Fix Arena's unbalanced maps

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Come on you guys at 343, Bungie had control of the game for what, 10 months? And they were unable to do anything about some of Arena’s horribly unbalanced maps in that whole time.

If you

Fix or remove Sword Base + Reflection (unbalanced from the spawn)

Fix Countdown (Sword and Shotgun camping is totally lame and doesn’t belong in Arena)

Tweak Powerhouse (it’s a tad unbalanced but not much)

at the bare minimum then I’m sure you guys will be (more) popular with the Arena community already. And these changes wouldn’t even take much work! One of you could look at good suggestions which have been offered and it wouldn’t take you 10 minutes to find or re-design a variant with better spawns/weapon placement than the current versions.

Now go fix my Arena, please.

2

These maps are all simple to fix, amazing how Jeremiah found the time to throw up 4 more worthless playlists every month but never once thought to look closer to the source.

3

reflection/sword base/ powerhouse +red team= instant victory

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> reflection/sword base/ powerhouse +red team= instant victory

And Boardwalk.

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> These maps are all simple to fix, amazing how Jeremiah found the time to throw up 4 more worthless playlists every month but never once thought to look closer to the source.

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I recommend 343i to look at MLG maps and gametypes. They don’t allow camping and encourage fast paced gameplay.

  • Maps shouldn’t have more than ONE camping weapon (Sword/shotgun)
  • Remove jetpack
  • Remove radar (not THAT necessary, but is the perfect way to prevent camping)
  • balance maps (most maps should be symmetrical)