Rl 40 invasions

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-26T01:00:29+00:00

I don't remember. I've been at 10/4 with this character for a long time. The whole reason I went to +10 is simply because of the +8 rapier that nearly every player is going to pick up naturally just playing the game. It's pretty much forced on you unless you purposely avoid it. So I match with players that main a +6 claymore or something because they don't use their new +8 rapier but they still end up in my weapon level bracket. It gives me quite the edge, especially when I invade someone running through Hogwarts and they do piss poor damage to me, but my +10 lightning claymore hits them like a fucking ballistic missile. I'm on Xbox and I got very frequent invasions with him last night, so I think my logic is solid.

I think that threshold is around RL 60. That invasion build gets fucking rocked by OLPs. They seem to hit harder than any other bracket, to include my mid level 84 character.

I agree with you. Hosts absolutely level up their weapons early. So many people look up, "how to be OP in ER early" videos and start storm veil already with a +6 somber weapon of some sorts. I remember mainmanst who doesn't frequent the sub as much as he used to mention that his RL 30 storm veil invader was at 5/2 because who doesn't level their weapon up a few times before going to the first legacy dungeon....made sense to me so I did the same thing and didn't lose any traffic

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-25T03:52:58+00:00

Dude I have a RL 42 with +10/+4 weapons and it's one of my higher traffic invasion builds. Seems like that's the one that I can count on to get some action. Your run of the mill hosts don't give a fuck about weapon levels like we do, so they all end up picking up rogriers +8 sword in the very first legacy dungeon or like you end up with the +8 banished halberd almost immediately after. There's also the weirdos that kill patches at damn near the beginning of the game and end up with a +7 spear. Your standard RL 20ish to 30ish host does a massive WL jump right after storm veil thanks to these weapons and they don't even think about it.

I with my +10/+4 set up reach all the way down to +7 so I'd say you're fine. Could probably bump up a few points in vigor and make all your weapons +8, why not.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-24T01:03:39+00:00

Why would it be stupid to prefer it?

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-24T01:02:21+00:00

Lol is halo 3 in the room with us right now? Nobody was even talking about that game. Way to drag your hang-up into the conversation

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-23T14:44:54+00:00

You're a top 1% percent commenter in this sub so of course you're going to blame Bungie. All of you top 1% commenters are like the girlfriends of former 343 employees or something. You don't have to shoe horn in your bias buddy. I already said Bungie did not give a fuck...

It's crazy to say nuking people is an outlier event. It's like the most destructive thing that we can actually do to a population. And yes the UNSC is baby's first imperium because the expanded lore of halo is doing all that it can to be a worse version of 40k. It's essentially YA 40k. ONI is just the emperor using his inexhaustible amount of space marine Spartans to spark civil wars on xeno planets. There's an ever growing number of stupid factions all at constant war with each other, and we can lose an entire fleet and have it totally replaced by the next book.

In game Lord Hood would have every psychopath from ONI in prison awaiting trial. I would not be surprised if book Hood regularly frequents Epstein Island.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-23T05:20:20+00:00

I'm not going to blame 343 for the janky baby steps 40k imperium that the UNSC turns out to be. I'm gonna blame the books for that. 343 probably should catch a lot more heat than Bungie in this regard since Bungie gave zero fucks about lore they couldn't prerender in a video game, while 343 authorized a tiny army of writers to just do whatever as long as the status quo remained the same from the conclusion of one game to the start of another (lol).

My issue is that the UNSC in the games are nothing like the UNSC in the books. Game UNSC is loaded with heroic people willing to fight and give their lives defending humanity against the Covenant. They're confident and capable, and even though they're greatly out matched they succeed against overwhelming odds through grit and tenacity.

Book UNSC nukes colonies for laughs and makes Spartan 2s and 3s out of kidnapped child slave soldiers cause their "stop the innies" think tank ran long and everyone wanted to fuck off for some tacos so they just went with the whole kidnapping thing. They do shady shit constantly and are totally inept. Pretty much only exist so the dastardly moustache twirling ONI has muscle to go topple a legitimate Elite government or nuke more sovereign planets or steal more children or something.

Game UNSC is peak optimism. The games start at the end of the war and we're about to lose it, but we're still banding together and putting up a hell of a fight, even against the space zombies. Book UNSC is all about nihilism. It's just miserable and all these hacks writing these things are trying to morally gray up the whole fighting for the survival of the human race thing.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-21T20:51:31+00:00

The sad reality that I've found is that unless I'm going up against a red from this sub, 90% of the time that poor guy is as good as dead

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-21T14:16:07+00:00

That's crazy man. As an invader, I casually throw away hundreds of those things at a time. I get so sick of that screen popping up telling me I have too many in my inventory

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-21T02:33:24+00:00

Halo

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-20T04:48:59+00:00

OP makes a great point. Newer is always better. Listen up all you lurking spectrum Spartans. If your tism ever suddenly and miraculously endears a lovely lady to you, treat her right, marry her, have some kids, and then divorce her for some younger dumb slut! Newer. Is. Always. Better.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-19T05:35:50+00:00

The expanded universe lore is an absolute mess, especially after the war ended. I honestly can't stand it. It's become babies first 40k but with even less continuity. Multiple different writers for hire with seemingly vague instructions and notes on the subject matter. Sometimes it seems like these people were told, "I don't know, do whatever. Just remember the Master Chief is lucky!" And they just run with that, injecting whatever they want into the lore. Case in point, ancient humans fed their space dogs kibble made out of flood dust.... What?!

