honestrade
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Valhalla is probably my favorite. I also really like Haven.
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IGN Ranks Every Halo Map
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Vanillalite
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I honestly greatly prefered headlong over waterworks in BTB. Granted they were different maps setup wise. WW was better for 2CTF and HL was 1CTF & Assault.
NotDreamcast
Member
Hopefully Guardian ranks somewhere high. That was my favorite map.
Guardian was amazing. Zanzibar was my favorite though.
thefatness16
Banned
Not sure why Anchor 9 is so low. It's not amazing or anything, but it definitely deserves to be around top 50 or so. Whatever, when rank 110 things there's no way people would be happy with the placement.
Wow, I just realized they don't have Isolation near the bottom. That map is fucking dog shit. I don't think there's a map in any game that hate more than Isolation. I know this sounds like some crazy exaggeration, but I'd get nauseous playing it.
Wow, I just realized they don't have Isolation near the bottom. That map is fucking dog shit. I don't think there's a map in any game that hate more than Isolation. I know this sounds like some crazy exaggeration, but I'd get nauseous playing it.
veloxStrix
Banned
I really, really loved Lockout.
But, that said, Zanzibar should be #1. It was so good for every game type.
But, that said, Zanzibar should be #1. It was so good for every game type.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
I never played district since I didn't have Halo 2 for the PC but the worst map in Halo is reserved for Construct.
Icyflamez96
Member
Snowbound and Isolation are worse than Construct imo, Construct felt different to me, but I liked it.
No one is mentioning High Ground ITT? That's one I remember liking.
No one is mentioning High Ground ITT? That's one I remember liking.
Well... not so good for multi/neutral flag or bomb, koth, oddball or territories
Best map for gametypes is probably terminal... doesnt handle neutral games very well but the rest is pretty good
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
I definitely considered them close to being the worst along with Epitah but at least those maps encourage some map movement where as Construct is all about camping the lifts.
They placed Damnation at 100? Damn.
Seriously, I loved playing on that map though part of the fun was dropping from the top ledge onto the overshield (which would prevent you from taking falling damage). You could either escape someone or bring them to their death as they followed you. Also gave you that nice armor boost if you happened to land in the middle of another battle. So much fun.
Seriously, I loved playing on that map though part of the fun was dropping from the top ledge onto the overshield (which would prevent you from taking falling damage). You could either escape someone or bring them to their death as they followed you. Also gave you that nice armor boost if you happened to land in the middle of another battle. So much fun.
Icyflamez96
Member
No objections there. I enjoyed it though because I was always the one taking advantage of that lol.
Icyflamez96
Member
This list is including all the Halo Reach maps, which sadly wont be in the MCC, unless they have some amazing DLC plans in the works.
Guardian really is a poor man's Lockout. It's not a bad map, but Lockout does everything better.
I generally think Halo 2 maps > Halo 3 maps anyway.
Seems right the Reach and 4 maps are appearing this low as I felt the map design really fell off after 2. Not fond of 3 maps either myself. I expect most of the top maps to be from 2. Lockout, Zanzibar, etc etc.
Also, I really hate that the remade versions of maps for the different games have different names. Blood Gultch should be called Blood Gultch in every single game. Why they went and made stuff more confusing I'll never know.
Also, I really hate that the remade versions of maps for the different games have different names. Blood Gultch should be called Blood Gultch in every single game. Why they went and made stuff more confusing I'll never know.
Future PhaZe
Member
Guardian is bad. Traversal on that map is beyond annoying. It's the Khloe Kardashian to Lockouts Kim Kardashian.
Icyflamez96
Member
The Pit and Narrows are the best tho.
2 flag BR starts on The Pit is probably my favorite Halo experience of all time.
Talladega Knight
Member
When does the list update?
ebullientprism
Member
In no particular order, my top 5 -
Zanzibar
Hang em High
Valhalla
The Pit
Narrows
Zanzibar
Hang em High
Valhalla
The Pit
Narrows
Poodlestrike
Banned
Because they're generally demonstrably different, and giving them different names makes it easier to distinguish between them.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/11/04/ranking-every-halo-map-ever-made-85-61?watch=+main+twitter
85-61 is up.
#61 - Standoff
#62 - Solace
#63 - Forge World: The Cage
#64 - Meltdown
#65 - Ghost Town
#66 - Isolation
#67 - Chill Out
#68 - Assembly
#69 - Blackout
#70 - Spire
#71 - Erosion
#72 - Harvest
#73 - Gephyrophobia
#74 - Uplift
#75 - Reflection
#76 - Forge World: Pinnacle
#77 - Forge World: Asylum
#78 - Heretic
#79 - Epitaph
#80 - Sword Base
#81 - Vortex
#82 - Backwash
#83 - Derelict
#84 - Ice Fields
#85 - Orbital
85-61 is up.
#61 - Standoff
#62 - Solace
#63 - Forge World: The Cage
#64 - Meltdown
#65 - Ghost Town
#66 - Isolation
#67 - Chill Out
#68 - Assembly
#69 - Blackout
#70 - Spire
#71 - Erosion
#72 - Harvest
#73 - Gephyrophobia
#74 - Uplift
#75 - Reflection
#76 - Forge World: Pinnacle
#77 - Forge World: Asylum
#78 - Heretic
#79 - Epitaph
#80 - Sword Base
#81 - Vortex
#82 - Backwash
#83 - Derelict
#84 - Ice Fields
#85 - Orbital
Yeah but when it's the same general layout, i don't see why they didn't just call them things like Lockout redux or Bloodgultch 2.0 or something identifying where they came from. I have no idea what the other versions of the maps are called, i just associate them in my head as Bloodgultch, Bloodgultch 2.0, etc etc. Gets confusing for me when people call them by their actual names and them I'm like, "Oh you mean Halo 2 Blood Gultch."
