The Halo Thread V12: The Last Thread Turned Into A Bridge
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The thing about the modes, in my opinion, is that they're better off adding them in over time. Although making them monthly is a bit longer than it should be for the amount of modes they've added so far. If all modes were available from the start people would have probably been burned out in the first two months after release, and then just stay on a very small portion of the playlists available.
Black Ops 3 and Battlefront have a crap load of game modes and only three or four of them seem to have "healthy" populations compared to the rest. Then again in those games each mode has its own playlist and little to no playlists that cycle through modes, I know CoD has two or three playlists that cycle modes. Previous Halo also suffered from that (lot of people stuck to Team Slayer and BTB modes, and the map packs didn't exactly help) and I think 343 is trying to avoid that, excepted they're doing it slower than they should be.
[editline]24th February 2016[/editline]
With the modes we have now the playlist should maybe look something like this:
Team Arena (Slayer, CTF, Strongholds, Assault)
Team Slayer (Slayer and Fiesta)
SWAT (Normal/BR and SWATnums)
Breakout (Breakout, and maybe Arena Breakout?)
Social Slayer (Slayer and Fiesta)
Social Arena (Slayer, CTF, Assault, Oddball, Ricochet)
Social BTB (Slayer, CTF, Strongholds, Assault)
Grifball
Weekly/Community/Forge Playlist
[editline]24th February 2016[/editline]
Forge should have been at launch though. No clue why that had a delay.
Memories of Reach better contain something like the assault rifle. Or they could troll us and throw armor lock back into multiplayer
I think its more likely that they would give us a classic DMR or the Needle rifle
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[QUOTE=UndreamedBus;49807551]I think its more likely that they would give us a classic DMR or the Needle rifle[/QUOTE]
Has the DMR been changed enough to warrant a "classic" version?
For those who didn't watch the Hammer Storm trailer all the way through, there is a very short tease of Warzone Firefight after the fade to black.
[QUOTE=KingKombat;49807588]Has the DMR been changed enough to warrant a "classic" version?[/QUOTE]
It could be more classic in a game mechanic sense, Like more damage with more weapon bloom. Visualy the reach DMR is very different from the one we have now. However, thinking about it now I would like 343 to bring back some power weapons, we could have the Reach shotgun, Focus Beam or the Grande-launcher instead of another classic primary. They also could remake a map instead, I kinda want to see powerhouse in halo 5 sandbox or we could get that big ass map I forgot the name of for warzone.
Edit
Im thinking of BoneYard
Oh god, people on reddit wanted Spire back, 343 checks reddit....
[editline]24th February 2016[/editline]
[sp]ground pound off the spire[/sp]
Boneyard could honestly make for a really good warzone map if they expanded it a little
THEY REMOVED TEAL FROM THE FUCKING COLOR PICKER. You have blues. Then you have greens. Where's the inbetween??
So it's true. 343 really is satan. Halo is officially dead.
As an off topic sidenote, the Halo CE Pistol has the old idle animation in addition to the old melee animation.
[QUOTE=Makol;49807272]Looks like it's from a comic book.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it's from Halo 3 Concept Art
[IMG]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/e/ef/Concept-art-halo-3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121204222832[/IMG]
Hmm, wonder if that means a Halo 3 map will make an appearance.
[editline]24th February 2016[/editline]
Or maybe Brute weapons?
Brute weapons and vehicles would be ace.
[QUOTE=Makol;49808971]Hmm, wonder if that means a Halo 3 map will make an appearance.[/QUOTE]
Well the concept art is of the Campaign level Tsavo Highway or The Storm, looking at the facility in the background. It could mean you guys are getting a warzone map set in Voi.
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So what has been predicted for the next update then
[QUOTE=death2sarge;49808982]Well the concept art is of the Campaign level Tsavo Highway or The Storm, looking at the facility in the background. It could mean you guys are getting a warzone map set in Voi.[/QUOTE]
That would be neat.
I wonder if the next update would be Warzone focused since this update was mostly for Arena.
I hope the Reach update is mostly Arena related. There are some decent maps that would work with the Spartan movement/abilities.
[editline]24th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zeos;49809013]So what has been predicted for the next update then[/QUOTE]
We don't know much other than there is a new map (if it's warzone or arena is unclear), new weapon variants for Warzone, and a new Mantis is coming and seems to be a Gauss Mantis.
in Forge there's a 'Brute' section now under the Races (forerunner, unsc, covenant) with the Grav Hammer under it
[QUOTE=lxmach1;49807136]To be fair, Microsoft has truckloads of money that they could be putting into their #1 top console seller rather than relying on small microtransactions to feed the developers making the free content.
It just seems weird for a franchise as large as Halo to have microtransactions when it's the biggest money maker they have.[/QUOTE]
Yeah there's plenty of options out there for sure. The whole "it's for free content and MLG and etc." is just your PR team at work. And the fact that people for some reason actually believe those are mutually exclusive means they do damn good work.
Don't get me wrong, they actually don't really bother me. But I also know that there can't only just be two possible options to choose from.
Grifball with Halo 5's movement feels pretty stellar to me. I could be butthurt, but I don't care for the Grifball court having an Avalanche skybox since it's a constant reminder of folks only voting for Halo 3 Avalanche in MCC big team battle.:dogcited:
Is Fiesta Slayer in any matchmaking playlist?
Grifball has its own, Assault has its own, but I can't find Fiesta.
[QUOTE=Zero_;49809587]Is Fiesta Slayer in any matchmaking playlist?
Grifball has its own, Assault has its own, but I can't find Fiesta.[/QUOTE]
I think it's in the Slayer playlist.
the gravity hammer has a pretty great assassination
[url]http://i.imgur.com/zokmLZ9.gifv[/url]
[editline]25th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;49808615]THEY REMOVED TEAL FROM THE FUCKING COLOR PICKER..[/QUOTE]
Great, what colour is Tucker supposed to use now?
[QUOTE=Tuskin;49810363]
Great, what colour is Tucker supposed to use now?[/QUOTE]
No way, Tucker's aqua. Teal's out. Next you'll be calling Grif yellow
Seems like the Halo CE pistol did find its way into matchmaking.
It's in BTB on Recurve. I wonder if it's in Fiesta as well.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;49806850]Some people buy them with real money and that's absolutely idiotic[/QUOTE]
Yes, supporting the pipeline of free content is absolutely idiotic.
[QUOTE=overwatch pvt;49810950]No way, Tucker's aqua. Teal's out. Next you'll be calling Grif yellow[/QUOTE]
Well shit.
I failed.
i mean, there's a reddit post asking why fiesta isn't an option in the weapon choosing thing and why it's a seperate gametype, and they said it was taking too long so they got fiesta here as it's own gametype instead
like, did they completely change how weapon spawning works? because i'm pretty sure i've said this before, it should not take that long to have a 'random' weapon option
