I don’t know about the rest of you, but i loved squad slayer. and as of today 3/6/2012 they have removed this selection from the competitive playlists. To me this was one of the only reasonable selections because it removed noobs ability to abuse armor lock. whether your in favor of the armor lock or not, you have to admit it’s nice to be able to limit the selection and thus create a different style of gameplay to corrispond with the different selections available. If this pattern of updates is what 343 believes to be improvement they have been misled. please can you give me back my squad?
The removal of Squad Slayer baffles me. To my knowledge, literally nobody complained about it. It was the one competitive non-MLG playlist. I don’t like having to hike my trypants up to my navel 24/7 just because I don’t want to deal with armor lock or I want to face somewhat competent opponents without saturating my chair in butt sweat. I don’t like having MLG as my only refuge from AL, less-than-competent players, sub-par Forge World maps, and undesirable gametypes.
I just don’t understand 343’s mentality behind this.
Also, what was the point of having a vote in Team Slayer if you were just going to split the playlist anyway? Kind of defeats the purpose.
I feel like this is a two part move or an attempt to funnel population into other playlist.
Otherwise it just does not make much sense to me =/
I was ranked in the top 200 for that playlist, although admittedly, I haven’t played it
much for a while. This is largely due to the fact that jet pack absolutely frustrates me
to the point of avoiding all playlists that have it. 
I agree 100%. This feels like a very -Yoink- attempt to please some of the casuals that would leave if the TU went live, but I honestly want them to leave; scum like them care only about winning and not about the game, and favor all of the things that were unfair about the game.
This feels more like a bottom line meeter rather than an actual compromise, but the TU still kinda makes Reach better, so as long as they don’t -Yoink- that up any more…
Oh, RIGHT, they removed Bleedthrough. >.<
Squad was my favorite playlist.
No Armor Lock.
No crappy Community Maps.
No Sword Base.
What do they do?!
REMOVE IT. REMOVE BLEEDTHROUGH. AND REPLACE IT WITH A REPLICA OF TEAM SLAYER!
LOL. yeah, sword base and to me hemorrhoids is about as fun as having some self fun with a rusted cheese grater.
Agreed here, they done it to not have four Slayer only playlists in Reach, I really don’t see what would have been wrong with just keeping Squad Slayer and just add some community maps, that would have been a perfect compromise for me.
Heck, leaving Team Slayer in its condition during the voting period, one Vanilla option, one TU option, while keeping Squad Slayer as it was the only competitive playlist that was 5v5 that searched for TEAMS vs TEAMS and RANDOMS vs RANDOMS when possible, Super Slayer lacks this.
It’s so stupid there is basicly 4 Team Slayer 4vs4 gametypes now, Arena, Lol Slayer, Super Lol Slayer and ZB Slayer. The only good slayer playlist now if you dont want the crappy Community Forge maps is ZB Slayer and not that many play that stuff.
Sure Team Objectives is no 5vs5 but very few play that playlist anyway and its not slayer.
Squad Slayer was by far one of the best playlists in Reach due to no AL, no Community maps, 5vs5 and party restrictions.
> I agree 100%. This feels like a very Yoink! attempt to please some of the casuals that would leave if the TU went live, but I honestly want them to leave; scum like them care only about winning and not about the game, and favor all of the things that were unfair about the game.
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> This feels more like a bottom line meeter rather than an actual compromise, but the TU still kinda makes Reach better, so as long as they don’t -Yoink!- that up any more…
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> Oh, RIGHT, they removed Bleedthrough. >.<
Actually you are mistaken, casuals only care about fun, competitive players care about the game, balance and winning.
> I feel like this is a two part move or an attempt to funnel population into other playlist.
>
> Otherwise it just does not make much sense to me =/
They took out aniv squad, and Squad slayer. They should have taken out TU beta and DLC both are failed playlists. Almost every I know is upset that Squad slayer was removed. I realize they were trying to funnel the players but they created another playlist which is most likely going to fail.
