Twinreaper

Veteran, please do not insult Mystic like that. She is no longer her to defend herself, and myself and the rest of the staff included will not tolerate it. Please be more careful and respectful. Thanks.

Yeah I got the BXR and Double shot confused. my bad. It's still cheap tricks that don't require any skill. When we talk about skill in games, we refer to ones ability to aim and out maneuver the opponent by means of proper weapon usage and environment....not some lame 3 button combo. BXR was a no-skill technique. With settings on high, all you had to do was run at someone and pull the BXR...and they were dead. No big out moving or out thinking the opponent...just a simple 3 button combo with little to no aiming and they died. Double shooting and quad shooting are in the same ball park. Halo 2 for PC sees this way to often. Players will run around with their keyboard or mice setup to do double shooting, quad shooting and BXR, by means of button programming. Your really gonna tell me that it is skill, and not some lame trick? As for Bungie...there is nothing they could do to patch this glitch. Halo 2 did not support host/client script syncing so they could not update anything via script. <------- (the way they do it Reach via Megalo). I was always under the impression that MLG did not allow BXR or superbounces and conscidered them cheating. I will have to confirm this with someone I work with who used to play the MLG circuit in Halo 2. And yes, I was and still am good at H2. I out BR most double shooting and quad shooting players.

It's your ports. You have to have very specific ports opened manually thru your firewalls. Both Windows and router ones. If you have halo 1 PC installed also, you will have to dedicate the halo 1 ports to halo 2, and change the ports Halo 1 uses when you launch it. I know it's very confusing and a pain, but well worth it once you get it setup right.

Great times guys. Today was a total blast. We really had everyone going. I just wish I had signed on earlier and shouted about he totally bogus way we took over. Almost had Theorix, Caboose and a few others ready to leave! lmao!!! great fun! Praise to be Twam :unworthy: On a side note, any chance we could get a mod to post up some screen caps from the shoutbox.....just to show everyone in case they missed it?

The BxR combo does not show more skill. I can hands down rape pretty much anyone with a BR standard in halo 2. The only time I lose is when someone finally hates me enough to use the BxR to take me out. And even then, using the BxR almost always results in me killing them anyway, or they almost die and kill me. BxR takes no degree of skill. You still have to aim and pull the trigger, and using BxR does not increase amount of time needed to align a shot or properly aim or track your target. All the BxR simply does is give you a double burst shot instead of one. BxR is an exploit and has no grounds of being implemented into a title on purpose.

I am still confused as to why everyone still says Reach is the biggest "bloom" noticing title. That honor still remains to halo 1 and the magnum. The spread on that thing is still wildly greater than any weapon in any other title...yet is still regarded as the best MM. ZB is not native to any Halo title. Anyway on to the point, you guys really need to more carefully choose your words. By stating ZB needs to be in Halo 4 alone, makes it sound as if you want "only" ZB in it, and not a system in which Halo 4 can thrive and support the various sub-cultures within the community. While yes, ZB should be available, you should all re-word it to support the "option" of having ZB as a default or changeable range of gameplay changing features.

Because the Capital ships that reached Alpha Halo before POA did, was only carrying the most elite forces aboard in order to capture and destroy the POA. Brutes were usually reserved for grunt style kamakaze attacks against the UNSC. The Brutes lack moral compass and have no aptitude for planned combat. Not to mention, at the time, the Prophets didn't deam the Brutes worthy enough of touching the sacred ring.

I definatly think that the destroyed rings were indeed reproduced by the Ark, wether it's the Greater or Lesser one...who knows. We know the Lesser Ark resides just outside our galaxy...like just outside, like literally probably just miles. And it was the Lesser Ark that reproduced Alpha Halo, in which we used to destroy the flood and damage the Lesser ark during Halo 3. Makes you wonder how many other Ark's or Rings there are in what ever many galaxies there are in the universe doesn't it?

I'm not signing nothing...NOONE CAN TAKE AWAY MY POWER NOW!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA

The Installations after 7 are a tricky subject. We know that 8-12 were destroyed prior to being sent to their resting destinations. We also know that the Ark (lesser) reproduces destroyed Rings in our galaxy. In Glasslands, Prone to.Drift tells Kelly that the Ark is outside of our galaxy, and when she asks about the rings, they say eludingly...that there are many in "this" galaxy. This would lead us to believe that there is a greater ark and other rings in other galaxies. Also...if rings 8-12 were deatroyed, by default, an Ark would have reconstructed them and sent them to their predesignated destinations. Installation 10 may very well be alive and running somewhere.

