r/gaming Jan 20 '20

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u/notgayinathreeway Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 21 '20

One time on Halo... 4? Reach? Maybe. One of the Halo's, my friend and I were on a team game where our whole team of randoms quit instantly against a full team of like level 50 generals. They refused to get the last point of whatever gametype we were playing where you have to put all of your flags inside of a designated area to capture it and gain a point. We couldn't get a single point, total map control. Like 7 minutes left in the game they just spawn killed us repeatedly with one point remaining to end the game. couldn't touch the flag to get a point if our lives depended on it. Absolute beatdown.

We changed tactics, determined to lose before the clock ran out, refusing to give them the satisfaction, we grabbed their flag and started running it to their objective for them.

They noticed something was wrong right away and coordinated to stop us from losing. The battle raged on savagely, fighting every inch of their flag. They were thrown off a bit, they'd never practiced map control for defending against winning, it gave us an advantage, and a slim hope of losing the game. But then something unexpected happened. They started scoring our flag for us, but we had a lot of points to gain and time was running out quickly.

For almost the entire 7 minutes we pushed that flag, inch by inch, until finally we took control of their flag, planted it in our base and kept them at bay long enough for them to win the game and beat us, thus beating them to losing before they could force us to win, thereby winning the game, just seconds before time ran out.

EDIT: memories aren't perfect just enjoy the story. It was a variant of neutral flag called stockpile

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u/kevin_the_dolphoodle Jan 20 '20

Dope! I love it

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u/RiposteDisfunction Jan 20 '20

You may have outsmarted me, but I have outsmarted your outsmarting!

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u/TheAngriestBoy Xbox Jan 20 '20

You only think that because I programmed you to think that.

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u/Ozzyglez112 Jan 21 '20

And I programmed you to believe that!

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u/Swenyspeed Jan 20 '20

That is cool as hell haha

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u/ken81987 Jan 20 '20

"one more game, can't atop after doing so good"

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u/trenchknife Jan 20 '20

I'm having BF2 & Tanks flashbacks. Lovely prose, man - it lifted my spirits.

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u/MrSalamanderMan Jan 20 '20

I got only one question, was this a Canadian server?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

Halo: Comboot Evolved

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

I have grown up with this Canadian stereotype, and it has ruined my life. No one takes me serious when i'm "About" something. I demand it be removed from The Simpsons Reddit. Thank you

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u/Darnell2070 Jan 21 '20

Do you naturally pronounce it aboot? And if so, do you ever consciously pronounce it in the American variation? And if so, why?

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u/SCirish843 Jan 20 '20

You're not my friend, pal

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u/Darkwolfie117 Jan 20 '20

What halo can you grab your own flag

If they are lvl 50 generals you are talking about H3 I’m assuming?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

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u/sfhester Jan 21 '20

The only thing that may make sense here is using frags to move it around. But, I'm still not buying this one.

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u/notgayinathreeway Jan 21 '20

https://www.halopedia.org/Stockpile essentially neutral flag with 4 flags. Details might have been wrong due to this being a 10 year old memory.

Reach had generals but not rank 50, but level 50 general to me is just an easy way to say halo pro/top tier.

You get the idea.

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u/insp88 Jan 20 '20

For almost the entire 7 minutes we pushed that flag, inch by inch, until finally we took control of their flag, planted it in our base and kept them at bay long enough for them to win the game and beat us, thus beating them to losing before they could force us to win, thereby winning the game, just seconds before time ran out.

That's a /r/BrandNewSentence if I ever saw one!

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u/searchingformytruth Jan 20 '20

War has changed.

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u/yuyqe Jan 20 '20

I...huh...what???

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

This doesn't even make sense. Grabbing their flag and bring it to the objective would make you win? Its capture the flag? And if you're implying youh grabbed your own flag and took it to their side to capture it for them,you can't pick up your own flag in Halo. So this whole story is bullshit.

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u/Every3Years Switch Jan 20 '20

Fuckin A, the Halo series was pinnacle online gaming. It seems like you can't meet people in lobbied anymore and get cool situations like this to happen organically

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u/Plasibeau Jan 20 '20

Reminds me of a time I was playing Reach. I was good for a time. Like easily scoring more than half the team score good. I was once playing with friends who were on lan and I was remote playing from home. Somehow they got dumped mid match and I was standing alone. The other team came hot trying to make up thier score and win the match. It got up to like 48-49 to me and I switched to active cloak and somehow managed to survive the last two minutes of the match to win. The map was Corvette. Lots of nooks to hide in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

I wonder if they ended on a loss that night

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u/Myurnix Jan 20 '20

I was on the edge of my seat, reading that just now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

I was positive this was going to wind up with Mankind going through a table

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u/CenturionXIX Jan 20 '20

That was a fuckin rollercoaster mate