I see no reason why the best original game type in Halo 4 has gotten no love and been removed. One of the few reasons my friends and I have hung around this long. Please bring the playlist back, 343!
You can play Quickochet or Shotgun in Action Sack, but I also miss the original.
I think there are way too many playlists though. They need to make a Team Objective playlist , with Richochet, KOTH, Oddball and small CTF. They can remove the CTF playlist since it pops up in a lot of others.
Dominium can also slot in there when it gets removed later this month.
Yes Richochet has to come back definetly!
where did Richochet go? it NEEDS to come back i miss it and like it way better than proving ground please bring that back and replace proving ground with it
> where did Richochet go? it NEEDS to come back i miss it and like it way better than proving ground please bring that back and replace proving ground with it
That will never happen. If 343 wanted Ricochet to be a permanent playlist it would be. The people playing Proving Grounds are typically the competitive players that have no incentive to play casual game types such as Ricochet. Also Proving Grounds didn’t replace Ricochet, it replaced Throwdown, a playlist that had always co-existed alongside Ricochet. Aside from that, Proving Grounds is the only remaining playlist in Halo 4 that supports the competitive side of the community therefore is a core game type and will never be removed, regardless of the low population numbers.
Ricochet was removed because it failed to retain a good population. It was once my favorite gametype but the addition of Shotgun Ricochet and Quickochet (giving little incentive to actually hold the ball let alone score it) really ruined what was once a fun experience. The map pool was also horrendous. Haven and Hekau were the only maps that played half decently that didn’t require the free Forge Island DLC which nobody bothered to download. The fact that 343 didn’t make it a DLC required playlist really hampered the fun. Though I have played over 500 games of Ricochet, 10 of which may have been played on Inheritor and Butter post forge test playlist.
Due to the low population, matches were extremely unbalanced. There never seemed to be no in between. The players were generally really bad or stat padders not bothered about their w/l so games had no challenge. After all the updates, all people ever voted was Shotgun Ricochet which wasn’t fun. The updates made to the playlist ruined it for myself and many of my friends.
It sucks that it has been removed completely however. Sure you can play Shotgun Ricochet in Action Sack, but I never found that game type much fun anyway. Plus that would mean out voting Husky Raid which I don’t believe I’ve seen happen yet…
I would personally like to see a small team based objective playlist introduced (and not as a rotational). It would include KOTH, Oddball, Ricochet ect.
> The people playing Proving Grounds are typically the competitive players that have no incentive to play casual game types such as Ricochet.
It’s in the playlist:
> > The people playing Proving Grounds are typically the competitive players that have no incentive to play casual game types such as Ricochet.
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> > Game Types: Slayer BR, Extraction BR, Oddball BR, <mark>Ricochet BR</mark>
> > Maps: Haven, Pitfall, Simplex, Skyline, Abandon, Onyx, Vertigo, Orion, Shutout
Its never voted for though. People were asking for it to be removed in Throwdown also. The fact that you can throw the ball is what people want removed so it plays more like Assault. Personally I would love to play a Legendary variant of Ricochet :L.