Why is 343 pushing Wreckage and Shatter?

[GoldFever]

It's obvious from the votes that people playing Big Team Slayer prefer Exile and Ragnarok. Halo 4 is a great game, but I get tired of quitting out of bad maps unit 343 decides to finally load the maps we all really want to play.....what's the deal? I'll be sure to really check out any new maps before I buy them next time.

[Chris Hansen]

Well...part of the problem with the DLC is people wanted more then Exile and Ragnarok to play. Unfortunately the best map out of the DLC (harvest) isn't in BTB, and Shatter, which would be an ok map except that the FRAMERATE drops to about 10 on spit screen, making the map utterly unplayable.

 

That leaves us with Wreckage, which is a cool looking map, but in team slayer it devolves into everyone going to the mancannon area and camping there. It really sucks that this spot is so fortified and makes slayer games boring, because the asthetic of the map is really pleasing to me, reminding me of Burial Grounds from halo 2.

[TRF BaDInTentZs]

343 has always done that. derp. Sword base ring a bell?

[Bloody Initiate]

I don't want to play Exile until they fix it. I'd be happy if they removed it from Matchmaking entirely until they fix it.

 

As for any extra weight on Wreckage and Shatter, that's what you do w/DLC. It's not a promotion thing because the only people who can play them already bought them, it's an effort to make them available in normal rotation. Only some people will have them, so in order for those some people to be able to play them you have to increase their weight otherwise their probability of showing up is extremely low.

 

It's just playlist math, not any secret agenda. If 50% of the community bought the maps, the odds of 16 people all having them go down, so you increase their weight accordingly, etc. As time goes on their weight will go down as more people buy them, but it's really just an effort to make them part of the normal rotation.

 

As for my opinion of the maps, Wreckage plays OK but Shatter is awful. It's too disconnected. Every game I've played in that map you spend as much time searching for enemies as you do anything else.