Things I don't enjoy about Halo 4

Games Other Halo
1

I love Halo 4, but sometimes it gets me so frustrated that I have to stop playing for a little while. Here are my complaints:

1. Join in progress:

I think this is a good idea. Unfortunately it was executed poorly. For instance, I keep being thrown into games that are nearly finished, and I’m typically on the losing team. This shouldn’t be happening. As a remedy, the system should be optional for players to choose themselves.

2. Sitrec:

Also known as the “kill cam,” I also think this is a good idea. Too bad it doesn’t work most of the time. Either it isn’t displayed at all, or the replay is totally wonky. Also, the removal of the “final kill cam” is disappointing. I’d like for 343i to fix this.

3. Personal Ordnance prevalence:

One or two per game on average, please. Good players shouldn’t receive game-altering benefits. It’s not balanced and introduces too much randomness.

4. Complex wall glitch:

UGH. Flood is ruined. Fix please. :slight_smile:

5. DMR:

I have no reason to ever use another primary; this thing rocks. Beefing all other rifles is a good remedy, or perhaps nerfing the DMR a bit.

6. Map variety:

I feel as if I play the same 3 maps over and over. My problem with this will hopefully be remedied via map packs.

Well that’s all I can think of for now. Feel free to share your opinions or problems as well!

2

reasonable complaints for once… though id recommend leaving jip as optional but giving decent incentive to keep it toggled on. For instance, the knowledge that when you do join a game, your true skill isn’t affected, and you get exra exp.

3

I really enjoy this game, don’t get me wrong, the core gameplay is nice and fast and most things are balanced (aside from the DMR) but there are a few things I’d build on your list.

1) No theater in Campaign/Spartan Ops.

Every Halo with Theater mode in it has had Campaign and Firefight functionality. Not having it is lame; I’ve done some sweet things in both modes that are now lost because I couldn’t record them. I can get maybe they couldn’t find the time to revamp and improve theater, but decreasing functionality is just sad and wrong. I hope they can patch it like they mentioned in that bulletin.

2) No weapon lowering over Live

I don’t see why not. There is literally now way it could hamper MM gameplay, but even assuming there WAS a way it could, I don’t see how they couldn’t make it only okay in customs or something. This is an issue that has NEVER been addressed since Halo 2 and I’m sad they didn’t put it in, especially when you consider how important the machinima community is to Halo.

3) The final boss fight

This cannot be fixed obviously, but the fact that the final boss fight is nothing but killing regular joe enemies and then simply performing a Quicktime Event to finish him off was lame. If they were going to do that, they should have had a fight to weaken him beforehand. At least Truth in H2 could fight back.4) No Firefight

Self explanatory. I know they put Spartan Ops in, and I like Spartan Ops a lot, but I still don’t think they should have removed it. It’s fun but in a different way than Spartan Ops. Just seeing how long you can go, you know?

5) Custom Game options

There’s been a billion threads about this. They need to add in old gametypes so that we can play the custom games we all enjoyed in Halo 3 and Reach.

6) No UNSC flying vehicle/ playing as Elites

A small gripe, but it makes making machinima even more limited. But that doesn’t really effect anyone other than fellow directors. Well, that and people who want more variety, but I digress…

After that, it’s mostly small crap that bugs me: the armor is kinda meh, the wraith blast is pitiful looking, some of the new sounds don’t agree with me, but that’s about it.

Still a very fun game I can see myself playing a lot, they just need to make some fixes and really put the effort into Halo 5, which I assume will be on the next Xbox console. I was just a little let down that they didn’t but that much effort into improving Forge and Theater modes.

4

How could you have forgotten insta-spawn? That is one of the biggest problems with this game!

5

Battle rifle is overpowered with its sweep-over-head headshot ability

6

maybe you can start playing as prometheans instead? :smiley:

7

> How could you have forgotten insta-spawn? That is one of the biggest problems with this game!

Oh, yes, this too.