So apparently grunt birthday party and mythic are on in custom Spartan ops games. It’s annoying, what if I’m trying to get immersed or get some footage? How to get rid of it?
dont think you can get rid of it.
Oh wow!
So I’m just going to have to wait ten weeks for Spartan ops to return to normal? Keep that stuff in matchmaking not in customs… I want to enjoy Spartan ops. This is really frustrating. Mythic skull is also turned on, more annoyance!
yeah i guess they thought it would be refreshing to add something different. not sure when it changes again.
Refreshing? Imagine if campaign forced everyone to play with certain skulls for ten whole weeks. I want to play it natural. Keep it in Spartan ops matchmaking. If I feel like having skulls, okay let me hop on there, but not on my private matches.
I have 10 days of my halo 4 game time that’s Spartan ops. It’s something I like to do and this is not cool.
Well, this is partly the communities fault. They all wanted skulls for SpOps, but never specified what.
IWHBYD is also on. I like Mythic on.
> Well, this is partly the communities fault. They all wanted skulls for SpOps, but never specified what.
> IWHBYD is also on. I like Mythic on.
whats the point of iwhbyd?
seems a waste of a skull to me as the aliens dont speak english anyway.
I wish skulls were just like the campaign where you get to choose which ones you want. That way, if you don’t want skulls or you just want a few you could do that. I feel like every attempt they make at improving Spartan Ops they just screw it up. I mean no offense, I am still a dedicated Spartan Ops player but I wish they would try a little harder.
I LOVE Spartan Ops, and I’m really excited for the coming Skulls! This Skull update is something towards working on Spartan Ops and adding some new spices to it without adding a whole new Season. While I would LOVE a Season 2, I’ll take what I can get. I’m not complaining here.
I got a reply from Davis Ellis.
No way to split the files. So 10 weeks of spartan ops… Time to adapt.
You’re kidding… right?
I was just playing Spartan Ops a few hours ago, I didn’t notice anything different… when did this happen?
That sort of thing should only be in Matchmaking, not in customs. I thought that was what they were going to do!?!
> I got a reply from Davis Ellis.
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> No way to split the files. So 10 weeks of spartan ops… Time to adapt.
Are they serious?
Skulls have been in Firefight (H4’s Spartan Ops equivalent) since ODST and Reach. Did no one involved with H4 game development ever play previous Halo versions?
Even if they maintain the “we can’t change the GUI” stipulation, they could toggle Skulls through the WayPoint web interface.
Basically it would operate like this. You log into WayPoint using your gamer tag (as we all do to post a message), click on the “CAREER” tab, click on the "HALO 4 SETTINGS "tab that 343 adds, then check or uncheck various Skulls for Spartan op (or other external game settings) on that web page. Using your Gamer Tag, those settings get sent to the game set up server and the next time you play Spartan Ops, they get used.
Not as good as being able to turn it on / off in game directly, but infinitely better than what we have now.
Is this really so hard to find a work around - or does no one at 343 have any common sense?
Well, that makes it easy for me. I’ll be back in 10 weeks when this rubbish goes away. If I still remember what Halo 4 is by then.
I knew it was soonish but not this soon
Didn’t know I could get more incentive to NOT play Spartan Ops.
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LOL
On the bright side, it only appears to affect ONE episode of Spartan Ops at a time; in this case, Episode 1, “Departure”. Next week I assume it’ll change to Episode 2, “Artifact”.
Still, I’d rather they get rid of the skulls; I really don’t wanna have to put up with this for the next 10 weeks. What happens when they enable the skulls for my favorite episodes, and I can’t play them normally for a whole week?
I actually wanted skulls in Spartan Ops, but I assumed that if they were to do such a thing, we would be able to choose what skulls we wanted to activate and when; just like in Campaign. Instead, we have 343i choosing the skulls for us. Not what I wanted.
If you’re going to insist on making us play with Mythic on, can we at least have a Custom Skull too that enables Bottomless Clip (infinite ammo, no reloading); that’s something I wouldn’t mind playing with.
> Even if they maintain the “we can’t change the GUI” stipulation, they could toggle Skulls through the WayPoint web interface.
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> Basically it would operate like this. You log into WayPoint using your gamer tag (as we all do to post a message), click on the “CAREER” tab, click on the "HALO 4 SETTINGS "tab that 343 adds, then check or uncheck various Skulls for Spartan op (or other external game settings) on that web page. Using your Gamer Tag, those settings get sent to the game set up server and the next time you play Spartan Ops, they get used.
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> Not as good as being able to turn it on / off in game directly, but infinitely better than what we have now.
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> Is this really so hard to find a work around - or does no one at 343 have any common sense?
That is a workaround, that is not a simple workaround. We don’t have any in-game settings that we can customise online, it would clearly be a massive project to implement such a thing. Maybe you know better than I but I haven’t played any game where they let you customise your in game settings online… in this particular case it is pretty far from a logical solution either - certainly not one that “common sense” would lead one to.
> Well, this is partly the communities fault. They all wanted skulls for SpOps, but never specified what.
> IWHBYD is also on. I like Mythic on.
To be fair, the community asked for the option to turn on things like skulls, points, medals, limited life pool, etc. i.e. just give us back the options that Firefight had in Reach.
While I do appreciate them trying to mix things up, I’m not sure I understand the point of something like the Mythic skull combined with an infinite life pool. I suppose it will make the episode last longer, but it’s still going to be “no fail”.