Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Customs and Call Ins Show, Episode 88
for the week of November 6th, 2006

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, LOA Revalation)

Customs and Call Ins (explain)
(explain why we’re skipping the tips show now, maybe adding in another halo 3 show in the mix?)


Introductions


Custom Games

The Game is called “Get Stuck”
This game only works with up to four players otherwise it gets to crazy.
You play this on ascension. You have everyone go to one team, and meet in
the middle of the map. [You know, in the big spinning satellite dish]
You take turns having pne person go up to the little sniper tower[base]
(NOT THE BIG MAIN BASE!) And that person get a few sticky grenades. Then,
the people left in the middle get ready for the guy in the tower to throw
the sticky, and you try to catch it. its funnier if you get stuck in the
face but bascially you just want to get stuck and blow up.

Blind “Special” Mice.

First: turn off the radar.

Second: Pick any small map.

Third: tint your TV screen ( welding goggles will work as well
for those who aren’t fully commited to this gametype yet. )

Fourth: play entire game with one hand.
Fifth: duct tape lower lip to chin and let your drool flow freely.

First player to 5 kills wins the match.

P.S. You know you need Halo3 when- You’re bored enough to try Blind
“Special” Mice.
-stickygerbils

I got a good custom. Although very simple it works superbly. First to
three rounds elimination with two lives each per round, umlimited time and
map default everything. Works great with 6ish players+ because the game
starts relaxed and ends up competetively each round.

This is downskated and i like to tell you about a game my friends like to
play, its called child predator, the game is a jugeraunt game type, in
this game type there are no shields for anyone, and the the only
difference between the jugeraunt and the regualar player is that the jug
has motion sensor, fast movement, cloaked, and ifinite ammo. this game is
played on a smaller map (like turf) with default weapons, the score to win
is up to the creator, and is best determined by the size of the party, but
lets just say a 25 is a good number for most cases, this game is best with
only about 8-10 people, but can be played with more, also there are no
vechiles on the maps.

This game is an FFA slayer, starting weapon is plasma pistol, no weapons on
map, grenades on map, best played on lockout or midship.

This is a melee and grenade only game, this helps you with your sticking
abilites and helps you get used to combos like BxB and BxL.

Hye, this is Captain Stagneti. My game is called Helm’s Deep. It is a one
bomb assault game played on Containment, twelve or more players. Battle
Rifle/Shotgun Start, normal weapons on the map. The only catch is, the
defending team cannot leave the walls of their base on containment, thus
it is like Helm’s Deep from LOTR. The ledge with the sniper rifle counts
as part of the wall. Here are the game settings-two five minute rounds,
so each team gets to try and score. Score to win round, set to unlimited.
This way, there are less ties, and you have to rush as much as you can. Finally, Bomb carrier has damage resistance and can drive vehicles. When
there are 45 seconds left, the defenders get to yell charge and can leave
the walls and run around killing. Thanks guys, keep on fraggin trucks!

This is a custom game played on coag. It is capture the flag so u spawn at
the bases, but flag captures don’t matter. Each team has 4 players (4v4).
At each base there are: 2 ghosts, 1 Banshee and 1 scorpion. There are no
grenades and no weapons on map and you with only a pistol and no grenades.
Also there are normal shields with everyone only having 1 life. Everyone
gets into the vehicles and you fight it out. There is no exiting your
vehicle and no boarding.

In the “Submit stuff” ad for this episode (on podtacular.com) you mention
a game called “Popcorn”. Coincidentally, I [i]actually[/i] have a game
called [b]Popcorn[/b] to submit to you guys.

This game is best played on a small map, such as Ivory Tower or Midship. I
generally play the FFA variant (to 25 kills), but this game can be quite
fun with teams as well. The starting weapons are Brute Shot and Sentinel
Beam. There are no shields, and damage resistance is turned on.
The Brute Shots’ grenades are supposed to represent popcorn kernels
popping, and the Sentinel Beams are the “butter”. This game can get quite
chaotic with Brute Shot grenades bouncing everywhere and Sentinel Beams
being fired around the map. Also, it is always best to add some corny (or,
popcorny!) line after you kill someone. For example, if you kill someone
with the Brute Shot, it is customary to say something along the lines of
“You just got popped, now eat it.”. If you obtain a kill with the Sentinel
Beam, you would say something like “I just buttered you up, fool”.
My friends and I always enjoy playing this game, so hopefully you will
enjoy it too!

