Gabotron ES
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Is Episode 4 out yet?
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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ElRenoRaven
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Lolz.
Hmm. I like Jamie but I really didn't feel that Halo 4 had an overabundance of space crates. I may ding Halo 4 on a lot of shit but it's not that at all. The rest however I agree with him on everything else.
Gabotron ES
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bueno
Zeouterlimits
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I thought Jamie was just poking fun, not out and out criticising...
I assume so too... But the only thing I can think of crate-wise that got me were that the Prometheans had weapon caches. They teleport in why would they need them?
Yeap, that's the one. Ahh, sucks. I just saw a guy use it in FFA and aside from the helmet, it all looked pretty good
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Finished the first 3 episodes of SpOps. Definitely gets better as you go. I like it a bit more than Firefight since it adds a bit of story and gives you objectives. I think they should really have both modes in the game though.
MaximumFlipFlop
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My best guess is because they're already on the disc (or at least the first three were), but because they decided to lock it behind a Gold subscription, if the servers are down or if you're playing offline there's no verification so they don't appear.
Poker Face
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really think they should have kept firefight, and just added an optional story mode. play normal firefight with scoring, lives, waves, rounds, etc etc, or play a story mode where you have to hold off waves for X amount of rounds, complete basic objectives (capture bases, arm bombs, retrieve intel, etc) and watch a CG cut scene at the end.
i honestly can't be excited about playing the same thing over and over and over again when it's on recycled environments.
i honestly can't be excited about playing the same thing over and over and over again when it's on recycled environments.
Here's the CGI cutscene of episode 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKJ5ZZfQgSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKJ5ZZfQgSc
Hydranockz
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You free to play through it later on?
Reagan's BR
Banned
Ouch.
Why would you want to play Spartan Ops?
Reagan's BR
Banned
Ouch!
I counted 15 on one of the early missions. I've observed before that Halo 4 offers up more information on screen than before, but omits a lot of useful information. In this instance, they offer up so much information that it's actually counter productive.
The
random room out of nowhere that had the hammer in it was very video-gamey. Very. uh.. Quake-ish. Don't know how to describe it, but it sticks out.
And you can't even earn commendations in anything when the Halo 4 Server is down. What the fuck is this? I figured I have some free time, I can play some campaign, get achievements, unlock shit. I can't even do this as the connection to the Halo 4 Server is down.
Seriously, please fix this shit.
Yeah, I understood why it was there from a game design standpoint... kind of (
Why bother giving you ammo with non-Promethean weapons when you can't, by any stretch of the imagination, complete the entire sequence with the ammo provided? There should have been more ammo checkpoints for non-Promethean weapons if they intended for you to get a competent go at the next engagements with them
Why are these weapons here? How did they get there? If there are no Brutes in the Storm Faction then where did the Didact get the Hammer from?
I had to laugh right at the end
when Master Chief has a Battle Rifle in the final cut scene. I was like "where the hell did you get that from?" It would be near impossible to get to that stage and still have a BR with ammo.
I kinda assumed that they were there for 'studying'. Though I guess that doesn't really make sense now that I think about it...
squidhands
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The later missions are better, but I know what you're getting at and agree for the most part. Taking away a feature-rich mode like Firefight and replacing it with what we currently have in SpOps (still wishing for scoring and medals to be added at the very least) isn't a very even trade.
Didn't Firefight just highlight the last 5 enemies? Not sure what 343's decision was here, but it fits into the Halo 4 theme of extra hand-holding. Do not like.
On the flip side, Oddball is fantastic. The changes made to that mode are awesome and very welcome. If 343 could be so kind as to remove Camo and the Binary Rifle from matchmaking, I would be very grateful.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I do have to say the Spartan Ops mission on Ragnarock (second one on the map) was the best one by far. So much chaos, so awesome.
Aww yeah
Looks pretty shitty here, but dat purple visor looks great in game.
How do you get the purple visor?
squidhands
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I should have known it was directly tied to an achievement the first time I saw it.
Hydranockz
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6 on 6 is amazing on LAN. Throwing the ball really turns it on its head. I've only ever had a blast with it.
The 'Tracker' specialisation at SR-6. I actually chose it by accident... It's probably the most useless specialisation in the game.
Haha, why do you say that?
I imagine there will be some tenuous canon for the existence of this room. Next time one of us meets a dev we should quiz them on it.
Or David? Frank? Care to chip in?
Tha Robbertster
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This was the best episode of spartan ops yet. Maybe because I actually felt the missions had a purpose. One thing though that frustrated me logic wise was one the 5th mission
As soon as you walk in, you see 3 huge AA guns on the buildings. But here's the twist: they aren't activated. Why the fuck wouldn't you activate the defense turrets? What scientist would use the power for one of their only defenses against aliens that want to kill them for some kind of generator? So, so stupid.
All it does it let you "recall your own ordnance requests again". I don't think I've ever seen my options for an ordnance drop and not want anything there
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Plus I only counted two "egghead" comments!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I picked it on purpose, why is it useless? I like the Infinity gametypes so being able to choose more drop options is nice. None of the rest looked too exciting to me.
So you get a speedboost, plasmas and a concussion rifle in BTB and you're saying you wouldn't rather have an OS or snipes?
Definitely one of if not the first ill pick.
I'd choose the concussion rifle and stick to the corridors/caves in the map.
They all have their uses. Takes the fun out of it if you're just getting what you want all the time anyway, IMO.
Mmmmm.Weird thing is, Halsey begins to quiz the Spartan about what he knows about the Prometheans after reading this
hmm interesting.
Cortana?
The Lamonster
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Anybody care to post the new challenges pretty please?
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