One of the problems with Oddball was that the ball wasn’t a one hit kill. They fixed that and it was good. I just jumped into a Rumble Pit game and it’s back to two hit kill. I don’t think they changed the movement speed so you’re still moving slower than everyone else when carrying the ball. You can’t fight and you can’t run away, so it’s back to being bad.
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I thought it was one hit in FFA. Maybe that’s Vampire Ball?
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Only Vampireball is a one-hit-kill. Normal oddball in FFA is still a 2-hit-kill.
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why make vampire ball like that, but not the rest? You’re already holding the objective with no real offensive/defensive options other than dropping the ball. WHY MAKE IT SUCK TO HOLD THE FREAKING BALL 343I?!
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And they lowered the winning score from 100 to 80 in social. Why? lol
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Oddball is a team game, your team is supposed to defend the ball-holder, not a one hit kill juggernaut.
Vampire ball has no defenders, you need one-hit kills just to get a few seconds in FFA.
I would like to see throwing back in, like 4. The was the only playlist I spent the time and effort to get mastery commendations for Halo 4. Ball assassinations are cool too.
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I don’t get it either. I didn’t see anyone complaining about the 100.
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i understand them doing it for vampire ball because it’s FFA. What I meant was why did they change it from a one hit like it’s always been? It’s always been a one hit since 2 if I recall correctly. Making the ball carrier be so useless is just terrible. It makes it so that your team is basically always down 1 guy in every fight against the enemy team. It was always like that, but you could make use of the melee, but now you can’t. You are just a thing to protect unless you drop the ball to be able to use anything.
Oddball is one of those games where if you’re playing with randoms and you have the ball, but no one is defending you, they’re just off trying to get kills, you’re just dead there is no hope for survival. I think a cool variant to Oddball could be if we were able to pass the ball to a teammate, throw it like you can a basketball or football, maybe getting extra points for a string of successful passes.
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Because in FFA you don’t have a team to fight for you. The dynamic is different.
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This was in H4. I liked it. However, that was a feature people didn’t like because people would throw it off the edge rather than drop it upon death.
It was one of the few features 343 did right.
Only Vampire Ball was 1 hit. Regular FFA Oddball has been 2 hits since start of Infinite.
Oddball should be a two-hit melee to kill.
me neither. It totally threw me off in one game, where the announcer said close to winning and then poof, the game was done lol
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So when you have the ball you’re defenseless as you can’t effectively attack and you can’t run away either because you also move slower?
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Try reading my response to Battle. It was literally 1 post up from the bottom when you replied.