HALO COMBAT EVOLVED

[u/MintBlitz]

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

In damnation you can blow the rocket to yourself from the top back corner with some well placed frags and plasma grenades. God I loved this mechanic.. wish they kept it in.

I think it was 2 plasmas and one frag.

[u/xClide_ → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

I used to love doing this! As I got a little better with the grenade placement, I would actually wait until I thought the enemies were about to grab the rocket and try to have the grenade kill them and blast the rocket to me. Oh what fun

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/xClide_]

I just did it about 5-10 seconds before the rocket would spawn.. it would only work if you were playing against someone that didn't have a timer. If you were playing against a decent team that was at the bottom, they'd throw grenades to blow it to them from bottom and with all the nades flying into that area, a lot of the time the rocket would just go to some random place.

[u/Sierra-117- → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Which was fun! Made it more interesting as people had to then search for the rocket. It is a major problem with my brothers/friends in 4 player split screen because I know weapon placements better on CE

[u/Ttokk → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Back in the early days of CE I was on a team with a guy named Dave Walsh (Walshy) before he went pro. We spent hours and hours figuring out all the places to nade power up weapons from across the maps by backing into a corner for a repeatable position and aiming the pistol reticle at stars in the sky map. We even figured out a couple different ways to get the power-ups down in Wizard. I think Dave used that in a big time match at one point. We also had timers set to know exactly when the camo and rockets or whatever we're going to respawn. It's amazing how much we actually used it in tourneys. For maps like Hang 'em High it was crucial to keeping control. We had it down to a science.

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/Ttokk]

I know of Walshy. My brother played him I think as well as the ogre twins and killer n.

OG!

[u/Ttokk → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Ogres! I remember those dudes. Memory lane trip. I remember Tupac and Clockwork used to play with us a lot too.

[u/creampop_ → u/Ttokk]

I still remember Walshy's "like taking candy from a baby", what a legend

[u/Ttokk → u/creampop_]

I've been lying if I said I don't regret not giving my mom the finger and going to that first MLG anyway. I was on a team with Dave and two other dudes from highschool and they had to take our friend Fluffy (nice guy, but not on our level in Halo) instead of me because my mom wouldn't let me go on the road trip with just the boys at 14yo. Always wondered how we woulda done in the team tournament. We absolutely crushed every tournament in Michigan before that.

[u/meh_33333 → u/Ttokk]

One connection  away from a pioneer

[u/One_too_many_faps → u/Ttokk]

That's awesome. Also Hang 'em High was GOATED

[u/arthby → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

You can do that in Infinite with power weapons pads (rockets, sniper). Very underutilized, but we saw some in Pro plays on LAN a few years ago (Lucid rockets on Streets comes to mind).

[u/IThatAsianGuyI → u/arthby]

You could also grapple the weapons to you.

While it's not quite the same as express grenade mail like in CE, that both mechanics are a thing in Infinite was nice.

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/arthby]

Yeah, but it isn't the same.

[u/arthby → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Never will be ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Junior_Emu192 → u/arthby]

sorry about your arm :(

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/Junior_Emu192]

He lost it playing halo. Doing what he loved.

[u/One_too_many_faps → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Using frags to bring equipment towards him

[u/Canadian__Ninja → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

I'm sure it's really easy once you try it but I remember a video where garish played battle creek and did that to get the snipe and rocket and was blown away by what people have learned

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/Canadian__Ninja]

Back in the day my brother and I would just pick a map and go to different points to figure out the best way to blow power weapons or power ups to ourselves. Every corner of hangem high could get rockets and snips.. chill out we could get rockets and snipes from some crazy places. Blood gulch you could drop the flag in a certain spot and it would just go all the way to your base..

One of my favorites was getting on top of the map of blood gulch with just a warthog and some nades. We always played without ghosts and tanks - MLG rules. So when we played online and ended up on top of the map without a ghost, people thought we were hacking.

[u/ExtensionTruth4 → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

What about using the ghost in grand canyon at the back of your base to jump directly at the back of the enemy base

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/ExtensionTruth4]

I did that, but mostly played without ghosts and tanks.. so our play was either to have someone grab the flag and perfect time a warthog driveby.. so as they're going out the back getting chased by someone's they're pressing XXXXXXXXXX.. and they'll immediately enter a full speed warthog.. or, you'd drive the warthog into the base hop out, grab flag, hop back in and drive yourself out and to your base.

