- dodgy bullseye1
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in halo 2 skill and winning are 2 completely different things, you explained skill up top in the first post but whoever wins is decided by a factor of host advantage, cheating, team colour, overpowered power weapons, skill and good team mates
host advantage is a big thing then different counties are involved and can single handedly be the thing stopping people from winning ie: host shotty vs off host shotty.
i dont go by a game without someone cheating, in team slayer its button combos and the rare superbounce, and in team snipers its the occasional superbounce, if theyre good without cheating dont cheat, alot of the time someone glitches, they wouldnt have won if they didnt. one single glitch can turn around the scores, BXR the shotty guy and then camp with shotty. some say if ou dont like glitches your bad with them, but im not bad with glitches i just get badly done over by host advantage when it comes to glitching so i dont bother. i only superbounce in custom games because it really does give one team a huge advantage, EG one team goes 1 point ahead then all superbounce then the other team cant make it back.
some people think team colour doesnt matter but i do, i have a record of my last 1000 ranked matches, in over 65% of them i have been on blue team, and i have only won 40% of those matches with a kps spread of 0.8 while in red team i am in 35% of the time and have won 65% of those matches with a kpd spread of 1.2, explain that? is red team more camouflaged? do i just like red more? or does red team more often than not get host advantage?
there are several weapons i feel are far too powerful and easy to use, take the plasma pistal for example, itsaimposible to miss anyone really unless theyre behind a brick wall, then they have no shield and it takes a single grenade, bullet w/e to finish them off, cheap due to the easiness and quickness of it, the sword it really depends on host advantage, 50% of the time my sword lunges miss due to people not being where im told they are. the rocket launcher renders vehicles in all matches completly useless and its insane when it comes to killing people, the only reason i miss everytime is because of the stupid auto aim, i aim somewhere and theres someone somewhat nearby and the rocket misses them both. the only 2 things i find wrong with the sniper is that it fires to quickly for people to react, especially when host is using it, they see you and fire 3 times before you know youve been hit once. also when a pixel of the head of someone is peaking over a wall they can snipe you.
you have pointed out everything that skill is in the original post
and to really perform well you need team mates that dont go negative every game they play, im ussually put on a team where at least one person goes -6 when i have a good score, also a team that works together andwatches each others backs, i hate it when i get a sniper and get assassinated due to my team running off and leaving me close range defenceless
there i think ive pointed out all the main things that constitutes to people winning and why skill has not as much to do with halo2 as it should. i consider myself skilled but im ussually loosing to american host advantage (i live in england) or because of team mates that dont perform well. there is the odd occasion where the other team uses cheap tactics like the plasma pistol, sword or rocket whoring or even the glitching that keeps goin on, if theres anything ive missed out someone please add to my list