Podtacular Show Notes

Podtacular Update Episode 69
for the week of June 26th, 2006

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, Expanded Flame and A Oompa Loompah)

Update Show (explain)

Podtacular and Halo News

  1. graphic novel stuff
  2. “Jub-Jub” lockout style map
  3. Assault Rifle is in fact in the early builds and is Frankie’s favorite weapon. It may or may not be in the final build but it’s looking good now.
  4. ladders in multiplayer: yes or no?

Fight Night is back! This is basically a big beat down tournament.

Check out the forum thread for more details and sign-ups.

NinjaOnFire has recently mentioned his view on weapon glitches, calling
them a form of cheating. He has yet to mention as to whether or not
singing “Eye Of The Tiger” to pump your teammates up is a form of
cheating.

The fine people at Red Vs Blue are currently talking about starting a
tournament in which major Halo related sites will participate. Podtacular
will be joining this tournament. In related news, BrentGamer will attempt
to pick up the girl that does the voice of “Tex” on Red Vs Blue in his
Warthog.

In Matchmaking news, Team SWAT has become the fastest growing playlist on
Halo 2. Apparently, killing an enemy from across the map with a single
Magnum shot entertains people more than we could ever possibly imagine.

Oh, and by the way, this is Episode 69 of Podtacular. Get your “69” jokes
out of your system while you can.

Hey podtacular i would like to make sure you guys know about Halo Live
Wire’s new web site. It is a brand new site powered by e107 and built by
Paradox460 it also has a fast forums and a great chatbox. I hope all of
you join up right now we only have 8 members so we could use some more
faces. check it out at www.test.halolivewire.com

Hey everyone in podtacular land! Just wanted to remind everyone that
Samanator and I are putting on a podtacular allnighter on July 21st. Check
out the General Discussions topic in the forums to learn more and sign up.
We are going to stay up for at least 12 hours playing custom gametypes and
MLG gametypes, and the more the better!
Thats all i wanted to say,
peace!

Also if you need caffine drinks to stay awake im sure that foo mo will
gladly pay for and ship them to your house. just make sure you send him a
private message :) .

Hey Everyone, this Dialpex, the Season Director. I just wanted to let you
all know that we’re having a blast this season. With several teams playing
crazy matches every week. We, at the podtacular community want you to come
and join us and cheer for your team in this amazing championship we have
going on. The season has been a sucess so far and many of the compliments
that we have received i would like to send them right back at the players
and teams that help to make this a great tournament. Make sure to visit
the standings for the season at the link on your left side of the
podtacular.com home page, and check out who’s the best team of the week,
what went on during that week, who pwned and who got pwned, how many kills
or deaths does your team have? who has the most points among many other
updates. Again, come and check us out at podtacular.com where you will find the
best season in any Halo related communities. Podtacular your Unofficial
Halo Universe Podcast.

hey guys did you hear about the mlg team who got paid 1 mil. great now
wheres my cut?!

I have a pretty good Halo 3 site that I made with lots of good info and
other cool stuff. It’s www.halo3news.moonfruit.com. I think people
will enjoy it.

Yo I’m a big fan, just here to do a bit of self advertisment for my new
Machinama website at z7.invisionfree.com/Twilight_Brigade_MP We have our
first episode of my first series (A Tale of two Hunters) up right now and
the second is on its way. Keep doing the great podcasts and keep up the
goofy accents, put lay off the Arnold stuff, thats my turf, I started the
whole “DO IT NOW” thing.

uh, i think arnold invented that. actually i think JVB invented it and arnold copied him.

Hi guys, love the podcast. After hearing you talk about the R-X-Y-Y thing
with the BR the other day, I tried it out – that’s so cool :) And I too
am stuck on Legendary in the first Hangar bay :)

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I have a new version of my Halo
Screen Saver available at http://www.haloscreensaver.com/ that you might
want to mention in your web resources section of the show. You might have
seen it mentioned on HBO and Bungie.net, but in brief it allows you to play
QuickTime, MPEG, and WMV movies as a screen saver. You can set up a
playlist, so you can watch all the episodes of Podtacular TV one after
another if you want ;) Or a season of Red vs Blue, or all the Halo and
Halo 2 cutscenes, or just the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer over and over :)
The screen saver only works in Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and full
details are available at http://www.haloscreensaver.com/.

