Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Episode 138: Callins and Tales from the Foxhole
for the week of December 5th, 2007

(hosts foo mo, JVB, Unicorn of Love)


introductions


He this is my first tale from the foxhole. My first comment is that there
seems to be a problem with grenades. One of my first games I stuck a guy
with a spike grenade but before it went off he killed me. but it never
gave me a kill from the grave or a stick kill. I looked at the saved film
and the grenade just didn’t go off. it just disappeared. this happened
again with a plasma grenade but I didn’t stick the guy it still didn’t go
off. any way another thing that happened to me is that I was playing a
capture the flag game on Valhallen when I got the spartan laser soon after
I got an overkill with it when this kid on my team started whining saying
that he wanted the spartan laser, when I told him I got an overkill he
said he would have waited until he could have killed the whole team. in
the end he killed me to get the spartan laser in turn I booted him. I
just don’t understand why someone would betray someone when he just took
out four people one of which had our flag. I believe that I saved the game
because I was the only one alive on my team. we ended up winning the game
and I ranked up. yay. keep on fraging eight year old team killing noobs

so, me and my friend were playing the first level of Halo 3 on heroic, and
we got to this part wth a sort of rampy-doo and a land bridge over this
valley thing. Anyhoo, there were about 4 brutes and a couple random
jackels and grunts. I had a needler up on the landbridge elevated above
everything else, and shot a brute til’ it was ready to blow. At the same
time, my friend had thrown a sticky on him. When the needler went off,
the sticky shot off of him into the head of a rather unhappy grunt. The
grunt had just pulled out his two stickys to do his little suicidal charge
(more like a slow walk really). The sticky killed him, and caused the two
grenades to stick onto the ummm…. lets say lower regions of two brutes.
In less than 5 seconds, we had killed the whole area. We gave eachother
high-fives (this was our first experiance with Halo 3) and proptly got
stuck no the next part for about an hour. Unfortunately, this was on my
friend’s xbox, who does not have a xbox live acount, so there is no
video.

Keep on fraggin’ Alpacas, trucks, voltswagons, minivans, and really
anything that just needs a good fraggin’

Hey Podtacular! This is Swift Ninja1. I have tale from the foxhole. I was
making a map on forge. I had some fusion coils rolling down a cliff on
Sandtrap. The point was to get passed them and to the teleporter before
you blew up. I saw one fusion coil rolling down the hill, but it didn’t
blow up. I went to pick it up (as the moniter) and when I did, two more
fusion coils appeared out of nowwhere and started floating around by
themselves. You can watch the film clip on my Fileshare called
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=14971982]Floating
Coils[/url]. Good job on the show! Keep on fraggin’ trucks and lamps
thrown at you without a car and/or driver’s license. Swift Ninja1

Hey podtacular, this is my first time writing in and I have a tip for the
map Snowbound. This tip only works if you spawn at the base with the Beam
Rifle in it. Grab a Beam Rifle and a close up weapon (AR, Shotty etc.) and
run to the edge of the map where the Guardian turrets are. If you hide
behind one of the legs of the turret, you are almost guaranteed to be
unseen while you snipe away! (Especially if you are white). If someone
attacks you up close, either Shotty them or run out into the Guardians
fire and get the kill when you’re enemy charges foolishly after you.
Anyway, great work on the podcast, and keep on Stickin’ Trucks!

P.S. (My name in pronounced /vij-ee/.)

