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I was also thinking this, I think race was not a hit, because the maps were lame and it is hard to make people play FAIR. also it did not reward many credits. But I would really like a playlist that has just racing, but they would need to find a good handful of good racing maps.

I've been out on injury reserve for the last 3 months due to surgery, so I have no idea what the current playlist structure looks like, but I will say one thing. No matter what, a dedicated Race playlist deserves it's place in every single Halo game. Especially one like Halo Reach, where the community can contribute with zany, over the top custom maps to extend the life of said playlist, or create serious, pro-like tracks to compete in. That's what's great about Forge.

If a Race playlist was added, it would have to be either FFA or Team, it can't be both, Reach's playlist configuration doesn't allow it.

A race playlist, would more than likely be FFA and Rocket Hog Race would remain in Multi-Team.

As for a Race playlist in general, it was originally planned to come out sometime in early 2012, but it was pushed back because the Cartographers let slip it would be coming before they should have.

Considering you will get probably 500 cR from one game of race due to the lack of kills, its not likely many will play it, especially two.

If it was, they would have awarded users credits for playing the Objective in other playlists, but they still don't.

The cR system was made with kills in mind, not objective.

Thanks guys for replying back. It would be great if you could post the link to this thread on other race interested forums. I want 343i to read this, and the more people that comment in this thread, the more likely someone way up the ladder of 343i-ness will read it.

I'm pretty sure they could get around that if they tried.

I'd use a Race playlist if it was added... by very carefully not selecting it. I'd be really happy if they added one simply to get it out of Multi-Team. I'm sure there's many others like me that either like the chaotic action of four-team slayer or like tryharding it up and getting crazy kill/deaths in the objective types, but LOATHE getting stuck into a Rocket Hog Race game.

There's no other gametype in which I can be forced (by teammates) into having no real control as to whether my team wins or loses. I'm sure we've all had that experience of having 'that guy' on your team who insists on driving and who will flip the Warthog until they get the driver's seat. God forbid you get two of those people, or if it's a pair who want to gun/drive and you get stuck in shotgun. You can flip it back, but then NOBODY on your team can do a Yoink! thing.

There's also the less deliberate but still infuriating experience of being stuck in the Warthog with someone who you're convinced is Halo's worst driver, or teamed up with a blind & ADD stricken gunner. Try and bail out of the hog, and you're a dead man walking and you'll be put right back in. Quit, and you'll be smacked with the consequences of bailing out (and you're leaving the idiots unsupervised).

I have enjoyed Rocket Hog Race in the past, but ONLY when I wanted to be playing it and brought friends who want to as well. It's good fun... as long as everyone's on board with it.



So yeah. Give this very different from every other gametype gametype its own playlist. PLEASE.