Hey Podtacular! This is Supergamer23 and I have a you know you are playing
too much Halo 2 when… A few months ago I found a site that has ways to
keep your sanity while playing Halo 2. Its basically the same thing. The
site is called Geezer Gamers. Here is the link: geezergamers.com

a great website is haloimpulse.com,especially if your in to halo pc,so many
premade maps you can downloads.

bungie news? Well, bungie’s been rockin the humpday challenges with our buddies at halo planet and more recently Xbox MVP group. No new news about Halo 3 recently. They also had some more waaambulance to tell us about with my favorite excuse: “my 7-year-old son modded my xbox and modded in halo 2 matchmaking.” Yeah, right.

Also we have a new Halo-related podcast Halowiki.net! This site is the ultimate encyclopedia for Halo tactics and info and the podcast talks about the community. Link in the show notes. http://h2wiki.halowiki.net/wiki/WikiRiot/003

Campaign Tips and Glitching Tips

During your podcast one of you brought up the fact that the second
loading bay seems impossible to beat. I have a stratedgy that only works
on co-op. You need a sword and a battle rifle on someone. The person with
the battle rifle can come around the first corner and take out the turrets
in two shots. The person with the sword should find it easy to go around
where the elites come from if you have the second person disctract them.
There are 3 boxes that the sword man can hide behind and wait for the next
wave to come. A simple grenade gets all of the elites to face away from the
boxes and allow the sword to assasinate at least 3 with no harm done. This
works on legendary but requires perfect execution. Sorry I have no tips
for single player.

This Tip is a extremely hard to perform campain tip. And since we all know
that by playing XBL you become a much better playing than a person that
only plays campain. I decided to give a extremely hardcore tip for XBL
players that play campain. However this tip is aimed only at people that
are levels 35 and above on Xbl. Good Luck guys.

Here it is: – Turn the video game on and at the loading screen where you
see the logo “Halo 2” tap the “A” button quickly twice. That should make a
main menu pop out in the screen with a option for Campain. Quickly move the
cursor over “Campain” and press “A” again. This should now bring you into
the game campaing mode. If you didn’t get it down, please don’t get discouradged. It’s a hard tip
to perform and like i said it’s only aimed at players of level 35 and
above.
Good Luck everyone.

So, I haven’t heard of anyone else finding this, and someone may be able
to perfect it, but if you look up, jump, and hit melee right at the peak
of the jump, SOMETIMES your character will remain in the air. I haven’t
been able to do this in the open, meaning, you must be able to melee a
ceiling to do it. I hope you guys are able to replicate this and maybe
someone can figure it out better.
A practical use of this is the fact that you are able to jump again once
floating in the air, thus allowing you to get to higher places. However,
as soon as you try to walk you will fall (but you can look around, fire,
throw grenades, melee, etc.)

This is pretty old news… but it’s a glitch.

I was listening to Kimo’s glitch on episode 60 when he said that you could
go behind the bushes on delta halo and I decided to try it out. I got on
top of the highest possible point in Delta Halo. Here are some pictures, I
don’t have a capture card, and so I took these with my digital camera.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7544/deltahalotoplookdown0ex.jpg

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/400/deltahalolake4rx.jpg

The second one is the lake that as soon as you spawn if you turn around,
you will see it.

Ok, this isn’t actually a champagne tip, but a weird easter egg. First,
to start off, grab the sputnik skull in Quarintine Zone on Legendary.
After, load up delta halo on easy and go through the level until you reach
the part where you have to fight the honor guards. Kill all of the enemies
outside, then follow down to the door. Don’t go throught but instead jump
right onto the ledge. Throw a stickie at your feet and jump up to a
slanted ledge to the left of you. Follow it 3/4 down then face the wall,
throw another stickie at your feet and jump. You should have landed on top
of the structure. You then should see part of regret right in front of you
(the level) jump down and jump on top of the boxes to a ledge, then make
right towards bushes and jump down to where the hunters are supposed to be
when the level loads (Regret) and go to the place where the lift takes you
across the water. Zoom in and you should see a switch, a normal stickie
won’t do it…...Use a rocket and stickie to fly over and hit the switch.

