With the news of a Title Update, I decided to share my thoughts on what I think would be a better playlist establishment. As of now it’s a mess. (Sidenote: As of July 18 2011, Halo: Reach has 23 permanent playlists.)
Ranked (Arena ranking system in addition to current Reach ranking system.
Team Slayer - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DLC req.)
-Team Slayer
-Team Slayer DMRs
Team Objective - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DLC req.)
-Multi Flag
-One Flag
-Stockpile
-Oddball
-Assault
-VIP (If it were added in the TU)
-King of the Hill
Lone Wolves - No teams with 8 individual players. (DLC req.)
-Slayer
-Slayer DMRs
-Slayer Pro
-Oddball
-Juggernaut
-King of the Hill
Team SWAT - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DLC req.)
-SWAT
-SWAT Magnums
-SWATguns
Team Snipers - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DLC req.)
-Snipers
-Snipers Pro
-Shotty Snipers
Invasion - 2 teams of 6 players each. (DLC req.)
-Invasion
MLG - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DLC req.)
-MLG Gametypes
Classic - 2 teams of 4 players each. (DCL req.)
-Classic Slayer
-Classic Rifles
-Various Classic Objective variants
Social (Reach ranking system only)
Squad Slayer - 2 teams of 5 players each.
-Slayer
-Slayer DMRs
Rumble Pit - No teams, 8 individual players.
-Slayer
-Slayer DMRs
-Slayer Pro
-Oddball
-Juggernaut
-King of the Hill
Multi Team - 4 teams of 2 players each.
-Slayer
-Slayer DMRs
-Oddball
-VIP (If it were added in the TU)
-Juggernaut
-King of the Hill
Big Team Battle - 2 teams of 8 players each.
-Big Team Slayer
-Invasion Slayer
-Multi Flag
-One Flag
-Stockpile
-Assault
-King of the Hill
Invasion - 2 teams of 8 players each.
-Invasion
Cooperative (Reach ranking system only)
Co op Campaign
Firefight (Classic Firefight experience, more like ODST)
Score Attack
Double cR Weekends (Only one per week, Friday thru Sunday)
Race - No teams, 8 individual players.
-Race
-Rally
Rocket Race - 4 teams of 2 players each.
-Rocket Race
Grifball - 2 teams of 4 players each.
-Grifball Evolved
-Vanilla Grifball
-Blargball
Living Dead - No teams, 16 individual players.
-Infection
-Alpha Zombie
-Community made Infection gametypes on community made maps
Action Sack
-Hockey
-Skee Ball
-Dodgeball
-Halo ball
-Other various community gametypes
Objective - 2 teams of 6 each
-Various objective gametypes
I understand the removal of some permanent playlists would anger some, but in the long run I think it would be more beneficial to Reach to compact the playlists
I agree that the Halo Reach playlist system is pretty bland and does not give players the option to play a favorite gametype or only use certain weapon. I also think they should bring the ranked and social options back in future titles but they should leave the games like grifball, and living dead as permanent playlists so players wont get bored.
> Stopped reading when you mentioned 1-50.
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> Arena - The New 1-50.
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> Any kind of ranked playlist will use that.
Arena is a failure of a ranking system that is nothing but a gimmick. This is the first season I played Arena and was ranked. I didn’t go tryhard mode or try much at all. I made 40% Onyx by solo running it and then 25% by playing 3 games with friends. I’ve played under 50 games this season. Getting a 30 in Halo 2 would be harder than getting a 1%. Case closed.
> > Stopped reading when you mentioned 1-50.
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> > Arena - The New 1-50.
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> > Any kind of ranked playlist will use that.
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> Arena is a failure of a ranking system that is nothing but a gimmick. This is the first season I played Arena and was ranked. I didn’t go tryhard mode or try much at all. I made 40% Onyx by solo running it and then 25% by playing 3 games with friends. I’ve played under 50 games this season. Getting a 30 in Halo 2 would be harder than getting a 1%. Case closed.
And the point you people will never understand, change is change.
1-50 is non-existant in Halo Reach and never will exist.
> > And the point you people will never understand, change is change.
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> > 1-50 is non-existant in Halo Reach and never will exist.
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> > The Arena = 1-50.
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> I can change my clean underwear for a dirty pair but that doesn’t mean it was a good decision.
In no way did I claim it was a good change, I stated 1-50 won’t happen in Reach.
I like the concept of bringing back separation of ranked and social lists, but there could still be some work. I think Invasion as a playlist should be phased out completely, rolling it into BTB. SWAT and Snipers should be consolidated as well. Seeing as how unpopular Team Objective currently is, I would consider removing it and rolling some objective into Squad Slayer. Co Op Campaign should also be phased out.
Creating Double Cr Weekends is definitely a good step, putting the specialty playlists where they belong, but the Super Jackpots should still be implemented.
While I agree a visible ranked scale of 1-50 should be brought back, I disagree with your playlist line-up completely. I suppose it is simply because my tastes are so different.
I like this setup. I really think we should have weekend playlists (living dead, action sack) that aren’t available during the week, so more people populate other playlists. Good post.