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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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squidhands
Member
Seems like the best possible way for 343 to handle the playlists. I wish there were a way to keep from playing Halo 4 maps in some of those playlists beyond quitting out.
The Splaser hate is real... gimme an action sack playlist with some good 'ol Splockets action and we're gold.
I think something along the lines of "filtering" options would be amazing actually. Like be able set your BTB hopper to only put you in games that use Halo 1/2/3 and automatically get you out of Halo 4 games.
AcePartyN7
Member
I think the Team slayer playlist is a little useless because we can already choose for the game so there is no point to have one mixed + one social and one per game.
These playlist miss maybe Infection to start, a casual playlist for fun random but overall I am pretty satisfied.
These playlist miss maybe Infection to start, a casual playlist for fun random but overall I am pretty satisfied.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Big Team Battle
Battle it out in 16-player warfare with vehicles across Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, and Halo 2: Anniversary. 8v8.
Aww yes.
Battle it out in 16-player warfare with vehicles across Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, and Halo 2: Anniversary. 8v8.
Aww yes.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Frantically searches for Team Doubles, does a control+F search to make sure I didn't miss it...AND...
I know there is A LOT of game and they don't want to spread the community too thin...but wow I thought that was a gimmie...
EDIT: 343 thank you so much for all of this though...and most of all thank you for including an e-sports hopper. YOU THE BOMB.
I know there is A LOT of game and they don't want to spread the community too thin...but wow I thought that was a gimmie...
EDIT: 343 thank you so much for all of this though...and most of all thank you for including an e-sports hopper. YOU THE BOMB.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Oh yes. Team slayer and Big team!!! I'm happy. Not a fan of the individual games playlists being a mix of objective and slayer. I hate fucking objective gametypes.
Welfare
Member
A filter option would be the best. Is this in, Frank?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Just a heads up that I will be quitting out of every single Halo 4 map that comes up in BTB
ArchedThunder
Banned
No Halo 4 in Team Slayer? Yiss, thank you 343!
Also they should make a doubles playlist, oh and add H2A to Hardcore.
Also, honestly, I'd get rid of the H2A social playlist for an objective playlist and turn "Team Halo 2 Anniversary" into a Slayer playlist.
Also they should make a doubles playlist, oh and add H2A to Hardcore.
Also, honestly, I'd get rid of the H2A social playlist for an objective playlist and turn "Team Halo 2 Anniversary" into a Slayer playlist.
2v2
Dun worry there will be weekly rotational lists and consistent updates.
The Henery
Member
Nice bit of humility in excluding Halo 4 from the TS playlist. I'd have liked dedicated 8v8 hoppers for 2 and 3. All Slayer playlists mixed with Objective? Where's Fyrewulf with the retention stats. Team Hardcore sounds promising. I don't know what the E-sport playlist refers to or what game it's going to use...
I assume all of these lists are ranked barring the explicitly social one?
Weapon starts, objective settings and map selection for each game and hopper would have been useful. This is a very, very broad outline. From what we've seen though, could have been a lot worse.
I assume all of these lists are ranked barring the explicitly social one?
Weapon starts, objective settings and map selection for each game and hopper would have been useful. This is a very, very broad outline. From what we've seen though, could have been a lot worse.
No 2v2 when it was CE's best mode and by definition doesn't require as large of a population as bigger matches, duplicated functionality between eSports and Hardcore (I feel like those two will cannibalize each other's demographic, unless they're somehow wildly different), only FFA in the game is H2A, redundancy with H2A and H2A social (I don't see why the social playlist exists as-is, honestly. Is it for guest parties? If so, why is it only H2A?).
List is weird. I hope we get specifics - I want to know what the weighting for Slayer is in the game-specific playlists.
List is weird. I hope we get specifics - I want to know what the weighting for Slayer is in the game-specific playlists.
Yea I know, we can manage with customs. Hope to see it permanent down the line.
Props for the eSports playlist
ElzarTheBam
Member
I almost feel like voting for it to troll you, but in the end it's like sucker punching yourself.
Or you can't claim an OT until a month before it releases and can't post until a week before release.
Isn't 2v2 one of the most popular playlists? Why have it be rotational?
I seriously feel like I am the only one on this thread who actually like Halo 4 multiplayer...
EdibleExplosives
Member
Someone call the wahhhhhhmbulaaaaaance. You don't make the rules. Assholes are subjective. There is a lot more meta-physics to assholes than pooping-physics.
*Prays for an Team Action Sack Playlist*
Solid Day One playlist selection though. The omission of Team Doubles does seem a bit of head-scratcher, but I'll live. Some sort of split of BTB (no sure how) could be warranted as well, but I'm biased because I really just want to play all those glorious, massive Halo PC exclusive maps for Halo CE on Xbox Live for the first time.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Halo 4 BTB was actually quite enjoyable imo.
Poker Face
Member
oh i thought we were actually going to see the game settings lol
If a rotational proves hugely popular it will be considered for more permanent status. The footprint of the game and the population drive this.
Vote with our playtime
Gnome Scat
Member
Like Living Dead?
^^^ TRUE DAT ^^^
I do love how this has basically been the Bungie/343 M.O. with playlists. Oftentime formerly "experimental" gametypes become fully dedicated playlists once they're discovered to be popular. This was the case for SWAT, Team Snipers, Grifball, Action Sack and others I'm probably forgetting.
Frank I know that coming up with the playlists for this collection was extremely difficult and it's possible to satisfy everyone.
Im just going to ask that you guys consider making the CE playlist 2v2 by default. CE plays a lot better in 2v2 compared to 4v4 (esp. in slayer) Not to mention the heavy majority of people that are even interested in playing CE in the collection are used to playing primarily 2v2.
Do we really want people to experience 4v4 on great small maps like prisoner, chillout, ect.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Will there be a plasma pistol starts, active camo 1v1 on Waterworks rotational playlist?
Prinz Eugn
Member
It depends on the map, but basically none of those are quite effective enough to balance the hog except maybe the missile launcher. The hog turret is so powerful that it's very hard to get close enough to use any of those with a good chance of success on a lot of maps.
The Librarian
Banned
That's definitely not true from my experience. Every single BTB maps in Halo 3 had multiple ways of taking out the Warthog. It sounds like you just didn't utilize them effectively.
HaloGAF Halo 3 customs played incredibly well without the laser.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Thanks. Are all playlists listed both ranked AND social? Can we pick?
Eh, I'd be perfectly happy with having both. More options is almost always better.