This is something that’s bugged me since starting to play Spartan Ops. It’s the fact that upon death, there is no real penalty for death, especially for co-op. In my humble opinion, I feel part of playing Co-op is overcoming all obstacles together and using teamwork and communication to accomplish a difficult task.
I feel Spartan Ops is great the way it is with the exception of just feeling like a one-time thing. If the amount of lives were decreased to 3 or even just 1, I feel that Spartan Ops could become more memorable than just being able to breeze right through. After all, half of the reason for Spartan Ops is to tell a story. When you have no fear of death, you literally bowl through everything.
As for replayability, scoring, in my opinion, with leaderboards, would go a long way.
I say 2-3 lives per objective on the map, lose all those lives you spawn once the rest of your team accomplishes the task at hand. To do this though they need to remove vehicle team killing or make it not count towards lost lives. I do agree though, I have no incentive to not die other than a few second respawn.
I can get behind this. In Firefight you actually worried about you or your teammates dying. In Spartan Ops it’s just a joke, I couldn’t care less whether I die. The fact that you’re guaranteed to make it through the mission no matter how many deaths is just silly.
They’re not going to fundamentally change the way Spartan Ops changes from one episode to the next. Maybe in a larger update but not now.
Anyhow, the spawns are fine. I figured the punishment for being killed was the fact that in ten seconds your power weapons vanish before you can trek back to your corpse.
> Anyhow, the spawns are fine. I figured the punishment for being killed was the fact that in ten seconds your power weapons vanish before you can trek back to your corpse.
But even losing your power weapons leads to success. There really is no penalty for death. You can acquire power weapons and lose them and still be able to complete your mission with repeated death. And given that this mode touts co-op as it’s main focus, having unlimited lives greatly takes away from the entire experience if you know from start to finish, that your mission will be a success.
> No i think they should just add skulls for that. I like it just the way it is, its the only thing i can go into and do stupid things for fun.
I feel if you’re going to have skulls, you gotta have a limited amount of lives, otherwise it defeats the purpose of the design; there is no real difficulty if the inevitable is that you’re going to win anyway, much less so when you have no scoring involved. It’s one of the reasons why a portion of people didn’t like Reach’s firefight over ODSTs. It was fine to add the skulls but just knowing that you had unlimited lives, things got crazy quickly, you’d die a whole lot, and still knew that your mission was going to be a success. It wasn’t like ODST at all where you knew you had to work towards achieving your goal and had a limited amount of lives to do it in as things became more difficult.
Not attacking anyone directly but most people are immature, they will betray frequently, I don’t want to have to do the entire mission again just because we find a troll.
No i like to play it on legendary, and solo it so if they have to limit lives go down to like 9 like halo reach firefights were, because some quests would be near impossible on 3 live legendary solo in my opinion, or if you have to just make a checkpoint sort of thing just like the campaign and when you die you revert…
ps Ive beat every halo game solo on legendary, soloed halo 4 on legendary on opening night, it was ez crap… but i still disagree on this…
> I can get behind this. In Firefight you actually worried about you or your teammates dying. In Spartan Ops it’s just a joke, I couldn’t care less whether I die. The fact that you’re guaranteed to make it through the mission no matter how many deaths is just silly.
That was in Limited though, not Arcade excluding the Bonus Wave.
But due to the number of trolls, I’d not suggest it.
