Im absolutely disgusted the playlist was taken away.
My kids were SO excited to try the new update, they waited patiently watching the update download, loaded the game and the confusion hit then the sudden understanding of what it meant…they closed the game in tears so yeah thanks for that.
Instead of getting to play and enjoy the free pass they were reduced to tears…who made this decision?
It was the only way my children could play and still earn some BP progress (albeit slow)
It was a safe place for them to play without worrying about being outskilled because of their young age.
and was the only place where i myself could also play with them without making the experience miserable for them (due to the strict nature of SBMM even they were allowed to play pvp yet i wouldn’t subject them to playing with me)
AND NO CUSTOMS ARE NOT A REPLACEMENT SINCE THEY EARN NOTHING THERE!
This might be one of the worst decisions made in Halos long history.
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Literally the bot game mode was the only thing where the community had no complaints, and even strongly requested to be allowed to get all the challenges in said mode.
There was no reason or motive to remove it. Once again 343i removing something that amused his community and liked everyone. This is already nonsense for every good thing they do they have to do 2 bad things. NOBODY HAS ASKED FOR IT TO BE REMOVED.
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I think nobody knows what’s going on at 343. The update broke quite a lot of stuff and you can get kicked for afking from your own Forge.
There was zero testing done before this update launched.
Minimum viable product my rear end.
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Adding it to the game at launch was incredible! It was such a great way to include a new dynamic of Halo because this game is extremely challenging to get into. You’ve gotta go through hours upon hours struggles just to get a handle of it. The removal was a colossal failure.
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I’m hoping it’s oversight and not another “Halo is competitive” decision.
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Definitely the competitive end of it. I’m convinced the devs look through this forum just to do the polar opposite of what people want and enjoy.
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I agree with everything you’ve said but also be glad you can play with your kids. Been asking for split screen on pc for mcc the past 3 years and infinite as well. Absolute silence from 343i.
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On other post about the removal of Bot Bootcamp i keep seeing people say bot bootcamp didn’t have enough players. I am not sure where those who say no one played it, is getting their info from. But me personally any time I played Bot Bootcamp I was in a match within 2 to 5 seconds. On the PvP side I would be waiting for minutes at a time. Even the so callled popular modes where 30 seconds to a couple of minutes and 30 seconds was the fastest and it rarely happened. Also majority of the game in PvP I had at least one person quit, heck recently it been at least two. Bot Bootcamp I haven’t had anyone quit. And not to mention I don’t have a player that just stands there doing nothing. Then there is the fact it such a great mode to play with your kids, nieces and nephews. Heck i know a grandpa who played bot bootcamp with grandkids. There is also quite a few players that hate PvP me included. Used to love it, but that was back when I had friends that played at the same time as me and often. But I have only played with friends a couple of times. For the last 10 years. And only one day since Infinite launched.
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Probably because 343 just slapped it together as quickly as possible without actually putting effort into making sure it’s good.
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They’re saying that simply because they didn’t play it, bot bootcamp was the only mode I played because I don’t enjoy Halo Infinites PVP.
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It was definitely a failure as a lot of players only really played bootcamp because it was the only PVE option for multiplayer, and now it’s gone.
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I’ve been asking around social media to try and get some clarity, as I’m guessing it’s related to measuring the Post-Match XP accurately. I’m hoping that’s it, and hopefully we get an answer on that soon.
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If you played bot bootcamp before ranked it was boosting your mmr. So people were ranking entire divisions higher because they played a few games destroying bots. I guess they had no idea how to fix that, so they removed it instead.
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have they said this anywhere? i’ve not seen it :S
if they have and its only temporarily gone until they fix it then at least i’ll have a way to explain it to my kids.
I don’t think they’ve stated anything official about it. But it’s a problem the twitter community found back in Season 1.
It’s unknown if they’ll ever add bot bootcamp back. Right now they’re trying to keep the list of game modes short to help prevent crashing, while rotating playlists every week or so.
I’d suggest to the kids to try BTB or social slayer. SBMM is the loosest in these game modes it seems. So it’s likely they’ll enjoy it with other casual players.
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I don’t know why they don’t just put Bot Bootcamp in the Academy.
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i cant understand why people like the bot bootcamp at all in the first place.
since playing against bots you learn notting at all only you can learn from it how the weapons work but thats all.
if you hate the SBMM what ranked has then play social there is a reason why there is a social playlist in the first place.
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social still has sbmm, but my biggest issues is it was a safe place for my kids to play and progress the passes still.
Even beyond all that when you’re having a bad day or something having the option to unwind with just bots and no oposition and it still give you something was nice.
OPTIONS!
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let me tell you this.
no multiplayer game at all is safe more for kids and for sure no FPS game is save for kids at all.
i not know how old you kids are but i think for sure there are not 16 year or older and there is sure a good reason why the rating is for 16 years or older for this game.
if i have a bad day then i not need bots at all then i need real players in a good matchmaking match to stress me out.
like a good match off grifball or living death is then good to stress me out against the other players if my day is bad.
same i can do in cod i then i join the multiplayer there and stress me out on the enemy team is good.
the game is not rated “16 or older” here in Australia it is rated “M” which means 15 recommended BUT NOT REQUIRED meaning children can walk in to shops and buy it no questions asked…for reference my son is 8 and this is his favourite game in his favourite franchise and they took away his only way to play “safely” and still earn things
and yes you are correct multiplayer isn’t safe for kids thats why it was nice this game had somewhere that was…and they took it away.
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