The ways tanks are handled is stupid and unfair. I was in a CTF BTB on Deadlock, the score is tied 2-2 with six minutes left, then the game decides “You know what, we’re gonna start dropping scorpion tanks for the enemy team, while your team only gets a Ghost.” The map had ZERO anti-tank weapons for us to work with. No shock weapons to disable said tank, no rocket launchers to do reliable damage against the tank, and no tank of our own so we could fight it. It became a one sided battle as all 12 players on my team had to stop trying to go for the flag and shift to defense to try to deal with this tank, but it wasn’t easy since we had nothing to work with. When we finally dealt with the Scorpion, THE GAME SPAWNED ANOTHER FOR THEM. We ended up losing because we couldn’t defend the flag or go to theirs because of that damn tank!
It happened again during a Total Control match on Highpower. Tied game, game decided to spawn a tank for the enemy team, we lose. There’s a reason in older Halos both sides got a tank, or the tank was put in the middle of the map. Having just one team getting tanks spawning on their side of the map at random is so unfair. Please for the love of god change how tanks spawn work, or give us guaranteed ways to deal with the tanks, otherwise if tanks start spawning I’m just gonna quit the match.
All of the RNG air-drops are just awful, they feel awful, it feels like a game of Monopoly where the bank is allowed to just randomly hand players $1,000 on a Go pass instead of $200 based on who rolled the most prime numbers in a circuit or something equally as stupid.
RNG in competitive games is and always will be a horrible idea. RNG is for things like RPG games where you have some knowledge of the % chances you’re dealing with, and there’s a way to modify or avoid them altogether in favor of more stable avenues. Having RNG foundationally exist in a competitive game is horrible game design and even if this isn’t RNG but based on some sort of arcane analysis of team performance, that is still horrible. It creates snowballing situations.
Honestly the 2nd Tank Spawn, i’d have just left the game - why stick around at all when so much BS is heading my way?
I really, really want tanks (and every other vehicle for that matter) to spawn at the bases on regular timers as they have for every single BTB mode in the history of ever. Not for balance reasons, but because I would like to actually get the chance to use one!
I haven’t seen what you’re talking about. The vehicles either come in pairs with a Pelican arriving in each side of the map simultaneously, or one vehicle is dropped off in the center. The vehicle drop is called out to everyone, so your team needs to control it.