This is similar to a post I made several weeks ago about how to gain confidence while playing Halo. I have felt my confidence rise a little bit and I feel like I am a more agressive player than I was in MCC a couple of months ago, yet aIso I have become highly overly agressive in basically all gameplay senarios I find myself in these days, mainly because of my rageful attitude toward small things, like dying quickly, missing snipes, getting outBR’d when I clearly should have finished my one-shot on some player, and making stupid plays.
Lately, I have been thinking, “I have played Halo for eleven years…and yet I still loose to complete noobs (not all of them are lol) and people that hardly play this game nowadays!!! I must suck! I have to do something grrr…” and so on and so forth. That isnt a good thing, and sometimes I get so angry with how I play that I feel like I wont ever improve, or I start swearing more than I EVER do…and that alone is making me realize something isnt right with my mentality lolol.
So ask you this: When you try to suppress anger in Halo, or the possibility of raging over something so simple, or you realise that its necessary fror you to stop behaving like this, how do you calm yourself down and just try to play and have fun with that competitive spirit you like to have? I know that this sounds a bit ridiculous, but I am interested in your responses.
I never really was (or am) too competitive, it’s not worth the frustration of getting to involved. I’m a pretty good player and have friends/teammates that are very good too, but we usually tried to make each match fun. It’s unnecessary stress and can be physically harmful if you let it get you. All it is, is escapism, to decompress from real world stress.
Just try to enjoy the game, don’t worry too much about losing, try not to worry about CSR, laugh at things. I used to be competitive then as I naturally matured I got more chill about the game, learned to laugh as your rag doll goes flying across the map smashing every obstacle on the way. Or if I get sniped I’ll just say “that guy is good” and respect that, still have no patience for the shotgun though. My brothers still get heated during the game over the smallest things and I’ve noticed that I used to act like them, so I can see the contrast, and it looks stupid (remember that). I’m playing LASO with my brother and a friend and my brother will get really impatient when my friend dies too often but only I naturally notice my brother dying almost just as often, he doesn’t obviously, so I try to keep things chill. Also having friends to play with really help to keep you calm, and not any of those friends who are going to cuss alongside you, I mean friends you don’t want hearing you like that.
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> Just try to enjoy the game, don’t worry too much about losing, try not to worry about CSR, laugh at things. I used to be competitive then as I naturally matured I got more chill about the game, learned to laugh as your rag doll goes flying across the map smashing every obstacle on the way. Or if I get sniped I’ll just say “that guy is good” and respect that, still have no patience for the shotgun though. My brothers still get heated during the game over the smallest things and I’ve noticed that I used to act like them, so I can see the contrast, and it looks stupid (remember that). I’m playing LASO with my brother and a friend and my brother will get really impatient when my friend dies too often but only I naturally notice my brother dying almost just as often, he doesn’t obviously, so I try to keep things chill. Also having friends to play with really help to keep you calm, and not any of those friends who are going to cuss alongside you, I mean friends you don’t want hearing you like that.
Friends do help with that, I know. Sometimes I still let the rage though 
Need to work on that.
I’ve been playing a long time too, and I’m on the downswing of my skill lol. I don’t really mind, it’s just a part of getting older and having less time to play. I still have fun with it 
The first thing I do is try to assess (as honestly as possible, rage not withstanding) whether the thing that infuriated me is something I just plain did wrong, or whether it’s the randomness of the game, or whether it’s something I can legitimately put down to bad game design. And yes, before you even ask, this game, for all its many wonders, is still riddled with questionable or even outright bad design.
Category One, where I did something stupid, is where you just have to swallow it and move on. Try to remember what happened and why so you can prevent it in the future, but it’s something you just have to get over.
Category Two, where a guy just got an ordnance drop rocket launcher and used it to remove my face, is just bad luck. You can’t let that get to you unless it seems to be happening over and over and over again, match after match. In which case you take the rest of the night off and go watch Venture Brothers re-runs.
Category Three, where a guy in a banshee kills you, even though you were invisible, and then kills you again seven seconds later when you respawn… some would say that’s category two, but I’m sorry, there’s just no such thing as a BTB map without plenty of indoor spawns, and yet this game continues to relish spawning people in completely exposed positions, no near cover, no near team mates, as if spawn killing were supposed to be some actual selling point of the game. This is garbage. This is -Yoink-. This gets me to quit instantaneously. Call it poor sportsmanship, call it bad attitude, call it whatever you want. It just shouldn’t ever happen, let alone happen twice a match, every match. For me, quitting a match is like wiping the board clean. I get to give Halo a big -Yoink- you in return for the insult and injury it just gave me, and I can usually start the next match with my head back in the right place.
Whichever category applies to your given situation, just try to take a deep breath or two. Maybe sit quietly in your base for a few moments after you respawn before you head out into the big, bad world again. And if that doesn’t do it, there’s always the Venture Brothers.
When the little kids go for the power weapons.