Here’s my big point of view of what big playlist refresh 343 should do in order of playlists.
RANKED:
Team Arena: Needs oddball with there being more maps on each game mode for more variety.
Doubles: Give it more modes besides slayer, like 2v2 CTF or 2v2 Oddball or 2v2 Assault, And have maps that compensate for these modes, maybe also add in the community doubles maps that we got in that community doubles playlist before it got taken away a year ago for a permanent normal doubles playlist.
SWAT: Maybe add in something like Covie Swat where you have Carbines and maybe also have Promethean Swat where you have light rifles, since we got stuff like H1 SWAT and H2 SWAT.
Snipers: Add more game type variants and if you cant for ranked then make a social version of snipers that will have beams on the map or binary’s or have different game types that have beam rifle/h2 beam rifle/binary rifle/Shotty Snipes/Mythic Shotty Snipes(or make Shotty Snipes its own playlist and mythic shotty snipes as a variant to put into that playlist) starts for each one.
Breakout: Go back to the original Breakout settings and maybe use these updated settings as a social version of breakout as the original settings had a more competitive feel and are more appropriate for ranked but also give the original settings more maps.
FFA: I think giving FFA more modes like FFA Oddball and the HCS version of FFA Slayer and for the HCS version of FFA Slayer having their respective maps would help it quite a bit, the updated maps for FFA are great and I think don’t need to be re-touched again.
Adding a Classic Playlist For Competitive Play: Adding in a Halo 2 + 3 Kind of Play style for their respective maps with their respective gametypes for competitive play, like Lockout MLG Ball as an example.
SOCIAL:
A Social Slayer Playlist: Remember Halo 3’s Social Slayer Playlist? Maybe add in a 5v5 Slayer playlist with the normal slayer mode and normal settings into the game to make it feel more casual and have some variety with it like adding forge maps a bit like the community slayer playlist with the ghost in the shell themed maps, maybe have the anniversary maps thrown in there both from h1a and h3a playlists, Silly game modes like Team Swords, Team Hammers, Team Shotguns, Covenant Slayer, Promethean Slayer, Br Starts, H2 Br Starts, DMR Starts. Stuff like that!
A Team Objective Playlist: Pretty much a 5v5 social version of team arena but with no slayer! Have some forge maps to compensate the game types, Game types could be Oddball, CTF, Assault and Even maybe using the 2 maps Action Sack has for King of the hill and having the King of the hill game type on this playlist!
Super Fiesta Refresh: Super Fiesta Could possibly have more game modes to make it even more chaotic! In customs, you can select not only super fiesta but super fiesta CTF, super fiesta assault, super fiesta strongholds, Could maybe do that with the h3a maps thrown into there since we already have the h1a maps in there and maybe some other forge maps that work well with the game type and maybe a few btb maps!
Action Sack Refresh: All these Rotational Social playlists that have all these unique game types could easily be thrown into action sack and with some easy to make ones! Castle Wars CTF (Could be a separate Playlist), FFA Rockets, Rock N’ Rail, Super Fiesta FFA, So much more you can have in there! I would also get rid of King of the hill and put it into the Team objective playlist I have up above a bit.
Big Team Battle Map Refresh: Now, there is much better versions of Valhalla/Ragnarock/Viking! Also maybe remakes of old btb maps from past halo’s thrown into the game a bit like the map Risen which is a remake of Halo 2’s Uplift that looks like it has elements from the warzone map, escape from arc. Maybe have some other modes to go along with it like we already have Br starts for btb, why not have pistol starts too!
A Triple Team or Multi Team Playlist: We had Triple team for some time at the beginning of 2017 along with shotty snipes that got removed not far after it was in the game. Why not add it back with some objective modes added into the mix too! Triple Team Slayer, Triple Team CTF, Triple Team Strongholds, Triple Team Oddball. You have quite a bit of diversity here and along with adding forge maps if the normal maps aren’t enough!
A Social FFA/Rumble Pit Playlist: Maybe make a Social Playlist for FFA with unique modes! If these updated FFA maps aren’t used for HCS settings then I’d use them here with Oddball FFA and Some diverse modes, Like FFA Swords and FFA Hammers and Br Starts a bit like social slayer’s game modes that I listed above!
Grifball Refresh: I ain’t a person that plays grifball, but I am aware that it has its community too, so for a refresh for grifball I would have the original mode thrown into the mix with the pro mode and maybe have some different versions of grifball a bit like how halo 3 and reach did it, like grifball with low gravity or even adding in the mode that was in action sack, Riftball!
Infection Refresh: Not much has to be changed here I’d say, Look for community made infection maps to throw into the mix, possibly some new modes like how h3 and reach had and I would say keep alpha zombies into the mix too.
Anniversary Playlists: Anniversary Throwback, H2A and 3A Playlists would give the game a bit more variety or at least make 2 of them where its the Anniversary Throwback and a H2/3A Playlist with their respective gametypes and maps would be perfect and its also the playlists that were the most popular so why not?
WARZONE:
Adding and Keeping in Warzone Turbo: Not much to say, its a nice mode to use all your reqs on. Keep it as the fans love it!
Adding in a mix of Different Warzone Game types that could be their own playlists: like Warzone Tier 1 or a different name for that where you can only spawn in tier 1 reqs so only normal snipers, normal warthogs, normal wraiths. Stuff like that! Or the scrapped modes Warzone Ctf or Warzone Bomb Assault. Could give the game some reach invasion vibes!
Keeping Mythic Fire fight with all Maps in tact: This is the only rotational social playlist I don’t mind since its here every weekend and has a new map each time on its rotation. But What if you would be able to keep it with all the maps in tact? It would give it more variety apposed to playing the same map for the whole weekend. It gives people that are great at legendary fire fight a change of pace at any time on any fire fight map apposed to only being able to do it on one for each weekend, and this might be a bit of a stretch but adding in Jeff Steitzer’s announcements for the skulls a bit like how ODST and Reach did to give the player a better sign of what skulls are turned on, if not able to do that then let the text for the skulls stay there on a part of the screen to let the player know what’s changed or if not on the screen then show the skulls that are active on the scoreboards!