I just played Exile about 8 times in a row. Don’t people want to play on any map other than one of the smallest, most overused, boring maps in the Dominion playlist?
-End of small gripe
Exile and Ragnarok are the only decent BTB maps really. The rest deliver far too much stale gameplay. That’s the reason.
From repetitive map votes, to invis crouch, to random ordinance, to boltshot … it’s what drove me away from the game. Pick another game or just adapt.
> Exile and Ragnarok are the only decent BTB maps really. The rest deliver far too much stale gameplay. That’s the reason.
THIS
plus those 2 maps are the only BTB maps with any decent vehicle choice.
Who wants to play vortex with its nothing more than the pp/sticky bait warthogs and wraith
Small Open BTB Maps what do you expect other than Lots of Easy kills.
balanced
> > Exile and Ragnarok are the only decent BTB maps really. The rest deliver far too much stale gameplay. That’s the reason.
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> THIS
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> plus those 2 maps are the only BTB maps with any decent vehicle choice.
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> Who wants to play vortex with its nothing more than the pp/sticky bait warthogs and wraith
It seems obvious to me, the issue is line-of-sight. Lazy players like to be able to see across the map, and Exile/Ragnarok cater to the lazy fanbase of Halo 4.
The other maps are definitely playable, but take work and you can’t just push a button, or pull a trigger. You have to think.
I like it cause I can get into the gauss hog and have my friend drive me to the corner and camp. only if im on the blue team
Exile is a ridiculous one-sided map and I hate that its chosen everytime. It pops up and it immediately has 5 votes, ridiculous.
This right here. Halo 4 has excellently designed maps that are fun and great for BTB. But Ragnarok and Exile repetitively do definitely get old. I actually enjoy Longbow a lot. I’m a driver and have been since Reach. Give me a Warthog and an excellently designed map and I’ll keep it alive long enough for a good gunner to get at least a couple killing sprees. I’ve sacrificed my KD spread to drive, since I die more than I kill but at least in Halo 4 I get a lot of metals for support functions. I’m good at driving and and that’s how I support my team. Thanks 343 for Operator Spec btw.
**EDIT: I meant this as a reply to i77ogical above.
> > > Exile and Ragnarok are the only decent BTB maps really. The rest deliver far too much stale gameplay. That’s the reason.
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> > THIS
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> > plus those 2 maps are the only BTB maps with any decent vehicle choice.
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> > Who wants to play vortex with its nothing more than the pp/sticky bait warthogs and wraith
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> It seems obvious to me, the issue is line-of-sight. Lazy players like to be able to see across the map, and Exile/Ragnarok cater to the lazy fanbase of Halo 4.
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> The other maps are definitely playable, but take work and you can’t just push a button, or pull a trigger. You have to think.
This right here. Halo 4 has excellently designed maps that are fun and great for BTB. But Ragnarok and Exile repetitively do definitely get old. I actually enjoy Longbow a lot. I’m a driver and have been since Reach. Give me a Warthog and an excellently designed map and I’ll keep it alive long enough for a good gunner to get at least a couple killing sprees. I’ve sacrificed my KD spread to drive, since I die more than I kill but at least in Halo 4 I get a lot of metals for support functions. I’m good at driving and that’s how I support my team. Thanks 343 for Operator Spec btw.
> > > Exile and Ragnarok are the only decent BTB maps really. The rest deliver far too much stale gameplay. That’s the reason.
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> > THIS
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> > plus those 2 maps are the only BTB maps with any decent vehicle choice.
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> > Who wants to play vortex with its nothing more than the pp/sticky bait warthogs and wraith
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> It seems obvious to me, the issue is line-of-sight. Lazy players like to be able to see across the map, and Exile/Ragnarok cater to the lazy fanbase of Halo 4.
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> The other maps are definitely playable, but take work and you can’t just push a button, or pull a trigger. You have to think.
LOL. Lazy gamers 
I vote for exile because its weapon spawns are all UNSC ordinance spawns. Im close to mastering the last two i need that spawn in dominion, the laser and shotgun. And as most halo players know, the UNSC weapons are easily more accessible for kills than the covenant and forerunner weapons. Thats why exile is popular. Vortex and Meltdown largely drop forerunner weapons. Longbow is the exception, i dont know why people dont vote for longbow that much. its a good map.
IT PISSES ME OFF! The gauss hog used to be my favorite vehicle, and I’m not getting sick of it because I keep getting killed by it(Hard to get killed by it when you have hardlight, PP, and stickies anyways) but I’m getting tired of seeing it.
Exile is an easy map to vehicle camp on. I’d say Vortex is the better and most underrated map out of the three. The vehicle flow is fluid and consistent and the action is usually moving.
Exile is beyond overrated. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good map with a nice atmosphere, but the game experience is downgraded when I have to play it 6 times in a row. I want to experience other maps and find new tricks when I play BTS.
I cant tell you how much I hated this map, man one side has guass and banshee, other one damn tank that they usually kill at the start with a combination of Gauss fire, and plasma EMPs, which is B.S.
This is why Halo, and any game, should not allow players to vote for what map it they play. It makes the game stale. This is one of the very few things Halo 2 got right.
You need to be locked into a map the game chooses randomly. With no voting at all. At the very most, a single veto system.
No join in progress.
And if you quit 5 games in the same day you are banned from matchmaking for 24 hours.
Vortex is absolute crap for BTB
Meltdown, holy crap, possibly the worst halo BTB map of all time
longbow would be better if the fighting didnt always center on the top middle building
Ragnarok is broken, it needs a tank
people always choose exile because it has good vehicle gameplay (even though it isnt balanced)
> This is why Halo, and any game, should not allow players to vote for what map it they play. It makes the game stale. This is one of the very few things Halo 2 got right.
Or you could just allow players sub-playlists that have specific maps in them (i.e. searching for specific maps).
Or better yet, the matchmaking system can be trashed and you could just let players use a server list for once…
Tribes: Ascend gets it right.
4 words.
scorpion tank
gauss hog.
Red team needs a Gauss Hog on this map! Most the time Blue team wins this map because you have a non aggressive driver and a Gauss Sniper. The tank is a death trap!! The map is too small for it.