- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: SimonJester753
I'm not looking for a flame war either. We obviously have had different experiences while playing Halo. I've actually found that people do like to act cooperatively in "public" games. Not everyone, not all the time, but they're out there and it's a lot of fun when it happens.
I've never been in a "non-public" game, and probably never will be. Halo is a game, I have my fun and that's it. SpunJ is new around here and I'm fairly new myself. A few weeks ago I was asking about a Halo slang dictionary because I didn't know what TKing was. What is common knowlege to you can be a revelation to someone else.
I'm also confused as to why you'd care more about your stats in a "public" game, where they are not recorded for posterity, but you'd be willing to sacrifice for the team in a "private" game where every point is recorded and tabulated. As I said, I've only been in public games, so maybe I'm missing something.
Also, F1 may be 1/10th of a sec for you, but for someone else, (a left handed, one finger hunt and peck typist like me), it means that I have to take my left hand off the trackball, (meaning I lose the ability to shoot and steer), look down at the keyboard, find and press F1, (it's right next to ESC– don't want to hit that), hold it while I scan the list to see who got the flag, move my hand back to the trackball and continue playing, if I have not been killed.
Besides, what about those times when your team gets the flag and 2 seconds later it's returned, then your team gets it again and it's returned... then they get it again and get away with it? I'd spend my time staring at the keyboard, the score board and respawning.
I do play cooperatively in publics, I'm not gonna tk people for the flags, or for the sniper rifle like a lot of people do; I let them do their thing, if I can do mine.
Well maybe you should get urself in a clan, and tryout the competitive side, is not all stress, and matches against players of similar abilities to oneself are good fun, and it gets you good.
In an official team game whilst scores are tabulated/recorded, its not a personal glory affair, you're playing for your team, a team of your close friends, you can hear them on teamspeak, and know how they feel when you get slaughtered. You play for the team, because its the team that moves up and down ladders, not the players.
In Publics, its all about the personal glory, you go into a server alone, not knowing anyone, maybe recognising one or two names from other clans, or just randoms uve seen about, and its your chance to strut your stuff as it were, stats in publics are especially important if you're searching for a new clan, as thats pretty much all theyve got to go on.
And to clarify, I do save my good scores on publics for posterity lol.
If you've got it, flaunt it lol
Its fine to expect your team to work with you not against you, and yeah, in a public, if I saw someone from my team in a ghost with the flag gettin chased by another ghost, I'd do my best to help him/her, But I wouldnt make it a priority to try and command a leader-like role, or tell people when to push up or anything, in fact, I dont see that at all in publics...If you get in the gunner of a hog, with another driver...you have no clue where there gonna go, you dont start typing to them "go this way" or whatever, because you'd just get the both of you killed, so you let him do his own thing, and you do your own thing, shooting the people trying to flip the hog...as much as people like to play the hero lol "I was saving the driver" LOL nah, survival instinct, you were saving yourself...you play for yourself, and not for a bunch of people your not likely to get to know any better.
The typing thing; Can't help you there, just practice (and lol, dont blame the fact that ur left handed, if you use the mouse with the left hand, presumably its on the left of the keyboard, and you use the w,a,s and d for movement because its easiest, well, F1 is on the left of the keyboard too...)
and for the flag getting returned, well, "red team has the flag" *looks at table* "blue team flag returned" *doesnt look* "red team has the flag" *looks* "returned" *doesnt*...not that much of a problem lol, and if ur getting attacked, then obviously dont make it a priority...
One thing did just cross my mind...its never actually mattered to me who gets the flag...because im not at my base for more than like 10 seconds before I'm well away...I dont like camping our base (even in matches), defending or not...its boring lol, you have to find an enemy or the games not worth playing ^_^