squidhands
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I thought it was updated and given the lame moniker of Throwdown.
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It was ok for a few days. It's just MLG now since there isn't any other good outlet for 4v4 slayer.
User 73706
Banned
So uhhhh if they're going for minimal playlists why not something like
Infinity Slayer
Team Doubles
Team Throwdown
Team Objective
Rumble Pit (Mix of Regicide, slayer, oddball etc)
Big Team Battle (slayer, CTF, Dominion)
Team SWAT
Team Snipers
Grifball
Flood
Double EXP:
Alternate between a DLC playlist (FFA, dominion, teams, whatever) and Action Sack weekly.
Infinity Slayer
Team Doubles
Team Throwdown
Team Objective
Rumble Pit (Mix of Regicide, slayer, oddball etc)
Big Team Battle (slayer, CTF, Dominion)
Team SWAT
Team Snipers
Grifball
Flood
Double EXP:
Alternate between a DLC playlist (FFA, dominion, teams, whatever) and Action Sack weekly.
As far as Binary Slayer goes, I've played it, and it's annoying. It could be fun, if they left all the base traits at default. Then it would be like playing Team Sniper but backwards. Map selection would be important, but it could be fun. I really hope the MM variant doesn't have the Damage Boost color filter active constantly like the custom I played.
Rockets & Rails sounds like some tongue-in-cheek reference to something inappropriate, but I'm not sure what. Beyond that, it just sounds like everybody gets rockets - so nothing new lol
Lightning CTF sounds mildly interesting, as I like fast-playing CTF matches, but the 1SK sounds a bit extreme. A 2SK or 3SK would have been plenty fast IMO, but I suppose I'll see come Monday.
Overall, it's a little disappointing. There are a lot of cool Action Sack gametypes out there. Feels like two or three guys sat down and said, "Well, we only have twenty minutes, but let's crank out an Action Sack playlist right now and look for community content to add later. Ideas?"
Rockets & Rails sounds like some tongue-in-cheek reference to something inappropriate, but I'm not sure what. Beyond that, it just sounds like everybody gets rockets - so nothing new lol
Lightning CTF sounds mildly interesting, as I like fast-playing CTF matches, but the 1SK sounds a bit extreme. A 2SK or 3SK would have been plenty fast IMO, but I suppose I'll see come Monday.
Overall, it's a little disappointing. There are a lot of cool Action Sack gametypes out there. Feels like two or three guys sat down and said, "Well, we only have twenty minutes, but let's crank out an Action Sack playlist right now and look for community content to add later. Ideas?"
You can get them with the waypoint headlines rss feed. That's what I do on my tablet. Runs much more smoothly and it downloads it so I can read it offline if need be.
Ninja Moomin
Banned
ElzarTheBam
Member
Happy birthday, Bobs!
EagleBurnn
Banned
They said their aim was 10 playlists. This is obvious since you have to scroll down to see the 11th one. Here's my take,
Infinity Slayer (includes Team Regicide)
Big Team Battle (Infinity slayer, CTF, Dominion)
Team Throwdown
Rumble Pit (Slayer, Regicide)
Team Objective (CTF, Oddball, Dominion, Extraction)
SWAT
Team Doubles
Team Snipers
Flood
Action Sack (includes Grifball)
In that order too.
Infinity Slayer (includes Team Regicide)
Big Team Battle (Infinity slayer, CTF, Dominion)
Team Throwdown
Rumble Pit (Slayer, Regicide)
Team Objective (CTF, Oddball, Dominion, Extraction)
SWAT
Team Doubles
Team Snipers
Flood
Action Sack (includes Grifball)
In that order too.
User 73706
Banned
Would it be stupid to call a Brute Shot/Fuel Rod Gun baby the Foehammer?
Actually, better question. Would it be stupidly bad or charmingly dumb?
Actually, better question. Would it be stupidly bad or charmingly dumb?
They could combine snipers and TS Pro. I think that snipers showed up in ranked TS in halo 3
But yeah, this is exactly what I would do too.
Hypertrooper
Member
There are moments when I said to myself "Screw you, 343i, for not adding a theater mode support for the campaign.". Today I am going to playthrough to Halo 4's whole campaign again. (I like it.) I activated the IWHBYD Skull.
So I played through Dawn and got to the Observation deck. I cleaned the room and the coming attack wave. The normal dialogue between Chief and Cortana begins but then I noticed something strange. Chief suggests they could board one of the Covenant cruisers and get back to UNSC terrain. Cortana responds with "Could is a generous word..." Then I noticed those were some new dialogues I'd never heard before. Pretty cool because I'd thought IWHBYD never affected the dialogues of story related moments...
Okay. Go back to bitching.
