The ULTIMATE Halo Map Tier List

[@HiddenXperia]

this took so long to edit lmfao

[@noe2212]

And?

[@noe2212]

Im sorry

[@kodredcud]

@@noe2212 bro 🤣

[@darthreaven6065]

Yoooo

[@darthreaven6065]

Hidden in the chat

[@defferwa]

Maybe it's just my nostalgia goggles but these games still look incredible to this day, they've aged extremely well

[@hyvemyndprods]

I think it has to do with the fact that Bungie went out of their way to make Halo have its own identity when it came to how the game looked. Forerunner and Covenant items and locations dont really have a real-world equivalent to compare it to so since the textures and modeling are so unique, they look better as a result. I also think they look as lovely as the day they released.

[@mosescuh3644]

Halo 3 and Reach will hold up for another 10 years

[@HiddenXperia]

No nostalgia goggles at all, they still do - Halo 3 in particular, the lighting engine in that game looks superior to many modern games

[@spartanq7781]

Now I know it's just me but I swear Halo 2 looks better than Halo 3. Yes the latter was the first hd game in the series it also over brightened things. Or maybe the MCC did.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Nostalgia, yes, but not misguided nostalgia. The mainline Bungie games sure play and look fine just like Doom, Half-Life, and Blood, and that's even with newcomers nowadays.

[@adamwall7852]

Man, every time I see Halo 3 gameplay, I'm always reminded by just how FUCKING GOOD IT LOOKS!!! Still to this day. Just wow.

[@lonewolf6884]

Still plays good as well on the MCC. Halo 3 multiplayer as aged like wine

[@HiddenXperia]

Still more fun than anything that's come after as well, and by a long shot

[@halogod0298]

@@HiddenXperia Hell yeah, keep the 343 slander coming it’s what we need

[@Dayman420]

Me and my friend started played halo 3 again the other day and every single time we start that first mission one of us is like “this game still looks beautiful”

[@343Films]

@@HiddenXperia Super agree! Halo 3 is so fun to go back to and just get lost playing BTB or arena with a buddy

[@GooblyWoobly69]

I love how casual and fun the CE maps are. That’s something we desperately need today

[@DarkSide360-0]

who gives a shit comment bot

[@flutgos]

Yep. Same goes for shooters today in general. There are way too many abilities, weapons, etc. in today's games that it is just too overwhelming and not fun.

[@Yaedon]

Thank you for editing this with clips. I couldn’t imagine how tedious it was putting clips together and editing etc. It made the video much more enjoyable for me. Seriously. Thank you for editing it. You’ve unlocked so many memories for me because I was seeing these maps and it just hearing you talk about it.

[@sofaking1627]

Lockout and Valhalla will always be my favorites. I loaded into a Halo 2 lockout match in MCC last night and it immediately took me back to 2005.

[@trekker105]

The weirdest part about Lockout for me is how Guardian feels like more of a spiritual successor than the literal direct port (Blackout).

[@sofaking1627]

@@trekker105 I dont often tell people this. But as a kid, I loved Lockout, and didn't like Guardian. The irony

[@Honda_Man_Sam]

Keep these tier videos coming. I’m all for them

[@prdalien0]

Chiron is the GOAT map for splitscreen ffa or team slayer, you haven't lived until you've played that with a bunch of people losing their minds from its madness🤣

[@jedolson6015]

Hidden Xperia is the GOAT for gaming content. Loving this series. Keep up the amazing work! Content idea: keep doing tier lists outside of Halo. A souls series tier lost from you would be legit.

[@sonify3884]

i would love some dark souls series form hidden. ive recently gotten into the genre and am having a lot of fun.

[@CY3ER]

I'm just impressed with your ability to find and organize all of this information on Halo. There's no one more qualified on all things Halo than you. Loved listening to this bro, thank you!

[@palekoc8697]

Man Halo 5's Infection was insane, every map was good on Infection: Overgrowth, Riptide, Molten, Plaza, etc. I also really LOVED Mercy and Attack on Sanctum. I deeply enjoyed Halo 5's multiplayer

[@_Wizzo]

Love to see it! Great job mate, always love to see your Halo videos, even if they are almost 2 hours long! lmao

[@Can_O_Peas]

You hurt me with that Standoff ranking. I really enjoy that map’s gameplay flow with the vehicles and power weapons. Constant action and it truly felt like two large teams just going ham on each other. Now of course it isn’t like my favorite of all time, but easily fits within bottom A or top of B for me Overall, I agreed with most parts of your list. Solid video

[@xSolarFlare15x]

I agree completely! Wasn't a huge fan of Standoff back in the day for some reason but have loved it in recent years on MCC. There's a constant firefight in the center for Splaser spawn while smaller skirmishes happen on the flanks and within the bases. Excellent warthog gameplay as well, its one of my favorite maps now. Definitely doesn't deserve D-tier.

