Halo Forges

I love doing forge mode on halo. Making different creations on different maps and creating new game modes for certain things is always fun to do. Making fun jumps to go off of with vehicles and see them explode on impact because you built the jump so high that when you land you end up dieing. Or creating maps for capture the flag where you create two bases that go against each other. Or make a room where you have to dodge the kill balls and be the last one alive after all your lives are gone or have the most lives at the end of the game.

Forge world on halo reach is one of the best places to forge because its a huge map. You have many different places to place things or create bases and such. You could make one base on the other side of the map as the other one is at the other side and have a huge capture the flag game where you have to take a falcon to go get the flag and bring it back to your base. As you have a giant fight in the middle of the map for control of small bases and weapons to choose from. It is alot funner when you have lots of people playing your maps other than you and another person playing on it. Gives you a chance to show your friends what cool things you have done to create this map or how cool the map is. Gets more people wanting to try it out.

Or you can just mess around on forge mode and try different things and see what you can make out of it. Always lots of fun when you have your friends doing forge mode with you. Everyone has their own ideas of making maps or game modes for other people to try out. I know i have tried many game modes on halo 4.

One i believe is called Zombie Run. One person has a platform where he/she has all the explosive weapons where they will shoot down at the zombies, who are driving mongooses and warthogs through an obstacle course while trying not to get shot by the shooter. The zombies are trying to get to the end of the obstacle course, where they will be able to get into a banshee and go kill the shooter. You only get one life so make it count. Sometimes the zombies win and other times the shooter wins. Its an awesome game mode and map to play.

Another is Hunger Games. Basically you all have one life and if you crotch you can go invisible so you cant be seen as well by other competitors. Of course, like in hunger games you have weapons in the middle and then some around the map. Its a forge map on halo 4 that you play it on and you just try to survive out the others while you are also trying to kill them. The game gets intense at times and other times its really quiet. You just dont know where people are going to come from or where they are at. Its an awesome game to try out if any of your friends have it on their xbox 360.

[If you would like me to talk about something coming up or something really cool that has happened to you in halo, then please comment below. Thanks for reading!]

Two People that you can watch play halo 4 on twitch tv are posted below.

twitch.tv/gagcrush3r
twitch.tv/kingbrando

Halo Moments

Have you ever had those moments when your playing halo and something extremely funny or awesome or crazy happens? Well we all do. The other day I was playing Halo Reach with a friend. We were doing Forge on Forge Island I believe. We made a huge jump that you would die when you impacted on the ground. So me and my friend were driving mongooses off that jump and exploding. The one time he exploded first and i was right next to him, my mongoose and i went flying through the air. We got launched like a rocket.

Its those moments where you try to explain to someone else but its really hard to do so because you're either laughing or you just cant explain it. Or other times when you are playing Live and have those WTF Moments. I've seen a couple of those happen in top 10 WTF Moments and some of them you are just like, "What the crap?"

Here is a video below showing you some of the things that happen in halo that people just really cant explain.

Sorry i havent been posting for the past few weeks. I just couldnt find anything to blog about but now ill try to get back into the groove and find some more things for you readers. Have fun gaming!!!

Also ill be seeing some of you at the LAN this Friday. Time to have fun and laugh our asses off. 

HALO FTW!!!!!

Ghost Recon Updated?!

Alright so today I updated Ghost Recon (finally.) and logged on. Some of the new updates consisted of a new map and new Phantom pack. I have yet to find out what the phantom pack is but I have seen it in action. The new map is a large map with 5 points you need to capture in order to win or have the most when time runs out. I got to actually play the new map and it was a pretty good map. It takes place in a city with many buildings and a couple of cars parked. Also you have different ways to flank around the enemy.

They also updated the graphics to be cooler looking. I have yet to try to put it on a higher setting but tomorrow I will try for the highest graphics and see how they look. Ghost Recon is still in its beta version but that is because they need to make more patches and find better ways to make the game better for the people playing it. They still only have three classes to play as and nothing has changed there.

I will be posting Ghost Recon updates on here as well as halo updates. Thanks for reading and Game on!

Halo 4 Global Championship

I've recently read that halo is yet holding another huge tournament this summer of 2013. Heres is what they have said from halowaypoint.com about qualifying and more.

