Well its January, back from FC3: NO RANKS!

Games Other Halo
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So I bought Far Cry 3 sometime between Christmas and New Year’s eve, and played that for a bit messing with the map maker in it and thought I would come back to Halo 4 in January after this supposed coming 1-50 rank update…

WHAT A SHOCK, STILL NO 1-50 RANKING SYSTEM!!!

Also, what in the world happened to the Halo triangle of guns, grenades, and melee?!?! Who decided throwing in all this random junk was a good idea?!?!

Why can’t we shoot, throw grenades, and melee while sprinting?!?!

This is HALO! HALO has never had a moment where you are unable to react, yet sprint jars players in and out of combat. If you’re sprinting, you CANNOT fight. This is NOT how HALO sprint should work, it should simply be a speed boost, and when the speed boost is used the player’s model uses a sprinting animation like now so that it still looks good, but they should still be able to…

SHOOT

THROW GRENADES

MELEE

BECAUSE THIS IS THE HALO TRIANGLE. DUH.

And why don’t ALL players just have nav points over their heads in the game now? With the enhanced super powerful radar, promethean vision, and so on, we’re only one hair away from knowing where EVERYONE is ALL THE TIME. So why not just go ahead and tag everyone? It would look better in the game than the radar. Radar could just be removed then.

What happened to picking up grenades? Why do grenades, and also weapons while I’m talking about this, vanish into thin air?!?!?

Why is forge slightly WORSE than in Reach?!

Why do we have a secondary shotgun pistol that is more powerful than the actual shotguns in Halo 4???

Why was the jetpack brought back at all, since it is nerfed so badly you can only fly like 15 feet up with it?? Its totally pointless now. Removing it entirely would have probably been the best idea anyway.

Loadouts and armor abilities have GOT TO GO.

Why do armor abilities have infinite ammo?!!!

It makes no sense! If you send some hologram floating device out that projects a hologram, you wouldn’t have 3,000 more of those devices on you. We know it is a floating device from Halo 2 when we see the heretic leader use them, and because it is not some beam projection type thing from your suit because that couldn’t go around corners.

It also makes no sense with other armor abilities.

It makes no sense why some of them are FORCED to MAGICALLY have ANY RELATIONSHIP to the armor suits anyway, such as the regeneration field and auto-turret. These are CLEARLY NOT SUIT DEVICES. The spartan armor CLEARLY has NOTHING TO DO WITH AN AUTO-TURRET. An auto-turret is an object the spartan soldier carries, not a part of the suit like an overshield or active camouflage would be.

HALO 3 EQUIPMENT HAD IT RIGHT. IT WAS JUST THE PARTICULAR TYPES OF EQUIPMENT WERE BAD, NOT THE INTERFACE/WAY PLAYERS INTERACT WITH THE EQUIPMENT/ABILITIES.

Which brings up another point…

In Reach, armor abilities where designed into the engine in a VERY slack, crude way. It was basically equipment somehow attached to the player and made invisible, but during lag when players died their armor ability/ equipment often became visible beside their body. This happens still in Halo 4, meaning it is still actually just HALO 3 EQUIPMENT in the engine. Its extremely pathetic, slack programming/ design/ engineering to just copy and paste Halo 3 equipment coding into Reach and 4 if 343 was insistent on going forward with armor abilities. They should have been made a genuine part of the engine.

And WHAT is with Pulse Grenades? Why do they even exist? No one even knows what to do with them, what they do, or what they’re intended for.

AND WHY ISN’T A HALO…

OTHER THAN ONE SINGLE BRIEF MERE GLIMPSE ACTUALLY IN A GAME CALLED HALO?

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> So I bought Far Cry 3 sometime between Christmas and New Year’s eve, and played that for a bit messing with the map maker in it and thought I would come back to Halo 4 in January after this supposed coming 1-50 rank update…
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> WHAT A SHOCK, STILL NO 1-50 RANKING SYSTEM!!!
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> Also, what in the world happened to the Halo triangle of guns, grenades, and melee?!?! Who decided throwing in all this random junk was a good idea?!?!
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> Why can’t we shoot, throw grenades, and melee while sprinting?!?!
>
> This is HALO! HALO has never had a moment where you are unable to react, yet sprint jars players in and out of combat. If you’re sprinting, you CANNOT fight. This is NOT how HALO sprint should work, it should simply be a speed boost, and when the speed boost is used the player’s model uses a sprinting animation like now so that it still looks good, but they should still be able to…
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> SHOOT
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> THROW GRENADES
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> MELEE
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> BECAUSE THIS IS THE HALO TRIANGLE. DUH.

On offline, you can still run and melee but you cannot run and shoot/throw a grenade. Throwing a grenade doesn’t affect gameplay but shooting is a terrible advantage while sprinting.

