocket launchers PLUS two rocket launcher ammo packs.
Colossus sucks for just about everything. Midship always turns into some insane spamfest since it's packed full of plasma grenades.
Favorite CTF is hard to say. Headlong or Zanzibar I guess. I am slowly warming up to Waterworks, particularly for Wraiths CTF or 1 flag.
Favorite Slayer map is definitely Lockout. Foundation is pretty cool, though they really shouldn't have had two rocket launchers PLUS two rocket launcher ammo packs.
Colossus sucks for just about everything. Midship always turns into some insane spamfest since it's packed full of plasma grenades.
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I have a love hate relationship with midship now. sometimes I rock at it, other times it's home to my worst losses.
I'm going against the grain and saying i like colossus, although the sniper rifle is unfair on that map and if one team can hold it. yuck.
Favourite Team slayer: burial mounds/ivory tower tie
Favourite Flag capture: Zanzibar (awesome map)
Favourite rumble pit : lockout
Favourite assault : Zanzibar
most hated team slayer : ascension especially if you play worthy opponents and they get their hands on both snipers
most hated flag capture : something like ctf fast on burial mounds. the flag reset should be 15 seconds longer
most hated rumble pit: dunno
most hated assault : headlong
most hated mode : Land grab. because our clan SUCKS at it.
I'm going against the grain and saying i like colossus, although the sniper rifle is unfair on that map and if one team can hold it. yuck.
Favourite Team slayer: burial mounds/ivory tower tie
Favourite Flag capture: Zanzibar (awesome map)
Favourite rumble pit : lockout
Favourite assault : Zanzibar
most hated team slayer : ascension especially if you play worthy opponents and they get their hands on both snipers
most hated flag capture : something like ctf fast on burial mounds. the flag reset should be 15 seconds longer
most hated rumble pit: dunno
most hated assault : headlong
most hated mode : Land grab. because our clan SUCKS at it.
How could you hate Collossus CTF? It's so easy! Once you grab the flag you can throw it across the map back to your base (If you're in a certain spot you can bounce it across the stage). Hahaha, well, if you dislike it, that's your beef, cause I love it.
The only thing I really hate is Ivory Tower... That map reeks of bullshit.
The only thing I really hate is Ivory Tower... That map reeks of bullshit.
Late Stage Marxist
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Headlong and Zanzibar rock for assault/CTF.
Assault on Ivory Tower is fun, but stupid. So is 1 Flag CTF on Lockout. At least at my level, it's near impossible not to score and everything ends in a tie unless one team makes a real serious error on offense.
Maybe the fact that the map allows you to cheat with a physics glitch is a part of the reason people hate it?
This is not exactly news to anyone here.
Maybe the fact that the map allows you to cheat with a physics glitch is a part of the reason people hate it?
My favorite slayer map (and favorite overall) is Zanzibar. It's simply the best map, imo.
Colossus and Burial Grounds are good, and so are Ivory Tower and Ascension. I mostly play team slayer games, so I don't really have a preference for skirmish games. If I had to choose one, I'd say Headlong is the best for those.
Unlike what seems like 90+% of Halo players, I don't love Coagulation. It's ok if you're doing 8 on 8, but I don't like it as much for Team Slayer/skirmish games.
Colossus and Burial Grounds are good, and so are Ivory Tower and Ascension. I mostly play team slayer games, so I don't really have a preference for skirmish games. If I had to choose one, I'd say Headlong is the best for those.
Unlike what seems like 90+% of Halo players, I don't love Coagulation. It's ok if you're doing 8 on 8, but I don't like it as much for Team Slayer/skirmish games.
ToyMachine228
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Big Team Battle- Headlong
Team Slayer/Skirmish- Lockout, Foundation, Zanzibar, Midship
Rumble Pit- Ascension
Can Be Totally Gay And Frustrating Map- Coagulation
Team Slayer/Skirmish- Lockout, Foundation, Zanzibar, Midship
Rumble Pit- Ascension
Can Be Totally Gay And Frustrating Map- Coagulation
arhra
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I like most of the maps, but my favourites vary depending on the game mode.
For assault and 1-flag CTF, Zanzibar rules, and Ivory Tower is good for smaller games as well. I have a love/hate relationship with Headlong, when things are going well i love it, but when things are going badly, i hate it :lol (i probably just need more practice on it).
For multi-flag CTF, Coag is good, but i love CTF Wraiths on Waterworks, so that probably comes in as absolute favourite. I quite like Collossus, too, when people aren't bouncing the flag around like muppets.
Lockout and Ascension i only really like for (team) slayer, oddball variants, and things like KotH and territories.
Territories on Midship, with a single territory, and a ten minute time to win, is utterly insane, but a bit random for serious games. Great to mess around with, though
(had a game with those settings that my team ended up winning 10:00-9:59, after being down by about 7 minutes to 3 earlier on, talk about intense...)
Burial Mounds is good for big team slayer/1-flag ctf/assault games, and is also great for team slayer games with no shields, no radar, damage resistance on, no powerups, bonus points on,, no vehicles, no turrets BR and magnum only, no grenades. Brilliant long-range cat-and-mouse headshot action
And i second the call for Sidewinder. More big, open-ish maps plzkthx bungie.
