Podtacular episode 5

August 21, 2005.
(podding-spree!)
1hr, 28mins, 8sec

(It’s done, take that Spelchek!)
Big thanks to fooluaintblack and MasonC2K for all their hard work on this! Illustrations added thanks to Gesar.

• Podtacular group on http://www.bungie.net/
• FoH Avalanche bought $300 SMG’s, and a real Battle Rifle that shoots blanks (nerd… God I wish I had them…)
• There is a 2% chance that FoH Avalanche lives in Maryland! (Foo Mo forgot that Maryland is a state and not a city)
• Swaheli is not a clicking language.
• Episode 4.5 is a joke! It’s not real!
• http://www.getright.com/ to help dial up users download the show.
• 3 podtacular clans; lots more room for new members.
• If you want to join a clan send an email to podtacularclan@gmail.com and make sure you’re level 15 or above.
• Everyone note, Podtacular is much better than Podtacular 2, and 3.
• Podtacular is a group effort all the staff and the overlords of the clans help Podtacular live so here they are:

• Foo Mo Jive – Overlord of Podtacular and co-host.
• Old Mogo – All together clan representative and Staff on Podtacular 1.
• Fooluaintblack – I wrote this! Show notes writer.
• MasonC2K – Staff on Podtacular and has 1337 HTML 5k1llz!
• Spelcheck – Overlord of Podtacular 2 and co-host (one more time, Podtacular is better than podtacular 2, and 3. :P)
• FoH Avalanche – Super moderator for the soon to be forums.
• Rugbyrocks101 – Staff on Podtacular 2
• Canttouchthis73 – Overlord of Podtacular 3 and email correspondent.
• Geser (dotcomm) – Staff on Podtacular 3, makes the map illustrations.

• Old Mogo is making machinima over Xbox Live email him at oldmogo@gmail.com
• Playing Elite voices from Halo 1 backwards, they say real things, like “don’t even try it soldier!” (EDIT: Actually IIRC almost all of the Elite sounds in Halo 1 are Sgt. Johnson-speak played backwards at a lower pitch. – MasonC2K)

WEB RESOURCES

• http://www.phreaktor.tripod.com/, site dedicated to the extermination of cheaters.
• The Remixatorium: 8bit and other game music REMIXED and better than ever…

TIPS

• Fooluaintblack thinks the intro kicks ass.
• Sniping in hallways, best used in maps with… hallways. It works well because their movement is restricted and they can’t strafe past you.
• Press down on the D-pad to put your gun into a passive stance, you wont notice, but other people will notice your gun aiming at the ground or “at-ease”
• If you’re sniping you’re going to want a low sensitivity, but if your on a close quarters map your going to need to turn fast. So don’t use fast sensitivity for sniping, and don’t use a low sensitivity for shotguns… or find a balance.
• Meleeing is very important, stay just outside of someone’s melee range and unload with dual weapons, and if they get to close just hit them.
• Turrets can be extremely powerful. If your team has the rockets/snipers, jump on a turret, and you can get alot of kills before you’re taken out. But make sure someone is guarding your back.
• Look around alot, in Foundation there is alot of the map you can’t see, so keep looking around for that extra kill.
• If you are host you can still use a destroyed turret.
• With the battle rifle, shoot someone in the body with 3 bursts, and hit them in the head with the 4th burst for an easier kill.
• In close quarters you can jump over your enemy to confuse them.
• If you have 2 good weapons, like a sniper and sword, take out the sniper, and people will want to come closer to you because they think that you will be at a disadvantage, then when they are in range take out your sword. Or do it the other way around.
• Sweep sniping – Fire and then sweep your reticle over someone’s head. The auto aim will give you a headshot. Also works with the battle rifle.
• You can melee fast with any weapon by meleeing, and hitting ‘X’ to stop the animation and then hit b again. you can melee almost 2x faster (EDIT: Actually when you hit ‘B’ to melee and then hit ‘X’ you are actually cancelling the melee. No damage will be inflicted. – MasonC2K) Addition: You can also switch weapons and melee to for the same effect: B,Y,B.
• Old Mogo won second place in the HIH (High Impact Halo) logo design contest.
• Pressing ‘A’ in a ghost will make you do a “wheelie”, allowing you to get over a high barrier, or to avoid getting shot in the head by that pesky sniper your trying to run down.
• Plasma rifle will cool faster if you don’t over-heat it.
• Head shots do not do more damage when they still have shields.