Yeah Parangosky is a snive old.***** aint.she. I hope.Chief meets her face to.face one day and.cracks.her neck.

As you know I am taking a short vacation. One of my projects on this vacation is to finish up some recon work on tbings going into my full Halo novel.that I am writing. So to anyone out here who can help.... please leave a reply. My question is this..... It is a known fact that Installation 00 (lesser ark) is capable of.autonomous ring duplication. One such noted time is.during Halo 3 where the Ark was constructing a replacement Alpha Halo Installation for Guilt Spark. During the time that the AI Bias was around....5 of the original rings were destroyed while being.deployed thru slip space. Is it not completely.feasable that the Ark.afterwards, also.created 5 replacements for the destroyed ones, but were not entirely tied into the Halo Array network since the network.was fired and active prior to the recreation of rings in a timely manner? For those curious... my novel focuses on the colonies of the Unsc that have seperated themselves from the rest of the Unac and Oni....and come across one the 5 rings in hopes to unlock weapons, data and other Forerunner tech to launch a seperatist attack on the Unsc and.remaining covenant.

I'll be away for a weeks. I need to focus on getting my last batch of H2MT Halo 2 maps out as well.as some additional projects. If you guys need anything or something important comes up, drop me a email or message on Live. See you all in a few weeks!

AI for Blam! is not as simple.as painting a path. There are scripts that need to be rwcompiled as well as collision tie ins for the bsp structure. I get what you are saying though...its just that Blams approach is.not as simple or.refined as other current gen engines.

Congrats bro! You rock man!! :rock:

Usually I love coming in and ******** on peoples hopes and dreams, but I must say you have one creative way of thinking. Although it would be great to see things of this nature added to firefight...it wont happen. Making Firefight forgable cannot be done outside a sandbox. And by sandbox we are not talking about the forge mode. We are talking full fledged complete compiler plus side apps. Unfortunatly the way the Blam! engine and Halo in general is layed out, the AI would require updated pathfinding referrences and scripts to move around altered maps, and respond to diferrent commands. These things are not able to be pulled off in a console environment with Halo. Weather is the other tricky beast. While you can alter what weather is applied, you also have to edit the BSP, which for those who are clueless...BSP is the level mesh itself in a compiled format. Adding weather and altering the weather to another form requires bsp tag edits as well as the forge "in memory" scenario file editing. But you do have some great ideas there my friend. Keep shooting them out and maybe we could see an engine change with future Halo's to use these ideas. It could happen!

Again, ShockGazm, the 360 is no safer against mods. True fact, more people modded Halo 2 on the Xbox and still do, then there ever was to this day on Halo 2 PC. PC releases in general are usually geard more towards the hardcore architects of the Halo Universe, and not very easy for the novice or casual to pick-up or use. Most hacks and mods anyway, are usually released by the modding community, and fall into the wrong hands or get used for the wrong reason. Stating that the PC is easier hacked or modded is just incorrect in any way.

Im dying to see this is action by way of a longer vid. I have been doing some testing with the implimentation of recoil on the halo 2 br... and I have to.say it is nice. it adds a nice skill element vs just point a pound away like we do now in halo 2. Now if 343 would just release a few new gameplay vids of it..... i could have a version done and released.

You mad bro? Ya butt hurt?

Biggles.....remember there was an aimbot and auto rapid.fire mod for Reach within 2 weeks of release. Regardless of the platform...cheaters will.find.ways to.cheat. Console is no safer than a PC. Realistically they need to branch back out to PC. Halo PC still to this day jas more active players and servers than any other Halo title. It has a nice steady flow unlike the ups and downs of 3 tbru Reach. Bringing Halo back to PC in a proper way will only help it to crush the competition.

onto incoming Brutes, while again

Actually both COnvenant and UNSC used evade from the very beginning. Since Halo 1, all AI characters evaded nades and shots via a "leep" or "dive". All they did was give the player the ability to do the same. It is NOT un-spartany or overpowered. We don't go saying AI that evade nades and get right up close and pummel us to death, are using an overpowered tactic do we? SO why is it so wrong when an enemy player does it? No really, that's a question.... Why is it OK for AI to do it, but not other players. Please clarify the reason behind it please.