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Subject: June Matchmaking Update - Invasion updated!! :D

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June Matchmaking Playlist Update

Next Tuesday, amidst the craziness of E3, June's matchmaking update is slated to quietly roll out. While you'll probably be busy soaking in all of the Halo 4-related goodness, at some point you're going to pop your Reach disc in and notice things are slightly different. To make sure you're adequately prepared for that moment, here are the specifics of your next Halo: Reach matchmaking playlist update.


Invasion updated.

Some people prefer Invasion over Infection (less itching and red bumps, or so I've heard), and those people in particular will love what June is bringing to the table. The Invasion default game type was added, as were the following maps: Refinery, Overgrowth, Broadcast, and Floodgate. This playlist was also reduced from 4-player to 2-player split screen to help improve overall performance.

To get a sneak peek at what you'll soon be playing, check out the following video, which was kindly put together by the fine folks over at Halo Wheelmen (thank you, Luv Gunn!). Get pumped for the Invasion update and Halo 4, all in the same video!

(See below for video)


SWAT updated.

The map Temple was added to SWAT. The voting options were also reorganized to have "SWAT" in slot 1, "SWAT Magnums" in slot 2, and a SWAT objective variant in slot 3. Less important is the change from a one-headshot kill to a ten-headshot kill.

Okay, that last part was a lie. But the rest was totally true. Honest.


Grifball updated.

Two new maps, Federation Square and Illuminati, were added to Grifball, and Hyperbaric was updated to fix the health pack glitch. A credit stimulus based on win-scaling was also implemented. Basically, that's a fancy way of saying victorious teams will receive double the normal win bonus. It's also a nice way of saying STOP STAT-PADDING. (Mike paid me to say that. Speaking of which, time to pay up, buddy.)


FF Limited NEP waves adjusted.

Firefight Limited NEP waves were adjusted as follows:

- Round 1, Main Wave: Elite Tactical replaced Brute Chieftains.
- Round 1, Boss Wave: Brute Chieftains replaced Elites.
- Round 2, Main Wave: Brute Infantry replaced Heretic Snipers.
- Round 2, Boss Wave: Elite Strike Team replaced Brute Infantry.
- Round 2, Boss Wave: Brute Kill Geam replaced Hunter Kill Team.
- Round 3, Main Wave: Elite Patrol replaced Heretic Heavy.
- Round 3, Boss Wave: Brute Chieftains Elite Spec Ops.


Various maps updated.

Four maps were updated this month. Specifics are as follows:


- Prisoner: Spawn zone fixed on Classic variant.
- Cragmire: Gauss 'Hog bug fixed.
- Synapse: Carney holes fixed.
- Select: Retired.


Living Dead updated.

Zombie Ghosts, a brand new game type made by a rather sadistic fellow named Thomas, was added to Living Dead. From the creator himself:

"Zombie Ghosts is, simply put, a small modification of Infection's Alpha Zombies game type - and by small, I mean that the Infected are now invisible and on fire. These avatars of fiery hugs wield the mighty Golf Club as they bring joy to the hearts of all around them. Unfortunately for them, however, Spartans are interested in neither golf nor invisible, fiery hugs, and sport the powerful Focus Rifle of Infected Slaying (tm) to deter such actions."

The raw details:


- Based on Alpha Zombies, so starting ghosts get infinite Sprint to make things just a little easier.
- Infected are now invisible and on fire.
- Infected use the Golf Club, which is a variant of the Gravity Hammer.
- Spartans use the Focus Rifle and have the Plasma Repeater as an emergency back-up weapon, as everyone knows that energy weapons (and punches to the face) are the only way to deal with uppity ghosts.
- Damage and toughness have been extensively tweaked for both Spartans and Infected to balance the play experience.
- Friendly fire has been turned OFF for this game type, as having a horde of Infected running around with golf clubs would be ridiculous otherwise...

Ridiculous indeed. (Insert discreet cough here.)

Halo:Reach - June Invasion Map Pack Trailer

Thoughts?


