I'm just going to be blunt. I'm sick of your excuses.
Yes, I know you absolutely can't stand someone who doesn't do absolutely everything they can do to push things in the positive. That is your personality. My personality is to be analytical and evaluate whether or not doing so would push things into an entirely different realm of experience or not. That is something that has nothing to do with winning or losing, but with overall failing strategies that end in monotonous gameplay. It does happen to end in losing, but the losing is not the part that bothers me, the monotony and wasted time during the process of it happening is. I will explain since you want to so comprehensively question.
You either post a gameplay video showing this terrible experience you keep telling us is happening or quit this defensive bullshit.
How do you record more than 30 seconds? And even if you can, my hard drive space is pushed to the very limit. Am I to delete several games to appease you? Try to twitch stream with my 15/5 internet?
You keep mentioning that you get trapped in one armory or whatever. That means you have, at minimum, two spawn locations. You can always spawn at home base and every map has multiple escape paths and routes. Unless you're being farmed from the home base where there are literally no escape paths but the front door, you always have a choice. Again, though, you were not in fact getting farmed.
If the enemy just hangs back surrounding your armory with ranged weapons and grenades and vehicles killing your whole team as they come out, not trying to capture, not trying to get bosses, I call that kill farming. Especially if they very easily blasted through capturing shit to get to that point, crushing us in the first engagements. That makes it seems like they could very easily wipe us out of the 3rd place if they wanted, but they instead hang back. Why else would they do that except to get more kills?
And yes, you can spawn somewhere else, but if it is just you doing it, what good does it do? Are you gonna try to slowly solo a boss until enemies come and shoot you in the back from 200 yards when they realize you're solo fighting a boss? You gonna take a base and lose it because your team doesn't care to join you? You gonna try and sneak in the back of the center base your team wants to go for (in the never-going-to-happen moment there are no visible enemies) and lose a 6v1 solo entry? Those are all dumb, and yet, out of boredom, I have done all these things, because nothing matters if it's just you.
This is what I mean when I say I stop caring. Your team altogether chooses strategy and tactics. If what they have chosen is running out the front door of the armory into a field of death, no actions of mine matter whatsoever. I could do what my team is doing and just shoot base-to-base or in the field, never making progress, continuing until the REQ vehicles come out and we're pushed back inside, but that is likewise meaningless. It's all meaningless differences unless you choose different together. But then they don't, and you can't concede, so you have 10-13 minutes to blow. What to do with all that time if your personal "playing smart" won't make a difference? How to entertain yourself?
What? How exactly do you break through 4-5 of them if the 6th kills you? Sounds like you're charging into groups of enemies like an idiot then getting mad when your team, who is now down a spartan, doesn't follow into a fool's death.
As in killing those 4-5 guys, as in the guys in the fields blocking the front door to the center base, as in the guys who were keeping my team holed up. Since my team is shooting at them from the armory, they are distracted/wounded and I can quickly clean up the majority of them with headshots from the side and grenades if I sneak around prior, but they will eventually catch on and kill me.
Yet the effort does open up a clear moment for my team to move forward before they respawn. The opportunity came up sometimes between when we finally knocked out their pestering ghosts but before they brought out banshees and tanks. I think it is better than the never-clear-them and thus never-approach method if that is what my team is doing. Even if it takes some failed sneaks to get around to the position, it still creates an advantageous moment that wouldn't have happened, so I don't care about those deaths. I'll be that guy who eats it doing something different until he can make a moment for something different to happen.
Stop. Picking. Dumb. Engagements.
You misread that. It is not a situation I would want to pick, hence me saying another option is better. I am painting a picture here for you of my team coming out of the armory and running right into that, or trying to deal with it slowly (read: endlessly) from cover; the group of guys coming out from the center base to shoot at us, aside from the vehicles closer or occasional 1 or 2 guys flanking. It's mostly just perpetual head-on clash of longrange shooting, and losing at that, especially as weapons ramp up for them. You say it sounds like a dumb engagement. I agree. That is exactly my point.
I mean, you want to blame your poor performance on the REQ system and not having enough REQs just yet to compete. I don't buy it considering you don't need all the legendary and ultra-rares and shit to be competitive in Warzone, but let's go with that. Is that the reason for your Arena performance as well?
No, I only played a little bit of arena and wasn't very good at the close-range multi-level pistol fights compared to them and didn't know the maps at all and haven't even been back to it since I learned things like people not showing up on radar when jumping. I also didn't care to be very defensive when I was just trying to get a look around at the levels and what sort of spots people were using rather than try and out-maneuver them in positioning myself.
If, however, as I suspect, you keep banging your head against a wall and expecting it to get better, be confident enough to post and people will gladly critique and help you with gameplay tips. But blaming your entire experience on the other team farming (they aren't) or your teammates shitting the bed is laughable.
@ the bolded, how in the shit do you feel you're justified in being pissed at your team for not coordinating with you when they have no way of knowing what the fuck you want?
Some things are common sense, like if they are perpetually attacking you en masse and you run out and die or stay in and die slower, maybe only killing a couple from long range out standing in front of the center base, at which point they'll be standing there again in a mere 7 seconds, then it is a pointless endeavor, is it not? So if the vast majority of your team is content to do that until the other team wins, you can pretty much see where it is headed already, right?
So when I recognize the static strategies and their hopeless trajectory I can either bang my head against that wall with them or go somewhere solo and bang my head on a different wall because I'm out there alone. Maybe sometimes there will be a small team of sensible people to get some points elsewhere with me, but it's all just concession points that won't catch up in time and even the enemy knows it, which is why they allow it. It makes no difference. That's why in such situations I'd rather choose crazy over smart, because if both are inevitably failing you, pick the one that actually occasionally causes an interesting moment to happen.
As for being pissed at my team, again you are inferring things. Yeah, there isn't much to do about it without a mic, and that's why I'm simply recognizing what is ending up in boring matches of no interesting options and opting out of continuing this way. "Mad" is not the thing here "bored with the same thing happening repeatedly" is. Perhaps a $25 headset might help change that situation, but that isn't the plan I'm choosing. And did I ever try to objectively condemn the whole game for this? No I did not. I said the process as it is for me right now is like a chore, so I'll wait for something that will be different than this current setup. Anything more than that is something you choose to infer.
As for blaming team, yes I can blame the team when I see them do this. In games where my team has won, they went out and did different things all at once. Even in games where we lose but it was close, we all did different things at once and were just outplayed in engagements. That's fine. That's still interesting. If a team isn't responding to needs, and is using the same failing strategy for over 10 minutes straight, I do believe I can blame the team. It doesn't mean I am an amazing player compared to them, it simply means I can see the difference between what sometimes-winning teams do together and what always-losing teams do together. I don't see why I should go out and buy a headset to hold unilateral responsibility for trying to shake them out of it if I can simply opt out for now.
Yes, I have made long posts, but if you hadn't noticed, they were always responses to clarify things for someone else with full detail so they understand what I'm talking about. I'm not just sitting here trying to write a book of hatred for Halo 5 to broadcast into the world, so if you get that feeling from the simple fact of those detailed explanations to others, again that is something you merely infer. I don't know why I can take some time to look at things and decide it isn't my jive yet but apparently stating it is a great evil that has to be argued with. I'm not trying to say the game you like is shit. I would have easily left
that simple post and let that be it but you wanted to argue for some reason, so here I have explained my perspective on the events of the games and explained the phenomena of my record to the curious minds.
