My friend and I love doubles and we were so excited to play it once it FINALLY became a regular playlist in Halo 5. We both took about a 2 month break from Halo 5 for other games but as soon as we get back and play doubles everything is changed. We don’t know where anything is! We’ve noticed two main occurrences on maps: Sniper Rifles and Active Camo. While we were getting ranked we counted the maps with active camo: Empire, Eden, The Rig, Molten, Tyrant, and Truth. That’s six maps with active camo out of like the 10 maps you can play doubles on. (There might be more than 10 not sure) We also counted maps with sniper rifles: Eden, Coliseum, Molten, The Rig. I’m pretty sure there might be more too. But from what I can remember that’s 4 out of 10. Where’s the variety? Plus I mean it’s hard to go on a map with everything changed and completely unaware of the power ups because it doesn’t show them in the intro. (molten) All the maps seem the same. Either me and my buddy being frightened because of a near invisible man, or scaring the other team because we have the active camo. The problem here isn’t with the camo itself it’s more that it’s on more than 50% of the maps. Every game feels and plays the same because of the active camo. Playing on the 3 maps with out it is the most interesting because it’s something we haven’t seen in 5 games. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this and is annoyed with it. I like the variety in my matches but doubles doesn’t seem to do it for me anymore, just the game revolving around the active camo. I don’t have as much of an issue with the sniper rifles though but it’s even worse to get shot by an invisible man across the map. I would like to see other things in doubles. Perhaps Speed Boosts? Beam Rifles? Fuel Rod Cannons? Saws? Does anyone else think the doubles maps need to diversify?
I think they need to diversify, as with a lot of maps they seem to be almost the same as far as layout and weapon spawns go. In general ranked Arena could use some diversity, but probably Doubles moreso than anything.
Some Speed / Damage Boosts would be wonderful; it would break up the monotonous flow of the maps.
There’s a Doubles feedback thread over in the MM section.