I bought Halo 5 day one and I love playing Team Arena. Objective based games are my favorite. With each DLC, I was so excited to play those maps in Team Arena and for a while I wasn’t disappointed, but now all but one of the DLC maps are gone. I’ve played about 35 games in Team Arena over the last 3 days and I just feel cheated. I feel like the little bit of variety we saw in the fall preview (Riptide: Slayer, Overgrowth: Strongholds, and Assault) was 343 trolling us again (the same thing happened during summer preview). Assault is gone again. It’s just Slayer, Strongholds, and CTF. The only map in team arena right now from the DLCs is Stasis. I know they’re trying to balance all maps and modes for HCS but are the launch maps the only ones that work? I want variety even if the matches can get lopsided sometimes. Here are my recommended additions and many of these were already in Halo 5 at one point.
Riptide slayer is okay but idk about strongholds. Overgrowth strongholds is terrible, no thanks. Torque is better with the snipers but I still don’t care for it much. Tyrant slayer us good, I don’t care for assault but I enjoy it the most on tyrant.
Molten I will try to never play again. It is easily the worst map in the game. Mercy. Imo, wouldn’t work well for assault or ctf due to layout imo but slayer would be nice. No to assault in any of those maps.
I just don’t think you’re adding variety with many of these suggestions. Imo, these suggestions are just weighing down the playlist with boring modes.
You may be right about weighing down the playlist. Some of these map and mode combos are far from perfect, but I desperately want more variety to break up the monotony of the same maps over and over. A couple of these suggestions were born out of nostalgia. I really enjoyed Strongholds on Riptide and CTF on Torque (that was the only thing I liked on Torque). I like Regret too and there is bound to be a use for it beyond Slayer.
CTF could work but there would need to be something to get people to use the top and bottom of that map. When they had CTF on Regret, the flags were in the bottom of the bases and it made the top of the map mostly unused. If your team could cover you, there’s no reason to take the extra time to go high and no sight line from the top to shoot those going low. If you put the flag in the top of the base it has nearly the same problem except the bottom becomes mostly unnecessary. Regret doesn’t have the open sight lines that Truth has to make it hard to go straight through the middle of the map. Caps happen too quick.
I am still wondering why Oddball and King of the Hill are not in Halo 5. These were very common gamemodes in MLG, Hardcore, eSports, and competitive Halo.
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> I am still wondering why Oddball and King of the Hill are not in Halo 5. These were very common gamemodes in MLG, Hardcore, eSports, and competitive Halo.
Agreed! I was only speaking about the modes we’d already seen in Halo 5, but King of the Hill in particular is a big source of frustration for me. I would love to see that.
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> I am still wondering why Oddball and King of the Hill are not in Halo 5. These were very common gamemodes in MLG, Hardcore, eSports, and competitive Halo.
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Strongholds is like king of the hill. I think i like strongholds better. As far as odball yea that needs to be on H5.
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The deadzone in botttom mid of torque and the fact that you can only get up onto one side of the cylinders make this the nastiest map for me. In stasis you have a man cannon, and cylinders that you can clamber, as well as a small flat cylinder in bottom mid for cover.
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I like strongholds better too but King of the Hill makes you move around more. In strongholds you can get two strongholds and sort of camp to defend. There’s still a lot of movement but King of the Hill has everybody converging on different parts of the map. You absolutely can’t stay still and win.
Honestly, I think the bigger issue is why isn’t there an Team Objective playlist. Team arena should be renamed to the HCS playlist. That way anyone who wants to get more involved in the HCS or esports in general will know this is what I should be playing, it’s what the pro play. Then a Team Objective playlist should be added (should of been here ages ago) and in it have CTF, Oddball, KOTH, and maybe one or two other game types.
On top of adding Team Objective, Social 4-4 Team Slayer should be here as well. Sometimes people want to play 4-4 slayer but don’t want to play ranked, or maybe they don’t have there friends/teammates on at that time.
Team Objective needs to be here 343I, it’s long overdue.
Start search for game on Team Slayer - Play CTF on Colosseum - Play Strongholds on Plaza - Play CTF on Stasis - Repeat - Start a new search because it is the same maps - Start search for a game on Team Slayer - Play CTF on Colosseum
There are some maps I’ve never gotten yet I think it’s about 3 maps if you multiply it by how many game types there is it’s pretty bad.
I’d rather play objective only though I find slayer to be a bit basic of an objective.
I also prefer playing just one objective so I can focus and get good at that. When I played exclusively WZ assault I was getting near perfect games often with at least 2 games that were perfect. Perfect as in no deaths, top of the board.
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> - Start search for game on Team Slayer
> - Play CTF on Colosseum
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> - Start a new search because it is the same maps
> - Start search for a game on Team Slayer
> - Play CTF on Colosseum
Just curious but how are you finding objective gametypes in the team slayer playlist?
Is there anywhere I can find a list of all the current map/game type combinations available in Team Arena and all the maps in the other playlists as well? If I want to play a game on Mercy for example, which playlist do I need to go into. I’d like a list that is updated every time a change is made to arena.