As we all know by now there is a serious lack of maps in Halo 4. As it stands currently only Haven is picked in 4v4 slayer of any kind as well as oddball and king of the hill. Sure every now and then another map is picked, but we can safely say that it basically boils down to playing on Haven for the most part.
The same goes for BTB, It’s always Ragnarok with a little Exile and that’s pretty much it. The biggest issue I have with currently is why they have 3 forge preset maps not in MM? This makes no sense no matter how you look at it.
I’m really hoping that the Map packs are actual map packs that contain a satisfying number of maps, for me that would be 5-8 new maps. The reason I picked this number is because I personally feel that all H4 maps are simply not good (thus the constant play on only 3 maps) and having 5-8 new maps will give us hope that at least 1-2 of these would be great.
We do need to spice the game up with more maps… or people will get burned out from playing the same selected few popular maps over and over and over and over and… well you get the point!
> > there are 3 maps per map packs.
> > look it up, there are even the official names floating around on the intertubes.
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> I was going to post up about that. **How does it work because not every will have the War Games Map Pass if they did not purchase the LE.[/**quote]
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> You can buy a War Games “season pass” on xbox live. Its essentially the war games map pass seperate from the LE, with a different helmet/armour
So these maps are all mixed into gametypes that are simply not suited for them. Halo 2 had it’s arena style/slayer maps, it’s btb maps,etc. Halo 4 only has 3 maps that were created with slayer in mind.
All the dominion maps work for extremely one dimensional gameplay when it comes to btb. (longbow=fighting over the top, vortex=fighting over the middle, exile=total clusterf**k.) Dominion, as a gametype is flawed simply because of the resupply feature. If i’m camping a base that gives me LMGs and incinerators, NOBODY will be able to retake it.
The approach to maps need to be a certain number for each gametype with no cross overs. You never saw epitagraph or cold storage in team slayer in halo 3.
> If you buy the war games map pass you will get 3 maps each month if I am correct. Starting from this December till February.
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> So 3x3 maps.
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> Am I correct?
3x3 maps, 9 maps.
and maybe more if 343i & MS decides to release free maps (like Bungie did with Cold Storage).
I’ve said before. I think 343 needs to utilize the creativity of this community with forge maps. I know some were not poular with alot of you, but it would give us more variety. I’m not saying flood the map selection with forge maps, just 1 or 2 hear and there…
> > there are 3 maps per map packs.
> > look it up, there are even the official names floating around on the intertubes.
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> I was going to post up about that. How does it work because not every will have the War Games Map Pass if they did not purchase the LE.
Can’t we just buy mappacks normally with -Yoink!- points?
> will the map pass map be in regular hopper of a separate DLC playlist, cuz we all know how that turned out with reach.
I’d like to know this too, because they really screwed that up. If you think about it though, either way its a bad set-up. You either have a seperate room for them that hardly gets used, or you mix them in the other rooms and have people who didnt get the pack getting booted alot…
I totally agree that we need more maps. BTB might was well be just Ragnarok and Exile. The smaller maps aren’t quite as bad. I see Haven a lot, but I also play the others pretty often. Don’t worry, before you know it, people will probably be complaining that we’ve got too many Forge maps.
It is very greedy of 343 to already be planning for a December map pack. They give us all of these crap maps and now they want us to buy some maps almost immediately after the release? If you look back to the last map pack of Halo 2 until now, the map packs have been totally crappy and have gotten gradually worse for competitive play.
Halo 2
Desolation
Tombstone
Halo 3
Foundry
Rats Nest
Standoff
Avalanche
Blackout
Ghost Town
Assembly
Orbital
Sandbox
Citadel
Heretic
Longshore