TL;DR at the end. It's basically a "HaloWars is *** because the players are *** (most of them)" bitching thread.
A few highlights from this week's games.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=11899197-0555-8456-0187-000000000000
The Prophet, UnleashedNZ, started teamkilling myself and the other Cutter. He destroyed our reactors, delayed my research by destroying buildings, and forced us to waste our D-Bombs and MAC's shooing him away. We lasted awhile since the other team was truly retarded. The other Cutter resigned when he'd had enough, and seeing that the prophet would target only me now, I resigned to. He then killed off King Buzzard with Locust without the Mr Hamze intervening, and then boosted score for Mr Hamze by spamming grunts. It seems they were friends.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=11899197-0555-8456-0187-000000000000
I steam-rolled the enemy with an army of Canister tanks with light Gauss support from the Anders player. When I got to the red Forge player after killing the Arbiter, I lost alot of tanks since he'd teched up to Power Turret and i'd lost a double reactor to ODST that the General Prophet couldn't kill. I mean seriously, he's going Solo hero, and my entire army is on the other side of the map yet he can't kill 10 ODST? It wasn't even 10, it started as 4 and then slowly trickled up. My base got shelled and destroyed by a few ODST because I had enough confidence in a GENERAL to defend it while I sodomized the enemy team. Regardless, the Prophet got the highest score for doing *** NOTHING because he went Solo hero, didn't lose troops because he made none, and killed a few infantry giving him 5 combat multipler.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=16680914-4550-8152-5942-000000000000
This one can be blamed on me. My power went out at the start of the match, and it was panning out to be a decent one since nobody collected their crates. I feel bad since I generally RAGE at people who leave the game early, that being myself this time.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=30420697-8374-8280-9510-000000000000
This is just retarded. The guy Owen on our team is yet another General ranked player, and he resigned when he saw the orange player rock up at his base with three spartanks. The other guy on our team had an army of Chaff Pod hornets locked inside his base while I had 15 or so ODST locked inside mine, but because our armies aren't in plain view, this Owen [WARNING] thinks we have nothing and instantly resigns at the first sign of enemy contact. What's worse is while we DID have armies, he had nothing. We had an army of air, an army of infantry, and what could have been an army of vehicles. We were all set! And then he leaves and *** us all over. Despicable.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=73724887-1555-7208-0600-000000000000
This was probably the best match of the entire week. The orange player wasn't the greatest, but I didn't care, I had great fun playing Human J P.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=40971243-2189-5613-5350-000000000000
Yet another General who took out a loan on their first braincell. He acted like an idiot over the microphone, and acted like an idiot in-game as well. You'd think against two Arbiters and a Brute, you'd go Canister tanks with SpartanWolves correct? Especially since the enemy team were going Locust, Jackal, Jackal? But no, let's go ahead and make Vultures. A hurr, and a durr. I suppose I'll blame myself for that game as well. The yellow player on my team couldn't hold an army for longer than a minute without sending it off to die, and the Anders General was making Vultures (even though their Brute player predicted air and built Vampires), so I kept switching between troops with no idea what I can do to counter all three enemy players. Jackals? Against other Jackals is stupid. Banshees? Brute player has Vampires for Anders Vultures. Wraiths? My army is screwed when an arbiter rocks up. Scarab? Not against two Arbiters and a Brute. Regardless, I still feel the Anders player screwed us over the most.
http://www.halowars.com/stats/StatsGame.aspx?Id=41515005-6799-2958-9400-000000000000
Banshee and Tank rush by Doped and I ended the enemy team pretty quick. The recruit on our team didn't have any idea what he was doing, and we could hear him arguing with his parents over the microphone (which he didn't use to talk to us).
So, to recap:
Team-killer and booster.
Hopeless General rank who nabs top score for using the Solo hero 'strategy'.
Murphy's Law coming into practice.
Yet another hopeless Deathmatch General.
A good, fun game with a GOOD general.
A third pathetic, useless general.
A second GOOD general, even though we got stuck with a lemon recruit.
2 out of 7, ladies and gentlemen. 2 good games out of 7, and that's not including the rest of the games which I either can't remember the specifics to, aren't remotely exciting (build base, build unit, kill enemy, points, yawn), or aren't something I want to *** about. More importantly though, 2 out of 5 remotely decent general players? WHAT THE ***? How do you play this game for so long to amass 2.4 million or however many points it is, and still suck on the holy fallice of god when it comes to playing the freakin' game? You can make that 2 out 6 six since i've played with another General several times before and he doesn't know the difference between Canister and PT. And what is it with people and how slow they are? Every game I start when playing as UNSC consists of Warthog - Supply Pad - All units - Fast scroll to the enemy resources/middle of the map. While the warthog travels to those resources, you can then select the second hog or apply extra buildings to the queue. But when I watch my teammates, they queue up every freakin' building and then just sit there for 20 seconds either looking at the Player's list or just scratching their nuts before moving their hog.
Frankly, I am dropping this game like a brick shithouse from orbit when L4D2 comes out because I can't deal with the extreme stupidity shown by so many of the players. And either remove team damage completely or add a Kick function. I'd rather lose a potential 50 population than have to rebuild my double reactor every few minutes. AND *** GENERALS HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO SUCK SO MUCH ASS. I'm no star-player but I always groan when I see a general on our team and yelp with delight when I see a Brig.