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Source: Bungie.Net

 

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Bringing Back the Sack

 

June is just around the corner and that of course means we've got a matchmaking update in the works. So you'll know exactly what you can expect once June's update rolls out sometime next month, we've brought Shishka online and asked him to deliver all the juicy details. He obliged. Read on to learn about the June update in our matchmaking maestro's own words.

 

"Oh god, it’s back.

 

For those of you that missed out on the Halo 2 version, Action Sack is a social playlist that explores the darker recesses of the Halo Sandbox. You will find little in the ways of parity between Action Sack and the current full time playlists. Action Sack is a unique beast designed with the social gamer in mind. If you come to Action Sack expecting serious business, you’ll probably leave a frustrated mess of a human being. To drive the point home, the playlist is social (so you will not see a TrueSkill™ rating), and worth zero EXP. There is no such thing as a General in Action Sack, so you can put those spare controllers away. Or better yet, maybe have some friends sit down in front of them.

 

Action Sack is a 4v4 playlist that you can join with friends and guests. The gametypes are…not normal. Some of them approach normalcy, but many are like walking into Crazy Town at crazy hour. What kind of gametypes are in Action Sack? Well, let’s take a look at a few of the gametypes you will find…

Halo 3 Gametypes You’ve Probably Played Before

 

Team Rockets

Team Slayer. Players spawn with Rocket Launchers. First team to 50 points wins. 10 minute match time limit.

 

Team Fiesta

Team Slayer. Players spawn with random primary and secondary weapons. Ammo is finite (as opposed to the FFA version). First team to 50 points wins. 10 minute match time limit.

 

Stab-Out

Team Slayer. Players spawn with Energy Swords. Highest score after four rounds wins. Players have three lives each. Three minutes per round.

 

Halo 2 Action Sack Classics

Ninja Assault

1 Bomb Assault. Bomb Carrier active camo and moves quickly, but is weak. Highest score after four rounds wins. 3 minute round time limit.

 

2 Flag Shottys

Capture the Flag. Players spawn with Shotguns, but no energy shields. First team to three flag captures wins. 12 minute match time limit.

 

Pit of Joy

Team King of the Hill. Players spawn with Energy Swords and 4x Overshields. Static Hill. First team to 150 points wins. 10 minute match time limit.

New Contenders for The Clowntown Crown

 

Pit of Lies

Team King of the Hill. Players lose one point per second while standing in the hill, but gain two points for killing a player while in the hill. Outside of the hill, players do 0% damage. Inside the hill, players do 200% damage and have 50% damage resistance. Hill moves once every minute. First team to 10 points wins. 10 minute match time limit.

 

Tug of War

Team Slayer. Players spawn with Battle Rifles. Points are gained by killing opponents, but lost by dying. Bonus points are awarded for killing sprees or eliminations. First team to 25 points wins. 10 minute match time limit.

 

Run for Cover

One Sided VIP Escort on a specialized Sandbox map. The VIP team spawns on the ground level with plasma pistols, and cannot damage their opponents. Points are awarded every time the VIP reaches an escort point, but are docked every time the VIP dies. Next VIP is chosen at random. Anti-VIP team spawns in the sky bubble with Sniper Rifles and Spartan Lasers, and are attempting to stop the VIP and lower the VIP team’s score as much as possible. When the VIPs escorts are nearby, they take on his color (gold) and their move speed increases.

 

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Run Faster Next Time

 

Team Sumo

 

Territories. Players spawn with gravity hammers and are invincible. Teams ride into the single territory on warthogs and must knock their opponents out of the ring. Highest score after 7 rounds wins.

 

 

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Seismic Sumo Activity

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The Rest of Matchmaking

 

General

Cubed – Timers on power-ups and weapons tweaked, popular hiding spots fixed

Vessel – Fusion Cores removed, known hiding spots removed

Plurality – Known hiding spots removed

Avalanche Heavy – All closed boxes on the ground have been replaced with open boxes

Punishment – Small update with changes to bases

Utah Mambo – Small update with tweaks to equipment spawn timing and spawning

 

Ranked

Team Slayer – Team Slayer is now Mythic required

Team Objective - RETIRED

 

Social

Multi Team – Multi Team is now Mythic required

Social Big Team – Social Big Team is now Mythic required

Social Team DLC – Social Team DLC is now Mythic required. Successful vetoes in Social Team DLC will result in a Mythic map.

Team Action Sack – New Social 4v4 0EXP Playlist. All DLC required

 

Mythic

Team Mythic – Team Mythic is retired. Its maps and gametypes are migrated to Social Team DLC. Mythic TrueSkill and Social ratings will not be transferred.

