Invasion is the best gametype in the entire franchise. All that was missing was species specific traits and better balancing for Matchmaking (lol shotty+armor lock loadout in Phase 3 on Boneyard)
The forged maps 343 put it are all terribly balanced. Overgrowth and Broadcast are without a doubt the worst maps in existence. The loadouts weren't adjusted for the forged maps like they should have been so Phase 3 in all of them is mess because it's all CQC. Ofcourse that wouldn't be much of a problem if a certain weapon wasn't in a loadout.
Invasion in custom games was a blast.
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Floodgate was decent when the Spartans didn't steal the Banshee.
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I always hated that Spartans could steal the Covenant vehicles on every Invasion map.
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Implying every other map isn't just as bad when the Banshee is stolen.
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My point being it's pretty decent. Not great, but decent.
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Can't argue there.
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The guys who made those maps did make gametypes specifically designed for them, and they were pretty well balanced. But on standard settings, they were horrible.
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Not when I played them in CG's for testing.
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Huh. I definitely remember playing a variant of a GT that was very balanced on the maps.