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Subject: Big Team Battle Needs To be Ranked
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For the few of us who still play halo 2, we still enjoy a good matchmaking game. Back in the day when everybody played Halo 2, big team battle was the most fun out of any playlists. There was more to it than just killing your opponent, or being the first one in to grab the flag. It took teamwork and the mastery of skill in more than one area. I am asking Bungie to bring back big team battle ranked. Now, in the first 5 minutes half of the people have quit and the game is ruined. Bring back what used to be so great. There are many of us who still play Halo 2 and want a taste of it again.

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  • 10.15.2007 8:53 AM PDT

You think it takes as long as five minutes for the entire team to quit?

Anyway, I'd agree.

  • 10.15.2007 9:14 AM PDT
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Sometimes, shorter but most of the time they wait and see if they are doing well or like the gametype and then quit based on that. It's terrible. You still play halo2? Whats your gamertag?

  • 10.15.2007 9:25 AM PDT

My Gamertag is AnAverageGamer. I do not get to play often, however... I'm in college most of the week, so the only time I get to play is on weekends, if I come home.

I normally find that people quit in a much shorter time than five minutes though. I almost exclusively play BTB matches, and it almost always dies into a 4v4, or an 8v2 match, ESPECIALLY if Waterworks comes up.

  • 10.15.2007 11:35 AM PDT

Posted by: JUSTREC2
haha if you still play halo2 why do you care if BTB is ranked? I still play halo2 way more then halo3 and i HAVE halo 3 and i dont care about ranked BTB....wow cant belive you post a topic like this


Wait, what is your complaint again? The guy wants ranked Big Team Battle in Halo 2 because it's not ranked and he plays Halo 2... That makes sense to me. What is wrong with his post?

  • 10.17.2007 5:26 PM PDT
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I want big team battle to be ranked because I DO play halo 2 and everything else is a joke. Big team was so amazing back in the day.

  • 11.07.2007 4:26 PM PDT

"The road less traveled is often better than the beaten path"

I agree. But I doubt Bungie will change any of the matchmaking playlists on Halo 2. It's not a priority anymore.

  • 11.08.2007 11:36 AM PDT

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i disagree. btb is quite fun especially if my wife joins in and with her not having her own subscription well i think that the fun of h2 is bringing friends and family into the game. would i like to see a ranked btb gametype yes but not at the expense of the unranked one.

  • 11.09.2007 3:15 AM PDT

killing in kindness - just think of me as a nuclear bomb with a smiley face...
"I know what the aliens like." ~ Sgt. Johnson

BTB seems to be the only playlist that actually gets matched up pretty fast. I just got XBL again, so my rank is pretty low.
I disagree with ranking BTB, it will only make it harder to get matched as people rank up. Fewer people play Halo 2, ranking the list will make it harder to get full games without a large spread in levels. Of course, as it is now, people like me are getting destroyed by the lvl 20+ players, so maybe there wouldn't be a difference.

Besides, I miss the goofy game playlist. If anything, I'd want that to come back (ranked even, lol).

  • 11.09.2007 3:34 PM PDT
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well, Bungie needs to hear about this and add Big Team Battle into the rankings again!!!

  • 11.11.2007 7:21 PM PDT

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btb lags to much and there is way too many people, im the kind of person who likes to play with less people, because in those kind of games the only way i die is getting gang banged i still -blam!- just when i die its -blam!-.

  • 11.14.2007 8:25 PM PDT
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I agree, after the awful halo3 I went back to halo2 to find out bungie fckd that up also with the update, now all I get is mostly slayer matchers where u just kill the other team, halo2 was the best, big team battle was the best and it was more about killing it was tactical, bomb arming, flag captures etc, I mean halo2 has a slayer option i would choose that if I wanted non stop slayer games!!! dont know what moron decided to make 70% of btb slayer battles, and most of the players quit anyway so u run around bored for 10 minutes.

bring the old big team battle back, it's bad enough u ruined halo3 but u've ruined halo2 also, been playing halo2 and BTB since release, hate to say it but im glad bungie aint making halo4.

[Edited on 11.23.2007 1:22 PM PST]

  • 11.23.2007 1:20 PM PDT
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yeah, if BTB was rated, then less people would quit 'cause their rank would depend on it.


P.S anyway, I believe all of H2 online should be ranked.

[Edited on 11.23.2007 2:30 PM PST]

  • 11.23.2007 2:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Metafora
yeah, if BTB was rated, then less people would quit 'cause their rank would depend on it.


P.S anyway, I believe all of H2 online should be ranked.
Not at all, I've played H2 online since the day it came out in november 2004, ranking it doesn't make a difference in the world, it just pissed you off more when someone quite because basically that means you lose because people will automatically start quitting,and generally this would happen as soon as one team would score, to support the remaining population we would be better off with lists like multi-team than lists such as h2 challenge that are left overs from the microsoft challenge and shouldn't even be there anyways

  • 11.24.2007 11:07 PM PDT