Seriously! You took off Team Snipers for FFA Throwback? WTF!!! Why would you even take it down, in the first place? That has been my top on the Playlist next to SWAT. Not just for me either. I know their are plenty of people disappointed. My brother picked up his copy when I told him SWAT and Snipers were back. Can you imagine one of the reasons you turned on multiplayer was taken away. Especially when it has been a regular playlist since Halo 2? This better not be how 343i plans to do business with a classic playlist.
Yeap, team snipers was a weekly playlist. Unfortunelly ppl dont played it and they removed it, maybe next week its back. I really hope they dont take SWAT on next week.
So they bring back a lesser form of the FFA they came up with. That is limited. The playlist should grow not subtract. Grow to at least what there was on REACH or H3.
wow…snipers gone really?? are they trying to drive away players. How can they take such an original and iconic playlist away from us. Guess all 343 cares about is the copies they sell not the loyal players…good job once again.
The way SWAT is going, they might just make it a permanent playlist after a week or two. It would be nice if they gradually added a new, permanent playlist every two or three weeks.
> The way SWAT is going, they might just make it a permanent playlist after a week or two. It would be nice if they gradually added a new, permanent playlist every two or three weeks.
I think that’s the idea. Rotate playlist around and if something proves popular they slot it for a bigger place in matchmaking. Snipers is gone now but if it continues to be popular in future rotations I’m sure it’ll find a spot in the permanent playlists (since I’m pretty sure 343 explicitly stated this in one of the weekly updates.) If not then it doesn’t deserve one.
> wow…snipers gone really?? are they trying to drive away players. How can they take such an original and iconic playlist away from us. Guess all 343 cares about is the copies they sell not the loyal players…good job once again.
noone liked it because It didnt work on the current maps
The new snipers playlist was only average anyways. I’m still wondering why they simplified it so much since Reach. In Reach you had a choice of some AA’s to add a little tactical decision making and you also had a backup pistol for when you get rushed by some scrub or your sniper clip runs out. Then Halo 4 brings it back with just a sniper. So I guess 343i expected me to use mind bullets when my clip was emptied.
very true, I just always like the feeling that instead of constantly playing playlist with guns, I can que into a sniper playlist and get my fix…everyone needs a couple of sniper headshots to fulfill their day!
Snipers was trash. Filled with campers. I would rather play it than SWAT however. Take that garbage out and bring back snipers if necessary. I’m loving FFA throwback though
> I think that’s the idea. Rotate playlist around and if something proves popular they slot it for a bigger place in matchmaking. Snipers is gone now but if it continues to be popular in future rotations I’m sure it’ll find a spot in the permanent playlists (since I’m pretty sure 343 explicitly stated this in one of the weekly updates.) If not then it doesn’t deserve one.
That is exactly what 343i said.
If a rotational weekly playlists proves popular enough, they’ll leave it in for a while. If it’s still popular, they may make it permanent. SWAT will most likely become permanent because of it’s popularity. It usually has 20,000 to 30,000 players in it.
When Snipers was around, it barely ever broke 10,000.
I am disappointed that team snipers was removed. It was one of my favorite game-types. When I want to relax, I play team snipers. The other game-types are too stressful, they require too much effort and concentration, I really want team snipers to return. I am sure more people would play it if we are given more and better maps to compete on. Please bring it back.
Most likely, 343 are taking feedback from players on these hopper playlists and tweaking them. Once 343 decides on certain changes, Snipers will probably be added back as a permanent playlist. Since Swat works with little to no complaints from most of the community, it is still active for now.
you guys just need to have faith in 343 and stop being like “omg they’re letting us down like i knew they would” and all of that. snipers was one of my favorite playlists in reach but there were a lot of flaws on h4 with the playlist. they definitely wouldn’t get rid of it without good reason so have faith.
Laughing so hard at some of these replies. 343 had told us way before launch that they wanted to keep playlists organized and the population kept together.
Thats why instead of having team objective we have objectives with their own playlist. That way if you want to play oddball you can play oddball with others who want to play it. No worry of playing an objective you didn’t like. This concept applies to all playlists.
They also announced they would have weekly rotational playlists. This keeps the playlists fresh and something to look forward to. Sucessfull playlists stay around and can become perm. playlists.
Playlists that have low populations get rotated around. So in this case team snipers was removed because it wasn’t popular enough. People complained about the radar being in among other issues. It will likely come back at a later period in the rotation with improvements.
And FFA throwback wasn’t made up halo 3 had objectives in its FFA midst. But as i said before made up or not this keeps the playlists roster fresh. I know it sucks for people who like certain gametypes. But you can’t make everyone happy and halo reaches community was divided.
If i can remember correctly Squad DLC never held above 1000 players.
> Laughing so hard at some of these replies. 343 had told us way before launch that they wanted to keep playlists organized and the population kept together.
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> Thats why instead of having team objective we have objectives with their own playlist. That way if you want to play oddball you can play oddball with others who want to play it. No worry of playing an objective you didn’t like. This concept applies to all playlists.
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> They also announced they would have weekly rotational playlists. This keeps the playlists fresh and something to look forward to. Sucessfull playlists stay around and can become perm. playlists.
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> Playlists that have low populations get rotated around. So in this case team snipers was removed because it wasn’t popular enough. People complained about the radar being in among other issues. It will likely come back at a later period in the rotation with improvements.
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> And FFA throwback wasn’t made up halo 3 had objectives in its FFA midst. But as i said before made up or not this keeps the playlists roster fresh. I know it sucks for people who like certain gametypes. But you can’t make everyone happy and halo reaches community was divided.
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> If i can remember correctly Squad DLC never held above 1000 players.
Yes, Snipers is gone for now. 343 are married to their pet idea of “rotational playlists”, which in theory is a great idea (weekly variety, try out experimental gametypes, etc) but in practice they’re characteristically mismanaging the whole thing by insisting that tried and tested favorites like SWAT and Snipers get rotated.
In my opinion SWAT and Team Snipers should have been permanent playlists from the start, and the weirdy beardy stuff like Regicide and Flood could get rotated (you know, as a form of Beta testing, which these gamemodes clearly suffer from a lack of).
Don’t worry, 343 will undoubtedly give us Snipers back eventually. And, with spin and propaganda that the North Korean government would be proud of, they’ll probably laud it as an example of them “listening to the community” and “meeting the demands of their fans”, when in reality it was something that should have been permanent from day 1 and was conspicuous by its absence.