All sounds good to me.
I didn’t even think about that. This basically confirms that the game is launching with an unobtainable achievement *facepalm
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Now I am in fear that my already unlocked 48 achievements will be taken away…
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Collecting the comments I’ve read from officialdom:
Joseph Staten
We’re on the journey together, Spartans. More changes for the better—and more to come as you keep playing and we keep listening and learning.
Also, knowing how much @ franklez loves Tactical Slayer, no one needs to get him a holiday gift now. His wish has been granted. @ joestaten
ttps://twitter.com/joestaten/status/1466879391502245888
The more playlists we have, the more fragmented players get, making it harder for people to find matches quickly. At the start of the Beta, we wanted to ensure quick matches—and that meant fewer playlists. @ joestaten
ttps://twitter.com/joestaten/status/1466880487490666496
So not a philosophical thing. Slayer is a great mode! It was a decision to make sure we could simultaneously stress the systems we needed to test in a beta state while still giving all of you a great matchmaking experience. @ joestaten
ttps://twitter.com/joestaten/status/1466881189550063619
Brian Jarrard
Matchmaking playlists will continue to grow and evolve over time and the first update is targeted for later this month. Just the first step, but please remember as a service, there will be plenty more to come. @ ske7ch
ttps://twitter.com/ske7ch/status/1466864594270318593
John Junyszek
Let’s talk about Halo Infinite playlists!
We’ve been reading your feedback, and we’re working on plans to add Fiesta, Tactical Slayer (SWAT), and Free-For-All playlists as we speak. They won’t land by Dec 8, but the team is pushing to get them in before the end of year @ Unyshekttps://twitter.com/Unyshek/status/1466858751722352643
Our goal for Events is to try new modes prior to adding to playlists. We’ll monitor playlist health after the 3 additions above and adjust our offering if needed, but we’re excited to make these updates before the holidays. This is just the start of the conversation with y’all @ Unyshek
ttps://twitter.com/Unyshek/status/1466858753056129028
A Social Slayer playlist (with multiple variations) is also in the works (we see this request the most), but we won’t be able to get that one ready until after the holidays. We hope you can understand and enjoy the ones that make it in before the team takes a well-deserved break!
ttps://twitter.com/Unyshek/status/1466858754495115264
Andrew Witts
Can confirm that is not the case. Lots of feedback came in from the Tenrai event and other channels about the use of certain mode content. This is us taking a step to align more to player expectations for modes such as Fiesta, Tactical, etc. More work to come. @ RevivedAntihero
ttps://twitter.com/RevivedAntihero/status/1466919752119377922
Jerry Hook
Team working hard to get changes quickly out to our players. @ hookscourt
ttps://twitter.com/hookscourt/status/1466859369530753027
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This is a straight up lie. There will never be more active players than there were at the start of the “beta”, and it’s still not an explanation for why they apparently didn’t plan to roll them out at launch.
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Agreed, but they are adding playlists so I can’t be mad lol. It’s getting better, that’s what matters; might take more time but they’ll add it all. I suspect Infection will come as the next event playlist
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You’re right. A straight up lie. I can go into MCC right now that Im sure has no where near there population of infinite and search for a mode I want to play and find a game pretty quickly.
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I’m glad to see they are communicating but it all feels like they are not telling the true story.
You don’t need player feedback to know that players would like choice of playlists, especially when those requested playlists are still less then 50% of previous games.
You don’t need feedback to know that some players play an FPS only to shoot folks and will not for long be helpful when getting into objective matches (speaking as someone who mainly plays objective).
And last of all you can’t tell us it takes work to open a playlist when it’s already prepped for events. We already have fiesta, just don’t add challenges and let us enjoy it? We won’t mind if it still has an event tag in the menu
Same goes for swat; the event is already planned ahead so let us enjoy it.
And finally I just refuse to believe that there are not enough players. H5 still supports over 10 active playlists and MCC even more, most of those players are now all grinding infinite together and you are worried about waiting times when supporting more then 5 in total…
Okay end of rand. I had some serious faith in extra content coming on December 8th so a bit disappointed that there wasn’t more transparency about the state of the game. I’d rather have 343i rip off a bandaid quick and tell us that this is the content till date X then with the current “responding to feedback approach” for features they know the community would expect.
