General Discussion

This was my game.

Exiled — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:59:51 GMT

Say "You got me good mun..." if your a h0mo

The End.

DaRKSTaRxMeRC — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:51:38 GMT

Well, this is it.

Goodbye Halo Wars forums, and goodbye to Cocopjojo and any other mods that may still be around and helping with Waypoint. It's been a good run. The thought of this forum being closed definitely and only in a few short hours sparks emotions in me that I feel rather ashamed of considering the medium that encourages their display.

Never before has the closing (or my removal) from a forum ever bothered me by any measure, but not so with HWF. Over the past year and a bit I've come to love this place, despite all my criticizing, bitching and moaning, I love this forum.

It's too bad the big wigs at the farm decided to retire the old girl. She'll be missed.

-- DaRKSTaRxMeRC, Bullet Train, John Smith, John Locke, etc

Forums Read-Only Tonight at 12am PST

Cocopjojo — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:45:56 GMT

As scheduled, tonight at 12am PST the forums will go into read-only mode. There's no guarantee how long they'll stay visible (could be hours or could be weeks, I'm not sure what the IT team has scheduled past the read-only date), so make sure you have everything saved that you wish to keep a record of.

This can basically be considered last call for the avatar thing, since after tonight I won't be answering PMs. I've gone through the next queue of avatars on Waypoint so if you didn't get yours, please PM me again; and remember, you must have registered before the announcement. bs angel won't be able to apply them from Waypoint since we won't be able to verify your Halo Wars membership status past tonight.

Reminder: Stat-tracking, of course, will continue, so that section of this site will remain.

It's been fun over here. You guys are crazy but you're pretty darn funny on occasion and I've had a blast in my short time here. I really hope all of you come over to the Waypoint forums.

Stat-tracking continues here on HaloWars.com, and Halo Wars discussion continues over at Halo Waypoint. See you on the other side!

You've been playing the halowars demo too much if you....

mcang — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:24:02 GMT

fill in the blank. here's mine

You've been playing the halo wars demo too much if you press up while playing halo 3 for a MAC blast.

This is the best ive seen so far

One day you day dream during an ancient Egyptian discussion at school.

The teacher mentions something about a Scarab and you bolt upwards and scream "I GOT THIS COVERED" and run to your locker to get the 360 controller.

Then you come back to class to find everyone dead because there is a Scarab looking at you through a hole in the roof. You scream and activate the MAC gun.

In everyone elses' point of view, they only see you burst back into class holding a controller screaming at the ceiling.

You go to a junk yard and buy about 500 pounds of scrap metal, weld them together, hook the engine from your car to the new one, paint flame decals on it and place a fake, but realistic turret on the back and ram into some trash cans to see if you can make some money

another good one

if you run into a group of people in a go-cart with cardboard molding so it looks like a ghost and painted purple and then yell at some midgets to throw plasma's at the surviors, and yell at a old lady in a wheelchair to cleanse the vermin.

this thread is getting good

You know you play too much Halo Wars when...

DomClark9 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:47:14 GMT

The title says it all. Finish the sentence. ***Sorry, if this was alreay a post***

A funny moment when I knew I played too much halo wars was when I was playing Halo 3. It was on Vahalla and I was at my base and a Warthog drove past. And the first thing I thought of was: "Oh s*it there scouting my base." Then I remembered I was playing Halo 3...lolz

DON'T FLAME! Share your funny moments.

The Real Deal Thread

LaZy FrOg — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:11:20 GMT

So I wanna know what you think of me, Just incase I don't move over to lazyfrog.us as well.

Thanx<3

Red Alert 3 achievement help [co-op]

AC Matt Klassen — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:24:52 GMT

So I just used the Dojo Rush on Giles. It worked, right up until all he had was an Airport. I have never seen so much $#!t blow up due to 4 Vindicators before. Still got the Achievement though.

BTW I need someone to help me complete all campaigns on Co-Op.

New Infantry Idea, Turrets

coviekiller — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:45:15 GMT

There should be mobile Turret units carried by a small group of Grunts or Marines which would be a hard counter to air units.

The basic infantry are supposed to be strong vs. air units but they really aren't, I mean, it takes a little long for a air unit (other than a Vulture) to kill a group of Marines or Grunts, but the infantry don't do enough damage back. So, I think a good fix to this would be to add a Turret infantry unit, which, just like they are in the Halo fps games, would be strong vs. other infantry, aircraft and scout vehicles, but not heavy vehicles.

