whatever happened to BTB???

I’ve notice I’ve been getting the same 4 map rotation. It’s like they took the rest out.

There’s no scorpions. The mantis is on fracture but that map is pretty small.

I honestly feel like they devalued BTB on purpose to push players into WZ and WZA to get their fix of vehicular battle, and target-rich environments.

BTB is fun in my opinion, however I feel like the Valhalla remake dosen’t work in Halo 5, It is too open with too many weapons that are effective beyond the BR’s range.

I think they shorted BTB to get people into warzone because that’s where the $$$ is.

The thing I always hated about old school BTB was that there were too many power weapons and vehicles giving people cheap and easy kills. I don’t even want to talk about Heavies. And while I admit that there are fewer vehicles kicking around now, it’s still too many in my opinion. Warzone is the place that manages to balance vehicular power with maps that are spacious enough to absorb them without allowing them to dominate. That’s how vehicles should work. I don’t miss them in BTB one bit. The fact that warzone vehciles don’t grow on trees is intentional so that the maps don’t become overrun by them (as they often do in turbo) and so that you will have an excuse, if you’re so inclined, to spend cash on them. If you’re reluctant to call them in because you’re afraid of burning through them faster than you earn them back… well, that’s the balance that’s built into the system.

BTB should be original maps not forge made ones by the community.

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> They need to bring BTB Heavies back. There aren’t enough vehicles like the scorpion. Is there even a scorpion in BTB?

No, there used to be

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> BTB is fun in my opinion, however I feel like the Valhalla remake dosen’t work in Halo 5, It is too open with too many weapons that are effective beyond the BR’s range.

Plus the plastic water

BTB needs an updated with new forge maps and so does the arena playlist. Recurve definitely needs an update and 343i needs to open up the forge canvas more and add new times of day to the canvases as well and new gamemodes.

At some point in development they made the decision to try to make WZ almost completely replace BTB. My guess is they saw BTB and Heavies were consistently the most popular playlists back in Halo 4 and decided to cash in on something that could improve both.

IMO they are doing a good job with replacing BTB Objective gametypes, but they need to add a WZ gametype that is Slayer only. Oh and more maps Bravo pls

Yup pretty much. When i first got this game all i did was play btb because i didnt try any other game types like warzone. But the maps got dull and its nothing like true btb. Id consider regular warzone minus bosses and bases to feeling more similar to BTB. Something they should fix but that is a long list of things. Right now they are too worried about trying to add new game modes/ more content so they can show off and show how much they are doing for halo. I know people hate hearing it but i agree stuff should have already been there.

I will be honest halo 5 btb isnt fun for me at all. The maps are too big, not enough close in battle

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> They need to bring BTB Heavies back. There aren’t enough vehicles like the scorpion. Is there even a scorpion in BTB?

not anymore. they removed it

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> BTB is fun in my opinion, however I feel like the Valhalla remake dosen’t work in Halo 5, It is too open with too many weapons that are effective beyond the BR’s range.

the thing I hate about the new valhalla is they removed all the powerfull vehicles but the banshee. couple that with it only be capture the flag an you got one broken map. one team loses banshee an spartan laser is lost in the chaos? instantly a Near impossible comeback. not even shooting banshee with sniper rifle helps because the banshee has a sheild that can take a sniper shot an keep up. so once on team has air superiority the other team is basicly trapped

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> The thing I always hated about old school BTB was that there were too many power weapons and vehicles giving people cheap and easy kills. I don’t even want to talk about Heavies. And while I admit that there are fewer vehicles kicking around now, it’s still too many in my opinion. Warzone is the place that manages to balance vehicular power with maps that are spacious enough to absorb them without allowing them to dominate. That’s how vehicles should work. I don’t miss them in BTB one bit. The fact that warzone vehciles don’t grow on tress is intentional so that the maps don’t become overrun by them (as they often do in turbo) and so that you will have an excuse, if you’re so inclined, to spend cash on them. If you’re reluctant to call them in because you’re afraid of burning through them faster than you earn them back… well, that’s the balance that’s built into the system.

big team battle was all about vehicles though. an I don’t care about WZ’s god awful pseudo balance. I don’t see why someone would play BTB an complain about vehicles. an vehicles never “grew on tree’s” because —> spawn times <— dunno why you think WZ “balances vehicular power” either you wanna see how weak an useless I can make a vehicle look If I’m inclined? let me take one of my 20 or so invisibility powerups an any tank wraith or mantis on the feild is a burning scrap heap. other vehicles on the other hand are totally OP banshee ultras completely rule the sky. they eat any phaeton (even helios) for breakfast. heck even a normal banshee wrecks a phaeton normal phaeton. it’d probably stand a chance against a helios too. the only “balanced” vehicles in WZ are ghosts an hogs an rocket hogs. gauss hogs are a little bit OP on certain maps (IE noctus where you can snipe enemy vehicles from just outside your home base sheild) what we need is for BTB to have more vehicle inclined maps like blood gulch an more vehicles (the orginal reason for BTB ya’ know? the vehicles!). the exact thing we have for WZ but way more casual… it sounds to me like you just don’t like BTB or casual halo in general. BTB is all about free kills in a vehicle an vehicular warfare. thats litteraly what it’s been for since it was introduced. so may I suggest ranked arena? because litteraly btb with any less vehicles is 8 man unranked slayer an thats not what BTB is supposed to be. it’s ok to be competitive but don’t try an ruin our casual modes by making them even more sweaty. we don’t wanna be L33t or L3g1t. we want to have casual halo back an make the rest of the community happy

I only play BTB

I find it the most fun game mode and I have no idea why they don’t improve it and add maps. It has every style of play you want, all the weaps you want and it has CTF!

-Add sudden death to CTF (COME ON! rly y’all forgot to put this in?)
-Let there be a chance for rare weaps to drop in place of the normal weaps.

for me its the opposite. i know im good with banshee. in warzone im guaranteed to get to use it as long as i got the req. in btb not only are the banshee maps super rare, but i have to compete against everyone else (teammates included) just to even get it
also no ultra or wheelman in btb

why not let rare weap and vehicle have a chance to spawn in BTB? design all these awesome weaps and then confine them to one specific game type that is only there to make $$? so blatantly rude

343i isn’t doing it on purpose, they just don’t know how to do certain things, which is normal; they are human after all. To help them know how to do the things they don’t, we need to give them feedback.

I agree, OP. Halo 5’s BTB focuses way too much on infantry battles than it does on vehicle battles. We need a BTB Heavies game variant or playlist to be added to Matchmaking.

I think they sabotaged BTB to make us play warzone. We didn’t even get it until, what was it December? It’s just 8v8 slayer on bad maps. I doubt we ever see anything like the old BTB again. The req system makes them too much $$.