Hey guys, I consider myself to be a pretty good Halo player but I’m not very good at any matchmaking games. I was wondering if you guys could give me some pointers.
> Hey guys, I consider myself to be a pretty good Halo player but I’m not very good at any matchmaking games. I was wondering if you guys could give me some pointers.
Experience is the best teacher!
The only thing i can tell you is: keep playing and don’t give up. At start you may be a newbie but if you keep playing you will start gaining some experience.
> The only thing i can tell you is: keep playing and don’t give up. At start you may be a newbie but if you keep playing you will start gaining some experience.
At start we’re ALL newbies. Even those with the Huge Ego complexities and think they are flame words!
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Focus on staying alive. Not dying is just as important as getting kills. If you finish a game 7-5, you helped your team more than the person who went 18-21.
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Get good with precision/headshot weapons. Skill with headshot weapons (DMR, NR, Snipe, Pistol) goes a long way in differentiating skill between players moreso than any other weapons. The more efficient you become with these particular weapons the better you will be in the long run.
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Teamwork - try to stay near your teammates so that the frequency of 1v1s or being outnumbered is reduced. Work on communication - both talking and listening to teammates call outs.
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Know the maps - not just how to get from A to B. Learn where and when weapons will spawn. Learn where player spawn points are.
Those are all pretty simple things to start you off. Feel free to ask any questions.
4a - know the spawn times as well as locations. “12:30 left in the game, I need to go get rockets (or kill whoever is going to go pick them up at 12:00)”
Play Halo 3. You learn to use the BR effectively with strafing, pure map control, and can win on a playing field that has no crutches like armor abilities.
When you come back to reach you’ll realize how bad / easy it all is.
Play MLG with good people. It’ll help you get as good as you can get.
Sadly, most people will never get proper good at Halo because it requires a certain way of thinking and a higher level of mental capacity to actually get at a good level. So if you’re failing to go positive on something like BTB or chase with ARs or cant remember to think about the bigger picture during a match, then you’re probably never going to be good.
But, if you want to get as good as you can get, then just get dumped on my better players on MLG settings. Non MLG Reach requires no “skill” like MLG or Halo 3 does. It just requires experience and the right mindset.
Not everyone in MLG is good. I’ve ran across terrible players but if you do play MLG it’s better to play with a party imo.
> Not everyone in MLG is good. I’ve ran across terrible players but if you do play MLG it’s better to play with a party imo.
Yeah, I know. Dunno if that was directed towards me. But, I never said that was the case.
Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
> Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
I’d say the complete opposite. If you’re good at Halo you’ll be good at SWAT. If you’re good at SWAT you won’t necessarily be good at Halo. Try playing Team Slayer but discipline yourself to using non-nooby tactics only. Ultimately though, you’d want to play MLG.
Grab a plasma pistol/rifle/repeater and run around with a teammate. You dominate everybody’s shields and provide covering/suppressing fire. Teammate gets headshot kills, you get assist sprees like crazy and win.
> > Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
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> I’d say the complete opposite. If you’re good at Halo you’ll be good at SWAT. If you’re good at SWAT you won’t necessarily be good at Halo. Try playing Team Slayer but discipline yourself to using non-nooby tactics only. Ultimately though, you’d want to play MLG.
I have to agree on this one. I love SWAT as much as the next guy, but it is more MW style play where you fire first for a second and you win. In all other game types you need to learn which pace is appropriate to the distance between yourself and your opponent, learn how to strafe, and learn that you won’t just be able to go in and take out the entire enemy team with a DMR. Also they don’t learn vital things like timing power weapons, or in BTBs case, how to effectively eliminate vehicles
I think FFA is a good playlist to learn to kill people and find the armor ability that fits you the most.
When you’ve learned that you should try Team slayer/Superslayer and try and learn how to kill people without dying.(So you in the future will be able to help your team win)
Then I think it’s a good help to learn to use the percision weapons of the the game correctly. Learn to always aim for the head with weapons like the Sniper rifle and DMR.
(If you want to have fun doing this you can play living dead using the magnum for head-shots as much as possible.)
After this it’s up to you if you want to take it more seriously or just leave it at the baisics 
Don’t use fully automatic weapons
Get a good team. No matter how good you are, you team can screw you royally every time.
> > Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
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> I’d say the complete opposite. If you’re good at Halo you’ll be good at SWAT. If you’re good at SWAT you won’t necessarily be good at Halo. Try playing Team Slayer but discipline yourself to using non-nooby tactics only. Ultimately though, you’d want to play MLG.
MLG? Seriously? He wants to get good, not worse. MLG is not where you want to go to get better at Vanilla/TU Reach, since 90% of the game mechanics are removed from MLG. Being an MLG player does not make you better than non-MLG players, it makes you a better MLG player. This is evidenced by the true MLG players I’ve played with (They play in tournaments and win, play almost exclusively MLG). I constantly outperform them in Reach since their tactics are more suited to the MLG gametype. If you want to go professional or play the MLG playlist, by all means play it, but for Vanilla/TU Reach, MLG will not help you.
> > > Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
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> > I’d say the complete opposite. If you’re good at Halo you’ll be good at SWAT. If you’re good at SWAT you won’t necessarily be good at Halo. Try playing Team Slayer but discipline yourself to using non-nooby tactics only. Ultimately though, you’d want to play MLG.
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> MLG? Seriously? He wants to get good, not worse. MLG is not where you want to go to get better at Vanilla/TU Reach, since 90% of the game mechanics are removed from MLG. Being an MLG player does not make you better than non-MLG players, it makes you a better MLG player. This is evidenced by the true MLG players I’ve played with (They play in tournaments and win, play almost exclusively MLG). I constantly outperform them in Reach since their tactics are more suited to the MLG gametype. If you want to go professional or play the MLG playlist, by all means play it, but for Vanilla/TU Reach, MLG will not help you.
MLG is stripped right down to the basics of Halo. It offers no crutches like AAs, radar, automatic weapons or health regen. Once you master how to do without these and can do fairly decent (by that I mean feel as if you’re helping the team whether positive or not) then you’re gonna be good at anything. I’m not saying those who don’t play MLG aren’t good. I’m just saying that the majority of the best players out there can be found on MLG.
Of course, this guy won’t try what I’m saying becuase he’ll get scared away after he gets destroyed in the first minute or two, but it’s worth a shot.
> > > Try playing somw SWAT every now and then. SWAT trains you to aim for the head. Pace your shots. Don’t continueously spam shots. Your shots will bloom off if you do. Learn to use various objects for cover. Squeeze a few shots off, then if you’re taking fire, fall back behind some cover.
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> > I’d say the complete opposite. If you’re good at Halo you’ll be good at SWAT. If you’re good at SWAT you won’t necessarily be good at Halo. Try playing Team Slayer but discipline yourself to using non-nooby tactics only. Ultimately though, you’d want to play MLG.
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> MLG? Seriously? He wants to get good, not worse. MLG is not where you want to go to get better at Vanilla/TU Reach, since 90% of the game mechanics are removed from MLG. Being an MLG player does not make you better than non-MLG players, it makes you a better MLG player. This is evidenced by the true MLG players I’ve played with (They play in tournaments and win, play almost exclusively MLG). I constantly outperform them in Reach since their tactics are more suited to the MLG gametype. If you want to go professional or play the MLG playlist, by all means play it, but for Vanilla/TU Reach, MLG will not help you.
much to learn this young one still has.