Hello halo newbies

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Just wanted to say hello and welcome to all the new players.

You will get -Yoinked!- at. You will get destroyed in your ranking matches. The community will be negative towards you in both these forums and in game.

Theres a catch though, we need you. We need you to play, to get better and join the rest of us. I’m hoping many of you fall in love with this game, stick around for a long time and keep this game relevant for ages.

We need new players. The try hards won’t admit it. But it’s true. Remember that the next time you encounter a total meanie. This is a good time for you because there are a lot of you guys in right now. Christmas newbies all over the place. And I love it.

Good luck guys.

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I just want to say. Saying “noobs” is very hurtful.

And it’d be nice if “d-bags” were out. But overall nice post!

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Yeah, you might want to use the word “newbie” instead of Noob.

Noob implies the player has experience with the game before but is otherwise not good and other stuff.
Newbie implies it’s a new player.

Noob vs Newbie

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We need more social gametypes for these people who are new to the game so they actually stay playing it rather than getting upset and going back to their old FPS games.

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> Yeah, you might want to use the word “newbie” instead of Noob.
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> Noob implies the player has experience with the game before but is otherwise not good and other stuff.
> Newbie implies it’s a new player.
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> Noob vs Newbie

noob = newb = nub = nub = -Yoink!-

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> We need more social gametypes for these people who are new to the game so they actually stay playing it rather than getting upset and going back to their old FPS games.

This.

And I’ve had the Game since day 1

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Ran into so many noobs in Holiday Social it wasn’t even funny. Slaughtered them all.

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A lot of people are saying that the game shouldn’t be for noobs but they must’ve somehow forgot that they were noobs once too, just like everyone else

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> A lot of people are saying that the game shouldn’t be for noobs but they must’ve somehow forgot that they were noobs once too, just like everyone else

i remember my halo 2 noob days when i thought people were cheating when they did the bxr or double shots.

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Seems about the same ratio of noobs to me

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> > Yeah, you might want to use the word “newbie” instead of Noob.
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> noob = newb = nub = nub = -Yoink!-

Nube

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> We need more social gametypes for these people who are new to the game so they actually stay playing it rather than getting upset and going back to their old FPS games.

Why would they get upset? They’re new, they can’t expect to be MLG 420 Gamerfuel immediately. They can either pick a playlist, get ranked somewhere lousy like silver or gold, be annoyed, then get determined, work on their game, and progress their way up by honing their skills. Or maybe not worry about it and just play at their comfort level with people of their rank. That’s pretty much what I do. Unless when you say “go back to their old FPS games” you mean games like Destiny where you can buy a level 25 and not have to work for anything.

Also, OP, I’m sure if they’ve played online video games before, they know the drill.

And this Halo. Equal Starts, no loadouts, balanced gameplay. And it’s 343’s Halo now, so that means weapon balance. You can actually use guns other than the BR and get kills now, so if you’re new and not familiar with the aiming, grab an AR or an SMG and you’ll do fine. Once you get a feel for the game, you’re golden. There are no perks or special gear you need to grind for, no issues with a level 10 Titan with the default pellet gun going against a level 32 Wizard with some magical handcannon or some nonsense. I mean, maybe a little bit in Warzone, but that’s not even ranked, it’s social. And it throws REQ points at you, so they’ll catch up in no time. And even the ranked playlists don’t show your CSR or SR, so you don’t need to be embarrassed in front of a bunch of strangers who don’t know who you are or care because, just like you, they’re too busy worrying about themselves and whether you think they’re noobs.

What I mean is, even if you are a Christmas New Comer, no one knows it. And even if you are rough around the edges, I’ve played since launch and have a few rough matches here & there, so I’m sure people have called me a noob. But like I said above, the fun is learning the game and watching yourself get better over time. That’s the reward in it.

For me at least.

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> > A lot of people are saying that the game shouldn’t be for noobs but they must’ve somehow forgot that they were noobs once too, just like everyone else
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They were. And I’m a CE noob who did backpack reloads. lol

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> They were. And I’m a CE noob who did backpack reloads. lol

well i dont consider my Halo CE games noobish cus i played LAN against people who were as bad as me.

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> > > > A lot of people are saying that the game shouldn’t be for noobs but they must’ve somehow forgot that they were noobs once too, just like everyone else
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> well i dont consider my Halo CE games noobish cus i played LAN against people who were as bad as me.

I don’t either. I was just qualifying myself there. When I first played Halo 2 online my self-esteem took a real hard hit.

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Can a noob call other people noobs?

Anyway, your post seems like you’re begging people to stay, which is pretty sad when you think about it. A lot of overly optimistic fans would have us believe Halo 5 is doing great, but apparently not if we have threads like these.

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> Can a noob call other people noobs?
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> Anyway, your post seems like you’re begging people to stay, which is pretty sad when you think about it. A lot of overly optimistic fans would have us believe Halo 5 is doing great, but apparently not if we have threads like these.

Fine then. Go. Shoo. We don’t need you. We’ll play our special super awesome great-doing-just-fine-thank-you game by ourselves. We don’t want to be welcoming to new players. Go play Tiddly Winks then. I was going to share some of my Sticky Grenades with you, but not with that attitude, mister.

How about no one really knows for sure how the game is doing except for where the game is placed on the most played list in relation to other games and based off the population counts of those games? Which to be that obsessed with trying to pin point the population number just to shove it in people’s faces to say “see the game is doing awesome” or “ha! your game sucks” is sad … regardless of whether or not you think about it.

I mean, yeah, his post is … to put politely, weird. But there’s nothing wrong with being welcoming to new players. Especially on the forums. Attacking people who got the game for Christmas is just plain stupidity.

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This post is very cocky and bold, can’t picture you being very good if you post a forum to infer that you are better than everyone (when in actuality you’re probably “garbage”). Good luck being cocky and being bad :)!

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I like the new guys, they’re pretty cool. The more the merrier.

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Thanks guys. I updated this to reflect the suggested changes. Didn’t want to sound mean or cocky.