First of all, I would like to thank Bungie for making Reach. No game has come close to the amount of content, customization, and fun that this game has. This will definitely be one of the best games out on the market for quite some time. (Probably until Bungie makes their next game)
I would like to say that I have had a roller coaster of emotions with Reach. At first, when I got the game, I was annoyed by armor lock, grenades, bloom, and the overall immature community. I would go to the Bungie.net forums making complaining posts/threads about how noobish this game was. However, the Bungie.net community taught me something: Bungie is god. They can't make mistakes. Because Bungie is god, they are perfect. Because they are perfect, there are absolutely no flaws with the games they make. That means that all the things I thought were wrong with Reach were just the result of me sucking at it. I just couldn't adapt to the new game. The members of Bungie.net saw right through me and taught me that the reason I didn't like Reach was because I wanted it to be like Halo 3, and I couldn't adapt my style of play to a new game. I was especially annoyed at how poor the Halo community had become. Any chance they had, they would act like a jerk.
Thanks to the Bungie.net community I have learned to change the way I play this game. Instead of getting mad at other people acting like jerks, I should adapt and act like a jerk too! So here I am, giving you a list of ways to have fun with this game. Enjoy!
1. If your teammate gets into a vehicle that you want before you do, proceed to shoot at his vehicle. Do this until he gives up or gets killed by an enemy.
2. This is related to number one. If the teammate gets sick of you shooting his vehicle and betrays you, boot him. Now you have the vehicle again!
3. If there is a nearby Falcon, stand on top of it. Wait for your partner to get into the driver seat and start to lift off. Once you see the rotor start to spin, jump into it so that the person driving the Falcon automatically betrays you. Proceed to boot him.
4. If you see a partner that is in a vehicle such as a ghost, purposefully run into his pathway so he betrays you. Proceed to boot him.
5. If an enemy makes your partner no-shields, finish your partner off by shooting at him.
6. GRENADES! You heard me, just chuck nades at any living creature in this game, friend or foe. Who cares if your partners get killed by the grenades you throw. they should just learn to adapt.
7. If your partner is in the heat of combat with an enemy, start shooting your partner and help the enemy finish him off. Once your partner dies, finish off the enemy. This way you kill two birds with one stone!
8. If your partner makes an enemy no shields, take out your DMR and steal the final headshot on the enemy. Who cares if your partner rightfully deserved the kill. They just need to learn how to adapt!
9. If your partner initiates a special assassination, kill the enemy while he is being held down. Once again, who cares if your partner gets mad at you. They should learn to adapt.
10. If you are cornered by the enemy, and you know you have absolutely no chance to live, start chucking nades at the ground. Pray that one of them will randomly get you a kill from the grave.
11. Related to number ten. If you have no chance of living, shoot your rockets at the ground. If you are going down, you may as well commit suicide and take the enemy down with you.
12. Who needs bullets! Run around and double beat people down! If the enemy gets mad at you, it's only because they don't know how to adapt.
13. BE SELFISH! Hoard as many power weapons as you can! Don't let your stupid teammates have any.
14. Be stealthy. Camp around corners with power weapons. Stare at your radar. The second an enemy starts to walk buy, kill him with whatever power weapon you happen to have. Camping is a legitimate tactic! If the other team trash talks you in the post-game lobby, it's only because of their inability to adapt!
15. BE LOUD! In America, we have the wonderful right to freedom of speech. Take advantage of your right and be as loud and annoying as you can in the lobby. Trash talk, scream, who cares! If you are at a loss of words, then just play music really loud through the headset.
16. Get into a warthog. Drive to your teammate. Let him get into the gunner. Drive to a nearby cliff and let the back of the warhog hang over the edge so that if your gunner tries to get out, he will automatically commit suicide. Get out of the vehicle. Start to teabag your partner. If he shoots at you and betrays you, simply boot him.
17. You are better than everyone else. Don't let anyone tell you different. To show how good you are, teabag anyone who has recently died. Yes, even if it's your partner.
