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Subject: To Quit or Not to Quit?
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Poll: Should I quit at 8 vs. 1?  [closed]
Quit!:  21%
(15 Votes)
Don't Quit!:  79%
(56 Votes)
Total Votes: 71

That is the question.

At first I thought that one shouldn't quit, even when it was 1 vs. 8. I'm not very good by the way, so there's no way I could win by myself.

But in that same situation, when I didn't quit, the opponents seemed angry. To them, I was just wasting their time.

So... What is the answer?

  • 06.28.2007 3:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Hypernovian
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did you ever hear of an auto-cocker?
...Thats what she said.

Dont quit, Just stay and piss em off.
Also sometimes its easier to win when theres less of you and more of them.

  • 06.28.2007 3:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Skyancez
Dont quit, Just stay and piss em off.
Also sometimes its easier to win when theres less of you and more of them.
Ya, you're usually more hard to find. Plus if you manage to get one power weapon or at least a Battle Rifle, you have a very good chance of winning.

Hey, I've done it before. I felt like Rambo.

  • 06.28.2007 3:50 PM PDT

Do what it takes to win, cause it's do or die and living aint a sin.

Don't quit, give em hell. If your going to lose make it worth remembering. I was by myself in a slyer match of 6v1 and didn't quit. I got the shotgun on lockout and started to use stealth tactics to get my points up. I wound up loosing the match but the other team invited me into thier clan beacuase i gave it a shot. I almost won and that is what matters

  • 06.28.2007 3:58 PM PDT
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I don't see whats so hard about winning in a 1 vs 8 battle. If there are more opponents to kill, the more kills you will gain. But your opponents will have less people to kill, therefore they will get less kills.

  • 06.28.2007 4:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: dalmedya
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No, never quit.
First of all, they get x4 exp when the whole enemy team quits. Make them work for their levels, don't give them to 'em.
As said before it may be easier to win when the odds are against you. Look at it this way: 8x1, you have 8 targets on the map. Eaiser to find than 1 person.

  • 06.28.2007 4:43 PM PDT
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ok there are a lot of certain people in here....

BTB is unranked currently so you have no rank to worry about except your hidden one.

typically when you end up in a scenario like this, your team was a bunch of randoms. and you got paired up with a party of 6 or 7 really good players who just started mopping the floor with you so your team, who had no team skill at all slink away.

and YES you are wasting their time. The party doesn't want to have to all quit and break the party up and bring it back together. So kids like you make them kill each other out of sheer boredom for the last 8 minuets of the game, because you are too stubborn to just leave and start a new game in the hopes you, the poor soul who goes into BTB by themselves will actually get paired up with a decent team.


edit: if it's a 4v4 and your team quits and its 4 on 1 though I'd say stay if you think you can kill them, if they are mopping the floor with you, there's no point. I'd add that to the 8v1 as well.

[Edited on 06.28.2007 4:51 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2007 4:49 PM PDT

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No way, I remember I was paintballing(Like Every week) and I was stuck with a 7-1(the one was me) and I took em down
Anyways not much to do with Halo 2 but its pretty inspiring story rofl

[Edited on 06.28.2007 5:05 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2007 5:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zafen
I don't see whats so hard about winning in a 1 vs 8 battle. If there are more opponents to kill, the more kills you will gain. But your opponents will have less people to kill, therefore they will get less kills.


Yeah but if there are more of them, then they outnumber you... and also will team up on you.

  • 06.28.2007 5:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: JMAN07
Posted by: Zafen
I don't see whats so hard about winning in a 1 vs 8 battle. If there are more opponents to kill, the more kills you will gain. But your opponents will have less people to kill, therefore they will get less kills.


Yeah but if there are more of them, then they outnumber you... and also will team up on you.
Unless your smart and you use stealth, move around, control overshield, power weapons and manage them to scatter.

It's like finding the last terrorist in Rainbow Six Vegas, except much more dangerous.

[Edited on 06.28.2007 5:19 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2007 5:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: nilator
No, never quit.
As said before it may be easier to win when the odds are against you. Look at it this way: 8x1, you have 8 targets on the map. Eaiser to find than 1 person.


I agree to this, because it is relative to my subject.

  • 06.28.2007 6:35 PM PDT
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never quit. when i play and my team loses everyone quits and it sucks. those people are losers and usually i submit a bad rep 2 them.

  • 06.28.2007 8:18 PM PDT
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Quitting shows that you are a sore loser, and unfortunately there's too many sore losers on Halo 2.

  • 06.28.2007 9:06 PM PDT
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No. If they are in a party they should be having fun with it, especially in BTB, since trach talkings kind of lame when half the other team is a crappy guy and crappy guests.

I've had up to an 6v1 before. I grabbed the rockets and started humping the ground in the middle of the map. They saw me and came over around me and did it also. Pull out the rockets and start shooting ftw.

