What's lacking in BTB?

Games Other Halo
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I was playing Big Team Infinity (Red Team) the other night on Ragnarok and it was, without doubt, the best fun I’ve had so far on H4.
How?
Well, usually on this map you push up, get knocked back, push up again and, sometimes, even get to the enemy base and steal the Mantis, Ghost or Banshee.

But not this game.

It might have been the randoms I was teamed with but, apart from one guy, they wouldn’t leave Red Base - they wouldn’t even move over the stream.
Me and the other guy tried pushing up but kept getting knocked on our -Yoinks!-, so we eventually joined the statues. Don’t get me wrong, they were blazing away when Blue Team rushed the base but just wouldn’t advance.

For the first few minutes it was hectic, rushing from side to side to fight off the advancing Blues, jumping on the back of the Hog to blast at the Banshee, etc.
In fact, it got so intense and pressurized I felt like pressing the ‘Leave Game’ tab.

Then I realized, “This is Great! We’re playing Big Team Capture The Flag!!”

And it was, it was brilliant - and muchos kudos to the players on the Blue Team because they were relentless! They never gave us a second to relax.

We, the Red Team, won - but sincerely, the score didn’t matter, it was just a bloody good game!

And it made me realise just how much I missed BTB CTF or One Bomb on the likes of Hemmorage - and how, if 343i actually reads these posts, they’d realise this is one gametype they NEED to introduce.

Thank you for your patience in reading this.

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Fun. That’s what’s missing.

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Idiotic move to think the community hates BTB multiflag on ragnarok… Seriously a huge blunder by 343…

Easily fixable but forever ignored.

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Yep, I won’t play BTB until they put objective in it, and they remove or change the DMR.

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Lack of larger BTB maps(Ex. Avalance and Sandtrap), Objective gametypes(Assault, CTF etc.) and vehicles(No new vehicles instead we have less vehicles in Halo 4). I also remember vehicles in Halo 3 on Avalance had skins that matched the environment.

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Don’t forget good vehicles. They are missing.

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It’s not a matter of what’s lacking. It’s a matter of what’s not working (I’m looking at you plasma pistol and plasma grenade)

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Ah how i miss Blood Gulch from Halo 1, map was very well made, it was wide and big with rolling hills with a few rocks.They changed it a bit in Halo 2 but the original version was best for vehicles due to a wide open space.

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Objectives

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Objectives /thread

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Not having BTB OBJECTIVE is just sabotage. Who ever had that brilliant idea should be fired.

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> Objectives

Ditto!

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halo 3 had elephants, hornets, choppers
halo reach had revenants, and falcons
halo 4 has no new vehicles.
the spectre was replaced by the prowler then replaced by the revenant and halo 4 brought none of those back.
there is no reason to use mongooses
ragnaroks base walls are too high and you cant climb the bases
no objective games
bring back some classic maps

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I hate that play style from both teams whether I’m playing against them or on their team. Campers are annoying and make the game take forever, and the teams that constantly rush usually end up losing because they will get one or no kills and then die.

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> halo 3 had elephants, hornets, choppers
> halo reach had revenants, and falcons
> halo 4 has no new vehicles.
> the spectre was replaced by the prowler then replaced by the revenant and halo 4 brought none of those back.
> there is no reason to use mongooses
> ragnaroks base walls are too high and you cant climb the bases
> no objective games
> bring back some classic maps

So the Mantis is not a new vehicle?
Seriously, I hated the Prowler, Revenant.
Mongooses can be good for Capture The Flag.
Stupid, this was the same in Halo 3.
Dominion, CTF, Oddball, King of the Hill are not objective to you?
343i will probably bring more classic maps. Just give them time.

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Here’s what’s missing:

Infinite Camo / Jetpack / PV usage, infinite stickies, and a 50% increase to the plasma’s pistol battery.

Anybody that disagrees has no idea about what makes Halo 4 competitive.

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Biggest problem with BTB; underpowered vehicles. Namely the Warthog. Also Plasma Pistol/Plasma Grenade starts, coupled with personal ordnance, make vehicles all but useless in Big Team. If they were to just remove custom loadouts and ordnance from this one playlist, then maybe we could have those big vehicle battles again.

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> Dominion, CTF, Oddball, King of the Hill are not objective to you?

He is referring to Big Team. Where there is no objective gametypes.

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no objective gametypes but slayer

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Objective game types is clearly what is lacking.