Halo 4 Scores New Multiplayer Game Type Next Week

[Rooster Cogburn]

Hey, woooooh...

I'm gonna start by saying that I really like SWAT, it was my most played game type, and I am the least similar person to what youve just described there, and even given my experience with that mode I'm completely unaware of what youre talking about.
Yes, I dont talk to people other than my friends on Halo, but I cant actually recall any time anybody did speak on SWAT. Ive never received any messages, nothing. Ive had no bad, nor good, experiences with that little slice of that community.

I dont see how Halo doesnt have "good twitch gameplay". Ive played most FPSs, and I'm not a fan of the genre, however I do enjoy SWAT. Maybe Ive just somehow missed those particular games that do it better, but the only game that comes to mind with that kind of gameplay is Rainbow Six: Vegas, which i did like, but not as much as Halo.

Not that this really concerns me considering I'm completely avoiding Halo 4, i just thought what you two were saying was just a little unfair.

Basically if you're not a dick what I'm saying doesn't apply to you lol.

I like SWAT too. But Halo has always focused on the tactical side of things. That's one of the big things that distinguished Halo: CE from other shooters in 2001. The super fast twitchy gameplay that PC shooters offered didn't translate well to the console controller, so they toned it down a little and made it more about creating an interesting challenge that required picking the right tool for the job, balancing risk-reward, and responding to the changing situation. There are faster, twitchier games if you want something that focuses on that.

I like SWAT too, but if you want to be an elitist dick about ONLY playing the twitchiest possible game, and calling everyone who doesn't a scrub, you ought to at least find the proper venue. ->

No offense intended.

 

[RadioactiveMicrobe]

Well, I really enjoyed SWAT in Halo 3 and Reach.

Granted, I graced the semi-pro lands for a bit, but screw those guys. They were all dicks, so I got out of that. (That's beside the point)

I liked SWAT probably because I was insanely good at it, and was my go-to playlist when I just wanted to go 30-2 for a couple games. But I'm not one of those OMG MLG types by any stretch.

 

[Robot Number V]

People... Like SWAT mode? I knew it was popular, but Ididn't realise real people actually liked it.

Um. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the biggest fan of SWAT either, but...What exactly do you think "popular" means?

Anyway, that's great and all, but what about Lone Wolves(And all the game types that entails), Team Doubles, Team Swords (or whatever it was called) Griffball....And that's all I got. Seriously though, Halo 3 had metric shit-tons of gametypes.

 

[xPixelatedx]

Great... now give us firefight so the actual fun can begin! Seriously, I can't even imagine how this game was let out the doors without that gametype.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

People... Like SWAT mode? I knew it was popular, but I didn't realise real people actually liked it.

Um. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the biggest fan of SWAT either, but...What exactly do you think "popular" means?

Well, okay... What I was getting at was that I could always clearly see high numbers of people playing in the SWAT playlist, but I could never imagine actually meeting someone who enjoyed it nor could I even guess at what they found appealing about it.

Spoiler: In other words:

Anyway, that's great and all, but what about Lone Wolves(And all the game types that entails), Team Doubles, Team Swords (or whatever it was called) Griffball....And that's all I got. Seriously though, Halo 3 had metric shit-tons of gametypes.

I heard that they added Griffball as a gametype all of its own, just like they did with Infection in Halo 3. I don't know if that means it actually has a playlist, though (I also don't know whether you own the game or not, so if you already know more than I do feel free to ignore me).

 

[ZehMadScientist]

SWAT huh? Meh, it was ok, but there were too many '1337 omgz NoScopes' types there.

I'm all for the 'villain of the week' gametype rotation though Reminds me of those double XP weekends that were there more often than not.

 

[silverbullet1989]

wake me up when griffball is back in proper match making rotation =/

 

[Sonic Doctor]

343 continues with their derp de derp handling of the multiplayer.

There is absolutely no reason for game types like SWAT to be on a rotation.

Put them up to be played and leave them there. I want to fire up my 360 to play the game type I want to play, when I want to play it. I do not want to have to pay attention to some stupid rotation to find out when I will be able to play the game I want to play.

343 has shown with Halo 4 that it doesn't understand what made Halo multiplayer what it was and why it was popular without having to be like all the other shooters.

The only thing they did right with the multiplayer is make capture the flag its own game type instead of stuffing it and other objective style games into the Big Team game type. Basically, they did the one thing I wanted Bungie to do when they did the multiplayer.

The only reason I played Big Team was to play slayer matches with the max amount of players. Which at times was hard to do, because for some "unexplained" reason in the Reach multiplayer, every time we got a list of all slayer games in Big Team, that was when we got the stupid load error that brought up a new list, which usually would have mostly CTF games, and of course that is what the numb-nuts I got loaded up with wanted to play.

Oh good! I was missing SWAT terribly.

I miss team snipers as well, but considering there are really only two maps that are good for such a game, 343 will have to really work on making good sniper maps for upcoming map packs.

Well, okay... What I was getting at was that I could always clearly see high numbers of people playing in the SWAT playlist, but I could never imagine actually meeting someone who enjoyed it nor could I even guess at what they found appealing about it.

*raises hand and waves*

Hi, how you doing? I'm Sonic Doctor and I like SWAT.

Now you've met someone that likes it. I like it because it lets me hone my head-shot skills, and I get to see a quick kill instead of dancing around.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Great... now give us firefight so the actual fun can begin! Seriously, I can't even imagine how this game was let out the doors without that gametype.

Spartan OPs that is why.

I felt iffy about Halo 4 when I heard that there was no firefight mode, but after playing the Spartan OPs mission and having the knowledge that there will be at least 45 more missions to come, I got over not having firefight.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

I hope they're not in regular rotations. I don't want to be shoved into a gametype I don't bloody like.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I hope they're not in regular rotations. I don't want to be shoved into a gametype I don't bloody like.

If it is done right, such things like SWAT will have their own section like how they gave Capture the Flag its own section(thank God).

So basically, such a thing shouldn't effect you unless you actually choose that game type form the War Games menu to play it.

But since this is 343 we are talking about, they are going to screw something up.