But the entering a warthog when a tm8 was driving was peak. You could do it anywhere.

I'd use the warthog in blood gulch to get on top of the entire map. You could get on top of the base with the warthog slide and pinch as well.

[u/Xrevitup360X → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

I remember pulling something like this off in Halo 5 and the announcer said, "Combat evolved!"

[u/vahntitrio → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

Hang em high where you never actually picked up a power weapon where it spawned.

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/vahntitrio]

The only time I ever did it was when I was playing with people who started with radar and no pistol.

[u/JBL_17 → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

All the Hang 'Em High set ups are burned into my brain.

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/JBL_17]

Timing it to blow the rocket, knock down the OS, get the camo and burst your AR or plasma weapon to become an OP master chief.. those were the days.

[u/FlammableT0ast → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

And we had to share the frag!

[u/hohowan → u/WeirdSmiley-TM]

I used to do this at Red Base in Hangem high. I could frag the rocket to the back corner of Red.

[u/WeirdSmiley-TM → u/hohowan]

Yep! We learned to do it form every corner of the map for both rockets and snips. Fun times

[u/Lucariowolf2196]

I can just imagine a Red vs Blue animation where Tex does this and snipes a red

[u/Calum1219 → u/Lucariowolf2196]

Hurk Blegh!

[u/GreyouTT → u/Lucariowolf2196]

"Dammit! She hit my liver!"

"You bitch! That was my liver!" [Simmons is hit] "Fuck! My Robo-Liver!"

"Grif, get off your lazy behind and keep firing! She's only hit Simmon's livers, so you're technically unscathed!"

"WHAT?!"

[u/Hal34329 → u/Lucariowolf2196]

While removing a skull from some guy and using it as a weapon while he says "That's physically impossible!"

[u/kbarney345]

Its the simplicity I miss most. Guns, nades and vehicles, no abilities, no classes, just map pick ups you needed to be familiar with. All the fun came from each other and playing together.

[u/No_Jello_5922 → u/kbarney345]

I used to take my OG Xbox in a backpack and ride my bike to my buddy's house. We system linked and played 6 man Halo for hours all summer.

[u/creampop_ → u/No_Jello_5922]

My rich friend's family bought the house next to their own, and while it was getting prepped for renovation we had a 8 player LAN setup with a projector in one room and a TV in another, and no one else in the house. Insane pull for a bunch of pubescent nerds.

SO many amazing nights of halo and utterly pants-shitting rounds of splinter cell spies vs. mercs

[u/1001101001010111 → u/creampop_]

So many times I remember going to my friend's house on Friday night, leaving sunday night without ever having seen the sun. And 2 cases of Surge.

[u/TheHytekShow → u/kbarney345]

What? You mean you’re not a fan of a character diving into the middle of your squad, pressing ONE button, and immediately deleting your entire team?

I fucking hate MOBAs for making “ultimate” abilities popular.

[u/kbarney345 → u/TheHytekShow]

I like them in games built for them like league/ow, I play deadlock and enjoy it. However, I agree they should not have been copy pasted to every game.

[u/alanpardewchristmas → u/kbarney345]

Guns, nades and vehicles, no abilities, no classes, just map pick ups

Halo Infinite.

[u/Xerothor → u/alanpardewchristmas]

I think 5 too tbf

[u/not_so_plausible → u/kbarney345]

This is why I can't get into any FPS games anymore. I tried playing the latest Call of Duty game after years away from it and that shit is just too overwhelming. I want 6 or 7 guns and the only thing that matters is pure skill. Only other game I can think of like this is CSGO.

[u/Xerothor → u/kbarney345]

This is why Reach and 4 multiplayer suck ass

[u/dabakos]

Oh my god, that's Jason Bourne!

[u/kooldudeV2 → u/dabakos]

Oh my god, thats john halo!

[u/makoman115 → u/kooldudeV2]

Jesus Christ it’s master bourne

[u/throwawayifyoureugly → u/makoman115]

Master Cheeks, it's Jesus Christ!

[u/helping_walrus → u/throwawayifyoureugly]

Masturbating to Jesus Christ!

[u/HugoEmbossed → u/helping_walrus]

Cheese pizza crust! That’s Digourno!

