**OFFICIAL** Halo 3 thread.

[thawolfman]

I hate Epitaph. I get owned there on Slayer for the first half and can usually make some noise for the second half of the match once I get my bearings - I had it come up for the first time after ~60-70 games and was totally thrown off by the setup...

Other than that my max ranking is ~14 at this point in Slayer, and 12 in Team Slayer...I've been playing more slayer lately as I'm trying to get the next 5 XP to get my officer pin, but other than that I've been climbing pretty steadily... (but Blurred will tell you otherwise...we played a few games together and I was ASS...performance anxiety? )

The only thing that annoys me about Slayer is the fact that I almost always get matched up with guys who have a Max Skill of 25+ because of Team matches (even though they're only ~13-14 in Slayer)....that kinda annoys me, but what can you do.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: mugs
The Pit -
Has quickly turned into one of my favorite maps, and I probably have my best k/d ratio here. It does have one pivotal position though - the area with the swords. Most of the games I've played lately end up with one team hanging out in there while the other tries to get in. The sword is a lot less useful out in the open, so if you just force them to come out and meet you in the open it's a lot easier.

I'm not sure if many people have seen this, so I'll comment. I've played many matches where the other team holes up in the sword room, and are usually pretty successful in doing so. During one match, I happened to notice that there are a couple of slits at the top on the side of that room so you can toss grenades in without having to turn that corner to try and toss grenades in the front. It took quite a few matches on that map to see those, but they are there. Give that a try .

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
The only thing that annoys me about Slayer is the fact that I almost always get matched up with guys who have a Max Skill of 25+ because of Team matches (even though they're only ~13-14 in Slayer)....that kinda annoys me, but what can you do.

I've noticed the same, and I'm hoping it'll even out as the game ages. Right now I'm sure a lot of people have not spent a lot of time in all of the different playlists. I'm only a 4 in Love Wolves, because I play mostly team games, so when I'm in Lone Wolves playing against 3s and 4s I'm sure they're thinking the same thing. After I play more games I should level off at my "true" skill, whatever that is.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: thawolfman
The only thing that annoys me about Slayer is the fact that I almost always get matched up with guys who have a Max Skill of 25+ because of Team matches (even though they're only ~13-14 in Slayer)....that kinda annoys me, but what can you do.

I've noticed the same, and I'm hoping it'll even out as the game ages. Right now I'm sure a lot of people have not spent a lot of time in all of the different playlists. I'm only a 4 in Love Wolves, because I play mostly team games, so when I'm in Lone Wolves playing against 3s and 4s I'm sure they're thinking the same thing. After I play more games I should level off at my "true" skill, whatever that is.

i've noticed that most people on my friends list are around level 30 or so, and none of them are spectacular or anything. they don't suck, but i'd probably hang with most of them 90% of the time.

i have noticed though since i'm pretty low ranked in general, when i go into lone wolf I typically am coming in 2nd or 1st, or 3rd by like 2-3 kills in most of my games. i'm not a big lone wolf fan but i won't do team games w/out a party.

my highest rank now is 11 i think. i hardly played ranked until they did this MM update recently.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: Queasy
Oh, and I'm beginning to loathe Snowbound now. I played three games of Team Slayer on that map last night and they all devolved into players camping out in the big room at the bottom of the tunnels between the two structures. Completely lame.

You sound like one of the people we go up against. I am beginning to like it. We got so sick of going outside and getting sniped by the beam rifle. It is what it is.
So our new strategy in team doubles was to hold ourselves in there to eliminate the sniper element. We figured snipers suck in close combat, and that usually is true.

Each and every time lately, we spawn in the exact same place, and we rush over to the big room, and sure enough, we have to take it over. And we usually succeed, and are good at keeping it so we can spawn there.
So us average players in team doubles is new to the whole xbox live thing, can get and keep that room, I am sure any decent player can kick us out.
That being said, I hate Narrows. It seems it turns into a snipe fest.

What skill rank are you guys at? I'm at 11. Maybe my experience has been different from yours because we're playing at different levels?

I have had some games on Narrows where a sniper started dominating, but the lines of site on that map are broken up enough that if you know where they are you can get to them and kill them.

On team doubles, I am at 22. Lone wolf, like 18 or 19. Team Slayer, like 7 or something low.

 

[Queasy]

My skill rank is 13 on Team Slayer. Only 4 or 5 on Lone Wolf because I haven't really played enough games to get it moved up.

 

[blurredvision]

A couple of friends from work came over to the house last night, and we played about 4 hours straight of custom matches. It was hilarious at times, and downright fun the whole time (atleast for me, I assume the other guys had fun). We came up with matches all night since it was just 3 of us, so we had improvise a bit with the options.