[@joerowland2625]

@@xSolarFlare15x Standoff deserves D tier it's the worst map in all of halo

[@jhinwick5251]

Halo 2 has the majority of the best maps in the series imo

[@joerowland2625]

Agreed

[@DougisArmed]

Ascension, Zanzibar, Headlong, Lockout, Midship, Turf… all S tier maps in their own right. Like wow we had it good.

[@FreddyKruger112]

Now I really want to go home and play MCC. I do really miss maps that were fun to play and somehow didn’t really get stale if you played it multiple times. There are so many of these maps that are still so much better than most of the maps that other FPS titles are putting out. Truly iconic!

[@danumis_]

Foundation being so low is wild. It carried Zombies in Halo 2 and was such a fun map with snipers as well.

[@josephcasper8803]

Guess it was the FOUNDATION of infection 😉

[@zzKirus]

Yup, my first time ever playing a zombies mode was on foundation

[@djpendellmusic]

I don’t know how he does it. But every time he explains his love for the Halo CE-3 maps and designs just hits me. I get the exact same feelings towards the art styles. I absolutely adore the old Halo games and the lore behind the maps. Stay comfy out there

[@shashwat7089]

Just amazed at how many maps CE had when it released.

[@RSG200]

Hey xperia, advice if you do more tier lists, talk about the subject THEN rank it. I think it makes its better to talk about it and wonder where its gonna be ranked then ranking it and then wondering why its ranked as it is. Just a thought tho, great video

[@dominicbrown4408]

Highground is GOAT I really have no idea how the halo CE maps created such an atmosphere it's unreal.

[@cjpert5286]

Bro I'm so happy you put Terminal in S+, Its my favorite Halo map ever and it was rare to play this map often

[@zzKirus]

Terminal was one of my top favs too. That territories game mode was sick on it, as was most obj types on terminal.

[@tsunderemerc2963]

Personally, I always had a special love for the DLC maps of Halo 2. I always thought they looked really pretty, and It's a bit of a shame some of them are favored in MCC matchmaking over others. But if I had to choose a map, Forge World easily takes the cake for being such a charming and relatively diverse forge map as opposed to the very flat Sandbox, Foundry, or Forge Island. It gives newer forgers something to start with when there is built in terrain and whatnot, as opposed to starting from scratch which is what I think made it perfect. that mentality of "hey this cave is cool, lets make something in it"

[@absolutelypro4612]

This was exactly what I was looking for. Didnt agree with your list, but thats why its your list not mine. Was very pleased you put footage of each map instead of a tiny template like most lists are made

[@tTaseric]

Halo 4's Perdition is probably my favourite map for vehicles. Specifically, the situation where there's that one vehicle that's really dominating you. I think it's usually a Mantis in that map, but it always felt like the team had to work together to take it down but it wasn't miserable, like fighting Scorpions in Infinite is.

[@343Films]

I very much prefer CE through Reach over 4, but I do have to say that Perdition is my favorite map in Halo 4 and probably the one I'd consider putting in A/S tier were I to rank all of them

[@jakeriese4862]

Loved how u finished Halo3 maps with the music that is played on "Halo" mission from Halo 3, with Chief climbing back up the Foward Unto Dawn to Cortana, and just brings himself up to face her, as she stands up, as the Dawn flies away from The Ark and the self destruction from the pre mature Firing of the Halo Ring

[@Jedi_Spartan]

2:42 I want to see Boarding Action with Grappleshots in Infinite.

[@honor2996]

Had a dogshit day today. But this really helped improve my mood. Thank you for the good content as always m8 ❤

[@hunterdavid3581]

Cmon, you know 343 isnt gonna give a remake of elongation, They can't even give us splitscreen campaign!

[@defferwa]

Appreciate all the Halo videos! Love your work man

[@flawlesscowboy1173]

This just makes me so excited for Halo Infinite Forge. The fact that you can make maps look basically 1:1 to developer made maps, just makes me so excited because I know that there will be a fan-made remake of EVERY Halo map ever made eventually, and they will all look like actual developer made remasters. God I cannot wait.

[@4th1st73]

Nothing like spending nearly a quarter of my day on 1 HiddenXperia video 🤙🏻

[@xTheTranceFreakx]

Next tier list should be ranking the songs in all the halo soundtracks, you always use their songs on the background so i'd make for a fun tierlist.

