It's official, Spartan Ops is amazing!

Games Other Halo
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During the first two weeks of Halo 4, Spartan Ops wasn’t very exciting. Go through a couple short missions, press some buttons and that’ it. Episode 2 was even more disappointing, as it was just the levels from Episode 1 but backwards.

But this week, 343 did a fantastic job on this week’s Spartan Ops Episode! This episode was actually different, and the objectives were actually fun. About time 343 took a look at Spartan Ops and made it into something less repetitive and more about how you want to deal with the situation. For an example in some of the missions, I actually moved through it with stealth. Picking off targets one by one unnoticed, and after I made my way to the turret, I activated it and all of the Covenant just scatter around in surprise as me and the turret shoot them all down!

I swear, I never used such great tactics in any Halo game, because it was never really possible. It’s usually the enemies spotting you at first sight and that’s it. But this time, I actually got to play how I wanted to against the Covenant. And the use of multiplayer maps brought in a whole new experience. To face the Covenant on a classic map like Valhalla felt great. And the huge fight with the Mantis was just epic! Facing everything an entire Covenant Carrier had was just epic. And I did all of this solo which made it more epic. I felt just like a SUPER SOLDIER!

I was always skeptical about Spartan Ops, was worried it would be a failure compared to Firefight, but now, with this big of an improvement and great story that comes with it, I have to say, I love Spartan Ops. Even more than Firefight now. 343, you did an fantastic job. Make the next episodes as good or even better than this one. :smiley:

Now if you’ll excuse me, my controller has been vibrating for the past hour after being in that Mantis. Time to go play the newly added Team Snipers.

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Also, thank you for making Sarah Palmer less hateful towards Miller. I can now stop throwing marshmellows at my dog.

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> During the first two weeks of Halo 4, Spartan Ops wasn’t very exciting. Go through a couple short missions, press some buttons and that’ it. Episode 2 was even more disappointing, as it was just the levels from Episode 1 but backwards.
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> But this week, 343 did a fantastic job on this week’s Spartan Ops Episode! This episode was actually different, and the objectives were actually fun. About time 343 took a look at Spartan Ops and made it into something less repetitive and more about how you want to deal with the situation. For an example in some of the missions, I actually moved through it with stealth. Picking off targets one by one unnoticed, and after I made my way to the turret, I activated it and all of the Covenant just scatter around in surprise as me and the turret shoot them all down!
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> I swear, I never used such great tactics in any Halo game, because it was never really possible. It’s usually the enemies spotting you at first sight and that’s it. But this time, I actually got to play how I wanted to against the Covenant. And the use of multiplayer maps brought in a whole new experience. To face the Covenant on a classic map like Valhalla felt great. And the huge fight with the Mantis was just epic! Facing everything an entire Covenant Carrier had was just epic. And I did all of this solo which made it more epic. I felt just like a SUPER SOLDIER!
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> I was always skeptical about Spartan Ops, was worried it would be a failure compared to Firefight, but now, with this big of an improvement and great story that comes with it, I have to say, I love Spartan Ops. Even more than Firefight now. 343, you did an fantastic job. Make the next episodes as good or even better than this one. :smiley:
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> Now if you’ll excuse me, my controller has been vibrating for the past hour after being in that Mantis. Time to go play the newly added Team Snipers.

1.I love how people are saying “its about time 343 did this” WHy? because the first 5 episodes are on disk. they didn’t change anything, what they did was see everything before it was going to happen, and be bad -Yoink-.

  1. I loved this mission
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I agree, Episode 3 was a helluva lot of fun to play. I hope future episodes follow its example.

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I agree this week was actually fun!
Mission 4 with the mantis was amazing! If there are more missions like that I will be coming back for Halo over and over again!

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i agree, this week’s ops we’re much more dynamic and a TON of fun.

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Glad to see people feel the same way. I see hate threads of this week’s episode and I only wonder how they could hate such an epic episode.

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Interesting to see the multiplayer maps being used as spartan ops missions! And the Mantis mission was really fun.

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> Glad to see people feel the same way. I see hate threads of this week’s episode and I only wonder how they could hate such an epic episode.

I think it’s because it reused Multiplayer maps and old Sops maps, but honestly, how can anyone expect 343 to have totally new maps EVERY SINGLE WEEK?

Sorry, I’m in a ranty mood. But it’s true.