[360] Halo Reach: Ghosts of GFF

Alright kids, gather around. It's storytime. Time to tell you of the glorious adventures of two men. Two men who went into Firefight Matchmaking and were immediately abandoned by their two teammates. These men were not discouraged however, and decided to take on the world.



Okay so a single Jackal isn't exactly the world but you get my point.



Lol. But enough about Daravon dying. It's time to get down to business. I've done two man FF MM before and I have never actually finished the game out. It's designed for four people ideally and with two you just get fucked. Would we be up to the challenge? First thing's first: teamwork.



I call it the "Daravon you get punched by that Hunter while I charge my laser" strategy. Don't get all concerned he lived. I wouldn't let my bro die that easily. After that, we moved onto to shoring up at the sandbags and taking the two man fireteam approach. We even got the Grunts to show us their new grenade levitation ability.



How cool is that? Being with Daravon for a whole 30 minutes seemed like a bit much though. I needed my alone time, so I consulted with a friend. No Daravons allowed.



"Guess what my favorite type of Macaroni is! That's right, elbow macaroni!" Silly Jackal.

Of course, as is the folly with two man FFMM we eventually got pushed up and spawn camped, but it wasn't anything a little teamwork couldn't dispatch.



Get off my lawn. Eventually in order to survive I suggested we hijack a vehicle, and after several hilariously fail attempts Daravon finally managed to snatch a Wraith at the end of the first round. While he cleaned up the front...



I mopped up the rear:



The Wraith actually lasted a whole Round, we were impressed we kept it for so long. The third Round brought us back to our old tricks again. Good thing Daravon is such a fucking hammer whore.



Things proceeded smoothly, until we hit the final wave with a little over 2 minutes to go. Faced with all those fucking Gold elites with swords and turrets, Daravon and I soon found ourselves dying repeatedly. Fortunately the time had come for the King of Clutch, Roflfox, to step up.



Looks like he stepped on something there. Sword in hand, it was time to get to work.



BITCH. The clock was winding, our time was quickly running out but my amazing sword work proved too much for the Covenant to handle.



MORTAL KOMBAT. Too bad we didn't get to fight because Daravon stole the kill with his fucking Wraith. I seriously could not believe we finished that shit with two people and I highly doubt I'll ever see it done again. Oh and the bonus round? Grunts.



Daravon got about 10,000 fucking points with the Wraith. It was ridiculous. I was on foot with just a DMR but I managed to not die, so huzzah! Basically, we rule.

How ya doing, buddy?

I managed to survive the whole match of a four man Sniperfight on Outpost yesterday. Admittedly that's not a huge achievement on Outpost when the others know what they're doing but still, I was pretty chuffed. I even survived the bonus round of Hunters but didn't actually manage to kill any of them. I came 2nd overall.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Bungie.net : Halo Reach : File Details

[15:56] <Qworkie> ahahaha
[16:02] <Tails> roflmao
[16:02] <Tails> that is awesome.
[16:03] <Qworkie> I love how he just keeps dancing after that
[16:03] <Qworkie> or it kinda looks like it before it cuts, so I'll keep thinking that
[16:03] <zip> HYAHAHA
[16:03] <zip> OWNED
[16:03] <Tails> owns so much
[16:04] <Qworkie> oh god the dude flying in the background
[16:04] <Qworkie> followed by the craft

I was speaking idiomatically.

Does anyone know how to update what your Spartan looks like on bungie.net? Mine is still wearing the same yellow armour he had on on day one, not the bronze colour I've been using since about week two onwards.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It's a known issue they've posted about a few times, it's affecting pretty much everybody. They're saying it'll be fixed as soon as they are able, something about that data being housed on the matchmaking servers so they can't just take them down to fix that one thing or something.

FELIPE NO

I like how I went into Multi Team with Mo0 and STILL got Elite Slayer twice in a row. It's insane. Not that I don't love Elite Slayer but god damn.

Still got 380 kills to go for the weekly.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I think I have like 900 kills to go.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well you have apparently given up on Halo recently, so

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awww daily Challenges for today are all Firefight.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Raptorfox

Well you have apparently given up on Halo recently, so

I've been busy! And I also played it for eight hours straight over a LAN at a friend's house on Sunday night.

Every game was a lag-free wonderland where I donged righteously and often. I went +58 in a 45-minute game of 6v6 Multi-Flag Asylum.

Then I went back online and remembered what it is like to 'communicate' with American hosts.

And then I bought Bayonetta 4 cheap...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR EXCUSES. But I did forget about that LAN thing, oh right.

Also you actually GOT a different game? I am shocked. Good choice though because Bayonetta owns. But still, you can't let LAN parties ruin your will to play. That's not cool man.

(45 minute CTF what the fuck)

I was speaking idiomatically.

