- Don’t trash-talk; you’ll make things worse by lowering a teammate’s morale and disrupting their ability to focus.
- Don’t betray them; you’ll directly contribute to your team’s loss, you selfish little… [cut].
- Stick with them, and keep them alive.
- Help them out – this is a team game.
- Acknowledge everyone has bad games
- Move on with your day.
nah some people get upset when you criticize a ““play” they made. For example i was playing CTF on truth and i think i two teammates had just died and one of out teammates was in the enemy base. The other team was running our flag we spawned i told him " toss the flag out and stay in their base” we needed him to make a little bit of time so we could try to get to their side and stop the flag but he instead ran towards where they were running the flag and got picked off.
All i said was “you should of thrown the flag out” and he all upset 
Sometimes I haven’t played in a while or just am having a bad day, I’m a trashy player. Sometimes people call me out on mics but I go check their service record for Arena for example and it’s super bad. I have a 3.7 k/d in Arena but it used to be 4.0 lol. I’ll always try to be a good player but everyone has their good and bad days.
I think we all need to understand that none of us have perfect games every single game. Good post.
A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
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> A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
To be fair, a lot of the time team mates probably think we’re all bad, because we don’t listen to them. That’s the problem, everyone thinks your team should listen to you.
It’s good to know when to play call, and when to receive play calls.
General coment, not directly at you.
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> 5) Acknowledge everyone has bad games
> 6) Move on with your day.
The two most important
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> > 2533275008489126;1:
> > 5) Acknowledge everyone has bad games
> > 6) Move on with your day.
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> The two most important
Yeah, I remember playing Slayer this one time and I did pretty bad. I got a message saying that’s I should stop play and I replied that I had a bad game and the sucker responded you must have bad games everyday then. I cried myself to sleep that night
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> nah some people get upset when you criticize a ““play” they made. For example i was playing CTF on truth and i think i two teammates had just died and one of out teammates was in the enemy base. The other team was running our flag we spawned i told him " toss the flag out and stay in their base” we needed him to make a little bit of time so we could try to get to their side and stop the flag but he instead ran towards where they were running the flag and got picked off.
> All i said was “you should of thrown the flag out” and he all upset
Here’s some of my experience with team games and communications like League of Legends and Halo. If a teammate makes a huge mistake, forget about it. It has already happened, and there’s nothing you can do to change the past. If you need a teammate to do something, explicitly tell your teammate why the team needs them to do it. If I was in your teammate’s shoes in that scenario, I do not necessarily know why you want me to stay in the enemy base. I don’t know that I’m currently blocking important spawns. I don’t always know what my team needs in the exact situation. If I screw up, I’d rather you not mention it for the rest of the game unless I happen to be in that same exact situation a few minutes later. I can’t change what happened 2 minutes ago in that game. Communication is best spent on the present and planning for the next few minutes.
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> A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
Try giving a reason for them to hide. Give something valid like “Be stealthy to stay alive longer,” and you should have better outcomes from your teammates. If you give a reason, your teammates will think “Oh, that makes some sense; I’ll do it” as opposed to “Who the hell is this dude” if you don’t give a reason.
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> A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
Honestly that is not the correct thing to do either. And if you had time to message them to go hide while the game was in progress I sure hope you had the time to message them back and say thanks after the game… But something tells me you for got that part.
Zippy.
So…how do you propose you deal with the teammates that you consistently get in Warzone who regularly contribute nothing to the match (no boss kills, no captures, typically 20-40 deaths with 1-4 kills)? As much as you want to throw them a bone, they’re just annoying. The same goes for Mythic Firefight (not bothered about the other 2 difficulties) - I must have lost a good 80% of my games in the past weekend alone because teammates would spawn sniper rifles, hydras and hammers to take on the mythic boss(es) at the end. They are completely useless to the team - I even tried telling them to spawn vehicles, or protect vehicles going against the boss, only to watch them unload 16 Nornfang shots on a warden to do little damage, or run with their hammer straight at him to get 1-hit by minions before even reaching him.
In regular Warzone, my pet peeve is randoms trying to access your vehicle when you’re picking up a fireteam member, or you’re stationary providing some support from afar. I don’t even know how many times I’ve been in a hog just for a random (typically the dude in 11th/12th place) to get in the driver seat and proceed to drive me straight into enemies, or off the map. They’re worse than Kat, and that says a lot.
