Lunchtime Halo Highlights: 2008-02-11

Game 1: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Snowbound

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Apparently the shields have a "high" setting

cenotaph pictured, lighting from a frag grenade

cenotaph's grenade sets off explosive boxes near Xor1an, but thanks to the leader handicap 50% damage reduction, it merely sends him flying across the room.

cenotaph kills Xor1an, but doesn't notice the plasma grenade he stuck to the side of the big sphere in the middle of the room.

Game 2: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Valhicular (Valhalla)

We used a forged map variant I made specifically for FFA slayer with vehicales. We removed the restriction our Handicap Leader game type normally has of preventing the leader from using vehicles. We also tried something new using the "respawn traits" settings: giving people active camo for the first 5 seconds after they respawn.

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What did that tree ever do to you?

Zolimox escapes Xor1an's laser by taking his banshee behind a tree.

Narrow escape.

Xor1an heard cazador's missle pod lock on, ditched his brute chopper, and ducked behind a rock before the second one hit. You can see two more still on the way.

Mutual banshee destruction

Zolimox and Xor1an kill each other (Zolimox scores the winning point)

Xor1an and Zolimox battle for a bit, trading a ghost back and forth in the process. (This is a little long.)

Xor1an uses his brute chopper to take down cenotaph's banshee.

Game 3: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on Guardian

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cenotaph (wielding a brute shot), FDragon (dual-wielding a spiker and a mauler), Zolimox (wielding a carbine), Scooter (wielding a mauler)


Sniper (Scooter) vs. hammer (Zolimox).

Sniper in the mist

Scooter pictured

Zolimox sticks Xor1an (on the foot) from a good distance away.

cenotaph demonstrates his brute-shot-Fu on Xor1an and Zolimox.

Game 4: Handicap Leader (Slayer) on The Pit

As is becoming a common sub-type for us, we made the following changes:

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FDragon uses the explosive fusion coils to kill Xor1an. (I particularly liked the blood spray when his dead body hits the ceiling above him.)


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Last modified: Wed Feb 27 09:48:36 EST 2008
Lunchtime Halo Highlights was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Halo 3, (c) Microsoft Corporation.