I just got back from a deployment to Durkadurkastan and as such have only been playing Halo 4 online for about a week, so this is just based on my observations. Also, I could not find another thread on this issue, so if it is a double post I apologize.
It seems to me that there is more content for War Games than there is for Spartan Ops. For example, there are only the two weekly challenges for Spartan Ops, which can honestly be completed in a day. War Games has daily, weekly, and monthly challenges. The “Find a Game” option for Spartan Ops has had the same five missions for the past few days. I think that it should be more like Firefight from Reach where it was more randomly generated. There are also more War Games-oriented Commendations than there are for Spartan Ops. I love playing Spartan Ops since it continues the campaign story, and I prefer to play a campaign-oriented game mode rather than your standard Matchmaking option. This is why I like Firefight from Reach more than the other game modes. Hate me if you want, it does not matter to me.
343i, to me anyways, seemed to really hype up the Spartan Ops feature (as being “new and innovative” or something like that), and it appears as though they could put a bit more effort into it. I liked in Reach having Commendations for using different weapon types in different game modes and not having it restricted to Matchmaking. Like I stated previously, I would suggest having the queue from Reach and vote on the missions instead of having a set five, and only those five.
Are there any other thoughts and/or suggestions on this?
The thing is, a majority of the Halo community play it for the multiplayer, and 343 have based their content accordingly. And also the ‘Find a Game’ in Spartan Ops changes episodes every week. Normally an episode a week, but since the season has just finished they are playing the ‘Editor’s Choice’ maps, and then it will start from Episode 1 again.
> The thing is, a majority of the Halo community play it for the multiplayer, and 343 have based their content accordingly. And also the ‘Find a Game’ in Spartan Ops changes episodes every week. Normally an episode a week, but since the season has just finished they are playing the ‘Editor’s Choice’ maps, and then it will start from Episode 1 again.
Okay, I did not know that about Spartan Ops, thank you for clarifying that. So maybe a better system would be two “Find a Game” options, the first being the current episode, and the other being a random episode finder, similar to Reach’s Firefight. For the Multiplayer aspect, I just believe that all aspects of a game should be equal.
> The thing is, a majority of the Halo community play it for the multiplayer, and 343 have based their content accordingly.
Incorrect. The biggest proportion of players buy the game for campaign, play it once, and then never play it again.
If you think otherwise you’re just wrong.