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Subject: Cancel Watch: Ranked Big Team Battle
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Ya it gun b k.

Hmm. I never really did play it, but it was fun to go into it when you got a lot of friends together...

  • 06.11.2008 10:01 AM PDT

btb was my favorite in h2
i loved headlong and waterworks...omg so many memories

i personally enjoyed the larger scale maps in h2 over the large h3 maps.
maybe that's why i don't play it as much.

  • 06.11.2008 10:42 AM PDT
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Talk to the Soul | ~B.B. | Know Your Duardo |  | Hero | ISFJ | 77135 | 94371

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

I think it will survive until restrictions are put back on.

I <3 RBTB.

  • 06.11.2008 10:44 AM PDT

If you are reading this you are probably bored out of your mind.

rbtb is cool, to bad i have finals to study for...

  • 06.11.2008 11:13 AM PDT

The Upper Echelon

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The high ranked individuals in this list are discouraging newcomers. Nothing Bungie can do about it, I know, but it may prove another thorn in the side of this dying playlist.

  • 06.11.2008 11:14 AM PDT
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I have to say, my biggest problem with BTB in Halo3 compared to Halo2 are 2 things:

1- The god damn veto: As soon as something different appears in matchmaking, it quickly gets vetoed. Especially if its not Slayer. Thats all people wanna play. Slayer. 27/7, 7 days a week. Not slayer? VETO. I absolutely hate the veto. It completely ruined my experience in matchmaking for Halo3. People use it on everything and often times, game types that could end up being fun, are never even tried cause a bunch of bozos decided to veto it since it wasn't slayer. The Veto option is the absolute wrost thing to happen to Halo.

2- Always the same maps: This problem is huge. For some reason, im always playing on the same 2 maps in BTB. (and that also is partially caused by the veto) Valhalla and Sandtrap. Valhalla and Sandtrap. Valhalla and Sandtrap. JESUS! Halo2 had a much bigger variety of big maps which to me, made the game a hell of a lot more fun. I don't hate the big maps in Halo3, but i do hate playing on Valhalla and Sandtrap all god damn night.

Thats why BTB sucks. And unfortunately, there no way to fix it. The only thing that would help would be to either make more big maps or take the veto out. And even with that, it wont change a thing since people will still veto anything that isnt slayer.

Matchmaking sucks, and there's no way of fixing that.

Its only a matter of time before BTB is dead in the ranked playlist. Mark my words.

[Edited on 06.11.2008 11:51 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2008 11:43 AM PDT
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nooooooooooooooo they cant do it

  • 06.11.2008 12:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Wangman
lol, seems like this board are the only people that want it to stay

Its struggling, even with double exp its still dead


Actually, when I was on this morning there were well over a thousand players in RBTB, yet when I went into ranked team objectives, there were only about 230. Doesn't suggest dead to me.

Plus as I said before, RBTB is one of those categories that I've experienced least lag in. It is just those intitial points of "restarting search" over and over. I made the most of it today and did some chores while I was waiting. :D

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  • 06.11.2008 12:41 PM PDT
Subject: Cancel Ranked Big Team Battle and repace it with a new game....
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Im a sniper fan like many and I believe it would be most awesome if Bungie added a sniper playlist like in Halo 2. Come on Bungie!!! SNIPER PLAYLIST, SNIPER PLAYLIST!!!!!

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  • 06.11.2008 12:46 PM PDT
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Not instead of RBTB though, I despise snipers...with a vengance...

  • 06.11.2008 12:49 PM PDT
Subject: Cancel Watch: Ranked Big Team Battle

Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

long live RBTB!

  • 06.11.2008 12:49 PM PDT
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It's inappropriate to fight someone else's battle, when yours is not going well.

I'm gonna be getting a 3 month subscription in July. I really hope it'll still be here then.

I love RBTM. Great, epic plays.

A darn shame it's even on the chopping block.

  • 06.11.2008 1:56 PM PDT

I tried to sign my signature here but the pen busted off in my screen.
:(

I think the problem with the Ranked Big Team Battle population creates the best argument yet for the addition of bots in future Halo games. Bot use could be a pregame option and limited to large maps for filling out 16 player games and perhaps even certain gametypes to keep the A.I. development to a minimun. You could also let players do some thinking for them by giving simple orders like attack, defend, follow, etc... I think Unreal has a similar setup. Bungie, please consider! I beg you!

  • 06.11.2008 3:01 PM PDT
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i love this game because it just makes you win medals and be more social and it has pretty cool games

  • 06.11.2008 3:09 PM PDT

chea

i want to love rbtb so much
just the lag sometimes is so incredible i go to the smallest party possible and refuse to play it for awhile
its not your fault bungie, just your communities

  • 06.11.2008 4:25 PM PDT
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I hope it lives!!!!!!! im scared =O

  • 06.11.2008 8:43 PM PDT
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Ando perdido!

I love rbtb. Best Halo stories come from it. But with the new restrictions taken off we've found games and we always win. Now I'm a 31. Once again -blam!- impossible to find a game. Would you guys hurry up and level up.

  • 06.11.2008 8:53 PM PDT
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Ando perdido!

I agree with you. Valhalla and Sandtrap. It just a question of whether or not it'll be Covies. All these new weapon and maps and Covies is the different variant they can think of on Sandtrap and Valhalla.

  • 06.11.2008 8:57 PM PDT
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This playlist can simply be save by :
1. NO LAG (Yes, that means u haz 2 g3t n3w intarwebzz!!!1)
2. Remove Covies completely, it is fustrating.

LET RBTB LIVE AND CARRY ITS FIRE

  • 06.11.2008 9:05 PM PDT

Nooooo, I love Big Team battles on Ranked. D:

  • 06.11.2008 10:38 PM PDT

~Semper Fi~

RBTB = the shyt........if it weren't for all the freaking lag. When I spend more time in black screen than I do actually playing the game, thats a big big problem. Even when everyone is green bar, there still seems to be lag inherent in the game. Unless you can fix that this playlist is sunk.

  • 06.12.2008 9:34 AM PDT
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Halo 3

"You don't have to win, but you MUST play the game"

I like to play RBTB. The only way you would get more people to play RBTB is if it were strictly slayer. Then you would make RBTB Objective play list as well to capture more players.

The only way I would be happy if RBTB would go is if Bungie put in Ranked Team Snipers.

  • 06.12.2008 11:10 AM PDT

Sxft12 has the right idea with the bots, although that'd be a huge change

How 'bout it, Bungie? Would multiplayer AI be more of a performance hit than no party restrictions when the objective (hee hee) is 16 folks running around in a single game? Seems like you guys must have done some thinking about this and decided the benefit wasn't worth the cost.

Personally, I fondly remember the days back when Rare rocked the casbah and Perfect Dark included bots with customizable personalities on the unnetworkable N64. And before anyone accuses me of having no friends for online, I did. It was called college "dormnet." Then I graduated, like most of us do. Mark my words, youngsters, you'll be hoping for synthetic opponents someday too.

  • 06.12.2008 11:32 AM PDT

Sad news for me. RBTB seems that it won't be taken down. This is bad. The playlist needs an overhall, not just how it match makes. Game types, Maps, Percentage of occurence, everything needs to be changed.

*Refuses to play Ranked Big Team Battle for the month of June*

GO PLAY SOCIAL BIG TEAM BATTLE!!!

  • 06.12.2008 2:59 PM PDT
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rockets is way better by the way i think bungi should add remote controlled doors in halo 3

  • 06.12.2008 4:05 PM PDT