CHUD Clan HALO 2 Headset Feedback - Page 2

Good games

You guys are hilarious to play with.

-Dralien

Smack talk - a tutorial:

Good: How's the view in that sniper rifle? *WHACK* (performed as you smack a guy in the head)

Bad: Jesus, you should just go back to the store and ask for your $50 back. (Actually heard last night)

Good: Buh bye. (performed as you "stick" a guy with a plasma grenade)

Bad: Look! Fags can fly! (Heard this one in a Rumble game right after a player was launched into the air from a rocket).

Good: Hey man, might want to try and plug your controller IN the XBox.

Bad: Do you have palsy or something? Cause you play bad even for someone WITH palsy. (Ok, I said this one).

I'm sure you can think of your own. Truth be told, so far I've not heard ANY bad smack talk from the CHUD crowd at all. You are far more likely to hear bad jokes (particularly from me, including dreadful puns) or various references to films (ranging from "Scarface" to "The Iron Giant"). I'm very glad I joined the group. I'm sure I wouldn't find the experience nearly as entertaining with random strangers.

Bad: "Darth Chocula turns into a real 'cereal' killer when he gets the sword!"

Just kidding. That was comedy gold. Or at least a tarnished bronze.

Great games last night, guys!

Lys

Heh. Yeah. Yeah. That was me. I'll go stand in the corner now.

I have played both Optimatches and a ton of just fooling aorund with CHUD matches and the games are way more fun with CHUD. Sure I am usually target practice but I don't hear the crap talk and pointless name calling when playing with the Chewers...

The homophbic and racist remarks that abound in ranked games are real turnoffs for me too.
Sorry I had to bail last night - had to go take care of a very upset and very wet 1 year old. Also, I've got a cold and playing while ill and hopped up on benadryl was almost hallucinatory.
And Nick - yeah, it sucks having to listen to you guys, and not talk back, but only because I can't talk back. Hell, sometimes the clicking of the triggers on my controller are enough to wake the boy up, let alone me blurting out attempted witticisms into the mic. Also, the plasma pistol may be silly, but a single fully charged blast takes down a shield instantly. Paired with an SMG, it's deadly.

Finally, whoever said "I deny your existence and replace it with my own" after a kill last night had me struggling mightily to contain my laughter. You rule.

Yeah.. who said that? It was brutal, but I have to admit I laughed.

Bunch of funny stuff on Halo 2...I grabbed the flag once and I just hear someone go "STOP HIM, HE'S SUPPOSED TO DIE" from the Hank Scorpio episode of Simpsons....

Also once when everyone took off without me in the Warthog and I was alone I just went "No, noooooooooo, it was TIME!"

Yes I know it's silly......

I'm still waiting for everyone to start talking Ron Burgundy online......

My favorite so far was hearing someone do a Red vs. Blue reference (guaranteed to be present at nearly every game from now on). I was running towards one of the bases on Coagulation, moving past a series of boulders, when suddenly I hear, "They can't see me. I can't see them!"

Yeah, we were doing a capture the flag on Bloody New Gulch and I called for a warthog ride and heard my teamate say, "It's not a warthog, it's a puma." And then we kicked red's ass. Hard. Gio Angels (or something close to that) was playing and helped keep those motherless fucks away from me. Good job, man.

I heard that and the whole beaten flag carrier thing "I regret nothing"

Oh dear god that was insane fun guys/gals! Thanks for the 4 hours of endless fun!

DYLANDJ!! You are now my mortal enemy!!!!!

And thanks for covering my back when I had the flag Paragon!

Does the headset make all the difference?

I'm only asking because I'm tempted to try the 2 months free that came with the game to get my feet wet, but it seems like the starter kit would be the best way to go, with the headset and Crimson Skies.

Would it be easy enough to activate the free 2 months and then just pick up the starter kit sometime and faze it into my account?

Just make sure you do it before your two months are up, or your CC will get billed $49.99

And yes, the headset makes it a lot more fun. Plus you learn a lot.. For instance the vocal range of people, and that can be cool. I mean who would of thought Slater could be doing voice-over work for Lucas with his deep voice...