VIP Overkill. The other day I was playing Multi-team with a buddy, and
there were these really annoying Rednecks in the Lobby. Well naturally
they said a few choice words, particularly mentioning Bud Lite, Pick-up
trucks, and how bad they were gonna own me in the next game. The only
thing I could really understand was a lot of profanity pretty much geared
to me, and my skinny sounding gamertag. Therefore I just used my
handy-dandy mute button. I just let them talk, b/c I knew it was gonna be
a very long match for those two. Well we get into the game, we were
playing VIP on Guardian. Well this game is really insane on such a small
level, but with 4 separate VIPs running around, it quickly became madness.
Well we were tied for first with the Cyber Rednecks, and all of a sudden I
see an opportunity. I’m running through the middle circle, and I see two
VIPs fighting on the spiral snipe tower. So I jump up into heat of battle,
and quickly assassinate the first VIP. The second is weakened, so I beat
him down also. I continue to run down the ramp, and spot a third hurt VIP
running up from sniper spawn. I quickly beat him down. Our score then
jumped from 3 to 6 in about 5 seconds. I then spot a final guy close to
the overshield spawn. I exchange AR fire with him, then throw a grenade.
The nade kills him, giving me an Overkill. My teammate was speechless. He
looked at the score, and just started shouting…We went on to win the
game, and needless to say the Rednecks ran with their tales tucked between
their hillbilly legs. The clip is on my fileshare if you would all like to
see…. the Gamertag is Anorexic Leader.

I’d like to give a shoutout to Gee Ma Knee 01, Sn3aky P4nts, Sqweryl, and
Sausage x J.

Keep on Fraggin Snow sleds filled with Blue-eyed Bengal tigers with Green
Stripes, and purple paws, b/c they try to slay No0bz 4 hire (aka) Santa
Claus.

Hey guys it’s The Bounties here
I was playing multi team on social matches with my brother and it was on
team swords on Guardian. First of all we OWNED them all. We put a bubble
shield in the middle and we fought off everyone with dubs and trips galore.
(double and triple kills) It was like those moments in movies where the 2
guys are fighting back to back against hordes of foes. My second tale was
a team Crazy King on Guardian. We did lose this match but it was awsome.
We were in the grav lift place with ARs and a Bubble Shield so we placed
it down and we were coordinating our stratagy in the shield and when
someone came we both meleed him so he died and did the next person then
the next person then the next untill the bubble shield faded and it gave
us a good 20 points or so up and my kill to death ratio on that game was
something like +23 while my brother and +17 or something. Me and my
brother have great games.
I would like to give a shout out to the podtacular zoo and give my silly
again. (clears throat) Keep on Quigely Quaggling Quidaddlyquids.

P.S. I am full of these sayings and will keep giving laughs at every
show.

Hey guys, Russian here with an awesome tale from the fox hole.
I was playing a matchmade game in BTB of Multi-Flag CTF on Valhalla.
Dude5468 and drivec and I went in the match together and fought an
amazingly stressful and intense game. Grabbing the flag over and over
again but never scoring it. But, when the game had about a minute or so
left, someone grabbed the flag and man-cannoned into the center. He was
killed seconds later, but luckily our entire team ran to it. Making sure
to grab it and take it as far as we could, we kept them from returning it.
It took a whole minute just to move it over and off the hill, with our team
just rushing into the slaughter around the flag to keep it from returning.
Then we heard the words, “Sudden Death!” Dude had grabbed the flag and was
running to our base. Our teammates had apparently killed enough of the
other team to allow him to survive the carnage. With almost no time left,
Dude scored and we won the game.

It was an amazing victory and we have had many similar experiences to
match it. The ending should be in my file share so check it out! Like to
give a shout out to Rec E, Sqweryl, Dude, and drivec. Keep on fragging
trucks.

Hey guys its AERO Strik3 and I got an awesome tale from the foxhole for you
guys. I was playing some BTB at Valhala and I was near the Peilcan with a
Spartan Laser. I was already on a killing spree. Then I see a fully loaded
Warthog. I used a Spartan Laser shot to take out 2 of the 3 people in the
Warthog. The third tried to run but I easily finished him off for the
triple. Then I go on top of Laser Spawn and shoot between the Man Cannon.
Just a little bit above where the blue stuff comes out. And all of a
sudden I hear double..triple…kill frenzy!
If you don’t believe me, its on my fileshare. Its called Laser Pwnage.

