Funny thing with the huge gun in reach is you don't actually have to use it, you can just wait around until he says "FIRE IT NOW" and run up and do it.
that's what i did for my legendary solo run at least
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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
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Funny thing with the huge gun in reach is you don't actually have to use it, you can just wait around until he says "FIRE IT NOW" and run up and do it.
that's what i did for my legendary solo run at least
After my first playthrough (heroic), I was pretty satisfied, mostly because of the story and freshness of the promethean enemies. After completing 50% of my legendary playthrough, I can say with confidence that I will NEVER touch the campaign again, except to grind some achievements in coop maybe.
I hate how every enemy is super accurate at all distances, I hate how every enemy is huge bullet sponge, and so on. How about making enemies play fair? With the same amount of bullet spread that you deal with?
For the record, I have completed every Halo game on Legendary, most of them multiple times. They were, at times, crushingly hard, but never as unfair and cheap as Halo 4 (except for the infamous Halo 2 Jackal snipers and rocket flood maybe).
7/10 score is pretty much justified, for SP at least.
Hopefully the MP is better - if not, I'm done with buying Halo games day one.
I don't get not liking a game because the hardest difficulty is, you know, hard. You said you liked the game on Heroic and that's the way it was supposed to be played, you were satisfied with how 343 intended the game to play.
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I know you'll say that it's not hard but broken but it's still legendary. You can think less of Halo 4's legendary setting but I don't see why that would make you dislike the game more.
Diablohead
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I am slowly beating single player on legendary from the get go and TBH I am finding the AI lacking, so many times they will leave you alone if you move away and just stand there, elites will take shots until their shield pops and not move out of a set zone.
This is only a few levels in I should say but reach had some top notch elite AI and they would seriously scare me, here though they do not.
This is only a few levels in I should say but reach had some top notch elite AI and they would seriously scare me, here though they do not.
DarkChronic
Member
Well, after 12 days, I finally got power restored after Hurricane Sandy. Popped in Halo 4 for the first time last night. Did the first campaign mission, and all 5 Spartan Ops missions with a buddy.
I'm really enjoying it. Guns feel "heavy" and the shooting feels good. Had a ton of fun playing Spartan Ops, too. Cool to see it'll have new content every week.
Can't wait to play more of the campaign!
I'm really enjoying it. Guns feel "heavy" and the shooting feels good. Had a ton of fun playing Spartan Ops, too. Cool to see it'll have new content every week.
Can't wait to play more of the campaign!
scar tissue
Banned
Played my first MP game - a game of dominion on that snow map. We lost but it was fuckawesome. Cautiously optimistic about the MP.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
That's the combat pretty much throughout. Oddly though, spartan ops this happens a lot less. At least it did for me.
dehydratedbabies
Member
I bet that feels amazing.
After my first playthrough (heroic), I was pretty satisfied, mostly because of the story and freshness of the promethean enemies. After completing 50% of my legendary playthrough, I can say with confidence that I will NEVER touch the campaign again, except to grind some achievements in coop maybe.
I hate how every enemy is super accurate at all distances, I hate how every enemy is huge bullet sponge, and so on. How about making enemies play fair? With the same amount of bullet spread that you deal with?
For the record, I have completed every Halo game on Legendary, most of them multiple times. They were, at times, crushingly hard, but never as unfair and cheap as Halo 4 (except for the infamous Halo 2 Jackal snipers and rocket flood maybe).
7/10 score is pretty much justified, for SP at least.
Hopefully the MP is better - if not, I'm done with buying Halo games day one.
Wow, what a whine fest.
I played and beat it on legendary without touching any other difficulty. I am also not that good at this game. There are 3 or 4 tough spots. But most of it is pretty managable. Don't hate the game that you are having trouble, its the toughest difficulty for a reason. If it was easy you would probably whine that you weren't dying enough
User 73706
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Campaign gets completely ruined playing co-op but in the absolute best of ways. No longer are you scavenging for ammo desperately hoping that Knight doesn't get the jump on you. Now it's more like:
INSTA-RESPAWN WITH FULL AMMO ON SUPPRESSOR AND BOLTSHOT
GO GO GO SHOOT YOUR GUN EVERYWHERE TAG TEAM THE FUCK OUT OF 'EM
BATTLEWAGON? DOUBLE DRAGON ASSASSINATION BITCHES
I have to say, I think this is the most fun I've ever had in Halo co-op.
It'd be interesting if they added a skull to compliment Iron (maybe call it Ingot or Redstone or Bedrock or something) that gives each of your co-op buddies a number of lives, let's say 10. After 10 deaths, it reverts to the last checkpoint. Same applies for single-player, except it restarts the level. Could be interesting.
INSTA-RESPAWN WITH FULL AMMO ON SUPPRESSOR AND BOLTSHOT
GO GO GO SHOOT YOUR GUN EVERYWHERE TAG TEAM THE FUCK OUT OF 'EM
BATTLEWAGON? DOUBLE DRAGON ASSASSINATION BITCHES
I have to say, I think this is the most fun I've ever had in Halo co-op.
