Halo 4 needs 3 primary competative matchmaking playlist

Halo 4 should have 3 primary “player vs player” playlist that all hold there individual stats, I.e. I’m excluding firefight, campaign, and other non-competitive playlist.

In Halo 2/3 we had “ranked” and “social” playlist, but I believe that we should have 1 more primary playlist that is for games that utilize the craziness of halo’s sandbox.

This 3rd playlist would consist of community maps, and misc game-types that don’t require a typical halo combat skill. This playlist would consist of games such as “haloball” “hockey” “griffball” and any other Action Sack game-modes.

The reason this “3rd actionsack playlist” should have its own individual stats/playlist is because I do not believe that these games should grant the player as much experience as standard slayer or CTF game-types, nor should they reflect the stats of your “social playlist”. This would also allow people to pick what playlist they would want to play, instead of having to vote or veto for what they wanted, and possibly not get it.

I also don’t like seeing people who have killionairs on their social stats because they trolled some afk’ers/scrubs in griffball or something similar. I think that social playlist stats should still be respected, and should consist of competitive games that cannot be in ranked playlist such as BTB, invasion, 5v5 slayer, etc.

While the idea of more variety is appealing in theory, I think that Halo needs to move towards fewer playlists in order to keep server numbers up. As it stands now, it seems as though every different game type gets its own playlist and the population becomes fractured into dozens of smaller groups. I think 343 needs to look into merging playlists that, while not exactly identical, nevertheless cater to the same sort of players.

  1. Credit System to buy stuff for armors, etc.

  2. Social Playlist: For Casual players that want Armor Abilities, etc.

  3. Ranked Playlist: For Hardcore/Competitive players that want a classic Halo feel with no Armor Abilities including Sprint, etc.

That’s just my opinion.