Key to fixing H3's issues. (Playlist Update)

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It’s no secret that Halo 3’s population is depressingly low. The ironic part is, I believe Halo 3’s population is low BECAUSE Halo 3’s population is low. I want to be able to go back to play this wonderful game (as I’m sure others do as well), but the two most glaring issues with the game currently are the long wait times to get into a match, and the lag since there are so few players with good connections to be host. Both of these are caused by the low population being spread across too many playlists. I’ve tried multiple times to get back into Halo 3, but these two issues always make me turn away, and I think it has for many other players as well.

These could be easily addressed by condensing playlists. The least it could do is make the game at least be playable for those of us who still love it. If this works the way I believe it will however, the population may increase significantly. If that’s the case, more playlists may be able to be added back in at a later time.

So here is an example and my suggestion on how to condense the playlists:

Social Playlists (Only Free DLC required in all but Team DLC)

*Rumble Pit - Exactly as it is now. (Monthly EXP reset for 7th on the 7th)
*Multi Team - Exactly as it is now.
*Team Social - Combine Social Slayer and Social Skirmish. Also add Snipers and Swat matches.
*Big Team Battle - Exactly as it is now.
*Team DLC - Multiple game modes across all of the game’s DLCs

Ranked Playlists (All DLC required)

*Lone Wolves - Exactly as it is now.
*Team Doubles - Exactly as it is now.
*MLG - Exactly as it is now.

This splits everything up primarily based on team size and DLC. It also lowers the playlist count from 14 to 8 (almost half). This is only my suggestion, so feel free to give your own ideas on the distribution of those playlists, or of any of the playlists for that matter. Remember, the less playlists the better, because we don’t want to spread the population too thin. If I see any good ideas, I’ll try to update this post.

Please contribute your own opinions and help try to give this thread some attention! Halo 3 has a HUGE need for a playlist update, and we need to make it known to 343i.

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Yeah I am not sure about Team Competitive… Great concept however!

If you can’t find a game in whatever playlist just switch to social slayer and set a matchmaking preference to “prefer good connection”. I find games in up to a minute or less on average.

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> If you can’t find a game in whatever playlist just switch to social slayer and set a matchmaking preference to “prefer good connection”. I find games in up to a minute or less on average.

The issue with that is that you are forced to play social slayer if you want to actually get a game in decent time. Only slayer on 4v4 maps. That’s only a fraction of the total offering of Halo 3. On top of that, there’s no DLC maps in that playlist.

If you want to play anything else, you’re more or less out of luck. I know that in my case, I was always a big fan of BTB, and now it’s pretty much unplayable.

I agree however that Team Competitive is pushing it a bit. I think I’m going to rework the playlists real quick.

Edit: Team Competitive switched out with just MLG, snipers and swat gametypes moved to Team Social.