I just replied to a post about sweats in Quick Play, and I already know that this is driving away new Halo players who just may have become long-term Halo fanboys if they had a different initial experience entering the game. Halo 5 is in Xbox Game Pass, and Quick Play is here for the new players, so I’d like to start a “movement,” if you’d like to call it that.
Every time I go online, I will enter Halo 5 (on my alt. account, for sake of K/D) and play Quick Play until I find a match where the enemy team obviously contains newer players. It may take a couple minutes of play-time to notice this, but as soon as I do, I will purposefully try to balance the duels as much as possible. Perhaps I’ll just run along the bottom of the map as an open target for ground pound. Maybe I’ll slow down my rate of fire when I’m shooting someone with a pistol. I’ll do this until the end of the game, and after the game, I’ll message my opponents to say GG, and if they have a low SR rank, I’ll say something like “Welcome to Halo 5!”
I am coming to the forums because I know how much Waypointers care about the game and love new players. Who else is with me on this?
Interesting. I might do this.
usually I would just inv new players to play some matches with me and give pointers and stuff about how certain things work
These are great ideas. I wish they implemented a max rank allowed in this playlist. In halo 3, if I remember correctly, there was a a ranked playlist that you only had access too the first few times you logged into the game and i think it disallowed access after you hit a ranked skill level of 10. Maybe they should have implemented a level ceiling that wouldn’t allow someone to search for a game if their spartan rank was above a certain number, like 40 or 50. There would be no way to monitor secondary accounts, and sweats using alt accounts, but it would help a little I would think.
Well done OP! this is true sportsmanship and it is so nice to read this post and hear there are players out there that are supportive of new (and potentially long-term) players. This really matters for those players that find getting into Halo difficult or have had a negative experience like you have stated especially when some dropkick messages negative abuse to some poor new player who just got demolished in many games and came away thinking “if this is what Halo and the community is like then this game is not for me”… Again well done mate
Edit: And what you said about coming to Halo Waypoint is true, the community here has definitely been a positive and influencing reason I have continued to play Halo even when all seems lost…
