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#301 2009-10-07 12:48 am
- NightCougar_37
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Ahh so it was a launch event. Maybe if I hadn't flown in on the day of the launch...tho I dunno, it would have been a little hectic to get there and back while trying to deal with the ferries. Unless i'd have gone the long way via Tacoma.
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#302 2009-10-07 1:57 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Bat wrote:
Also, Saturday's epic on Crater is on my fileshare now for the curious.
I hereby dub Phydeaux "Sir Dies-A-Lot". Or maybe it's proportional for a little LEEEEEERRROOOYYY JEEEEENNNNKIINNNSSS action.
Ah but if ya looked at the stats he carried more than his share of the work. He had 78 or something like that in head shots. Personally I would've dubbed him Sir Grape Popper or Sir Dead Man with Oozing Brain Pan. A lot of 'raaaaayyy' and confetti that game.
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#303 2009-10-07 4:32 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
I should join you guys next time, buff up Phy's score a bit.
"I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo [the movie] will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end."
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#304 2009-10-07 11:02 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
elpato84 wrote:
I should join you guys next time, buff up Phy's score a bit.
Yes, that sounds like a fine idea. Join us soon.
Be advised, tho, he's done better since, so you'll need to play lots of Campaign and FF to familiarize yourself with ODST weps 'n' ways. Be ready to join [s]me[/s] us for lots of practice.
I could use a second to co-op Leg thru, with a fair amount of info learned the hard way to pass back- not that vouz need it, of course. 
Repairs are being expedited.
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#305 2009-10-09 10:08 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Here's what a Deja Vu run looks like:
http://www.bungie.net/stats/odstg.aspx? … =Kamareaux
ewewewew
Phy got his Recon out of it. Which he's been flaunting:
http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/defau … 20Phydeaux
I still need to do Lightswitch, Annual, Classic and Endure. Endure looks ridiculous:
http://www.bungie.net/stats/odstg.aspx? … d=29244798
What is this I don't even- I don't even know who these people are! PHY YOU TWO-TIMING BASTARD
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#306 2009-10-10 7:50 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Phy took a sabbatical of his own accord for reasons known only to himself.
Other things were known almost from the first, just weren't a big deal, so privacy/courtesy concerns prevailed.
Sound problems continue, but I'll try to be on tonight anyway. Was on Fri night, Pato too, but he's not reupped yet so no go there. He's playing solo.
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#307 2009-10-10 9:43 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Oh, I know. It was just a bunch of Frenchies that found him on one of those achievement whore sites that recruited him because they thought he was French. TRUE STORY.
Last night we did Last Exit on Normal. I'm glad we weren't trying to get Endure because Phy wound up passing his pad around to other people in the room and only taking it back when the account was the Last Man Standing or when there were no lives left. Then letting others jump in it when lives were replenished. Yeah, nice or whatever, I just know we could've gone farther without rugrats throwing me into Brute Chieftains. Rugrats slamming into me with the Ghost. Absolutely no cover fire and instead the digital equivalent of them throwing their hands up in the air and running away screaming.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/odstg.aspx? … =Kamareaux
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#308 2009-10-10 7:11 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
So anyway... anyone know about getting all the Super depots and green-lit doors unlocked? I've got all 30 audio logs and all missions unlocked, I can use Mombasa Streets as a hub- but still, some doors that should open, don't, and some apparent supply depots aren't marked and don't open. Anyone know if those are just eye candy/ level decorations, or if they actually unlock after doing certain things?
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#309 2009-10-10 8:31 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
So, mein Kamerad, du bist ein übersturmtrupen?
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#310 2009-10-10 10:53 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Wow, awesome Firefight game tonight! We crushed Rally (Night). I thought I did awesome with 110k points, but Phy crushed all of us, and score 220k 
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#311 2009-10-12 5:55 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
sturner wrote:
So, mein Kamerad, du bist ein übersturmtrupen?
I spent maybe 45 minutes on a reply. It died fishing up the final addendum. Don't know if I'll ever rebuild it now- fitting end to a bad day.
