Am I the only one who felt Spartan Ops was a disappointment?
I thought it was going to be amazing but it was just really easy and really repetitive… We finished the first ones in like half an hour. It was just boring and chaotic in my opinion. I want firefight back 
I totally agree. If there was some sort of actual plot, I might have been ok with it replacing firefight, but it just felt really boring and corny. I would rather see firefight brought back, maybe as a DLC or something.
repetitive? and Firefight wasn’t? lol. This actually has a story in it, just builds on by chapters
> I totally agree. If there was some sort of actual plot, I might have been ok with it replacing firefight, but it just felt really boring and corny.
Some sort of plot? It’s only the first 2 episodes so far. That’s like watching a movie for the first 10 minutes then complaining that there was no plot.
I never really got into firefight at all, it was repetative, and people didn’t care for skilful play. so people only ever voted for the “Lololol run around with rocket launcher jet packs unlimited liiives!” What I would like to see in SP-OPS are limited lives being an option, But I slightly agree with you guys, AT FIRST I thought “well th at was short” But the real challange is setting yourself up goals. Grab 1 friend, only 1 set it to legendary. And try to play without any deaths, and see how well you do. I can guarantee you will get more of a challenge and enjoyment doing it that way than match making. Especially when you’re about to complete it with no deaths AND YOU GET BINARY RIFLED RIGHT IN THE RIBS! (curse up a storm)
I’d like it if each mission wasn’t literally 5 minutes long(checked the time to complete at the end of the missions lol). One cinematic, as well done as the spops cinematics are, and 5 extremely short missions really isn’t enough.
I was optimistic but spartan ops is kinda a big let down. It’s still fun to play but all the environments are recycled from the campaign (I consider the snowy one to be recycled from the campaign too, adding snow doesn’t really do it for me), and the ones that aren’t taken from campaign are being reused again in spartan ops,( the lava one and the nighttime jungle/forerunner themed one) it just feels cheap and I was hoping for more unique missions but it seems its only going to be ‘kill these guys, press this button’ or ‘kill these guys, take down this generator’. Also whenever you get more weapons dropped in the guy in the radio always says the same two things (“you got it commander”) it’s noticeable for me and adds to the cheap, recycled feel. Not a whole lot of actually new content. But again I still enjoy it, just could have been better.
I wasn’t disappointed (well I’ve always been mad about the removal of firefight entirely) until I logged on just now to find that episode 2 reused all the same areas as episode 1. Come on. It’s one thing that they’re reusing campaign spaces to save time and labor but are they going to be reusing the same 5 spaces for like 10 weeks? That just sucks.
I’m willing to keep with it for now. But it does seem a bit lacklustre at present.
‘Pelican Down’ was a good example. An small intro vid showing your pelican being shot down and crashing would have been more immersive, as would actually having a crashed pelican at the location at which you initially spawn.
Then there’s the repetition of using the same locations as the first episode…
Hopefully they start varying things a bit in the next episode.
I felt that spartan ops was a good idea. I didn’t mind replacing firefight, but i thought that it was a little annoying that they did not release all of the episodes with the launch. I know they are just trying to keep people playing and lets be honest make some more money, but come on just give us the whole story.
Episode 2 only has one new level.
Also, Spartan Ops is obviously not meant for people who are playing it solo. I got bum-rushed by a dozen of Elites with Concussion Rifles on Heroic. Needless to say, I died a few times.
By no means is spec/spartan ops bad. I feel like it is an interesting idea and with some development in future games could be outstanding. However I do feel in its current state it is not very replayable.
The problem with this game, and a challenge on any future versions, is not what you add, it is what you take out.
I’m sure the vast majority of disappointment towards 343i is mainly aimed at taking out features such as firefight, custom options (many have big problems in this area in particular), forge pallet/editing abilities and campaign scoring theatre mode etc; things that make them replayable. Spartan ops would benefit hugely from a scoring system, especially if you made it competitive, and had team members competing for the highest score to win. Again some form of punishment for dying may also be an interesting idea; if they made a scenario difficult enough it would provide a decent challenge; legendary just isn’t hard enough if you can just keep respawning.
Yea I know people are complaining about the multiplayer, but if the custom options and custom hoppers are there people could play them.
It is obvious that 343 only have limited resources, especially in regards to disc space (ps3 laughing on this front). Let’s just hope that halo 5 is an xbox 720 only release, and it has blu-ray discs. Then we can have all the features!
It’s only episode 2 and they have reused all the maps. Frankly speaking i am disappointed. Firefight was much more fun as choosing rocket fight occasionally for some mindless blasting fun really freshen things up. Lack of replayability plus no theatre mode just greatly lessen my interest with halo 4. There’s no point in replaying campaign again since no XP will be given except doing challenges. I urge 343 to at the very least enable the game to record both campaign and spartan ops. So many great moments loss. 
> It’s only episode 2 and they have reused all the maps. Frankly speaking i am disappointed. Firefight was much more fun as choosing rocket fight occasionally for some mindless blasting fun really freshen things up. Lack of replayability plus no theatre mode just greatly lessen my interest with halo 4. There’s no point in replaying campaign again since no XP will be given except doing challenges. I urge 343 to at the very least enable the game to record both campaign and spartan ops. So many great moments loss.
I agree. I have a ton of hilarious and memorable clips of me and my friends playing firefight in ODST and Reach. It kind of feels like we lost more features than we gained in Halo 4.
> Episode 2 only has one new level.
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> Also, Spartan Ops is obviously not meant for people who are playing it solo. I got bum-rushed by a dozen of Elites with Concussion Rifles on Heroic. Needless to say, I died a few times.
All of them are resued, the first one (clean up) was taken right from the campaign. The rest are taken from spartan ops episode 1 and camapign
I didnt liked them o:
Cuz only 1 New Map… Very short Missions, to cheap made intros/outros, and always the same: Kill these! lol <.<
Missions I hoped for are:
- Survive Attack Waves, protect your Base
- Escort your Convoy from point A to B
- A little Race from A to B with Warthogs with All kinds of enemys chasing you
and btw those 4 other maps on 2nd Episode where just recycles from 1st episode! Thats so cheap…
(Maybe they are to lazy to take new maps? o_o)
Theyre a decent challenge on legendary when you play them solo. Unfortunatly the fail AI makes it not THAT much of a challenge, but if you consider them to be easy-mode try them solo. Theyre still beatable of course, but it is a fair challenge.
Using a not-so-strategic approach, I usually net about 20 deaths per mission, roughly 20 minutes playtime per mission as well.
I dont see why Firefight had to be removed though. Theyre already forcing us to download this crap for some reason, why not throw firefight in there too since your community wants it?
It’s kinda weak but I’m interested to see how they build up the story going into halo 5.
Either way, I’ll just be youtubing the videos after Spartan Ops stops being free unless they’re really cheap. The gameplay isn’t worth much to me.
> Missions I hoped for are:
> - Survive Attack Waves, protect your Base
They will probably have at least one of these because there’s an achievement where you have to defend your generators in Spartan Ops.
I enjoy firefight and I enjoy the spartan ops missions also. Instead of replacing spartan ops I’d be okay if they would get rid of some of those stupid slayer type games and give the co-op players both.