- dukiduke
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I love it how everyone says that MLG people will whine and complain about the smallest faults in the game. The REAL people over at MLG (not the wannabe fan boys) are respectful, considerate, and thankful for what Bungie WILLINGLY does not only for MLG, but for the entire Halo community (see what I did there?). The interwebz would be a lot nicer if people stopped making stereotypes based off of a handful of rotten apples.
ALL of us expected Blackout to be a remake of H2 Lockout, and it was in many ways. Like people have stated before me, Bungie said that they would be changing a few things. Unfortunately, the things different about the map (Library window, the height and clear advantage BR tower has, awful spawns, no sight line from sniper ramp to BR 1 etc.) made the map less competitive and a lot less like the original Lockout. MLG decided, hesitantly, to not use Blackout in the circuit because of those reasons, not because it wasn't Lockout. In addition to that, if Bungie always gave MLG what it wanted, wouldn't they have released another Lockout remake by now? O_o
Now, we have seen many pictures of Heretic, and from the looks of it, it looks like Bungie has held up their promise to remake Midship. The following quote is taken from Destructoid's commentary on the three new Mythic Maps:
It's great to see Bungie listening to suggestions, as they mentioned the main reason for bringing "Midship" back as "Heretic" was fan service, and they seemed excited about being able to release it as close to a pixel for pixel reconstruction as possible.
Source here.
I would like to point out that Bungie made it as a "fan service", and also that they said that it is nearly an exact Midship replica. They never said that for Blackout. In addition, there is no mention whatsoever of MLG. But obviously, MLG will use this map if they deem it to be competitive. They will not automatically scrap the idea if it is not an exact remake; they will look at it as a (relatively) new map and make a decision.
Alright, there is my say to the people who went off-topic. Now on to the OT:
I remember when Midship default starts had Plasma Rifles and Grenades. The plasma grenade starts were fun, but I would like to have an option of plasma or frag start, just because. And the person who posted in front of me has the correct idea. Midship will probably be programmed to plasma grenades as the Map Default. Good Find.