I used to always have the high score, K/D (<-- low on D’s), and MVP. All of a sudden, it’s like the skill has been sucked out of me, completely! Now I lose to my friend’s daughter. I don’t brag but I was a great Halo player, being the best at Halo 3. Now I’m last place with an average total score of 7 in Team Slayer. I wasn’t always this bad. I don’t usually go looking for tips on how to play games; never needed them. Now, all I ask is what could’ve damaged such a great reputation?
Halo isn’t the same for me anymore. It used to be my main hobby when I wasn’t actually doing anything. Headshots, assassinations, almost as if I wrote the book. I can’t even fight in a simple Team Swords match! And, for me, it’s literally just a matter of lunging towards the enemy and swiping at the last second. Of course, I’m usually ‘teamed on’ before I usually get the chance. Sure, I broke my hand recently. Wasn’t that bad; I was still able to play most games after it got better. Now Halo is more of an intimidating gamble. I risk my K/D ratio every time I play. And sure, I know it’s supposed to be like that in games, but I was so good, the main focus in gaming was fun! I could watch out for myself, looking damn good while doing it. It was about 2 months ago when my inbox was spammed with friend requests, me impressing so many in so little games of Halo 3.
Okay, I’m bragging a bit. I don’t intend on bragging, but I’m kinda shocked on how such a big change happened in so little time! If anything, you could say I was a decent player at the very least. Now, it’s only a matter of running, dying, and the match ending before I even get the chance to turn my score around. It’s disappointing, really. Pretty darn disgraceful. Nowadays it’s a little hard to tell my friends I’m great at Halo, let alone call myself a Halo fan.
I’m mostly playing Halo’s campaign throughout the days, ignoring matchmaking. Honestly, it’s not as fun as it used to be. Any tips on how I can improve or how I got from being my town’s Halo god to being a colossal failure? I really didn’t keep track of my rise and falls but soon enough, I’ll be falling way further than I rise. If that made sense…
You need to play more and with players of higher caliber, the rest come naturally. Breaking your hand could be a major factor and you could be facing something that has a way of killing natural ability= Getting old, I speak from experience on that one. The eyes and reflexes just dont work the same as they did when I was a teenager =/ but I still hold my own.
> > Halo burnout? Take a break and play something else! Sometimes that’s all it is!
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> Since I am not there I need you to find a glove and smack yourself across the face. There are no other games =D JK
I slammed my head on my desk. Does that count?
But in all seriousness, sometimes taking a break from playing it every day is all you need!
> > > Halo burnout? Take a break and play something else! Sometimes that’s all it is!
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> > Since I am not there I need you to find a glove and smack yourself across the face. There are no other games =D JK
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> I slammed my head on my desk. Does that count?
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> But in all seriousness, sometimes taking a break from playing it every day is all you need!
I will accept a head slam, but only this time LOL
And you are right sometimes you just need a break and a nap, but not to much, no lazy Spartans allowed.
Well i’m sorry to dissapoint you sir but in fact you where never any good at all(looked at your stats), your idea on what a good player is seems to be based on what your mom have told you or something. I recomend you go play BTB and if you still cant break 1 in K/D on that playlist then you might as well accept that you are not that good.
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> Well i’m sorry to dissapoint you sir but in fact you where never any good at all(looked at your stats), your idea on what a good player is seems to be based on what your mom have told you or something. I recomend you go play BTB and if you still cant break 1 in K/D on that playlist then you might as well accept that you are not that good.
My mother died when I was 21, -Yoink-. And no -Yoink- Sherlock, my K/D went down over bad games. Nothing to nerd-rage about.
Maybe you had issues when you played your games? Maybe you have trouble with your mother? Either one, I honestly don’t give two -Yoink-. Bottom line: when you’re busy having living a life, your greatest accomplishment isn’t breaking a kill/death positive in a playlist. And where I’m from, men don’t -Yoink- about videogames. People like you are bottom feeders.
Now if you’re done looking like an obnoxious -Yoink-, you can turn tail and piss off because honestly, I’m more disgusted from your personality than your meaningless weak comments. Maybe you can lift a weight for a change. And if you can’t break one sit-up, you’ll have to accept the fact that you’ve wasted your life. Get a job, get a girl, work on your life, and stop wasting time raging in your mothers basement. You’ve got a lot to work on, friend.
I’m 41 and have arthritis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome that needs fixed. So I have excuses! If it’s the hands getting old then try something that works for me…coffee and ibuprofen.
Are there changes in your 'net connection? My K/D started rising and the game got a lot easier when I bought a faster connection and ethernet wired my Xbox. That alone made a heck of a difference.
Do other people/machines on your network use bit torrents or watch much media? That can make getting kills nearly impossible. Seriously.
