Would Halo be able to handle a Super Big Team Battle gametype consisiting of maybe 40 players in a match? Similar to Battlefield or SWBF’s Galactic Assault. I think it would be something new and fun in Halo. Not saying this should be the multi players main focus of course I still want my other 4 v 4 playlists, but I think a gametype like that would keep Halo Infinite’s matchmaking alive for a very long time. Man, capture the flag, territories & slayer would be on a whole other level! Just imagine half of your team in the sky with banshees & other aircraft battling while other half is down on ground combat completing objectives. One match would look like the battles from Halo 3’s “Covenant” mission.
I think that would be pretty epic. So long as the maps are good and it wasn’t some kind of warzone variant.
I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. I can only imagine the horror of trying to run a flag while your team ignores the objective though.
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> I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. I can only imagine the horror of trying to run a flag while your team ignores the objective though.
Can you say dead in 2 seconds lol. I would be zigzagging all over the place. No I would just give the flag back to them then walk away.
I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. Closest we’ve had is WZ but everyone knows what that’s like…
Maps would have to be hella big lol
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> I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. Closest we’ve had is WZ but everyone knows what that’s like…
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> Maps would have to be hella big lol
Yeah, WZ was awful…
Now instead of complaining about my 7 other team members who refuse to get near a flag, I can complain about 19 of them!
On a real note, I’m all for it as long as it can be balanced out properly like standard Big Team Battle, with equal spawning loadouts, maps large enough to accommodate the players, and zero requisitions. Number of vehicles and weapons on the map will still vary per map, just as any other Big Team Map.
I’d rather keep traditional BTB to 8v8. Objective games can already be bad enough with solo teams and adding twelve more people will only exacerbate that. I would also worry about the maps themselves if Warzone is a clue to what we might see. I think they would be better off just keeping the bigger playlists to Warzone or Invasion, but giving us more variety with the game modes.
Edit: Imagine having to compete with 19 teammates for your sniper at the beginning and throughout the game.
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> Would Halo be able to handle a Super Big Team Battle gametype consisiting of maybe 40 players in a match? Similar to Battlefield or SWBF’s Galactic Assault. I think it would be something new and fun in Halo. Not saying this should be the multi players main focus of course I still want my other 4 v 4 playlists, but I think a gametype like that would keep Halo Infinite’s matchmaking alive for a very long time. Man, capture the flag, territories & slayer would be on a whole other level! Just imagine half of your team in the sky with banshees & other aircraft battling while other half is down on ground combat completing objectives. One match would look like the battles from Halo 3’s “Covenant” mission.
12v12 or 16v16 would be cool,but 20v20 seems a bit excessive
How about just regular 8v8 Big Team Battle? 343i already tried a “Super Big Team” game mode with Warzone, and it’s basically just pay-2-win Big Team Battle with maps that are too big and damage-sponge AI bosses.
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> . One match would look like the battles from Halo 3’s “Covenant” mission.
More like Reach’s ‘The Package’ mission!
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> Would Halo be able to handle a Super Big Team Battle gametype consisiting of maybe 40 players in a match? Similar to Battlefield or SWBF’s Galactic Assault. I think it would be something new and fun in Halo. Not saying this should be the multi players main focus of course I still want my other 4 v 4 playlists, but I think a gametype like that would keep Halo Infinite’s matchmaking alive for a very long time. Man, capture the flag, territories & slayer would be on a whole other level! Just imagine half of your team in the sky with banshees & other aircraft battling while other half is down on ground combat completing objectives. One match would look like the battles from Halo 3’s “Covenant” mission.
I would like to see bigger battles too, I always think about the cut scene for Assault / Battle at Szurdok Ridge and dream of what could have been. I would like to see 20v20, 30v30 and smaller matches in future Halo games.
Interesting to see but with how halo plays I don’t know that would work in a 20v20 setting
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> How about just regular 8v8 Big Team Battle? 343i already tried a “Super Big Team” game mode with Warzone, and it’s basically just pay-2-win Big Team Battle with maps that are too big and damage-sponge AI bosses.
So why not have that but take out the pay to win and the whole warzone aspect just a 20v20 btb Match
I’ll be fine if as long it doesn’t flatout replace traditional BTB. As I’m typing this, I am now theorising the amount of tweaks they need to the gamemodes in order for it to work. Maps? I’ll say wide open space, heavier reliance on heavy duty vehicles, more power weapons scattered all over the map and dynamic environments.
I wouldn’t mind seeing this come through and can imagine how much fun the game will be with 20 players from each team duking it out.
This eerily sounds like Battlefield to me…
I just wanna see massive battles online tbh. Warzone just isn’t that massive to me, the whole REQ stuff just kills it too. I don’t want no replacements of original halo playlists all I’m saying is Halo can use a massive mode like that.
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> Interesting to see but with how halo plays I don’t know that would work in a 20v20 setting
I’m sure 343 can find a way to adapt.
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> So why not have that but take out the pay to win and the whole warzone aspect just a 20v20 btb Match
I think the issue is going to be redundancy. I believe it’s safe to assume that they’re going to have multiple Warzone playlists plus maybe even Invasion or something similar which will all have huge player counts. The only thing a big BTB playlist will do is just split the population because there’s going to be people like me who will just want and play an 8v8 playlist. It might not even be as popular since people are going to be able to get their fill of big playlists with Warzone or Invasion. What 343 should do is just keep the bigger player counts to Warzone and make variations of it like a no AI version and just call it Warzone Slayer or something.
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> Warzone just isn’t that massive to me, the whole REQ stuff just kills it too.
You really think they’re going to up the player count in BTB before they do it in Warzone? Warzone is the most logical and easiest choice for making the player count bigger which they’ll likely do in Infinite.
I have seen previously that 343 contracted another developer to help them with a massive battle type MM game. It was to work with many MM teams playing thier own games in a WZ type arena but at a certain point all teams playing would end up in a single game fighting one large battle. 343 insisted on having 100 players in the game at the same time but this was just not possible. Compromises could not be agreed and the idea was shelved and we got Spartan Ops instead if I remember correctly.
Maybe with the increased power in the newer XBoxes we will get something like this.
I’d really like to see missions that forced your team to have a range a Spartans with different specializations and each one has to complete a puzzle type game whilst other team members hold the position.
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> > I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. I can only imagine the horror of trying to run a flag while your team ignores the objective though.
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> Can you say dead in 2 seconds lol. I would be zigzagging all over the place. No I would just give the flag back to them then walk away.
And the worst one’s will be the ones who keep dropping, picking it up because they think there faster while we’re trying to sneak it away…they will have doomed us all. >.<