The following are my top 5 pet peeves on Halo Reach, it was tough to narrow the list down to 5 but these are the ones that make me rage. I encourage you to respond with your own five.
5? Lets see how many I can come up with…
1: Players who stay in party chat in communication vital playlists such as SWAT or Snipers
2: When random teams without mics vote for objective, despite communication being extremely critical to winning objective, and because they make such poor voting choices, they actually lose the match before it even begins.
3: The BTB Teams who are comprised of Inheritors with KDs of 2+ who are actually either extremely average, or flat out bad, yet win anyway because of stupid newbs who immediately quit as soon as they see them. It should also be noted that the Inheritor power teams who are ACTUALLY good, have my respect. The ones who win solely because they intimidate the other team into quitting, do not.
4: People who immediately quit when faced with a team of inheritors, EVEN IF those inheritors all have KDs of less than 1. People are even scared of inheritors who are little better than Staff Captains.
5: People who run from the opposing warthog/banshee rather than just shooting at it. In 8v8 BTB, if EVERYBODY shoots the vehicle, it’ll die very quickly. However people are idiots, and rather than kill the vehicle, they run from it and die repeatedly. Then we wind up losing because the guy in the Banshee got 30 kills.
6: Players who have never made a come back. They just can’t make a come back, they suck too hard. Much easier to just quit than fight a match where a comeback could easily be made.
7: When I have 20 kills already, and some newb with 2 kills decides he would do a better job with the sniper and takes it. Seriously if you’re a noob, do NOT take the skill weapons, go grab Rockets/Laser/Banshee/Tank, ANYTHING else. I’ve seen countless matches are won and lost SOLELY because of the snipers. Any newb can do good in a Banshee, go grab that and have some fun.
8: Players who just sit at the base waiting for the sniper to respawn. Nothing like 8v8 turning into 6v8 because we have 2 morons sitting there contributing NOTHING.
9: When a player is going for banshee, and they see somebody from the other team on the other side of it. Now rather than doing the smart thing and trying to kill them, they just hop right in and get IMMEDIATELY skyjacked. Way to go kid, way to go
10: Players who constantly fly as low as possible trying to splatter other people with their banshee. They’re then dumbfounded when they get skyjacked. Who could’ve possibly foreseen that one coming?
11: When playing objective if a player is trying to reach a key position they take the warthog (A vital asset) rather than just taking the mongoose. Don’t screw over your team guys.
12: Players who IMMEDIATELY enter armor lock the instant they’re shot. The thought of just out-shooting their opponent never enters their mind. Seriously guys if you just practice your DMR you’ll out-shoot 90% of this pathetic community with ease.
13: When people say that the only reason I beat them is that I have no life. These people usually have twice the kills/games that I do, yet they claim they lose because I’m more experienced. For shame.
14: People who take sniper AND rockets. You’re not TSquared, distribute the power weapons properly. All you’re sorry butt is doing is running over and giving the opposing team 2 free power weapons.
15: Losing a BTB slayer match by 3 points, only to see on the post game stats list that we had an AFK player who went -29. Well at least that player got their precious credits, because your “Rank” in Reach is so damn important to people.
16: People voting for Swordbase, because camping is the only way they can score a kill, then when the other team breaks the top and THEY start camping, you just hear your teammates “DURRRRRRRRR THESE GUYZ ARE SOOO BAD AL THEIR DUING IZ CAMPING!”.
17: When I tell MY team ahead of time “Come on guys, don’t vote for Swordbase, all it is is hardcore camping”. They ignore my advice (Although after I’m proven right for the 10th time in a row they stop arguing and finally just listen and accept that I know more about the game than they do) and vote for Swordbase anyway. Not 5 minutes later they’re crying about how the other team is camping. Again, I wonder who could’ve possibly foreseen this happening.
18: When I’m in a 1v1 firefight, and my teammate decides to back me up…not by teamshotting with the DMR. No no that would make too much sense. No they decide to back me up with Needlers (By the time they’ve exploded I’m already dead), Grenades (Throw it at HIM, not me genius), Rockets (See grenades), or by running up for an assassination. Well you got your assassination, but it was too late and now I’m dead. Instead of being 1 kill up we traded kills because you just had to get your assassination medal. Good work
19: Assassinations PERIOD. If you Yoink an assassination, all hell breaks through because you STOLE THEIR kill. What about when I just dropped somebody’s shields and you assassinate them? You’re “Stealing” my kill so I should be allowed to yoink you right? Of course they won’t see it that way. No matter the scenario you are wrong for stealing their kill, but they are always justified in taking yours. Sigh Not to mention that the assassinations only make you vulnerable to enemy fire, slow down combat, and immediately tell the other team where you’re at in gametypes without radar.
My favorite things about assassination? When I’m coming up behind 2 players, and I try to do a BASIC backsmack against the first guy then finish off the second guy. Too bad for me because by tapping my right bumper the game somehow registered it as being held down. Instead of a nice double kill I’m lucky if I can even trade 1 for 1.
