Keep them out of ranked, then we're fine.

Game-changing armour customizations, are what I’m referring to.

Please, the ranked playlists are for determining skill, and this can only be decided when people are on equal footing from the beginning. ‘Balancing’ isn’t the issue, I don’t want it to be Rock-Paper-Scissors playstyle where one perk has an advantage in a certain situation than another, and that if I were to become in this situation, that they would have the advantage from something determined outside of the game itself.

I want them to kill me not because of something outside the game, but because of something inside the game. Something I have the capability to have control over, and so I never feel cheated out of a life.

> I want them to kill me not because of something outside the game, <mark>but because of something inside the game.</mark> Something I have the capability to have control over, and so I never feel cheated out of a life.

Perks ARE inside the game.

We don’t even know if there will be ranked playlists.

> We don’t even know if there will be ranked playlists.

We don’t even know what kind of game types there will even be. However I Assume that it will be something like:

*Regular Slayer

*Objective

*Arena/Ranked

*SWAT

*FFA

*Community

*Multi-Team

*Big Team

> > I want them to kill me not because of something outside the game, <mark>but because of something inside the game.</mark> Something I have the capability to have control over, and so I never feel cheated out of a life.
>
> Perks ARE inside the game.

No, I mean the ACTUAL game, the gameplay, the part where you shoot stuff, and it dies. Not the menus, where people are isolated from other people except from when they enter the ACTUAL game.

> We don’t even know if there will be ranked playlists.

If thats the case then I think I’ll pass on Halo 4 just like i did on Halo reach…

But seriously, there will be a rank system, there has to be a ranking system, I remember seeing one of the 343 staff tweet ‘We won’t be giving any info out on the ranking system yet’

My opinion exactly, If nothing else there should be at least one playlist where competitive gameplay can actually happen.

I hope 343 brings back the 1-50 ranking system cause it keeps players playing and to the casual players there is such a thing called social playlist’s so go play those and keep quite

> > I want them to kill me not because of something outside the game, <mark>but because of something inside the game.</mark> Something I have the capability to have control over, and so I never feel cheated out of a life.
>
> Perks ARE inside the game.

“Inception”

I fully agree with OP.

Keep armor abilities and perks in social playlists only!

agreed, though i would take it further and make multiple non-AA, non-sprint playlists.

Also, just one competitive playlist isn’t enough. We have that for Reach (the MLG playlist) and it (kinda ironically) has a low population and nobody’s a noob in there.

> agreed, though i would take it further and make multiple non-AA, non-sprint playlists.
>
> Also, just one competitive playlist isn’t enough. We have that for Reach (the MLG playlist) and it (kinda ironically) has a low population and nobody’s a noob in there.

As much as we all hate sprint, a large percentage of the competitive community unfortunately likes it, no matter how detrimental to gameplay it is.

> As much as we all hate sprint, a large percentage of the competitive community unfortunately likes it, no matter how detrimental to gameplay it is.

What a bunch of -yoinks-! Those that vote for sprint in the MLG playlists gets laughed at.

They have barely showed us not much of anything yet, except the viDoc and the teaser trailer, not much info. There may be a ranked there amy not be, but you’ll still buy the game you’ll still play it.

How do you know there is even a ranked playlist? What happens if they are in ranked? What the hell are you going to do about it?

They can put whatever they want in Halo. If they want to add pink flying unicorns that breath fire I’m ok with it as long as they include ranked playlists with a 1-50 style ranking along with normal Halo settings. Keep the gimmicky crap in it’s own playlists. I want some basic standard Halo again. The kind that my friends and I spent hours upon hours playing.

> They can put whatever they want in Halo. If they want to add pink flying unicorns that breath fire I’m ok with it as long as they include ranked playlists with a 1-50 style ranking along with normal Halo settings. Keep the gimmicky crap in it’s own playlists. I want some basic standard Halo again. The kind that my friends and I spent hours upon hours playing.

Precisely.

> agreed, though i would take it further and make multiple non-AA, non-sprint playlists.
>
> Also, just one competitive playlist isn’t enough. We have that for Reach (the MLG playlist) and it (kinda ironically) has a low population and nobody’s a noob in there.

I’ve always thought this was hilarious. People here love to proclaim that competitive halo is real Halo, yet no one plays the only truly competitive playlist.

> > agreed, though i would take it further and make multiple non-AA, non-sprint playlists.
> >
> > Also, just one competitive playlist isn’t enough. We have that for Reach (the MLG playlist) and it (kinda ironically) has a low population and nobody’s a noob in there.
>
> I’ve always thought this was hilarious. People here love to proclaim that competitive halo is real Halo, yet no one plays the only truly competitive playlist.

Playing the MLG playlist is quite intimidating, and often unenjoyable if you’re far inferior than the majority of people playing in there.

Yeah! Keep those perks that 343 stated aren’t perks out! We don’t know how they will actually function or what they will entail, but keep them out! Keeping them out of ranked playlists might totally break the game but keep them out anyways because we don’t know anything about them!