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Ok, everyone knows that Halo 2 is a n00b game because anyone can be good at it after a day and it takes no skill, but i still love it and always play it.

Halo 1 is soooooo much better than Halo 2.

And i will rock any1 of you noobies, my tag is FaTtYpAtTy812, send me a message if you wanna 1v1.

  • 08.07.2005 5:10 PM PDT
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The pickle of Master Chief was freakin awesome! They need to put his face beside George Washington on the mountain thingy. Oh and by the way get that %@*^ NOOB COMBO off the games, its freakin PISSING ME OFF! Every time you kill someone with it you go ohhhh you suck at this game. You wana know why? Because you can't do -blam!- with any other gun you get a hold of. Why dont you idiots play with some real toys for once.

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  • 08.07.2005 5:13 PM PDT
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What does it mean, Unique people online? How people were banned right now and are you going add more characters like brutes, Floods on LIVE on halo 3?

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  • 08.07.2005 5:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: mike1234
What does it mean, Unique people online? How people were banned right now and are you going add more characters like brutes, Floods on LIVE on halo 3?

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thats pretty much asking," will you put AI in Live?" well, that would be a great request, because then you might be able to do endurance games against AI with a buddy online. now THAT would be sweet!

  • 08.07.2005 5:46 PM PDT
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I hate that Bob Barker!

why dont the cheaters get the hint it is starting to get a little irritating hearing about how they think there innocent and didnt do anything, but it's like you bungie dude said they got banned for some reason or it wouldn't have happened. i just wish we could all get on a new subject and move on with our honest halo playing lives. the whining little cheaters need to just give it a rest and dont cheat thats all there is to it. that being said im going to bed.

arpod out!!!

  • 08.07.2005 6:57 PM PDT
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How is it determined where you finish in a Big team battle, Team Preview, Team Skirmish, for objective based games when only one person captures a flag or plants a bomb? is it completely random? because its definitly not how many kills you had or medals you got. I was just wondering because sometimes it makes no sense when some people are very active and stealing the flag but not capturing it and they finish near last or the middle of the pack while some people who do near to nothing sometimes finish third or fourth. I hope someone knows the answer because I have been wondering about this for a long time.

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  • 08.07.2005 7:02 PM PDT
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I am from HIH and this pages still has less spam in it than that "Hi Ben" thread over there before they reset it. (tea he he)

Anyways, I've heard it is in the island right before you depart from the first gondola by where you start.

  • 08.07.2005 7:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: thebobby
THIRD!

At first I taught the update sucked -blam!-, but in the end, I'm feeling something very big is coming this way... and its coming very fast...
you are second

  • 08.07.2005 7:55 PM PDT
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257th YAY!

  • 08.07.2005 7:55 PM PDT
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Bungie I am on my knees begging you WILL YOU GET THAT FREAKIN PLASMA PISTOL BATTLE RIFFLE NOOB COMBO OFF XBOX LIVE BEFORE I PUT A FREAKIN GUN TO MY TEDDY BEARS HEAD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. OH AND ALL YOU STANDBYERS OUT THERE. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, I WRITE YOU A POEM.....
Oh my little standbyer,
Why must you make my blood boil higher?

Is it because you're on your fifth stepdad?
That no girls willtalk to you makes you sad?

Maybe it's due to obscenely low selfesteem
That makes you send us all to the evil blue screen

You say it must be lag or we're afraid of a good butt spankin';
What I do know is when I'm back in the game, all I hear is "Flag Taken!"

We turn you in for the standbyin' loser that you are,
But that's okay, you have four more free-trial cards laying around your car.

Warning to all standbyers: You better hope I don't meet someday when I'm sober
IN A DARK ALLEY...ME...YOU...BASEBALL BATT..."GAME OVER"

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  • 08.07.2005 8:05 PM PDT
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Cruel Criminal, you poser, you didn't write that poem you got it from OXM. And you must suck if you want to get rid of the noob combo.

