GOW - Who's Man Enough?

Miss K said:
next time someone else can host as i got bored of the constant whinging about the host advantage, other than that some gd games
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As I said last night it comes with the territory. I think both Alrik and I would prefer it if you hosted than either of us.

Maybe we need to reserve one skin on each team for the host.

You also have to note I whinged about Alrik, Andy and Killswitch last night So you were singled out, just for being host.
 
Windle said:
To be honest Krono, if Miss K is hosting and your downstairs from here and running on the same network it won't make much difference as any host advantage will be the same for you. Your connection to the game will be quicker than the rest of the players as your data doesn't have as far to travel as say mine does from sunny scotchland. It's a miniscule difference but i'd say it's comparable to "Host" advantage.
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It goes out of the house hits an XBL server (router?) and comes back to Miss K.

I get the same service you guys get
 
Killswitch said:
I don't really notice much difference but I am usually on Miss K's team so might not see the host difference, I usually just assume its skill when she badgers you guys silly and will stand by my assuptions :)

Pistol whip ya later.
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Just you wait till alrik or I get host. Full team kills become the norm. (But there is not a host advantage ;))

I have noticed that you have to aim slightly differently when you are host and when you are not the host.

When I am host I tend to get most of my shots on target and kabooie there is a 5m diamater of blood around me.

When I am not hosting I have noticed that my "Aim" is slightly left of the target most of the time (your right alrik) I suspect that this is due to my extended hosting period and bad habits have developed.

Further more from only playing one or 2 nights of Halo. I have develped a very bad habit of following every shotgun shot with a melee attack. Now Marcus is not as fast at this manover as Master Chief and my melee attack never gets landed. It would however be faster and better if I shot again.
 
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andybtsn said:
Mine and Gandys last games tonight until next Wednesday or something.

Off on Hols for Sarahs 21st
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a **** fest in paris if I heard correctly the other night.

Well Happy birthday Gandy. (I remember forgeting my 21st, back in the day)



BTW we should do some proper line tests to see what connetion speeds we have each night to see who really should be hosting.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Can't remember but i think it was squinoogle hosting the other night which gave alrik only some of the worst shotgun and lancer lag ive seen yet. It was like the slowmo matrix stuff ;)

He stood near me when I said I couldn't see it and fired at the wall. Took an age for his shot to hit. Why do other games not suffer like this?
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It has happend to me when RP2000 hosted one of the Turnament games. I fired 2 sec later the bullets landed where my target was I fired again, ditto, all his shots were leaving his gun and hitting me in real time. At this point I tried to run away but his team mate flanked and killed me (this would not have happened if my bullets were hitting. My target had a pistol or lancer, I had a shotty and fired 3 "Accurate" shots. So I would have been able to run forward, in the direction I was going) and not be flanked as I was )

I'm not really sure why this happens as its only "your" bullets that are not working real time, everyone else shoots and hits in real time. possibly its some glitch or packet loss that is responsible.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
Sorry should read what I type. I'm on a theoretical 8Mbps connection which gives me an actual 1.8Mpbs DOWN and what I thought was 0.9 UP (I really don't pay much attention to this part) but is 448Kbps according to my bill.

Embarrassing typo considering I'm an It engineer :o
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You might want to chainge ISP or get downgraded if you are paying for 8mb and getting less than 2
 
andybtsn said:
It won't be the same without me and Gandy!

Miss K will be the only female too...

Ah dammit, I'll take the 360 to Paris.. :D
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We lost 2 girls in one night :(


Oh and Gord, I'm a loud angry drunk (even worse when playing games).

And I was by far the least moaning person last night. I'd die and enter a room of moaners (even when I was the first to die)


I mean I see a pattern emerging here:
First there was
You have host advantage with the shotgun - repeat infinitum
then
THe chainsaw has some sort of hover on it, you khow the lancer also shoots bullets ?
Also
All you do is stick people with grenades, did you know that they can also be thrown
Another Gem
You know there are other weapons on thelevel other than the torque bow. Clearly when you get 13 kills with this gun and 3 at best in every other level it is obvious that this is a no skill weapon
Followed by
Every time your cornered you scarper
Closely followed by
Your as bad as cadman (Alrik actualy had the gaul to say this when he scarpers as much as the next person)
Now
All you do is pistol whip people!!


