Fair warning, extremelly long read. Yes this post is 100% serious.
A) With a constantly decreasing skill gap, it effectively nerfs skilled players, and buffs newbs.
B) With trueskill, I eventually start getting matched against people who are good, then I have to actually try in order to do decent in the match. Newbs don’t have to worry about that. Because newbs perform terribly, they’re constantly matched against other newbs. In other words you can half -Yoink- it and still perform the same. Sometimes I just want to play for fun, but I can’t because I get good opponents, and screwing around would just get me killed.
C) When you’re good, you can’t use things like the Carbine, because once you account for ALL the variables (Not just the damage charts lol), you realize how bad it is. When you’re a newb, you can use whatever the hell you feel like and still do good. Want to run around with the Storm Rifle? You’ll probably get a killing spree. You know how many kills I would get if I ran around with that? None. I’d get teamshot DMRed from a mile away trying to use that POS.
D) I have to constantly watch the radar in order to perform, when I watch newbs play, it is almost like they don’t realize it is there. They get to just worry about what is immediately in front of them, and not have to visualize the entire battlefield like I do. Some things I suck at memorizing, and memorizing which -Yoinking!- shade of red represented what in Reach was a pain in the -Yoink- to do. Newbs don’t even bother.
E) When you’re a newb you can just screw around on the ghost and splatter people (Largely in part to the previously established fact that they don’t pay attention to their radars). If I’m facing good people, hopping onto the ghost makes me feel like the announcer should automatically say SUICIDE!
F) They don’t have to worry about changes in a new title. I was in a custom game earlier and this newb said “He’s 1 shot on my X!”. It was honestly adorable that they had no clue what they were talking about.
G) Sniping good people is a pain because they’re constantly strafing like mad, and stay behind cover. When you’re a newb most of your opponents will litterally just stand there shooting, giving you minutes to line up your headshot.
H) I miss being able to -Yoink!- somebody without immediately being sniped for doing so. Skilled snipers will kill you immediately for this.
I) When you’re a newb, you can earn an overkill in Flood with your shotgun, and act like it was due to your skill, and not the fact that it was an uneven match against mindless opponents. Honestly even if I earned a killionaire in flood, I would be too embarrased to load it onto my file share.
J) When you’re a newb, you can have hundreds of hours played, then when you’re on the forums and you’re in an argument with somebody who knows much than you do, has three times the KD, with one third the time played, get to call them a no-lifer and have the other newbs agree with you.
K) I miss when H3 came out, and I genuinely needed teammates to run Legendary. We were all newbs, but we had each other’s backs and at the end of a long road, we had the satisfaction which only comes from sticking with something challenging. Now I just run through Legendary Solo, and have done several LASO stages not only on Reach (For the challenges) but on H3 as well. Without the immense challenge that I once had, the rewarding sense of gratification is virtually non-existant.
L) When you’re good, and you’re defeated, you have to acknowedge that you were defeated due to your skill not being sufficient. When you’re a newb, you can delude yourself into thinking that nobody could possibly posses that level of ability, and thus they had to be cheating, so losses never bother you, because you don’t count any of them as legitimate.
M) When you’re a newb, you honestly don’t have to do anything. When your team wins, it wasn’t because the newb did a good job. Hell you could’ve just AFKed the entire match, it is because the few good people won it for the team. You could be the world’s worst player and still wind up with a solid W/L ratio just from riding around in people’s backpacks all day. The hard stuff is done for you.
N) When you’re a newb, you don’t have to worry about the team at all. You could play as selfish as you want. Want to take the guass hog by yourself and try to get splatters with it? Hell might as well, after all your enjoyment is the only thing you’re concerned with. -Yoink- the team unless they’re your friends.
O) Less sore throats. Every match I try to help my team win by making callouts, in the hopes that it help out one of the player’s without mics, but still hear me. I have to make the effort of making callouts which people will understand. When you’re a newb you don’t have to worry about any other that. Hell you don’t even have to plug your mic in. If you do talk, screw callouts, racial slurs are far more useful to the team.
Ignorance is bliss, do you guys think I should just forget everything I know about Halo, and just run around in all day using the AR while disregarding my KD?
There is this one guy on Youtube who is a confessed newb in FPSs, yet he keeps it real and GOOD players join his team, and follow his channel.
Have I placed too much emphasis on being able to perform well in my hobby? I don’t believe it is an obsession by any means. I make sure my RL comes first, maintaining my 4.0 GPA, making sure the bills are paid, etc.
What do you guys think? I always have fun winning a match, but then again sometimes I just don’t want to try, sometimes I just want to play some newbs and be able to screw around. I’ll never become a pro because I’ll never be able to get perfect dexterity, though I think I still do a good job helping the team win, and making sure to contribute.
You guys will never know (Because you aren’t in my clan) just how much effort I’ve put into documenting the mechanics for this game so my clan could use them. You’ll never know how many new tactics I make an effort to post on a DAILY basis for my clan. I have to add in a few more each day, because they’re things which have become so ingrained into my playstyle, I forget that I’m using them, and I have to remember these various tactics gradually. Some of those tactics I GUARANTEE the majority of this board will never realize on their own because most of you can rely on your dexterity, while I HAVE to rely on my tactics. I HAVE to think of things in ways the majority won’t, that’s the only way I’ve been able to get my KD to where it is at, rather than resorting to petty objective farming.
I tried going back to being a newb on Reach. Created a brand new account. No matter how hard I tried to be a newb, running around with AR and Armor Lock, I still wound up with a massive KD. I litterally did everything that ticked me off about newbs, and still had amazing KD, I just couldn’t be a newb no matter how hard I tried.
Some times I just want to stop caring. Just be a blissful newb. Anybody else feel that way, or am I the only one? Thoughts? Advice?
I guess what they say is true, the grass is always greener on the other side.