Please update the BTB maps next update. The playlist has become very stale and the majority of maps have either become predictable ‘spawn trap and rage quit’ affairs or are very random novelty maps.
I know that one or two good ones have been submitted by the CCs. I also know that updated versions of Mt lam lam, renegade and trident have been made.
Please make this happen 343. Lots of love and kisses from Mr Saddo.
Co-signed
I agree but thats why BTB Heavies was released. Mt Lam Lam is probaly the map I’d most like to see dropped, most people hate it. Considering BTB has been updated fairly recently and 343 seem to be working through all the playlists after recently releasing new Invasion maps, I don’t think new forge maps are a priority. A reshuffling of map weighting would probaly be more likely. I could however be completely wrong, just an opinion.
but BTB recently got heavies …
doubles and anniv first, maybe port some of the existing community maps into team swat and snipers as well.
17 Community Forge maps not good enough for you?
I personally don’t see the point of going playlist at a time, if there is good content that would fit somewhere in matchmaking that becomes apparent why not insert it.
As MrSaddo said, BTB is really stale, heavies was cool at first but slayer, slayer, and more slayer are all that gets played in BTB.
Most games feel directionless and usually end up with half of the players in the game quiting due to the natural spawn killing that occurs from simply moving forwards.
I wouldn’t say all that would benefit the playlist is in maps but also gametypes, some that work on current maps would be of some benefit, for example making territories available on a current slayer only map.
Either way I have definitely played on some great maps that would bring some nice variety to the playlist. My main point is that I don’t believe having such focused waves of updates as a particular gametype within a playlist getting all the focus over a more balanced out approach of, map X is cool with gametype Y, lets consider it for a place.
> 17 Community Forge maps not good enough for you?
Not when they’re never in a position to get chosen…the only time you get to play something other than hemorrhage, spire, or boneyard is when it’s heavies, and even two of the heavies maps are spire and boneyard.
If they aren’t going to add more maps then they should makes the maps that are already in the playlist more accessible.
While I am always down for some new maps, BTB has enjoyed a more healthy population then it has in months, most likely due to Heavies. Point being, it got attention and before 343 turns the lights out on the MM team for Reach, perhaps the fairest thing to do is to focus on some playlist that have not got any attention.
The weighting confines all the non-base and Heavy maps to only slot 3. It is the same in the TS playlists. I used to play TS and BTB all the time, but then because people wanted to see the base maps (Who knows why?), the (better) community maps are almost as rare as the DLC…
> > 17 Community Forge maps not good enough for you?
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> Not when they’re never in a position to get chosen…the only time you get to play something other than hemorrhage, spire, or boneyard is when it’s heavies, and even two of the heavies maps are spire and boneyard.
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> If they aren’t going to add more maps then they should makes the maps that are already in the playlist more accessible.
honestly, they should update some, remove some and add some new ones.
crap like abridged can go …
Get the dlc. You’d help us players who already have it increase our already slim chances of playing them by probably something like 0.00000000001%
There should also need to be some removals of the lower quality maps and allow new and better variants be added so there isn’t too many maps.
> I also know that updated versions of Mt lam lam, renegade and trident have been made.
At the very least, the current MM versions of Mt. Lam Lam, Renegade, and Trident should be replaced in August by their updated versions.
The first voting slot should also be freed up so that community forged maps can appear there (this should be done in Team Slayer too). Otherwise, games played on community maps will continue to be relatively uncommon, no matter how many new ones are added to the BTB playlist.
And we still need a way for DLC-required BTB maps to appear regularly instead of their being so rare.
> Get the dlc. You’d help us players who already have it increase our already slim chances of playing them by probably something like 0.00000000001%
I have all the DLCs. I think I’ve got to play a DLC map in BTB three times since the dawn of reach.
selling the DLCs dirt cheap for the last few months of halo and making them required for the playlist would be really swell.
Yeah that’s kind of aggravating seeing the DLC within our reach and yet it never gets voted. People want all this new content but they’re not willing to buy what’s already been released…shame.
> > Get the dlc. You’d help us players who already have it increase our already slim chances of playing them by probably something like 0.00000000001%
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> I have all the DLCs. I think I’ve got to play a DLC map in BTB three times since the dawn of reach.
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> selling the DLCs dirt cheap for the last few months of halo and making them required for the playlist would be really swell.
BAM! I like the way you think.
Am I right in thinking that the updated versions of X map need to be submitted to a Cartographer to inform the MM Team about the map update to be inserted?
Or are they just waiting hoping 343i will take notice that they updated the map?
> Am I right in thinking that the updated versions of X map need to be submitted to a Cartographer to inform the MM Team about the map update to be inserted?
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> Or are they just waiting hoping 343i will take notice that they updated the map?
It needs to be submitted but I’m still waiting to get some playtests. It’s quite difficult trying to get 16 players together.
If anything I wish they’d bring back some of the old maps, as is I’m not even sure if they’re in the rotation. When’s the last time anyone’s played paradiso? I haven’t seen that map in weeks… And taking the banshees out of breakpoint and replacing them with falcons was just an overall disappointment. Did the banshees provide rage? Yes, however they were fun to use and regardless I’d rather have a teammate using a banshee = 1 kill, rather than half my team in a flying death trap (falcon) = 3 kills, yet each is so easily taken out. Then again, that’s if you have the luck to even see breakpoint to begin with.
> > Am I right in thinking that the updated versions of X map need to be submitted to a Cartographer to inform the MM Team about the map update to be inserted?
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> > Or are they just waiting hoping 343i will take notice that they updated the map?
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> It needs to be submitted but I’m still waiting to get some playtests. It’s quite difficult trying to get 16 players together.
not if you use MM 