If you are trying to qualify for Free-For-All, you will understand everything I’m about to say. I suck a little, but that’s because I’ve owned every other Halo for over two years. Never in any of the past games have I reached a point of ‘rage quit’ during a match. Tonight, while playing this abomination, I almost threw the controller through my TV and it would have transcended space and time to fly through someone’s skull, and the -Yoink!--ing of angry frogs would have sang. The Rig is not designed to be a Free-For-All map, in fact, it’s pretty bad map design to begin with.
The Rig is a spiritual successor to Adrift, a map that is 1,000x better. On Adrift, you have a symmetrical indoor arena with team bases on balconies extending to the outside. On The Rig, you have a bunch of rectangular prisms dreamed from the demented minds responsible for the Chuck E. Cheeses jungle gym attached to a balcony I like to call “No Man’s Land”. The design in incoherent and hard to navigate, causing confusion in the middle of a heated battle. Players with the height advantage will find themselves in places they’ve never been before for years to come. The map is so incoherent that there are paths on the map that maybe 4% of all people who play on it will know about. Also, Adrift doesn’t waste time angering you with random holes in the middle of floors, making you fall to your dumb and BS death.
Don’t get me started on ‘No Man’s Land’: If you’re outside the building for more than ten seconds and your magnum skills are potato, expect death. Unwillingly return the jungle gym immediately as possible. Once you are inside, you will find several opportunities to pitch a tent with either an SMG or a Sniper Rifle, but beware, there is a tornado coming and your tent will only last as long as your -Yoink!- life. If you respawn in NML, rinse and repeat. If you respawn in the gym, good. You now have an opportunity to reclaim your throne. Slowly enter NML, and quickly get a cheap potato kill. It is best if you evac NML in the exact path you entered. You should note that as soon as you leave NML, you are being pursued by a 10,000 pound gorilla that will John Cena RKO you from the side using it’s Spartan Charge. Proceed swiftly and cautiously. Make your way to SMG square, so that you can pitch anew. This is day in the life of Free-For-All Slayer on The Rig.
But seriously, remove this from rotation.