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An Open Letter to Bungie
Posted By: Schooly D <schoolyd@teamschoolyd.org>	Date: 10/22/10 1:56 a.m.
Dear Bungie, Can you take Active Camo out of any Arena Doubles games? Active Camo and Armor Lock tend to absolutely dominate 2v2 games on open and confined maps, respectively. Now, I can understand that you'd want to keep Armor Lock in there because Armor Lock shares a spot with the Jetpack as the iconic armor abilities of Halo, the kind that make the frat house go "DUDE BRO." But I'm hoping that you don't have such an attachment to Active Camo which has been around since Halo 1, and is just absolutely ridiculous on maps like Asylum 2v2. My problem with these abilities is that, on some maps in Arena Doubles, gameplay first becomes predicated on using the armor ability. On Countdown, it is automatically true that whenever a firefight breaks out, SOMEONE is going to Armor Lock. Then his friend will come in and the OTHER guy will have to Armor Lock. Then your friend will enter in and maybe the enemy's teammate will Armor Lock, or maybe his friend will come out of Armor Lock... who knows what will happen. The match becomes a test of which team can coordinate their Armor Locks the best, which, while that probably counts as some form of skill, isn't the kind of gameplay you'd want to represent competitive Halo in a competitive playlist. On Asylum (and Pinnacle, etc), it is automatically true that someone on the other team, typically the sniper, is going to go with Active Camo. When someone has Active Camo on a map which is large enough such that you can't get a fix on their location by reading the motion tracker scrambling, any fighting only happens when they decide it will, i.e. when they start shooting. And when he has the Sniper Rifle, it's not so much of a fight as it is target practice. In larger games (8v8, 6v6, even 4v4 sometimes, although I'd also leave them out of Arena 4v4) these abilities don't dominate gameplay as much. While they're still used with equal frequency, the increased number of things going on (more people, more fights, more situations, etc) sort of dilute their importance. You are not in as much control of how/when your Armor Ability gets used since there's just much more going on. As I said above, I'm willing to let Armor Lock slide, both because I'm aware of its importance and because it's the lesser evil when compared to Active Camo in this context. A 2v2 match on maps like Asylum and Pinnacle where you allow 1 to 4 players to have Sniper Rifles and to be invisible constantly is just insane. PATCH IT NOW, RIGHT NOW

Team Schooly D

Message Index

An Open Letter to Bungie	Schooly D	10/22/10 1:56 a.m.
Love, Schooly D *NM*	Schooly D	10/22/10 2:01 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Schooly D	hyokin	10/22/10 2:05 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Schooly D	padraig08	10/22/10 2:13 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Schooly D	Schooly D	10/22/10 2:14 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Schooly D	hyokin	10/22/10 9:56 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	kapowaz	10/22/10 4:00 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Avateur	10/22/10 4:12 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	kapowaz	10/22/10 4:36 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	DHalo	10/22/10 5:54 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	kapowaz	10/22/10 6:47 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/22/10 8:02 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	kapowaz	10/22/10 8:54 a.m.
zzzoom	Hawaiian Pig	10/22/10 1:08 p.m.
Can we please stop doing this? *NM*	Echoes	10/22/10 10:01 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Xmoosev3	10/22/10 11:44 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Slith	10/22/10 1:53 p.m.
Alright alright, everyone chill	Schooly D	10/22/10 2:03 p.m.
Re: Alright alright, everyone chill	bluerunner	10/22/10 2:25 p.m.
Re: Alright alright, everyone chill	drdoctor	10/22/10 3:44 p.m.
HBO: Memes is srs bidness *NM*	padraig08	10/22/10 2:26 p.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	RC Master	10/22/10 5:09 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Silent Knight	10/22/10 6:57 a.m.
^^^^A THOUSAND TIMES THIS	Pkmnrulz240	10/22/10 7:19 a.m.
Actually...	topleybird	10/22/10 2:22 p.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	chess	10/22/10 11:53 a.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	Schooly D	10/22/10 12:47 p.m.
Re: An Open Letter to Bungie	KalamariKidd	10/22/10 1:20 p.m.
Keep your hands off my Armor Lock, heathens! *NM*	The Loot	10/22/10 2:57 p.m.
you're like the anti-Cody *NM*	Miguel Chavez	10/22/10 5:23 p.m.