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Subject: What the hell are 'The Guardians'
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Playing Halo last night against my two brothers at the wreck one of my brothers killed me and then died for no apparent reason. on his screen it said he had been killed by 'The Guardians' and he had a 15 second respawn but no frag penalty. now my character was called Merlin, my brother that died was Big Jimmy and my other brother was called Crowly. I've never seen anything about 'The Guardians' in the Halo manual, so what the hell is it?

  • 10.27.2004 4:11 AM PDT
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This has always baffled me as well. It happened to me last year during a multiplayer game when I just died all the sudden, as if I was hit by a sniper rifle in the head. Wierd thing was, was that I had overshield on at the time.

My screen read "Georg51 was killed by The Guardians"
It happened right after I killed someone else with the shotgun - wierd....

  • 10.27.2004 9:12 AM PDT
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It is Halo's way of saying I can't figured out who killed you. It is usually seen when two people melee each other about the same time.

  • 10.27.2004 9:32 AM PDT
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Strange... happened just after my brother used a shotgun, might be a coincidence.

  • 10.27.2004 12:22 PM PDT
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what about the 15 second penalty, that wouldn't happen just because doopy couldn't figure out who killed him.

  • 10.27.2004 12:24 PM PDT
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I've never seen The Guardians before. I'll have to try the Melee theory.

  • 10.27.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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well i haven't seen them it just tell's you that you were killed by them.

  • 10.30.2004 4:53 AM PDT
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iight guyz listen up about the guardians:
awhile ago, bungie said that the guardians are "mulitplayer gods", that kill u for no apparent reason, OR if u die in an unexpected way. There are multiple ways to get this to show up, but the most common way is this way (and if u wanna get a really easy guardian kill): set your game up at any game type, but make sure u have NO shields, and 50% heath. U and ur opponent, only have a melee battle. Eventually, u and ur enemy will melee each other at the SAME EXACT time. However, one person will get credit for the kill, and the other will just say he got killed by the guardians. For example, my profile name is NuuTrAL, and my friends name is Nightmare. We get to the point where we both melee each other at the same time. Lets say on my screen it says NuuTrAL was killed by the guardians, but on my firends it would say LostShadow was killed by NuuTrAL. the reason they put this is becuz when u both die, someone died first. in this case, a dead man cannot kill u, so the guardians killed u. a lil confusing yes, but give it a try

  • 10.30.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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That.

  • 10.30.2004 11:26 AM PDT
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It also happens when everyone playing dies at once or when a person is killed by two ppl.

Ex, Master Cheap (my brother) got meeled by Mohit and sniped by tucker P at the same exact time. No way to tell who got it, hence the Guardians. Another time, on team 2 vs. 2
two battles were taking place and everyone meleed the other to death at teh same time.

  • 10.30.2004 12:18 PM PDT
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saying ps2 is better is not a fact...its an opinion
and who ever's opinion it is, that person si an idiot
and stop posting stupid meaningless threads

  • 10.30.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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lol wrong thread dude

  • 10.30.2004 1:20 PM PDT
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i did get it to work is cool and is awsome and is to be my siggy and is BLA and is poo and is my head and is pie and is a potato and is smelly farts and is apple sause and is armidilloes and is............

  • 10.30.2004 1:22 PM PDT
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I've been playing halo since it first came out. I have played 1000's of games of slayer and seen probably 50 Guardian kills. I have taped some kills and studied them. A guardian kill happens when two or more people are fighting in a very dirty way. Both of the people are going to die ( meleeing then throwing grenades ie) the dirtyer or more capable fighter will be killed by the Guardians. This gives him a kill but denies the other player a kill. So the person killed by the Guardians is rewarded for his efforts. When we first started playing Halo we never saw a Guardian kill, we used to just shoot each other till one was dead then we started using the melee attack, and then we added throwing grenades so that no one walked away. It was only after we started playing dirty that we started seeing their names pop up. Hope this helps clear things up. Doc Deth

  • 11.01.2004 2:54 AM PDT
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I don't think it awards one person a kill to the "more capalbe fighter" but I have seen it a few times. Whenever I see it someone dies but right as they die they melee. The melee actually makes contact with the other person after the meleer has died, so the game doesn't award anyone the kill.

  • 11.07.2004 9:37 PM PDT
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are you by any chance David Giffard?

[Edited on 11/11/2004 6:06:22 AM]

  • 11.10.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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its a sunday newspaper

  • 11.10.2004 1:20 PM PDT

Posted by: munkeypants

Back in my day we didn't have no fancy lasers, and the hogs were indestructible!

The 'Guardians' deceide who gets the kill if two people kill each other at the same time (if you look it only happens when there is a one-one fight).

  • 11.11.2004 11:20 AM PDT
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basically ''The Guardians'' are like the programmers of the game once they see a flaw in a players capabillilty(dont know how to spell this) they kill that guy and/or if the person is being cheap by doing the same damn move over and over again by jumping from the building and whacking you in the back!!!!!!!!!

  • 11.11.2004 5:08 PM PDT
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I say these so called "Guardieans" are terrible killers based on the fact that their kills rely on someone else to do the killing! Second it hardly ever happens! And thats all i have to say about that!

  • 11.11.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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I have never seen them, but I will try, I guess...

  • 11.11.2004 5:34 PM PDT
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This happened to me a few hours ago. I killed a friend with my pistol from close range, then i just dropped. He wasn't close enough to melee me or anything, and no one else was around.

  • 11.12.2004 11:02 PM PDT
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this is not quite true. I have had many battles against FC Lumbas in multiplayer and there have been plenty of times when we have killed each other simultaneously and we have both got the credit for a kill each.
P.S. Adead man can kill if he has left a present behind before he dies...

  • 11.14.2004 9:53 PM PDT
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I got Halo 2-3 months after it came out and have never saw this stuff about Guardians,I'll definately have to check it out sometime.Thx for the heads up

  • 11.14.2004 10:47 PM PDT
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It happend to me and my buddy today... one of those big square barrels fell on us and it said slain by the guardians

  • 11.15.2004 1:19 AM PDT

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