all halos have had more than one ranked playlist. This update is just sad.
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u can Vote but most was with BR! if u play slayer it was 75% with BR! only obj was with AR. i know it because i played many acc up to LW50
Thx Cosmik, ur oldschoolaaaa
Did you have a BR as primary and AR as secondary?
in h3 it was with Br start and AR second. why here not BR first and AR second?
same in h2 BR stzart and Duals
Yeah, I was just checking to see if the wiki sites were accurate, since I don’t really remember the playlists in Halo 3 very well.
Looking at the wiki sites, it wasn’t always BRs to start in Halo 3, but it was common.
Slayer BRs would show up 28.0%.
Okay, sure… why then are half my upcoming challenges either “Play X mode in Ranked Arena” or “Win X mode in Ranked Arena” or “Play X matches in Ranked Arena”?
Wish I were exaggerating. Literally half of my upcoming challenges are Ranked Arena based. From where I sit, you made my challenges MORE frustrating and MORE mode specific. 
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Anyone who thought these were going to go into ranked straight away needs their heads checked. We’ll get there but it was never ever going to happen on this update. 343i had already expressed tentativeness due to the impact on objective playlists.
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They were probably talking about things like “Return the flag 3 times”.
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Fair enough but are we sure it’s gone? I don’t have it in my list but I still have Capture 3 Zones in PvP and Kill 3 Enemy Ball Carriers in PvP so I wouldn’t be surprised if return the flag is still in there. Just, hopefully, not 10 returns like the one I’ve had two weeks in a row.
Well, I don’t have anything like that or what you mentioned, but if you have those, then I guess they didn’t really change that much.
Though, those aren’t quite as difficult as some of the challenges that were on there.
The most difficult one I have now is “Save an allies’ life from far away” (by the way, shouldn’t that say, “an ally’s life”?).
343: “We’re removing some activity-specific challenges entirely.”
Also 343: “Here are three newly created separate challenges collectively requiring you to get 80 kills in SWAT this week.”
Why???
I know plenty of people love SWAT. I’m happy that they now have their favorite game mode. But I’m not ever touching it; zero chance. That kind of game mode is the opposite of fun for me. Just like other people don’t want to be railroaded into Oddball (which I love) or Stockpile.
Please, just remove ALL challenges that require people to either burn their limited swaps or play modes they don’t find fun. Isn’t the whole point to make sure your players can have fun? Find some other way to encourage every playlist to maintain a healthy player base.
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They really should make challenge swaps free and unlimited.
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Dang Free For All is really just being spawn killed nonstop isnt it. Seems like these spawns and maps werent map to be able to handle FFA
It may have been covered in this thread already but when is swat, slayer, and FFA going to be ranked again?
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I don’t mind a few objective game here and there but looking at my match history slayer is literally less than 10% of my games played, with 3 modes you’d expect 33%. The system was extremly scewed toward objective games and their “update” didn’t address ranked. I’m so pissed right now.
So what kind of challenges do you want. It’s starting to sound pretty watered down. Get x kills, play x matches of any type… I mean, people were complaining about the headshot challenges, what is going on??
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I don’t care for the challenge system. Halo 5’s rank up did just fine with after match rewards and what not.
You’re not wrong. But more generic challenges, while perhaps less interesting, are still better than making people play game modes that they dislike. After all, challenges can be fun, but they are mainly a vehicle for gaining season pass xp. And when the challenges are NOT fun, you’re making the player choose between fun and xp. That’s a stupid choice to put in front of a player.
Anyway, 343 could still use more specific challenges that are weapon-based, device-based (grapple shot, sensor, drop wall, etc.), vehicle-based (ideally not requiring much with certain vehicles that are rarely available), action-based (melee, headshot, etc.), and broader BTB or 4v4 challenges that don’t depend on a particular game mode. I think cutting out mode-specific challenges would still leave most of what we currently have.
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Great! Now can you fix you BTB servers? Thanks!