Disregarding the CG cutscenes (these are fantastic), and a plain something to do (which isn’t really a positive, it just is what it is I guess), Spartan Ops really, really, really sucks. All it is is rehashed missions (aka MW3 Spec Ops) with the same “blow these things up” for like 15 minutes while we throw hordes of enemies at you, and then it ends. The story so far seems pretty hollow, the gameplay is bland (nothing original going on vehicle or level design wise), and it’s nothing like they hyped it up to be. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t even bring myself to play it for the challenges.
nope i dont think it does.
Agreed that the cutscenes are fantastic. It does admittadly become a bit tedious, but it’s only episode 2. I figure it’ll improve in time, as they get used to releasing weekly episodes.
I thought so too…but in reality, if they are tossing these things out every week how much variety can we expect? They didnt even throw us out with a huge bang for episode two, it’s already monotonous.
I was rather disappointed that episode 2 was basically “Go back to those places in episode 1 and do similar stuff!”
But regardless, I enjoy it and hope it gets better (I agree that the cutscenes are brilliant, though I’ll admit that it wasn’t until episode 2 that I realized they were there…)
The cutscenes and missions need to be longer and less button pushing.
Working on weekly episodes for Spartan Ops, IMO, is a huge waste of potential resources.
It sucks!
Give us flipping Firefight back ffs. That mode rocked and it could have improved with tower defense mechanics and in-match currency to buy weapons, vehicles, powerups, etc! But NOPE, we get spartan ops, generic missions with a bad story with cool CGI cutscreens to fool you into thinking it was worth playing it, but only realizing you wasted your time blowing up aliens for no real reason.
Again, Firefight should be replacing Spartan FLOPS!
> Working on weekly episodes for Spartan Ops, IMO, is a huge waste of potential resources.
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> It sucks!
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> Give us flipping Firefight back ffs. That mode rocked and it could have improved with tower defense mechanics and in-match currency to buy weapons, vehicles, powerups, etc! But NOPE, we get spartan ops, generic missions with a bad story with cool CGI cutscreens to fool you into thinking it was worth playing it, but only realizing you wasted your time blowing up aliens for no real reason.
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> Again, Firefight should be replacing Spartan FLOPS!
I guess I half agree, but firefight bored me in Reach too. I never played it.
We need to be able to amp up the difficulty. Give us a set number of lives, or only one life. That would change the way everyone’s playing it.
If there was any chance of failure I’d probably enjoy it a lot more. Even ignoring the poorly written dialogue, I’d tolerate it if it was a challenge. It just feels like I’m being spoon fed experience points.
Its great for xp. nuff said.
I would like there to be a revive system similar to SW: Republic commando where you need your squad to come back and help you. Your probably going to say what if you get disintegrated simple remove it.
No.
Cutscenes are awesome, howevr while I´m annoyed by the reused campaign areas and doing the same stuff, only from the other end of the map, they still involve some fighting.
343 did shoot themselves in the foot by not bringing back Skirmishers, Drones, Brutes and Engineers, as all those creatures would´ve added new combat potential and allowed for more varied encounters and challenges . but alas.
Nothing annoys me more however than the very weak ingame story - there is none - Pilot guy and Palmer exchanging words and try-hard one liners by Jennifer Hale.
LE BORE!
It is rubbish, and seems to serving as an XP boost for alot of players,
get rid of it, and bring back Firfefight, PLEASE!!!
Just kind of boring to me… I think its a shame knowing that we will never be getting into any Scarab battles or fighting any Flood or Brutes or Skirmishers…
Just more of the same and more switches. Always switches. Keep pressing those switches…
Hang on a sec… Where are the Engineers in Halo 4??
'Really annoyed 343 are already reusing episode 1 maps from last week. If more episodes are reusing maps then SpartanOops is a lazy project. It’s lame.
So far imo not so fun, good for grinding EXP.
Episode 2 at least to me was a let-down, i’ll give it another chance for episode 3 before I write it off as a failed project.
Regardless i’ll still play it for the Weekly challenge’s and the XP.
So far, pretty terrible.
There is no sense in Spartan Ops because it’s impossible to fail it.
In firefight you had limited lifes and time so you needed to create appropriate tactic for every map to win. Now you just rush ahead and get xp at the end of each chapter despite of your effectiveness. It sucks.