It's only called recoil in real life, it's called bloom in Halo.
With no bleed-through, if your enemy has shields, nothing can kill them in one shot(Other than obvious stuff like rockets and grenades). You will always have to shoot/hit them at least twice, even if they have 1 bar of red health and 1% shield, because the last bit of shield will absorb all of the damage. With no bleed-through, if you beat them down and they have 5% shield and red health, it will kill them because the damage is transferred through the shield after it disappears. I dunno how to explain it any clearer than that.
Ok.
You just said there are no terrible weapons...
You just said there are no terrible powerups...
Radar is fucking terrible, it's 10x more fun without radar.

I'm currently reading Broca's Brain

I think I get the bleed through thingy now. Basically, meleeing them does full damage, even if they've got hardly any shields/health... dunno why that was so hard for me to pick up on.
In comparison to others, I meant. Needler and assault rifle suck because most people don't know how to use them properly.
I suppose it might be. I hate nasty surprises though.

Whut?

Also, what the fuck is this shit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baMamCidylg&feature=fvst
This kid's crazy... The way he carries the flag by jumping and dropping and whatnot...

This post was edited by iamluke21393 on Dec 13 2011 06:24pm

It's called flag running. When you drop/pick it up, you can move much quicker than if you just carried it all the way.

Also, Walshy isn't some "kid," he's like 25 and was one of the best Halo players in the world for a long time.

Certainly didn't mean it as an insult.
But doesn't that mean the enemy can see where their flag is at every few seconds?

Yes, but unless you're playing against complete retards it won't matter anyway. 2x speed > stealth.

I guess I'm just used to playing with complete retards then...
Big team battle, odds are most of your team's going to be retards.

In BtB I wouldn't suggest it, because your team isn't going to be that focused on protecting you, while all 8 members of the other team are going to drop what they're doing and come straight at you the second you drop the flag.

Of course. I just like it because there's so much going on, so much you can do, more weapon selection, more people to kill, not always the same game type, etc.

Invasion. Totally underrated.

I agree, it's a good time. Seems like I always get a bad team whenever I play though.