Halo 3: What's Your Best Map?

The Game Room
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Different maps in Halo 3 obviously favour different tactics and skillsets.

With that in mind, and following on from previous discussions on here about the “best” tactics, I thought it would be interesting to see which maps players here consistently perform best on.

After all, I figure that the maps people do well on provide as good an insight into how people play as anything else.

My halo profile is here, and it’s pretty obvious that Standoff is easily my best map:

Basic Stats (Social Stats in Brackets)

Played: 68 (13)
Kills: 1070 (192)
Deaths: 665 (97)
K/D: 1.61 (1.98)

Common Medals:

Double Kill (1.86 per game)
Beat Down (1.57 per game)
Killing Spree (0.92 per game)

Top 3 Weapons

Warthog Gun (53.55%/46.88%)
Assault Rifle (18.41%/16.15%)
Melee (11.21%/15.10%)

So I guess what the above says about me is that:

  • I’m weak on BR play
  • Unsurprisingly I therefore do better in non-zoom games (i.e. games where the influence of BR or Snipers can be limited or is non-existent)
  • I’m strong on the chain gun and, given a good driver, can form part of a map dominating partnership
  • I’m a medium range player who occasionally likes punching people in the face

What about you guys and gals? What’s your best map?

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Big question. What metric do you use to answer it, though?

                Ranked KpD   Social Kpd

Avalanche- 1.48 1.89
Blackout- 1.45 1.85
Cold Storage- 1.09 1.49
Construct- 1.34 1.59
Epitaph- 1.16 1.55
Foundry- 1.10 3.07
Ghost Town- 1.05 1.79
Guardian- 1.23 1.65
High Ground- 1.59 1.80
Isolation- 1.40 1.97
Last Resort- 1.92 2.12
Narrows- 1.32 1.85
Rat’s Nest- 1.70 1.91
Sandtrap- 2.54 2.61
Snowbound- 1.26 1.83
Standoff- 1.82 2.02
The Pit- 1.36 1.82
Valhalla- 1.98 2.56

Total- 1.4 1.99

The numbers say that I perform the best on Sandtrap for Social games and Foundry maps for ranked games, but the two best maps in the game are Valhalla, Guardian, and The Pit. The next tier of maps is Blackout, Construct, Isolation, Standoff, Narrows, and Last Resort. After that, they’re hit or mis, depending on the context of the game.

Most used weapons-percentage of kills
Battle Rifle-34.98% ranked, 30.94% social
Sniper Rifle-17.85% ranked, 19.42% social
Beatdown- 11.72% ranked, 9.73% social

I very rarely do vehicles. I’m more effective on the ground. Save a few random games in your File Share, tell me what they are, and I’ll do film study for you and tell you where you suck and how to get better.

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To be honest, I’ve analysed my own games and played with (and against) enough top-end players (yourself included) to know what my major flaws are.

Some i have fixed, or am making some effort on fixing. I’m now a passable support sniper, for example, whereas I certainly wasn’t before (and am definitely better post-hitscan).

Others I have no intention of fixing - I’ve got about as good with the BR as i’m going to get without putting some serious specialised time in, and I’m not prepared to do that. Instead I’ve built up some good compensating strategies and when they don’t work then that’s the luck of the draw.

Similarly, there are some things i simply refuse to do - I won’t spend the whole level leaping round, use an exploit or border-line exploit sniping position nor will i ever intentionally go for the leap-over assasination. That’s not what having fun is about to me, and my kills may suffer for it but i feel better as a result.

Basically I’m better than most, if not all, of my mates, and given that I’m a social player that’s all that really matters to me. :smiley:

I’m pretty certain that if i played properly I would probably true-skill around 40 rather than 35, but what would be the point if it meant playing intense games i got no real pleasure out of? Especially as most of my mates hover around the late twenties - it would lead to some very frustrating match ups!

At the end of the day I always look on you 50s as the proper modern athletic Olympian types whereas I’m more of a 1930s Olympian. You know the kind - the talented amateurs who were pretty good but whose potential was constantly hampered by a tendency to drink too much beer before a race, or who missed out on the Olympic record because they stopped briefly halfway round the track to bum a lighter off someone.

Basically 95% of the time you’ll always kick my arse, but 5% of the time, with a little bit of luck and when the wind (and stickies) are blowing in the right direction I reckon I could take ya!

I’m happy with those odds. :smiley:

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Yeah, if you’re going to get caught flat footed in a battle rifle duel, you’d have to put some time into it, but most of the time, you’ve got the time to plan ahead, use teamwork, communicate and let the grenades lower their shields for you.

Halo is a very interesting game. If you’re 35 or above, it’s not necessarily about individual skill; it’s teamwork, and the teamwork gets even more important the higher up you go. Two mediocre players, but good team shooters will beat one super stud.