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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update
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HAXZORZ FRANKIE!! And thos3 three people. They are ALL Marty. The one in the middle is a women. And good water update too.

  • 03.03.2007 5:10 AM PDT

Cant wait for the new maps and the beta, keep the updates coming
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insane- rockets, KOTH, midship, no shields

Man Hunt- Active Camo, weapons depending on map,( snipes for headlong), last life 5 deaths

peace

  • 03.03.2007 5:16 AM PDT
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RCG: In ur base, steelin' ur flagz. | Watch the demo, then join the carnage!

My personal favourite is to stick someone in the face and shout "bluescreen!" as they flail around. Nice inside joke for Marines perhaps. ;]

Other than that, the only terminology I use is to differentiate between places on the map. Some of the shorthand is pretty universal (Lockout: BR 1, 2, 3 and ramp; Library; Sword; Under Glass; Snipe 1, 2, 3; Elbow; Top/Bottom Lift; Shotty) and some varies (Midship: Blue/Red 1, 2; Centre/Shotty; Sword/Catwalk; Carbine/Carb 1, 2; Pink 1, 2, 3; Red/Blue Bubble/Nades) depending who you're playing with.

Much of my individual lingo is reserved for describing exactly how the shotgun failed to kill someone this time: "I deep-throated him and cracked him in the chest, and he assassinated me from the front", for instance.

As far as customs go you guys seem to be perfectly good at naming variants... Ninjanaut etc.. I'd love to see "bluescreen!" in there somewhere, though. =P

  • 03.03.2007 5:28 AM PDT

Hey baby, its all Kool and the Gang.

Posted by: Cob_Vironex
I know it's dumb... but those intense grenade swapping fights seem akin to monkeys throwing poop. Two creatures dancing around throwing crap at each other... it's... -I'm sorry.

you're a funny guy. a tip of the hat to you sir

  • 03.03.2007 5:34 AM PDT
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I Hope You Can See This Because I'm Doing It As Hard As I Can!

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P.S. Anybody that gets ran over by a warthog/vehicle always get the pleasure of hearing the words "PIZZA GUY" shouted during a match in reference to this video.


LMAO! Great!
good update
who wants a ham sandwhich??
I know i do ;`(

  • 03.03.2007 5:35 AM PDT
Subject: Custom Game Names
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We have one called "Meatgrinder" which is random weapons, FFA king-of-the-hill on Midship. Play it with a good size Party and you'll see why it's called that.

We also have "Magenta Monarch" which is King-of-the-hill with needlers only. Magenta Monarch...get it? Cause they're pink...and King-of....no? Okay.

We also have one called "Three shots left" which is regular slayer, only with only pistols and swords, no weapons on the map. The reason it's called that is, while the pistol's usually good at keeping sword people at bay, you tend to run low on ammo very quickly. So while we were playing on Foundation, my friend only had "Three shots left", so I taunted him by saying "Only three shots left, use them wisely". He promptly blasted the fusion cores behind me, killed me, and got my ammo, all while laughing his ass off. It was so awesome we had to name the game after it.

Edit: i gotta point out though, I got "Magenta Monarch" and "Meatgrinder" from halowiki.net. Great site.

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  • 03.03.2007 5:46 AM PDT
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Nice!!! I hope the new elites looks really cool and really badass, because I love elites!!!!!

  • 03.03.2007 5:48 AM PDT

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Look, just talk to me. I'm sure we'll get along.

Marty's a girl?

  • 03.03.2007 6:32 AM PDT
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Loving the news on the elites, so far they've been taking a backseat to the brutes in terms of updates and such. Hell all we've seen is the arbiter getting knocked about in the et tu brute video. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the elites have improved on themselves to combat the brute's improvments.

  • 03.03.2007 6:41 AM PDT
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No armed floods are called "freds".

