Oh well. It’s now free for Windows-based PC games, whereas before only people with the premium gold membership could utilize functions like playing online games with each other. Now, however, according to a Gamespot article (almost cited it as Gamestop), and confirmed by an InformationWeek article that the PC-version of Xbox-Live is now [...]
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It just occured to me that I never did actually post an entry about the first Clearing the Backlog iteration, because I was updating the Halo 3 Videos page and I could find anything with a search for RROD. So here it is! I didn’t call it Clearing the Backlog then, but that’s [...]
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News of the Undead Scarab is pretty old by now, but I recently came across it on fileshare and wanted to post my own cinematic of it. I did so, at the tail end of a collection I’ve come to describe as “Clearing the Backlog”.. being a bunch of space-taking clips on my x360’s [...]
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Posted in freebies, halo 3 on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Bungie, the makers of the Xbox series Halo (among other things) has deemed July 7 to be Bungie Day and is giving away stuff. The notable giveaway is a free multiplayer map, for those that can log in today and download it. It’s a remake of a Halo: Combat Evolved (H:CE) map called Chill [...]
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A guy I’ve chatted with a few times (and played matchmaking with once or twice), Lucifer7, and a few other gents created this Empire Strikes Back-ish AT-AT (the four-legged walkers in the snow) in the Halo 3 Forge. I made a little exploration video of it to show it off. Lucifer7 later discovered [...]
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Normally in VIP games, the goal is to kill the VIP on the other team. I actually managed to get a Double Kill, both of them being other-team VIP’s, and both of them by Assassination..
However, the game is on Rocket Race, and there are only two people on that team anyway =P
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In this video, I acidentally betrayed my own teammate twice — once when he dashes in front of the Spartan Laser beam that I had trained on squatter (trying to splatter him, I guess) and the second time when he respawns next to me then gets in front of it while I’m shooting again. [...]
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I found a clever video a while back on Bungie Favorites on Xbox Live, where a stray Brute Chopper wheel, flying off of a freshly plasma-’naded chopper, spins down the long structure roof on Sandtrap and splatters a sniper looking the other way. The guy who threw the plasma grenade actually gets a splatter [...]
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Some fortunate individualss managed to launch a warthog on Sandtrap’s high cliff ledge, make it go high enough to hit the invisible ceiling barrier, and land in one of the square-shaped structures near the outside edge on the other side (where the missle pod spawns). Not too shabby!
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Here’s a little tutorial I made for getting outside a few of the Halo 3 maps. If you’ve got XBox Live, check out my fileshare (thehomeland) and get the “explore” movies. The basic idea:
1. Load forge.
2. Delete all spawn points. If there’s a couple you can’t find, suicide and you’ll respawn at it.
3. [...]
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Posted in halo 3, video, wtf, youtube on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
A YouTuber who was bragging about such a feat, remarked about this on one of my other videos, so I hunted down his fileshare and sure enough, there it was in plain sight. The first one is my first version, and the second one was created after I grew tired of the first, having [...]
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Ever since I played the Standoff level, I wanted to go explore those buildings way off in the distance — but you can’t get there the regular way. Enter the Insta-Death Spawn trick.. Not my idea, but a much better tutorial of how to get it accomplished than most of the other tutorials I’ve [...]
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I don’t have the x360 back yet, but I’m borrowing a friend’s. Made a few more videos like a remix on the Mongoose Overkill Extermination Splatter with different music and mo’betta angles.
There’s also an exploration demo of Lucifer7’s custom map for Avalanche, showing a remarkably decent AT-AT from Star Wars (the big 4-legged walkers [...]
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Posted in crybaby, grrrrr, halo 3, heads up, humor, life hacks, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, wiki-ref, words on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
After posting this Ask Metafilter question, I have learned that I am a linguistic descriptivist whereas my accuser is a linguistic prescriptivist. In a nutshell, it means that I believe language rules can be identified by ways in which they have been demonstrated to operate in the past — whereas my accuser subscribes to [...]
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Although technically I stole the video off Bungie Favorites, I edited it and got a lot more angles on it, almost in a story kind of way. A guy throws a plasma grenade toward a warthog turret that’s shooting him, but it lands on a nearby chopper instead, blowing it to pieces. One [...]
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I swear I should have gotten this double kill, but the turret guy had on his lucky slippers or something, because he killed me almost exactly as the laser fired — so the laser part went through the warthog but did no damage. Sucks to be me!
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One of the few times I could claim to have gotten a double kill via VIP assassinations — and on video no less =P Kinda cheap way to do it, though, considering there’s only two people on a team and once one VIP dies, the one remaining guy becomes the new VIP immediately in [...]
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