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Subject: What not to do on Online Multiplayer
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I just read through these forums...and some of the stuff yall say combined with stuff people i play with online provoked me to write this:

A) Don't ever host a game with radar. No elites play with radar and will look down on you if you use it.

B) Dont ever host an all-vehicles game at Blood Gulch. It is cheap, and once again, makes elites mad. The ghost is a cheap way for beginners to get flag returns and the tank is a cheap way to get kills. Only the warthog takes true skill.

C) dont accuse people that beat you of hacking/and or playing all the time. Dont be a jerk online, everytime you get beat gives you more expirience and makes you better.

D) dont look down on people you beat. I have lost games on other people's host that have horrible lag, and they look at me as a bad player. You never know what might be making your opponent play bad.

E) dont be a ho. The most annoying people to play online are the ones that use the rocket launcher/shotgun/active camo/overshield the ENTIRE game.

F) dont brag or talk trash if you cant back it up. If you get beat, accept it.

G) dont hump people you kill, its a beginner habit, and elites look down on you for it.

You might question my skill level when reading this...i can promise you i am qualified to say these things. I have played halo for 2 years and i play online 2-4 hours per week. I have gotten to the point where i win 99% of games i play, and i have enough online expirience to know what people like/dont like and what games not to play.

  • 08.14.2004 4:37 PM PDT
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im sure you do, but some of that stuff is just crazy! like not getting power-ups, their there to be gotten, hu are elites? whats wrong with ghost being used? i have no beef with the radar thing but its no big thing wether is on or off.

  • 08.14.2004 4:51 PM PDT
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Nicely done. Very respectable. If people would not do these things, it would make for a better multiplayer/online experience. Too bad I am not fortunate enough to get my ass handed to me online. I would like to play against better players and die everytime, if it meant that I would learn something from them. Good job ShotgunKilla.


P.S. Some of these guidelines can be used with almost any online game. Radar sucks.

  • 08.14.2004 4:52 PM PDT
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I play with shotgunkilla all the time on XBC and LAN, and he is right. Besides, being a power-up whore doesnt mean you grab it if you see it, it means the player who is ALWAYS invisible or ALWAYS has the overshield the ENTIRE game. If you have played someone like that, you know what im talking about. Spartan, send your xbc name my way if you want some good online games, maybe we can both have some good competition against each other.

  • 08.14.2004 5:37 PM PDT
Subject: What not to do on Online Multiplayer
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Pasado ur an idiot

  • 08.14.2004 9:56 PM PDT
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god I cant wait till halo 2... and when its on xbox live.. im tired of the XBconnect -blam!-

  • 08.14.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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Actually I think people that whine about stuff like that should just keep there mouth shut. Bungie put all of that stuff there for a reason...........so you could use it. they didnt put it there for Display. A good Halo player is someone who is good at everyting and doesnt whine about that stuff. i recently went to a National Tourny and Everyone there used the Rocket Launcher and Pick ups. Thats how it is. They were put there to use, IF you dont liek people that use them..........well then you need to get used to it and buckle down and learn how to stop it.

  • 08.14.2004 11:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: ShotgunKilla
I just read through these forums...and some of the stuff yall say combined with stuff people i play with online provoked me to write this:

A) Don't ever host a game with radar. No elites play with radar and will look down on you if you use it.

B) Dont ever host an all-vehicles game at Blood Gulch. It is cheap, and once again, makes elites mad. The ghost is a cheap way for beginners to get flag returns and the tank is a cheap way to get kills. Only the warthog takes true skill.

C) dont accuse people that beat you of hacking/and or playing all the time. Dont be a jerk online, everytime you get beat gives you more expirience and makes you better.

D) dont look down on people you beat. I have lost games on other people's host that have horrible lag, and they look at me as a bad player. You never know what might be making your opponent play bad.

E) dont be a ho. The most annoying people to play online are the ones that use the rocket launcher/shotgun/active camo/overshield the ENTIRE game.

F) dont brag or talk trash if you cant back it up. If you get beat, accept it.

G) dont hump people you kill, its a beginner habit, and elites look down on you for it.

You might question my skill level when reading this...i can promise you i am qualified to say these things. I have played halo for 2 years and i play online 2-4 hours per week. I have gotten to the point where i win 99% of games i play, and i have enough online expirience to know what people like/dont like and what games not to play.



I liked your post, true on almost all points. I have two arguments however.

1: If you don't whore powerups and rocket against good players you will more than likely lose, I know for a fact that if I am playing someone pro or above and leave the rocket laying it will be gone the moment I leave. There is as much skill in being there at the perfect time to get the powerups and rocket as there is in using the rocket (which isn't much). Still.. you have to do this to win against great players.

2: Not only beginners hump... have you ever saw some of the videos of the Ogres or other great players playing? They hump constantly.. it's fun and if you're playing with someone who you know can hang with you then it's alright. I would say not to hump n00bs cause it's degrating for them.


Anyways that's the only things I saw wrong, and also try to join at least as much as you host. I never host, I refuse to host, and I hate host whores. Yes hosting is a huge advantage, it's at least a 10 kill handicap on almost all games on XBC.


Oh yeah Elites look down on Blood Gulch games period, I don't care if you use all vehicles or not. The ghost and tank both suck, I hate vehicles period but especially those two. It's not because I suck with vehicles, I mastered those long ago. Vehicles just require so much less skill than actually fighting. Radar sucks as well, no good players use radar.

[Edited on 8/15/2004 12:29:37 AM]

  • 08.15.2004 12:25 AM PDT
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scince when does radar suck? i never knew people hated the radar...crap. i use it all the time. oh well. i go turn it off on my favoreite game "Bob" (its the name of the game i only play) and i agree. tank and ghost S U C K. i hate them. i LOVE the warthog. and blood gulhc sucks too. i only play damnation and chill out.

  • 08.16.2004 4:12 PM PDT
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ok first off i dont hate or like radar i use it if my friends make it on their if they dont its fine by me but everything on the maps their for a use and i love the warthog but i hate ghost an tank id love to have the banshee tho but i love have somone try to hit me with a warthog an ill just easily dodge it if their not very good at driving (like me hehe) and enetually they will get tired an jump out an try to fight me but if they dont i usually toss a plasma granade into their axle an say good-bye :)

  • 08.16.2004 4:19 PM PDT