Title says it all. Griftball is an almost certain return for the new game mode, but the staple, the most common, most played casual Halo game type isn’t? Before someone states it needs time, I don’t care about flood skins, all I want is just a basic, sword wielding game typing that we have come to love from Halo 3/reach. Unless they are making the skins, Infection should be out. EDIT:
With the ton of commenters coming in, and saying things that have been addressed (because they didn’t read any of the thread), here are some of the arguments I and others have stated through the thread.
Infection is one of the most played social modes. This includes modes played in Customs, not just match making. - It would be the easiest to implement. You have all the assets there. You don’t need to draft up some art work for an oddball, or a gravity hammer. Everything is there, bar 343i not making a mode that follows the basic, infection rules of one team loses players as it dies, the other gains dead players, and the infected win once all humans are eliminated. - This mode should have been in at launch, as well as the other modes we have discussed in this thread. Calling me and others impatient for things that have been standard for the series, because the appeal from Halo MP is having a solid mix of Competitive and social modes, is hilarious. And as for people stating that it may come in the monthly updates, nothing is confirmed, and are you telling me cosmetic skins take precedence over actual, staple game modes? Considering that 343i may have done something just a little bit wrong, isn’t insulting to them, nor is it me insulting them. It’s me using the forum service they provide for feedback, and giving feedback. - Also, please stop implying, or downright saying, that I’m only for social. I want everything that makes the Halo experience so unique as a multiplayer shooter, and wanting this standard that has been upheld by Bungie in it’s games isn’t being entitled or impatient.
UPDATE - February Teaser Blues
Now, I don’t like to bump old threads, but I feel it relevant in this case, with the clue being in the title. We got a social mode, grift ball, as well as the modes we will get for ball game modes. That’s great, 343i. This is social content that was needed. However, close but no cigar, I’m afraid. Infection is key, and with the lack of support we have, for both play list infection, and most importantly, customs, I find my patience lacking. Now, the chance to capitalize in the wake of griftball, by finally getting over such… needed content, like pizza skins, and a half dozen warthog skins, we could get to the meat of halo; we could just have what makes me, and thousands of other players want to play a game like Halo 3/Reach for years. Seeing as infection is a big thing, and I can certainly conclude, from the teaser, it won’t be in march, expect Infection, at the earliest, for April, and the latest, June. Too little, too late.
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Suck it infection whiner, criticizing the game and the company just because it doesn’t have one gamemode. Wow. Its coming, just know its coming, taking the time to program and code all of the stuff for gamemodes.
I agree, I was disappointed that one of, if not THE most popular game mode wasnt teased. Obviously itll be here eventually but why prioritize oddball over something substantially more popular?
It’s the most popular social game type, so suck it. Visuals don’t matter, like other threads state. Just give us a basic slayer mode where one team ganes players as it kills, and the other loses players as it dies, and that is all we will need.
I don’t know we couldn’t just have this stuff at launch. We wouldn’t have one set of gametypes prioritized over another like Ball-based ones over Infection if they all just came with the game from the start.
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LOL Well guess what it ain’t here yet and you know what else. Thats just 1 teaser. I bet they are already done with grifball and are making infection right now. It can even be launched next february. So shut your whiny piehole and know that its coming.
And as for people saying suck it, these game modes, infection and griftball alike, SHOULD HAVE BEEN launch modes. If Halo 3 and onward had them, so should have Halo 5.
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> And as for people saying suck it, these game modes, infection and griftball alike, SHOULD HAVE BEEN launch modes. If Halo 3 and onward had them, so should have Halo 5.
WELL GUESS WHAT IT WASN’T. WHY?!?! HALF OF THEIR STAFF WENT TO GO FIX THE TMCC.
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> LOL Well guess what it ain’t here yet and you know what else. Thats just 1 teaser. I bet they are already done with grifball and are making infection right now. It can even be launched next february. So shut your whiny piehole and know that its coming.
Next february? You mean next month? Lmao whats with the insults and agressive attitude, we’re all Halo fans here.
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>stop whining about a game mode(s)( if you include griftball, oddball as essential launch modes)) that should have been at launch, and would have kept the game going at full steam if it existed at launch
yeah, i’ll stop whining, and start laughing at the genius at 343i for it’s post launch ability to sustain a game.
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Which was their own fault for being broken in the first place? What’s your point?
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> Next february? You mean next month? Lmao whats with the insults and agressive attitude, we’re all Halo fans here.
Please if you’re a fan, you would know to be patient and not be discourage by anything. So if a popular gamemode isn’t released YET, THEN WAIT AND KEEP PLAYING OR PLAY SOMETHING ELSE. And yes I meant next month.
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Why are you complaining to me about TMCC? MS has millions to throw at their flag ship franchise. If they can’t fix a yoinking remaster series concisely, they shouldn’t be making a new game
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So, you’d rather them not have all the options we’ve had before and THEN more? I’m glad you don’t speak for everyone.
Basically, you’d rather them pull a Halo: Reach, and completely neglect to add options that have been staples, like Alpha Zombies as a separate trait. That omission alone ruined a good portion of these “social” gametypes that are so cherished. I’d rather them get it right, and take community feedback of the mode into consideration much like they did with Forge. (And look how good that turned out in the end!)
Also, visuals do matter, but IMO, as long as they don’t enroach upon customization.
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Than they really do suck at their job. They can’t do much of anything in this amount of time where Bungle managed it just fine. Your post only reinforces that 343 can’t do what most developers always do.
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> Suck it infection whiner, criticizing the game and the company just because it doesn’t have one gamemode. Wow. Its coming, just know its coming, taking the time to program and code all of the stuff for gamemodes.
It doesn’t take this massive amount of time when the code is in previous Halo games, basics and foundations they can build off of. No one’s whining, not one’s entitled, it’s common -Yoink- sense to have it in the game.
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Wow. Point is they had to focus on getting the core aspects of the game down, including the campaign. Classic gamemodes couldn’t be accomplished, but now it can be because they got everyone working full throttle. Even brand new maps were mentioned and teased.
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The ability to wait for something that should have been in place from the beginning but isn’t because of the incompetence of the developer doesn’t make you a fan.
I’m a fan of Halo and I haven’t touched this game in months and I don’t plan on touching it again.
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