What’s in store for February?
343 Industries are pushing out yet another Matchmaking Playlist update to Halo: Reach. They’ll also be taking your votes on whether you want the TU rules (changes that came in with the release of Halo: CE Anniversary) to the Team Slayer playlist. For the next two weeks you will only have two choices when voting on Team Slayer maps. One option will be the current Team Slayer and one will have TU rules. Make your vote count!
• Grifball updated.
Map changes include Radiant being removed and Impact Arena (Grifball) and Sierra Vista (Grifball Dash) being added. One additional change to this playlist is that Blargball variants will now appear in voting slot three only.
• Squad DLC updated.
Squad DLC’s population is dangerously low. To breathe some life into this list, we’re making a few changes. Anniversary maps have been set to optional, and Noble and Defiant maps continue to be required. We have also heard your concerns in regard to a few achievement-friendly game types still being difficult to find. In response to that, we’ve added objective game types to voting slot three.
• Rumble Pit updated to TU settings.
TU game types are our standard Reach Matchmaking settings with the Title Update changes. Those changes are: damage bleed enabled, modified reticle bloom, sword block removed, Armor Lock modified, and Active Camo modified.
• Infection updated.
Map changes include Sword Base being removed and Uncaged replacing The Caged. Also, we’ve noticed some feedback coming from both matchmaking and internal playtests about players getting betrayed by teammates at the beginning of games. Since that sometimes results in a less advantageous respawn position, we’ve removed friendly fire in an attempt to cut down on that particular form of griefing.
• Banshee replaced with Revenant on Breakneck.
• Rocket ’Hog Race weighting reduced in Multi Team.
• Zero Bloom moved to Competitive category, and Beta category hidden.
Zero Bloom Slayer is popular enough to be moved to the Competitive category. We’re working on what will be in the Beta category next, but it needs a little more time to marinate in order to reach its ...