I would make these be available after your first reactor or temple and cost 300 supplies and take a little long to build. It would fit in the barracks/hall on the top part of the circle menu and it's upgrades would be on the bottom.

It would be a pretty slow unit, as you would expect, and I think it would be a good idea if it would work like the Cobra in how wherever you press Y it would go there and set up and stay planted there until you press Y again, only with the Turret it can only attack when locked down/set up. And it would only make sense in Halo Wars that the Turret would be able to move a full 360 around. This would make Turrets useful for defending buildings like Forrunner reactors or supply poopers or for fortifying weak spots on you base. Also, if you like to use elephants these used with them I'd imagine would be a pretty strong combo, add a couple locked down Cobras and you got yourself a pretty potent field base. The Turret would be a good early defense vs. hog or leader rushes, one or 2 with a few other units should fend off most rushes.

I'm thinking the Turrets would have 3 upgrades, maybe a speed upgrade called Light Weight Material that decreases how long it takes to pack up, set up and move around. I think a good upgrade for the Covie's Turret would be a little shield bubble that surrounds the Turret, which would work just like any other shielded unit. A Human upgrade could be to upgrade the Turret to a Gauss Turret or Missile Pod for more damage and making it somewhat more useful against heavy vehicles. And another upgrade for both Human and Covies would be to add 2 extra Marines armed with grenade launchers (like the Warthogs) or Grunts armed with fuel rods who, when you press Y to set up, will set up a couple defensive barriers and take cover behind them to give the Turret a little more defense, particularly against vehicles.

whatch'a think?

Why I quit 307 Stonybrook RCACS

AC Matt Klassen — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:13:36 GMT

Used to be in 307 Stonybrook [Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada] RCACS. Had to quit because the Lieutenant was a biased [sexist] machocist bastard. It's just... treat my friends like $#!t and sooner or later, I'll blow up in your face and beat the everlasting $#!t out of you. Yes, I knocked the LT on his ass then I just quit. After that, 84% of the squadron quit as well. *** the Lieutenant.

I say this because:

1: I needed to vent out anger on the fact that RL ranking systems have this *** should-have-been-castrated bastard promoted to FACKING MAJOR.

2. The cadets of 307 Stonybrook are STILL being treated like $#!t. Those that decided to quit the squadron though...

3. On December 14-15, for those who are playing Halo Reach, if you see a group of players with the 307 clan tag, prepare to get pwned into the ground.

RIP

Danny C 2k — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:40:54 GMT

I'd just like to say goodbye to the halo wars forums. These forums have been good fun to look at with all of the trolls and so on.

Also, people on here were pretty quick to help me when i needed to improve my 3v3 strategies. In my honest opinion, this was going to happen eventually as the game has some very low traffic indeed.

This is too soon to be closing down the site and stats tracking.. just over 1 1/2 years after the games' launch.

Disgraceful.

Signed:

xDanny 117

Halo Wars Title Update #2 Patch Notes Discussion

Aloysius — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:59:47 GMT

Halo Wars Title Update 5/12/09

General

Flaming Warthog and Honor Guard Wraith skins now available in multiplayer to players who have those skulls.
The option to show Unit Hit Point bars above units is now available.

Balance

The number of points to reach all ranks has been reduced. General now requires 2.4 million, down from 3.2 million, and other ranks have been reduced accordingly.
The max number of points you can get in a single match has been capped.
The Prophet of Regret’s land speed is now reduced to match other leaders.
Vampire Tech Upgrades now increase damage done by 15% in addition to their other effects.
Anders Cryo Bomb Upgrades now cost 50% more supplies.
Anders Hawk Upgrade now costs 50% more supplies.

Bug Fixes

Multiplayer Matchmaking and Connection improvements have been put in. Players should find that their 2v2 and 3v3 teams no longer split up.
'Ready for the Sequel' Achievement should now be rewarded properly.
Units on Exile and Crevice should find it easier to traverse the map.