FFS There is having a whinge because you died, but it seems like any tactic or excessive weapon use is illegal or something. Quite simplily a person is going to use what works best for them.
I do agree that it is frustraiting that some people seem to do the same thing time and time again. with little variation.
Alrik in escilation (or what ever its called, always has the grenades, always tries to tag you if you hide at the top of the stairs with the rock cover and always trieds to throw it at you if you are futher up. Why does he do it? Because it works for him.
I always rund down the back of canals and attemp to shotgun people, why because it works.
Gord and Alrik Hammer of dawn everything moving in Rooftops
Alrik always goes for the greades at the moment on Mansion, by running through the mansion.

Yes I think the pistol whip is really off ballanced I can fire a shotgun blast to your face or cheast and you turn round and punch me WTF. You should be dead. but thats life. IMO it should be a faster impact with no stun and less power. Infact just removing the stun from the pistol would probably improve things.
But the pistol is the way is it is and like all the other "Cheap Kills" we will find a way of dealing with ti so that the people offending (and its not just one person tbh) will reduce their reliance on it because it gets them killed.
 
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Killswitch said:
This is the point I want to note, I get tagged as a no skill player because I use melee attacks but if I can kill all 4 of a team in 1 round with a mix of shots and melee attacks why does that make me an unskilled lamer, its getting old. I play for fun and I'll use whatever I want. I can't see the fun in running in every single round with a shotgun and blowing someone away from point blank range, I like to grab a boom shot and get some multi kills or grab a torque for some fun. No one likes dying to a pistol whip or a melee hit but when there is 3 people on 1 and you all die to melee hits you can't say I'm the one lacking skills, maybe you should reassess what exactly happened there.
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I think if you ran up the map and took on all 4 of them at the same time with a pistol whip, no one would begrudge you. You have a habit of "Disapearing" in matches only to "Reapear" after the rest of your team has died and pick off the remaining baddies individualy. Whether this intentional or not is unclear.

When I have witnessed you using things like the boomshot you miss a lot more than you hit (thus running out of ammo), and even in situations where you have the oppertunity to swap to a ranged weapon you often dont.

In terms of grenade tagging the tagged person at least has the oppertunity to exact revenge on the tagger.

I mean its horses for courses, a lot of us are very competitive (dispite thinking we are not) and do not like losing.
I get wound up every time I die. I whinge about it and try to do better the next round.

The thing that annoys me the most is CAD MAN running. Yes Alrik Gord and I all do it. But we all do it with the aim of drawing a fight. WE regularly stop, change direction or attempt to catch our persuers off guard so that we can get a shot on.

Cad man runs off into the distance and leaves the enemy behind. I mean obviously you are not going to stop running if alrik is just outside tagging range sprinting after you. This is where the rodie run skill comes in. who is the better runner? can I put a lancer distance between me and alrik? can he close the gap and stick an explosive supository up my arse?

I will usually shoot at my opponents for as long as I can until the only options left are blaze of glory or escape. I base my desision on the info at hand. What weapons do they have? who are they? how many of them are there? will they all follow me? is there an escape route?

If I think I can win in my present situation I stay, if its alrik and miss K I run (alrik being capable of killing me by thought, miss K being lethal at close range) I have better chances if I cna sepertate them kill Alrik and then take on miss K in a one on one situation.
 
Killswitch said:
But I don't play to get an erection over how good I am, I play for fun so I never claimed I was amazing with the boom or the torque I just stated they were fun. I do enjoy melee attacks and seem to do really well with them, people sometimes die and sometimes they just blow my head clean off with a shotgun. I just hate people crying about it, I never cry when I get tagged or when I get sniped while in a firefight with someone else, so why whinge if I melee :(
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I'm not having a go or picking a fight or anything, I'm just telling it how I see it.

You may not be playing fro bragging rights but as you said you are playing for fun and it cant be fun to have 7 people yelling at you and accusing you of getting cheap kills. As I have said, how is it 3 direct shotgun kills do not always result in a fatality but 2 pistol whips do every time? I'm sure if other weapons were as consistant as the fragtag or pistol whip then there would be far less whinging. But the phrase "Dont blaime the player, blaime the game" will not make you any friends. Obviously Im not aking you to handicap yourself but don't forsake using the other weapons for the pistol whip.
 
I play for fun! and the way i saw it last night was that it wasnt the individual that we were getting annoyed at for the pistol whip it was the game itself, tempers were hightened last night and i hope that anyone that wants to play tonight will put this behaid us and start this as a new day.

I can hold my hands up and say i got really narked at gimpy and killswitch for it and i will take the time to say 'sorry', it was just thats the only way i died for 4 hours but i am over it and now like i said its the game rather than the people and i am a fine one to talk as i have host advantage.

Its miss k BTW
 
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