More playlists coming confirmed by a dev; Fiesta, SWAT, and FFA aiming for this year, Social Slayer a bit later

Games Halo Infinite
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I’ve been a 343 apologist recently, but this is just -Blam!-ing ridiculous. No ranked slayer. No team snipers. No team doubles. God I want to love this game so much, but they are making it so difficult. I love the gameplay, but sometimes I just want to kill other spartans without worrying about an objective.

Launching with this few playlists was already absolutely ludicrous. But then for them to add only THREE playlists, with one being Fiesta which I’ve seen absolutely zero players ask for, instead of a dedicated Slayer Playlist, it’s like they’re just -Blam!-ing with us at this point.

WTF man.

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So freaking excited for FFA. Playing against groups of tryhards while being paired with bumbling teammates gets old. Some people just don’t have friends who play Halo :sob:

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I’m enjoying the game, but this is incredibly disappointing news…

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No Slayer playlist at launch? Come on guys, it’s not like someone “forgot” you purposefully decided not to include it because? Either for challenges/BP or fear that the other playlists would have less people.

Bad move 343, I’ve been all aboard since the first flight but this is actually disappointing. What’s next a COD game launching without TDM?

Halo and Team Slayer are its bread and butter, and if rarely seems to pop up in quick play as well.

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Honestly I disagree. Slayer should be the default playlist, or at least included like any other shooter ever.

If no new playlists were being added until after the holidays I would understand, adding anything else before slayer is honestly worse IMO.

I LOVE SWAT! But getting it before the most basic playlist is -YOINK-.

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No Ranked Team Slayer still? What is actually happening over there guys?

This is Halo without any dedicated Ranked Slayer playlist or even a Social Slayer Playlist.

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343 finally make a great halo and there’s still so many head scratching decisions. Honestly a joke of a company. Obviously the lack of variety of game modes is to sell challenge swaps… Give us a $#%&ING slayer playlist already.

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I cannot comprehend how it takes ANY “work” to implement a Slayer playlist. The maps/spawns/loadouts/etc already exist. Why would that not be able to implement that in 30 seconds?!?!?

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It’s a load of crap I don’t believe a word this company says. They can get this done overnight if they wanted. Fragment the community? Do you remember how many game modes there were in previous Halos?! Finally have my old group of friends playing halo again and the only thing everyone wants is slayer. There’s soooo many other issues with the game but thats minor in comparison with being forced to play a game mode you don’t want to. How many more times can I play an oddball match with randoms where no one plays the objective?!

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Finally a dev confirms what people have been defending them for probably not happening(Dec 8th will have new playlists). Well, it’s confirmed, folks. Stop defending them blindly, please. The lack of playlists is abominable.

It can’t have been an oversight, it was planned because of the challenge system, which most said doesn’t affect gameplay. I would argue here it is blatantly affecting gameplay because their design choices around gameplay are being altered from it.

I wanted to be wrong because I WANT an awesome Halo that brings in swathes of new players to love and enjoy, but new players are NOT getting the day one experience they should be getting. Playlists are EVERYTHING to the Halo Experience™.

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343 has been handling Halo since Reach, no? Wouldn’t they already have rough data on what playlists were popular prior to Infinite ever beginning development, especially in light of the MCC? I don’t buy it. And this notion about adding playlists based on what event playlists are popular is backwards, especially when you tie those events to unique rewards. Of course they’re going to be popular, so the data you get from them would be neither helpful nor enlightening. Not to mention that doing it that way is just going to result in people leaving over time because of a lack of variety. You’d tank your playerbase. Normally, you’d monitor playlist activity as a game gets older to ensure that they’re still active and consolidate if activity is dying. Not only is this game new, it’s free to play. There should be no issue here re playlist activity; if anything, you should expect to have the most played Halo game ever, so you’d aim to have a large number of playlists, not fewer. It strains reason to think that 343 is incompetent, I think, though some things make me second guess that. In any case, they should know better with respect to this specific issue, which makes me think there’s another explanation. Is this about not wanting to eliminate an incentive for purchasing challenge swaps? This seems so below par. It just doesn’t make sense.

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The fact that they’re not prioritizing Social Slayer first definitely says a lot about their priorities. How disappointing…

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I’d be curious if they were able take Slayer out of Quick Play and have just Social Slayer and Social Objective (as a temporary fix.)

But I wonder if they are afraid Objective would receive a substantial population drop which they are trying to avoid it for either challenge swap or data gathering purposes.

I’m just it’s more complicated than I’m making it out to be.

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I’m really surprised a Free For All and Slayer playlist wasn’t in the plans for the Dec 8th launch. These have been staples of Halo for a very, very long time.

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Sad not to see doubles on the list. These arena maps would be awesome for some 2v2. Not sure how that is not a playlist included.

Very disheartening to see a new halo game has the least amount of maps and now playlists at launch. Should it not be the other way around?

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I love doubles. It would be awesome in Infinite. I’m sad to see they’re adding nothing on Dec 8th. I really should just go back to MCC where I can play whatever I want.

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YAY!!

I am soo happy that 343 is actually listening to us….

Hopefully we can mold this game into the best Halo game ever.

The next big thing is Progression and Custimization (Playable Sangheili too)

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So someone brought up to me Infection? Any word on that? I personally hate infection but I thought that was a popular selection.

I would love to see Grifball but I think it would be a disaster with how slow the hammer is now and how the sword beats hammer. But was there any word on Grifball?

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And still no Elimination. So the achievement for it?…

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So in one case I can say this:
The gameplay is fine, the modes work, they have taken the steps to the battle pass and XP stuff.
I’m also just very lucky every cosmetic option I used for Halo Reach just happens to be in the battlepass

343 has responded and has taken action quicker than most would.

However there isnt even a moment regarding this for me to just say this:

Seriously? Like no…seriously, this junk makes no sense. This shouldnt take another 3 weeks just to play the modes we want

We are not blind, we just had Fiesta added in and removed, like that. This isn’t something that has to be built, the modes and settings, are already in the game, anyone can access.

What exactly has to be tested? The gameplay is fine, the maps are decent, its just the lack of options more than anything else, this doesnt even include the battlepass issues, its just the option to play the game mode we want…

None of this makes sense. The lack of the options right now, the fact we somehow need to still wait, longer. The fact these modes, are already fine, ready to go, we can just make custom games and do them ourselves (only having no battlepass progression in custom games)

I am excited for campaign, I know 343 put effort into this, the gameplay is functional, like the complete opposite of BF2042 where bullets dont even work. I can understand maybe they wanted to test the various modes, maybe get people experimented, but guys, I am sorry, there is always, there will always be a mode that is just not popular, not enjoyed.

Many of us just like to be slayers, some want objective, but we all just want to play what we want.

If training and custom games are all we have right now, all I can say is, I’m glad that battlepass wont expire and I must be lucky all my favored cosmetic options from reach landed in that pass too.

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