Poor sportsmanship and other problems.

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Hey guys,
got a couple gripes to air about Halo 5 war-zone Heroic firefight. After about a 6 month hiatus from the game I decided to come back and try again. Before I was ticked at my poor performance in game and also angry at some of the flaws that I saw in game.
Just as an example I was just in a game a few minutes ago, and in the first minute my character started to show a timing error. He would jump ahead about 50 feet when I moved. After about 5 minutes I left the game as it was unplayable. Modem error, or Halo server? Don’t know. I played about 6 Halo games today, and except for this last one it ran fine…
Partial games, why are these even offered? About an hour ago I ended up in a partial game, literally the last few seconds of level 4. The game was lost, so I felt cheated, that another red mark appeared in my loss column when I only played for about 3 minutes at most!! The only reason that I accepted the partial game was I believed that I would be penalized if I left early? Is that true? Would I have been penalized for a early exit?

Poor sportsmanship, a short time ago, while playing in a ghost and running down enemy troops in March on Stormbreak, my competitor in a Warthog obviously took exception to my success, and after the level ended tried real hard to run me off a cliff! I did NOT like that!! A few days ago, the same thing happened when when one of my team mates in arena Skirmish at Darkstar suddenly butted me down a cliff when I was in a wart hog causing me to die and have to regenerate! Reason?, who
knows?? I had just shot up a hunter, and for some reason this dude was mad(?) about that? If these people want to duel with real people and not A:I, then why are they playing in War-zone Heroic? A few hours back, I was in a sword needler warthog when a gunner hopped on board to help defend the power cores in arena Urban. What does this guy do!? He stands in the back of the warthog spinning in circles and shooting into the air!! I managed to ram the last knight and survive!! So the next level I ran down some more knights, and here this idiot is spinning around in circles shooting at nothing!! Now was that a game error or was it deliberate?? I tried to kick him off the gun, nothing worked!, so I hopped out, threw a grenade back at the warthog, he was still spinning around!, got a different vehicle and carried on.

Last but NOT least, getting jumped by the Promethean’s or Covenant while getting a req! That is a real low down and vile thing to happen!! This was one of the MAIN reasons that I quit Halo 5 for those 6 months! I’ve done very well this time around, I was just now at about 20 wins and three losses, so not bad. But, in the last 20 games, at LEAST 3-4 times I was jumped and surrounded by the enemy when I came OUT of getting a req!!! I lost lives AND reqs when that happened! That REALLY made my bp rise!!

For all of those comments above I really LIKE Halo 5 firefight, a lot!! Especially since I’m doing so much better. But team betrayals, erratic modem/server connection, people acting all weird and hostile, AND being picked off by the enemies when your most vulnerable, well that does put a damper, a BIG one on the game play!! One thing that I don’t ‘get’ , if people are there in the game, one would assume that they are there to play the game and win, right? I have to admit that this game is ONLY winnable with TEAMWORK, otherwise, another red loss hash will appear in your game history column!! Does anyone want that! Another loss? I’m there to play and win, not have to struggle with my team mates, if that is what they are? With the way some of them act, I have to wonder…There must be a lot of KIDS playing this game, that would explain everything!

Finally could anyone explain the k/d idea to me? I had (for example) 17 kills and 2 deaths, and my k/d was 0:0. what? How does that make sense??! Under War-zone stats I’m currently at a 5.4 K/D. Anyway, No offense intended to anyone, if I sound whiny, my bad…Thanks guys

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The only advice I can give you is to not get upset with the game, players, or score. Do your best to ignore it and plan, plan, plan your revenge/comeback!!! Best of luck to you!!!

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It’s going to happen. People sometimes play and just mess around with other players.

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First, I would suggest you not make a huge deal out of these things.
If the game is laggy, its probably your own wifi.
Next, if people on your team kill you for no apparent reason, it seems like you have never gotten the sniper rifle first.
And the reqs in Warzone-the point is to strategically use them. If you spawn in and die with a binary rifle req, I feel sorry for you. Buuuuut, you gotta time those things correctly to use it well.
Sorry your experience isn’t great. Hope it improves.

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OP i hope you BP didn’t actually rise after a few games of firefight. If it did then i suggest making a doctor appointment and making sure you are ok health wise. I understand being frustrated, yelling at the tv, and throwing the controller, but if its affecting your health then something needs to be done on your end.

