PLEASE READ THE THREAD IN FULL BEFORE JUDGING MY DECISIONS. Thanks.
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By christmas or early 2016, I’d love to see -
Social -
Social FFA
Social slayer
Zombies/Infection
Social BTB**
Weekend playlist
Griftball.
Possible candidates - Multi-team, social objective.
Ranked -
Slayer
Breakout
Team objective*** - CTF, Strongholds, Assault.
Swat
Free for all.
Possible candidates - Team Snipers, MLG/Team Hardcore.
** The reason for the lack of loads of playlist options at Halo 5 launch was to not stretch out the population too much, to allow for quicker and successful matchmaking - an understandable decision by 343. I think having social BTB and ranked BTB would do that too much. I think BTB should just be left for social, and Halo 5 would be better off if ranked gametypes stuck to arena style 4v4 game types. Lets face it, most of us just played BTB for the fun of it anyway! There’s never been any MLG/pro BTB.
***We should get rid of Team Arena and just have an objective playlist. I don’t like having to play slayer and breakout in Team Arena, I just want to be able to play Objective gametypes in a playlist. Team Arena should make way for Team Objective.
Too many playlists dilute the player base too much, you only have to look at MCC for that. I think the way forward is the weekend playlists, keeps things fresh.
I posted this in another thread but here is my reasoning. The problem with most other lists being thrown around these forums is that they contain way too many playlists. Some people have 14 or 15 different hoppers, which would split the community into such tiny pieces that no one playlist would have more than 10 % of the overall population.
Plus most of the playlists being suggested are ranked/social duplicates of others (which doesn’t need to happen), and others are competitive gametypes which would be pointless to play without ranks - the vast majority of matches would end up as outright slaughters.
Social slayer/objective should be condensed into “Social Arena”, FFA or SWAT shouldn’t get social counterparts for the above reason and “niche” playlists such as snipers, infection etc. should be weekend playlists to keep them from suffering sustained low populations. Those niche gametypes work better when people get excited for them instead of gathering dust, in my opinion. If every day was Christmas then people wouldn’t care about it.
So here’s my list:
Ranked
- Team Slayer
- Team Objective
- Breakout
- SWAT
- FFA
- [possibly Doubles, although I personally wouldn’t care for it]
Social
- Social Team Arena
- Big Team Battle
Weekend Rotation - Snipers, Action Sack, Grifball, Infection etc.
Invasion, extraction, territories, koth, oddball, assault, btb heavies (with falcon)