Prior to this weeks' Fi, for which I should be up for some remoting, if you aren't all playing something 4UP exclusively, thought I'd post my H3 thoughts and findings from a total-n00b point of view, as Halolll is the first time I've gotten involved in any online shenanigins in earnest, and I thought I'd try and maybe just encapsulate my top tips.
Don't mind what sort of games we play, Ranked is all well and good, but it is limited to 4UP teams, and if we want to play maybe with anotherdad, or some of the other groovesters from our friends lists, social will allow us to do this, whilst still allowing us to hone our shooting and teamwork skills. If there are a few things that I have come to learn really help with H3 they are the following:
1. In team games, stay close together. Always. *sometimes* on some maps it helps to have one player roaming to outflank or surprise the enemy, but more likely this just leaves them isolated and prone to getting killed by being outnumbered. Certainly in games where kill-count is how you win, it is at least as important to stay alive as it is to shoot enemies... acting in concert with your teamies helps with this, because you can alternately peek out from cover and shoot... allowing shields to recharge, enemy bullets to be distracted from focusing on one target, and a team mate to maybe finish kills that you have started in the event that you die.
2. Practice playing other real people - mostly practicing shooting. Using fancy weapons is all well and good, but there are few skills as valuable as being able to hold the crosshair over your target whilst weilding the Assault Rifle. The more you do it, the better you get at it, and it is a skill that transfers to many of the other weapons.
3. Knowing where the weapons are on the maps is something you can learn gradually by playing them through, and understanding which weapons are more effective.
4. Take Cover. Not always effective, but having somewhere to run to or drop into or hide behind can prevent you being killed, meaning no score for the enemy, and they might even chase you in, where your teamies can put them under fire... knowing which way they are coming.
5. Laugh. Taking it seriously just makes losing annoying and winning not so joyful. It isn't a job - there are always going to be better teams, and certainly while we are still learning teamwork, weapons and maps, it is best to take it wieh a pinch of salt, or you'll be put off playing forever.
tha'sit.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Prior to FiClub... Halo 3 mini-tactics
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Surprised you missed off
6) Communicate. More annoying in Social where you have to push to talk, but I think some of our most successful games are those where we talk talk talk. Where you are, what you can see, how many enemies, what weapons, what they're doing. Some of our most embarrassing losses have come from growing complacent and stopping talking.
Some lesser stuff.
* Get off the radar. Stand still occasionally or creep so that you drop off the enemy's radar.
* Evade. Move left and right and up and down. Don't run directly towards the enemy.
* Ammo. Don't run out of it. There's usually enough lying around that you'll pick up enough to keep going, but once you've finished an encounter, or you're recharging your shields, or you're doing the creep thing - RELOAD THAT RIFLE.
* Use the right tool for the job. Sniper and BR for mid-long range, shotguns and hand weapons for close-mid range. AR for all-round.
I wish I could actually apply some of this in-game instead of running around like a headless chicken.
See? I said this, didn't I say this? What he said.
We have to stick together -- the basts that kill us most are the ones who are obviously talking together and who are clumping and protecting each other and watching each other's backs.
s u d 0 and I were talking about this on IM yesterday, coming up with tactics and mulling over what we'd seen that works. Best thing I have seen are the groups who run in clumps of guys, with one at the front taking hits and fighting while the others reload and recharge shields and back up with cover fire. The front guy in these packs usually ducks back as his shields fall to recharge and someone new goes up front.
That, along with learning map strategies and weapon locations is the way these guys win.
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All good comments and tactics.
Now, we only have to put them into practice.
"only" ........... HaHa
thanks sud - can't believe I left off the communication one - got cut out in my editing!
Also important - and linked to talking, is Listening.
Lost a game of team slayer last night - needlessly - we were 4v4 on Snowbound, 48 - 47 in the lead with a minute to go, and all the enemy were in the underground cavern... All we had to do was patrol the tops of bases, call when somebody dared to pop up heads, and concentrate fire. But some freak wasn't listening - or more importantly, didn't pay attention, and kept running down the cave.
meh
What's the H3 equivalent of a court martial? Shame you can't cause a -1 exp by forcing them to leave a game.
I know, harsh, but I still reckon that with players as good as Munchk and Simplicitly on the team the fact that I suck can be overcome if we just follow orders and work as a team.
We're all smart guys, we can easily beat some of those gimps.
Let's listen out tonight, especially in the early evening, for how many American 17+ years old blokes who's voices haven't broken yet. It pisses me off how many little kids get bought expensive rigs and overage games by clueless know nothing parents.
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