Now, I’ve noticed many, many threads complaining about farming, now this thread is not to complain about those threads, but it’s purpose is to offer advice to those who, supposedly “always get farmed”. Now, first and foremost, Spartan companies don’t have superpowers. They are regular players that form a team, use mics and strategise. Literally anyone can do this. Now, you may be thinking “but what if my base is surrounded by Ultra banshees and ONI tanks etc etc”. Well, from my experience, that rarely happens it’s usually the regular variants, but if it does, these following tips should at the least, help. If anyone has anything else to add, that would be great, now let’s begin.
1-As previously stated, use a mic and communicate. Now I understand most players these days are angry teens who trash talk and don’t communicate, but if you atleast try I’m sure you will have a few teammates who will communicate, you can then group with them after a match, and slowly slowly, match by match, form your own group, and maybe even your own company if you want. This way, you make friends as you play, so then you won’t have to always run solo. Further, it will improve your communication skills, so you know how to better speak with people.
2- Think. Every req has a counter req, vehicles especially so. Literally every vehicle is useless after being hit by an emp (with the exception of tank gunners). So if you are surrounded by vehicles? Get your team to bring out plasma pistols. You may not kill all the vehicles, but you can get some of them at the least.
3- Capture and hold the first base. Now many of you may already know the general farming tactic, go out and rush the enemy armory/garage and cap it, then trap the enemy in their area of the map. Now, if you are able to strategise with your team and beat the farmers at their own game, then you have an interesting match. If you can atleast hold them off your base, you won’t be trapped in home base, and you will have a chance at the bosses.
4- If worst comes to worst, you can always hide at the very back of the base and chip away at their vehicles with a BR or dmr. I’ve done this many times and have destroyed many Gauss hogs, scorpions, wraiths, and mantises. Now this is particularly effective if you get your team to do it with you.
5-Keep in mind, it’s not always about winning, just remember to try to have fun or try to make friends with people on your team, don’t ways have a negative focus. If everyone on your team quits (I’ve been in this situations before), it’s up to you to quit or not, depending how much spare time you have to game etc etc
Now these are are not always guaranteed to break the farm or win a game, it would just make a match at the very least more entertaining, or you can make some friends on your team that you can group up with. Long story short, just communicate and strategise with your team, that’s all the Spartan companies do.
It would be great if more contribute some ideas, as I personally haven’t been playing Halo 5 very much recently, and haven’t been farmed in months as I play with a company, but I have been in the position of being farmed many times and used these points, and sometimes we even came close to winning, and I was just running solo. So you may never know what will happen until you try.