  • 08.07.2005 9:02 PM PDT
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Woot 252nd oh yes highest i've ever posted

  • 08.07.2005 9:19 PM PDT
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  • 08.07.2005 9:24 PM PDT
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Now I aint usually one to complain but Bungie as a few problems that i would LOVE if they got worked out. The thing im talkin about is lag and host advantage. They have said that there is NO such thing but it doesnt show. I have been hit lets say from the Flag spawn on Midship from the Side Entrance and killed one hit. That is pratically a SNIPE with the shotgun. I have noticed people do shoot BR faster(usually 4 shots in a disadvantaged 3). The last example i got is i ran across Ascension into the shotgun spawn. A guy at Big Tower sniped when i was safely past the wall and i KNEW he wouldnt be able to hit me. Some people my say there are other explanations are available but i know wut i saw. Neways Bungie/Xbox Live i think your doing a great job with the game it has come a long way since i first started. Cheating is almost non-existant but peopel still find ways cuz their dumb.

  • 08.07.2005 10:32 PM PDT
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With the new maps y cant u dual weild pistols is it a glitch wiv my game or hav bungie made a the biggest screw up ever because they're weak enough without having dual weilding.
Why does bungie make the disc so tht it can only be downloaded once because people are just copying it with lots of friends and bungie/microsoft stand to lose a lot of money.

did Microsft sign a deal of any sort wiv nintendo.

S2 AM SNIPER

  • 08.07.2005 10:34 PM PDT
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i agree with everything u just said

  • 08.07.2005 10:54 PM PDT
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him people, i was thinking about the hidden message frankie was tlking about and i thort it would make sense and be cool if it were maybe carved into the tree on gemmi?

FRANKIE IF I GOT IT WRITE SURLY I SHOULD WIN SOMETHING?

  • 08.08.2005 12:46 AM PDT
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does anybody know about the reported halo 2 virus? me and my online friends have all had the same guy strangly add us on live and none of us know him and he's never been online, since then we have all suffered connection problems and other wierd things, like when your playing a game it seems you handicap has been set to moderate etc etc,

anyone who knows anything then plzzzzz say

  • 08.08.2005 12:48 AM PDT
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realy sory to TRIPLE post but i doutb the 'hi tim' is in an old map, other wise we would have no doutb found it by now, no?

bungie should make a in game shout out for

NO SCOPE'S
DOUBLE STICKS
and any others u can think of

  • 08.08.2005 12:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: TheSwagga
Now I aint usually one to complain but Bungie as a few problems that i would LOVE if they got worked out. The thing im talkin about is lag and host advantage. They have said that there is NO such thing but it doesnt show. I have been hit lets say from the Flag spawn on Midship from the Side Entrance and killed one hit. That is pratically a SNIPE with the shotgun. I have noticed people do shoot BR faster(usually 4 shots in a disadvantaged 3). The last example i got is i ran across Ascension into the shotgun spawn. A guy at Big Tower sniped when i was safely past the wall and i KNEW he wouldnt be able to hit me. Some people my say there are other explanations are available but i know wut i saw. Neways Bungie/Xbox Live i think your doing a great job with the game it has come a long way since i first started. Cheating is almost non-existant but peopel still find ways cuz their dumb.


The thing with host advantage is that their connection is "better" than everyone else's in the game. I agree with you though in that the host does have an unfair advantage. Most of the time, the advantage is negligible. But when the game is real laggy, the host will usually have a major advantage. With the shotgun on midship, the host was probably closer than he actually appeared to you and was therefore able to kill you quicker. With the fast BR and snipe on Ascension, its just that the host has already shot before you can see it on
your screen. Think of it like sound. Lets say that you are at a baseball game and the batter gets a big hit. You see it before you hear it. Now think of it in terms of halo. The host has already fired and shot you in the head before it registers on your xbox. That's why hosts can seemingly have more powerful weapons and shoot through walls.
If you shoot someone in the head with a sniper and they don't die, it's either because they have an overshield or because they are not where they appear on screen. When you're in a party, try making the person with the best connection the connection host. The most sure way to do this is to have everyone leave the party except for the person with the best connection. Then reenter and it should work, unless your team doesn't get host in the game.

