Common Courtesy
Common Courtesy on Halo, something that shouldn’t be unheard of. Many times I’ve started a game and accidentally hit one of my team-mates in the back and heard on the headset how much of an idiot I am, now, it’s a complete accident, the game has just started and there won’t be an enemy encounter until your health has been regenerated and yet they continue to call you a moron, I would like to encourage you to not be one of those people, it can possibly bring the team down and people may not play as well, unlikely but a possibility and it’s not worth it, it may also be dangerous to yourself and the same person might just come up and kill you for being a jerk to them at the start.
My second point is kill-stealing, when you and someone else on your team both are going for a guy and both start shooting him at around the same time, whoever gets the kill deserves it (more they were just lucky to get the final shot, but still) and there is no need to call them a kill-stealer, there’s a chance that person could have just turned around and killed you if they had not helped you which isn’t something you want to happen. Now, with that statement I am by no means saying when you see someone on your team shooting a guy in the back for a couple seconds it is ok for you to just go up and punch/shoot that guy, THAT is what kill-stealing is, when you KNOW they have that kill for sure (excluding lag-outs) and you just take it, even if it doesn’t really matter who gets kills as long as your team wins, it’s still something people aren’t going to be happy about and are going to chew you out about it. Going back to the double-teaming, when you and your team mate are closing in on someone from both sides and the guy you are going for is shooting your team mate, make sure you pull out of the firing before the guy dies because you may end up killing your own team mate and giving the other team a kill, even if you get the kill for yourself, it doesn’t help and just trades kills whereas if your team mate gets a kill your up one.
My third point is grenades, say you’re playing snowbound and your team mates and the other team are battling it out underground, don’t just start chucking grenades in the wormhole unless you see red x’s in there, you will end up killing your team mates and the other team, the only time I see an exception for this is when you are up 40-20 and just trying to finish out the game, and another thing that goes back to kill-stealing is when you see your team mate shooting someone close range, do NOT try to stick them, most of the time he’ll know and just run into your team mate and kill him or he’ll just be close enough to kill him anyway.
My 4th and final point is accidents, i recall one time where I threw a stick into the lift room on gaurdian and stuck one of my own guys and ended up killing him, another team mate, and myself. I really didn’t try to, he just kind of got in the way, now, if you were on the betrayed side you would probably be pretty mad, but in the end it was an accident and accidents happen and there is no need to get mad about it, but sometimes it’s pretty hard to hold it in.