The first qualifier for the Halo 4 Global Championship will be a weekend-long FFA tournament in our booth. If you’d like to participate, we recommend registering in advance to secure your spot. To pre-register, at 9 AM CDT on Friday, July 5, go to Hall 5 (the same location as RTX attendee registration). Limited walk-up registration will be available at our booth during show floor hours as well. Oh, and if you compete in the tournament, you’ll snag yourself a limited-edition t-shirt. We’ll be live streaming the tournament finals from the eSports main stage from 2-5 PM CDT on Sunday on our official Twitch.tv channel, where I’ll be joined by Eric “GH057ayame” Hewitt and Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez for commentary and insight into the gameplay. Be sure to tune in!

There will also be an online qualification. Heres how you can qualify. 

You can compete and qualify for the finals through online play. Just hop into the Global Championship playlist and play 20 games each week to qualify and appear on the leaderboards. 

Stay tuned for additional opportunities to get an invitation to the Halo 4 Global Championship finals in the coming weeks. 

This tournament has been designed so that it provides an optimal competition experience for all competitors. The format is significantly different from the Infinity Challenge tournament, and we’ve used our past learnings to ensure that all players have the chance to qualify and win prizes, and that the best-performing players move on each week. Let’s dig into the format of the online portion. 

Each week, a new selection of maps and game types will be available in the Global Championship playlist. Unlike the Infinity Challenge, each week of the tournament is independent of any other week, with new game types, winners, prizes and a fresh, blank leaderboard. This way, players can compete in their selected weeks without needing to “grind.” Each week, play a minimum of 20 games in the tournament playlist. Your placement in these matches will determine your place on the leaderboard. Read on for how placement works. 

Using an inverted scoring system, you’ll be given points based on your placement in each game that you play in the playlist. For example, if you place first in your match, you’ll receive a score of 8 for that game. Should you place second in the next match, you’d receive a score of 7, and your average across these two games would be 7.5. 

As a lot of you who read this like to play halo 4, here is something that you could possibly get into if you have nothing to do this summer or if you want to do something sick this summer. I would join this, but i have work and quite frankly, dont have an xbox 360 to play on. I know some of you from the LAN were good and it would be cool to see some of you end up in the leaderboards in the championship itself. 

Good luck and until next time, keep pwning those Spartans!

Halo 4 Game Modes and Maps

What is this picture above me? Its a look at the new halo 4 hunger games map. (i borrowed this picture) but this seems like a legit looking map. Excited to play it sometime soon, possibly tonight. Alot of new maps have been created on Forge and people can make a many cool maps to play on. Another thing, 1 flag ctf has come back and people are super excited to play it again. I guess we will see what happens tonight at the LAN.

So other than this map or gameplay, I have watched some of Rooster Teeth's videos on youtube of halo 4 game night and some the game modes on there are very interesting. Like for example you have a speed run course where its a king of a hill gamemode, but the hill moves in a straight line across an obstacle course and i guess if you're not in the area of the hill then you stop moving. I found it very interesting as you have to be careful that you don't make a serious mistake and fall behind everyone.

Another gamemode I saw was called, "Ma4co." I believe that was the name but basically in this one you had marco polo as everyone else is a invisible zombie as the hiders. You can't kill marco, but the real objective of this game is to be the last one standing to win. It all took place on a large platform flat and you just had to hide from marco longer than anyone else in the game.

If you would like to check out some different posts about cool gamemodes, then click the link below.
http://mp1st.com/2013/02/18/halo-4-forged-from-scratch-custom-gametypes-pt-1-3/

Halo 4 seems to be bringing in more cool game maps and modes. Makes it more of an interesting game than anything. Halo gamers continue to game!

Halo 5?!

So I saw the Halo 5 trailer and it seems it will be a good game in my opinion. Some of you don't like how the story is going but I do. We just have to along with the facts:
-Master Chief just lost Cortana, who he has been with him for years.
-You don't want to do the same plot over and over again. Difference is good.
-You can still have the UNSC vs the Covenant
-Let's see how Master Chief takes things without Cortana 
-The Flood are gone 
-Don't want the FR (ForeRunners, sorry of miss spelled) to do more destruction 

I am going to give 343 a chance to do the Halo story, since they only have done one game so far. It would be hard for anyone to take over the Halo story. There will always be people who hate the storyline and there will be no way for everyone to love a game. It could be possible for them to make another Halo game just about the Covenant wars. I know people liked the UNSC vs Covenant story line, but to twist things is always interesting to see.

http://youtu.be/9fEKcOK8gno

Halo 4 Weapon Tuning Updated

So from what I have heard, halo 4 has tuned a lot of their weapons. I think it will really change the games on online gameplay and make it much more difficult for everyone. When i mean everyone, i mean everyone. From what I have read here are some of the updates.

