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H2: XBox Live implementation. Awful?
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| I've been playing H2 online over the past few nights, so I'm not expert
on the whole thing yet, but is it just me that thinks the whole online
setup stinks?
Firstly, what's the difference between a Clan and a Party?
Why cant I play the exact game I want to play? Why does the Lobby throw
me into a CTF game, when I may just want to play an Assault game.
Why cant I JUST play against my friends?
Why are the instructions on how to play each game awful at best, or
typically non-existant?
If there is a way to achieve some of those mentioned above, please let
me know.. I don't profess to being a H2 wiz, but I've spend nights
trying to find out how to accomplish the above, and can't find it 
Burnout 3 is the other main online game I play, and whilst EA servers
may be ropey at best, the way you setup each race/crash can't be faulted.
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| Eric R. 2004-11-24, 5:48 pm |
| bobby <nom@il.thanks> wrote in message news:<co1o6k$oa$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>...
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> Why cant I play the exact game I want to play? Why does the Lobby throw
> me into a CTF game, when I may just want to play an Assault game.
Select "Optimatch" and not "Quick match" and set your optimatch
settings to the kind of game you like to play (I currently have mine
set to "Rumble Pit" which just includes slayer games).
quote:
> Why cant I JUST play against my friends?
You can. Create a party, set up the game however you like, and invite
all your friends.
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> Why are the instructions on how to play each game awful at best, or
> typically non-existant?
It is a confusing at first. And the Halo manual is shit.
-Eric
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| Eric R. 2004-11-24, 5:48 pm |
| bobby <nom@il.thanks> wrote in message news:<co1o6k$oa$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>...
quote:
> Why cant I play the exact game I want to play? Why does the Lobby throw
> me into a CTF game, when I may just want to play an Assault game.
Select "Optimatch" and not "Quick match" and set your optimatch
settings to the kind of game you like to play (I currently have mine
set to "Rumble Pit" which just includes slayer games).
quote:
> Why cant I JUST play against my friends?
You can. Create a party, set up the game however you like, and invite
all your friends.
quote:
> Why are the instructions on how to play each game awful at best, or
> typically non-existant?
It is a confusing at first. And the Halo manual is shit.
-Eric
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| Eric R. 2004-11-24, 5:48 pm |
| bobby <nom@il.thanks> wrote in message news:<co1o6k$oa$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>...
quote:
> Why cant I play the exact game I want to play? Why does the Lobby throw
> me into a CTF game, when I may just want to play an Assault game.
Select "Optimatch" and not "Quick match" and set your optimatch
settings to the kind of game you like to play (I currently have mine
set to "Rumble Pit" which just includes slayer games).
quote:
> Why cant I JUST play against my friends?
You can. Create a party, set up the game however you like, and invite
all your friends.
quote:
> Why are the instructions on how to play each game awful at best, or
> typically non-existant?
It is a confusing at first. And the Halo manual is shit.
-Eric
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| bobby <nom@il.thanks> wrote in message news:<co1o6k$oa$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>...
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> I've been playing H2 online over the past few nights, so I'm not expert
> on the whole thing yet, but is it just me that thinks the whole online
> setup stinks?
It's drawn rave reviews. Even people who dislike the campaign tend to
love the online play. I wouldn't say it's just you, but I'd say you're
in the minority.
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> Firstly, what's the difference between a Clan and a Party?
A party is a group of people playing together at a given time, who go
together from game to game, or get slotted into games together.
A clan is a semi-permanent group of people in what amounts to an
online club.
Parties are often but not always made up of clan members. You can join
or form a party on the fly. If you like the playing style of someone
you were just in a game with, you can invite him to join a party, and
then the two of you will be in the same games (and on the same team,
in team games).
Most of the time that the system spends slotting you into games has to
do with fitting parties together and having everyone be in the same
level range.
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> Why cant I play the exact game I want to play? Why does the Lobby throw
> me into a CTF game, when I may just want to play an Assault game.
You can do this in unranked games. In ranked games, the reason is
because you might have a particular advantage at a certain game type,
and if you always played that game type, your stats would be
artificially inflated compared with other, better-rounded players.
This is also the reason you can't pick maps.
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> Why cant I JUST play against my friends?
You can, in unranked games.
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> Why are the instructions on how to play each game awful at best, or
> typically non-existant?
I have played a lot of Halo, so I may be missing something, but I
think the game types are generally pretty obvious. Granted, it takes
about a game of each variant to realize that "major assault" means one
bomb in the middle, "multi-bomb" means one bomb in each base,
"one-bomb" means that the bomb alternates locations between bases, and
the like. It's not that complicated.
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> If there is a way to achieve some of those mentioned above, please let
> me know.. I don't profess to being a H2 wiz, but I've spend nights
> trying to find out how to accomplish the above, and can't find it
Unranked games.
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