So there are numerous problems I have with Spartan Ops. But I have one that has been bugging me above all others. The Crawler Snipers. To this date, someone has actually played enough to figure out that to complete the Distinguished level commendation for killing Crawler Snipers takes killing 1575 of these little -Yoinks!-. That look exactly like normal Crawlers and don’t give you any real indications they’re about to OHK you with a nearly 100% accuracy rate. And they can be above you or behind you or anywhere but you field of view and you just have no idea. Whose stupid idea was this enemy and this absurdly high commendation level? The most Crawler Snipers I’ve run across in a level so far has been 10-ish (8-12). And only The Challenge (Ch 1 Ep 3) has this number reliably. Spartan Miller (Ch 5 Ep 1) seems to have 10-ish as well but only when played on Legendary in matchmaking (or in 4 player co-op I assume). I can’t imagine playing the Challenge 160 times as the board is tiny and SOOO easy to make one tiny mistake which gets you killed. So my question for any 343er out there is: What were you thinking?
For the forum members, what else about Spartan Ops do you find stupid, silly or idiotic? What should 343 avoid so that Spartan Ops missions are more enjoyable in the future?
Well i am gonna point out it is a pain but there are more episodes comeing, so whos to say that there maybe a mission where you can gain more kills. Some of the rare ones do have low numbers right now, but do keep in mind commendations do take time. Some are easier to finsh some will take time
> For the forum members, what else about Spartan Ops do you find stupid, silly or idiotic? What should 343 avoid so that Spartan Ops missions are more enjoyable in the future?
The whole grind-based nature of the commendations, perhaps?
I made a chart that can hopefully help ease some of your stress, but I however feel your pain, I even made a chart and the crawler sniper is looking to be my last commendation for enemies to complete.
> What should 343 avoid so that Spartan Ops missions are more enjoyable in the future?
Less kill 'em all objectives.
Less like Firefight.
It should play like Campaign.
I don’t want the newer levels to be suitable for commendations. I want them to have a reasonable amount of enemies and plenty of strategies. Episodes 1-5 are enough for commendations.
Knight Commanders SHOULD be hard to get. They should be rare.
Let’s not forget that the game has only been out for less than 2 1/2 months. It’s going to be out there for 3 years before we get Halo 5. If you can’t get all of the SpOps enemy commendations done by then, well that’s on you.
I’ve already got max for Covenant and nearly that for Forerunner. Yes, Crawler Snipers and Knight Commanders are the least I have too. Again, though, this is still a NEW game. It would be much of a commendation if we could all have 100% within the first 3 months of release now, would it?
Take it easy and have FUN playing the game. Commendations will come in time. You yourself can choose how to devote that time. Either grinding away at commendations or just playing through and allowing those commendations to come to you along the way.
I’m a mix of both and in no way stressed about them.
Totally agree about Crawler Snipers - they set that commendation requirement way too high. Currently spending hours on Ep 1 Ch3 The Challenge trying to grind that one and it’s getting pretty tiresome.
Thankfully if you restart a mission you still keep your kill counts:
[100 Crawler Snipers in a 47min game of The Challenge](https://app.halowaypoint.com/en-us/#Halo4/A Blues fan/home/match-468cb3e2024b06b8)
That’s 1 roughly every 28 seconds, but I shouldn’t have to be resorting to such tactics to try and get a simple commendation like this, they should have set the numbers at a more appropriate level.
Because of this Infinity Challenge, I got mine on Distinguish right now. 128 out of 600 as of this moment. Expert needed 450. Which means Master will need 900 to complete.
> > Knight Commanders SHOULD be hard to get. They should be rare.
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> > HFFL
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> No, why? If every Banshee in SO has an Elite GENERAL(!) as the pilot, then why Promethean Commanders should be rare?