Today’s game is some more Halo PvP. I took some friends with me into 8v8 lobbies. We had a friend who’s never played a PvP lobby before and was confident in his skills. We weren’t sure he could but didn’t want to dampen his enthusiasm so we joined him for some matches. Kudos to him, he did pretty good. Nothing crazy but he did well for having only stuck to a private lobby before. It makes me feel a shred of pride, knowing in a way I’m partly responsible for training him to be that good.
Besides that, as always with Halo it was a blast. The round was at a stalemate the entire time and both sides barely kept up with each other to achieve a draw. We nearly got a push at the end but failed to make it in time. The entire game I got to dominate with a sniper too which was awesome.
We switched to 4v4 after that and we were dominating in that one too. We admittedly may have gotten a little too cocky though as we stopped killing the enemy team really and started chasing each other round. Like for example I stopped sniping to run from my friend with the Energy Sword who was chasing me with it. I got a few kills while running but they were less strategically planned and more so “oh shit. There’s an enemy in my way. I better kill them so I don’t get killed”. I feel like that’s what really captures the magic of Halo for me. It doesn’t just come out like a generic shooter. It has a cohesive balance of cool and moments of just fucking around with friends. It’s a blast.
Our last game that’s worth mentioning was fairly quick. I got to dominate with the sniper again in the watch tower and held that position almost all game. Our opponents were fairly skilled but they made the mistake of not watching for grenades.
I suppose our commupance though was due anytime. The next two matches after that we got absolutely destroyed by the enemy and it was as funny as it was frustrating. Still. That’s how public PvP games go I guess. I’d like to get friends together for a private PvP lobby again soon. So hopefully that’s something that will happen.
