343, I was with you all the way with Halo 4. I see things and get a bit skeptical. I brush it off and still look forward for the game again. Today I was decided to see what’s up on Halo 4. I saw this little thread. Then, well I decided this was getting ridiculous.
343 to me you seem to have no creativity. Taking other games ideas, changing it’s name to something anyone could make up. I was skeptical. Then, at E3 people said that on paper it looked like CoD but it really felt like Halo. I regained happiness. But then, prestiges took over me…
343 Industries, You have gone too far.
I hope you just tone this down before you cross the line, of putting “Halo” on a different game.
EDIT:
Please excuse my post and let it die. For I have made a slight misjudgement. BagelllllEetr has helped and I greatly appreciate it. I did not appreciate the non-constructive posts of useless babbling. May your anger travel elsewhere.
if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
I hope your not referring to re-enlisting in specializations because if you are, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ARMOR AND ACTUAL RANK. Hate to use caps but no one seems to pay attention unless they are used.
What exactly did they do that has made you lose your way?
> 343 to me you seem to have no creativity.
Innovation died. Expect devs to copy each other and change name of copied mechanics to make it seem different and unique from now on.
OP, if you want people to take you seriously at least address what bothers you so much…
so far this game looks -Yoinking!- amazing and keeps getting better every time.
i don’t know which game you’re talking about
> if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
I hope you are correct in this aspect.
Sorry that you’re not happy. You have to understand that game companies borrow and tweak things from other games all the time. It’s incredibly hard to find a game these days that is 100% original (maybe impossible.) 343i is taking the things that worked in other games, tweaking them to fit the Halo feel, and publishing a game that still is very much a Halo game.
The creativity comes not in what is added, but in how it is added.
Too bad. 343i aren’t gonna change the game just for one person.
> > if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
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> I hope you are correct in this aspect.
Just to reassure you OP, re enlisting is not prestige in anyway. Basically when you first start you enlist in a specialization group. Throughout the next 10 levels of said group you gain more customization for that particular specializations mode of gameplay. After its maxed you can re enlist meaning you can pick a new specialization while (note this part is speculation) retaining unlocks from the previous specialization you chose.
This is a pretty non-constructive post.
Can’t you just wait till we get more information and things are clarified/cleared up until you start complaining about something?
As if there is no innovation in Halo 4
And because no games can be alike in even one way!
And no game developer should use SOME of the popular gameplay mechanics of another game
You know what? I am SICK of all this complaining and nitpicking over something they don’t even know how it will play out in the game?
Why did no one care when COD copied theatre mode and Infection? Which are straight from Halo but when something that is simmilar to another game all you hear is whining!
/end anger
What were you talking about though?
Dear God do people even pay attention anymore?
everyone seems to misinterpret details as soon as they are revealed.
> > > if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
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> > I hope you are correct in this aspect.
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> Just to reassure you OP, re enlisting is not prestige in anyway. Basically when you first start you enlist in a specialization group. Throughout the next 10 levels of said group you gain more customization for that particular specializations mode of gameplay. After its maxed you can re enlist meaning you can pick a new specialization while (note this part is speculation) retaining unlocks from the previous specialization you chose.
So you are saying that when I start the game, I choose a group (Let’s call it Alpha) After 10 levels of gaining armor and/or whatever. I can re-inlist to a different group (Bravo) and gain different armor and/or whatever?
> > 343 to me you seem to have no creativity.
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> Innovation died. Expect devs to copy each other and change name of copied mechanics to make it seem different and unique from now on.
Innovation didn’t die, the FPS genre just expanded so exponentially that it’-Yoink!- a “ceiling” in terms of innovation, at least for this gen. Just about every FPS these days seems like a rehash of the same old thing, and will likely stay the same until devs get a little more to work with next gen. So many established franchises these days are taking features from each other and putting their own spins on them to try and make things fresh when they’re really just making games less and less unique amongst one another.
I’m not saying Halo 4 is ripping off CoD’s system, but you can’t say they aren’t similar. I think all of the people upset by this announcement were just expecting 343i to come up with something a little more original than they did. Nothing we can do about it though, these things don’t effect gameplay.
> > > > if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
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> > > I hope you are correct in this aspect.
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> > Just to reassure you OP, re enlisting is not prestige in anyway. Basically when you first start you enlist in a specialization group. Throughout the next 10 levels of said group you gain more customization for that particular specializations mode of gameplay. After its maxed you can re enlist meaning you can pick a new specialization while (note this part is speculation) retaining unlocks from the previous specialization you chose.
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> So you are saying that when I start the game, I choose a group (Let’s call it Alpha) After 10 levels of gaining armor and/or whatever. I can re-inlist to a different group (Bravo) and gain different armor and/or whatever?
In a roundabout sense yes. Specializations are things like awareness though that allow snipers to use radar while zoomed in. As far as we know you will not get armor for these things.
> > > > > if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
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> > > > I hope you are correct in this aspect.
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> > > Just to reassure you OP, re enlisting is not prestige in anyway. Basically when you first start you enlist in a specialization group. Throughout the next 10 levels of said group you gain more customization for that particular specializations mode of gameplay. After its maxed you can re enlist meaning you can pick a new specialization while (note this part is speculation) retaining unlocks from the previous specialization you chose.
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> > So you are saying that when I start the game, I choose a group (Let’s call it Alpha) After 10 levels of gaining armor and/or whatever. I can re-inlist to a different group (Bravo) and gain different armor and/or whatever?
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> In a roundabout sense yes. Specializations are things like awareness though that allow snipers to use radar while zoomed in. As far as we know you will not get armor for these things.
As long as I don’t lose what I had before, then I am reassured and all anger is lost and pointless. However if this isn’t true. Well I guess my rage is quite pointless to other people.
> > > > > > if you’re referring to the prestige thing it was a case of miscommunication
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> > > > > I hope you are correct in this aspect.
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> > > > Just to reassure you OP, re enlisting is not prestige in anyway. Basically when you first start you enlist in a specialization group. Throughout the next 10 levels of said group you gain more customization for that particular specializations mode of gameplay. After its maxed you can re enlist meaning you can pick a new specialization while (note this part is speculation) retaining unlocks from the previous specialization you chose.
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> > > So you are saying that when I start the game, I choose a group (Let’s call it Alpha) After 10 levels of gaining armor and/or whatever. I can re-inlist to a different group (Bravo) and gain different armor and/or whatever?
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> > In a roundabout sense yes. Specializations are things like awareness though that allow snipers to use radar while zoomed in. As far as we know you will not get armor for these things.
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> As long as I don’t lose what I had before, then I am reassured and all anger is lost and pointless. However if this isn’t true. Well I guess my rage is quite pointless to other people.
One last thing to ease your mind. Specializations have nothing to do with rank and armor so you will not lose them when re enlisting.
Too bad I’m not a psychology student. I could write hundreds of pages on defense mechanisms just by reading this forum. The rationalization and denial on Waypoint is absolutely amazing.