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Dan Dormer and the guys over at 1Up figured out how you too can create your own custom matches in Halo 3 and get access to things like the pistol, the overhauled energy sword and vampirism.
Before we get into their how to, I'll warn you, it's going to make the sleep-inducing matchmaking and multiple loading screens of regular Halo 3 beta feel like, well a normal first-person shooter that doesn't inspire you to bring a good book with you to read between matches.
First, get six to eight other players in a game with you in the pre-matchmaking phase.After you've assembled this group, have a separate player matchmaking by themselves send the party leader an invite.
The party leader needs to bring the party to the new game, but one person will get kicked.
The person who was booted will now send invites to those who weren't booted — it is possible you'll have to repeat these first couple of steps because you need two people in the custom game lobby.
Now you should have a party of two and a party of six in two separate lobbies — the party of six invites the party of two into their game.
Someone in the party of two should lag out into a custom game that actually works.
If you don't have the patience or the time to go through all of this, hit up 1Up for some of the neat things they discovered buried in those matches.
