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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Servers must be getting hammered. I kept getting booted out of MP games for a while this morning.
"SWAT!"
ok. just lost my complete loadout during a game and was level 1 again.
but the "not joinable" thing also happend on friday, saturday and sunday.
Yeah everyone is in a party, so if you're the odd man out, no communication whatsoever. Cuts down on trash talk I guess, but hurts everything else in the process.
I'd give them a chance to make it up to you. Amazon seems like a company that would do that if there is a big enough outcry. Then after that if you're still salty cancel.
That's what Spartan Ops is for too! Well at least for me.
"onward my trusty Mantis!"
Light Rifle
That's what Spartan Ops is for too! Well at least for me.
"onward my trusty Mantis!"
Yup! I love Halo multiplayer, but I've always been a campaign/story guy first and foremost. Spartan Ops sounds amazing.
God, this game.
I got a couple rounds in on my flatmates copy and I like the Battle rifle better, but its a very small margin.
Pop
Member
Mizzou Gaming
Member
Server issues, the only thing I worried about appears to be happening. I absolutely love the game so far, love 343 but there really are no excuses for major server issues this late into the generation. Hopefully these issues don't grow into major problems because the game is too good to be brought down that way.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Carbine.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Went to the midnight launch & played last night.
Surprising addicting & I thought I was done with the Halo games.
Kills seem to take less time & the game seems faster paced. I love it.
The fairly basic rudimentary CoD aspects added are also great & do nothing but add to the game. Loadouts, killstreak rewards, leveling up unlocks & perks.
All of them pretty insignificant & small fry compared to what's in CoD, but they might have not gone overboard on purpose.
One thing I have to say, graphics are a HUGE LETDOWN!
I'm more convinced than every before this game looks vastly worse than Halo 3. I need to boot Halo 3 to confirm, but everything in 4 looks washed out & muted, lighting less impressive. The game looks as jaggy as ever & with framerate issues. Add to that, the awful ghosting caused from temporal AA solution of Reach seems to be back in full effect.
To be fair I haven't touched the campaign, which might look better than the mulitplayer.
Surprising addicting & I thought I was done with the Halo games.
Kills seem to take less time & the game seems faster paced. I love it.
The fairly basic rudimentary CoD aspects added are also great & do nothing but add to the game. Loadouts, killstreak rewards, leveling up unlocks & perks.
All of them pretty insignificant & small fry compared to what's in CoD, but they might have not gone overboard on purpose.
One thing I have to say, graphics are a HUGE LETDOWN!
I'm more convinced than every before this game looks vastly worse than Halo 3. I need to boot Halo 3 to confirm, but everything in 4 looks washed out & muted, lighting less impressive. The game looks as jaggy as ever & with framerate issues. Add to that, the awful ghosting caused from temporal AA solution of Reach seems to be back in full effect.
To be fair I haven't touched the campaign, which might look better than the mulitplayer.
Has been the only issue you've had with Prime? I would have asked for compensation of some sort before I canceled. I seriously love Prime though lol
shinobi602
Member
Good Lord, "Arrival" is arguably the best soundtrack I've heard in the series.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I did, they only offered 10 dollar credit, and IMO that's not good enough.
I've had issues before with Amazon, but not with delivery. It wouldn't have been such a big deal if it wasn't Halo.
As for prime, most games get release day delivery anyway, or at least they used to.
Ok, Campaign is about to piss me off. Where the fuck is continue at? Every time me and my brother meet back up to continue our co-op Campaign, it keeps selecting the very beginning of the mission we were on. If I start the Campaign, we have to do the whole damn mission over, but if I select one of the other starting points, it won't give us the achievement for the mission. Terribly designed.
Mizzou Gaming
Member
You might want to adjust your TV monitor settings because everything pops unbelieveably gorgeous in multi and campaign. The lighting and everything blows Halo 3 completely out of the water.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
How much do you guys think this sold? There were only about 180,000 in matchmaking last night.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
In some cases the hurricane can be blamed. Not in my case. If I was in that area of the country I'd have no complaint.
XtremeXpider
Member
Lol, first check your tv settings, and second, try the campaign.
Worse than Halo 3? Ghosting back from Reach? Nope. Not at all.
Mizzou Gaming
Member
I believe you lose your checkpoint save if you start another campaign. The missions you have fully been completed are open but you will have to start at the beginning of the first mission you havent completed all the way. I believe its been that way for all the Halos or at least from Halo 3 on.
Please keep in mind these are not confirmed facts Im just going by memory.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
There's all kinds of weird matchmaking problems. I can't join parties and parties can't join me. :-(
Mizzou Gaming
Member
Normally this would all be subjective but the difference between the two is so huge I have a hard time lending any credibility to that opinion.
Neither of us have started another Campaign. There is no continue. It just has the same starting point (Alpha) that we chose when we went back into Mission 3. We had to stop half through Mission, and when you go back, it's the same setup: Mission 3 Alpha. We have all 4 Rally points open in Mission 3 because we've already beat the level. It didn't give us the achievement for it, even though neither of us missed any part of the Mission. Bad design. I think it might've been Reach where we had a similar problem.
All 343 had to do is create a SAVE NOW. How fucking hard is that? I guess as hard as TURN THE FUCKING MUSIC DOWN option.
Mizzou Gaming
Member
It will eclipse all previous Halo title launches from day one sales to lifetime sells in my opinion.
Holy shit. I haven't played much of Halo MP in a very long time but it came back with a vengeance last night. Those games have some of my best moments in gaming. This is so much fun.
I do agree that the default Forge maps blow chunks in MP. I really hope we don't end up playing shitty Forge maps all the time a few months from now.
I do agree that the default Forge maps blow chunks in MP. I really hope we don't end up playing shitty Forge maps all the time a few months from now.
JetBlackPanda
Member
the lag for whoever is hosting in campaign coop is bad.
Mizzou Gaming
Member
Like I said I wasnt 100% sure. I though you were saying you had a solo campaign going and then you began another one from the start playing it co-op so Im a bit confused. Sorry I couldnt help you out, I tried.
When you are done playing press start and choose save and quit. When you resume campaign you start at the last time the game said "checkpoint...done" when you were playing
AltogetherAndrews
Member
Well, a few missions in now, and it's definitely 10/10 for me. Plays like a dream, the new weapons are neat, the game sounds incredible and it's absolutely gorgeous. Some of the alien bits feel like they could have been lifted from a Ratchet game and then made bigger, and that's a pretty big compliment.
Oh, and the music is damned nice.
Oh, and the music is damned nice.
cr_blah_blah
Member
I'm terrible at regular slayer but better at BTB since I can rely more on alternate weapons and kills (since I suck at DMR/BR headshots). It's really great. Though my Waypoint in-game still is showing no stats.
Though they did get rid of my heart emblem. I've used the same one since Halo 2. Sucks it's gone.
Though they did get rid of my heart emblem. I've used the same one since Halo 2. Sucks it's gone.
I'm glad that you really like it. Maybe we can get some games in this week.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
How the hell do you pull off aerial maneuvers in the Banshee?! I used to have it down in Halo 3, but now, nothing.
show me your skeleton
Member
so guys. how good is the game? it's really good isn't it?
you can tell it to me straight
you can tell it to me straight
Baconsammy
Banned
It's so fucking easy that they did it. How fucking hard is it to find it? Hit pause, hit save and exit. I just did it. It works really well.