Halo 5: Guardians |OT| The Trials of Osiris
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Even worse is, they don't even give you a boost when you do win. I mean I won a 2v4 game, and I don't even know whether I went up or not, but I definitely deserve to go up more than just a single win.
I think they need to make it so that you only go down a little if you lose if you did good, whereas you go down regularly if you lose and did bad. If you're the top gun, top player on a losing team, you shouldn't be penalized as much.
It's a team effort though. It makes sense you go up with wins, no matter how much I hate it. Though I think people including 343 really overstate the effects of 'individual performance' ranks leading to kill stealing or letting their teammates die in order to save themselves. As if that doesn't happen now.
Thought they said you could never go down?! Or is that only for bronze silver gold ect not 123 ect? If so that's miserable and I'll probably be dropping soon because most of my games lately have been losses because my team keeps quitting.
Exactly.
Quitting > losing as far as rank loss goes in my opinion.
You can't go from Plat -> Gold, but you can drop all the way from Plat 5 -> Plat 1 if you continue to lose.
well they're not. So, move on.
The problem is, the whole team was raining down on him instead of some continuing to hassle the blue team. You left the opening, they took advantage of it.
The way I see it, it would've behooved you to try to take that last base. You might have been able to keep him from getting that last shot off. Or you could have succeeded in taking the base, thus forcing the other team to respawn on the other side of the map, far away from the warden.
weird sentence.
sometimes you cannot help it - people spawn and immediately shoot him for the kill.
I understand their logic. It would work perfectly in a vacuum or theoretical play space.
But in RL, most of the time people are not running 4 stacks in Arena going for wins. They are solo-qing. So basing your rank off teams performance seems absurd in the real world.
Pollux
Member
I agree. I'll keep playing but I don't think I'm ever going to hit diamond with the way it is now. Hopefully they tweak something at some point.
Bornstellar
Member
It's a guarantee as long as his health is non zero when the animation ends. And it is a badass animation.That still doesn't guarantee it though. It's almost pot luck whoever gets that last shot.
Side note, having lots of connection issues today, plus my stats won't show
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
That's how I feel, and why I tried to describe at length why team winnning translates to solo losing. But oh well.
Pollux
Member
Agreed. We need to get some people on GAF who are trying to climb ranks together and run some arena matches.
People spawn at captured bases. Had some of red team been contesting blues only remaining base, they would have made it harder to get such a shot off...
Or they could have captured that base, and pushed blue all the way back to there home base. Making it harder to get to Warden.
The moral of the story is having your entire team focused on damaging the warden leaves you open to a stolen kill. There are better strategies.
Already heppening if you join the right channels (cough discord cough).
Pollux
Member
What?
Why did they make the pistol one of the hardest weapons in the game to use while buffing the AR?
The pistol needs to be buffed or we need BR starts. Combined with thrust, it can be very difficult to finish a pistol kill. I feel like I'm being encouraged to use the AR a lot more than I would ever want to.
The pistol needs to be buffed or we need BR starts. Combined with thrust, it can be very difficult to finish a pistol kill. I feel like I'm being encouraged to use the AR a lot more than I would ever want to.
Yeah that's what I mean too. They were quick to say, individual rank performance would lead to people stealing kills, not helping out much if it meant they'd go positive K/D like in Reach Arena, but I think that was just overstated.
Yeah. It's also mind boggling to me that anyone thinks it's smart to let people hit the top ranks within 10 matches. Could you imagine 10 matches of Halo 3 giving you brigadier and general and that you couldn't lose those ranks necessarily? They shouldn't have allowed anyone to hit above Gold for the first ten matches. And we've even seen people here, some guy went 1-9, with like 20 kills and 200 deaths and got Platinum.
Solo queuing means a lot of grinding up for higher ranks.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Because if you get good at the pistol it beats the AR at almost any range. Once the shields are down, that one pistol shot to the head destroys the AR in so many situations.
