Official Halo 2 Thread

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2004-11-23 05:36pm

for all the "sword whores" out there

read this

and remember don't be a sword whore in head to head games, that is just so freaking cheap.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-11-23 05:39pm

Funny. Ya, I like the sword but I'm a shotgun guy at heart.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-11-23 05:42pm

The answer to Sword Whoring is upthread some.

Dual Needlers.

As long as you spot them, you can put enough needles in someone to cause an inevitable fatal explosion either before, or soon after, they've Sworded you.

They'll give up if they have to die for every kill.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-11-23 06:16pm

Bah, the sword makes the game interesting, it makes it possible for one skilled enough player to surge out of nowhere and get an underdog victory even if he's behind. I overcame a 12-kill deficit to win a battle in Midship last week.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-23 06:27pm

Joe wrote:Bah, the sword makes the game interesting, it makes it possible for one skilled enough player to surge out of nowhere and get an underdog victory even if he's behind. I overcame a 12-kill deficit to win a battle in Midship last week.

BOOYAH!

And yeah Dual Needlers...peronally I use a combo because Sword is nice inclose and can still use grenades while a nice long range weapon for those people running like rabid gerbils.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-11-23 06:54pm

The people bitching about the sword sound like people who bitch about the rocket launcher being cheesy...the sword certainly does have weaknesses that give it more balance, they're just harder to figure out and overcome. If you're at the top of an incline and a sword-wielder is at the bottom, you have a significant advantage over him. Also, the sword takes quite a bit of time to switch to from another weapon. There's also the fact that you can't do ANY damage with the weapon outside of the short-range radius.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2004-11-23 07:14pm

Dealing with sword users is simplistically easy- just backpedal at pull speed while firing at them- they won't be able to close the distance and you'll take them out easily. If they're hiding behind corners, or something like that, use grenades to flush them out (or take another route).

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-23 07:31pm

Yeah the sword is powerful, I wish they gave it a limit like in the single player but it really isn't that much of a problem. Jumping high helps and just keep your distance and you'll do fine.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-23 08:45pm

Lt. Dan wrote: Shad-ap. Lucky shot, thats all it was. Fucking hell, I took your flag, killed two of your members in the prosses and missed dying just to have the whole team wiped out by a lucky fucking shot........Utter bull shit. Your gunna get yours though, your gunna get it.

And the dual weapons, your combo is really good. Lays them out fairly quickly. And, I do like having two Magnums, although they seem to run out very quickly. But I think the best is plasma rifle and SMG. Rips through the shields and hits the tender flesh.

MU HA HA HA lucky. I think not. You can never match my 7337 Sk1LLZ W00T. That was a fun game though

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-11-24 12:21am

I can take the sword out of someone's hands if I want too, so I don't care if that's all they use. Mainly because I play with a guy in which that's all he uses. So I get lots of practice.

I was talking today about Halo 3. My take is that when we see a 'NextBox' hit shelves is when we see Halo 3. Possibly larger, more indepth. Another notion was that sometime in Feb, or whenever the next E3 is, Bungie comes out and says Halo 3 hits shelves in June or July, or maybe in time for the holliday season. That's just a few specs on my end.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-24 12:23am

Xbox Next launches around this time next year, I believe.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-11-25 01:30am

thecreech wrote:
Lt. Dan wrote: Shad-ap. Lucky shot, thats all it was. Fucking hell, I took your flag, killed two of your members in the prosses and missed dying just to have the whole team wiped out by a lucky fucking shot........Utter bull shit. Your gunna get yours though, your gunna get it.

And the dual weapons, your combo is really good. Lays them out fairly quickly. And, I do like having two Magnums, although they seem to run out very quickly. But I think the best is plasma rifle and SMG. Rips through the shields and hits the tender flesh.
MU HA HA HA lucky. I think not. You can never match my 7337 Sk1LLZ W00T. That was a fun game though

Ya, it was. BTW what the fuck is "7337" mean?