BIG TEAM TIPS

• Shoot the Bad Guys… (this great tip brought to you by Spelchek. What would we do without him?)
• On Coagulation get the Warthog to the exit portal at the enemy base with a driver. Get some people into the base to throw the flag up and take it through the portal and drive it home.
• Don’t quit!
• Try to get a party together that knows how to work together.
• Take one for the team! If you see the flag guy taking fire, try to take some of the bullets for him so he can get back to base, or get him to throw it to you so you can get it back faster. Remember deaths and kills don’t matter so long as you score the most objectives.
• Block the elevator, or shaft in Coagulation (with Ghost and/or Banshee) so that people will get stuck and you can kill them easier.
• The bomb armed, and bomb planted are two different things. To arm, be in the circle. To plant it, get close to the “X”
• Spelchek lost The Game.
• Napolean Dynamite sucks.

MAP OF THE WEEK: WARLOCK

• Quick way to capture the flag is to: Get it and go through a teleporter, then throw it up to your teammate at your base and score.
• Go for the Battle Rifle and Shotguns. Doesn’t matter if you don’t want them. You don’t want the other team to have them.
• Jees spelchek :P, there are four battle rifles and four shotguns, one battle rifle on each base top, one shotgun infront of each teleporter.
• Once you have your weapons keep moving so that you cant be tracked.
• Spelchek can’t make moo sounds.
• If you have the flag, and you’re being followed, get through a teleporter, and get back to the side so you can hit him in the back.
• When you jump through a teleporter, it can be useful to do a 360 spin, to see if anyone is around on the other side, but be sure to have a high sensitivity.
• If you know someone is following you, bounce grenades off the walls, or leave a plasma trap.
• If you are confident that you know when someone is coming around a corner, jump and smash them in the head for extra damage.
• Foo Mo Jive, and Spelchek do not condone super jumps!
• Always be ready to throw grenades.
• Use the teleporters to your advantage, to counter it get someone to monitor a teleporter, or shoot at them to make them go back through and leave a grenade at your end, to finish em off.
• Try not to camp in your base, there is a high risk of being bombarded by grenades.
• When an enemy jumps across the gap to arm the bomb, throw a plasma grenade to the “X” to get an easy kill, and give you more time
• Dropping into an airlift while crouched down you can sit at the bottom of the air lift, to prevent the enemy from getting into your base, works best with active camo.
• Bouncing grenades off the ramp at the people on the platform can be an easy way to take down their shields and get easy kills.
• “Spam” grenades into your own base to stop people from arming the bomb, getting the flag.
• You can suicide bomb (using a plasma grenade of course) through a teleporter to kill potential enemies.
• Playing crazy king of the hill, the hill will sometimes appear under the platforms, get ON TOP of the platform and you can still get time and not have to worry so much about being grenaded to death.

CUSTOM GAMES

Auckum says: Lowball: It is normal king with a twist, everyone on your team must have 1 minute in the hill the same as with Low Ball, makes for excellant teamwork.

Match Options:

Number of Rounds: Default
Score to Win Round: 1 minute
Round Time Limit: Default
Rounds Reset Map: Default
Resolve Ties: Default

Player Options:

Max Active Players: 12
Lives Per Round: infinite
Respawn Time: 3 seconds
Suicide Penalty: Default
Shield Type: Default
Motion Sensor: Default
Active Camo: Default
Extra Damage: Default
Damage Resistance: Default

Team Options:

Team Play: yes
Team Scoring: minimum
Team Changing: Default
Friendly Fire: Default
Respawn Time Modifier: Default
Betrayal Penalty: Default
Force Even Teams: Default

King of the Hill Options:

Uncontested Hill: yes
Moving Hill: yes
Team Time Multiplier: Default
Extra Damage: Default
Damage Resistance: Default
Active Camo On Hill: Default

Vehicle Options:

Vehicle Respawn Time: Default
Primary Light Vehicle: Default
Secondary Light Vehicle: Default
Primary Heavy Vehicle: Default
Banshee: Default
Primary Turret: Default
Secondary Turret: Default

Equipment Options:

Starting Weapon: Default
Secondary Weapon: Default
Starting Grenades: Default
Weapons on Map: Default
Weapon Respawn Time: Default
Grenades On Map: Default
Overshields: Default
Active Camouflage: Default

This is a gametype I made a while back and we played it tonight with a bunch of clan members for a couple hours everyone seemed to enjoy it. Most people seem to favor Beaver Creek and Midship, but it is also fun on Ascension, Backwash, Sancuary, and Warlock. It works well with 5v5 4v4 and 3v3v3 more people than that and it gets a little crouded at the most 6v6. Also a quicktip about the gametype, notice uncontested hill is on, if you really need those extra seconds than just stay near the outer edges of the hill and let everyone else fight it will normally take them some time to find you and that time can be critical.

