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OK, here's the story. My friends and I were playing some Halo a couple days ago. I shot my friend dead, and he claimed that the game said, "You were killed by The Guardians", as opposed to "You were killed by Brently." Was he just seeing things, or has this happened to anybody else? I thought I saw the same thing when I glanced at his screen after his death, but I was concentrating on wasting other people on Prisoner, so I may not have gotten a good glimpse.

  • 06.28.2004 3:30 PM PDT
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Yup, there is something called the guardians... supposedly it is when the game is confused about who killed who! But I still dont understand it!

  • 06.28.2004 3:33 PM PDT
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I'm not sure what the guardians really are, but here' what I know. I have a modded xbox, and I was playing with a mod that had AI in it. Whenever the AI would kill you, it would say that you were killed by the guardians. It looks like Halo needs a reason for why you die, so maybe Bungie was originally planning to have AI in Halo. Don't know...

  • 06.28.2004 3:40 PM PDT
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I have never seen or heard of anyone dying from the guardians by being shot. From what I understand if you and another player whack each other to death at the same time sometimes it cant tell who killed who so one of them will be killed by the guardians. I dont think that you can predict when it will happen. I played for about 2 years and never had it happen and then one night I had it happen to me 3 times. The only good thing about getting killed by the guardians is the other person doesnt get the kill.

  • 06.28.2004 4:17 PM PDT

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The Guardians happens when people kill each other, and one of them kills the other one before the other one kills him, but he still dies. The one that gets killed second was killed by *the guardians* because that technically, he was killed by a dead guy.

  • 06.28.2004 5:17 PM PDT
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I've had the same thing happen to me. A friend and I were running around boarding action with rockets trying to melee each otehr to death and about 5 times out of the dozens of times he killed me I was actually killed by "the guardians" while he was still alive.

  • 06.28.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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lol, my name is "TheGuardian"

  • 06.28.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Vasheeth
The Guardians happens when people kill each other, and one of them kills the other one before the other one kills him, but he still dies. The one that gets killed second was killed by *the guardians* because that technically, he was killed by a dead guy.


you just hit the nail on the head, man. try playing with no shields, 50% health, and melees only at Longest. You will see that the person who hits B first gets the kill and if the other person pulled the button after the first one, you will die, but it will say killed by the guardians because they aren't going to give a dead guy a Frag. Unless you are a Frag Master, because you are the master of fragging people.

  • 06.28.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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Wow, thanks for all the info, now I know what in the world my friend saw when I killed him.

  • 06.28.2004 10:08 PM PDT
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A dead guy can have a frag if he threw a grenade or fired a shot (one that's still in the air) or whatever before he died. I suppose that's why you only see the guardians message when both players melee eachother.

  • 06.29.2004 4:26 AM PDT
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I've never had it happen to me but as me name suggests I'm just so stealthy people need to look at who killed them to find out if it was me or not coz thy won't see me. Anywayz i was wondering did it look like it was a normal message just with the gaurdians as the name???

  • 06.29.2004 5:47 AM PDT
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Stealthy Worm, I believe it was just a normal message, with "The Guardians" as the name. And it must happen under special circumstances, because I kill people with grenades after death all the time, and "The Guardians" message doesn't appear.

  • 06.29.2004 8:12 AM PDT
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The Gardians have killed me before. I have also seen them with only 3 people playing But one person was nowere near when it happend my xbox is either stupid and gets confused or it is a conspiracy or somthing but its definitly real.

  • 06.29.2004 11:00 AM PDT
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I kill people when I'm dead all the time (suicide grenades) and I've never seen "killed by the guardians"

  • 07.01.2004 11:18 AM PDT
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Did everybody just ignore my explanation of why you get a kill for suicide grenades???

  • 07.02.2004 12:45 AM PDT
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your right JamezW. i get killed all the time from suicide 'nades. you only get "was killed by the guardians" for meleeing people.

  • 07.02.2004 8:23 AM PDT
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you threw the grenade when you were still alive though

  • 07.02.2004 8:56 AM PDT
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I once got a "guardians" message when I had a complaetely full overshield, my friend had not fired a shot and meleed me as I meleed him, I got a kill but then the Guardians killed me, I was most annoyed!

  • 07.02.2004 9:04 AM PDT
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Yea me too Bungie should explain this.

  • 07.06.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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Spartan on fire
How many times has someone told you that "geting" in your sig should be spelled "getting"?

I don't mind the gaurdians as much as I get annoyed by a shotgun wasting you at a distance that is stupid far away. (And that is pretty far.)

  • 07.06.2004 8:38 PM PDT