Where is Big Team Battle

[julianpd83]

I just read the article in the new Game Informer on halo 4 and the creative director Josh Holmes claims that Big Team Battle has never been that popular. Where does this guy get this crap how can he tell us that its not popular when its one of the complaints in the forums this guy is crazy we love btb bring it back please for the love of god. 343 if you're not gonna make the game we want then stop making it altogether because Bungie did a hell of a job with the matchmaking why cant 343 just follow the blueprints thats been laid out for them instead of ruining what could have been a perfect game.

 

Josh Holmes you have no business to speak for what the fans of Halo wants

[lilsilmarillion]

I love big team battle, but we are just part of the vast players of Galo...we dobt know uf everyone likes it as much as us.

[Caboose The Ace]

i hated big team battle so this works becase like my favrite reach gamtype was ctf so i could rarley play it now i can do it when ever i want my favrite halo 4 is domtion thought now

[fzdw11]

Looking at this without bias, I can understand where Holmes was coming from with saying BTB wasn't popular. Not that the gametype itself wasn't popular, but rather the selection of games within it were not popular. It was a rare occurance when a gametype other than BTB Slayer or BTB Heavies was chosen, so to counter that, they simply made BTB Infinity Slayer, 8v8 Slayer all the time. In essense, his statement is correct, that BTB itself was not popular, and looking at what was chosen 95% of the time, they did do what they thought the fans wanted. *shrug* Just my opinion, though.

[Caboose The Ace]

fzdw11 you are so right it was rare u would play a game in btb that wasent btb slayer withch is why seaprate playists is better

[julianpd83]

if thats the case ctf should be 8v8 instead of 5v5 and many people did play btb ctf its nice to have a change of pace instead of the same slayer games all day its called variety

[fzdw11]

if thats the case ctf should be 8v8 instead of 5v5 and many people did play btb ctf its nice to have a change of pace instead of the same slayer games all day its called variety

 

Oh I don't disagree with you at all, to be honest. I wish the CTF playlist was 8v8, rather than 5v5. I also wish they had an assault game type.

 

As far as "a lot of people did play btb ctf" - 9 out of 10 times it was chosen in the Reach playlist, it was because the other team was a full team of 8 and of those games, they would capture the flag once and then sit back and just try to improve K/D. That's the way it was with any objective type game in Reach for BTB. It was a rare occurance that CTF was chosen when there wasn't a full team or an extremely large party on the other side, in my personal experience.

 

I personally wish they would bring back a more traditional BTB myself, because I love playing an 8v8 capture the flag game, personally, and when it was chosen not by a full team, those were some of the best games I've played.

 

My experience with Halo 4 CTF is limited, but from what I played, I was not very pleased. The very first game started off uneven, which I can accept with the new JIP system in place. It started off 5 v 3, with my team being the 3. Thankfully we were a party, so we were able to coordinate. And you know what happened? They rushed 5 people at the flag, and we defended it for about 3 minutes before another 2 members joined us, and the other team didn't get the flag once. Once we had our other members, I went and captured the flag 3 times in a row, and went on a streak of 9 in that time period before they finally took me down right before my 4th capture. My team captured it, and all of the sudden we were up 4 scores to 0 with a ton of time left in the game. I'm talking like 6 - 7 minutes left. It was no contest once we had the other 2 members join our team. To me that is not fun. There was no challenge to it.

[Erico Pollinese]

tldr

 

343 BRING BACK OBJECTIVE BASED BIG TEAM ALSO MAKE SOME FLOOD BIG TEAM WITH COMMUNITY MAPS HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT **** BE

[Reptile]

Uh. This confuses me. I mean, sure, we can't call it BTB anymore, bet lets face it; the core version of it is still there, even if some of the best parts are gone. Just my opinion.

[HappehNinja]

Not that I dislike big team battle, but people prefer to play mainstream team slayer rather than big team battle or anything else. I mean, team slayer is fun and all, but it wouldn't hurt anyone to try something different.

[Halo Pony]

I'm not really a Big Team Battle type of person so I kind of understand why he is saying it is not "popular" and it wouldn't hurt anybody other than the people that play Big Team Battle to do something maybe a little different.

[HappehNinja]

I did it's removal unnecessary, since it's a good game type to grab vehicles and other types of strategies that one doesn't usually pick on regular team slayer.

[Noxus]

I did it's removal unnecessary, since it's a good game type to grab vehicles and other types of strategies that one doesn't usually pick on regular team slayer.

 

I agree. It offered what Team Slayer or Regicide couldn't, big maps and more vehicle use. But as stated above, it did lack gametypes other than Slayer so I do kinda see why it was removed. Let's face it, people don't ALWAYS wanna play Slayer in a BTB game. Imagine an 8 v. 8 Dominion game or if they put CTF in. That would've made it at least somewhat more attractive.

[HappehNinja]

I agree. It offered what Team Slayer or Regicide couldn't, big maps and more vehicle use. But as stated above, it did lack gametypes other than Slayer so I do kinda see why it was removed. Let's face it, people don't ALWAYS wanna play Slayer in a BTB game. Imagine an 8 v. 8 Dominion game or if they put CTF in. That would've made it at least somewhat more attractive.

 

Indeed. Dominion and CtF puts a twist to it, making it have a more appealing objective rather than straight up killing. Although, I don't like how people betray you just to steal the flag...