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Posted by: Clarkosaur
Wow Bungie, you fail again. Not like I'm surprised at this point.
Where to begin? You say the focus will be on Slayer. Awesome. We're already off to a horrible start. Yet, despite the focus on Slayer gametypes, you choose to still limit the playlist to three whole maps. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. We'll never, ever get a game on Standoff or Rat's Nest, so you can exlcude those from the list of playable maps. And all the "Covies" variants do is actually make Valhalla and Sandtrap even less fun than they were to begin with, which is quite an achievement in and of itself.
Where is BTB Slayer on Highground? Slayer on Isolation? We can play H2 BTB Slayer on Lockout and Midship but we can't get some medium-largish maps in this playlist for the sake of variety?
The only good thing I saw in the update was that the playlist would apparently be all BR starts. At least you did something right.
I think the Slayer focus is to promote usage, which is an obvious thing given that Slayer seems to be far and away the most popular gametype in Halo 3, even more so than it was in Halo 2. Hopefully as time goes by people will begin to migrate from Slayer over to more interesting gametypes, and the weighting can be adjusted. I really think the problem with objective right now is that so many of the newer players won't even try it. With this playlist being a mix, hopefully it will show them the "way".
With regards to there being only 2 maps, let's think back to Halo 1. How many maps in that game fit well with BTB? Really only 3, Blood Gultch, Sidewinder, and maybe Hang 'em High. And that never got old. Although Sandtrap probably isn't as strong as those maps, I believe Valhalla is definitely as good as Blood Gulch, and Rat's Nest has a lot of potential. Also, Covies is just fine, although the Wraith tank seems to be affected by lag quite a bit.
There was never Slayer on the small maps in Ranked BTB in Halo 2, so I don't know what that's about.
I also agree that BR starts is a good idea, especially on Sandtrap.