18. If your partner gets into a Scorpion tank that you want, jump on top of it. Proceed to melee the hatch where the driver sits until it breaks off. After this, the driver will be exposed. Melee your partner so that he is no shields. Once he recharges, simply melee him again. Continue doing this until he gets out. Then hop into the tank that was rightfully yours. If he doesn't get out, continue punching him until the enemy blows up the tank. If you can't have it, then nobody can.
19. If your partner is in a vehicle, and you are feeling like being a jerk, take out a plasma pistol and continue shooting him with overcharged shots. This will disable his vehicle making him extremely vulnerable.
20. Get into a Warthog or Mongoose. Drive up to your partners. Start to honk the tune, "Jingle Bells" and continue ramming into them to annoy them.
21. Shoot at enemies and partners alike! They are both moving targets. Keep making your partners no shields until an enemy finishes them off.
22. If your parner accidently betrays you, boot him. Who cares whether or not it was intentional.
23. Get into a warthog. Drive up to an enemy and let him get into the gunner. Start to drive around, allowing the enemy player in your gunner to kill your partners. If your partners destroy the warthog while trying to kill your gunner,inadvertantly killing you, boot them. If your enemy gunner leaves, find another one.
24. When the game just starts up, get into the Revenant and shoot at any of your teammates that get into a Warthog so that they flip over.
25. Exploit any glitches that you can such as hiding spots that are virtually impossible to find.
26. Go to the Team Snipers playlist. Vote for Snipers, not Snipers Pro. This way, you can run around only using Magnum, grenades, and melees, even though it's a sniper playlist.
27. When you are in the pre-game lobby, keep switching your votes so that no one can tell what is what.
28. This works best in Team Snipers. As soon as your game starts, jump off the cliff. Once you spawn, repeat this activity. Continue doing this until the game ends. Remember, this will alow you to win in terms of absolute value!
29. ARMOR LOCK! Armor lock is a great way to get out of any situation you get yourself into. Simply hold down LB and let your partners finsih off whoever was killing you. If a vehicle is about to splatter you, simly armor lock and watch the explosion ensue.
30. Send messages to anyone in your game, trash talking them. Remember, any dispute can be settled by a one on one battle. If the other person sends back a message saying, "I hate you." or anything similar, respond with this message, "<3 u 2"
31. If you are having a bad game or don't get what you voted for, simply quit out of the game. Who cares if your partners have to sit through the black screen of death and are shorted a player.
32. If you need to go do something, join another game anyway. Stand still the entire match and let your partners do all the work while the enemy team gets free kills! Make sure you check back on your game every once in a while. If your partners ever got mad at you and betrayed you, you should boot them. You paid for the game and deserve to play it any way you feel.
33. Get into a Falcon. Let your teammates get in. Go and hover over a cliff. Don't move until they get out and commit suicide.
I will continue to add more ways when I think of them. Thanks for reading!
What you guys thought of:
dahuterschuter Sprint for the Sniper off the start on Hemorrhage. Then when you get it, just unload all the rounds into a wall or the floor right in front of all the other people who just tried to get it.
domino412 oh oh..i got another one. when on paradiso, jet pack up and grab the banshee, deal with the enemy's banshee, then just fly around the map destroying vehicles as they spawn so no one can challenge your superiority!!!
dahuterschuter Give enemies power weapons and vehicles. Grab the rocket launcher, sniper, shotgun, sword etc. then charge at the enemy spawn with it, but don't fire at all. Get in the Scorpion, Wraith, Revenant or Hog and just drive it to the enemy base and get out.
Guaranteed lulz, especially if your team mates see you doing it. Points if you have them in the vehicle when you bring it over.
Crzywiteboi surprised that no one has brought up pushing teammates off the top of Spire
LoneDracoWolf Excellent Griefing Guide! Don't forget to let out that when you see your partner sniping, crouch infront of him. When you know he's about to take his shot, stand up immediately so he betrays you so you boot him.
This post was edited by izzet on Nov 6 2010 10:07pm