Are you SERIOUS 343i? Are you SURE you’re not just trolling the entire -Yoinking!- Halo community? You made INFINITY SLAYER the “Tournament” standard? This is just plain 100% unacceptable. You KNOW better by now. You KNOW the DMR, Boltshot, Personal and Random Ordinance, and Armour Abilities DO NOT belong in any remotely competitive setting. But you did it anyway. SHAME ON YOU.
but if they don’t then how on earth would casual players ever win?
I’m sooooo funny 
Don’t worry, I’m sure MLG disagrees.
(I hope…)
> Don’t worry, I’m sure MLG disagrees.
>
> (I hope…)
Well, last I checked, MLG has been testing static BR/Magnum/Frag spawns with either just Thrust, or no AAs. Thrust I wouldn’t mind. But as soon as PV, or Jetpack are involved, the game is simply fubar.
Thank god they aren’t using DMRs or Boltshots though.
I’d give my firstborn male for a ranked MLG playlist with no AA’s, set spawns, and BR/Mag starts. /drool
I dunno. Personally i’m kind of disappointed in the game’s general multiplayer design. The new take on Slayer is fun and all, but why get rid of Weapon spawns? I’m tired of everyone and their mother having power weapons all the time. The maps don’t feel polished, and we still have -Yoink- like the boltshot beating out shotguns.
The game is fun, but i really feel there needs to be some serious work on balance.
They are obviously intent on destroying the credibility of “competitive” online gaming.
> I’d give my firstborn male for a ranked MLG playlist with no AA’s, set spawns, and BR/Mag starts. /drool
I actually want to see MLG pull off a:
BR/Mag/Frag/Thrust/Resupply
CC/Mag/Frag/Thrust/Resupply
LR/Mag/Frag/Thrust/Resupply
As their set of loadouts.
The DMR is obviously broken, they know it as well as we do.
Though one interesting thing MLG could attempt is messing with personal ordinance so you can choose to get a DMR, Plasma Pistol, or Boltshot out of it as constant static choices.
Then remove Random Ordinance (Or make it so Random Ordinance is only one spot on the map and could be one of a list of weapons/powerups), And make Initial Ordinance that Respawns.
It is simply time that competitive players embraced these features instead of being stuck in the past.
> > Don’t worry, I’m sure MLG disagrees.
> >
> > (I hope…)
>
> Well, last I checked, MLG has been testing static BR/Magnum/Frag spawns with either just Thrust, or no AAs. Thrust I wouldn’t mind. But as soon as PV, or Jetpack are involved, the game is simply fubar.
>
> Thank god they aren’t using DMRs or Boltshots though.
Just check the video from mlg final fall tournement on home page
They have dmr/boltshot start, jetpack and ordenance… just saying
> They are obviously intent on destroying the credibility of “competitive” online gaming.
LOL credibility and online gaming.
my answer to the problem?
Make a ranked option, and have it in ranked with either no or restricted armor abilities as well as AR/BR starts with weapon spawns on the map, no ordinance. I feel like if they had ranked with these options people wouldnt be as upset, because they could play the laid back social with tons of crazy additions, and the good old fashion ranked mastery.
Im also not happy about making the normal infinity slayer the poster game for the tournament, now i cant play a normal 4v4 without running into a group of try hards aiming to get that that blasted truck.
This game lacks an incentive for me to try and play a random game for fun, when i dont even know if im going against try hards or not, where i have to fight to the death for a win.
And the halo infinity truck winner goes to…
Some Asian kid with 24646 boltshots kills!
its suppose to change every week i think, why are there so many -Yoink!- on these forums
> > > Don’t worry, I’m sure MLG disagrees.
> > >
> > > (I hope…)
> >
> > Well, last I checked, MLG has been testing static BR/Magnum/Frag spawns with either just Thrust, or no AAs. Thrust I wouldn’t mind. But as soon as PV, or Jetpack are involved, the game is simply fubar.
> >
> > Thank god they aren’t using DMRs or Boltshots though.
>
> Just check the video from mlg final fall tournement on home page
>
> They have dmr/boltshot start, jetpack and ordenance… just saying
Yes but is the jetpack a loadout option or only found on the map?
(Too lazy to watch the video)
> > Don’t worry, I’m sure MLG disagrees.
> >
> > (I hope…)
>
> Well, last I checked, MLG has been testing static BR/Magnum/Frag spawns with either just Thrust, or no AAs. Thrust I wouldn’t mind. But as soon as PV, or Jetpack are involved, the game is simply fubar.
>
> Thank god they aren’t using DMRs or Boltshots though.
no crap? where did you read this? sounds promising so far
Well, it IS their tournament. Of course they’re going to use their gametype.
> Are you SERIOUS 343i? Are you SURE you’re not just trolling the entire -Yoinking!- Halo community? You made INFINITY SLAYER the “Tournament” standard? This is just plain 100% unacceptable. You KNOW better by now. You KNOW the DMR, Boltshot, Personal and Random Ordinance, and Armour Abilities DO NOT belong in any remotely competitive setting. But you did it anyway. SHAME ON YOU.
This kinda shows 343 are ignoring their community and still don’t know what’s wrong with this game. They will keep catering to casuals and I doubt anything the ‘competitive’ community have been asking for will make it in the next TU.
> It is simply time that competitive players embraced these features instead of being stuck in the past.
Except said features are admittedly kind of broken and boring.
The MLG T3 settings include:
BR/Storm Rifle/2 frags/Thruster/Resupply/Explosives
BR/Storm Rifle/2 frags/Thruster/Resupply/Dexterity
DMR/No Secondary/1 frag/Thruster/Resupply/Explosives
DMR/No Secondary/1 frag/Thruster/Resupply/Dexterity
(And a LR loadout I can’t quite remember)
For the T4 settings they were talking about using BR/Jet Pack and DMR/Thruster to balance the guns out by stacking better AAs in the BR loadouts. Not sure if they are still considering this or not, haven’t seen the T4 settings yet.
The T3 settings played quite well though, even with DMR as a starting weapon.