Major League Gaming (MLG) is the biggest professional gaming league in the United States. Holding multiple competitions a year the company has picked up various titles along the way such as StarCraft II and Tekken 6 but their flagship title remains to be Halo. Currently on Halo: Reach, much debate has went into what the next version of MLG’s competition gameplay settings should be. A major gripe with the current settings is the fact that the Sprint Armor Ability is included – something that was absent from every previous Halo.
Well, for those of you hoping Sprint will be removed in the next version of the settings, you may want to look away. MLG has just released an announcement stating that Sprint will in fact be included in version 3 of their competition settings.
Hey, at least they don’t add Armor Lock, right?
Read their full explanation after the break.
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Hot on the heels of the Halo 3 MLG FFA playlist is the announcement of the MLG 2010 Pro Circuit. This includes the announcement of both the 2 first events and the different titles that will be featured at said events.
The first 2 events of the 2010 MLG Pro Circuit will take place in Orlando, Florida and Columbus, Ohio. The titles featured at said events will be Halo 3, Super Smash Bros: Brawl, Tekken 6, Modern Warfare 2 and some unannounced PC games. Most likely World of Warcraft and something else.
You can read more about the 2010 MLG Pro Circuit, here.
When Halo 3 first came out, you were pretty much forced to play customs if you wanted an MLG experience. Now, there is an MLG matchmaking playlist which answered the cries of much of the gaming community. However, if you wanted an MLG FFA experience you’d either have to have an imagination and hop into Lone Wolves or play customs.
Today it has just been announced that MLG and Bungie have teamed up yet again to bring an MLG FFA playlist to Halo 3 matchmaking. The update was automatically pushed out so all of you who play the game online will have access to it.
Below are the details of said playlist:
MLG FFA
- MLG Settings (90% Shield Recharge Rate, 110% Damage, 110% Player Movement Speed)
- Radar On
- 10 minutes
- Score unlimited
- Ranked
- Requires all downloadable content
Gametypes
- Heretic – 50%
- Citadel – 12.5%
- Guardian – 12.5%
- Lockdown – 12.5%
- Reactor – 12.5%
All Maps
- All power weapons and power-ups removed
- Only items on map – BRs, Carbines, Frag Grenades, Plasma Grenades
Reactor
- Version of Assembly
- Top bases are blocked off in both bases
Citadel
- Shotgun Tunnels blocked off
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During my Halo 3 days, ever since they added it I was an avid player of the MLG playlist. At first I wasn’t planning on buying ODST but when they required you to have the Heretic map in order to play said play list I cursed at Bungie and MLG and went out and bought it seeing as it wasn’t available via the Xbox Live Marketplace. Sure, the campaign what something new but the only reason I actually bought it was for that single map. $60 for a map, ridiculous, I know. Well, one thing led to another and I accidentally broke the ODST multiplayer disc making Heretic unable to load. At first I actually pondered going out to get a new disc just so I could get my MLG fix but ultimately made the concious decision against it.
Well now, I can finally hop back into the playlist as Bungie has just made Heretic, Citadel and Longshore, the ODST exclusive maps, available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Of course, I’m going to be forced to pay 800 Microsoft Points for something I already have (well, had) but that sure as hell beats going out and spending another $50+ on a used ODST. I’m just hoping they’ll still let me into the Halo: Reach beta. If so, except a hands on video right when it drops sometime after April 28th.
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