I like it’s premise but I don’t think I’ve ever been in an even game where both teams are playing the objective. Maybe they should make it like one bomb/flag and just have players on offence and defence before they swap over.
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There are two kinds of stockpile matches in my experience.
- No one understands it and the match ends up as a prolonged stalemate
- I and other players make a throwing chain and cheese the match
Its the worst mode in my opinion because it swings between extremes so much.
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I think stockpile would work better if the way the seeds spawned wasn’t in one big group, but split up.
Instead of all 9 spawning in one spot, drop a “major pile” of 5 seeds in one spot (a complete score), and drop a "minor pile "with 4 seeds in another spot.
This would stop seed “throw chains” from winning so fast, because right now you can win with just over 1.5 full piles (6 from one pile, and all 9 from another).
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Now that you mentioned it, I don’t think I drove a Warthog even once in the Campaign. I pretty much avoided all vehicles entirely besides the Wasp, Banshee, and Ghost. The Campaign is absolute garbage for driving around. It was 10x faster to just spam Grapple all over the place and over the mountains and gaps. The “Warthog Run” in Infinite was just me driving a Wraith and blowing stuff up
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It could use some improvements. TBH, I dislike total control more. Just a long stalemate every game.
That’s interesting. It’s probably my favourite mode and I have way more stalemates in CTF.
I enjoy it if the team is actually playing the objective, which this mode seems to have the most hit or miss games of in BTB.
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After a year of seeing posts like this, I have been thinking that forum users that actually want to play the objectives should just all add each other.
Then maybe Infinite would be fun again, if we just rolled up into matches in a full squad on mic ready to play the objective strategically
Same with ranked players that always complain about useless random teammates. They should all add each other and play together. They’d have a much better time that way
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Worst game mode I’ve ever played. Way too reliant on randos for BTB.
Some good posts in this thread with very fair criticisms and good suggestions on how to improve the mode. I personally don’t like it as is. As others have said, I’d prefer to see the seeds spread out more instead of just dropped in 1 big pile. Also, I would prefer it they have a BTB Objective & BTB Slayer playlist. I find that most of the objective modes get dragged out to a stalemate. I’d like to see the match timer shortened tbh.
Sometimes. I’d say it’s a good 50/50 split on how competitive the match stays the longer it goes. I really love when TC takes longer when both teams are just actively going at it and it’s a constant switch of who is controlling the points. It’s my favorite mode though, so I am a tad bit biased. With Stockpile if both teams are pretty close in how fast the seeds are being loaded it is really fun. Only time I don’t like it is when it’s just a blowout for one side.
I actually really like that idea. It’s be interesting to see a custom game like that to see how’d it play.
I kinda wish they would randomize stockpile a bit more. Some games the seeds are in one spot, other times they’re spread out.
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Stockpile is one of the worse game modes ever created and implemented into matchmaking in any Halo game. Ever.
It was a fine tank run, a warthog run was no where in sight. At least give us a ghost run like H4 did. Or perhaps the coveted Chopper run…
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Dont mind it but dont really prefer it…
Would love some grifball!!!
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The randomized drop of seeds on the battlefield is very frustrating. It sorta feels like a much, much, much more slower paced 1-flag ctf match.
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