The Official Halo 3 Topic

[LL!]

Tell them it's Mario Kart on steroids.

[Guest Kou]

Or Diddy Kong Racing on bananas. GET IT? GET IT?...Ah fuck you guys.

[Media 2.0]

Wooo! I completely whomped ass in a game a little while ago.

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3...yer=ZhaneStyles

An astounding +20 spread for me. (Don't know about the rest of you, but that's good for me) Started the match off kill frenzy, from a Warthog turret, then proceeded to jump out and annihilate with the assault rifle!

Considering even without the 10 turret kills, I still got 9 more kills then the next person on my team, I'd say I did pretty good.

[Guest Kou]

+20 is always good, for some reason I have an uncanny skill for getting away from death and I end up sub 10 deaths mosts of my games. Hell I went 16 and 0 in a BTS one time. That's always nice to do.

[Slogger]

1. Whats up with no one saying how good my "Land Down Under" thing with Kou was?

2. Kou is Kocky.

3. I hope to god my new net connection is faster than my old one, Just so i can kick ass and stop Kou laughing at me.

4. Kou is a Kock.

5. I just smiled and gave you a Vegemite..... sandwich.

[Guest Kou]

I don't laugh at you, I just laugh at the things you dooooooooo. And I'm only cocky because nine times out of then I can back it up. >_>

[Boogey131]

I finally got my wireless adapter and had my first two online games of Halo. Mmmm.

I won the second with 25 kills, I died 4 times and the second guy had a total of 11 kills. I may have been on the basic training playlist, but, I take any feeling of joy I can get.

Gamertag:Boogey131

Lemme know if you need somebody to slaughter.

[Guest Kou]

Letting your friend rape your social K/D ratio = Not fun. Anyone on right now?

[Hellfire]

Soooo...anyone want to get beaten down now? Send me a PM if you want to play.

[abundant]

Playlist of the Living Dead

Posted by Frankie at 10/30/2007 10:25 AM PDT

In the dead of night, cold lids flutter and wake from dread slumber. What do those milky eyes see when they rise from their graves? What do those decaying nostrils scent in the air as they sniff the perfumed night of the boneyard? Brains of course. Succulent, delicious brains. Brains are to zombies as bacon is to people. Or candy, if you’re kosher.

It is a scientific fact that zombies feast on human brains because they are the softest meat on a person and Zombie dental care is not really up to snuff.

To celebrate the gustatory tendencies of the walking dead and to acknowledge All Hallows Eve, we’re launching a spooktacular, eerie-otic and cryptmongous playlist for 27 horror-filled hours, starting on October 31st at 12:01am and ending at 3:00am on November 1st because we love Hawaii Halloween too (Chicken skin kine). It is infection and it is the playlist of the Living Dead.

To answer your eerie queries and uncanny questions, we reanimated Transylvanian Tyson Green from his dank and moldering pit.

Q: Infection, what’s that?

Infection is this really great gametype, inspired by a custom game devised by our community in Halo 2, which we added official support for in Halo 3. In Infection, most players start off on a Human team, with one or more players starting off as Zombies. The odds are stacked heavily against the Zombies at first, but when a Human is killed by a Zombie (as they inevitably are), they join the Zombie team and turn on their former teammates.

Q: How long will the Living Dead haunt matchmaking?

Just for Halloween, from 12:01am to 3:00am the next morning, PST. We decided to let it go a bit late into the morning to give people a chance to play when they got home from their Halloween carousing. Infection is a lot of fun when everyone is into it, but we don’t think it would make a good playlist long term, so it’s going to come and go.

And if everyone has a good time, who knows? It may return, as the restless dead are known to do.

Q: Can I get achievements in this playlist?

Yes, it is set up as a Ranked Playlist, and players will have some good opportunities to pick up a few of the harder MP achievements without any of that pesky guilt. Fending off the hungry dead is as righteous a way as any to score an Overkill. It’s also a good chance to fill out your Ranked Medals with some of the Infection medals, like Infection Spree and Hell’s Janitor.

Q: Can I join with my homies or is this a Lone Wolves style hopper? And how many corpses will I play with?

You can join with a max party size of 4, Infection matches can start with eight players and the games have a player limit of 13.

Q: There’s more than one version of Infection in this playlist, what is each version and how does it work?

We’re using two main versions: Save One Bullet, which is close to classical Infection but with limited ammunition which keeps the Humans from holding off the Zombies forever, and Creeping Death, where the Zombies are a bit slower but shockingly invisible and deadly. Creeping Rockets is a third variant where the Humans are more heavily armed, but the Zombies are tougher too.

Q: Do the maps in Living Dead have the same set-ups that I am used to?

The Living Dead playlist will be the first to use Forge variants in Matchmaking. Lars [bakken] and Dan [Miller] pulled out all the stops and Forged some masterful variants featuring fortified positions and anti-Zombie booby traps to help get people into the Zombie mind (which is to say, wanting to get into a Human’s mind. Directly.)

Q: Man, I love these gametypes is there any way I can get them?

Any time you play one of these variants in Matchmaking, they’re saved in your Recent Games queue (in the Custom Games lobby, go to select the game type—the Recent Games list is at the top.) They may also show up in the Bungie Favorites this week.

Q: Will there be more special hoppers in the future?

You bet.

[Kyle_]

I play Fast Infection with my friends a lot. It's awesome.

[LL!]

Nothing tops Rocket Race, but I'll for sure try to get in on this Living Dead thing.

[King Ellis]

Me and LL got bored after playing some multiplayer so I made the official EWB Halo 3 Division group!

http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/ewb/Group/GroupHome.aspx

[Boogey131]

I joined. I have zero friends with a 360/Halo 3 so I'm missing out on some custom games. The Infection day sounds fun, I haven't played Infection yet but yeah, I'm staying up all night to get some plays in before I need to sleep/deal with halloween with my nephew.

Just for curiosity, what's everybodys average K/D ratio, mines is currently stuck at 0.77. Clearly Im not doing somehting right.

[Gongsun Zan]

Man, I can't get anyone in the Living Dead playlist.

[Gongsun Zan]

I like how the Living Dead playlist has become a huge excersise for boosting.

Well, I got Stepping Razor, so I ain't complaining.

Now to finish up campaign, and get that Katana >_>

[Fitzy]

I played Halo for the first time in like three weeks. I gave up after two games as I didn't get to play any Infection and I was getting a head ache from playing Guitar Hero for a while before Halo.

[Cactus Drags]

I'm so much better than Ellis and LL, it's not even funny >_>

Although it was awesome when I saved LL from a Spartan Laser with a migraine-inducing assassination.

[Kyle_]

So what exactly is the Rocket Race?

[KevinStorm]

Teams of two people, one person is a VIP but can't drive a vehicle. Everyone has a rocket launcher and is damn near indestructible.

Non-VIP partner gets on a mongoose, VIP partner gets on the back, and it's a race to get to the designated destination the most times.

EDIT: Oh, and the VIP partner has to be the one to get to the destination to score.

LL orgasms over Rocket Race.

Edited October 31, 2007 by KevinStorm