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Custom and Call’s

Custom Games

Map: Turf
Weapons: Magnums only
Shields: No Shields
Vehicles: warthog
PowerUps: Overshield on Map
Grenades: No grenades on map/ No Starting Grenades.

K, 2 players face off against each other and pace off 10 mississippi’s (seconds) away. A referee does the counting. In the mean time, the two players walk medium pace away from each other. When the official hits 10 you turn around and try to get a head shot A.S.A.P. When that player respawns he/she must pick-up the overshield and the winner smashes him/her into the gate place behind the hog spawn. This is just like the old west. ENJOY!

what you do is break up into two teams, one team is larger than the other by 2 or 3, you can decide. One team is the bodyguards and the president, the other team are the people trying to kill the president. You can pick the president however you want to start off and he picks as many bodyguards as you can to keep the other team larger. The weapons are sniper and pistol with rifles on map. The president can only use the pistol. The time limit is 10 minutes and you can not shoot for the first 15 seconds(this allows people to set up or hide the president). No shields with only one life. There are no vehicles and you can put grenades on map if you want. If you kill the president then you are the president the next game. It’s best on Headlong or a larger level but you can pretty much play it anywhere. The only level i don’t recommend is Terminal because the president might spawn in the room on the top of the parking garage. It’s a really fun game, a little complicated but once you get it it’s awesome.

There are two variants of Cat and Mouse. First is free for all slayer. Starting weapon is sword, secondary is the Sniper Rifle. Weapons on map are snipers, and no motion sensor. Powerups are on, and no starting grenades. I like this because there are people who like to get right into the heat of battle, so they use the sword. Others, like to stay back, and snipe. That is why i call it Cat and Mouse. The score that is best for this is 25 kills. The second variant of Cat and Mouse is team slayer, with same settings. Except there are only two teams. The Black team are the Mice, and must use the sword only. The Grey team (or any other color, since they are so similar) are the cats, and only can use snipers. It is fairly hard, and that is why team work is key to winning. I prefer free for all, but team is also fun. Hope you like my custom game type! I’m sure there will be more coming from me in the future.

Sidenote: This is his XTag on Xlink. (explain xlink)

In this custom you can only kill people with weapons that have to stick to people, like needlers and stickies. A pretty fun game, that is best played in FFA but you can also make it Team game, Sticky CTF.

Starting and Secondary Weapons- both needlers
Over shields
No Radar
Everything else is pretty much default.
First to 15 in FFA and do 3 flag on teams.

A sweet game type that uses assault
No shields with Battle Rifle as the starting weapon.
Rifles on the map and no Radar
Rig the system so that there is no arming time and so that both teams can see both bombs at all times. Make it to 3 arms for a win
No respawn time and friendly fire off.
Everything elese is default
Insta-arm is very fun and is the only game type that I have gotten a killamanjaro. Best played on a small map, my personal favorite is Midship. Game play is intense and very exciting. Try to make the teams to have even skill for added fun.

Team Slayer
Much like the popular video game, counter strike.
No shields and one life.
Radar off
Starting Weapon is Battle Rifles and for the secondary weapon use a pistol
Round style play, make it so that the first team to win three rounds, wins the match
Make the kill limit unlimited, and set the time limit to 5 mins
No weapons on the map, but put grenades on the map.
Fun skill based game what makes you better at getting head shots.


Segments and Voice Mail

I’m listening to your latest customs and call-ins section, and you mentioned the British people having a “bad wrap” on Halo and complaining about it. Well just to add on to it I played a group of them in team ball on turf and they kept throwing it up on the roofs of the buildings. It was really annoying but thankfully we could still get it down, we just had to jump off each others heads and all that. btw we’re really confused on whether your name is brian or brain

Hey, just wanted to start off by saying that I LOVE your podcast. Alright, Podtacular is by far the best one out there. Anyway, today i was playing a big team battle game on Containment (it was 1 flag CTF) and my team was winning, until this little elite by the name of WhiteFireKnight decides to mod. And so he goes around, super jumping across the map and running at a good 400 mph, so he’s got the flag and he’s taunting us by running around in circles and smacking us all in the back, so then I come up with this last ditch attempt to get our flag back. Scorpion. Right as he got the message and flew up into the air. BOOOOOM. he turned out to be a clay pigeon. All’s well that ends well I guess. Anywho, gamertag’s Kynitekia (thats KI (long I) ni (short i) te (short e) kia (like the car company) and no I’m not Japanese. just made it up a few years ago. later

hey, skibur here. love the podcast. just a few tips and comments. u only need 1 person in the hill (KoTH), the rest of the team should defend from the outside. this way u dont all die by a few grenades. about wat u guys said about “character classes”... too complicated! if u wanted something like that, it would b better 2 hav the weapon affect the characters speed etc, eg when holding the rockets, u cant jump as high. this way u arent disadvantaged if u choose a weaker weapon, but u would b if your “character class” was always slow. another thing is… i forget… giv me a sec… Ohh Yeah! about the noob combo, bcuz the PP overheats when u shoot the charged bullet thingy, there should b a period where u hav 2 wait 4 it 2 cool down b4 u can switch weapons. i wouldnt want a hot PP in my pocket! and lastly, i liked the smack down melee attack spelchek mentioned. cya ;)


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