The new dominion mode lockdown is so bad. It’s just a camp fest for whoever gets the base first, after that it becomes a massive Plasma grenade hoarding area with people just throwing them randomly and of course getting kills…because thats all you really need to do with Plasma’s. But how can anyone enjoy that? Theres no focus on anywhere else on the map, you get stuck more than usual, and it’s generally a massive boring camp fest. Do people enjoy that or something?
I get the feeling the general players enjoy the bad things, in Reach Sword base was always voted for, Complex is popular in Halo 4, Lockdown is popular, people always vote for Ragnarock in CTF…all the bad things come up more often.
By the way, Stickies. I hate them. If you use them, then you should feel bad.
The main reason I dont play dominion any more is because of this since the game goes by very quickly and is boring and unbalanced to play.
More people would play in the dominion playlist if this was removed, but if they can make it work then I’m all for it.
However I disagree with you on how people vote bad things. Sword base was a really good map sure the lift room needed work but still. And CTF on ragnarok is possibly the best CTF game on halo 4 (less so on 5v5 but still.
Play with your friends and don’t vote that garbage. Noobs like it because they can stick everyone or camp with active camo without the blue dots on the radar.
> By the way, Stickies. I hate them. If you use them, then you should feel bad.
> Play with your friends and don’t vote that garbage. Noobs like it because they can stick everyone or camp with active camo without the blue dots on the radar
Why should I have to play with a party of 6 just to have a 50% chance that I dont play an unbalanced gamemode when they could balance it. Not everyone plays in a party all the time.
Dominion, eh?
I’ve played that a few times when the playlist emerged. Now I don’t. Now I am happy. I see the direction that 343 attempted to take by implementing it, but it just doesn’t flow very well. Most players seemed to roam around ignoring objectives for kills as if it were a Slayer match.
> > Play with your friends and don’t vote that garbage. Noobs like it because they can stick everyone or camp with active camo without the blue dots on the radar
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> Why should I have to play with a party of 6 just to have a 50% chance that I dont play an unbalanced gamemode when they could balance it. Not everyone plays in a party all the time.
They already “fixed” it when they removd the radar, sentry turrets and shield doors.
BTW if you aren’t playing with a party of 6 you can back out of the lobby over and over.
i wish lockdown was more true to its name, rather than a static King of the kill in a Choke point. grenade spmming is not what Dominion is supposed to be about
i was also kind of upset when 343i removed the Auto-Turrets protecting the base.
> By the way, Stickies. I hate them. If you use them, then you should feel bad.
QFT
After not playing dominion for several months, I came back and got lockdown on vortex. I had non idea what was happening or where dominion had gone lol. I like the “original” dominion more than lockdown…
> > > Play with your friends and don’t vote that garbage. Noobs like it because they can stick everyone or camp with active camo without the blue dots on the radar
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> > Why should I have to play with a party of 6 just to have a 50% chance that I dont play an unbalanced gamemode when they could balance it. Not everyone plays in a party all the time.
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> They already “fixed” it when they removd the radar, sentry turrets and shield doors.
> BTW if you aren’t playing with a party of 6 you can back out of the lobby over and over.
They can still improve it besides why should I have to back out of the lobby again and again plus that also annoys people who hate when people quit such as myself.
> > > > Play with your friends and don’t vote that garbage. Noobs like it because they can stick everyone or camp with active camo without the blue dots on the radar
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> > > Why should I have to play with a party of 6 just to have a 50% chance that I dont play an unbalanced gamemode when they could balance it. Not everyone plays in a party all the time.
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> > They already “fixed” it when they removd the radar, sentry turrets and shield doors.
> > BTW if you aren’t playing with a party of 6 you can back out of the lobby over and over.
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> They can still improve it besides why should I have to back out of the lobby again and again plus that also annoys people who hate when people quit such as myself.
The only way to fix it is to remove it. It’s just king of the hill with an hill in the middle of the map that doesn’t move to different parts of the map.
Calm your butts down! Spartans need a way to familiarize themselves with the suppressor.
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> Calm your butts down! Spartans need a way to familiarize themselves with the suppressor.
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Hardly effective when your trying to rush the other base since you have no choice and have no shields due to nade spam.
Perhaps if they got rid of the weapon supply for the winning team, I’d go back to dominion, but it’s flipping impossible to get anything done when you have an entire team of Active Camo SAW hoarders running around, getting killing frenzies left and right, capping all the bases.
> Perhaps if they got rid of the weapon supply for the winning team, I’d go back to dominion, but it’s flipping impossible to get anything done when you have an entire team of Active Camo SAW hoarders running around, getting killing frenzies left and right, capping all the bases.
Dominion is hardly like that now but we cant go to play it because of lockdown the stupid yoink gamemode has pushed many people away from dominion.
To the OP, if you seriously can’t say anything good about it at all. Please stop staying around just to gripe. I don’t even care if you hated 99% of the gametype but please take the times and courtesy to compliment 343 on the 1% you liked. Let’s face it. It’s makes them feel a lot better about how they did. It was their first Halo game and when people give feedback like this, it can be very discouraging. That’s what constructive criticism is, saying what’s good and providing input on how to build off of that.
> To the OP, if you seriously can’t say anything good about it at all. Please stop staying around just to gripe. I don’t even care if you hated 99% of the gametype but please take the times and courtesy to compliment 343 on the 1% you liked. Let’s face it. It’s makes them feel a lot better about how they did. It was their first Halo game and when people give feedback like this, it can be very discouraging. That’s what constructive criticism is, saying what’s good and providing input on how to build off of that.
Please dont copy a post and alter it to the thread since it doesnt work properly with the OPs post besides who said he liked anything about it, also people in the thread have suggested some improvements which is the point of the discussion.
> Sword base was a really good map sure the lift room needed work but still.
You can’t be serious… Sword Base was an automatic win for Red Team if they had any idea how to play the game. When me and my buddies pick Oddball in Team Objective we usually win 150-0 when we spawn Red side. Sword base had the worst one sided advantage in Reach. Terrible map.
I don;t think Lockdown is the problem, rather its the use of personal loadouts in the gametype is the real culprit.
If we had set loadouts for it with these settings:
Primary- Assault Rifle/BR/Carbine
Secondary- Magnum
Grenades- 1 frag
AA- Hardlight/hologram/thruster pack
Tactical- Resupply
Support- Explosives
Then it would be perfect. No grenade spamming, no AC camping (super OP with no radar), and relatively equal starting loadouts.
> I don;t think Lockdown is the problem, rather its the use of personal loadouts in the gametype is the real culprit.
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> If we had set loadouts for it with these settings:
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> Primary- Assault Rifle/BR/Carbine
> Secondary- Magnum
> Grenades- 1 frag
> AA- Hardlight/hologram/thruster pack
> Tactical- Resupply
> Support- Explosives
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> Then it would be perfect. No grenade spamming, no AC camping (super OP with no radar), and relatively equal starting loadouts.
They would still have more grenades to spam and the weapons at the base.
> > Sword base was a really good map sure the lift room needed work but still.
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> You can’t be serious… Sword Base was an automatic win for Red Team if they had any idea how to play the game. When me and my buddies pick Oddball in Team Objective we usually win 150-0 when we spawn Red side. Sword base had the worst one sided advantage in Reach. Terrible map.
The map wasnt biased towards any team at all. The other team must if been bad compared to you if anything oddball went perfectly on that map regardless of your team. It was an awesome map besides the lift room.