Played 5 hours of Big Team Battle with my clanmates, we got loaded into ZERO SLAYER matches. ZERO. Absolutely ridiculous! As much as we do enjoy the other game types we should NOT be restricted to play what we want to play. Slayer, SWAT, Infection etc should be back asap, AND if people only want to play CTF, or Control, Or Stockpile they should have the freedom to play that specific game mode. We can’t even back out of the games because then y’all ban us. It’s beyond ridiculous
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Same issue here but for total control which I need for a challenge… it’s all been done to make leveling up a pain in the -yoink- I’ve started quitting matches now until it finally decides to give me the gametype I want.
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yeah huge lack of slayer games in playlists. in ranked arena, i got “streets” map 8 games in a row. its 2021 lol and halo been out for 20 years and still simple things like getting slayer games or different map is somehow an issue…ok
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I am assuming more dedicated playlists will launch on December 8th. While the game is probably pretty much complete, I think they used the beta period to test out multiplayer settings, Playlist settings, challenges, etc, and it is probably helpful to them to not have players spread out on more playlists.
I would revisit your complaints after December 8th to see if they’re still warranted.
I too want more playlist options, for the opposite reason of you. I want to play Slayer only very rarely (which I mean, I guess things are working for me in that regard right now).
What I really want is a system like Titanfall 2. Every multiplayer game needs to copy that.
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If they allow us to play what we want, how are they going to sell us challenge swaps? Yachts don’t buy themselves.
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Yeah I like big team battle but I despise that zone capture mode, boring.
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Yeah that’s true. It sucks, I love the challenges (I feel some of them need to be tweaked a bit), but I wish we just had more freedom in regards to what we play.
As much as I love the game, I feel like if they don’t give us the ability to pick and choose our game type I think I’ll step away from the game. It’s a great game, but I shouldn’t be forced to play something for 5 hrs with my clan because it’s our only option and be “banned” for quitting multiple games because we repeatedly get matched into 3 or 4 stockpile matches.
I agree. I am loving the game and how it plays, but I also can see a problem here. I love Oddball but I already can see players not showing interest in it. I consistently held the skull for more time than my other 3 teammates combined. I literally found myself between 3 enemies, they killed me. And not a single one of them bothered to pick the skull I was carrying. They just stood around my body for a bit, then moved somewhere else. Like bruh, what are you doing? Seriously now. I was able to respawn and pick the skull again just exactly where I left it before dying. Its like no one is even trying man. This was my experience so far.
Also, I do not like Strongholds. But unfortunately, I am forced to play it.
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That would kill the HALO-INFINITE multiplayer
If they put Slayer only mode, it would be the most played mode and you would force the entire playerbase to play it. Nobody would play odd ball, stronghold and CTF. It would take 10-15 minutes to find matches in those modes.
The evidence is in Gears 4 and Gears 5
95% of people played TDM. Nobody played competitive mode, Koth, dodgeball and guardian. You had to wait 10 minutes or more to find a game there and “Because of the MULTI-PROFILE xbox it allows you to abuse the system and abandon the games that you were losing”
I totally agree. If I enjoy certain mode, and some other mode not at all, why can’t I play what I want to play? It’s not fun to spend time on a mod you don’t like. This also leads to players quitting the games if they don’t get the game mode they were hoping for, and then rest of the team suffers. Trying to do your daily challenges becomes extremely frustrating, if you have to search for matches for a long time, possibly play the modes you don’t like, until you finally get the mode where you can actually do the challenge. Our time should be valued.
I understand the possible goal of trying to spread players in to different game modes, but if some game mode is not generally liked, is it worth to force players to play it? Another option would be to allow at least to remove some mods you don’t want to play. This would make the experience a lot more bearable.
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Literally every shooting multiplayer game has a Deathmatch play list… CoD, Battlefield, Literally every halo game ever made, Rainbow Six, Splitgate, I can keep going.
Your reasoning makes no sense. You think a company CARES HOW you play their game? No, they care that YOU PLAY the game. If they want people to continue to play the game beyond the first week or 2 of its actual release date they better implement more game types, because people will not play for hours hoping they get to play 1 match of their favorite game type.
CoD sells 10-15m copies every year they pull out the game modes and then ditch that CoD. They only focus on war-zone.
That already happened to microsoft with GEARS 4 and GEARS 5. They put the individual modes and I repeat it. IT TAKEN 10 minutes or more to find a game for the other modes. That is precisely what 343 is “avoiding”
343 wants ranked to be slayer, stronghold, ctf, and oddball. I repeat it if they put “lists” for slayer in quickplay / ranked. You would be forcing the entire playerbase to play that mode as well as in Gears TDM was played exclusively
Neither way 343 should play it safe and make sacrifices. If that means losing 10% of the playerbase, welcome to. The same did blizzard with OW and 40M of active users from 2016-2018 worked for them and today 2021 ow is a dead game with 8M of users.
You are being funnelled into modes because it reduces player wait times. Which plays into engagement metrics, which plays into monetisation.
Every single design decision was made with monetisation and engagement metrics in mind. We are not playing a video game, we are contributing to a spreadsheet to be shown to executives who don’t even know what halo is.
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I think this is going to be fixed very soon.
Seems like an easy fix, especially if the population is large.
I definitely agree with you there I think the way that the system works is really unfair and you definitely shouldn’t be getting banned for leaving because another player is likely going to take your place anyway and I’ve noticed if players get disconnected a bot will immediately take their place until another player joints the fact that you get banned for leaving is really unfair and is the main reason why I haven’t left any game modes that I just genuinely don’t enjoy and just stick through it till the end regardless of if my team is losing or not
I sense a lto fo sarcasms here
My friend had to wait 3 days for a single game of Oddball. 3 DAYS! He played a good 4 hours a night after work and literally no luck.
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They should go with the way MCC is for game searches. Allows you to change it up whenever you feel like it.
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Yeah I think they’ll have full playlists available either at launch or soon after, cause a lot of people feel the same. The devs said to remember this is a beta, in response to those criticisms which hopefully means they’ll be addressed by launch, or soon following it.
It’s frustrating, in 24h I only got 2 times the CTF gametype and I need it to unlock the rest of the challenges.