Yes, you'll be stunned by the singing virtuoso known as Paragon.

Yeah, we were firing on all cylinders that round.

Great fun last night.

Ohh how I love the Ghost.

I think Slater had beat my kills by one or two on that one team slayer level.

I touched one of my teammates tanks. Wood.

GodDAMN that was fun last night. I'm Loomer -- sorry I'm terrible and silent. The former is me sucking (and being completely unfamiliar with the maps), the latter is me not getting my damn mic working.

Considering how often you killed me last night, please don't improve.

But yeah, fun times last night.

All sorts of fun last night. Including those long ass matches to plant the bomb. And can someone tell me what the hell made me fly from the middle of Bloodgulch back to my base after I picked up the bomb? Well, fly is the wrong term, more like my dead body flailing and flapping in the air.

That was quite possibly billylove in that Ghost he mentioned. I think I get the most distance from being hit by a Ghost when it is using the boost function.

I'm telling you guys... if I were the Halo Voice Guy. I'd be all about getting on Live and messing with people through the headsets. I'd be in a game of CTF, and I'd be yelling, "New Juggernaught" in my trademark voice and the such.

assault was pretty entertaining...if anything it played like that secret service/president mod that came out for half-life ages ago.

I liked it to pieces....and it was nice not being killed by slater or iron chef for a change.

It's the Elite model, man. Whenever I was having a hard time figuring out who to attack (this happened a lot in the four-team games, where I was red and another team was reddish-purple), I could pick you out of the crowd.

That rocketball match was exquisite lunacy.

There was one game of "Neutral Bomb" on Coag Gulch that just rocked. It took so long but it was very intense...

Good times last night gents. Random weapons on lock-out was nuts. Snake Eyes indeed.

I have a mic, but I'm afraid of waking my son. I play with headphones and try to stay deadly silent as it is.

1 story house + TV in living room + kid's room right off of living room + light sleeping kid = I can't even speak loud enough for the mic to pick it up without risking a crying 1 year old. Seriously, my wife and I tiptoe around the house and whisper to each other after we put him to bed.

I suppose I can try cramming the headset/mic under my headphones and trying to whisper to everyone. Not like that'll be creepy sounding in the least. Nosir, hoarsely whispering, "they're coming in from the top" won't be weird at all.

Really? Shit. I don't know whether it's worth trading the blessing of anonymity for the ability to scream, "Wort! Wort! Wort!" over a foe's corpse.

I actually changed models beceause I was playing a matchmaking against a bunch of annoying kids and one of the little bastards told me that I "sounded like an Elite." Figured I couldn't argue with logic like that. Plus, the Elite's death scream cracks me up every time. "Weeeaaaaugh-errr!"

Hell, doesn't stop me.

Yeah, I actually like that death scream too. I really noticed it last night when we were playing Rockets on Foundation with only three people. I laughed everytime I heard it. However, I don't want to hear it when I die because it will just piss me off, so I'll stick with my Master Chief model. The Elites are pretty sweet.

What's the best time to catch CHUD folk online? Since my first immersion in Xbox Live, I've barely seen anyone online.

Being in the UK, my early-to-late evening free time means I can be about from about 2pm to 6pm EST. Anybody likely to be around? Or should I just resign myself to playing against illiterate teens?

Gotta to be tough to work from home and have Halo 2 there..taunting you...

Dan, I might be able to get on during those hours sometime over this four-day weekend. I'll look for you.

For anyone still looking to pick up a headset, I ended up purchasing a 'Go Live!' controller from 'Mad Cats' (mostly because it had a free 2-month subscription card inside) that has the communicator module built-in. With it, you can plug in any 2.5mm phone headset (as are commonly used on cell-phones). I grabbed my hands-free set out of my car and used that with no problems at all. Also, the controller has a built-in mute button for those times when you've just been sniped for the bazillionth time in the row and need some swearing time.

