Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 102 Customs and Callins
for the week of February 26th, 2007

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, Dialpex…)


introductions


Custom Games

no sheilds. plasma pistols, no spawn weapons, no gernades. team slayer.
split team in to 2 colors. one team(the humans) and the other team
(sharks) there should be 2 sharks. one life per round. put tanks in and
ghosts. all humans get on the tank(the “boat”) while one is driving. the
two sharks take the ghosts. the point of the game is for the sharks to
kill all the humans by running over them. last 2 humans are the next
sharks. also if you fall off you can “swim” onto rocks so you are not in
the open. best map-coagulation. enjoy

Hey guys I got a very entertaining custom for you. Just for a heads up I
made this on halo PC and I’m not sure it’ll work on Halo 2. What you do
is take any team game preferably an objective game and make everyone
invisible, turn off the motion detector, turn off friendly fire and last
of all turn off the FoF tags. What you get is everyone looks the same on
both teams unless your shooting someone or someone is shooting you. This
leads to some very sneaky tactics, even more so in halo PC as unless your
using another voice chat program you have to take to time to type your
message and by that time your dead. As friendly fire is off you don’t
have to worry about betraying your friend by accident, thinking he was an
enemy. This game type is great for filtering out dumb noobs as they can’t
figure it out. Hope you have fun with this.
Dee

My favorite custom game on Halo 2 is called EMO. You can set it up pretty
much any way you want but you have to make sure that you get subtracted
scores and no penalty for suicides. The object of the game is to get the
lowest score by comiting suicide as much as possible. Ive only played this
on lockout but any other level where you can comit suicide works. Its
really fun but you have to play it with a good group of people who want to
play the actual game.

I was just wondering, does anyone play territories anymore? Thats my
favorite game mode for Halo 2 but all of my friends seem to hate it. I
never get it on matchmaking either. Is this anybody elses favorite mode,
or I should say, does anyone even remember that there is a mode called
territories?

In this variant, all the vehicles are set to Warthog, with no shields, no radar, shotguns, and only your staring grenades. It’s Capture the Flag, and one team has all the warthogs set up in front of their base on Coagulation. The attacking team goes for their flag by running in the middle against the machine guns. It’s fun because if you grenade right, you can lessen your misery.

MJ’s House Party is a king of the hill game,
where the hill moves every minute. You only get one life and the starting
weapons are plasma pistols and swords and vehicles are disabled. There are
2 teams: the kids and MJ. The kids can only use the plasma pistols, while
MJ uses the sword. The kids are not allowed to kill MJ unless he/she is
the only kid left. At the start of the game, all of the kids run towards
the hill to try to get away from MJ. MJ can kill the kids if they aren’t
on the hill, but the kids are safe when on the hill. This game is best
played on turf. have fun with this game and remember: You can’t spell
“slaughter” without “laughter”.

In the Halo novel, Ghost of Onyx the Spartan III’s were created. They
didn’t use Mjolnir armor though. They had a lesser buget so they use SPI
suits, Semi-Powered Infiltration suits. To mimic the suits armor:

Turn off sheilds
Turn on Active Camo
Turn on Damage Resistance

To make it really authentic play on the map BACKWASH. Its a swamp filled
with sentinels. Just like Onyx.


Jokes and Funny Gamertags

Hey guys its Ghost Rider again, aka Lancelot59. I saw a guy with the
gamertag, “Huge Wanker”. and my joke is: “Your Mom Is So Fat, She Was
Reach” keep the fragging going

I have run into many funny gamertags but these are some of the best…

Poop in a basket

a bathhouse

LeBron James (we have a joke at our school about Lebron)

num num ahh

and much more! great podcast, keep up the great work

Some funny gamertags that I have ran across are one of my
friends Poo Samich, and a 70YearoldMan. People have said mine is pretty
funny to. That’s about it.Keep up the podcast and you guys are doing a
fantastic job.

Hey Podtacular, hopefully one of these will be good enough to be read on
the show. 1st off, Yo momma is so fat that when you get into a game with
her, it goes a little something like this, Slayer, immediately followed by Game Over. Your mom 25 kills, everyone
else 0.

