Not sure how else to describe it. It would play a lot better if they upped the movement speed for the flood. As of now it feels like you’re stuck in the mud. Not sure what happened to it compared to a few days ago when it was offered early.
In WarGames Feedback Assassin 11D7 did base-trait comparisons with the downloadable Hivemind from last week and the one in MM today. Not sure if these are Spartan or Flood traits but there are differences:
> Hivemind:
> Shields-Normal
> Health-Normal
> Speed-150
> Jump-125
> Base Player Damage-100
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> MM Hivemind:
> Shields-Normal
> Health-Unchanged
> Speed-100
> Jump-125
> Base Player Damage-75
Either they decided to change its advertised traits on purpose (why!?) or they somehow uploaded the wrong gametype to Live…
Either way I haven’t even gotten to try it yet and I’m already pissed hearing how they apparently messed it up. Was really looking forward to it, too.
Base Player Damage was referring to the Human Traits, all the rest are Flood Traits. Just clarifying.
From the War Games Feedback thread:
> Pretty sure the differences in gametype settings between the Hivemind I provided and the one in Matchmaking are a simple misunderstanding. I’ve already alerted Bravo to the discrepancies, pardon our dust.
So hopefully it’ll be restored to its full glory!
I agree with all posts. When I get to the SAW it does nothing and I get 1 kill then take a hit, therefor I need to wait 9 hours for my shields to recharge. I’d rather be dead on that first hit…
> From the War Games Feedback thread:
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> > Pretty sure the differences in gametype settings between the Hivemind I provided and the one in Matchmaking are a simple misunderstanding. I’ve already alerted Bravo to the discrepancies, pardon our dust.
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> So hopefully it’ll be restored to its full glory!
I was wondering what was going on with this, I guess I will have to wait for the real version to come out.
Until then, Big Team Skirmish will keep me busy.
> I was wondering what was going on with this, I guess I will have to wait for the real version to come out.
What’s annoying is this is the sort of thing that should be fixed TODAY but it won’t be. I hate the “let’s bash 343” threads but I gotta agree with others on this: how did they screw this up? They announce the specific game type, put it up for people to check out last week…how hard is it to upload the exact same thing to MM today?
Maybe they’re trolling us all? Who the hell knows…
> > I was wondering what was going on with this, I guess I will have to wait for the real version to come out.
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> What’s annoying is this is the sort of thing that should be fixed TODAY but it won’t be. I hate the “let’s bash 343” threads but I gotta agree with others on this: how did they screw this up? They announce the specific game type, put it up for people to check out last week…how hard is it to upload the exact same thing to MM today?
>
> Maybe they’re trolling us all? Who the hell knows…
The process isn’t as simple as you make it out to be. It isn’t as simple as going to some sort of Matchmaking file share and uploading the files to a playlist from the original creator.
As far as I can see, the gametypes have to be created from scratch, and then go through a conversion progress before being implemented into Matchmaking and when creating it from scratch, it is easy to make a mistake. It isn’t the first time it has happened and likely won’t be the last. Mistakes happen, we’re only human.
Please don’t think it is so simple when you have no idea what goes on behind the scenes 
> > > I was wondering what was going on with this, I guess I will have to wait for the real version to come out.
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> > What’s annoying is this is the sort of thing that should be fixed TODAY but it won’t be. I hate the “let’s bash 343” threads but I gotta agree with others on this: how did they screw this up? They announce the specific game type, put it up for people to check out last week…how hard is it to upload the exact same thing to MM today?
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> > Maybe they’re trolling us all? Who the hell knows…
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> <mark>The process isn’t as simple as you make it out to be. It isn’t as simple as going to some sort of Matchmaking file share and uploading the files to a playlist from the original creator.</mark>
> <mark>As far as I can see, the gametypes have to be created from scratch, and then go through a conversion progress before being implemented into Matchmaking and when creating it from scratch, it is easy to make a mistake. It isn’t the first time it has happened and likely won’t be the last. Mistakes happen, we’re only human.</mark>
> <mark>Please don’t think it is so simple when you have no idea what goes on behind the scenes
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> Oh I know it’s not simple but the fact is I think most people are sick of this. Hence the huge drop off in player population. If it’s not one thing it’s another with this game. First it was Specs. not going out to people, then it was the inability to DL maps if you had the map pass, then it was other games and maps not being uploaded properly. It’s just always something with these guys. Then the lack of communication on everything after we were told it would improve. Was anything even mentioned about this from 343? I’m sorry but some people need to be let go at this point. I’m sure most of them are doing a fine job but someone has to be held accountable for all these screw ups. Do you know how many people they may have lost by their latest gaff? I don’t but I’m sure it’s in the thousands. A lot of people were excited about this change and BAM! They screwed it up again.