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I had recovered my gamertag at my friends house one night. The following day when i would try and recover it at home it would say xbox live could not be contacted. I tried on 3 separate consoles with the correct information So, I guess since i was impatient I created a new one instead of calling microsoft.

edited for spelling.

Last edited by dhack21 (2009-10-20 9:29 am)

Well, that was one for the books. Too bad rain took out my connection, so it won't go into my record and the detail stats won't be available... but it went like this.

Not enough for a full game on, waited for Levi to come back. He opted for a short runthru of the L4D2 demo, little hope of 4 without him after 9... so I decided to revisit Alpha Site, learn the map so's I could do it better next time; have some fun too, seeing how far I could get doing the job three had done t'other night. Set Cowbell on, otherwise the same.

Pretty far- as in, just under 4:08, 4/3/3, 200,920(?) points. 21 deaths, something >1200 kills, including another Hunter from the front thru the neck joint. IIRC several Killatrocities, another Dreamcrusher, 8 Untouchables, 3 Invincibles (100 straight), 2 Shotgun Sprees... can't remember half. But the film, which lives, does. I'll swap them soon; if either of the others will put up the first, I will as soon as.

Boy, solo Hunter kills ain't easy with all skulls on, no allies, hardly any ammo. Proudest of those.

...and that one was just exhausting. But it sums up like this... 180 Carbine kills, 290 total headshots, 5 hours 8 1/2 minutes; 232,753 points. Badass- Unlocked.

MA Bat           points         kills        deaths
                   232,753       1,329         20
Total Length: 05:08:28 Set: 5 Round: 1 Wave: 5

Isn't there supposed to be a Spartan Laser out there somewhere? I never found it, or I coulda had me some Wraiths and an overall easier time of it. Then again, it might still be going on, and I can't afford that much time or energy investment. (Hell, I can't even upload this damn film- at 26.2MB it's bigger than a standard fileshare. Maybe I'll have to get after Bungie to give me that 3 months of Bungie Pro I never got; I've got some use for it now, including some render-to-movie worth doing).

Game here.

Food, a little foruming, bed.

user wrote:

I'm liking ODST so far, although the damn game checkpointed me just when I got my hog stuck up in range of a Wraith blast.

An undocumented feature of the Halo engine[s] is that it/they keep two checkpoints in memory, for cases like that. It's also useful if you want/need to go back one for some reason (I have, tho not much in ODST). The PC version of 1 even made it a menu item, tho I haven't played enough of 1 on console to know if that feature was exposed. Works like this:

If you die 5 times in a row quickly enough, the game figures you're in an untenable situation and kicks you back one checkpoint. It happened to me once in 3, when my controller was going wonky- the left analog stick got sticky, lost centering action (grit and less spring tension over time. Likely need a new one, really)... I thought I had stopped my Scorpion short of the usual checkpoint locale to take some potshots at Banshees overhead, in the Citadel assault. Turns out it hadn't quite... game checkpointed as the Scorp went over the cliff. Cute, but I knew that after watching 4 more "...Waah!!"s, I'd be kicked back, and I was.

If you kill yourself 5 times quickly, that works too.

It's slightly buggy and doesn't work 100%, but it seems close to 98%-99% in my experience. One checkpoint is the limit, tho; you can't keep regressing.

Get on Live when you can and we'll have us some co-op/FF fun.

Ooh, the Bungie WU is up early.

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The beginning of the week brought with it a lineup of carts topped off with dozens of devkits, each and every one loaded up with the post-milestone aftermath otherwise known as the Halo: Reach Take Home Milestone 3 Playtest. Catchy name, eh? Really rolls right off the tongue.

Nobody’s too worried about the nomenclature, though. All night long ‘til the break-a break-a dawn (10pm PST) this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Bungie was focused on one thing and one thing only: putting the latest and greatest multiplayer spaces through the proverbial paces.

We’ve chatted you up about the importance of playtest at Bungie in past updates, but since this is the first time in a while we’ve publicly talked about putting the new multiplayer hotness through our internal ringers, we figured we should probably linger a little bit and let you Experience the Magic yourself.

Ready?

Relax your shoulders, open wide, and GET SET for a mouthful of hot multiplayer playtest. I’ve got a duo of scantily clad designers, Derek Carroll and Lars Bakken, and a lone but seasoned engineer, Luke Timmins, ready to step on stage and deliver all the juicy details about why they do what they do, what exactly went down in everyone's living room this week, and why in the world Chad was allowed to do placeholder voice work.

Last week's had a fair amount about Reach, as well. Seems to be coming along nicely.

What's wrong with ODST? Bungie needs to fix the game ending when a player drops. We were SOOOO close to 200K then...POOF! Grrrrrrrrr.

Silver lining: Excuse to play more Firefight.

Bat wrote:

Too bad more folks didn't turn up for our post-Halloween FF Rampage. Apologies to anyone who showed up after the train left the station (we didn't turn anyone down, but Levi was a bit reluctant to interrupt to invite a late arrival or two).

The bad news: we didn't top 1,000,000. In better news...

Total Length: 05:05:26 Set: 8 Round: 2 Wave: 5
                              pts        kills    deaths
L3VI4TH4N L3V1    529,561  1,343     40
MA Bat       O111   374,521  1,122     20
Total points:             904,082

Come play. Man does not game by zombie alone.

Yes! Yes! Come burn FIVE HOURS with us.

Which reminds me of another problem Bungie needs to fix. Epic lets the host pause Horde matches. Why can't we pause FF matches Bungie!?! I mean really in FIVE HOURS you didn't think someone might have to take a leak?

Last edited by LLEVIATHANN (2009-11-03 12:06 pm)

Still no Bat. His internets must've really taken a hit.