Anniversary to have 5 new playlists!

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It has been confirmed in this new sparkast.
343i Sparkast Nov. !

5 playlists when Anniversary Launches:
Anniversary Classic Playlist -
Mixture of Slayer/Objective “Strictly basic Obj. gametypes”. 4v4
Anniversary Big Team Battle - Reach TU settings DMR/Pistol start, and Anniversary Settings AR/Pistol start. Hang em high, BreakNeck, Timberland.
Anniversary Free For All Playlist
FireFight playlist to support Installation 04.
The 5th playlist, I don’t believe was stated in the podcast…

Super excited for Big team battle BreakNeck in matchmaking!

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Nice. Excited to listen in!

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Can’t wait, HCEA is so close yet so far away. :frowning:

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Where did you find that? There isn’t anything on the homepage about the Sparkast…

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Best news I’ve heard all day!

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Anniversary BTB is supposed to have DMR starts too, if memory serves.

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> Where did you find that? There isn’t anything on the homepage about the Sparkast…

I know. I expected it to be on the home page too but someone provided me the link in another thread. I guess they chose not to post this one.

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> Anniversary BTB is supposed to have DMR starts too, if memory serves.

Yup! Which will play awesome on BreakNeck! Anniversary settings with AR/Pistol starts and Reach TU settings that have DMR/Pistol starts.

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If 343i’s goal for integrating CEA’s maps into Reach was to avoid fragmenting the Reach player base then they’re doing a poor job of it. Two BTB playlists definitely isn’t going to go well. One of those playlists is going to die and I’m hoping it’s the default one.

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I really hope there is a 2v2 playlist.

That was the best way to play CE, back in the day.

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> One of those playlists is going to die and I’m hoping it’s the default one.

Thats highly unlikely. (Three maps vs howevermany there are now)

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> If 343i’s goal for integrating CEA’s maps into Reach was to avoid fragmenting the Reach player base then they’re doing a poor job of it. Two BTB playlists definitely isn’t going to go well. One of those playlists is going to die and I’m hoping it’s the default one.

I know I won’t be playing the default playlists.

Anniversary BTB, here I come! :smiley:

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> > One of those playlists is going to die and I’m hoping it’s the default one.
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> Thats highly unlikely. (Three maps vs howevermany there are now)

Not if they’re integrated with the regular/DLC maps as well. Hopefully, all maps will be in the Anniversary BTB, but heavy weighting should be on Anniversary/DLC maps.

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Cool Playlists, I’ll be doing Big Team Battle first off, want to check how big these epic maps are.

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To anyone who’s still complaining that there isn’t enough new content to warrant a purchase of this game, I would be deeply appreciative if you would refrain from speaking… I can’t wait for this game to hit.

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It sounds nice to me, every playlists look interesting. Pretty excited to play Anniversary!

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That’s some good news. I was hoping there would be more than one playlist. Does anybody know when the maps will be available for dlc if you don’t buy Halo Cea? I can’t remember if it they said the same day or shortly after.

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> “Strictly basic Obj. gametypes”

Thank. God.

Nothing fries me more than playing a DLC playlist and constantly getting stuck with stupid -Yoink- like 3 plots, hot potato, or any of those horrible flag variants (anything besides basic 2 flag or 1 flag).

And while off the bat it’ll probably just be the six basic anniversary maps, in their classic versions, I hope down the road forge variants of maps like Chill Out and Derelict get added too.

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AHHHH!!! Oh I’m happy!! I am SOO going to be playing Anniversary Big Team Battle!!! =D =D =) =)

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> That’s some good news. I was hoping there would be more than one playlist. Does anybody know when the maps will be available for dlc if you don’t buy Halo Cea? I can’t remember if it they said the same day or shortly after.

Shortly after. For some reason I could see Black Friday being the day.