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Subject: HOST - how can you tell if you have it?
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im new to Halo, but have read on a forum you can tell if you have host on the blue matchmaking screen. firstly wtf is host and how do you know you have it???

  • 09.12.2007 2:57 AM PDT
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hold back when the game starts. if you start without a red x, your host

  • 09.12.2007 4:57 AM PDT

When its Configuring the game and has a few seconds left just hold the back (called "Select" button by some) button on your controller. When the game starts the players list will come up. Whoevers emblem shows up first has host. All others will be Red X's

  • 09.12.2007 4:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: KrIpToKnIgHT
hold back when the game starts. if you start without a red x, your host


Correct :)
Host is when the H2 servers see your connection as the most reliable one and makes you the "leader" so to speak of the game. Sometimes, however, the server picks a host with a dodgy connection simply because their connection spiked just at the right time the choosing was going on and you'll find that sometimes the host is actually one with a lousy connection causing lagging issues. If you ARE chosen as host, you will find that it's much easier to kill the opponent and you seem to get away from being killed more often than when you're not host. Some weapons work a heck of a lot better while you're host. Just pick up a shotgun when you know you're host and see. Also gunning in the Gauss warthog while you're host is EXTREMELY effective.

  • 09.12.2007 7:17 AM PDT
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You know you have host when you aren't yelling "BULL-blam!-!" at the screen all match. Good luck.

  • 09.12.2007 7:22 AM PDT

RIP Halo 2.

-BXR doesn't reload the BR
-LX doesn't work
-BR is effective across the map and shots land consistently making 4 shot kills easier
-Sniper works across the map
-Gauss hog owns
-No nade delay
-You can grenade jump
-All weapons are more consistent with hit detection

  • 09.12.2007 7:45 AM PDT

Posted by: CONAN9845
You know you have host when you aren't yelling "BULL-blam!-!" at the screen all match. Good luck.

Lies!!! That never happens!!

  • 09.12.2007 8:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: CONAN9845
You know you have host when you aren't yelling "BULL-blam!-!" at the screen all match. Good luck.


Haha, this method is the best way, trust me. Host advantages are way greater than I had previously thought, having read the list that someone just posted (nice list, by the way). No wonder I do amazing some games and then can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn the next...

  • 09.12.2007 10:54 AM PDT

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
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--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

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There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

They have barns in Halo 2? I iz a nub =*(

~B.B.

  • 09.12.2007 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: BerserkerBarage
They have barns in Halo 2?


Yeah man, its a glitch. Big red barns spawn and start pwning you with hay.

I hear there's an uberglitch that can get you a golden barn, too.

  • 09.12.2007 11:13 AM PDT

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

A golden barn??? Does it fly??? Holy blam, I've heard about the scarab gun...but barns?? BARNS??!?!? That's awesome.

~B.B.

  • 09.12.2007 11:15 AM PDT