Now don’t get me wrong, I feel that jumpshotting is a completely valid gameplay option, but there is one thing I am noticing because crouching was taken off left stick.
Have you guys ever run into those people who jump and then mash crouch as fast as they can and then basically become a thousand times harder to hit(okay hyperbole) but still much much harder to hit? Still I think it is annoying especially since I’ve noticed a lot of people using it.
Normally I’d think it was ok because if you wanted to do something like that you needed to sacrifice movement or make a klutzy strafe, but no more.
I honestly get really frustrated whenever I play people that do this and the sad part is I still usually do better than they do. I used to play CoD a lot along with Halo(until MW3 sucked but I digress) and I think this is worse than drop-shotting!
Anyone else have thoughts of what I’ll call “jump-crouch shotting?”
> yeah its something like that its not as hard to kill as people think
I don’t think it’s difficult to kill them I just played one person though that just did it literally all game all the time. I was thinking seriously you can’t just strafe someone you have to do this?
Yeah, it’s been around since Halo 2 (it’s named after a pro player, Ghandi, who used it frequently or maybe invented it, who knows). It’s moderately useful, and is easy to do with even with crouch on the stick (which it is on Boxer).
It has become so popular in Halo 4 because strafing is much less effective. 343 is to blame for this. Slower base-movement speed and higher bullet magnetism make strafing less effective, so people have turned to Ghandi hopping. Honestly, I would much rather there be less bullet magnetism and higher base-movement speed to make strafing more viable.
If you can’t, then you’ll know what separates good players from bad players. Your complaint is “Somebody outplayed me. Remove their technique from the game.”
> Yeah, it’s been around since Halo 2 (it’s named after a pro player, Ghandi, who used it frequently or maybe invented it, who knows). It’s moderately useful, and is easy to do with even with crouch on the stick (which it is on Boxer).
that’s interesting, I don’t think I ever saw something similar to it in Halo 3.
> If you think it’s effective, do it.
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> If you can’t, then you’ll know what separates good players from bad players. Your complaint is “Somebody outplayed me. Remove their technique from the game.”
Except I said I usually beat them? So im obviously outplayed. I never said I want it removed either I just think it’s cheap, but not unbeatable.
Also I won’t use it because I don’t use things I find cheap, I am no hypocrit. I already used the DMR for too long so I could get to the commendations. Way too easy so I stopped.
> It has become so popular in Halo 4 because strafing is much less effective. 343 is to blame for this. Slower base-movement speed and higher bullet magnetism make strafing less effective, so people have turned to Ghandi hopping. Honestly, I would much rather there be less bullet magnetism and higher base-movement speed to make strafing more viable.
I agree, strafing is pretty sad in this game and I really wish it were more effective because that was always so awesome to see two guys strafing eachother, not having mid air seizures while shooting each other. That just looks ridiculous.
> With Halo 4 I have been noticing this a lot more.
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> Now don’t get me wrong, I feel that jumpshotting is a completely valid gameplay option, but there is one thing I am noticing because crouching was taken off left stick.
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> Have you guys ever run into those people who jump and then mash crouch as fast as they can and then basically become a thousand times harder to hit(okay hyperbole) but still much much harder to hit? Still I think it is annoying especially since I’ve noticed a lot of people using it.
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> Normally I’d think it was ok because if you wanted to do something like that you needed to sacrifice movement or make a klutzy strafe, but no more.
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> I honestly get really frustrated whenever I play people that do this and the sad part is I still usually do better than they do. I used to play CoD a lot along with Halo(until MW3 sucked but I digress) and I think this is worse than drop-shotting!
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> Anyone else have thoughts of what I’ll call “jump-crouch shotting?”
no its not cheap plz dont bring the cod mentality of everything you do that helps you get a kill is cheap into halo as long as there not cheating by hacking on somthing like that its ok imo
Never came across 1, don’t see how the jump trick would help much anyway. I primarily use the Covenant Carbine and do fine against the majority of strafers etc.