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> Partial games, why are these even offered? About an hour ago I ended up in a partial game, literally the last few seconds of level 4. The game was lost, so I felt cheated, that another red mark appeared in my loss column when I only played for about 3 minutes at most!! The only reason that I accepted the partial game was I believed that I would be penalized if I left early? Is that true? Would I have been penalized for a early exit?

Yes, Halo 5 has a strict banning system for quitters. The reason you sometimes get thrown into a match that’s almost over is because of the join-in-progress thing that was designed to help alleviate the issue of teammates quitting and leaving you high and dry. My advice is to relax and don’t worry about the red mark on your service record. It’s not like it’s your fault anyway. Those tracked stats only have as much meaning as you give them.

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> Last but NOT least, getting jumped by the Promethean’s or Covenant while getting a req! That is a real low down and vile thing to happen!! This was one of the MAIN reasons that I quit Halo 5 for those 6 months! I’ve done very well this time around, I was just now at about 20 wins and three losses, so not bad. But, in the last 20 games, at LEAST 3-4 times I was jumped and surrounded by the enemy when I came OUT of getting a req!!! I lost lives AND reqs when that happened! That REALLY made my bp rise!!

This can be very annoying. I think 343 could solve it by letting us choose where we want to spawn. It’s not like we’re doing anything else while we sit around waiting for that respawn timer…

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> There must be a lot of KIDS playing this game, that would explain everything!

I blame the parents for this. They just want something to keep their children occupied and out of their hair, so they get them any old video game without considering how much their child will be able to comprehend it. That tends to toxify the game’s community, and suddenly the adults who want to simply enjoy a video game are forced to deal with other people’s children. It’s a very annoying situation and I can’t stand kids at all. In fact, I had a vasectomy when I was 25 years old. Best decision of my life.

However, if you look at the big picture, I think Halo has a relatively mature playerbase compared to other franchises such as Call of Duty. I play Heroic WZFF all the time, but I rarely encounter as much trolling as you have. Maybe you just got unlucky.

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I think you may have gotten unlucky, OP. I’ve played a decent amount of WZFF in Halo 5, and much like Nate, I haven’t really had too many issues with people doing those things.

Sure there is the occasional bad apple, but it’s clean for the most part. Keep playing and stay positive. Maybe you will have better luck.

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> OP i hope you BP didn’t actually rise after a few games of firefight. If it did then i suggest making a doctor appointment and making sure you are ok health wise. I understand being frustrated, yelling at the tv, and throwing the controller, but if its affecting your health then something needs to be done on your end.

Heh!, thanks for the sentiment guy, just FYI, I was married to a Surgical/Er nurse for about 14 years, and I learned a LOT from her about HBP, injuries disease’s and what not. All the things that you described, “being frustrated, yelling at the tv, and throwing the controller”, WILL raise your BP. You will not feel it, but it does occur. Caused by several factors one of which is blood vessel constriction, from anger. So, yeah I try and stay calm…Oh, BTW I checked out my videos and the guy who butted my warthog down the cliff a few days ago?, I heard him on a microphone calling me the F-word!! I’m pretty sure of that, he was angry because he could not use my warthog chain gun to strafe the hunters that I shot. I thought that I could shoot the chain gun, and he would drive. I guess that made him angry. Then when the next level started I was reqqing up, and this dude comes from no-where, runs up, starts to shoot at me and attack me?! Imagine how HIGH that idiots BP was!! Unfrigginbelievable!!

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> If the game is laggy, its probably your own wifi.
> Sorry your experience isn’t great. Hope it improves.

Well the game was running fine until about 6-7 hours after I changed the announcers voice from Spartan Buck to
Yabda The Merciless, would that have any effect on the lag? Some people here on the forums suggest that it would
cause a problem? Thanks I’m sure my experience will improve!

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> This can be very annoying. I think 343 could solve it by letting us choose where we want to spawn. It’s not like we’re doing anything else while we sit around waiting for that respawn timer…
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> However, if you look at the big picture, I think Halo has a relatively mature playerbase compared to other franchises such as Call of Duty. I play Heroic WZFF all the time, but I rarely encounter as much trolling as you have. Maybe you just got unlucky.

WHY, does it take SO long to re-spawn? I wish I could count the number of missed kills if I had re spawned sooner!! Yes you’re correct that for the MOST part the players are mature!

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> I think you may have gotten unlucky, OP. I’ve played a decent amount of WZFF in Halo 5, and much like Nate, I haven’t really had too many issues with people doing those things.
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> Sure there is the occasional bad apple, but it’s clean for the most part. Keep playing and stay positive. Maybe you will have better luck.

