First let’s just get this out of the way. I LOVE Breakout. It was my favourite gametype in the beta and introducing a neutral flag made it even better. But Arena Breakout fking sucks a. It needs to be removed from the Team Arena gametype pool and there’s a multitude of reasons why. I hate playing it with teammates who obviously aren’t familiar with normal Breakout because I end up getting a bunch of totally unfair losses because either some idiot runs in and dies straight away or no one else on my team understands that you have to stop the enemy when they get the flag. It doesn’t even resemble Breakout and frankly it gives it a bad name, sure it has the one life per round and neutral flag, but the extra shields and Arena map layouts completely change the dynamic of gameplay. The biggest reason it needs to be removed is because I like to play Team Arena when I’ve had enough of Breakout, whether it be from frustration or I’m partying up with friend(s) who don’t like Breakout. Seeing ‘Arena Breakout’ when I was excited to play Slayer/Strongholds/CTF is even more of a developer “f*ck you” than playing as Raiden was in Metal Gear Solid 2. It’s offensive and needs to be addressed.
This seems like the perfect opportunity to reintroduce Halo 3’s veto system. While giving players full control with voting has proven to not work. The Halo 3 and Call of Duty (pre Black Ops) systems were perfect. They gave players the power to not play something the majority of them don’t want to play. This would be particularly great for me personally because literally every single person whom I regularly play Halo with hates Arena Breakout too (not as passionately as me though). I’ve seen them straight up quit and relaunch the game whenever it comes up and if I wasn’t so concerned about my CSR I’d happily risk a ban to avoid playing this trash.
agreed tbh
Just got forced into another one of these matches. What I mentioned about teammates played out almost exactly (one ran in every round to die straight away, one left the match after the second round and the last guy didn’t give a f**k about the flag). Can some of people voting in it’s defense please explain why they like it? I’m honestly legitimately curious…
I’ve only played this mode twice, both times with randoms, and I had a lot of fun. It sounds like the problems you had are due to bad teammates not knowing how to play properly, and that is totally understandable. Perhaps it would indeed be better off in the Breakout playlist, but then you run into the problem of it, like you said, playing quite different from core Breakout, while players choose the Breakout playlist to get that unique paintball-esque feel. I think the issue is that it is a good game mode that just doesn’t fit into any playlist.
I want regular Breakout to be put back into rotation in Team Arena and Arena Breakout to be thrown into a pit and forgotten about