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Posted: 2004-11-23 05:36pm
by Death from the Sea
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 05:39pm
by Lt. Dan
Funny. Ya, I like the sword but I'm a shotgun guy at heart.

Posted: 2004-11-23 05:42pm
by Vendetta
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 06:16pm
by Joe
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 06:27pm
by Ghost Rider
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 06:54pm
by Joe
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 07:14pm
by BlkbrryTheGreat
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).
Posted: 2004-11-23 07:31pm
by thecreech
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.
Posted: 2004-11-23 08:45pm
by thecreech
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
Posted: 2004-11-24 12:21am
by Cal Wright
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.
Posted: 2004-11-24 12:23am
by Losonti Tokash
Xbox Next launches around this time next year, I believe.
Posted: 2004-11-25 01:30am
by Lt. Dan
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?

Posted: 2004-11-25 02:30am
by SylasGaunt
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.
Posted: 2004-11-25 02:50am
by DPDarkPrimus
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
Posted: 2004-11-25 02:59am
by Duckie
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.
Posted: 2004-11-25 02:52pm
by Lt. Dan
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?
Posted: 2004-11-25 02:57pm
by Beowulf
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.
Posted: 2004-11-25 03:32pm
by Lt. Dan
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...
Posted: 2004-11-26 12:09pm
by thecreech
to hell with all of you.

i don't know how to speak retard talk but that is pretty funny
Posted: 2004-11-26 12:22pm
by Ghost Rider
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

Posted: 2004-11-26 01:46pm
by Ace Pace
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?

Posted: 2004-11-26 02:47pm
by Dartzap
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

Posted: 2004-11-26 02:59pm
by Agent Fisher
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!!
Posted: 2004-11-26 03:14pm
by Duckie
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.]
Posted: 2004-11-26 03:19pm
by Dartzap
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