Honestly im not one to come on the forums and complian. But this MM update is the worse one. I dont understan what they were thinking. The main thing that makes me mad is that they are takeing out all the the playlist we can play the DLC on. IMO the best maps on Reach are all the DLC ones and thats all I want to play.
Now that ANIV BTB and ANIV FFA are gone how are people supposed to play the ANIV maps with TU settings in MM or get any of the ANIV achivments? Those playlist were the only ones you can get those gametypes so why take them out? You cant get ANY of the ANIV maps in regular playlist and not just ANIV maps but even the other DLC maps like the Noble and Defiant ones.
Thats another thing to why take out sqaud DLC its the same thing as ANIV. You cant never get any of the Noble or Defiant maps in any other playlist because most people dont have them so how is anyome supposed to get the achivments for those maps to? What they should do is merge Aniv BTB with Sqaud DLC and update Squad DLC with all the TU settings. That way you can play ALL the DLC maps Noble Defiant, and Anivversary. Doing that will also give people a place to go that dont have the Achivments yet for those map packs.
There are plenty of people like myself who like to play on the DLC maps and want to play on them more. So takeing those playlist away not only makes it so we cant play them anymore in MM… But its also robing us of our money because we paid for these maps and now we dont get to play theme. So what was the point in even making them or spending money on them its just a waste.
If 343 is really going to go through with this then the only thing i can see fixing this problem is makeing the evolved playlist DLC req or make it so you find people in MM with DLC maps more than we do now a lot more.
Thats my thought on this hole thing let me hear what you people think about this update as well.
UPDATE: New way to find people to play DLC!!!
- Add the Xbox Live Gamertag: Squad DLC
- Once the list is added introduce yourself to other like-minded owners of the DLC.
- Message the account telling me what DLC packs you own.
- Also say what gametypes you enjoy most and least.
- If you are playing DLC maps in custom games or want to fill up matchmaking lobbies
with DLC owners, send them a message asking them to play and invite them.
NOTE: You must have at least one of these map packs:
Simple as that!
Thanks to Pyro UK for setting it up.
exactly, and even when they do come up in regular mm they get voted down for other maps or none of the above, which is beyond me since they are the best maps in the game imo, and are the best looking by far.
Dude you didn’t hear? Sword base is easily the best Halo map ever. 343i is just making sure everyone can find matches on it. Just make sure you go up gold lift using Armor Lock. It’s an original strategy, you should catch everyone off guard.
I had to think on it overnight, because when I read the bulletin I was like “oh okay this makes sense”. But now that I have I think the MM update is total crap. 343i is basically giving the finger to everyone who bought their DLC. And to people who just bought CEA they’re giving two fingers while farting in their general direction.
All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
As for the others you mention (namely anniversary) - we knew a playlist consolidation was coming, and considering those are all redundant, lowly populated niche playlists it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they were chosen to be removed.
The DLC needs to be required in some playlists or have a DLC only playlist so people can play on the maps they paid for as well as get the DLC achievements. Some of the anniversary achievements were a pain to get before, now they are going to be pretty much impossible. What is the point in buying DLC just so you can never get to use it? This is really going to make people want to buy the DLC for Halo 4…NOT!!
> All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
If you want to call a counter that’s been frozen since Sunday midnight ‘current’, of course.
> > All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
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> If you want to call a counter that’s been frozen since Sunday midnight ‘current’, of course.
Then I’ll amend that to the highest non-jackpot-weekend population that I’ve ever seen in SDLC, and we’ll call it 285.
> All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
lol 36 … that isn’t enough players to sustain a healthy experience, you’d spend ages searching just to match against the same people every time.
> All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
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> As for the others you mention (namely anniversary) - we knew a playlist consolidation was coming, and considering those are all redundant, lowly populated niche playlists it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they were chosen to be removed.
I understand what your saying and yes i havent played that much SDLC. But the reason for that and why i think that playlist in general is low. Is because it doesnt have any TU settings. I love SDLC and would play it all the time if they but tu settings and if u look iv been posting asking for them to do so including a bunch of other people.
So because of that the only playlist I play now is all the ANIV wich still counts as DLC. But the point is im not talking about myself this post is more me speaking for others. For example I was talking about how you wont be able to get achivments now for the new maps… I already have all the achivments for reach Iv had them for awhile I was speaking out for people who dont and wich i noticed is a lot of people.
