Just wondering why I never see anyone talking about this old idea of Social and Ranked playlists. Why not just take Halo 4 as is, put all its current game-modes under a Social category, and add a Ranked category that features a real and visible CSR, no loadouts, no ordnance, just the old-fashioned bare-knuckled Halo experience from Halo 2 and 3? Everyone gets everything. Casuals get fun, competitives get hardcore. I’m not really seeing any reason why this wouldn’t be the most perfect thing ever.
It has been mentioned many times before, I know I have said it a good number of times.
What we need is 3 playlists, Ranked, Social and Infinity.
Ranked Playlists = Team Throwback, Throwback FFA etc. These game-modes will feature the new CSR and also include Slayer and Objective Variants. (FFA Oddball, Team Oddball, KotH, 1-Flag, 2-Flag etc).
Social Playlists = Legendary Slayer, Big Team Battle etc. (Assuming Legendary Slayer is 343i’s take on Halo 3’s Social Slayer) will be in the social playlist. Featuring all game-types from Halo 3.
Infinity Playlists = Infinity Slayer, Big Team Infinity Slayer, Regicide (etc) will form the Infinity Playlists. Infinity CTF and other game-mode would also feature here.
> It has been mentioned many times before, I know I have said it a good number of times.
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> What we need is 3 playlists, Ranked, Social and Infinity.
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> Team Throwback, Throwback FFA (etc) would be ranked playlists, featuring Slayer and Objective Variants. (FFA Oddball, Team Oddball, KotH, 1-Flag, 2-Flag etc).
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> Legendary Slayer, BTB (etc) (Which I assume is 343i’s take on Halo 3’s Social Slayer) will be in the social playlist. Featuring all game-types from Halo 3.
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> Infinity Slayer, Big Team Infinity Slayer, Regicide (etc) will form the Infinity Playlists.
Seems like a pretty simple/ingenious fix to me. Why isn’t all the outrage being channeled into pushing for this?
This has been discussed in many threads, even way before the game was released. But here we are with Halo 4 and clearly they did not listen to any of the feedback they got from the players.
Lets hope they do listen for Halo 5 and give players some ranked playlists and social playlists from day 1 and decent gameplay with less random crap.
I am a non-competitive player, and I hate Halo 4 with its loadouts and ordnances (DMR too). I want classic Halo back. What kind of player am I?
Non-competitive is not casual. Keep that in mind, OP.
> I am a non-competitive player, and I hate Halo 4 with its loadouts and ordnances (DMR too). I want classic Halo back. What kind of player am I?
> Non-competitive is not casual. Keep that in mind, OP.
70% of my Halo 3 games were Social, 25% were Ranked and 5% were Custom.
I’m not a competitive player per se, but I do enjoy playing to win.
We both would fit into the Social Playist, of my previous post.
Didn’t Josh Holmes admit, on Twitter, that bringing back Ranked/Social playlists would benefit Halo 4?
Ya know, because features like these ACTUALLY WORK.
Three playlists would split the community/population far too much. Ranked and Social would be fine.
As for ranked I’d prefer to see non-throwdown stuff too, I like having radar basically! I’d have ranked snipers swat slayer and throwdown/mlg, maybe ffa. The only ones without radar should be swat and throwdown/mlg, that’s classic halo if I remember correctly.
Social could then like ctf does now offer both infinity or standard within each playlist so say you search social slayer you could be offered three maps with a mix of infinity and classic slayer. Same with ctf, though I think an objective playlist would be better. Equally maybe a fourth voting option for a new set of three, that way you could have less playlists but more choices within them keeping population from being too spread.
Especially now csr is in every playlist I never want to sign in a guest or play with my less skilled friends, that is ridiculous. Bring back a simple ranked/social split.
I’ve mentioned this before… if ain’t broke don’t fix it and I mean this in terms of playlist organization. Personally I do not have a problem with the new gameplay additions (ordinance, regicide, etc…). I think it’s great. But that’s another discussion.
Back to the playlists:
Am I the only one who thinks that 343 underestimated the IMPORTANCE of playlist organization. Not enough preparation went into this and it really didn’t have to be hard.
Putting in ranked and social sections should’ve been a given.
All 343 had to do was go back and take a look at Halo 3 to see how it was organized and done. So why didn’t they do this? Too much pride 343? All jokes aside was that it? Were you too focused on putting your own unique spin on things so that you could say this was OUR game? There is absolutely no shame in copying something that makes sense and works. Period.
Forgive me if I sound like a spoiled brat or nuisance but it’s just sincerely frustrating to see something as perceivably simple as playlists get screwed up
I’ll never forget before the game was released when I remember Frankie talking about rotational playlists would be the norm. BIG RED FLAG.
The only time you saw Bungie do this was on special occasions like the once in a while quirky fiesta playlist. And if they did swap out regular playlists it was extremely rare.
For Halo 5 there needs to be separate Social and Ranked playlists.
Here’s the thread where I update multiple Ideas of how the playlists should be organized, including an idea for ranked and social.
I have no idea why they walked away from social and ranked playlists. That is the easiest way to cater to both casuals and competitive players.