I’m sure I’m beating a dead horse at this point, but the lack of DLC in matchmaking is upsetting. I’m not necessarily looking for anyone to agree with me. I’m just wondering if 343 has said anything about improving the issue. I’ve scoured Google and haven’t been able to find anything. I bought both the Majestic and Crimson map packs, but have only played them in matchmaking a handful of times. I play more Forge maps than I do DLC. You would think that 343 would rather have people playing maps they designed and made people pay for than community made maps. I don’t know. Like I said, I’m just wondering if anything is being done behind the scenes to fix the issue.
Pretty sure there’s an entire playlist for it…
For Majestic, yes, which I appreciate, but not for Crimson or, even more confusing, Castle. I bought Majestic when it first came out, so I had the opportunity to play the Majestic playlist, but they removed the Crimson playlist once that happened. So, I’ve literally played a Crimson map roughly five times in the last few months I’ve owned it. What makes even less sense, like I said before, is the fact that a Majestic playlist remains, but there isn’t such a thing for Castle, which is newer. I haven’t even put forth the thought of purchasing the Castle map pack because of this very issue. To be completely honest, I’m losing faith in 343. I hate to say this, but Halo probably should’ve been laid to rest with Bungie. The franchise just seems like a cash cow at this point and it’s being milked dry.
> For Majestic, yes, which I appreciate, but not for Crimson or, even more confusing, Castle. I bought Majestic when it first came out, so I had the opportunity to play the Majestic playlist, but they removed the Crimson playlist once that happened. So, I’ve literally played a Crimson map roughly five times in the last few months I’ve owned it. What makes even less sense, like I said before, is the fact that a Majestic playlist remains, but there isn’t such a thing for Castle, which is newer. I haven’t even put forth the thought of purchasing the Castle map pack because of this very issue. To be completely honest, I’m losing faith in 343. I hate to say this, but Halo probably should’ve been laid to rest with Bungie. The franchise just seems like a cash cow at this point and it’s being milked dry.
There was a Castle playlist upon release of the pack, they’ve switched in a Majestic playlist now. In a couple of weeks (can’t remember how long ago they added it) they’ll likely remove Majestic and have a Crimson playlist.
I just hope to god they do a playlist with all 9 maps.
> I just hope to god they do a playlist with all 9 maps.
If they did that I’d immediately buy all the map packs.
I’ve downloaded all map packs 2 months ago, and I have yet to play Skyline online.
> I’ve downloaded all map packs 2 months ago, and I have yet to play Skyline online.
Yeah that sucks bro. I, despite currently owning no map packs, would gladly see them make a few of the key playlists DLC required. I am (sadly) quite sure that would cause mass outrage here on the forums though.
Once again I ask “What playlist are you playing?” Regicide, CTF, SWAT, there are others - DLC comes up all the time. Yes, I play with friends which helps, but when I play with randoms they come up too.
I’m pretty sure 343i said in a bulletin in the last week or two that they’d be converting the current DLC playlist to an all DLC playlist.
I’ve only played DLC in regular playlists a few times. I think it’s because not many people bought the maps. If not everyone in the pre-game lobby has a map pack, those maps won’t appear in the voting list.
Oddly enough the last time I played I got quite a few dlc maps, felt like christmas. I have no idea why 343 doesn’t just release all dlc maps for the dlc playlist. I haven’t really come across anyone on here who said they only had some of the maps, most everyone has all the map packs if they were interested in them. But even if a player in the lobby only had 2/3 map packs I’d be fine with the options being limited to those 2
When I play Team Doubles my partner and I always get Skyline, Landfall and Monolith all the time -.-
I got monolith last night and tend to get the DLC maps a good bit, a full DLC playlist would be appreciated
I have no idea why they can’t just make a 5v5 playlist with ALL the DLC maps in it.
They’ve got enough playlists as is. We’re already few in numbers in most playlists right now. No point in making it worse by adding Another playlist
> They’ve got enough playlists as is. We’re already few in numbers in most playlists right now. No point in making it worse by adding Another playlist
That’s why you get rid of the current DLC playlist and merge Castle, Crimson and Majestic into 1 DLC playlist with 3 times as many maps which will probably have double the population.
> I’m pretty sure 343i said in a bulletin in the last week or two that they’d be converting the current DLC playlist to an all DLC playlist.
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> I’ve only played DLC in regular playlists a few times. I think it’s because not many people bought the maps. If not everyone in the pre-game lobby has a map pack, those maps won’t appear in the voting list.
You misheard, they will rotate the DLC playlists on a biweekly basis.
> I have no idea why they can’t just make a 5v5 playlist with ALL the DLC maps in it.
Because 5v5 on Skyline sounds like torture. The map sizes differ greatly for all nine of them to be implemented into one single playlist and keep the same team size.
What we have now is best. Although considering every DLC playlist since Reach has has the lowest player count of all playlists, I don’t know why they bother.
> > I’m pretty sure 343i said in a bulletin in the last week or two that they’d be converting the current DLC playlist to an all DLC playlist.
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> > I’ve only played DLC in regular playlists a few times. I think it’s because not many people bought the maps. If not everyone in the pre-game lobby has a map pack, those maps won’t appear in the voting list.
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> You misheard, they will rotate the DLC playlists on a biweekly basis.
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> > I have no idea why they can’t just make a 5v5 playlist with ALL the DLC maps in it.
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> Because 5v5 on Skyline sounds like torture. The map sizes differ greatly for all nine of them to be implemented into one single playlist and keep the same team size.
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> What we have now is best. Although considering every DLC playlist since Reach has has the lowest player count of all playlists, I don’t know why they bother.
I played CTF 5v5 on Skyline last night. It wasn’t that bad honestly.
> > I’m pretty sure 343i said in a bulletin in the last week or two that they’d be converting the current DLC playlist to an all DLC playlist.
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> > I’ve only played DLC in regular playlists a few times. I think it’s because not many people bought the maps. If not everyone in the pre-game lobby has a map pack, those maps won’t appear in the voting list.
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> You misheard, they will rotate the DLC playlists on a biweekly basis.
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> > I have no idea why they can’t just make a 5v5 playlist with ALL the DLC maps in it.
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> Because 5v5 on Skyline sounds like torture. The map sizes differ greatly for all nine of them to be implemented into one single playlist and keep the same team size.
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> What we have now is best. Although considering every DLC playlist since Reach has has the lowest player count of all playlists, I don’t know why they bother.
5v5 on skyline sounds like torture? Have you played multi team on Haven? That map was not meant for that many people and as a result the spawns are laughably terrible.
5v5 would be a… Haven… Compared to multi team on haven.
More on topic; yeah DLC is rare and it’s unfortunate. It was the primary incentive to getting the limited edition and it has been rendered useless.
> > I have no idea why they can’t just make a 5v5 playlist with ALL the DLC maps in it.
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> Because 5v5 on Skyline sounds like torture. The map sizes differ greatly for all nine of them to be implemented into one single playlist and keep the same team size.
Maybe if 343 would try this ingenious idea called TIMED respawns it would be just fine. Instant respawn is what ruins small maps which would otherwise be great like Haven and Skyline when you clutter the map with 10 players constantly mashing X to respawn.