I think the biggest thing about this is the fact that we paid money for something we could rarley play from the begining and soon to be never in MM and only in customs wich as you know know one plays customs anymore and its not fair to us when we paid for them… thats what im trying to say im not going on a rant cause im angry im just trying to respectfully show the flaws and show how on fair this new update is for not just me but for people who love and paid for the DLC like myself.
It really is -Yoink- that they won’t leave a 6v6 or a DLC playlist besides Anniversary Classic. I don’t want to play that terrible Classic gametype! It’s still not right. If they merged Squad DLC and Anniversary BTB I would approve.
> > All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
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> > As for the others you mention (namely anniversary) - we knew a playlist consolidation was coming, and considering those are all redundant, lowly populated niche playlists it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they were chosen to be removed.
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> I understand what your saying and yes i havent played that much SDLC. But the reason for that and why i think that playlist in general is low. Is because it doesnt have any TU settings. I love SDLC and would play it all the time if they but tu settings and if u look iv been posting asking for them to do so including a bunch of other people.
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> So because of that the only playlist I play now is all the ANIV wich still counts as DLC. But the point is im not talking about myself this post is more me speaking for others. For example I was talking about how you wont be able to get achivments now for the new maps… I already have all the achivments for reach Iv had them for awhile I was speaking out for people who dont and wich i noticed is a lot of people.
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> I think the biggest thing about this is the fact that we paid money for something we could rarley play from the begining and soon to be never in MM and only in customs wich as you know know one plays customs anymore and its not fair to us when we paid for them… thats what im trying to say im not going on a rant cause im angry im just trying to respectfully show the flaws and show how on fair this new update is for not just me but for people who love and paid for the DLC like myself.
I agree with you. I’m just not really surprised, or even all that disappointed. I, like you, never play SDLC because I can’t stand playing vanilla setting. And I love ABTB, but playing the same two maps with a side of hang em high gets boring. The rest of the anni maps I’m not worried about because classic is sticking around.
I’d personally prefer they just make regular BTB be DLC required.
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> > I agree with you. I’m just not really surprised, or even all that disappointed. I, like you, never play SDLC because I can’t stand playing vanilla setting. And I love ABTB, but playing the same two maps with a side of hang em high gets boring. The rest of the anni maps I’m not worried about because classic is sticking around.
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> > I’d personally prefer they just make regular BTB be DLC required.
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> Ya iv been asking for ever for them to Put TU Settings in Squad DLC and not just me but a lot of people. If they did a lot of people would go back to that playlist I know I would. Just most people like myself dont like vanilla Reach and it BS not to update it after all this time then throw it away.
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> I would be happy and i think it would be best to just keep squad DLC and just add all the ANIV maps and gametypes from ANIV BTB. That way both groups are satisfied have all the DLC in one playlist to play and can still get achivments for those that dont have them.
Guess they don’t mind disappointing the loyal customers who buy all their DLC. I for sure will be playing less Reach after this update.
I too am disappointed to see it go away, as DLC doesn’t really appear all that often in other playlists. But it had such a low population, I don’t really see why keeping it would have been justified.
> All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
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> As for the others you mention (namely anniversary) - we knew a playlist consolidation was coming, and considering those are all redundant, lowly populated niche playlists it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they were chosen to be removed.
HAH that explains why when me and my friends are ready to go and theres NOONE ON by what the MM lobby says LOL.
i think that explains whether it should keep taking up space or not.
> > All do respect, OP, but considering you play a whopping 2% of your games in SDLC I think you’ll manage without it and it’s enormous current population of 36 players…
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> > As for the others you mention (namely anniversary) - we knew a playlist consolidation was coming, and considering those are all redundant, lowly populated niche playlists it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they were chosen to be removed.
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> HAH that explains why when me and my friends are ready to go and theres NOONE ON by what the MM lobby says LOL.
> i think that explains whether it should keep taking up space or not.
Well like i said earlier the only reason they why people dont go play the playlist is because they never updated it and put TU Settings in if they did that more people would come back and play it.
I will say up front i pretty much do not play squad dlc. but i would if i had more than 3 friends that regularly play and that only a couple of my friends have all of the dlc. so to get to my point. couldnt they at least give us 1 ffa dlc and one 4v4 dlc. i mean heck even make the anniversary classic for all dlc maps.
It’s sad that no one cares about this. I’m want my playlists back so badly that I’ve made a petition.
It needs to be required for The New Evolved Playlist its been enough time and im ready to play the maps I paid for