It'd be interesting if they added a skull to compliment Iron (maybe call it Ingot or Redstone or Bedrock or something) that gives each of your co-op buddies a number of lives, let's say 10. After 10 deaths, it reverts to the last checkpoint. Same applies for single-player, except it restarts the level. Could be interesting.
Yep completely disagree. Ragnarok is a horrible godawful map in 4.
Ein Soph Aur
Member
It annoys me a little that people keep voting Ragnarock in BTB IS.
Psychoward
Banned
I personally don't mind Ragnarok, but it ALWAYS gets voted for, unless it's going up against Exile.
An artistic change I wish they would have made now that would have helped clarify part of the ending.
Before release, it was mentioned they made Cortana more 'solid' so people would feel she was more real. I get it, makes sense.
After playing the game, they should have saved that for the scene where she touches Chief. Also, throughout the game she's inconsistently solid or holographic. Sometimes when she's in a pedestal, she's solid (intro, other terminals). Sometimes she's holographic like 3/2/1. Or you'll plug her into something she's holographic in, and in the next cutscene she's solid.
I think it would have communicated the fact that she was 'real' now in the post-nuke hardlight cocoon more clearly if they had kept her holographic throughout the game up until that point, then finally made her solid for that scene. I think it would have made it more clear and it would have been more powerful.
Also, I still hate her face for this game. She's supposed to be stoic, wise, and mature. She looks like a 30 year old woman with a 13 year old's face in Halo 4 and naive.
After playing the game, they should have saved that for the scene where she touches Chief. Also, throughout the game she's inconsistently solid or holographic. Sometimes when she's in a pedestal, she's solid (intro, other terminals). Sometimes she's holographic like 3/2/1. Or you'll plug her into something she's holographic in, and in the next cutscene she's solid.
I think it would have communicated the fact that she was 'real' now in the post-nuke hardlight cocoon more clearly if they had kept her holographic throughout the game up until that point, then finally made her solid for that scene. I think it would have made it more clear and it would have been more powerful.
Also, I still hate her face for this game. She's supposed to be stoic, wise, and mature. She looks like a 30 year old woman with a 13 year old's face in Halo 4 and naive.
Emperor Bohe
Member
is the Mark V helmet in this game?
scar tissue
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lol wut
I beat every single previous Halo on Legendary, some of them multiple times. I'd say I'm qualified to judge the difficulty/fairness of a Legendary run on Halo 4.
i miss when you had to rush for power weapons, power ups, keep track of when it spawns etc. now your awarded power weapons even if you suck. hard to really enjoy when nearly every damn player is running around with a power weapon or one of all the new automatics in 4.
What? Why? The DMR makes those delicious lines of sight actually usable. So much better than the BR in Halo 3. I love it.
Well, it is a power weapon... No more "noobish" than the Rocket Launcher or the Sword.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Blue Ninja
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Overall, most of the armor (especially the helmets) looks like shit, but it looks better than Reach's taped-on and floating armor pieces.
Ignore the VCR taped to my face.
Ignore the VCR taped to my face.
Jack Scofield
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I wish the DMR wasn't the end-all-be-all starting weapon. I love using the BR but I always feel as though I'm hamstringing myself whenever I select it over the DMR.
Funny, seems like all those players actually getting to use those weapons are really enjoying themselves.
How does Global Ordnance (not even personal ordnance, which is at least restricted to Wacky Infinity Slayer Funtime gametypes), where sometimes an Incineration Cannon will drop right by the enemy's doorstep due to random drops, while your team's base could get something crappy or nothing at all, level the playing field? All it does is throw players' prediction skills out the window and completely change the tight, controlled pace of a classic Halo match.
Why is requiring map knowledge to compete on a decent level considered to be such a bad thing when it is so incredibly easy to learn if people just put in five minutes of effort?
CreateNowSleepLater
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Just best it last night, some questions
1)So Cortana is dead? The parts of her stuck in Didacts ship are destroyed right?
2) Why are the Elites back with the Covies? Is that just a retcon, like they never left?
3) What was the deal with Halsey in the opener, they never got back to that.
4) When I watched the last terminal there was some symbols at the end, what do you do with them?
5) How is cortana "real" at the end? Does she wrap herself around the light from the bridge?
Overall it was ok, that ending was a little weird. Cortana telling Chief you know how long I wanted to do that when she touches him is a little spooky
There is also no way Cortana is out, there were enough hints that another Cortana could be created.
2) Why are the Elites back with the Covies? Is that just a retcon, like they never left?
3) What was the deal with Halsey in the opener, they never got back to that.
4) When I watched the last terminal there was some symbols at the end, what do you do with them?
5) How is cortana "real" at the end? Does she wrap herself around the light from the bridge?