2nd Yo momma is so fat she racks up kills during matchmaking.

Shout out to Foo Mo and JVB, awesome job guys. Keep on fraggin trucks!

You know you play too much Halo if you walk around with a 360 controller and you always press the A-hole button

sweet gamertag: getyourmomoffme

gamertag: big hairy nipples. made me and imortal three laugh pretty hard i have to
say

Hey everybody, I recently saw a few funny gamertags while playing xbox
live. There was only 3 of them, but they were in a party with each other.
Their names were Brutal BigMac, Drunken Doughboy, and HillBillyPie. I just
found these names hillarious, because my team was making fun of them the
entire match.

well a wile back me and my mate l33r0y21 were playing halo 2 and we came
across this guy with his gamertag pooeynutlog as soon as we read it out,
we broke out in a huge laugh!. so yea thats my little thing for this
show.
keep up the great podcast guys!
oh and i cant wait until Fall cause thats wen halo 3 comes out!!!!

JellyJugs
BumHunter
StifflersDad

...and my personal favorite

HANDJOB42MONTH

any time your playing a game and you kill someone in a vehicle with a
rocket launcher yell out “hope you got progressive”

You know how people always blame lag when they’re getting pwnd? Well
whenever I start to hear the whining about lag I have something I like to
say. “Maybe you need an upgrade, that Fisher Price modem you’re using
isn’t tight”.


Voice Mails

(intro)(outro)


Tales from the Foxhole

Tales from the Foxhole- For this to make sense understand I don’t even own
an Xbox. Muy most recent console is an Nintendo 64. So, me and three of
my friend were playing a two on two slayer match in Relic. I had barely
played any Halo at this point but I was doing pretty good for a Noob. So,
it’s all tied up 49-49 with the winning score being 50. Me and my
team-mate are in that levatating snipers tower and he has a BR and a SMG. I have an SMG and a Rocket Launcher. I asked him how you locked onto a
vehicle because one of the enemies was running around in a Warthog. He
told me to hold in the right trigger. I asked “Like this?” and held in the
right trigger without even looking at a vehilce, I was looking at the wall
of the sniping tower. As you can imagine an explosion insued. I somehow
survived shooting a rocket at myself at point blank range and my team-mate
was ejected out of the tower with no shields. One of the enemies then
proceeded to pick him off with a sniper. We lost.

I was playing Halo 1 on the PC, and I was on the Silent Cartographer
level, and I was at the part where there were Hunters in front of the
installation in the cliff wall you had to enter. I used my pistol to
snipe one of them, then got in a Warthog and went to turn the other into
gooey orange roadkill. It kept jumping away from me, and out of my
frustration…. BABAM….. sprang an idea. I thought I could get it to
run away from me and end up running off the cliff and die. I chased it
off the platform and kept going, turning the ‘Hog in the air to keep my
balance so I didn’t fall off or get crushed. Turns out, I splattered
the Hunter in midair and crushed it against one of the pillars that held
the platform up. I just thought it was cool.
Another one.. I was playing CHAMPAGNE on Legendary and I stuck an Elite on
the foot… it glowed, but did not blow up.. instead the Elite flew into
the air and landed behind me. I turned to look at it and its dead body
sprayed blood and flew at me. It fell to the ground and I tbagged it
until I started getting shot at again and had to keep fighting.

Another time I was playing legendary campaign and I tried to stick an
elite and forgot to switch grenades, so threw a frag instead… the frag
stuck to the elite’s leg and I knew it was a frag because it was smoking
and not glowing.. a second later it exploded and killed the elite.. I
thought it was awesome.

My tale
from the fox hole was a game of team duals extra (pretty sure) in lockout
and right at the beginning, i spawned in the centre room, saw all the
enemies in the sniper tower, threw in all my grenades and ran in shooting
my smg. I got gunned down in a terrible hail of bullets but got a kill
frenzy which their team never recovered from. Unfortunately it was BTB
Slayer and therefore unranked. Keep up the good work and keep fragging
trucks.