According to a video in Raven's post, it is said that if you activate
skulls in a certain order, it activates a switch in the big room in high
charity. Flabbergasting phooey or real stuff????

You know you play too much Halo 2 if…

  1. you alredy have taken the train to Kansas City, Missuri (cheapest gas in
    the country)((USA))to buy your gas to use for your power generator.
  2. you have packed all of your stuff for you to use when you sit outside
    your Best Buy/Circuit City/gamestop/your local game selling store.
  3. you have filled out job applications for all your local game selling
    stores hopig they sell a few HALO 3s to the workers insted of the people
    waiting inline outside (try it! the best buy I was at did it for xbox
    360,I hate best buy now)((is that even allowed))!!! ill kill those Best
    Buy guys if they do that again with my kool new master chief .
  4. you baught a fold up big screen HDTV(do they even have those) so you
    can fit it into your car so when you get to the launch line you can play
    your xbox 360in line.
  5. you placeD a season recording for e3 ‘06 on your TIVO/DVR/other
    recording things.
  1. u go areund chanting H3! H3! H3!
  2. you have watched the e3 video more than 15 times combing through it for
    secrets lile HAY theis different gloves!!

keep up the good work im still trying to get an xbox and live soon

Ok foo and company, You’ll have to forgive my n00bishness, this actually happened to me.

I was over at a friend’s house, when I was walking down his stairs and I saw a ledge with a plant on top of it. The first thing I though of was Ivory Tower and then I thought OUT LOUD, “If I could just crouch-jump up there, I could sleep there untill your sister comes down and assinate her.”

Then my Pal (Flaming Pickle) looked at me knida wierd like and…well, you can guess….Also, I have been looking for a motion tracker when rounding corners…So if I’m not playing Halo for a week or so…It’s because I’v seriously been playing WAY TOO MUCH HALO!

Hey Guys, U know you play too much Halo 2 when your mom hands you the
mashed potatoes and you see in your left eye: HOLD X TO TAKE MASHED
POTATOES.

you know you think about halo 3 too much when…you write your gamertag on
your math test instead of your actual name, you write down “halo 3” for
every answer, you claim the teacher modded the test and swear you will get
back at her on xbox live

You know you play too much Halo 2 when…
  1. You have a targeting reticule burnt into your eyeballs.
  2. When you play hide and go seek with your friends in RL, and yell at them for camping.
  3. You actually play a game of territories.
  4. You lose a game of dodgeball in PE and claim the other team was modding.
  5. You go play Halo 1, and wonder where the auto-aim went.
  6. When you would gladly exchange your Benz for a worthog.
  7. Backwash doesn’t mean sipping and putting it back in the cup.

you know you’ve been playin too much halo2 when you throw a grenade on the
ground and jump over as it goes off and try to grenade jump from one
building to another

you know your thinking about halo 3 too much when you start camping out now, and when the cops come by, you use the convanents active camo and shoot them with the assault rifle.

  1. When your looking at your stupid Gym teacher and you’re recticule turns
    red!
  2. When your recticule turns red while looking at your Gym teacher and you
    throw a sticky at him!
  3. When your Gym teacher starts shouting at you for throwing that baseball at
    him you beat him down with your sword!
  4. When two cops come to arrest you because you killed him with your baseball
    bat you beat THEM down and scream !!
  5. When the Army come and start shooting at you for killing your Gym teacher
    and two cops you shout !!END THE GAME, END THE GAME!! while trying to
    bring up the menu and end the game!
  6. When you DO ACTUALLY END THE GAME and your in the post-game lobby somehow
    you know to put DOWN THE CONTROLLER AND STOP PLAYING HALO!!!

You no you play to much Halo 2 when a nerd try’s to talk to you at school
but you say, I dident send you a party invite noob.

