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Subject: BIG TEAM BATTLE is now QUIT TEAM BATTLE
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  • 05.13.2007 8:16 PM PDT
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No. BTB is FUN.

  • 05.13.2007 8:17 PM PDT
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Agreed

  • 05.13.2007 8:31 PM PDT
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It is stupid that the games are together. Anyone wanting to play BTB Slayer must quit 40 lame Bomb or CTF games to get to a simple slayer game. PLEASE SEPERATE THEM AGAIN BUNGIE!!!!!

  • 05.13.2007 8:35 PM PDT
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Yea I'm not too happy with the change either. Big Team Skirmish was something I always looked forward to when I had a big party of friends together ready to tear it up in matchmaking. Now you join in and get matched with guests and low level newbs who quit early on leaving you with one or two opposing players. Not fun. One more thing. While I'm on the topic of Big Team Battle, why does it say under the description for it that you can play with up to 12 players yet you get matched with 16 players? Anyone else notice that? Must be typo but it's got people talking.

So come on Bungie! Bring back RANKED Big Team Skirmish and give me my ranked Rumble Pit! I was a 28 in that and I miss the challenge of putting up my skill against players with the same experience. Now Rumble Pit is just as useless as Big Team Battle. What an update. Old saying goes "you win some, you lose some" and that holds true here.

  • 05.13.2007 11:00 PM PDT
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Unfortunately it has ALWAYS been quit team battle.

  • 05.13.2007 11:41 PM PDT

"I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me." - Cao Cao

yeah, i agree, most of the time its whoever is loseing leaves

  • 05.14.2007 2:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: JD x4
Unfortunately it has ALWAYS been quit team battle.


At LEAST people would stay for one or two rounds before quitting. Now you go into Big Team Battle and you either get slayer (which people always quit) or a skirmish game (where people quit after a mintue of losing interest and not working together.)

Bungie couldn't have made a worse decision than this. Honestly, it's terrible. And they wouldn't know it either- that's the bad part. They just make changes and expect us to like them. Yet............they don't even play their own match making system. It's not right.

Go into BTB now with a party and it's an utter JOKE. I got one flag on Relic with my friends and we agreed to let the other team have a flag cap just so they wouldn't quit out. We let them have their cap, scored ours in 30 seconds the next round, kept them pinned in their base the round after, and watched them all quit the final round.

Playing by yourself is MISERABLE. Try neutral bomb on Waterworks with two guests on your team whose idea of a good time is driving aimlessly in a Warthog.

Some people (like myself) played BTB and took it seriously. I had a team who I'd play with all the time, and made new friends on different teams along the way. Heck, one of our hated "rival" teams became good friends with us eventually, and we'd party up if our other team mates weren't on.

Sure, there was a problem with usage. But who can you blame for that? Bungie, YOU'RE in charge of putting in new stuff and keeping the list fresh. It's your job to keep a list going, and if you neglet it, who are you to say it should be scrapped because of bad usage? That's more or less hypocracy at its finest.

Guests in unranked lists don't translate into solid play. It's not fun having to run away from an Elite trying to betray you for the sniper. It's not fun watching them drive around in Ghosts betraying each other. Can't blame them though- it IS unranked, so there are no strings attached.

Hence why people quit. It's pretty obvious.

[Edited on 05.14.2007 3:03 AM PDT]

  • 05.14.2007 2:33 AM PDT
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To be honest in hate the whole change that bungie has done to the mm list- not just big team!!
I used to love big team but either half ofcur team quit cor its lagtastic.
I dont understand why they made rumble pit unranked i liked it coz it showes ur own level without being accused of " being carried" to the level.
I loved carnage and multi team they was my most fav game types ever!!!!!!! BUT OOO WELLLLL the play list gets pooer and pooer lol
Also i want top rage bout the new maps no offence to anyone who like them but to me they are a pile of complete c***p i really do hate them especially tombstone!!! ARGGHHH BUNGIE WHAT ARE YOU DOOOIINNN!!! lol

  • 05.14.2007 2:51 AM PDT
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I would just like to say that Bungie DOES play their own MM system. They know whats going on, and they know what their fanbase likes and Dislikes. The fact of the matter here is: Bungie did this so that Its much Easier to get into games, Its much easier to add in the new maps, and much easier to manage for them. They are Loaded with Halo3 Beta stuff at the moment, and for the next few weeks, they are going to have to Keep up with the Beta On Xbox Live, And Halo 2.

Give them a break, and quit whining. If you dont like The way its run, then dont play. Just like If you dont wanna be fat, dont buy a Big mac. Same concept.

~SangheiliOPS~

  • 05.14.2007 7:06 AM PDT

I just DON'T understand why Bungie would erase BTB RANKED to put it with and UNRANKED BTB CRAP GAME! I mean come on, its not even fun anymore ... WHY change a good formula ???????????? It worked great for 2 years !! Just put it backed RANKED and leave the UNRANKED for others !!!


AT LEAST im playing HALO 3 since Sunday and its amazing !!!!

  • 05.14.2007 7:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: SangheiliOPS
I would just like to say that Bungie DOES play their own MM system. They know whats going on, and they know what their fanbase likes and Dislikes. The fact of the matter here is: Bungie did this so that Its much Easier to get into games, Its much easier to add in the new maps, and much easier to manage for them. They are Loaded with Halo3 Beta stuff at the moment, and for the next few weeks, they are going to have to Keep up with the Beta On Xbox Live, And Halo 2.

Give them a break, and quit whining. If you dont like The way its run, then dont play. Just like If you dont wanna be fat, dont buy a Big mac. Same concept.

~SangheiliOPS~
On the one hand I do agree with you that Bungie has insight into their own game. But I don't agree that we can't say anything critical about them. From criticism they learn. Sometimes (well a lot) it is unwarranted and goes too far but sometimes it is valid. For me i find the same things with BTB as all the others here. It is pointless to play against a couple of players or one because people quit early.

To say if you don't like then don't play it is the wrong assumption. The point of the thread is to say that they do like the game just a few things that might need to be changed. It is up to Bungie to keep Halo 2 imaginitive and interesting until Halo 3 comes out. They have even said that themselves. Yes they do make mistakes but they also make inspired decisions as well. Ranked snipers for one.

You may right about that they are concentrating on other things as well, but whatever criticism that they get now can only help them when Halo 3 come sout and they will have the experience of that then.

  • 05.14.2007 8:11 AM PDT

Posted by: SangheiliOPS
Give them a break, and quit whining. If you dont like The way its run, then dont play. Just like If you dont wanna be fat, dont buy a Big mac. Same concept.

~SangheiliOPS~

Give ME a break. Let people make their complaints if they have them, and get the hell off the forum if you have nothing to add to them. This is not your personal brown-nosing channel, you WILL hear some criticism. If you can't handle that I suggest not reading the threads.

If bungie never had any feedback they would not be able to make changes for the better. As that weird guy above me said, if they never got feedback they wouldn't be able to make changes for the better.

  • 05.14.2007 8:19 AM PDT
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Give me back my ranked Big Team Skirmish and Rumble Pit!!! Dooooooo itttt. come onnnn. please? I'll give you candy!?!

  • 05.14.2007 11:27 AM PDT
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The only thing missing missing from this update and keeping it from being perfect is that theres no ranked BTB... Unranked BTB games are a joke.... I miss BTB Skirm... it was as beauty full as war can get

  • 05.14.2007 12:58 PM PDT