Not a single competitive playlist for Halo 4?

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So I finally caved and bought Halo 4 despite swearing not to years ago. Mostly for the campaign since I heard it was the most emotional Halo and had the best storytelling yet (claims which haven’t really rung true for me despite the fact that I’m at the halfway point of the campaign). But I was also harboring the hope that maybe 343i got at least a single playlist with competitive/MLG settings much like Bungie eventually managed with Reach. After all, they couldn’t be that incompetent right? Sure competitive players are a minority and the vast majority of them were banned on this very forum due to constant complaining but 343i would still at least be nice enough to have one playlist with good settings in it right? Right guys?

Well we all know how this story ends. I looked at the playlist hopper in Halo 4 and at the loadout settings yesterday and surprise surprise not a single one with competitive settings. As far as I can tell, all of them are most if not all of the below:

-Have hitmarkers
-Gate weapons through the loadout system
-Have grenade indicators
-Have sprint
-Have armor abilities (also gated)
-Have “perks” (gated as well)

The only positive thing that I can see is that they removed bloom, and I mean Bungie already did that for us in the MLG playlist so it was to be expected…

Seriously 343i? Man I shudder to imagine what Halo 5 is like if things never got fixed for Halo 4.

Are there any alive competitive groups running customs for Halo 4 with all this crap removed? Is it even possible to remove this stuff in custom games?

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Sorry halo 4 has always been a casual game, and i wouldn’t count on halo 5 being much good either because it is the complete opposite. Halo 4 has no competitive while halo 5 has only competitive.

P.S halo 4 does have one of the best campaigns (story wise, the gameplay sucks)

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Halo 4 is my favorite multiplayer game. I do admit that it is completely casual, and can see why competitive gamers would be disappointed. Best campaign though. I really enjoyed the Master Chief and Cortana relationship.

Halo 5 removed loadouts and added ranked and unranked plylists. It was 343i trying to “return Halo to its roots”. They removed loadouts and AAs but added Spartan Abilitiess. So don’t get Halo 5 thinking it plays like Halo 3. I didn’t play Halo 2 and 3 in their prime, so I have no problem with the modern changes. Just a heads up for anybody thinking that Halo 5 is improved from Halo 4. Halo 5 brought back even starts and that’s it.

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halo 4 can be competitive, you just have to believe