Kevin's Watch

The Somberlain wrote:I've been playing a fair bit of Halo since Christmas. Though I think I kind of raced through it, and now all of a sudden I'm stuck. I hate those Flood guys because they take loads of ammo to kill, and don't drop any.

Happened to me too. If you have any advice once you get through it, let me know.

The Leper Fairy wrote:

The Somberlain wrote:I've been playing a fair bit of Halo since Christmas. Though I think I kind of raced through it, and now all of a sudden I'm stuck. I hate those Flood guys because they take loads of ammo to kill, and don't drop any.

Happened to me too. If you have any advice once you get through it, let me know.

You've probably worked it out already, but human weapons are best against Flood (whereas Covenant weapons are best against Covenant). Shotgun is best for the big ones. Use the pistol for the little pod things - they only take one shot each.

Warmark wrote:

Encryptic wrote:Bought "Tales of Symphonia" for GameCube yesterday, but haven't got a chance to play it yet. Looking forward to it, though.

Havent got it myself, although a friend told me its amazing.

Played it briefly last night. Seems pretty good, but I need to read the manual again and get used to the controls, especially in the battle sequences. It probably didn't help that I was rather intoxicated at the time, though.

This week, I have been mostly playing Caesar 3.

Not much of late; been busy writing. Though I do intend to get back into X3, Dawn of War and Civ IV.

Murrin wrote:

The Leper Fairy wrote:

The Somberlain wrote:I've been playing a fair bit of Halo since Christmas. Though I think I kind of raced through it, and now all of a sudden I'm stuck. I hate those Flood guys because they take loads of ammo to kill, and don't drop any.

Happened to me too. If you have any advice once you get through it, let me know.

You've probably worked it out already, but human weapons are best against Flood (whereas Covenant weapons are best against Covenant). Shotgun is best for the big ones. Use the pistol for the little pod things - they only take one shot each.

I did, yep. Though I pretty much stuck with the shotgun for all the Flood enemies... I usually tried to take the little ones out by hitting them with the butt of the weapon just as they leapt at my face.

Anyway, I completed it the other day and I'm already replaying it on the next difficulty setting up. I have almost no other games. I do have a £15 Game voucher, though... I've not decided what to buy with it yet though.

I actually used the plasma rifle for the little floodlings and the shotgun for the big 'uns (or the pistol when i ran out of shells). I found I never had enough ammo to use two human weapons and you don't have to reload the plasma rifle, just throw it away when it's empty.

I'm stuck on the last of the three generators. There's a couple of those Covenant artillery thingies and about half a dozen elites, I just can't seem to survive it.

I want my pc repaired.

Nav wrote:I'm stuck on the last of the three generators. There's a couple of those Covenant artillery thingies and about half a dozen elites, I just can't seem to survive it.

I think I've done two generators - it's been a while, I can only play when I visit home. Anyway, my save game is at the entrance to a valley with tanks, flyers, Elites, a couple of Hunters, and up on the top where I have to go more Elites and Grunts on those gun turrets. All I have is a Needler. I've been stuck there for months.

Murrin wrote:

Nav wrote:I'm stuck on the last of the three generators. There's a couple of those Covenant artillery thingies and about half a dozen elites, I just can't seem to survive it.

I think I've done two generators - it's been a while, I can only play when I visit home. Anyway, my save game is at the entrance to a valley with tanks, flyers, Elites, a couple of Hunters, and up on the top where I have to go more Elites and Grunts on those gun turrets. All I have is a Needler. I've been stuck there for months.

I don't know which bit you're talking about, and some of the harder battles I got through on pure luck anyway, but if instead of clicking "continue" you click "load game", I think it lets you load from each checkpoint you've reached on the level you're on. So you could go back and try and save ammo or something... I dunno. You probably knew that, but I didn't discover it until I got to the Truth and Reconciliation level on my second time though


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Also, since yesterday I've been playing a bit of Age Of Empires II. I'm not as good as I used to be, but it's still fun.

The problem I have is that the tanks make it really difficult to fight the others, but even though I have a rocket launcher they just dodge the rockets. I've managed to get a ghost to where they all are (there's a ledge that's probably designed to make you get off the ghost), but I can't run the Covenant troops there are too hard to run over. I think I'm just gonna have to stick to multiplayer.

Multiplayer's good and all, but they always seem to end up playing Capture The Flag on that Blood Gulch level. Which gets a bit boring. My favourite is playing Slayer on the big open levels.

WAS playing Far Cry and Empire at War on my pc today . . . . then my pc died.

Loremaster wrote:WAS playing Far Cry and Empire at War on my pc today . . . . then my pc died.

Oh! I've seen that Empire at War in the shops... is it any good Loremaster, worth buying?

Empire at War is excellent. I am now playing it on my laptop on lowest graphics settings.

Knights Of The Old Republic arrived today I've been looking forward to playing this game for a long time.

It's a good one.

--A

Yeah, I was surprised how good it was.

Coulda been better though...I hate the limited dialogue options.

--A

And some of the characters weren't that good (i.e. the twilek and her wookie), and it became annoying when you were running around and suddenly one of them wanted to tell you their life story.