I’ve had the game for a week now and even on day one, the lack of maps was becoming painfully obvious. As someone who plays infinity slayer, you’ll almost certainly play the same 2/5 games if not 3/5 (usually Haven).
Now with Black Ops 2 coming out tomorrow, I can’t help but hope that 343 will start looking for good forge maps and add them to the playlists. While I’m personally not bored seeing as I love Halo, I bet there are a lot of people with the game who are getting bored of the same maps and will stick to cod.
There is a lack of maps though, there is like what, five maps for Infinity Slayer? That’s not enough to keep people playing for months to come.
COD needs to be mentioned because it’s this game’s biggest competition. While it’s apples and oranges, there is quite a significant difference in map variation between the games. In COD, you can go an entire evening without playing the same map twice, in Halo you can barely go an hour. Yeah people keep choosing the same maps but that still boils down to lack of maps. Even old halo games had a lot more slayer maps to play on.
> It is not that there is a lack of maps, it’s the fact that people vote for the same ones over and over again.
No, it’s a lack of quality maps.
People vote the same ones over and over again because the others are just terrible.
I’d like to see 5-10 forged small-medium sized maps in matchmaking before DLC starts coming out. Not that I have high hopes for the DLC, 2 of 3 will probably be more horrendous BTB maps.
Craving new maps myself. At least add the on disk Forge maps. That said, the community hub should be coming soon so hopefully 343 will keep their eyes peeled for some nice community maps (remakes or not) for their weekly updates.
I just hope that the ones they go with, if any, are better than most of the accepted community maps for Reach.
Perhaps when we get more maps in rotation, they’ll add a Veto option as well.
In regards to DLC maps, surely 343 will look at the popular maps like Haven and design DLC maps around that. I don’t see why there isn’t more maps like that though in launch, it’s fairly obvious what Halo players want.
Me and my play group absolutely agree about the lack of maps. It’s disappointing for sure- on any given play session we get a rotation of Haven, Solace, Adrift, Abandon, and Complex… not nearly enough, especially when 1 or 2 get repeatedly voted in each round.
Just for comparison, in Reach we would have a rotation of:
Boardwalk
Countdown
Powerhouse
Reflection
Sword Base
Zealot
Cage
Pinnacle
Asylum
Weather or not we liked the available maps to choose from makes no difference. The point is that there was a larger selection of slayer-type maps to play on any given session. To have a rotation that looks like:
Abandon
Adrift
Complex
Haven
Solace
… is disappointing and ultimately unsatisfying. Regardless of Forge maps or not, we need more to keep the game feeling fresh and new. I mean, it’s been barely a week…
We absolutely need some forge maps, quickly. I am honestly already bored of halo 4. I played a ton of reach over the years mainly on the default maps (bungie’s forges are being included in default and really didn’t get super bored until the very end. Now only after a week of playing halo 4, I don’t want to play anymore.
I like haven, but its the only good map. Adrift is alright, but it turns campy real quick. Same with abandon. Solace, just doesn’t work. You kill people on their base and then they instaspawn behind you. Complex is just plain stupid, too big and not good for 4v4s.
I am truly worried for this game.Look at the last map pack certain affinity did for reach. Those maps were so bad, I de-installed them from reach so i wouldn’t have to play them anymore. Certain affinity is in charge of the maps packs and i dont have faith that they will rescue this game with dlc like some people have mentioned.
Hopefully they are hard at work getting us some playable maps, albeit on boring white and brown forge levels
They are making sure everyone buys DLC, I never buy DLC for any game as i think its a rip off, but will have to on Halo4 as the same maps are already driving me crazy!
