Halo Everyone! Here's my Halo History

[xC6VETTEx]

Hey All,

 

I'm C6Vette, and I'm new to the world of Halo forums, but not new to the world of Halo. I posted a few things during the past couple days, so this is a belated hello, but hopefully an interesting one nonetheless. I tend to pontificate so if you're not the sentimental story type, quit reading now.

 

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I first started playing Halo with my two brothers when my dad bought our family an original Xbox with a copy of Halo: CE. It was probably sometime in 2002 that I played my first match. I was only in third grade at the time, but I still enjoyed bashing others around in my Warthog on Blood Gulch. When I started to get really good, my older brother got frustrated, and secretly switched my account's controller settings to "Inverted," causing me to look up by pushing down on the right thumbstick, and vise-versa. I was confused at first, but I adapted, and I've been playing Inverted ever since.

 

I first played Halo 2 via Xbox LIVE on February 5, 2005, on my older brother's account, InfernoMan97. I got my own account, C6Vette, an account my dad created for himself when he bought his burnt orange, stick-shift 2005 C6 Corvette, when he gave it (the account, not the car!) to me since he didn't enjoy playing online as much as I did. My older brother quit playing, too, and so my little brother and I played Big Team Battle on these two accounts for about a year or so. We managed to get to Level 22, surprising for our age.

 

By September 2006, I had achieved Level 31 in Team Snipers and Level 26 in Team Slayer on InfernoMan97 in Halo 2 without the use of bridging for host, modding, or "standbying" (lag-switching), but then I hit a brick wall since I would always get matched up with cheaters. Then I picked up C6Vette and got that account two Level 28's in the same two playlists. However, Bungie announced that they were going to reset the ranks on or around April 24, 2007 (which didn't actually happen until around May 10, 2007). My two buds and I decided to seek revenge on all those modders (who were the reason for the rank reset), gathered our spare 2-Months, and had at it! We managed to successfully mod and raise InfernoMan97 to Level 37 in Team Snipers and Level 33 in Team Slayer, and bridged to get C6Vette (bridging requires more in-game playing skill than modding) to a Level 33 in Team Snipers.

 

Now, you probably think, "Wow, you're a cheater, too!" Well, if you had played Halo 2 back in the day, you'd understand my frustration with cheaters. Cheating was so prevalently rampant in Halo 2 that any player having a Level 40 or higher was assumed by all who he met as having cheated to obtain such an egregiously high level. There were popular clans, such as Rank Rotation and Solar System, whose members had no Level below 44 (44 = Crescent Moon, 45 = Gibbous Moon, 46 = Full Moon, 47 = Eclipse, 48 = Sun, 49 = Nebula, 50 = Halo), see the chart below. Thus, the name Solar System was quite appropriate. In addition, occassionally you would run into players with names such as "SixHourModz" or "MODDING2LVL50," and so immediately after you realized they were on the other team, you ruefully told yourself and your teammates before the game even started that you were doomed. By the way, modding in Halo 2 was only possible on Xbox LIVE for a maximum of about six hours before the servers caught and permanently banned your account from Matchmaking.

 

Source: Halo Nation (http://halo.wikia.co...nk_%28Halo_2%29).

 

But that's not to say there weren't any fun aspects about the cheating community. How is this so, you might ask? Cheating got so ridiculous in Halo 2 that I decided to purchase a capture card to take footage of my gameplay. I would enter high level matches on purpose, filmed cheaters when I came across them, sent a message to the cheaters saying "Sayonara!", sent the footage and game information to Bungie's cheating hotline (they used to have an email address for reporting cheaters), and managed to get about eight people banned from ever setting foot in Matchmaking again -- including two Level 50's. There's nothing quite as satisfying as being the one who aims Bungie's Banhammer at the heads of those who cause your Level to go down. One such video I posted a while back on YouTube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clOBRzyR1zs.

 

Sadly, InfernoMan97 was lost in the data transfer between Xbox and Xbox 360 accounts (original Xbox accounts didn't go Silver when you stopped playing them, and during that time period, many accounts were lost if they weren't renewed). So I created xC6VETTEx to fill the empty hole in my life in September 2007, just in time for Halo 3. Another account I created, xDAxFUZZ1N8Rx (inside joke, so don't ask), in December 2006 also proved to be another Halo 3 account I used often. Both of these accounts I leveled to around Level 27-28 in Halo 2, until the original Xbox LIVE servers went down on April 14, 2010. By Halloween Night 2009, I had gotten my first 50 on xC6VETTEx in Team SWAT, and then another 50 on xDAxFUZZ1N8Rx on May 31, 2010, also in Team SWAT. I won't be getting a 5-Star General anytime soon, since Double XP Weekends are now a thing of the past in Halo 3, and I've been busy with getting ready for college. Halo: Reach has also been really fun to play, but there is really no motivation to play it as much since the competitive nature has been taken away with the non-skilled based ranking system. Hopefully Halo 4 will feature a Level 1-50 ranking system.

 

I will never forget all the fun times this game has brought me. R.I.P Halo 2 (11/09/04 - 04/14/10). Across all four of my accounts, these were my stats:

Total Games: 6805

Total Kills / Deaths: 42211 / 40803 (This is really bad, but keep in mind I was only in middle school for most of it)

Total Assists: 10435

 

If I were to add my Halo 3 + ODST and Halo: Reach and Halo: CE stats into the mix, I might be over 100K kills. But I've done so much across so many accounts, that I don't want to even start counting.

 

I'm currently still trying to get all of the Achievements for all the Halo tites. Some of the ones for Halo: Reach are difficult because they are only achieveable on a Defiant map, which makes Achievement hunting rather frustrating. Other than those, all I have left to achieve are some Halo Wars Acheivements -- then my Halo Waypoint will be 100%!

 

Well, that pretty much sums everything up nicely. Two more things I would like to point out before I leave, and then you'll know just as much about me as I do.

1. One of my favorite things to do in Halo 3 was to create accounts using 1-Month trials (which are no longer sold unfortunately) and then level them as high as possible. One such account I named "A E I Ovvn U," and I played Team Slayer on it with one objective: to go as long as possible without dying! I managed to go 112-0 over six games, then I died four times in one game. At one point my K/D ratio was 37.00. Now it's around 22.36. I've only played 13 games on it, and I'm a bit nervous to play on it again, but perhaps one day I will. Here's a link to its profile: http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/careerstats.aspx?player=A E I Ovvn U.
   
2. Another favorite passtime of mine when I was younger was to "Superbounce" in Halo 2. I used to film myself Superbouncing, both tactically and recreationally, and then post them on YouTube. Here's a link to a "Killimanjaro Bounce" (seven-in-a-row) I did one day before school:
   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpH4DZ7QaVY.

 

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I currently use the gamertags xDAxFUZZ1N8Rx and xC6VETTEx, so hopefully I'll see you guys on Halo: Reach soon! I hope I can both contribute to and learn from this forum .

 

-C6Vette

[Lᴜᴋᴇ]

Sounds really great. I have already talked to you, but it's great to get to know you more

Nice one

And by the way, welcome

[Kurt S-501]

That's a really cool story bro! I play on inverted too and my friends freak out when they play. lol

[Drizzy_Dan]

Welcome C6Vette I think you'll like it here a lot

[Mr Biggles]

Welcome to the forum, and interesting read, glad u got them cheaters banned