Lunchtime Halo Highlights: 2007-12-03

dimitrios l catches Xor1an and cenotaph fighting, throws a frag grenade between them and gets a double kill.

Zolimox makes very effective use of a power drainer, dispatching Xor1an with that and a few rounds from his assault rifle.

Beware waiting grenades

Scooter finds grenades waiting for him when he lands after taking the man cannon. Xor1an finishes him off with a meele.

Xor1an catches Zolimox and cenotaph fighting. Xor1an assassinates Zolimox just after he throws down a power drainer for cenotaph. Since cenotaph has no shields, Xor1an then finishes him off with a quick head-shot from his battle rifle.

dimitrios l kills Doobie with the brute shot. Just before dying, Doobie throws a frag grenade. It explodes in mid-air, just in front of dimitrios l, killing him. (I'm not sure what set off the frag grenade, but perhaps it was dimitrios l firing another round from the brute shot.)

Xor1an gets two double kills in a row, all splatter kills with the ghost. (It was about at this point that we decided to change the game settings to disallow the leader from using vehicles.)

dimitrios l steals a kill (Xor1an) from Zolimox using the Spartan laser.

Xor1an gets a triple kill with the mauler and meeles, then boards Scooter's ghost.

Xor1an tries to splatter Zolimox with the ghost, but Zolimox gets off an impressive mid-air boarding and kills Xor1an instead.

We were discussing the ghost during the game, and Zolimox suggested that if someone boards your ghost it might be a good idea to drive it outside the play-field so that the automatic cannons will kill the player who "'jacked your ride" (as the kids say).

Shortly after that, Zolimox boards Xor1an's ghost and he decides to try out his helpful suggestion.

Reverse drive-by

Scooter sticks Xor1an's passing ghost with a spike grenade.

"I'm not picking on you, honest!"

Xor1an splatters Scooter with the ghost and then does so again shortly after he respawns.

dimitrios l takes out both Zolimox and cenotaph with spike grenades placed in the wall next to them and a few bullets from his assault rifle.

This sequence really illustrates how things get weird with the 50% damage modifier. It occurred right at the beginning of the game when everyone is tied for the lead (and therefore in our variant does 50% damage). Here's what you'll see:

1. Xor1an lands a rocket near Scooter and some explosive fusion coils. The combined explosion leaves Scooter damaged but alive.
2. Scooter shoots Xor1an point-blank. Since Scooter is already damaged this kills him, giving Xor1an a kill credit. Since Scooter also did 50% damage with that shot, Xor1an lives but is damaged.
3. cenotaph comes in for the clean-up and kills Xor1an.

cazador gets a double kill on cenotaph and the camouflaged Scooter.