The patch should be available for download on your Xbox 360 in the next day or so (most likely starting very early tomorrow morning). Sorry I can't give a more specific time, as it depends on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Stategy Making

tomcolgan — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:10:05 GMT

Hey guys. I was thinking, how about everybody in the community pool their strategies together. That way, everyone can look, take one bit of a strategy and add it to their own strategy, making their way to put a beating on an enemy totally unique. So come on and make sure to list which leader/species your strategy lies with. But come on, nobody wants to give away their secret. Just try, OK. If you really cant, then just try and think of another strategy. Someone has to like it, right? Here is my favourite strategy.

SARGEANT FORGE ONLY

First, put down 4 supply pads. Next, save up and upgrade your base to fortress. (Use crates if needed) Then, make two reactors and a barracks. At this point, lock your base down. Now, upgrade Spartans as much as you can, even if it means upgrading both reactors. Then purchase 3 Spartans. Now this may sound odd, but recycle your barracks. If you haven't done already, upgrade both reactors. Now, where the barracks used to be, create a vehicle depot. Fully upgrade Scorpions to make them Grizzlys. Make two of them, then recycle your depot. In its place, put an air pad. Make the 'grade for the Vulture then purchase as many as you can with your army size. Now you can either : 1. Unlock your base, watch your army build up and attack, or 2. recycle your air pad, make a field armoury, do the reinforcements 'grade, recycle the armoury, make a supply pad, upgrade warthogs with the first 2 'grades, then do number 1.

Enjoy

I would just like to say goodbye.

Jake2907 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:10:16 GMT

I have to admit, I haven't been on here for a while - And when I did come here regularly, I didn't post much. When I first came here was when the game was still in development.

I however, still remember the first review by someone given by the name of "Felix" and the flaming that came alone with it, and some of the other great people on this forum. The old employees. I remember writing a review on here because I got the game 2 weeks before release. I remember coming on this website before I made a account and looking for updates during class time in High School.

Just some random memories. It's sad to see that this game and the great community that came with it is dead - Or will be soon enough.

Goodbye fellow Halo Wars fans. I know I'll keep this game forever.

Peace out.

Halo Waypoint Transition (Please Read)

Cocopjojo — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:23:21 GMT

Greetings, friends.

Halo Wars / Halo Waypoint Transition

In an effort to provide the Halo Wars community a lively, active, and well-moderated set of forums for discussion, we are soon going to be transitioning the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums. What this means is that the Halo Wars site will be taken offline and we will ask all of you, if you'd like to continue discussing the game, to do so over at the home for all things Halo, Halo Waypoint.

While I know some of you will see this as bad news, it really isn't: Halo Waypoint, unlike HaloWars.com, is updated daily by bs angel and the rest of the community team. We have very big plans for Halo Waypoint, and if you've seeen the mobile app that we just announced, then you'll have an idea of where we're headed with it. Additionally, its forums are fully moderated, so it will be a lot less chaotic than this place tends to be on occasion. I think some of the members here have realized this latter point because we've gotten the suggestion from a few members here to ask this community to move over there.

HaloWars.com / TU5

There will be a fifth Title Update for Halo Wars. Unfortunately, it won't include many of the fixes that we all wanted it to include.

TU5 will basically do two things:

Fix the Theater issues that are preventing some players from viewing some cutscenes
Some backend work to prepare the game for disconnecting from HaloWars.com. This was a fairly significant amount of work, as we wanted to be sure that multiplayer for the game still functioned properly without HaloWars.com and other backend support.

What this second point means is that when we transition the forums to Halo Waypoint, we're also going to be taking HaloWars.com completely offline. So the forums will disappear and so will online stat-tracking. I know this will be rough on a lot of you, and I can promise that it wasn't a decision made lightly.

When?

December 15th, 2010.

Halo Waypoint Exclusive Forum Avatar

Members of HaloWars.com who register for Halo Waypoint's forums, can choose to have a special avatar applied to their Halo Waypoint forum account. These avatars are not available to the rest of Halo Waypoint community. It pretty much works the same way as the Halo Wars O.G. avatar here. There will be two different avatars available depending on your membership status here:

The Halo Wars O.G. avatar: This looks the same as it does here. If you are a Halo Wars O.G. here, please PM me from your Halo Wars O.G. account on this website (HaloWars.com) and let me know your account name over at Halo Waypoint. I'll make sure bs angel applies your avatar.
The Halo Wars avatar: This is similar to the Halo Wars O.G. avatar but without the "Halo Wars O.G." text. This is for all members of HaloWars.com who wish to show their Halo Wars heritage. Again, PM me from your account on this website (HaloWars.com) and let me know your account name over at Halo Waypoint. I will make sure bs angel applies your avatar.

