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“What is it? More Brutes?” “Worse…”
We all know what this post is about. If you don’t, consider yourself lucky - you have been spared from incomprehensible levels of cringe… until now. Have a seat dudes and dudettes, I’m going to tell a story. Fun fact: I wrote this while I was supposed to be writing a politics essay, I hate my procrastination ability. This particular experience was during the good ol’ Halo 4 days. INCOMPREHENSIBLE LEVELS OF CRINGE BELOW
Once upon a time on Installation 00, ya boy Rage OpTic (<—Shameless YouTube plug) was playing some Halo when a buddy of his asked if I wanted to join a clan. It seemed like a pretty cool idea to begin with, a 20+ strong group of people to play Halo regularly with - think of the fun: destroying n00bs in matchmaking; endless custom games lobbies; humour and wit so strong it could have started The Great Journey. I was wrong. So I join the clan and say an oath GOOD GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING and we party up in an 8-man lobby and journey to custom games. An assault course is loaded up. “An assault course?” I silently exclaim. This sounds like an awesome race-to-the-end one point one ball Oddball match right? WRONG. We’re told to do trick jumps, only problem is these are forged trick jumps - they don’t exist on any official maps. After 10 minutes I think to myself “Is this really want the community has come to?” only to carry on anyways, for research purposes as if I was David Attenborough in a NatGeo documentary. Anyways, I somehow avoided dying of boredom in the 1-hour long trickjump lobby. Following this, we’re informed that we are going to participate in a raid against another clan. THIS is more like it, right? Competitive Halo? WWWRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGG. We get dropped into the lobby against them only to find out that we’re not playing on an official KOTH gamemode. (Our ‘objective’ was to take the other clan’s base.) Turns out the other guys were using trait zones for guaranteed one-shot kills in the whole thing. Eventually, after wasting a good solid 3 hours of my life in the ‘military clan community’ I officially returned to the darkest depths of matchmaking from where I came, never to be seen again.
They made us ask for permission to speak and display proper military conduct. It’s Halo 4, not -Yoink!- Arma III.They made us bodyguards in a meeting for a trade agreement between clans. I think they gave me -Yoink!-. WE HAD TO STAND IN MILITARY FORMATION.Moral of the story is “never, ever, eeeevvvvveeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” join a military clan. It’s horrifying. If you made it through all of that^ I salute you. Post your stories below!
Another shameless plug, this time for my not military, laid-back Spartan Company below.
RealOGs
Jeez. And I thought I was doing it all wrong by setting up a Spartan Company that doesn’t care about stats, and is only interested in playing for the fun of playing (maybe that’s why I only have 2 members…)
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> Jeez. And I thought I was doing it all wrong by setting up a Spartan Company that doesn’t care about stats, and is only interested in playing for the fun of playing (maybe that’s why I only have 2 members…)
Planet Earth 2016 my friend. Feel free to check out RealOGs if you wish - we’re all kinds of Halo players. We have a discord too.
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> Planet Earth 2016 my friend. Feel free to check out RealOGs if you wish - we’re all kinds of Halo players. We have a discord too.
Looks good, just a shame you can’t be a member of more than one Company. Is there a way of attracting people to join without forcing them a gunpoint? Or is it simply that people are too up themselves to want to be part of a company that doesn’t give a -Yoink- about stats and K/Ds, etc, or this legendary Achilles armour that everyone talks about?
As a member of a “military-based” clan, the one you enlisted in is certainly NOT up to par!
The company that I’m currently enlisted with, the UNSC Artemis Battalion, exercises military-like behavior to an acceptable level, so that newcomers can adjust to our culture. We do our business on obstacle courses, shooting ranges, practice raids, and work together as a cohesive unit. New recruits of the UNSCAB must undertake a short training course before you may join our divisions. We also are currently allied with Army From Sparta, another Spartan Company whose values mirror those of ours.
…and as a bit of insurance, we are not a bunch of tryhards who are hunting down the Achilles. That’s not fun. That’s why we also make it a top priority to also have fun together. We have Arena and Warzone rallies, and we also screw around in Custom games. Anyone from Army From Sparta can also partake in these activities if they wish to do so, and vice versa.
People find their enjoyment from different things. If somebody finds it fun to do some military role play in a game, is there something inherently wrong with that? I don’t think the people are into that sort of stuff are the sad part here, but the guy who makes fun of them. Nobody’s forcing anyone to join military clans, so why not let the people who like that stuff have their own fun, and everybody who’s not into that can find their own way of having fun.
We’re a big community with lots of people with varying interests. Let’s just everybody respect each others’ interests, okay? Making fun of people is not cool.
