A Valid Complaint: Grenades and Ordinance

Games Other Halo
1

I give a lot of support for 343i and try to hold back the waves of illegitimate flame and trolls that come their way. That being said, there are some things with Halo 4 that I feel could use a serious improvement. Here, in my humble opinion, is the largest one:

When you have an ordinance call down available, you are not able to swap grenades without calling down the ordinance. I swap my grenade types a lot and this can make the game frustrating when I need to swap to that plasma and accidentally call down an ordinance…

My suggestion is to require an upward press on the D-Pad to bring down your ordinance menu at which point in time your next D-Pad press will call down the ordinance (up again if you have the perk to select re-roll ordinance).

How do you guys deal with the ordinance and grenade swap?

2

I hadn’t noticed this, good spot.

And as such, I’ve never had a problem with it, but now you’ve mentioned it I’ll probably start making the same mistake!

3

Agreed. A bit of an oversight on 343’s part.

4

Maybe if you could tap the D-pad to swap grenades and hold to choose an ordnance drop.

5

This has happen to me once or twice. I usually use frag grenades more then anything else so it has never been a major issue. I’m wondering why 343 decided to make the B button duck instead of clicking the joystick. It would be so much easier if they made grenade swapping the same in Halo Reach.

6

Forget about ordnance, the grenade swap is still annoying.

I with it was tied to something other than the directional pad, such as X.

7

not a bad idea, but i’d suggest using the down button instead, since up is for re-roll.

this only happened to me once from 1-50 though.

8

Man, I hate this. Really, really hate this.

9

I don’t mind, you call down ordnance once or twice a game, you can change grenades multiple times. Never has ordnance ruined or interfered with my grenade selection.