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Halo 5 Launch Day Multiplayer Playlist Revealed
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SamastahSukhino
Banned
I need team swat with swords and rockets. Don't mess this up 343.
DarthWalden
Banned
I was wondering if they were going to include swat as I have some freinds who have been obsessed with that mode since reach and it looks like we'll get two swat Playlists so I'm sure they'll be pumped.
I can't say I'm too bent out of shape about a lack of oddball and koth because I never enjoyed those that much.
I am disappointed about the quantity of maps in the slayer Playlist... I count 6? Not a great amount.
I can't say I'm too bent out of shape about a lack of oddball and koth because I never enjoyed those that much.
I am disappointed about the quantity of maps in the slayer Playlist... I count 6? Not a great amount.
SpartanSlayer117
Member
Thanks for clearing that up, two SWAT playlists was weird. Did they fail to mention any playlists?
Let them know they accidentally listed breakout mode under the team arena playlist as well. Thanks.
I'd rather have that than SWAT being mixed in with Slayer like it was for a while in Reach. That was awful.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Yeah, very strange to see Breakout in the Arena playlist. Looking forward to ya'll removing that shortly.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
This is why they should have just announced it via Waypoint.
Ah cool hopefully the updated list will make a bit more sense.
Yeah I think they announced Halo 4's with IGN. Or maybe it was MCC's. Or maybe both.
I know it isn't what you want but there is ctf and strongholds in arena
You're a joke
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I mean, I'm missing some playlists too, but doubles is such a niche playlist I never saw it being a big launch list. I assume it'll come along at some point.
Cool because I was having trouble following their current format...
I think the launch playlist is fine for launch but it seems like some strange decisions were made...
I'm perfectly ok with Breakout being in the Team Arena playlist (though others will surely prefer it had its own playlist), but why the lack of objective gametypes? Oddball, assault, nuetral flag,
Why is wouldnt Slayer and FFA be on every 4v4 map?
Why no team social playlist?
I get that Warzone has two playlists... No one wants to get stuck in a 30min match of a game mode they didn't want to play...
Marvel
could never
Never asked.
UX Genes
Member
My brother and I used to play Doubles all the time when I was growing up (Halo 2 and Halo 3).
The mode is important to me because the majority of my time is spent in it.
Did any halo ever launch with team doubles? Anyway nice mouth you got there. You probably get everything you want most of the time with that shiny attitude.
ZeezbruhTV
Member
Seriously, I remember pretty AWFUL launch playlists in the past. This is the most solid its been.
Wow.
Newflash, doubles isn't a "popular" playlist.
It'll probably have it's own weekend and if it is popular enough 343i will add it in.
There's always tennis.
Idle Storm
Member
So that doesn't add up to 21 maps unless we count breakout maps and forge maps. Hope for some clarification on this.
And like others have said, will team slayer and FFA not feature all slayer maps? There are only 6 in the slayer playlist?
And like others have said, will team slayer and FFA not feature all slayer maps? There are only 6 in the slayer playlist?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I'm inclined to think you are correct.
I'm currently accustomed to the variety I get in the MCC, but even that took months to get Team Doubles.
Looks like a solid launch.
I think they are :/
MarauderShields
Member
So are King Of The Hill and Oddball not in the game?
RowdyReverb
Member
Especially now that there isn't split screen. It's going to be a pretty small niche
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Im reading at other places that SWAT shouldnt be there but things like Snipers. Cmon. Snipers, Doubles for example were never that populated.
I dont see a reason why SWAT shouldnt have its own playlist. Its a gametype a lot of people like.
Of course i can understand the outcry for missing playlists.
Lets wait and see how everything turns out in the first weeks of the game.
I dont see a reason why SWAT shouldnt have its own playlist. Its a gametype a lot of people like.
Of course i can understand the outcry for missing playlists.
Lets wait and see how everything turns out in the first weeks of the game.
Lol
That edit note though
Idle Storm
Member
5 Breakout maps
8 Arena (5 UNSC industrial maps, two covenant themed map, one forerunner themed map)
Orion & Pegasus (Forge maps)
6 Warzone maps
I was under the impression the forge maps and breakout maps didn't count in the 21 map count. Why isnt truth in FFA? Why no empire in team slayer? And was hoping for a little variety in map theme for the slayer maps. Well, still looking forward to some good competitive halo!
