So about that vanilla Halo: Reach...

Took a hiatus on Reach for a little while (So please forgive me for being a touch late to the party if this was already discussed), popped back in the other night only to find that Team Slayer now features (Top weighted by default) TU slayer. Apparently I missed the ‘experiment’ the front page February update talked about, but I’m assuming there was enough interest to keep TU in team slayer?

Anyways that’s besides the point, my question is, are there any playlists left that still offer a pure vanilla experience without the TU vote option? I get that I’m in the minority, etc, whatever, but I just don’t enjoy TU gametypes. Most of the games I play in Team Slayer result in a vanilla vote, but the odd time that I get a TU gametype I don’t have a lot of fun and I’m wondering if the option is still available for me to avoid it 100% effectively.

Go check Team Slayer today, it should be straight up Vanilla again. :slight_smile:

Team Slayer should be PURE Vanilla right now, the testing stages are over for the Team Slayer playlist and 343i decided to make a new playlist called Super Slayer which is the same as Team Slayer with pure TU settings.

Along with Team Slayer, Action Sack, Grifball, Living Dead, Invasion, Team Snipers, Team SWAT and Squad DLC all remain Vanilla.

Oh, I thought the testing was scheduled only for a couple of days in Februrary. It’s back to normal now? That’s great for me, thanks for letting me know guys.

> Team Slayer should be PURE Vanilla right now, the testing stages are over for the Team Slayer playlist and 343i decided to make a new playlist called Super Slayer which is the same as Team Slayer with pure TU settings.
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> Along with Team Slayer, Action Sack, Grifball, Living Dead, Invasion, Team Snipers, Team SWAT and Squad DLC all remain Vanilla.

Huh, just realized. There isn’t a straight up default objective playlist, is there?

> I get that I’m in the minority, etc, whatever, but I just don’t enjoy TU gametypes.

Implying that there is a minority audience at all. There are a lot of people that do favor Vanilla over TU. Don’t feel alone in all of this!

> > Team Slayer should be PURE Vanilla right now, the testing stages are over for the Team Slayer playlist and 343i decided to make a new playlist called Super Slayer which is the same as Team Slayer with pure TU settings.
> >
> > Along with Team Slayer, Action Sack, Grifball, Living Dead, Invasion, Team Snipers, Team SWAT and Squad DLC all remain Vanilla.
>
> Huh, just realized. There isn’t a straight up default objective playlist, is there?

Nope, sad to see but there is no need to be honest, Objective has never been popular in Reach, considering there is no reward for playing the Objective.

> > Team Slayer should be PURE Vanilla right now, the testing stages are over for the Team Slayer playlist and 343i decided to make a new playlist called Super Slayer which is the same as Team Slayer with pure TU settings.
> >
> > Along with Team Slayer, Action Sack, Grifball, Living Dead, Invasion, Team Snipers, Team SWAT and Squad DLC all remain Vanilla.
>
> Huh, just realized. There isn’t a straight up default objective playlist, is there?

Invasion is all we’ve got Non Tu’d that is straight up objective.

C’est la vie. It’d be nice to at least wedge CTF into Team Slayer somehow.

Ah, there we go. I just loaded up Reach and was greeted to the March update page saying Team Slayer will remain vanilla. That makes me a happy camper, now I just wish I had BTB vanilla again.

> Ah, there we go. I just loaded up Reach and was greeted to the March update page saying Team Slayer will remain vanilla. That makes me a happy camper, <mark>now I just wish I had BTB vanilla again</mark>.

Yeah…but now we’ve got BTB Heavies! :smiley:

> > > Team Slayer should be PURE Vanilla right now, the testing stages are over for the Team Slayer playlist and 343i decided to make a new playlist called Super Slayer which is the same as Team Slayer with pure TU settings.
> > >
> > > Along with Team Slayer, Action Sack, Grifball, Living Dead, Invasion, Team Snipers, Team SWAT and Squad DLC all remain Vanilla.
> >
> > Huh, just realized. There isn’t a straight up default objective playlist, is there?
>
> Nope, sad to see but there is no need to be honest, Objective has never been popular in Reach, considering there is no reward for playing the Objective.

Okay thats a outright lie. Team objective always had high numbers until TU, team slayers numbers increased when team objective became TU.

> > Ah, there we go. I just loaded up Reach and was greeted to the March update page saying Team Slayer will remain vanilla. That makes me a happy camper, <mark>now I just wish I had BTB vanilla again</mark>.
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> Yeah…but now we’ve got BTB Heavies! :smiley:

<mark>TU</mark> big team heavies. That sucked the fun right out of it.