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Re: Twin bridges megabattle
Posted By: Ace Heart <super7reak@hotmail.com>	Date: 11/16/06 9:27 a.m.
In Response To: Twin bridges megabattle (Rockslider) : If you love hectic battling and glorious scenes of carnage, here's something : that should rock your cyborg world. Bad Cyborg presents a fourth : megabattle in H1, and it's the biggest ding-dong yet. The twin bridges : megabattle takes place in the snowfield beneath the twin bridges in : AOTCR. You can get up to 87 enemies there, and up to 18 Marines! : The battle is set up by progressing a spiral path megabattle situation. The : idea is to get all the enemy heading down the spiral path to the underpass : and tempt them through to the twin bridges area, to join enemies triggered : there. After that, you can head on through in a Banshee to get a battle : start checkpoint, convenient for replaying the battle again and again. : Marines can be ready and waiting in a remote part of the battlefield, : initially cooped up in a pen you built to keep them there. When you land, : a horde of enemy charges your way, and pretty soon all hell is breaking : loose. Heh. I'm on this level today. I'll try it out. Ty : I've actually known about this battle since January, but it's only recently : that I've got around to exploring the whole thing in depth and getting : Marines into it, which really brings it alive. You'll find all the : details at the site along with some battle plans to try, including a : fiendish Platform ambush that should really give the covies a bad day. : Big-squad battling : Without a doubt, battling alongside a large squad is the highlight of this : megabattle, and for me it's a major highlight of the game itself. The : close-quarter combat is simply fantastic and the scenes of carnage and : mayhem are like nothing I've seen before. The spiral path megabattle was : hectic enough, but this takes things to a whole new level, thanks in no : small measure to the wide open spaces that let the enemy and Marines move : around so freely, and that give you so much potential for setting up : different encounters. : Part of the difference is that in large numbers, standard (non-sniper) : Marines become surprisingly effective. Their individually feeble efforts : mount up to quite a hail of fire, which I think causes enemies to spend : more time dodging around and getting flustered, thereby reducing the : amount of return fire. It's very much a case of the whole being more than : the sum of its parts. On Heroic, a squad of four standard Marines : contributes little more than atmosphere and distraction, and you'd barely : trust them to take care of a Grunt with a paper bag stuck on his head. Yet : a squad of eight is actually a force to be reckoned with, and by the time : you get to twelve, things are really cooking! It's a radically different : battle experience from normal. : I've been fighting alongside ten to sixteen bozos lately, and the combat has : been truly stunning. Just listen to what some of the boys had to say after : my Xbox controller cooled down: Mendoza: "Man, that was some covie : banquet. I lost count how many dirtbags I fried." : Jenkins: "Woo-hoo! One-zip to the humans!" : Fisher: "Damn but this is one helluva fun snow resort. Can we come again : next year Sarge?" : Maloney: "Hold on a minute, I just fired off a couple hundred needles : and the dang thing's still got lots o' whacky pink ammo left! Somethin' : screwy here..." : Padowski: "Hey, who needs gloves to keep your hands warm when you've got : a toasty plasma rifle like this? Those ugly suckers just kept on : comin'!" : Sergeant Johnson: "Uhh! Bitch!" : Well put Sarge, I think that sums it up nicely.

Message Index

Twin bridges megabattle	Rockslider	11/16/06 9:03 a.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Ace Heart	11/16/06 9:27 a.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Simpsons Rule	11/16/06 9:35 a.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Captain Spark	11/16/06 10:01 a.m.
Will this be in Halo 3?	scarab	11/16/06 10:28 a.m.
Re: Will this be in Halo 3?	Captain Spark	11/16/06 10:35 a.m.
Re: Will this be in Halo 3?	scarab	11/16/06 10:45 a.m.
Re: Will this be in Halo 3?	The More Deluded	11/16/06 11:05 a.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Rockslider	11/16/06 3:41 p.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Captain Spark	11/16/06 5:21 p.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Rockslider	11/16/06 3:44 p.m.
Re: Twin bridges megabattle	Owm	11/18/06 3:01 a.m.
Bogus Marine lines	Rockslider	11/18/06 6:24 a.m.
Re: Bogus Marine lines	Owm	11/19/06 2:54 a.m.
Re: Bogus Marine lines	Rockslider	11/20/06 4:13 p.m.
Unseen Marines: mystery solved	Rockslider	11/18/06 6:12 a.m.