Bungie should do this!

MLG only exists because it is highly competitive where team work is crucial and there are multiple websites/communities that are dedicated to promote Major League Gaming. So that brings us to MLZ a full time zombie playlist it is only played for the double exp. Grifball would become an official gametype way before zombies since Grifball kind of involves skill and team work.

 

If they did make a playlist for infection they would probably use the same shitty maps they use in double xp because they seem to hate any map with acutual potential so they choose from the bottom of the barrel. I'm suprised I haven't seen fat kid on 4 levels yet.

 

Playlists are chosen very carefully, but this is the main reason Infection will probably never be a playlist: usability. Imagine you just got the game, you see 'Infection'. This sounds cool, you get to shoot hordes of zombies! You are then completely caught off guard when you spawn with a sword and don't know what to do...this game sucks. Basically, it needs to be really, really easy to pick up instantly. And Infection isn't that. That's also the reason Rocket Race was removed, as fun as it is.

 

Teamwork? As soon as a human becomes a zombie, can't he just screw them over.

 

A thread already exists for this topic located here

 

If they made the infection playlist that you are wanting, they would end up using the maps that they use on the double experience weekends, that in my opinion, suck really bad. Plus I think people will always find ways to cheat on infection, I dont care how many corrections and improvements are made, it seems like people still seem to find a way to play the game the way its not supposed to be played.

 

Zombies is not competitive, and never will be. But I like the idea of iinfection in MM, although it has been suggested many times before on b.net.

 

At least if this happens, you're party wont want to play infection over and over again.

 

First, do you have some wort of wierd obsession with exp?

Secondly, I agree with OMGClutch, also Bungie didn't make Major League Gaming, therefore I'm not too sure but MLZ could possibly be a breach of copyright, or something along those lines.

Third, there isn't a playlist which you submit your forged maps to. But you can play on forged maps in MatchMaking, and get your own maps in MatchMaking, all you have to do is submit your map to Atlas and hope it is accepted to go into MatchMaking.

 

Infection just wasn't meant for MatchMaking. It's very casual no matter what you do to it, and it's very easy to cheat the system. It's unbalanced and people are always finding cheap places to hide/camp. Bungie's map variants suck, and there's just no way that Infection should be a MM playlist. Sorry, but that's how I feel. I'm not against infection, and I think they can be fun in custom games, but the gametype wasn't meant for MM.

Off Topic: I lol'd when you mentioned "Major League Zombies." MLG and Infection are basically complete opposites. MLG = highest level of competition. Infection = silly and casual.

Again, I'm not flaming Infection or anything, but I found that funny

 

sorry but infection will never get its own playlist cause the bungie maps suck major penor

 

Please... try to avoid run on sentences and excessive use of excaimation marks. This discussion is fine, but the tone of the OP almost biased me towards handing out spam warnings and locking the thread. Just try to keep the quality of posts to a certain minimum standard guys.

 

Agreed. Now onto the topic...

As of late I have taken a keen interest in infection, but do not let that be confused with me liking to play infection. I know that this may sound hypocritical, but I assure you that it is not. During the past Double Exp. Weekend, I played a good number of infection games in that playlist, and why I decided to do this is beyond me. Perhaps I was looking for a break from Manifest 2, or was looking to see what exactly it is people liked about infection so much. After all those days of playing, I was never able to figure out what exactly made infection so much "fun" for everyone else. However, I did discover why it was not fun.

I've always thought that the maps were the issue with Infection, a poor map with lots of camp-able places made for unbalanced gameplay. But during my excursion I realized that it was, in fact the gametype itself. Of all the infection variants I played, not a single one had both human and zombies be both balanced and fun. So I looked at maps here, and even played a few, but still found no well balanced infection maps (and I am talking about actual infection, not things like Smear the Pinky).

So what does this have to do with Infection and MatchMaking? As previously said, matchmaking is for the most part, competative. In order for something to be even slightly competative it has to be balanced. Infection, is not this. However, I do beleive it can be, and that is why I have an interest in it, for I feel that someday there will be a balanced game of infection both fun for humans and for zombies. It's only when this happens, and we see several maps of this quality, that I believe that infection could have a future in matchmaking. For now, it will need to remain a Double Exp. and Custom Game activity. Before it could ever even think of leaving that domain, Infection will have to improve a considerable amount to something that is actually playable and fun for both parties.