Lunchtime Halo Highlights: 2007-11-19

Game 1: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Guardian

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Xor1an hammers FDragon off the edge. FDragon gets and impressive stick on Xor1an as he's on his way down.

"I apologize good sir, but I must decline your offer of needles. However, I invite you to enter my humble abode and partake of my mauler."

After getting needled by Zolimox a few times too many in this game, Xor1an hits on a solution. (If we recorded audio of ourselves playing, you could hear Xor1an taunting Zolimox as he shuffles around in the bubble shield waiting for a victim.)

Game 2: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Narrows

We temporarily set the wepaons to all swords.

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Your urologist cannot help with this kind of burning

Xor1an sticks cenotaph somewhere inappropriate. He almost seems to be looking away from it.

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Will you die already?

Zolimox and Xor1an engage in a protracted swordfight with a total of 8 clashes.

Game 3: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on The Pit

We temporarily set the primary wepon to the rocket launcher and the secondary weapon to the brute shot.

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Xor1an's body make a nice upward arc and lands on the bridge leading out of the control center.

I was robbed!

Though he survives for quite a while, Xor1an gets zero kills through this big battle with lots of explosions.

Game 4: Crazy King on Epitaph

We set the weapons to all needlers

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Xor1an gets a triple kill

Game 5: Oddball on Snowbound

We set the weapons to all Spartan Lasers.

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...and that's why we don't play Oddball on Snowbound any more

Xor1an illustrates how to use the barriers in laserball.

Game 6: Oddball on Construct

We stuck with Lasers as the only weapon. While this map doesn't suffer from the same barrier problem Snowbound does, Xor1an was up to his old tricks to gain time.

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Xor1an gets to a score of 44 right at the beginning of the game in one run.

(I was pretty surprised that I pulled this off during the game, but watching it afterwards showed be just how many near misses I escaped.)

Game 7: Crazy King on Construct

We again stuck with Lasers as the only weapon.

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Zolimox and cazador line up to let Xor1an get a double kill with one laser.

Game 8: Infection on The Pit

This used the finely crafted "Room 2" map and game type.

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Zolimox grew bored with waiting in the command center, so he went hunting for zombies.

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Last modified: Wed Jan 2 18:44:51 EST 2008