Here we are a year later and while I feel H5 is a great game in it’s current state that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. why is there no odd ball, king of the hill, ricochet, juggernaut, VIP pretty regicide? these where all fun game modes why don’t we have them yet? I understand that H5 was to cater to the competitive play and I love that but why can’t you guys do both? H4 super casual and now H5 super competitive. why no middle ground? if you want H6 to revive the series let me give you a awesome break down of what the playlist should at least look like…
Ranked
FFA (slayer, max six players, no guest, no chat)
4v4…(mix of slayer and objective, team chat only)
Social (separate stats from ranked)
Rumble Pit (slayer and objective, guest allowed and . . . . . . . open chat)
1v1 (slayer and open chat)
2v2 (slayer and objective open chat)
Team slayer
Team objective
Action sack(include FFA games types as well as team)
Infection
Griff ball
BTB slayer (mix or regular and heavies)
BTB objective
Now the objective playlist for rumble pit would be king of the hill, odd ball and juggernaut.
For team/BTB objective would be ctf, assault, odd ball, ricochet, VIP, and king of the hill
BTB objective would also have dominion.
These of course are just some basics but they are what is usually generally expected from a Halo multiplayer.
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> Technically speaking, oddball and ricochet are available in custom games.
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> I think H5 actually has an almost okay playlist balance. Just needs a few tweaks:
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> Ranked
> FFA
> Team Arena/HCS (tournament modes and maps)
> Team Slayer
> SWAT
> Doubles
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> Social
> Team Battle (4v4 grab bag of slayer and objective)
> Big Team Battle
> Infection
> Grifball
> Action Sack
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> Breakout could either be it’s own playlist in Ranked or folded into Team Battle. Team Snipers and similar playlists should be kept as rotationals.
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> Not to mention we have the fairly social and BTB focused warzone playlists as well
Actually we don’t even have a FFA Oddball option in Custom Games yet when I last checked, only Team Oddball.
I think that Super Fiesta should become part of Action Sack. I also think we should have two rotationals, one of a serious nature (Team Snipers, etc.) and one of a goofier nature (think FFA Oddball mash like Juggernaut and Ninjaball, Dino Blasters, etc.) That would really round out the variety as far as H5 mechanics. In addition, an Old School Playlist with reduced Spartan Abilities and slightly increased health would be welcome so the fans of classic Halo mechanics are less alienated.
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> What if BTB Heavies was its own playlist, like in Halo 4?
As fars i remember, game modes such as ricochet, are pretty much “abandoned” they only work as local party games, and split-screen is no more, perhaps this is why those game modes were not included in the game. As i said before they are “abandoned”, adding them wont fix anything in the game, it will just take space to say “We have lots of game modes!” but in reality 40% of those are “abandoned”.
How I would set up the playlists.
Ranked Arena
Team Arena (team objective, Oddball, CTF, KOTH, assault, Strongholds, slayer only if it’s mandatory)
Team Slayer (classic)
Doubles (Not my game but I’ll give those guys some love.)
Snipers (if only to shut people up.)
SWAT
BTB
Rumble Pit (include objective and slayer)
Social
Action Sack
Infection
Grifball
Social Slayer (Classic 5 v 5 variety of slayer types)
Social Skirmish (A more fun copy of team arena, 5 v 5 VIP as well)
WZ
WZ 2.0
WZA 2.0 (More objective variety, basically combine the way it is now with the invasion playlist style objectives)
Off-line or with Friends
Classic Firefight (Based on ODST model with more customization options)
Forge
Customs.
I’m probably forgetting something, but if so I’ll edit it later.
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> I think three BTB playlist would be a bit much.
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> > They’ve been fairly tight-lipped about anything related to Halo 5’s development, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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> We will probably hear all about it in 10 years. Until then… Halo 4 Battle Rifle sounds.
Fixed?
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> As fars i remember, game modes such as ricochet, are pretty much “abandoned” they only work as local party games, and split-screen is no more, perhaps this is why those game modes were not included in the game. As i said before they are “abandoned”, adding them wont fix anything in the game, it will just take space to say “We have lots of game modes!” but in reality 40% of those are “abandoned”.
Well, it’s always nice to have options, even if those options barely work.
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> Fixed?
How does crickets be the Halo 4 BR sound? It doesn’t really sound like crickets.
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> > > > They’ve been fairly tight-lipped about anything related to Halo 5’s development, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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> How does crickets be the Halo 4 BR sound? It doesn’t really sound like crickets.
Really? Must be just me then. The Halo 4 BR firing sound effect always reminds me of a chirping noise.
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> Really? Must be just me then. The Halo 4 BR firing sound effect always reminds me of a chirping noise.
Not just you. As I sure you know this is a huge ongoing joke lol