I was playing Team Slayer on Turf and everyone on my team but me quit and
there were still 3 people on the opposing team. I spawned by the BR on the
upper level and ran over to get the sniper. When I got the sniper I jumped
down off of the ledge behind the Warthog and saw that all 3 members of the
opposing team were at the medical tent. I sniped all 3 of them (for a
triple kill) and reloaded my sniper. I noticed in the top left corner of
my screen that 2 of them quit, but there was still 1 of them left. I saw
that he respawned again by the medical tent and I sniped him again
(killtacular). Then unbelievably, he spawned AGAIN in the corner by the
medical tent and I sniped THE SAME GUY for a 3rd time (kill frenzy)! He
then proceeded to start cussing me out and accused me of modding and then
he quit out. I ended up winning the game (not that it mattered since
everyone else had quit) 37-34.

all i can say is FFA RUMBLE SLAYER on ivory tower, this is where i wish i
was on halo 3 because of the recording capabilities.
i am at the sniper spwn and i grab it, thinking i can get across the map
to try to jump on that tree thing, and plant some lead into some of their
soft little skulls.
so anyway, i jump down and run up hardwood OS side and as i approach the
jump off the mettle thing i check no one is coming up the stairs so i look
over and …BOOM… no scope sweeping headshot.i reload as i turn back
around, and in one try get on top of the tree i look over at the elevator
and i see too guys running up from my views right (the shotgun side)and
one guy is chasing after the other he is about 5 feat from the other i
first snipe the guy running away and just as I’m pulling my right trigger
i see the guy chasing mealy lunge hoping to assanate the guy running away
i sniped and he flys forward noticing this i pull my trigger again hoping
to snipe him a get him as i see a guy come from the elevator up and take
him out with two so now i need to reload and b now i have a triple and I’m
screaming into my mike “WHERES MY KILLTACULAR, I NEED MY KILLTACULAR” and
just than i hear someone say “look at your radar” and i look at my radar
and i have a guy coming just behind me. i jump and spin just as he is
lunging to assanate me and again BOOM… killtacular no scope all through
the rest of the game i was screaming “omg i am god, i should be considered
a mod all by my self, i should be banned by the banhammer for being so
good”
and PS for all U non believers iam not that good i guess i had one hell of
a game

and keep on babaming tatoo from fanticy island with weners

I was once playing my friend
in a 2 player splitscreen slayer game and he had me cornerd with the
sniper. so I run out through a random sticky at him. I thought I had
missed but then I here an explosion and my friend yells “what the
heck!!!!!!”. what had happened was that it had flown behind him,
bouned off the wall and stuck him in the butt. it was amasing lol.
Keep on sticking noobs that corner you with snipers

I have two tales from the Foxhole for you.

Well, I just got finished playing a cra-zy Halo 2 game. It was normal Team
Slayer on Midship. So, at first, it was 4 on 4. Then two of our guys quit
so it was 4 on 2. Anyways, about 4 minutes into the game. i got this crazy
kill! I was sneaking up on the Sword Guy and he saw me. I was running away
and in the middle of the map, I jumped and threw a sticky on his face. He
killed me before it exploded. So, there I was, dead body on the ground,
sticky in the Sword guy’s face. And bu-BAM! His sticky blew up and
somehow, my body flew under the map and was forever falling in space…

And the other one happened yesterday.

Okay, so we were playing Tower of Power and the Brown team was the
biggest, therefore, they had been controlling the tower for a while. So, I
went up there, (this was on Acsension, if that’s how you spell it), so, I
charged the tower, and killed one guy on the way up. So, when I got to the
top, there were at least seven team members. As my shields went beep-beep,
I slammed the right trigger button and
BUUUU-BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!

I somehow killed three people with that one single shot and as I saw my
Spartan life flash before me, I heard the faint voice….

KILLTACULAR!!

My first Killtacular on Xbox Live.

So, I just got finished playing this phsyced out game! Let me tell it from
da top.

So, I went into matchmaking Team Slayer and I found a game. So, we were
about 5 minutes into the game and it was MAJORLY LAGGING! So, basically,
no one could get killed, but that’s not the juicy part of the story.

