Its almost 1 year on from the launch of halo 5, and already I can see the game is beginning to die and population is decreasing. As a halo player, and a grinder this is not great to see. In my opinion, halo 5 can maintain or even grow population by doing a few simple things.
We need a true social and ranked split. In terms of playlists and stats.
For example:
Ranked arena, ranked slayer, ranked doubles, ranked swat, ranked snipers and ranked FFA.
Social arena, social slayer, infection, BTB, grifball
Social stats should be separated from ranked, and social players should be given an option to play slayer as competitive players should be given the option to play snipes.
I would have added Ranked BTB if it was around launch time, but it wouldn’t work with what we have now.
As well as this, social and ranked playlists need to be all in the API. Halo reach lasted such a long time, even though it was widely regarded worse than halo 3. Leaderboards were such a key part of reach. Reach had the API for every game mode and halotracker was able to make leaderboards for them.
This is a small thing, but I think just simply adding these social modes to the API and opening up leaderboard opportunities for sites like halotracker would encourage players to grind and play a lot more.
Just by doing these simple things I think the playlist populations would increase or at least stop decreasing like they have been.
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> Its almost 1 year on from the launch of halo 5, and already I can see the game is beginning to die and population is decreasing. As a halo player, and a grinder this is not great to see. In my opinion, halo 5 can maintain or even grow population by doing a few simple things.
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> We need a true social and ranked split. In terms of playlists and stats.
> For example:
> Ranked arena, ranked slayer, ranked doubles, ranked swat, ranked snipers and ranked FFA.
> Social arena, social slayer, infection, BTB, grifball
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> Social stats should be separated from ranked, and social players should be given an option to play slayer as competitive players should be given the option to play snipes.
> I would have added Ranked BTB if it was around launch time, but it wouldn’t work with what we have now.
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> As well as this, social and ranked playlists need to be all in the API. Halo reach lasted such a long time, even though it was widely regarded worse than halo 3. Leaderboards were such a key part of reach. Reach had the API for every game mode and halotracker was able to make leaderboards for them.
> This is a small thing, but I think just simply adding these social modes to the API and opening up leaderboard opportunities for sites like halotracker would encourage players to grind and play a lot more.
>
> Just by doing these simple things I think the playlist populations would increase or at least stop decreasing like they have been.
Add Action Sack to the social side of things and I agree whole heartedly about the playlists.
Yeah I missed action sack but that should definitely be there.