So I’m really not a fan of the Team Arena playlist in Halo 5. It offers not a lot of variety to the overall experience and includes a gamemode that is drastically different from the others (Breakout). Having Breakout in this playlist is liking putting SWAT in the Team Slayer playlist. It just doesn’t work.
Other modes in Team Arena are:
Slayer
Capture the Flag
Strongholds
So my suggestion is to replace Team Arena with Team Objective with only objective modes. These modes can’t be played in any other playlist which will make them more interesting to play in Team Objective. It was also a lot more variety to the matchmaking playlists by just replacing Team Arena with Team Objective and adding the following modes to Team Objective:
Capture the Flag
Strongholds
King of the Hill
Oddball
Please show your support if you agree! Also if anyone over at 343 is reading this, please respond!
I don’t like breakout being in Team Arena and overall I am not happy with the playlists. That being said I do at least understand keeping objectives in the more curated competition oriented playlist. I don’t have a problem with slayer existing in that playlist, there is just too much of it.
If Team Arena also included Oddball, KOTH, 2plot extraction, Assault, etc, I would be perfectly fine with that setup. The problem is that the rest of the Arena playlists are so slayer heavy already that having slayer at all just feels like it undermines the objective gametypes in the playlist.
Generally I don’t think the idea is a problem(again aside from breakout), it is the lack of content.
I am pretty sure the arena Playlist is just a Playlist category with subcategories within it. From what I read it feel like you think you just click on arena and bam your playing some random gametype.
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> So I’m really not a fan of the Team Arena playlist in Halo 5. It offers not a lot of variety to the overall experience and includes a gamemode that is drastically different from the others (Breakout).
Contradiction called, it says you all over that!!!
Team Arena is a focused experience of Slayer, Objective and round based Slayer-Objective… To claim that experience is without variety for an overall “Arena” setting, whereby players are pitted against each other in variable settings, when there is a Slayer specific playlist available, well that just rude.
I completely agree with you! Whats the point of putting Breakout and Slayer in team arena when they already have their own playlist. I hope they fix this and add more objective modes and then rename it to team objective.
I think having slayer in team arena is horrible. I wish if anything they could have seperate playlist where I can play only stronghold or ctf because I legit get 5 slayer matches in a row and it gets annoying
I could not agree more with the OP here. I don’t mind slayer in team arena but it seems to come up more often than the objectives, but maybe I’m just imagining that. If KOTH and Oddball were added id think slayer would be much less likely to appear, and someone who likes it in there would still be happy. But i think getting rid of slayer and just having objectives is the best solution personally. I really miss oddball and KOTH, were they just never intending to add either to Arena or was 343’s intention just to hold out on us to get us to stick around?
i personally loved ricochet in halo 2a and halo 4, i wish they would bring back oddball variations like that. Kill from the Hill was fun in H2a as well, although it did change the game drastically. i wish they would bring more social/ranked playlists. its nice to have a wide variety of options and we all know halo 5 doesnt offer the variety we had hoped for.
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> So I’m really not a fan of the Team Arena playlist in Halo 5. It offers not a lot of variety to the overall experience and includes a gamemode that is drastically different from the others (Breakout). Having Breakout in this playlist is liking putting SWAT in the Team Slayer playlist. It just doesn’t work.
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> Other modes in Team Arena are:
> - Slayer
> - Capture the Flag
> - Strongholds
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> So my suggestion is to replace Team Arena with Team Objective with only objective modes. These modes can’t be played in any other playlist which will make them more interesting to play in Team Objective. It was also a lot more variety to the matchmaking playlists by just replacing Team Arena with Team Objective and adding the following modes to Team Objective:
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> - Capture the Flag
> - Strongholds
> - King of the Hill
> - Oddball
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> Please show your support if you agree! Also if anyone over at 343 is reading this, please respond!
The unfortunate thing is this thread was started in October, and there have still been no changes. I get it that Breakout is in HCS, but then again it is the Team Arean playlist not the HCS playlist. Why not change it to Objective and call it Team Objective, or change the title of the playlist itself?
I played a good amount of Team Arena today and got mostly Strongholds and CTF. It was a good time. I definitely don’t like Breakout being included it breaks the rhythm in a way.
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> Agree 100% that Breakout should NOT be in there. I like Breakout but if I want to play it, I will go into the Breakout playlist.
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> Also agree 1000% that Oddball and KOTH need to be put in. These are Halo staples, don’t really understand why they are not included yet.
I think part of the reason a lot of these things are done are so we’ll be forced to play their new game modes, like Breakout and Warzone.
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> The unfortunate thing is this thread was started in October, and there have still been no changes. I get it that Breakout is in HCS, but then again it is the Team Arean playlist not the HCS playlist. Why not change it to Objective and call it Team Objective, or change the title of the playlist itself?
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> I played a good amount of Team Arena today and got mostly Strongholds and CTF. It was a good time. I definitely don’t like Breakout being included it breaks the rhythm in a way.
Do you feel the same way with arena breakout? I hardly ever played this playlist before, but now that they switched breakout to arena breakout, I like it a lot more. Now all they need to do is remove slayer. (Besides adding more game types)
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> You do realize that the “Team Arena” playlist within the Arena is basically the Halo Championship Series (HCS) eSports geared playlist, right?
I do get this, problem is I don’t give two rats tails about HCS. I’d prefer an objective based playlist with random objective game types then the current arena setting. That’s what the original post was about.