I’ve started setting it up, am trying to figure it out. Slater and Granzin were both raised to a status where they could do admin stuff too. I think a couple of others too. I need to figure out a few things with your help:
How do we best do this thing?
What’s the ebst way to ensure we can play together (I had some really bad experiences playing with “regular” people on Live)?
When can we start?
If you want to join, send a request to gamertag: CHUDcom
Yeah, I sent clan invites to a bunch of people in that other Clan thread yesterday. Happy to add anybody else if Nick’s busy. Just let me know.
But I have no idea how we set up official clan matches or anything. I’m guessing it has to be done during Matchmaking games rather than arranged games, right? I’m still really fuzzy on how the whole party aspect works during Matchmaking games. Do you join an existing game and then send out party invites, or are you supposed to form your party before joining a game?
This may have been linked already, but there’s a lot of info here.
Today’s Penny Arcade also seems to address the “party” portion of matchmaking.
Well, I already know of another Clan that we could battle.
Well, considering the clan itself can have 100 members with each game only allowing as many as 16, it’s highly unlikely each person will be able to play with everyone else all the time. Plus if you want to get into the competitive scene, just playing amongest yourself (I don’t own an X-Box, even though this is tempting for me to go out and buy one, so I’m just speaking from experience with PC FPS) is probably not the best way to prepare yourself for matches. So I guess it all depends on the attitude as to what the clan is all about. Are you just casual players having fun or do you actually want to make yourselves known out there in the Halo community?
I’d suggest to first poll the interests of the members and then separate them into those playing casually vs those that want to compete, and within that you can organize squadrons of maybe 10 people each with a leader assigned (that way they can play and familiarize themselves with each other, as well as avoid having to play with people that you may have problems with). This way, you can let the hardcore ones take the time to handle setting up practices, matches and what not, and those that don’t care for that can just play the game however they want. There are other ways to go about it, but the bottomline depends on what you want this clan to be and what you want out of it.
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| Originally Posted by Slater Yeah, I sent clan invites to a bunch of people in that other Clan thread yesterday. Happy to add anybody else if Nick’s busy. Just let me know. But I have no idea how we set up official clan matches or anything. I’m guessing it has to be done during Matchmaking games rather than arranged games, right? I’m still really fuzzy on how the whole party aspect works during Matchmaking games. Do you join an existing game and then send out party invites, or are you supposed to form your party before joining a game? |
Start an “invitation only” party, then a “party only” game, then send out invites. As long as two or more people are in the party (and you’re playing something like Slayer), the people already in the party can go ahead and start up a match. Other people can then join the game in progress as they receive the invitations. Eventually you’ll have a game filled with only people you’ve invited… without having to sit around waiting for people to get organized, get online, whatever.
And whenever the party leader decides to join another game, he can pull the entire party with him (assuming there’s enough available slots). I know there’s more to it I haven’t read about yet.
Request sent. Gamertag: DigestedPaco
Jay and I are flexible…we can play seriously or play for fun. Hopefully, we will get a chance to do a bit of both.
When someone forms a party and others accept to join they will stay with those players as long they are in the party. Even if you are playing in an “optimatch” game you can carry your whole party with you into those games. Thus allowing you to continue to play together.
Under the “optimatch” settings is two options for clan battles. There is a small battle (less then 8 players) and a large battle (up to 16) - as far as I can tell. From what I understand you would form a game, invite the players you want to be in the party. They would then follow you wherever you go. I suppose you would then invite the other clan but I am not sure how that part works.
Someone said earlier that with 100 members you can’t all battle at the same time but you sort of can. You separate your clan into different teams. You can make an A team, B team etc or Slayer teams, CTF teams, etc… That way when someone challenges you determine how hard you want to go at them. Now obviously not everyone can meet at 8:00pm on Saturday nights (for example) so at that time you just figure out who is there and invite. If you both clans have over eight players who battle then you have several games. Just assign who you want to battle who. In theory all 100 of your team could battle all 100 of theirs at the same time, just not in the same game… (I hope this make sense)
This is what I can tell from reading bungie.net and playing around last night. I hope it is right. There have only been a few clan matches (according to the stats) so far.
