*DLC Playlists Proposal*

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I know this topic has been posted quite freqeuently but I wanted to give my two cents because something needs to change.
Most of us know how frustrating it is to not play DLC that you and I have paid for, so I propose the two following playlists be added.

Team DLC (5v5)
Maps: Harvest, Landfall, Monolith, Skyline, Perdition, Daybreak, Pitfall, Vertigo
Gametypes: Infinity Slayer, Slayer Pro, CTF, Oddball, King of the Hill, Team Regicide, 2-Site Extraction

Big Team DLC
(8v8)

Maps: Shatter, Wreckage, Outcast, Perdition, Harvest
Gametypes: Infinity Slayer, CTF, Dominion King of the Hill, Team Regicide, Extraction

In doing this, I would also combine the upcoming richochet playlist with CTF to create…

Team Objective(5v5)
Gametypes: CTF, Oddball, King of the Hill, Richochet, 2-Site Extraction

Weighting would be as follows:

CTF - 35% (most popular)
Richochet - 25%
Oddball - 25%
KOTH - 15%

to maintain population strength, consolidate BTB Slayer and BTB Skirmish to form…

Big Team Battle (8v8)

Gametypes: Infinity Slayer, CTF, King of the Hill, Team Regicide

Infinity Slayer would have a higher weighting to make sure that Big Team Slayer enthusiasts still have the option, and the less popular Objective having slightly lower weighting.

This would leave the Playlists along with predicted approximate population would be …

Big Team Battle (6500)
Team Slayer (5500)
SWAT (3000)
Snipers (1200)
Flood (1500)
Team Action Sack (650)
Grifball (800)
Rumble Pit (750)
Team Doubles (700)
Dominion (600)
Multi-Team (600) (side note, Multi-Team should be changed to 4 teams of 3)
Team Throwdown (250)
**Team DLC (**400)
Big Team DLC (300)

Note: (I have taken into account the upcoming Legendary Slayer being put in Infinity Slayer and renamed it accordingly)

I believe this is the most reasonable proposal to have everyone happy.

Let 343i know your support/dislike for this idea in the poll above :smiley:

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That sounds awesome :smiley:

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Every map pack should have its own playlist

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> Every map pack should have its own playlist

WAT? Each one of those playlists would have a peak population of like 50.

@OP no extraction?

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> > Every map pack should have its own playlist
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> WAT? Each one of those playlists would have a peak population of like 50.
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> @OP no extraction?

That was an oversight by me, I knew I was forgetting something

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Agreed, except with the following changes.

  • Remove Harvest, Perdition and Daybreak from Team DLC
  • Add Daybreak to Big Team DLC
  • Change Team DLC to 4v4
  • CTF should NOT be consolidated into an objective playlist
  • Consolidate Dominion into Big Team Battle
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> Agreed, except with the following changes.
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> - Remove Harvest, Perdition and Daybreak from Team DLC
> - Add Daybreak to Big Team DLC
> - Change Team DLC to 4v4
> - CTF should NOT be consolidated into an objective playlist
> - Consolidate Dominion into Big Team Battle

These all seem reasonable to me, but if those maps are moved around like you are suggesting and the smaller team playlist is made 4v4, I actually think it would be a good to consider making the bigger team playlist 6v6. I think Shatter is the only true 8v8 map of the DLC maps, all the others (besides maybe wreckage) I think would actually work better with slightly smaller teams, and as long as shatter and wreckage are mostly used for objective the maps would actually play really well.

Just a thought. I’m not like really passionate about the team sizes or anything. I actually think all the maps would be tolerable in a 5v5 playlist, if two playlists are not feasible.

I’m fine with CTF being consolidated into an objective playlist though.

Dominion in BTB is fine with me too, though I think the gametype would need some adjustments, since this gametype plays really well 6v6. A solution to that might be, if there is a 6v6 DLC playlist dominion as it is now could be a voting option.

something to consider too is if there is only one DLC playlist, maybe we could have a separate playlist that changes weekly featuring a gametype that has become under-appreciated due to consolidation.

Yay! Extraction!

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> Agreed, except with the following changes.
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> <mark>- Remove Harvest, Perdition and Daybreak from Team DLC</mark>
> - Add Daybreak to Big Team DLC
> <mark>- Change Team DLC to 4v4</mark>
> - CTF should NOT be consolidated into an objective playlist
> - Consolidate Dominion into Big Team Battle

The reason why I chose to put those maps in “team DLC” is because I feel that these maps work better in a 5v5 environment rather than an 8v8. I also considered the fact that the other smaller maps would still run fine in a 5v5 setting.

The reason why I consolidate CTF in objective is because the Team Objective playlist wold have a small population. Adding CTF with a high weighting*(IMPORTANT!!)* would still allow the most popular gametype to be played while still allowing the other options.

I considered putting Dominion into the Big Team Playlist but there would he too many gametypes and Dominion enthusiasts would be upset. Dominion is a new gametype and a very specific one at that (6v6) and deserves its own playlist.