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This update has been deployed.

Here is a detailed list of all changes being made in the June 2006 Playlist Update. Feel free to comment on these changes, but if you wish to discuss them in detail please visit the pre-existing threads dedicated to them. You can find those threads linked from the READ ME FIRST and HOT TOPICS sticky threads in the Optimatch forum.


New Playlist Lineups
* Team SWAT
* Big Team Playlists


Global Changes
* Clanmatch has been removed
* Team SWAT (unranked) has been added
* Big Team Battle and 6v6 Team Battle have been removed
* BTB Skirmish (ranked) and BTB Slayer (unranked) have been added
note: BTB Skirmish will retain rankings from Big Team Battle


Rumble Pit / Rumble Training
* Rumble Slayer BR on Terminal and Relic have been removed
* Rumble Slayer Covenant on Ivory Tower has been removed


Rumble Hardcore
* Ivory Tower has been removed from the lineup
* Carbine and Sniper gametypes have been removed from the lineup


Team Slayer
* Team Slayer on Lockout has been weighted slightly higher


Team Slayer / Team Training
* Team Slayer on Colossus is now Team Rifles on Colossus


Multi-Team / Team Training
* Team Plasma Wars now has starting grenades


Multi-Team
* Team Ball on Ivory Tower has been removed
* Team Multiballs on Ivory Tower has been removed


Team ActionSack
* Combo Training on Foundation, Gemini, Turf and Warlock have been removed
* Rocket Neutral Bomb on Colossus and Sanctuary have been added
* Sniper Assault on Ascension and Lockout have been added
* Neutral Snipers on Colossus is now Multi Flag Snipers on Colossus
* Ninja CTF on Beaver Creek, Colossus, Midship and Sanctuary have been added
* SWAT Balls on Elongation, Midship and Sanctuary have been added
* Phantom Swat on Gemini, Midship and Warlock have been added
* Minimum Slayer on Lockout, Midship, Sanctuary and Turf have been added



[Edited on 6/6/2006]

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Not bad.
It doesn't hurt me, and it benefits me. I, for one, am not complaining...

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

now that's what im talking about
and another thing i need a job at bungie wright \away

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Ok thats it. You have made a very bad choice, it takes a lot to make Sarge get up and be active, but u caught me on a good day. I actually had to get up and make a bungie account. Now, for the years Halo2 has been out, i have sat back and watched it grow and evolve, whether it be through the population of the game's players, or the changes made from bungie. Every change made i have predicted problems. Im going to give you an example, the change from version 1 to version 1.1, the problems in the gameplay that were fixed i noticed from day 1 when i got the game. There's still a lot of little things i'd like to speak about but just can't remember, yall are lucky. Now this is concerning the removal of clanmatch. You say there's not enough people playing it, and i can tell you why. Because i cannot see any idea as to why you removed ranking o so long ago. Yes i saw it as a problem back then but let it go seeing as i got to keep clanmatch at all. What's the point of clanmatch without ranking? There is none, and this is why everybody stopped playing. I say revive clanmatch and put a rank on it

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argh we already knew all of this. at least we know its coming out in june. thats all i wanted to know

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Ninja a few questions

Rumble Pit
Y was rumble slayer on Terminal Removed there was nothing wrong with it at all, it actually was a good game type i would agree relic though because its way to big

Rumble Hardcore what was wrong with snipers?


and whats minimum slayer?

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Posted by: Sarge561
Now this is concerning the removal of clanmatch. You say there's not enough people playing it, and i can tell you why. Because i cannot see any idea as to why you removed ranking o so long ago. Yes i saw it as a problem back then but let it go seeing as i got to keep clanmatch at all. What's the point of clanmatch without ranking? There is none, and this is why everybody stopped playing. I say revive clanmatch and put a rank on it
It has always been ranked, I'm not sure why you think it was removed "o so long ago" - if you want to discuss this change, do so in the dedicated thread linked from the HOT TOPICS sticky.

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Posted by: Dark Peaches
What about the rest of these games it only shows a few of them? Just Wondering.....

Some of them weren't very fun, some we didn't have time to fully test.

We added the ones that were ready.

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Yeah, I like all of this update apart from one thing missing I believe that alot of people wanted. Terminal and Headlong to have a slightly lower weighting and Lockout to have a higher weighting in Team Snipers. I believe there were many threads asking for Lockout (and hte other small maps) to have a higher weighting in Team Snipers.

SAS03

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i agree about removng more ball games

MT is fun but most people (guests) dont have a clue as to what to do in oddball

also, is there any chance of adding nuetral flag on foundation and nuetral bomb on warlock?

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Thank you Ninja, keep up the good work.

I love the rumble hardcore changes. In fact I love all the changes. Thank you again!

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

All those changes are sweet, One Problem

Why did you Remove Both Oddball games on Ivory Tower?

Damnit man alteast have 1 MultiBall one on Turf,Sactuary,Ivory Tower, but why did you take out Multiball in Ivory tower??? it was Fun!

[Edited on 6/2/2006]

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Good Update, for BTB Skirmish and BTB Slayer, what will be the player settings and will we still situation from the previous update, where it just matches people at random.