Hey, 343i. Great game overall, having a blast in any game’s online mm for the first time in years!
From a purely enjoyment-based perspective though, it’d be neat if you considered one change to spartan ops: unlimited lives/spawns. SpOps has no challenge with the present system, no need to work as a cohesive squad- as a cohesive fire team. Either by introducing limited lives or making you fail the mission if all four players die (like the campaign spawn system), or some other way, I know I’d personally love if squad work and survival could be better rewarded in SpOps to increase the difficulty and teamwork.
I would go for a pool of lives and when they get used up and you die no respawn. If all 4 team members die then the mission fails.
But having said that, I already see a problem. Right now you have people coming into SparOps and just camping there because they know they can get between 3K and 5K experience just by being on the map. If they introduce a pool of lives along these lines then they also need to put a press X to respawn in there to keep the campers from eating you pool of lives up.
Well, I tried what you said, camping on a map and AFK’ing for a round out of curiosity. I only got 175 exp. both times I tried it, and on different maps too.
I think they have a pretty solid set up to keep that from happening.
> I would go for a pool of lives and when they get used up and you die no respawn. If all 4 team members die then the mission fails.
> But having said that, I already see a problem. Right now you have people coming into SparOps and just camping there because they know they can get between 3K and 5K experience just by being on the map. If they introduce a pool of lives along these lines then they also need to put a press X to respawn in there to keep the campers from eating you pool of lives up.
>Pool of lives.
>Halo Reach Firefight greifers who generally sucked or intentionally used up everyone’s lives.
>lolno
What halo 4 needs is a stack of lives for each individual player, maybe 3 lives a piece. That way you’re not cutting into everyone else’s piece of the pie.
^ Now that sounds like a good idea! I like that one.
I also think for the more hardcore among us, there should be a one-life version too. You die, you’re done. Not as the premier option, but as one that’s around.
I get a little rabid about people idling through the SpartanOps missions, I don’t know how much XP they get for it because I’ve never done it. Whether its a pool of lives or a set amount to the indiviual doesnt really matter to me as long as it takes an ACTIVE button press to actually respawn.
I just agree with Gamma about doing something that creates a little more challange on the missions to hold the players intrest and focus.
I’m not bashing the SpartanOps missions in the slightest mind you, I spend 99% of my H4 time in them and I look forward to the ones coming.