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[CYrus BORG]

Is there a setting that I need to use for xbox live Halo II?  I can shoot an opponent using two full magazines with a Battle Rifle, then he'll turn and shoot me with 1 or 2 bursts and I'm dead.  Even point blank with a shotgun takes 2 shots to kill someone.  There must be some kind of setting that I'm missing becuse this happens all the time?  It takes 2 -3 melee attacks to take someone out even after I've shot them.  Someone please help.

Could it be connection speed?

[The Third Man]

practice, practice, practice  

they just know how to use the weapons better than you do.

[lordvader129]

i dont play h2 as much as used to play h1, but in h1 body/chest shots take down shields faster, then a headhot ends it once the shield is down, if you aim well enough 3-4 shots from the pistol could kill anyone not wearing an overshield

[the flying jester]

your not missing any setting. it may be your connection speed. if your ping bar is all the way  red then its really hard to kill as very little of your shots or checks hit your opponents. go for body shots till you can hit someone very easily, then go for headshots. and its impossible to kill someone in 2 shots with a br, minimum is 4 bursts to thehead

[--DANNY--]

QUOTE(lordvader129)

if you aim well enough 3-4 shots from the pistol could kill anyone not wearing an overshield

Well... actually in Halo, using the pistol, it takes 3 headshots to kill someone, or 5 shots anywhere else to the body. Chest shots are just the same as anywhere else besides the head. And it would also take 3 body shots and a head shot, or 2 headshots and one body shot...

But ya, for Halo2 you just need to learn to aim for the head. Headshots are much more powerful than body shots. And chest isn't any more powerful than the foot or arm, or anywhere else other than the head.

For example... with no shields on, using a magnum in Halo2, it takes either 9 shots anywhere to the body, or 1 single headshot to kill someone... that would mean that a headshot is roughly 9 times more powerful than a body shot in this situation...

So the key is... headshots...

Your connection speed may have something to do with it. What is your connection speed? And do you have downloads going when you are playing? Anything that would use your bandwidth and cause lag?

-Danny

[blame canada]

ever think your handicap is on  

[Alex548]

Unless he manually changed his settings to turn on the handicap... then he just needs to practice aiming at the opponents head.

[CYrus BORG]

You guys have offered some very interesting insights.  I am on a Comcast Cable network with 2 other computers on although no one generally is using them at the same time.  Connection speed varies, mainly because Comcast in this situation lacks consistency, but they are the only provider in the area.

How does one turn "handicap on or off?"  This seems like the most likely cause.  Yesterday I hit a guy point blank with a brute shot, but he just beat me down.  I also plugged a guy twice with a shotgun who was so close that most of his body was inside of the red circle.  He turned and whacked me.  Then there are the guys I run over with a Ghost who sometimes just get pushed instead of dying.  Then they're pissed off and blow my head off...sheesh.  I still get kills, but I die too easily.

I do know about headshots, although I admit that even though I'm a law enforcement distinguished expert pistol shot in real life, video controls are a bit different...especially with a guy rushing at you waving a Battle Rifle yelling obscenities, and jumping like a grasshoper.  But for the guy who is across the field on Coagulation who starts shooting at me 5 seconds after I've started shooting him, who kills me with 3 bursts, I can't imagine he's lucky enough to get head shots from that distance while I'm reloading a third time trying to kill him.  I'm going to look at turning off other computers to see what happens.  

I hope to be a better team mate because I love Halo II.  Thanks for all your insights.

CYBORG

[The Third Man]

I doubt it is your connection. Comcast speeds aren't great, but they're pretty good.

In the situation you described, all 3 of your opponent's BR bursts were probably head shots, so you went down before him. Some people are just that good (or maybe they have very large TVs). If you've got the drop on someone, you might want to soften him up with a grenade before you start shooting.

As for the shotgun, my friends and I sometimes call it the "lottery cannon" because you never know if you'll come out a winner. The best thing to do with a shotgun is charge right at you oppoenent, fire once you are close enough, and follow immediately with a melee attack.

I find the brute shot to be a frustrating weapon and don't use it much. And the Ghost splatters can be kind of buggy, as you described.

[lordvader129]

the key is control, and remembering the thumbsticks are analog (if you move it halfway you move at half speed)

my friend turns the sensitivty all the way so he can track very fast adn very precisely, personally i have trouble with this setting because i overtrack, but if you have good control you wont have my problems, lol (kinda sounds like a mens health infomercial)

[Maertz]

host is a big part in halo 2 also.other than that aim.

[Ninjoo]

QUOTE(The Third Man @ Jan 10 2006, 11:07 AM)

As for the shotgun...fire once you are close enough, and follow immediately with a melee attack.

I gotta ask a question about this: this was my main tactic on Halo2 online when playing on the original XBox.  However, now I'm playing on my 360, and it just isn't working.  It's like one of the hits isn't counting - I'll shoot someone almost point blank and then smack them, but they're still standing.  And then I'll hit them again, and they still won't die.  And don't chalk this up to me being a newbie - if I played enough ranked games, I'd be at least 25 (as it is, I'm only a 21 because I do unranked almost exlusively).  And it was always working fine on the original Xbox.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?  I mean, I suppose my timing could have changed slightly, but this has happened repeatedly (and only with the shotgun/smack combo) when I KNOW I've hit them both times.

So anyone else see this?

[Sweenerdog32]

Yeah, I get that a lot, especially with shotguns. Of couse, living in Australia, isn't good for the ping (usually over 200 against American host), and neither is my modem (D-link 302G). It dosen't help my ability to join good games either  

[gcskate27]

host is a HUGE part of h2 online... turn off anything that might be sapping bandwidth, ie p2p apps, spyware infested pcs, random family members using the internet while youre playing...

[d0wnlab]

just wanted to mention:

with BR, headshots only really matter when the target's shields are down.  If they're shields are up, then a shot to the head takes off the same amount of shield as a shot to the body.  So you can shoot at the chest for the first 3 bursts, then head for the last burst, and it's easier to achieve.