Loadouts have always been an issue to me. Back when i played MW3 my loadouts sucked and sucked bad. Well in Halo i never had to worry about my loadouts just worry about the weapon spawns. Well then came Halo 4 with loadouts which in a way i was excited because i was bored with always starting with the AR. Well my game suffered and suffered bad. Since the start i wanted the DMR or Light rifle (obviously because of power) and a pistol or sometimes a secondary like the carbine and always stickies never frags and camo (queue the hate on camo). Call me a noob but thats what it was for me, and it did not work not at all. My KD was taking a beating to the point i would keep track and get more fusterated to end a night -39 which is just garbage cause in the previous halo’s i was never this bad. So i sat down one night before joining a game and thought what game variants am i really playing which lately has been alot of slayer and less big team or other variants. I took probably 10 minutes and really went through my options. I created one for close quaters, long distance, vehicles. I decided to go back to frags where as you can get the bank shots off walls, do i miss stickies, YES (since you can’t pick them up with out having perk on), but they are on the board as well. What did i notice well my KD was looking better over the couple nights i was using them. I know there has to be other people like me out there, and i would like to throw out there, i have had more luck with the BR then i ever did with the DMR.
Strategies, i am no MLG player or a try hard but when i play i like to play with friends, when i do play by myself in slayer I don’t really like using a mic because you get into the COD style pre-game where everybody can talk at once, which is dumb, since you can not really have a convo of go to this area or go to that weapon without the other entire team hearing it and you also have morons who have music blasting in the back ground and who just talk to talk. Go back to Halo 3 and you could never hear the opposing team. So i am not a talker in this game unless i am with friends then we will party up(queue the people who think i ruin the game). My strategy in this game was to kill or be killed, run and gun stupidly or camp with camo and “try” to DMR someone from across the board when in big team more, and camo camp with a power weapon in slayer. Worked at times but never consistant. Play with a group of friends i rocked and split screen with a buddy and i would suck. Well after fixing my loadouts i have realized its not kill or be killed its work as a team, run and gun but try to stay with a buddy or at least call them out for your team, hold areas when need be and work to flank a group when you get in position battle like that can happen on adrift. Now with the group like i said early this fixed my KD, i have not tried split screen but what a difference. Assists suck yes but its better then dying. using a Br with a pistol and frags almost felt like H3, as well as not scoping relying more on actually staying unscoped unless its a long distance like complx where you could be at one end trying to pick them off on the roof of the complex. I finally saw the light, i still worry about my KD but working with a team instead of working for myself balances it off.
Comment and discuss there is no way i am the only person that is out there that had issues with there strategy.