I wonder if I should join a dedicated team that acts in unison, with a common goal, and no BS!?

I recently discovered two new arenas that I never tried before Prospect (Love it!) and Temple, like this one a lot too! I did have a question about the definition of power weapons in the game. So I was in the temple arena, I reqqed up with a Chain-gun turret then used a ‘man cannon’ to fly over to a raised platform. Much to my delighted surprise about 8-10 ‘grunts’ materialized right in front of me!! In about 7 seconds I was able to massacre ALL of them! Whoo!! Loved it!! Yet after the game, in stats showing ‘power weapon kills’ my score was Zero! What?
The Chain-gun turret is not a ‘power weapon?’, but It’s listed in requisitions as a power weapon…? Mmmm? Confused! Anyway thanks so much guys for your response(s), REALLY appreciate it!! Yes!, I will continue to ‘grind’ away with the game, cuz I like it so much!!
Salute!

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Its part of the game and most of the stuff that happens you can’t prevent. Good luck but if you keep getting frustrated, j hop into a different playlist.

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> Its part of the game and most of the stuff that happens you can’t prevent. Good luck but if you keep getting frustrated, j hop into a different playlist.

Thanks guy!, Yeah I have to learn (AM learning!) to be the proverbial ‘Duck’, and let the insults and all the rest of the %$%%^ roll
off me, like water off a duck! The only playlist that I care for is War-zone ff, if that’s what you mean?

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I’ve had almost all of these problems and it sucks, but there isn’t much to do besides report the player/give 343 advice on how to rework WZFF.

On the topic of team killing, it seems more frequent lately. Last week I got betrayed twice back to back in Mythic WZFF, literally for no reason. As Nate said, probably just edgy immature kids.

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> I’ve had almost all of these problems and it sucks, but there isn’t much to do besides report the player/give 343 advice on how to rework WZFF.
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> On the topic of team killing, it seems more frequent lately. Last week I got betrayed twice back to back in Mythic WZFF, literally for no reason. As Nate said, probably just edgy immature kids.

From your experience, my experience and seemingly many other’s?, team betrayal, or ‘team killing’ is a common thing? This practice should be banned! I thought that it was banned? I think a good way to fix this would be to disable ‘friendly fire’ so you could NOT be killed by your ‘team mates.’ in the mean time there should be an immediate reprisal in the form of being banned for 1-10 games, depending on the history of the offender(s). Rather disgusting that these types of actions take place and are a matter of discussion and debate. Yet we hope for better teams and better game play in future.
Salute!

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> > I’ve had almost all of these problems and it sucks, but there isn’t much to do besides report the player/give 343 advice on how to rework WZFF.
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> > On the topic of team killing, it seems more frequent lately. Last week I got betrayed twice back to back in Mythic WZFF, literally for no reason. As Nate said, probably just edgy immature kids.
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> From your experience, my experience and seemingly many other’s?, team betrayal, or ‘team killing’ is a common thing? This practice should be banned! I thought that it was banned? I think a good way to fix this would be to disable ‘friendly fire’ so you could NOT be killed by your ‘team mates.’ in the mean time there should be an immediate reprisal in the form of being banned for 1-10 games, depending on the history of the offender(s). Rather disgusting that these types of actions take place and are a matter of discussion and debate. Yet we hope for better teams and better game play in future.
> Salute!

Agreed, team killing adds nothing good to the game

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> Much to my delighted surprise about 8-10 ‘grunts’ materialized right in front of me!! In about 7 seconds I was able to massacre ALL of them! Whoo!! Loved it!!

Oh man, I love those moments so much. WZFF has a lot of moments that put me and my friend (who doesn’t play any arena) I play with into a giggle spree. I just love it. Dying to annoying situations used to bother me, but I’ve learned over time that there are so many more great moments to off-set the frustration. Glad you’re enjoying it.

Hmm, interesting on the power weapon finding. To be honest, I thought anything outside of a ‘loadout weapon’ was a ‘power weapon’ (even things like the carbine, which is weird) in this mode. Maybe someone else will know how it works.