BATTLE RIFE

• The Battle Rifle damage has been increased. The Battle Rifle is now capable of killing in four bursts.
• The Battle Rifle rate of fire has been slightly decreased.
• The Battle Rifle red reticle range (range at which auto-aim benefits kick in) has been decreased.
• Two bursts from a Battle Rifle followed by a melee will now kill an opponent (2-shot melee).

CARBINE

• The Carbine damage has been increased. The Carbine is now capable of killing in seven rounds.
• The Carbine accuracy has been increased (projectile spread decrease).
• The Carbine red reticle range has been decreased.

LIGHTRIFLE

• The LightRifle zoomed rate of fire has been increased.
• The LightRifle un-zoomed rate of fire has been slightly decreased.
• The LightRifle red reticle range has been increased to match the updated DMR range.

DMR

• The DMR red reticle range has been slightly decreased.

ASSAULT RIFLE

• The Assault Rifle damage has been slightly increased. The Assault Rifle now kills in three less rounds.
• The Assault Rifle auto-aim angle has been reduced.
• The Assault Rifle projectile spread has been decreased.

STORM RIFLE

• The Storm Rifle damage has been increased. The Storm Rifle now kills in three less rounds.
• The Storm Rifle auto-aim angle has been reduced.
• The Storm Rifle projectile spread has been decreased.

SUPPRESSOR

• The Suppressor damage has been increased. The Suppressor now kills in three less rounds.
• The Suppressor auto-aim angle has been reduced.
• The Suppressor projectile spread has been decreased.

SAW

• The SAW’s damage has been increased to maintain double the damage-per-second of the Assault Rifle.

MAGNUM

• The damage has been slightly increased. The Magnum is still capable of killing in six rounds.

VEHICLES

• The damage has been increased on both the Mantis and Warthog Chain Gun.

This certainly will change the game and how it is played on xbox live. Many are glad that the 4SK BR is back. People really missed that and now that it is back. Things are going to change. 

Halo Game Modes?

My opinion i wish they could do a game mode where you could fight as a team vs large army of covenant. Make it something like battlefront but you can fight air battles against covenant ships and such. A giant battle to see who can get the most kills and you fight alongside marines and sgt johnson. I think it would be a great idea but who knows what they will think of next. Also where will the story go next? They need to make a game where the AI are just boss and not nooby fighting computers. They could actually accomplish something for a change. This could potentially give gamers more of a challenge than easily fighting through the campaign and win the game. Let the AI roam freely around the map and some of them won't be in the exact same place every time you die. Here are some images from the halo games, but somewhat what the game mode could look like but better graphics of course.

Halo Games Done Better?

Do any of you think they should have done the story different or should it say where it is at now? Do you think they should come out with another halo game, but you play as a different character other than Master Chief? I'll answer some of those questions, but the others are for the readers to decide and talk about.

1) Do you think they should make another halo game, but you play a different character?
Well in my opinion, I think they should make another halo game, but you play as the marines with Sgt Johnson and the game takes place between Halo 1-3. You see the marines point of view and able to see Master Chief doing stuff every now and then. You should be able to customize your own marine and name him also. It would be super fun to play campaign with four people playing marines of their own. And you are not just the only marine fighting, you are with other marines in the firefight. It would be really interesting if they did that and I would certainly play it. Figthing alongside Sgt Johnson and whoever else was a popular marine in that game would be very interesting. If you think this is a good idea or have something you would answer different to this question, then comment below. 

2) Do you think they should have done the story different or should it stay where it is now?
Well I think they have done really well on the Halo story. But that is just my opinion. Everyone has a different opinion on the game. What I think they should have kept was the Firefight mode and should have added a Local Four player campaign or xbox live campaign or whatever else you can do to connect with your friends to play campaign. Halo 2 was a very good game in my opinion and maybe, just maybe they will come out with anniversary version for it like they did with the first Halo. 