One of the things we "invented" was futuristic jousting on Narrows. Spawn everyone with only swords (or the hammer if you so wish), turn off all other weapons/nades/powerups, and launch at each other in the man cannons. We set up the scoring so that suicides didn't count against your score either way. If you were killed, you lost a point, if you killed, you gained a point. It still needs some tweaking, but it was pretty hilarious.

We also thoroughly enjoyed the Mosh Pit gametype, which is basically King of the Hill without the moving hill. The circular hill stays in one place all the time, which for 3 people was pretty awesome. We also mixed things up by playing rockets only, with the sword as a side weapon, with no other weapons to be had (but nades were included). We had the most fun playing this on Guardian, where you basically had multiple angles to watch if you were the king of the moment. It was also fun on The Pit, where there were a few different angles to enter/exit. Construct was also pretty decent, since there were a couple of different levels that constituted the circle.

Besides those, we played a few matches that comprised of sniper only, gravity hammer only, etc.

It was awesome fun. I'd really love to get some custom games going with about 10 of us at some point if we can schedule it. I'd love to mix and match some things with some team games, something we couldn't do with only 3 of us.

Also, quick question. I know I've played online in matchmaking against someone before who had a quest, yet when I tried to invite a friend online into our custom games last night, it wouldn't let them join unless I kicked the two non-Live guys from the party. Is there a way to do a custom game with a mixture of Live friends and local-only split screen guys?

 

[Anubis]

i think im 11 in loan wolf and a 1 in everything else lol

whenever im on none of my friends usially are, so i do loan and play 2-4 games, normally i do alright however sometimes i just totally suck, my play is speratic, some days ill be 1-2 for every game, others days i wont even get 10 kills before someone else gets 25,

and whats really odd is that i normally dominate Swords but get my ass handed to me with Hammers

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
A couple of friends from work came over to the house last night, and we played about 4 hours straight of custom matches. It was hilarious at times, and downright fun the whole time (atleast for me, I assume the other guys had fun). We came up with matches all night since it was just 3 of us, so we had improvise a bit with the options.

One of the things we "invented" was futuristic jousting on Narrows. Spawn everyone with only swords (or the hammer if you so wish), turn off all other weapons/nades/powerups, and launch at each other in the man cannons. We set up the scoring so that suicides didn't count against your score either way. If you were killed, you lost a point, if you killed, you gained a point. It still needs some tweaking, but it was pretty hilarious.

We also thoroughly enjoyed the Mosh Pit gametype, which is basically King of the Hill without the moving hill. The circular hill stays in one place all the time, which for 3 people was pretty awesome. We also mixed things up by playing rockets only, with the sword as a side weapon, with no other weapons to be had (but nades were included). We had the most fun playing this on Guardian, where you basically had multiple angles to watch if you were the king of the moment. It was also fun on The Pit, where there were a few different angles to enter/exit. Construct was also pretty decent, since there were a couple of different levels that constituted the circle.

Besides those, we played a few matches that comprised of sniper only, gravity hammer only, etc.

It was awesome fun. I'd really love to get some custom games going with about 10 of us at some point if we can schedule it. I'd love to mix and match some things with some team games, something we couldn't do with only 3 of us.

Also, quick question. I know I've played online in matchmaking against someone before who had a quest, yet when I tried to invite a friend online into our custom games last night, it wouldn't let them join unless I kicked the two non-Live guys from the party. Is there a way to do a custom game with a mixture of Live friends and local-only split screen guys?

anytime you get a good custom game going send me an invite i haven't really tried out any of the other gametypes that aren't in team slayer yet. All that I've done so far is played around in forge with a few other people on sandtrap flipping the elephants and stuff like that.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: mugs
The Pit -
Has quickly turned into one of my favorite maps, and I probably have my best k/d ratio here. It does have one pivotal position though - the area with the swords. Most of the games I've played lately end up with one team hanging out in there while the other tries to get in. The sword is a lot less useful out in the open, so if you just force them to come out and meet you in the open it's a lot easier.

I'm not sure if many people have seen this, so I'll comment. I've played many matches where the other team holes up in the sword room, and are usually pretty successful in doing so. During one match, I happened to notice that there are a couple of slits at the top on the side of that room so you can toss grenades in without having to turn that corner to try and toss grenades in the front. It took quite a few matches on that map to see those, but they are there. Give that a try .

nice!

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: mugs
The Pit -
Has quickly turned into one of my favorite maps, and I probably have my best k/d ratio here. It does have one pivotal position though - the area with the swords. Most of the games I've played lately end up with one team hanging out in there while the other tries to get in. The sword is a lot less useful out in the open, so if you just force them to come out and meet you in the open it's a lot easier.

I'm not sure if many people have seen this, so I'll comment. I've played many matches where the other team holes up in the sword room, and are usually pretty successful in doing so. During one match, I happened to notice that there are a couple of slits at the top on the side of that room so you can toss grenades in without having to turn that corner to try and toss grenades in the front. It took quite a few matches on that map to see those, but they are there. Give that a try .

nice!