Booksley wrote:
Wow, awesome Firefight game tonight! We crushed Rally (Night). I thought I did awesome with 110k points, but Phy crushed all of us, and score 220k
...including missing this, despite getting up on only three hours sleep to play. Levi & son (& daughter), using some techniques I emailed him about a week ago, writing (as I partly was) about being a team player. 665,525 points, total gametime, 03:43:46. One controller handed off mid-game broke the half-million mark; 3 players total involved, start to finish. And I was likely insomniacal during some of it, could've joined. Everyone jumped off as I got on, later. Only Levi even answered a msg (watching movie to unwind).
Some real übersturmtrupper recently hit a record 10,000,000 there, taking only 23 hours to do it.
Our game, your & my points/death are quite close. Different functions in team play, partly. Phy, more practiced at FF, did better- quite well. We adjust our play to meld as a team.
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#312 2009-10-12 5:58 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Btw, I got a little out of the night, finished Legendary solo. Whee.
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#313 2009-10-13 4:43 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
...which reminds me- since Mon night's game also involved Phy as well as Levi & son- so I often heard 'my' voice saying things inappropriate to my immediate sitch- if I'd had any presence of mind, I could've switched from Buck to Dare, since beating Legendary unlocks her use in FF. Tell us apart, anyway, and maybe hear a few new lines. 
So-so overall; I napped out while waiting for the others... never did catch fire, but another low-score, low-death game for me. Supported my teamies OK.
Another day, another Firefight. Take that, Rib. 
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#314 2009-10-13 4:58 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
(Just remembered. Phy, Bungie used to have pages of voice outake .mp3s up, now long gone. But a Grunty singing 'We Are the Champions' is an old line, ca. Halo 1. Should be a lower qual in-game line at HBO).
Ah, here it is. (Claude disabled hotlinking years ago, so you'll need to get into the Bungie.org domain first). It's a 'we/I just killed MC' line, playing over your corpse in remote view as respawning begins.
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#315 2009-10-14 11:30 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
NightCougar_37 wrote:
Well aside from all the uberness talking. Need a thread dedicated to issues with it if folks find any. I'll start...
-Poor multiplayer map selction. Not enough by a long shot. They might be planning on mappacks via XBL later but still there should be more here at launch.
-Forge: Just edits placement on maps. Rather disappointing. Timesplitters had a better mapmaker than this does. Hopefully in 5 yrs when the PC version of Halo 3 comes out, we'll get a real Forge.
-Cannot add in variants of some of the vehicles in Forge. aka: Warthog with the cannon shot or rocket launcher. Course maybe those get unlocked later
-Some weapons more rare to see in campaign (might depend on difficulty setting). Brute shotgun and Rocket Launcher were 2 of the rarest for me. Only saw the brute shotgun in multiplayer at first then later found 1 of them but never found another for dual wield.
If I think of more i'll update later. I didn't find much aside from these to gripe about tho...
So what do you think of Halo 3 ODST on XBox?



Sorry if someone asked this, didn't want to go through 13 pages and 313 reply's to find out. 
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#316 2009-10-15 2:20 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Watched friend play through most of it, good game as always, but the story itself was not nearly as badass or even original as hyped. That'd be my short review, but they succeeded at making sure multiplayer will be enjoyed and repeated for awhile.
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#317 2009-10-15 5:45 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
CG5Addict wrote:
So what do you think of Halo 3 ODST on XBox?
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Sorry if someone asked this, didn't want to go through 13 pages and 313 reply's to find out.
You don't have to. What ju think we talking about just above, Firefight 'n' all, foo? 
NC's missing a lot. When one game can go an hour or three and seem like a few minutes, it's something good. And I've had much joy from SP. Thread's mostly ODST from 9/22 on.
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#318 2009-10-16 1:20 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
NightCougar_37 wrote:
Well aside from all the uberness talking. Need a thread dedicated to issues with it if folks find any. I'll start...
-Poor multiplayer map selction. Not enough by a long shot. They might be planning on mappacks via XBL later but still there should be more here at launch.
