Spartan Ops is the best mode ever on a Halo game. The idea of doing missions together, protecting objectives, navigating around huge terrain, geting commendations. All of it together is epic. I can’t believe how much fun I am having. I completed campaign on legendary Solo and even that doesn’t compare to how good this is.
I played a game yesterday where 2 people dropped out straight away. Me and another random, worked together all the way through the mission. Just 2 of us on Legendary difficulty, taking out snipers, covering each other at every moment, falling back when shields were down. Attacking hunters as a pair in order to distract them and get round them. We both messaged each other end of game, ‘good game :)’.
I’ve seen threads about people saying Firefight on Reach was better. Well I’ll have to disagree there, Firefight got old fast. It didn’t have the same amount of freedom, variety and vehicles that Spartan Ops has. Spartan Ops single handedley tops campaign for me. The missions are so good, it’s insane. Don’t get me wrong, I love Reach, check my service record for proof but Spartan Ops has achieved the impossible. 343 please keep this mode for Halo 5, it’s the best thing you shipped with Halo 4.
A challenge.
Not a Spartan.
Limited ammo.
Had to scavenge for weapons most of the time.
Beating 4+ rounds with friends felt like an achievement (No pun intended).
You really needed to communicate to play it successfully.
I agree, Spartan Ops is much better than Firefight. FF was fun but it did get pretty old and repetitive after a while. I like how Spartan Ops has new episodes to keep things fresh and how it actually has a story to it - that makes it all the more interesting.
But would you pay for it? After the next full set of spartan ops missions they will no longer be free. And they are far from worth paying for.
The first set was completely awful. Reused maps over and over again. There was no challenge because you get unlimited lives. The characters are completely annoying in my opinion. I found it quite boring.
Halo ODST firefight trumps all.
I preferred firefight simply for its variety. I wasnt limited to the 5 choices 343 had made for me. i could go on a variety of maps, with a variety of rules and choose a variety of loadouts and all in public games. Spartan ops has 25 missions but absolutely shoots itself in the foot by limiting players to 5 a week. Just opening up the other 20 to public matchmaking would solve alot of its problems imo.
PPS, i dont see why spartan ops and firefight had to be mutually exclusive. I understand 343 wanna stamp themselves opn this franchise but it’s a sequel not a reboot. Ideally you wanna keep all the uber modes and ADD more not replace them
Interesting number of replies. Interesting that some people consider ODST Firefight to be the best. I’ll have to disagree on that as well. I owned the game, completed it on Legendary but didn’t find it’s firefight mode half as enjoyable as this.
Remember on ODST, there was no matchmaking for it, you could only play with people on your friendslist. I also found there were too many close quarter maps which got dull. There were a few great, open spaced maps but Spartan Ops is bigger overall. I can’t believe someone is seriously disputing this.
I think having limited lives would be a neat idea but not sure how it would be implemented, might cause too big of a backlash.
Anyway keep voting people. Thanks for your replies too, read them all.
> Remember on ODST, there was no matchmaking for it, you could only play with people on your friendslist. I also found there were too many close quarter maps which got dull. <mark>There were a few great, open spaced maps but Spartan Ops is bigger overall. I can’t believe someone is seriously disputing this.</mark>
Quality over quantity my friend. When you get down to it, SparOps is just Firefight with a few objectives.
> I agree, Spartan Ops is much better than Firefight. FF was fun but it did get pretty old and repetitive after a while. I like how Spartan Ops has new episodes to keep things fresh and how it actually has a story to it - that makes it all the more interesting.
I disagree. You will get bored pretty quickly. Fireifht in Reach was good but repetitive. No, Firefight in ODST was simply amazing. It was hard, fun and challenging I apreciate what 343 is triyng to bring us: a new game mode. But didn’t worked that well.
Yup, I’m enjoying it. I just hope there is more change in environments in the next episodes. I especially liked the missions that were based on the mp maps.
Spartan Ops is only interesting if you’re easily entertained by shiny CG cutscenes. From a gameplay standpoint, they’re completely atrocious.
You play the same damn levels over and over… and over again. With the same two objectives (defend this area from waves of enemies, OR push this button)… over and over and over again. Really, Spartan Ops is everything that’s bad about Halo campaigns of the last few years, put together as co-op missions.
Now, if I specifically wanted to play on a certain map and defend from waves of enemies with my friends, I’d play Firefight. Not Firefight with everything that was fun about Firefight removed and a two minute CG cutscene that tries to make me care about why I’m playing this map for the fifth time and why I’m pushing this button as an objective for the fifteenth time. I’m sure as hell not ever going to pay for this sort of thing.
> IMO: Halo 3: ODST’s Firefight
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> A challenge.
> Not a Spartan.
> Limited ammo.
> Had to scavenge for weapons most of the time.
> Beating 4+ rounds with friends felt like an achievement (No pun intended).
> You really needed to communicate to play it successfully.
Wow, I totally forgot that. ODST Firefight was the best coop experience so far IMO. It was challenging but not unfair, the only thing missing was a method to hook up with other players (excluding your friends).