Didn't notice that, I will definitely be trying this. Although, I find peeking around the corner with the brute shot works out pretty well too .

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: mugs
The Pit -
Has quickly turned into one of my favorite maps, and I probably have my best k/d ratio here. It does have one pivotal position though - the area with the swords. Most of the games I've played lately end up with one team hanging out in there while the other tries to get in. The sword is a lot less useful out in the open, so if you just force them to come out and meet you in the open it's a lot easier.

I'm not sure if many people have seen this, so I'll comment. I've played many matches where the other team holes up in the sword room, and are usually pretty successful in doing so. During one match, I happened to notice that there are a couple of slits at the top on the side of that room so you can toss grenades in without having to turn that corner to try and toss grenades in the front. It took quite a few matches on that map to see those, but they are there. Give that a try .

nice!

No one ever seems to learn on that. Sounds a lot like Terminal from Halo 2. Everyone always battled for the top parking garage...why, I still have no idea. (Was understandable in Team Snipers) Really frustrating when your teammates would just rush in and die over and over and over again, instead of being smart and letting them come out.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: mugs
The Pit -
Has quickly turned into one of my favorite maps, and I probably have my best k/d ratio here. It does have one pivotal position though - the area with the swords. Most of the games I've played lately end up with one team hanging out in there while the other tries to get in. The sword is a lot less useful out in the open, so if you just force them to come out and meet you in the open it's a lot easier.

I'm not sure if many people have seen this, so I'll comment. I've played many matches where the other team holes up in the sword room, and are usually pretty successful in doing so. During one match, I happened to notice that there are a couple of slits at the top on the side of that room so you can toss grenades in without having to turn that corner to try and toss grenades in the front. It took quite a few matches on that map to see those, but they are there. Give that a try .

nice!

No one ever seems to learn on that. Sounds a lot like Terminal from Halo 2. Everyone always battled for the top parking garage...why, I still have no idea. (Was understandable in Team Snipers) Really frustrating when your teammates would just rush in and die over and over and over again, instead of being smart and letting them come out.

Seriously... I was in a game last night, they were all in there and my team was outside. I watched all 3 of my guys rush in and turn into red Xs. I told them to just let them be in there, make them come out to us to even the playing field. Teammate says "why? We can rush them." Again all 3 run in, 3 red Xs. 6 deaths and no kills, and for what?!

 

[NaOH]

Hmm..usually when we're on the pit, the opposing team tries to hold one of the sides (the gattling gun areas). Anytime the other team would crowd around the sword area either we'd clear them out or just wait for them to leave. Yeah, my friend and I love that map, along with high ground. My least favorite map has to be valhalla. It's way too big for 4v4 or even 5v5. Although I did have loads of fun splattering people with the banshee last night. hahahah


What are your favorite weapons? I get so many kills with the assault rifle and melee of course. But my favorite new weapons have to be dual spikers (it's freaking great hitting them in the face with it) and dual or single mauler.

 

[blurredvision]

I was talking to a guy here at work about playing some custom games sometime in the future, and he was telling me about a game that him and his friends had made up. They called it "Drive By". The map is Sandtrap. No shields, shotguns and nades only. The only vehicle allowed is the Mongoose. It's a 2vs2vs2vs2... match, and you can only shoot from the back of the mongoose. It's up to you and your teammate who drives and who shoots.

I'm assuming that friendly fire would be turned off. I also think it would be cool to limit nades only to plasma, almost requiring a sticky to get a kill with it, but I'm not sure if you can specify that (unlimited plasmas would be awesome, too).

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: NaOH
Hmm..usually when we're on the pit, the opposing team tries to hold one of the sides (the gattling gun areas). Anytime the other team would crowd around the sword area either we'd clear them out or just wait for them to leave. Yeah, my friend and I love that map, along with high ground. My least favorite map has to be valhalla. It's way too big for 4v4 or even 5v5. Although I did have loads of fun splattering people with the banshee last night. hahahah


What are your favorite weapons? I get so many kills with the assault rifle and melee of course. But my favorite new weapons have to be dual spikers (it's freaking great hitting them in the face with it) and dual or single mauler.

Valhalla is way too big for 4v4... I played a few games of CTF there last night and it sucked.