HALLOWEEN by ZACK B

“Halloween” or as other people call it “Michael Myers”, is basically one guy is on one team and he plays scary-ish music over his mic and the other team has to hide from him and when they hear his music they have to run from him, its alot like hide and seek but the music adds a little to it and its a bit more fair on both sides, you arent invisible, but the person doesnt have an overshield or super-speed

[note: you can play “scary-ish” music over your mic by, turning up your speaker/s, placing your mic infront of them/it and hit the white button. the voice…( i forget what its called but for lack of a better term), voice recognition (voice recognition is what your computer uses to recognise what your voice is saying), will keep the mic “recording”. the down side is, you cant talk, or hear any one talk.]

Im a Samurai says: Lucky 7..
This is a slayer variant.
Each player spawns with random primary AND secondary weapons.
Everyone has 7 lives
7 minutes rounds
No motion tracker.
This is a good game to keep you on your toes.
Best played on Zanzibar, Turf, Sanctuary, Relic.

Cameron says: Here’s a game called Cat & Mouse.

On Coagulation, you set so that the primary and the secondaryvehicles are Warthogs and the Primary heavy vehicle is the Wraith. There are also no Banshees. There are no weaponson map and the starting weapon can be basically anything because there is no shooting involed throughout the game.The game is played with 2 teams and only one life. Usually Red versus Blue. And the Blue team only has 2 people on
their team. They are the Cats. The rest of the people are on the red team they all fill up the Warthogs and becomethe Mice. The time length is set to 6 minutes. And for the first minute the Wraiths are not allowed to do anything.When there is 5 minutes remaining then the Cats can begin boosting and only boosting into the Warthogs. The game endswhen the time runs out, but if there is a last man standing they are declared the winner.

There are different variations of this game that can be played. For instance, Overshields can be turned on or off. If they are off then the Wraith is only allowed to boost into Warthogs. If there are Overshields boosting and shooting with the Wraith is allowed. Those rules can be agreed upon by the party depending on how many people are in the party.

Eric H. says: Also I have a game for you called Rainbow 6.

The weapons on map are Human only. No shields or radar also no shield or camouflage pick ups . You start with battle rifles and magnums. Only 3 lives. No vehicles. Basically it’s only real life things. Then you make teams of 2. With my friends when we system link we usually do it randomly then switch after a few games. Also its first to 3 wins. We found that the best map to do this on is Beaver Creek. It works perfectly for this game. This is one of the funnest games we have played. We spend hours playing this. Set the kill limit to 50 so the only way to win is by killing everyone.

Scotty Wilson says: Basketball/Football:

Oh yeah, i found a really cool glitch thingymabbobber. ok, first things first. You use the glitch that lets you have no weapons (plasma pistol, full charge then pick up the bomb). then, pick up the bomb.Now, the only weapon you have should be the bomb.here comes the good part.if you look at the ground, hold down trigger, and you will throw thebomb to the ground and it will bounce up and you will catch it. Itlooks like you are playing basketball. You can even get more peopleand throw the ball to each other, and bounce it off walls. You should seriously try it. it should be a mini game for halo 2. ” and OldMogo adds:”That is a very fun trick. Me and my friends played a custom game like that called Football and we basically try to pass it up the field without having someone jump in front of it. Then there’s basketball at Foundation. You have to get it from one turret to the otherand throw it through the big hole behind the turret.

Doug H. says: Also, here’s a cool custom game called Multiflag Madness.

Take basic SWAT settings(no shields, br and pistol start, no radar)
and put them into a capture the flag game. This is sweet when it’s 4 teams of 4 on foundation or 2 teams on turf. When I play foundation, I usually make it so that the flag markers are always on, making it really hard for the flag bearer to return to his/her base. This leads to amazing fire-fights that leave the best team standing. Great job on the show, Doug H.

