Why SWAT?

[Vrex360]

I also do not like SWAT, I always groan whenever that gametype comes up, largely because I'm always hoping for Elite Slayer which is considerably more fun to play with the plasma grenades and rebounding health and the rolls and whatnot.

To me, SWAT is just kind of boring, plus I'm absolutley terrible at it, I swear my Recon helmet must be a magnet for bullets.

Still, if it's what the majority wants then I can cope with that.

 

[Naota_391]

This mode is terrible with more than 8 people. It just becomes a death fest for everyone.

 

[Deguasser]

I'm just curious. Why do people always vote for the SWAT game type in Reach?

Because people like it?

Why do people play game types I despise?

Because they like it!

I get it, so why can't everyone else?

 

[Steppin Razor]

I love how everyone in this thread says that anyone whom likes Swat in Halo is either

a.) A f***ing retard
b.) Loves COD/MW and wants halo to be like it
c.) All the above

No option for "Likes it just because" or "Its all about personal Choice, and he/she just happens to like it"

Those are perfectly valid reasons to pick the game type, however, taking into account the fact that every single gaming site I visited before the release of Halo: Reach was filled with comments to the effect that they were looking forward to it because its multiplayer was going to be completely unlike Modern Warfare 2's, I find it hilarious that everyone now wants to play the game type that most closely resembles Modern Warfare 2. The irony of it all is thick enough to physically beat someone with.

 

[Milo Windby]

I love how everyone in this thread says that anyone whom likes Swat in Halo is either

a.) A f***ing retard
b.) Loves COD/MW and wants halo to be like it
c.) All the above

No option for "Likes it just because" or "Its all about personal Choice, and he/she just happens to like it"

Those are perfectly valid reasons to pick the game type, however, taking into account the fact that every single gaming site I visited before the release of Halo: Reach was filled with comments to the effect that they were looking forward to it because its multiplayer was going to be completely unlike Modern Warfare 2's, I find it hilarious that everyone now wants to play the game type that most closely resembles Modern Warfare 2. The irony of it all is thick enough to physically beat someone with.

I have never played MW2 and I have never seen it played, so I have no idea what that game is like.
I personally enjoy swat on Halo 3 and Reach, however that is my opinion and it does not mean I want MW2. (and the only COD game I ever played was back on the PS2)
I also enjoy other game modes on Halo reach of course, and will choose something besides Swat.

 

[Dr_Baron_von_Evilsatan]

To me, SWAT is just kind of boring, plus I'm absolutley terrible at it, I swear my Recon helmet must be a magnet for bullets.

It isn't on fire is it? Because yes, that would make it incredibly easy to see/shoot.

I swear The people with the flaming helmets have it rough on these gametypes. They think their hiding but you can see a plume of fire sticking up from behind a rock.

As for the actual topic, yes it does seem to get played a lot. I don't mind it all that much because I do play other gametypes more often than SWAT and I'm pretty decent with a DMR. Also, if it's in Countdown BTB the game can last for only a few minutes.

Lastly, I find this is a horrid gametype (that and snipers) if you're on the red team playing on Boneyard. It's a spawn campers paradise.

 

[scorptatious]

SWAT's alright so long as it's on the right map, like Zealot. Still though, I find it annoying sometimes when you get downed in almost an instant you are out in the open. The bullet just seemlesly comes out of nowhere. It can get pretty frusterating.

On the other hand, the game type teaches you to be on your toes and be constantly moving during a match. Which can really help in the long run when it comes to getting better at Halo Reach.

 

[Dr. Feelgood]

I personally cannot stand SWAT either. There are 3 things they could do to make me like it more.
-Make it ONLY pistols
-Give it a seperate playlist
-Or... get rid of it.

How would making it only pistols change anything? Pistols might have a smaller clip, but they also have a higher rate of fire, and can scope in, so it wouldn't really change anything.

Besides, I prefer the pistols in SWAT, so shut up, I don't want people knowing that they're good.

That's one of the reasons, the smaller clip. Since most of the fights in SWAT end up in fairly close quarters you may as well only have a handgun. You may remember in Halo 2 how there were SWAT magnums and carbines, right? I'd like to see SWAT have its own playlist, and more game variants.

Actually in the first playlist update SWAT gets its own playlist. Also Classic Slayer gets the boot and King of the Hill comes to many playlist.