K33p 0n F124gg1ng T12uck5.

Hey podtacular,this is Tapio (gamertag: II Tapio II )
and i have the best headshot story..EVER!
So i was playing at my friends house and we were kinda horsing around in
Rumble pit(i was the guest)
Pit was the map
We was forced to work together because we was againts 3 people who where
splitscreening and they said they would destroy us in the match.
So lets just jump in what happend.
I was shooting with a sniper a one guy who was already in firefight.
So i take a shot at him,didnt kill him but hitted him.
Then took another shot..now it gets all crazy!
So the 2nd shot went under his crotch area,between the legs
hit the floor,ricochet from that ground to another enemys head.

You can check my fileshare see me doing the amazing shot,its called
Headshott

so back to the story:
As soon as i saw that it was actual headshot i started to laugh like there
was elite running with only boxers on
After we finished the match,we watched the replay about million times and
even showed to some friends

Keep on sniping dinosaurs who always try to steal the truck what you are
going to frag when listening to podtacular

It’s not personally MY story, but it was my friend echo389’s. He was
playing social slayer with his guest Nay-Nay at Valhalla. Nay-Nay was in
the banshee and then he goes for a splatter. The guy he’s trying to
splatter has the SLazer, and it goes off just in time to kill Nay-Nay, but
also kill him. During all of this, echo is going up the hill to Slazer from
the river, when a peice of banshee rolls down the hill and kills him. The
guy gets a kill from the grave.
Send me a message if you want me to put the film on my fileshare, since
it’s so epic.

Hey, Yowl here…my tale from the foxhole comes from a game that was played
at about 2 in the morning last week. 3 of us were playing on the Burning
Bridges map (cant remember who made it right now) and we were playing
rockets. i set the score to unlimited so that we could see how long we
could go. i ended up getting around 200 some kills, 2nd place got around
150 and 3rd got somewhere around 50. it was hilarious. my new favorite
quote came from this game “Just because I was camping doesnt mean that you
had to kill me!!!”
In case you dont know, the burning bridges map is on narrows. its set up
so that you can not leave the bottom level of the map. this map is so fun
if you only have 2 or 3 people and if you play rockets, it doesnt matter
how good you are. if you dont have the map, i know have it in my fileshare
gt – yowler18

keep on fraggin bazooka toting purple-bellied yowler camper squirrels

Hey guys Nick here for a tale from the foxhole. Ok so I was playing a
Zombies gametype on Sandtrap and i had a chopper. I was just driving
around minding my own Business when Blamo Im the last man Standing out of
16 people. They all had gravity hammers,swords,regenerating gernades,300%
speed,and 50% gravity. So as I screamed at the top of my lungs to get away
from my impending doom I turn around to find every last Zombie in front of
me. I had no idea what to do so I just decided to plow right down the
middle. To my surprize I got an overkill with splatters through the
middle. I kept on running away and ended getting a Vehicular Massacre. It
was amazing you guys should check it out on my fileshare Gt: XiiX Nick
XiiX

xCRIPPLEDPANDAx here,
i have two stories to tell. first is one of sweet sweet redemption. it
was in team slayer and i was starting off real bad, the score was tied at
28 apiece on valhalla and i had no kills. so one guy was understandable
upset, and i don’t blame him. but he started calling me names, douche
bag, worthless piece of __, and so on. just taking it a bit far. then
i got a hold of the sniper rifle and went on the best spree of my life. i
killed 6 guys with the sniper, threw a power drainer and got a triple
kill with the battle rifle. then got a triple kill with the laser, by
blowing up a full warthog. when it was all said and done, we won and i
had 14 kills 7 deaths for 2nd place. the trash talker ended with 10 kill
and 12 deaths. i let my stats speak for themselves and didn’t say a word
to the jerk. my teamates sure let him have it though, which felt very
nice.

