I am a bad player who rarely goes positive. How am i supposed to play this game if i cant compete? Do i just not play it? Did i waste 60 bucks on a game just to play the campaign over and over. Im a rank 27 for crying out loud with 85 arena games under my belt and 53 warzone matches. I have no signs of getting better. I drag my team down every game i play just to lose because of my 4 and 10 kill death in a slayer match. What do i do?
Try playing differently, using different weapons, vehicles, tactics, locations, etc… If you play with friends good communication can make a big difference in how well you do. Learn how opponents play each map and how to use the maps to your advantage. Don’t be predictable. I have pretty bad reflexes and skills in general but I make do by finding ways to win more often without going directly head to head with each opponent. If any of that helps.
Thanks. Ill try to implement that into my play style
Stop holding forward, it’s the tip I give to everyone. The problem with sprint and other mobility upgrades is that you can get into a cycle of sprinting off spawn to find the nearest enemy and get a kill as fast as possible but you just end up sprinting into another respawn. The other team aren’t going anywhere so hold of on running into bullets and look at your surroundings, patience will go a long way.
i suck at this game as well and reading some of whats here i guess its me going head first and getting smashed by the opponent. i will agree that communication is the key, the problem most matches i play in no one talks and when they do its always a mom telling them to take out the trash.
take your time. don’t rush. save rushing and more carelessness for war zone.
Learn grenade bounces, practice in custom games. Grenades absolutely destroy in arena.
Some great advice in here, but also, it just takes time. Keep practicing, and take your lumps. We all have and thats how everyone gets better. Keep asking for advice, watch twitch streams and watch how they play, listen to the callouts and watch angles they use. Implement that in your games regardless of the modes you play and keep practicing. Try not to get discouraged, once the confidence goes, everything heads south in a hurry.
And mainly stick to the Pro player streams on twitch.
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> I am a bad player who rarely goes positive. How am i supposed to play this game if i cant compete? Do i just not play it? Did i waste 60 bucks on a game just to play the campaign over and over. Im a rank 27 for crying out loud with 85 arena games under my belt and 53 warzone matches. I have no signs of getting better. I drag my team down every game i play just to lose because of my 4 and 10 kill death in a slayer match. What do i do?
Ok, I’m gonna share my experiences, and give you some advice, because it sounds like you could really use some man. I was in the same boat, so I know how you’re feeling. Everybody goes through it, and that’s how we all climb up the ranks.
The first Halo i started playing was Halo 3. Back then, as I’m sure lots of older players know, the 1-50 Trueskill ranks meant EVERYTHING. So when I started off with a measly little 8, I got pushed to always do better, every damn game. Problem was, I was like you, rarely ever breaking even at all, and going negative, K/D wise. After I realized how bad I was, much like your situation now, I evaluated my play style and tried to see what weaknesses i can improve. Back then the only way i could secure a kill was melee after emptying a clip into someone. I realized my Ranged attacks, strafing and aim was pretty bad. so I started focusing on that. To do so, I did like 3 solo legendary campaigns runthroughs with scoring on and worked on my headshots.Plasma pistols, BRs, and especially the Carbine became my favorite tools of destruction. And since I was doing solo legendary runthroughs, I had motivation not to die, because checkpoints were few and far between. That’s when i started working on being patient, taking my time, and thinking of what weapons to use for the situations I got into, or how to make do with what I had, and what I was able to get nearby. After Crow’s Nest I started thinking tactical, seeing how I could flank the enemy, catch them off guard, and try and make them think I was somewhere else when really, I was right behind them. As I got better, I started practicing my 'nade tosses and bounces. (As McGrunty suggests) because they’re downright RIGHTEOUS. There’s nothing more perfect than timing and aiming them just right so that your enemy walks over it and their shields go off and you can pop them off in a second, leaving them absolutely no time to react. Once I had built my confidence, I decided to 1v1 my friend GuNs PLoX, who had been on Halo 3 for like a year and a half already before me, and he was like an 18 back in Halo 3. To my surprise, my hard work paid off. We were neck and neck. I learned the most playing against him. You need to adapt to your enemy’s approach towards you and counter it. For example, he always emptied an AR clip then melee’d so I got a BR and picked him off at a distance. Once he realized how it was going down, we started getting competitive. That’s where weapon spawns and knowing the lay of the land helps out.
After that all that, I started going from Social Slayer (unranked) to Team Slayer (ranked), FFA, Swat, Team Snipers, Big Team Battles, Multi-team, and Doubles.I quite literally jumped from 14 up to 32 in 2 days. ODST helped out a bunch as well. I was using firefight to get better at headshots against grunts with the pistol, and I almost never missed a headshot. However, Reach came along. New game, new physics, so a new play style was needed. I had to adapt to it once again.
Like Judge Bread UK and TheOnlyWitness said, don’t rush towards your enemies, take your lumps, and with commitment and effort, you will get better. No one played the game and was really good at it off the bat. We were all there at one point or another. It took me a couple games to get used to Halo 5, but after I did, i managed to get Onyx in FFA, because I fell into my groove again
To summarize, compare yourself with other people’s playstyles, and see what they’re doing compared to you, then work on your weaknesses and build on them. From there, test yourself constantly, and learn map layouts and weapon spawns.
yeah people never get better at stuff. how you start the game is how you’ll always play. keep trying things tho - eventually you’ll find the thing that you are a master of, you know, inherently
I suck at halo 5 too. its pretty hard but all you got to do is keep trying different stuff and make it fun for yourself.
Turn off your vibration. That usually helps!
I’ve been playing the Halo franchise since Halo 3, and here, for the first time with Halo 5: Guardians, my skill level dropped substantially. There’s plenty of new things and stuff to pay attention to.
I would suggest practicing grenade throwing a lot. Learn how to use the dash in emergency situations, and always aim for the head. Also try to shoot your opponent first in 1v1, sometimes (almost always) a single bullet makes the diference. Use the sensivity that fits you the most, and know your map patterns.