

Spartans can also score stick players with Plasma Grenades or Assassinate them to downgrade the weapon one notch, which could keep the opposing team from winning in the right situation. Guns like Halo's iconic Needler or Halo: Reach's Focus Rifle generally show up towards the end of the curve since they're harder to use than the run-of-the-mill Battle Rifle. No matter the Halo game, Escalation Slayer starts players off with some sort of automatic weapon before stepping up to precision weapons, snipers, explosive arms, specialty weapons, and finally a melee implement to end things off. One week into a sixth season that already included a brand-new map for Halo 3, the developer added Escalation Slayer, a variation on the classic FPS deathmatch variant where players get a new weapon every time they score a kill. Typically called Gun Game, the mode comes from the early days of Counter-Strike and now appears almost every year in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. Escalation Slayer is now live in matchmaking for Halo: Reach, Halo 2: Anniversary, and Halo 4, with each game featuring slight tweaks on the formula to keep things interesting. 343 Industries continues to add new experiences to old favorites in Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