8 Arena (5 UNSC industrial maps, two covenant themed map, one forerunner themed map)
Orion & Pegasus (Forge maps)
6 Warzone maps
I was under the impression the forge maps and breakout maps didn't count in the 21 map count. Why isnt truth in FFA? Why no empire in team slayer? And was hoping for a little variety in map theme for the slayer maps. Well, still looking forward to some good competitive halo!
Why does it matter what past Halo's had, wouldn't you guys want to learn from those mistakes?
This. The MP line up to me seems pretty good IMO. If launching BTB and other MP lists later results in more polished and better maps, then I am all for it.
You can't please everyone 343i.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I'll miss Assault, but I wouldn't be surprised if it makes it back somewhere down the road in a more Ricochet-styled fashion that better fits the overall pace of the game.
Not having a dedicated objective playlist is unfortunate...but entirely reasonable. There's been a long, sad history of Halo grab bag objective playlists that go ignored by 99% (more, realistically) of the MP playerbase and die a slow death, incapable of getting either fast or skill-matched games together.
There's no voting in H5, which I think is probably the best possible solution, given the circumstances - in the grab bag Arena playlist, as long as the gametype weightings are done well, you'll still see objective games that people can't really duck out of at a vote screen. More importantly, they'll be objective modes that people might want to actually play. I liked having Oddball and King of the Hill as filler, but developing and supporting those ultra-niche gametypes when nobody actually wanted to play them as a primary choice most of the time probably isn't a great use of time or money. They've moved beyond needing to support that legacy of weird tertiary gametypes as lip service, it's a different beast now.
Breakout as an offering in a larger playlist, though...I think this is a mistake. There's a consistency, if not in win condition then in player traits, among the rest of the gametypes there. Going back and forth between wildly different player environments like that isn't something I'm interested in (I suppose you could say that about Breakout as a whole - it was....fine? but not something I want to play often).
Not having a dedicated objective playlist is unfortunate...but entirely reasonable. There's been a long, sad history of Halo grab bag objective playlists that go ignored by 99% (more, realistically) of the MP playerbase and die a slow death, incapable of getting either fast or skill-matched games together.
There's no voting in H5, which I think is probably the best possible solution, given the circumstances - in the grab bag Arena playlist, as long as the gametype weightings are done well, you'll still see objective games that people can't really duck out of at a vote screen. More importantly, they'll be objective modes that people might want to actually play. I liked having Oddball and King of the Hill as filler, but developing and supporting those ultra-niche gametypes when nobody actually wanted to play them as a primary choice most of the time probably isn't a great use of time or money. They've moved beyond needing to support that legacy of weird tertiary gametypes as lip service, it's a different beast now.
Breakout as an offering in a larger playlist, though...I think this is a mistake. There's a consistency, if not in win condition then in player traits, among the rest of the gametypes there. Going back and forth between wildly different player environments like that isn't something I'm interested in (I suppose you could say that about Breakout as a whole - it was....fine? but not something I want to play often).
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Unless the maps that haven't been announced aren't being featured in this article, I wonder if the 21 maps include BTB? Even if it doesn't launch at launch, it'll supposedly launch close to it, so 343 might be including those maps in the overall initial map count.
I'd wait for the edit from IGN since 343 has acknowledged there are errors in the article.
Though I wish 343 would have just wrote it up themselves and put it on Waypoint.
So we're basically getting the smallest amount of launch maps for PvP ever then. 8 Arena plus the Breakout map which is a Forge map = 9. How extremely disappointing.
NoLongerALurker
Banned
Is it really a mistake if it's one of the smaller populated playlists?
Team Snipers and Team Doubles have always been staples of Halo online matchmaking, I mean this is their 3rd game launching now and the same questions are always raised.
I wonder if they were planning on it and IGN jumped the gun.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
I dont remember Snipers as one of the staples for Halo multiplayer...
Snipers playlist came in really late in Halo 3's cycle if i remember correctly.
Are they mixing the gametypes or just the maps? Like Arena rules on a breakout map?