At this point it’s very clear that 343 doesn’t follow the forums, there’s been literally thousands of threads for and against the TU, but all of them share the same main points: Those of us who prefer the TU hate:
- armor lock
- camo
- unbalanced community maps
- ar starts
- bloom
- double melee
→ basically everythin that makes vanilla team slayer so atrocious
So I honestly can’t understand why’d they remove literally the best social playlist in the game and replace it with the exact thing that we’re trying to get away from? Like everyone has stated here nobody compained about Squad Slayer, it had a moderatly healthy population and all the players that enjoyed it were very loyal to the playlist (many calling it their favorite myself included) Seriously where’s the logic in that? And sorry for generalizing so much but I’m trying to make a point here.
So where do the Squad warriors move to?
- I can’t play mlg I’m not skilled enough and don’t run with a team
- Arena would be the obvious choice but with a population of 150 matches take ages to find and the match-ups aren’t very balanced
- Multi team is fun in short bursts but everybody stat pads and too much hog race & elite slayer
-?
> At this point it’s very clear that 343 doesn’t follow the forums, there’s been literally thousands of threads for and against the TU, but all of them share the same main points: Those of us who prefer the TU hate:
> - armor lock
> - camo
> - unbalanced community maps
> - ar starts
> - bloom
> - double melee
> → basically everythin that makes vanilla team slayer so atrocious
>
> So I honestly can’t understand why’d they remove literally the best social playlist in the game and replace it with the exact thing that we’re trying to get away from? Like everyone has stated here nobody compained about Squad Slayer, it had a moderatly healthy population and all the players that enjoyed it were very loyal to the playlist (many calling it their favorite myself included) Seriously where’s the logic in that? And sorry for generalizing so much but I’m trying to make a point here.
>
> So where do the Squad warriors move to?
> - I can’t play mlg I’m not skilled enough and don’t run with a team
> - Arena would be the obvious choice but with a population of 150 matches take ages to find and the match-ups aren’t very balanced
> - Multi team is fun in short bursts but everybody stat pads and too much hog race & elite slayer
> -?
They stop playing and I among many other Squad players already have.
Yeah, I’m very disappointed that they removed Squad slayer.
Why can’t they just remove ZB Slayer instead? That’s a stupid playlist.
There’s just not enough playlists for people who have more then four people but not enough for BTB. I would want to have a game where we can have 5 people on the team without have and odd one out.
U gotta be kidding me, I mean really? Why the hell do they do that? Squad Slayer was basically the only playlist I’ve played for months, I used to play this playlist with exactly three friends almost every week and now what? This is total crap. If they don’t bring back this playlist I’m done we have already been through enough already!!!I don’t want your stupid updates, bring me back MY PLAYLIST!!!
I agree 100%.End the kidnapping Squad now!.
Sounds good to separate 100% bloom / TU / Zero Bloom
But do delete play lists? That is wrong. very bad
Armor lock needs to go. AL is the worst idea, really. Keep it in BTB and playlists which include vehicles. But in Team Slayer and “Super” Slayer it is just an awful, awful idea.
And that’s why I liked Squad Slayer. No AL.
So we have:
-Team Slayer: 4v4 With and without TU game types.
-Super Slayer: 4v4 TU only game types.
Seems redundant to me.
i have stopped playing reach online now, squad was the only thing i played after the TU
me and my friend went through playlists we never play to give them a second chance, we ruled out MLG, rumble pit and DLC BTB, now we have no playlists to go on
way to go 343, remove a great playlist for no reason and replace it with a copy of team slayer
I am going to miss squads. I have no clue why it was removed. Flush Squad DLC down the toilet instead as squad slayer had a stable population.
Still, my interest has waned and i really don’t play Reach anymore; it’s been weeks actually. Halo 4 and that abysmal March Update made sure of that. Oh and ME 3 