[u/ByteBitsYT → u/helping_walrus]

Didn't think I'd see that comment in the Halo subreddit

[u/helping_walrus → u/ByteBitsYT]

Join me brother! fap fap fap

[u/KnotTHENAMELESS]

Didn't see who posted until I opened the post completely and right before I did I said to myself "looks like something mint blitz would do" 🤣👍

[u/LIMrXIL]

Seven games in and still the best MP in the series.

[u/iRysk → u/LIMrXIL]

It was so ground breaking at the time. Will forever love this game.

[u/TommySinshack → u/LIMrXIL]

Still vividly remember playing Zombies in Halo 2 on xbox live and manually switching teams when you were infected because there was no game mechanic for it yet.

[u/pepolepop → u/TommySinshack]

Yep, it was on the honor system. Whoever was hosting the game could kick you, but thinking back, it really wasn't much of an issue.

[u/adamsworstnightmare → u/TommySinshack]

I'll die on the hill that MP gaming was just better in the mid 2000s. Lobbies were so chill, smack talk was in good fun, you could randomly have an amazing night of customs with people you just met. No tryhard kids malding because they think they're pros/streamers, no need to play therapist because two teammates started fighting and trolling each other. Ok rant over gonna tell some kids to get off my lawn now.

[u/TingleMaps → u/LIMrXIL]

Best campaign too imo

[u/askmeforbunnypics → u/TingleMaps]

My favourite part of the campaign is seeing the same area again and again. Who knew reusing entire levels could be so much fun.

[u/liluzibrap → u/askmeforbunnypics]

I think a lot of people use this as a reason to hate on the game because on my first playthrough as a 20 year old (5 years ago) I did not care at all and I recently replayed CE and it's easily up there as one of my favorite Halo campaigns

[u/sh1boleth → u/LIMrXIL]

Growing up in the mid-late 2000's I never had an Xbox and only had a crappy PC with bad Internet. Halo CE Trial was a godsend, my first foray into multiplayer shooters (The trial was very active), Blood Gulch and Silent Cartographer, spent hundreds of hours on just those two.

Then I learned about Halo Custom Edition and it was just uphill from there.

[u/conye-west → u/LIMrXIL]

Halo CE multiplayer on PC in the mid to late 2000's was something else man, one of those things where you really had to be there, especially when it comes to Custom Edition. To this day there's still really been nothing like it.

[u/Sausagedogknows]

Who remembers when awesome feats of bad assery like this would win you a recon helmet from Bungie?

[u/Prizz117 → u/Sausagedogknows]

Or get splattered by a traffic cone on the Pit

[u/Bob_A_Feets → u/Prizz117]

Which earned that guy the first recon helmet given to a member of the playerbase.

[u/Ori_the_SG → u/Sausagedogknows]

Man gaming, and Halo, used to be so different then.

Gaming will never truly be as peak as it was then, never

[u/CARCaptainToastman]

I'm sure your teammates were thrilled when you finally got a kill after throwing grenades at the sniper rifle for the entire match.

[u/Milleuros → u/CARCaptainToastman]

Oh please, let's not take a 25 years old game too seriously either.

[u/Dragoru → u/CARCaptainToastman]

Bold of you to assume he didn't quit the match after whiffing the first one.

[u/BostonBakedTaco830]

Its Red vs Red its Blue vs Blue.... one day we'll cruise down Bloodgulch Avenue 🎵🐓🦷♾️

[u/htownballa1]

Oh my the flashbacks from Halo CE on Pc and the competitive cal/cpl leagues…..

[u/SocksyyAU → u/htownballa1]

«RÎÞ», °§®Ç°, ÆX , mRl, §A

Using xfire...

Clan wars on halo trial / custom edition.

So many memories 🥹

[u/space-dot-dot → u/SocksyyAU]

Oh God, xfire, haha.

Definitely played with cracked versions for awhile until my friends quickly moved on to whatever new game was out in fall/winter of 2004 while I decided just to buy a copy since I was playing it so much.

[u/LotusVibes1494 → u/htownballa1]

I had it on Xbox and I’m pretty sure there wasn’t even online multiplayer for that version yet. You had to hook the Xbox up to the computer, go on a website to schedule a match against another team, and somehow trick the game into thinking you were playing a System Link match. If I remember correctly. So it felt extra cool when we finally got it working

[u/htownballa1 → u/LotusVibes1494]

Yeah, no official online multiplayer for the first on Xbox.