If you would like to ask any questions for the next blog, then comment below. Also talk about the questions that appeared in today's blog post either here or on my facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/HaloPcBlog

Thank you!

Clans and such

I remember being in a clan on Halo PC. After a few months, arguments broke out and we began to fall apart. I still own a clan, but have no one in it really anymore. I still have two of my old friends off halo pc that i talk to every now and then but they are busy with school or jobs. I hope to gain more people to my clan called GIA. Gaming International Alliances is the full name. I made it about two years ago when i started playing Halo PC. Its been awhile since i've updated anything on the clan website but that is because im the only one left in the clan. Now days i play with some LAN players playing halo 4 or halo 2 again. Its pretty fun as you can see in my other blog posts. As you can see my blog post about planetside 2 is pretty interesting. Lately i have been watching gameplay of the game and it seems legit. I really need to get myself a computer and get the game. Its free to download but if you want all of the extra content then you have to buy it, but other than that its free to play.

LAN Gaming

LAN Games are really fun, better than online play because your all in the same room or house or wherever your at and you can hear the other people get mad at you when you kill them or when they troll you up close. Still one of the best ways to play especially when there is more than four of you in one game. Tonight I will be gaming with some of my buds at whatever game we play. Halo, cod, halo... Halo is still better than CoD. So LAN parties can be super fun to go to and meet new people or just hang out with a big group of awesome friends. Are you a gamer? Will you pwn noobs? Lets do this!

Planetside 2

This may not be halo pc, but it is an awesome game as what i have seen of it so far. It is an online mulitplayer shooter game. Its too epic for me to explain so below will be some videos about it. Its infantry, vehicles, and air vehicles all in one game and all at one time. Three factions, one winner, massive war, when will it ever end?

Long time

Its been a long time since i have done a blog. that is because i lost my game for Halo pc. Most likely it was corrupted and stopped working. But i have started playing Halo 2 on LAN parties with some new cool people. We had about six of us playing Halo 2 LAN last friday night and hope to do it again real soon. I could say i did pretty well in my part as so did the others. Everyone had a blast. Below is a picture of all the people that played (nicknames). Mine is XxBonesxX. I dont know when i will be able to get more pictures from LAN games i go to, but when i do i will tell you people about them. Thank you for the wait.

Dallas shut down. Others to open?

The Dallas server that was loved dearly has been closed down. Even I was surprised. Why would anyone want to close down a server where loads of people went on to play and gain all those stats and now to lose them all! I mean, Come on! I liked to play on that server everytime I came on to play, but now I have to play on the other starburst's servers instead and alot of the time they are usually full or no one is one them at the moment. You wouldn't want to play with yourself at all, now that is just boring. We want servers where we can get more gamers involved into halo gaming on these great servers, but when you close down one of them. You lose some gamers who play on that specific server because the other ones are full. You close down one, you should be able to open up a new one because that gets more gamers to come and play halo on pc.

Now awhile ago, I saw some new servers, but they were used as tests. Let's hope they bring in more servers where we can compete against each other and gain awesome stats to show to our friends and enemies. Gamers need good servers to play on or else they will probably quit playing halo and going to play some other game on their pc or xbox or whatever other game station they have. It's a lot of fun to come onto halo and meet new people. New enemies. And to pwn period!

Game Players

What really makes a gamer? Have you ever asked yourself that? Have you ever thought, what makes a true gamer?

Well my point of view is a true gamer is a player who loves to play video games, but he doesn't get overly mad about every stupid mistake he makes or what his team does. He learns from those mistakes and builds on them so it will rarely happen again. Don't blame your team for the lost, its just unsportsmanlike. Your a team. A true gamer pushes encouragement into his team. If they are losing by lots of points, he never stops until the game is over. Yelling at your team isn't going to make the situation any better. I have been not a true gamer and i need to become one. Everyone who plays MW3, Halo, or any other online games, are gamers just like you are. They want to show their skills to everyone or become a greater players. Pushing them down with rude comments isn't helping at all. Even some people might stop playing because of it. Every gamer makes mistakes in a game. Everyone! No one can be a perfect gamer. Even if you can quick scope someone or get many kills in a game. You still die. You still make mistakes. That's alright. You will learn from it, but bragging about how better of a gamer you are then anybody else or being incredibly mean to your own teammates or the people playing the game. You can make comments about the other team as in saying nice try, better luck next time or telling them nice shot and you may get them next time. That what makes other cool gamers become more involved into online gaming. It makes them feel welcomed to go online and join a group of random people and fight their hardest to win the game. This is a serious thing to think about. If you would like to add anything else that you thing i am missing then go ahead and comment.

