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Halo 3 TBK XXII || Elites are the master race. Cleanse the Spartans
LookFreeGrenade
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CLICK HERE FOR SEPTEMBER 23rd PLAYLIST UPDATE SUMMARY
Summary Post for OP Linkage:
Playlist Removal details
- Head to Head is being removed completely
- Ranked Big Team and Big Team Social are also going away, but both have replacements
- Rocket Race being removed, but it's gametypes will live on through Multi Team
- DLC Objective and DLC Slayer removed
Playlist Additions
- Squad Battle - ranked 6v6. Slayer and CTF, will have the Heavy variants from RBTB.
- DLC Big Team - unranked 8v8. Legendary Required. Heavy/Social BTB variants.
- DLC Free For All - FFA DLC playlist. Will require Legendary and Cold Storage.
Playlist Tweaks
- Lone Wolves will be put up to 8 players.
- Team Doubles will now require All DLC.
- SWAT will no longer have starting grenades, and the damage resistance is reduced. Grenades and Carbines on map.
- Vetoing anything in SWAT will skip objectives and SCHWATguns.
- Lord Praise Bungie, no more symetrical Ghost Town gametypes. Anywhere.
- Default Slayer gametypes will still be AR start but have Pistol Secondary.
New Maps!
- Purple Reign now has an official name: Assembly
- 4 Special new map variants!
- Boundless, a version of Snowbound without shield doors except for the top middle ones
- Epilogue, a version of Epitaph with zero shield doors
- Sand Tarp, a version of Sandtrap with no elephants (and switched flag points for 1 Flag)
- Pit Stop, a version of The Pit with no spawns in the top of the bases and the tops of the bases blocked off.
A quick reference tool for map codenames!
Purple Reign -> Assembly (we know of is that it's not a remake and has a 'Hunter side' and 'energy side', it is also confirmed not to be a midship remake)
Moonbase Alpha -> Orbital? (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
FyreWulff is a detective!
Moonbase Alpha -> Orbital? (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
FyreWulff is a detective!
probably a joke post but eh slow news day
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=896235
Heretic - Internal Name: midship.map
Because of its speed and luxury the Pious Inquisitor has become an irresistible prize during these dark times. 2-8 players
Citadel - Internal Name: fortress.map
In the heart of this Forerunner structure, far above the troubled surface of the Ark, another battle rages. 2-6 players
Assembly - Internal Name: descent.map
The Covenant war machine continues its march to conquest; even with its head severed it is still dangerous. 2-8 players
Sandbox - Internal Name: sandbox.map
This endless wasteland still holds many secrets. Some of them are held more deeply than others. 4-12 players
Orbital - Internal Name: spacecamp.map
With a lot of situational awareness, and a little luck, hopefully the only thing you will lose is your luggage. 4-12 player
This information was pulled from the original post. Legitimate?
DANGER! DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!
The following post is filled with awesome, explosions, and images not safe for 56k connections. But you don't live in 1985 do you?
Good!
Now, onto business!
What is this Halo thing?
Halo is a game where you get to make cool explosions, and punch stoners in the face with flags. We like to play this game so we can make cool explosions and shoot people, in their faces
What does it look like? I've been blind for all my life and now I can see!
I've pooled a few sample images here, but if YOU want to be in, send me a message with the pictures.
I hear this game also has a story, what is it?
Halo 3 is the 3rd game in the Halo trilogy, where we follow Master Chief as he kicks covenant ass and chews bubblegum.
-Wait, what about that elite you had to play as in Halo 2?
First, let me finish. Who's reading who's OP now, Hmm? Anyway, Yes, the Arbiter from Halo 2 is back, and he gets to kick massive amounts of ass, just because he's voiced by Keith David
and Keith David will mess you the fuck up.
Characters
this section is a work in progress
What is TBK? this section is a work in progress
The Bees Knees is the awkward love child spawned by the Games & Technology board and the release of Halo 2 in 2004. We now maintain a fleet of a thousand nerds ready to play games.
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 Fyre (MKiddr) or me (tbkredshirt, good luck getting me to go on AIM though), we 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, and you can get the free map Cold Storage too. 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 FyreWulff 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.