45 minute CTF splitscreen at 1am after having played for six hours already, having got to sleep the previous morning at 8.30am on a house party couch with two other people before going to work at 11.30am, not eating, and then going straight to the LAN (where at least there was pizza).

Edit: and I had a cold.

And I still rained cats and dongs. You should see me without latency, you bad kid. I even climbed on top of the bases with sniper and shotgun because that shit is not fixed in the default Asylum variant, and I only felt a little guilty.

(I have also been playing the Football Manager 2011 demo and The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom and the Alan Wake DLC, so stop judging me on my single-game fanaticism. It's not my fault Reach is simply the best one.)

How ya doing, buddy?

Why you mad though? Also I had to get off this morning AT 999 KILLS for the weekly

FELIPE NO

Maybe if you didn't suck so much at Elite Slayer you'd HAVE THOSE KILLS

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I would have gotten it if we were playing on Asylum!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Fuck that noise.

I like how the Grunts flip the fuck out if you jetpack on top of the box that's on the roof of the building you spawn in on Outpost. They literally start taking the long route to try and get to the AA gun or climbing on the rocks to try and shoot you. It's so fucking easy to spot the bastards with the Fuel Rod Cannons from up there too.

Also I'm really taking a liking to the Chiefs FF voice. Shot a bunch of dudes in the head and he was all "Heretic this" and I lol'd.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

BWU is up, 3 main highlights.

1) Progress towards the 117 million Challenges completed to raise the cap isn't going as fast as expected; unless people step it up it's looking like NOT early to mid November. To help encourage Challenge getting, one of Monday's Challenges will be to just play a game in Matchmaking with your profile linked on bungie.net.

2)This coming Tuesday they will be replacing Slayer DMR with Slayer Arena Pro in the Arena playlists (no radar). They will also be increasing the amount of voting options in Arena.

3)DLC Achievements detailed.

-Totally Worth It (50): Earn a Double Kill from the Grave in multiplayer Matchmaking.
-Both Barrels (50): Earn a Double Kill with the shotgun in multiplayer Matchmaking.
-Cross-Mappin' (50): Kill a player at long range with the DMR in a matchmade Slayer game.
-You Ate All the Chips (42): Collect all of the flags in a matchmade Stockpile game.
-You Blew It Up! (13): Blow up the research facility in a matchmade Invasion game on Breakpoint.
-Poppin' & Lockin' (25): Destroy a vehicle using Armor Lock in a matchmade game.
-Offensive Driver (20): Earn a kill in a matchmade Rocket Race game.

A couple are easy, but most are just like Halo 3's where you're probably going to have to get a full party that can comprise both teams to get some of these. They have apparently learned nothing. I like how they even encourage idiots to try doing Rocket Race assassinations now, sigh.

Poppin' & Lockin' is hilarious though. No idea what's up with the You Blew It Up achievement, don't know if that's the objective in Invasion on one of the new maps or what.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I thought in Rocket Race now you could kill anyone not on a vehicle? When anyone's on foot they get an orange marker over their head and a rocket hit or splatter will kill them. I remember getting a killing spree with Tails when we were all playing together once.

Still, I hate multiplayer achievements. Not that it matters to me since I doubt I'll ever get the Legendary solo achievement or even the complete on Legendary one. I seem to only be able to get 1,000/1,000 on long ass rpgs...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Trying to win is probably where you're going wrong. If you really want to win, I find camping one end of the map so you get all the targets at the end is a winning strategy but it's fucking boring compared to blasting round the joint like a maniac. If you have a team mate who realises you can shoot rockets at the ground next to you for comedy air it always improves the game too.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hmm, I thought you could only get assassination kills in Rocket Race, but I may be confusing that for Rally.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Probably. Anybody not on a mongoose is fair game in Rocket Race. You're invulnerable on it, but not off it. Shin and I actually got a killing spree/wheelman spree during a match once.

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None of those achievements are very taxing. The hardest one is probably You Ate All the Chips, and it's just encouraging you to play the gametype well. It could have been a lot worse, honestly.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Heh, I didn't get a percentile for my Gold arena season. Shake you got 10% in Iron, does that mean you're better than like 90% of the dudes in the Sucks at Halo division?

(<3)

Oh and the weekly is easy. 45 multikills. One of the dailies is campaign with Thunderstorm, Tilt and Mythic on on Heroic. Daravon ;___;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Considering the ridiculous easiness of that "Play one game of matchmaking after linking your account to bungie.net" challenge, the cap busting thermometer skyrocketed today. It looks to me like the cap will be going up sometime this week, if not tonight, at the rate it's going.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yea, cap looks like it'll be raised on Wednesday at the latest. Unless Bungie decides to wait until Friday, or something.

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