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TBK - Halo Thread XXIX: Team Control this weekend, be there, motherfucker.
Yorker
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Penny Arcade G&T Halo Group - Established November 9, 2004
Halo 3
Halo 3 is a first person shooter developed by Bungie exclusively for the Xbox 360, it launched September 25, 2007 and since then it has been one of the most popular games on Xbox Live, it features online multiplayer for up to 16 players and split-screen multiplayer for up to 4 players on the same console.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer can be accessed through either «Matchmaking» or «Custom Games» from the main menu of the game, custom games allow you to set up your own games with maps and gametypes of your choice, you can then invite friends or recent players into the game, you do not gain experience from custom games and skill is not tracked.
Matchmaking lets you choose from one of 14 playlists that can range from 6-player Free-For-All to 8v8 team games, there are two types of playlists: «Social» and «Ranked» , in ranked playlists your Trueskill rating is tracked and visible for all to see, in social games your Trueskill rating is still used to match you with players of similar skill, however, social Trueskill is invisible and only used for matchmaking purposes, it will not appear on your profile.
Playlist DLC requirements:
Mythic Required Legendary Required Heroic Required No DLC required
Ranked
Team Slayer
Team Doubles
Squad Battle
Lone Wolves
Social
Social Slayer
Social Objective
Social Team DLC
Social Big Team
Multi Team
Rumble Pit
Actionsack
Hardcore
Team SWAT
Team Snipers
MLG
Ranked
Team Slayer
Team Doubles
Squad Battle
Lone Wolves
Social
Social Slayer
Social Objective
Social Team DLC
Social Big Team
Multi Team
Rumble Pit
Actionsack
Hardcore
Team SWAT
Team Snipers
MLG
Campaign
Halo 3 also has a campaign, it has 9 missions and can be quite fun, campaign mode also features a co-operative mode that supports up to 4 players over Xbox Live or 2-player split-screen co-op on one console, some of us play this occassionally and we'll be happy to help you if you need your «Campaign Complete: Legendary» or «Vidmaster: Annual» achievements.
People on Xbox Live are shit-flinging retards!
They sure are, that's why you should play with us (we're cool guys, i swear) :
Send Xbox Live friend requests to some of the people on the list below (please include a message saying you're from PA) and jump in the next time you see them playing.
There is no application to join TBK, you just have to play with us on a regular basis and not be a jerk, you won't get yelled at for being bad at the game and you shouldn't worry about dragging your team down, just try your best, we'll still love you.
Here's a list of some our more active members, as promised (these are gamertags, not forum names):
Fyrewulff Rex
Thrillhizzle
Muffinman1318
Mr McShootguns
SJCHS Ghost
OmnomnomPancake
Degami
Yardgnome737
MrBeeb
Kor of Memory
LookFreeGrenade
Ratsult2
Viscount02
Thrillhizzle
Muffinman1318
Mr McShootguns
SJCHS Ghost
OmnomnomPancake
Degami
Yardgnome737
MrBeeb
Kor of Memory
LookFreeGrenade
Ratsult2
Viscount02
Euro TBK:
Colonel Leitner
Major Leitner
Willeth
PA Yorker
Major Leitner
Willeth
PA Yorker
What's next?
There are two Halo games currently in development that we currently know about:
Halo 3: ODST
Release date: September 22, 2009.
Halo 3: ODST is a stand-alone expansion to Halo 3 that takes place around two weeks before the start of Halo 3, you take on the role of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper that is separated from his squad, the game takes place in the dark streets of New Mombasa and is an open-world game, the story will be told through flashbacks which are triggered when the player finds certain items (clues to the fate of his squad) Meet the Squad.
ODST will play noticeably different from the Halo 3 you know and love, ODSTs may be the elite of the UNSC armed forces but they're not SPARTAN supersoldiers like the master chief, you will no longer have a recharging energy shield, in its place you have a «stamina» bar which takes far less damage and recharges slower than the energy shield, you also have a «health bar» like the one in Halo: CE that does not recharge and has to be replenished using health packs that can be found around the city.
Players will also have access to a night vision mode (called VISR) and two new weapons, a pistol that is pretty much the Halo: CE pistol and a silenced, scoped SMG, read more about these here: Feet First.
Halo: ODST project page (with lots of info and cool shit).
