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Considering the Dew XP promo going on, this would be cool to have…

(Sadly it’s just a Photoshop pic that I did…)

-Sal

Halo 4 Tips: Improving Your Play

primagames.com

Text from Prima:

No help when you’ve got the flag? Don’t be afraid to defend yourself. Further improve your multiplayer experience in War Games with these additional tactics and tips straight from the Major League Gaming Pros!

1. Jumping: 
This is very important when you’re entering fights or disengaging from them. Use rocks, crates, and other scenery to reach higher ground. This can help in all types of objective games to cut off routes, complete shortcuts, or run in a flag faster so you can score.

2. Capturing the Flag: 
If you’re holding power weapons and you’re by the enemy flag, then it is better to provide supporting fire, guard the flag, and let a teammate without such a great weapon run with the flag. You can’t drop the flag once you walk over it, so having rockets or a sniper rifle is useless. Instead, it’s simply smarter to slay and chaperone a teammate once they take the flag.

3. Oddball: If you’re in trouble during Oddball matches, and you know you’re about to be taken down while holding the ball, look out for any teammates near your position and throw them the ball. It is much better to keep it out of the other team’s hands.

4. King of the Hill:
It is wise to sometimes simply skip a hill if it will be changing soon and set up for the next one, or you may risk rushing aimlessly to a hill that’s too well defended and dying over and over again.

Try to control a point that’s close to where the next hill moves to, and set up there. Now when the hill moves, you’re in the location already and your opposition is likely to be farther away at the previous hill’s position and also in a weakened state. This allows you to accrue time easily and relatively safely.

When playing properly on a team, there should be only one player in the hill so the remaining teammates can cover the other angles to help keep the hill dweller alive. The only time two teammates should be on a hill is toward the end of a game when you need to keep the hill at all costs for the points. So, if one teammate dies in the hill, there’s a second to keep the time continuous.

5. Rushing: Never try to randomly run flags or rush an objective by charging in without help from your teammates.

6. Ordnance Discretion: 

When calling in Ordnance Drops it’s important to remember a few things. First, don’t always call in a drop as soon as you get one. Instead, wait for your current provisions to run dry, especially if they’re doing the trick (which they likely are, as you just got an option for a drop!) Second, call in drops inside enclosed areas. If you do it in the open, the drop will be deployed from above the map and will be loud and noticeable. Instead, head to an interior or a location with an overhang and the ordnance will discretely materialize instead of dropping. And finally, don’t always select a power weapon which is often a player’s first reaction. If you’ve got a sweet weapon, selecting a power-up can sometimes make it even sweeter. There’s nothing quite like using a SAW to cut down a handful of enemies only to be rewarded by an Overshield, allowing you to cut down the same enemies all over again almost immediately after.

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I went to Wal*Mart tonight and found these cases there. I got the cases of Mountain Dew for $6.98 each. The Doritos were on sale. I got the after Halloween price on them and was allowed to take the whole boxes rather than having to open them up and price each bag individually.

I’ll be entering in codes all night for these. That’s 48 bags of Doritos, 48 cans of soda, plus the two extra codes on the soda cases. 98 codes!!! Woot, Double XP!!!

I suggest when buying these you try to get a whole case of Doritos. You may just get a deal on them like I did.

-Sal

Okay, while I’m posting the ratings and some text from the reviewer, I am also including the link to their actual review.

BEWARE. Those links MAY have spoilers. So click at your own risk.

Here we go:

360.mmgn.com: Halo 4 succeeds where most shooters fail.  It remains true to its core experience made famous over five games, but it excels in actually making us care about the characters, be them good or evil.
What Halo 4 Got Right
Great campaign and story
Memorable Halo experience, new 343i flavour
Multiplayer is still great
Spartan Ops is brilliant co-op fun
What Halo 4 Got Wrong
Some new vehicles are a chore to control
Game sometimes holds your hand

www.polygon.com 9.5/10
Halo 4 gets what made Halo: Combat Evolved special. (Positive review)

IGN.com 9.8/10
Amazingly, Halo 4 is not only a success, but a bar-raising triumph for the entire first-person shooter genre. And just how new developer 343 Industries has done it will surprise, delight, and excite you.

G4tv: 4.5/5
When gamers and games media alike turn to look back over the releases of 2012, there’s one word that you’ll see frequently associated with 343 Industries’ Halo 4: “safe.”  (Semi-negative review)

insidegamingdaily.com 10/10 with a “Gold Award”
The overall question persists: do we need another Halo trilogy? The answer to that is a surprising no, for you, the general public that’s looking for nothing more than a minor multiplayer distraction. But from one dedicated Halo fan to those looking for an evolution in story, creation, and online play, yes, we freakin’ do. It feels good to finally say after many years that Halo is back

joystiq.com 5/5
Halo 4 is Halo – a surprisingly successful, mandatory step for 343 Industries. But the game strives for more than competence, giving it a forceful march and a decadent show of strength. Our doubt and questioning of Halo’s continued existence has, in some small way, helped deliver one of the best games in the series and one of the finest shooters in years. Of course, if we want to use this tactic for the next one we’d better start now.

destructoid.com: 10/10
At its core, everything still feels like a Halo game. While there are new some new elements that change the gameplay a little, that weight of playing as a super soldier is well balanced between the sense of speed and strength in the multiplayer. 343 Industries have done a remarkable job at continuing the Halo legacy.

www2.britxbox.co.uk: 10/10
Halo 4 succeeds in every possible way. This is both the Halo you remember, and the game you’ve always wanted.

kotaku.com: (no rating given other than a “YES” to play it)
343’s take on the franchise humanized what was up until now mainly just a really fun, well-made series of games.

popcultureblog.dallasnews.com (positive review-no rating given)
343 Industries has done something amazing. They’ve put more effort into the storytelling – humanizing the Master Chief and making more connections to those books we really nerdy gamers read – changed the setting, given us new, interesting enemies to fight and fun weapons to play with …In other words, they’ve made me excited about Halo again

penny-arcade.com: (no rating given)
If you were curious about 343’s ability to pull this off, to make Halo 4 as good as Bungie’s games, here’s your answer: Halo 4 is not as good as Reach or Halo 3. It’s better.

xboxworld.com.au: 94/100
It’s on point, true to form and keeps you enthralled. Welcome back, Halo. It’s been a long, long five years.

Well if that isn’t enough to convince you that Halo 4 is awesome…

I’ll have my review when the game comes out. But I’ll forgive you if you don’t read it as you’ll likely be knee deep into playing it too…

-Sal (HFFL)