Lunchtime Halo Highlights: 2007-10-15

Game 1: Duel (Slayer) on Guardian

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Second snipe does the trick

Xor1an gets Scooter, but it takes him two shots from the sniper rifle. You can still see the trail of the first shot in this picture.

Double Shot (of death, not espresso)

Xor1an uses the brute shot on Scooter and the shotgun on cenotaph for a double kill.

Let's form a Conga line!

FDragon beats down cenotaph and Xor1an immediately assassinates FDragon.

Eat pink death, human!

FDragon needles Xor1an.

Game 2: Rockets (Slayer) on Isolation

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"How did you like your test drive of our new Mongoose model? Pretty sweet, eh?"
"Yeah... it was great right up until the part where it exploded in a giant fireball."

Surely Scooter knew that driving a Mongoose in a free-for-all game of rockets wasn't such a great idea.

Game 3: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Epitaph

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What's this new attachment for my assault rifle? Will it enhance it's functioning somehow?

I actually though I'd stuck his head, but the saved film revealed the tru7h.

Trading Grenades

In the action the above shot of the spiked AR comes from, Scooter manages to toss a frag grenade just as he dies, getting a posthumous grenade kill.

Rockets are noisy

Doobie gets the rocket launcher and then stands at the place where it spawns firing down below. Xor1an hears the rocket from above and thinks he'll go in for an assassination, but Zolimox finishes Doobie off just before Xor1an strikes.

Lucky no-scope carbine kill

Xor1an grabs the carbine and gets off a head shot on FDragon with the dfirst round. Luckily for him, his shields had been taken down by a combination of bullets from Zolimox and a frag grenade from Scooter.

Game 4: Shotgun Crazy King on Snowbound

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That's my hill!

Zolimox takes the hill and gets a triple kill: Xor1an (who thought he was being sneaky with the active camo), Doobie, and FDragon.

Game 5: Laser Ball on Isolation

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Laser Suicide

Xor1an was attempting to laser FDragon, but Zolimox runs straight at him and gets caught as the laser goes off. Apparently, the laser beam strike has splash damage, because Xor1an gets a suicide for this. FDragon gets away with a mere scratch.

Ball beats laser, ball beats Mongoose...

Xor1an beats down Zolimox (not sure why there was no medal credited for that kill), and then beats Doobie off his Mongoose.

Double Lasering

This is why all-laser games are fun. Zolimox and FDragon both laser Xor1an as he attempts to jump down to the lower level. (Zolimox was awarded the kill.)

Game 6: All Random Slayer on The Pit

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Sniper vs. sniper

FDragon and Scooter both have beam rifles. Scooter however doesn't seem to spot FDragon. Note the beam rifle ricochet.

Second verse, same as the first

FDragon gets Scooter with the beam rifle for the second time in the game. Note the beam rifle ricochet, which seems to be off Scooter himself though I'm guessing might have been from the gravity hammer.

Sniped on the turret

That's the Scooter we know and love: the one that shoots you through the head.

Not quick enough

Zolimox has his shields down, but he figures a regenerator will fix him up in time for a little gravity hammer ambush. Unfortunately for him, Xor1an gets there before his shields have recharged and meeles before he strikes with the hammer.

The brute shot isn't working. Oh well, I guess I'll use the sword.

Xor1an apparently still doesn't know how to use a brute shot correctly, even with its improvements. He does however still remember how to use the energy sword, in spite of its reduced range.

Win by posthumous grenade kill

Xor1an sure burns through a lot of grenades to kill Zolimox. After that, you can see cenotaph kicking Zolimox's corpse in the background. I imagine he was yelling something like "Why did you let him win?!?"

Game 7: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Construct

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Four person battle, just two kills

Scooter escapes Zolimox by jumping down to the lower lever. He would have followed, but FDragon starts shooting him. cenotaph thinks he's going to get a double kill cleaning up with the brute shot, but he only weakens FDragon to the point that Zolimox can finish him off. cenotaph repays him by meeleing him right off the map.

Hot enough for ya?

Doobie incinerates Xor1an with the flamethrower.

That's a nice sword you've got there...

FDragon kills Zolimox and takes his sword. He then gets a double kill with it, including Zolimox again.

Lasered at close range

Scooter almost gets Xor1an with the spiker/mauler combo, but Xor1an lasers him at close range. Doobie gets an assist since Xor1an's laser did half damage because of the leader handicap. Doobie cleans up Xor1an with a grenade.

Burn you, shoot you, punch you

In what I think may be a stroke of genius, Scooter sets Xor1an on fire with the flamethrower, then drops it and begins shooting him while the first continues to do damage. A meele finishes Xor1an off, probably because he got too close trying to use that sword (which wasn't going to work anyway since Xor1an had the leader handicap).

Note FDragon coming up the lift just behing Scooter.

I'll just wait here and give this fuzzy blue present to the next person who walks by

FDragon sticks an unsuspecting Xor1an as he walks past a door.

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Last modified: Thu Oct 18 16:15:29 EDT 2007