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Subject: Why I hate randomly picking servers...
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Well, I think, rather then listing some reasons and asking if you agree, I'll write a small story that best sums it up.

I come back to Halo for the first time in a few months, to see if I can do any good. Last I checked I was a great player, but it had been a while, and I was rusty. So I click refresh and watch a significantly lesser number of severs appear. Last I checked there were thousands of people on, and now barely 1000. Ah well, plenty of fraggage to go around. I enter a CTF game of Bloodgulch, and am pleased to see Generic starting weapons, and only hogs'.

I am on red team, and immediatly am run over by an apparent 10 year old driving the rocket hog, with no gunner, on the opposing team. Blood stains his blue armor.

"pwned lol" is the message I recieve. I gave no response and waited for my respawn. I appeared atop the red base, gathered the frags and pistol ammuntion, and am pleased to see the sniper holding steady at it's usual spawn. I, of course, quickly grab it and take a scope of the area surrouding the portal exit. My attempted recon is cut short, however, because a marauding ally decides my weapon is to shiny to ignore, and he simply must have it. My broken back crumples to the floor as he screams "n00b!".

Rather than attacking him I simply wait for my respawn once again... This was waering on my nerves.

I spawn on the left side of red base and scramble up the ramp, collecting the ammo and grenades of my fallen corpse and hopping through the teleporter, not wishing to be rocketed, fuel rodded, run over, or betrayed again before I even had been around for more than ten seconds.

The other end of the portal was actually safer tan my own base, as it was empty. Quickly taking the hills to blue base in an attempt to capture their flag, a blue clad player hops down in front of me, AR blazing. However, he is about 50 feet away, so I made short work of him with the pistol.

"owned" he said. Puzzled, and in an attempt to confuse him just as much as he had confused me, I responced
"nice".
"wut?"
"well, if you had pwned me, you must have done a good job, because I didn't even know you had done it."
"weel duh n00b. you sux"
I cut off the response there, I was tired of losing brain cells. instead I continued torwards their base, still taking the hills. I was greeted by a hog on it's way to me.
A nicely placed frag blew the beast away, and it's passengers were flung, and I destroyed them in seconds with my pistol.
"wtf -blam!-!11" was his response.
Once again I did not respond, but continued torwards the base again, this time dodging a sniper. He was unprepared for returning fire, so he was dropped easily.
I looked over to the text area and realized the entire blue team seemed to think there was something amiss.
"aimbot", "h4x", "-blam!-", and "cheater" were the many responses to my simple use of the pistol, and apparently the host seemed to agree with them, because I found myself booted from the server only moments later.
That marked the end of the HaloPC experience for the day, as I was in no mood to continue playing with the 7-10 year olds inhabiting the Bloodgulch servers.

Of course not all servers are like this, but I am honestly sick of the ones that are. Yay for annoying 7 year olds.

  • 06.22.2006 4:16 PM PDT
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Ya, i never randomly pick a sever anyomre, and i always quit if i land in one of thouse servers anyway.

Darn thouse noobs.

  • 06.22.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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I wonder whats causing all the noobs to join lately? It used to be you could hardly ever find one (not that you would want to)

  • 06.22.2006 4:27 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

3 years ago when Halo PC was just launched there were no noobs around, things have changed.
I have a story which I would be pleased to share with the good fellas here at The Maw.

Two months ago, I was into the edge of desesperateness. I was bored. VERY bored. I was alone home, my girlfriend with her friends in the movies, and with nothing to do, I decide to check the GameSpy Arcade on Halo PC. I see there's a BloodGulch Server CTF. As soon as I get there, I get my Assault Rifle, load it with ammunition and get a M9D Shotgun. As my normal Habit, I check on the score and the members in each team. I had one ally and two enemies. We all had infinite grenades. As soon as I go out They stick a plasma grenade, with a following text inscripted with: 'joo n00b my shotugn'. I tried my best not to go on betraying him. When I spawn, I decide to go sniping on the hill. I get to the hill, crouch, and start looking around. A second or two later I get hit on the back. Another text message inscripted as: 'haha my snifer riple! nooby'. I wasn't going to acceed to have a jackass ruining my only source of fun. when I spawn he shoots me in the head with the sniper. I wasn't waiting no more. I spawn once more, and go with my Assault Rifle And fill him up with lead. He got mad saying: 'ju noobzor i kil u'. He turned against me. So there were now 3 Bluetards and one red (Me). They all came with full Rocket Warthogs. I fortunately was skilled enough with an Assault Rifle to kill them and actually score.
By the end score, the game results were:
Red Team: 3
Blue Team 1

