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ADM D Kilkin

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  1. This is what was posted on the previous website.
  2. What is a Callout? A callout is quick piece of information you tell your teammates in a game to help them make better decisions with greater knowledge of the situations around them. Rule Number One: "On My X" This is a great example of a terrible callout. Why? First, the player who is making this callout clearly did not make a good callout in time so no teammates were able to help him in his fight. It cost him and the team a death. Second, it's not always convenient to have to look for a player's X, and if there are more than one Xs up at a time there may be some confusion on the callout. In these situations when you have nothing better to say than, "One shot on my X" or something similar, it's better to look around for teammates and tell one of them specifically where to look, so your callout would instead be something like, "Derrick, there's a guy one-shot around the corner" or "Josh, he's one-shot to your right." On my X can be used to inform your teammates of a weapon you just died with, for example, "I dropped Sniper on my X" but even so you should find a better way to make the callout. Rule Number Two: "One Shot/Absolute, Weak" These callouts are used for telling teammates how weak an opponent is. If you're shooting somebody and land four shots on them just before they get around the corner, they'll be one-shot which means they can die from a headshot or melee. When they get around the corner one-shot, don't chase them, just call it out to your teammates that he's "one shot blue balcony" and your teammates can help you get the kill. Absolute is a variation on one-shot. This means they are no-shields with red health, after you've landed 6 body-shots, or a grenade and a few body-shots etc. Absolute means they could be no weaker and you could probably just poke them with a pillow and pretty much kill them. You can get fancier with these, like "two-shot" if you land three shots on somebody. That would better inform your teammates of how to handle him, and whether they should challenge the player or not. For everything else, you should say "weak" as in "weak on our objective." Weak is used if you don't know how much damage you've done, usually by grenade or AR, but you're alerting teammates of the easy kill. Generally you should only use weak if you think you got them to at least half-shields, otherwise just callout the player normally like you need help getting kill. Rule Number Three: When to call out/Who to call out Pretty quick rule. Halo is a team game. Callout while you're fighting to get help from your teammates. Fighting players 1 on 1 in a 4v4 is silly when you could easily call your enemy out and turn it in to a 3 on 1 fight. At the same time, think about who you want to call out. Not everything is worth it. If you're alone on the enemy side, there's really no point in calling out the one-shot guy over there since nobody can help you. At the same time, you shouldn't be over there by yourself. Rule Number Four: Weapons Part A: Weapon Spawns Keep a rough idea of when Rockets and Sniper will be respawning in the game, and try to keep your teammates informed of when they're coming back. For example, on most maps rockets come back every 3 minutes after being picked up. Since rockets are often first touched ten seconds into a match, you can assume rockets come back around 8:50 (left on the clock in a 12:00 minute game). Around 9:20 you should give your teammates a reminder that rockets will be back in 30 seconds. These same rules apply to Snipers, and any other weapons you feel are important enough to control. Part B: Dropping Rockets If you die with Rockets, or you kill the guy who has them on the other team, make sure you call them out. Also make a note of if they need to be reloaded or not. This will help your team decide what they will do after picking up the rockets so they don't get killed while trying to reload because they thought they'd be able to blast someone. If you shoot two out of four rockets and then die, call out "Two Rockets down on (wherever you died), they need to be reloaded." It might also help to keep track of how many rockets the enemy has fired if they have them. Part C: All About Snipers Calling out snipers can be confusing. "Sniper our healthpack" could mean a lot of things. It might mean the other team has a guy sniping in your healthpack spawn, or there might be a sniper down in your healthpack spawn, or maybe their sniper is looking to your healthpack spawn. Because of this, you need to be more descriptive when calling out anything related to snipers. Sniper Down: Means that their is a Sniper Rifle on the ground wherever you call it out. Example, "Sniper down our Carbine." Sniping: Means someone is sniping from wherever you call out. Example, "Sniping from their Carbine." Just "Sniping their Carbine" is also acceptable. You can also call out if you know their Sniper's sightlines. For example, "Sniping Ring 2 looking our Rocks," which lets your teammates know where to go to avoid being blained. Rule Number Five: Directions This is optional, but you can make callouts more effective with things like where someone is headed. For example, "one guy, our training going to sword." Now your teammates know almost exactly where the player is and what he's going to do. Rule Number Six: Tone One of the most important and overlooked rules is the tone you use when you callout. Shouting a basic callout won't really help anybody and will annoy your teammates. At the same time, casually mumbling, "hey guys, uhhhhhh, on our carbine, uhhh, there's a guy he's got sniper and he's weak" is just getting in the way. Speak clearly and confidently and just say "One guy weak, sniping our carbine." You don't have to repeat it more than twice, and try to shake it off if nobody cleans up the kill. No reason to get frustrated and yell at your teammates just because they missed your callout. Rule Number Seven: Gamertags Have you ever heard a callout, "one-shot in P2" and when you go to shoot the guy, he's definitely not one-shot? You got switched on. Another player came out to fight you while the one-shot player hid safely. You assumed the player fighting was one-shot and then challenged when you should not have and got killed. Teams can avoid this by adding gamertags to the callout. So instead of "One-shot P2" it's now, "One-Shot P2, Mr Nibbles." So now when the other guy pops out and you see that it's not Mr Nibbles you know it's not a one-shot guy, and you won't have to challenge. Rule Number Eight: Call Signs Also known as service tags, call signs are the 4 letter/number abbreviation that appears over your head. Your call sign should be clear, concise and quick to call out. For example, mine is Duce. It's easy to say, quick and represents my gamertag. A bad call sign would be something like A482, 1337, FHDG, etc. These call signs are difficult to say and decrease the chances of a teammate calling out to you to potentially save your life or a teammates life. When you're in game, you should try to keep your teammates call signs in your field of view. If they aren't in your field of view, you should consider changing your positioning so that you are at an angle that will allow you to assist your teammates. Another reason why you should have your teammates call signs in view is so that you can see what colors your teammates' call signs are when they are calling out. A teammate that has a blue call sign is not engaged. A teammate with a yellow call sign is shooting at an enemy and you should help put shots in if you are in a position to do so. A teammate with an orange call sign is taking damage. Your teammate should be calling out for help and you should be positioning yourself accordingly so that you can turn the battle into a 2 on 1 and hopefully save your teammate. All credit for this goes to Ogre 9000
  3. https://spartanfinder.com/mcc.php https://spartanfinder.com/# While recruiting someone shared links to another Halo site that records the numbers of players online, could this be accurate information?
  4. I can see the video link, its smooth looks like it is in 4K.
  5. Closing into 50 voters, Halo: Reach is a clear winner in all categories. Interesting.
  6. I've asked some colleagues about this site and the general consensus is that it is a prop up to the books Max Barry has written. Essentially he made that site, or had the site created to support his hypothesis on social psychology but also expanding it to let people do the above. Of the books I can see he's published the closest one is probably Jennifer Government, Lexicon seems to be more popular and it looks like he recently released a new book called Providence. Might be an interesting read if this nationstates game is as popular as the activity feed makes it out to be.
  7. This thread is great but I wonder if its too confusing to new members.

