The ULTIMATE Halo 3 Map Tier List 

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I feel like you need another tier between meh and A, way too many good maps in meh imo

Mystical Gaming has some great nades throughout this video 😂

Glad Rat's Nest got so much love. Never had an unfun game there

That sandbox gameplay is beautiful

I'm with Blaze on Construct, I like the nerdy stuff about it. But it is kinda meh in general gameplay.

THREE HOURS Lemme skip to snowbound real quick and see if its dogwater. Also rasssh if you ever need me for a tier list video hmu ;))) Epic vid

Cold storage is a remake of my favorite Halo CE map, but doesn’t play as well in Halo 3

Okay, just needed to make sure The Pit and Guardian were S Tier. You get a Like good sir.

Foundry is one of my favorite small maps even though last time I played with my friends we got spawn camped to 0-50 3v3 by some random pro team. it sucked so bad lol

Really enjoying these

Man the maps in H3 were so good, even the “bad ones” are fun and competitive.

Let’s go! Been looking forward to this!

Fucking hell, nearly 4 hours of map reviews. Unreal

ghost town is one of my least favorite maps in the series, i cant stand it...i never realized how opposite my opinions are for most maps

I absolutely hate construct. Very surprised it didn't get bad, lol. Outside of the aesthetic and gravity lift shenanigans, it's just super miserable for me, even if my team is winning.

Why does your tier list go from “A” to “meh”? Typically “B” is “good”, and I think there would be meaningful distinctions between “good” and “meh”

i think this game has the best map selection undeniably

very well made video

Halo 3 has a lot of good maps. IDK if I like Blood Gulch or Valhalla more, both are about equally good for me. I do think Valhalla in terms of its size is sort of in-between Battle Creek and Blood Gulch. Last Resort, High Ground, and Sandtrap are also really good. I also think Foundry and Sandbox are very fun, though in rotation I don’t always get the default variant. Plus given the variations these could potentially be hard to rank if you don’t just rank the default version. Personally I think Standoff is a lot of fun, I also never had any problems with being stuck in the base. Reach’s structures were grey, but there were a lot of variety in terms of objects. Also IDK why your tier names are inconsistent in these videos (named and letters, but that’s just a small thing really).

Honestly I agree with most of the list, the only 2 outliers for me are Construct and Vessel, both being an easy S for me. I kind of love the snow ball feel of Vessel and I was genuinely surprised to hear people hate Construct, I absolutely adore that map and find it very enjoyable.

Never knew Halo 3 had so many maps.

Blaze knows his shit

Where is the link to the tier list

Epitaph is great for Team Fiesta

I spent thousands of hours in H3 MP back in the day, but man, coming back to it is rough for me, and I think the map design is a big part of that (along with the core movement/shooting just feeling icky, CE and H2 felt fine, I don't know what Bungie did). I mentioned this on the H2 video, but CE and especially Halo 2's maps had a TON of verticality and platforming. On maps like Turf, Sanctuary, and Lockout, you're virtually moving up and down as much as you are from side to side. Personally, that's a huge part of what defines Halo to me, you're fighting in what are almost combat jungle gyms, and H3's maps just chuck that out the window. Barring remakes, the ONLY H3 maps with that design philosophy are Guardian, Ghost Town, and Assesmbly, and I'm not a fan of Assesmbly, and even Guardian and Ghost Town feel somewhat more stretched out then H2's maps. It's why I sorta roll my eyes when people complain about sprint in H5 "stretching the maps out". Like yeah, it's true, but that's clearly just 1 variable among many others when every single H5 map is like those vertical H2 maps, with an insane amount of dense geometry/cover and platforming opportunities; with thrust, hover and slide also adding a ton of skilljumps and trickjumps. PS: Isolation is bad, but a neat feature is that the longer the match lasts, the more Flood infected the map gets. The grass texture gets more gross warts and stuff over time.

After watching this video and reading the comments I'm convinced I am one of the only people who liked Isolation. But then again I primarily play Swat and Snipers in MCC. Isolation is straight dogwater in AR slayer though so I understand the hate

You guys are so wrong about standoff. I agree that in OG halo it was bad because it was too big for BR fights, but in MCC that is less of a problem simply because of better internet speeds and dedicated servers. The great thing about it is actually that it's the most viable map for the warthog, so if you control the laser, that allows for the warthog to kill, then the other team still has counter plays, primary of which is camo and rockets, which are right next to each other. If you can get them, you lay in wait for the warthog to come, and then rocket it when it gets close, which is really fun. I just think the fact that map control is won via a vehicle is really unique compared to other maps, and I like it.

0:42 Ah, so I was right! Splitgate is more like Halo _5_ with portal guns, rather than just Halo with portal guns.

This dude blaze works on our maps.... we are screwed

so starting off no one even mentioned what ranks they were in what playlists, whether they were better on host or off host, yeah not a great set of credentials I know BHB has talked about the ranking system and getting 50s but no idea what playlists etc

I literally do not get why people don’t like blackout, almost every single one of my friends back then loved that shit 😂 mostly swat, but even in other modes. In my honest opinion, I think it’s better than lockout (guardian is the best)

OH SHIT YOU HAD MY HOMIE BLAZE ON!!!!!!! Hell yeah.

Me like the sandy houses maps

Sick

You still in contact wit Blaze? Trying to contact him

man if only IAmVeryTrash was still with us you could've had him on he'd have loads to say

I think the shield doors on Snowbound add to the map.

I honestly give most of these maps a S or A

I’m not gonna lie, Midship and all it’s incarnations is my least favorite Halo map of all time. I know this map is loved by most of the community members, but nah, it’s not for me. It reminds me of Shipment from MW except nowhere as fun.

"I've been designing maps for 12, 13 years" you sound like you're 12.

Isolation is straight dog water. Stand-off would be okay if vanilla came with 2 snipers.

Standoff is an S for me.

Standoff a Dog?!! The chat got this one correct. you guys haven't played this map on BTB enough. It's beautiful for CTF, bomb, KOtH. grab the invis to sneak into the enemy base and open the doors. controlling snipes or splazer to protect your warthog. super exciting quad runs. Team Heavy with Banshees is great as well. I can go on and on about this map.

Snowbounds like the best map wth man!!!

Blackout was great idk what y’all are talking about.

Epitaph was the original map, the rockets spawned top mid with a gravity hammer bottom mid and no sniper on the map. Honestly was a garbage map. Epilogue made it somewhat playable and turned it into a meh map. Construct #1

Avalanche is not just about top center., much of BTB revolves around controlling splaser and staying on rocket. Vehicles can be huge. It's a brilliant ctf map with multiple strategies and interesting ways to get to the flag.

What's the point of the Scottish guy even being a part of this? The guy doesn't really add anything to any of the discussions and honestly sounds like he's just going with the general consensus of the group rather than having his own opinion. You should have got someone more experienced in his place...

Dude i hate heretic

I dont get why standoff is so low. Standoff had the best warthog combat of any map out there, and is great in ctf style games. I feel like a everybody hates it because they get trounced by a team that actually knows how to use vehicles properly and hold the Lazer. Standoff = A tier. Valhalla = S Tier Assembly = Dog Water Mostly agree with the rest.

Epitaph was the best split screen experience halo 3 had to offer I'm sorry lol

ghost town is bad imo and isolation is dogwater

"I'm formerly a designer on Halo 5" opinion discarded

You chose... poorly.