I am PISSED OFF. I got my Monthly challenge OF 117 matchmaking wins last night after some double EXP spartan ops games, and some matchmaking games, and the game GAVE ME THE 17343 EXPERIENCE, DIDN'T TELL ME I WAS AT THE EXP LIMIT, and then TOOK IT AWAY. WTF 343 I worked a goddamn month for that challenge and you won't give it to me? Daily limit be damned I want my experience! Who do I bitch to about this?!
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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Ramocalypse
Member
Good news! Its not! Its a Ragnarok fest...
Less so. It's a double edged sword. Ragnarok appears less in the voting stage, but when it shows up, don't bother voting for anything else.
Looking good.
I hope they continue to make epic battles in Spartan Ops and maybe throw a few variations in there, maybe with some Aerial combat.
IOnEI Falcon
Member
Yeah, friendly fire on vehicles needs to stop...
I don't know how many times now my team mates have killed me because I was the first one to the tank or Mantis...unbelievable...
I also love now people are grabbing the Mongoose on Exile to get to the tank first. Lets just waste vehicles to get to other vehicles! Nothing tops someone grabbing the Banshee on Valhalla to fly to the Mantis...wow...
I don't know how many times now my team mates have killed me because I was the first one to the tank or Mantis...unbelievable...
I also love now people are grabbing the Mongoose on Exile to get to the tank first. Lets just waste vehicles to get to other vehicles! Nothing tops someone grabbing the Banshee on Valhalla to fly to the Mantis...wow...
What else is the Mongoose going to be used for on Exile?
nice. spartan ops story could end up better (to me at least) than the campaign. its cool that they take 3-5 minutes each week, just for story content. i wish the main campaign had more moments like episode 3's cutscene (4 minutes of pure story/background).
dehydratedbabies
Member
I estimate that at least one player has quit in at least 65% of the last 100 games I've played. It's a huge problem and joining in-progress games isn't the solution (although it does help, sometimes).
Silly.Mikey
Banned
But the difference now is that you don't notice unless you press back and see the scoreboard with the names and even then, people do join even if the match started with men down. JIP can be improved sure, but taking it away would make it 1000 times worst. Reach wasn't even playable anymore near the end. As soon as a match started, people quit. It was garbage.
IOnEI Falcon
Member
Haha! Well what if I just want to go balls out and charge into the opposing team with my trusty Mongoose.
YourExWife
Member
this will happen everytime for koth on Ragnarok. It's a actually built into the gametype. Balance. Fun...
dehydratedbabies
Member
I don't want JIP to be taken away. I simply want there to be a significant penalty for quitting in-progress matches. Also, I find it difficult not to notice when my team isn't full, and I've played numerous games where my team's vacancies were never filled. JIP is good, and I agree that it's 100% better than Bungie's half-assed remedy ("jackpots"), but as I said it's not the solution.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
You cant get rid of quitting. Every MP game out there (console or pc) deals with people leaving at any point in the game and replacing them. If your goal is to have people stop leaving games entirely then you'll be holding your breath for a very long time cause its not gonna happen.
No game out there significantly penalizes people for leaving a game. None. Most of them give the guy a loss and that's it. Works fine in all those other games.
More, MORE!
dehydratedbabies
Member
I agree.
Numerous games have penalized quitters, including Halo 3, but whether those punishments are significant or not is arguable. Regardless, I can't say that 343's policy regarding quitters "works fine" in Halo 4 when players have quit in more than half of my games. You said that Reach eventually became barely playable due to quitters but after that's nearly how I feel about Halo 4 after less than 3 weeks.
Quitters are indeed inevitable, but that's doesn't justify inaction.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Reach became unplayable cause the players who left were never replaced. Unlike all the other MP games out there. I dont care if people wanna leave, just replace them. Halo4 does that now.
-- It's cool that they are really pushing the background lore a LOT in these new Spartan Op episodes. I am honestly quite interested in seeing where they go with the Halsey explanation/justification for the Spartans. I am sort of wondering if the other scientist is just going to be a foil for a "doing what must be done to survive" angle, even though it seems clear from other sources that even Bungie clearly was trying to show ONI and their work as being pretty bad. Isaac Hannaford in particular had this to say about ONI and the Sword Base aesthetic:
Isaac Hannaford said:
dehydratedbabies
Member
The replacement is not immediate, though, and as I said I've played numerous matches where replacements never arrived. JIP and quitting penalties aren't mutually exclusive.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Yes well that aspect for sure can be improved. Ill still take this over the old way any day of the week. This, even if in this state, is leagues better than how Reach or 3/2 was.
dehydratedbabies
Member
Absolutely. It really pissed me off that Bungie didn't seem to care about how bad it was (is?) in Reach.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're using it better than you.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Stubbornness.
Diablohead
Member
You do realize the game has only been out for three weeks, right?
TacticalFox88
Banned
Why oh WHY couldn't this story be in Halo 4. Goddammit, I feel shafted, even though by all intents and purposes, I shouldn't.
Diablohead
Member
daily xp limits should ignore challenge xp given out, it's a big flaw as I have had the same thing, but not on the 117 wins one.
Uh it is? Go to SpartanOps menu's and on the far right is all the episodes cut scenes ready to watch.
Early Dec I believe.
I believe he is referring to he would have preferred to see the current Spartan Ops storyline be explored during the campaign of Halo 4, rather than the story we got.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
What I want to know is why they have not fixed either yet.
TacticalFox88
Banned
I don't mean like that. I know it's in the game physically. But I meant this story is better than halo 4 to me and I wish it was the mainline instead of what we got
I'd just like her to actually appear and demonstrate how badass she is in the field. Right now she's been defined solely by her wisecracks and her somewhat-excessive hatred of Halsey (yeah, we know, she's a bastard, but you wouldn't be bitching at your squad without her, so at least feel conflicted or something.) That does not make a real character. I at least understood why Del Rio was incompetent.
If I hear "egghead" or "war criminal" one more time I will lose it.
Really? Because I didn't. There wasn't any motivation there.
Cross posting from the other thread but we The Halo Council recently did a episode of "Social Skirmish" going over a lot of the issues in Halo 4.
Ghost_Protocol
Member
Are the spartan ops cg cutscenes of lower quality than those in the campaign? Because the ones in the campaign look fantastic.
No one is "motivated" to be incompetent, it just happens. The Thursday War sets up plenty for him, although it would have been nice to have a bit in the game to explain it to players. Basically, he's by the book, and doesn't have the same respect of his men that Lasky does. You get a little taste in TTW that he resent that, and I think that's mostly what causes his blowup in Halo 4--he sees that he can't really get his people to do what they don't want to do because they don't respect his leadership, and rightly so (making some shitty decisions.)
I personally think it would have been more interesting had he not been so crappy a commander, then that would have made Lasky's disobeying orders more meaningful.
So? You can't win 117 games in that time frame?
This.
I hate all of these so called Spartan IVs. They are not Spartans, but I think they were written to be dislikeable to show what it means to be the real thing and not a wannabe.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Halo 4 tonight on Nightline at 11:35 EST
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/enterta...enes-of-3-billion-blockbusters-new-chapter-2/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/enterta...enes-of-3-billion-blockbusters-new-chapter-2/
Princess Carl
Member
Vehicle combat is dead
Vehicle combat is dead
Spawning with plasma pistols. Explosive weapons in every ordinance.
Vehicle combat was killed by design.
edgardavids
Member
CRIMSON CRIMSON CRIMSON. Do this CRIMSON.