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Wow, never would have expected this from Gamesbeat, I think they just gave it a 8/10 review. Really cool and well deserved. 343 absolutely delivered and the game is amazing all around
It came down to Halo infinite vs Metroid Dread and if it were just Grubb or Mike choosing the thing it would have been Metroid, but Dean put Halo as his first and and Rachel agreed to it, and surprisingly enough both Jeff and Mike were ultimately fine with Halo being at the top over Metroid Dread. Metroid dreads excessive linearity and lack of good music dropped a few points and the issues with Halo infinite they personally didnât have as much of a problem with like the open world being empty and the cosmetics related stuff on the MP front.
They said how it was unimaginable at the start of the last year that Halo would be anywhere close to being their GOTY yet there it was. Jeff gave it 5/5 and its Mikeâs favorite shooter campaign since Titanfall 2 and his current default multiplayer shooter.
It was ultimately a lot of committee selection lol cuz all of em had different games they wanted at the top. Hitman 3 was Jeffâs GOTY but Rachel wasnât even considering that for top 10 
Dean loved CoD Vanguard and age of empires 4, yet others hadnât played it, same with Mike choosing FF14 and no one else having played that, just had to go along with strong arguments from these people so as to why said games deserved said spots on the list.
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I definitely feel like the ranked player has been left out in the rain. Only 6 maps. And one mode.
Content wise for multiplayer in its entirety the thing thatâs hurt the worst is not having forge. If the could have had 3-5 dev made forge maps in on launch it would have saved them from content perspective.
I also want to see more out of 343 in terms of communication. Donât see much going on there.
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They will get back to it, holidays are finishing .
No this is in general the map feeling for me to even in social. 6 maps and 2 of them are ass like Behemoth and Launch Site.
Unless they have 5 maps just sitting in the backlog its not something fixed once everyone comes back from vacations.
Not talking about maps added, but them communicating again.
General question: what makes a good map, or in this case, why do you feel these maps are bad? Do you lose more often on these maps and perform worse or what is it you consider bad?
Behemoth is too big and Launch Site is just useful only on 1 flag due to its layout.
Anyway the quantity of maps is an issue.
7 maps for unranked, only 6 for ranked. Thereâs like 5 playlists for unranked. Only one for ranked. Ya unranked definitely has a good amount of more content/variety.
Behemoth is fine and not too big. The problem is the spawns and ctf. Its fine for slayer.
Launch site is the one thatâs too big, itâs 8v8 map I think.
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Not even talking game modes which I agree is skewed towards social but the map count overall is meh.
Halo 3, 4, reach and 5 each had their first map Pack with 3+ maps release 2-3 months after release.
I would count from multiplayer release on November 15th. Going off history we should get about 3 maps between mid January and mid February.
Hope so cause its the most glaring need imo
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I wonder if they will sort of regret making Halo MP free to play.
Itâs not really performing like F2P title on PC. I think the performance would of still been the same on Xbox if it was a premium product, probably leverage gamepass better by doing so.
Wouldnât have to deal with the growing pains of 343 trying to manage the live service model, etc etc.
Or maybe my concerns will be for nothing after a year or 2 once the game is actually complete, who knows lol.
Eh I still think the move to f2p is fine cause the whole multiplayer landscape has changed. Think we will find out more this year once you know⌠the game is complete.
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Every single MP match I play in, even BotMatches and Tengrai Event, has at least 2 players on my team that have spent money on Cosmetics or the BattlePass. Theyâre not regretting making it F2P.
yep
Very true