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TBK Halo XXVII || DEXP: 2-Flag, Teabag FyreWulff for Charity (And free maps!)
X Equals Loser
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Penny Arcade Forums Halo - Established November 9, 2004
Bees Knees What?
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.
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What is TBK? Click a photo for some sort of official biography.
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?
Seeing as our old clan lists have always ended in failure, we're taking a new approach:
- Send a friend request to some of the staff gamertags.
- Ask for invites when you see a group of us on. Most the staff is either on the east coast or in the midwest of the US, and are on usually sometime late in the night and when we end can vary on how well we're doing and how many people are on. NOTE: if you are european, we'll probably be on when you like sleeping. We have a decent amount of European bees though if you want to stay safe in your timezone.
- Don't be an asshole. Granted this is subjective, but pretty much as long as you dont bitch to us about how MLG is the greatest you're good to go.
What are the Staff gamertags?
Active Overlords
- Evil Badman MD
- FyreWulff Rex
- Kor of Memory
- X Equals Loser
- MrBeeb
- Nambkab
- QuietMessiah
- SchwarzeKrieg
- thetinwoodsman
- Lookfreegrenade
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 X (X Equals Loser) 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. We will constantly erode you with insults for failing to purchase Legendary, though.
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
Numbers called out on any map refer to locations in Territory gametypes.
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.
Maps Make X Something Something
Sorted by author. PM FyreWulff or post map variants in the thread to get them added here.
edit: work in progress
Facility - a remake of 'Facility' from Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. (FyreWulff)
Smashbubble - a Halo twist on Smash Brothers (Evil Badman)
Rigor Mortis 2 - A dark and scary infection map. (Evil Badman)
Spectrum - Ghost Town reconfigured into a horseshoe map. (FyreWulff)
The Best Competition Ever
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to play a game of Halo with FyreWulff Rex and snap a photo of you teabagging his corpse. Send me photo links to xequalsloser (at) gmail (dot) com, along with a game link to prove that FyreWulff is the object of your humping. The most creative teabag will get a code for Microsoft Funbucks that you can use to buy to the Mythic Maps. If you already have them, we can work something out, but the challenge is more to hook up people with maps than anything else. I will accept submissions up until the 9th, so that I can get the codes out as soon as possible.
Happy Corpsehumping, Bees.
Also, generosity abound!
for every submission I will match a 1$ donation to Child's Play
Current donation: 1$
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you serious
we have a beef here we gotta settle? Cause if I'm not on that list, then we're gonna have to settle this in a DRIFT RACE
Those were some good games last night. 1 flag on Highground brought back a lot of memories of TBK back in the day. Yeah I got a beef too. Why aren't I on that list of semi-active quasi frozen list? Remember this?
And this?
Steam | Live
Also, if we're talking about staffage, I think it's time we had a EuroTBK contingent consisting of Yorker, Leitner and myself.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Niiiiiice.
That Last resort was awesome.
For those who weren't there:
We were doing 1 flag on Last Resort in team flag, We were started on offense.For some reason, Degami got booted from the match and it turned into a 4v5. Most of us turned pretty pessimistic, because being down a guy in objective sucks balls.
So we take a few shots at getting the flag, all coming up pretty short.
Somehow I get the flag around the corner on the beach with an bubbleshield, but its only 20 seconds to go, in sudden death.
I'm running to the flag cap, and cap it with 3 seconds remaining, and simultaneously, 4 people from their team rage quit.
It was freaking hilarious. They were so pissed that we scored a point, even being down a player.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
That, combined with the Mythic release, means I'll be running around in Halo again with you fucks.
Its the one thats in the skybox set up like a slayer map, not the spooky house one.
It looks really fun to play, and has inspired me to make a slayer map in the skybox.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
I see what you did there.
The batcave is the interior of one side, the side that the flag spawns inside of on 1flag sandtrap.
The Cathedral is the opposing side that houses the sniper rifle, sometimes call the ribcage.
edit: oh, I didn't know we had a section for user created content. I'll host my high noon and minotaur map sometime soon.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
RELOEDENG!
That's good stuff! I like their brown ale too.
Inter-species speech, in my Halo games? More canon than Wu may think.
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