Why Reach Ruined Matchmaking

  1. Jetpack
    —A game that used to involve good strategies usually decided the outcome is now replaced by a cheap trick. Because For some God Awfull reason people play Slayer as Opposed to DMR’s, I am subjected to raining jetpackers with assault rifles. It’s bad enough that jetpackers can scale 3 floors in an instant, allowing for them to respawn, gain altitude and throw grenades back ontop of their recently deceased body, but its quite old when someone who doesnt care about their KDR jetpacks with automatic weapons so that in Slayer, as I’m running up to them with my shotgun, they have the luxery of just flying away with no way of me killing them. That defeats the purpose of stealth and well placed jumps, turns, accurate shooting, and a well placed grade when all someone has to do is go up, then needle you because you have No cover.

  2. Armor Lock.

Once again, those without skill seeem to come out ontop. As i am thoroughly kicking your -Yoink-, you rapidly tap armor lock, allowing you to stand invincible then break out for the cheap one hit melee. If you suck, you teammates come running to help you, but if i turn around, you pop out of it. eliminating the joy of the 1 v 1 showdown with an antic that truly shows how poorly you can shoot. If it were up to me, Once you pressed armorlock, it should force it on at least until you’ve fully dropped,

  1. Title Updates and The Removal of Squad Slayer

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WTF SUPER SLAYER IS? I notice nothing different from regular tem slayer and it’s taking the slot of Squad slayer which was my religious playlist the entire time it was up. 5 v 5 to 75, allowing for longer paced players to reach 25-30 kills a game :).

  1. Jacked up shields.
    math says that 1+2=3 and 2+1=3, but not in halo reach. Because your shield and Health are two different things, you may beat your enemy senseless, but inless you attack in the right order, it’s pointless, instead of Halo 3 where once your shield was down, you were S.O.L., now you have players surviving by the skin of their teeth.

5.No Bubble Shield.
We loved it in Halo 3, You taunt us by putting it in the game but not allowing it in team slayer, on to my next point

  1. Too many efiin grenades.

In Halo 3, a barrage of grenade could be thwarted by a well timed bubble shield, that could be shared by all, 30 seconds or so of time to recoup. Not anymore, unless you choose to not have sprint and choose armor lock, you have really no way of escaping grenades. if being attacked by 3 enemies who have just spawned, your odds of being carpet bombed by 6 grenades are very high. hows about we start with 1, and pick up more on the map?

  1. Pistol Ammo.

—5 shots used to kill, not anymore.

Unless you play title update slayer, the bloom is too great to effectively pistol someone with one clip, that being said, the pistol needs at least one more shot in the clip. Too many times have i been left with n empty clip, an enemy with a shield, and nothing but an assault rifle to attempt to kill with, over 20 yards, forget about it.

  1. On almost every map besides Pinacle (rockets, sniper, shotty) The red side has the advantage on power weapons…most games are usually a slaughter by one side

  2. Give me back my BATTLE RIFLE!
    3 shot bursts thank you! extreme bloom one shots, no tnx.

  3. Active Camo is be picked up on the map.
    A decent sniper with active camo in a corner can make for a lopsided victory. i shouldn’t have to stood to your parlor tricks because you refuse to go out and fight face to face. yes, i’m a preferred sniper, but if it comes to it, i can just as easily pull out a DMR without needing teamates, grenades, or the ability to jam radars at will.

Sprint. Bubble Shield, Hell Evade is fun. Can’t we cut down the shenaniganry and just shoot our gins, we’ve over complicated the shooting game

Why I have stopped making long well thought out responses to threads like these.

There are a million of them.

Welcome to Waypoint.

I said Redside Lopside just because it sounds funny. Really, none of these annoy me too much.

Lack of a functioning true skill system is what ruins matchmaking.

To me it just sounds like you want a game that’s more like halo 3.

whats ruining things is spoilt brat kids that need everything to be dumbed down for them so they can enjoy it.

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OP is too stupid to make his own team of badasses. Complains about others.
Can we lock this retardedness?

I suggest Anniversary Classic.

3 shot kill, 1 nade, 0 armour abilities

just want to get one thing out there Jetpacks are awesome although I don’t use it much, it is still the most fun-to-use Armor Ability IMO anyway!!

gotta say Armor Lock annoys me the most, it probably don’t come as a surprise, but that how it is!

Jetpack is awesome. I think you forgot to mention lag and thos a-hole cheaters. I go game to game seeing people shoot through walls,not take damage from dmrs when everyone else gets hit normally, and videos of people leading their shots in the opposite direction. It has been really quite terrible since 343 took over. Hopefully Things are better once their done uploading the file data. Super slayer is just team slayer using the TU settings. TU was created for bks who would fuss all the time cause they’re not good enough to win . Now with TU slayer it makes it easier for any old hack to use modded controllers, lag switch’s, and auto aim. These thing do exist even though the officials statement is that it is not possible to cheat at Halo Reach(LIE). TU was also made in part to make classic settings for the anniversary maps. PLEASE FIX THIS GAME ALREADY 343.

What? No “none of the above” option?
I really can’t stand any of those, but mostly Jetpack/Grenades. I’ve been sticking to Snipers, Anniversary, Action Sack, and Objective as of late; I don’t have to deal with Jetpacking often. Grenades it is!

Adapt or -Yoink- noob

OP - 1 Squad slayer is STILL there. Use your eyes.

2 - If you don’t like the game, go play something else. How dense do you have to be to not realize this. Get off my planet if you have a problem with it. And don’t come back!

3 - I just think you have problem working around the AA’s. Learn to adapt, or die!

4 - I’m not voting for any of your pathetic choices.

5 - Bubble shield is still in game as well. It’s called the Drop Shield AA. DUH!!!

I think the people that are complaining about skill in Halo reach have no idea what there talking about. Halo reach is an entire different multiplayer experience compared to Halo 3, my advice is to stop btching and adapt to the gaming environment. I am tired of hearing oh no the magnum does no damage, armor lock and jetpack are for noobs, the dmr is so lame i want the battle rifle back! How about you learn how to use those “nubish things” and use them to your advantage, adapt.

> OP - 1 Squad slayer is STILL there. Use your eyes.
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> 2 - If you don’t like the game, go play something else. How dense do you have to be to not realize this. Get off my planet if you have a problem with it. And don’t come back!
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> 3 - I just think you have problem working around the AA’s. Learn to adapt, or die!
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> 4 - I’m not voting for any of your pathetic choices.
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> 5 - Bubble shield is still in game as well. It’s called the Drop Shield AA. DUH!!!

If you can’t play nice… go home scrub

> OP - 1 Squad slayer is STILL there. Use your eyes.
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> 2 - If you don’t like the game, go play something else. How dense do you have to be to not realize this. Get off my planet if you have a problem with it. And don’t come back!
>
> 3 - I just think you have problem working around the AA’s. Learn to adapt, or die!
>
> 4 - I’m not voting for any of your pathetic choices.
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> 5 - Bubble shield is still in game as well. It’s called the Drop Shield AA. DUH!!!

Squad Slayer IS still there, but it’s 6v6 on DLC maps only. The Old Squad Slayer was 5v5 on almost any map.

It’s not a bad game, it’s just too much at once, stupid blind luck often counters skill. and all seasoned players know how frustrating that can be.

One can’t really adapt to Armor lock as you are sprinting towards an unsuspecting victim with a sword and they drop and pop back up. followed by a one shot.

Jetpackers who get the drop on you often win the the fight because of lack of cover.

You’re right, bubble shield is in, but not in matchmaking. where it’s needed most