Halo Infinite - 5v5 Social Slayer/Skirmish

Games Halo Infinite
1

I had completely forgotten that Halo 3 originally had 5v5 social, and to be honest I think it returning could work wonders on Infinite’s social scene. It’s a very distinct gameplay change that sets a match apart from ranked. More chances for multi-kills, more mayhem, more chaotic map control, and less coordination. I think one of the biggest problems with MCC is that there is virtually no difference between playing ranked or social, and with the games being up to 20 years old, I can see why most people would rather choose the option for smaller queue times rather than prove themselves to a small audience with their rank.

You’ll never be able to stop people from being “sweaty”, but I believe changing the team count for arena gamemodes in social could have a lasting positive impact to the game. Counter-Strike does a similar thing, its casual gamemode is truly just that: casual. The biggest reason being for the significantly larger player count in the match, which in its nature makes the match much more relaxed. Of course for Halo, I think adding 2 players is enough, we already have a big team battle mode lol

At the end of the day, I can always play 5v5 with bots though, so there’s that ;D

2

Makes sense to me. Social slayer and social skirmish worked well as 5v5.

3

Big agree dude. 5v5 just seems really appropriate for pvp in Halo.

4

Kind of depends on the map. Some halo maps were already mayhem as 4v4 and didn’t really work well with the 2 additional players. On the other hand there were maps that were too big for 5v5 and you’d walk around without seeing anything.

It all depends on the map size I guess

5

Somewhat out of left field.

3 v 3 v 3 was a lot of fun.

Works on 4 v 4 maps.

Always in the action as you are outnumbered 2:1

Makes it very different from ranked.

6

Agreed!