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Subject: Been having fun in Halo 2 multiplayer

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Here are my favorite things about Halo2 multiplayer:

1. Lobby I love the fact that you can see what is coming next, and see how the teams are laid out. Gives you a chance to even the teams before the game starts. The impact of the delay button need to lessened, it can be used to hold the game up indefinately.

2. Stats at the close of the game Its nice to see where you stand in the pack in more catagories then just kills and deaths. I likr the hit ratio stat as I'm trying to improve my overall accuracy. Now someone need to build a bot to go out and retreive the stat logs of all of the servers out there so a career stat tracking website can be built.

3. HogWars on District. I have been having a blast with this gametype. Magnums only and a map loaded with Guass hogs force you to team up and go tearing around the block sending electro-magnetically propelled slugs into the other team. I was walking to a hog one time and heard the thwump of a gauss gun to my left. All of a sudden I was dead, skidding across the ground to the right for over 30ft.

4. Voice chat when it works. The ability to relay info to your team or driver without having to type is wonderful. The problem is that not many players have there mic configured properly. I guess I will work on a how-to for setting up the mic.

5. Battle Rifle to H2 what the pistol was to H1


Things I do not like

1. Limited Field of View tunnel vision gives you no awareness of what is around you just what is in front. Leads to rediculous ambushes when you walk right in front of someone and have no idea they are there.

2. Sub-machine gun Ugh POS weapon. Most map defauft setting have one of these in your hand and loads on the map. This Forces you to double it up and hose down your opponents who will doing the same to you. I have never killed anyone with full shields while weilding one of these weapons.

3 Coagulation Way to -blam!- up the greatest map from Halo1. Defualt setting on this map is infuriating. You spawn, helpless as a newborn infant, with a single SMG somewhere outside of the base. You never spawn on top of or in the base, So it takes you forever to get to a decent weapon. For vehicles you get a Ghost and a Chain Hog, both of which are destructable so they rarely make it to the enemy base and back.

4. Melee lunge attack It has made the melee attack too powerful and when you get into close range your stop firing and pound until one of you is dead. The noob knife(sword) is over powered as well. If it is close, you die.

5. Lack of Players There are usually about 15 servers with people in them, and only 6-8 have more then 6 players. Brilliant marketing ploy to make it exclusive to a OS that was just released.

Questions

How do I change teams while playing the game? Haven't figured it out yet.

How is it possible I can get a splatter medal in a sword match with no vehicles?


What would you guys think of starting a MAW Gathering for Halo2Vista? Since I don't have a dedicated server we could maybe agree to meet up on one of the M$ dedis and just take what it gives us.




  • 07.29.2007 8:34 PM PDT

To change teams, you go to Pause menu and scroll down to change teams. However, team changing can be disabled.
For the second question, i think it has to do with how fast ur lunging. I lunged at someone, missed, ran into a wall, and lost half my shield.

[Edited on 07.29.2007 10:12 PM PDT]

  • 07.29.2007 10:12 PM PDT
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who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

You can get a splatter by knocking something onto someone.

I got one on Xbox on a SWAT match by blowing up and exploding core on Ivory Tower by the OS side lift.

You can also get them on Midship by blowing up the exploding thingys by the carbine side.

  • 07.29.2007 10:16 PM PDT

Meh. Halo 2 has its pros and cons. You really get used to most of it, but it can be really frustrating at times.

Also, I think a H2V MAW Gathering would be a good idea. I guess you could either get on one of the M$ servers, or someone that has a good upload speed who could be online all night could host or something (or someone could set up a makeshift dedicated server?). I don't know. Just throwing some ideas out there. But yeah, on the whole, Halo 2 is a great game.

  • 07.29.2007 10:33 PM PDT
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The noob knife(sword)...LOL I'm gonna have to start calling it that too. That part made me laugh.

And I also am enjoying H2V's multiplayer. The one thing I haven't seen mentioned that I personally dislike is the fact that on default sensitivity it takes 1.5 sec before the warthog responds and turns - in Halo 1 PC it was just about instant. So in other words the handling isn't as good and you don't have as good control. I could always crank up the sensitivity I guess but that would also alter the fps view's sensitivity and I don't want it too sensitive there - a lot of PC FPS games have it too sensitive by default and it makes me dizzy after playing for more than 15 min. Thus I have to crank it down. Halo's sensitivity has always been just right for me.

Also I don't like that now you don't automatically pick up the flag by walking through it.

And my only other gripe is the toned down map editor. I miss having my C4s, Mythos, jets, and other custom things from CE.

But other than that I think most of the changes are good. I personally really enjoy the revamped Melee - works wonders :)

[Edited on 07.30.2007 11:32 AM PDT]

  • 07.30.2007 11:29 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Wow, who cares. I can't even get the -blam!- bull-blam!- to run properly. Good for you that you can have fun playing Halo 2. I really care. Just as much as you care that I can play it enough to offere me ZERO help. Have some fun for me, Igg!!!

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  • 07.30.2007 12:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: n357
Wow, who cares. I can't even get the -blam!- bull-blam!- to run properly. Good for you that you can have fun playing Halo 2. I really care. Just as much as you care that I can play it enough to offere me ZERO help. Have some fun for me, Igg!!!



You and I need to have a X-fire chat later. I thought you were doing fine because I have seen you on-line playing Halo2 most of the weekend. In fact, you were in some of the games with me.

At any rate I'm going to be putting together a troubleshooting guide for Halo2Vista pulling together all the info from the past couple months.


[Edited on 07.30.2007 1:16 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2007 1:14 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

H2 multiplayer: 7/10

H1 multiplayer: 9/10

H2 multiplayer has enough negatives that for me personally I will not play it. Too many other fun things to do, such as play H1.

  • 07.30.2007 1:35 PM PDT
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If you are talking about the glitch where it says you splatter people, it happens alot.

We need Halo 2 Maw gatherings >_>.

  • 07.30.2007 9:02 PM PDT
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Finally someone who doesn't say "Halo 2 rocks" or "Halo 2 sucks." You pointed out all the good and bad things. And I would do a MAW gathering if it was on a dedi only because there is no way in hell I'm paying for online play on the PC.

Now all we need is a H2 coldsnap. Yes, I like maps with giant -blam!- vehicles, particularly a pelican (no missles).

[Edited on 07.30.2007 9:38 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2007 9:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Posted by: RoffleChops
If you are talking about the glitch where it says you splatter people, it happens alot.

We need Halo 2 Maw gatherings >_>.


It's not a glitch... it's a part of the game design. It is designed so when you get hit with a heavy enough object it says you were splattered. It doesn't always have to be a vehicle.

  • 07.30.2007 9:51 PM PDT

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OK since there seems to be an interest in a H2V MAW gathering we will give it a shot. I figure we can use these to get an idea of what mapcycles they have on each server. I figure we start with Server 1 and go up from there. I'll start a new thread for it.

  • 07.31.2007 6:19 AM PDT