Podtacular 264: Community Collaboration

September 30th, 2011

Hosts: Dust Storm, Goosechecka, Rukizzel & Pup


Guest Introductions

Grifballhub History


Submissions

iSnowKone

Hey, my second submission but just had to send in about the time I decided to play firefight matchmaking. I don’t remember the set or round but it was on beach head. I was the last man standing, I was holding out in the spawn till two hunters charged bringing elites and grunts as wraiths laid seized to the base. I quickly abandoned my post dodging hunter and elite fire, returning fire with only an assault rifle and a magnum. With no lives left and limited ammo my heart raced as I struggled to stay alive. elites pursued (being incredibly determined) I found myself fighting for my virtual spartan life against 10 or so elites, grunts, a wraith, hunters, and a persistent Ghost. A little tip never stop moving. Well to make an even longer story short. I was slowly eating at there forces with anything and everything I could get my hands on from noob comboing to heavy but limited ordinances like rockets and plasma launchers. It was very intense as my dead teammates cheered me on, in the end I made it out alive killing everything but a few elites earning the hardest hero medal I’ve ever gotten. I have the video as proof. There's my tale.

Calvin

Hello Podtacular
This is cowwithguns here, I have been a listener of the show from December 2010 I live New Zealand.
I recently got a X-box for my birthday and have been saving up for reach by selling all of my ps2 games. oh and when I first played Halo 3 live on big team social i got a 6+ kill before being betrayed

from cowwithguns

Keep fragging trucks with brute Chieftains in side and when you walking away armorer locking a Ghost so it flies into the explosion.

Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado @Boulder)

Hi,

I’m a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and am running a scientific study of Halo: Reach players on team dynamics. I’m trying to get the word out to the Halo community and would really appreciate your help in spreading the word.

The idea is to sort out, for instance, whether younger players are better lone wolves than older players, what impact playing on a real team makes on your overall in-game performance, etc.

Here’s how the study works: players come to our web survey and answer some questions about themselves (demographics) and about the way they play Halo: Reach and which gamertags they play with. The whole process takes about 10 minutes total. After that, if they care, we’ll show them how their Halo: Reach service record stacks up against the universe of 1,000,000 other Reach players. (This is similar, but more general than the Halo Charts comparison.) Participants can also sign up to our mailing list and receive a copy of the study results when it’s completed.

Here’s the web survey site: https://www.cs.colorado.edu/haloreach/

And here’s more about the project: https://www.cs.colorado.edu/haloreach/about

Prof. Aaron Clauset
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder

Fine print: This is a legit scientific study. We do ask participants create an account on the study website, but they’re free to create and use a throwaway email address (at Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, whatever) specifically for this purpose. Participants need a valid Xbox Live gamertag and they need to have played some Halo: Reach with it (preferably with their primary Halo: Reach gamertag) because part of the web survey involves information derived from their game history.

Zant117

Hey Podtacular people Zant117 signing off for a few tales playing Halo PC. I was playing on the level the Silent Cartographer on Legendary around the part where you face the Jackals on top of a rock formation and I rolled in with my Warthog aka Puma and I splattered most of the jackals on the ground and then I proceed to use my Marines in the Warthog to distract the jackals fire while I sneaked around back and pwned them with my plasma rifle. Then I decided not to attack the grunts and elites on the opposite side of the jackals but instead I threw 2 stickies across the from where I was at and actually stuck and killed both elites and sniped the grunts with my Pistol. and I have a few tips for the level if you haven’t said already. Use any weapons available to you and towards the end of the level and your coming up from the map room go to the side where you got the invisibility power up and throw a couple of stickies to the ceiling of the door and you can distract the jackals to have them facing that door and go to the other exit but if you go slow enough there is a crack between the door and the floor big enough for you to shoot the jackals feet and actually kill them I can’t tell you how many times this has helped me. well that's all I have
Keep on fraggin' one footed purple belly squirrels wear nay-nays P-Diddy exclusive anus armor while Dust storm screams like Cohagen and JVB does the Schwartz choke and foo mo jive fraggin' the midgets he supposedly doesn’t hate

Stuck U 221

In episode 257 there was discussion about 2 things that I wanted to clear up speculation on. I went into my halo encyclopedia and read more about the Didact and found out that the Librarian had deep respect for the human race that SHE chose the Earth to have the portal to the Ark, (she destroyed all the rest). From the encyclopedia I found out that she spent her last minutes of life in her garden [Eden]. Also, lets go iowa said that forerunners were human and you didn’t agree. In halo 1 CE 343 guilty spark said that you MC had forerunner armor and in halo 3 343 GS said to MC ”You are forerunner” before you killed him. He also noted on things like: your ancestors built this place, and things like that. However I will say that the structure maybe forerunner, but I think it may also be a covenant or elite ship. In all honesty I think that halo 4 that MC finds halsey and the new enemy will be installations of the other halos 1,2,3,6,7.

Stuck U 221 signing out
P.S. here is something smart to think about. From halo 2-3 where and how does MC take a dump? I was thinking one day, how would MC take a dump? I mean really, did the alterations remove their need to eat and take a dump.

fisher

Hey wassup guys. i wanted to know what your thoughts are for the title update bringing back the 3 shot magnum. I for one am PISSED. it has taken a lot of the variety out of the game. power weapons are pointless now. 343 had said that putting the pistol back in Halo CEA would cause problems, after hearing about this update, i played a few matches and hated it. i popped the halo 3 disc back in. what is your input?
P.S. what is your favorite bands? (pink floyd ftw)

5tuk U 221

What is your take on Minecraft vs Halo forge?