Hey this is L1NK aka LinkTheSpartan here again, here with the best custom
ever, besides Team Bubble Bath. It’s my world famous Crazy Retard King!
Yeah! This is Team KOTH with random weapons, best played on a small map
like Midship. The hill moves every minute, there’s no radar, and no
weapons on map. This game often becomes just straight up war and
multi-kill heaven, especially with two teams. It is quite tactical
however, as both teams need to kill each other as quickly as possible and
hold the best spots to watch for enemies spawning three seconds later. If
there’s any option I’m missing, just think of the dumbest or most random
choice and go with it. Trust me it’s a blast, and if all you have is a
bunch of jerks who only want to play MLG all day in your custom, this gets
rid of them ASAP! Thanks and please read this!

Please?

Hi guys. This gametype is on Halo PC.yeah, alright, i still play PC but it
can be fun to any game in progress without an invite. Anyways, it’s called
Ownage, Team Ownage, Ownage CTF, Team Ownage Snipers and FFA Ownage
Snipers. Pretty much 4 types of each vehichle, no shields, heavy wepons
(exept on Snipers) and is best played on Blood Gulch, though Sidewinder,
Death island, Danger Canyon, Ice fields and Infinity work too. Maybe
Gephryophobia might be good. this is a tip in case you join this game:
take down the banshee, then get it. the person in the banshee (usualy me)
gets TONS of kills like 43 compared to 5. if you get in a ghost, I’ll kill
ya. If you get in a hog, I’ll kill ya.if you get in a tank, I’ll probably
still kill ya. anyways keep up the good work. Et lire mon E-mail sil tu
plait. Vive le Podtacular et Canada et continue fragging le camions.

Super Crazy King is a gametype that is best played on Midship. It is a
“Crazy KotH” with everything standard except the primary and secondary
weapons are random, overshields are on in the hill, there is no shields,
the hills move at 15 seconds each, the time to win is 2:00, and it is best
played with 8+ people. This game can be played with rockets as secondary,
but it just makes it a LOT harder. Most of the players wont get more than
30 seconds total. Give a Shout out to KoLoB and Therapist.

What’s Up podtacular? I have good grammar so you should be able to read
this perfectly…This custom match is called Mission Impossible. It is
played on Lockout and is really best with 1 on 1. Normal Setting besides
the fact that you start with plasma grenades. Time limit is ten minutes
and no penalty for suicides. Object of the game is to jump off the map at
the same time and try to stick each other in mid air. the person with the
most sticks according the medals when the time ends wins. Keep up the good
work

Gamertag: Council Elite
Clan: Minion Order

Custom 1: Yo Momma!

Mode: Slayer
Players Recommended: 4-16
Map(s): Midship, Turf, Lockout (all the small maps)
Primary Weapon: Magnum
Secondary Weapon: none
No Grenades
Human weapons
No Shields
No Camo
No Overshield
No Time Limit

Trash talking with pistols

Custom 2: Be Careful of the Stinger

Mode: Slayer
Players Recommended: 4-16
Map(s): Coagulation or Containment
Primary Weapon: Plasma Pistol
Secondary Weapon: none
No Grenades
No Weapons On Map
No Shields
No Camo
No Overshield
No Time Limit

1 Scorpian, only plasma pistols. Players must work together to destroy the
enemy tank. Best map: Coagulation

Custom 3: Chicken

Simple, how long can you stay on the tracks before you chicken out? Hear
the train? It’s coming. Players stay on the tracks on Terminal.


Callins with CapnKrunk

(intro)(outro)


Tales from the Foxhole

Hey guys this is Baw1234 and i have a tip for staying lvl 30 and up im not there now because i like deranking myself so i can p00n noobs but anyway,when in close combat never stop moving try to get as far away as you can unless the other person has the sniper or something they can hit you long ranged with.Get as far away as you can and throw gernades sure enough you do plenty of damage so when you get close enough you can easily own them see ya guys later!

Everyone know about the new game types in Team Carnage so one day me and my
friend, Death Seeker, went into a team carnage game called Showers, or
something like that. For those who don’t know, this is how you play it.
The weapons you spawn with are a sentinel beam and a needler. There are no
weapons on map, normal shield, and you do have radar. So my friend and I
went in and we were getting our asses wooped. The score was 30 to 9 when
the 4 other guys on our team quit. This is where me and death had a huge
comeback. The other team got incredibly pissed at us because the ende
score was 50 to 35. And for those bad at math that means we got a comeback
of 41 points where they got only 5. The funniest part was that while we
were in teh post game carnage report, they tried to trashtalk us but
couldn’t because of how badly they got beaten and it is extremely hard to
pronounce my name. Keep on fraggin’ trucks Podtacular!

