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Subject: Your (and my) definition of Grifball.

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

WARNING: Don't flame this thread with LolGrifball. I know nobody likes Grifball here bar playing with 4 guests and 3 others. That's why I made this thread, I want to know why people here don't like Grifball.

My figures of why people don't like Grifball, and how to fix them, as well as some need-to-know tips:

- Host

Big reasons go first. The first you thing you can do to fix this is turn your preferences to good connection so you get well...good connection to the host.

- This the actually really interesting bit of Grifball. When your host, you get barely any range with the Hammer. But if you have a good connection to the host, your Hammers will stretch just that bit more.

- Hammer range. Go into a custom with a friend that is happy to help, and measure the hammer range. That way, when your doing the real deal, you can time it a lot better.

- Basic Tips

- Grifball, in weapon terms, is as simple as rock-paper-scissors. Hammer beats Sword, Sword beats Bomb, Bomb beats Hammer, and so on.

- If you have Bomb, the best way to kill somebody is to jump up right in front of them, look down and physically stomp them. Rinse and repeat.

- If you have the Bomb carrier charging you, immediately swap to the Sword, walk backwards, and psyche out the bomb carrier by jumping bakcwrads, then swording him.

- Advanced Tips

- Launching. Launching is when you use the shockwave of the Hammer to throw you teammate flying into the goal. As soon as he passes you, Hammer him.

- Barrel Rolling. This is only possible in Grifball Dash, but god I'd love to see it in anything else. Barrel Rolling is a Dash-exclusive trick that you evade with the bomb. But since you can't physically evade with the bomb, you have to do some improvising. You have to drop the bomb, and when it says 'Press X/B to grab Bomb' you grab it while evading. it's basically a 'double evade to win' button.

- Flowering. This is the hard one. Flowering is like Barrel Rolling, only your Hammer jumping instead of evading. You want to grab the bomb as soon as you vibration in your controller starts. It makes you a very easy target, but it looks cool.

- Wallhopping. In the back of each side of a Grifball court is a little slope you have just enough room to walk on for a short time. If you jump onto your enemy sides hop, you can jump again as soon as jumped onto the wallhop, you have clear shot for the score.

Hope this helps fellas, I will edit anything you think I missed.
-Billy.

[Edited on 02.13.2012 12:54 AM PST]

  • 02.13.2012 12:53 AM PDT
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lolGrifball

  • 02.13.2012 12:53 AM PDT
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RIP Bungie Service Records. You shall be missed.

Dont really need this thread... *coughmyToDcough*

  • 02.13.2012 12:58 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

Yeah, would of thought B.net is a series of bad kid strokes.

  • 02.13.2012 1:08 AM PDT
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RIP Bungie Service Records. You shall be missed.

I never said it's bad.

  • 02.13.2012 1:10 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

Posted by: Thumb
He is.

Posted by: 0__o
He is.

You aren't.

  • 02.13.2012 1:22 AM PDT

I must be a wizard

GT: apricotbasher
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That connection fact is intredasting. Will consider trying this since current connection isn't doing me any favours.

  • 02.13.2012 1:23 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

I'm not mad, I'm just saying your horrible.

[Edited on 02.13.2012 1:30 AM PST]

  • 02.13.2012 1:29 AM PDT

Remember Elk

Bomb beats everything.

  • 02.13.2012 1:32 AM PDT
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"In Halo 3 not all 50's were good players, but all good players were 50's."

Your opinion is invalid.

Not quite sure what I read.

  • 02.13.2012 1:37 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.


Posted by: Killer VVhale
Not quite sure what I read.

Whale, you pretty much just read tips on getting good scores in Grifball. Objective wise.

  • 02.13.2012 3:20 AM PDT

Que Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

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My sword will beat your hammer (well, unless I pull host). And yeah, host is not good to be in grifball, everyone else out-ranges you, especially if you usually use sword. Bomb is about the only thing you will out-do anyone on. It's pretty funny when people call it hostball, because they obviously don't know what they're talking about. Best connected is far scarier.

Unfortunately, there's too many people just going in to stat-pad, instead of playing the game, and that would make anyone stop playing a gametype where it's that easy to abuse.


My tips:
Don't goalie. Even if you kill them, they got close enough to the plant for it to arm.

Push forward. Don't run behind your bomb guy, and if you have bomb, don't immediately pull back to your own wall.

Radar. I spend half the time playing looking at the radar, and kill people coming from the side/back with an appropriately timed turn. It also helps you not betray, if you're one of those hammer happy people.

Lunge assassinate. Because it's funny. (Hold rb after you lunge at their back with a sword. Rage ensues.)

Bug 343. Make them put up permanent grifball in H3. We didn't get enough with the occasional weekend with Bungie, and it played better imo. I'd drop Reach GB in an instant.

[Edited on 02.13.2012 4:01 AM PST]

  • 02.13.2012 3:55 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

Finally somebody that not retarded.
Posted by: i can has drugz
My tips:
Don't goalie. Even if you kill them, they got close enough to the plant for it to arm.

I'll put this in tomorrow, this is the way most randoms lose.

Posted by: i can has drugz
Push forward. Don't run behind your bomb guy, and if you have bomb, don't immediately pull back to your own wall.

Their is a very fine line between statpadding and not rushing, the line being a word: Intention. If you have the intention to play fair, you could hold off as a bomb runner behind your tanks for a bigger push. Statpadding on the other hand should be left in BTB, but it isn't. :(

Posted by: i can has drugz
Radar. I spend half the time playing looking at the radar, and kill people coming from the side/back with an appropriately timed turn. It also helps you not betray, if you're one of those hammer happy people.

In it goes, tomorrow.

Posted by: i can has drugz
Lunge assassinate. Because it's funny. (Hold rb after you lunge at their back with a sword. Rage ensues.)

Funny story behind this, I actually have never done this before and I wanna try it.

Posted by: i can has drugz
Bug 343. Make them put up permanent grifball in H3. We didn't get enough with the occasional weekend with Bungie, and it played better imo. I'd drop Reach GB in an instant.

I've played one game on H3 Grifball and got statpadded :/ but it looked cool.

  • 02.13.2012 5:13 AM PDT
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Bringing in Fikst. Bringing back lmao.
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okay

  • 02.13.2012 5:20 AM PDT

lolhostball

  • 02.13.2012 5:46 AM PDT