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> Hey guys,
> got a couple gripes to air about Halo 5 war-zone Heroic firefight. After about a 6 month hiatus from the game I decided to come back and try again. Before I was ticked at my poor performance in game and also angry at some of the flaws that I saw in game.
> Just as an example I was just in a game a few minutes ago, and in the first minute my character started to show a timing error. He would jump ahead about 50 feet when I moved. After about 5 minutes I left the game as it was unplayable. Modem error, or Halo server? Don’t know. I played about 6 Halo games today, and except for this last one it ran fine…
> Partial games, why are these even offered? About an hour ago I ended up in a partial game, literally the last few seconds of level 4. The game was lost, so I felt cheated, that another red mark appeared in my loss column when I only played for about 3 minutes at most!! The only reason that I accepted the partial game was I believed that I would be penalized if I left early? Is that true? Would I have been penalized for a early exit?
>
> Poor sportsmanship, a short time ago, while playing in a ghost and running down enemy troops in March on Stormbreak, my competitor in a Warthog obviously took exception to my success, and after the level ended tried real hard to run me off a cliff! I did NOT like that!! A few days ago, the same thing happened when when one of my team mates in arena Skirmish at Darkstar suddenly butted me down a cliff when I was in a wart hog causing me to die and have to regenerate! Reason?, who
> knows?? I had just shot up a hunter, and for some reason this dude was mad(?) about that? If these people want to duel with real people and not A:I, then why are they playing in War-zone Heroic? A few hours back, I was in a sword needler warthog when a gunner hopped on board to help defend the power cores in arena Urban. What does this guy do!? He stands in the back of the warthog spinning in circles and shooting into the air!! I managed to ram the last knight and survive!! So the next level I ran down some more knights, and here this idiot is spinning around in circles shooting at nothing!! Now was that a game error or was it deliberate?? I tried to kick him off the gun, nothing worked!, so I hopped out, threw a grenade back at the warthog, he was still spinning around!, got a different vehicle and carried on.
>
> Last but NOT least, getting jumped by the Promethean’s or Covenant while getting a req! That is a real low down and vile thing to happen!! This was one of the MAIN reasons that I quit Halo 5 for those 6 months! I’ve done very well this time around, I was just now at about 20 wins and three losses, so not bad. But, in the last 20 games, at LEAST 3-4 times I was jumped and surrounded by the enemy when I came OUT of getting a req!!! I lost lives AND reqs when that happened! That REALLY made my bp rise!!
>
> For all of those comments above I really LIKE Halo 5 firefight, a lot!! Especially since I’m doing so much better. But team betrayals, erratic modem/server connection, people acting all weird and hostile, AND being picked off by the enemies when your most vulnerable, well that does put a damper, a BIG one on the game play!! One thing that I don’t ‘get’ , if people are there in the game, one would assume that they are there to play the game and win, right? I have to admit that this game is ONLY winnable with TEAMWORK, otherwise, another red loss hash will appear in your game history column!! Does anyone want that! Another loss? I’m there to play and win, not have to struggle with my team mates, if that is what they are? With the way some of them act, I have to wonder…There must be a lot of KIDS playing this game, that would explain everything!
>
> Finally could anyone explain the k/d idea to me? I had (for example) 17 kills and 2 deaths, and my k/d was 0:0. what? How does that make sense??! Under War-zone stats I’m currently at a 5.4 K/D. Anyway, No offense intended to anyone, if I sound whiny, my bad…Thanks guys

Sorry for the quote first of all but I wanted an easier time jumping back to read the issues.
1st. The jumping around erratically is due to one of these issue… poor modem speed, a glitch with the servers (But I doubt it), or if you have the voice pack. I’ve noticed more glitching since I use the grunts voice (can’t remember his name). Other people have noticed issues with game play when using different voices too.
2nd. Agreed. I’ve lost several times due to joking a game in process right at the end. This is indeed annoying.
3rd. You will always see poor sportsmanship in gamea. No changing that. Most are probably kids. I had a guy to stole my ghost because I jumped off to grab something. I was right next to it. He then tried to run me over for a few min. He ended up flipping the ghost and I got it back and I ran him over for being a -Yoink-. So I got my revenge. But I think team killing should only be in ranked games and nothing else because it adds nothing to warzone or arena. But in rank it’s about how good you are so I would leave it there. And I guess have it as an option for custom.
4th. As for getting swarmed… it’s going to happen. Happened to me several times and my no goes up too. But you don’t always spawn in the best area. It would be nice to choose where you spawn though.
5th. Multiplayer is definitely all about teamwork. I completely agree with that. But you will get the -Yoinks!- who do it to mess with others. You should have an option to report that player in the game for violating policy.

