Absolutely nothing. It gets so old seeing people constantly complain about every little problem with the game and now ive begun to complain about complaining so I will say what I have to say and feel free to tell me Im a fanboy or that what im saying doesnt work.
The boltshot is not overpowered it has a very short range so its only effective in a close area and assuming your not just charging boltshot people if someone gets that close to you they were near a corner. Use the corner to your advantage they eventually need to shoot the boltshot (you cant just hold the charge) so make sure that you move with them so when they want to turn and shoot you your now behind the corner. This will give you the opportunity to turn attack them as it takes a while to prepare another shot or to run away.
Active Camo is not overpowered they can only stay invisible for about 5 seconds for one so if you just cant get used to fighting invisible people when you see the markers on your radar stay in cover. They cant run to you without becoming visible. Alternatively Promethean vision/frag grenades work well for revealing and getting the jump on camo users too.
Instant respawn and random ordinance are part of an ever evolving game. The instant respawn does not happen in objective games where map control is more of a factor and it does make for more hectic fastpaced halo.while frustrating for me to lose the advantage of knowing where the maps weapons are going to be and exactly when they will be there it improves the quality of the game. Whats more fun whichever team that gets the rockets at 11:42 knowing to come back there at exactly 8:42 and subsequently getting them every time. I knew what I was doing in reach and the old system was almost always to my advantage and yes sometimes I get frustrated when im having a hard time getting a good ordinance but it usually makes for better games than the old system of one team just completely owning the weapon spawns. Not to mention Halo 4 mlg will obviously be using the classic weapon placement system so if your hyper competitive and cant handle that small amount of chance you will be able to play that.
The DMR is not better than the BR for every situation the br shoots faster and has a bigger reticule its range is much lower than the DMR but at close range that speed boost and more generously sized reticule is going to make you out br most DMR users. Honestly I see so many threads saying the BR is UP and the DMR is OP and I think a huge part of it is that lots of people didnt like halo reach but they loved halo 2/3 so they want their trusty BR to be better than the DMR from a game they hated so by association they hate the DMR.
Some things are extremely underpowered for example the hologram and the autoturret but you never hear anyone complain about those things because the hologram was always bad and the autoturret is new. Games must change to stay fresh which means gamers must change to stay good. Just because you can’t own house the exact same way you did in halo 1/2/3/r doesn’t mean 343 underpowered what you used to do or that they overpowered what is stopping you. Its means that their are now new tactics to effectively counter the old.
Halo must evolve to remain the best shooter on the market, Halo is combat evolved and if you dont evolve with it then your gonna get pwned. </rant>
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“People like the OP don’t seem to be very bright when it comes to this game…wonder why.”
My kd and win loss ratio is way better than yours normally im not one to think such a thing matters but when someone tells me I dont know my halo id assume they’d atleast be close to as good as me lol.
“The BR does not shoot faster you -Yoinking!- moron.”
Ive used the br on close range maps and it does shoot faster when factoring the wait period required to get the headshot with the DMR. Also the BR scope doesnt seem lift up nearly as much when your shot as the DMR scope does allthough im not 100% on that last part so i didnt mention it. Also their were glitches like jumping through the wall on certain maps and they got fixed allready. Theirs going to be glitches in a new game and 343 fixed the important ones about 1000 times faster than bungie ever did.
Forge is about 10,000 times easier to use and has way more options than halo reach so ive honestly got no idea what your talking about. I also wish the fileshare was up and running but its not ready yet. If they game wasn’t out yet you would jump at the chance to play the game and wait for the file share system to be ready but since you allready have it all you can think about is why isnt it done yet. It isn’t actually part of playing the game so why hold back the release if it isn’t ready yet.
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> “People like the OP don’t seem to be very bright when it comes to this game…wonder why.”
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> <mark>My kd and win loss ratio is way better than yours normally im not one to think such a thing matters but when someone tells me I dont know my halo id assume they’d atleast be close to as good as me lol.</mark>
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> “The BR does not shoot faster you -Yoinking!- moron.”
> Ive used the br on close range maps and it does shoot faster when factoring the wait period required to get the headshot with the DMR. Also the BR scope doesnt seem lift up nearly as much when your shot as the DMR scope does allthough im not 100% on that last part so i didnt mention it. Also their were glitches like jumping through the wall on certain maps and they got fixed allready. Theirs going to be glitches in a new game and 343 fixed the important ones about 1000 times faster than bungie ever did.
