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Grifball Dash & AGLA Grifball

An old favorite returning from the past: Grifball Dash is back! This fast-paced Grifball variant from Halo: Reach is making a return in the third voting slot. In place of the Evade Armor Ability, you now use your Thruster Pack to swoop by your enemies, steal the ball, and rocket in for a score!

Grifball Dash will be available on three new courts which are considerably larger than the standard court to accommodate the increased player movement speed.

Nakuru Field and Successor may appear dangerously open at first, but they are fully enclosed using Forge tricks such as Gravity Volumes for walls and invisible ceilings.

The alternate Voting Slot #3 offering is AGLA Grifball, which is based on the official game variant used by the competitive league at GrifballHub.

If you want even more Grifball action, be sure to stop by GrifballHub. League signups are open from November 22 to November 29!

Big thanks to Kalbelgarion, NOKYARD and others at GrifballHub for their work and assistance over the past few weeks in planning this Grifball update. We're super excited to be delivering these new maps and game types, and hope that all of you Grifballers are equally excited to hop into the playlist and get hammered come Monday.

Dominion[modifier]

Dominion is coming back as our featured playlist! It will be available in Halo 4 Matchmaking from November 25th through December 9th. The playlist will feature three total voting options: Dominion, Lockdown, and this week's Community Choice Poll winner, Legendary Dominion. Dominion will occupy the first voting slot, Lockdown the second, and Legendary Dominion will be available in the third.

Legendary Dominion You voted and we listened! We'd like to thank everyone for their participation this week's Community Choice Poll, and hope that you enjoy Legendary Dominion. The game type uses Halo 4's preset Legendary Loadouts (Battle Rifle, Assault Rifle and Frag Grenades) and features an enabled motion tracker. The game type puts all players on equal footing in terms of Loadouts, and gives players the option to use the Assault Rifle in close quarter battles, or roam from base to base while clearing out the battlefield with the Battle Rifle. Be sure to stop by next week's Bulletin, where we'll have a brand new Community Choice Poll.

As a refresher, Lockdown is a Dominion game variant that was added on July 1st, and features two teams fighting over a central base, with no auto-turrets or shield doors.

Community Forge Ricochet Maps[modifier]

As we mentioned last week, the winning maps from the Halo 4 Ricochet Forge Contest will be added into the Ricochet Playlist come Monday, and have received optimization and improvements based on your feedback and playtesting from the Community Forge Ricochet Playlist. These maps include:

Third place:
Inheritor by Squally DaBeanz

Second place:
Butter by Purely Fat

First place:
Hekau by MrGreenWithAGun

To see images of these maps, along with contest details, head over to last week's Bulletin. If you'd like to play the updated maps and even get a sneak peak at what has been changed, the maps can be downloaded by clicking on the above corresponding File Browser links and selecting "Send to Xbox." To play the updated versions of these community-crafted masterpieces in Matchmaking, head into the Ricochet Playlist on Monday!

Team Slayer Top 200[modifier]

Monday's Matchmaking Update will also include an update to Halo 4's Team Slayer Playlist, which will officially begin the start of a new program: The Team Slayer Top 200.

The Team Slayer Top 200 will highlight the top 200 players (by CSR) in the playlist each week on Halo Waypoint. We're looking forward to recognizing the top players each week, and as CSR is determined by who you win and lose against, it is possible for a level 50 player to be ranked higher than another level 50 player, so even players at level 50 will be able to see how they stack up against other level 50 players. The first Top 200 article will be posted the week of December 2nd, which will allow a full week to pass after Monday's playlist update and provide ample opportunity for those interested to join the action whenever they'd like.

We've detailed bits and pieces of this program over the past few weeks and below are the final changes that will be made to the Team Slayer playlist:

Team Slayer's CSR will be reset with Monday's Matchmaking Update, and broken up by two month seasons moving forward Team Slayer will move to a team-based CSR Team Slayer's Max Party Size will be adjusted from eight players to four to ensure that players do not boost against opponents Team Slayer's Join-In-Progress parameters will be tightened If you're looking to get into the Top 200, be sure to head into the playlist next week and then swing back the following week to see if you made it on the list!

Lastly, those of you who are planning on playing during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, (11.28 - 12.1) should be on the lookout for something special in Matchmaking. As always, we want to know about your experiences in these playlists. After you've tried one or all of the above next week, head over to the War Games Feedback section and share your thoughts with us!

Next up, bs angel is back with more of her favorite screenshots!

Screenshot Spotlight: Harvest[modifier]

Last week, we turned the spotlight on the Gravity Hammer. This week, we decided to go with a multiplayer playspace. Take a gander at the following screenshots taken on Harvest, and then capture your own for your chance at being featured in a future Bulletin.

For your chance at being in the next spotlight, take a football-themed screenshot (Recommendation: Ricochet helmet!), and then tag it with "Football" and "Halo Waypoint", and maybe, just maybe, yours will be featured in the next Halo Bulletin!

That'll do for this week's Bulletin. If you're picking up an Xbox One this weekend, remember to eat and sleep.

Bravo