And while I may not know everyone from CHUD it was a lot easier knowing that most people would be fairly civil. I had some kid running around screaming “take that motherfucker” everytime he killed someone in a random game last night. I had to shut him off he was so annoying. Now I had some good CTF matches and such, but it seemed to more friendly playing in CHUD games…
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| Originally Posted by Zalasta Well, considering the clan itself can have 100 members with each game only allowing as many as 16, it’s highly unlikely each person will be able to play with everyone else all the time. Plus if you want to get into the competitive scene, just playing amongest yourself (I don’t own an X-Box, even though this is tempting for me to go out and buy one, so I’m just speaking from experience with PC FPS) is probably not the best way to prepare yourself for matches. So I guess it all depends on the attitude as to what the clan is all about. Are you just casual players having fun or do you actually want to make yourselves known out there in the Halo community? I’d suggest to first poll the interests of the members and then separate them into those playing casually vs those that want to compete, and within that you can organize squadrons of maybe 10 people each with a leader assigned (that way they can play and familiarize themselves with each other, as well as avoid having to play with people that you may have problems with). This way, you can let the hardcore ones take the time to handle setting up practices, matches and what not, and those that don’t care for that can just play the game however they want. There are other ways to go about it, but the bottomline depends on what you want this clan to be and what you want out of it. |
Somehow I missed this post, which says pretty much what I just said.. my bad… Although the line about making yourselves known in the Halo community makes me laugh.. not sure why, just seems funny
You allready accepted my friend request plus my brothers friend request. We really want to be in this clan because I think this clan would be more about play than regulating games like the clans on Wolfenstein did. My brother and I are pretty serious about it, if you forget our gamertags are Loapan and PorkChopXpress. See you in the near future if not tonight.
Looks like I’m not going to be able to do ‘live’ until this Saturday. I hope the Clan doesn’t fill-up by then.
If it’s self-explanatory, I plan on sending a message to gamertag “Chudcom” somehow (if not, I’ll come back to the more technical posts in this thread). Otherwise, is there anything else I need to do?
BTW: my gamer tag is Ockhamm (the extra “m” is because some rad bastard already took the real name).
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| Originally Posted by Ockham Looks like I’m not going to be able to do ‘live’ until this Saturday. I hope the Clan doesn’t fill-up by then. If it’s self-explanatory, I plan on sending a message to gamertag “Chudcom” somehow (if not, I’ll come back to the more technical posts in this thread). Otherwise, is there anything else I need to do? BTW: my gamer tag is Ockhamm (the extra “m” is because some rad bastard already took the real name). |
Really simple. You get an invite, you join the clan.
There’s only about 25 people in it right now, I think. Unless I was just looking at my friends list and not the clan list. I’ll be playing around with it more this evening.
Nick, have you done this yet? I did a “group” search with a few permutations of chud and came up empty.
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| Originally Posted by Bungie.net Q What can I do with my Clan on Bungie.net? A Once you have a Clan in Halo 2 on Live, come to Bungie.net to create a home. Visit the Community section and create a group. We use the term group to refer to the various fansites that exist within Bungie.net - whether they are Halo 2 Clans or 7th Column Chapters. Create one and you and your friends will have a little place to call home complete with your own forums, news, databases and more. You can then link your newly created group page to your Clan for easy access to your clan stats. |
Also, here’s our clan info on bungie: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/ClanStat...lan=chuddotcom
I have to say, the Bungie site is a a little busy and tricky to navigate at times. It needs work. Organizing clan activities here instead of there will probably be a lot easier.
Thanks for that. Maybe I can swing getting it going earlier (though tonight won’t be until very late). I really hate dealing with unknowns on ‘live’. Such a grab bag of participants and normally I seem to end up with those at the bottom of that bag. I guess I will solicit an invite here when I’m on.
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| Originally Posted by Ockham Thanks for that. Maybe I can swing getting it going earlier (though tonight won’t be until very late). I really hate dealing with unknowns on ‘live’. Such a grab bag of participants and normally I seem to end up with those at the bottom of that bag. I guess I will solicit an invite here when I’m on. |
Yeah, playing with random people is very hit or miss. The on nice thing about the clan is if there is a custom game, you just click on that person’s name and you can join their game and their party. It’s very simple.
I’m still reading about all of this as well. I had decent luck with random games, but it was the best when I joined the CHUD game last night.
Could I please get an invite, when someone gets the chance? My Live tag is Poulsonator.
It was a blast tearing it up with you guys (and tearing you guys up), but the fact that my connection is in the red almost every game seriously leaves me depressed; and living in a fraternity there’s nothing I can do. So if we’re ever about to load a game and one player fails to load the map it’s a safe bet that player is me (Blunted730) and I apologize ahead of time.
I just set up XBox Live using the free two month trial - how can I get in on the CHUD Halo 2 goodness? I can’t believe I waited this long to try Live, but Halo 2 is as good a reason as I can think of!
My Gamertag is: Lysander86
So how’s it work?
Lys
Yeah, I had a sweet time killin’ with the CHUD folks last night, although I wondered about the integrity of my headset. Either it was malfunctioning, or my teammates were too retarded to understand “Help me guard the flag and maybe we won’t lose the game.”
Goldberg, you know that you have to press the white button to open a com channel to your teammates, right? If you don’t press that button, only the players standing right next to you can hear you.