Can 343i save Halo?

343 is slow with everything and for no good reason, because the final product still turns out subpar and any gametype with ACTUAL work put into it could make the experience so much better, but they're lazy.

Perfect example from today: Oddball finally returns after the game being out for over 1.5 years. The community made Oddball days after Assault's release, yet it took 343 MONTHS to release their version; the announcer says "Assault", you hold a bomb instead of a skull, and you gain 5 points for committing suicide. WHY did this playlist take so long to make? What went into their extensive testing?

Team Snipers has no soul compared to previous games. Why are there no on-map weapon pickups? With Halo 5's sniper variety, Team Snipers could have been insane! But nope, it's lazy, stale, and literally just Slayer with Sniper Rifles.

BTB is on nothing but Forge maps and the maps are so tiny and CQC compared to previous games.

Don't even get me started on FFA. 343 watched that playlist die and kept saying they'll give us what we wanted at high-level play, and it never happened. So many Community Updates they'd mention FFA update, and only now are they finally fixing it, 1.5 years later. It's so dead I doubt they can revive it but I hope they do because it's all I used to play.

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