    It's not written like an standard operating procedure, maybe in steps this would be easy to understand and digested.

    1. Accessing

      Accessing

      Its really only for Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers, I mean you got the copy and paste stuff down.

  8. Yes I asked him, its the responsible thing to do. This person clearly is in pain and I want to hear him out, he has a problem with ONI that appears to stem back for a few years. Giving him our platform to speak freely is an invitation to friendlier relations and solution moving forward. It's clear to me he does not want to take up this opportunity though and that may be for a number of reasons but its not any of my business to ask.
  9. Hello everyone, in regards to recent events in the ONI Discord server I want to personally rectify and understand this situation that came to be that others are responsible for. I want to give Dyvilish#9191 an area to speak freely without being spammed to make an argument with valid points on this website where it cannot be contested, blocked or insulted as it did over Discord. This is a thread for him to say what he wants about ONI, and CINC Admiral Zeus as we seek the truth.
  10. In honesty I was never aware it wasn't free until recently. I do remember a longer time ago when private chat was still available on Xbox 360 and accounts without Gold would use private chat. [ https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348724/microsoft-xbox-party-chat-free-live-network-changes ]
  11. This might be a good operation for one of the units.
  12. This is still a monumental tasks it seems. We're not able to find a developer yet?
  13. This is an excerpt from a discussion we intercepted in another community, aboard the UNSC Point of No Return I decided to begin this debate in our forums. These topics aren't for everyone, if you're baffled, offended or disgusted in anyway just take a leave from the site and thread. There are plenty more relevant topics to just gaming we can all talk about. Identity politics allows people to believe that because they have an identity, they can speak with authority on it. And because of this identity, their views cannot be invalidated, no matter how much they are based on fallacies. This is especially a powerful construct to cling to by those of a minority race, as it allows the majority to only participate when they first admit they are less worthy. This standard is why a lot of white people do not participate in the conversation; the requirement is to devalue their own experience first (for right or wrong). Movements that tout the same brand of thinking (BLM?) devalue anyone else from speaking about the issue until they've clung on to the mantra of self hate (white privilege or white bias for example), and make the exact same generalizations about race they accuse others of making. I like how one writer said it, "Identity politics makes people feel better about themselves at the expense of productive discourse. A person’s lived experience should never be invalidated. But no identity makes the beliefs that someone derives from their lived experience automatically more correct. This is not just a logical fallacy that should be avoided on principle. In practice, it is actually a hindrance to persuading others." Miyamoto Musashi wrote once, "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie." A whole bunch of people are living lies (constructed over long periods of time and learned mainly through listening by those they surround themselves with) and they want those lies validated on a constant basis. I'm interested to hear out your thoughts on this @Jason L Lewis
  14. One of the last threads I would have ever imagined to be on this site. Usually these kinds of conviction are just based on your environment and how you are raised. It's great that you are open to conversation though and agreeing to disagree. Its usually an HIGHCOM/Officer's discourse to discuss these things because we know we won't offend each other as open minded and more centrist, futurist people.
  15. I'm not looking at anyone's profiles enough to know. That would make a great survey though to the community beyond.
  16. I'm trying to think how I was able to change my name without the site charging me credits.
  17. Can you make an announcement about registration? I see some people aren't using gamer tags. Makes it all the more confusing who is who.
  18. $10 USD roughly being 2000 points has always been a thing hasn't it, although it makes since to raise since we're allowing spam.
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