Many people on my list were playing.

You can use the Energy Sword. Notice the ammo meter for this weapon.

Dual pistols. One pistol is a 5 shot kill.

Note how high I am. Wraith is barely visible in bottom left. Look at the sensitive radar.

Multiple teams.

Tonight, thousands of HALO 3 beta participants got to play custom gametypes in HALO 3. Previously, it the custom gametypes menu. Tonight a viral networking event took place.

I received a text message saying that some people on my list were playing HALO 3 custom gametypes. They certainly were. Oddly enough, when I started the HALO 3 beta, I was notified that I need to download and apply an update to HALO 3. Whatever the update did, it didn't prevent me from playing HALO 3 custom gametypes.

The ability to play custom games spread in a viral fashion as when someone "backs out" of a custom match they are taken to a customs game menu in which they can start a customs match. So, one game could be the parent of thousands of customs matches. Note that a modified XBOX 360 (which will get you banned from XBOX Live) is not required to play or host the customs games. Heh. This morning, I saw several XBOX 360 idling with single players in custom games. I guess they didn't want to risk losing the customs menu.

How one starts a custom game in the first place is a bit of a mystery. It appears that it randomly happens after pressing a lot of buttons in the customs games menu we revealed last week.

We played all kinds of gametypes with all kinds of weird settings. Low gravity with infinite ammo in Spartan Lasers on Valhalla was a blast. However, gametype in which the running speed was increased was difficult to play with Battle Rifles as it was hard to hit someone moving that fast multiple times. Additionally, we played a gametype in which the Oddball carrier was invincible. Not invisible. But invincible. Odd indeed.

Check out my HALO 3 stats. You can see here that we even got to play Tank Flag.

Odd. Evidentially they found it without modding their box.

Note the pistol.