the second tail from the foxhole was the closet game i have ever
witnessed. it was 49 to 49 on the narrows. they were holed up at there
spawn point with my team advancing down the center bridge. i used the
mancannon to flank them saw a good opening and started to spray someone
with the AR, just as someone started to shoot me. as the “game over”
appeared on the screen i see his body hit the floor a split second before
mine. only the guy behind me had any idea how close the game was.

sorry if this is a bit long. i just wanted to let you know how big of a
fan of the show i am. i’ve listened to every episode since i’ve found the
show, since episode 53. and i hope i can live up to the creative closing
comments, so here it goes, keep on fraggin 3 legged black and white bamboo
eatin’ asian bears.

Just your low-calorie friend UnbakedParrot here, with a rather hilarious
and squawkable anecdote from the small-mammal-burrow. One day, on Social
Doubles (when that glorious playlist use to exist) I decided to go in
alone, and after several minutes of waiting, was matched up with a major
(like myself), with our opponents being a commander and his guest. I
attempted to contact this newly found teammate through my headphones, but
my enthusiastic attempts were met only by the absence of any noise,
response, or hissing whatsoever (I usually expect something of the like,
having the name of parrot and all). We begun the match; it was on
isolation, which is my least favorite to play, but I take like a
parr..er…man. I started my usual strategy by obtaining a regenerator
and a BR, and began to advance upon the other team. To my surprise, my
teammate stood still, and, frustrated, I continued my assault. To my
amazement, however, my two opponents were as lifeless as my teammate. I
decided to ignore both facts, and started to enjoy myself. There were so
many options! Get a sniper spree, get a shotty spree, a splatter
spree…..a literal buffet of killing at my fingertips! To make an
already long story short, I ended up getting 30 kills in a row, gaining
that special medal. Unfair? Yes, I’ll admit it. Cheap? Probably. But
hey, who wouldn’t take advantage of such a glorious opportunity? This
healthy-choice Parrot did, and it was the funnest (it is TOO a
word..morons) AND funniest game I have ever played.

Keep up the slendid work Podtacular, i’ve listened in since episode 12,
and haven’t stopped yet. Keep fraggin those poor, now-mishapen trucks,
guys.

Parrot out.

hey FOOOO MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! and guest host others. It’s cgsniper465,
been featured on the show (last begin when spelchek was around). Heres my
story (i got 2). #1 team doubles, slayer, isolation. my friend has the
sniper and im goin around in a ghost. Whiles he trying to no-scope, i go
full boost into him and the other guy. the red guy (were blue) throws a
gernade has im going in for the splatter, my friend & the red guy jump, i
go under my guy, the g-nade flips me up, just as he gets to the peak of
his jump, the tip of my seat hits him getting a 25-22 win and a awsome
saved clip. this took place on the center of the top.

2: team doubles, shotty/snipe, the pit, were blue, in the middle of the
game. Im coming from out of the rocket area, lookin into the sword
building window (were the mauler is). my friend is tell me 2 of them by
him, guess what, hes in the sword building in view from the window. the
red guys go up the ramp, i jump to get a better look and shot, hits both
red guys in the back, bouncing between my friends feet, off the wall and
hit his back. i jump again and shot, all of a sundden 2 headshot meadals
and a betrayel. i shot at an angle were it hit all 3 people in the face
all dieing.

Keep on ba bamin midgets from fantasy island, ridng weiners covered in
mustard

Hey podtacular this is beefnpotatos,

I wanted to tell you about this rediculous kill I had on the pit in
team slayer. I was in the sword room and i just got done kicking ass, and
i noticed that my sword had just gone dry. I knew that this is my favorite
weapon and i had to take advantage of this. When i turn the corner i see an
opponent crouch walking with a sniper ready to kill. I rush him and hit him
once to take out his sheild and he shoots me to take mine. After I dodge
his melee i knock him in the head with my brass knuckes for the win. This
is my favorite moment i’ve had in halo 3.

Thanks for sharing this and keep on deploying dumplings!

