It’s been about seven months since the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, and almost every one of those months has brought us a great amount of new, fresh content. That’s absolutely fantastic as it makes the game a lot more fun to play, but the problem is that we don’t get to enjoy the experience as much as we probably could. In order for us to enjoy all the new maps and whatever other forms that new, fresh content may take, we need more playlists that offer different modes; we need variety. After looking at dozens of threads, I’ve come up with a list of playlists that seems to be the ideal set of playlists for Halo 5: Guardians:
Ranked:
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Breakout - Doubles - Rumble Pit - SWAT - Team Objective - Team Slayer - Team SnipersSocial:
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Action Sack - Big Team Battle - Grifball - Infection - Multi TeamI am not saying the list is perfect, nor am I saying that that’s what the entire community wants; I cannot speak on behalf of the community as a whole. I can, however, make it a point that the game does not have the playlists that fans have been asking for on the forums. I know that population size issue is a tricky one, but I believe that twelve is a good number; the population isn’t spread out too thin, but we still get variety. The playlists in the list above are playlists I’ve seen many people ask for on the forums, and it is for that reason alone that I have put them up there. In order for us to enjoy the game as much as possible, we need more modes and more playlists, so 343i, please answer our requests for more playlists. This game is great, but why settle for just ‘great’ when you can make it awesome?
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> Great post Omar I agree
Thanks! I just hope we get what we’re asking for.
Bump,because this thread deserves it.
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> Bump,because this thread deserves it.
Lol.
I want some Husky Slayer, in Halo 4 if I was bored I’d just go in and have fun. It’s not something to play everyday, but casually going on and either wrecking with a Binary or getting wrecked when you get Detonator/Surpresser. Good times
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> I want some Husky Slayer, in Halo 4 if I was bored I’d just go in and have fun. It’s not something to play everyday, but casually going on and either wrecking with a Binary or getting wrecked when you get Detonator/Surpresser. Good times
You mean Husky Raid? Yeah, that would be fun to have in Action Sack.
I would lean towards something between your suggestion and what we currently have. I just think fifteen playlists we get Firefight would be a bit too many
Ranked
HCS - replaces Team Arena and is tournament maps and modes
Team Slayer
Free-for-all
Breakout
SWAT
Doubles - possibly should be trialed to see if it can sustain numbers.
Social
Team Battle - 4v4 grab bag, with Slayer, Objective and the extra possible ball modes like Oddball and Ricochet
Big Team Battle
Infection
Grifball
- For Infection and Grifball, I would see them rotated out on occasion for Race or Action Sack, possibly only have one at a team and rotate it weekly.
Warzone
Warzone
Warzone Assault
Warzone Firefight
I totally agree! I’m getting bored of halo… I’ts feels like you are playing the same playlist over and over again… Don’t forget about multi-team (8 players 2v2v2v2) and one big (16 players 4v4v4v4) on Social… I’ts fun playing against more than one team… It feels more competitive.
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> I totally agree! I’m getting bored of halo… I’ts feels like you are playing the same playlist over and over again… Don’t forget about multi-team (8 players 2v2v2v2) and one big (16 players 4v4v4v4) on Social… I’ts fun playing against more than one team… It feels more competitive.
Oh crap, I forgot about Multi Team! I’ll replace Social Slayer with it. 
My Ideal Playlist solution would be:
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Ranked
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HCS - replaces Team Arena and is tournament maps and modes - Team Slayer - Free-for-all - Doubles - possibly should be trialed to see if it can sustain numbers.Social
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Social
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Snipers - Big Team Battle - Infection - Grifball - Swat - Breakout - SOCIAL ARENA !!! **I think social arena needs to be a thing, it would be basically the HCS playlist with maybe some assault as well, but more casual so people don’t feel so intimidated by it and would solo que without having to worry about their rank decreasing.
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Warzone
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Warzone Assault - Warzone Firefight - WARZONE TURBO!
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> I would lean towards something between your suggestion and what we currently have. I just think fifteen playlists we get Firefight would be a bit too many
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> Ranked
> HCS - replaces Team Arena and is tournament maps and modes
> Team Slayer
> Free-for-all
> Breakout
> SWAT
> Doubles - possibly should be trialed to see if it can sustain numbers.
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> Social
> Team Battle - 4v4 grab bag, with Slayer, Objective and the extra possible ball modes like Oddball and Ricochet
> Big Team Battle
> Infection
> Grifball
> * For Infection and Grifball, I would see them rotated out on occasion for Race or Action Sack, possibly only have one at a team and rotate it weekly.
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> Warzone
> Warzone
> Warzone Assault
> Warzone Firefight
The problem is that there would be an uproar if Grifball and Infection were rotational.
I thought more people were concerned about this.
I’ve seen a lot of posts saying there should be an HCS playlist, with tournament legal maps and game modes, that’s Team Arena… The psuedo official playlist of the HCS. Tournament legal maps and game modes, are all ready present in that playlist.
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> I’ve seen a lot of posts saying there should be an HCS playlist, with tournament legal maps and game modes, that’s Team Arena… The psuedo official playlist of the HCS. Tournament legal maps and game modes, are all ready present in that playlist.
Yes, Team Arena is indeed the HCS playlist.
If people complain of low population has no ones tipped to consider that adding more playlist would almost hurt H5 more then help? More playlist would pull players out of the list we have now and either increase search times for everything or just not be able to find games even more for certain list. Which that is worse IMO. And I know others will have different opinions but I have used that as the reason we don’t have 20 play list to pick from
edit- dumb me doesn’t read pull OP till after I post so population was mentioned but if they aren’t adding more playlist the population could be much more
unstable then ppl think
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> If people complain of low population has no ones tipped to consider that adding more playlist would almost hurt H5 more then help? More playlist would pull players out of the list we have now and either increase search times for everything or just not be able to find games even more for certain list. Which that is worse IMO. And I know others will have different opinions but I have used that as the reason we don’t have 20 play list to pick from
One of the reasons why Halo 5’s population isn’t as high as it should be is the lack of playlists. More playlists would attract more players.
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> If people complain of low population has no ones tipped to consider that adding more playlist would almost hurt H5 more then help? More playlist would pull players out of the list we have now and either increase search times for everything or just not be able to find games even more for certain list. Which that is worse IMO. And I know others will have different opinions but I have used that as the reason we don’t have 20 play list to pick from
Low population? I find matches within minutes, and that’s with the focused search preference.
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> > If people complain of low population has no ones tipped to consider that adding more playlist would almost hurt H5 more then help? More playlist would pull players out of the list we have now and either increase search times for everything or just not be able to find games even more for certain list. Which that is worse IMO. And I know others will have different opinions but I have used that as the reason we don’t have 20 play list to pick from
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> One of the reasons why Halo 5’s population isn’t as high as it should be is the lack of playlists. More playlists would attract more players.
^ This. The game isn’t social enough, so a lot of the players have stopped playing; they’re bored. They want fun stuff like Multi Team and Action Sack.