For those of you who like to play Halo 3, I found a nice tool called FPSBuddy which works with your Pocket PC or Windows Mobile device to help you gain an advantage over your Halo 3 opponents.
The tool is a Halo 3 Respawn Timer, and it lets you know when a weapon, item, powerup, or vehicle will be respawning. I love that they made this work with my beloved Pocket PC Phone. It’s basically a web app that you access from your device’s Pocket Internet Explorer (just like any other website). You’ll need Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC in order for it to work.
Once you access the Halo 3 Spawn Timer from your device, you’ll see a drop-down list with various gametypes and maps. Just select your map and gametype from the dropdown and click submit and you’ll be presented with a screen full of icons that you can click with your finger to start and stop the timer. FPSBuddy has a free version which lets you use the tool as much as you want in Free For All (lone wolves) gametypes. The pay version is extremely affordable at only $3.99/month via a convenient and safe Paypal subscription.
If you watch the video above, you’ll get an idea of how it works. Let me give you an example scenario: While the game is starting up, you’ll load the map and gametype (Team Slayer on High Ground). Right when the match starts, you run to the Spartan Laser and as soon as you pick it up, you activate the timer on your Windows Mobile device. This starts a visual timer on the screen, and you get a vocal warning at ten seconds which gives you just enough time to get to the Spartan Laser the next time it spawns. This keeps the important weapon out of your enemy’s hands and in yours, giving you a better chance of getting the win.
You just hit the Halo 3 Respawn timer from Firefox, IE, or Safari and you can try this Halo 3 tool from your computer. Here they use the tool in a dual monitor setup, where the Halo 3 spawn timer is on one monitor, and Halo 3 is on the other. This is a good way to use this tool if you don’t have a Windows Mobile device (shame, shame).
And now for the good stuff. The video above shows you what you REALLY want to see, how it works on a pocket pc. In this video, they use a Verizon XV6800 to use FPSBuddy’s Halo 3 timer to track the respawn time of a weapon in-game. Although this video is short, it shows you the true potential of a Windows Mobile device. This is by far the best use of a web application I’ve seen for the Pocket PC, and I heard that a lot of the MLG pros are using this tool in their competitions. Think about it, it’s the perfect way to cheat at Halo 3! Well, you really aren’t cheating, but this tool DOES give you a huge advantage in Halo 3. Anyways, if the MLG pros are using this, and they are getting paid millions to play Halo 3, then it must be good for people who aren’t that good (such as myself). All I can say is that if you play Halo 3 and have a Windows Mobile device that you should at LEAST check out the free version. It really is an innovative use of Windows Mobile’s capabilities.
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