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Subject: A good point about Halo 2 online
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I've recently noticed something different about the beatdowns. I don't know what it is but it's BLAMMING annoying. I stick a guy in the head and then the guy goes right through the grenade and beats me down with one hit. The grenade dropped down to the floor and exploded. Another time I had a shotgun and shot this guy holding my flag and he beat me down with one hit and didn't even get scratched and it him directly, AND THEN HE GOT A DOUBLE! There was no lag at all in these games. I try to beat guys down with my BR and they just own me and beat me down because there are 3 of them and my whole team quits on me. Also Tombstone is impossible to win in Objective games unless you are the red team. Why? Because you get gunned down as soon as you make a move for any of the guns or try and get inside the red base. I'm serious they just spawn at the top of the tower and as soon as you get up from cover your toast. I can't even use the walkway behind the blue base to get in because they're always waiting there with rockets as soon as the game starts up. Every single route to the red tower is a one way ticket to death, and my team? They aren't doing BLAM to help me, just quitting. And don't just say "get better" because it's not me it's my teams.

  • 08.30.2007 9:27 AM PDT
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get better

  • 08.30.2007 9:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: AF ARMY ToughGuy
get better

It's not me I'm carrying these guys. These guys are BLAMMING garbage and I'm sick of it. And these melee lunges with BRs are unbearable.

  • 08.30.2007 9:30 AM PDT
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get a better team

  • 08.30.2007 9:48 AM PDT
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If you guys think I'm complaining just because I can't win I'm not. It's my teams, they're really low levels because I'm always on Blue and Red has more experienced players if you ask me that's unbalanced right there. So if you're that determined on making the melees lunges so long why not just make the announcer say: "GET OUT! NEVER PLAY AGAIN, YOU SUCK, GAME OVER!"

  • 08.30.2007 9:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: fiagra
get a better team

How when all I meet is in-expirenced players and the other teams won't let me join up just because my team lost.

  • 08.30.2007 9:49 AM PDT

Well, what do you want us to do about it?

  • 08.30.2007 9:51 AM PDT
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Make it more balanced and but players equally on both teams according to levels. And get rid of the long BR lunges. I know Ninja 0n Fire reads these and he did make all the playlists.

  • 08.30.2007 9:55 AM PDT

I've had multiple melee problems myself. I saw a guy who had no shields, so I went to melee him, I heart the *crack* noise, and he shot me with a shotgun and killed me. Multiple times in the Coagulation bases, I melee THROUGH people and end up dead because of that. There are definitely problems with that.

Your being beaten down by a flag guy makes sense though. The flag is a VERY powerful melee weapon. If you have any damage at all, it will kill you, and if not, it brings down your shields.

Oh, and I agree entirely with your Tombstone complaints. I quit playing Team Skirmish matches (even though I LOVE objective games) because I continuously got Assault/CTF on Tombstone, and it was so effing hard to storm the red base, while plucking people from blue is a piece of cake.

  • 08.30.2007 10:13 AM PDT
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I noticed on Desolation I always respawn next to the shotgun stairway and get blown away because I get spawn killed and the rest of my team spawns there too. And I had full shield when the flag guy hit me, and he's all "oh! beat down shotgun! Oh! Double kill with the flag!" And there was this time on Tombstone when a red guy spawned right next to me on red tower and I shot all his shields down and he kept running from me with no shields until he got to OS and he owned me, now that's cheap.

  • 08.30.2007 10:23 AM PDT
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I've heard that there is some degree of lag in every game and you may not even be able to tell that lag is there. I think that little bit of lag causes those "Why the hell didn't that kill him!!!!!" instances because if the truth be known, you were already dead. You and your xbox just didn't know it yet.
I don't know if that's true or not so maybe someone else knows and can explain it better.

  • 08.30.2007 10:25 AM PDT

A lot of people will camp by the stairs because they don't want to be rushed from behind. I did the same thing to people in SWAT matches. That's part of the reason everybody hates Desolation/Tombstone. (Personally, I don't mind Desolation, but Warlock and Tombstone are TERRIBLE)

As far as the flag thing goes, I can't see why one melee killed you unless you randomly got shot and didn't know. I guess the other guy got lucky. I always see random melee things. For example, when I was sword lunging today, I was shotgunned/meleed before I got to the guy, and consequently killed. How a person was able to do both of those actions during a lunghe is beyond me, but whatever.

I'm sure the melee has problems. I have been beaten down by people who are to the side of me facing the wall behind me. A lot is just up to the computer when it has to decide which of two people with no sheilds meleeing each other should die, I guess. I agree that melee should be straightened out, but until then the most that you can do is try to practice how it works.

  • 08.30.2007 10:34 AM PDT