Maps not being used in matchmaking?

Games Other Halo
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So i was just messing around in custom games to take a break from matchmaking, and there are some awesome maps that I haven’t even seen in matchmaking! Am I just playing the wrong playlists? I don’t know but I play a total of 4 maps in matchmaking: Abandon, Solace, Haven, and Ragnarok. I found erosion, impact, ravine, and vortex. I have never even played these! If they are in some obscure playlist then I’ll admit that I am wrong, but is 343 not even using all the maps they have in matchmaking??

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I would love to get an answer on this too. Ravine is an awesome map but I’ve never seen it on matchmaking.

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Im literally just driving around them right now, and they are so refreshing to the 4 repeat maps I play all the time. What is going on!!

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Go play snipers or BtB. They play those but their are like 2 or 3 maps that they don’t use but they should like Relay, Ravine, and erosion thats the only maps they don’t play

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> Go play snipers or BtB. They play those but their are like 2 or 3 maps that they don’t use but they should like Relay, Ravine, and erosion thats the only maps they don’t play

Yes those are all the ones I listed…

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Ravine, Impact and Erosion are forge maps.

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> > Go play snipers or BtB. They play those but their are like 2 or 3 maps that they don’t use but they should like Relay, Ravine, and erosion thats the only maps they don’t play
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> Yes those are all the ones I listed…

lol

they need to put the forge maps in badly. the same old maps over and over is getting extremely stale

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Aye! Agreed, why are they doing this…? Literally makes no sense to me…

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> Aye! Agreed, why are they doing this…? Literally makes no sense to me…

There are a couple of potential reasons I can come up with.

  1. The fact that each Forge map has a “generating lighting”, due to the improved dynamic lighting, may mean that Forge maps cause more performance issues than deemed acceptable. Remember how playlists with Forge World maps limited the amount of splitscreen players and even then would have framerate issues when looking at certain spots? It’s possible that the problem got worse.

  2. It’s a PR move to avoid the backlash Bungie got for using Forge World maps.

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Personally I say just put the forge maps that came with the game. settler is a fun map not mention all the others that are not being used.

I understand there may be issues due to lighting. but hey if a little lag is all that’s stopping them, I say put them in better than playing the same maps over and over and over and over and over… Well you get the point.

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Thats because those are forge maps, not MP maps. And vortex is in the BTB playlist. It just never gets chosen BECAUSE IT -Yoinking!- SUCKS!