I guess the host thought I was using cheats, so the three of them flamed me and got banned from the server at the end of the game.

The moral of the story is to never get mad with people who try to ruin your game, just play and don't listen to the people.

  • 06.22.2006 4:52 PM PDT
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I disagree with banning someone over their talking. I don't like to kick them either, but in some cases they really mess up the game. They annoy other people trying to have fun.

I wish their was a feature that you could turn off someone chat from the server. So if bob is cussing and the rules say no cussing. I don't want to ban him because he can't control his mouth. I just want to turn his text off. So everyone can still speak except him.

  • 06.22.2006 6:05 PM PDT

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Try staying out of the Gulch. I rarely go into a BG game. If the map rotation takes me there and the players have been ok in the other maps I stay, but some people play nothing but BG and those servers tend to be the worst.

  • 06.22.2006 6:22 PM PDT

*I sense a disturbance in the forum*
Jaws on Zanzibar?
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After kim saying pc gamers are more mature:
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we r?

Alabama and NY servers on BG are pretty decent.

I personally hate the PrG clan.

  • 06.22.2006 7:26 PM PDT
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The problem with blood gulch is that the Halo CE Demo features Blood Gulch as the only map you can play so lots of people there are just starting out and think they are high and mighty, then get mad when owned. Personally, I just leave if everyone is pissing me off, especially when I end up in first place and get called a "Shee Noob" when I haven't touched the Bansee the entire time. Oh well...just waiting for Halo 2 PC now.....maybe then the fun will be back.

  • 06.22.2006 7:37 PM PDT
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Intersting story. I feel sory for your loss of brain cells, you must be traumatized.

However you say you rarely find 1000 players. I saw at noon today 712 servers with 2,378 players.

;)

Oh well, I only play in servers that I'm "invited" to now a days for that simple reason. To hard to find a good server. (By invited I mean, a friend wants me to tag along, or I find an announcement of a dedicated server "The Bungie.net Maw server, perhaps", or a club server.) NEVER pick them by random, it's bad for you.

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a carton, coincidence, I think not!"

  • 06.22.2006 7:52 PM PDT
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Actually when Halo 2 PC comes out I think all the annoying people will probably go there and whore it up with the leet rockets thus leaving the cool people with Halo 1. Atleast thats what I'm hoping.

  • 06.22.2006 8:33 PM PDT
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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

I'm having a night just like this. I'm turning into one of them, too. Nicely written account, by the way. Hope you find better games in the future.

  • 06.23.2006 12:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
And it's your connection that's slower than turtle sex.

In........................................................Out .

Once, I faced this jerk on a bg server, so then, I do what i usually do when the sniper rifle is bieng constantly bagged and going to capture the flag is too dangerous, I grab an fuel rod gun, go into the sniper spot overlooking blue base, apparently, there was a dude with a pistol there, so I made as much as a distraction as I could and called in my team, then, suddenly, I died, the guy tked me for my frg, so, the following conversation went like this.

Me: Dude, wtf?
Him: It's a good weapon.
Me: But it was mine.
Him: Was yours.

So we were at each others throats until he got banned (he managed to fend me off with the frg.)

  • 06.23.2006 1:48 AM PDT
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It's an online game, no matter where you go, you're going to find noobish, retarded -blam!-s. I learn to deal with it.

If people call you a cheater and are accused of using aimbots and get booted from a server simply because you're good, be proud of it. Because it means that you are a good enough player to be accused of cheating. I often get accused of cheating when I pwn all the noobies.