[@BotClaw]

Love these tier list videos! I know each one keeps getting longer but I think the ultimate tier list video you could do (which would take a long time) would be a Halo soundtrack tier list (CE - Infinite)

[@superjesse645]

I always loved that malfunction screen on Zanzibar when you open the gate.

[@austinfuller8323]

Id have to say that *Lockout* from Halo 2 is byfar one of the most iconic maps not just in Halo, not just for Xbox, not just for FPS's, but ALL games in history. That map created many pro gamers to this day who spent many many hours lurking the corners and turns of the all too familiar BR and Snipe Towers, and then throwing your cards down, chips all in, and thrusting yourselves in the middle to have the ultimate face off in the middle propelling off the platforms to the ultimate high noon showdown while your teamates spawn fuck the enemy underneath you in the "basement" of the level. Iconic just doesn't even fully describe it

[@gianfrancovolpe6202]

A tier list of the best Halo Infinite's maps created by the community would be awesome!

[@AaronBentley24]

@HiddenXperia I've been looking forward to this vid being released, and couldn't believe it when I saw my gameplay shown in the Battle of Noctus section. Appreciate the citation too, thanks my dude 🙌

[@xxwhitephoenix2071]

55:04 so glad to hear I wasn’t the only one doing this lol

[@Wepospalient]

I actually get Uplift pretty often in MCC, as long as I'm queuing for Halo 2 BTB specifically. It's a really fun CTF/Assault map.

[@jfo1344]

Love it! Your tier lists are gold 🤩 I'd love to see "Every Single Halo Weapon Ranked" tier list!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That's gonna be a real marathon vid (get it?), this.

[@eliaxxz5360]

2 hours long? Absolute legend you're crazy my man haha keep these coming.

[@freshysaml]

I love these tier list vids. Hearing your point of view is always interesting, even if I disagree. Also, Midship/Heretic for life.

[@jaeench4946]

I’m loving these tier list videos. Fingers crossed for when you make a weapons/vehicles tier list, although I’m sure you’re waiting until infinite adds the rest of their weapons. I wanna hear your opinions on things like all the beam rifle variants there are, or the ways vehicles changed throughout the games. I never played halo 5, but I heard there were weapon and vehicle variants within that same game.

[@ThatRandomGameDev]

You were right to put your attention towards sandtrap. But your inability to protect stand-off was a monumental failure. In all seriousness another banger of a vid. Well done. Truly ICONIC!

[@343Films]

I think the Rat's Nest slander was actually the biggest letdown of the video lol. Say what you will about Avalanche and Standoff (which I personally also like), that map SLAPS

[@thefallengallery6459]

Reach brought so many good things to the Halo multiplayer world, but specifically I just LOVE the diversity of each map. They all felt very different from each other but not necessarily in a bad way.

[@morachipstudios3232]

“Whatever the name of the Battle Canyon remake in Reach was” No one tell him

[@mdamarc]

Sandtrap in S is all I needed to see

[@kristiankoski3908]

I love Chill out, Damnation, Lockout, Guardian and The Pit. But CE takes the throne here and my absolute favorite maps are Gephyrophobia, Danger canyon, Death Island and Ice Fields. CE just had something special on BTB maps. Gephy is probably my all time favorite Halo map.

[@tTaseric]

Shotty Snipers on Skyline is my absolute bread and butter

[@mrpancake8889]

Death island reminds me of a battlefield map. Was hoping that was what Infinite would be going for with BTB

[@infinity8752]

Glad someone loves Chiron TL-34, getting friends and doing all shotgun free for alls is tight af

[@ChewyMovesQuick]

This is the most anticipated halo tier list yet

[@iam3788]

I would love to see a COD Zombies Map Tier list in the future, or a Metal Gear Character tier list :)

[@ITSSIRWAN86]

Awesome Tier List Dude👏🏻👍🏻Btw Rip British Queen

[@PersonOfEarth117]

Thanks for giving me something to watch at school.