One day on turf of snipers i was back on the ramps near the garage and me and my partner threw 2 grenades each witch caused smoke then i took my sniper and randomly shot for shots then followed herd double kill, triple kill,kiltacular so yea 4 people in smoke sniped down without useing a scope ok this is holeintwo add me if u please.

OK, well I was playing and there was this hilarious noob who was all like
“I’m playing in nothin but my Ghandi slippers”. I couldn’t believe it.
Then I heard his mom in the background sayin “oh god honey, atleast put a
robe on!”. That was the weirdest noob ever.

Ok, so I’m playin on Team Slayer with my neighbor. We enter a game at
warlock and there is a tank spawn killing us. We were for pretty sure it
was mods. We were super duper pissed and got deranked. In the post game
lobby, we found out his name and that he lives by us. We look it up in the
yellow pages. He lived one street away from me. We go to his house and ask
him if he is (insert GT here). He says yes. So to get revenge…we burn
him on a stake.

This is a ture story that actually happened. On tuesday October 17th when I
had no xbox live for the whole day It really got me thinking. Hey I wonder
what the updates will be? So That night on the 17th when I went to bed I
thought about these updates even more. When I fell asleep I had a dream
that I signed into halo 2 and It happened to be updated. When I looked at
my friends list I hit the x button to send a message to all friends. When
the little options box cam up I saw something new. There was a button
that said Podtacular on it. I clicked the button and it was a rating
system for podtacular clans to give you a rating on how active you were.
The best part is when I woke up I thought that it was true, that is until
I signed on halo 2 only to realize it wasn’t.

its madcapconker, and i have a tale from the foxhole. ok, i was playing
snipers on collosus. i sniped a guy right out of the teleporter, he was
right about to land on the platform. right when i killed him, another guy
popped out and i capped him right in the head. i turned around, and there
was a guy with a beam rifle shooting at me. so i crouched, shot him in the
head. triple kill! then i ranomly threw a grenade (i know it sounds
impossible,) but it landed right on the top of the teleporter and killed
my bro! 4 kills!

This happened a while back before Halo2 came out.My friends and I were
waiting for a bunch of people to get to the LAN party, so we decided to
just mess around in Blood Gultch for a while. About 5 min into it, one of
them had to go to the bathroom. I walked up to his character, jumped on
top, and started twirling and jumping. Pretty soon I noticed a warthog
flying towards us at top speed, so I threw a grenade at the ground in it’s
path. The grenade went off right as the Warthog drove over it and launched
the Warthog straight at me and the guy whose head I was dancing on. I
jumped, the Warthog killed my friend below me and launched me in the air.
While in mid-air, I pull out the rocket launcher, and hit the Warthog
while its still flying, killing the driver. I then fall to the ground and
die from the fall damage. I suppose thats what I get from dancing on
someones head!

Hey guys, this is the noob pwner himself, PurpleDemon666. One time, in I
was playing a CTF Custon Swat game on Warlock, and my team had just been
killed. We all respond at our base and I see a guy walking through the
hallway, below us. I descide to throw a granade at him, but when I chucked
the grenade, it bounced of the enemy’s head, came back in our direction,
and killed my whole team. If that wasn’t bad enough, i had to sit through
a 1 minuete penalty watching the enemy get the flag and score, while
laughing their butt off.

I will probably send in stuff, because even though I don’t have a gamertag
or an xbox, I can still share my knowledge

