Halo 5 Multiplayer Playlists

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Hi all,

Thought i’d start a playlist topic. The below is what I think would work really well, but feel free to add or tweak it.
I’ve got 11 total (plua a custom list), so there’s quite a variety (hopefully).
If you come up with a good idea I will add it to my my list below, or feel free to come up with your own!

Arena Slayer (4v4 - ranked)
This would be the same as what was experienced in the Beta. JIP not available.

Social Slayer (4v4 - un-ranked)
This would be similar to Arena Slayer, but would un-ranked, and would possibly contain other quirky game modes that aren’t objective such as Fiesta. JIP is available

Big Team Battle Slayer (8v8 - un-ranked)
Same as Social Slayer, but just more people on bigger maps. JIP is available

Really Big Team Battle Slayer (16v16 - un-ranked) (Name suggested by TruthReveal3d)
Same as Big Team Slayer, but would last much longer. JIP is available, and almost necessary as games would be up to 1000 kills to win.

Lone Wolves (8FFA - ranked)
Similar to Arena Slayer, but FFA, not team based. JIP is not available.

Rumble (8FFA - unranked)
As above, but not ranked. JIP is not available.

Multi Team (4v4 - unranked)
This would work as in most other Halos. JIP is available

Arena Objective (4v4 - ranked)
Multiple objective gametypes all under this hopper. CTF, Assault, KOTH, etc. JIP is not available.

Social Objective (4v4 - unranked)
As above, but not ranked. JIP is available

Big Team Objective (8v8 unranked)
As above, but more players. JIP is available

Breakout (4v4 - ranked)
Exactly as per the beta. JIP is not available

Custom Search (Any - unranked) - (See link below for a good example by user I IS CABOOSE)
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0acdaee3cc4156fd4/topics/h5-guardians-next-generation-matchmaking/8accd5c6-0470-4d9b-9d02-cb5f3f45487c/posts
This would be the big one! You could create your own map, gametype and rules, and then list it on a host server. People would then click here, and join your server in a similar fashion to matchmaking. This would help people meet and get people talking.

Hope you like my list, and play nice!

Edit: Your* and spaces.

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This list seems like a good start.

Unfortunately objective playlists were seldom successful in previous Halo titles, and splitting them up into separate playlists would make finding an objective game much more difficult.

Furthermore, I don’t think its a good idea to have a big-team version of everything, we should avoid spreading the players thin.

These are the things I would change in the list:

Set Big Team Battle’s minimum player count to 16, and the maximum 32, making one BTB playlist.

Have one Objective playlist, though I’m not sure if it would be ranked or social.

Scrap Big Team Breakout.

Add Multi-Team. A good way to close the gap between lone wolves and team slayer, and one of my personal favorites from Reach.

I would say add Action Sack, but I think that a Custom Game search would be even better. Player could make their own custom games and forged maps and put them in their file share, then we could vote on which ones we want to play most on Waypoint, and then the games and maps with the highest votes would be included in that playlist. We could vote every other week to mix things up, while at the same time making sure the voted games have enough time to be played by everyone.

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I think something like this would be better.

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> 2533274978553590;2:
> This list seems like a good start.
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> Unfortunately objective playlists were seldom successful in previous Halo titles, and splitting them up into separate playlists would make finding an objective game much more difficult.
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> Furthermore, I don’t think its a good idea to have a big-team version of everything, we should avoid spreading the players thin.
>
> These are the things I would change in the list:
>
> Set Big Team Battle’s minimum player count to 16, and the maximum 32, making one BTB playlist.
>
> Have one Objective playlist, though I’m not sure if it would be ranked or social.
>
> Scrap Big Team Breakout.
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> Add Multi-Team. A good way to close the gap between lone wolves and team slayer, and one of my personal favorites from Reach.
>
> I would say add Action Sack, but I think that a Custom Game search would be even better. Player could make their own custom games and forged maps and put them in their file share, then we could vote on which ones we want to play most on Waypoint, and then the games and maps with the highest votes would be included in that playlist. We could vote every other week to mix things up, while at the same time making sure the voted games have enough time to be played by everyone.

I like your points, especially about dropping Big Team Breakout and adding Action Sack. I’ll edit the OP.

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> I think something like this would be better.

This would work brilliantly as a custom search, but I still think a set amount of normal playlists would work better. For most people, this would probably be too complicated and they would give up. I would personally love it, as would most on this forum, but unfortunately we are not the gaming majority.

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> 2690096563152830;5:
> > 2533274971476153;3:
> > I think something like this would be better.
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> This would work brilliantly as a custom search, but I still think a set amount of normal playlists would work better. For most people, this would probably be too complicated and they would give up. I would personally love it, as would most on this forum, but unfortunately we are not the gaming majority.

The set playlists would still be there. The custom part is only if you want it.

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I like ‘really big team battle’

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> I like ‘really big team battle’

Ha, like it, OP edited!

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it is a good start, but also there would be an uproar from a lot of people (not myself) if there wasnt like a classic playlist with sprint and what not turned off.

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Where’s Doubles?

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I’m inclined to add Griffball to this list, primarily due to it being extremely fun.

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Throw in a 1v1 playlist and living dead and you’re good to go