Overall it was ok, that ending was a little weird. Cortana telling Chief you know how long I wanted to do that when she touches him is a little spooky
There is also no way Cortana is out, there were enough hints that another Cortana could be created.
IF your talking about the "level up to get weapons" mentality then it's not really leveling the playing field. Especially if your starting out new
lol we were playing Complex yesterday and Overdoz spawned inside of one of the building and a sniper dropped right at his feet as soon as he spawned.
I'm also going to load up some maps and just watch the weapon spawns and see if there's some pattern to it. I actually guessed a drop correctly on Solace yesterday in a match so that was nice. Don't know if it was just luck though.
You need to play more Dominion man.
I'm down for some Legendary Spartan Ops. GT is same as my GAF name.
Not in game. Which was odd. It wouldn't have been too hard to have an officer aboard Infinity fill in Chief and Cortana on that. It's explained in the books though:
There is a splinter sect of former Covenant who still hate and want to rid the galaxy of humanity.
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Judging by a number of your posts in this thread, you seem to take great offense to the fact that some people are not as good at games as you.
CreateNowSleepLater
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A lot of people I talk to feel this way. They are already waiting for Blops2. MP is a mess, power weapons fill the map. They wanted to concentrate on gun play so bad but I dont know how many times a game I get people just running around sprinting melee/assassinations.
It just isn't very fun.
Everdred
Member
Which limited edition code gets you the future map packs? I didn't see any that were obviously the map pack.
I was surprised how little the player count dropped when I went back to play still 70k online.
I think some of the spots have a higher weighting for certain weapons than others - the sides of the Solace snipe ledges tend to favor Railguns and Sticky Detonators, while there are a few spots just in front of the sniper ledges that tend to favor Incineration Cannons. I just don't like that there's no way to predict any of it, that it doesn't appear to actually be on a rotation, but that the spot is randomly picked. It's not just my resistance to any change, either, I actually love what the loadouts have brought to the game.
There's a real core of greatness to this game that I hope they're able to find and bring to the forefront past all this structural stuff.
I don't think that'll help him that much, that gametype pretty much turns into Heavies after five minutes.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
It begins
Now that 343 has made a 'safe' Halo I hope they go balls to the wall for the next one. Do crazy shit, anything.
Except for Qte's. I don't mind them but they felt really out of place here.
I had hoped Stinkles or someone could clear this up.
Except for Qte's. I don't mind them but they felt really out of place here.
The first one that gets you the armor pieces and the specializations. Hopefully. It says so on the code part but it didn't say anything about it in the DL screen. So...yeah. I guess we'll find out when they release them.
I had hoped Stinkles or someone could clear this up.
Experimented with the no-radar skull yesterday. Even though I didn't mind it in past Halos, for whatever reason I'm liking playing without the radar this time. Feels kind of cheap to have it on, and I like the uncertainty/tension/need for extra caution that comes from playing without it.
Also tried the blind skull to get rid of the HUD, but it was just too annoying not being able to see my weapon/ammo info and text prompts. More customization in this area would have been nice, as I'd love an option to get rid of the helmet graphics without losing weapon info. Playing with no HUD really opens things up and adds to the immersion for me - it was particularly awesome entering the Promethean area at the start of mission 3 (4?).
Just reached that part, and I was gonna say, either they're total bullet sponges or the first Promethean weapons you get are absolute crap. Any tips on beating these guys? I keep running out of ammo and resorting to doomed melee attempts.
Also tried the blind skull to get rid of the HUD, but it was just too annoying not being able to see my weapon/ammo info and text prompts. More customization in this area would have been nice, as I'd love an option to get rid of the helmet graphics without losing weapon info. Playing with no HUD really opens things up and adds to the immersion for me - it was particularly awesome entering the Promethean area at the start of mission 3 (4?).
Just reached that part, and I was gonna say, either they're total bullet sponges or the first Promethean weapons you get are absolute crap. Any tips on beating these guys? I keep running out of ammo and resorting to doomed melee attempts.
Gotta agree with this. Reach final level on legendary was shit. Everything you described evokes my feelings of running through it. The turret sequence alone was maddening and the worst way to cap off an equally irritating and long firefight sequence.
Actually damn near the entirety of Reach was firefight sequences. If Halo 4 has you "pushing buttons", Reach had you "holding position from waves of covenant" as pretty much the constant repeating objective.
You are bad and should feel bad.
Well the problem with Ragnarok is that it's just comprised of too many chokehold points where you can't really rush past without getting raped by DMRs.
ha, he's not the only one. As much as I don't want to I might eventually go back to playing reach. even with AAs its still much more halo than 4 will ever be. it's a damn shame.
i'll keep playing til I unlock the next specialization though. don't want to give up on it yet, I mean, it's a damn good looking game for one.
i'll keep playing til I unlock the next specialization though. don't want to give up on it yet, I mean, it's a damn good looking game for one.