If you ask me, friendly fire is the biggest tool for trolls. It does more harm than good because a few trolling acts involving the ability to slay your own teammates can completely ruin your experience. Those ways are the following:
- Being team killed because you picked up a power weapon - Being team killed before capping a flag, then the team killer caps it for easy points. - Accidentally team killing someone, but they decide to kick you out because they can.I don’t see a point to even have it in. The only small reasoning behind FF is to teach players how to watch their fire to avoid hitting friendlies. That logic goes out the window when a troll is mixed into the equation.
Do you think Friendly Fire should be removed completely?
It’s already been removed from Warzone.
Sounds like a personal problem. Never had any problems with friendly fire.
Arena is supposed to be competitive, tactical & skill based, thus, you have to be careful where you shoot & throw.
yes
plasma pistoling friendly vehicles is also terrible
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> It’s already been removed from Warzone.
Warzone is neat, but what about other modes?
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Competitive players feel that FF is necessary in arena because it makes the game more challenging by forcing the players to be more cautious with their aim and grenades. But personally I’d rather go without it, most betrayals I’ve seen were deliberate.
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> Sounds like a personal problem
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> You have to be careful where you shoot & throw.
My issue with friendly fire isn’t about me not being careful. It’s about the people who abuse friendly fire for their trolling benefit.
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> Sounds like a personal problem. Never had any problems with friendly fire.
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> Arena is supposed to be competitive, tactical & skill based, thus, you have to be careful where you shoot & throw.
Well, I played some Team Snipes one time on MCC, was going on a Riot.
Then, my teammate looked at me for a few seconds, and shot me, ending my streak.
Naturally, I blocked them and haven’t seen them since. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Regarding betrayals, what do you expect from playing with randoms? nobody is stopping you from adding good people and playing with them. No need to compromise the gameplay with a completely unnatural game mechanic.
I’ve never had these problems and I’ve been playing halo online since 2004.
Agreed. I feel like I run into people like that all the time mcc. Was team killed for my sniper. Then team killed the same day for someone to get the flag I brought to the base. I really see no real reason for it.
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> Sounds like a personal problem. Never had any problems with friendly fire.
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> Arena is supposed to be competitive, tactical & skill based, thus, you have to be careful where you shoot & throw.
^ I agree completely. FF is part of competition so you rarely get team killing on purpose. judicious marksmanship and grenade placement are part of the game.
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> Regarding betrayals, what do you expect from playing with randoms? nobody is stopping you from adding good people and playing with them. No need to compromise the gameplay with a completely unnatural game mechanic.
So you’re saying the problem is all about me not having friends who don’t team kill? Seems legit (not really).
As mentioned earlier, it does more harm than good and would benefit people who don’t have friends to play with. That way, everyone can be happy instead of being trolled by an harmful mechanic.
This is why I wish Halo ranked matchmaking handled friendly fire like COD does in its Hardcore matches. When you shoot a teammate, it’s you that takes the damage, not them. Sure, from a realistic perspective, it makes no sense, but it is quite effective. If I shoot my teammate, melee a teammate, or injure them in any fashion, I’ll just kill myself rather than them. That would solve the betrayal griefing. You’ll still have the element of having to be careful not to half hazardly shoot and spam grenades etc., but it’s your life on the line instead of theirs.
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> Do you think Friendly Fire should be removed completely?
Not at all. I’m sorry they even removed it from Warzone. That means it probably will be completely gone by H6.
As far as “it does more harm than good”, that is your opinion. Which you are entitled to.
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> > Regarding betrayals, what do you expect from playing with randoms? nobody is stopping you from adding good people and playing with them. No need to compromise the gameplay with a completely unnatural game mechanic.
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> So you’re saying the problem is all about me not having friends who don’t team kill?
Yup.
It’s not that hard to send a friend request to teammates after a good game. Believe it or not there are other people who also want good people to play with.
Removing friendly fire just encourages mindless, skill-less grenade spam. You’re just trying to fix a personal problem by introducing an actual gameplay problem that effects everyone, even the people who actually use the friends list as it was intended.
Really hope they have friendly fire off. Cant stand the kids that kill you because you took the power weapons.
I’m in the boat where it should be off in Warzone, otherwise some brat will try killing you for a legendary you picked out.
But Arena is a different beast. I want my teammates to be aware that they shouldnt be derps by throwing grendades willy nilly.
But I do believe that there should be a harsher punishment for teamkillers and those who get kicked.
I hate it when infected people kill infected people because they know they can.
However it is good for stopping people spam grenades
not to say trolls don’t exist but are they really that common to warrant removing friendly fire? Friendly fire adds a layer of depth to the game play that sets halo apart from other mainstream shooters like Cod that have FF disabled.