> And why don’t ALL players just have nav points over their heads in the game now? With the enhanced super powerful radar, promethean vision, and so on, we’re only one hair away from knowing where EVERYONE is ALL THE TIME. So why not just go ahead and tag everyone? It would look better in the game than the radar. Radar could just be removed then.

I haven’t played online yet but I’ve heard there isn’t a red X when a teammate dies now and that is not cool if it’s true.

> What happened to picking up grenades? Why do grenades, and also weapons while I’m talking about this, vanish into thin air?!?!?

I hadn’t notice this but the only way to pick ammo is with a perk thing. As I said, not sure if it’s the same as online gameplay.

> Why is forge slightly WORSE than in Reach?!

I kinda dislike forge in Halo 4. There isn’t a Forge World and most of the maps are hard to forge on. Also, getting that message saying “Generating Light” is annoying. If it doesn’t happen online, you guys are lucky. :slight_smile:

> Why do we have a secondary shotgun pistol that is more powerful than the actual shotguns in Halo 4???

Haven’t used it before but I see a lot of complaints about it. I reckon it should stay with the power but take longer to charge.

> Why was the jetpack brought back at all, since it is nerfed so badly you can only fly like 15 feet up with it?? Its totally pointless now. Removing it entirely would have probably been the best idea anyway.

Haven’t used it at all.

> Loadouts and armor abilities have GOT TO GO.

I like the idea of loadouts but some of the stuff should only be in Ordnance Drops such as Camo.

> Why do armor abilities have infinite ammo?!!!
>
> It makes no sense! If you send some hologram floating device out that projects a hologram, you wouldn’t have 3,000 more of those devices on you. We know it is a floating device from Halo 2 when we see the heretic leader use them, and because it is not some beam projection type thing from your suit because that couldn’t go around corners.
>
> It also makes no sense with other armor abilities.
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> It makes no sense why some of them are FORCED to MAGICALLY have ANY RELATIONSHIP to the armor suits anyway, such as the regeneration field and auto-turret. These are CLEARLY NOT SUIT DEVICES. The spartan armor CLEARLY has NOTHING TO DO WITH AN AUTO-TURRET. An auto-turret is an object the spartan soldier carries, not a part of the suit like an overshield or active camouflage would be.
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> HALO 3 EQUIPMENT HAD IT RIGHT. IT WAS JUST THE PARTICULAR TYPES OF EQUIPMENT WERE BAD, NOT THE INTERFACE/WAY PLAYERS INTERACT WITH THE EQUIPMENT/ABILITIES.

The year is 2558, anything is possible :stuck_out_tongue:

> Which brings up another point…
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> In Reach, armor abilities where designed into the engine in a VERY slack, crude way. It was basically equipment somehow attached to the player and made invisible, but during lag when players died their armor ability/ equipment often became visible beside their body. This happens still in Halo 4, meaning it is still actually just HALO 3 EQUIPMENT in the engine. Its extremely pathetic, slack programming/ design/ engineering to just copy and paste Halo 3 equipment coding into Reach and 4 if 343 was insistent on going forward with armor abilities. They should have been made a genuine part of the engine.

Meh

> And WHAT is with Pulse Grenades? Why do they even exist? No one even knows what to do with them, what they do, or what they’re intended for.

They’re very effective if you can use them properly. They act like a EMP and drain a players shield down and the grenade explodes at the end which will result in death in Matchmaking.

You can also use it as a trap. If players are following you or about to approach you, throw one down and if they happen to run into it, their shields will go down.

I would prefer them over the other 2 grenades.

Also, they were used to stop the Flood :stuck_out_tongue:

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Here’s another good one: why is there a stupid TRANSFORMER ROBOT THING in Halo 4?! And WHY does it have SHIELDS like a spartan?! Did 343 consult with Michael Bay for that idea?!

Why no human flying vehicle? Reach finally gave Halo a human flying vehicle that both felt right as far as fitting in to the Halo universe, that was also not over powered. Even if 343 didn’t like it for some reason, why no new replacement flying human vehicle??

Why no colors on the Mongoose for players who enjoy racing them??

Why no race game type?

WHY NO JUGGERNAUT GAME TYPE!!!

JUGGERNAUT WAS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC HALO GAMES!!!

So was Assault!!

And so on with the game type issues.

If its not broke you DON’T FIX IT.

I hate to break it to lots of you out there and 343, but Halo only became less popular than COD because of the STORIES. Halo is SCIENCE FICTION, in other words, seen as NERDY by all the kiddies out there. They see COD as VIOLENT and BAD because you shoot actual PEOPLE in it, not ALIENS.

You guys and 343 want to out sell COD?

Then Halo should have taken this opportunity to introduce a HUMAN CIVIL WAR so the kiddies could feel like they’re doing something bad by playing Halo shooting other PEOPLE.

