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[water10]

[drseuss90]

ebay? Thats where I saw it for around that much

[TridenT]

My local GameCrazy has it for between $50 and $60.

[Clayfoot]

[Eclipse]

I am home by 5:30 and I typically hop on until 6pm then I cook some dinner..mmmm...

I'm usually back on by 6:30-7ish

OH! Here's an example of the level of play we could strive for. From The Fall of Reach pages 71-73

Mendez spoke again into the microphone, and his voice echoed off the cavern walls: "Start the drill."

Sixty seconds ticked by. Nothing happened. One hundred twenty seconds. "Where are the Spartans?" Dr. Halsey asked.

"They're here," Mendez replied. Dr. Halsey caught a glimpse of motion in the dark: a shadow against shadows, a familiar silhouetter.

"Kelly?" she whispered.

The trainers turned and fired at the shadow, but it moved with almost supernatural quickness. Even the self-targeting systems couldn't track it.

From above, a man free-rappelled down from the girders and gantries overhead. The newcomer landed behind one of the perimeter guards, quiet as a cat. He punched the guard's armor twice, denting the heavy plates, then dropped low and swept the target's legs out from under him. The guard sprawled on the ground.

The Spartan attached his rappelling line to the trainer. A moment later the writhing guard shot upward, into the darkness. Two other guards turned to attack.

The Spartan dodged, rolled, and melted into the shadows.

Dr. Halsey realized the trainer's exoskeleton wasn't being pulled up, --it was being used as a counterweight.

Two more Spartans, dangling from the other end of that rope, dropped unnoticed into the center of the bunker. Dr. Halsey immediatley recognized one of them, although he was dressed entirely in black, save his open eye slits--Number 117. John.

John landed, braced, and kicked one guard. The man landed in a heap...eight meters away.

The other Spartan jumped off the bunker; he flipped end over end, evading the stun rounds that filled the air. He threw himself at the farthest guard and they skidded together into the shadows. The guard's gun strobed once, then it was dark again.

On top of the bunker, John was a blur of slashing motions. A second guard's exosuit erupted in a fountain of hydraulic fluid and then collapsed under the armor's weight.

The last guard on the bunker turned to fire at John. Halsey gripped the edge of her chair. "He's at point blank range! Even stun rounds can kill at that distance!"

As the guard's gun fired, John sidestepped. The stun rounds slashed through the air, a clean miss. John grabbed the weapon's armature-twisted-and with a screech of stressed metal, wrenched it free of the exoskeleton. He fired directly into the man's chest and sent him tumbling off the bunker.

The remaining quartet of perimeter guards turned and sprayed the area with supression fire.

A heartbeat later the lights went out.

Mendez cursed and keyed the mike. "Backups. Hit the backup lights now!"

A dozen amber flood lights flickered to life.

Not a Spartan was in sight, but the nine trainers were either unconscious or lay immobile in inert battle armor.

The red flag was gone.

Short of cutting lights off, rappelling, flipping, rolling and a variety of other stuff, we can work like this.

I just love that part of the story anyway...

[angelo]

[Clayfoot]

[thunderclap8]

so i just signed into xbox live and it tells me i'm not a member of any clan anymore.... WTF!

Can someone re-invite me to SPDR Ninjas? gamertag: Thunderclap 8
(note the space in it)

[angelo]

[KwayZeeyT]

I picked up this at my local EBGames, and just used the 2 month preview that came with Halo 2.

Mad Catz LiveCon Xbox Controller

I needed a second controller anyway, and the price of the separate communicator and headset was like $20. This has the communicator built in with a mute button right on the controller.

The controller also came with a 2 month free preview.

[water10]

This controller is the same concept of the Phoenix I'm using. Deciding which one is uglier, now that's a tough call!

[KwayZeeyT]

[LordSaryon]

[Dasro_Kast]

[Lojack]

Yeah angelo, that was me commenting on killing efficiency. Just what you want in a sniper! And I don't think you picked on krystyn, after all you seemed to enjoy gunning for HitsHerMark! Shame that marathon CTF game didn't get logged, I would have loved to see the stat breakdown for that one.

I can't recommend the Plantronics headset enough, very comfortable, even after many hours of play.

And while I wasn't the bestest out last night, I felt I did fairly well for my first big time Live outing, and hopefully, will just get better with more gatherings.


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