So, the game was on Midship, and I was at one of the little spots in
between the ramps (or electric stair thingys, your choice), and this crazy
thing happened!! So, I threw a grenade for fun, but the fact that the
grenades wouldn’t explode with so much lag, made the grenade disentigrate.
So, after I threw the grenade, I got surrounded by about three guys.
Then, the game went into blue screen for about three seconds and when it
was done, I had NO WEAPON!!! For about 10 Seconds or so, I was walking the
map weaponless! Wierd, huh??

Well, this really wierd thing happened at my school. So, on Friday, this
yo-yo expert came to our school and did a “show” during our lunch. At the
end of his show, he said that he would be selling customizable yo-yo’s.
So, after lunch, on Wednesday, a friend of mine went in the lunch room to
buy one. And he comes out with a sweet yo-yo!

On one side, it has the original Xbox sign. You know, with the green X and
everything. And on the other side, he has the Halo 2 “2” logo on the other!
I thought it was pretty sweet and I’m buying one tomorrow! Too bad there 10
bucks, but I’ll do it for BUNGIE!!!!!

ILSI BioShocK

i didn’t know there was game called bioshock

wooo!

and i got a tale to tell

one day i was playing BtB Skirmish

1 flag ctf

we had gone through 2 rounds and the score was 0-0

on our team four people left and we had offense

so it was 4 people against 8

the round ended and we didn’t score

so the next round it was amazing teamwork

so i had snipe and others had sword, br, and rockets

we managed to not let them score at all, and it felt great

they felt embarassed and i felt cool

it was a good game

later

ILSI BioShocK

Me and Kiaffex went into a MM Team Skrimish game. he is a level 3 cause of
his new account and i was a level 20, so i had a funny idea. When we were
in the pregame lobby i said out loud “were modding!” When the game started
3 of them quit out. It keeps me and Kiaffex laughing all the time.

Ok well this one isan’t from Halo but it is still the single greatest thing
that has ever happened to me on Live.

So woof, the fabulous Brengamer, and I were playing a late night (early
morning for woof) game of Uno when a forth player joins us midgame. Like
me he has a vision cam so we watch waiting for his picute to load. It
loads to show us a guy in full KKK garb. As if this wasn’t bad enough, he
holds up a sign to the camera that reads “I hate Black people”. So by this
time we are rolling on the floor laugh our guts out. What happens next
almost sent me to the hospital. He removes he mask revealing the grinning
face of a black dude! After we had regained control over our convulsing
bodies, we sat down and finsihed that game. We ran into him quite a few
times durthing the rest of the night and we always had a different mask on
everytime. The KKK thing made me laugh all night long.

Alright so me and my friend (thenoob) were on a team snipers game and both
our teamates left and it was 2 vs 4. Of course we didn’t leave and thought
it would be fun to see how we did. Turns out that we did very well and won
said game with tons of headshots and no scopes. Of course said game was
not without tons of deaths, and the hated hacker who pwned us. We did
however cause 3 of the 4 people to leave and only the hacker stayed.
Eventually we ran time out and won.

Hey, one night, a couple of my friends and I were ripping it up in Team
Slayer. We ran across this one particular group of guys during
matchmaking. We fought them on beaver creek and won. What a happy ending,
or was it? We wound up going against them on our very next match on
Lockout if I remember correctly. Again, we pwned the crap out of them a
second time. After that, my team and I discussed how humiliated they must
have been, after being beaten twice by the same team we laughed about it
the pregame lobby. Two rounds later we played them again for the Third
time! What are the odds? (we won that match too)
After some serious pwning we went on to play some unranked games and had a
wonderful time with that in hopes of not letting our luck get the best of
us. Later, we went back to Team Slayer and after a couple of matches we got
matched up with the same group of guys AGAIN for the fourth time! I said
to my friends “these guys have gotta be really pissed now”. We all went in
with a carefree attitude expecting another easy win. But we were wrong. The
actually beat us. I was pretty disappointed that we lost to someone who we
perceived as a “bunch of noobs”. We’ll at this point we were anxious
about getting that win back, so without hesitation we rushed back into
team slayer and got matched up with those crazy mothers a fifth time. This
time it was personal. The map was Ascension and we talked trash during the
game. After the end of that round we lost some how and we trash talked at
the end of that too. And these guys talked back so good that it made me
feel depressed. After that I retired from Halo for the night and went to
bed feeling very not happy.
1080p Rocks