Edit: I just looked on bungie.net and my colors and emblem changed back to the default.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: NaOH
Hmm..usually when we're on the pit, the opposing team tries to hold one of the sides (the gattling gun areas). Anytime the other team would crowd around the sword area either we'd clear them out or just wait for them to leave. Yeah, my friend and I love that map, along with high ground. My least favorite map has to be valhalla. It's way too big for 4v4 or even 5v5. Although I did have loads of fun splattering people with the banshee last night. hahahah


What are your favorite weapons? I get so many kills with the assault rifle and melee of course. But my favorite new weapons have to be dual spikers (it's freaking great hitting them in the face with it) and dual or single mauler.

as of this week my new favorite gun is the battle rifle, it is much better than I originally though. It's fun to kick ass on isolation with it

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: chrisg22

Originally posted by: NaOH
Hmm..usually when we're on the pit, the opposing team tries to hold one of the sides (the gattling gun areas). Anytime the other team would crowd around the sword area either we'd clear them out or just wait for them to leave. Yeah, my friend and I love that map, along with high ground. My least favorite map has to be valhalla. It's way too big for 4v4 or even 5v5. Although I did have loads of fun splattering people with the banshee last night. hahahah


What are your favorite weapons? I get so many kills with the assault rifle and melee of course. But my favorite new weapons have to be dual spikers (it's freaking great hitting them in the face with it) and dual or single mauler.

as of this week my new favorite gun is the battle rifle, it is much better than I originally though. It's fun to kick ass on isolation with it

Yeah, I'm a fan.

My top kills by far are melee (450) and assault rifle (436). The "guardians" come in third place @ 83. Battle rifle is fourth with 73, and the Needler has moved up very quickly recently to 72. It'd be interesting if they kept statistics on what weapon you were holding and what your second weapon was for each time you died - that'd be good to know so you can see which weapons have the best k/d ratio for you.

For instance - dual SMGs are pretty great, but I'd like to know if I've really done better with them than without them. Of course the 20 kills I've had with them are artificially low because I usually run at someone with SMGs blazing, melee them, then pick up the SMG I dropped to do the melee. I rarely pick up the rocket launcher, because I suck with it. But even though I only have 12 kills with it, I bet I haven't had 12 deaths with it because I pick it up so infrequently (and I often run out of ammo with it and switch to another weapon before I die).

But I digress... yeah, the battle rifle is great. If someone is rushing me with a SMG, and I'm backing away with my battle rifle I almost always get them. I get a lot of those situations when I'm guarding the man cannon on Narrows. They jump, I toss a grenade, they come up the ramp and I back up while hitting them with the battle rifle. The zoom is nice too. I've picked guys off from the opposite side on Narrows with the battle rifle. The battle rifle + assault rifle make a good combo - battle rifle from a distance, assault rifle in close. Battle rifle + needler is another good combo.

One gun I can't get the hang of is the shotgun. I usually don't get close enough to get a devastating shot off. Other people don't seem to have that problem though, because it's one of the top weapons I've died against. (117 deaths by shotgun vs 430 melee and 405 assault rifle)

 

[NaOH]

Yeah, the battle rifle has been a necessity for me since halo 2 (usually coupled with the assault rifle or shotgun). It's always fun to headshot people with that thing. The shotgun is by far my favorite gun to get double and triple kills with. But it's certaintly starting to get replaced by dual maulers (which i guess is pretty much a one handed shotgun). haha

 

[purbeast0]

I really wish there was a way to just remove Epitaph and Snowbound from my copy of Halo 3. Those 2 maps are 2 of the worst maps in the history of Halo, especially Epitaph.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I really wish there was a way to just remove Epitaph and Snowbound from my copy of Halo 3. Those 2 maps are 2 of the worst maps in the history of Halo, especially Epitaph.

I've never played a game on Epitaph except in custom games... Maybe it's not used much in the game types I play? I mostly play ranked team slayer. Snowbound... it has good games and bad games.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I really wish there was a way to just remove Epitaph and Snowbound from my copy of Halo 3. Those 2 maps are 2 of the worst maps in the history of Halo, especially Epitaph.

Those are my least favorites as well. Snowbound I can handle, but I don't like Epitaph at all, period.

EDIT: Actually I would probably put Isolation below Snowbound. The underground half is pretty useless, at least in my experience thus far. Everyone is always above ground.

 

[purbeast0]

yea I think whoever's bright idea it was for those shield doors really needs to be fired.

 

[blurredvision]

I don't mind Epitaph at all. It's a decent map for small 2vs2 battles. I also hated Snowbound in the beta, but it's really grown on me when you don't have to play it every other round. I actually like Isolation. The only map I don't care for is Construct....there are too many levels, and for a person like me who use their radar a lot, that sucks.

 

[mzkhadir]

Bans are coming to Halo 3 or Live.

Bungie Weekly Update: 10/19/07
Posted by lukems at 10/19/2007 5:22 PM PDT
Just like Santa, there are two lists. The Naughty and Nice ? there?s something for folks on each list.



Harbinger of Doom


There are those of you doing things you shouldn?t be in Halo 3. Some of you have gotten a little too famous for your own good. This ain?t a church and there is no redemption or salvation once you have been judged. Apologies are now officially to late to save you.

The storm approaches.

Love, Bungie