I love Halo. I think 343 did a fantastic job on the visuals and speeding up the pace of Halo 5. My best game moments were with Reach and Halo 4. I was especially good at Halo 4. I just can’t seem to master Halo 5 though. Neither can my wife, who is a decent player. I don’t have many positive k/d games in H5. Which brings to me to why I hate Halo 5. I always seem to be matched against people who are far better than me, which after a few games like that, I just quit. What’s the point? Is it because there are no other people for the better players to be matched with?
But I want to enjoy Halo 5, so I play again, just to be disappointed. All of my friends quit playing long ago, so I often play solo. I know Halo 5 is probably meant to be played with a team since the ranking seems to be more win/loss instead of individual performance. I may try joining a Spartan Company to see if this makes a difference. Has it made a difference for some of you? Some games I played it was obvious some players were trying to rank down but just standing still for a large portion of the game just letting the other team shoot them.
You will laugh at this, but a few times I was so angry about a match that I swore I would switch my company from being a Microsoft partner to using Google and ditching Windows phones, etc. The moment passed and I realize that was silly, but that shows how much I want to be good at Halo 5. I did buy two Xbox Ones just for Halo 5. Well, I also bought it for MCC, but that’s another story. Also, I don’t rage quit. I stick it out.
Part of me wants to just quit altogether and another part of me wants to try and improve.
Have you had a similar experience? What made it better for you? I know there are some YouTube videos too. Am I being too hard on myself judging my skill by k/d? To me that is a true measure of skill. Maybe I am wrong about that.
By the way, I only play Swat in Arena. I like the no radar and one shot kill aspect of it. I also play Warzone but I am not worried about Warzone.