> I used to always have the high score, K/D (<-- low on D’s), and MVP. All of a sudden, it’s like the skill has been sucked out of me, completely! Now I lose to my friend’s daughter. I don’t brag but I was a great Halo player, being the best at Halo 3. Now I’m last place with an average total score of 7 in Team Slayer. I wasn’t always this bad. I don’t usually go looking for tips on how to play games; never needed them. Now, all I ask is what could’ve damaged such a great reputation?
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> Halo isn’t the same for me anymore. It used to be my main hobby when I wasn’t actually doing anything. Headshots, assassinations, almost as if I wrote the book. I can’t even fight in a simple Team Swords match! And, for me, it’s literally just a matter of lunging towards the enemy and swiping at the last second. Of course, I’m usually ‘teamed on’ before I usually get the chance. Sure, I broke my hand recently. Wasn’t that bad; I was still able to play most games after it got better. Now Halo is more of an intimidating gamble. I risk my K/D ratio every time I play. And sure, I know it’s supposed to be like that in games, but I was so good, the main focus in gaming was fun! I could watch out for myself, looking damn good while doing it. It was about 2 months ago when my inbox was spammed with friend requests, me impressing so many in so little games of Halo 3.
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> Okay, I’m bragging a bit. I don’t intend on bragging, but I’m kinda shocked on how such a big change happened in so little time! If anything, you could say I was a decent player at the very least. Now, it’s only a matter of running, dying, and the match ending before I even get the chance to turn my score around. It’s disappointing, really. Pretty darn disgraceful. Nowadays it’s a little hard to tell my friends I’m great at Halo, let alone call myself a Halo fan.
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> I’m mostly playing Halo’s campaign throughout the days, ignoring matchmaking. Honestly, it’s not as fun as it used to be. Any tips on how I can improve or how I got from being my town’s Halo god to being a colossal failure? I really didn’t keep track of my rise and falls but soon enough, I’ll be falling way further than I rise. If that made sense…
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2 possibilities:
Youve been playing more different types of games and are having trouble readapting (this happens to me from time to time. sometimes including relearning the controls)
Because you say you havent been playing matchmaking much, maybe youre having more trouble fighting people because they are not as predictable. Kind of like when i go to lan and i have to adjust my timing and playstyle because the game functions differently without lag that matchmaking almost always has.
> Sometimes, all you need to do is take a break from the game to play something else, possibly an RPG or something like that.
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> Sometimes, it can help greatly to play with friends online. Sometimes even adding new friends can help.
Go play MGS, it’s the reason I started even playing Halo.
> > Sometimes, all you need to do is take a break from the game to play something else, possibly an RPG or something like that.
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> > Sometimes, it can help greatly to play with friends online. Sometimes even adding new friends can help.
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> Go play MGS, it’s the reason I started even playing Halo.
I never played it tbh. The only FPS games I played before Halo was Perfect Dark, Rainbow Six and Bond 007, and those were on the N64. The reason I started playing Halo was because I got an Xbox for my birthday as an upgrade from the N64 and Halo came with it. I remember playing it with my friend from across the street and my two sisters(both of which can beat most of my friends at Halo).
I’ve tried other shooters, but Halo was always number 1. But I do like playing other games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Batman Arkham Asylum/City, Gun, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy, etc. Thankfully, I don’t rely only on Halo to satisfy me. Although, I do rely on it to satisfy my FPS tastes.
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> > > Sometimes, all you need to do is take a break from the game to play something else, possibly an RPG or something like that.
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> > > Sometimes, it can help greatly to play with friends online. Sometimes even adding new friends can help.
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> > Go play MGS, it’s the reason I started even playing Halo.
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> I never played it tbh. The only FPS games I played before Halo was Perfect Dark, Rainbow Six and Bond 007, and those were on the N64. The reason I started playing Halo was because I got an Xbox for my birthday as an upgrade from the N64 and Halo came with it. I remember playing it with my friend from across the street and my two sisters(both of which can beat most of my friends at Halo).
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> I’ve tried other shooters, but Halo was always number 1. But I do like playing other games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Batman Arkham Asylum/City, Gun, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy, etc. Thankfully, I don’t rely only on Halo to satisfy me. Although, I do rely on it to satisfy my FPS tastes.
MGS is a 3rd person shooter, at first I swore off 1st person games because of it, then The Great Hideo announced he loved FPS games… I instantly got on Halo CE for PC.
> Halo burnout? Take a break and play something else! Sometimes that’s all it is!
This may work, however in my experience I have found this to be detrimental. If I even miss one day, I’m not locked on the next time I fire up MM.
The best thing for me is to play with friends who are around the same skill level as myself. This seems to lead to a lot more relaxed experience, and I generally play better. When I play alone or with randoms all it takes is a couple of bad games, and I have a hard time recovering. People also quit far too often. I have had days where I always get matched up 2v4 because of quitters.