Lastly, the rubberized grips on the side are nice; the controller stays in-hand much easier compared to the smooth sides on the Controller S or whatever Microsoft calls their default controller. The best part of it was that the controller (which does come with a headset... I just chose not to use it), was $39.99. The X-Box communicator alone is $29.99, so it's a very good deal for those looking to snag a Live! headset compatible controller, and possibly another 2 free months on Live!.

Now, if any of 'y'all' would like to pick one of these up, I have further good news. As part of the 'Black Friday' sales this coming Friday, Best Buy has these controllers for $20 'after savings', which I can only assume means waiting 4-6 weeks for a rebate... but whatever. It's still half-price.

Playing with you gents yesterday was swell except for one guy who was calling me an asshole and stuff before a game started [SGT Skeet or something]. How can you be offended by me when I kill you at Halo 2? it's a game where you gun down almost anyone in your path, you got a problem cause I gun you down two straight? They're in for a shock later when they play Head to head. I rule at head to head games, sniping is my best skill in Halo 2, always shoot them in the head, like zombies they is.

Speaking of sniping, I found an awesome spot in Waterworks, I gunned down 7 people from up high, then after a long time I got sniped by Nick.

So now i know how to keep blues of your backs in CTF on waterworks, useful for Clan matches

Also, on Zanzibar, don't rush out there in the Warthog, they always blow yu up with teh rocket launcher that lies up on that upper platform, wait until the team mate grabs the sniper rifle from the balcony way and snipes him, then you're free, have someone hit the switch suicide style, then have the Ghost fly in there and pulverize the opposing team while your budy makes off with the flag, also someone claim the shotgun from those pillars so when you march in there you take care of them cause it is a close quarter firefight once you do and the shotgun puts your lights out in one blast up close.

and fuck Sudden Death, they cost us all the time, especially those bastards who hid the bomb for half an hour until they could get past us.

Speaking of the shotgun, I always seem to suck with it. Does it just take a modicum of skill to kill someone with one shot? Like always aiming at the head perfectly?

I...think our opponents are getting crazier.

Shotty is the best close-range weapon in the game, and will win a match between itself and any other weapon. It has the advantage of a slightly higher than 0 range for a fatal blow (advantage over the plasma sword), and won't kill you when you fire (a la the rocket launcher). I've won a slayer duel or two vs. someone with a sword just by besting them with the shotgun a few times. There's still a lot of sword whores out there though. Blech to them.

I rather enjoyed his rant. At least it was creative. Much better than the "Yeah Yeah YEAH! We RAPED you!" douchebags.

Also, Slater: "Don't tell me how to rape!" Awesome.

I also thought that was actually really funny. But there are some crazy people out there. I was playing in a team game two days ago and we ended playing agiainst four guys who refused to even try to capture or defend the flag. They spend the entire time killing each other. That was weird.

"Don't tell me how to rape!"

YES.

Possibly they were French?

No, then they'd be constantly running away.

God, those guys. I love how their excuse was "We can't find any teams good enough to beat us, so we just kill ourselves." Brilliant reasoning.

I know it was funny, I muted my headset and laughed my ass off.

"Don't tell me how to rape"

Hehehehehe.

apologies to both Australians & Englishmen....as I'm too ignorant to make a distinction between either of your languages/accents on live's squeaky headsets:

why is it that these groups of people are the most polite sons of bitches when playing them on Live!? Highly communicative team players, no incling for team killing whatsoever - just solid players to sit down with and murder.

(north) americans could use a lesson or two in civility.

one bomb assault on coag kinda rocks.

That fuckstick that kept making the machine gun noises when he fired...

"dat dat dat dat!" "I'm wielding dual machine guns!" "dat dat dat dat!"

And the same guy later whispering.

"I'm hiding. They can't see me on radar."

Me, throws grenade.

"They saw me." "Dat dat dat dat!"

OMG!

[Losing a match]
Booty Baron: Come on guys, "no fate but what we make......SHE'S GOING TO BLOW HIM AWAY!"

That just totally cracks me up for no good reason.