Apparently it is a UI problem. Regardless, if a playlist needs to be removed to make room, what selection criteria outside of “cut the one with the lowest population” could there be?
It’s not just a UI problem. The UI problem is a distraction. Because they’ve fully admitted they’re worried about dividing the population.
Yes cut lowest pop modes, but LSS is the latest season relevant mode. They remove season flavor for the next season flavor.
Also, yes cut lowest pop modes, but this game is nowhere near the number of modes other shooters have to begin worrying about dividing the population or low population playlists. I can get into LSS in under 3 minutes. Usually under 1 minute.
NOO YOU GUYS!
noooo. I LOVE LSS
I seriously can’t even begin to fathom how the person at 343 making these decisions hasn’t been canned to the street. The game is lacking so many things and 343s response is “here’s two more playlists but We are taking away one! We hate you!”
It’s ridiculous.
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what is LSS? I feel ignorant 
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I think the reason LSS is disappearing as originally it was only meant to be with us for three months ie a three month season. Doubles was probably going to be the next season that’s why it’s coming into shot now.
All the big playlist changes happen after three months as if we still on the three month season schedule. However as the game isn’t fixed and they don’t have enough content the battle passes are six months…
Has anybody ever seen Unysek or Ske7tch anywhere apart from that room where they stream occasionally. I reckon that’s where they keep em’ pressing a big red button every three months to keep the train going.
For the team!!!
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Can’t wait for matchmaking to be 90% dead like MCC and Halo 5 when they add Custom Games browser. Forge will drag away the whole remaining population besides Ranked and people doing Battle Pass.
Actually, scratch that, the very limited UI probably prevents a custom games browser screen from even being possible. That’s waaaaayyyyyyyyyyy too much text and buttons for a billion dollar game AAA company engine to handle. We can’t even get 10 slots for normal matchmaking🗿
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So is it a population issue, or not? You seem to be saying two different things.
Or are you saying you don’t think there is a problem and 343 is concerning itself with a non-issue? I would certainly agree with that 9 months ago when they gave the BS population excuse to why we only had 3 or 4 playlists, but now we’ve got a tiny percentage of that population with ~double the playlists.
Also, this does make some sense. Assuming the swap happens with the launch of season 3.
I think it has a low population outside of events because of the events. If you want to participate in them you have to play an ungodly amount of that gamemode for the duration of that week.
TL;DR: I’ve played more LSS in during the events that I cared to play in my life.
In general I like the premise of the mode, but a lot of systems and features of the mode need tweaking. I think it would worked much better in H5, mostly because of the REQs.
Last Spartan Standing. 12 player FFA elimination/gungame/BattleRoyal hybrid.
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thank you. I never even played it lol.
That being said it’ll obviously become irrelevant once Certain Affinity release their BR mode.
Whether you like LSS or not is a matter of personal preference. But I think we should take a step back and simply observe how badly this will effect Halo Infinite.
Halo Infinite lacks so much content as it is. We all know about the obvious ones, Forge, Campaign Co-Op, Custom Games Browser, etc. However, it’s also missing a huge amount of game mods that are in MCC that are not in Halo Infinite. Infection, Griffball, Rocket Race, Ricochet, etc. These are just some of the game modes available in MCC that I know people like.
LSS is already in the game, so it’s baffling to me that 343 would waste their time taking away a game mode. They need to be focusing on adding more content, not less. It’s like, why bother. Once you introduce a new game mode in to a Halo game, leave it. It works on MCC, I’m sure more people prefer that system than not. At the very least, it provides much more flexibility and player freedom than what Infinite provides.
This sadly feels very familiar to the way they treated the Tank Gun. They removed it for the sake of “authenticity,” while being blind to the fun-factor that it provided, especially on higher difficulties. Unfortunately, its seems like 343 will need very specific instructions on what not to do. And sadly, I don’t think they’ll listen to anyone on the Waypoint forums. We’d probably be better off spamming the reddit/twitter threads.
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This game is such a joke.
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You said it, kitten
Number company bad.
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Just gonna drop in to say that matchcomposer would have solved these issues.
Don’t have to worry about playlists if everyone can just pick what you want to play. Not getting matches? Then you can just expand your filters to include more gametypes. At least you can only blame the popular vote as to why you can’t find a match.
Before you ask… No I will never stop talking about how not doing matchcomposer was a huge mistake.
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A match composer would cost 343 another 2.4 billion dollars and take 3 years to make. Meanwhile, I’ve already seen people making custom menus in Forge, so only a matter of time until someone makes a Forge custom game mode called “Match Composer” where the match never ends, it just lets you pick the next game type and map layout, all loaded in one crazy big script (probably), and the map will spawn itself out of teleported objects
RIP, If we are going to lose LSS I hope land grab goes away because we already have KOH and Strongholds. Too many “Stand here” objectives.
According to Ske7ch, LSS is the least played by a “HUGE margin”
https://twitter.com/ske7ch/status/1560788275971104768?t=GPYhwn_amWX-JStWTYyk-A&s=19
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I want them to bake forge into match composer.
Custom lobbies are fine. But I would love to have an interface where I can matchmake into a wipeout course… or duck hunt. Literally choose categories of games to play.
Also be cool to have community star ratings so you could potentially matchmake based off category like infection with 4+ star rating.
But yeah… a little part of me is hoping that they have this big secret they are working on in the background that is going to be amazing… the other part of me is realising that it’s probs just a battle royale.