The Lord Clan NY Server and the Public CTF Clan Server are good servers, and you'll usually find them full of good, competent players to play with.

  • 06.23.2006 4:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
And it's your connection that's slower than turtle sex.

In........................................................Out .

Or... If there are any other Aussies or Kiwis out there, the Cyberslam servers are great, although I sometimes get randomly banned... In that case, you may go to the Game Arena Halo.

The respective IPs are:

Cyberslam 1: 202.172.112.244:2302
Cyberslam 2: 202.172.112.244:2305
Game Arena Halo: 144.140.154.61:2302

I'm just too kind, anyway, if the IPs don't work, PM me, or just find the server in the lobby ya lazy bums, :)

[Edited on 6/23/2006]

  • 06.23.2006 5:10 AM PDT
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ok I admit I suck at this game. So I never get accused of "aimbot" "h4xxorz" and all that crap. But I do get betrayed for any good weapon thet I have. Sometimes i get betrayed because there are a bunch of "(Me)=king"s out there. So when playing blood gulch make sure to not try and snipe form atop the base, you'll be betrayed by osmeone spawining instantly.

  • 06.23.2006 6:03 AM PDT
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Ugh, ran into A ROCK again, and for those who don't know, A ROCK is a direct IP tker with an attitude problem who prowls the bungie servers, and acts innocent when you team kill him back, here is my story:

It's infinity, I have a sniper with full rounds, and I get killed by my teammate, A ROCK.
"HAHAHAHA ROBO HOG IN UR FACE!"
This is normal of him, so I just go try to get him back, well, he takes my sniper rifle and goes through the portal. He jumps off and commits suicide.
"HAHA NO SNIPER FOR YOU"
Now I get pissed and get Cody to TK rock for me as I am going through the server list. Unfortunately, he befirends ROCK and ROCK shows him all the expliots.

Now it is Death Island. ROCK manages to get the flag, and I run over there with a 'hog to go pick him up, had I known it was him, I would have simply run him over. he nades me and takes my hog, uses an exploit to hide in a rock and stays there for 10 minutes. Now I am really pissed, I shoot and shoot.
"HI ROBO I SEE YOU YOU CAN'T SHOOT ME!"
"Idiot" I day as I throw a few grenades and kill him.
"*several explitives which I can not remember*"
Flag gets returned to the enemy and they score, winning the game.

I could go on and on, but I am not going to. I wish to keep my sanity. THIS is what happens when you randomly pick a Bungie server without checking who's on.

[Edited on 6/23/2006]

  • 06.23.2006 12:17 PM PDT
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man, i admit,i am probably the worst player on the game.i have only gotten 1st twice,once was legit,the other was when the game was cut short.but i have still been accused of cheating and booted from the server because the host was shooting FOR headshots and actually wound up hitting whatever was behind me(ok so maybe i'm not THE worst player on thew game).anyways,i kill him while he is shooting rocks,and i come up into 3rd.ok,this idiot decides that i am cheating(with AllDEV),and i remind him that only hosts can use AllDEV.then he comes up with all this stupid crap that i "must" be doing because he can't aim worth -blam!-.then,once again,i remind him of something,and he boots me.(i reminded him that you can hear it when the shields are hit)


*EDIIT*
a rock is a player,and he pretty much said that he is an idiot who can't help but tk.good enough answer?

[Edited on 6/23/2006]

  • 06.23.2006 12:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: ImSpartacus
danger canyon doesnt have 18% noobs! more like 10%...

i see ice field noobs all the time, not as much as bg, but more than 8%

side winder would b more like 20%, but i guess if u count vehicle ppl as noobs then your calculation is on the money


ummm....this may be a stupid question,but are these official statistics?or are you just using your own experiances?my guess...experience.

[Edited on 6/23/2006]

  • 06.23.2006 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Rizza
im using phone taps.... just like the good old U.S. government!!!


Creepy!

  • 06.23.2006 6:41 PM PDT

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