For God sake please 343 get rid of sword base. I’m tired of playing this map and it’s the worst map of them all. Also sorry for the 3 in the subject, I accidentally hit it.
Why? I like it, its pretty unique. Why must they get rid of it if you don’t like it?
> Why? I like it, its pretty unique. Why must they get rid of it if you don’t like it?
This. Sword Base is a pretty good map, and it’s only real problem are the initial spawns for red and blue team. Red has quick and easy access to three of the four power weapons, i.e. sniper rifle, grenade launcher, and shotgun, whereas blue team only has quick access to the sword. That’s the only problem.
And people camping in the yellow lift room isn’t as rampant anymore as it used to be because they simply got bored of it. I’ve played lots of games recently where hardly anyone was camping in that room. To some degree I also attribute this change to the grenade launcher which makes it very easy to take out campers in there. I still come across the odd person camping in there with the shotgun or sword, but that’s hardly a problem.
If the initial spawn points were to be fixed, Sword Base would not only be one of the best but also most balanced maps in Reach.
As stated above fix the spawns and it will be the greatest map in Reach.
I think that Sword Base, along with Powerhouse, is the best original map in Reach. Sure it has some issues, but I generally like it.
> As stated above fix the spawns and it will be the greatest map in Reach.
Can’t tell if troll… Even without the spawns or the weapons, the map is horrible, competitively, at least. the map is more CQC than Countdown and it’s not even symmetrical. All positions on the map are easily defendable by two people; Top red: you can hold red lift, bottom mid lift, and shotty ramp by yourself. Break room you can defend high bridge, top gold, and back stairs with 2 people. 90% of the combat zones are so skinny that your dog chewing on the controller could land a nade that will drop someones shields. It is a horrible map to anyone who appreciates halo skill. But, 75% of the population don’t, and are just happy that they can get kills crouching with shotgun or holding forward, both triggers at all times. So… it will stay the most available and chosen map in matchmaking. /thread
I’m talking about for infection, I don’t care if i play sword base on team slayer or whatever.
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What he said.
Sword Base’s flaws go well beyond just initial spawns. The geometry itself just begs to be exploited. It’s a downright bad map and only with an over abundance of tweaks would it ever even hope to be decent.
I would rather play Swords on Hemorrhage with no Sprint & 25% movement speed than play anything on Sword Base.
> I’m talking about for infection, I don’t care if i play sword base on team slayer or whatever.
True, I barely play Infection or Alpha Zombies on any other map than Sword Base. Other then Countdown, but that’s about it.
That might be something you want to add to the OP…
> > As stated above fix the spawns and it will be the greatest map in Reach.
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> Can’t tell if troll… Even without the spawns or the weapons, the map is horrible, competitively, at least. the map is more CQC than Countdown and it’s not even symmetrical. All positions on the map are easily defendable by two people; Top red: you can hold red lift, bottom mid lift, and shotty ramp by yourself. Break room you can defend high bridge, top gold, and back stairs with 2 people. 90% of the combat zones are so skinny that your dog chewing on the controller could land a nade that will drop someones shields. It is a horrible map to anyone who appreciates halo skill. But, 75% of the population don’t, and are just happy that they can get kills crouching with shotgun or holding forward, both triggers at all times. So… it will stay the most available and chosen map in matchmaking. /thread
Just because a map is symmetrical does not mean it is balanced. Are you going to argue to me that Lockout in Halo 2, one of the most fan-favorite maps of all time, is imbalanced because it is not symmetrical?
Like others have said, fix the initial spawns at it will be perfect. Sword base is definitely my favorite Halo Reach slayer map.