Awww, I liked classic slayer!

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

because some people think its fun.

 

[sabercrusader]

I personally cannot stand SWAT either. There are 3 things they could do to make me like it more.
-Make it ONLY pistols
-Give it a seperate playlist
-Or... get rid of it.

well its your lucky day my good friend.
in the october update, they are making a SWAT playlist and taking it out of pretty much everything else.

OT: i like it but i prefered it more in halo 3, although i love getting headshots across the map and watching the players spartan just fall, its just immensly satifying to me.

and about snipers, i hate the people that would literaly stick their dick into the sniper barrel. i like snipers but they are very overrated and usually you have "the guy" that fucking rapes at snipers becuase he sits there and practices snipers the whole day.

 

[Liberaliter]

Yeah it's annoying because people always vote SWAT/Snipers/Infection every single time, when it would be nice to play some slayer or CTF ever once in a while. I don't really get infection, if you start with shotguns then you can basically dominate by climbing to one of those really high points and staying up their, picking the zombies off with ease if they try to jump up. Meaning if you don't spawn as a human, you have no way of winning.

 

[hazabaza1]

Wait, I'm a Halo noob, what does the Swat mode do?

 

[jackpipsam]

Thank god there adding in there own playlist for SWAT

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

That is pretty weird. It's almost like they enjoy that particular game type or something.


But since you don't enjoy it, that would mean that they don't share your opinion.

And that would just be ridiculous.

 

[kikon9]

SWAT's alright so long as it's on the right map, like Zealot. Still though, I find it annoying sometimes when you get downed in almost an instant you are out in the open. The bullet just seemlesly comes out of nowhere. It can get pretty frusterating.

On the other hand, the game type teaches you to be on your toes and be constantly moving during a match. Which can really help in the long run when it comes to getting better at Halo Reach.

"I like games! Games are fun! Fun, you know that thing we used to have before gaming felt like a separate job?"

 

[Wolfy1328]

My relationship with SWAT is love-hate.
Its fun, (and the easiest way to get Jorge's helmet for your avatar), and its takes a teeny bit of skill.

But, I HATE playing 3 times in a row. I seroiusly go insane.

 

[Snotnarok]

I don't mind SWAT in 4v4 team slayer. On the right map it can be serisouly intense. What I have a problem with is when people vote for team SWAT on hemorrhage in the big team battle playlist. Why the fuck would you want to play on the biggest single map in the game, with the most amount of players you can have and then remove vehicles, weapon spawns, shields and have everyone spawn with precision weapons? A campfest on that size map is so fucking dull. People are so stupid it's unbearble.

It's the same reason you run into servers in Bad Company 2 where the entire attacking team on rush are 90% snipers with 2 people actually trying to do the objective. (Rush you have to arm two bombs before you move on to the next area, defending team has infinite respawns and attacking team has 100 respawns only)

Because people are idiots. That's right if you're on a team game and you're one of 10 snipers you're part of the idiot squad because it doesn't help the team win and you're just doing it for your own sake.

That's why people do it, they're big, fucking, morons all too often.

 

[Agayek]

I used to be awesome at swat with the BR. But I just cant win with the dmr, which is why I always vote against swat, even if it means voting for another gametype I dont like.

Off topic: What does DMR stand for anyway?

Designated Marksman Rifle I believe.

OT: I don't really mind SWAT, assuming the map isn't Hemorrhage. It's far from my favorite, but it's not bad. What grinds my gears is the obsession with Snipers in the groups I end up with. Whenever there's a sniper option, without fail, it is the one chosen, and it's usually bad. I hate the gametype yet everyone always picks it >_<.

 

[kikon9]

Yeah it's annoying because people always vote SWAT/Snipers/Infection every single time, when it would be nice to play some slayer or CTF ever once in a while. I don't really get infection, if you start with shotguns then you can basically dominate by climbing to one of those really high points and staying up their, picking the zombies off with ease if they try to jump up. Meaning if you don't spawn as a human, you have no way of winning.

I know what you mean. They should just have both sides have overshields and give humans the default weapons. Then make the humans WORK for their survival instead of handing them a shotgun right from the start.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Because people see it as 'hardcore' and they have to play because they are 'hardcore'.