LambChop454 says: The race to hill 40: custom game. this game is a territories map thats best played with a lot of people. also works best on coagulation. remember to set it for only one territory. only machine gun warthogs, human weapon, short spawn times make it more fun, no ff, primary weapon is smg secondary is magnum. turrets can be used. no tank. shortest contest time for the flag and 10 – 15 second control time depending on how many are playing. this is fun because there are 2 teams trying to control one flag… easy to contest but takes a while to actually start to gain time.

EvilSteel says: PINK FURY

Either King of the hill or oddball with no weapons on map and needlers as starting weapon (and therefore only weapon). As guys die the needler count on the map fills up and very quickly you have fifteen guys duel wielding those pink pistols and they are all shooting at the oddballer or into the hill – very messy and fun!

eBladeSupaStock says: Paintball for Relic

The teams go to the middle base, then pick sides. one goes on that ramp that if you walk up you can fall down to the tellaporter. the other team goes up where there is sort of a roof. then the red team fires there weapons so the other team can see they are in position, then the blue team fires so they can see and the game begins. the teams scramble to find a bunker and try to get the other team out

Okay it is a hard one to make and get people to follow the rules, but I think it is worth it.

4 rounds
score to win 5 (unless there is less the 5 players)
round limit 8
no friendly fire
2 teams of 5
1 life a round
no shields
active cammo,extra damage/ resistience, motion sensor all off
sum score
team changing on
force even teams
no vehichals, wepons gernades on map
now for equipment only use for start and sec weaps plasma rifel/ brute, carbine
no gernades at all

Feeble Mongoose says: Freeze tag. Team Slayer, unlimited score to win.

First weapon: shotgun
Second weapon: plasma pistol
no other weapons on map
rest is all default.

One green guy uses shotgun, rest of the people are all yellow, they cannot shot or beat down the green guy at all, if you get killed by the green guy, you go brown, after you respawn you cannot move, the only thing you can do is shoot your plasma pistol to get attention. If you are yellow and find a brown guy, kill him in whatever way possible, when the brown guy respawns, they go yellow again, game ends after the 6 min. time limit or when everyone but the green guy is brown.

Matt Templeton says: also a few custom games. one is called 500.

It’s a free for all game, everyone has oversheilds. basically you all go run around the map and pick up plasma gernades, one guy is it while the rest huddle together farther away. the guy who is it chucks a plasma gernade towards the group and everyone else tries to get stuck by the gernade. who ever gets stuck is up next. another game type my buddies and i like to play when we are cooling off from a good nights playing is just tag. you get two teams of two with oversheilds and each team gets a warthog. one guy drives, one gets in the turret. you decide on one team to be “it” and they have to chase the other warthog around the map until they hit it.

the gunner cant shoot at them but can shoot in the direction they see them. works best if the turret is the machine gun, not the gauss incase of accidental shooting. anyway, once a car is tagged, its their turn to be it, and to give the other team time to get away the driver and gunner have to switch places. works best on headlong and relic. take it easy.

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acowleter said:

“You can quad-wield needlers, what you can do is pick two needlers up from blue base, and take ‘em over to red base. you can hold 3 needlers, one in your secondary, and 2 in your hands. you need 2 on the ground in front of you, and you crouch down, butt suck the ground and hold y. repeat this untill your holding all the needlers. to test it out, get someone to go get the overshield, aim at them, and pull the trigger for 2 seconds, and their gone.”

chaktawmonkeypaw said:

“on terminal, go for the parking garage, to where you can go left or right, go right, then crouch, then back track and go left. keep crouch walking and you can easily arm the bomb, or capture the flag.”

Leutenant Penguin said:

“you can play team slayer in any color you want. just change your color, so you can have yellow versus pink, or any thing else.”

[must… refrain… from… making… derogitory… statement… gasp!]

FoH Avalanche said

“im the one who bought those smgs, im trying to get this whole master chief get up for my school, i have the whole masterchief suite, but not the good one that has a shield and stuff, its kinda heavy to walk around in. i also have a battlerifle that shoots custom made blanks

a tip for sniping is, i sit on a map with grenades, and i throw grenades up into the air, and snipe them one after the other.

Thepwninator said:

“Hey i heard some of your immatations of sarge, i found that kind of interesting, and i have some imitations of an elite.”

[omg this is hilarious you should listen to it if you havnt already]

“I have learned that being an elite puts you at a disadvantage, because your head is easier to hit.”

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