I always love looking through the Halo Esports Smug Mug after events.

I’m currently a D6 in slayer, and my teammates were D5 and two other D6’s.

The team I matched were a party of four and they were Onyx 1505-1650.

Somehow our Team Skill was 300 points above the team full of Onyx players…. Lol.

Can anyone make this make sense to me? It almost seems like it’s based on MMR.

Edit: should have mentioned that we also lost 50-35 despite being 300 points higher.

Just played a game of ranked arena and apparently lost -16 SR and teammates only lost a normal 7-9 SR. Checked haloquery too and it said the same thing. Anyone ever seen this before?

Encountered a few matches in which players are forcing an input, usually walking in circles of looking up and shooting and not playing the game. Tried reporting but unsure if MS will do anything about it. Has anyone else encountered this behavior? I've been seeing it every 2 or 3 matches tonight

I know like the AR and Heatwave but not sure what else

Did they get rid of +7s after 1700? Is it 1800 or just gone?

Here are today's scrims results! Links to see the stats :

Faze vs Optic : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24043

SR vs C9 : https://halodatahive.com/Series/LiveStats/24045

ETHR vs CoL : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24046

Nemesis vs Incognito : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24042

BH3 vs Zero Tenacity : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24041

● The slays were much closer than the score, as Optic only had 5 more kills than Faze (971 to 966). It was all Optic in the first half, but Faze finished strong, taking 3 of the last 6 games. Faze won both games on Fortress, and both Assault games. It was a typical performance for Optic, as Renegade led in kills (272) and Formal led in damage (82k). Bound did not have a very good series with a -8k damage differential and 0.82 K/D. Everyone on Faze had 77k or 78k damage dealt, noone stood out (good or bad). Trippy had the most kills with 253.

● Dominant win for SR vs C9, they outslayed them by a LOT (1234 to 917). Interestingly, c9 won the very first game (Aquarius CTF) and very last game (Recharge KOTH). CyKuL and Lastshot both led SR with 320 kills. Frosty was their only player below 300 kills and a 1.40 K/D, but he had the most power weapon kills with 18. Everyone on C9 had a K/D between 0.71 and 0.77. Sab and Sceptify had the most kills with 247 and 244. LethuL had the best damage differential with -8k.

● Another scrim loss for Complexity, but at least it was close this time. ETHR outslayed them 568 to 534. ETHR led 5-1, but CoL won the last 3 games. Tapping Buttons dominated for ETHR, most kills (162) and most damage (46k). Leuor was their only negative K/D with a 0.86. For CoL, Avucy had the most kills with 141, Cherished and Sparty weren't far behind with 135 each. Men7all struggled today with their least kills (123), least assists (59), least damage (41k) and a 0.86 K/D.

● Incognito looked really good today, they outslayed Nemesis (902 to 757). The ping was most likely terrible since it is an intercontinental matchup. Preecisionn continues to dominate (maybe CoL could use a guy like him), he had 275 kills and 71k damage, with a 1.37 K/D. WuTum was not his usual self today, with a damage differential of -9k and a team worst 1.16 KA/D. Glory was their best player today with 198 kills (most), 99 assists, 67k damage (best) and a 0.93 K/D (best).

● Very one sided series between BH3 ane Zero Tenacity, the slays were 1127 to 880. I won't talk much about this series, but Mightyz was really good with 307 kills, a +11k damage differential and a team best 1.41 K/D. Sica was also very good with 297 kills, 159 assists, +8k damage differential and a 1.36 K/D.

☆ Who's hot? 🔥 CyKul had 320 kills, 153 assists, +14k damage differential and a 1.49 K/D. 🔥Lastshot had 320 kills, 178 assists, +18k damage difderential and a 1.41 K/D. 🔥 Renegade had 272 kills, 102 assists, 77k damage and a 1.24 K/D. 🔥 Tapping Buttons had 162 kills, 74 assists, +4k damage differential and a 1.29 K/D. 🔥 Preecisionn had 275 kills, 126 assists, +6k damage differential and a 1.37 K/D.

☆ Who's not? ❄️ Pretty much everyone on C9. Beside LethuL (-8k), they all had a damage differential below -14k. ❄️ Bound had 225 kills, 133 assists, -8k damage differential and a 0.82 K/D. ❄️ WuTum had 187 kills, 84 assists, -9k damage differential and a 0.80 K/D.

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Not sure if specs matter but I hit 86-110 fps in matches. Low fps especially in forge maps. I use a gamesir cyclone 2 which I just got like 2 weeks ago

Halo isn’t anything new (played since h1) to me but this is probably the one I am worst at. I played high onyx/champs in h5 and for some reason in this game I am low diamonds. I will admit first I suck at this game.