[@thetwistedspartan4602]

Hang em high will always be my favorite, despite being my most rage inducing lol

[@samayoubi3408]

I love all these maps so much and awesome to be with you guys on this maps

[@Iridescent_Astraea]

I actually really enjoy Standoff for Objective based games and Rat's Nest for really anything. Standoff is one of the few btb maps without a sniper to dominate it, and I feel like it plays out almost like a series of trenches, where people take cover and scoot between rocks, while lobbing grenades over the hills. It plays very differently to other maps, but I feel like it's one of the few maps where the warthog is really able to shine, and requires some good coordination. Rat's Nest on the other hand is just stupid fun for me. The warthog lanes run around the entire map, and there's just something about driving around it that activates my neurons. All the while, the meat grinder in the center is where the true battle takes place, and you've got to choose whether you risk running on the outer ring to go for a flank, or if you hang on the outside and wait to catch anyone trying to sneak by. I don't know, it can just be played so many different ways and I enjoy it. That said, glad to see you mention Terminal and Waterworks. I love the bases on Waterworks with multiple levels, the vehicle selection, and how they interact with the terrain, especially the bridges extending from both bases to the center that create some fun cross-fire. And Terminal, well I love the train.

[@BioTroy]

Take a shot every time this man says Aesthetic - You will die LOL Great vid man, it was like a comfy trip down memory lane!

[@Mesterchief117]

Is it just me but while watching this video, the gameplay took a huge shift from halo 1-3 to halo reach 4-infinite. I knew the gameplay was always different but in this it made me realize what. In the first the gameplay was much more chaotic, grenades flying around, different types of weapons being, on btb maps so many more vehicles and chaos. While after reach, the gameplay turned into just using dmr, br, sniper. everything was ranged, barely any weapon diversity, barely any grenades, everything was really precise. It was just really noticeable for me. Now people can prefer whichever style they want and all the power to them but just sucks when the style you prefer changes.

[@forgottengames6663]

Halo 2 was by far the best Halo for competitive play overall. No wonder it would be the catalyst for really popularizing fps multi-player.

[@PizzaGuy2001]

Stand-off is pretty cool

[@theunderdog9353]

51:47 I'm honestly more shocked to hear that people would be shocked at someone liking Snowbound. I loved that map. One of my favorite H3 maps tbh. It was up there with Narrows and Guardian for me

[@user-hn3uu3gj2g]

Never even played boarding action because all these cool niche maps aren’t in rotation in the master chief collection… thanks 343!

[@josephcasper8803]

Cgb

[@johnleeka3282]

I think that a halo vehicle tier list or a halo weapons tier list video would be sick

[@get_spanked240]

Yes, especially considering all of infinite would be D tier for their bastardization of long loved vehicles; turning is a nightmare and so mind boggling “how did they f this up?”

[@johnleeka3282]

@@get_spanked240 i swear all the infinte vehicles were fucking wonky to control

[@cornflakes4life414]

Praying for "The ULTIMATE Halo HLG Map/Hiding Spot Tier List" next. Absolutely loved this video

[@GrandNoble]

High ground was so fun. Perfect asymmetric style.

[@Erythrium]

37:05 -- Is that the WoW graveyard theme I hear? Such a nice choice of music. I do wish you'd post your music list each video as other creators often do however.

[@jakechasenbergman1041]

Foundation was an underrated map when the first form of infection game type was first introduced! Relic was also a ground breaking map for halo 2 modders. Anyone knows what I’m talking about? The Yellow Brick Road mod 😤

[@zzKirus]

Glad someone remembers this is where zombies started. Good times.

[@vitalcontact8113]

Standoff has always been my favorite map. also sniper hoarding has always been my biggest problem with halo in general.

[@justinvalentine7544]

I would like a Halo weapons tier list including all the iterations of each weapon throughout the years. Even better, a tier list video of the entire sandbox (Weapons, Vehicles, Equipment, Armor Abilities) throughout the FPS games.

[@absolutelypro4612]

Sure here it goes #1 the Br #2 the Battle Rifle #3 BR75

[@SpraguoDelFuego]

Hey Hidden, I haven't seen it mentioned yet but Narrows is basically the spiritual successor to Gephyrophobia just on a smaller scale! It's hard to notice I think because of the different atmosphere and aesthetic but it's there!! One of my favorites fur sure!

[@joerowland2625]

No its not Bungie didn't take inspiration for Gephyrophobia while making Narrows

[@hunterwalthers9449]

Man, I was unaware at how many unique maps halo ce really had. I think I always just played the same couple maps on this game and missed out on all its uniqueness

[@coltforceplayer]

Hidden Xperia Boutta make a “Standoff” on why he doesn’t like Standoff

[@joerowland9128]

Standoff is bad

[@coltforceplayer]

@@joerowland9128 🤯

[@joerowland9128]

@@coltforceplayer ? Loads of People hate Standoff Standoff used to be a very loved map by everyone But now it's becoming more and more hated

[@coltforceplayer]

​@@joerowland9128yeah that emoji was sarcasm

[@maxficarra8024]

You should make a tier list for all the vehicles from each game like the enemies tier list

[@EthanRom]

This is gonna sound weird, but maybe some people will get it. I’m not super in to how “crazy” the backdrops of the Halo 4 maps were. It’s like there was always a gazzilion things happening in the back. They are objectively beautiful, but sometimes a bit too busy. Also thrown off by how harsh the shadows were on the maps. It like it wasn’t lit properly and only has one direct light source

[@nickkidrick9739]

This makes me want to install halo custom edition. I miss playing halo Combat Evolved on pc.

