First of all I want to say how much I LOVE Halo 4. Campaign is great, Spartan Ops is really good and quite a challenge, and the video series was amazing. I think 343 has done an incredible job. A show, that I watch, in Australia called Good Game rated the game 10 out of 10 and said “I didn’t expect to get a game better than what Bungie did but 343 has done it.”
Now the problems:
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First problem I noticed is that on Abandon in Team Slayer, I was on the second floor of the central structure and I called for a shotgun for ordnance and it placed it on the first floor. By the time I managed to get to it there were two enemy players standing over it stealing it and I died almost instantly… now obviously I understand that there are set places that ordnance can be placed but to put it a whole floor down? That is just a little hard to deal with.
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Secondly, I have had this problem a few times where I would finish a War Game and expect to go to the XP screen but instead I am stuck on the screen before that were it has nothing on the screen. No player cards, no map choices, nothing. I was still able to open the Spartan Hub and the roster but I couldn’t do anything. Usually the transition is quite smooth but occasionally I would have to sit for over a minute waiting for the XP screen.
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My third glitch, and this is a minor one, is that I started a game once and it did the usual countdown and allowed you to choose your loadout and used the blurry overlay on the background that shows where you will spawn on the map, but when the countdown finished the blurry mask didn’t. For the first few seconds I had to play with a blurry screen. Mind you this didn’t effect my gameplay because the teams would not have converged in combat yet but it was a bit weird.
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The fourth problem was a beam on the outside wall of the building to your left on complex playing as red team. It is on the other side of the building on ground level but I have seen a few people glitch into the wall. This was a bit of a problem as it was oddball and he had the ball… I tried to punch him once I noticed that he was in the wall and heard the familiar groan, but it is still an amazing hiding spot and probably should be fixed.
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The final glitch I have noticed in my playtime was quite an annoying one, I was doing really well on Adrift in Oddball, in fact I was something close to 15 kills to 0 deaths, my energy sword had run out and I was still getting kills when the host on the other team left, no idea why, and we were thrust into the all too familiar “starting game” screen. The difference this time was that when the issue of hosting was resolved it went to the countdown screen, the one usually shown at the start of the game, and we started off the game again. I don’t exactly know whether the overall points for each team were wiped but my personal stats were… as you can tell this would be a VERY annoying experience for me. How often does one go 15/0? (the answer is once, where I went 22/0 and ended on 26/2)Anyway, the point is that this could potentially enrage quite a few less passive players. For me it was merely an annoyance but that doesn’t make it all go away. I have had this restarting the game off again before but I do not recall if my score was wiped. Most times when we change host, the end result is only a small delay and then we are all back in the game in our previous positions. In this particular game the host had changed once before and there was no incident, but the second time was a different story. I recommend either storing the scores on a different host as a back up just in case this happens again, but honestly I am not the expert.
Now I want to mention again that I adore this game. I have over 2 full days of playtime even though I have about 7 assignments due this week. I am SR46 and stream my gameplay every afternoon. I don’t want to seem like an irritating perfectionist but I do want this game to be one of the best games in the history of FPS’s.
Thank you for your time,
Jailak