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> > 2535426310266153;1:
> > Hey guys,
> > got a couple gripes to air about Halo 5 war-zone Heroic firefight. After about a 6 month hiatus from the game I decided to come back and try again. Before I was ticked at my poor performance in game and also angry at some of the flaws that I saw in game.
> > Just as an example I was just in a game a few minutes ago, and in the first minute my character started to show a timing error. He would jump ahead about 50 feet when I moved. After about 5 minutes I left the game as it was unplayable. Modem error, or Halo server? Don’t know. I played about 6 Halo games today, and except for this last one it ran fine…
> > Partial games, why are these even offered? About an hour ago I ended up in a partial game, literally the last few seconds of level 4. The game was lost, so I felt cheated, that another red mark appeared in my loss column when I only played for about 3 minutes at most!! The only reason that I accepted the partial game was I believed that I would be penalized if I left early? Is that true? Would I have been penalized for a early exit?
> >
> > Poor sportsmanship, a short time ago, while playing in a ghost and running down enemy troops in March on Stormbreak, my competitor in a Warthog obviously took exception to my success, and after the level ended tried real hard to run me off a cliff! I did NOT like that!! A few days ago, the same thing happened when when one of my team mates in arena Skirmish at Darkstar suddenly butted me down a cliff when I was in a wart hog causing me to die and have to regenerate! Reason?, who
> > knows?? I had just shot up a hunter, and for some reason this dude was mad(?) about that? If these people want to duel with real people and not A:I, then why are they playing in War-zone Heroic? A few hours back, I was in a sword needler warthog when a gunner hopped on board to help defend the power cores in arena Urban. What does this guy do!? He stands in the back of the warthog spinning in circles and shooting into the air!! I managed to ram the last knight and survive!! So the next level I ran down some more knights, and here this idiot is spinning around in circles shooting at nothing!! Now was that a game error or was it deliberate?? I tried to kick him off the gun, nothing worked!, so I hopped out, threw a grenade back at the warthog, he was still spinning around!, got a different vehicle and carried on.
> >
> > Last but NOT least, getting jumped by the Promethean’s or Covenant while getting a req! That is a real low down and vile thing to happen!! This was one of the MAIN reasons that I quit Halo 5 for those 6 months! I’ve done very well this time around, I was just now at about 20 wins and three losses, so not bad. But, in the last 20 games, at LEAST 3-4 times I was jumped and surrounded by the enemy when I came OUT of getting a req!!! I lost lives AND reqs when that happened! That REALLY made my bp rise!!
> >
> > For all of those comments above I really LIKE Halo 5 firefight, a lot!! Especially since I’m doing so much better. But team betrayals, erratic modem/server connection, people acting all weird and hostile, AND being picked off by the enemies when your most vulnerable, well that does put a damper, a BIG one on the game play!! One thing that I don’t ‘get’ , if people are there in the game, one would assume that they are there to play the game and win, right? I have to admit that this game is ONLY winnable with TEAMWORK, otherwise, another red loss hash will appear in your game history column!! Does anyone want that! Another loss? I’m there to play and win, not have to struggle with my team mates, if that is what they are? With the way some of them act, I have to wonder…There must be a lot of KIDS playing this game, that would explain everything!
> >
> > Finally could anyone explain the k/d idea to me? I had (for example) 17 kills and 2 deaths, and my k/d was 0:0. what? How does that make sense??! Under War-zone stats I’m currently at a 5.4 K/D. Anyway, No offense intended to anyone, if I sound whiny, my bad…Thanks guys
>
> Sorry for the quote first of all but I wanted an easier time jumping back to read the issues.
> 1st. The jumping around erratically is due to one of these issue… poor modem speed, a glitch with the servers (But I doubt it), or if you have the voice pack. I’ve noticed more glitching since I use the grunts voice (can’t remember his name). Other people have noticed issues with game play when using different voices too.
> 2nd. Agreed. I’ve lost several times due to joking a game in process right at the end. This is indeed annoying.
> 3rd. You will always see poor sportsmanship in gamea. No changing that. Most are probably kids. I had a guy to stole my ghost because I jumped off to grab something. I was right next to it. He then tried to run me over for a few min. He ended up flipping the ghost and I got it back and I ran him over for being a -Yoink-. So I got my revenge. But I think team killing should only be in ranked games and nothing else because it adds nothing to warzone or arena. But in rank it’s about how good you are so I would leave it there. And I guess have it as an option for custom.
> 4th. As for getting swarmed… it’s going to happen. Happened to me several times and my no goes up too. But you don’t always spawn in the best area. It would be nice to choose where you spawn though.
> 5th. Multiplayer is definitely all about teamwork. I completely agree with that. But you will get the -Yoinks!- who do it to mess with others. You should have an option to report that player in the game for violating policy.

