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Halo 3 ODST - FyreWulff: Bad at games? Discuss

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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    :?:

    Reference I'm missing?

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  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Team Fortress 2 I'm guessing.

    Although
    I seem to remember reading about them in Contact Harvest.

    But give me a break, I only read ONE of the novels.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The Engineer's been a support class in games for forever, and they first showed up in a Halo context in Fall of Reach. I think you're stretching a little to try and tie it to a direct reference.

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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Willeth wrote: »
    The Engineer's been a support class in games for forever, and they first showed up in a Halo context in Fall of Reach. I think you're stretching a little to try and tie it to a direct reference.

    Actually date back to the first game (they were designed and everything) just cut at the last minute.

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Hey, Willeth, for a guy who was worried about achievement spoilers, you're kind of giving away everything Cantido was gracious enough to keep behind the curtain.

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  • temperature!temperature! Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Anyone looking to get Endure and Deja vu? Me and a friend are playing and we need 2 more players.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Hey, Willeth, for a guy who was worried about achievement spoilers, you're kind of giving away everything Cantido was gracious enough to keep behind the curtain.

    Eh, you're right, but I do think it's a spoiler of the kind that only people on a blackout would care about being spoiled, and if you care that much you've played the game to death already. At this point talking about a character that exists I'm not concerned about, but I appreciate your point.

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I just e-mailed you a script for Halo: Reach in Hindi.

    Regards.

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  • temperature!temperature! Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    One more for Endure, anyone willing to help us out?

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    One more for Endure, anyone willing to help us out?

    Still need that 1 person? That's the only Vidmaster I need!

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Okay. I have 2 questions. I will throw both in spoilers, and if you haven't beaten the game you probably don't want to look at them. If you want to spoiler your answer in a post that's cool, but I won't cry about it if somebody decides to just PM me or something if y'all don't want to spoiler up the thread. Thanks, guys.
    1.) Is there an official explanation for why we haven't seen engineers in the campaigns of any other games? They seem like too powerful of a unit for the Covenant to not use them at every opportunity.

    2) What was up with the guy that was helping me get to sublevel 9 in Data Hive? It seemed like the Superintendant killed him on purpose with all his "Crime doesn't pay" talk.

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  • DogEightDogEight Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    jclast wrote: »
    Okay. I have 2 questions.
    1) No reason I know of.
    2) Collect all the audiologs or give the go ahead to spoil it for you.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    DogEight wrote: »
    jclast wrote: »
    Okay. I have 2 questions.
    1) No reason I know of.
    2) Collect all the audiologs or give the go ahead to spoil it for you.
    Ah - I only have 6 logs so I'll go ahead and be content to have the story unravel for me - I thought I was just missing some big piece of Halo lore or something (never played 1 or 2 campaign yet).
    Thank you, good sir.

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    reply to your first question
    Engineers were supposed to be in Halo:CE, but were cut out at the last minute (time constraints maybe). They were cut out so late that there are still some game files in Halo CE that have to do with engineers. The engineers are in most of the Halo books, so they have been around for a while.

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  • BlurblBlurbl -_- Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    About the new Covenant race:
    Can anyone explain why the Enginneers where so aggressive? I get that the Brutes put proximity mines on them for when they try to 'fix' human crap, but why was the Enginneer in Buck's first level acting like that?

    Also, Virgil had an interesting disign.

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Blurbl wrote: »
    About the new Covenant race:
    Can anyone explain why the Enginneers where so aggressive? I get that the Brutes put proximity mines on them for when they try to 'fix' human crap, but why was the Enginneer in Buck's first level acting like that?

    Also, Virgil had an interesting disign.
    It wasn't going to hurt him, he probably had something on him that it wanted to repair/see how it worked.

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  • BlurblBlurbl -_- Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Ratsult2 wrote: »
    Blurbl wrote: »
    About the new Covenant race:
    Can anyone explain why the Enginneers where so aggressive? I get that the Brutes put proximity mines on them for when they try to 'fix' human crap, but why was the Enginneer in Buck's first level acting like that?