Pollux
Member
Nice thanks
Dem sniping skills
http://xboxclips.com/LoopOfHenle/62a8e81c-e241-4ab4-b2ee-19dad53e91a5
Shame I didn't get the kill
http://xboxclips.com/LoopOfHenle/62a8e81c-e241-4ab4-b2ee-19dad53e91a5
Shame I didn't get the kill
I was going for
Of course it does, but they made that one shot much harder to get with a pistol than a BR. My question is why they decided to make the pistol have the least auto aim. The BR and DMR are noticeably easier to aim with. It's inconsistent.
Not digging the pistol as a starting weapon. It's almost impossible to deal with a sniper beyond mid-range for example because inexplicably that gun is extremely easy to use.
I don't think it's supposed to. I do agree it's a pretty silly system and the way it's currently implemented isn't very good, but one selfish advantage to it is that as someone who plays multiplayer mostly solo, because my team often loses despite me doing well, I don't rank up so much, and continue to play against less elite players.
As a solo player, I'd hate to rank up only to be matched up with a partied up team of other high ranked players.
If they introduced a non party option of all Arena modes, that'd certainly help balance things out.
You can shoot the Warden from one of the other bases other than the Spire, and sometimes if those bases are being attacked you'll spawn even closer to the middle.
You can try and control it but someone with a sniper card can steal your kill without you being able to do much about it.
we went trough this a few pages back, Bungie tried this in Halo Reach, it was bad, here are my observations:
Wtf, the pistol is so good I have no idea what you're talking about.
What? The Pistol is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. It's super fast from the trigger and very accurate.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Sniper is way to easy, I agree. But pistol is a great start in my opinion. Very skill based, but very powerful in the right hands. AR is very capable, but it has a definite limit.
http://xboxclips.com/Shadow+XBL/99745deb-699b-40c8-bc73-eb1f6e08a9e1
This is why radar is important, all you radar naysayers.
This is why radar is important, all you radar naysayers.
Pollux
Member
This would be a good option.
On a side note I really feel like the more I play the worse I get sometimes. Just went 6-16 on Swatnums. I mean it's like I can't aim anymore. Mind boggling sometimes how I go from top gun and all that to not being able to kill s gone the next game. SMH
You don't notice a difference between the aim assist of the BR/DMR and the pistol?
I'm not bad with the pistol but I've been having trouble with people crouching with ARs (or worse, the SMG) a lot in higher level play. Diamond 5 playing solo is frustrating.
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Nope. I literally just came here to say I'm glad we don't have BR starts as I just got done playing customs with BR starts. The BR is extremely easy to use and just melts people. Then add in team shooting with it and you're spawning killing people very quickly.
I do think the pistols clip should be increased to 15 though. 3 perfect kills possible just like the BR and DMR.
lol.
Warm Machine
Member
A BR start with a pistol is almost like having the same weapon twice.
LegalEagleMike
Member
I enjoyed how you fled the scene of the crime.
hillsighed
Member
Is there a big Warzone party going?
I also yelled at my TV "please don't boot me!"
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
IMO it's about which dedis a match got placed on relative to you vs. your enemies locale. I can go +10 to +15 in swat and the next game go -12. I've already reviewed some videos and I guess that's what I get going into Arena playlists solo from Aus.
It's tough to get my friends away from Warzone
Zoso Achilles
Member
So question for people using default controls: how? Why? Do you even halo? Zoom on left trigger? Double zoom with left trigger + some other random button? lol so bad. Check out the other options if you haven't, find real halo controls.
Feel_The_Pain
Member
Thankyou for your contribution to my complaint.
Warm Machine
Member
Recon for life.
There is always a chance your aim didn't get worse, and poor luck on spawn placements, uneven player numbers, coupled with facing a partied up, more skilled and organised team just made things a lot worse for you.
I do agree though, things can get hairy in this game very quickly.
nhlducks35
Member
I have no idea why people don't use Green thumb
It's basically COD tactical controls with thrust on RB
It's basically COD tactical controls with thrust on RB
I think you answered this yourself.
This is true. I play alone and managed to rank from platinum up to diamond 4 very quickly. Since then it's been slow so I'm guessing that's pretty close to my proper rank. Getting an Onyx playing alone will be extremely tough.