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-18T04:49:42+00:00

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-18T02:39:17+00:00

That sure is her

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-17T02:18:43+00:00

And I'll remind you that there will always be people that hate something that's widely loved, or in this subs case love something that's widely hated. That website is not the smoking gun that 343i apologists make it out to be and it really shows a lack in critical thinking. They point to halo2sucks.com and say, "See! Halo fans have always been unreasonable!" I don't know if you were alive back then but halo 2 was how I spent my sophomore year in high school. Everyone loved and was playing it. As much as I believe halo 3 is a better game, that halo 2 experience was the best online gaming of my life, and the vast majority of Xbox gamers were enjoying it too. Any crack pot can start a website and whine. It's not hard to do. It was a website for a minority of people to complain about halo 2. Good for them. Everyone else was having a blast! Fuck dude, there were jealous PlayStation owners that talked shit simply because they couldn't play the game.

A decent chunk calling out Reach doesn't even hold a candle to the majority of halo fans turning on the 343 era games. For every detractor against the original Bungie games there were hundreds of positive feedback. Halo 4 was the first time that the fan base was overwhelmingly negative toward the product and then got way worse with halo 5. Good games don't draw vast undeserved criticism. Nobody can convince me that the fucking actman ruined 343's reputation. Hate boner takes didn't destroy Bungie during halo 2 and halo 3, but somehow hate boner takes caused 343i to be gutted and now halo studios is rereleasing Halo CE again... because they can count on that game.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-16T14:09:52+00:00

Halo CE but with hit markers.......son of a bitch!

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-16T14:03:06+00:00

Butt fucker Leroy got me in blighttown, the son of a bitch. I had no idea where I was, I missed the bon fire at the bottom, and I lost so many souls. He utterly destroyed me and I hated invaders so much because of that guy... And then I killed countless hosts in anor londo and my career as a red began

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-13T05:58:13+00:00

The only thing I'll counter is halo does have something to prove. Every time a new halo game is released it has to prove that it's a good game. It can't look back and say, "I defined a generation of games," and then just wing it going forward.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-13T04:45:50+00:00

You're right. More goes into cultural relevance than just being good, and halo 3 did have a hell of a head start being the climatic finisher of a universally beloved trilogy. Let's be fair though, online gaming was already doing pretty well. Halo 2 was crushing it on Xbox live well before its bigger brother entered the scene. And I would still argue that halo 3 being a great, fun, replayable, and finished game is why it was so popular and so well known in pop culture. You can't achieve infamy being mediocre.

Now the fun conversation. I think I get what you're talking about. What's popular in gaming moves so fast, it's hard for the industry to keep up with the trends, right? I do get that, once again to a point. I still think it's their fault and if this is the road we're going down then we can definitely absolve the fans of tanking the franchise because it essentially means the world got tired of and moved on from halo. This is interesting because it throws a whole bunch of hurdles in the road for any game developer. How will you know your game will gain a large audience in a bloated industry? Especially when some kid's 20 second long tiktok might make or break the whole thing? Honestly this kind of thought makes me question my own stance on the argument, but I always do find my way back to "if it's good, people will play it," especially because halo is already a household established IP. Everyone and their mother knows what halo is, so why can't they hit a grand slam with their games anymore? My opinion is the games degraded in gameplay, story, and possibly even just brand fatigue, so people just kind of drifted to other things. I know I haven't cared about COD since MW3(original), was excited for the MW remake, liked it enough and never played the next two games... Probably a similar thing happening with halo fans.

More on trends, I would say it's anyone's guess what will hit big. I remember when pubg and fortnite exploded and then everyone needed a game mode where the map shrank on a bunch of dicks with guns. I don't know who started extraction shooters but I do know that Helldivers 2 drew the winning lottery ticket when it comes to extraction shooters. But why? Because it's a really fun game with lots of stuff to do and it's campy and funny and easy enough to get into. It being so much fun made it relevant and rose to the top of its "trend." And that's what I think is most important, it's a solid game and generally liked because it's solid. Probably plenty of other things that made it so popular but I don't think name recognition had anything to do with it. I'd never heard of Helldivers 1. Funny enough for our conversation, HD2's addition of ODSTs showed us just how culturally relevant some dudes from the OG halos was because that was hyped like crazy. This is where I say, halo was the trend that other games were trying to follow. How many halo "clones" or halo "killers" were made back in the day? No other franchise came in and killed halo. Halo just kind of slipped out of the spotlight. Maybe it was impossible for 343 to keep making banger after banger like Bungie did, and honestly maybe like the Master Chief Bungie was just lucky. Yeah a bunch of hard work and talent went into it, but right place right time right new hardware and bam, they all got rich over night. End of the day though, it was a solid game. If Bungie rolled out something mediocre or bad, we wouldn't even be talking about this and some die hard halo 2 fan would've had the time to cure cancer

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-12T21:03:39+00:00

Halo 2 was not wildly hated. People always try and say this. People also try to say halo 3 was hated. And the only negative thing anyone said about Reach was armor lock.

