I’ve just stopped playing the game.
Oddball after oddball after oddball.
I don’t want to play oddball anymore.
Just seperate the playlists! We need to be able to pick which game mode we want to play!!!
I don’t know a game that has launched with such a terrible system, obviously it’s all designed to get you to spend more on challenge swaps.
You aren’t getting a penny from me.
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I don’t think that’s why it has been implemented tbh with you. I’m sure as the game establishes a regular playerbase they will split the modes more. I think they just wanted to onboard newer players more organically and provide the best quality of games in the first instance.
Any time they split the playlists more they split the playerbase. Can result in some pretty unbalanced things. I know in MCC it had a huge share of problems because of that.
I find Oddball really fun in ranked, and really bad in Social and Bot Bootcamp. Still the worst game mode in the game though ha.
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We lost so much with the transition to free-to-play, this sucks
I doubt they’ll separate the playlists because this is how their predatory system is intended to work, incentive frustration from not getting the mode you need for a challenge in quick play resulting in challenge-swap purchases
It’s been 3 weeks since the release and we are yet to even get any indication that we will be able to queue for a dedicated Slayer playlist …in Halo …in 2021.
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Last night we played in a fire team of 3 people… (after some big team battles with 10 person fire team)
Oddball five times in a row… What the…? We stopped playing and all of us bought the Battlepass the first day Infinite released the multiplayer for ‘supporting 343’… Last time we bought the BP in a long time I think…
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They have over 100,000 players on steam every day.
That’s just steam! This game has cross play.
I don’t care if it takes longer to find a game 
Odd ball sucks!
Yeah they seem to be pretty quiet on just about everything that’s not a slight increase of XP payout.
Little concerning that we know literally nothing about their future plans.
Yet one can never get into an Oddball match when one has an Oddball related weekly objective to win, say, three Oddball matches. In my experience at least haha!
Please remember that the current build is a beta. The randomization is largely due to trying to expose as many players to as many maps and game modes as possible. This gives more opportunity for feedback.
I also want dedicated lists, as all previous Halo games have had. They will come.
Haven’t spent one penny on swaps/xp boosts, only bought BP and im level 27. why are you whining.
Same. I cannot stand the current playlist situation. It’s actually stopping me from playing the game. I’m going to just take a break until next week, hoping that they add some sort of playlist diversity.
This was an entirely backwards way of doing things, if this ends up being true.
You don’t restrict how to play your game until tons of players get bored/frustrated and quit and THEN create a bunch of specific playlists.
No. You start with a large pool, assess which ones are underperforming (if any) and make little adjustments a couple months down the line. Game population would have been so much healthier, even with all the other flaws of the game.
We went from “here’s an entire game, do what you want” to “here’s a fraction of a game, color your spartan exactly the way we want, progress the way we want you to, and choose between 2 playlists. Oh yeah, don’t bother playing customs because there’s almost no useful options and no forge, enjoy!”.
It’s also overwhelming for new players who may find the game stake without trying the new modes. There’s a bunch of reasons but a lot of games take this approach so maybe there is some research to back up why it’s a good way to go.
I’d argue in the initial period everyone is in honeymoon phase or just excited to play. You need a smaller number of options to familiarise people will still offering something fresh. So it matters less to have huge variety at the start.
This has never been an issue in this franchise before. Theories of why they did it might be interesting but at the end of the day there wasn’t a need. They could easily anticipate a huge turnout from being free to play.
And new players aren’t “overwhelmed” by having modes to try that’s such an insane argument.
Anyone who’s “overwhelmed” by having Team Slayer, Team Objective, BTB, Infection, FFA, Action Sack, SWAT and Grifball to choose from really need to put the video games down and go see a psychiatrist. That’s such a soft unhealthy mindset and a soft unhealthy argument to make.
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Okay cool, let’s disagree on this one.
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I agree to disagree 
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I whish we still had ricochet
Oddball sucks. Allow players to throw the ball and maybe that will make it fun. But definitely, allow us to choose the Playlist. I quit matches so I can play the plaist that is needed to complete my challenges, as do many other people leaving my teammates playing down a man.