Doctor Reasons
> Well, you are treating this mode like its ranked, acting as if these loses are gonna kill you. Stuff happens, get over it. You won’t win every game, neither will you not ever find a game where you get blown out. Plus, calling me an ape, doesn’t make my points any less valid, it only serves to discredit yours.
No, I am not treating this mode like its ranked, the people teaming up with the sole intention of winning are. If you’re going to get this involved, at least have the decency to read what I’m saying properly. No where did I even remotely infer that this was about winning matches. This isn’t about winning or losing, even in ranked I couldn’t care less about my win/loss ratio. This is about having fun. And if some 4 man team is destroying you in 50% of games, there is no fun. Are you saying I should enjoy being steamrollered and getting no chance to get a shot off, let alone get a kill? Spending 5-10 minutes being completely over powered by people who make sure they always have at least two guns on you to make sure you don’t get a chance for a kill is not my idea of fun. And no, it discredits nothing Mr “git good”, what a typical lazy excuse of someone who has no argument. You do realise how completely moronic that is don’t you? “Git good” is completely meaningless, unless you’re stat flaming? From what I’ve said you have absolutely zero indication of my skill level, only that of it in comparison to a full fireteam of people who are working together and who have played the game for a long time vs me and three randoms, and I would wager a skilled fireteam would get the best of pretty much any combination of 4 randoms who aren’t communicating. I could be borderline pro level playing against Optic Gaming and that would fit the information I’ve given you perfectly. Unless like I said you’ve decided to look in my stats and are stat flaming me. In which case beware.
> So because they like having ‘Xl’ or just ‘X’ in their name, with Achilies they are tryhards? Dude, its been more than 8 months since Achilies came out, even most of the casual companies have it. It’s not a sign of skill, or of a tryhard. It’s the sign of someone who grinded and enjoyed the game, more specifically warzone.
No, the fact that they play like tryhards makes them tryhards… or are you going to now say that you cant detect that from their performance? They obviously know full well they will ruin the vast majority of people they come against, knowing its casual and that lesser skilled, solo players will be more likely to be playing it. This is a matter of decency above all else, and the concept of even slight sportsmanship seems completely alien to these people. I have nothing against Achilles, I’m even in a company trying to get it, but more often than not it IS a sign of someone who is far higher than average skill level. I’ve personally done 2,600+ games and more often than not am the highest level player in any given lobby, and many people in my company have done significantly more than that, and we’re still nowhere close to the helmet.
> How? I don’t really care to check if a team I got blown out by is in a team, but even then my basic understanding is that there are only the two ways I listed.
Incredibly easily, you go on their player card and basically the first thing is a list of who they are in a party with. This feature is no secret and I’m not an idiot, I wouldn’t bother making these claims if I didn’t know for a fact what I’m up against. And I also wouldn’t care to check either, except due to the frequency of these massacres and the need to have something done about it.
> Cause I want to not only talk with them, but play with them too. You obviously seem to have no friends if you can’t understand this basic concept. I want to talk about how the enemy is playing, how we are playing, joke around with each other, and just chill together and instead of hearing about their separate games we can talk about the one were playing. It’s not BS, its called having friends.
Hahaha I must have a different sort of circle of friends to you. I am shamefully going to admit that most of my friends are significantly more successful and busy than me, they’re not children any more and have very busy lives that rarely allow for playing games. Especially not for long enough to be good at Halo online. Which takes a considerable amount of time to master. Also me and my friends like to socialise in person because busy lives keep us apart, which is why when I do play Halo I’m usually solo I want to just sit back and have fun, not just be relentlessly outgunned by a co-ordinated team. And fair enough if that’s your opinion, but are really trying to make me believe that if you play in team skirmish in a 4 man team you’re not still going to try hard to win it? Because from your attitude I don’t believe that for a second. And if Warzone has taught me anything, its that a lot of Halo players don’t have a shred of sportsmanship.
> If anyone is talking out their -Yoink- it would be the person who not only started attacking me, but also backs up his claims with simple stereotypes that can easily be false, and cannot be proven without 343’s data. I know what I’m talking about cause not only do I do this, but I play against people like this, talk to them, talk with teammates who do it, and just communicate. Simply inferring something to be true even though I know you know its false, only spreads more hate and misinformation. Something that does nothing.
Right ok, so “git good” “/s” “don’t spout anymore hate speech” aren’t deliberately antagonistic phrases? You went on the offense first my friend, so don’t try to pass this off on me, just because you tried to be sly with it doesn’t give you any moral high ground. And honestly, I don’t think you do know what you’re talking about. You don’t seem to even slightly grasp that casual modes should be fun, and that fireteams very obviously and demonstrably act as an enormous thorn in the side of the many more people who play solo (I refer to the plethora of threads about Warzone imbalance), either through choice or circumstance. “Even though you know its false.” Please don’t lower this debate to that level. Don’t presume to speak for me because you clearly don’t understand how I think, at all. I come from the perspective of whats best for everyone, not loads of matches go to -Yoink- just so people have one more gamemode they can play with their friends.
Whats my option then? Get less successful friends or only play FFA (which even then relies on broken skill ranking)? Even infection allows fireteams for christs sake. The skill ranks have always been broken (proof, more proof) and it doesn’t look like that will ever change, so putting some sort of restriction on fireteams in at least ONE 4v4 mode is the only way this will stop happening. Sorry I want this game to be for everyone, and not just people who play with friends. Theres plenty of modes for fireteams already, I just want this ONE for solos, as, to be fair, its supposed to be casual.
