How did they butcher team snipers?

Games Halo Infinite
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I have so many questions:

  1. How did this even happen?
  2. Why is it that everything needs to be changed for the sake of change? (oddball, king of the hill, swat, now this)
  3. Why isn’t there a team snipers mode in the team snipers playlist? Where is vanilla team snipers???
  4. Why is there sniper glint? Absolutely ruins a snipers only game mode.
  5. Why are these non-sniper modes in the team snipers playlist? Covie snipes and brute snipes aren’t even bad modes, although they’re definitely not for me, but they are NOT sniper game modes. The skewer is the new spartan laser and the new covenant rifle is a precision weapon like the light rifle or DMR. They belong in a different playlist.
  6. can you please fix this playlist and the swat playlist and remove the non-swat and non-snipers variants entirely?

This should have been an easy victory for 343. Why were these decisions made? Please give us back team snipers as it was meant to be, and put all the random wacky modes in a rumble pit playlist or something.

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You got MCC for that :slight_smile:

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What, a Halo experience?

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Its because 343 sucks.

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Ske7ch 2021 - “Having an Objective only playlist leads to it being unhealthy.”

This is a running joke for me LOL. I feel the need to bring it up over and over and over. 343‘s position is to force the majority of the player base to play unpopular game modes, so the minority of the player base can find games easily. :joy:

I mean, why make modes that people actually want to play and spend time in? Why hype a shotty sniper mode that has barely any snipers and no real shotguns?

I’m sorry, but the bull-dog is not a shotgun. It’s should be called bull-$h1t. You literally get a sniper, and what resembles a shotgun once in a while. The rest of the time you’re using a skewer? The skewer does not reload automatically while zoomed. making it a lot less fun than it could be. it’s a weapon designed for destroying vehicles it’s not a sniper.

The shock rifle comes a lot closer to a sniper, but it’s highly ineffective compared to a sniper. At least with a sniper you can shoot a second shot right away and maybe get 2 body shots and get a kill on a fast moving or falling enemy across a large space. The shock rifle will not allow you to get a second shot off fast enough to actually get a kill with it for us less skilled players. I can’t get a second shot off before the enemy runs behind cover. If you’re a high level player that can head shot everyone it is a non issue but for me, that gun isn’t fun at all.

The stalker rifle? Why is that even in a sniper playlist? There isn’t even a covenant sniper in this game, So they had to use the stalker rifle and the skewer?

In my mind, Halo Infinite is so far in left field with decisions like this I just can’t understand it. I have no problem with Infinite moving in another direction and trying different things to find new fan favorites, that’s how I found Husky raid, but why destroy existing fan favorite modes? Do you really need to alienate your player base that stuck around for 20 years to try something new?

If I could play big team fiesta slayer, along with 4V4 fiesta slayer and fan favorite rotating modes like shotty sniper, I’d be playing this game 20 hours a week. And probably buying vehicle skins from the store to use in big team.

But because of decisions like these, I don’t think I’ve put in 20 hours in the last 4-6 weeks. It has nothing to do with my lack of desire to play halo. It has everything to do with my lack of desire to play halo the way 343 is forcing me to play Halo.

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Team Snipers were not really popular in halo 5. Long wait time to start. Why should it be better in halo infinite?

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As a rotating playlist it’s fine for something fun and different. Permanent playlists should be something like BT battle slayer. Or BT battle fiesta slayer. I think shotty sniper is fine for a rotating playlist option.

I am sad that husky Raid doesn’t exist in halo infinite. That is one objective game that I could literally play for hours nonstop.

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Agree 100%. Team Snipers as an event, perfect. Lot of player will join and try.
Also missing husky raid from halo 5. Always found a match in no time in husky raid. Was a very popular playlist.

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Ske7ch 2021 - “Having an Objective only playlist leads to it being unhealthy.”

LMAO. Why make an unhealthy playlist at all then? It is mind boggling.

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They love to change old school stuff, just for the sake of changing it.

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Well there is not much that can be done at that point, there is not enough fans left to really make things move and we cant count on 343i to learn from the mistakes made. Best we can do is stop playing the game and let them sink

Our only hope is for an outside company that truly love Halo to buy the IP from Microsoft

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Given the tremendous amount of backlash so far on places like here, Twitter, reddit, and popular Halo youtubers like MintBlitz, I suspect that we’re going to have another Tank Gun situation where 343 is gonna end up making some changes to the Team Snipers playlist.

Allegedly, there’s just a lot of people who go into Team Snipers and just quit if they’re in matches that don’t have Sniper Rifles.

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The more I read about infinite the more I am glad I am a MCC player though and through. When I want snipers I pick it in the composer and get actual sniper games. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Frankly, Infinite’s gameplay makes it difficult for me to go back to MCC :stuck_out_tongue: Its got its hiccups…everywhere else…but when it comes to the core gameplay I enjoy it immensely.

I just wish myself and others had more content and the freedom of picking what we want to play - which includes playing with actual Sniper Rifles in the Team Snipers playlist.

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Yup I’m one of those people, I want to play with the Sniper rifle. The only actual sniper rifle they have since there is no Beam Rifle.

If it is not the S7 sniper rifle gamemode I just bounce.

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Doesn’t even shock me anymore.

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Wrong answer.

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Because they are steering away from the Halo tradition making it their own thing that is not working out for this game at all and never will. Whoever is making these calls it’s more than obvious they have never played Halo nor care to.

This is what happens when a business takes over gaming, and not an actual company. The truth here is, 343 isn’t even an actual developer that has full time employees, they hire temporary help and outsource a lot of the work, and anyone even a child can see they don’t even really bother testing the work being done.

This game needs to be handed over to a actual developer that has full time employees. This 7 years later putting out “help wanted” isn’t cutting it.

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Very good points. Obnoxious sniper glare on not only the Sniper weapons but the BR and Commando is not Halo and it ruins the gameplay overall.

Even when some of the most popular content creators who specialize in Halo content are saying the same thing, there is in obvious issue. 343 is always saying we here your feed back but seems that they don’t apply it. If they do its years down the line.

I don’t necessarily blame the developers for how bad Infinite and it’s playlist are but the management.

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Anything in MCC ≠ Halo Infinite

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