i was playing in a game recently against some of my friends from school.
they aren’t very good yet because they all have only had XBL for a little
while. the game was a 3 v 1. They were staying congested at the sniper
tower so i decided to charge them. i jumped from top glass to S2 and
didn’t see any of them. as i turned to go down to S1, all 3 came running
up. one with a shotgun, one with sword, and the other with just a BR.
jumped backwards but unfortunately i was to close to the edge and jumped
off. as i was about to die, i threw up a despiration sticky. when i
respawned i hear triple kill. apparently they were all next to each other
and the grenade stuck one of them and they all died. i laughed my ass off
as i went on to an easy victory.

I was
playing Gears of War with my good buddy Ben aka PRC Megaman,We were on
Rooftops and as usual I picked up the Longshot and took cover near Torque
bow,Ben ran up and got shot in the face lol.There were 2 guys on the
opposing team that were on the area still where The Boltok Pistol and
Nades were.One had that Hammer of Dawn and other had shotgun.I engaged the
1st guy on the right with the Hammer by Sidejumping ,then No-scoping
him,within a second i got an active reload turned around,no-scoped him and
we won that round

hi podtacular this is SGO LoneWarrior my tale from the fox hole is this.
one time on coagulation I was running to the the blue base and I was
trying to run for the sniper but somebody got there first and by the time
I got up on top of the base the jackass who stole my sniper started
shooting at me. He missed all four shots so I threw a plasma grenade at
him at the same time I was jumping into the teleporter. It must have
glitched because BAABAM! I threw the grenade twice it stuck the guy at the
base and a guy that was waiting at the other end of the transporter that
was waiting for me. If that’s not good enough I was able to see both
grenades explode at the same time and both guys go flying in the air
screaming their heads off and calling me a modder.

Alright, so me and a couple of my friends are playing a custom
match online, and it’s about 12:00 in the morning. One of my friends is
sleeping while he was playing the game, so the two of us that were still
awake were body raping him, because that is how bored we were. So as we
were just fooling around, this other guy comes in. His name was Muddy
Buterfly 112, and neither of us knew him, so we figured it must be our
friend who is sleeping friend. Now we wait there for about a minute and we
start looking around, and we don’t see anybody, but when we looked on the
scoreboard, we saw that he was still in the game, so we wen’t around
looking for him. We couldn’t find him, so we gave up, and I was about to
call it quits for the night anyway. Now, right when I was about to quit,
something comes at me from behind, and shouts “VIVA PINATA” and killes
both of us. After that, I really didn’t care, so I was about to quit
anyway when he said ” Hey, I’m a modder, and I can get you guys a high
level in Slayer” Then I said “No thanks, I hate modders” Then this guy
started to freak out, and got all mad at me and my friend. Then he said
“If you don’t take it back i will make you Xbox crash” Of coarse i didn’t
belive him. After about a minute later, I was still in the game, and all
of a sudden, my screen goes fuzy, and it crashes. Now i start to get
scared. I turned off my 360, hoping that it would be normal, but when I
turn it on, one of the Lights on the ring starts to flash red, and i get a
message to come up on my screen saying the I should contact Xbox Support,
and below that in big letters is an E 74 Error. Now I have to send my 360
back, and get it fixed. I have reported this guy numerous times, and hope
that he doesn’t do this to anybody else. I hate modders.

I was playing Team Slayer on Turf and everyone on my team but me quit and
there were still 3 people on the opposing team. I spawned by the BR on the
upper level and ran over to get the sniper. When I got the sniper I jumped
down off of the ledge behind the Warthog and saw that all 3 members of the
opposing team were at the medical tent. I sniped all 3 of them (for a
triple kill) and reloaded my sniper. I noticed in the top left corner of
my screen that 2 of them quit, but there was still 1 of them left. I saw
that he respawned again by the medical tent and I sniped him again
(killtacular). Then unbelievably, he spawned AGAIN in the corner by the
medical tent and I sniped THE SAME GUY for a 3rd time (kill frenzy)! He
then proceeded to start cussing me out and accused me of modding and then
he quit out. I ended up winning the game 37-34 (not that it mattered since
everyone else had quit).

