Is there an estimated time frame for new episodes or is it just hit and miss? We have a “spotty” month by month gold subscription so we never know if each month we’ll be able to afford it.
Taken from Halo Bulletin:
Week of 1/21
Spartan Ops Episode 6: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
“Forge Test” playlist (name not final): A rotational hopper featuring small Forge maps such as Relay. Help us test these maps by providing feedback and reporting bugs that will assist us in getting them ready for Matchmaking!
Specializations: Pioneer and Pathfinder Specializations unlocked for all players.
Week of 1/28
Spartan Ops Episode 7: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
Grifball playlist: A rotational hopper featuring everybody’s favorite virtual sport. Catch the disease!
Specializations: Engineer and Stalker Specializations unlocked for all players.
Week of 2/4
Spartan Ops Episode 8: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
Team Doubles playlist: A rotational hopper for those of you that like action of the 2 vs 2 variety.
Specializations: Rogue and Tracker Specializations unlocked for all players.
I’ve capped lvl 70, so I’m off H4 until the 21:th. As I got my H4 -Yoink!- edition as ax-mas gift, I can’t do what the US people do. Be able to unlock all 8 specializations and double up on XP by buying things. And as the Infinity Challenge goes on in the “US”, (doubt anyone Outside the US could win a car), all H4 progress stands still in the rest of the world. And as soon as I cap lvl 90, I’ll just have to wait again for the next 2 specializations to be released and again for the last time.
343 makes sure I play other games in between. Sorry thing to say is, every time I leave, I get more reluctant to come back…
> I’ve capped lvl 70, so I’m off H4 until the 21:th. As I got my H4 -Yoink!- edition as ax-mas gift, I can’t do what the US people do. Be able to unlock all 8 specializations and double up on XP by buying things. And as the Infinity Challenge goes on in the “US”, (doubt anyone Outside the US could win a car), all H4 progress stands still in the rest of the world. And as soon as I cap lvl 90, I’ll just have to wait again for the next 2 specializations to be released and again for the last time.
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> 343 makes sure I play other games in between. Sorry thing to say is, every time I leave, I get more reluctant to come back…
You’re going to go up 20 levels in a week? That’s a lot of playing…
> > I’ve capped lvl 70, so I’m off H4 until the 21:th. As I got my H4 -Yoink!- edition as ax-mas gift, I can’t do what the US people do. Be able to unlock all 8 specializations and double up on XP by buying things. And as the Infinity Challenge goes on in the “US”, (doubt anyone Outside the US could win a car), all H4 progress stands still in the rest of the world. And as soon as I cap lvl 90, I’ll just have to wait again for the next 2 specializations to be released and again for the last time.
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> > 343 makes sure I play other games in between. Sorry thing to say is, every time I leave, I get more reluctant to come back…
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> You’re going to go up 20 levels in a week? That’s a lot of playing…
20 levels is nothing if I’ve got double xp and get matched with tolerable spartan ops players. I could get 20 levels in, idk 2-3 hours maybe 4. Not that hard back at the rate I was going. 11.9k xp on avg per 8-10 min spartan ops mission. Tats using fast track of course, and assuming all 4 players are actually playing like normal ppl.
Why exactly are ppl capped at 70 again? I think that’s just messed up considering I’d be 130 3 times over if not more had i been stuck with a level cap.
PS euro gamers are generally better players or at least smarter player, and they work much better in teams. And don’t forget about Koreans, my Korean American friend is a beast at gaming in general and is all over these Korean and Korean American forums finding software, exploits and all kinds of crazy and useful info and tricks for games, specially diablo 3. Gaming over there is like a job or career and you literally stick to a game or franchise and practice ur -Yoink- off. You shoulda seen the Korean diablo 3 market compared to the US servers back when that game was still boomin. Hell, blizzard increased the max amount of gold, items could sell for over on those servers cuz of how crazy good ppl got at farming gold and loot. But I’m just ranting now so ill shut up XD
> 343 makes sure I play other games in between. Sorry thing to say is, every time I leave, I get more reluctant to come back…
That’s all you had to say because that is what’s happening to more and more people everyday.
> You’re going to go up 20 levels in a week? That’s a lot of playing…
As you know (looked at your profile and saw you’re lvl 130) when you reach lvl 50 you start over and only need 12k to reach lvl 51, then you need 14k and so on, last jump is only around 50-60k. So, after choosing a new specialization, you bump 6 lvls within a few hours. If you are able to complete daily and or weekly challenges at the same time, you’re done with the specialization over a normal gaming session (for me I’m guessing 3-6 hours) of playing not using double xp.
And as I got the -Yoink!- edition, as soon as I hit lvl 70 I can’t progress. When I hit lvl 90, I guess there is another wait time. The bonus part is that we (-Yoink!- owners) can’t reach lvl 130 in 3 months, you play at a slow pase and the whole experience lasts. But, the pase is to slow for me I guess…
> > You’re going to go up 20 levels in a week? That’s a lot of playing…
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> As you know when you reach lvl 50 you start over and only need 12k to reach lvl 51, then you need 14k and so on, last jump is only around 50-60k. So, after choosing a new specialization, you bump 6 lvls within a few hours. If you are able to complete daily and or weekly challenges at the same time, you’re done with the specialization over a normal gaming session (for me I’m guessing 3-6 hours) of playing not using double xp.
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> And as I got the -Yoink!- edition, as soon as I hit lvl 70 I can’t progress. When I hit lvl 90, I guess there is another wait time. The bonus part is that we (-Yoink!- owners) can’t reach lvl 130 in 3 months, you play at a slow pase and the whole experience lasts. But, the pase is to slow for me I guess…
You need 0 XP to reach SR 51, because you get a free SR when you select your specialization. But yeah, correct, the first 5 SR ranks or so after selecting your specialization are very easy.
As far as your “pace” goes, I don’t see how it changes the experience. I’d still play as much as I do now if I was capped, and the gameplay experience isn’t really related to how frequent I play.