I decided I wanted to play through the entire 3 episodes on Coop again and colour me confused but it seems only the current episode chapters are available for multiplay with randoms.
What about people who get the game for Xmas… will they lose out on dropping into earlier episodes? Will they have to form up their own Spartan Fireteams if they want to play multiplayer SpOps?
Seems another limitation in the game…
It does seems to be a bit of an oversight.
I’ve yet to play this weeks episode which means I only have 2 days left if I want to play it in matchmaking.
I wonder if they chooses the most popular chapters from the season for matchmaking once season 1 is over.
With 10 episodes, each comprising of 5 missions, I can see why 343i would have an issue hosting all these multiplayer games.
And consider that more seasons may be in the pipeline…
We all deal with limitations, MS and 343i are not exempt.
You can still do coop of all the other mission. Just not in matchmaking. Matchmaking is only available for the current episode.
I was wondering about that also, what does a new player do when coming into Halo 4 to play Spartan Ops when we’re all on Week 5 and they’re on Week 1, especially with the prior weeks now are only playable with friends with no match making support for new randoms, or do all the episodes open up when the season is done, or is it a best of compilation ?
> You can still do coop of all the other mission. Just not in matchmaking. Matchmaking is only available for the current episode.
So after the very final Episode we should be stuck playing that one online?
I so disagree with that.
I think it’s supposed to give you the incentive to play the new episode each week. But I think its poor design since there is Spartan Ops achievements for specify episodes, so some new players will have to buddy hunt. In that case feel to add me because all I play most of the time is Spartan Ops. Would like to do some of the older episodes co-op rather than solo all the time.
> With 10 episodes, each comprising of 5 missions, I can see why 343i would have an issue hosting all these multiplayer games.
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> And consider that more seasons may be in the pipeline…
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> We all deal with limitations, MS and 343i are not exempt.
But they don’t host them… One of the consoles actually is the host. Remember, the only data that flows to 343’s Waypoint servers is the data at the end of the match. While the game is playing, the host 360 is doing all the data collation.
Now look at how many people are playing the game worldwide. If you are going to play matchmaking then it would still mean the same number of games are being played.
So therefore I see no reason why they would just nerf the older episodes. So many oversights in this game.
> > You can still do coop of all the other mission. Just not in matchmaking. Matchmaking is only available for the current episode.
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> So after the very final Episode we should be stuck playing that one online?
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> I so disagree with that.
Do you understand the concept of seasons? We are currently on season 1 of Spartan ops, there is bound to be more to come, so don’t think that as soon as season 1 finishes that is it for halo 4’s spartan ops entirely
> > > You can still do coop of all the other mission. Just not in matchmaking. Matchmaking is only available for the current episode.
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> > So after the very final Episode we should be stuck playing that one online?
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> > I so disagree with that.
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> Do you understand the concept of seasons? We are currently on season 1 of Spartan ops, there is bound to be more to come, so don’t think that as soon as season 1 finishes that is it for halo 4’s spartan ops entirely
What I meant was that after we have played everything of Spartan Ops we shouldn’t be forced to play the last Episode.
I agree. This is an issue, but 343i need to fix that breaking lag. It’s absolutely horrible.