This one time on Halo Custom Edition on PC, there is a map called
Coldsnap, and I’m guarding my team’s flag in a mech that appears on the
map; anyway, someone from the other team is coming at me in a jet (he was
alone; first mistake), and trying to kill me by shooting his jet’s gun at
me (second mistake)

so, i sit there and shoot my gun at him, because even though he was out of
striking range at the time, the way he was coming at me, i just KNEW he
would come into range, and therefore, feel my wrath of a thousand armor
piercing rounds

he does this a couple times, and everytime, he comes at me alone; he
doesn’t have his team sneak in with a pelican behind me (no line of sight
there); he doesn’t have his team come in with a longsword and nuke me; he
just comes at me in a jet, and doesn’t shoot missiles

so after the third time, he’s as mad as the uber-noobs you always find
that go OMG YOU HACKER WHORE (which is pretty close to what he said)

so…he says i hacked the game, and that i’m a camper (i try and argue
that it’s a legit strategy; it really is) and that he’s going to hack my
router and cause crap to happen

everyone on the map try to tell him to put it aside and just play the
game; so anyway, i left…came back 5 minutes later, he wasn’t there

needless to say, i didn’t take chances, however router security these days
makes it harder to hack someone if you change your router off of factory
defaults

also, i should point out that i am a: a better player than him, so i know
which vehicles to use and not use; and b: i had a better vehicle

‘nuff said

Hey Foo Mo and the gang, guess what? “One time I was playing on Lockout
with my friends, playing a 3 on 3 on 3 game, and as I was walking with my
friend levis under the glass panel in the centre of the level, he just
died for no reason at all! I looked at his screen, and it said he was
killed by the guardians! I have no idea how this happened. Has this
happened to you guys at all? Weird, hey?

keep on frugging tracks. RagingPorkChop.

ok during this halo-ween tuesday i was playing halo and i was playing Team
Carnage on that snowy play thats sorta like coag and this one guy sais im
wearing my costume and everyone asks what is it and he sais i am an
elite.everyone started bursting out laughing.he really was wearing an
elite costume playing halo.(no offense to anyone that does that but you
need to get a life) lol no offense to anyone if you really do that

Howdy Podtacular! My name is drive_c . Just wanted to tell you about a game
that we played on Containment just this Halloween for our “Haloween” Party.
The Game was a standard CTF except there was Vehicle operation for me
because I was the only one on my team. We had the Xbox’s system linked
with headsets. It was relatively slow going for the first 4 rounds of
offense and Defense each. Getting caught up in screwing around, I forgot
that I was on offense, killing my chance for winning nice and easy. The
score was 2-1 for me. I tried to do a little offensive defense but ended
up screwing it up and they scored. It was then 2-2. I tried to score like
I did at first, by driving the hog to their base, stealing the flag and
dying to respawn at the Banshee. This time they blew it up. The Hog
respawned and I had 20 seconds to get to the other teleporter. I drove the
hog over the gate to realize that they had both locked on with rockets
(Fwaaaa!), but they miraculously slammed into the snow wall to the right
of me, rolling the hog. They locked on again, missing the hog by the sharp
turns I had made. The time had run out and they were on Offense. The ran
the flag quickly to their base. I grabbed the Banshee, jumped out by the
score zone. Therapist jumps up to score it, but I assassinate him. KoLoB
comes to score it by jumping it in, and I beat him down. The time ran out
and the round was over. I went straight for the Banshee this time. KoLoB
went for the tank. Basically, I was shot out of the sky. Time ended and
they were up. They made a great push after 40+ Minutes of playing and I
made a few lucky snipes, ending their round, but I lost 3-2 against the
two other players. Not a shameful loss, but a push to the end.

I found this on your site. “This is now naarated by the one and only
CapnKrunk.” It refers to the submission page for episode 88.

I was playing team snipers one time. I was lagging soo much i couldnt do
anything. So i was the red team and i jump onto the second floor of the
warage and see someone who is also red but with no symbol over their head.
I shoot him and i get a kill. Somehow the game lagged so much that it
turned the other team my same color I HATE LAG…AND STANDBYERS

I guys I’m a new listener to the show and so far I think it’s the
greatest thing since barbecues were invented I hate to admin it but I
stumbled upon your web site when looking for halo pod cast little did I
know that people but so much effect in to them anyway wanted to tell you
about a memorable moment I had while playing halo 2 , me and my friend
play halo all the time sacrificing nutritional intact and sleep to do it
one day were just have your basic grudge match on Containment so I had the
rocket launcher and was in a banshee so was my friend lee I consider my
self to be pretty good at tactics so instead of rolling around in the
banshee I thought id show him who’s boss and considering it was the last
kill it had to be a good one so I fell out of the banshee locked on and
fire before I hit the ground but my rocket missed and floe straight up
into the air needless to say he was pretty shock up by that near major
death experience so he attempted to flee by fly across the map and just
when Id lost all hope of wining a hole minute or so later just has he
landed the rocket came crashing down form the sky and straight down is
tail pipe I won we didn’t speak for days it was memorable thank guy bye.