Diprosalic
Banned
if i'm thinking competitive MP discussion, i'm thinking games journalists.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Eh. To each their own, I find it easier to keep them straight this way. It's especially helpful with something like Bloodline, which has some fairly drastic changes, but w/e.
They're just going for completion, ranking all the officially published maps by Bungie. Forge variants made up a good chunk of Reach's shipping maps.
One thing that strikes me seeing all these maps lined up is how much I'm reminded just how few of them were truly excellent, particularly after Halo 3. Reach's maps were nearly all subpar.
My end all be all Halo map is Valhalla. I have so many wonderful memories of two flag CTF BTB on Valhalla. To me it's the quintessential BTB map, correcting all the mistakes from Blood Gulch. If the latter ranks over it, it's pure nostalgia ruling their thinking.
Chezzymann
Member
Blood gulch will be number 1 simply because its the most iconic. That's a problem I have with these lists, fame/nostalgia trumps quality many times.
I was thinking the same, simply because it's one that everybody remembers, and Red vs Blue.
one of those things is not like the others
Waiting for the outcry on this one. I, for one, hated the map but there were a ton of people that loved it.
Leyasu
Banned
Reachs maps were imo some of the shitiest most pointless maps I've ever played on. I think that it was quite clear that bungie no longer gived a fuck, so they just threw in some areas from the single player. Then released a vidoc pretending it would be cool.
They had to use forge maps to pad it out as well.
Anyway, less than a week now
Icyflamez96
Member
Spire should have been on the first list.
The only Reach map that came from campaign was Boneyard. Every other multiplayer map in Reach was made for multiplayer first.
Tidus_Great
Banned
halo 2 maps >>>> all other halos
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Agreed. Reach's forge maps were absolute garbage.
My Top 5:
5. Coagulation
4. Terminal
3. Waterworks
2. Zanzibar
1. Headlong
Halo 2 all day, e'ry day. I ain't even mad.
Halo 2 didn't have a single bad map.
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This guy gets it.
Valhalla is a lot of fun but the hill in the middle will always keep it a nudge below Blood Gulch for me. I just found it far too easy for a moderately coordinated team to completely dominate the map once they gained hill control.
Map control is obviously a huge tenant of Halo, but the corollary to that is that the team without control should also have a balanced and fair shot at disrupting the control. In BTB vehicles are normally the antidote to this sort of map lockdown but the team locking down the hill also locked down spartan laser control and could always lift over with the new missile pod while waiting for the laser to respawn. If you spawned beach side you were fucked due to being on the descending side of the hill making lift pushes impossible due to hail storms of BR fire. Pushing weak side was also a terrible idea because the difference in elevation was even worse. The only viable strategies were to try to disrupt control via careful sniping from the base or to push Pelican/cave side and take up refuge in the downed Pelican, but a coordinated team could also just as easily block off that side of the map with careful grenading. Flanking with a mongoose and trying to switch the spawns or just making a push from the backside and praying for a momentary lapse was probably the best shot overall.
Essentially the asymmetry of the map really just caused problems when you were rolling against parties with decent players.
What I described was more of an issue in 4v4 than BTB to be honest, but I still played many a game where I faced this sort of gridlock from parties 6 deep in BTB.
Also Warthog battles on Gulch > Warthog battles on Valhalla.
Gulch is still king.
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It's really only good for Slayer. Being a successor to Lockout is fine, but Lockout was at least great at things like Slayer and King of the Hill, even 1-flag was decent. Guardian was awful for objectives.
That's why these 'rankings' are just awful. How can you compare maps like Zanzibar to Sanctuary. They're both great at what they do.
List is pure clickbait. Seeing Orbital and so many bad Halo 4 maps with ones that were actually decent (Zealot, Heretic, Reflection) supplants that.
Chiron 109/110? Kidding me?
Chiron was perfect for Oddball. Three Players on one screen and you knew who would be on the other side of the portal. Some nerve wrecking duells there. Confusion was part of the fun.
If Sidewinder won't be in the Top 5 and original Blood gulch is #1 you can throw this list away anyway.
Honestly such a list makes no sense at all. You can maybe differentiate beetween good and maps and would get a pretty big consent on this. You can also make a top 10 of the most player/iconic/loved maps. Everything else makes no sense.
Chiron was perfect for Oddball. Three Players on one screen and you knew who would be on the other side of the portal. Some nerve wrecking duells there. Confusion was part of the fun.
If Sidewinder won't be in the Top 5 and original Blood gulch is #1 you can throw this list away anyway.
Honestly such a list makes no sense at all. You can maybe differentiate beetween good and maps and would get a pretty big consent on this. You can also make a top 10 of the most player/iconic/loved maps. Everything else makes no sense.
HOW DO YOU GET CONFUSED ON CHILL OUT? It's like three or four rooms. It's the college dorm apartment of Halo maps, you can memorize it even if you're not trying.
This list in infuriating to anyone who plays a lot of Halo. How any of these great maps get designed is beyond me with people like this in charge.
This list in infuriating to anyone who plays a lot of Halo. How any of these great maps get designed is beyond me with people like this in charge.
Rockondevil
Member
My favourites would be Zanzibar, Coagulation and Lockout.
I really liked Waterworks also, but not quite as much.
Also I don't believe District should be last, that map was far better than some of the others. Was so fun for objective game types which I understand not as many people play, but still....
I really liked Waterworks also, but not quite as much.
Also I don't believe District should be last, that map was far better than some of the others. Was so fun for objective game types which I understand not as many people play, but still....
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