So after playing a lot of BTB (Simply because I enjoy the concept) I’ve noticed a lot of Pro MLG BTB teams out there. Now these guys are usually insanely good and win purely by skill alone, and not just because they gain a huge advantage from being a full team with mics against a bunch of randoms. After studying them carefully in their natural habitat, I’ve discovered the secrets these elite gamers use to stay ahead of the competition. To all you nubs, make sure you bookmark this page. You’ll want to review everything here carefully.
1- Gather a full team of inheritors, or near inheritors, it doesn’t matter what their KD is. Even inheritors with a KD of 0.2 are allowed, because they’re inheritors, the highest rank possible, all with mics of course. The more inheritors who earned the majority of their credits in Fire Fight, and KDs of less than 1 the better. 2 people on the team need to actually have a decent KD though, the designated Sniper, and the designated Banshee/Tank operator.
2- Enter BTB but NOT Anniversary BTB, you don’t want to get matched up against intelligent adults who can afford DLC.
3- Use the advantage of your full team to force the vote to objective. You’re too cool for actual team objective, only objective in BTB counts. Also if you get get objective on Hemorrhage that is a bonus. Hemorrhage is extremely rare in BTB, so you need to jump on it every chance you get. Most people don’t know that map so your team will be able to hit more notes.
4- Watch as how 2-3 people on the opposing team of randoms, with no mics, and guests; immediately quit because of how afraid of you they are. Yep they know better than to mess with you guys!
5- Have a designated sniper grab camo. While most teams of randoms have the sniper taken either by a sprinter/jet packer, you can casually take your time to reach it because nobody will contest the designated sniper.
Remember to kill PRIORITY targets first! AFK players, players stationary at the mounted machine gun / warthog machine gun, and players running very slow because they have the flag/bomb. If you have to use 2 bullets on stationary targets, it is Bungie’s fault for the bloom so you shouldn’t feel bad.
6- Ignore the objective completely. This isn’t team objective remember!
7- Farm kills and set up a spawn trap
8- Repeat this until either the opposing team surrenders, or there is 1 minute left. If the game reaches 1 minute, you simply score the objective 1 time to ensure your team wins.
9- Watch as your KD increases while your actual skill doesn’t…not because you’re just getting free wins all day, but because you’re already a Halo Reach 117th prestige Grandmaster 5* General. Your skill cannot increase any further, you’ve reached MLG status. Chuck Norris would be proud to call you his son.
10- Don’t bother ever trying to out DMR the peasants on the opposing team. Turns out some losers actually rely on their own abilities rather than coming in with a full team simply to intimidate others into quitting so they can boost their KDs via objective kill farming.
These try hard losers usually out DMR/Snipe/ANY weapon you anyway, but hey they’ll never be able to Banshee Bomb / Backflip spam half as good as you could!
Best just to avoid those silly newbs, the reason they’re on foot is because they can’t figure out how to use the vehicles. Time to show them how its done!
The ONLY time you should get out of your vehicle, is to -Yoink!- the opposing team for bonus points.
11- MOST importantly, ALWAYS talk trash when you’re done. If the game was slayer, and their entire team quit but 4 people, 1 of them was AFK and went -23 even though your team only won by 3 points, you must still talk trash regardless. If you were on the winning team, and you went -3, it is your responsibility to talk trash to the guy who got stuck on the losing team with randoms, yet went +15 anyway, because HE is the one who’s bad, not you. After all, it isn’t your fault if they’re the ones who accidentally a whole team, so they need to get over it.
12- If your team loses for any reason, make sure to challenge an opposing member to a rematch of SWAT 1v1. If they pull host, accuse them of network manipulation and quit. If YOU pull host, proceed to barely win, and if they quit call them a coward.
Don’t forget to set up the game on some God awful mess of a map you created in half an hour in Forge. Remember the map should have hidden items that only you know of, and tons of traps that you would never fall for…well okay you fall for your own traps SOME times, but who doesn’t forget they set up a teleporter to instantly kill them, am I right? The opponent should have ONE respawn point, and you should have several.
For best results set up a map where your friends can spectate and give you call-outs in party chat, but don’t let your opponent bring in spectators because they’ll cheat and help that A-hole win!
13- If you are killed by an enemy sniper, they’re using an aim bot and you should have your entire team report them as soon as the game is over. If YOU kill someone with a sniper in the passenger seat of a revenant, it was purely because of your skill and nothing else. Hey you’re just sitting in the passenger seat, it is a legitimate tactic free of any programming errors or oversight. Don’t forget to yell “NO SCOPE!!!” every time you get a kill while doing this. Note that yelling in party chat doesn’t earn you extra assists, so you need to be in game chat so your opponent can hear you.
14- If you are killed with a Rocket/Wraith/Banshee bomb/Any other explosive radius weapon…it wasn’t because you couldn’t have dodged it anyway, it was because of LAG! After all it is 8v8, 16 people total, somebody is bound to die because of lag an with 16 people there is a 85% chance that you’ll be the one getting lag killed.
Make sure to reset your router after the match, and check your NAT settings because something has gone terribly wrong.
15- If you wind up getting a bit bored, keep playing anyway. For extra motivation play music loud enough for everybody in the lobby to hear.
Only losers play for fun, you’re MLG! When Halo 4 comes out remember that merely by registering your team on game battles you can then call yourself a “Professional Gamer” despite never having been in any actual MLG event. You’ve paid your dues and earned your street credit in BTB.
So when Halo 4 comes out I need everybody to remember to petition 343 and Gamebattles to put more vehicles, and less BR into the next generation MLG.
Lastly remember that everything I posted here in this online Halo forum is a SECRET! Do not share this knowledge with anybody else, otherwise everybody will start using these 1337 BTB pro tricks!
I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Now go out and kick some butt in BTB!
Getting paired up with another team of 8 makes a SICK game. Probably the most fun game I have ever played.