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(Please?)
Me.
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The March update, as spawn031 said, outlined this:
Posted by: 343 Industries
-Grifball updated
-Infection updated
-Evade removed from Spartan loadout - IN ALL PLAYLISTS (excluding Grifball)
-Anniversary Squad and Squad Slayer removed
-Super Slayer playlist added
-Bleedthrough is removed from TU gametypes
-Team Hotshot updated
-Team Objective goes to 5v5
-BTB finally gets "Heavies" added to playlist.
What is the good in this?:
The good in this update is that Team Objective will bring more players in with 5 people. This proves good so this way, it brings in those who like Objective games and so they can get off of other playlists to play a fun game of Objective. I, personally, don't play Objective, so this could actually be a bad thing.
BTB will get a new spice of life. A new "Heavies playlist which is, for those who don't know,:
Posted by: 343 Industries
Heavies, for the uninitiated amongst us, is a game type perfect for those who love vehicular action. Not only are there more Warthogs, Scorpions, Banshees, Falcons, Revenants, and Ghosts than you could ever ask for, but there are also a higher-than-average amount of power and anti-vehicle weapons, just waiting to cause mass destruction.
We have also taken some steps to give foot soldiers a better experience; slight changes to geometry provide more cover, speed has been upped to 110 percent (which is not a huge difference but it's enough to make you slightly more resistant to the impending chaos going on around you), and many standard Infantry kills are rewarded with a bonus point.
This game type has a score limit of 200 with bonus points awarded for headshots, beat downs, assassinations, splatters, and sticks.
This playlist is a massacre of vehices, along with lots of resistance. Which is what Halo is about. Halo promotes fun gameplay, which brings me to the bad things in the March update.
What is the bad in this?:
There are multiple steps down from this update, which proves 343 is very new and tends to listen to casuals. I do not believe they check other forums for feedback, as people can not all go onto Waypoint forums.
Squad Slayer and Anniversary Slayer, the two gametypes where the TU is implemented right and bring out your competitive side of gameplay, are being removed no reason. 343 gives no reason to tell us why, and they just go on and think everybody is all puppies and children with the removal. News flash 343: WE AREN'T. The two most fun gametypes are being removed and being replaced with a replica of Team Slayer, which is a whole different playlist from the two. With better maps and forcing players to have superior coordination, it gave a ray of hope to the once-forsaken darkness that is Halo: Reach. But now that it is being removed, Halo: Reach becomes a nuclear wasteland full of nothingness.
Super Slayer will NOT help gameplay. 343 has tried playlists like this before, and failed. No doubt that only 400-600 players will play this playlist. Squad had triple that, and Anniversary double that. 343 will not even try to spice it up on this playlist, just take Team Slayer, put TU on it, then call it a whole new gaming experience. 343 probably wouldn't see a gaming experience if they saw one.
BLEEDTHROUGH IS BEING REMOVED. Why? You take a perfectly good feature, that is working well, and crush it because the idiots on your forum are casuals, and do not even TRY to have a competitive experience. We will have to revert to the lesser skilled PUMMEL plus PUMMEL equals KILL experience, instead of the better man giving a 3-4 SHOT AT BODY plus PUMMEL equals KILL experience. "Why is that bad?" you ask. It is bad because even though Reach's sandbox was not designed for Bleedthrough, it gave a challenge to the player before they entered a CQC fight. Should I try the first equation or the second? It hurts the game very, very badly.
Evade is being removed. This will force you to only one loadout if you want to move from place to place: Sprint. But Sprint only helps you in a run situation. Evade was good for any situation, except a tank of course, and did not deserve to be removed. What was bad about it? You tell me.
So is there anything that doesn't matter in the update?
The Team Hotshot and Infection/Grifball updates will just update maps, and Team Hotshot will give you flames when you have Heat 3/3.
As you can see, the bad outweighs the good. 343 does not listen to anyone but their forums. What we need to do, is rise up at their forums. All those who are banned, make another account. Give them a "spirited discussion" about their update. About 7/8 of the people here do not agree with the update. So why not go to their forums, put in a post that is totally legit and not offensive against 343, but against the update, and maul their forums? A burst of activity will surely spark their interest. The few mods there will not be able to handle the ENTIRE REACH FORUM saying why they don't like it. Let's show them who to listen to.
TL:DR
Let's all go to 343 forums and tell them why we don't like the March update. If you want to know why, read the post.
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[Edited on 03.02.2012 3:48 PM PST]