Tonight has taught me exactly why the Halo 4 online is not worth raving about. Hell, it’s not even worth talking about. I’ve run into nearly every broken, exploitable, glitchy thing in the game tonight. I’ll run you down my 3 matches.
Match 1: I jumped online. 2 of my friends were playing, so I decided to join them. BTIS on Exile. That’s fine. I spawn in. I walked out of my base only to die to three DMRs before I had the chance to walk backwards. Alright. Figure it was a once-off. Spawn somwhere else. again, DMRs. Finally spawned in a decent place, started running around the map. Headshotting things and not getting kills. Decided it as probably a little lag. Put it beside me.
Then I picked up a Spartan Laser from someone. Because i’m an idiot and decided to shoot it in the lag, I shot it. 3 wasted shots. I carefully aim at a still person and take the last shot. Perfect hit. Then they run around the rock they were hiding behind, run out the other side and start shooting me before they fall over dead. Several seconds later, I get the points pop up on my screen. Laser Kill. Comeback kill. Spend the rest of the match dying horribly.
Match 2: Friends and I decide to play Regicide instead.Come across a guy Using Camo and Boltshot. Lots of those. In the match, there was 5 Accounts and 1 guest. Me and my two friends run around Haven with ARs, having a laugh. Then we all take our fight downstairs. One, two, Three boltshot kills. Then I watch the killcam. He is in camo, under some stairs. His Guest is in the same place, crouched with Promethean vision and another boltshot. Needless to say, we all formed a temporary alliance to wipe his -Yoink- off the face of the map, but it was annoying, particularly when his Boltshot beat my Scattershot.
Match 3: We moved to oddball. Best match of the night. Until one person on their team gets the oddball. Haven. He sprint at me, I backpedal and shoot. He punches me, I died. I’m fine with that. Then I respawn. I take two steps and see him hurtling across the map to melee me. I don’t mean that I spawned near him either. His punched lunged from the area in the middle of haven to the stairs on one side. Aside from that, It was a great match.
And this is all without mentioning the fact that last night I played Spartan ops with one of my friends. He hosted. We both lagged so hard we tried Kamikaze tactics instead. It’s also not mentioning the hacked Sniper I played against. It wasn’t a debatable hack either. He would flick between the Sniper and the DMR, no-scope headshot with the Sniper for the first half of the match. Then he starated shooting Binary rifle shots at people. From his Sniper. For the record, 4 shot clip Binary rifle is OP as -Yoink-.
TL;DR: I had Lag, Mass DMRing, Boltshot -Yoink–ishness and hacks in the last two night. Halo 4 has dissapointed me online.