-Forge: Just edits placement on maps. Rather disappointing. Timesplitters had a better mapmaker than this does. Hopefully in 5 yrs when the PC version of Halo 3 comes out, we'll get a real Forge.
-Cannot add in variants of some of the vehicles in Forge. aka: Warthog with the cannon shot or rocket launcher. Course maybe those get unlocked later
-Some weapons more rare to see in campaign (might depend on difficulty setting). Brute shotgun and Rocket Launcher were 2 of the rarest for me. Only saw the brute shotgun in multiplayer at first then later found 1 of them but never found another for dual wield.
If I think of more i'll update later. I didn't find much aside from these to gripe about tho...
I'm having a hard time remembering how you even played it- once at a friend's? Things are definitely better than that in Campaign.
Brute shotguns... you mean the Brute Shot? Sometimes they've used the human shottie, but that was more in H2- as you know, I think I've seen you on Windows Live playing that recently. Brute Shot's less common than in H2 & -3, likely because it hurts ODSTs a lot more than it hurt you as a Spartan. And neither is dual-wieldable by anyone, so ya got me there.
Also, there are three new skulls hidden in the new maps. You need Forge to find 'em (I keep forgetting to try- tonight yet, maybe). The big guns generally are a bit less common, but the unlockable Depots have good things like RLs, SRs and even Mongooseseses,
as well as the quite-serviceable and fun SMG & pistolah (plus frags). Ask Books how much fun headshooting Grunties is with it. I should toss up our brief first co-op movie.
Not enuff MP maps... I've only gotten to a few so far, so I'm feeling no shortage.
CG5Addict wrote:
So what do you think of Halo 3 ODST on XBox?
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Sorry if someone asked this, didn't want to go through 13 pages and 313 reply's to find out.
Put in your terms, Levi hasn't played a single Horde game since ODST. 
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#319 2009-10-16 1:29 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Bat: NC means mauler.
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#320 2009-10-16 1:52 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Bat: NC means mauler.
Ah. Yeah, I've found that works great on Drones in Firefight. In Campaign, it seems to be exclusive to the cloaked Brutes. And you can't dual-wield anything IIRC, but neither can/do they.
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#321 2009-10-16 2:37 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
Bat that was the original post too with Halo 3...not ODST 
Blame Cee for bringing that back
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#322 2009-10-18 4:57 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
NightCougar_37 wrote:
Bat that was the original post too with Halo 3...not ODST
Blame Cee for bringing that back.
I will. Who can remember post one in a two-year-old zombie? Cee knows better, and his question was
So what do you think of Halo 3 ODST on XBox?
Think this calls for a ban? 
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#323 2009-10-19 10:49 am
Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
I think we should get 4 of us together and get some firefight done. That is of course if people still remember me around here 
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#324 2009-10-19 6:41 pm
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
dhack21 wrote:
I think we should get 4 of us together and get some firefight done. That is of course if people still remember me around here
GT= csffxi my old one wouldnt recover so i had to make a new onelost all my games i bought and everything
What do you mean wouldn't recover? Can a call to MS customer support not fix it, or did you forget your live ID info?
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#325 2009-10-20 5:51 am
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Re: So whats wrong with Halo 3...
I'm puzzled too. I lost some irretrievables with each RRoD, but after jumping thru some hoops much can be brought back. Your old GT should be one of the simpler ones.
For that matter, arcane are the ways of XBL... when the old HDD died with the last one, the 'new' unit came back stuffed with useless demos and whatnot, and minus some valuables. Marathon II came back as a demo, despite my Achievements (like 'Pfhor the Win,' beating the game) being listed normally.
I fired it up last week just to get some music to try jiggering some dying adapters into giving me game sound while I get replacements. Seems all that was needed to unlock the game- it's no longer shown as needing payment to unlock the full version. Dunno if saved games survived.
OTOH it seems that firing up Disc 2 of ODST kills all your recent game films, so get them saved or screens taken first. Lost much good stuff.
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