[Edited on 05.31.2012 9:18 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2012 9:14 AM PDT
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My thought: How many people will make this thread? I believe this is three

OT: Yes, I am liking the June update

  • 05.31.2012 9:16 AM PDT

It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.

  • 05.31.2012 9:18 AM PDT

Every single pummel I have is unboosted.
I play GGL. (Grifball)
I hit inheritor 14/1/12. 16 months after release. I have a life fellas.
Every single killionaire I have is unboosted. 22 from grifball, 4 from LD.

Quit kissing Bookshelf's ass.
Federation Square is my Grifball teams home map tyvm.
Grifball:
Symettrical.
Everybody has the same weapons.
Everybody has one objective. Plant the bomb. Simple.

  • 05.31.2012 9:30 AM PDT

Ohai, I'm Loscocco (pronounced Loss-cocoa). I'm a college student (computer science major), 3D animator, and long-time Halo player.


Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.



You forgot how they leave us without things like bleedthrough, Squad Slayer, and evade so at least they have the courtesy to screw us over when they're thinking of us. It's great to know that when half of the remaining community likes TU and half likes vanilla, they will make two separate playlists, but nerf the TU so it plays more like vanilla first.

Also, exactly why does Griffball need new maps if they're all just square boxes with different aesthetics? (aside from the one or two weird ones that they add that are giant cylinders instead)

[Edited on 05.31.2012 9:46 AM PDT]

  • 05.31.2012 9:45 AM PDT

Planking : Parkour for people who don't move very fast.


Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.


Indeed. How dare they update a playlist that has hardly been touched since day one. Silly bastards, trying to please everyone at once.

  • 05.31.2012 9:47 AM PDT

lol way too late for an Invasion update. SWAT, Grifball and lolLivingDead getting updated as usual no surprise there.

  • 05.31.2012 10:08 AM PDT

Infection sound fun, so does Invasion.thanks 343.

  • 05.31.2012 10:34 AM PDT

Arbitor they outnumber us three to one!
Then it is an even fight.

Arbitor > Arbiter.
Arbitor = Rank above Arbiter.

A big thanks to kids that did this to 343 after they heard they get an infection game mode in halo 4 with no thought of normal playlists.

Looks like a good update to me.

  • 05.31.2012 10:35 AM PDT
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Your 'beliefs' mean less than dick to me.

Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.


Didn't SS and arena get new maps last month?

Either way most of the community maps are garbage and should be removed. Keep Synapse and Enclosed, that's it.

  • 05.31.2012 10:41 AM PDT

Planking : Parkour for people who don't move very fast.


Posted by: MrR46
Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.


Didn't SS and arena get new maps last month?

Either way most of the community maps are garbage and should be removed. Keep Synapse and Enclosed, that's it.


Arena, SS, and TS got new maps. Team Objective and SS both had their voting options tweaked. TO had the 'incentive to win' bonus added.

But hey, I suppose that's nothing.

  • 05.31.2012 10:49 AM PDT

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Aren't all Grifball maps identical anyway, why waste time/effort on that? "OMG GUYS, THIS ONE IS MORE SQUARE THAN THE LAST ONE"

Also, lol at Select being removed, too competitive for 343i I suppose.

  • 05.31.2012 10:50 AM PDT

Planking : Parkour for people who don't move very fast.


Posted by: ICanHasRofl
Aren't all Grifball maps identical anyway, why waste time/effort on that? "OMG GUYS, THIS ONE IS MORE SQUARE THAN THE LAST ONE"


I'll keep that in mind the next time I am browsing files and see
"Octagon v6

  • 05.31.2012 11:07 AM PDT

Could care less about the Invasion update considerin gI rarely play it. What matters to me as a Super Slayer, Doubles, and Arena player is that they're removing Select for no reason at all.

  • 05.31.2012 11:13 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Less important is the change from a one-headshot kill to a ten-headshot kill.RAAAAAGH! WHY?!?!?

Okay, that last part was a lie. But the rest was totally true. Honest.Oh, ok.

Select: retired.:D :D :D :D :D :D
It sounds very good so far.