Double EXP Weekends (in order of appearance)

Grifball

Rocket Race

Social Living Dead (All DLC Required)

Team Flag (All DLC Required)

7 on the 7th

7-man FFA on Assembly

 

My thoughts (If anyone cares :p)

 

I overall have mix feelings about this months update. Action Sack sounds interesting and could be fun, for awhile...... but it's more for the casual Halo 3 player and once again the hardcore players are left in the dust.

 

I know there was a lot of talk about this happening, but I can't believe they actually retired Team Objective. I hardly played the playlist (only a 20 I think with 52 EXP, mainly played for easy kills) but It was nice to have a ranked version of Social skirmish and I know not a lot of people played it, but they hardly made changes for it and when they did (making mythic permanent) it only pushed people away.

 

Team Mythic was old, and I think it deserved the boot but I'm personally upset that it did so fast because I did not even reach 50 EXP in it. Overall I could care less, but it's going to make it more of a challenge for people trying to get the mythic achievements since there is no direct playlist that is only mythic to get them in.

 

It will be interesting to see what they do when the next 3 mythic maps come out in September, and if they add all 6 into a mythic playlist or make another mythic playlist with only the 3 new ones.

 

Double EXP weekends this month look like another failure with the exception of Team Flag. Girfball is what should be retired, I know people play it but come on, there playing it because they want to go to math class the next day to tell there friends they got a killionaire and that there the next Phurion. IMO Grifball should go, period.

 

It will be nice to see Rocket Race again, but I think we all know people are going to boost the shit out of it.

 

I know it seemed like all I did was bitch, and in a sense that might be true, but I think Bungie did bad on this months matchmaking update, and it's all highlighted with the deletion of Team Objective.

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Yeah I totally agree with you. Team Objective really was a great playlist, and I'm sad to see it gone, especially because it was the only 50 I really felt accomplished with.

 

Mythic, I didn't really care about. I wanted to at least get 50XP in it, but.. no biggie.

 

Action Pack looks alright. I personally won't play it, but I like the Tug Of War gametype. I'd probably play some customs with that just to mess around with.

 

Double XP weekends are again, going to be horrible. People are going to boost the hell out of Grifball, as always. That playlist is so dead. Something fresh Bungie, please..

 

Instead of slaughtering Team Objective, they should've just made Team Flag a ranked playlist. That would be amazing. Too good to be true though. Oh well, I guess now its either MLG, or social garbage for me. Slowly losing interest in this game, and Bungie is DEFINITELY not contributing anything positive. =[

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I love how you guys said that you're suprised that Objective is gone, but you said you never played it..

 

Thats exactly why its gone. Trying to find a game of Objective when the playlist population is 120 is fucking retarded, thats why they killed it.

 

People started playing it more before Bungie retired it, and I think they should've given it another month, but whatever.

 

"Lets take out an Objective playlist when we're all about Obective."

 

"Hey even better idea!! Lets add a playlist that gives you NO XP, yet still counts as a game played, with random fucking game types. That won't be retarded and pointless at all!"

 

What the hell is Action Sack Bungie, REALLY?!

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All you people do on this forum is bitch and complain about how much you hate Bungie and how they screw everything up. QUIT PLAYING THEIR GAMES THEN.

 

Yeah buddy, its called voicing an opinion. Every forum here has people giving opinions. If you don't like it, I suggest not opening threads with my name in them, I tend to do it alot. Sorry -_-

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Yeah buddy, its called voicing an opinion. Every forum here has people giving opinions. If you don't like it, I suggest not opening threads with my name in them, I tend to do it alot. Sorry -_-

 

If you have such negative opinions about Bungie and everything they do, why play their games? Why buy their products? Why do you continue to throw your cash at them to continue making things you hate?

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If you have such negative opinions about Bungie and everything they do, why play their games? Why buy their products? Why do you continue to throw your cash at them to continue making things you hate?

 

Was everything I said negative? I have more love then hate for the game. I didn't like the fact that they took out a playlist that was starting to become more populated, and added something retarded that nowhere compares to what they took out. Theres still enough playlists that will keep me entertained, like MLG, and BTB.

 

If your going to come at me, please know what your talking about.

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Was everything I said negative? I have more love then hate for the game. I didn't like the fact that they took out a playlist that was starting to become more populated, and added something retarded that nowhere compares to what they took out. Theres still enough playlists that will keep me entertained, like MLG, and BTB.

 

If your going to come at me, please know what your talking about.

 

Excuse me, but you were the one that came at ME. I never mentioned any names, although you are one that bitches a lot about the game. My post was directed at everyone on this forum that does more whining and complaining than actually praising the game/chatting/saying anything positive whatsoever.

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Excuse me, but you were the one that came at ME. I never mentioned any names, although you are one that bitches a lot about the game. My post was directed at everyone on this forum that does more whining and complaining than actually praising the game/chatting/saying anything positive whatsoever.

 

Wow, your an idiot. Your post was directed at everyone, I am part of everyone on this forum.

