I like Halo 5 - the MP makes a lot of fun due to its genoius gameplay. But the lack of social playlist is annoying. Halo has (had) always the opportunity to play competitive or social in order to get a relaxed experience. But in Halo 5 your are forced to play competitive (slayer) all the time. It isnt´t the relaxed halo experience that i know from former times. I dont´t want to compete with “progamers” when i come from work and only want to play some relaxed rounds.
So are there any plans to implement social slayer finally? For the long run I see the problem that the social community will left the game and this can be a big problem according to ingame population.
Yeah it doesn’t help that the current social playlist is FFA swat where you spend the whole game enjoying spawning and dying on repeat, maybe getting a kill or two in between, and to make it even more social 343i set the fire team limit at 1. A social slayer playlist would be great, maybe including slayer, fiesta and super fiesta gametypes in one? I’d like to see multi-team with a fire team limit of 6 as a permanent social playlist too, but it’d need objectives like KOTH and 3-ball Oddball to make it more fun imo, both of which are absent from the game.
Social Playlists, even if they exist in name, will never be a reality in Halo 5. The Tryhards don’t care anymore about “fair play;” if it pads their K/D, then full sweatzone it is. I don’t know if this is just the way Gaming Communities are in general these days, or if that’s just how the Halo Community in particular has evolved.