Bat Cave (or Cathedral): the short underground rooms structure on red team's side.
Standoff
Front Door: the doorway for the each base with the warthog outside.
Lower Door: the doorway that gos into each bases' room that has the button for the gate.
Gate: Long hallway that goes from the bases' button room to silo 1 (red) or silo 2 (blue).
Tree: the tree with red's camo.
Rat's Nest
Outside: the outside cliff that with the Pelican and rockets
Middle: the middle area of the map with the upper bridge and the lower gravity hammer and camo
Sniper: The upper area with the large generator and ghost
Avalanche
Shotgun: area that connects the middle of the map, in the inside is a shotgun, on each side outside is a sniper and overshield
Middle: area at the bottom of the horseshoe with laser and ghost. Easily mixed up with Shotgun.
Ghost Town
Lost Woods: area behind where blue spawns.
Base side: The base and the area around it where red spawns
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.
Bat Cave (or Cathedral): the short underground rooms structure on red team's side.
Standoff
Front Door: the doorway for the each base with the warthog outside.
Lower Door: the doorway that gos into each bases' room that has the button for the gate.
Gate: Long hallway that goes from the bases' button room to silo 1 (red) or silo 2 (blue).
Tree: the tree with red's camo.
Rat's Nest
Outside: the outside cliff that with the Pelican and rockets
Middle: the middle area of the map with the upper bridge and the lower gravity hammer and camo
Sniper: The upper area with the large generator and ghost
Avalanche
Shotgun: area that connects the middle of the map, in the inside is a shotgun, on each side outside is a sniper and overshield
Middle: area at the bottom of the horseshoe with laser and ghost. Easily mixed up with Shotgun.
Ghost Town
Lost Woods: area behind where blue spawns.
Base side: The base and the area around it where red spawns
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.
What about us hardcore halo fans, anything cool here?
Why, yes! We'll try to keep the thread up to date with all the latest news about Halo or Bungie.
stuff to watch out for:
Every friday: each friday is the friday update on Bungie.net, where Bungie will grace us with news of their, well, news. They also put up details for updates and matchmaking.
September 25, 2008: The first anniversary of Halo 3's release will be Sept. 25 2008. Seeing how Bungie has a hard-on for dates, they'll most likely release something juicy this day. Maybe glances at a new map pack, or the delayed E3 announcement?
More will be put here later
September 25, 2008: The first anniversary of Halo 3's release will be Sept. 25 2008. Seeing how Bungie has a hard-on for dates, they'll most likely release something juicy this day. Maybe glances at a new map pack, or the delayed E3 announcement?
More will be put here later
News from PAX
Here's what we've seen so far
Assembly!
Small story on the suspicious "Halo 3 Mythic"
News from our bee intelligence
Assembly!
footage!LookFreeGrenade wrote: »for all non-PAXgoers we finally get to see Assembly, or purple reign as it was once called
spoilered
tl;dr assembly is fucking rad
also compare shots with Luke's sketch a couple weeks ago
RvB animated movie?!?I assume it's somewhere on pre-infection High Charity. But since the screenshots, and the walkthrough video I just saw, don't really look up, or out, I can't really tell.
Beautiful, though.
Walkthrough video: http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/29/pax-2008-video-runthough-of-new-halo-3-map-assembly/
DarkPrimus wrote: »
Small story on the suspicious "Halo 3 Mythic"
News from our bee intelligence
X Equals Loser wrote: »That was bitchin'. Fyre and I saw it live last night. I think the funniest part of the whole RvB panel was that they cut these poor kids trying to get their xbox signed right when it was their turn up to the mic. They just stood there dumbfounded. Heh.
Anyway, we've all played it, and the general consensus for Assembly is "a midship that doesn't suck ass." - FyreWulff
X Equals Loser wrote: »So, I was thinking earlier today about doing the G&T Secret Santa thing, but realized shortly thereafter that I really don't feel connected to the rest of the PA community the way I do toward TBK. So, to spread some Haloy joy around, I've talked with Fyre and a couple of other guys, and we've decided to put on the best event ever.
