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Social Playlists: I just hopped on H5 after taking about 3 weeks off, and I was horrible. Couldn’t aim, couldn’t finish kills, couldn’t even get more than 7-8 kills in a SWAT match. All I wanted to do was play some Halo, but when I’m rusty and Diamond 4 in Arena, I’m not about to play that playlist. Diamond 2 in Slayer: nuh-uh. Breakout is horrible, especially without a full team. SWAT: Reflexes too rust to play that. Why haven’t 343 added a Social Arena playlist, with Slayer, CTF, and Strongholds? Would that really “hurt the playlist population” that much? I don’t know how many times I’ve been playing with people who are much worse than me, and I say, “I don’t want to play Slayer, I’m too high of a rank.”
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Forge Maps: Forge is amazing. It’s almost the only thing 343 has done right, but they knocked it out of the park. I just got done playing a Citadel remake from Halo 3, and it looks even better than the original. I’m not sure why they decided to put in custom made Breakout maps before actual maps, but I’m guessing they want to drive up the population of their precious gametype. Take some remakes, like the perfect remake of The Pit, and take some original maps that are playtested by Forgehub, 343’s team, and any other forums, and smash them into their own playlist called Maptacular Maps, or add them into the playlists already there.
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Gametypes and Custom Options: Oddball, King of the Hill, Infection, Grifball, Fiesta, and the plethora of custom game options that come with these. 343 can make Random Weapon and Random Vehicle cards for Warzone but can’t figure out how to program custom weapon spawns in Custom Games? Really? Why do 343 insist on taking one step forward but two steps backward in everything they do? Add these gametypes, upgrade the Custom Game options, and let us wreak havoc. Let us make Soccer, let us make Skeeball, let us make Race, let us make Infection variants, let us make Grifball, let us make 3-ball, and let us make KOTH using objects, vehicles, and areas as hills.
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Attack and Defend in Warzone Assault: During the Halo Reach Beta, Bungie had already figured out most of their new crazy gametype, Invasion. But they only had one round, and you were either attacking or defending. When the game came out half a year later, they had listened to feedback and added a second round. I refuse to play Warzone Assault, partly because it’s a bit ridiculous with all the snipers and ghosts, but mostly because I get bored doing one thing the whole time.
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More focus on this, less on that: Please quit wasting time by adding hundreds of weapon skins, new or classic weapons, and vehicle skins. We don’t need them. At all. What we need are balanced spawns. The spawn on Plaza that is directly across from Sniper area along the OS path, where you are faced sideways, always results in instant spawn kills from the enemy sniper. We need balanced maps and weapon timers. OS spawns way too fast on Regret, and the games become races for OS every minute. We need you to work on finding quality Forge maps, better custom options, and more balanced ways of awarding players in Warzone (getting the last shot on a guy gives you 150 points, but having 20+ Spartan kills leaves you at the bottom of the scoreboard? Why not instutute PPD, points per damage, and award players individually before granting the final kill a points bonus?). We need new gametypes and we need OLD gametypes (Think Oddball, Stockpile, and the other 5-10 gametypes that you’ve suddenly forgot ever existed). We need new maps that aren’t sloppy remixes (Overgrowth is horrible, especially with so many CQ weapons and a Camo next to a Shotgun). We need you to focus on figuring out why sprinting players do not show up in the outer “ring” on the radar. We need you to patch the issue with melees being faster with the B button than with the RB button. Figure out why I win 7 games in a row but go up one rank, yet lose one game and go down a rank.
Please, stop livestreaming worthless Warzone packs and upgrade your game. There are broken aspects, there are good aspects, and there are missing aspects. Quit dilly-dallying.