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12/12/2007 11:00:13 AM

live charged me 13 something to my visa

12/12/2007 11:01:18 AM

finally, i played all 3 after playing rats nest about 10 times in a row.

Rats nest: is ok, a change of scenery at least, im surprised not as many people were using the sniper rifle as i saw, not the greatest map for it, but i saw many places where you could use it.

Foundry: a big meh, one of those halo 1 Wizard type maps in slayer where you just run around spraying bullets and tossing grenades for kill steals. im not big into using the forge thing yet, but i guess i can see making that map fun by throwin things in different places.

Standoff: i was expecting bigger, but i still like the size. i like open maps like this to get away from all the tight space fighting that halo 3 has seemingly become. im working on raising my level of sensitivity, and this is a good map to get some BR practice to keep my fingers steady.


my final opinion, bungie just ripped a lot of people off. they couldve just sent these out for free, and made a shitload of maps around spring time, then charged everyone. but seeing how this is pretty much the only game im playing right now(outside of fifa 08), i broke down and payed(paid?) for them anyway. kinda wished i didnt.

[Edited on December 12, 2007 at 8:12 PM. Reason : d]

12/12/2007 8:09:40 PM

haha

dude it was 10 dollar bucks

12/12/2007 8:14:38 PM

i wish they'd include more specific playlists, like infection. i have yet to play a single game of infection.

12/12/2007 8:43:56 PM

i enjoy standoff the most after playing all three

rats nest is fun but not as enjoyable to me as standoff...still ok

foundry, i see how the forge mode can be cool, but otherwise it's basically just a redesigned pit to me

12/12/2007 10:47:22 PM

I played these today on my friend's xbox. I'm so glad I didn't break down and pay for them. Neutral Assault on Standoff was fun as hell. I bet CTF would be really good on that map too. Rat's Nest was kind of lame and Foundry really has no appeal to me

12/13/2007 2:12:39 AM

I love forge mode so the empty room level is where I will be spending a lot of time... when these maps come out for free in the spring of course. Unless I get some xbox points for xmas.

12/13/2007 2:30:11 AM

Quote :

"Foundry: a big meh, one of those halo 1 Wizard type maps in slayer where you just run around spraying bullets and tossing grenades for kill steals. im not big into using the forge thing yet, but i guess i can see making that map fun by throwin things in different places."

Now that these maps show up in ranked playlists, my brother and I played Team BRs on the Team Doubles playlist. This is an excellent map for the BR game type, as there are lots of places to hide. I would stand up top and my brother ran around the bottom trying to draw out one of the enemies. Once drawn out, I would pick them off from the top with the battle rifle. It was a lot of fun.

[Edited on December 13, 2007 at 2:53 AM. Reason : on a side note I bought another copy of this game for 22 cents today]

12/13/2007 2:53:30 AM

Standoff was pretty cool....Rat's nest was alright....Foundry was pretty fun too

Average map pack overall

12/13/2007 9:03:06 AM

Quote :

"my final opinion, bungie just ripped a lot of people off. they couldve just sent these out for free, and made a shitload of maps around spring time, then charged everyone. but seeing how this is pretty much the only game im playing right now(outside of fifa 08), i broke down and payed(paid?) for them anyway. kinda wished i didnt."

Exactly the same as Rock Band and Guitar Hero III having DLC within a week or two of the game being released

12/13/2007 9:05:43 AM

rats nest will grown on me, i can tell

foundry....bleh...i can see the BR start being fun, but otherwise, not that cool...

standoff is still fun fun fun

12/13/2007 12:23:26 PM

rats nest flag is no fun if you have people on your team who either a) dont have a headset, or b) dont know whats going on. the only way i ever see people score is going right down the middle. so it urks me to see people run to the outsides when the other team has the flag. i just played a multiflag game there and it was over in less than 2 minutes...

12/13/2007 1:44:44 PM

TERRITORIES ON SANDTRAP FTW

12/13/2007 1:45:38 PM

OH NOES ITS AMAC

12/13/2007 1:46:08 PM

LOL

12/13/2007 1:46:46 PM

^^^ yeah but its fun when people start trying to do that and you set up a warthog with full load out of personnel and go around the outside while the other team thinks youre coming through the middle, make the quick grab and haul ass back around...

12/13/2007 1:47:21 PM

when i played rats nest flag with people who knew what was going on, we didnt even finish the scoring before time went up. because i had people on my team who realized how to stop the flag carrier, etc. i have noticed a lot of noobs so far on these new matches

[Edited on December 13, 2007 at 1:51 PM. Reason : f]

12/13/2007 1:50:47 PM

agreed

[Edited on December 13, 2007 at 2:14 PM. Reason : about the n00bs]

12/13/2007 1:51:42 PM

So I was just in a match and one of my opponents was somehow immune to the needler. I went back to the theater and watched from his perspective as I unloaded the entire contents of a needler clip into him time and again. He lost no health at any point from a needler round. The ability to cause damage using other weapons appeared greatly reduced. Point blank shot from a shotgun took half shields.

Two of us unloaded entire clips into him from the assault rifle at about 40 feet. His shields went down about 2/3. We did not have the same trouble killing his team mates. Has anyone else encountered anything like this before? The OMG YOU SUCK AT HALO HE'S JUST BETTER THAN YOU explanation doesn't work when he's clearly taking fire, but no shield damage.