For assault and 1-flag CTF, Zanzibar rules, and Ivory Tower is good for smaller games as well. I have a love/hate relationship with Headlong, when things are going well i love it, but when things are going badly, i hate it :lol (i probably just need more practice on it).
For multi-flag CTF, Coag is good, but i love CTF Wraiths on Waterworks, so that probably comes in as absolute favourite. I quite like Collossus, too, when people aren't bouncing the flag around like muppets.
Lockout and Ascension i only really like for (team) slayer, oddball variants, and things like KotH and territories.
Territories on Midship, with a single territory, and a ten minute time to win, is utterly insane, but a bit random for serious games. Great to mess around with, though
(had a game with those settings that my team ended up winning 10:00-9:59, after being down by about 7 minutes to 3 earlier on, talk about intense...)Burial Mounds is good for big team slayer/1-flag ctf/assault games, and is also great for team slayer games with no shields, no radar, damage resistance on, no powerups, bonus points on,, no vehicles, no turrets BR and magnum only, no grenades. Brilliant long-range cat-and-mouse headshot action
And i second the call for Sidewinder. More big, open-ish maps plzkthx bungie.
evilromero
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Only one I like is the old Halo 1 map, I think it was called Blood Gulch but is something different now. The other ones are ho-hum.
Fixed2BeBroken
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I really hate the maps that are VERY weapon dependant.....
ascension/burial grounds...and to a lesser extent....colossus and foundation.
ascension and burial grounds = very sniper and rocket dependant....
lame shit.
colossus is sniper dependant and the way people play..........grab sniper than chill at base while man snipes eevryone....that shit is lame, but I say to a "lesser extent" being that with others, ive been able to stop the sniper dependancy on this map usually....like maybe 7 times out of ten...
Same goes for Foundation with Rockets. It seems to be very rocket dependant but ive been able to stop that with others probably 6 out of 10 times.
but on the other 2 maps....its more like 2 times out of ten when it comes to stopping the sniper/rocket dependancy without snipers or rockets.
Honestly, if Bungie took out ascension and burial grounds, and I never saw them again, I wouldnt miss them at all.
My fav Maps would have to be...
Beaver Creek, Lockout and Zanzibar.
uh.......
bungie never intended it to be that way tho.....if they did, they wouldnt have removed the bridge connecting the two areas.
that shit is cheap and lame.....bungie needs tone down the bounce so bad. Ive seen it done a number of times and its not hard to do....very cheap bs.
peace
ascension/burial grounds...and to a lesser extent....colossus and foundation.
ascension and burial grounds = very sniper and rocket dependant....
lame shit.
colossus is sniper dependant and the way people play..........grab sniper than chill at base while man snipes eevryone....that shit is lame, but I say to a "lesser extent" being that with others, ive been able to stop the sniper dependancy on this map usually....like maybe 7 times out of ten...
Same goes for Foundation with Rockets. It seems to be very rocket dependant but ive been able to stop that with others probably 6 out of 10 times.
but on the other 2 maps....its more like 2 times out of ten when it comes to stopping the sniper/rocket dependancy without snipers or rockets.
Honestly, if Bungie took out ascension and burial grounds, and I never saw them again, I wouldnt miss them at all.
My fav Maps would have to be...
Beaver Creek, Lockout and Zanzibar.
Artanisix said:
uh.......
bungie never intended it to be that way tho.....if they did, they wouldnt have removed the bridge connecting the two areas.
that shit is cheap and lame.....bungie needs tone down the bounce so bad. Ive seen it done a number of times and its not hard to do....very cheap bs.
peace
Artanisix said:
With motion sensors on, Ivory Tower is the most broken map there is for Team Slayer. Radar shows you three floors of enemies. Totally broken.
I love Zanzibar, it's pretty much a great map for everything.
I hate Coagulation, it's virtually broken for slayer. Get rockets, drive around in warthog, use vehicles, repeat. The only gametype coag is good for is CTF Classic with ONLY warthogs, motion off, starting battle rifles. Otherwise, it's a terrible map.
Colossus is one of my favorite maps, but I also end up with the beam rifle most of the time... MLG game mode for Slayer Colossus is all snipers no motion sensor -- that's a blast.
Burial Mounds is a good slayer map and a good assault map, but totally shitty-wok for one flag. Any decent team will never get capped on.
I like Lockout for most things, it's too easy to score in one flag though. Isn't it GAFers?
What I like
Zanzibar - 1 CTF
Waterworks - Multibomb Assualt
Headlong - Either 1 CTF or Assault
Burial Grounds - Teamslayer
I don't like
Coagulation - I hate this map - What Coagulation needs is to have the bases take damage, so by the end of the round holes in the outer walls let you shoot into the base.
Zanzibar - 1 CTF
Waterworks - Multibomb Assualt
Headlong - Either 1 CTF or Assault
Burial Grounds - Teamslayer
I don't like
Coagulation - I hate this map - What Coagulation needs is to have the bases take damage, so by the end of the round holes in the outer walls let you shoot into the base.
Ninja of Ketchup
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Brimstone said:
That would be awesome..
Burial Grounds for Single CTF or Single Bomb.
Headlong for 4 vs 4 team slayer
Coagulation for Single CTF
Zanzibar for CTF Single, Assault or Team Slayer.
Lockout is good for free for all action
Ascension cause I heart sniper rifles.
Otherwise, I don't like the other boards..