Like I said before, mostly just friends and immediate social circle that do it and for a while it's simply a harmless joke... but eventually it just gets really, really, really annoying after like the oh say three hundred billionth time I get called 'squidlips'.stinkychops said:
I don't know why, but every time someone vocalises patriotism for humans it sounds more like:
"GRAAAAAAAGH GENOCIDE THE ALIEN SCUM!!!"
"... wouldn't that make us just as bad as them? Thus losing any moral high ground gained from-"
"-FEH!! WE ARE HUMAN AND AS SUCH ARE WORTHY OF NOTHING BUT GREATNESS. WE ARE TOO COOL FOR A MORAL CODE AND PRACTICES OF GENOCIDE ARE PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE AS LONG AS WE ARE THE ONES DOING THEM!!"
"This is exactly why every alien race in known space wants your species dead... you do realise this right?"
And while it is true that on Xbox live these days the Elite and Spartan have more or less finally put their differences aside, it's worth remembering that no matter what there will always be morons online who take you on for being an Elite, it's a stupid thing to get riled up about and largely I think this is just due to the idea that playing as Spartan/Elite has created some kind of fraction in the community and split into two different groups.
I can't really comment on the gameplay alterations other than that the Elite model has undergone like, a million changes to make it more fair and yes sometimes a shot is missed because of the angle of the head but.... honestly, I don't really see how the make or break point of winning a game of slayer or SWAT or anything like that is ever made by sniping someone facing the other way, moving in the opposite direction to you.
If they are charging head on, then you can headshot just like a Spartan and it's only when they are moving towards you head on that they pose any kind of threat.
As a note, even if you can't head shot them, you'll find that sniper bullets still hurt. One shot takes down the sheilds, the next kills.
So the only major gameplay problem is two bullets instead of one.
So even if the notion that you cannot shoot elites from behind is a valid one, it's still hardly a worthy complaint and it certainly isn't worthy of people making angry:
Y ELITES SUXXOZ!!!
Videos all over youtube about it.
Like you said, it is not a big problem for elites as a whole with the whole 'racism' thing (note the quotation marks as this is not technically counted as racism yet fits the criteria) but everytime I get shot by my own team, repeatedly, and notice that my team is made up of Spartans I can put two and two together. I also note that more diverse teams rarely have the same problem.
Plus, every time I see a player with a name like 'SPARTANZRULE' I can tell he's not going to start liking me in a hurry.
Given that my entire Halo playing social circle play as Spartans predominantly I am aware that I am destined to always be the 'token elite' because in truth I just like playing as one.
However, this mindset birthed my new schtick as the Halo fan/genocidal alien of the Escapist so that's kind of a plus.
I apologise if I seemed a little harsh in any way in this reply, I try only to be informal but it's just that I've heard this said many times before and it does annoy me after a while.
However, I understand exactly where you were going with this and you had every right to question my motivations behind some of the statements. Hopefully I have clarified that a little.
So, once again I apologise if I seemed at all obnoxious, not my intention.
