I’ve played through and enjoyed spartan ops episodes one to five, all of them on Heroic difficulty. My friends don’t like playing spartan ops and I don’t enjoy playing alone, so I have always used matchmaking to find others to work with.
Today I downloaded the new episodes and jumped in, only to find that it was a laggy mess, mainly die to being on legendary. I’m in the UK and you can cope with a bit of lag on heroic but on legendary any glitchiness ruins the game and gets you killed, more or less instantly.
Googling about it seems that there’s no way to change the difficulty, which strikes me as completely moronic, because if so they’ve arbitrarily changed the difficulty midway through the series and rendered it unplayable, for people who play it as I do at least. Of course, for a game released without any kind of a manual there’s no way I’ve found of confirming exactly what is going on here. Is difficulty selectable? Have they decided to unilaterally force people onto legendary?
I’d very much appreciate some clear feedback on this.
So because of your connection issue, it’s suddenly 343’s fault for making parties bigger than 2 play Legendary, which isn’t hard given the player count? Alright
Why do people say there is lag on Spartan ops? I have never received any lag on SO.
I don’t have a connection issue, this is what Spartan Ops (and exclusively spartan ops) is like in the UK for everyone I’ve ever discussed it with. US gamers don’t seem to get the same problem. It is hard if you can’t
So parties bigger than 2 play on, legendary, do they? Why change it? Why wasn’t it that way before? Why can’t I decide for myself?
Killamox: people say there is lag on Spartan Ops because they get lag on Spartan Ops. It’s not hard to understand. I’ll bet there’s lots of things that never happen to you that happen to other people all the time.
I have lag problems on Spartan Ops too. But when I go into matchmaking, there’s no lag at all. I have a good connection, so I don’t see why it lags. It also happens in Co-op Campaign. No clue why.
Ooooh so that is what is happening… Parties > 2 play on legendary. I thought the difficulty was just changed to legendary during the repeats. This is awesome.
I think some of the repeats were on Legendary? How did you get on then?
I see your point though, they probably should have kept it at Heroic (how the game was meant to be played) for the first week of each new episode.
They made it default legendary because people were complaining heroic was too easy, now people are complaining it’s too hard. Go figure.
P.S. I always start the day with a bowl of Spartan O’s.
I do find this pretty irritating to find this episode on legendary. Not that its hard but just that im trying to relax and play some sp ops but I cant since all the enemies have super powered weapons and it shouldnt take me 15 -Yoinking!- shots with a DMR to kill a general.
I’ve been able to do a solo legendary run in the first season without a problem.
Have you tried going solo yet, OP?
The problem with lag on spartan ops is that it is not just dependent on your connection. The other players matter as well. Even for players (I would say all) in the US, depending on who you play with you may receive anything from little to no lag to huge amounts that make it virtually impossible to play. The best thing I can offer as a solution on this is to experiment with different people and see how much lag you get. If you play with a party that has little to no lag, try to run with these people regularly. It’s unfortunate but it is the reality of the situation.
Also at the moment, if you are playing matchmaking for Spartan Ops, you are forced to play whatever difficulty 343 Industries has decided to set.
I try not to complain too much about lag because whatthe****, it’s the internet, how much control does any one party-- whether it’s me or it’s the company whose game I’m playing-- have over latency in the mysterious network of tubes.
But I am pretty pissed by having no say at all in the difficulty setting of the Spartan Ops missions I enter into online. I rarely play Heroic and I never play Legendary by choice, because I don’t enjoy the frustration and rage that inevitably ensue. But I’ve been deposited into a bunch of Legendary SO missions now and more often than not, they make me want to turn off my xbox or go back to my ME3MP where I can make a selection and not be made to feel completely -Yoink- ineffective and chewed up by cheap -Yoink- AI.
When you arbitrarily assign your players’ difficulty settings, giving them no choice in the matter, and it makes them hate playing your game-- even temporarily-- that’s some ‘legendary’ stupidity right there. 343 needs to sort that **** out, ****ing ASAP >:-(