 

Please stop, your making yourself look more senseless everytime you touch your keyboard.

 

EDIT: Side note, if anyone has the Tug of War gametype, or gets it while playing Action Sack, can you save it, and put it on your file share? I'd like to try it without playing the playlist. Thanks

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Dear Rad Fad,

 

I don't know what your talking about "bro". But first off, I posted the June matchmaking update to inform others about the upcoming changes. I also stated my opinion along with that and AJay happened to agree. Also, you say he started all this when in fact that's not true. You posted in here directly this to him and possibly myself and Maka as well.

 

All you people do on this forum is bitch and complain about how much you hate Bungie and how they screw everything up. QUIT PLAYING THEIR GAMES THEN.
I think I can speak on our three of our behalves here and that is that we love Halo, it's a fun and enjoyable game, but we don't have to and we certainly don't agree with everything Bungie does. We play the game for fun, but we are not all about playing Zombies and Grifball. We like MLG and competition, and coming out with this latest update did nothing for us more "hardcore" Halo 3 players that enjoy other things other then shitty social and repetitive double EXP weekends.

 

I'm not trying to turn this into an arguing thread, especially considering I made this thread to inform people of the new changes, but IMO your way off.

 

On a side note: I decided to play some Social Skirmish today (Which I had not played in close to 5 months) as a dedication to the retirement of Team Objective and OMFG. There are some real Bk's that play that playlist now, I wen't +40 in like 3 straight games for warm up matches and my K/D ratio for the night was like 5.0 or something. Defiently will be having some future fun in Skirmish this weekend ;).

 

Sincerely,

 

JUST DO IT7

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On a side note: I decided to play some Social Skirmish today (Which I had not played in close to 5 months) as a dedication to the retirement of Team Objective and OMFG. There are some real Bk's that play that playlist now, I wen't +40 in like 3 straight games for warm up matches and my K/D ratio for the night was like 5.0 or something. Defiently will be having some future fun in Skirmish this weekend ;).

 

 

Wow, some positive words for once.

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Hey rad,

 

the reason people are knocking what you say is because you contribute nothing to the discussion. Out of 4 posts not one of them is on topic. Btw at this point I would like to point out the irony of your posts, which are nothing but complaints about complaints, its hilarious I know. I do agree that there is a whole lot of complaining but you can't expect everyone to like everything.

 

In fact, the people who are voicing the most concern over this lackluster update are the hardcore players, which shows me that they really do care and truly love the game. The people who only play occasionally or just with friends don't care about this that much so they don't complain because they don't care. Besides, to love something is never unconditional (except for my son). If you love something chances are there is also some hate there as well, its all a part of long-term relationships lol.

 

On topic though, I like 2 Flag Shottys, no shields sounds like fun. Tug of War sounds like some serious stuff, almost like SWAT. And Run for Cover could be cool for a while, just sniping and stuff is always good.

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Hey rad,

 

the reason people are knocking what you say is because you contribute nothing to the discussion. Out of 4 posts not one of them is on topic. Btw at this point I would like to point out the irony of your posts, which are nothing but complaints about complaints, its hilarious I know. I do agree that there is a whole lot of complaining but you can't expect everyone to like everything.

 

In fact, the people who are voicing the most concern over this lackluster update are the hardcore players, which shows me that they really do care and truly love the game. The people who only play occasionally or just with friends don't care about this that much so they don't complain because they don't care. Besides, to love something is never unconditional (except for my son). If you love something chances are there is also some hate there as well, its all a part of long-term relationships lol.

 

On topic though, I like 2 Flag Shottys, no shields sounds like fun. Tug of War sounds like some serious stuff, almost like SWAT. And Run for Cover could be cool for a while, just sniping and stuff is always good.

 

I could care less if they're "knocking what I say". They say they're just "voicing their opinions", well that's exactly what I did. It gets old reading bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, oh and more bitch from the same people on here all the time.

 

Maybe if the "hardcore players" weren't such dicks to the n0obs and people that "don't care about the game" more people would be more serious about the game and your precious objective playlists wouldn't be taken away.

 

Bottom line is, quit bitching and quit being dicks.

 

My bitching is done.

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Played Team Objective once or twice and found out that it's the exactly same thing as big team slayer and then i'll rather play the second. Wouldn't care more about it getting removed. Action sack could be fun for a while, except from the fact that every match involving swords only always lags. Run for cover is just completely retarded.

 

Double Xp weekends looks alright i guess, grifball and living dead are two of my favorites so. Would like to see team melee or fiesta again though.

 

OT: anyone else who would like bungie to block some parts of maps when its living dead or something, it's just retarded when people grenade jump to places were they can kill 20+ before any zombie even reaches them. play the game you pansys. Worst examples are guardian and rat's nest.

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