Halo 5's crouch monkeys

If you're still getting the kills why does it irritate you?

Also, don't forget that toggled crouch is default. Some people may not be aware of this and have not changed their settings. So now when they get into a firefight and clench, they stay crouched. Also, I think some people may brefer to leave crouch toggled due to less crouch jumping and having the ability to slide into cover.

Bruh. No h8 but you're Silver...2... At that rank, I highly doubt you're playing competent halo players.

It's hilarious how much people do this now. I swear it never used to be that common in the past, but now every other player does it for some reason it seems. Oh well, easy kills.

l b34r l wrote:

Bruh. No h8 but you're Silver...2... At that rank, I highly doubt you're playing competent halo players.

CSR is only based on w/l though, isn't it? It's a pretty poor way to judge the kind of competition people have been up against honestly.

Scotty Noooo wrote:

l b34r l wrote:

Bruh. No h8 but you're Silver...2... At that rank, I highly doubt you're playing competent halo players.

CSR is only based on w/l though, isn't it? It's a pretty poor way to judge the kind of competition people have been up against honestly.

I had friends that were onyx before I worked my way up there and I would slaughter them anytime in custom games. The CSR doesn't mean anything.

I don't mind people crouching, it makes them slower targets.

You clearly never grew up playing CE as that was a very viable option to out play someone and it still works very well in Halo 5. The point is knowing when to duck. This is no different then jumping during a fight either.

If you jump early or duck early yes, you become an easy kill. The point is to do this just before the kill shot, anything earlier is useless. It becomes very common the higher levels but they also know when to use this and it doesn't make them an easy kill. I've out ducked played many times in this and CE.

FnordAirplane50 wrote:

You clearly never grew up playing CE as that was a very viable option to out play someone and it still works very well in this as well.

Thats because everyone in CE aimed for the head and used the pistol. I know thats what 343 was going for, but even in Diamond, there are tons of AR pals running around. This crouch monkey business (see what I did there) is directly because of the CoD people playing Halo.

SilverStreak0 wrote:

BURL KNiVE5 wrote:

If you're still getting the kills why does it irritate you?

Also, don't forget that toggled crouch is default. Some people may not be aware of this and have not changed their settings. So now when they get into a firefight and clench, they stay crouched. Also, I think some people may brefer to leave crouch toggled due to less crouch jumping and having the ability to slide into cover.

That issue is annoying. It's my greatest issue with the default control scheme. I'm hoping the custom button mapping can fix this.

Embrace the clench.
I used to be quite the try-hard back in H2 and later H3. A buddy of mine that was some sort of savant at Halo gave me some good advice: Stay completely relaxed when engaging an opponent; do not tense up.
He was absolutely right, too. Once I learned to stay calm my game got a lot better.
Clench-crouching means you are panicking. Get that under control and you'll see a lot of improvement.

I wish I had the time to be a complete try-hard like I once was.

FnordAirplane50 wrote:

You clearly never grew up playing CE as that was a very viable option to out play someone and it still works very well in Halo 5. The point is knowing when to duck. This is no different then jumping during a fight either.

It worked way better in CE though. I don't think I've ever been killed by someone doing it in 5. Like, ever. It might make you a smaller target, but it also makes you a slower target, which means anyone with half a brain can still get the kill. I mean yeah, if you use it properly you can dodge the kill shot, but honestly you can do that just as well with proper strafing techniques and/or the thruster pack. If I have the choice between making myself a smaller target or making myself a faster one, I ALWAYS go for the latter. But hey, that's just me.