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Yeah. xD

Yes, Dark Intellect has to do with the Office of Naval intelligence, but there is one more meaning behind it. Anyway, I am here to see the next 10 years of Halo and how they will turn out.

During battle I want to help my team towards victory. I do play Big Team Battle, but I do not approve of it very often because it is mostly filled with people who do not know the games mechanics or have different opinion on what is "fun" during gameplay. Therefore if I would play BTB with a couple of people which know and share similar interest with me then I would enjoy my BTB experience.

Betraying teammates is merely a way to get rid of any negative influence and help the team to achieve victory. (Which it did work, you can always look at my match history and look for yourself) Although I have been booted enough times because it is inevitable that most of your team will either be angry at you for random reasons. I.e. throwing a grenade towards enemies and a friendly target pops-up randomly and kicks you for betrayal.

I am a good player in an organized team, I can guess even without communication what my teammates want from me, and with communication I usually give information around and eventually pass out phrases like "For the Emperor!" or "Do not haste, if we are going to lose then we are going to take them to hell with us" (Which actually during a matchmaking game with a big skill difference it actually turned the tides of the game! It is incredible how words can inspire your fellow teammates)

I am a lonewolf, but rarely during team games. I do trust my teammates too much at times, where I expect them to do certain things, but I always forget that they are randoms and I never can be sure that they know the game or feel it the same way I do. For example my real-life friends with which I have played countless games with do not "feel" the game. They merely expect that walking and shooting will obtain you kill points, which actually works a little in their favour when the settings are similar to Halo: Combat Evolved.

However their performance decreases as there are more and more complex strategies involved. I admit that I have extended online experience, but they are also very predictable in Halo, whereas I always end up called a "cheater" and they assume that I stare to their screen.

I am not the best player out there, there is MLG which it is actually about competitive gamers, personally, I just want to be a good player, I do not want to get paid for it, for me the fun is when I use strategy, abilities and a good set of friends to take over the hardest missions.

However, unexpected things can always happen. There are good teammates out there which act like me and I have met many. For example, I was playing a game with a friend when my friend ended up in the enemy base highly outnumbered (and with his weapon almost empty, we were playing split-screen) This guy jumped directly behind my friend with a warthog and made a run for it, when the warthog flipped from a banshee explosion that guy kept using covering fire for my friend.

Multiplayer stresses me out all the time. Too many different people and it is always a hassle to find people that are proper to play with. But it is highly rewarding when I find the people, the odd moment and the feeling I have when I dominate the battlefield, and every bullet I spend is worth an enemy's life.

I like The Rookie because he is just the new guy, nobody knows him, nobody wonders how he looks and he does not say a thing and uses obvious expressions to show his feelings at the time. The music only deepens his character. It felt like playing Master Chief back in Halo: Combat Evolved. I felt like the chief and now I felt even more like The Rookie.

Oh and I forgot the major positive outcome! I kicked -Yoink!- in the Halo: Reach beta merely because nobody played Halo 3: ODST. I spent so much time during lone firefights in normal and heroic difficulties (and completed a few) which made me into a really dangerous player during the beta, I was more familiar with the controls and the character.

LAN parties are always a great experience with friends or even new people. Although they are out of fashion, with the commodity of a couch a big TV and a fast internet connection. Although when your friends do not have an internet connection or the big TV and you happen to be the one with that stuff is another story...

Anyway! This is a long post! I hope you enjoyed reading it. :)

Well MLG is more or less about that, but it involves much more than strategic knowledge. It has to do with the time you spend to "feel" the game, think of it as doing something every day and slowly it feels natural, that is the same way that gaming works, of course for the case of MLG money comes in, but I would prefer to do something productive as customer support instead of playing video games and get paid like if it were a sport.

Well it is rare that someone reads a post I make which is past 2000 characters. Thank you and it is always nice to have a good conversation from time-to-time.

I will add you on my new Xbox Live gamertag.

Alright. :)

Why, thank you!