I don’t know whether to be excited or dissapointed, while I have been looking forward to it for a long time, the playlist “on paper” does not look as appealing as it should to me.
I have two lists I would like the community to compare, one is 343 Industries thoughts on the matter, and one is my own:
> Big Team CTF - Longbow, Ragnarok, Complex
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> Big Team King of the Hill - Exile, Longbow
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> Big Team Regicide - Complex, Settler
> Big Team CTF - Longbow, Ragnarok, Settler, Meltdown
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> Big Team King of the Hill - Exile, Longbow
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> Big Team Regicide - Complex, Settler, Vortex
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> Big Team Extraction - Vortex, Settler, Ragnarok, Complex, Longbow
Those are my preferences, but I also want to hear your own if you have any.
Vote in the poll and add your own lists if you vote for the third option, because my list is far from perfect.
343, thank you for listening to us, just listen a little more and we can get this playlist right.
IMO, Big Team CTF should be included in a BTB playlist. Koth and Regicide can have their own playlist.
I am not going to play Big Team Skirmish. I’m only interested in CTF, koth and Regicide have nothing to do with the traditional BTB experience.
Just my thoughts as a BTB player.
> IMO, Big Team CTF <mark>should be included in a BTB playlist</mark>. Koth and Regicide can have their own playlist.
> I am not going to play Big Team Skirmish. I’m only interested in CTF, koth and Regicide have nothing to do with the traditional BTB experience.
> Just my thoughts as a BTB player.
As a BTIS/BTS player, I say “no” to the highlighted part.
I, and others, argued for along while that if any BT objective list was added, that it should not be mixed with Slayer but, have its own stand alone play list/modes. In past Halo MM, objectives and slayer may have been mixed but, many did not like that. Objectives list has always been small and, it is wrong to say that it was popular previously just because it was mixed with big team slayer. On its own, objectives will have a decent but smaller play list and that is OK as it should not be forced into and upon the most play list which is slayer based only.
Slayer should be (now will be) an always stand alone play list in its own, extremely popular right. When one is in the mood for slayer, they can just play that. And, when on is in the mood for objectives, they can go play them.
All depends how popular the playlist becomes. I’m sure they will add more game types if the population is good enough. Its a bit of a gamble on 343i’s part.
I know there are a lot of players who left Halo 4 because it didn’t have Big Team objectives so who knows maybe we might see a population increase.
Personally I am happy with the current game types and maps (except maybe Complex CTF which may be a bit too hectic as 8v8). Hopefully the playlist is successful enough to warrant the addition of Extraction down the track.
I am getting soooooo tired of the playlists being so spread out. Whatever happened to how H3 and Reaches playlists were set up? I like variety, the classic BTB experience was way more enjoyable than what is out now.
> I was like :D…until i read big team regicide. then i was like “Dear god why?”
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> DON’T JOKE ABOUT BIG TEAM EXTRACTION!!! I’d want that so bad ;_;
Team Regicide could work considering no one would want to stay in one place all the time as they would want to remain king, oddball on the other hand would not work as it promotes camping, something which does not work on BT maps.
Perhaps if we had multiple oddballs? Not sure if that is possible though…
And yeah, Extraction not being in Skirmish is a huge disappointment.