Watch this extremely short video. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Done? Ok, now leave a sarcastic comment about how I just wasted 19 seconds of your life. After you’re done doing that watch the video again, this time paying close attention to which team is arming the bomb and which team actually scores. At this point I would normally offer you a brilliant pearl of wisdom but I got nothin’. Maybe you do?
Posted by Naepa34 on June 27, 2009 at 4:42 am
How does someone lag that bad? How does that even happen?
Posted by Omnicent on June 27, 2009 at 4:53 am
Wait. . . What?
That. . . That’s got me confused.
Posted by xX Prime x on June 27, 2009 at 4:58 am
That must be the worst lag I’ve ever seen.
How’s that even possible?
Posted by Someone on June 27, 2009 at 5:12 am
I don’t understand
Posted by Lincoln on June 27, 2009 at 5:46 am
Blue team armed the bomb, and when it blew up Red team got the point.
Posted by Sickndehed on June 27, 2009 at 9:42 am
Where does it show that blue team got the bomb? I saw red team score… AND THEN bomb respawned in the center and blue team picked it up. Am I watching this vid wrong? It’s possible. Someone please explain. lol
Posted by bs angel on June 27, 2009 at 11:56 am
Watch the player indicators, plus the base you are looking at is red base so the team scoring is actually blue team.
Posted by Zwooosh on June 27, 2009 at 5:57 am
OMG Worst Halo Fail Ever :P
Posted by Someone on June 27, 2009 at 6:12 am
Oh, now I get it!
Posted by Mr. Angel on June 27, 2009 at 8:35 am
Happy Birthday my love!!!
From your fictional Husband :)
Posted by the Light Show on June 27, 2009 at 9:06 am
isn’t that way it’s supposed to happen?
Posted by Apollo Running on June 27, 2009 at 10:15 am
Either you have mastered the art of sarcasm, and for that I would applaud you, or you really aren’t the Halo player I thought you were, and for that I would shed a tear/facepalm.
Posted by xX Prime x on June 27, 2009 at 11:05 am
:/ are you being sarcastic?
Posted by WaywardFerret on June 30, 2009 at 12:03 am
Looks like its time for someone to brush up on the rules of halo. Or actually, the rules of any ball-based sport would suffice. (with one possible exception)
Posted by Cake on June 27, 2009 at 11:07 am
Can anyone tell me were it says that blue arms the bomb?
If blue would arm the bomb wouldnt the red base blow up?
Posted by bs angel on June 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm
The base you are looking at is red base. The map has distinctive characteristics that make that clear. The bomb counts all the way down to one then respawns in the middle. If Red team would have disarmed it, it would have stayed at the base and then become available to pick up.
Posted by Sickndehed on June 27, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Oh snap! I see it now. The bomb starts counting down at red base like :10 into the clip.
Posted by FishType1 on June 27, 2009 at 11:43 am
When I was playing Grifball once with friends in matchmaking, there was really bad lag (REALLY BAD).
Anyway, one of us armed the bomb then the other team got the point.
It didnt matter anyway because that was their only point all of the whole game.
Posted by Raptorian on June 27, 2009 at 11:44 am
Right, here are three possibilities.
1) There is shenanigans going on and this is a custom game, where the scoring has been modified, however I do not know for sure if you can engineer a gametype to work like that.
2) Different shenanigans involving tampering. Likelyhood unknown but not impossible.
3) Assault is more broken than I thought. One Grifball DXP weekend a few months back; I had the bomb, and got pummeled by a Hammer just as the bomb hit the pad (got the bomb armed message), but the gravity blast sent the bomb flying off the bad to explode in the corner, denying us a point. In a different game, I saw someone make a touchdown, bomb go off, but no point awarded, forcing us to make another run.
A shame Halo 3 is not as well engineered (in some cases) then its predecessors.
Posted by nixproto (Drake) on June 27, 2009 at 12:42 pm
LOL Bungie and The Guardians are screwing with Blue team. The Guardians are the WORST. Wait- Why do I feel like the banhammer is about to hit me? Hmm…
Posted by Dylan on June 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm
That…Sucks
Posted by HellCat on June 27, 2009 at 1:25 pm
WHY BLUE TEAM??? i love them. Suck it red you hackin’ bastards. Lag=broken game
Posted by LAZR Blade 14 on June 27, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I need to sit down for a while.
This… this is confusing.
Posted by Sean C84 on June 27, 2009 at 7:56 pm
It might have been a custom game, you can set that up in the scoring to get negative points, but this isn’t really the same is it?
In any case, we’re watching from blue guy’s POV, and the bomb is highlighted in blue, meaning his team was in ‘possession’ so to speak. That’s how you can tell blue team armed it.
Posted by S5 Unit on June 28, 2009 at 6:46 am
and Bungie’s teamism roots are revealed
Posted by Morpheus on June 28, 2009 at 8:31 am
I was probably the one who armed that bomb.
Posted by Coxyy on June 28, 2009 at 1:43 pm
This isn’t faked, this is in matchmaking and the reds actually go on to win the game 1 to 0.
Here is the game – http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=707582817
Thats okay (For the thanks you will give me in advance)
(:
Posted by Pete VenkmanPHD on June 29, 2009 at 6:41 am
This is actually my vid, and you are watching from my point of view. The vid is in my Fileshare if you want to download it and watch from different angles. It was matchmaking, and we did arm the bomb, the halo gods just didn’t see it fit that we score…we must have angered them, lol.
Posted by Pete VenkmanPHD on June 29, 2009 at 8:41 am
Sorry, I forgot the name of the vid in my fileshare. It’s “Cheater Cheater.”