Saddest day in my Halo experience

[Nulls Wife]

I wake up this morning to Null telling me there is no regenerating grenades in Reach. I seriously almost cried. This means no traditional OVERBOARD! :thumbdown:

Yeah yeah it is a different game and yeah yeah we can fudge it so it is similar, but OVERBOARD! is the only reason I play Halo so I am crazy disappointed. Add that to the fact I think Reach is way too fancy and you have one unhappy girl.

[l33tmeerkatslol]

Get Time Glitch to write up a few paragraphs for you. ;)

[Gunnergrunt]

That is quite disappointing! You can always scatter nades around the map and merge them into the spawn pooints, but gee... it just won't be the same! Sad day indeed, Null's Wife.

EDIT: haha! nice meetkats....

[Sir Shazmanoid]

I say just hang on to a copy of Halo 3. I don't plan on selling my Halo 3 disc, and I'm sure a lot of others will hang on to theres. Any time you want to play some traditional Overboard hit some people up with an invite. :-] I'd definitely join considering how much fun I had at that last Overboard gamenight. :grin:

Plus there's always the possibility that a title update will add in regenerating grenades as well as VIP. (I hope!) Also I know you love Overboard, but if you just try out some little minigames once people start posting them I'm sure you can find some other games you enjoy as well. Just try not to worry about it too much.

[Master Debayter]

It doesn't have VIP yet either... :(

[Skittlemeister]

Who's Null...?

That sucks! OVERBOARD! is a huge part of your playing experience! And it definitely brought a huge meaning to the website! Hopefully you can create something similar!

[PsychoBucket]

I dont see why they would take something like that out of the game.

[Artifex]

I don't see why they apparently took a lot of stuff out of the game. It sounds like they didn't pay attention to the community and removed a lot of stuff that were important parts of popular mini-games/gametypes.

[Zackj191]

I know you may love it so much, but honestly, OVERBOARD! sucks as a gametype. If you are drunk, maybe I can see it being fun. I have played it a couple times and since I don't want to be outcast I said "oh yea it was fun!," when, in reality, it's like a gametype made by a 5-year old that doesn't have Live.

[PsychoBucket]

I know you may love it so much, but honestly, OVERBOARD! sucks as a gametype. If you are drunk, maybe I can see it being fun. I have played it a couple times and since I don't want to be outcast I said "oh yea it was fun!," when, in reality, it's like a gametype made by a 5-year old that doesn't have Live.

What maps did you play on. Many people who played only a few games and didnt like it, were only playing on the small maps.

[MNM1245]

I know you may love it so much, but honestly, OVERBOARD! sucks as a gametype. If you are drunk, maybe I can see it being fun. I have played it a couple times and since I don't want to be outcast I said "oh yea it was fun!," when, in reality, it's like a gametype made by a 5-year old that doesn't have Live.

I totally agreed. Except instead of going along I would usually leave the conversation when I heard the dreaded words of OVERBOARD. It definitely isn't my style. When I first saw it I thought, "Hey sounds pretty cool, I LOVE regenerating grenades so what could go wrong!?" I've never been a fan of it.

Also Psycho idk what the maps name where but one was like octagonal. I think. I remember I joined Nulls party once sometime this year I'm going to guess, and he was playing OVERBOARD! so I decided to see what the hype was about. I wasn't a fan and I'm sure that since Null was the party leader he was putting on some of the best maps for it and I just didn't enjoy it.

EDIT: Now that I think about it I think I had played once before in the little green box on the Pit.


But ya no more regen grenades does suck.

[PsychoBucket]

I totally agreed. Except instead of going along I would usually leave the conversation when I heard the dreaded words of OVERBOARD. It definitely isn't my style. When I first saw it I thought, "Hey sounds pretty cool, I LOVE regenerating grenades so what could go wrong!?" I've never been a fan of it.

Also Psycho idk what the maps name where but one was like octagonal. I think. I remember I joined Nulls party once sometime this year I'm going to guess, and he was playing OVERBOARD! so I decided to see what the hype was about. I wasn't a fan and I'm sure that since Null was the party leader he was putting on some of the best maps for it and I just didn't enjoy it.

EDIT: Now that I think about it I think I had played once before in the little green box on the Pit.


But ya no more regen grenades does suck.

I made the one on the pit, and that is one of the smallest maps. I also think the other map is small.

"Null was the party leader he was putting on some of the best maps for it"

the "best" maps are relative to who is playing them. People who like OVERBOARD! (Null) like to play on OVERBOARD! maps of all shapes and sizes.

[Nulls Wife]

I really don't care who likes or hates OVERBOARD!, all I know is I have had the most fun in any video games while playing it. No one is forcing you to play or like it. Also, no one has ever claimed it was an amazing, innovative, or creative gametype, we just claimed it was fun. Being a dick about any map or gametype is never called for though. As my grandmother always says, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it at all"

@MNM Both of the maps you described are small maps where you basically just spam grenades. That is really not a good example of OVERBOARD!. Null does not by any means only play the best maps.....whenever we play it we just cycle through a huge variety of maps. Some of them are tactical and some of them are just spamming grenades. Plus I agree with Psycho, 'best' is relative.

[Sir Shazmanoid]

Both of the maps you described are small maps where you basically just spam grenades. That is really not a good example of OVERBOARD!

So true. The first... say... 3 times or so I played Overboard were on extremely small maps where the name of the game was just to chuck grenades around the area and try to get off as many as you can before dieing. Then... one Overboard gamenight later where almost all of the maps were big and/or open, I loved it. You really shouldn't judge off of first impressions, though I guess that's just the way the world works, so no hard feelings.

Anyway, has anyone actually tried an OVERBOARD! game yet? Maybe it's not so bad. Hell maybe there's even some options everyone's overlooking. Is there really no infinite grenades options? Does bottomless clip effect grenades? Could placing all 32 Sticky grenades around a map and have everyone spawn with 4 be just as good?

[Null Parameter]

Is there really no infinite grenades options? Does bottomless clip effect grenades? Could placing all 32 Sticky grenades around a map and have everyone spawn with 4 be just as good?
I still have to test the bottomless clip, but I highly doubt that would do it.

The issue with placing all of the grenades around the map is that OVERBOARD! will stop being a lot of bouncing, and will be people running around instead, looking for grenades. This will also make large maps very difficult to play, because 32 grenades really isn't that many.

We definitely plan on keeping a copy of Halo 3, and possibly hosting some OVERBOARD! game nights on that if it ends up not working out.

[pyro swan]

It doesn't have VIP yet either... :(

thats the key thing... YET. I heard that bungie just left out some of the game types, only to release them again with the future DLC mappacks that will come out. It is annoying, but just wait a while, you'll be overboarding again in no time!