For those of you who don't know, Stockpile will be a new team gametype featured in the Reach Beta. Each team has their own capture zone and fights over four neutral flags. All flags in your capture zone give you one point each every 60 seconds. The game is over when one team scores 10 points, or after 10 minutes.

I have heard very little interest in this gametype from the community, if you look at the current Bungie.net poll (Which gametype gets you most hyped?), Stockpile is in dead last with, as of this writing, a measly 4%.

Personally, I think that Stockpile would not only be fun in smaller, 4v4 games, but would really be a blast for big team games. Imagine the chaos as both teams race around in hogs trying to pick up flag carriers before the timer runs out. Does anyone agree with me on this, or will stockpile be destined to be played only once in a blue moon?

I think stockpile sounds interesting. Definitely a change of pace from normal CTF. I think if its playable as a BTB gametype it will be more fun. Personally I'm interested in playing Headhunter. That may be the first thing in a while that has me interested in FFA.

It does sound really good.

I can understand why it's being so overshadowed by Invasion. It's a mix of things seen before in Halo games. Invasion simply seems brand new in ways Stockpile doesn't. I think the way Bungie presented the gametypes - revealing Invasion last - might've reinforced this perception, too.

That said, I'm excited about it because... well, it's an objective gametype. The scoring happening only at certain moments sounds particularly interesting.

I think it will be very interesting. I'm most excited about the flow of intensity around scoring times; when people madly rush to defend their own zone and get the opponents' flags out of theirs.

Should be a good test in team communication

The only reason that its last is because its to confusing for the majority of halos population, i.e people who think fat kid is the best thing sliced bread.

wafflynumber wrote:

The only reason that its last is because its to confusing for the majority of halos population, i.e people who think fat kid is the best thing sliced bread.

Bingo. I sure hope small scale objective gets a boost in fanbase though, TO was so awesome.

Im surprised few are looking forward to generator defence. I think it will be a much more team based objective game than stockpile. With bigger explosions too, hopefully.

Mostly I'm excited for Invasion, as i'm sure most BTB players and even the normal population are. I'm looking forward to headhunter because I was originally a Lone Wolves 40 (now a TS 45).

But stockpile doesn't peak my interest like it should. It might be that Bungie didn't give it enough hype, going around saying "Invasion is awesome, Invasion is awesome, Invasion is awesome",totally overshadowing Stockpile. It certainly looks good, but Invasion looks great.

I love the push and pull game mechanic of stockpile. It's the second gamtype I'm really looking forward to play.

While I do agree that generator defense will be really awesome for small team games, I think Stockpile's tug-of-war style will mesh well with vehicular combat in Big Team, making for some pretty awesome moments. But hey, we have yet to actually play it. I hope that all of these new gametypes are well accepted by the community.

Im VERY exited about this! Sounds pretty darn awesome!

Zyzzyva wrote:

While I do agree that generator defense will be really awesome for small team games, I think Stockpile's tug-of-war style will mesh well with vehicular combat in Big Team, making for some pretty awesome moments. But hey, we have yet to actually play it. I hope that all of these new gametypes are well accepted by the community.

Generator Defense is only going to be 3 vs 3. At least for the Beta. And they're calling it "Network Test 1" so I'm not even sure if it'll make it into the actual game..

I have to say that this could be a very fun game mode. The more I think about it, it sounds pretty sweet. Could make for some crazy customs as well.

We'll have to wait and see I guess.

I'm pumped for Stockpile. I think Bungie created this gametype because everyone vetoes territories and in multi-flag a lot of time it turns into 75% or more of the team slaying and leaving 1 or 2 guys to do all of the objective work.

If I'm right, you will have to set up in a certain way to actually pull the flag and get it back to the scoring point. Then you will have to set up differently to lock down the score point for that time, because it apparently moves around.

This is going to be a very interesting way to play flag variants. 60 seconds is a long time in Halo. Locking down one area for that long will be intense.