On Multiplayer Gaming

So. Part of me has come to hate Halo. And I don't like hating Halo.

I didn't even play tonight, actually. I kind of wanted to, the challenges were good and the rewards were decent, but... The other night kind of ruined the whole god damned bag on me.

I was doing some Firefight at first, 4 human players againt 5 waves of enemy bots, basically. 12 minutes max, kill or be killed. One of the matches I was in had some prick standing next to me, constantly smacking me to drop my shields every time they recharged. He continued doing this of course until enemies showed up. I downed a group of them, he picked up a plasma pistol and then began just charge-shotting me with it. Eventually, this proved to be fatal because he's an idiot (Charged shots will ALWAYS drop a shield to zero power, but only kill if you stupidly shoot someone with it before they have recharged).

Why didn't I brain this fucker with my sniper rifle when he was griefing me, you ask? Because Reach has a retarded system for booting people who betray you! Did you accidentally clip someone with a grenade because they ran onto it? TOO BAD, they now have the power to immediately boot you from the game. And they always do, because people are pricks. Keep this in mind.

So the asshole kills me, costs ME the Perfection rank by being an asshole and I boot him from the game. Now we're 3 people and have 4 more full waves coming at us. We won, but it was bothersome.

The match immediately following that had a bad vibe from the lobby. As mentioned, it's 4 people. I ended up in a match with 3 people with almost-matching Gamertags, i.e. people who think they're a badass clan or something and ran with the same colors and emblems. They're chatting about Facebook and this party they have planned for New Years and how it's going to be so funny if it rains that night because everyone has to wear white and they might see some titties. No lie, this was the conversation.

Because the lobby is 4 people, and these cock-sucking hipsters make up 3/4 of the population, they have majority vote on what type of Firefight we're doing. Of course they pick Sniperfight, the most 1337 of the modes evar, since Firefight is gay boring and Rocketfight is for gay nubs. Start of the match, I take my spot. Enemy dropship approaches. I squeeze off a round, adjust my aim, one of the pricks steps directly in front of me, laughs as I headshot him because he did it on purpose, and I find myself booted less than a second later.

Fun times.

After that, I ended up playing Matchmaking versus actual humans with Jesse, who grabbed me on Live. He's much, much better at the game than I am, having not actually played human players since 2007 and not being too great at it even then.

Of course we're playing Ranked Matches. I have no Rank. Jesse is rated much, much higher. The game decides to balance this out, so we're playing people who are roughly only three times better than me.

My kill to death ratio in Arena is currently 11/47. I die about 5 times for every kill I happen to eek out.

Fun.

Every match was cheap armor bonuses on maps I've never seen, being dominated by people with LEET SNIPAR SKILLZ for standing in the wrong part of the map. Jesse scores 37 kills out of 50 for the team. I die lots of times. I played 3 games. I managed 11 kills, in games that go to 50, in 3 games.

I don't want to play with assholes anymore. It does bad things to me. Like being awake at six AM for some reason bitching about sucking at Halo.

I should lurk some of the /v/ threads and find some brODSTs to firefight with. Shit sucks when you essentially get picked on, even in the fucking casual cooperative modes, because the hipster faggots grouping together decide it'd be fun to get you to teamkill them and then boot you.

I'm hardly bitter at all.