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> Forge is about 10,000 times easier to use and has way more options than halo reach so ive honestly got no idea what your talking about. I also wish the fileshare was up and running but its not ready yet. If they game wasn’t out yet you would jump at the chance to play the game and wait for the file share system to be ready but since you allready have it all you can think about is why isnt it done yet. It isn’t actually part of playing the game so why hold back the release if it isn’t ready yet.
True but I feel like most of those things are just from being a new game that didn’t have a beta or things that just drive me nuts personally, But i feel like complaining about that kind of thing is pointless and childish.
OP I can tell that you like Halo 4 and thats cool… but the game does have a lot of issues and problems. All games have issues but with Halo 4 there are issues that are obvious and weird, this isn’t things like “The BR is overpowered” but things like “Instant respawn options don’t work in custom game options” or “Forge palettes break”.
If you’re really serious about this sort of thing then watch this video and learn more about what H4 is doing wrong and what it’s doing right.
Halo 4 didn’t “evolve” and it certainly did NOT “innovate.” All it did was rip off gameplay mechanics from other games. This game feels 1/2 halo and 1/2 COD and it’s a mess.
I liked Halo because it was DIFFERENT from other games. Halo used to be a unique arena shooter, now it is just another generic FPS. There is really nothing that stands out about Halo anymore
Back in the day when you thought of halo these came to mind:
arena shooter
static weapons
map control
level playing field
When you thought of COD these came to mind:
loadouts
killstreaks
instant respawn
Abusive game mechanics
perks
> Forge is about 10,000 times easier to use and has way more options than halo reach so ive honestly got no idea what your talking about. I also wish the fileshare was up and running but its not ready yet. If they game wasn’t out yet you would jump at the chance to play the game and wait for the file share system to be ready but since you allready have it all you can think about is why isnt it done yet. It isn’t actually part of playing the game so why hold back the release if it isn’t ready yet.
I’m not saying anything about Multiplayer since I think it’s all opinion, but I sure as hell know my forge and it is definitely flawed. Yes, they added new features and items, but it’s still flawed and even the company who worked on forge admitted they missed a couple things.
Let me list a couple of the many things wrong with custom games in general:
-Many necessary playlists such as infection and race are gone.
-Flood, although nice, is very limited compared to infection’s options.
-Forge mode no longer has precision editing. (Coordinates don’t cut it)
-Forge stops applying dynamic lighting after too many objects.
stupid story
cortana is a -Yoink-, in real life she would have been muted or deleted.
i laughed at the last boss battle.
no scoring on campaign or sparton ops.
sparton ops on the disc but only unlocked by the week.
multiplayer stinks of CoD, its better than CoD but i dont like the playstyle of CoD games (no skill at all) shooting in a shoe box.
i would list more but ive not played since launch and have no plans on playing it anytime soon.
and the music was a let down, this was my main gripe with halo4
> OP I can tell that you like Halo 4 and thats cool… but the game does have a lot of issues and problems. All games have issues but with Halo 4 there are issues that are obvious and weird, this isn’t things like “The BR is overpowered” but things like “Instant respawn options don’t work in custom game options” or “Forge palettes break”.
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> If you’re really serious about this sort of thing then watch this video and learn more about what H4 is doing wrong and what it’s doing right.
I watched this video its realy interesting I would like to point out that instant respawn and forge pallettes dont work are both obvious problems but are also things that didn’t even exist to not work in halo reach. I will have to admit that their are problems but I was adressing the problems I kept reading about over and over again mainly br underpowered, boltshot op, active camo overpowered and people whining about instant respawn. With the way the forums are people are always talking about how halo 4 is worse than reach… but people are always doing that they said the same thing about halo reach with halo 3 and halo 3 with halo 2. the people who love it never say it and the people who hate it never shut up, it gets so old.
> Also their were glitches like jumping through the wall on certain maps and they got fixed allready. Theirs going to be glitches in a new game and 343 fixed the important ones about 1000 times faster than bungie ever did.
thanks to lack of testing, a bug slipped through that limits me to playing 5 of the 10 maps in the mp rotation, 3 of the 15 spartan ops missions, and 6 (sometimes 7) campaign missions. that is less than half of the game, which I spent $65 on. I’d say that one is the absolute most important glitch to fix, and it’s been 16 days when writing this.
don’t believe me about my bug? look at the “issues being investigated” sticky thread, I have about half of those, and a few in the FAQ that it sends you to as well. of the issues mentioned, disappearing DLC and international lag have been fixed. oh joy.