We’ve even had close games where I’ve told our teammates not to kill the mythic boss at the end because our point lead is enough that it isn’t required - all it will do is provide the enemy team a chance to steal it as we do the work to lower it’s health. What do they do? Carry on attacking it anyway.
There is no real solution for ‘trash’ teammates. They’re everywhere, they do not listen, they do not care. From the times that I’ve had my game chat on, more often than not they’re young children anyway who probably don’t care less whether they win or lose, they just want to “hit the bad guys with the sword!!!”.
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> So…how do you propose you deal with the teammates that you consistently get in Warzone who regularly contribute nothing to the match (no boss kills, no captures, typically 20-40 deaths with 1-4 kills)? As much as you want to throw them a bone, they’re just annoying. The same goes for Mythic Firefight (not bothered about the other 2 difficulties) - I must have lost a good 80% of my games in the past weekend alone because teammates would spawn sniper rifles, hydras and hammers to take on the mythic boss(es) at the end. They are completely useless to the team - I even tried telling them to spawn vehicles, or protect vehicles going against the boss, only to watch them unload 16 Nornfang shots on a warden to do little damage, or run with their hammer straight at him to get 1-hit by minions before even reaching him.
>
> In regular Warzone, my pet peeve is randoms trying to access your vehicle when you’re picking up a fireteam member, or you’re stationary providing some support from afar. I don’t even know how many times I’ve been in a hog just for a random (typically the dude in 11th/12th place) to get in the driver seat and proceed to drive me straight into enemies, or off the map. They’re worse than Kat, and that says a lot.
>
> We’ve even had close games where I’ve told our teammates not to kill the mythic boss at the end because our point lead is enough that it isn’t required - all it will do is provide the enemy team a chance to steal it as we do the work to lower it’s health. What do they do? Carry on attacking it anyway.
>
> There is no real solution for ‘trash’ teammates. They’re everywhere, they do not listen, they do not care. From the times that I’ve had my game chat on, more often than not they’re young children anyway who probably don’t care less whether they win or lose, they just want to “hit the bad guys with the sword!!!”.
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> </rant>
I agree with this. I understand warzone is supposed to be social but I don’t understand how people enjoy getting one kill on an afk guy and thirty deaths. I just wish the matchmaking wasn’t against good players, it’s hard to have fun when you have six people who contribute nothing. I feel bad for other teams I match who lose because the randoms decide to talk to Marines in the home base or whatever they do. It is only a game though and is supposed to be fun, it isn’t fun at all for these new players who get thrown into matches against skilled players though.
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> > 2535415305234137;5:
> > A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
>
> Try giving a reason for them to hide. Give something valid like “Be stealthy to stay alive longer,” and you should have better outcomes from your teammates. If you give a reason, your teammates will think “Oh, that makes some sense; I’ll do it” as opposed to “Who the hell is this dude” if you don’t give a reason.
you don’t have time.to message anything long in game. Thats the problem. I think they were smart enough to listen to what I’m saying when they are going very negative and I’m going very positive.
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> > 2535415305234137;5:
> > A lot of the time though trash teammates dont listen to you. Which is one of the reasons why they are trash. One time though I messaged a teammate and his teammate who were really bad and told them to just hide. We were losing by a lot and the other teammate already left. They listened to me and we ended up winning. It felt good for a random to finally listen to me.
>
> Honestly that is not the correct thing to do either. And if you had time to message them to go hide while the game was in progress I sure hope you had the time to message them back and say thanks after the game… But something tells me you for got that part.
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> Zippy.
no I messaged them gg after the game.
It’s funny how some people think arena, and WZ is like the HWC and start calling people out. I agree with you OP. Everyone has good games and bad games.
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> > > 2533275008489126;1:
> > > 5) Acknowledge everyone has bad games
> > > 6) Move on with your day.
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> > The two most important
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> Yeah, I remember playing Slayer this one time and I did pretty bad. I got a message saying that’s I should stop play and I replied that I had a bad game and the sucker responded you must have bad games everyday then. I cried myself to sleep that night
The forklift rules all…
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> > > 2533275008489126;1:
> > > 5) Acknowledge everyone has bad games
> > > 6) Move on with your day.
