Carnage for Couples!

Grab your best mate and jump into some Firefight Doubles Attack. It's live just in time for Valentine's Day. You bring the chocolates and we'll supply the endless shenanigans. You complete us.

Limited lives. Unlimited carnage.

In case you didn't notice, there's a new Firefight Playlist in town.



A more classic Firefight experience. Score as many points as you can but if you run out of lives it's game over.

Team Size: 4
Max Party Size: 4
Max Local Players: 2

Gametypes
FF Limited
Genny Limited
Crashsite LTD
Legendary LTD

Maps
Overlook
Courtyard
Waterfront
Corvette
Beachhead
Outpost
Glacier
Holdout

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Firefight Arcade is up and running. Go blow up some bad guys.

1 team of 4 takes on the crazy Firefight experience. Teams have unlimited lives as they play for 15 minutes.

Team Size: 2-4
Max Party Size: 4
Max Local Players: 2

• Fistfight: (Based on Rocketfight with weapon pickup enabled, Hammers and Sword starting weapons, added 200% Damage and Melee modifier, 2 each grenade count, Player Movement 120%, enable Grunt B-day, IWHBYD and Cowbell skulls, disabled dropship, 2X Overshields, Skirmisher Bonus Round, Loadout 5 is Hologram, 5 Second Respawn, added Heretics into Waves)
• Nadefight: (Based on Rocketfight with weapon pickup enabled, Grenade Launcher and Concussion Rifle starting weapons, added 150% Damage and Melee modifier, 4 each grenade count, enable Grunt B-Day, IWHBYD and Cowbell skulls, disabled dropship, 2X Overshields, Skirmisher Bonus Round, Added Evade for Armor Lock, and Hologram for Dropshield, 5 second respawn, add Heretics)
• Rocketfight (weapon pickup enabled, add: 150% Damage and Melee Modifier, 2 each grenade count, enable Grunt B-day, IWHBYD and Cowbell skulls, disable dropships, 2X Overshields, Grunt Bonus Round, Swapped out Armor Lock for Evade, Swapped out Drop Shield for Hologram, 5 second respawn, add Heretics)
• Sniperfight (weapon pickup enabled, add: 150% Damage and Melee Modifier, 2 each grenade count, enable Grunt B-day, IWHBYD and Cowbell skulls, disable dropships, 2X Overshields, Grunt Bonus Round, Added Sprint back in and Hologram, 5 second respawn, add Heretics)
• FRGFight (based on updated Rocketfight with Fuel Rod and Needler starts)
• Plasmafight (based on updated Rocketfight with Plasma Launcher and Needle Rifle starts, and 4x Plasma grenades)

Step inside for all the gory details.

As of right now, our matchmaking support team has deployed two major playlist additions, introducing Arena FFA and Community Slayer, the latter of which is completely comprised of some notable Forgetacular maps. They've also made other, more minor modifications, which we've lovingly listed below. Go nuts!

PLAYLISTS

Arena

• Added FFA Arena playlist, test your might in this 6-8 player Arena
• Added Unanchored map variant to all Arena playlists
• Players can now change their votes in Arena playlists

Community Slayer

• The first of several new community playlists
• Unaltered maps made by you, the Halo community
• Play and vote. Your voting data controls what rises into the ranks of official playlists!

Team Objective

• Cleaned up entries in the Team Objective playlist, we now offer the best of the best

MLG

• Maps updated to v2.1, this includes fixes to weapon spawn times

Team Slayer

• Adjusted weightings in response to voting data, default “Team Slayer” should now be available more often

MAPS

Asylum

• Added soft kill volumes to the rocks leading up to the ledge on the right side of the Red Base (AKA, Infection camping grounds)
• Adjusted the placement of the large rock on the outside ledge of Red Sniper spawn

The Cage

• Added soft kill volumes to some lower areas outside of the intended playable space

Anchor 9

• Modified the size and shape of the center hill object to better fit the area in KOTH games

Breakpoint

• Reduced the radius of the safe haven in the greenhouse

GAMETYPES

Big Team Slayer

• Now 100 to win!

Elite Slayer

• Modified loadouts, Armor Lock is now accompanied by a Plasma Rifle instead of a Needler

Rocket Race

• Motion Tracker is now Enabled
• Hud-widget for KPH is now in the bottom center

Powerups

• In gametypes built from the latest matchmaking variants, powerups should now function as they do in Forge
• You’ll need to save off the latest game variants from your temporary history to take advantage of this!

Details inside.

The second half of our October playlists just went live. Here's the rundown on what you can expect, shamelessly stolen from last Friday's Weekly Update.

October Playlist Updates: Part Deux


Playlists

• New Playlist: Team Snipers
• New Playlist: Living Dead
• Rumble Pit
  • Lineup rebalanced to offer more kill, less frill.
  • Removed Infection, Safe Havens, Race, Rally, Headhunter Pro
  • Removed “Classic” gametypes
• Team Slayer
  • Removed all Snipers gametypes
• Team SWAT
  • Added SWAT Magnums gametype
• Team Objective
  • Removed 1 Flag Classic
  • Removed Headhunter Pro
  • Removed the following gametypes from Hemorrhage due to the size of the map with only 8 players:
    •  Multiflag Classic
    •  1 Flag CTF
    •  1 Flag Pro
    •  1 Bomb Assault
  • Removed Oddball and Hot Potato from Boardwalk
• Multi Team
  • Removed SWAT
  • Removed Classic gametypes
  • Removed The Cage
  • Changed weighting for Rocket Race so it does not have a 100% chance to appear in Slot 3
• Big Team Battle
  • Removed Multiflag from Boneyard and Spire
• Invasion
  • This playlist now offers 3 voting options
• Firefight
  • Updated Firefight playlist gametypes to be a full set instead of 1 round. Adjusted skull progression.
  • Removed Friendly Fire
• Score Attack
  • Removed Crash Site
  • Added Mythic Score Attack
  • You can no longer pickup other weapons in Sniper Attack

Maps

• Zealot/Arena Zealot
  • Arena Zealot is now used for all Slayer gametypes
  • Players can no longer stand on the edge of the generators in space and crouch to shoot below the shield
• Asylum
  • Softkill zones added to the tops of the Sniper buildings
• Boneyard
  • Modified respawn zones for Slayer gametypes
• Hemorrhage
  • Modified respawn zones for both bases
  • Respawn timers for all Warthogs on Hemorrhage should now be 120 seconds

Gametypes

• CTF
  • All CTF gametypes should now have a player respawn of 10 seconds
  • All Classic CTF gametypes now feature Flag At Home To Score and Touch Return
  • Flag At Home To Score disabled for all non-Classic CTF gametypes
  • Modified Flag Return and Flag Reset times:
    • 1 Flag on Small maps use 10 second return and 30 second reset
    • All other CTF gametypes use 30 second return and 45 second reset
• Assault
  • Assault gametypes now have a player respawn time of 10 or 15 seconds depending on the map

In addition to the Playlist changes, we’re also introducing two new Forge Map Variants with this update, Cliffhanger and Atom. Atom will be on display in the Team Slayer, Team Snipers, Team Objective, Multi Team, and Big Team Battle Playlists. Cliffhanger will be found in Rumble Pit, Team Slayer, Team SWAT, and Team Objective.