RANT WARNING: How do you guys feel about this mode? I love BTB, but I literally groan when I see it’s stockpile. (1) The game usually is typically grossly unbalanced - either ends really fast (especially when one team doesn’t really care about the objective), and (2) the objective itself isn’t fun at all. What’s the point of picking up objects and throwing them back, over and over again? It doesn’t feel like halo at all. It looks and feels amateur, and it’s got little to do with the core gameplay (unless you repulse the seeds back, or load them on a razorback).
The other problem is that they provide too many seeds. I rather a game mode where there’s more limited seeds, and teams are forced to fight over them. Now it’s just take and grab back as fast as you can, sort of like a speed run. Stalemates are more fun and challenging, like the kind created in total control. Stockpile is either too easy and too quick a win (or ends up as a quick lost if your team doesn’t care about the objective).
I would also add that it takes too long to steal seeds - there’s very little incentive to go to an enemy base and sabotage. It hardly makes a difference to the game outcome. If it were quicker/easier and if there were less seeds, teams would be challenged either to sneak behind enemy lines, else they might be forced to defend, I think that encourages more teamplay and coordination. Right now it’s just get to the seeds ASAP, let’s walk and throw it back as a group. Where’s the fun in that?
It’s a bloody useless game mode. To summarise:
- It encourages an grossly imbalanced outcome.
- It’s not a fun objective. It’s not challenging either.
- It doesn’t encourage teamplay.
Let me know what you guys think!
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As long as people are playing the objective I find it fun. Every now and then though I’ll get stuck in a match where most of the people are just trying to kill enemies and ignore the objective. Then it quickly turns into a loss because the other team just casually scopes everything up and wins the match.
At least those matches end quickly.
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I think that throwing seeds is too much, prefer they cut that option.
Oh but it’s fun to camp enemy base and bust on them as they carry stuff up the ramp haha
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When it comes to game modes, definitely my least favorite. Has chances to be fun and interesting when evenly-matched teams go at it but I find the majority of my Stockpile matches to be one team goes and gets the Seeds, one team doesn’t, other team wins in two minutes.
The act of grabbing and tossing Seeds just isn’t fun either, and on a map like Highpower and Fragmentation where you can have a long way to run back and toss it up the hill to put it in the generator, it just feels very tedious.
Often I’m tempted to cancel matchmaking when I see that my upcoming match is a Stockpile game but the mercy of matches being quick, even in a bad game, convinces me to tolerate it.
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I don’t love stockpile but I don’t hate it either. It’s an OK mode that I will play when I roll into it in matching.
I really like Stockpile. WHY? Cuz it’s kinda like CTF. To bad they don’t have stockpile in the new map Catalyst, I just tested it. I guess is cuz it’s a close quarters map.
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I have fun playing it, but it an absolute travesty of a gametype.
I’m not sure how the issues that occur with it weren’t picked up in testing. It’s so easy to abuse and the steal mechanic is very weak and doesn’t translate well to any matches.
I also can’t believe how some games there are 24 players and I’m the only one on the first stockpile. One game I literally threw every coil back to our side without seeing a single enemy or teammate. By the time anyone showed up we already had every coil safely near our base.
Some games are over in a blink.
Well most of my modded maps have the following for Capture The Flag and For Stockpile. Here is how I setup my Halo Infinite Custom Games.
I use the following are the only maps I mod:
- Deadlock
- Highpower
- Fragmentation
- Breaker
- Launch Site
MODE MODS FOR CTF AND STOCKPILE I USE:
- Faster Movement.
- Crappy Weapons now can kill people.
- Stupid Friendly Fire Is Turned Off!
- A Crap Load Of Weapons and Ammo.
- Low grave
- Jump higher
- Game Time=30mins - 5 caps ( CTF )
Peace! 
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Yes, yes, and more yes!!!
Gametype is straight trash.
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That said, with it being linked with an achievement I don’t think they will remove it.
I’m ok with stockpile, highly unlikely it would be removed
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I don’t mind it, but I reckon they should rework it
Where tf else is it gonna’ be? Anyway I love juggling seeds with randos, it’s the goofiest crap I have ever done in Halo.
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The sheer chaos of me and my bois trying to load up a Razorback full of seeds and haul gas back home in an attempt to deposit all seeds at once into our base MAKES the game perfect!
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Ahhh the satisfaction of blowing up a full razorback, seeds n’ all 
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NONE HAVE YET PREVENTED THE RAMBOBAMBIBAMBOBINGOBOINGOBOIYO AND THE BOIS FROM RAZORBACK SEED RAIDING!!!
YOU DARE CHALLENGE MY RAZORBACK ROAD RAGE!!?!?!???
I WILL GO BLACK-FRIDAY WITH HOW WRECKLESS WE LOAD UP ON THE WHEELS AND BURN RUBBER WITH OUR GOODIES IN TOW!!!
*proceeds to burn rubber while playing RvB Warthog Radio music
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Ha! I can imagine that - it really doesn’t happen often in the games I’m in.
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