  • 08.08.2005 12:57 AM PDT
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if its so much of a problem then keeps holding your game until u get host, when the party goes straight from 1 - 2 in the pre game loading screen meens u have host, well its worked everytime for me so far

  • 08.08.2005 1:23 AM PDT
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I do have a few questions as far as ranking and stats go. For example, if you really beat another team badly in say, team slayer, do you get double experience if the other team has less than 25 at the end of the game? Most everyone online says this is true, but it doesn't seem like you do, and in my opinion, it seems like a big rumor. Lets all remember the friends list deletion rumor... Maybe I just missed it on the website somewhere. Also, in another team game, do I lose more experience if say, I was last place on the losing team as opposed than if I finished first on the losing team (5th overall)? These questions have been bothering me for a while.

And also, will something be done about superjumping? I know that it can usually be countered somehow, but sometimes it's near impossible to kill a sniper or rocket guy hiding on the roof in zanzibar or in some obscure place in the base. And I'm just guessing here, but i'm pretty sure that Bungie didn't design zanzibar with superjumping in mind.

  • 08.08.2005 1:56 AM PDT
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Yeah since the most recent update, i've noticed rediculous lags in almost every game. I played a game on Turf, and it was lag from start to finish. Is that the update or players doing something else? It was team training, so I don't know why people would even purposely lag on it, since it's not even ranked.. Why do 30 + ranked players even use training, they know they're going to win 8 out of 10 times, what's the challenge in that?

  • 08.08.2005 6:11 AM PDT
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Posted by: dankgreens420
I don't work for bungie but i'll answer your questions:

1) who cares
2) every map can have multiple swords, they respawn after awhile even if someone is holding it, it is the same for every map, i don't believe you don't know that
3) if someone super jumps it is because they have PRACTICED it, it is not "cheating," you console-based people are so dumb, games don't go in "alleys" like doom anymore, even though bungie has brainwashed you into accepting that

if that doesn't answer your question then you are really stupid, and don't report me, challenge me to a 1v1 so i can own you, people who "report" other people are called NARCS, if u ever listen to the dre cd chronic 2001 it says very specifically what happens to narcs.....hahaha just kidding nobody would ever waste their time on a loser who rushes to post to this stupid forum, but listen to the cd its cool

ps frankie you cry too much


1) you state your honest opinion
2) whay do you even play halo if you hate it?
3) your -blam!-.

  • 08.08.2005 6:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Great Gabbo
I do have a few questions as far as ranking and stats go. For example, if you really beat another team badly in say, team slayer, do you get double experience if the other team has less than 25 at the end of the game? Most everyone online says this is true, but it doesn't seem like you do, and in my opinion, it seems like a big rumor. Lets all remember the friends list deletion rumor... Maybe I just missed it on the website somewhere. Also, in another team game, do I lose more experience if say, I was last place on the losing team as opposed than if I finished first on the losing team (5th overall)? These questions have been bothering me for a while.

And also, will something be done about superjumping? I know that it can usually be countered somehow, but sometimes it's near impossible to kill a sniper or rocket guy hiding on the roof in zanzibar or in some obscure place in the base. And I'm just guessing here, but i'm pretty sure that Bungie didn't design zanzibar with superjumping in mind.


An answer to your super bounce question, superbouncing is a bug that was there from the start, and is vvery hard to fix because 1. there are so many 2. basically when you crouch under an object to start off, you are probably pushing yourself slightly in the ground, and when you jump down the systme probably realizez that you are stuck in the ground so it pushes you back up with too much force.

  • 08.08.2005 6:21 AM PDT