I'm very glad for AR/pistol starts. It means 2 things for me: 1 you don't start with the most versatile weapon in the game which promotes weapon variety (and arguably more map movement), 2 a lot of people will be using AR and I'm going to kick their ass with my precision skill.
Trying to get my mind off the playlist debacle. Akai, I wish you wouldn't have convinced me that forge maps didn't count, you brought my expectations up only to have 343 bring me back down. Didn't you talk to 343 directly or something? Oh well.
I said it a million times yesterday, but I still don't get why some team slayer maps are in team arena and not the actual slayer playlist. I can understand if they thought pegasus and orion weren't a good fit for team slayer (which is why they put them in ffa/swat), but the slayer maps put in arena are literally team slayer maps in the arena playlist but are absent from the slayer playlist. Makes absolutely no sense to me.