  • 03.03.2007 7:05 AM PDT
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nice update

Best Gametype

Map: Lockout
Weapons: Only Swords
No weapons on map
Type: Multiflag CTF
Touch Return: On
Regular Grenades

Don't have a great name but we call it Free Monies

  • 03.03.2007 7:09 AM PDT

I like tho call my everything custom game "WTF Crazypills"

All my friends seem to like the title.

  • 03.03.2007 7:20 AM PDT

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no, im not a nub

Nice update... btw, I NEVER post, in fact this is my first time even entering a forum (bungie or other).

Gametypes I play but not preset:

Game name - "fuzzy blue hats"(my favorite), "blue helmets", "smurf slingin"
Plasma pistols only (but you can't use em)
No frags, just plasma nades
Map - Midship(sometimes), Lockout(mostly), Warlock(rarely)
purpose - stick everyone till whatever kill count you like

Game name - Tower of Power
Goal - pretty well known by everyone, one team defends a non-semetrical map with a single base guarded by a turret. (such as ascension(best), but can be played on others) Teams of four and higher work best. The purpose is to take the Tower and hold it till whatever kill limit you like.
No shields, smg start w/pistol as secondary and pistols on map, frags too if you want... BUT NO SNIPERS!!!
Very fun if all play by rules, taking the tower back is rediculously hard with no shields!

Gametype for halo 3 PLZ!!!!.....
NO SCOPES - is there a way you could make the zoom function not work for this particular gametype? Obviously when online with people you don't know you can't possibly use the "honor system", as much as we would all like to accept that nobody cheats, I am constantly reminded by modders and standbyers that people dont play fair! <--- on a daily basis!


  • 03.03.2007 7:39 AM PDT
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I want a multiplayer map that contains rain. And when the rain hits your armor, the drops splash off of it. That would be frosty! :)

  • 03.03.2007 7:56 AM PDT
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HURAY FOR WATER!!!

  • 03.03.2007 7:59 AM PDT
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I was suprised not to see this, because I really thought it was kind of a common game because it's incredibly fun. But what me and my friends like to play is a game we call counterstrike (obviously you'd have to change the name). It's a team game (works best with 4 v 4) like Swat (no shields, battle rifles only, no radar) but each player has only three lives, so when you die three times you're out. Also, to make things even better, it's one bomb assault so one team is on offensive the other on defensive. This way, you don't need to kill the entire other team in order to win, just distract them and have someone plant the bomb. We mostly only play it on two maps, foundation and midship, but I guess it could work on other maps (just make sure there's a decent variety of ways to plant the bomb).


I'd love to see it in Halo 3, or even new Halo 2 Matchmaking, but it's a game you can set up and run fine in Halo 2 Custom games without relying on the "honor" system, unlike Zombie (which is another party favorite of mine).


~ Steven

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  • 03.03.2007 8:11 AM PDT

Elites confirmed for MP, yay.

  • 03.03.2007 8:15 AM PDT
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TGIM - Thank God Its Magnums. For SWAT magnum gametypes.

  • 03.03.2007 8:19 AM PDT

Today a young man on acid realized that we are merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are one conciousness experiencing its self subjectively. Life is but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the weather...


It's not a "War On Drugs", it's a war on personal freedom.

Don't know if this gametype or name thereof has been mentioned yet in this thread seeing as I'm late to the party and all (9TH PAGE woot...LoL.), but we used to play a game called Troy.

Like a certain fastfood columnist likes to say.."Here's the Blueprint."

Rules: Team Slayer
Map: Coagulation
Starting Weapon: Brute Shot
Secondary Weapon: None
Grenades: Don't use nades for this. It ruins it.
Shields: No Shields, Extra Damage
Weapons on Map: None
Vehicles on Map: None
Time Limit: None
Lives: One

This game type is best served by having as large a party as possible. 8 players per team (although 16 per team would be ideal given the scope of the setting.)

Spoken Rules: Each team starts, of course, at thier respective base. Upon spawning you are to angle your Brute Shot skyward as best you see fit to have the ensuing barrage of grenade fire arc toward the opposing team on the other end of the map. All the while, running in that same direction toward your enemies. The standing rule is that you must have expended all of your ammunition by the time you're up close and personal with the other team. Thereafter, whomever is left standing attempts to pummel eachother with the blade end of the Brute Shot.

