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Subject: Finally played Halo PC and guess what?...
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It's still not better than Halo 2! I like it an all, and got it to pass time until I can take the TV to play Halo 2 but there are so many frustrating things about it. To snipe you have to aim BEFORE their head, like a full circle ahead (WTF?), Banshees can destroy anyone, warthogs are the ultimate spawn killer just go around the circle and if your even TAPPED you DIE! For some reason even though the warthog is so flippin' easy to drive, you get betrayed by anyone thats in a hog! Spawn detection sucks, you can -blam!- spawn on a grenade! WTF again! Oh and here is a great one, you can throw a plasma grenade right on a warthog when its barreling at you, and when you die it passes through. And even if it sticks they still won't die! I've never met more rude and stuck up people than in Halo PC. Oh and it seems that the only weapons on the map are the mighty Pistol, Sniper, and Rocket because no one uses anything else! (Whew) There ya have it, I have played every Halo game and I can say that Halo 2 is far by ownage.

-The Bear
[Disclamer: This is my opinion, I believe it not to be fact but just of my favoritism there by protecting me from any flame from INTELIGENT lifeforms.]

(I still love all the Halo games, just that I favor 2 better)

  • 06.15.2005 12:09 PM PDT
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learn to dodge hogs - practice makes perfect. A lot of ppl on HPC are noobtastic. Nades sometimes disappear after you die, but i use frags and not plasmas - learn to anticipate. The fuel rod gun is often used as well, and I prefer the shotgun in certain circumstances... the shees are easier to shoot ppl out of than in H2 - just use the pistol or the gun on the hog. HPC is much different than H2 and has a much more strategic and team-oriented pace I find than H2 - you would probably have a better experience if you found a good server.

  • 06.15.2005 12:22 PM PDT
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Maybe its the fact in Halo 2 if your good enough you can carry your team, but there is NO strategy in any server I go into. It sucks. You tell someone, or ask someone to go somewhere or take control of something and they tell you to -blam!- off and they get killed. I'm not a noob to PC FPS's, help me out here! lol I can't find a good server that has some good teamwork, maybe I need to find a flippin' clan or something. And dodging a hog sucks because even if the tip touches you, ya die! And I don't get how I am below average on sniping, I can do it in Halo 1 and 2 with great accuracy but with a mouse ya' think it'd be easier. It just pisses me right off. So if someone on Halo PC is not a pompus ass, and you like teamwork then tell me the server.

-The Bear

(By the way, what the hell is that icon that keeps popping up on the bottom right hand of my screen that looks like a ethernet cord slot and has a red 'X'? All my cords are plugged in and there is not a short in the cord. Is it just lag? I have High Speed)

  • 06.15.2005 12:36 PM PDT
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lol - YES - it is lag - like lag spike - like uber-lag - try another server and make sure all your file-sharing programs are closed when you play. That's why you can't snipe - although you do have to lead your shots most of the time anyway - yeah I recommend finding a clan. I also recommend Halo CE.

  • 06.15.2005 1:42 PM PDT
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CE? Which is that? Do you know a good clan to join?

-The Bear

  • 06.15.2005 1:53 PM PDT
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CE - you should browse the forums for a fuller explanation, but it is a HPC mod - and it's a lot of fun. As far as clans, idk... I hold PAT and DSE in high esteem.

  • 06.15.2005 1:55 PM PDT
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The entire thing about haveing to place the sniper rifle reticle ahead of the person when they are moveing is called leading.

Think about it your out shooting a fire arm at a moveing target, if you shoot at where the targert is inless its close, your gona miss. you have to shoot at where the target is going to be. This was taken into acount in Halo PC and not Halo 2.

It was left out of Halo 2 becase of auto aim and becase with the Lag it would be extremly hard to estimate((witch is what you have to do on PC any ways))

and that little box your seeing is the Lag box saying that what ever game your in is Laging to bad. Try joining a Game with a Ping under 120, if you can find it one with a ping around 60.

IF you want a less lag game, and a more Halo 2 like experince or even just a differnt experince all togather download the custem edation. with that you can play user created maps and wepons. theres even one where Master Cheif is Sonic the hedghog lol.

If you dont like useing the Mouse I would recomend buying a PC controler or for a even cheaper get up and one you would be more use to, go at and get a X box to PC adapter. This will let you use your X box controler on the PC.

  • 06.15.2005 2:30 PM PDT
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The little icon in the corner isn't always a sign of lag. On the bungie-ctf servers (which are like, dying more and more every day), the icon appears whenever someone is getting auto-banned for tking too much. So, if a message saying that so-and-so betrayed so-and-so comes up after the icon dissapears, it's not lag.

Anyway, i have a clan that i started when i was really getting pissed off at tkers. The link to my website is in my sig.

[Edited on 6/15/2005]

  • 06.15.2005 2:38 PM PDT
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the icon indicates problems connecting with the server.

the reason you are not as good a shot is that in x-box there is a firing reticle where the game actually helps you aim. You just have to get pretty close. In the pc version, you actually have to do all the aiming yourself. Also, if you have bad ping you will have a much tougher time aiming than otherwise (you can't see where they are at the time your signal gets through.)

  • 06.15.2005 3:03 PM PDT
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GO COMPLAIN TO YOUR MOM! THIS IS NOT THE -blam!- PLACE

  • 06.15.2005 3:13 PM PDT
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lol - I suppose I've rubbed off?

anyways, leading is more a consequence of lag than it is a physical property built into the game's engine...

  • 06.15.2005 5:56 PM PDT
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lag....

i had a dream!
a dream of a halo with no lag!
were the people who joined had as good of a connection as the host!
and through this no lag environment people began to work as teams now that they could actually hit each other.
i had a dream!
that a person didn’t half to lower there graphics to almost nothing to be able to see!
that players didn’t warp all over the maps!
and then after that i was in a pool of waffles...

i have strange dreams... if only this one would come true, laglessnes, waffles and all.

  • 06.15.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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i have strange dreams... if only this one would come true, laglessnes, waffles and all.
we've all had that dream.... well the lag part anyways.

YAY waffles!

  • 06.15.2005 6:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: KillinBear
To snipe you have to aim BEFORE their head, like a full circle ahead (WTF?)

(I still love all the Halo games, just that I favor 2 better)



have you EVER played halo 1? its called leading... and its what u have to do in real life... because bullets dont travel as fast as youd like them to.

  • 06.15.2005 9:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: KillinBear
To snipe you have to aim BEFORE their head, like a full circle ahead (WTF?)

(I still love all the Halo games, just that I favor 2 better)



have you EVER played halo 1? its called leading... and its what u have to do in real life... because bullets dont travel as fast as youd like them to.


*slaps face*

I will reiterate - Leading is more of a result of Lag than it is a physical property built into the game's engine...

  • 06.15.2005 10:21 PM PDT
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yeah you dont really have to lead at all when you have 0 ping... but you can think its a physical property if you want ;) whatever works

  • 06.16.2005 1:41 AM PDT
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when i try to host a game no 1 joins i can leave it on there for days no 1 ever comes.i invited ppl and they said they couldnt connect.any 1 know why that is thx

  • 06.16.2005 3:39 AM PDT
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In one word halo pc is a "classic".
Ive played other online games but for some reason i always come back to this one. even though the lagg is horrible. Belive or not halo made me such a good player in other shooters. In amercias army and un real tournment i owned people the 1st time i ever played them. Halo pc is a "classic" and i will always go back to it.

  • 06.16.2005 8:57 AM PDT