I dont know about the rest of you but to me the free for all playlist in practically every Halo game has been one of my favorite and go to playlists. But ever since the new HCS settings came out and I’ve been playing endless hours of the HCS summer preview I can not bare the cancer that the current ffa playlist has become. AR’s and radar are killing ffa and it is not at all skill based in any way or shape. People literally use autos 97% of the time and sit and wait around corners.
The free for all playlist is supposed to be the most competitive playlist that’s not purely based on luck and camping. Lets get the word out and get HCS setting in FFA, what’s your opinions on the matter?
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> I dont know about the rest of you but to me the free for all playlist in practically every Halo game has been one of my favorite and go to playlists. But ever since the new HCS settings came out and I’ve been playing endless hours of the HCS summer preview I can not bare the cancer that the current ffa playlist has become. AR’s and radar are killing ffa and it is not at all skill based in any way or shape. People literally use autos 97% of the time and sit and wait around corners.
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> The free for all playlist is supposed to be the most competitive playlist that’s not purely based on luck and camping. Lets get the word out and get HCS setting in FFA, what’s your opinions on the matter?
Yep would definitely change the game and make it a lot harder (that’s a good thing)
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> I dont know about the rest of you but to me the free for all playlist in practically every Halo game has been one of my favorite and go to playlists. But ever since the new HCS settings came out and I’ve been playing endless hours of the HCS summer preview I can not bare the cancer that the current ffa playlist has become. AR’s and radar are killing ffa and it is not at all skill based in any way or shape. People literally use autos 97% of the time and sit and wait around corners.
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> The free for all playlist is supposed to be the most competitive playlist that’s not purely based on luck and camping. Lets get the word out and get HCS setting in FFA, what’s your opinions on the matter?
I agree - too many players are using autos which you can’t blame them because it’s available to them. A pistol only start would be best and maybe a few autos around the map.
This would be preferable and I agree that this would be a valid solution. Camping is way to boring and I hate wasting my time looking around a map just to get tanked by some no skill camper.
I think we might be getting a hybrid playlist soon. That or 343i is going to seasonally rotate between the current settings and the HCS settings, or HCS settings will completely take over FFA.
THERE has been talks and even a poll was conducted on Twitter by one of the employees about this matter. Hopefully we will find out sooner rather than later as to what’s going on. Knowing 343i, it will be later…
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> > I dont know about the rest of you but to me the free for all playlist in practically every Halo game has been one of my favorite and go to playlists. But ever since the new HCS settings came out and I’ve been playing endless hours of the HCS summer preview I can not bare the cancer that the current ffa playlist has become. AR’s and radar are killing ffa and it is not at all skill based in any way or shape. People literally use autos 97% of the time and sit and wait around corners.
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> > The free for all playlist is supposed to be the most competitive playlist that’s not purely based on luck and camping. Lets get the word out and get HCS setting in FFA, what’s your opinions on the matter?
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> I agree - too many players are using autos which you can’t blame them because it’s available to them. A pistol only start would be best and maybe a few autos around the map.
Totally agree with you!
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> > I dont know about the rest of you but to me the free for all playlist in practically every Halo game has been one of my favorite and go to playlists. But ever since the new HCS settings came out and I’ve been playing endless hours of the HCS summer preview I can not bare the cancer that the current ffa playlist has become. AR’s and radar are killing ffa and it is not at all skill based in any way or shape. People literally use autos 97% of the time and sit and wait around corners.
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> > The free for all playlist is supposed to be the most competitive playlist that’s not purely based on luck and camping. Lets get the word out and get HCS setting in FFA, what’s your opinions on the matter?
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> Yep would definitely change the game and make it a lot harder (that’s a good thing)
I would not mind HCS settings for current FFA playlist,if they dont do HCS radar as well,they can remove AR as starting weapon and put it on map pickup w the same starting ammo according to the latest community update,downside is we still got horrible maps like overgrowth,riptide,molten,stasis,torque in the rotation.FFA is just not as fun anymore or worthile to grind in most cases,i cant stand more than 2-5 matches at best most of the time anyway.
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> I would not mind HCS settings for current FFA playlist,if they dont do HCS radar as well,they can remove AR as starting weapon and put it on map pickup w the same starting ammo according to the latest community update,downside is we still got horrible maps like overgrowth,riptide,molten,stasis,torque in the rotation.FFA is just not as fun anymore or worthile to grind in most cases,i cant stand more than 2-5 matches at best most of the time anyway.
This is how I pretty much feel.
I’ve played a good chunk of HCS playlist now and personally I come to the conclusion that I do not like the new radar. For me it all but eliminates the Spartan abilities. Now I’m not pro or anti Spartan abilities but the way I see it is you put all this time into them in Halo 5 and you now have all but eliminated there use. If you’re going to do this, I would rather just see no radar on HCS settings. At least try no radar. I would say if this is what competitive Halo is going to be now, why not go back to halo 1-3 play style then (obviously not in Halo 5 but in future Halos I mean) … but that’s me so if this is the kind of radar/system that’s going to be in competitive play now I don’t think I’ll be playing those playlists then.
Now, what I do like a lot of both of HSC settings is the pistol only starts. I think that pistol only starts works really well and I actually wish that pistol only starts was in other playlist to like Team Slayer. I really don’t have a huge issue with the automatics (get rid of the range increase by zooming and they’d be fine in my opinion) but I can understand why competitive players don’t want many automatics if any at all in the matches.If it was up to me, I would have pistol only starts across the board on all playlists (maybe not BTB, not sure) and I would have automatics as pick up weapons only. In competitive play, I would only have one maybe two at the most on any given map.
I think if you go pure HCS settings in ranked FFA, people will leave it in droves. Making an FFA soical playlist won’t help either as many people want to play FFA ranked, just not with HCS settings. You need almost have two ranked FFA playlists which wouldn’t be a good idea I think.
Like I said earlier, I like the pistol starts, but I still want to see a few automatics as map pick ups. You could put the autos in places on the map where people generally didn’t go before and it might even open up new strategies and such. A player has to decide, do I go here or should I go for that automatic instead? I honestly think the whole game should be this way. It just flows really nice! But I’m not big on the HCS radar nor are a lot of other people I know.
so if this is the kind of radar/system that’s going to be in competitive play now I don’t think I’ll be playing those playlists then.