While it’s great when my friends and I can play together, it’s not very often since our jobs, schedules, and prior commitments usually interfere.
So that usually leaves me playing with randz, randos, randoms, or whatever term you use for having strangers team up with you in matchmaking.
Now, I’d call myself a Halo vet. Been playing since the OG xbox days when people used voice masking to make themselves…cooler?
Anyway, those days are long gone. Kiddies don’t really play Arena, most are found in customs, BTB, FFA, and Warzone. I’ll stick to Arena/Slayer/Breakout/SWAT, my most played playlist.
Here’s what playing with randoms, specifically Halo 5, has taught me about, well, playing with randos.
people with mics, not in party chat, don’t talk.
I talk. a lot. I love it when I play with someone for 3-4 games and on the 3rd game they manage to talk. LOL. What’s up with that. I love it when I talk to someone but they never respond, yet I see their mic go off because of their breathing. Here’s a tip, people are more likely to talk if you bash them constantly.
prepare to carry your team.
I guess the game isn’t as competitive as I thought? Seems a lot of the audience are people that are high/just trying to relax after work, unemployed so just chilling, or perhaps Halo 5 is their first game because the Xbone is their first -Yoink!- console? Never expect to win unless you give it 100%.
shoot your teammate to get their attention.
Shoot teammate.
shoot at weapon or powerup pickup.
teammate should make the logical conclusion to pick up that weapon or powerup.
somehow seems more useful than actually talking to them…
noone will have your back.
You have to accept that you are looking out only for yourself. Your teammates are not there to help you. They act as 3 things:
- their over their dead body indicates where the enemy is near - they are mobile weapon fetchers who will most likely die so you can pick it up - they are a buffer/fodder to soften/distract the enemy so you can finish them off