    Also, Virgil had an interesting disign.
    It wasn't going to hurt him, he probably had something on him that it wanted to repair/see how it worked.
    It seemed to be making a really creepy noise and flapping whatever the hell it had on in a threatening way. My first thought when I saw that was "Crap, they just make Enginneers another evil race."

    Also, Enginneer squadmates in all new Halo games. Was there any references in the books to how the Elites treated enginneers?

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Ratsult2 wrote: »
    Blurbl wrote: »
    About the new Covenant race:
    Can anyone explain why the Enginneers where so aggressive? I get that the Brutes put proximity mines on them for when they try to 'fix' human crap, but why was the Enginneer in Buck's first level acting like that?

    Also, Virgil had an interesting disign.
    It wasn't going to hurt him, he probably had something on him that it wanted to repair/see how it worked.
    I'm not sure why it was up in Buck's face like that, but it was trying to show him Dare's helmet. When Romeo shot it, the explosion launched Dare's helmet up into the window where Rookie found it.

    See here, at around 2:00.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I'm not sure it was up in his face as much as scared and/or trying to communicate with him about what her mission was about.

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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    You have to keep in mind that they're basically autistic. Or at least that's how they're portrayed.

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  • temperature!temperature! Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Bursar wrote: »
    One more for Endure, anyone willing to help us out?

    Still need that 1 person? That's the only Vidmaster I need!

    Nope, just finished it. Me and my friend will be playing at 8 just getting some of the 200k achievements if you wanna grab another person and join us, we can play a map till you get endure.

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  • OronisOronis Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Bursar wrote: »
    One more for Endure, anyone willing to help us out?

    Still need that 1 person? That's the only Vidmaster I need!

    Nope, just finished it. Me and my friend will be playing at 8 just getting some of the 200k achievements if you wanna grab another person and join us, we can play a map till you get endure.


    I'll join you guys again I need a couple of maps and Endure was terribly fun

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Blurbl wrote: »
    It seemed to be making a really creepy noise and flapping whatever the hell it had on in a threatening way. My first thought when I saw that was "Crap, they just make Enginneers another evil race."

    Also, Enginneer squadmates in all new Halo games. Was there any references in the books to how the Elites treated enginneers?
    They were pretty well regarded with the attitude of "Eh, let em' do what they do."

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  • temperature!temperature! Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Sorry to spam up the thread with request, but we need 1 more for Deja Vu if anybody is interested, feel free to join.

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  • LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    So IWHBYD is pretty funny if you stare at one of your ODST squadmates for a while. My favorite is if you stare at Buck too long, "I know we're not supposed to ask in the military, but in your case I certainly don't need to"

    I wonder what happens if you stare at Dare for too long in Data Hive

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  • El ExtremoEl Extremo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Hahaha. Buck makes me chuckle.

    Now I really wanna hear that line. I feel like it'd be even better in the dulcet tones of The Fillion.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    As much as I love Nathan Fillion; I often feel like he's got food in his mouth for half the lines he delivers.

    It's really odd. Sometime he just speaks and sometimes he has this "I have to finish this hamburger and deliver lines. What should I do?" sound to his voice.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    I didn't notice it.

    But then again, maybe I was distracted by the horrible actor for Miranda in Halo 2.

    "Yeah. It's a Halo, or something. When can I go home?"

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    dexter's gf

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    Well, time to finally retire these. They finally got tagged as fusion coil deathchambers.

    So how many people did I get?

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  • El ExtremoEl Extremo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    You're a sick sick man.

    But in a good way.

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Mythic is the easiest one too.

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  • Disco11Disco11 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Anyone looking to play grifball? send me an invite!

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  • Nayl219Nayl219 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Disco11 wrote: »
    Anyone looking to play grifball? send me an invite!

    i'd love to play some grifball, but I wont be on for at least an hour. Late night shenanigans again?

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  • DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    FyreWulff wrote: »

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    Figures a Hayabusa was fall for it.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    I like how most of the downloads were for the easiest map, and the least downloads were for the 'hardest' map.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    Also just for laffs I threw a radar jammer down right in the middle of Heretic

    it covers the entire map

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    So is sandbox still the be all end all for custom maps or has that changed with the new maps?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2009
    Still Sandbox.

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  • DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The new maps are pretty bad for forge.

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