I want to play Guardians competitively. I know other people do too, but I was wondering how others were going to go about doing that. Either by joining a clan, forming a squad, or playing solo and getting into the top 200 players. From playing the beta, going solo seems impossible as your team will likely be uncoordinated. I’ve never been in a clan and I don’t have any friends to train with me. Anyone got any advice?
tl;dr how do you plan on going pro?
With spartan chatter and weapon callouts, it will be easier than ever being “pro” while solo queueing especially with people who don’t use a mic. But having a 4 player squad that know one another will always be best. No communication AI can replace the good ol’ mic.
I usually play solo until I meet a few people who I could work well with - but if some of my old team come back (have a few convinced!) I’ll be playing with them.
Rule 1 of actually wanting to rank up - don’t #Soloqueue
It may not be as competitive as halo 2 or 3, but it will be more competitive then 4.
Also there is warzone for non-non-competitive and then arena for competitive.
If you wanna play competitive go to TeamBeyond.net That is where the competitive community resides for halo.
I just don’t know how local tournaments will even be viable if there’s no LAN.
Unless there’s online only tournaments, but that seems a little unfair because if varying internet speeds.
@kantzr thanks, I’m checking it out right now
There’s no way your going to get up to even semi-pro without a team, 1 crap player on your side is enough to lose even with the res of the team carrying.
Yeah, I really noticed that. I’m not sure I agree with how point shake out after a match. There’d be times where I’d have a higher K/D than the MVP of the winning team and twice as many kills as my nearest teammate, but since we lost the match I still lose EXP. I get that it enforces team play, but there should be exceptions to losing EXP no matter what.
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> I just don’t know how local tournaments will even be viable if there’s no LAN.
> Unless there’s online only tournaments, but that seems a little unfair because if varying internet speeds.
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> @kantzr thanks, I’m checking it out right now
No problem, for instance when H5 launches they are having weekly tournaments for cash and other prizes from Astro. It is a good place to get your name known if you preform well. Most if not all pros have accounts there.
I am just hoping gamebattles, pgl, someone picks up halo again. From what I have read and seen so far idk how competitive arena will be with this AR start abomination.
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> I usually play solo until I meet a few people who I could work well with - but if some of my old team come back (have a few convinced!) I’ll be playing with them.
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> Rule 1 of actually wanting to rank up - don’t #Soloqueue
Yeah, going in solo is the worst. You always have kids who want to “try out the sniper” and either end up giving it up or wasting the ammo. Since the community online is divided between warzone and arena. Any people who just want regular slayer will be in the Arena. Swarm of bad kids everywhere.
If the current “expectations” for NO LAN support holds true, you can for the most part just throw out competitive PRO level tournaments from Halo 5. Dedicated servers will still cause lag spikes and difference connections speeds for every player in the room. LoL recently moved their servers to Chicago and people on the West Coast went crazy when their ping went from 10-30 to 50-60. They needed to move the servers as they were all located on the West Coast and the East Coast was forced to play at 80-100 ping.
You can’t have these drastic differences of connectivity when playing a FPS.
If you want to simply play competitive games, your best bet is to simply keep playing and adding players along the way. MLG, PGL and GameBattles is also a good place to build your Friend’s LIst. If the new WINDOWS 10 addition is as good as shown, it’ll be much easier and quicker to add players and so forth.