I’ve always loved a good sniperss playlist. In H4 343 started killing the playlist by not including enough large maps with good lines of sight. H5 was pretty much awful because it was all medium maps with horrible lines of site. Just about every battle turned in to a no scope fest. If that’s the case I’ll just play swat. But 343 will not listen yet they wonder why the sniper playlist died.
Now I doubt we will ever see a sniper playlist and with the sniper putting out a 90,000 lumen flashlight I can’t see how it would be fun any way. Why are they so scared of niche playlist?
If and when they introduce Snipers I hope they specifically have wide and open Sniper type maps. I agree that the ones we have for Slayer et al don’t work very well (we’ve tried them in customs).
We may need to wait for Forge. They could even make it one of the first community events - a comp to find the best four or five Sniper maps!
As for the sniper glare. Meh. If the sniper is any good it was far too late.
Unfortunately that’s my fear. The developers don’t want large maps with line of sight. They feel it’s too slow and kills game play. They don’t recognize that people who play snippets like a little slower, tactical game where you just can’t spawn and sprint.
The issue with the glare is if you have a large map and you zoom in you’ll be seen by everyone every where. Again, it takes away from the tactical game play of snipers.
I mean can you imagine though if a weapon skin actually turned off the glare. People would be rushing to unlock it so hard . Obviously that’s super broken though thank god that’s not a thing.
Not even excited for a sniper playlist since the weapon us complete garbage. As OP it was in H5, as trash and useless it is in infinite. Theres a reason even in Diamond/onyx regions noone picks it up on live fire.
Kills may have been too easy in H5, but be honest:
Would you rather get satisfying kills with a higher skilled weapon and be on the receiving end sometime as well or have it so hard to use to get a kill every 5th game?
As itis now, 343 completely removed the weapon from 4v4. Can’t talk about btb, I only play ranked…
Imo, and I’ve been a halo person since day 1, yes you do have players who like, medium and small maps but they are the ones who play a few games then move on. The hard core sniper players like snipers because it is a little slower and a little more strategic. We don’t want just run and gun. We are the ones who sustain the playlist.
I wasn’t talking about sniper players, but players in general
Ofcourse there is a part of the base that like to play snipers and like maps with large lines of sight. But that is a minority. It is not a coincidence that Behemoth (together with Launch Site) is one of the most hated maps.
Sorry, I was thinking about snipers since this thread is about them. But to your point I’m not saying snipers would be the biggest playlist but I bet there’s more than enough of us to sustain it. Especially since not all of us want the typical run and gun with no thought maps that are made now a days.
There’s always been enough of us in the past so what changed?
I general i would say make that sniper playlists with some maps that are usefull for them.
Unfortunately: 343 would then make challenges for it and force everybody to play it if they want to unlock the prize. People are already fleeing the game because that BS keeps happening and they don’t have fun with the challenges anymore. Making more if that will only hurt the community more i’m afraid. Let them first fix the challenges (no more playlist or gamemode specific challenges or else an option to tick on wich playlists you are okay with to have challenges for)
You know what’s funny is I don’t care about challenges, graphics, and stuff like that. All I care about is great mechanics and great game play. I don’t need skins and such at all. I do realize I’m in the minority on that opinion though. I’m old lol
