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Halo 3 TBK XXI || The Non Stop Halo Party Boat, with your Staff Captain of Love
FyreWulff
YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
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A quick reference tool for map codenames!
Purple Reign -> Assembly (All we know of is that it's not a remake and has a 'Hunter side' and 'energy side')
Moonbase Alpha -> ???? (multiplayer level set on a UNSC space platform)
Smuggler -> Cold Storage (Remake of Chill Out from Halo 1)
Cottonball -> Avalanche (Remake of Sidewinder from Halo 1)
O.K. Corall -> Ghost Town
Moonlight Sonata -> Blackout (Portmake of Lockout from Halo 2)
John Carpenter's Prince of Dorkness -> Rat's Nest
Vandelay -> Foundry
Jodrell Bank -> Standoff
Moonbase Alpha -> ???? (multiplayer level set on a UNSC space platform)
Smuggler -> Cold Storage (Remake of Chill Out from Halo 1)
Cottonball -> Avalanche (Remake of Sidewinder from Halo 1)
O.K. Corall -> Ghost Town
Moonlight Sonata -> Blackout (Portmake of Lockout from Halo 2)
John Carpenter's Prince of Dorkness -> Rat's Nest
Vandelay -> Foundry
Jodrell Bank -> Standoff
What is this Halo thing?
I hear you shoot guns. At people. And they die. From bleeding.
I want to play Halo 3 with you guys. What do I need to do?
Send a friend request to the gamertag "A TBK Clan II" or to one of the staff. Please, PLEASE note that you're from PA via text or voice so we know how to deal with you.
What are the Staff gamertags?
Active Overlords
- Evil Badman RN
- FyreWulff Rex
- Thrillhizzle
- Lookfreegrenade
- Viscount02
Not as active but kept here for future use:
Staff
- Default Rance
- Repoman1023
- Stachzilla
- thetinwoodsman
- Valnegro
- X Equals Loser
- Nambkab
- QuietMessiah
- SchwarzeKrieg
What is the best way to get into a game?
We're lazy. If you want to get into a party, send one of us an invite to indicate that you want in. Also, a good way to get in contact with us is through AIM. If you message me (Fyre) at 'MKiddr', I can tell you if a game is open or not, or if we're playing that night. Feel free to try and collect other TBK AIM names...
Does TBK require any sort of tryouts or some crap?
No. We do not hold tryouts. All we require of the people that play with us is that you have a passable skill at the game (ie, you know where to take a flag or a bomb) and you're not a douchebag. Trust us, we've had douchebags. They don't last long.
Ranks are my life. MLG is the greatest. Should I join TBK?
Probably not. We mostly play Social (unranked) playlist because they're awesome and because we usually have odd sized parties. Also, when it gets late, all the ranked playlists are full of level 47 assholes.
Also, you really shouldn't waste your time trying to prove MLG is great to us. We've been here 4 years. We still don't think they are the end all be all of Haloez.
What time do you guys usually play?
Late at night in North America, and into the wee morning hours if we're doing well. We play a lot more during DoubleXP weekends.
I want to play either Halo with you. What do I need to do?
For Halo 2, you need to go to Xbox Live and then Downloadable Content, and grab all the map packs. This is going to take a while. It's 551MB in total. Also because OXBox Live downloads are slow.
For Halo 3, download the free Heroic Map Pack. You can also buy Legendary if you want, but it's not required to play with us.
What do you consider cheating or unsporting?
In Halo 2, any sort of button combination is considering cheating by us (and Bungie). This includes BXR, BXB, doubleshot, etc. We also consider superbouncing to the top of maps as cheating.
In Halo 3, since there are no known exploits *knock on wood*, pretty much just don't standby, and try to avoid spawncamping too hard. Also, according to Shiska, any method of boosting is cheating.
What's with all your crazy ass lingo for maps? And why does Badman keep calling out numbers as locations?
We've adopted certain phrases to make it quicker to call out locations on maps. Here is a sample of the most popular Halo 3 ones:
Valhalla
Pelican Side: the entire left side if you're on Red, right if you're blue.
Bubble Side: the entire left side if you're on Blue, right if you're Red.
Water Caves: the area with the fallen rocks that the river runs under near blue base.
Hot Gates/Tollbooth: the canyon that the red side cannon puts you near.
Side Cave: refers to the caves on the side. Usually used like "they're in our side cave" or "they're spawning in their side cave"
Last Resort
Key/Pee Hole: The broken wall entrance on the top floor of the base
Generators: the electrical towers outside of the base's gate.
Froman: The little side platform with an area underneath. It has a "Camp Froman" sign near the sniper rifle.
Camo Tower: the tower with the bubble shield/brute shot opposite of Froman.
Camo Door: the lower right side door facing the base from the beach
Gate Door: the lower left side door facing the base from the beach
Catwalk: the ledge that goes from Froman, up along the back wall and over to the base
Sandtrap
Temple: the long hallway structure on blue team's side.