You know you play to much Halo 2 when somebody makes a three-point shot on
you and you say “you have host”

your sitting in history and learning about the vietname war and you
say they won because they used standby

ok the other night i was at my friends house at a LAN

i fell asleep (boo) and continued to talk trash to everyone else in my
sleep (or atleast thats what my friend said) he said i was like, dont make
me get up and pwn you, N00b, I would whoop u at halo 2

so ya maybe i play to much…

You know you play too much Halo 2 when you walk to school, and when the
people are putting the flag up, you grab it from them and run back home,
calling them n00bs.

You know you play too much Halo 2 when after every class, you hear your
teacher say in a loud voice, “ROUND OVER”.

You know you play too much Halo 2 online when you go around in real life
pretending to shoot people at the mall and yelling out the well-known
sequence as loud as you can : “Double Kill!, Triple Kill!, Killtacular!,
Kill Frenzy!, Killtrocity!, KILIMANJARO!, KILIMANJARO!, etc.”

You know you play to much halo 2 when you play a sport and you think the
opposing team is the covenant and you start to attack them with the ball

you know you play too much Halo when there is an awkward silence, you think
you are being standbyed

You know you play too much halo 2 when you hear someone say that there’s a
fight tonight on H.B.O. You go on your computer to halo.bungie.org and
expect to find a live feed of 2 guys punchimg eachother in the middle of
sanctuary.

You know you like Arnold Schwarzenegger too much if….every other thing
you say is: “get to the chopper”

You know you don’t play enough halo 2 and when your scrolling through the
colors and find sage you say ” HE’S A WIZARD”

You know you’ve not been playing enough halo 2 when your at a friends house
watching him play halo 2. He tells you he is going to use the BR, tthen you
respond my saying,”Your going to use the BathRoom? You just went.” (get it
br=/B/ath/R/oom)

You know you take the game and your rank too seriously when you mod or
stand by in Team SWAT, which has happened to me.

You have a box full of Xbox controllers next to you when you play Halo 2,
to replace the ones you will end up throwing when you lose.

U know u play a noob when u use the B X R combo on the noobs and
tell yell “How is he doing that! He must be a moder!”

  1. when the olny joy stick u jiggle is attached to the controler
  2. when you r playn fn3, uno, T.H.A.W., G.R.A.W,or any other game and ur
    gamertag has something to do with halo in it.
  3. when you r playing champaign LOL
  4. when u dont play other fps’s cause they dont have the master chief in them
  5. when for an art project u make an exact full scale replica of da chief
  6. when halo 2 is the olny game u have played on ur 360
  7. when u dont go to school because u tell ur mom u failed to load the map
  8. wen u use any other variation of owned like my favriot pwnyed (ponyed)
  9. when u accualy dress up as the macter chief for halo-ween (lol)
  10. when u go on bungie.net

First of all before this is read, if JVB is going to be on the show I ask
that he read my submissions personally because he has an incredibly sexy
voice

You know you’ve been playing too much Halo 2 when…

  1. You wake the next morning and you find a bunch of skulls on your floor and
    a giant clock around your neck
  1. When you try to master the throwing animation of grenades (like I have). I
    work in the shoe department at my store and when I find the paper from the
    shoe boxes, I pretend that they are stickies and I jump and throw them.
  1. you know you play to much halo when you can remember the name of every map
    in the game.
  2. you know you play to much halo when your playing soccer you think ‘press X
    to kick ball’ when the ball gets near you.
  3. you know you play to much halo when you imitate a grunts voice, MC’s
    voice, Sarge’s voice, and arnold’s voice all day long…
  4. you know you dont play enough halo when you dont know what MLG stands for,
  5. you didnt now banshees were usable, and you try to zoom in with the SMG

you know you’ve been playing to much halo when you get a seperate power
bill for Halo 2 in the mail

you know you been playing halo2 2 too much when your in the army with a
assualt rifle and you say,Where’s the plasma pistol?then the captain hands
u one and your like WTF

You know your taking the game to seriously when you lose in Team Training
and get so pissed off you throw your controller against a wall and beat
down your sister

Wrap up

Shoutouts