At what point did they decide that every match of BTB must be either worst stage ever Settler or former worst stage ever Meltdown?. I cant even remember(seriously) the last time I seen my favorite map Longbow. Sometimes I think they are deliberately trying to make this game suck. Very sad state of affairs.
I see what you did there.
Well, I don’t think they are DELIBERATELY trying to make the game worse. They are definitely ACCIDENTALLY making the game worse.
They put a lot of effort into the weapon tuning which turned out almost flawlessly and for that I’m grateful. What they ended up doing however to completely negate that good thing they did and even make it worse than before was COMPLETELY RUIN THE MAPS WITH ABSOLUTELY INSANE POWER WEAPON AND VEHICLE SPAWNS.
So before the update I could enjoy slayer because while things were chaotic and random at least it was tolerable. Now there is such an abundance of power weapons and vehicles that I can’t breath. You name it - ghosts, rocket launchers, mantises, snipers, splasers, saws, overshields, banshees, gauss hogs, etc. they all spawn on any given map in under a minute. I refuse to subjugate myself to this madness and have moved on to past Halo’s for balanced, competitive matchmaking (I find my TV and controller is much less threatened to getting broken).
> Well, I don’t think they are DELIBERATELY trying to make the game worse. They are definitely ACCIDENTALLY making the game worse.
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> They put a lot of effort into the weapon tuning which turned out almost flawlessly and for that I’m grateful. What they ended up doing however to completely negate that good thing they did and even make it worse than before was COMPLETELY RUIN THE MAPS WITH ABSOLUTELY INSANE POWER WEAPON AND VEHICLE SPAWNS.
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> So before the update I could enjoy slayer because while things were chaotic and random at least it was tolerable. Now there is such an abundance of power weapons and vehicles that I can’t breath. You name it - ghosts, rocket launchers, mantises, snipers, splasers, saws, overshields, banshees, gauss hogs, etc. they all spawn on any given map in under a minute. I refuse to subjugate myself to this madness and have moved on to past Halo’s for balanced, competitive matchmaking (I find my TV and controller is much less threatened to getting broken).
You can just stop playing in the infinity playlists rather than switching game (though of course if you’d rather play a previous title then you should). Avoid infinity and you avoid the ordnance/PW issues of the game.
Well I had a break and felt like a game and guess what. Its -Yoinking!- Settler again which I quit.
Yeah settler, complex, and vortex are all annoying and come up 1000 times more then anything else now.
The problem is even backing out and trying to find a better map it won’t happen. You can get settler and complex/vortex 20 times in row of backing out and trying to find another game.
I think Vortex and Meltdown are by far the worst maps on Halo 4 imo. Settler…ugh, I see what you’re getting at but I can’t help but feel like those two maps are the most annoying.
Its near frustrating me to tears. This was not a good online game to start with and now the only decent stages are no where to be seen. So far tonight 6 settler 2 meltdown and 3 Vortex which is the best of a bad bunch. Add to that the 5 minute wait between matches and join in -Yoinking!- progress and its just sucking the fun straight out .
Map selection needs fixed in almost all the playlist. It seems like you only play a couple from each list, gets boring after awhile.
> I think Vortex and Meltdown are by far the worst maps on Halo 4 imo. Settler…ugh, I see what you’re getting at but I can’t help but feel like those two maps are the most annoying.
Neither of these is half as bad as Harvest, in my opinion. That is, by far, the most boring map in the entire franchise thus far.
> > I think Vortex and Meltdown are by far the worst maps on Halo 4 imo. Settler…ugh, I see what you’re getting at but I can’t help but feel like those two maps are the most annoying.
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> Neither of these is half as bad as Harvest, in my opinion. That is, by far, the most boring map in the entire franchise thus far.
I quite enjoyed Harvest, it’s an excellent ctf map and it looks gorgeous.
I do agree with the main topic however, I used to hate seeing bloody Exile and Ragnorak over and over (I still hate Ragnorak) but I kind of wish I could see Longbow or Exile again.
I don’t by any means hate Meltdown or Vortex, on the contrary I love them, but they get a bit stale.
What’s wrong with Meltdown? It’s my favorite map in the game after Landfall.
343 ruined it with all of the power weapons and Mantises.
I dont understand why 343 does not give every map equal rotation and let the players decide what they want to play. If one or more maps are getting picked more often then others, its because the majority of people like them. If you want people to pick them less, put better maps in rotation to compete, not reduce the weighting of the maps people picked.
Its really that simple.
343 should have followed Reach’s method for Map selections.
In Reach you have 4 items to vote on, three maps / game type choices and a 4th option of “None of the Above”. The None item brings up a second set of three maps / game types to vote on. This can go on multiple times.
So this simple change would allow 6+ maps votes per lobby and substantially help in giving peopel choice.
However 343i won’t do that because it requires a change to the game code (same as adding visible CSR or allowing one to opt out of JIIP, or “Best Connection” filter or “Local People Only” filters) and there will be no more of those going forward. You can’t do this via back end tuning / tweaking which they moved out of the game code because the source code will never be updated.
I actually love Meltdown and Settler… I’d like to see longbow more though.(Ragnarok is the best ;))
Vortex is definatley vorst.
Ragnarok FTW