It seems strange and redundant to me that we have an entire playlist dedicated to nothing but Team Slayer, and yet Slayer is also included in the Team Arena hopper. In my opinion, It would be better to keep the Slayer playlist, remove Slayer from the Team Arena playlist, and convert “Team Arena” to a de facto “Team Objective” playlist including CTF, Strongholds, Arena Breakout, and whatever new objective game types await us in future updates.
I’m curious to hear all of your opinions on this topic. What do you think?
Agree. Slayer and Breakout should be removed as they have their own playlist. On the other hand Breakout is a lot better on Arena playlist that on its own playlist due to maps.
Team Arena is supposed to be the competitive playlist, but they haven’t updated it to match the pro settings. I think they should add a strictly competitive playlist, and turn that one into a team OBJ playlist.
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> Team Arena is supposed to be the competitive playlist, but they haven’t updated it to match the pro settings. I think they should add a strictly competitive playlist, and turn that one into a team OBJ playlist.
Hasn’t it always been in the mixed team game bag though? I don’t mind it at all. It’s a team game mode so it can stay. Some people ONLY want to play slayer. Some like obj but don’t mind a TDM thrown in every once in a while.
If there were more Team Arena game modes and maps (variety) then the occasional slayer probably wouldn’t bother you so much haha.
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> Hasn’t it always been in the mixed team game bag though? I don’t mind it at all. It’s a team game mode so it can stay. Some people ONLY want to play slayer. Some like obj but don’t mind a TDM thrown in every once in a while.
Seems you’re willfully missing out a group of players. Some people want to play solely CTF or Strongholds and they have to put up with Slayer and Arena Breakout dominating the playlist. I’m one of them.
My take on it is they don’t want to add a plethora of new playlists because it will only fragment what is already a small and ever dwindling player base.
In general im inclined to agree, although my problem is more with breakout than slayer. I dont mind breakout but whenever it comes up i always wish it was another game type.
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> They are removing Arena Breakout from the playlist soon, I think Slayer should stay until the February update when we get Oddball and Assault back.
I agree. 343’s base playlists clear weren’t given much thought. Doesn’t help either when you don’t have a full suite of gametypes like previous Halo games.
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> > Team Arena is supposed to be the competitive playlist, but they haven’t updated it to match the pro settings. I think they should add a strictly competitive playlist, and turn that one into a team OBJ playlist.
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> Hasn’t it always been in the mixed team game bag though? I don’t mind it at all. It’s a team game mode so it can stay. Some people ONLY want to play slayer. Some like obj but don’t mind a TDM thrown in every once in a while.
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> If there were more Team Arena game modes and maps (variety) then the occasional slayer probably wouldn’t bother you so much haha.
Agreed with both. I kinda want slayer in there, as its always been part of the action sack. Maybe at a lower rate once the new update comes out, but not totally out.
Hopefully with the addition of new objective gametypes we’ll see the complete removal of Slayer from Team Arena. When I want to play Slayer I’ll switch playlists so I can play exactly what I want. When I go to Team Arena its because I want to play the objective gametypes.
Objective playlists have always been played a lot less then team slayer, so maybe putting slayer in there as well was a way to try to get more people to try objective???
I’d like it to be a grab bag that favours Objective. I wouldn’t even care if they had slayer, swat, snipers and arena breakout in there as long as all of those added up to the lowest amount of weighting. I’d like Oddball (and Regicide) in here too but I think they said that wasn’t being added to matchmaking. With current gametypes, something like:
