It's Iron Banner again, which means that once again, people who don't normally play PvP are trying to remember how. This also means- yes, you guessed it- someone is on the forum telling them that they're opening the heavy ammo crates too soon.
There's a certain etiquette involved in opening the crate when you're on a team. If you're the only one at the crate, and there's no red on your radar, DON'T OPEN THE DAMN CRATE. I can't put it more clearly than that. Wait for the rest of your team so they get some heavy ammo as well.
Obviously, it's a judgement call sometimes. There may be a red line at the edge of your screen... in that case, is your team closer than the enemy? Can you wait for them? Or do you have an enemy bearing down on you, lusting for your chitlins, so that you have to pop the crate or risk losing it to the other team?
But other times, there's no judgement to be made. It's a clear case of seeing that half of your team is still converging on the crate, knowing that the enemy is nowhere in sight, and just [i]not caring[/i].
Yes, there's an announcement when heavy ammo is inbound. But on many maps, that's still not a lot of time to get to the crate from wherever one happens to be, especially since there's actual fighting taking place. Not everyone arranges their game around the drop timer. Sometimes it's just bad luck. Whatever the case, delaying a second or two is not going to cost you the game, and having a few more players with heavy ammo might actually affect the outcome. Many a loss has turned into a win, and vice-versa, based on some heavy kills at the right time.
Think about it next time you're tempted to open that crate all by yourself.
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First off knowing when to pull heavy is all about Map/Radar awareness. Seems how majority of Destiny players have none; here are some basic rules for heavy. 1. If you suck don't pull heavy ever. You will do nothing with it, and you always pull it at the wrong time. 2. If you suck and you hear heavy ammo in bound just run away. Go to the furthest point away from the action and stay there. Please stay there for the rest of the match. Should have been there the whole time. 3. If you suck, but not as bad as say #2 - always rush opposing teams heavy, and be a meat shield for those few legit players sniping/supering opposing teams heavy. Your cannon fodder anyway act like it. 4. If you suck and don't have heavy, but another team has heavy. Become a meat shield and take rockets; because cannon fodder. If on that rare occasion you manage to dodge one than make sure you "X box record that", and put it in your badass clips. 5. If you suck please just run strikes. Thank you