I was in a Team Slayer Pro game on Ivory Tower. Being the noob that I am,
I go for the sword under the waterfall and then proceed to be shot up the
lift, a foreshadowing of what the man-cannon may be like. So I enter the
Hallway of Many Deaths, and immediately see a person. I lunge and kill
that person. I glance up at the beatdown medal and see the following: “You
beatdown Women’s Rights.” If any feminists ask, it wasn’t me. Well,
sometime later I kill Women’s Rights again. Somehow, Women’s Rights
obtains the sword and proceeds to gut me, leaving the message “You were
beatdown by Women’s Rights.” Just like a liberal pipedream. The moral of
the story is that if you get killed by Women’s Rights, it a liberal
pipedream. If it involves sending more troops to Iraq, its a conservative
pipedream.

This isn’t Halo 2, but on one dreary late-night in Halo PC, I stumbled upon
a sniper, no-shields CTF game on Boarding Action.

You may or may not know how teams in CTF spawn in boarding action. They
spawn directly across from each other, on a large platform with zero cover
except a nearby hallway. Many people had barricaded themselves within the
hallway. There are multiple ways to the flag, but the quickest is to go
down the hall, down the ladder at the end, through the teleport, up the
enemy’s ladder, and then through THEIR hallway to their flag.

I decided I’d make a run for it, and managed to get through the teleport.
Here, the other team couldn’t shoot me, as I was below them, but they knew
that I was there since they had seen me run through the tele. A couple
buddies joined me, and ran up the ladder, one by one. Each of them got
picked like groundhogs, with about 16 sniper shots hitting each one.

I decided that I’d do something different. I chose to instead of just
walking up the ladder and dying, to JUMP over the last section of ladder,
and wing it from there.

I climbed to the top, and could see the enemy blips on my radar waiting
for me to walk out. A couple of premature shots flew over me, and I waited
for a clear moment. When a few of my teammates had distracted them, I
decided it was time to jump.

I lept out of the ladder and fired all four shots in my sniper. In a
matter of seconds, I had killed 8 birds with four stones, getting multiple
killtacular!s and Killing Spree!s. They kept respawning, and I kept killing
them until I finally was taken by one of the guys that spawned behind me.
After it was over, I yelled “BA-BAM!” and then went to Halo 2 to play some
Team Bubblebath. (That last sentence is false hehe).

Hi, this is The Alien123. One day, i was playing matchmaking, when a noob
came up and said “omg ill beet you all!!!” I was like ok whatever nub. He
got in a banshee and started flying towards me at high velocity. I put out
my rocket launcher, locked on, but all of a sudden i saw these gigantic
green plasma bolts coming from the banshee. OMG IT WAS A MODDER! i kept
trying to take over the banshee by strafing because the bolts were so
slow. I finally got it, but the modder shot rockets out of his smg. I
could not dodge them as they were like auto rockets. Well thanks for
reading my foxhole…

yeah i have a funny tale from the foxhole. a long ago i run into a glitch
in the game which i have ever in countered before and didn’t have the
first clue to do.

i was playing matchmaking game of capture the flag on midship… and of
course it’s was quite a close game until someone drops the flag over there
by plasma rifle. anyway everybody goes ever there to go pick it up… but
you see nobody can pick it up…infact for like 3 -5 minutes we just
pretty much shot at each other until the flag responded in the middle of
the field at around the 8:55 time.

it was the craziest thing i ever saw on xbox live. it was probably due to
a bad host or something really bad with the internet connection (i really
don’t think someone modded because modders usually do it for there own
advantage).
i can only hope that i don’t see that one again!
later guys!


Wrap up

Shoutouts

Until next time I’m Foo Mo Jive (and this is)