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this is all damn ridiculous and I’m pissed off.
Immediately add Arena Slayer (Ranked) and, in the social section, put a mode selector to choose between automatic slayer and slayer pro as in TMCC.
No Forge, few maps and modes, no Arena Slayer … in short, this launch is a disaster.
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And Ranked Slayer is coming when , 2023?
How 343i decides it’s a good idea to leave out Halo’s core game mode for launch is pretty unbelievable
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These quotes worry me. It shows a fundamental lack of direction and understanding on how to engage players.
So the plan is to test Playlists with limited timed events to see which the player base preferred? The same events that will offer limited timed Cosmetic additions in a game that people are complaining about cosmetic items being limited. That will skew the data. People will play for the items not for the love of the gametype.
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this is such a damn joke… these modes should be there at release, not half -Yoink!- into it later down the line…
guess we won’t see infection for a long time either. and what happened to custom game options? man why are they screwing up so much in that regard?
ah well, at least the mp is free, but it’s barebones atm…
More playlists is good news, but where is Warzone or Firefight? Does somebody knows more about this?
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Absolutely shocked there will be no Ranked Slayer. It’s the core game mode of the series. I mean, I can’t believe I’m going to have to abandon this flagship title to play the most basic part of Halo. But I am.
What an incredible waste of potential. We’re going to fine tune the sandbox, the physics, the maps, then decide you can’t even play competitive Slayer. Someone in charge has completely lost the thread.
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No slayer playlist till later on!!! Are you kidding me 343I!!! You think FFA and SWAT are more popular then Slayer??? Fiesta you can at least make a case but holy crap. Slayer is always top 3 (or #1) most played playlist in Halo. Take Halo 5 for example. Do I really need use Halo 5 most played playlists from the last 5 years to show this? Ranked slayer should be in as well as. It is also one of, if the the most popular ranked playlist.
Again, I really question these decisions. I literally have dozens of friends that aren’t playing this game because that’s what they want to play…SLAYER! And only Slayer. They ask me (Because they aren’t on here) all the time, when is Slayer playlist coming in? My response was well it will probably be in around launch day because you know, it’s Slayer… It’s the most popular game mode, why wouldn’t it be in…
I don’t mind playing objective when I’m actually playing with people that will play the objective but so far my experience (since Xboxes live existed) has been basically that’s never! Since I’m the only one of my friends that are on here, I get to deliver the “good” news … 
I’m hugely disappointed. I can’t even express this enough. I was looking forward to playing some infinite with my friends over the Christmas break. I guess I’m not now 
I wouldn’t bet on war zone coming at any time soon. It was pretty mixed received… But firefight I think should definitely come and I hope does but I have a feeling that won’t be until probably like year two or something stupid because you know, nobody likes fire fight
The funny thing is? they are already in the game and you can play them in customs now if you wanted to
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Wow! Things that should be in the game already! Applause, 343!
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Infinite is now the awful car accident I happen to pass by every couple of days and I morbidly slow down to take a look :(. The truth about this ‘beta’ is very simple for anyone who steps back and looks at it. And its not only this game, it’s everywhere these days. I’ll probably give the campaign a go but this is the last time I’m getting burned. Activision, Rockstar, cd projekt, now this crap. See a pattern developing? Get you hyped, get your money and deliver a lemon.
The bar is so low now, it’s pathetic.
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Theres no convincing us on this logic, to just use a quick play option and say its for convenience or not splitting the population/
I’ve said it before, there is always going to be a least played/most hated mode. Hardly anyone loved zone control in the days of Halo 2, crazy king was not the hot option in Halo 3, Slayer always reigned on top.
As simple and mindless as it is, we just like to blast each other with BRs, send searing plasma at each other, and blow up our enemies with tank shells more than any objective. The modes we select and how we spend our time in their game, is NOT THEIR CONCERN. As long as we are behaving, not doing anything against terms of service like hacks, cheating, harassment, etc. If people dont like oddball or zones, sorry, the mode just isnt fun to the majority, this factor exists in every game with multiplayer modes, its just a fact. Theres always going to be a mode, people just dont like, or hardly play. Sorry to those who like oddball and zones, but thats just the cold truth, most will do slayer or an objective like CTF.