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2004-11-25 02:30am

The one thing I wish they'd change about the sword is to either give it an ammo limit or at the very least make it so you can't do the lunge in mid-jump. It's just plain wonky to be able to rocket forward like that in mid-air.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-11-25 02:50am

Lt. Dan wrote:
thecreech wrote:
Lt. Dan wrote: Shad-ap. Lucky shot, thats all it was. Fucking hell, I took your flag, killed two of your members in the prosses and missed dying just to have the whole team wiped out by a lucky fucking shot........Utter bull shit. Your gunna get yours though, your gunna get it.

And the dual weapons, your combo is really good. Lays them out fairly quickly. And, I do like having two Magnums, although they seem to run out very quickly. But I think the best is plasma rifle and SMG. Rips through the shields and hits the tender flesh.
MU HA HA HA lucky. I think not. You can never match my 7337 Sk1LLZ W00T. That was a fun game though
Ya, it was. BTW what the fuck is "7337" mean?

Leet, you |\|00|3

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2004-11-25 02:59am

Losonti Tokash wrote:But what would stop the Covenant or Flood from following them?

Edit: Would it be possible to figure out the most efficient placement for the rings, considering that the Milky Way is about 100,000 ly across, and each ring has a range of 25,000 ly?

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/pd.halodata.html

The most efficient according to H.B.O. is placed 25kly from the Galactic Center, the Halos will cover everything with some overlap. Roughly, they make a Septagon...
[The 7ruth is out there]

And eyeballing it, even if 04 is destroyed that gives us about a 1/3rd chance of still being in an overlap zone, assuming Humanity isn't able to mobilize a ton of people and technology thousands of lightyears laterally because of impeding doom.
Considering that the Halos can communicate pretty much instantly across light years, they might also fire almost instantly, so it'd be hard to pull off.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-11-25 02:52pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Lt. Dan wrote:
thecreech wrote: MU HA HA HA lucky. I think not. You can never match my 7337 Sk1LLZ W00T. That was a fun game though
Ya, it was. BTW what the fuck is "7337" mean?
Leet, you |\|00|3

Wouldn't that translate to LEEL though?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-11-25 02:57pm

Lt. Dan wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Lt. Dan wrote: Ya, it was. BTW what the fuck is "7337" mean?
Leet, you |\|00|3
Wouldn't that translate to LEEL though?

no, it'd translate as teet.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2004-11-25 03:32pm

Beowulf wrote:
Lt. Dan wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote: Leet, you |\|00|3
Wouldn't that translate to LEEL though?
no, it'd translate as teet.

Haha, teet skills! Thats too much.

See, I knew what I was talking about....kinda...

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-26 12:09pm

to hell with all of you.

i don't know how to speak retard talk but that is pretty funny

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-26 12:22pm

thecreech wrote:to hell with all of you. i don't know how to speak retard talk but that is pretty funny

Think of it as geek speak for hooters

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-11-26 01:46pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
Think of it as geek speak for hooters

Ever tried using it as a secret language during lesson's? or for semi-cheating in a project?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-11-26 02:47pm

On the Wraith Tank: has anyone got the Auto Pop Guns on the front to actually work? they work for all the Ai cretins who use it.. but not me

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-11-26 02:59pm

Dartzap wrote:On the Wraith Tank: has anyone got the Auto Pop Guns on the front to actually work? they work for all the Ai cretins who use it.. but not me

No, I WANT TO USE THEM SO FUCKING BAD!!

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2004-11-26 03:14pm

Bungie probably turned it off so that the Wraith isn't unstoppable- imagine Flood trying to board you with a pair of Plasma GPMG taped onto the hood...

Speaking of Wraiths, is the Wraith Boost even similar to other Boosts? AFAICT, it looks like you can still fire weapons, and you're still boardable while doing it.
[Trick- I think boosting, even into a wall will prevent boarding if you're in tight quarters in the ghost. Useful for if you miss a Brute with a boost run and have to avoid getting kicked out of the saddle.]

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-11-26 03:19pm

No, the Big EMP Gun 'O Doom does not work while you are boosting away to your hearts content , if it did, id have have only ever used Wriaths when i needed a decent vehicle