Are there any plans to eventually let us choose our difficulty when looking for a Spartan Ops game in matchmaking? Heroic is way too easy.
I hope they add it in the future. I agree Heroic is way to easy, especially for 4 people.
They also need to add previous episodes into the matchmaking. At the moment, you can only play the current episode.
Agreed, I couldn’t fathom why it was set to Heroic, was a total cake walk. Even Legendary solo they weren’t massively difficult.
Yeah, I was never really clear on how Spartan Ops was going to function long term. Are we going to have permanent access to each episode, or will they cycle older ones out as they add new ones? Either way, with heroic being so easy and all the challenges involving beating the Eps. on legendary, I don’t really see the point of matchmaking in Spartan Ops at all.
> I don’t really see the point of matchmaking in Spartan Ops at all.
Well, Spartan Ops matchmaking gives insane XP, so there’s a reason to play it.
Yeah, the XP for Spartan Ops is deliciously good. Some times I’ll just go play Sniper Alley with matchmaking just to top off a Rank. Good consistent points.
But yes, we need the option to search for difficulty-based Spartan Ops matchmaking. Right now, your only way to get Legendary Spartan Ops is solo or with friends.
Also, campaign matchmaking would be nice as well.
Yeah, but it’s so boring. Not to mention, it’s like the game discourages you from MMing Spartan Ops. If you find a good team of randoms, and you take out map quickly and efficiently, as soon as the game is over you’re thrown clear back to the menu with no option to keep rolling together. Why do they punish four guys who work well together for not being on each others friend lists?
Holy crap! I hadn’t noticed that! No campaign MM either! I guess we can only hope they implement these features later on. Didn’t Reach take a while to get campaign MM going?
Yes, there definitely needs to be a Legendary SpartOps playlists. With unlimited lives and default Heroic difficulty it’s simply no challenge whatsoever.
I also can’t help noticing that so far all the mission backdrops have been ripped straight off the campaign levels. Here I was hoping for a little more variety or altogether new levels.
It’s ok if SpartOps gives ton of XP’s. But just like Firefight before it, if you don’t infuse some variety or difficulty on it people will get bored and move on. Spartan OPs is very promising, but 343 needs to make that promise a reality.
> Holy crap! I hadn’t noticed that! No campaign MM either! I guess we can only hope they implement these features later on. Didn’t Reach take a while to get campaign MM going?
Maybe I’m wrong, but Reach had campaign matchmaking right from the start. Regardless, it’d certainly be a welcome addition. As well as theater mode. Why or how it wasn’t implemented for the Halo 4 campaign is beyond me. Was it because of the scripted sequences?
> Maybe I’m wrong, but Reach had campaign matchmaking right from the start.
Reach didn’t have it at the start, it was added about a month after launch.
If you find a match with only two people the difficulty setting is automatically set to normal.