The Director

Calling me a liar does not make me one. Every single starting advantage listed DOES exist, and if players are good enough they can take advantage of them quite efficiently. I've done it, my friends have done it, and it's been done to us. So often in fact that quite a few of my friends actually quit playing SWAT because everyone and their mother ALWAYS voted those two maps, and they were utterly fed up with spawn camp games. I'd be in a party of four and we would be on the team with the advantage and try to vote for a different map out of pity, but people STILL voted for them. We occasionally got a couple guys who actually knew what they were doing who gave us a hard time of it, but for the most part we all went positive. Yeah, it's possible to get good enough on these maps to avoid the spawn traps of the disadvantaged teams, but you DO have to be better than your opponent for it. You also have to have teammates with pretty decent skill as well, otherwise you end up backpacking up Everest. I'm pretty sure they didn't take these maps out based on the forums. They have voting trackers, and they KNOW which maps are being played the most. They also aren't dumb enough to see 50 people complaining and 50000 people voting and choose the 50. I remember rumors going around back in the day that even Bungie was thinking of yoinking caged and pinnacle from SWAT. What they did instead was change the maps up a bit. That was based on their own opinions, not on the fans. If you want to argue that they are the best maps for SWAT ever due to people voting for them, then chew on this. Even on the original spawns for Pinnacle, people still voted for it more than most of the other maps. Same with Caged. You know why? Easy kills. A lot of people complained when they made Pinnacle slightly less lopsided, citing the exact same reasons that I showed in my previous post. I'm guessing you usually play with friends, or against people that aren't that good with their aim. Either that, or someone on your team grabs host a lot and you are very lucky. When you go in as a random though, Pinnacle and Uncaged can be hell on Reach. And if you are lagging a bit? Forget about it. The unbalanced gameplay IS there, and if you are on one of the teams with an advantage, then however many kills the other team got would be more on balanced maps. You can argue about it all you want, but I actually LISTED the advantages and disadvantages, and how they could potentially be used. You pretty much gave me a longer version of "Nuh uh, that's not right". I even said that if you weren't playing as a good team that the advantages and disadvantages would become VERY apparent, but you completely disregarded that because your experience was different. Yeah, you can get a first strike while you are on blue team on Pinnacle or red team on Uncaged, but not if your opponents know the ways you can do it and decide to sit there and wait for your head to pop up. The fact of the matter is that the balance of the maps isn't based on player skill, it's based on how the map is built, where the spawns are, where the firezones are, and on the assumption that the two teams are of equal skill to one another. If you put two different teams of exactly the same skill against each other on balanced maps, and remove the luck element, then the game will be a tie every time. If you do the same with Pinnacle and Uncaged, then there won't be a tie. That means that they are NOT balanced maps. Which means that they really shouldn't be in SWAT anyways. Don't try to make this something it isn't. You are angry that 343i took out popular maps without having a vote on it. Don't try to say the maps are perfect for SWAT when they aren't. A perfect map for SWAT would be one that is perfectly symmetrical and has shifting but protected spawns to avoid spawn traps. It shouldn't be easy to gain map and spawn control. It shouldn't be about who can get to the best camping spot the quickest. There are a few forge world maps that actually should make it into SWAT. Some of the MLG maps would be pretty intense and fun in SWAT, as well as some of the Slayer maps. I wish they would take the time to put some new maps in one of the largest playlists in the game. Also, interesting little sidenote here, did you know that Asylum isn't actually symmetrical? It may look like it, but it really isn't. Go into forge and edit the coords of both bases and see for yourself.

Define "really high ranks" for me, because I was able to go from SGT G2 to General in about 2 weeks or so.

I'd bloody love it to be. Custom games at LEAST. Have you ever had a RRoD or a RDoD?

Idk what playlist your playing or how horrible your game went if a "reload this" medal came up, but when you get a killing frenzy it's on the board. Unless someone gets a running riot or higher, that is. Some medals that may not be on the board that should be is the perfection medal or the extermination medal though. I think that 3 killing sprees also deserves some attention. The medals are based on rarity and difficulty in getting them as far as I'm aware. In certain playlists it's almost impossible to get a perfection. Things like Sword Spree and Shotgun Spree shouldn't make the board though, because it's easy to get a spree with a power weapon. As far as first strike goes, the reason it's up there is because only one player can get it once per game, and it's fairly difficult to get. You are competing against the opposing team for the kill but you are also competing against your teammates for it. Killing sprees are difficult to come by for inexperienced players as well. The only way someone who is bad gets one is if they are against someone who is worse. Multikills are up there because they are a combination of luck and skill. The luck part is finding two players close enough together to kill them within four seconds of each other, the skill part is being able to potentially take on two or more opponents at once and come out on top. If no one in the game gets a killing spree or a multikill, it shows the "lesser" medals instead. And that's the way the "Top Medals Board" works.

Yes, don't like how they made every other game with the books and pretty much threw the original tFoR out the window while they were making it. Do you know what color Master Chiefs hair is?

Did you know that GermanShepherdD currently has the highest K/D and BPR of all of the mods?

Well thanks to my tips now you never will!

Did you know that as of right now Twam has a 1.33 competitive k/d and an 81 bpr in Halo Reach?

I know a MOLE

Alright, basically, I don't wanna. But, if you ask for it, I will make them infection compatible. The voting will take place until 4/17/2012. Choose yes if you want infection, no if you don't, and idc if you can't decide for yes or no. Idc will be a vote for both yes and no, so your vote won't be wasted.

I like the idea of being able to pick between a BR and a DMR as a starting weapon. And as far as competitive gaming goes, they are probably going to have a playlist in which the customizable loadouts are taken out and such. I don't see it as a bad thing unless they make it to where you can select different things for your weapons, which pretty much throws equality out the window.

Yeah, this video features the "Overheat" trick, which repairs the soldering in the 360. That doesn't PREVENT the RRoD, and it doesn't always fix it either. As a matter of fact, that can actually CAUSE the RRoD. I should also point out that the towels in those videos are dry.

Putting it on a DAMP towel is a last resort option though, because if you do that with a dirty X-Box the dust can turn to mud, and then can cause your ventilation to stop working all together, causing a RRoD.

I KNEW there were Easter Eggs! I just KNEW it! >.< Did you know that "Shreya's Bridge" from the 343i Community Map Pack is named after the map designers girlfriend? ;D

Welcome to the forum Spectral I know this is a bit... um... late... >.> but still

Did you know that there were no Spartan deaths against the insurrectionists?

Lol nope. I don't even know who that is! halo.xbox.com is currently working on their online fileshare system, and when it's ready I'm releasing the maps. That's how.

1 bottle of beer on the wall.

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That wasn't a list, that was a thank you to all the members who've been there for me and helped me out since I joined >.>

Congratulations And I hope that's fixed soon... try checking the solenoid.

Another list I'm not on .-. Starting to feel unpopular here...

Neither of these are related to the thread, and will probably be considered spamming. While I appreciate the bump, I feel it is my duty to let you know that your posts will probably be deleted, or you may be banned if you continue this behavior. Did you know that the rules are located at the bottom right of every single page of this forum? Just above Community Forum Software by IP.Board and the licensed stuff?