Halo there!

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Oh, did I tell you I got banned from earning EXP because I was boosting achievements in Rumble Pit? Well, since then I went into Halo 3 care-free mode. Lately I have been playing Halo 3 purely for fun. Of course this has always been the case, I mean... it's not like I was expecting to earn money playing Halo 3, but the fact I won't be able to keep my 2/3 GAMES/EXP ratio up now anyway just made me go into KILL HAPPY KILL LOTS AND DIE LOSING mode.

Now because of that, I started losing RANKED matches on purpose to get lower ranks for easier opponents the next games. It has been working out rather well. In Squad Battle I'm now stuck around rank 7/8 and I can assure you, the opponents are easy. The more easier opponents, the more fun. Since I can't earn EXP anyway whether I win or not, I don't give a crap about objectives and go for the kills, or in some cases, betrayals. Most of the games end in me having +10 (kill/death spread), pissing everybody off and having lots of spree, dual kill and assassination medals... hmmmmm plenty of medals.

My kill/death RATIO before getting EXP banned (playing serious, going for objectives, not camp when my team is in despair) was 1.09 for ranked and 1.19 for social. At the moment they have increased up to 1.11 ranked and 1.24 social. The ranked one is especially awesome, because it's pretty hard to increase because of balancing issues, gametypes and maps.

But that's not all- the actual more FUN I had playing Halo 3 has gone through the roof. I now communicate with the opposing team. Not about how secret our tactics are though, but "how much I suck, what kind of a chicken I actually am and how bad my team is going to lose". In most cases it has actually ended in the other team being convinced my team actually sucks before the game starts. The best thing of all then is, that at the end, I turn out to be the best anyway and win the game (if it's slayer anyway)!

Also - Because I don't care about losing or winning, lately I have been playing with a lot of my friends again I've "outranked" in the past. I wouldn't say I'm better than them, but I always had the feeling I was more serious and focused to win. Playing with those friends online reminds me why they are my friends - They play to have fun, and with them in the party, you can bet it's funny (the actual GOOD friends in my playlist haven't been in online lately - did those block me? Sad face.). It's good to know that they think I'm funny as well and also notice I'm not really a bad player either!
When the opposing team starts trash talking us, I used to ignore it when I was more serious. I was like... screw them, it's sad they play Halo 3 to trash talk someone like me... but now, because I want to have fun, I start talking back and shizzle - making my team laugh out loud and the other team hate me... Now I know this ain't nice - and typically Dutch I'm afraid - but you bet your ass it's fun to teabag a person 16 times MORE than he teabags you, being able to laugh at his corpse 16 times more as well. Back in the serious days (is it that far back already!?) - I wouldn't dare to teabag someone, because you'd never know whether there's another one of that team right behind me, ready to unleash the fury of raining bullets, exploding grenades and badly timed sword lunges.

Now to be honest, my AMOUNT OF GAMES/EXP ratio has gone quite a transformation in the period of the ban. Previous of the ban I had played 2650 games and won 1994 - that's a ratio of a bit better than 2/3 - which in Halo 3 apparently rocks... (I've seen people playing 4000 matches only having 1000 EXP). Currently - my ratio is 2904 games played, and 1990 EXP (I lost four exp in the mean time because of losing game connection and getting booted).

What the hell do I care though? I have more fun playing Halo 3 than ever before! Plus... I have ALL possible Halo 3 achievements except for the Two For One one, which pisses me off actually.

So people, want to have fun playing Halo 3? Join me if you can - I don't care (a lot) about how you suck. I can always use you as bait.

Cheers,

PS: I've also played Call of Duty 4 today online... God what the fuck is wrong with that game?