On Halo 2 I seemed to be able to get overkill’s fairly easily, but on Halo
3 they just wouldn’t come =/ Buut finally i got mine =D It was in social slayer, on Snowbound. I was in the base where the
laser spawns, 2 guys came in I killed them both, in came another, beat him
down, and another beat him down I died….damn it… Then, shortly after I was there again and two guys came, double kill
with a plasma grenade…I ran outside, found another guy and killed him
with the AR…triple kill….then everything slowed down: a guy came out
of the shotgun spawn shooting me from behind…I turned round, threw a
grenade next to him and beat him down…OVERKILL!!! The show is ace, keep it up…Also, if anyone wants a game, add me
DaGiff93

Hey Podtacular, this is Serenade X

I got a tale from the foxhole that is pretty sweet. Me and my team
Seemingly Harmless were playing Shotty Snipers on The Pit and we were
losing pretty bad. I am terrible at sniping so I wasn’t helping my team
too much. Anyways I got on the platform in the middle and I walked around
the building looking over to one side and I saw a red guy in my scope, so I
figured, Hey, take the shot, easy kill; and right as i was going to pull
the trigger, another red guy spawned right behind him, and I nailed them
both in the head with one shot. I felt pretty big even though we lost
that game. It was cool. If you wanna see it check out my fileshare, my
gamertag is Serenade X.

Anywho, keep fraggin trucks and rock on Podtacular!

-Serenade X

Hey guys. ok so i was playing Rocket Race, and i was doin realy good. so im
like one of the bestest drivers ever (at least in my school) so im on
sandtrap. and im goin towards the checkpoint on the highest part of the
minefield. so at the edge of the cliff, my mongoose is shot from behind,
sending me and my team-mate flying realy high in the air. the video is on
my file share. i also got like a streak of 5 goals in that game. it was
cool. HereticZeta signing off

One day I was playing social slayer on Narrows. I grabbed the sniper rifle
on the red side and went down below to get the invis. After that, i was
walking on the bridge, the top side, and saw some of those damn red
people. since i was under my invisibility cloak, no one saw me charging in
with my sniper. to make a short story not take any longer, i fired a shot
that went through the head of one guy and then ricocheted of the wall and
hit another guy in the head behind him. it’s in my file share under “hax”
cause after the game the other guys thought i was cheating.
Keep up the good work guys and a shout out to the players formerly known
as Rec E.

Recently me and my brother were playing a game of Rocket Race on Valhalla.
I was the VIP and my bro was driving the Mongoose. The destination moved
behind one of the bases, and we were driving right behind Orange team. Me
and their VIP got caught in the middle of reloading and weren’t able to
shoot each other. We both launched off of a hill and crashed into the
base. Since Orange team had been in front of us, their VIP had a straight
shot at the destination. In an attempt to keep me off his tail, the Orange
VIP shot me, which sent me flying away from the destination. As I started
to fly backwards, I bounced off of my Mongoose, up in the air, over the
side of the base, and I landed right next to the destination for the
score!

The vid is in my fileshare in case you can’t quite picture it. My gamertag
is Juggler18.

Keep on fraggin’ Rubber Biscuits.

hi guys me agien i have a map varient on valhala called 28 weeks later
where the humens must stay in the base or go throu the telleporters thers
also a game typ for this called 28 weeks later il put them bouth on my
fshare by the time the shows out on a unrelated xbl update has improuved
the blades and added vareus new fechurs like being abel to see your
friends friends list with is preaty cool any way keep on fragin purpel
mutant nintendo wii’s
p.s. oh ya shout out to every one at rooster teath .com

