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> Ah yes, the classic “just walk past everyone with a Rocket Pod” tactic of blowing up the core. The best part of doing that is knowing how stupid everyone on the enemy team will feel for letting that happen. Warzone, for all it’s BS, is still a super fun game mode and I’m happy for you that your introduction to it was positive one. It will get even better once you unlock some more REQs. Getting full fireteam of my mates to do a Ultra Ghost rush of the enemy core is one of the best memories I’ll have of Halo 5.
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> > It’s like a step up from Dominion from Halo 4, which was the best part of the game for me. I hope Infinite has something similar, a large all-out warfare mode.
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> Three words. 64 player invasion. Well, those are two words and number, but you get me. Invasion was my jam in Halo Reach and while I enjoy WZ for what it is, a revised Invasion game mode would be the best thing ever.
Being able to play with friends (or just folks you meet on the forums that’d be willing to play with ye) also makes it quite enjoyable! But yeah, it definitely has a lot of BS in it - sometimes I ask myself why I’m still playing it and I still don’t have a clear answer hah. I guess just because at its core I do enjoy it, even knowing the risks that it can, and often does, devolve into something less enjoyable. ((Oh and remember when the Mantis used to be a Level-8 vehicle? Good times.))
I have a few good memories, one is a recent “Revenge! Yes!” moment on ARC. I was up against a team for the second game in a row (the same team) and while it wasn’t going as badly as it could have been (I can name some teams/players that are amazingly good at securing a game real quick) it was still not going well. We lost both games but they were both close - had it been any of those other people I had in mind it would have been decided real early on. So anyway one of their team’s parked on top of the Garage with what I can only assume was an Endgame or a Lance, since I swear he took more than four shots with it. I of course wasn’t really able to use my ONI Mantis much, and for a good chunk of time he remained up there just glued on our armory, only once taking a shot at someone else with the laser. Finally, a combination of my poking a Sword Banshee that was messing around near our armory + his insistance to see my mantis gone, finally brought it down into flames.
What do I do next? See if I can’t get revenge, duhh! Against my better judgement I call in a Bane next, and sneak up onto the Garage. He’s not there, but not long after I arrive I see him arrive and ooooh is that a DELTA in his hands? One swipe later it’s MY Delta now, and I re-cloak and run off into the hills with it before he could even set up with it, let alone take a single shot.
I then kill a few of his team mates with it before the game ends. I think that’s the dictionary definition of frustrating, given the weapon’s cost and sheer rarity.
But honestly… One of the single best memories for me… Would be playing as Defenders on WZA Temple. A sentence rarely heard, because of the abysmally horrible spawns for the Defenders. Why was it a good memory? I had a Prophet’s Bane (I think I’m seeing a pattern here) and was heading towards the Temple proper, when I see a guy in a ghost go charging around the other side. The enemy Hannibal Wasp actually breaks off to go chasing it!! I get this crazy, absurd idea in my head. At this point, what’s the harm in trying? At worst I’ll feel a little silly.
So I head into the Temple… I can still hear the Hannibal taking shots at my team mate’s vehicle. Against all odds, he indeed is leading it through the middle of the Temple. Was my plan actually going to work?! I’m in position, the wasp is flying down the middle of the path, I take a breath and then jump off the ledge and hold down the Hijack button…
It worked. I was the new owner of the Hannibal Wasp, and gunned down its previous owner, who had to be absolutely baffled as to what just happened and how. Checking it in Theater Mode afterwards supports this. From HIS point of view he’s shooting at a pesky vehicle that’s just driving around. Then he’s suddenly on the ground and not in a vehicle anymore. Rewinding it and looking closer, there was NO POINT at all where you could see who was hijacking him, or that he was being hijacked at all. Reason? I got him as he was going through the overhang. The camera was showing a bunch of stone and brick, and absolutely no invisible spartans grabbing onto vehicles. It went from charging up a guass repeater shot, to seeing the Temple stones in your screen, to watching yourself fall to the ground with no indication you even got hijacked to begin with.
It. Was. Amazing. To have pulled that off. The fact I didn’t just get splattered or missed the hijack, heck that this all got set up so nicely at all! It was just amazing. I had to tell my xbox to record that. I still have the clip on my computer too, should probably get around to putting it on YouTube or something since it’s not on DVR anymore it seems (probably deleted it while I was cleaning up space oops xD)
The clip, freshly uploaded! There’s been plenty of other times where I’ve had a good spot of luck or improbable skill, or just did something crazy… But that Wasp one had to take the cake out of those I can remember.