Take slayer out of the ranked game list. People who love slayer can play it as a stand-alone game mode. It’s by far my least favorite mode and my friends all agree. The other objective based games are intense, fun, exciting and rewarding. Slayer is boring and lacks purpose. It also encourages a different style of play which is less aggressive and exciting. I know many people love slayer, but I would argue there is a growing community of people like me who have fallen in love with the objective based games. Every time I get slayer I want to quit and hope for something else. Just my two sense. Other than that the game is highly engaging and could play for hours on end. It does not get old. More maps would be fun too at some point.
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The current Ranked mode is basically just HCS settings, so really in order to remove Slayer from it you’d have to convince the HCS settings people (I have no idea who they are) to remove Slayer from tournament play.
Yea that makes sense. It would be a huge change I guess. I wonder if the pros love slayer? To me it’s not quite as addicting and exciting but maybe they like it. Like even watching streamers I prefer the excitement of fighting for a key objective vs slayer.
Disagree. I look forward to the slayer in ranked
Slayer should have it’s own ranked playlist tho.
There’s a couple of pros who said they didn’t like slayer in halo 5 HCS but that’s as far as I’ve heard. It’s a staple in HCS. It should never go away
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That’s interesting that you look forward to it. i agree it would be cool if it had its own ranked playlist and then an objective ranked playlist. Maybe that’s a solution. Or I guess I just need to suck it up 
Lol.
Slayer has been a contentious subject for a very long time among the competitive crowd. Most dislike it because of how it discourages movement and has less thinking involved, but it does have those huge moments say in a 49-49 Slayer game for example so viewership wise its definitely popular.
Just as an example, if you watch anything for the HCS in Infinte you’ll notice that its always 2 Slayers and 3 objectives in a bo5, this is because they value objective over Slayers. I think that if Infinite got another good gametype (extraction, Escalation ala Gears of War, or a good single life mode) they’d definitely prefer to reduce the Slayers in a series to 1 at most (it should be a tiebreaker, so game 3 or game 5 really) but currently they don’t have enough flexibility and options to do that.
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That’s cool to know. I love the objectives so much. I didn’t play attrition much because I just like ranked, but that is a cool spin on slayer that adds another dimension that could be fun.
I just had to put this post out there. At a minimum, it would be great if you don’t get the same game mode 2 times in a row. I had like 4 slayers in a row today and almost went crazy. People would probably like that who also may not favor certain objective based game modes.