I can already tell I’m going to love it considering from what I hear it’s all download content required to play, so that should reduce the massive lag we would encounter in fire fight.
But that aside, I’m seriously hoping that if I just want to play 2 or 3 people that we aren’t forced to search for the remaining player slots and still be in the “matchmaking” part of it.
What specifically I’m saying is with Spartan Ops being directly relevant to our online general multiplayer experience, I do not want to be forced to play with anyone else but the friends I normally play with to play online and not have to play a version of a custom game if there are any.
I’m not against playing with random people for campaign and spartan ops, but I want to be able to choose when to play with them.
To be specific I will give you Fire Fight on reach as an example. Three of us jump into firefight to do some dailies, to my knowledge there is no option to play with just the 3 of us and we get a 4th random.
THAT right there is what I want to be able to either choose or avoid.
With Spartan Ops being more akin to campaign, I always play legendary campaign with my 2 other friends, and for that reason I want to have the freedom to continue to do that while still everything I do still effects my spartans progress through the ranking system.
Now as I have said, I’m not against playing with randoms, I can’t emphasize this more, but for atleast the first Spartan Ops run, I want to be able to play with who I want to play with while still everything being applied to the game rankings.
Halos lobby systems have always allowed for plenty of flexibility. I’d be extremely surprised if you aren’t able to do private spartan ops.
I get what you’re saying and I agree. In Reach if there is a daily challenge involving Firefight, you can’t scroll down to Firefight and do it with three friends, you have no choice but to do it in matchmaking which will then find a fourth guy. You can play Firefight all you want with your three friends but as long as Firefight challenges require you to do it on matchmaking, you will always be forced to have a fourth. Unless it can’t find one or they quit or something.
> I get what you’re saying and I agree. In Reach if there is a daily challenge involving Firefight, you can’t scroll down to Firefight and do it with three friends, you have no choice but to do it in matchmaking which will then find a fourth guy. You can play Firefight all you want with your three friends but as long as Firefight challenges require you to do it on matchmaking, you will always be forced to have a fourth. Unless it can’t find one or they quit or something.
That exactly.
With Firefight you may have a 1:3 chance of getting someone who’s AFK or will lag or just quit/just shoot at you for no reason.
With this new mode being more like campaign chances are betrayals will be in and with campaign missions get harder depending on difficulty in addition to the number of players in the game, it will get annoying if you run into some AFK or someone that leaves making it harder on everyone.
There is an Achievement for beating a Spartan Ops mission alone on Legendary, so it sounds like it’s just like Campaign, you access it from a Private Lobby OR Matchmaking, it’s up to you.
The thing that’s good about it is that since there’s 50 levels, there’s so many possibilities of types of missions.
Episodic missions, I’m very interested in what they have in store for us in this!