Eh, I don’t think killing sprees are unreasonably difficult to obtain. My original final event challenge was 3 triple kills. No way was that happening. After a challenge swap it became 4 killing sprees. If you play more cautiously it’s not horribly hard to get at least one killing spree in a match.
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I was enjoying this until I found out that we have swat with commandos next week. That is going to be a mess.
Everyone is entitled to play the game however they want. Nothing wrong with trying your hardest every game if that is how you enjoy playing. My thing on this is that there is a place and time for heavy skill based matchmaking.
I grinded my way to Onyx and it was an absolute nightmare getting through diamond, but I got there and felt good about it. I tried my hardest each game, and they were some of the most intense games I’ve played. Matchmaking in a ranked playlist should be focussed and targeted on an even skill level, that is correct (although arguably this system does a poor job of that)
However, in a social setting, and even more so in a ‘fun’ limited time event, forcing a good ranked player to always play against other high ranked players every game is just turning everything in to ranked. I work hard during the day, sometimes I just want to throw on a few games to relax at night. I don’t have the focus I need to compete in onyx ranked, so I choose not to. Being well in to the top decile of players I should be able to comfortably do that without getting destroyed in a ‘fun’ event and risk losing my MMR in RANKED while I am playing social.
The two should not be linked. And I don’t buy that the game should be protecting new players from good players. That is the nature of online shooters, some people are better than others. The point is there should be a different arena for playing competitively and playing socially. This game makes a very limited distinction, meaning that if I take my foot off the gas I will get stomped in tactical slayer by a team of Onyx/high diamond. And worse, the game will punish my RANKED MMR because of those few games where I was a bit tired and didn’t want to go all out.
I see nothing wrong with people trying their hardest every game. I just wish 343 would not link social and ranked, which turns the entire social game in to a ‘sweat fest’. It is an appropriate term, it describes the experience. Just my two cents, hope you keep enjoying doing what you do
But who’s to say someone is trying hard?
You know how many times I’ve hopped into DoA (a fighting game) and been called a try hard or other various names? 99% of the time I’m not trying when I play that game. I hop on because I just want to press buttons and I can go on a 30 win streak by not even paying attention.
I’m by no means a top player, but I’m way better than the average simply because I’ve been playing DoA since I was a kid and when I was younger I did compete in tournaments so I just have a naturally higher instinct on how to play the game from sheer experience of playing people WAY better than me.
This is why I hate the term try hard and sweat and every other nonsense name for someone who happens to play better. I don’t look at a scoreboard and go “oh that dude is totally sweating! Why can’t he just be casual like us!?” No that’s not how it friggan works. Dude’s just playing the damn game.
Yeah, the term sweat is a stupid way to describe another player. Completely irrelevant. I view sweat-fest as a comment on the match in general, never the individual players.
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There’s nothing tactical about TS besides my ability to quit matches where I don’t get the right gun lol
@I_Nbot_I, if it disabled footstep audio, it’d be the ultimate wet dream mode for a portion of the community. That’s the group it’s always been for.
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I like it because I received all the rewards, and the Capstone challenge was easy to complete. Playing this event was far more productive than wasting time in Ranked.
Well, to be fair, they haven’t removed the ability to TB on people. Since they removed the ability to talk to others, ruined all sense of communication, I am genuinely surprised they haven’t made it so you can’t crotch more than 1 time every few seconds or something.
343i bring back open lobbies & open communication.
I hate mangler SWAT.
would have been better if i didn’t have to wade through 8 matches of sidekick swat before i got the last mangler match i needed
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It sucks. I’ve just about had it. Ready to move on.
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The triple kills were easiest to get with BR
The killjoy was easiest with the mangler
The backsmack was BS. Just waited until you had a afk player.
I sincerly disliked the pistols. So I can only imagine what commandos and stalkers are going to be like. I have the event done now so hopefully the challenge that week will be an emblem so I can skip the whole thing.
What’s wrong with the pistols? Pistol swat is the best imo. They are overall accurate, but don’t have the range a BR does forcing players to be a bit more aggressive and not just trying to cross map everyone like with the BR. Makes some of the trash maps for swat tolerable lol.
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I think that while I really dislike the playlists (I only really enjoy BR tactical slayer, but certainly don’t want to grind it,) I actually think the rewards are some of the best ones offered so far.
I’m really glad to see some Halo looking cosmetics, that fit into the military science fiction universe. I wasn’t a huge fan of the goofy Tenrai core, or the super ridiculous cosmetics in the cyber showdown event.
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I like swat in general so yea having some fun for sure.
I will say swat in infinite isn’t as good as h3 because of projectile speed (or maybe it’s something else, only 343 knows). Very similar to h5 and h2a projectile speed (really I think that’s why y’all die behind corners). Happened in h5 in case y’all forgot.
Mangler shouldn’t be on bazaar. Behemoth needs removed completely until it’s reworked. It looks nice but it plays like butt in every game mode I’ve ever played on it. Speaking on maps - the glare is worse looking out from west to east on bazaar - really should be the same on each side.
Scope glint needs removed completely. Should never televise your position. Also since so many people zoom and peak in swat around corners…their glint is almost always on. I’ve noticed through games even before the event - you can sometimes see glint through walls.
Will always hate the sidekick spam. Convinced a decent portion of the player base is using modded controllers, macros or something else to unload the sidekick full clip in less than half second. Literally cannot shoot as fast as them. You may occasionally play me and find me literally just spamming my sidekick into the wall as fast as I can in frustration.
Weapon specific challenges are bad. Back smacks and melee shouldn’t be encouraged in swat. I actually think kill joys are okay in swat - just because it’s fairly easy for anyone to get hot and get a killing spree at any given time, providing lots of kill joy opportunities where in fiesta (other event example we have had) - it’s more difficult unless you spawn with hammer/sword and thrust/grapple. In swat every single life is a potential killing spree.
Whhhaaaaattttt? Don’t you just love a good pistol fight on Behemoth?
I think the rewards are not but SWAT is awful so I’m not going to force myself to play it.
Love SWAT (tact ops)…
Didnt play it in H3 but it’s my main game type since Halo Reach. Infinites SWAT is so-so compared to some but i still like it. I think the event is fun and my over all K/D has gone up playing all the SWAT n00bs lol
Sorry, not sorry…
I’m having fun in mangler tactic ops just trying to go for melee’s…