This may have been brought up before on here but a quick search didn’t find any topics.
Now that 343i is in charge of the Halo Universe and support for match making for the games I wonder if there are any plans to consolidate Halo 3’s playlists? Kind of what Bungie did with Halo 2 after Halo 3 was out for some time. I ask simply because I still enjoy playing Halo 3 and want to see it thrive as long as possible, and at some point playlists will have to merged or removed to keep the population more grouped together.
I’m will aware that 343i have a thousand things going on now. CEA, Halo 4, Waypoint and just getting settled in with the Halo universe, but I’d still like to hear something in regards to support for Halo 3.
As someone who plays a lot of Halo 3 still, I’ve wanted this since Reach came out. In my opinion, all that needs to be done is to delete the playlists with the lowest populations. In the end we would be left with a Multiplayer with a layout similar to this:
Ranked
MLG
Team Snipers
Team Slayer
Lone Wolves
Social
Big Team Battle
Social Slayer (with integrated SWAT gametypes?)
Multi-Team
> As someone who plays a lot of Halo 3 still, I’ve wanted this since Reach came out. In my opinion, all that needs to be done is to delete the playlists with the lowest populations. In the end we would be left with a Multiplayer with a layout similar to this:
>
> Ranked
> MLG
> Team Snipers
> Team Slayer
> Lone Wolves
>
> Social
> Big Team Battle
> Social Slayer (with integrated SWAT gametypes?)
> Multi-Team
That’s a bad idea. Firing up Halo 3 I see the current populations at a time when most of europe is asleep and the US is in the afternoon-evening range from 5400 in one playlist to 96 in another. The playlist with 96 people has more people in that one playlist than some 360 games have (or appear to have) altogether (Section 8 prejudice, Bioshock 2 multiplayer).
The playlists seem fine to me as they are, even though some of them aren’t too popular. I would propose removing team mythic, but then I remembered how annoying it was trying to play DLC maps in DLC optional playlists in the past. Maybe BTB would get more people if it was legendary/mythic dlc optional and herioc dlc required (instead of all required), but that’s not an unbiased suggestion as my favourite map is Rats Nest and my least favourite is default Sandbox XD
> In my opinion the playlists should go back to basics.
>
> Ranked:
> Lone Wolves
> Team Slayer
> Team Doubles
> and maybe MLG.
>
> Social:
> Rumble Pit
> Big team
> Social Slayer(Add SWAT and Snipers variants)
> Team Objective.
>
> It would still leave the core playlists while not alienating most players.
> In my opinion the playlists should go back to basics.
>
> Ranked:
> Lone Wolves
> Team Slayer
> Team Doubles
> and maybe MLG.
>
> Social:
> Rumble Pit
> Big team
> Social Slayer(Add SWAT and Snipers variants)
> Team Objective.
>
> It would still leave the core playlists while not alienating most players.
Yeah I agree with this.
I haven’t played Halo 3 in a while, but isn’t Team Mythic still around? If so, that should be removed at least.
> As someone who plays a lot of Halo 3 still, I’ve wanted this since Reach came out. In my opinion, all that needs to be done is to delete the playlists with the lowest populations. In the end we would be left with a Multiplayer with a layout similar to this:
>
> Ranked
> MLG
> Team Snipers
> Team Slayer
> Lone Wolves
>
> Social
> Big Team Battle
> Social Slayer (with integrated SWAT gametypes?)
> Multi-Team
Agreed with this except:
I would rather see Team Doubles in there and Snipers integrated with TS. It’s not possible to integrate TD into anything else due to the player limit, whereas Snipers actually already was integrated into TS when it first came out. Just put it back to the original settings.
It might also be beneficial to change the name of “MLG” back to “Team Hardcore” for those who don’t know what it is. Same playlist, maps etc. just change the name.
> I would propose removing team mythic, but then I remembered how annoying it was trying to play DLC maps in DLC optional playlists in the past. Maybe BTB would get more people if it was legendary/mythic dlc optional and herioc dlc required (instead of all required), but that’s not an unbiased suggestion as my favourite map is Rats Nest and my least favourite is default Sandbox XD
They should just make everything DLC required and the map packs free.
Anyone who’s gonna go out and pick up the game for multiplayer are going to get the ODST disc anyway (has all maps), and you can get it for like $20 from gamestop. Buying all the DLC separately is just a waste of money.
I completely 110% agree. This should have been done months ago. I mean why is 7 on the 7th still there?! Its just diluting an already diminished population.
I think we should make it:
Ranked - Team Slayer (50% Slayer BRs, 30% Slayer ARs, 10% SWAT and 10% Snipers) - Lonewolves (50% Slayer BRs, 25% Slayer ARs, 25% MLG FFA) - Team Objective / Throwback (Don’t care what gametypes as long as they are on balanced maps with BR starts) - MLG (same as it is now but pick better hosts) - Team Doubles (50% Team BRs, 50% MLG Doubles) Social - Big Team Battle (same as it is now) - Rumble Pit (Less swords and hammers please - its all down to connection) - Social Slayer/Skirmish (4v4) - Multiteam (25% Slayer, 25% Oddball, 25% KOTH, 25% VIP/Rocket Race) - Action Sack (Loads of random FFA or team gametypes)