Will they drop maps? 
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Good to see the studio is back in full swing and starting to tackle some of the issues the game is having.
maps are overrated, add one or two great ones a year and Iām happy. ācontentā is to keep casual fans engaged, the hardcore base stays if your fundamentals are perfect. heck I can play overwatch on the same three maps for a month straight and be fine
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I just want some casual modes like griftball, infection, Warzone. Also thought breakout in halo 5 was dope
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Lol maps overrated? Only 5 maps in ranked, we are down one map since launch.
In overwatch it isnāt as big of a deal because of the variety to the gameplay. Tons of different characters, all with different gameplay interacting with each other.
Halo is an arena based shooter and itās maps offer the most variety to the gameplay. The only variables to the gameplay are the couple guns worth picking up on the map, and the equipment. Map count is extremely low compared to other haloās in ranked at least. It needs content and thatās a fact. Otherwise it will fall to the side on the most played chart. The amount of actual content for multiplayer is the lowest at launch since halo 2. Even halo 5 had more content, and that game fell to the side despite having good gameplay.
5 maps and 1 playlist for ranked feelās like 1/4th the content in any halo launch ever. I would be fine with 6-8 maps if we also had ranked slayer and ranked doubles. The lack of playlists exasperates the map issue. No forge, no warzone, no Spartan ops, no firefight No co-op campaign donāt help either.
Look I love this game and have already played 492 matches. But that doesnāt mean the team canāt do better.
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Lack of content is why itās slipped so hard on steam. And why itās starting to fall behind some games on the Xbox most played chart in various countries. Even in halos strongest region, the US it should be top 3 imo, but itās what 5-6?
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Halo is no longer the juggernaut it used to be. No shooter could touch it in the h3 days not even cod, now thereās intense competition in the f2p space even ignoring codās dominion. It would have been even worse if infinite wasnāt f2p but yeah, itās time people moved on from Halo being as big as it once was, especially at the current stage of Haloās live service.
Halo also doesnāt have enough global presence so thereās an arbitrary ceiling on how big the game can get before needing to solve that issue.
Having 20 mill players since launch is nice but expected for a f2p halo, but legs and staying power matters, and that is only done with content and good progression systems, both of which the game lacks. Been saying since day 1 that just all progression being tied to the battle pass is bad and will not work but people had to see the evidence in real time to realise that I guess.
The one thing that could have circumvented this whole issue of lack of dev authored content would have been Forge, would have singlehandedly solved several issues with endless custom modes, maps, heck even a proto battle royale. But that thing is nowhere in sight, not even previews or demos or whatever so gotta wait. Iām gonna be returning to the game when they add forge and the warzone pve type experience followup. Forge will be holiday 2022 at the earliest and the big mode maybe a bit earlier, summer 2022 perhaps.
Thatās when the game shall get to a decent take off point imo. It has no staying power with the casuals until then.
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So when are they gonna buff the weapons in this sandbox? 70% of them are awful.
If things couldnāt get worse for the ranked player. Me and the boys played 25 matches tonight. Didnāt get bazzar (my favorite map) once. So I decided to check the game variants to see if 343 reduced the odds of it being playedā¦ā¦
Yep. They took bazzar slayer out. Now only about a 7-8% chance of getting it. Aquarius also now has reduced odds.
Which means in ranked thereās a 75% chance you play on streets, live fire, and recharge. Essentially making you feel like thereās about 4 maps in the mode.
Holy shit the ranked player is getting shafted unbelievably hard.
PUT ALL THE MAPS IN RANKED.
Spoiler Warning, obviouslyā¦
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God damn
Competitive halo is fucking nuts.
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The namesplates and emblems are really boring. They kept the same cartoon/simplistic style from Halo 5.
Compare it with Halo MCC and especially Call of Duty or Warzone.
Thatās strange because they probably intend to monetize those but it looks so bland and low-effort that it doesnāt incentive to spend money on it.
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Man the grapplshot myth at 10:50 is so awesome
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Has anyone seen the latest leaked forge content? Live fire in rain looks good, hope they cycle the different biomes and weather into the playlists at somepoint.
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Live fire in what now?
Could you send link? 
The videos got deleted 
Forge stuff leaked today, you can even change the biome to snow for example. We definetely need more maps than cosmetics.
IMO they should have delayed for 4-6 months and say that they simply couldnāt deliver on the typical Halo November date, Halo 3 was released in September and its considered the best of the franchise.