First I thought I’d play some swat… what could go wrong with that… oh ya… people sitting there afk for points… I played several games with one guy just hanging back, never moving unless someone came near him and then low and behold they would fire to get a kill… sure this might work for their k/d in the long run but it makes it harder on the team since they basically become a free kill just standing there like a -Yoink-.
Then I did some Spartan Ops… needs to be reworked seriously… no penalty for dying and like Firefight from Reach it’s being abused drastically. I had 3 games in a row where a guy would hang back and pick off grunts if they got close, but NEVER bothered to agro an AI and thus never died. They of course got little to no kills, but still got the points at end game so who cares right?
Then there’s others that just plain troll the server giving the other team kills, or constantly shooting you or your team mates. Betrayals seem harder? I got mowed down by a team mate multiple times in a hog on ragnarok, but only betrayed once despite the fact he was just plowing through team mates intentionally.
I also hate seeing half my team guest accounts on a single console (user1, user2, user3…) where only one guy is actually playing and his friends are -Yoink- around or standing still the entire time. I mean getting a team to work together is a tall order to begin with online unless you’re in the same party… but it just gets ridiculous.
We seriously need an auto kick for afk players, or ones simply not playing… maybe a vote system with just a simple yes/no to kick a player. Also the betrayal system needs to be reworked… it’s one thing if someone grazes you from walking into their line of fire, but it’s entirely another when they empty 3-4 mags into you or run into you repeatedly with a hog.
Though since the game is new and all I’m sure the trolls will die down in a few weeks…
Best thing I’ve seen was the auto replacement for players that quit, thank god… I always HATED playing Swat on Reach and have a 3 person console party just bail and leave me 1v4…