So I have attempted to pick up my online (and overall) gaming over the past few days and I've had relatively good results. If you consider getting sniped over and over again Halo: Reach, hustled in NHL 13, and not being able to play Modern Warfare 3 online good results. I'll explain all of that as I give you all a rundown on my quest to become a better online game player.
The Custodians Use This?
The first game I decided to try out was Halo: Reach and I got the mixed bag that I was expecting. The first few matches proved just how out of touch I was with the game. Reloading, meleeing, and using armor abilities all seemed foreign to me and I didn't really get a handle on the controls until I was a couple of matches in.
To make matters worse I continually got caught with the Team Snipers game mode, which I am horrible at. During one particularly gruesome match, where I got 3 kills and 20 deaths, I knew I wouldn't be competing so I figured I would take a look around to get a better feel for the scenery. I forgot the name of the map that I was on but it was the one with several large buildings and a half complete bridge in the center of the map. Anyway, I was in one of the buildings and I saw that the name of one of the lifts was called the "Custodian Lift."
The lift is a large fan that blows you up into the air (remember, you are an incredibly heavy Spartan not a normal human) so the question becomes "do they really make custodians use this?" I mean, imagine working for a place that basically made you use an indoor skydiving fan to go up to the next floor. It seemed a bit weird but I guess humanity works a little differently in Halo's future.
I eventually began to do better in matches and even began to get positive K/D spreads so the practice is helping out. Every now and again I got a bad matchup but skill does play into that and the skill of the opponents seems to change drastically every single match.
Getting Hustled
So remember how I said that playing sports games online was a longshot for me? Well, I decided to take the plunge and play some NHL 13 online to see how I would do. The matchmaking process is pretty easy and I was in a game in no time.
One thing that you need to learn if you want to play online is how to effectively pass and deke, something you don't really need to know how to do on easy mode. Defenders would fly at me more aggressively than usual and pokechecks are the norm, so you need to protect the puck. I lost my first few matches but stayed competitive. I wasn't doing great, but I wasn't getting blown out either.
Then came one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. It started with the team selection as I chose my New York Rangers but this guy decides to go for Team Canada. It's a bit of a jerk move to use an international all star team against a NHL team but whatever. We began to play and he played like a complete and utter fool; skating around in circles, airmailing the puck over my goaltender, and allowing me to get to the net. I took a 2-0 lead going into the third period and that is where it got weird. He suddenly turned on the skills and began to do crazy dekes, take accurate shots, and just began to destroy me. I got lucky and scored a goal after he had scored 3 so we went into OT tied at 3.
He messed around a bit in OT but I couldn't capitalize and he finally won the game with a wrist shot at the 4:53 mark of the OT (that's seven seconds to go, btw). It was demoralizing, this guy had been toying with me the whole time and I never had a chance. I eventually got some wins and even won my first shootout last night but the lingering feeling of being toyed with remained with me. At least I have a fun story to tell.
Modern Warfare 3?
The final game that I decided I would try online was Modern Warfare 3 but I never made it to multiplayer matchmaking. I couldn't access any of the playlists without some free DLC that I hadn't downloaded. I tried to download the pieces I needed but they just refused to start downloading. I gave up and played some Survival where I did pretty well and am approaching level 42 now.
That's it for my first installment in the Multplayer Madness blog series. I had a decent amount of success in online gaming and was able to kill some valuable time that would have otherwise been occupied by things like working out, job searching, or other useless things like that.
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