What do I do now?

Register for Halo Waypoint's forums, if you haven't done so already. Enjoy the time you have here on HaloWars.com and print-screen or copy-paste any of your favorite old posts and/or game history data, since that will all be taken offline on December 15th. We won't be carrying over accounts, posts, or anything else between the two forums.

I hope you all enjoyed the Leaderboard reset, and just don't forget: you can continue to play Halo Wars and discuss it to your heart's content. We're just moving you to a bigger, better website. :)

I'll try to be on hand here to answer any questions that you guys may have.

David Failinger and halo wars development

Dragonfire101 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:13:52 GMT

You know, halo wars has almost no players, stats are going, Its unlikely ill get banned and this whole website it about to be sucked into a black whole, but before that id just like to say, David pottinger replacing Greame Divine as lead designer, and the decision to scrap the whole 2007 was the stupidest *** idea in the world.

Halo wars is a fun game, sure, buts it sucks the anus compared to what it could have been. Thereis not a single thing in halo wars that looks as good as the 2007 demo, and if you look at some interviews and *** good ol' dave did and greame did, i think greame is just a better, more charismatic and more "Fruitful" guy, cause when he was the lead, he made a DEMO that i would glady trade the finished game for.

And if there ever is to be a halo wars 2, not only should goood ol' Dave the cucumber not be aloud near it with a 10 foot pole, get greame back, and bring back the good old days of 2007. Halo wars may be the best selling console based RTS out there, but its certainly not the BEST RTS on consoles, not even when it frist came out.

And by no means get the wrong idea from this rant, Halo wars is a great game, and i still have it (The pointless collectors eddition actually, who the *** wants 'leader cards' and an iron-on spirit of fire patch, if i wanna get bashed, ill at least mouth off at someone), but like i said before, it sucks a sweaty mans jocks compared to what it could have been.

Also, halo wars is not a real halo game, it has no halo feel, way too many laser beams and transformer style units. That feel went out the door with 2007, there was none of the "humans work here, humans live here" of the 2007 demo. I could have been playing as a faction of robots for all I knew. Thewy should have just called this game "Age of alien *** be beaming my base".

tl/dr: *** you david pottinger, i know you thought you were doing your best but still, *** you, you ruined halo wars.

looking for a partner

SmellYHands — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:41:14 GMT

anyone wanna play 2v2 dm or standard doesnt matter who u play as

2 things.

mcang — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:27:02 GMT

waypoint forums are alot slower.

can i pm any admin there to get my avatar? or is there someone in specific?

It's official...

AC Matt Klassen — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:34:16 GMT

I am a no life Stargate fan, and am currently no lifing Halo up until Field Marshall.

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What Does [FF] Mean?!?!?!?

xViper Phantomx — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:26:56 GMT

if you go on the library on halo universe sub forum a bunch of the titles begin with [FF] i was just wondering what that meant?

48 hours free trial

phopath — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:18:19 GMT

if anybody has a trial

Crashed Games?

AdvanceWarsKing — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:00:01 GMT

I was in the middle of a 3v3 game and my xbox just froze. I couldn't even dashboard. I have the disk downloaded so I don't think it's a problem with the xbox. Is it possible for other players to make this happen?

Replies on Waypoint

tomcolgan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:54:54 GMT

I'm new to the waypoint forums and I cant reply there cause i dont know how. Can anyone help me here?

Halo Wars OG

The Beast v3 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:29:11 GMT

I'm seeing this image under peoples usernames with a Spartan and a caption saying Halo Wars OG. What is it?

A Solution? Cocopjojo, Read Please

JJ (JumpingJet) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:41:47 GMT

Hey cocop,

I was wondering, which of your servers does the stat tracking and leaderboards get it's information from?

Can I move the Flaming Warthog between storage devices?

Omega 909 FT01 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:39:59 GMT

Does anyone know if you can transfer the Flaming Warthog content over the USB drive mem storage? I wanted to get a new Xbox 360 S in January, but I just bought a code for the Flaming Warthog and don't know if I should save it so I don't have to buy a transfer cable.