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Subject: 5 tips that'll make you better at Invasion

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If you've ventured into the Invasion playlist and you can't seem to enjoy playing it, chances are you don't understand how it works out. I'm hoping these basic tips will help open your mind just as they did for me when I learned them:

1. Play your fireteam role. If you're left fireteam, go left. If you're right fireteam, go right. If you're middle fireteam, you're going to need to run back and forth assisting the other two teams when they need it. So if there's a strategic push happening by the right team, that's where you'll go. This keeps the enemy team split up so their forces are decreased.

2. Use weapons to their effectiveness. Just because you don't like the AR it doesn't mean you should push it aside. AR teamshot kills Elites very quickly. Also, if you have picked up an NR stay back behind your other Elites while they weaken the spartans with plasma pistols and needlers. This way you clean up their kills and they can move in onto the territories.

3. Play to win, not for stats. Don't end up like the guy with a 3.0 k/d in Invasion who calls himself good. If you don't win the match it doesn't matter how many sprees you got with the sniper. The objective is to take the territories and capture the core. You are not going to always be the main slayer, and you are not going to always get that untouchable. Invasion at its core is a class-based gametype where playing your role is essential. If you go in trying to play it like normal Halo, you're doing it wrong.

4. Set up a forward position. Instead of trying to assassinate players coming up the stairs on Boneyard, sit on the stairs and wait for them to come forward so you can pistol them. Instead of sitting back at the territory on Breakpoint, move into the glacier. When you push forward you prevent them from even reaching the objective. And if you die at this forward position you respawn back at the objective by the time they get there. I've played games of spire and boneyard where the other team didn't even touch the territories. This doesn't necessarily mean you have to spawn kill them (which is pointless unless you care about lolStats in Reach).

5. Learn which loadouts work against each other. Stop complaining about shotgun campers in boneyard. Your problem is that you want to fight a shotgun guy up close with your sword, which is why you keep getting killed. The concussion rifle prevents them from even going into armor lock, so keep your distance and counter them with your other loadouts.

Invasion is the only default gametype in Reach that works as intended. This is because it was built for Reach and its sandbox elements; therefore, it showcases them perfectly. Invasion doesn't need any changes other than new maps and the relocation of a few spawns/vehicles on some of the maps. Once you learn how to play like I have, all of this becomes apparent.

I hope you venture into the playlist with an open mind. And if you don't like Invasion, then don't play it. It's not for everybody, just as Living Dead, Grifball, or MLG ain't for everyone.

Hope that helps :)

  • 01.30.2012 8:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: Destiny 7
My tips are better.

Tip 1 - Play solo.
Tip 2 - Don't play during the first part. Let your randoms do all the work for you.
Tip 3 - Camp back don't rush.
Tip 4 - Don't capture the core, go for kills.
Tip 5 - AFK when you're an elite.



Then you end up like this guy who thinks he's good because he plays Invasion with a party of spawn killers. They only care about K/D, which is why they get steamrolled by a bunch of H3 majors.

  • 01.30.2012 8:09 AM PDT

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I remember when the beta was out I was blown away with invasion, I was thinking "OMG I can't wait to see how far this goes, and how many maps they'll have" game gets released, with one extra invasion Map, and it's not even as good as boneyard. Talk about lame.

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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.

5 tips in general

1. Stop playing lolreach
2. ?
3. ?
4. Tits
5. Profit

  • 01.30.2012 8:15 AM PDT

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People play invasion? i need to get 6 one day and run that playlist.

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Posted by: Frasier Crane
5 tips in general

1. Stop playing lolreach

Only needed 1 for me

Last Game Played: 10/11/11, even at that it was only 3 games. Last time I played more then 5 games in a row, 06/10/11. This game is horrible, how are you people still playing it?

[Edited on 01.30.2012 8:21 AM PST]

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Invasion is actually pretty good times. I give it a play at least once per time i am signed in. Its full of mic-less randoms though.

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I read title as "5 tips that will make you better at forge"

:/

  • 01.30.2012 8:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: Apocalypse
I read title as "5 tips that will make you better at forge"

:/


I'll do that thread next.

[Edited on 01.30.2012 8:21 AM PST]

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good job
hopefully thatl help randoms get better

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Posted by: Frasier Crane
5 tips in general

1. Stop playing lolreach

Only needed 1 for me

Last Game Played: 10/11/11, even at that it was only 3 games. Last time I played more then 5 games in a row, 06/10/11. This game is horrible, how are you people still playing it?

This may come as a shock, but some people have a different opinion than you.

  • 01.30.2012 8:51 AM PDT

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lol oh Bookshelf

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lol oh Bookshelf

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Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
Oh wait, but that's just like, my opinion.


But can you prove that?

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Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
So if I can't prove that is my opinion... does that make it a fact?

OH SH-


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RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

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You forgot think that Falcon, rockets, an laser against Banshee and Plasma Launcher is balanced.

  • 01.30.2012 9:17 AM PDT

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
1. Play your fireteam role.
On Spire, I usually sit on Bravo Rock for the first phase as an Elite, and almost always as a Spartan. If I'm a Spartan that manages to get a Needle Rifle on top of that rock, we will take Bravo shortly. As an Elite, Alpha Rock is almost as helpful as Bravo Rock. It is much more difficult to maintain control of Alpha Rock as a Spartan though.

On Boneyard, I walk between the two territories on defense. It overlooks two of the Elites' spawns, while babysitting the capture zones. On offense, I perch on those barriers in front of the two staircases, which grants a nice view of Bravo. My strategy on offense is always to sit back and headshot anyone who tries to stop the attack.
2. Use weapons to their effectiveness.I will use the AR as a shield stripper only until I can find a Plasma Pistol.
3. Play to win, not for stats. If I can spawn trap multiple enemies, I am an asset to my team. The enemy can't defend or attack if they are stuck respawning.
4. Set up a forward position. I agree, but someone should babysit each territory in case an enemy slips past.
5. Learn which loadouts work against each other.I almost always go with the loadout that offers a precision weapon. Sometimes, I'll pick AL to cheaply capture a territory.

[Edited on 01.30.2012 9:35 AM PST]

  • 01.30.2012 9:25 AM PDT

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Rush > Invasion

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