12/13/2007 9:33:22 PM

that needler isnt gonna do shit to anybody unless you get 8 into their body. and assault rifle from 40 feet sounds kinda far to hope that you can take his shield off.


but since you say you unloaded a whole needler clip into him, im not sure what the deal is. apparently he has h4x codes

[Edited on December 13, 2007 at 10:35 PM. Reason : f]

12/13/2007 10:33:59 PM

40 feet is about the effective range of the assault rifle. i've played a fair amount of halo. i know when something is fishy.

12/13/2007 11:20:42 PM

Sounds like connection issues, there is no modding in Halo 3, yet.

12/14/2007 4:11:49 AM

^^^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNjX7kCPIg

They call it "standbying" apparently. Whoever is hosting the game saturates their internet connection and what happens each client continues to operate as if none of the other clients were doing anything. When the host finally updates the clients, the host state is the one that is considered correct. So if the host goes and kills 4 people during the freeze, when the clients are updated they all die.

Notice in the video where he shoots one guy with the assault rifle, reloads and repeats the process. It takes a ridiculous number of bullets to kill him.

[Edited on December 15, 2007 at 7:17 PM. Reason : He hits him with a grenade too (at around 1:30)]

12/15/2007 7:16:16 PM

i know standby was really bad on halo 2, half the reason i quit playing it...didnt realize people were still doing it for this game.

12/17/2007 5:37:29 PM

the reduction in clip size of the shotgun and assault rifle is really irritating in Halo3

12/17/2007 6:12:05 PM

the assault rifle has plenty of bullets to shoot in a clip

12/17/2007 7:23:33 PM

I tend to swap it for an SMG. Slightly shorter range, but more deadly at close range. Outside that range a battle rifle beats the assault rifle.

12/17/2007 7:32:12 PM

yeah i like the battle rife. Although i prefer the 1337 rifle if i can find one laying around.

12/17/2007 9:42:04 PM

ive been making some pretty sweet maps recently in foundry and standoff.

made a king of the "mountain" map on foundry, a soccer arena, and a replica of the assault challenge in american gladiators. in standoff i made a fun race track around much of the map using almost everything possible in the budget.

12/20/2007 12:04:44 AM

links to dl?

12/20/2007 11:25:39 AM

^^ how do you make the soccer ball score points? i see the object in foundry's assets, but I don't know how to set up goals. i wanted to make a soccer game where everyone uses ghosts.

12/20/2007 1:20:15 PM

New maps disappoint me; however I got a deal on a point card at blockbuster/gr in charlotte so was happy to pay for them discounted. I think the point system is a terrible rip off for consumers in general though, especially since the sell them in 500 point blocks.

12/20/2007 3:05:27 PM

well i just use the fence box and turn it to where the bottom is facing you, so it is an opening(aka a soccer net). and when im playing friends we just keep score to each other, and put the ball back in the middle after a goal. i have no idea how you could even score either...unless they made the ball some sort of "flag"-like object and you put a bunch of flag score points in the respective goals...

and ill put them in my file share soon, i keep forgetting to


^^also, i was messin around to see what weapons/vehicles moved the ball the best, and the ghost isnt gonna work too well

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 10:19 PM. Reason : d]

12/20/2007 10:18:19 PM

finished a soccer foundry with a buddy of mine the other day as well... it rocks at least IMO
i'll put it up too if anybody wants it, also made the gametype for it

limpy, as far as i'm aware, there is no way to make the scoring a part of the game, like ^, we just keep score ourselves... i wish they would add it in, but idk that it'll ever happen

12/20/2007 11:25:11 PM

that seems like a pretty big oversight on the part of bungie

12/21/2007 8:01:58 AM

the only vehicle in foundry that moves the ball well at all is the warthog

i fucked around with it last night

not so much soccer, but with a driver and a gunner you can get an awesome polo type match going on. the gauss gun is a nice mover of the ball, as well as a backend slide "kick" with the hog

12/21/2007 11:32:02 AM

yeah i did a lot of testing myself. you can push the ball alright with a ghost (like 10 mph). none of the weapons are REALLY good at moving it though.

fun thing to do is jump on top of the ball and roll it around by walking on top of it. walk forward and it moves backwards.

12/21/2007 5:59:13 PM

why do people veto team slayer games

12/21/2007 10:58:04 PM

because they're cunt rags

12/22/2007 12:26:20 AM

maybe they had just played that same map 10 times in a row...that seems to be how it works

12/22/2007 12:41:11 AM

you guys don't have COD4 yet?

12/22/2007 12:11:18 PM

^ hahahaha i am wholly surprised that this thread reached this many pages after cod4 came out. the cod4 thread doesn't have nearly as many pages, but this is only because we are busy playing the game and not talking about it!

12/22/2007 12:19:52 PM

^x5 ... seconded.

lone wolves is the only matchmaking where I've got a pretty good rank because I am not down with the objective games so much.

and it is damn frustrating to waste a play on an oddball game that lasts, like, 4 minutes

[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ^]

12/22/2007 12:50:29 PM

^^^my dad is gettin COD4 for christmas. I plan on playin it a bit after he gets it

12/22/2007 3:43:38 PM

i'll be getting COD4 hopefully

12/22/2007 3:49:02 PM

xbox live is down

12/22/2007 8:43:56 PM

^ yeah, what the fuck is up with this shit

12/22/2007 9:15:59 PM

I was just able to sign in.. might work for others as well.

12/22/2007 11:58:50 PM

I just had my ass handed to me all morning

But the last game I played I was kicking ass and taking names . Went up 3 skill ranks in Lone Wolves (26-29). Wish that happened more often.

12/24/2007 9:53:11 AM