Cathedral: the short underground rooms structure on red team's side.
Pelican Side: the entire left side if you're on Red, right if you're blue.
Bubble Side: the entire left side if you're on Blue, right if you're Red.
Water Caves: the area with the fallen rocks that the river runs under near blue base.
Hot Gates/Tollbooth: the canyon that the red side cannon puts you near.
Side Cave: refers to the caves on the side. Usually used like "they're in our side cave" or "they're spawning in their side cave"
Last Resort
Key/Pee Hole: The broken wall entrance on the top floor of the base
Generators: the electrical towers outside of the base's gate.
Froman: The little side platform with an area underneath. It has a "Camp Froman" sign near the sniper rifle.
Camo Tower: the tower with the bubble shield/brute shot opposite of Froman.
Camo Door: the lower right side door facing the base from the beach
Gate Door: the lower left side door facing the base from the beach
Catwalk: the ledge that goes from Froman, up along the back wall and over to the base
Sandtrap
Temple: the long hallway structure on blue team's side.
Cathedral: the short underground rooms structure on red team's side.
The reason you'll hear people calling out numbers as locations ex "Spawning at 4!" is because we're using territory locations for better precision and speed. This especially helps on Sandtrap. If you want to see where the numbers are, just go into a Territories game by yourself.
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1 GAMETYPES YOU ALWAYS VETO
Big Team Battle:
Last Resort Territories
anything on Standoff
Neutral Bomb Valhalla
DLC Objective:
Neutral Bomb on Ghost Town
2 Bomb on Ghost Town
2 Flag on Ghost Town
2 GAMETYPES YOU NEVER EVER VETO, ESPECIALLY AGAINST HIGH RANKED PLAYERS
Land Grab Narrows
Land Grab Snowbound
1 Sided anything (except for territories on Last Resort)
2 Flag SWAT
SWAT Magnums
3 IF YOU ARE SPLIT TO ANOTHER TEAM, YOU ARE A SPY
4 THESE PEOPLE LIKE THESE THINGS. DO NOT TAKE THESE THINGS FROM THEM.
Spartan Laser -> Badman
Banshee -> Thrill
5 IF A SLAYER GAME IS CLOSE AND YOU ARE NOT GOOD AT SLAYER, JUST FUCKING HIDE OR DONT GO OUT
6 IF FYRE IS BREAKING THE HABIT ON STANDOFF DO NOT FUCKING GO NEAR HIM FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Breaking the habit refers to us holding the bomb behind the rock on blue base's cliff in order to run down the clock. We don't use this much. In Halo 2, it refers to holding the bomb to run down the clock on the machinery in Waterworks.
7 DO NOT TAKE OFF IN A HOG BY YOURSELF. THIS IS NOT HALO 2
8 BEFORE TAKING OFF IN A GOOSE CHECK FOR TEAMMATES THAT WANT TO RIDE WITH YOU
9 THESE PEOPLE ARE BANNED FROM DRIVING A WARTHOG
Nambkab
Viscount02
PrimusD
MrBeeb
Also R.I.P Zonky.
I might do some H2...
I swear, it's the only OXbox Live game that's like that.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Aim for around 7-8pm, and until everyone gives up for the night.
I wish I hadn't irreversibly modded my OXbox now. Would have been much better to play H2 on that.
Ah well, maybe next year when I'm a student again I'll actually be able to play with you fine folks. I think the last time was the beta.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Being as I have the day off tommorow, I can get on around 3/4pm for some UK-friendly H2 action.
Your time or mine? Because I'm at work until 6PM GMT.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
The thread has only hit 100 pages once
the last one was par for the course
The budgets stuck on 210 and it says I can't put anything down.
and I didn't get to put down respawn points for defenders. whoops.jpg
Fuck, man.
We have to play Halo 2 and drive a Warthog off of the ledge in Waterworks in his honor.
The last ride of the Warthog Suicide Squad.
I'm so there. We need to do it during matchmaking too. During big team Quitting.
So COD4 for me tonight.
/salute
You should at least keep Blastacular or the Warlock/Containment or Turf/Sanctuary ones as they're small. The huge one is the Maptacular 5-map one.
Rest gently, Zonkytonk, because death is fucking weak.
Where the fuck is Iron Weasel?
Instead I'll pour some out for one's homie at my internet-less house.
XBL: Torn Hoodie
@hoodiethirteen
Seriously.
Can I replace him? I don't know what you require of TBK staff but I think it's just play Halo?
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
let's wrestle.
You should 1 VS 1 for it.
Also I stumbled upon a thread on Bungie.net on whether or not bars are "shameful".
Suprisingly enough the thread is 50-50 between people that think they suck because it shows you can't get over rank 20 and people that see nothing wrong with them.
Also most people that thought the bars denoted lack of skill were generals.
penis compensation with halo rank.