Once upon a time while playing capture the flag on coagulation I got into
the banshee and was flying around. While I was shooting the other teams
sniper, one of his teammates I didn’t see boarded the banshee. When he
boarded it I did the backflip with the banshee and when he kicked me out
of it I flew straight up into the air. As I was coming down I landed on
the banshee and was able to board it again. It was so awesome I got hit
with a rocket right after that. THE END

I always see podtacular people saying “Keep on the Fraggin’ Trucks”.
What is the origin of this and what does it mean?

i have a story from the foxhole. before i begin i would like to give
congrats to foo mo for getting a 360 form the collective efforts of
everybody. personally i think it was a nice thing to do and foo mo earned
it as he works hard to bring us the podcast. he truely deserves it as a
‘thank you’ for the hard work he has put in for the show.
now to my story. i was really bored one day. i only had a couple of days
of xbox live service left so i tohught i would use it to my advantage. i
signed onto Halo 2 and i got a invite to a party from some random guy. i
accepted it and was thrown into a custom game. it was CTF on lockout with
a 5 flag capture limit and no time limit. there was a full party of 16
including myself. when the game started we had no shields, and plasma
pistols to start. there were all pistols on the map. i dont know why there
were plasma pistols to start with but it didnt really matter. as soon as i
spawned i went to the BR tower and triple wielded magnums. i wont go into
details about triple wielding as im sure most people know what it is and
how you do it. now dont frown on me since i triple wield. it was a custom
and people were cool with it. ohh and there were no starting grenades but
grenades were on the map. so anyways i started out at BR-3 after loading
up on magnums and i dropped down to the middle area. oddly enough no one
was there. i continued to Sniper-2 when i saw a red come out of no where.
i couldve swore he superbounced on top of Sniper tower and waited there.
luckily this guy was a noob and was dual wielding plasma pistols. he hit
me with one but the other missed. i took my time and fired one round into
his head. it shocked me that i killed him because i never score headshots
with a magnum. at this point i realized that a melee would be useful so i
ditched the triple wielding and went for a magnum and a plasma pistol. i
patrolled Sniper tower with 1 other guy for the whole game. we never lost
it. my partner was dual wielding so he just stood at the top of the ramp.
i strafed from Sniper 2 to Sniper 3 watching out for any reds going for
the flag. it was here where i had a sudden thought of storming the Elbow
and getting the flag. i didnt have a mic so i couldnt get anyone to follow
me. i went in alone and scored a headshot on every single red that spawned.
it was getting towards 16 kills non-stop when my team finally noticed what
i was trying to do. they came in at the right moment as someone managed to
pull off some shots on me as i was reloading. my whole team died. the reds
thought i was dead and they came up the ramp on the Sniper tower side. i
stood just to the side of the door waiting. i got 2 beatdowns and 2 stick
medals here. then i charged the flag racking up another 6 kills from my
two frag grenades. i managed to get the flag and go all the way up the
grav lift. i was in awe at this feat. i was going to go through the middle
and just jump up to the score point but a few reds found me. instead i
dropped down and proceeded to BR-1. i was halfway up the ramp to BR-3 when
a red threw a grenade at me. i didnt die but in the panic of escape i
pressed the A button and jumped off the edge. the red who threw the
grenade jumped after me to. i thought what the hell is going on…this
wasnt the first time i fell off lockout with the flag. in a frantic effort
i threw the flag up to my teammate but he was too late. the flag came close
to the edge and bounced away. i figured id go out in style so i shot the
red who was following me in the head. i died seconds after. this all
happened very fast and is hard to explain in a story. we still won 5-3 and
i was in the lead with 1 capture. yes i finally managed to score and not
fall off lockout. i racked up a impressive 70 kills and 34 deaths. i
started to get bad near the end. in the postgame lobby people cheered me
on as the MVP of the game. i felt very happy indeed since that was the
last time i ever played on XBL. this is from a long time ago and i thought
i would send in something worth mention. and again congrats to foo mo for
the 360 and i say that podtacular is a great community. the podcast is
great and makes me laugh everytime. keep up the awesome work.


Wrap up

Shoutouts

  1. Origami Kid, Phazon UK, HumanShield UK and Wiggles!
  1. Spelchek
  1. Shout out to Stalalem at Gamerscore blog.
  1. Thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio.

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