Hello!
I realized today that I haven’t played BTB in a while and figured that I would jump into a game mode that I enjoyed when it was released for Halo 5. There wasn’t many maps before and they were decent. Not very good looking but they worked for the most part. So having played a couple of games today and some games sporadically over the last few months I walked away from my console incredibly pissed off. I am just astonished over how they let these low-quality maps into these modes. I’ve seen players complain about spawns in other modes (the only maps I’ve had problem with in regards to Arena has been Truth and Regret). BTB though, talk about messed up spawns in almost all of the new maps. I’ve spawned with my back towards an enemy and I’ve had opponents spawn in when I’ve been present. This mode used to be the bomb in the other games (at least I recall them being great).
The spawns are off, the map design (especially the new maps) is incredibly chaotic and I feel that they haven’t been playtested thoroughly as the arena maps have been. Some will argue that WZ is the new BTB and sure, it is in many ways but sometimes I want to play with fair starts, no REQs and still have a fun time in a game mode that deserves the same love as all the other modes have received. Perhaps it isn’t that popular and that could be the reason it doesn’t play as well as many other modes. If I had to choose though I’d much rather see Fiesta as a permanent playlist than BTB.
Rant over!
They have absolutely ruined BTB. Its a shell of what it was in prior games. By far my biggest disappointment of the game. It was my go to gametype in Halo 4 and still is in MCC (When MCC actually works).
Yeah BTB in this game flat out sucks. Horrible maps and spawns. It needs a refresh.
Some maps are decent imo. But the spawns do suck.
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> Some maps are decent imo. But the spawns do suck.
Yeah, I agree. The ones first released was entirely okay. But the new ones… Just feels like quantity over quality. I love Halo 5 though. All modes are good in their own way and I can tell they’ve put a lot of work into them. But not BTB. Not even close. It pissed me off to the point that I got so loudly vocal about it that I won’t be surprised if I’ll hear complaints from a neighbour.
I think if BTB went to AR/Mag starts like the rest of Arena, and just had 2-5 BR pickups on the maps, that alone would improve game balance by 50%, because it would make BTB a viable canvas for vehicle play, whereas Warzone is firmly anti-vehicle because of the extremely high level of access to long range and precision weapons. (and of course rockets etc.)
Honestly I don’t think the current state of BTB is that hard to fix. It just needs a month or so of 343i’s attention. Granted we pretty much all would welcome 343i-made maps to a 100% forge-made playlist like it is now, but I don’t think it’s fantastically far from being great. It’s all the little things: the BR issue like I already mentioned, adjusting some weapon pickups, tweaking grenade placement on map, tuning spawns. There’s certainly a bunch of issues, but they’re all small, easily adjusted issues.