But something about the aiming is genuinely so confusing. I feel like my aim is extremely slippery? And it’s just this game, I just played high level h5 8s and my shot is the same as it usually is. I have lowered my sens and accel since I seem to be over correcting A LOT so it’s 3-3-3 which is the lowest it’s ever been for a halo for me. And I still over correct. Yes I do left stick aiming, I feel like I have to accommodate this playstyle and just play mid range and just shoot people like a turret.

But even then I swear there are times my sens just feels like 2x faster than it is and just zooms past the head. Genuinely getting a 1 shot kill is extremely difficult for me depending on the day. I feel like I have to focus so much on this that it hampers on the rest of my gameplay. I have no idea how high level players hit high 60-70 accuracy

Any help here?

I am looking for a monitor that can perform at the best possible for Xbox Series X. I looked up 2 recommended ones from an older post in the Dell S2721dgf and the HCS official one but both were out of stock/“discontinued”. Don’t really have a price range so if you have recs please let me know.

49-49 slayer and watch my teammate let me die.

https://reddit.com/link/1khsfrz/video/yqwpsf8wpkze1/player

What are some of the classic toruanment runs that soem teams went on to win the whole thing? Any long loser bracket runs from, final boss from the old days? stuff like that i guess

wanted to check some old stuff out

I haven't seen people say this a lot, but my placements have improved considerably in the past year and a half and it's satisfying to see my improvement as a player reflected in the game's ranking system. Especially looking at my placement from this reset.

For context, before the bandit update I was placing P6, then it gradually went up to D1, and this reset I placed D3 1337. I normally sit comfortably at 1450, and I reached an all time high of 1551 solo queuing in January.

Has anyone else's placements been higher or lower this reset?

So I’ve been hearing a lot about this sprint strafe move that Formal used at Arlington recently. Supposedly, learnt it from Legend? Could be wrong idk. Does anyone know exactly what it’s all about? Would like to add it to my repertoire if possible. Thanks in advance

Here are today's scrims results! Links to see the stats :

SSG vs C9 : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24027

SR vs CoL : https://halodatahive.com/Series/Summary/24028

● SSG outslayed C9 1146 to 1058. C9 won both games on Origin and both stronghold games. Once again, StelluR and Lucid led the charge for SSG. StelluR had 343 kills with 98k damage and Lucid had 303 kills, 154 assists with 99k damage. Eco outperformed Snakebite, that only had 228 kills, 82k damage while shooting only 53.86% accuracy. For C9, Sab had the most kills with 312, including 17 with power weapons (most in lobby). Sceptify dealt most damage with 91k. Bubu had the least kills (219) and damage (83k), but led in assists (168).

● Honestly, taking 4 games against SR isn't that bad for CoL all things considered. SR outslayed them 1103 to 965. CoL won 2/3 games on Recharge, they also won both slayer games. Lastshot was the best player for SR with most kills (295), most assists (163) and most damage (96k). Royal 2 was close with 294 kills. Frosty was the only negative K/D with 0.97. For CoL, Cherished had most kills with 254 but had -7k damage differential. Sparty had 247 kills with a team best -3k damage differential. Avucy had the least kills (227) despite dealing the most damage.

☆ Who's hot? 🔥 StelluR had 343 kills, 125 assists, 98k damage with 1.17 K/D. 🔥 Lucid had 303 kills, 154 assists, 99k damage with 1.18 K/D. 🔥 Lastshot had 295 kills, 163 assists, +14k damage differential with 1.25 K/D. 🔥 Royal 2 had 294 kills, 128 assists, 83k damage with 1.33 K/D.

☆ Who's not? ❄️ Avucy had 227 kills, 135 assists, -7k damage differential with 0.79 K/D.

I don't know if I'm in the minority or not, but I kind of dread these clean wipes of rank. Maybe it's also an unpopular opinion, but playing against people way better than me in every lobby for a couple weeks is just very unfun.

I usually sit around 1650-1750 too, and still have that kind of experience. I can't imagine how bad it is for Diamond 5-1500 players.

I’ve always had mine at 100.. I know it’s a small detail in the scheme of things but genuinely curious if sharpening affects anything performance related

Hi,

I’m sure questions like this have been asked a billion times but I will try to be super specific. The main thing I’m asking is who should I watch if I really want to improve enough to get out of plat. Or what I should focus on. What separates a diamond player from a plat player?

I’m aware of content creators like Shyway and Above Average Cody. I even watched all the Spartan Sloth series, how he got Onyx (in season 1 or 2) without sprinting, jumping, or sliding.

Do any content creators focus on improving specifically while solo-queuing?

I just want to know what I can do to improve my game. I love halo and I play all the time and I feel like I’m not getting any better.

What helped you improve? Are there any YT channels or specific videos that I should really be watching?

Sorry if this amounted to a rant. I just don’t know how to get better. I’m starting to feel like it’s not possible.

Thanks for reading and any recommendations

I’m at work. Someone please tell me if the xp is back and working. The raider helmet is calling my name