1st I suspect mainly these, a glitch with the servers (Halos), or if you have the voice pack, as I don’t have and never plan on getting the Voice Pack that eliminates that from my list.
2nd I do hate that, but at least in my case most of the games I get JIP’ed into have been winning games,
4th yep has happened to me, just gotta roll with it
3rd and 5th kind of go together, before Destiny 2 came out, I would enter the game with at least 2 others (WZFF), if a -Yoinker- like that happened to show up and one of us got the Boot option we would alert the other 2, then Boot and most often we would be get a free vehichle (a brief moment to Thank all the dumb -yoinks-), then at the end of the game we would report that player through their Xbox game tag

But most definitely find/build a group of like minded individuals to play the game with, the more in that group then the less likely that the toxic ones will get in.

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I noticed you have the voice pack turned on. The voice pack is buggy and causes the game randomly crash (black screen with little wheel turning at the bottom). I had to turn mine off. Haven’t had a problem since. Don’t know, but could be why your warping around if it’s happening much.

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> I noticed you have the voice pack turned on. The voice pack is buggy and causes the game randomly crash (black screen with little wheel turning at the bottom). I had to turn mine off. Haven’t had a problem since. Don’t know, but could be why your warping around if it’s happening much.

Yup.happens to me once in awhile. A few second free or the black screen with the loading icon. Never had those issues before the voice pack

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Hey guys,

First of all, thanks a lot!, for the feedback, appreciate it!! Wanted to make some further comments under the theme of this topic, i.e. poor sportsmanship.Just about an hour ago played in the arena ‘Attack on Sanctum’, I did quite well, first place!! In the game, level three I was zipping around in a warthog with a chain gun either strafing or crushing the enemies.Worked rather well, I thought. So during all this ‘rushing around’ I INADVERTENTLY bumped into several ghosts, or, ‘they’ bumped into me?, no harm no foul? Right? So the level ends and here comes up a dude in a light green wraith he proceeds to run my warthog over, and he started to strafe with plasma bursts!! I thought wth? Just then the Prometheans show up with my armor almost gone from this creeps insane attacks on me!! I lost a life because of this &&&^^!!! So later I went back and watched the film, sure enough the aggressor driving the wraith was one of the ghost pilots that I had bumped into!! In this game I’ve been bumped into a LOT!! I NEVER went back for retaliation, unless it was in a case like this, a deliberate attack and seemingly for NO reason!! That was a rather INFANTILE thing to do, I think at least!! Maybe this guy had a full diaper? Who knows! Sure can make the game sour when dealing with punk kids(?) like that!! WHAT can be done about occurrences like that, especially when you LOSE a life because of some nitwit?

Yesterday, I was in the arena called ‘Prospect’, and a odd thing happened, which I had encountered before about 9(?) months ago. Level 4 had just started, I was in a wraith I managed to hit a banshee with a lucky plasma burst, and then there were a few scattered enemies here and there, not more then 15-20(?). Then after these troops were picked off, NO OTHER ENEMIES showed up for the rest of level 4!!! So we buzzed around for 3+ minutes shooting at buildings and whatnot! Strange! What gives with that?! Did the covenant and Promethean forces take a ‘coffee-break?’ Level 5 started with swarms of enemies, and we still had fun, and Won! Just thought that I’d mention that peculiar happening…

What is a qwik way (other then BUYING gold-packs!) to get more ghosts via reqs, I’m running low on ghosts, and when I get reqs, oftentimes I get a lot of junk in the reqs that either I don’t care for, or don’t even need! I also want more of the Unsc Wasps…I have some ideas, but I’d like to hear your opinions…One vehicle that I really like, but which I think is in sore need of a up-grade for it’s armor is the Unsc ‘gun-goose!’ I found out the past week that with the gun-goose if you can keep your distance, then you can lay the hammer down on the enemy from quite a distance!! That is fun!! Unfortunately with the gun-goose you are really exposed, and can be easily shot off if you get too close to the conflict. Which rather discourages ramming attacks like in the ghosts or warthogs…It’d be nice to see a increase in rate of fire with the gun-goose and a more powerful blast effect from the grenades. Then too, increase the range of the grenade launchers, I know, I’m day-dreaming now… ; )

Responses and Opinions welcome, yes, even criticism!! I mean NO offense to any one here, except, PERHAPS, to the dude in the wraith who cost me a life! , yes I know his name, I may report him! Thinking about it…

Thanks guys!
Salute!