And Halo: Reach
Halo: Reach is a Bungie-developed first person shooter with an expected release date of some time in the fall of 2010, a multiplayer beta will be included with Halo 3: ODST.
That's all we know so far.
Halo: Reach project page (with announcement trailer).
More pictures and shit coming soon.
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Maybe they'll fix it so we can actually race in Rocket Race now.
Maybe.
I wouldn't be too optimistic.
So your best bet is when odst comes out
That bug has been known in the community since the very first time rocket race was played, if they ain't fixed it now, they probably aren't going to.
Hopefully not before Will has his console back, if i have to play RR with someone else it just doesn't feel the same.
It's not like it's any bother at all. Let them kill you, respawn, and go score points. Then win.
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See! This is what I'm talking about. I am the driving king, bitches.
I'll be back home on Sunday. No idea how my connection will fare or if I'll even be able to connect to my network now it's all changed around, but I should be able to sort it. If all else fails, I seem to remember that cables exist.
So if it's this weekend, I'll be able to play on Sunday evening. If it's the weekend after, I can play at virtually any point. The weekend after that, though, I'm away again.
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Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Says it's this weekend,
I should probably link that site in the OP.
well the last one lasted a month so LETS DO THIS
As long as it's not Legendary-required I might be able to play some on Friday afternoon.
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If it is Legendary-required i can just get Leitner on and have him emulate your accent.
He'll still be driving me off of cliffs but it's better than nothing.
The last thread also had to go through E3 and two new Halo titles. That said, look, I'm helping.
Also I should be on for some Halo/RFG tonight.
PSN: JPBrowncoat Xbox: BamSaidTheLaday Also on Steam! Streaming games!
Steam | Live
The Halo 2 variations are great. Everything else is terrible true.
Yorker, you cut me deep, like one or two - maybe three times.
Every other game I ended up with something over a +25.
People just don't have any idea how to play it, let alone get head shots with a pistol.
I've gotta say, Braaaains, and Speed Demons are my favorite. Save one Bullet kinda sucks. Creeping Death is fun and challenging though.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
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So I guess the answer is yes you can have the one after the next one after the next one.
basically in summary if the thread is up at the max pages (75 or so) then whoever puts up the next decent thread first gets to make one, although I guess I somehow became the arbiter of threads sometime along this ride
Has Yorker fucked up the numbering, then? Because if this thread is XXIX, the next one is XXX, not the one after next.
Aaaaaaaagh.
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Switching topics, I really hope that Bungie makes all gametype options actually work for Halo: Reach. Test each option until it works 100%, or don't implement it at all. Yeah, 100 features maybe be nice, but if only 50 of them work then there was no point in having the other 50.
I didn't fuck up anything.
EDIT: You see?
I know my Roman numerals, bitch.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
really
I want to make a joke here about people skipping FFXI because its an MMO, but I'm not quite sure how to do it...
Lets just all laugh and pretend I'm clever.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
I was there, man! Don't try to sell me that bullshit!
I remember.
What do you mean by 'gametype options', exactly?
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To me, it sounds like variables.
As in, Shield regen is a variable, Bomb disarm time is a variable.
I don't know how many of these Halo 3 has, it might be 100, or I could just be dead wrong.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Invincibility not working against assassinations.
Flag carriers cannot get in vehicles with the flag, even though there is the option. (you will just drop the flag if you try to get in a turret/driver seat)
Bomb set to 'arm time' does not notify the other team that it is arming (even though the text and stuff is there)
Untimed territories games are broken
Lowest Score for team games is broken (at least for oddball, but probably all of them)
many more
I've done it with koth and slayer as well, and it seemed to be functional.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
So say the score is to 100.
Teammate A has 101
Teammate B has 110
Teammate C has 40
now Teammate C has to hold it to 100 to end the game.. so he does. He keeps holding it, 100 goes by, and the game still says your team score is 40. He keeps holding it, now he's up to 250 points, team score is still 40. Dropping the ball, dying, whatever, does not fix it. Your team is fucked over until the next game.
It's why Lowball was removed from 3-ball. It doesn't break 100% of the time but it breaks often enough that they had to pull it.
Edit: Not a gametype, but you think they would have tested theater mode a little more. It's not like there are hundreds of different types of films to look at. Campaign films, multiplayer films, film clips (oops!)
And neutral flag on sanctuary? Absolute carnage.