Team Arena Summer Update

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Final changes have now been made and weapon placements for maps have been updated across all playlists and custom games. For Team Arena specifically, Assault has been removed and a number of map/gametype combos have been removed. There are now just the following 14 playable combinations in the Team Arena playlist:

SLAYER

  1. Truth
  2. The Rig
  3. Coliseum
  4. Regret
  5. Eden
  6. Plaza
    CTF
  7. Fathom
  8. Coliseum
  9. Stasis
  10. Truth
    STRONGHOLDS
  11. The Rig
  12. Eden
  13. Empire
  14. Plaza

The removal of Assault is something I’m happy with as at lot of the time I didn’t enjoy it. Having said that, there’s now a 42% chance of getting Team Slayer despite being in the Team Arena playlist! That is of course assuming all combinations are equally weighted (42% TS, 29% CTF, 29% SH), which is what I’m assuming given they haven’t stated otherwise. With playlists such as Team Doubles and Multi-Team still missing from the game, as well as gametypes like Oddball and KOTH, Team Arena was the only ranked playlist to go to for variety and I’ve always played it for the objectives (if I wanted Team Slayer, I’d play Team Slayer). So I am disappointed to see the lack of variety that now exists. Why so much slayer and not so much CTF/SH?!

Tyrant is my favourite map but now that’s completely omitted (what was wrong with Tyrant CTF?!) and even Empire CTF is gone… maybe if they didn’t close off the windows and add rockets people would’ve still liked it! (Subjective, I know). Other maps completely omitted are Overgrowth, Riptide and Torque. Personally I didn’t mind SH on Overgrowth and Riptide, but I am happy to see the back of Torque.

I don’t get why the whole Halo community needs to be forced to play only what the pro teams are happy with for their tournament, but ok why not add a social Team Objective playlist where we can all play CTF/SH/Assault/Oddball? I think this would fill in the variety gap and be a nice addition to the playlist selection, plus I still see a lot of people requesting more social playlists.

Ultimately, in case you haven’t understood my point, I just feel like there isn’t much variety. Team Arena is now made up of 42% Team Slayer, 29% CTF and 29% SH, playable on a total of just 8 maps (out of the 15 arena maps made by 343i). I won’t get in to how I don’t like many of the updates to individual maps, but how does everyone else feel about the Team Arena Summer Update?

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I didn’t liked Assault that much so it’s kind of nice :smiley:

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Completely agree, not enough variety . I like what they did with the summer version. But if they were to add social arena, it would allow people to practise and warm up to play ranked arena. And just the fact their is no team doubles yet is beyond me… I have seen 100+ threads of angry people asking where team doubles is. SMH

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> Completely agree, not enough variety . I like what they did with the summer version. But if they were to add social arena, it would allow people to practise and warm up to play ranked arena. And just the fact their is no team doubles yet is beyond me… I have seen 100+ threads of angry people asking where team doubles is. SMH

Yes social team arena and team doubles would be so sweet

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> I didn’t liked Assault that much so it’s kind of nice :smiley:

Well keep in mind the Assault 343 did was terrible. No bomb explosions, Thruster Pack??, and no BTB Bomb Assault. Halo 5 wants to make everything competitive and that’s where it failed.