- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I play T&R and AotCR a lot solo to train, because there are a lot of tough spots on both levels. You see, not a lot of people play Halo who live around here or who I know, so I play solo most of the time. Whenever I have frags, a sniper rifle, and a fair share of Elites coming at me, something cool almost ALWAYS happens. I can't remember them all, but you guys get the idea... like on T&R when you first get to the belly of the ship, and the Gold Elites with swords start coming out... everyonce in a while you'll get two at the same time, and blasting one in the face with your last sniper shot just before he slices a Marine in half, only to turn around facing another bright blue sword and actually DO something before you THINK about what to do. (If you want to get better, play that part over and over ;))
But other then parts like that... the cooles thing I have done was at the following setting: Blood Gultch, System Link, Warthogs only, and it was either 3v3, 3v4, or 4v4, I can't remember which... oh and I was on the blue team.
As one of my team mates charge up to the front with the Warthog, I sneak through the ridge with my sniper rifle. He revs the Hog and does a 180 so its backed up right next to the front door (a neat trick we use a lot). Then he gets out and starts blasting with the rocket launcher to distract them. My brother on the other team was up by the rocks behind the red base with the sniper rifle and the pistol (and he is GOD with the pistol :P). He sees me running in, but is out of sniper ammo, so he charges with his pistol, but I'm already inside. He sees my team mate (with the RL, who drove the warthog) and ices him with the pistol, right as I get the flag.
Situation update: I'm in the middle of the red base, with the red flag, and there is a rocket launcher to the left of the base, a warthog out front, and three Red Spartans waiting to cap me. I sprint out the front, and get in the warthog. As soon as the wheels start to move, my brother is picking up the fallen Rocket Launcher, and I get a Plasma Grenade on my back right tire from another enemy. My brother, with the picked up rocket launcher, fires a rocket, and as I am passing the tree in front of the red base, the rocket hits my back left tire, as the plasma grenade explodes on teh back right tire... The warthog FLEW...
The motion of it was more amazing then how far it went... it was fairly high... maybe twice as high as the red base, but it was flipping end over end, probably doing 8-12 rotations per second (thats 12 front flips O_O). But as you all know, the game won't let you stay in the friggin Warthog... but the warthog is doing front flips... so instead of "falling" out of the warthog, I am LAUNCHED, while in mid air, even higher and further... Now I'm free falling, with the flag in hand, from an altitude that would normally kill a Spartan...
But I'm also flying forward faster then a ghost usually goes... and I LAND ON THE OVERSHEILD!! My sheild flicked off and my health dropped to two reds, but the sheild immediatly charged it back up! And the forward motion of the explosions is STILL pushing me forward WAY to fast to even think about! I landed on the oversheild and KEPT SLIDING FORWARD down the hill, accross the road, up the other hill by the blue base tree and INTO THE BLUE BASE FRONT DOOR WITH THE FLAG!
The six (eight?) of us who were playing had to just all stop and start discussing it because from teh time of the explosion to the time of the flag capture was about 4 seconds... and we had to peice it together... my brother didn't even believe it at first because he was so pissed that the rocket didn't kill me.
The only thing we were ticked about was the fact that earlier that day we were trying to hook the VHS player up so we could record what was going on in the game... but still never got it to work... having that on tape would be amazing...