- mastercmj2003
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Posted by: Reachtard
Did someone call for me?
I will try to answer you step by step, please try to keep up.
Well, I'm thinking that if you have THIRTY-FIVE lives at your disposal, this achievement would be about 35x easier.Ok...If you play conservative and in a strategic manner, then you earned those THIRTY-FIVE lives. It doesn't make the acheivement easier, as it just gives you more room to make mistakes.
And yes, spawn camping the enemy is cheating, especially when doing so gets you a rediculously high score, awarding you an amount of lives that you should not have been able to reasonably get.Hypothetically: You are playing SWAT, have a triple kill, and see the Overkill Extermination guy spawn. Are you going to let him get the chance to kill you or are you going to kill him first? I don't consider spawn camping as cheating as it is a 'dirty tactic'. However, its very effective, and since its against the computer and NOT against other players (like MM swat), it shouldn't offend anybohy (imo).
They're called Achievements for a reason. If you can't get it, then you get better and eventually get to the point where you can. You achieve something. With this helpful little loophole, I'd imagine pretty much anyone with a few brain cells a pair of thumbs could get this achievement.
And I never said you forced anyone to do anything. But what you did was glorify a loophole in a game that made one of the hardest achievements in the game easily doable.Here's where you lose me. If you can't do something, you research on how to effectively acheive it. You learn, you get better, and eventually, you acheive what previously was unattainable. You can't just walk onto a HS football team, it takes practice and knowledge. Same concept.
I'd like to quote you really quickly, though.
I felt it necessary though to help others because I realize that everyone isn't a 'super general god' at this game.
Thats why people GET BETTER AT THE GAME. You're just enabling people, essentially. Giving them an *ackhem* "easy way out".When I started Halo3, I wasn't perfect, I was good, not great. I wanted to get better. What did I do? I started learning strategies, tips and tricks, and eventually I got good enough to acheive my general rank. Essentially, I'm passing my knowledge down to some of the more inexperienced players. Again though, this guide helps everyone. Knowledge is power.
So please stop trying to defend yourself. I don't actually have much of a problem with you. I have a problem with people who would use this guide at all. But I shouldn't, I guess. They're really only cheating themselves. I'm glad that this is a dispute of opinion and not a flame war. However, you kinda contradict yourself. You have a problem with people wanting help getting the help they are searching for. No one is perfect, which means no one man can know everything.
I actually don't mean to offend anyone here, especially you considering you're actually an intelligent human being. But, I'm just a little irked that all of a sudden this achievement no longer carries any weight with it, and is no longer actually an achievement. Makes me a little sad inside, like when the IWHBYD skull was discovered through hacking.
Yup, people will do anything for their precious achievements.I'll take that as a compliment! =) This achievement still carries some weight, because it is time consuming, and gets progressively difficult, and without teamwork, it can fall apart rather easily. Also, people are having trouble finding 3 others to play this with. The difference betweent his guide and the IWHBYD skull is that this strategy was written by a regular guy playing a game legitimately, not looking into the code to see 'how many enemies this' or 'geometry glitches' that.
I understand where you come from with your arguments, but I'm just confused that you feel that a strategy guide is a bad thing. It is helping those who need the help. I am giving them the flashlight, they must get to the end of the tunnel themselves.