So I played through Dawn and got to the Observation deck. I cleaned the room and the coming attack wave. The normal dialogue between Chief and Cortana begins but then I noticed something strange. Chief suggests they could board one of the Covenant cruisers and get back to UNSC terrain. Cortana responds with "Could is a generous word..." Then I noticed those were some new dialogues I'd never heard before. Pretty cool because I'd thought IWHBYD never affected the dialogues of story related moments...
Okay. Go back to bitching.
Uhh, nah. A Zoojoo seems to take you guys seriously and inverse vice versa.
squidhands
Member
The quitters and overall low population really hurt the playlist and have kept me from playing it as much as I thought I would have. Real shame too since the settings are good and the couple of games that I've had with full teams have been a lot of fun.
Halo 4 frustrates me more than any other Halo game has to date. I didn't like the gameplay in Reach, but the campaign and firefight kept me engaged. Halo 4's campaign doesn't do anything for me (which is HUGE; never had less of a desire to replay a Halo campaign), and Spartan Ops wore thin on me really fast. This leaves me with multiplayer, which with my questionable skills leaves me to search through the most populated playlists (Infinity or whatever playlist is tied to a daily/weekly challenge) to find any sort of quality match.
YourExWife
Member
This is an outright terrible sentence.
In light of the apparent Tomb Raider love in this thread, I'll just leave this here:
What a slap in the face to Ensemble though. Think about it, if they had kept Ensemble, imagine if Halo Wars 2 was a launch title for the next box. I get that studios are closed if they don't have good sales or quality, but halo Wars sold well, was well received. They deserved better.
Yup. I really like Karl's playlists. Hell I'd go for 11 just to keep griffball and flood isolated for those communities. They know it's there even if they have to scroll.
Yeah Halo 4 has a pretty forgettable campaign which is awful because it's supposed to jumpstart the series and get us pumped up for a new trilogy. Spops is boring to play and the MM is mismanaged. A lot of things went wrong in this game and I think it had a lot to do with people just not agreeing on anything/not thinking about the end product of a lot of individual work.
bobs...onGaf
Member
thanks - about to check it out now!
Also Thanks Elzar and stalker - not my Bday but appreciate the shout out
ElzarTheBam
Member
I said...Happy Birthday, Bobs.
bobs...onGaf
Member
I uh.... Thanks.
You should have more good ideas like this and less sandbox.
Throwdown as JIP now? RIP.
I'm actually fine with it now, but as soon as CSR gets implemented that shit needs to go.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Better.
His idea is literally halo 3. Which would be a better starting point than the current state, unfortunately. JIP in throwdown? just rename it Pro and make an MLG playlist please.
BlueScrote
Member
I like this quite a bit. The only things I would suggest is a DLC Map playlist, and maybe a rotating playlist (or maybe that's just what action sack it).
You astound me from everything you complain about.
I'd go as far as to shove Flood into Action Sack, too.
Can they make sub menus? I'd either let it scroll because people will play those game types no matter what, OR make a submenu with grifball, flood, and action sack all together.
Throwdown Pro IS MLG though. Sorta. It's the v2 settings for AGL I believe. What they could do is make a slightly more noob friendly Halo 4 game mode but without the infininity bullshit. Keep the throwdown maps, put set loadouts in, put radar in. Basically Squad Slayer.
Poker Face
Member
while I personally agree with you, no one would vote for anything other than flood and grifball if they were in action sack.
I would have agreed in Reach, but I think by improving Infection into Flood 343i killed a lot of its popularity. I've had people say the only reason they liked it was it was a good way to get easy kills; now that humans aren't as OP it doesn't pull the same numbers.
Grifball I still agree with. It should remain its own list.
Steelyuhas
Member
Is it like raining outside? I don't understand why they wouldn't carry an umbrella.
Steelyuhas
Member
Fun fact: In the pacific northwest, umbrellas are very much frowned upon. It rains, you get wet.
Pop
Member
OverHeat
« generous god »
Killzone ?
Boneyard 2: Bone Harder
Settings with a broader appeal would be really nice. The Throwdown population is disappointing. Ranked Halo 3 had/has normal radar, right? I don't see the harm there.
Give me Throwdown with radar and the doubles pro loadouts, sans-DMR. Even non-Throwdown maps would be a lot more fun to play on like that.
OverHeat
« generous god »
Sold.
Let your beard down.
Hypertrooper
Member
You can see the area of the concept art in the Destiny PS4 trailer. At least it does not look that massive in-game/engine...
Disgusting words. Disgusting words from an insane hobo.
NobleGundam
Banned
Watch Dogs is coming to PAX East Confirmed!
Edit: Your Turn 343. Reveal Halo 2: Anniversary.
Hype for Shaky Cam Quality Gameplay!
Edit: Your Turn 343. Reveal Halo 2: Anniversary.
EagleBurnn
Banned
Can't wait for the scripted demo that is made to not look scripted. "Trust us, when you change the signal on a traffic light, cars always appear out of no where and speed up and then hit gas stations. It happens all the time."
Poker Face
Member
is it going to be playable or is there a panel?
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