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Subject: Outskirts and the beam rifle

How many times did you die from the Jackal's beam rifle on Outskirts, I just played the level again on legendary and have to say having played all the Halo series on legendary this was again a -blam!- but great fun,,,1 shot and it's over if you know what i mean! Views folks

  • 11.18.2010 5:09 PM PDT

Well, it's not fair now, I've got them memorized but when I first played it, dayum, they could shoot through a corner of a building. I was so frightened I couldn't move, I'd just sit there cursing Bungie for being so diabolic. Outskirts, Delta Halo and Regret were tops. Try them in Legendary with Mythic on, awesome still.

  • 11.18.2010 5:18 PM PDT
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I agree completely. Those are my favorite levels to begin with, adding sputnik, catch, GBP and mythic, well let's just say it is a great way to play.

I still get nailed by JS's when I forget to slow down during Outskirts. Too much running in the open if you have not stopped to listen for the beam rifle shots pinging Johnson can ruin your day.

I have found that you can alter the spawn to a degree, or end up with JS's out of place from normal when you have sputnik and GBP going. Sputnik allows you to get to spots that are out of the normal spots that the JS AI is programmed to look at (lower to the ground). It can give you a great edge allowing you to find them during the initial parts of their roof jumping getting into position. The other cool thing is to watch grouped ones on the mid level rooftops above where alot of the grunts spawn from get scattered while still alive after you head shoot one of their close neighbors. The GBP explosion sends them all over the place. There is one spawn that produces 3 JS's on those rooftops, if you hit it right and scatter the remaining two, have fun staying alive when you have JS's in spots not their normal! It is a blast creeping around looking for them in their new hidey-holes, see who dies first!

  • 11.19.2010 11:15 AM PDT

^^ lol, all of that.

  • 11.19.2010 11:30 AM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

I hated those Jackals with a passion, they had some insane accuracy on getting head shots back on legendary. Thankfully when after a while I came to memorize their locations and patterns. Now I can manage to get through that part with relative ease on Legendary.

  • 11.20.2010 7:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: JB 199
I hated those Jackals with a passion, they had some insane accuracy on getting head shots back on legendary. Thankfully when after a while I came to memorize their locations and patterns. Now I can manage to get through that part with relative ease on Legendary.

Hear, hear. I always skip those blammers. Go to the Hunter door and hop up on the exposed beams. Gets you straight to the hotel. Am thankful that ODST had the "warning shot." It's absence made my no-die runs a serious hump.

  • 11.21.2010 8:06 PM PDT

I Retired Gears of War 2, Sold it to buy Halo 3. And I have not had this much fun playing Video Games in a long time :)
Now that Halo Reach is out. My life has never been better.
Thanks Bungie.

Cool. I was going to play it in a bit.

  • 11.21.2010 9:02 PM PDT