Anyone else miss the original game modes and maps of Halo 5 when it was at its prime? Or, the point after all it’s DLC. I don’t even recognize the multiplayer anymore. I wish 343i would stop constantly tweaking the playlists and just let some things stay stable. I miss the original maps. Riptide? Mercy? Fathom? Now every playlist is just a bunch of boring forge maps, and when you do find a classic map, all the weapon placements have been replaced. Infection used to be super fun, basic infection survival. Now it’s always this “Contingency” game mode with awkward objective points. Griffball, Free For All, they’re rotational now? Those used to be staples, along with action sack, wherever the heck that went. And what happened to Breakout? Swat before it became “Swatnums.” I understand tweaking certain things to stay relevant, but those should be the rotational playlists. I just miss when the game was familiar and recognizable. My friends and I logged on for the first time in a while last weekend to find all our favorite playlists missing or something totally unfamiliar. I just miss it.
I miss it so much. I wouldn’t say original modes and maps, since it was really limited at release. Big Team Battle, Infection, and Griffball – none of it was there, as well as some of those DLC maps. BUT Halo 5 just after all it’s DLC came out was the best, when they had all these awesome modes and maps. I specifically remember a day after Warzone Firefight launched, and they just introduced having Social and Ranked playlists, and I thought “Yes, this right here is the perfect Halo playlists.”
Unfortunately due to population issues, a bunch of game types are now rotational. But 343i did add the customs browser so you can easily get a group together to play any map/mode.
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> Anyone else miss the original game modes and maps of Halo 5 when it was at its prime? Or, the point after all it’s DLC. I don’t even recognize the multiplayer anymore. I wish 343i would stop constantly tweaking the playlists and just let some things stay stable. I miss the original maps. Riptide? Mercy? Fathom? Now every playlist is just a bunch of boring forge maps, and when you do find a classic map, all the weapon placements have been replaced. Infection used to be super fun, basic infection survival. Now it’s always this “Contingency” game mode with awkward objective points. Griffball, Free For All, they’re rotational now? Those used to be staples, along with action sack, wherever the heck that went. And what happened to Breakout? Swat before it became “Swatnums.” I understand tweaking certain things to stay relevant, but those should be the rotational playlists. I just miss when the game was familiar and recognizable. My friends and I logged on for the first time in a while last weekend to find all our favorite playlists missing or something totally unfamiliar. I just miss it.
Honestly, the game’s playlist selection is a -Yoink!- mess. Core modes have now been reduced to monthly rotationals while the more rotational modes are the more likely permanent modes. There’s been a few cool things to come from the game as of recent, but the fact that capture the flag, strongholds and oddball have been reduced to infrequent rotationals that only pop up once every 3ish months. Hell normal 4v4 assault isn’t even a thing anymore for some reason. We need more core stuff back apposed to it being reduced to rotational stuff, I think one of the worst offenders is FFA now being rotational, I get population numbers are low, but come on, at least make an effort to rekindle the playlist with some new content. Maybe switch the playlist to social and give it more modes or something.