  • 06.28.2007 9:08 PM PDT
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QUIT PLEASE. I'm sick of destroying someone's team so they quit and the last guy is just sitting there for the last 10 minutes.

  • 06.28.2007 10:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: HaloFighter92
Posted by: Skyancez
Dont quit, Just stay and piss em off.
Also sometimes its easier to win when theres less of you and more of them.
Ya, you're usually more hard to find. Plus if you manage to get one power weapon or at least a Battle Rifle, you have a very good chance of winning.

Hey, I've done it before. I felt like Rambo.
No sorry. That doesn't happen unless you are playing complete scrubs. Just quit.

  • 06.28.2007 10:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: HaloFighter92
Posted by: Skyancez
Dont quit, Just stay and piss em off.
Also sometimes its easier to win when theres less of you and more of them.
Ya, you're usually more hard to find. Plus if you manage to get one power weapon or at least a Battle Rifle, you have a very good chance of winning.

Hey, I've done it before. I felt like Rambo.


haha yeah i got a snipe and sword on zanzibar and fended them off and then scored!!!! got a killfreny that game.

  • 06.28.2007 10:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: nilator
No, never quit.
First of all, they get x4 exp when the whole enemy team quits. Make them work for their levels, don't give them to 'em.
As said before it may be easier to win when the odds are against you. Look at it this way: 8x1, you have 8 targets on the map. Eaiser to find than 1 person.


they just get the normal amount of exp, as you call it

  • 06.28.2007 10:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anith
That is the question.

At first I thought that one shouldn't quit, even when it was 1 vs. 8. I'm not very good by the way, so there's no way I could win by myself.

But in that same situation, when I didn't quit, the opponents seemed angry. To them, I was just wasting their time.

So... What is the answer?

i stay in those situation all the time...of course its wasting their time. often they start quitting. but its great at the end of the match asking how exiciting the game was....hahahahahaha

  • 06.28.2007 11:19 PM PDT
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Just to add a little more fuel to the fire here:

I usually play objective games. When I don't, it's usually BR-games. Other games are very rare.

Objective games, no matter how good you are, you can't both guard your flag and take theirs at the same time.

In BR-games, you get gang-BRed/sniped in the first few seconds after spawning.

To be honest, here's what happens when I stay: I get sniped a lot, finally get a kill, and lose around 9 minutes later.

Is it still worth staying?

Currently my position is that I stay unless I'm dying at spawn most spawns, in which case I just quit.

Interesting Story:

It was 6 vs. 1, they were owning me up. But eventually they got bored and started betraying. There was a BSOD, two were gone. Around 30 seconds later, another one. Two more were gone. A few minutes later, yet another loading screen appeared. When it returned, I heard "Game Over". I was the only one left and had won the game. Go me!

  • 06.29.2007 12:42 AM PDT

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He calmly watched him gorge himself until his final breath.
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He said: "I bear no blame for this. I only share his name!"

When they outnumber you like that they can start screwing around or get sloppy, so if you crouch walk from hiding place from hiding place after every kill you have a shot at winning. Even if you can't, mess around yourself. Ask if they want to do glitches till the game ends. Hide to piss them off. Tell them they are getting owned. Whatever makes you happy.

  • 06.29.2007 1:04 AM PDT
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I ended up 4 v 1 on sanctuary yesterday. I lost badly but got a double kill and a bunch of singles. It's frustrating when they have all the weapons and you keep getting popped.

I like to run right at 'em and get it over with.

Many times I'll get close enough to ask one of 'em if they want me to quit or if they feel like playing hide and seek.
I still never hide just spawn look for the closest guy start chuckin' nades and SMG or BR'ing to bring someone down before they snipe me or converge in force.

The grenade that gets all four of the bad guys is a great thing. Like an eagle in golf.

  • 06.29.2007 6:03 AM PDT

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if you're in the lead stay, but if your're getting killed then quit. 1 v 8 is tooo much of a difference. If they are like 5 kills away just stay

  • 06.29.2007 6:18 AM PDT

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Kevin's post = breath of fresh air.
Take it from this guy people, he knows what he's talking about.

Second accounts are NOT cheating:
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=13824

about 95% of the teams I play in BTB quit before the half way mark because we are working them over so badly. Sometimes 1 or 2 will stay just to piss me off, but the way I see it is that I get the chance to get a few extra kills on them. Even if you went and got rockets, BR, sniper it worldnt do you any good. I dont think ive lost a single BTB game since it became unranked (nothing to be proud of) and I only lost a few when it was ranked and I had a 31. Dont think that just because youre staying that you have a chance in hell or that youre pissing me off. Neither is going to happen. Ill have fun hunting you down while my teammates have Warthog races.

  • 06.29.2007 7:44 AM PDT
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You could do what i do and sit and wait for someone to come along then kill em take your prize then do it again or you could do the alternate and go hunting singles or even doubles. But try to stick to one @ a time.

  • 06.29.2007 7:48 AM PDT

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