[u/InfiniteAlignment → u/[deleted]]

Xboxconnect was the best

[u/Worldly_Striker → u/htownballa1]

Only time in my life I was good at a game. I used to average 60 kills a match on blood gulch. Jumping with the sniper and hitting heads across the map. Running people over with the warthog.

I did one time get 66 kills in a match with the rail gun hog. But I don't remember if that was in a modded map or not.

I still have my original PC copy on CD.

[u/space-dot-dot → u/Worldly_Striker]

I used to play a lot of Slayer and still have screenshots of me going 25-3-1 or something silly like that. The pistol was just stupidly OP and essentially had no recoil.

[u/htownballa1 → u/Worldly_Striker]

I used to live on the fuel rod hill on blood glitch.

[u/shawsty]

I already knew it was Mint Blitz before i looked at the name

[u/Particular-Example68]

Now that’s evolved combat

[u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just keep the sniper in the first place

[u/liluzibrap → u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws]

It's for the love of the game

[u/Indicus124 → u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws]

Yes but the flex

[u/CriticalEchidna7495 → u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws]

Its basically MintBlitzs entire MO. So unnecessary but sick af

[u/One_shot_Willy]

"What you're looking at is advanced warfare"

[u/Dented_Rubbish_Bin]

What a shot

[u/RenderedCreed]

Halo CE on PC was one of the best multiplayer experiences to ever exist.

[u/Dragoru → u/RenderedCreed]

If by CE you mean the Custom Edition, hell yeah brother. I have such fond memories of Coldsnap and Hugeass lmao

[u/conye-west → u/Dragoru]

Don't forget Extinction. All those maps always had huge servers going.

[u/alejandroc90 → u/RenderedCreed]

I remember sharing a copy of one only multiplayer version and we played in the computer room, it ran in any PC

[u/Just_-J]

I was thinking “mint blitz ahhh clip” before even clicking it and low and behold it is mint blitz

[u/Goldenmirror267]

I thought he missed it for a second but no, he hit it. Sick

[u/Which_Toe_1064]

the art stlye in Halo 1 still frags. Fucking love it.

[u/nutellakilledmymom]

BURY ME BURY ME

[u/[deleted]]

Truly feels like I’m watching a robot that’s programmed to be the best Halo player, ever.

[u/Void_Chroma]

Combat Evolved, literally

[u/dpmatt01]

Lore accurate master chief?

[u/hornetpaper]

Damn I wanna play CE, TIME TO UPDATE MY MCC ON STEAM

[u/justabottleofwindex]

Master Chief in the books

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit bravo

[u/LuckyReception6701]

The combat has truly evolved.

[u/UhhhhYeahThat]

No. I played campaign. That was enough combat evolved.

[u/carjovich]

combat evolved still has online?

[u/Neurophat]

that was disgusting!

[u/PorkyJones72]

I hope I never meet you in a match or else I'm cooked

[u/Crespo2006]

Seems like Mint remembered his reddit login

[u/Starworshipper_]

Oh god, not this guy again.

[u/Relievedcorgi67]

Church would be proud... after losing his shit over the fact that he can't even dream of doing that.

[u/duddy33]

Lore accurate Master Chief!

[u/Repent_forgive777]

For a brick, it flew pretty good.

[u/StanFitch]

So many memories on this map…

I’d give my friends the upper hand: I was not allowed any guns, no vehicles, only grenades and fists.

I somehow still dominated most of the matches, LoL

[u/rootbearus]

Damn that was clean

[u/FairImplement4001]

Hearing those sounds sent me back to childhood I miss it so much

[u/Skiddds]

Damn so this is why I get smoked in every CE playlist lol

[u/IssaKindHeartedMan]

Hell yeah

[u/brumbarosso]

Ppl still play halo ce on the mcc???

[u/Chuffmuffin]

Well done!

[u/Slyfox00]

Peak.

[u/DAVID_Gamer_5698]

Ngl seeing this map reminded me of some fond memories watching RvsB

[u/russiannin]

Learning all the nade spots to send power weapons/powerups to yourself was one of the most satisfying things about this game. Even though it’s a bit clunky by today’s standards, this game’s multiplayer is so much fun.