20: Lock on weapons. No matter if I’m locking onto a player or vehicle, my lock on weapons have a 10% success rate. I really hope 343 fixes the damn lock on feature for Halo 4, because it is worthless in Halo Reach.
21: The fact that Bungie decided there are no valid reasons for leaving a game. Even if the game is 1v8 and you quit you’re punished for “Abandoning your team”. Seriously? WTF. What about when the internet just goes down for no reason? “You are responsible for maintaining your connection” WTF? No I’m not, I have ZERO control over that so how in the hell could I possibly take responsibility for that? What Bungie ACTUALLY means is “Because some people manipulate their connections for an advantage, we’re going to ASSUME you’re also doing that. We aren’t going to give you the benefit of the doubt, this goes on your record, if it happens to many times you’ll get a ban”. So glad Bungie has lost control and can stop ruining Halo now
22: The lack of any TRUE ranking system. A RANK, should increase with good performance, and decrease with poor performance. What Halo Reach has is a LEVEL. Levels go up the more you play, and NEVER decrease. What Reach has is a level system, what is NEEDS is a rank system.
23: Watching the skill gap decrease constantly from one Halo to the next. In Halo 3 my newb friends could NEVER out BR me. EVER. With Reach’s random placement bloomed DMR these low skilled players have actually been able to kill me a few times. Now while I’m sure I’ll just be called a sore loser or whatnot, this is evidence of the decreasing skill gap. Yesterday’s Halo 3 Staff Captain is tomorrow’s Halo 4 MLG pro. Let casuals have BTB Heavies, Griffball, and Infection, but leave the CORE gameplay alone and stop dumbing it down for casuals.
That’s it
Everything but the Grenade Launcher.
People who take both Power Weapons the Sniper and RL and goes to the very edge of the map out of danger and goes afk with the weapons.
Any form of complainers.
3.Broken Betrayal System.
I’d like a ranking system like Batman Arkham City’s where if you did more combos or changed things up a bit the more XP you earn not just doing simple punches instead of the ranking system based on time spent playing but I’d rather not have the system where the rank could go down.
Teammates who don’t act like teammates.
People who disliked Reach before it was even released, yet bought it anyways and complained about it.
People who couldn’t adapt to the way Reach was designed and instead complained for a TU to make it closer to Halo 2 and ignored the game anyways.
People who think the only way to “balance” something is to remove it.
People who like to pull stats out, but only when it can be used to “prove” that Reach is a failure in their eyes and ignore any rebuttals.
People who dislike change.
> 11: When playing objective if a player is trying to reach a key position they take the warthog (A vital asset) rather than just taking the mongoose. Don’t screw over your team guys.
Don’t listen to him… If you take the mongoose to get an objective I will take the warthog to retrieve the mongoose.
> 5? Lets see how many I can come up with…
There’s a lot of hate going on in that post. While I read through it some of the points are legitimate problems, but for the most part it seems like one giant insult to EVERYONE that doesn’t play the way you want them to play.
My 5 would have to be:
Betrayals for weapon/vehicle
Betrayals so they can boot
Poor matching system
Poor map selection
Over emphasis on playing as a party or team (my best games are when 8 randoms are matched against 8 other randoms and nobody has a mic).
-Bloom
-Lack of bleedthrough
-Spawning with Armor Abilities
-The uselessness of all the weapons
-Bloom
Quitters & Cheaters.
Default settings/bloom, the TU updates FTW.
Cheap tactics for the win, always. Seriously learn to have some crazy Halo fun now again would you.
Armour Lock.
Host Migration.
Ok, this should be read backwards.
1.The betrayal system. Get rid of friendly fire. To many people abuse it.
2.Getting spawn killed.
3.The spawning. There are lots of examples, but mainly teammates spawn to closely togather.
4.Armour Lock.
5.If your going to title update something, TU eveything.
1.People that criticize your record on forums, while hiding behind an alt with no stats so that you may not see theirs.
2.Changing a game for people that hate it.
3.A ranked version of gameplay missing the very thing that differentiates Reach from other Halos.
4.A credit system that leaves you with nothing to buy way to soon.
5.Black screens right before you are about to finish someone off.
in no order:
1.host migration
2.people who eat bullets
3.yoinkers
4.AR noobs
5.double pummels
6.pistols and grenades in team snipers
7.BTB kids who cant DMR for -Yoink-
8.Kids who trash talk but wont 1v1 you
9.rocket hog race
10.armor lock
11.vehicle whores
12.vanilla needle rifle and pistol
13. kids without mics or who are in party chat in MLG games
14. reach
15. reach
Those 5 words just made my day.
Every thing else won’t urk me.
Quitters. Don’t like the game, don’t play it!
Intentional betrayals and suicides.
BK teammates who run over my grenades then rage about me betraying them.
Full teams of armour-lockers.
Lack of a skilled based Ranking system (arena only exists as 4v4)
Lack of party matching restrictions. (Squad Slayer I miss you)