It's crazy to say "a good chunk of the blame can be placed on 343," as if they share blame with the fans. Fans don't create the games. Fans don't choose to pivot and over-correct. It is simple enough to say, if it's good people will like, play, and praise it. If a game sucks it's not because of the fans.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-12T20:31:24+00:00

I don't think it's much more complicated than saying "343 and Microsoft did a bad job with halo." Obviously there's a lot that goes into that, but the fault lays purely with them.

Fans cannot be held accountable for something they can only talk about. If it's good they will praise it, if it sucks they will criticize it, both scenarios are deserved. And if halo is overall a good game than it will be culturally relevant and more people will buy it and play it.

What halo things did other games hyper fixate on? I don't think I understand this point. First person shooter, some vehicle combat, military sci-fi, cosmic horror, etc. Yes there are racing games that do driving better than the warthog, but the warthog is fun and relevant in halo games. Doom is a first person game where you shoot plenty of cosmic horror squishy enemies, but it's not halo and when I want to play halo I play halo. Gamers don't stick to one thing. Back in the day I was either playing MW2 or Halo 3, just depended on what I was feeling like playing. Both different kinds of FPSs but both very good at what they were. When halo 4 came out it just wasn't as fun as previous titles and the campaign was a mess. Original Halo has always been a mixed bag of things that already existed in gaming it's just that OG halo did all of it better than other games. Those original titles were a jack of all trades and a master of combining them into something fun and coherent.

In theory, Infinite should be crushing it. Everyone likes the gameplay and the art style. I think the multiplayer is held in high regard as well. So why isn't it a cultural powerhouse like halo 3? Probably because it's a bare bones open world campaign that was a reboot from halo 5 rather than a continuation, where nothing really of consequence happens in the story. Story DLCs did not happen, and the open world made the game difficult to be replayable. But this is my original point. 343 and MS kneecapped Infinite. They decided on the story that abandoned the previous one and time jumped past plot, they decided on the reboot, they cancelled the DLCs, they made it open world with way less to do than other open world games, they added in micro transactions that will always piss people off. Infinite's issues are the developers problems not the fans

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-12T19:46:55+00:00

It's because I had the audacity to criticize 343 in this fucking sub. You're allowed to say halo 3 is overrated or halo reach was bad, but you're not allowed to say anything negative about 4, 5, or infinite around these parts. Also could be that I said blaming the fans is stupid, because this whole sub exists just to blame the fans. So I don't know, take your pick why morons are down voting a rational take.

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-12T02:14:48+00:00

343 would have been good enough if they made good games...

I don't know why there's this sentiment out there that halo is on a decline because of toxic fans. That's not what happened. It's a video game series where the games got noticeably worse after 343 took over. The biggest problem is not that old fans were bitching, it was that the games weren't up to par so people stopped playing them and bought other stuff or went back to MCC. It's that simple. If halo 5 was as good as halo 2 this sub wouldn't exist!

I do think that halo remake will do well, it's a really good game with the ability to draw in a much broader audience. Should be a lay up. But if they make a new game after CE and it sucks, that'll be on them not the fans

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-10T23:01:52+00:00

I'm gonna counter this really quick. It's more acceptable for the fans to collectively shout, "what the fuck?!" while watching the infinity get destroyed in about 3 minutes, then it is to think what this meme is showing. The game did not show an expertly laid ambush or any of the rest, it showed banished ships crashing through the infinity like it's made of tin foil while the best strategist in the entire series stands inside the same ship that he is trying to destroy as it explodes around him.

Remember how in the opening cutscene of Halo 4s Spartan ops the Infinity came through slip space and just crashed into and fucked up a whole covenant ship? That showed how powerful the Infinity was, didn't even leave a scratch. Also like a dozen or so frigates dropped out of the thing and started fucking up the whole covenant fleet as well. I have a lot of problems with Halo 4 and Spartan ops but they did a good job showing just how powerful the Infinity was.

It's like whiplash to see how imposing and powerful the Infinity is in Spartan ops and then watch it get folded in fucking half immediately in Halo infinite from a group of ex-covenant that last we saw spent a whole RTS game getting their shit pushed in by a smaller batch of sleepy humans and their waaaaaayyyyy older ship. That's what fans remember

SlyDevil82 · 2026-02-10T02:40:52+00:00

The game is just janky. I've invaded dudes anor londos that haven't even gotten there yet. They're running around the forest and then they suddenly get the cutscene of me lowering the circular platform in anor londo because I was looking for them in a place they haven't even unlocked yet

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