Halo Legends

This Picture above me was taken today by me. Now you wonder why i have a banner on top of it saying Halo Legends. Well are there really any Halo Legends? Well of course there are. You meet up with someone online and they seem to be the best sniper there. Able to shoot you with one shot in the head while moving. Not everyone knows a Halo Legend, but i bet they sure do hear of it. Now Halo Legends is actually a halo series. I havent really watched it, but i heard it is actually really good. I suppose i will watch it someday when i have nothing to do on my hands. Right now im trying my best to become one of the best players to play halo. I might be in the running but not me number one or anything. Now your wondering how did i get a good picture likes this. Well there is an program you can get for your halo program in which it can do a 3rd person mode. Its actually pretty cool when your  trying to take cool pictures of stuff. I will sometime have to upload some of my other pictures and count that as a blog. This blog is going to be short, but the next one should be as just as long as other ones.

Noobs?!

What are noobs? Well they were considered newbies, but now the word is used to say when they killed the you and you call them a noob for it and some people have no idea why you are saying it, but you join in anyways. Rage players use it a lot because they rather not swear or try to do anything else to show what emotion they have right now. Another slang for noob would be trigger happy. I was a trigger happy player on halo 2 because when i had the rocket and turn around the corner to find someone there, i would kill him/her and also kill myself. But not all trigger happy players are ridiculous. There was one game i was playing with my friend on halo 2. He has his rocket out and he scared the living crap  out of me. He shot his rocket and i threw my plasma grenade and it seemed time slowed down because the grenade and rocket collided in mid air. And what ended up happening? Well, the rocket exploded ended up killing him and said he did suicide and the plasma went flying across the map, while i stood their and had a look on my face as to "What the heck just happened?" It was like i was paralyzed. We would laugh so much when we played halo. I sometimes still do.

Now their are some real noobs out there. Who come on and play the game and have no freaking idea what they are doing or act like total nincompoops when they play. Now if it was someone's son who is like 3 years old then hes no noob. He in training to become a real soldier, a real marine, a real hero. Even when he is training under one of the best players out there. He knows I'm talking about him. Hes a good friend of mine, but its his choice if he wants to tell us who he is. Also when you start to rage on other people and say they have no life, friends, family and you end up finding out they do and you feel like a complete idiot and a jerk. Just be careful into what you say when your playing. You might say some of the wrong stuff to some of the wrong people. Scary thing huh? Well probably not because they dont know you in real unless somehow they are a stalker and they have pictures of you they can use for blackmail, but lets face it, We hope that wont happen at all. It could happen, but its a slim chance of happening to you.
(picture above. Caption: "Don't be like this noob. he ended up dieing and landing in a tree. so sad)

Leadership

Q:What makes a good leader?
A: Someone who is respected and will lead his forces or group into any situation. He will try to keep his men alive, but you all know someone will die. Not every leader can save all their men, but if they do try their best they can get their men to safety. He is respected by his group members. They will follow him into battle no matter what the cost is or if it does cost them their lives. They will follow anyways.

Anyways, I was playing Halo PC a month ago or so and I met this man who became a great leader. His name is Andrei. His tags are [AB] Andrei and Sailor Moon. You may have met him in Starbursts servers sometime. I have become great friends with him and have followed in some of his footsteps, but i have done so much on my own that I know I can do it if i try my hardest to accomplish it. This is a shoutout to him. Andrei thank you for all the help you have given. The effort and time you have put into trying to help us all get together as one team, one clan, all of us are friends now. You know you have worked your hardest and we are working our hardest also, but you have put so much effort into helping this group get together. I may have made the clan, but you are still considered a great leader to us. The PV clan members are very grateful for that. I'm glad we could have you around as a friend.

