Weapons are changed based on competitive viability, availabilty and location. Map movement is made as streamlined as possible, and explosive scenery is removed. Power weapons, such as the Rocket Launcher and the Sniper Rifle, are unique in that they utilize a drop-spawn system, where they respawn on a constant timer.
This is done through the Forge by placing the weapon above the ground, either by placing it on top of a crate or making it phased, and then removing the crate or disabling phase. This encourages more map movement since players will know exactly when the weapons return. Forge is also used to create more competitive maps. Examples include Halo 3's Foundry to create three arena-style maps: Amplified, Onslaught and Lockdown removed from rotation. All games have a minute time limit in matchmaking.
However, CTF matches at MLG tournaments have a minute regulation time period, with an extra 15 minutes set in case of a tie or sudden death. Armor abilities are placed on the map for pickup. They respawn 34 seconds after the last player holding the ability is killed. Article Discussion Edit History. This article is about the playlist. For the professional gaming company, see Major League Gaming. Contribute Halopedia's pages can be edited.
Is this page incomplete? That says it all, doesn't it? While may have good intentions, think of the unintended consequences for Halo esports, and how it ultimately reflects on its community.
In comes the HCS Grassroots program to assist in community growth. What exactly is it? From its original announcement :. In other word, HCS Grassroots is anything but. It's a program designed to help existing organizations and content creators, but doesn't address the underlying problem of competitive Halo fans not supporting them.
Within the context of esports, "grassroots" means a scene is grown from the bottom-up, like grass growing on a lawn. You start small and build your way up.
That's what happened with Halo: CE and other competitive games of the time. But as time went on, Halo fans decided with their actions that anything grassroots was not worth supporting and only MLG events and the later HCS events were important. It's unfortunate because some of these small events can grow and expand into other games. Dreamhack in particular started out as a small gathering in the basement of an elementary school. People just got together and played, and it slowly grew over the years.
Now they have events in multiple countries supporting numerous games. That slowly grew into the largest event for fighting games. Halo had AGP trying to get something going early on, but ultimately went away after a few events. These days, small-scale local events for Halo happens in Microsoft stores, and they don't even attract many entrants anyway.
Halo fans who were "hoping to see a real grassroots effort by Microsoft" really makes me wonder if they even know what "grassroots" means. Competitive Halo fans can complain about not having more tournaments, but they don't host one themselves — and on the off-chance they do, others don't join those tournaments either. Within the more prolific esports, community tournaments are standard fare and the fans in those communities fundamentally understand that supporting the scene means showing up to those tournaments.
I've entered my local StarCraft II tournaments — no sponsors involved, just one guy at a local shop — where some of the players carpooled for three hours just to compete for fun. It speaks volumes about the general attitude and work ethic of the Halo community if they can't even get small-scale local events up and running without a large corporation holding their hand. You can't even make this stuff up.
Halo began the same way as many other esports at the time — with an abundance of LAN events both big and small. The attitude shift began with the rise of MLG and the subsequent decline in non-MLG events, though many Halo fans will point to a much later date when Halo: Reach was played.
Other issues that would be brought up such as the game mechanics, console controls, aim-assist or any "PC Master Race" arguments are largely irrelevant. Not everyone in the esports world would appreciate a first-person shooter played with a controller; what matters is building interest in those who don't care about such things, and it is possible as Call of Duty has demonstrated.
Competitive scenes outside of Halo have also shown that you don't need to support a bad game in a series when previous iterations served the community just fine. Halo fans need to take a good hard look at what other communities did in their competitive scenes, and replicate it in their own. The peak of Halo esports — the "golden era" of competitive Halo if you will — should not be defined by MLG burning through cash year-over-year to make it look bigger than it is.
When you compare competitive Halo fans to the fans of other esports, the mindset and the priorities over what's important are completely different: dependence on large corporations, artificially inflated prize pools, lackluster amateur and semi-pro scenes, and an arguably excessively-toxic community moreso than others.
They've taken corporate handouts to the extreme, placing all of their eggs in one basket, and the result of that speaks for itself. On the other side of the spectrum, the Fighting Game Community wants all the power and control over their competitive scene, even if it means the prize pools remain low.
The openness and grassroots nature of the FGC is why it's strong, and unkillable because all of its growth has been organic. The grand prize of a tournament could be a can of Chef Boyardee, and you'll still have dudes in their 30s showing up to compete in anime fighting games. Even if an event disappears for whatever reason, there are dozens more to compete in. They shy away from the corporatism and "prim and proper" attitudes that's associated with other esports, to the point where many of them would argue that esports is not a part of the FGC another topic altogether.
Sometimes I wonder if the Halo series would be much better off if Industries diverted resources away from esports and focused more on single-player content and the casual multiplayer community.
Non-competitive Halo fans seem more likely to attend gaming conventions and put more effort into fan art and cosplay, than competitive Halo fans attending esports events and growing interest their scene. A game can only be as good as its community, and this is especially true when it comes to esports. Microsoft and Industries both have their part to play, but so do members of the competitive Halo community.
Throughout the years, communities that thrive have been driven by the players themselves, and not by large marketing budgets where players grow accustomed to having everything served to them on a silver platter. It's up the Halo fans to show the world that they deserve respect; many opportunities have been given to them over the years, and they always wasted it.
They can say that they care about grassroots events and local tournaments, but talk is cheap. Regardless of what anyone thinks about the future of Halo esports, its community has been given yet another opportunity to grow and succeed with Halo: Infinite. Halo: Infinite will support split-screen and LAN, eliminating the problems stemming from the lack of those features. Beta testing up until its release will allow Halo players to provide feedback and ensure that Halo: Infinite is the game they want to play.
Tyler has been playing for several years now and therewith experienced the ups and downs coming along with Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo: Reach. The next title is just about to be released, Halo 4. Not only did it convince at E3 but also was announced that there will be a Halo 4 Pro Circuit tournament at MLG Dallas, although the game is released a few days later. We asked Tyler about his opinion on the new game and its future in competitive e-Sports.
What have you been up to since the end of the Halo:Reach season? Gaming, personal, we want to hear it all! Let's just dive right into then.. I had an addiction to the new Star Wars game that came out and played for about 3 months straight. It took over my streaming life and honestly I was a little down in the dumps and in a rut.
I needed something to get out, so I decided to start streaming Halo: Reach again despite it not being on the MLG Circuit and sure enough, I got my energy and flow back! Thank God my fans slowly started to come back and realize I was streaming again! When he's not out playing jazz, Jeremy is deeply immersed in the latest games, much to the distress of his attention-hungry cat.
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