[@DaDARKPass]

Battle Creek is the name of the first map you were talking about.

[@coltforceplayer]

Lockout is a map i love so much i can actually recreate it in Forge

[@420-V.T.L-Machinist]

Halo CE on pc was awesome online. Alot of cool people played for a long time after its prime. Death island was the best map to have a big group

[@robertnewman4854]

21:00, Gemini was actually a Marathon map too, namely Duality.

[@coreywilds113]

Even as an original halo fan, I still love almost all of halo 4s maps

[@jackofalltrades4529]

Been waiting on this one !!!!! Keep up the great work man !!

[@awesomearchivist1705]

Construct is my favorite 4v4 halo 3 map, I remember being 9 in 2009 playing this map by myself to watch the giant waterfall and shoot the sentinels in the distance. Ahhhhhhhh nostalgia.

[@tanman5090]

Drinking game idea: take a shot every time he says he likes the aesthetic of a map

[@TAGSTER_HD]

Holy sweet Jesus he’s done it again. The mother of all tier list videos jack. Well bloody done good sir. Well bloody freakin done. These videos have been great on all fronts. Really enjoyed them ! Hope they can keep coming. Can’t wait for your next branch out vids lad 👌

[@samlaws2688]

Halo 3 was so ahead of its time yet nothing can quite replicate it

[@joerowland2625]

Halo 2 had better maps then halo 3

[@343Films]

​@@joerowland2625 Nah. Halo 2 had higher highs, sure, but Halo 3 had a much better overall offering.

[@samlaws2688]

@@joerowland2625 strongly disagree, halo 3 also looks better than most FPS shooters still

[@andrewsever4651]

Gemini, actually, is also inspired by a Marathon map

[@desmondmiles7471]

I still play Coagulation on the MCC with my brother and cousin every Xmas. We play custom FFA slayer with Snipers and Rockets only. What a great time

[@riloe1]

Love these ultra long form videos. Great to watch while working on something.

[@tTaseric]

Overgrowth was the first Halo 5 map I ever played. I didn't have an Xbox so I was playing Halo 5 Forge on PC and that was the map I loaded into. It was just wandering around in forge so I didn't care about the gameplay, it was just looking at how pretty it all was. One day I might actually play it proper, who knows.

[@RosheenQuynh]

One of my favorite memories was playing on Prisoner with nothing but Rocket Launchers with my stepbros. I always hated dying but man, it brings back good memories... We called it Prisoner Rockets for short.

[@jimjamauto]

I played the crap outta Halo CE on PC. There were several 24/7 Death Island CTF servers. The most competitive and always fully populated (8v8) was called Razor's Edge.

[@wezbeh4363]

Excited to watch this whole video! Following yesterday's sad news about the Queen, I hope you are doing well!

[@spartana47]

What's cool is that last year one day I was playing Narrows on vanilla Halo 3 and the last kill of the game was me killing my brother when I had just gotten on the man cannon with a sniper

[@343Films]

Narrows is a god-tier map. So many amazing memories on that one from back in the day

[@weeklywiths]

Amazing video. It's good to see all these maps getting some love. Question though, have you played the new VR Contractors Halo Mod. Personally I know you'd love it.

[@EthanRom]

Really miss seeing the giant Halo ring in the background of the old Halo games

[@ghosttiee9212]

Sameee all bungie games had it I love it on halo reach it’s on forge world and the fire fight map from halo ce campaign “halo” but halo infinite I think one of the maps are on the the ring you can kind of see it

[@EthanRom]

@@ghosttiee9212 that’s why I’m so hyped about one of the new forge canvas maps. It finally has a giant Halo ring

[@Mech-Mech]

can't believe Forge World wasn't top of S+ Tier... That singular map was the backbone of the community for several years.

[@gunner799]

1:21:45 lol what else you want? It’s got a beach and got some forerunner architecture. That’s what “based on” means

[@kaners2006]

Finally made it in a HiddenXperia video. When I saw his rocket play in the Narrows clip, I figured it was the real thing.