its a matter of establishing dedicated servers to dedicated playlists. There might be more to it then just that but i know it factors into their time table
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In the topic I was not talking about Social Slayer but Arena Slayer with HCS settings, ranked. As in Halo 5, so to speak.
Social Slayer will also be appreciable, but imho we need a competitive Slayer-only mode.
What in the hell, I take it all back, I thought they mentioned ranked slayer too. These crazy mothers
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Any Slayer Playlist at this point would be appreciated, but agreed, there does need to be a Ranked one at the very least.
Slayer and Objective modes don’t play remotely similar and require different skillsets. I guess the idea is that the current system determines who is the OVERALL better player, but screw that. Just let me slay lmao
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They’ve eluded to the idea that there are technical limitations that make this harder than it sounds.
But honestly I just can’t believe that unless they can walk me through it. Why is Social Slayer on the 7 existing maps such a hard-ask? Perhaps they could tell us the predictions they had about it that prevented them from trying to include it from the beginning? Was the multiplayer matchmaking system developed by contractors who haven’t worked there in 6 months? Do the current programmers need time to figure out how it works because they didn’t build it?
Looking forward to Slayer and FFA playlists, either way. Even if it should’ve been there on day 1 and it’s mind boggling that it wasn’t.
So really you’re talking about hardcore or mlg slayer not just slayer.
I think it would make more sense to bring in just a ranked/social slayer before HCS slayer….
Although I don’t think there would be a need for a HCS Slayer. That playlist is pretty niche compared, especially with Arena. Which has HCS variants to mimic tournaments.
Wait, custom games has Slayer but matchmaking doesn’t… super odd… must be crazy hard to add a game mode that has been in all Halos for the past 20 years.
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I would like an HCS Slayer first of all. it is no coincidence that I titled the topic “Arena Slayer”, in the same way as the current Arena mode has HCS settings.
The ideal, in my opinion, would be to have Arena Skirmish (only objective modes) and Arena Slayer (Only HCS Slayer).
I would also like a social variant with radar, community maps and BR/AR as starting weapons (BR first, AR secondary).
Yeah there isn’t single excuse 343 can make up to justify not having a TS playlist in a Halo game. That’s like CoD coming out without a TDM mode.
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Why is it called Arena slayer? WHY NOT JUST CALL IT SLAYER!?!?
I understand that and you’ll most probably get it looking at their decisions.
I’m just surprised they put the least popular ranked playlist or one of the least popular (HCSsettings) as their only ranked playlist.
But then not surprised as it’s the only playlist that supports a funding stream. So yes another cash grab over player popularity.
Arena Slayer would have HCS settings and ranking system.
so it looks like we’ll be getting a slayer play list this coming week.
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But not ranked, and not with BR as primary weapon. Imho we absolute need a ranked HCS Slayer!
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But it’s a grab-bag of several types of slayer. It’s FFA, SWAT, TS, and Fiesta all in one playlist. Certainly a small step in the right direction, but far from done.
That’s not what the post says but if it is yeah it’s not what we asked for,
It’s exactly what the post says:
Notice how he says >>>A<<< slayer playlist, meaning ONE playlist that contains all of those modes.
Please 343, if you don’t add HCS Slayer, give us the possibility to have a Slayer Pro playlist (no other game modes) with this settings:
Starting Weapons: BR/AR (or only BR)
Radar On (25 mt)
Forge maps in the future
That would be quite the issue putting both Team Slayer and FFA into the same playlist.
I agree, luckily though, Ske7ch released a statement clarifying that his announcement was poorly worded and that each of these ARE in fact getting their own playlist. Thank goodness for that! Gives me a little bit of hope for the future of the game.