Hello Podtacular it’s Lancelot59 and I come to you with a wonderful story.
I had this amazing dream last month the night after the submissions
closed. So I took notes so you could all hear it’s full glory. It was a
Wednesday morning and the time was 5:40 AM. I still had a few hours till I
had to get up to go to school and so I rolled over and went back to sleep.
My mind then took me somewhere wonderful…straight into the middle of an
open firefight. Me and the three other people in my squad took cover
behind some metal crates. Then I saw our objective, the top of a gigant
platform two hundred feet above the ground, with the start of a giant
slide at the top. The whole thing was in a large closed room with covenant
lining the walls shooting at us. (We were spartans in the dream). So we
started making our way up the various ramps and cat walks to the top of
the tower. On the way we killed many covenant. My buddy speared a brute
with his own gravity hammer causing him to explode in a chunky shower of
gore. Me with my sniper rifle, shotgun, and a strange combo weapon that I
had come up with for weapon design to make for Halo CE somehow made it in
there. It combines a full auto with the accuracy of the BR, a full auto
shotgun, and a grenade launcher all in one, with many fun attachments. My
friends had other equipment like spartan lasers, rocket launchers, etc. So
we finally got to the top after slowly working our way up. I ushered my
team mates down the slide. The slide curved into a jump at the bottom
which then took the person all the way into a gigant hole in the floor
with the slide continued down it. One by one they went down, the only
female on my team dropped her gun as I accidentally tripped her dodging a
sniper. After killing the sniper I went down. The air rushed past me, I
went flying off the end of the slide, and missed the other half. I fell
into a great abyss. Then suddenly I got bounced back out of the hole as if
by a man cannon. I shook my head and started running back to the tower. The
shots tore up the ground behind me as I ran. I saw a conveniently located
man cannon and took it. But I pushed too hard with my feet and went flying
much higher into the rafters. I strangled the jackal waiting up there then
dropped down. I grabbed my team mates gun and dual wielding the combo guns
I went down the slide again. It was just like that level on Mario 64. As I
slid down the slide covenant tried to pick me off. Then after a long time
of sliding I made it to the bottom. My teammates were waiting in a
warthog, a large open door in front of them. I got into the warthog’s
driver seat, floored it out of the door, then woke up. Something told me
to look over and I did. My clock read 7:30. With half and hour to go I got
out of bed and started getting ready for school…

Sup er’body! This is HaloFreak bunny and I gots a tale from the Podtacular
Zoo…sort of…Anyway I was recently playing Big Team Slayer on Valhalla
and my team was absolutely 0wning, with a score of 50-something to 15. At
one point, I noticed an enemy banshee in the sky and it proceeded to
strafe me. Thourougly irked, I aimed and fired a single random shot at
him. To my delight, the banshee exploded and rained firey wreckage upon
the valley. Pleased with my destructive work, I resumed my trek when I
noticed the banshee wreckage careening to the ground, and then bouncing
into the river. Apparently, a teammate of mine had been scuffling with a
blue and had just been forced into the river wall when the banshee came
crashing down, right on the blue’s head. I proceeded to teabage the
banshee wreckage as a token of good luck. Thanks for listening guys, and
keep on sitting down.

well i have a tale from the foxhole i was playing a ranked match in valhala
it was team tactical and as you all know your supposed to get five kills
per round some how half our team quit so it was me and my powning buddy
(JeanGaryDiablo2) we were playing on the same console he stopped playing
because he knew we were going to lose so he ate (fat a—) and i was the
only one playing and it was the last round of the game. I ended up walking
through the pelican side and saw every one their it took me a while to nail
them all and i did some how had a killing spree, it felt like it happened
so fast because that is how much fun halo is so the game ended with me or
my team losing, but i managed to prove my skill to them and to finish all
all this off this guy with a pretty funny tag (B00G1EN1GHTS) send me a
friend request and i invited him to chat and he literaly was worshiping
me, and that is my foxhole story oh and KEEP FRAGGIN FRAGGS USING MY
ZOMBIE NADDS BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM THEIR WONT BE NO HEALTH CLASS …......
shout outs 2 (IMMORTALTHREE, and CBTS ZEAK1) WE ALL POWN LATER XD


Wrap up

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