Sweating in Social

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I’m going to get shredded for posting this since lots of the H5 population has the “everyone is a winner” or “teams sweat” mindset, but just because you get wrecked by a team in social or WZ doesn’t mean they’re sweating. Hear me out, but if you disagree with my summary at the end, I don’t know what to tell ya

Having been on both sides, since I usually solo in WZ, it seems like a squad is sweating in a social playlist when they’re utterly destroying you. However, they’re usually not trying hard to make you miserable(except farming, which I don’t do and isn’t very common anymore and I am not defending). They are trying to get kills, just like you. It’s not their fault the spawns are so predictable or you have teammates quitting and screwing you over even more. If you have the mindset squads are out to make you miserable, you are the problem. If anything, it’s on 343 for the crappy spawning/maps and you for deciding to be miserable about it.

So please stop complaining about sweats in social, they’re not sweating and usually trying to win the game, same as you. There’s nothing wrong with good teamwork. It’s on oneself for having a negative mindset.

And if you think the team is going to try to make the game close, that’s just stupid. It’s totally against competitive nature to do that.

And before I get stat flamed, I haven’t played ranked in over 2 years and the first online game I played was h5 ranked, so yes, my arena stats are bad. But I don’t care, just as you shouldn’t. I had fun (usually) and that’s all that mattered. I wasn’t paranoid about teams and making myself miserable in my own mind.

Imagine how much enjoyable the game would be if everyone didn’t assume they were always being targeted and realized it’s a competitive game, just like football and soccer? Part of sports sometimes involved steamrolling and getting steamrolled, it’s how competition works. They’re are going to be good players who care about the game, if they’re weren’t, halo wouldn’t exist.

Overall, there is nothing wrong for a team wrecking you. They’re trying to win, just like you. Just because they have an advantage isn’t their fault, it’s how the game is designed. Stop blaming “teams” and “sweats”, it’s on you and me if we enjoy the game, not them.

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This mindset is from those that solo search. If they had a team of friends with mics or even people to run customs with they would do better. Always remember it’s social

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> This mindset is from those that solo search. If they had a team of friends with mics or even people to run customs with they would do better. Always remember it’s social

So social means what? Don’t try? My point is usually teams aren’t trying, it just seems like it. I don’t understand what you mean by that

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Your going to get a mix of things in social and ranked playlists. Plus people have their own agenda when they play halo, So this thread will get very mixed opinions and responses. That said, people get upset these days when they dont win becuase of the magnum skins.

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> Your going to get a mix of things in social and ranked playlists. Plus people have their own agenda when they play halo, So this thread will get very mixed opinions and responses. That said, people get upset these days when they dont win becuase of the magnum skins.

People hate losing in general, but yeah, that doesn’t help.

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I disagree because… no I’m kidding you nailed the coffin. I never had a problem with squads because I am the one in squads lol. All we do is have fun in social we don’t call out or anything just talk about life and rela… oh I just got ninja’d imma bout to reversal five that kid.

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I see the point you are making. Too many players on Halo 5 are saying that the game is “too sweaty”. I think the more competitive a game is (in some areas) is great because it gives players a reason to get on and get better everyday. If anything, sometimes getting put up against better players will give a player motivation to improve and so that maybe one day they might be able to play at that level.

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It is fine as long as the individual on the team doesn’t trash talk or bag. They should realize they have the advantage and it is easier to do well with a team behind them.

I once got trash talk from the enemy team (full squad of 8) for winning a BTB strongholds game and going negative.

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> I see the point you are making. Too many players on Halo 5 are saying that the game is “too sweaty”. I think the more competitive a game is (in some areas) is great because it gives players a reason to get on and get better everyday. If anything, sometimes getting put up against better players will give a player motivation to improve and so that maybe one day they might be able to play at that level.

This precisely, Reach was my first multiplayer Halo so at the time I could only wonder how some players were so good. It certainly motivated me and I did get better. Only a year later it was me who was a good player.

I think it’s not inherently the squads that are the problem. It’s the MMR that is unable to judge how good of a team of randoms the matchmaker needs to put together in order to get a fair match. Even with the TrueSkill 2.0 I still feel that the game over estimates the effects of very good solo or duo players and gives them an abnormally high MMR. Like ‘this one guy is so good his MMR is 8x higher than that of an average player, so we can put 8 average players against him and give 7 first timers to his team in BTB’…

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This is pretty much a rant because of your BTB Fiesta Post bro… let it go.

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> This is pretty much a rant because of your BTB Fiesta Post bro… let it go.

Uh, no it’s not. It’s a problem that I’ve been aware of for a long time. Thank you for your input on how my thought process works :slight_smile:

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> > This is pretty much a rant because of your BTB Fiesta Post bro… let it go.
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> Uh, no it’s not. It’s a problem that I’ve been aware of for a long time. Thank you for your input on how my thought process works :slight_smile:

Whatever helps you sleep at night bud.

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You have the dumbest mindset I’ve ever seen !you are the reason the halo community is trash. Try your heart out in social !that’s as sad as people disgruntled over you bending them for fun . you made this point to let it be known you are that person everyone hates

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You’ve never played an h5 game. I’m not going to argue or care what an alt says
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cared Enough to look me up

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> cared Enough to look me up

Because it seemed like you had little knowledge of h5, and I was correct, seeing you have 0 games played. And I debunked your initial post in my post, so please read that before you call me “trash” or “cancer” or “dumb” or “hated” or “savage”, as I am none of those. If you don’t like competition don’t play halo. Simple as that

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Reality has passed by you and you can’t even see it

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> Reality has passed by you and you can’t even see it

…okay…?

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The problem is exactly as you mentioned. Terrible players are put with really good players thinking that that Evens up the teams when Instead, it just means that the good players on the opposite team feed off of the bad players on the other team, causing a Dis functional team pairing them in the matchmaking experience. if everybody was paired up equally. Then you would have teams that are really good competing and being competitive against other teams instead. The people that are less skilled are having fun paired with everybody else that thinks the same way you have a more even matchmaking experience.
That and the terrible spawn points in map design just make the whole experience of trying to come back from a overwhelming disparity even more impossible to accomplish

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I normally don’t have a problem with getting demolished in a game, my frustration about that isn’t about losing it’s about my poor performance. I always try to play my best, which is probably most people’s casual, and I’ve actually noticed I’ve been improving and getting better K/Ds and such. Then a game where we get absolutely demolished comes along and my performance that game is usually trash. So I get frustrated and then shake it off next game. I notice the same frustration when I have off games and we end up winning so I don’t think it’s about winning or losing it’s about my wanting to perform well.