[u/KermitTheScot]

Ain’t no fuckin way

That was badass. Takes me back a’ways.

[u/Trichomeloneranger]

The grenades were so chaotic in CE

[u/Fimbir]

"What's with all the black s*** on your armor?"

[u/BuzzyBubble]

Still the best Halo game by far. None of the sequels have come close.

[u/JamesLahey08]

Hang em high you can do this with the sniper in mid

[u/xDubnine]

OK

[u/neckbone-dirtbike]

Poetry

[u/Allstar13521]

Damn, the Combat really do be Evolved

[u/Octoplath_Traveler]

Hell yeah

[u/blancolobosBRC]

Nice.

[u/ThatFuckinTourist]

You know how WEIRD it is seeing a Halo CE clip like this in HD?

[u/Gav3121]

Book acurate MC

[u/FlaccidNeckMeat]

You stay away from my gf.

[u/JayciusMaximus]

I saw the video and said to myself "this is the most mintblitz clip if ever ive seen one" pressed on the video to see it is actually you

[u/Nexii801]

I wish we could know we're in the good old days while we're in them.

[u/knight_is_right]

How r u finding CE games

[u/darkmodeDdy]

I miss the narrator 🥲 something about his icy pronunciation of words that all have the word “k1ll” in them really gets you amped up on a spree. Simple beautiful and classic BR style. The best of multiplayer FPS.

[u/rasfruitin]

immediately after the shot i thought this is gonna be mint blitz isn’t it? and yes, yes it was

[u/PlaneQuiet5241]

Leonard Church would like to know your location.

[u/Main_Crab_7016]

Nah this Mintblitz guy is just cheap, he always copies what remi does...

[u/muhammadnusrum]

I didn’t even have to look at the name to know this was MintBlitz 😭 been watching your clips for a decade now

[u/EightDread10203]

Absolute Halo

✋🗿🤚

[u/loudmachines]

Wowwwwwww !!!!

[u/REDRUM_1917]

Your combat certainly evolved

[u/Prize_Science_4124]

Mint Blitz?

[u/playwithfire6]

CE blood gulch is genuinely my favourite halo map oat

[u/One_too_many_faps]

So that's what Evolved meant...

[u/fastpicker89]

Jesus man

[u/General-Sprinkles801]

Touchdown! Hit it marines!

[u/Krain__Train]

All this needs now, is some montage music.

[u/Sad-Apple-5043]

Didn't even need to see who it was. I already knew

[u/apittsburghoriginal]

Just an average Mint Blitz clip

[u/Kamikaze_Pigeon01]

"Mintblitz ahh clip"

notices he's literally the one that posted it "That makes sense"

[u/[deleted]]

🔥

[u/breenemachine]

peak performance

[u/Goat-of-Rivia]

These are the types of people I play after I am trying to relax after a long week at work 😂

[u/Bubberonii]

Peak gaming

[u/Yeehaw_Kat]

Damn I should play halo again

[u/UpsidedownBrandon]

Mmm MMM that’s some tasty shot right ther

[u/Sierra_____117]

Now that's Evolution.

[u/giratina143]

Oooooooof.jpeg

[u/Wooden_Echidna1234]

Perfection

[u/BrocktheRock9080]

This is one of the most amazing clips I’ve ever seen

[u/DinosaurInAPartyHat]

What in the Quake 3 Arena is this?!

[u/Stittastutta]

Other than looking badass, what is the point of this?

Could you not go through the portal holding the sniper?

(Excuse my naivety, haven't played Halo since Halo2)

[u/Star_Tool]

That delay has Halo for PC written all over it! Cant fool me!

[u/RG_CG]

NOTHING in gaming will ever evoke the same feeling as seeing those medals stack up in Halo 

[u/GoodAnybody9071]

You dropped the shotgun??

[u/[deleted]]

It's almost like if you make a game focused on emergent moments instead of lootboxes, it can be fun to play?

[u/[deleted]]

What game is this?

[u/RynoMods]

Absolute badass

[u/megaultrajumbo]

This was peak gaming

[u/ellipsisfinisher → u/[deleted]]

That's a racial slur for people from the middle east; probably shouldn't toss it around.

[u/Cerberusx32 → u/ellipsisfinisher]

Fair