  • 05.31.2012 11:15 AM PDT


Posted by: WulfwoodsSins
TO had the 'incentive to win' bonus added.
OH YEAH MORE CREDITS YEAH WOOOOOOOOO

  • 05.31.2012 11:15 AM PDT


Posted by: boomdeyadah


I know right?!

  • 05.31.2012 11:46 AM PDT

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Don't really see a need to update grifball. Invasion, well, new maps could be fun, so we'll see how it plays out. I would have liked it if they put more weight for dlc maps in Living dead (like a player with all the dlc would experience longer search times in the hopes they would matchmake with others with the dlc as well).

  • 05.31.2012 11:57 AM PDT

Posted by: ღMidnight Hawk2ღ
Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion.


I'm part of the Bungie.net Minecraft group/server called SeptaCrafters
We're a Bungie.net group that goes to our very own Bungie server. Most players are from the Halo community either off Bungie itself or through word to Halo friends.

Grifball update is a joke. You still win even if you do stat pad.

  • 05.31.2012 12:15 PM PDT
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The 343 forums suck. They're full of retarded kids and mods who got butthurt in the B.net forums for being told that they're bad.


Posted by: WulfwoodsSins

Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.


Indeed. How dare they update a playlist that has hardly been touched since day one. Silly bastards, trying to please everyone at once.


So many things wrong with this "rebuttal".

Super Slayer is the "equivalent" to Squad Slayer, many people's favorite playlist. Team Objective is the only 4v4 objective playlist and many people DO play it. Also, fuggin Arena is the only ranked playlist.

Those playlists are definitely not "hardly being touched". And even if they were, why not try to improve them so that they DO get touched?

Dumbass.

  • 05.31.2012 12:16 PM PDT
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The 343 forums suck. They're full of retarded kids and mods who got butthurt in the B.net forums for being told that they're bad.

Also, this update is worse than useless. Invasion maps look terrible. SWAT needs no update. Grifball needs no update either, and this "incentive to win" is only going to increase stat-padders' rewards for padding.

  • 05.31.2012 12:20 PM PDT


Posted by: WulfwoodsSins
Arena, SS, and TS got new maps. Team Objective and SS both had their voting options tweaked. TO had the 'incentive to win' bonus added.

But hey, I suppose that's nothing.


That 'win bonus' only encourages people who HTO now. Moreover, Team Objective only has about 5 maps in it between Sword Base, Countdown, Zealot, Asylum, and Reflection.

I am not taking away from their updating of Invasion, but seeing a little bit of love in terms of some variety in Team Objective would be a nice change.

I love Team Objective and having every match (on the same 5-6 maps) devolve into my team wanting to HTO simply so they can pad their stats, then get rewarded by the broken 'win incentive' gets old fast.

[Edited on 05.31.2012 12:31 PM PDT]

  • 05.31.2012 12:30 PM PDT

Select: Retired.

Lol.

  • 05.31.2012 12:30 PM PDT

Two makes there more than speakers.

Why is -blam!-ball still getting updated?

Select: Retired.That pissed me off.

[Edited on 05.31.2012 12:48 PM PDT]

  • 05.31.2012 12:47 PM PDT

Planking : Parkour for people who don't move very fast.


Posted by: B Rye

Posted by: WulfwoodsSins

Posted by: An average gamer
It's funny they continue to update the most uncompetitive of lists while not adding new maps to Team Objective, Arena, or Super Slayer.

Thanks for the lack of care to the more competitive crowds, 343.


Indeed. How dare they update a playlist that has hardly been touched since day one. Silly bastards, trying to please everyone at once.


So many things wrong with this "rebuttal".

Super Slayer is the "equivalent" to Squad Slayer, many people's favorite playlist. Team Objective is the only 4v4 objective playlist and many people DO play it. Also, fuggin Arena is the only ranked playlist.

Those playlists are definitely not "hardly being touched". And even if they were, why not try to improve them so that they DO get touched?

Dumbass.


I was specifically talking about Invasion, with a hint of sarcasm. Not to mention all the stuff that mentioned as not being "paid attention to" got an update last month.

Dumbass.

  • 05.31.2012 1:28 PM PDT

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