The Bees Knees Secret Holiday-Themed Elite Name subject to change.
This is a pretty run of the mill secret santa thing, but instead of shooting to get everyone something awesome and expensive, we've taken a slightly different approach. Here's be them here rule thingies:
- PM me (X Equals Loser) with your real name and address.
- Limit your purchases to TEN DOLLARS. This is a going to be a challenge. What's the most awesome thing you can find for someone that's under ten dollars?
- Be discreet with your stalkings. Don't let on who you've gotten matched up with. Half the fun is trying to figure out who's got you before the gift shows up.
- Get your gifts sent out BEFORE Xmas. Seriously, being late to the party makes you uncool.
- This is global, so people like Thrill can join in on the fesitivities. The shipping cost is not included in the 10 bucks, so go crazy.
- Please fucking send your santee a gift. If you don't, we don't want to play Halo with you anymore, and probably won't. Be warned: we're very bitter people.
- Yes, X has diabetes. Do not send him candy. I'm in charge of this. I will know who got me. I will blacklist your ass from the clan.
- I may add more things as they come, so keep tabs on this post.
Go nuts, kids. I'll start assigning people when I feel we've gotten a pretty good group going.
ANY QUESTIONS?
This OP was shamelessly stolen from FyreWulff with a few minor additions and edits
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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
10 IF EVERYONE IS HAVING A GOOD TIME BUT SOMEONE IS RAGING ABOUT THE GAME YOU ARE GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO CALL THEM EVERY GIRLS NAME YOU KNOW
And Gearbox did the PC port for Halo CE, right?
I think they could do it. Maybe. If Bungie does some hand-holding.
I think they are a very good choice for a replacement.
I hope so.. really, really hope so.
There is a rumor on Kotaku, drawn from a cryptic comment by a bigwig at Gearbox and a Master Chief wrapped in tissue paper at halloween. Seriously.
edit: Link http://kotaku.com/5041835/rumor-gearbox-is-developing-halo-4-for-new-xbox
Also, it will be a launch title for the new Xbox.
But it's also saying it'll be a launch title for the Nextbox, whenever that happens.
I don't think you will find anyone that wouldn't disagree on this subject. I really don't think they multiplayer tested well enough. I still think choosable spawn points make the most amount of sense. letting machines decide things that are unpredictable is stupid.
also
lololol im bored on amtrak.
Choosing spawn points would be nice, especially on the bigger levels. Otherwise, two seconds of invisibility on spawning or something would be wicked. I always think of Valhalla and the one team in the base that backs onto the ocean. If the bad guys are in that base, then they will usually spawn in the rocks and trees on the high side and they are completely open to sniper fire. With a temporary cloak, they could get to the base, get into cover, or ping the sniper so he loses his scope..
a brand new halo game and not a port like Halo PC, could be considered huge for Gearbox. It doesn't have to be Halo 4
Also, I will not be on tonight as long as normal; Vesperia and Castle Crashers tomorrow, plus I'm picking up my new car.
Gearbox are making everything at the moment. The Aliens squad-based shooter, Borderlands, Brothers In Arms..
EVERYTHING!
...Wow.
But it is crazy that I'm hearing something about the next X Box, even if it is a rumor.
That L42 guy, though, he's a damn fine Warthog driver. As a not sucky gunner, I feel qualified to make that statement beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Also, I think we should Mongoose Joust more often in more playlists, just 'cuz.
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I'll be shifting between Vesperia and Castle Crashers a lot tomorrow, in addition to getting used to my new car.
GT: Leonius7
also blued ot
This is a funny message you see, because it references that match we played where I killed no mans but got tons of assists. It says I was not happy with that match, and am killcrazy now to make up for that one match, which was still well played.
B^U
XBL: Torn Hoodie
@hoodiethirteen
packin' up for PAX
wasn't me playing earlier
also, i'll be on in a bit
Moving to Ex-Bawks nau.
I'll be waking up at 8am (eastern time) and leaving for work at 10 so I'm in.
PSN: JPBrowncoat Xbox: BamSaidTheLaday Also on Steam! Streaming games!