The gametype ends up having a kind of epic quality to it. Because of the relatively slow velocity of the Brute Shot's projectiles, while your running at your foe through the fields of Coag., you can still see all of the Brute nades flying through the air in the sky above you. You often end up seeing the shots land and kill your enemies before you get close enough to "fight" them. Sometimes you get taken out before you've even reached the center of the battlefield. You end up with a sort of Braveheart or, hence it's name, Troy type of feeling when running into the fray.

All in all, with enough people playing, I have found this one to be quite entertaining. For all intents and purposes, I know Bungie's Maps and Gametypes work best with a smallish amount of players, but this gametype would be amazing with a Coagulation sized field full of Spartans.



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  • 03.03.2007 8:22 AM PDT

Sticky Punch - Plasma pistol start with no secondary. Plasma grenades start and on map.

Timmy - Catch all for annoying kids who are loud, cheat, greif, quit out or glitch.

Ultimate Flag - Respawn time is minimum, 2 flag CTF. Touch return is off but the flag returns in 10 seconds. Shotgun start with BR secondary. Flag carrier moves at normal speed for an unencumbered Spartan, has damage resistance and does massive damage. 5 Scores to win. Good for Small maps.

Poleaxed - Getting your dome crushed in by a flag carrier who perfoms a jumping melee.

  • 03.03.2007 8:25 AM PDT
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I call the MC The Tin Can

I call the brute shot the BS

I call the Shotgun the Shotty

  • 03.03.2007 8:27 AM PDT
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"Tower of Power"
-Ascension
- no shields,or on depending how you want it
-shotguns
-all other weapons off,no secondary
-grenades off
- turret on
-2 teams of 8 try and take over the tower

  • 03.03.2007 8:37 AM PDT

Congratulations! You found where the signatures are hidden!!

A lot of people call the bottom room under sniper in Lockout the "suicide room".

When I've got the flag, and I'm getting chased by the enemy with lots of gunfire, I yell, "I'm coming in hot!".

Backwash (yeah, I know it has a name already) is usually called Degobah.

  • 03.03.2007 8:39 AM PDT

Boom Skate - In Campaign, a warthog containing an ODST gunner, and an ODST riding shotgun w/rockets. Personally, I feel that this is the most effective killing machine in the whole game. After the initial landing and assault on Delta Halo, giving the spare rockets from the roof to your ODST passenger ensures mayhem, chaos, and great visuals.
Uber Boom Skate - same thing, but w/the guass hog.


[cortana]ok, so you don't want the tank? I guess we'll leave it for the others....[/cortana]


spamming - tossing grenades into any and all areas of a map that don't contain teamates.


  • 03.03.2007 8:41 AM PDT

Join Planet Reach
Hog sniping
Exalted is considered "the highest" because you can't get any bans or warnings of any kind for quite a long time, which is harder than just being a member for a long time.

Stick someone in the face - Snow Cone or 'you got snow coned'
Trick someone into turning their back to you by telling them to 'look up and see the butterfly'
Scropion - 'Sheila' for obvious RvB reasons
Sword - n00b stick
The Plasma Pistol's green cloud - well... it's just a fart that chases you around
Team Rockets on any map - "Team Betrayels"
Team Brutes on any map - "Team Quit out" or "Quit Fest"
Team Slayer BR - "Team slur Burr"
Ninja Assault - Ninja Bomb
When the announcer says "Slayer" - respond with "slay her? i don't even know her!"
Begginning of the game when people are calling for weapons and vehicles - yell "i've got the pistol!!!"
Capture the flag - same thing but with no L, kind of like 'Smear the Q" (you get the point)
Sniper Rifle - Snipper Riffle
King of the Hill - King of the thrill

I love the idea the way water will work, if it does what you say it will.

  • 03.03.2007 8:43 AM PDT