There is no Firefight.
It seems everyone is so riled up by the multiplayer aspects of Halo 4 that people have forgotten that the leaks indicate there is no Firefight.
Maybe people don’t care, but I for one, care a lot.
Not so much that Firefight is my favourite gametype, but more the point that we should be given MORE choice as to what we want rather than less.
Am I alone here, or do other people want to see Firefight return?
EDIT: Altered the title to something less hyperbolic and more in-keeping with the theme of the topic.
Actually, this has been discussed alot, but in my opinion, since we don’t know all the details of Spartan Ops, then we also don’t know if it will include Firefight-like features or missions.
Halo Reach firefight was awful imo, but I would like to see the return of ODST firefight.
ODST firefight über reach
i love firefight too i was pissed they could have made firefight better than it ever has been but the scrapped it damn it would have been cool to a firefight map in space or a option to have the flood or fight as spartans and elites facing the flood
Im not too bothered by it. Firefight in reach was just see how many multi kills you can rack up since your invincible you know. ODST firefight was pretty good, but I felt too weak. At first I was surprised it was gone but if you think about it, there was no firefight in Halo 1-3, only the off shoot halo games (excluding wars of course.) Spartan Ops shows a lot of potential, other than its name of course. We will see how its implemented and how well it does at replacing firefight.
> There is no Firefight.
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> It seems everyone is so riled up by the multiplayer aspects of Halo 4 that people have forgotten that the leaks indicate there is no Firefight.
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> Maybe people don’t care, but I for one, care a lot.
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> Not so much that Firefight is my favourite gametype, but more the point that we should be given MORE choice as to what we want rather than less.
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> Am I alone here, or do other people want to see Firefight return?
Never said it wont return. said dedicated Fire fight there might be an option like firefight as an option in Spartan ops Is what im assuming
Spartan Ops sounds like it’ll be more interesting/fun than reach’s firefight. At least for me, so I don’t think I’ll miss having a dedicated firefight mode. Perhaps other people feel similar. I’m not sure if Reach or halo is the kind of game you get if firefight is your primary purpose. People seem to get reach mostly for the competitive multiplayer and are therefore more concerned about changes impacting their target area of play.
Edit to add: Also, they say they’ll release 5 mission per week for the spartan ops thing; I’m assuming at least 1/week will be a kill all the waves of enemies sort of traditional firefight thing. Possibly with different weapon/enemy/map combinations, so that by the end of the season you’ll have enough traditional firefight experiences if that’s your thing.
Flying cow, you’re a scholar and a gentleman, and I totally agree with that post
Honestly I don’t really care about firefight in H4. It was very well implemented into ODST, but in Reach it was filled with afk players and 99% of the time there was terrible server lag. I’d rather have 343I focus on having a great competitive multiplayer than have another Reach-like firefight mode.
My vote is for no.
When I take a look at the elements surrounding Halo and the possibilities of what is being given to replace it, I’m a lot more appreciative that 343 has chosen to include a Spartan Op’s with that. the details of it (from what I’ve heard, nothing read yet…) is a sound tactic that’ll only add to a firefight experience.
Many people enjoy firefight. Heck, I personally LOVE it. but when you get down to it, in my opinion, can firefight be replaced with something that is ever flowing, ever changing, sparking new ideas and creative traits that will forge a new Halo frontier? Exactly what I would like Halo 4 to be? You know my answer…
While I enjoy putting my efforts into a single: hold your ground, kill everything, etc… I’m getting a stronger feeling for what is replacing it. Am I sad to see it go? without a doubt… but I’m more for innovation then not so…
The general consensus seems to be that ODST Firefight is better and I agree entirely, but that is not the question I posed. My intent was to infer that I want Firefight to return as a general gametype, not necessarily as it was in Reach.
As much as Spartan Ops sounds like an interesting and overall ‘good’ idea, I’m tired of each Halo game adding new things at the expense of others and I think anyone who enjoys Halo will agree that more choice is better than less.
But I am not going to force people to agree with me here, the point is discussion and for me and others to get an overall sense of what the community feels here. I’m surprised by the lack of support for Firefight, but I can see that the opinions are generally well justified - despite many of them referring to the way Firefight was implemented as a playlist rather than the gametype itself; I still find Reach Firefight enjoyable, but only in Custom Matches, not matchmade.
Thank you all so far for a calm and intelligent discussion.
I hope it does, I love firefight.