Its done as a flex and to get under people’s skin (like now)
Just ignore it. If the enemy bagging you psyches you out so bad, your mental game needs work
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Someone should make a macro for fast swap, fast crouch, and fast strafe, so they can Gangnam with one button
I mean, if you can pull that off manually, more power to you tbh. Would be hilarious either way
When you realize that people doing the t-bagging are taking a video game too seriously because their real lives suck it should bother you a lot less.
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Dude halo invented t baging in video games. Not only did it do that but its practicaly a tradition thats been around sice halo 2. So neither Microsoft or 343 are going to change it.
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Teabagging is immature and inane, yes. But it says more about the person doing it than it does the “victim”. It’s always been that way, but it’s also always been a part of Halo. My opinion is that it should be left how it is. Folks are free to “dunk on” each other with teabagging all they want to.
As for playing the game with kids? Maybe either play something a bit more age appropriate, or just capitalize on it as a teaching moment for what an -Yoink!- someone can make out of themselves by being a graceless winner.
This is the kind of post that people on this forum expect me to make, but I gotta’ be honest.
This is too sensitive a take even for me.
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We should’ve gatekept this game harder.
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I never bag on principle but if people bag me, it’s a challenge issued for me to kill them and bag them. If I do it, then I deserve to bag them in return. If I fail then maybe the bag was deserved.
Don’t overcomplicate things.
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I don’t do it personally, but I’ve learned to ignore it. Its aggravating, sure, but thats just part of dealing with people. Getting angry over it solves absolutely nothing. Just respawn, and if you happen to see your killer, just be sure to get them first.
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the only time i do this is if someone on the other team does it or if i win a gunfight that i shouldn’t have but even then, i only crouch 3 times and go on my way
this is directed at a guy complaining about his children seeing T-bagging in a game where people are killing each other. I think more than likely they are only playing the online and not the campaign. I probably started playing Halo when I was 11 or 12, my brother when he was 8. Did you grasp that the story was about genocide at that point? Did you really think about the flood mutilating and consuming bodies? The game handles very mature content if you stop to think. Frankly do whatever the hell you want. I really don’t care. I only make the point of rating because I hear a parent complaining about content that is too mature for his children in a game that was not rated for children. Ratings are general guidelines and people are rarely the same so they are applied to the lowest common denominator. It’s like arguing that you started drinking when you were 14 and you turned out fine so why even have a limit. Well the thing is your experience does not represent that of the majority of people. My point is that as a parent (even though I am not) the responsibility of what your kids see and how they grow is on you, and when you try to change the world based on what you want for your kids you are trying to take that responsibility off yourself.
T-bagging is part of Halo essence
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I’ve never once T-bagged in the 15 years I’ve been playing Halo.
I prefer just casually walking over my enemies’ corpses. They mean nothing to me. T-bagging would be to acknowledge them as worth my attention beyond being a target.
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T-bagging is the future of gaming
(yes i stole it from the nividia halo ce commecial)
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Why are you letting your children play a game that involves violently murdering humans (in multiplayer) and murdering aliens by the thousands, and then have the GALL to demand that repeated crouching be nerfed because it pantomimes a vaguely sexual act?
Check your moral compass dude, murder is WAY worse than most sexual acts and you seem totally fine with it.
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You made my day. Good quality satire is hard to find.
OP just gonna say this, if t-bagging offends you, you shouldn’t be playing ANY online games, or games in general, because you are WAY to fragile to handle them. Laugh it off, “haha good one mate” then move on.
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I find the potential to be teabagged is directly proportional to the number of times you are killed.
On a miscellaneous note, it does seem as if teabagging etiquette has trended downwards over the years. People do it when it’s not appropriate. The right to -Yoink!- is supposed to be earned. When it’s done willy nilly it diminishes the effect.
On a second miscellaneous note… I’m not sure this game deserves to be taken seriously. So it’s best to avoid getting worked up. When you’re the nail take your licking and move on from it. When you’re the hammer show some class. If you are blessed with a clown server find a Needler.
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To quote Wheatley from Portal 2
“No no, you didn’t pick up on my Sarcasm.”
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You can’t take away the joy of being immature from a yankee. Living in a society where prudence is a way of life and swearing is a bigger offense than shooting people, putting your virtual crouch in someones dead face is probably the highlight if their day. 
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