> >
> > The two most important
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> Yeah, I remember playing Slayer this one time and I did pretty bad. I got a message saying that’s I should stop play and I replied that I had a bad game and the sucker responded you must have bad games everyday then. I cried myself to sleep that night
I got called out hard when I was having a very bad day, like 6-15 in BTB. Some guy called me a noob, and I cried ;(
I’ve been getting trashed talked quite a bit recently. I started using a new button layout and it’s difficult to not press the wrong buttons.
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> > So…how do you propose you deal with the teammates that you consistently get in Warzone who regularly contribute nothing to the match (no boss kills, no captures, typically 20-40 deaths with 1-4 kills)? As much as you want to throw them a bone, they’re just annoying. The same goes for Mythic Firefight (not bothered about the other 2 difficulties) - I must have lost a good 80% of my games in the past weekend alone because teammates would spawn sniper rifles, hydras and hammers to take on the mythic boss(es) at the end. They are completely useless to the team - I even tried telling them to spawn vehicles, or protect vehicles going against the boss, only to watch them unload 16 Nornfang shots on a warden to do little damage, or run with their hammer straight at him to get 1-hit by minions before even reaching him.
> >
> > In regular Warzone, my pet peeve is randoms trying to access your vehicle when you’re picking up a fireteam member, or you’re stationary providing some support from afar. I don’t even know how many times I’ve been in a hog just for a random (typically the dude in 11th/12th place) to get in the driver seat and proceed to drive me straight into enemies, or off the map. They’re worse than Kat, and that says a lot.
> >
> > We’ve even had close games where I’ve told our teammates not to kill the mythic boss at the end because our point lead is enough that it isn’t required - all it will do is provide the enemy team a chance to steal it as we do the work to lower it’s health. What do they do? Carry on attacking it anyway.
> >
> > There is no real solution for ‘trash’ teammates. They’re everywhere, they do not listen, they do not care. From the times that I’ve had my game chat on, more often than not they’re young children anyway who probably don’t care less whether they win or lose, they just want to “hit the bad guys with the sword!!!”.
>
> I agree with this. I understand warzone is supposed to be social but I don’t understand how people enjoy getting one kill on an afk guy and thirty deaths. I just wish the matchmaking wasn’t against good players, it’s hard to have fun when you have six people who contribute nothing. I feel bad for other teams I match who lose because the randoms decide to talk to Marines in the home base or whatever they do. It is only a game though and is supposed to be fun, it isn’t fun at all for these new players who get thrown into matches against skilled players though.
Matchmaking needs a fix/some sort of help for newcomers in general for most playlists. I would love to suggest a system similar to arena for the WZ problem, but that’s just asking for more potential of farming situations and smurfing (Yes, it would benefit the WZ competitive teams, but not the solo players and newcomers, sadly.)
So I guess at the very least, a tutorial should do the trick, similar to the tutorial in halo 5 forge on the PC. It will give simple instructions, such as the game rules, how reqs work, boss spawns, etc.
If this can’t be done in halo 5, then at least (hopefully) it can be done in halo 6 to reduce the problems/situations of “brain dead” teammates.
Edit: Come to think of it, this problem is a lot worse in WZFF because everyone wants to spawn in loadout weapons to kill the wardens instead of actual reqs, and when people do spawn in vehicle reqs, compared to WZ or WZA, they drive recklessly and often killl teammates. Obviously, this is just my experience, and you might have had it worse on normal WZ, but realistically, I think most of the “brain dead” teammates moved on to looking at enemies in WZFF, as I rarely ever see them whilst playing WZA/WZ compared to the times I see them on WZFF.
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> I’ve been getting trashed talked quite a bit recently. I started using a new button layout and it’s difficult to not press the wrong buttons.
Honestly, the amount of people trash talking is the sole reason why I stopped playing arena competitively. Hell, I can’t even play infected or FFA without one guy in a party calling me a “Hacker” because I ruined his plans of boosting for a win.
(Yes, I know FFA has parties disabled, but the fireteam glitch is still around to my knowledge)