Thanks for reading that my halo players and gamers. Now back to Leadership. Leaders are great to have in a clan. If you have no leaders then what are you? An unorganized group of people who will not do so well. Everyone would fight over becoming the leader of the group and while whatever you were leading into would probably end or all your teammates are getting slaughtered by the other team. As for me, I have a quote. "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!" Even if the odds were terrible or we are losing. Why give up? Why? Ask yourself that. Why would you give up? You should try your hardest to hold back the other team without getting the flag so easily. I have been in situations where we are behind a few flag points, but if my team does not give up, we can come back and win the game or get it to a very close game. Now I know everyone loses games every now and then, but other times you feel the time of victory. Time for you to celebrate another win. Another win for you, the team, and any of your friends that may be on your team.

For Halo PC! Keep Fighting my Halo Players! Fight for your Friends, your teammates, and your team!

Dallas's Server

Heres a server that is currenly up at the time. Thats just the short name for it. It should have Dallas as its first name. Well its a 10-player server. Not too big, but not too small. Its quite fun anyways. Not alot of commotion but still difficult to end the game quickly. (Unless if the other team is all afk, then its no fun at all. just free kills and free flags) Thats no fun right. Well some players are admins or have kicking rights so most of the time you hope there will be other players and moving targets that you can take out with your sniper rifle or shoot them down with a banshee or blow them up with a rocket and you know what im talking about right? Well of course you do. You are smart arent you? Ha everyone is smart unless they do act dumb at some points in life or do something really stupid that ends them up to ruining their life, but lets get back to the real discussion here. The server has a map vote after the end of every game. All you have to do is press t and put in the number (1-5) to choose the map. It will list what map goes to which number and it will be different each time.

Starbursts servers will be back up before you know it. They are just trying a few things, making new stuff, and adding some new ingredients to the game. They may put some language filters in and such to help the servers be swearing free. Now we wont have to hear raging kids swearing at their own free will. I hate how when you find out an eight year old is playing against you and swearing like he is a viking of some sort. All you have to do is pwn the kid a couple of times and then leave him to the rest of your team to take down. You may think halo is a huge swearing game and is the top number one game, but your wrong. It is said mario kart is the most swearing game out there. If you played it you would know why. People scream and get super angry when they get hit by a red shell or a blue shell or dont win the race. I may be going off topic here but i am giving out a point of truth here. Thanks For Reading. Keep on playing you Halo Players or other Gamers!

Players

Now its your turn. Send me an email at barrybonesrugby@gmail.com. Send me your tag name, whats your favorite weapon, favorite map, why is it your favorite map and weapon, favorite vehicle, favorite mod of gameplay, are you in a clan? if so do you like it, why do you like playing halo pc? etc.
It is the players turn. I will post all of your feedback onto this post. just email me your information and answer any of these questions. I will go first for example.

Tag: Bones, [PV] Bones, XxDarkxX
Favorite Weapons: Assault Rifle, Pistol
Favorite Maps: Death Island, Danger Canyon, Timberland
Why favorite weapons: Assault rifle because when i stick a tank with a sticky and then rapidly shoot it to kill the person inside the tank. Grenades are my friends and i will use them. Pistol because i can shoot long distances when someone is staying in one place.
Favorite maps why: Death Island- I like how it is all set up. Hard to get the flag unless you work as a team to retrieve it. I also found out a nice glitch in the game (that i will tell you about it later.)
Danger Canyon-I like sitting on the ridge and sniping people going through the tunnels or killing people in the canyon below. Its not a large map and doesnt have huge opened spaces. It also has a glitch in it, only if someone on your team knows how to use it. and it can quite possibly kill your teammate if you dont hit them hard enough.
Timberland-I like this one because i love to snipe on it. Hills are a great place to hide and when you get to enemy base you have to be quick or else your totally screwed.
Favorite Mod: Well i like playing on unmodded, but when i can i like to play on mods where snipers are exlposive or where you can teleport to top of map and have unlimited ammo.
Clan: Yes i am in a clan and quite frankly i am a leader of a clan. I created this clan a couple of weeks ago and still looking for people to recruit. I have some pretty good players in my clan and you should try meeting them sometime. Brian, Apollo, Andrei, Ookap, etc.
Why do i like playing halo pc: Well i can meet new people around the world and just have some awesome fun. Being able to take my anger out on other people is much fun even though you will get raging in the game.

Thank you for reading this. I will post other players if they choose to send me an email.