The game play’s quality has nothing to do with a game’s sales and popularity… good quality game play only keeps a high online multiplayer population.

I cannot believe a gaming company like 343 Industries could be handed a franchise like Halo and just FAIL.

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> I’ll read your post soon and edit this one if I need to but it’s not the end of January, not even 1/3 yet.

Well, everyone was talking about this supposed January update like it was to be the second coming of Christ for Halo pretty much, so according to them it happened already with the way they were talking about it.

I don’t know if that update occurred yet or not because I was playing with FC3’s map maker, but did have an update when I put Halo 4 in just now, so I figure that’s the update.

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its barely January give it a minute man.

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> > I’ll read your post soon and edit this one if I need to but it’s not the end of January, not even 1/3 yet.
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> Well, everyone was talking about this supposed January update like it was to be the second coming of Christ for Halo pretty much, so according to them it happened already with the way they were talking about it.
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> I don’t know if that update occurred yet or not because I was playing with FC3’s map maker, but did have an update when I put Halo 4 in just now, so I figure that’s the update.

The update will be sometime between now, and the first of february I believe.

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> Here’s another good one: why is there a stupid TRANSFORMER ROBOT THING in Halo 4?! And WHY does it have SHIELDS like a spartan?! Did 343 consult with Michael Bay for that idea?!

What are you talking about? If you’re talking about the Watchers, they’re Sentitels which do stuff like that.

> Why no human flying vehicle? Reach finally gave Halo a human flying vehicle that both felt right as far as fitting in to the Halo universe, that was also not over powered. Even if 343 didn’t like it for some reason, why no new replacement flying human vehicle??

So the Falcon and Hornet aren’t in any gametypes in Halo 4?

> Why no colors on the Mongoose for players who enjoy racing them??
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> Why no race game type?
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> WHY NO JUGGERNAUT GAME TYPE!!!
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> JUGGERNAUT WAS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC HALO GAMES!!!
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> So was Assault!!
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> And so on with the game type issues.

I’m sure these will be added soon, maybe even this month in the TU.

> I hate to break it to lots of you out there and 343, but Halo only became less popular than COD because of the STORIES. Halo is SCIENCE FICTION, in other words, seen as NERDY by all the kiddies out there. They see COD as VIOLENT and BAD because you shoot actual PEOPLE in it, not ALIENS.
>
> You guys and 343 want to out sell COD?
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> Then Halo should have taken this opportunity to introduce a HUMAN CIVIL WAR so the kiddies could feel like they’re doing something bad by playing Halo shooting other PEOPLE.

I’m 17 and I’ve never liked a CoD game that has been released. The campaign isn’t too bad but not something I enjoy playing. I hate the fact the most of the time in Matchmaking for CoD is the first person to see someone usually wins or it just lags too much.

As for the violence and killing human thing. They should play Matchmaking in Halo, they’ll be killing humans. Besides, most people are complaining about the Multiplayer on Halo 4…

> I cannot believe a gaming company like 343 Industries could be handed a franchise like Halo and just FAIL.

I believe 343 did a good job on Halo 4 and is probably the best Halo game out there.

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Nothing is going to be change or updated till this joke of this tournament is over…

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They said ‘‘NEXT YEAR’’ Not january according to when you would return OP.

If you merely just return to complain and swear like a drunken sailor, i suggest you go back to Far Cry 3.

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When I said kiddies, I meant about 15 and under I guess, so if you’re 17, I’m sure you’re past that phase of buying a game just because “its bad,” if you ever even went through that phase. I doubt you did anyway with your nice answers to my 75% annoyed 25% actual points rant.

But Halo 4 has some serious serious problems, and coming back to playing it after a couple of weeks and not seeing a 1-50 ranking system, which I sincerely believe will never be in Halo 4 anyway, just rubbed in the pure disappointment I’ve felt with Halo 4.

I didn’t mean Watchers either. I meant the Mantis. Its stupid. It doesn’t fit in, in the Halo universe. Its very, very different from all the other vehicles.

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Considering that Spartan Ops is not scheduled to return until the 21st, I would not have expected anything to happen before then

amazing what people will rant about when they get the chance

EDIT: Sorry, but are you actually complaining that a game, a sci fi inspired games, with an entire Space ship fully of augmented super soldier Spartans, has had a mech combat suit designed and built for them to use…in combat?

Interesting…maybe Far Cry 3 with the ability to punch a shark in the face whilst getting high on mushrooms is a better gaming choice for you

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> I didn’t mean Watchers either. I meant the Mantis. Its stupid. It doesn’t fit in, in the Halo universe. Its very, very different from all the other vehicles.

That big dumb flying thing was in h2

The mantis was just a gears ripoff lol

Not bad tho.

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We haven’t even hit double digits on January. Grow up and be patient.