First off I want to thank 343 for releasing a Doubles playlist. The community has been begging for it.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the Community Doubles playlist but I do not hope 343 makes it permanent. Instead I would like to have a true Doubles playlist be permanent. By this I mean 343 maps, community maps, objective game types, and a ranking.
343 made maps are very important for the playlist, this way when you and a partner are playing doubles you are actually practicing and getting better map movement and mechanics that will be directly applied to the 4v4 playlists. With community maps only you don’t gain experience on the maps that are in rotation for many playlists. This will allow for doubles to have positive effect for players that feel the 4v4 experience of Arena is too much or too fast paced. This will lead to more players playing multiple playlists once they are able to fully grasp the maps they are playing on during the slower paced Doubles playlist. Keep some or all of the community maps for variety alone.
Objective gametypes are a must for this playlist. With slayer only you are immediately handicapping the playlist by forcing the players to only play slayer over and over and over again. Objective game types are extremely entertaining and they force players to play on maps in different ways than they would in slayer alone. Not only would it make the playlist more entertaining but it would allow for players to learn the maps and routes in ways that may not occur in a slayer game. Please add CTF, Assault, and Strongholds. An oddball variant would also be very much appreciated. I cannot begin to explain to you how much this would help the playlist.
Finally, a ranking! Doubles has always been a very personal and competitive playlist. There is nothing like ranking up with your partner knowing the game comes down to just you two. There are no excuses. You either earn the pride or you earned the loss. I have played the current playlist for hours and I have destroyed teams, and been destroyed. I don’t enjoy beating a team by 15-20 near as much as I do winning by 1-5. Nor do I like being throttled, period. I know with ranking this will still happen but it will close the skill gap dramatically. Plus just visually seeing yourself progress through the ranks is extremely fulfilling.
These are my wishes and hopes for Doubles, 343. The ball is in your court.
The community playlist has been very entertaining but I believe most of Doubles community would enjoy Objective gametypes and stock maps added to the rotation.
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Shout out to 343 who still don’t give a sh*t about answering all these thread about doubles.
congrats.
However I couldn’t agree more with what has been said, this what we need to keep playing this game.
On the other hand, hit me up if you need me to work for free on making the gametype, this would be a pleasure.
we already have more tan enough maps to play in.
so what the -Yoink!- are you waiting for, it’s been 8 months and we still don’t have that basic multiplayer playlist wich was there since halo 1 system link era.
Please don’t make me quit.
I agree for the most part but they would have to put some serious work into the spawn points for objective games because playing CTF on a big map would just turn the game into a game of slayer. If you kill the other team you score and win.
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> I agree for the most part but they would have to put some serious work into the spawn points for objective games because playing CTF on a big map would just turn the game into a game of slayer. If you kill the other team you score and win.
I understand what you’re saying but it wouldnt be that much work. Especially for a company the size of 343. The solution would be to push the spawns closer to the middle of the map on both sides when the flag is pulled. For instance on truth if blue team pulled the red flag towards pink then red team could spawn top car or top blue bubble. This would give the team that went on respawn the chance to stop the flag run inside of blue base or get a flag pull of their own. It would be up to the blue team to re-slay the red players. Lather rinse repeat. then when a flag is not being pulled the spawns stay the same(inside of own base, or on pink or bubble based on enemy posititon.) It really isnt a problem.