It’s unacceptable I’ve paid good money for DLCs (Majectic and Crimson) and that now, there’s no way I can play for my money…
REALLY, really deceiving…
dutty handz
I do think the Majestic, Crimson and Castle DLC should all have its own playlist
they owe you a playlist as people did pay for these maps
we need a DLC playlist where every DLC map is played or just have all the Individual DLC playlists back
Yeah, either individual Crimson, Majestic, Castle, etc. playlists, or a filter on the existing playlist, like Slayer, Big Team Slayer, CTF, etc. that allow for a “DLC Only” matchmaking.
Please 343, hear common sense!
The Matchmaking team are currently looking into ways to make DLC more easily playable in Matchmaking which pretty much means we’ll be seeing DLC playlists in the future.
I would like a 5v5 “Squad DLC” playlist that uses the Majestic map pack, Harvest, and Daybreak.
Also an 8v8 “BTB DLC” playlist that uses Wreckage, Shatter, and the Castle map pack.
> The Matchmaking team are currently looking into ways to make DLC more easily playable in Matchmaking which pretty much means we’ll be seeing DLC playlists in the future.
I find it hard to believe they’ll actually pull it off. They said the same thing in Reach, and it never happened.
> > The Matchmaking team are currently looking into ways to make DLC more easily playable in Matchmaking which pretty much means we’ll be seeing DLC playlists in the future.
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> I find it hard to believe they’ll actually pull it off. They said the same thing in Reach, and it never happened.
Well they added Squad DLC and kept it for as long as the population was high enough.
If people want a DLC playlist then they actually have to show interest in it and play it.
> The Matchmaking team are currently looking into ways to make DLC more easily playable in Matchmaking which pretty much means we’ll be seeing DLC playlists in the future.
THat would be great to have a DLC Playlist, however, we have to make sure the players we are playing with have the DLC’s on regular playlists.
> > The Matchmaking team are currently looking into ways to make DLC more easily playable in Matchmaking which pretty much means we’ll be seeing DLC playlists in the future.
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> THat would be great to have a DLC Playlist, however, we have to make sure the players we are playing with have the DLC’s on regular playlists.
Well Matchmaking does try to search for other DLC owners, if it doesn’t find X players in a certain amount of time, it will expand the search to non-DLC owners.
The argument for high enough population isn’t relevent in the case of paid DLC playlists. If you sell it, allow me to play it as much as I want. If 343 want to remove the playlists allowing me to play my paid content anytime (and not 1 match on 30 as it is now), well either refund us, or release those DLC free of charge.
But I have a way simpler way to correct all theses issues : simply let the original DLC launch playlist (Crimson DLC, Majestic DLC and Castle DLC) on matchmaking.
And don’t come back with the low population arguments of theses maps, as other maps show even lower popularity and are still there.
Also, what’s so bad about low population playlists : are they showing cannibalism tendencies towards other playlists on the servers? are they costing gazillions in maintenance ?
I simply can’t figure why they are removing access to paid content they offered us in the first place.
For now, I’ve spend 800 points twice(roughly 10$ each) for .Crimson & Majestic, which reprensents 1/3 of the full game price.
And where is my money now : gone !!!
i don’t know why people are still surprised after seeing what they did with reach’s dlc playlists
Maybe after the Castle DLC playlist has run it course for a month or so they will combine and release all DLC in the form of 2 playlists, Slayer DLC and Objective DLC (6v6). Without Skyline,though it is an awesome map, don’t think many would appreciated 6v6 on such a RARE small map.
yeah I got the limited edition (well mainly for the physical contents) and I’d like to be able to actually play on a DLC map (I actually found a game on the map with a hornet)
That rage when I was playing action sack today, and the game actually offered Rock n’ Rail in HARVEST on the voting screen, but people chose to play Rock n’ Rail in RAGNAROK instead. WHYYYYYY??
The maps do come up in MM but all players have to have the maps. As for an individual playlist for Crimson and Majestic, they don’t have enough people playing them to justify having 3 DLC playlists. They can’t mix them into 1 because the Majestic Map Pack is generally based for 4v4 and less.
Like many of you, I am PO’d that the Map packs I paid for aren’t available and that they seldom ever show up as a Map to select for game play.
I believe low numbers playing the DLC maps when they are available is because the DLC Game types are random.
If you look at Halo Charts:
http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/playlists/2013-05-06
for the player numbers, the four most popular Game types are BTB Slayer, Slayer, SWAT and Capture the Flag (in that order).
If we pick the top two (which is about 80% of the people whom play War games), then we need to see “BTB Slayer Crimson”, “BTB Slayer Castle” and “Slayer Majestic” ALWAYS available as choices on the list.
If they wish to swap things around weekly, then add variants like Capture the Flag, SWAT or Action Sack for any of them and rotate them around.
Not only will this help players target the games they like playing, it also will help sell the Map packs to players - because they will see them on the lists.
This isn’t rocket science that people don’t buy stuff if it isn’t available to use.
Milton
> Like many of you, I am PO’d that the Map packs I paid for aren’t available and that they seldom ever show up as a Map to select for game play.
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> I believe low numbers playing the DLC maps when they are available is because the DLC Game types are random.
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> If you look at Halo Charts:
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> http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/playlists/2013-05-06
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> for the player numbers, the four most popular Game types are BTB Slayer, Slayer, SWAT and Capture the Flag (in that order).
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> If we pick the top two (which is about 80% of the people whom play War games), then we need to see “BTB Slayer Crimson”, “BTB Slayer Castle” and “Slayer Majestic” ALWAYS available as choices on the list.
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> If they wish to swap things around weekly, then add variants like Capture the Flag, SWAT or Action Sack for any of them and rotate them around.
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> Not only will this help players target the games they like playing, it also will help sell the Map packs to players - because they will see them on the lists.
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> <mark>This isn’t rocket science that people don’t buy stuff if it isn’t available to use.</mark>
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> Milton
Tell that to me before I preordered the limited edition
I find the hole voting system to be stupid.
I have paid for Castle, Majectic and Crimson. That means that I should be able to play Big Team Slayer on 8 maps (Longbow, Ragnarok, Vortex, Meltdown, Settler, Exile, Wreckage and Shatter). But that NEVER happens! The other day I played for 2 hours and all I got to play was Exile, Ragnarok and Settler. That’s really annoying. I HATE Settler and I love Vortex.
Currently there are 5310 players playing Big Team Slayer. If 2-3 players loose the voting every time, that means that around 15% or 800 players would like to play something else then Exile, Ragnarok and Settle. That’s just stupid and very disappointing. I know that the numbers isn’t completely correct, but you get the point.
All they needed to do, is to add a filter/search function to matchmaking. Then I could make a filter like this:
Maps selected: Vortex, Wreckage, Skyline, Complex
Game type selected: Big Team Slayer, CTF.
I may have to wait longer for matchmaking to find someone to play with, but players may just want to play more rounds in a row. They don’t have to quit after 2-3 games, because they keep getting into maps they don’t want to play.
I almost think it would be nice to be able to search by map and then vote on game type sometimes.