Quin DelHoyo, multiplayer designer at 343i, has just tweeted that changes to some Arena playlists will be coming soon, possibly even today.
https://twitter.com/quinndelhoyo/status/695292506330648576
Quin has been on Twitter a lot lately, another recent tweet was discussing the return of teleporters to multiplayer maps vs just man cannons like we have now. He may not be my favorite employee at 343i, remember this is the guy who didn’t want any social playlists, but I’m glad he’s talking with fans.
He said “Updates to Arena Playlists,” which sounds more like balancing changes or the like, as opposed to new Playlists.
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> He said “Updates to Arena Playlists,” which sounds more like balancing changes or the like, as opposed to new Playlists.
I know they’ve been talking about removing Arena Breakout from the Team Arean playlists. New playlists or not changes like this are welcome.
I just want permanent Doubles and Action Sack 
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> I just want permanent Doubles and Action Sack
I’m certain we’ll see Action Sack soon. If I recall, they’ve been using the weekend playlist to determine some of the gametypes that will appear in the mode.
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They’d better not remove Arena breakout.
Maybe one day for Halo MM, it will offer weapon specific gametypes like BRs-only or Magnum-only, even Snipers or Rockets, instead of only Default variants and weapons on map. Mainly for FFA playlist where it just gets old running into someone with a faster kill weapon just cause they randomly spawn close. It’s something that has been lacking since 2004!
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Some bad news for you then:
https://twitter.com/chespace/status/695080882017701888I honestly don’t mind it because of how little it shows up compared to the other gametypes but for those stuck with the gametype almost every other match I can understand the frustration and wanting it to be removed.
Please be the removal of breakout from arena.
I hope they add acrion sack like u said. Im not sure how i feel about the removal of breakout.
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> https://twitter.com/chespace/status/695080882017701888I honestly don’t mind it because of how little it shows up compared to the other gametypes but for those stuck with the gametype almost every other match I can understand the frustration and wanting it to be removed.
Team Arena is really the HCS playlist, so I’m not surprised after they ditched Breakout from the Championship.
You just made me realize there are no teleporters on any of the maps in Halo 5. That makes me sad.
community breakout maps added to breakout rotation
arena breakout added to breakout playlist and removed from team arena
CBMM over SBMM
more fast food weapons
if they are changes i seriously hope they are removing Strongholds and CTF from BTB since objective based gamemodes do not belong in a casual playlist.
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> if they are changes i seriously hope they are removing Strongholds and CTF from BTB since objective based gamemodes do not belong in a casual playlist.
Why not?
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Donuts confirmed.
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> https://twitter.com/chespace/status/695080882017701888I honestly don’t mind it because of how little it shows up compared to the other gametypes but for those stuck with the gametype almost every other match I can understand the frustration and wanting it to be removed.
Hallelujah! Hopefully they’ll add a more fitting objective gametype to take its place, like Oddball.
I know one of the changes includes the gravity hammer (HYPED!!!) plus a couple new game modes. They said those will be in the Feb. update.
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> if they are changes i seriously hope they are removing Strongholds and CTF from BTB since objective based gamemodes do not belong in a casual playlist.
Um, you could not be any more wrong. BTB was made for Objective. I hate playing Slayer on big maps.