So we know that Halo 5 will launch and you can play either Arena or Warzone. But what if I want to play a gametype like Infection, Action sack, Griffball, race, or just anything other than Arena or Warzone? Those don’t really fit into either category, so I’m just wondering how that will all work out since they seem to only be talking about Arena and Warzone. If you look at the new post on Waypoint about the game going gold, it says “12v12 Warzone” and “4v4 Arena”. I’m sure they won’t exclude infection and action sack from matchmaking since they’re generally some of the most popular playlists in each halo game, but I must say that I’m still slightly worried that it’s still a possibility.
At launch there will be a very limited number of playlist. Back in June the plan was Slayer, Breakout, Strongholds, and Warzone. Your other gametypes are coming. They are not being left out. There is simply a small selection at launch, likely to maximize populations.
Actually, yes, many of those gametypes will be missing as we need Forge to manipulate the maps as needed to massage or outright create what is needed to facilitate the experience you seek;
Arena: 4x4 PvP competitive
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Warzone: PvEvP sandboxed
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Breakout: 4x4 PvP intense competitive
Are the 3 confirmed MP launch experiences. Hopefully the FFA is announced soon. BTA (Big Team Arena) will launch, likely beside Forge, or around that time.
It may not sound like a great way, staggering the experience in, but the reality is, experiences have been staggered and choppy for years. This appears to be an attempt to control the staggering rather than patching it all over the course of a month or few.
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> Actually, yes, many of those gametypes will be missing as we need Forge to manipulate the maps as needed to massage or outright create what is needed to facilitate the experience you seek;
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> Arena: 4x4 PvP competitive
> &
> Warzone: PvEvP sandboxed
> &
> Breakout: 4x4 PvP intense competitive
>
> Are the 3 confirmed MP launch experiences. Hopefully the FFA is announced soon. BTA (Big Team Arena) will launch, likely beside Forge, or around that time.
> It may not sound like a great way, staggering the experience in, but the reality is, experiences have been staggered and choppy for years. This appears to be an attempt to control the staggering rather than patching it all over the course of a month or few.
But the breakout maps are all forged, so wouldn’t the maps that are edited in forge to allow for infection be playable as well?
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> At launch there will be a very limited number of playlist. Back in June the plan was Slayer, Breakout, Strongholds, and Warzone. Your other gametypes are coming. They are not being left out. There is simply a small selection at launch, likely to maximize populations.
not only that many its also for stability reasons. i mean no one wants to jump into a search and wait 45 mins for a game. looking at you MCC.
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> > Actually, yes, many of those gametypes will be missing as we need Forge to manipulate the maps as needed to massage or outright create what is needed to facilitate the experience you seek;
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> > Arena: 4x4 PvP competitive
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> > Warzone: PvEvP sandboxed
> > &
> > Breakout: 4x4 PvP intense competitive
> >
> > Are the 3 confirmed MP launch experiences. Hopefully the FFA is announced soon. BTA (Big Team Arena) will launch, likely beside Forge, or around that time.
> > It may not sound like a great way, staggering the experience in, but the reality is, experiences have been staggered and choppy for years. This appears to be an attempt to control the staggering rather than patching it all over the course of a month or few.
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> But the breakout maps are all forged, so wouldn’t the maps that are edited in forge to allow for infection be playable as well?
they might but also might not be. They are not going to be left out and we don’t know how long other game types might take before they are released. it might be days, it might be a week, heck it might even be hours after launch to avoid piracy or something like that, we don’t know.
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> > At launch there will be a very limited number of playlist. Back in June the plan was Slayer, Breakout, Strongholds, and Warzone. Your other gametypes are coming. They are not being left out. There is simply a small selection at launch, likely to maximize populations.
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> not only that many its also for stability reasons. i mean no one wants to jump into a search and wait 45 mins for a game. looking at you MCC.
Yeah but I would still love to have maybe these playlists, since they support pretty much all play styles I can think of:
Warzone
Team Slayer
Breakout
Team Objective
FFA
Infection
I’m fine with limited options as far as playlists go at launch. Expand and refine from there. No sense in starting on shaky ground with a ton of arbitrary playlists.
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> > > At launch there will be a very limited number of playlist. Back in June the plan was Slayer, Breakout, Strongholds, and Warzone. Your other gametypes are coming. They are not being left out. There is simply a small selection at launch, likely to maximize populations.
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> > not only that many its also for stability reasons. i mean no one wants to jump into a search and wait 45 mins for a game. looking at you MCC.
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> Yeah but I would still love to have maybe these playlists, since they support pretty much all play styles I can think of:
> Warzone
> Team Slayer
> Breakout
> Team Objective
> FFA
> Infection
All of those, with the exception of infection and addition of BTB, will likely be out before thanksgiving. Infection just has some assets that may not be in the game yet and therefore would need to be a part of monthly content updates. Maybe we’ll get lucky though and it will come with the first one that will come with BTB.
Hopefully launch goes smooth and halo will be back to being its self in no time! 343 don’t fail us!
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> So we know that Halo 5 will launch and you can play either Arena or Warzone. But what if I want to play a gametype like Infection, Action sack, Griffball, race, or just anything other than Arena or Warzone? Those don’t really fit into either category, so I’m just wondering how that will all work out since they seem to only be talking about Arena and Warzone. If you look at the new post on Waypoint about the game going gold, it says “12v12 Warzone” and “4v4 Arena”. I’m sure they won’t exclude infection and action sack from matchmaking since they’re generally some of the most popular playlists in each halo game, but I must say that I’m still slightly worried that it’s still a possibility.
If Grif was here, he’d slap you.
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> > Actually, yes, many of those gametypes will be missing as we need Forge to manipulate the maps as needed to massage or outright create what is needed to facilitate the experience you seek;
> >
> > Arena: 4x4 PvP competitive
> > &
> > Warzone: PvEvP sandboxed
> > &
> > Breakout: 4x4 PvP intense competitive
> >
> > Are the 3 confirmed MP launch experiences. Hopefully the FFA is announced soon. BTA (Big Team Arena) will launch, likely beside Forge, or around that time.
> > It may not sound like a great way, staggering the experience in, but the reality is, experiences have been staggered and choppy for years. This appears to be an attempt to control the staggering rather than patching it all over the course of a month or few.
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> But the breakout maps are all forged, so wouldn’t the maps that are edited in forge to allow for infection be playable as well?
No.
We need Forge to manipulate the maps, 343i does not. We get to use a couple baked Forge maps, not the same as having Forge itself.
There are probably going to be other playlists aside from purely Arena and purely Warzone. Don’t worry.
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> > So we know that Halo 5 will launch and you can play either Arena or Warzone. But what if I want to play a gametype like Infection, Action sack, Griffball, race, or just anything other than Arena or Warzone? Those don’t really fit into either category, so I’m just wondering how that will all work out since they seem to only be talking about Arena and Warzone. If you look at the new post on Waypoint about the game going gold, it says “12v12 Warzone” and “4v4 Arena”. I’m sure they won’t exclude infection and action sack from matchmaking since they’re generally some of the most popular playlists in each halo game, but I must say that I’m still slightly worried that it’s still a possibility.
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> If Grif was here, he’d slap you.
Oops XD