This might be falling on deaf ears, but I’ll try anyway.
I play a pretty large amount of Team Slayer, as well as forays into other playlists regularly. I’m nowhere near the best you’ll match on Reach, but I tend to win by my own hand, and I’m definently better than many of the people I match daily.
As anyone who plays the Team based playlists, particularly Slayer, SWAT etc. knows, having bad teammates can often turn what would have been a win, into a loss. They are the bane of many a player’s winning streak, and you always hope that they’re on the other team for once. If you are this teammate, you may just be having a bad game, you don’t particularly care, or you just aren’t up to the standard of the other players. If that’s you, I offer a few simple steps to being a good teammate. These won’t make you a pro, or turn you into a one man army, but are aimed at making sure you don’t bring down your team when you aren’t having the best game. I hope it helps.
Step 1: Don’t Rush. Never. Ever. Just don’t. Rushing, while not a bad decision in and of itself, often leads to bad decisions if you don’t know what you’re doing. Best to stay away from doing it if you aren’t playing well.
Step 2: Plug In Your Mic, and Call Out. Not knowing the callouts isn’t an excuse, many maps don’t have official callouts, and as long as you can describe the geometry/art, general location, or location relevant to another point, such as a power weapon, of where a person is, then your callouts are fine. Also remember to call out any power-weapons you see, especially on the floor after a big fire-fight.
Step 3: Be A Distraction. There is nothing more annoying for a set-up team, or even one that isn’t, as some random person jetpacking around and throwing grenades, or a guy with camo destroying their radars. Use your AA’s to your advantage, and make the enemy focus on you, so the rest of your team can take them out.
Step 4: Use Your Spawn Weapons. The Pistol comes with 24 shots, which is enough for 4 kills, assuming you miss one bullet per kill, and get the headshot each time. If your aim isn’t so good, dropping a persons shields, and then calling out their position for the clean-up is a great way to get rack up assists. Alternatively, switch to the AR and spray until they’re dead. The AR is also useful just being annoying to anybody at range, as getting hit by an AR burst from half-way across the map confuses most people. In close range, full auto-ing it at everything to break shileds while a teammate cleans up is effective as well. The DMR should always be used to shoot at everything you see. Even if your aim is terrible, chances are it’ll damage shields, irritate people, and make them run away, towards the rest of your team.
Step 5: Sit Back A Little. If you stay back a bit, you can watch what enemies are doing, and often, where they’re going to go next. This is pretty helpful to your team if you’re calling out, and bad for any element of suprise the enemy might want. As well, hanging back a little can benefit your team in terms of spawns occasionally.
Step 6: Don’t Do Anything Stupid. This basically means don’t rush, don’t take on more than one enemy, don’t throw grenades near teammates, and understand what your limits are, in terms of how well you’re playing.
To Summarise: Being a good teammate when you aren’t playing well means making sure you assist the rest of the team as much as you can, without necessarily being in every firefight. You aren’t the main slayer, so don’t act like it. Be the invaluable support guy, who seeks no glory, and only wants to win.
As a side note, in objective game types, if you aren’t playing so well, then focus on the objective. Bum rushing the flag over and over again will work eventually, though it might murder your K/D, if you care about that.
Anyway, I hope this helps the players out there to not be a burden on the rest of their team when they aren’t playing so well, for whatever the reason.
Goodnight, And Goodluck
