Lunchtime Halo Highlights: 2007-12-10

OMG wall hax!

The barrel of Scooter's sniper rifle was inside the wall when he fired.

Too high, too low.

Scooter misses Xor1an's head above and below. (He did get the kil shortly after this.)

Zolimox should have stayed inside that bubble shield. (Xor1an getting a headshot with the carbine.)

Zolimox dispatches Xor1an with an overcharged shot from the plasma pistol followed by a meele.

Zolimox sticks Xor1an with a plasma grenade. He has just enough time to fire his shotgun and get in a meele before the grenade goes off.

This was one of those complicated sequences of events that the theater really helps to unravel:

1. Xor1an wounds Zolimox with his hammer.
2. cenotaph sticks Xo1an with a plasma grenade.
3. Xor1an hits cenotaph with his hammer, wounding him but not killing him. The wounded Zolimox was apparently just inside the blast of the hammer strike, and Xor1an gets a kill credit for that.
4. cenotaph's plasma grenade goes off, killing both Xor1an and cenotaph. Since cenotaph was wounded by Xor1an's ealrier hammer blow, Xor1an gets kill credit for cenotaph and earns a double kill medal.
5. cazador walks away feeling robbed.

Xor1an kills cenotaph once with the hammer and shortly thereafter with a head-shot from the sniper rifle.

Dueling snipers

Zolimox on the left and Xor1an on the right.

A close shave

Zolimox snipes at Xor1an. (The haze from the man cannon probably saved Xor1an.)

Two suns

Zolimox and Xor1an took the man cannons from either side and met in the middle. The blast on the left is a power drainer activated by Zolimox. The blast on the right is a gravity hammer strike swung by Xor1an.

"You've got something on your shoe"

cazador sticks cenotaph.

Xor1an jumps down to escape cenotaph after retrieving the energy sword and just barely makes the landing.

Doobie fire at Xor1an with his assault rifle, Scooter with his brute shot. Xor1an weakens Doobie with his battle rifle, then sticks him with a plasma grenade.

Scooter gets a double kill with the flamethrower (3 medals total including the two incinerations) on FDragon and cenotaph.

"Why do I get the feeling there's somebody behind me?"

Doobie no-scopes Xor1an with the sniper rifle. (He did get the kill.)

Scooter chases Xor1an with the sword as they jump down a level. Scooter gets the kill, but Xor1an throws a plasma grenade almost straight up, sticking Scooter.

"Now drop all your stuff and dive over that ghost."

Scooter tries to stop cazador's ghost with his brute shot, but fails.

cazador spots Xor1an and Scooter fighting and decides to take a few shots with his battle rifle from a distance. Unfortunately for Xor1an, he kills Scooter.

FDragon spots the leader nav point and tosses a frag grenade towards it. Lucky for him, he gets a double kill out of it.

"Hey human! You've got something on the back of your head!"

cazador sticks Zolimox with a spike grenade.

Zolimox wins the match with a needler triple kill.

Fire Jumpers

FDragon gets Xor1an with an incendiary grenade at close range. They both windw up falling.

Zolimox snipes Xor1an.

Xor1an snipes cenotaph.

Xor1an notices that he's being shot in the back befor going through a teleporter. He backs up and waits to be followed and then assassinates his attacker.

Zolimox thinks he has Scooter pinned down with the turret. Scooter manages to hunker down behind the limited cover and demonstrates his steely sniper's resolve.

"You've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well known is ..."

FDragon backs away from a fight with Zolimox and gets caught in the blast from explosive boxes on the wall set off by a frag grenade thrown after him as he retreats.

Though Scooter has the gravity hammer, Zolimox gets him with a frag grenade and his assault rifle by keeping his distance.

Xor1an takes the gravity hammer from Zolimox and proceeds to get 3 more kills with it, including Zolimox who came to get it back.

Xor1an spots Scooter (with the leader nav point) and tosses a plasma grenade at him. It just sticks him before he makes it around the corner.

Zolimox gets a triple kill with the needler, the third with a combination of splash damage.

Xor1an throws a plasma grenade after Zolimox as he enters the lift. It follows him up it and finds its intended target.

(Xor1an didn't even get the stick medal or the kill shown on his screen as too many other message ocurred at the same time.)

Zolimox misses Scooter with two plasma grenades, but Scooter helpful walks over the second one as it goes off.