Now I know you guys took a long time making the game and that you’ve put a lot of effort into this but from what I can see, now that it’s out you guys seem to be only focused on infinity challenge and map packs. Ok that’s important to the game but what I don’t understand is why have you not sorted out the file browser which was very popular n halo reach ?
Custom games is a big part of halo and its the same with cod and zombies but its almost like you’ve gone back a step with the games forge and file browser as you can only download maps if you know that person who made it. The point is your loosing your fan base because the game is more fun with custom games and all you seem to be doing is bringing the maps out and forgetting about the rest.
> Now I know you guys took a long time making the game and that you’ve put a lot of effort into this but from what I can see, now that it’s out you guys seem to be only focused on infinity challenge and map packs. Ok that’s important to the game but what I don’t understand is why have you not sorted out the file browser which was very popular n halo reach ?
> Custom games is a big part of halo and its the same with cod and zombies but its almost like you’ve gone back a step with the games forge and file browser as you can only download maps if you know that person who made it. The point is your loosing your fan base because the game is more fun with custom games and all you seem to be doing is bringing the maps out and forgetting about the rest.
because it never worked in the first place. H4 is not a complete game.
> > Now I know you guys took a long time making the game and that you’ve put a lot of effort into this but from what I can see, now that it’s out you guys seem to be only focused on infinity challenge and map packs. Ok that’s important to the game but what I don’t understand is why have you not sorted out the file browser which was very popular n halo reach ?
> > Custom games is a big part of halo and its the same with cod and zombies but its almost like you’ve gone back a step with the games forge and file browser as you can only download maps if you know that person who made it. The point is your loosing your fan base because the game is more fun with custom games and all you seem to be doing is bringing the maps out and forgetting about the rest.
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> because it never worked in the first place. H4 is not a complete game.
I guess whenever Xbox live goes down then Xbox isn’t a complete system? The file browser is there and it works by searching by gamer tag. You can use it to download my map called Hubris.
The fileshare will be up hopefully within a month and then you’ll have one less thing to mope about with on the forums.
As soon as the fileshare goes up, I’m going dark.
The file share kids will get the word out to everyone that a ton of people don’t like the game, and you’ll see a 343i defense-force raid like you’ve never seen before.
> > > Now I know you guys took a long time making the game and that you’ve put a lot of effort into this but from what I can see, now that it’s out you guys seem to be only focused on infinity challenge and map packs. Ok that’s important to the game but what I don’t understand is why have you not sorted out the file browser which was very popular n halo reach ?
> > > Custom games is a big part of halo and its the same with cod and zombies but its almost like you’ve gone back a step with the games forge and file browser as you can only download maps if you know that person who made it. The point is your loosing your fan base because the game is more fun with custom games and all you seem to be doing is bringing the maps out and forgetting about the rest.
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> > because it never worked in the first place. H4 is not a complete game.
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> I guess whenever Xbox live goes down then Xbox isn’t a complete system? The file browser is there and it works by searching by gamer tag. You can use it to download my map called Hubris.
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> The fileshare will be up hopefully within a month and then you’ll have one less thing to mope about with on the forums.
? is the file share complete? no its not. its part of the game. Halo 4 is not finished yet.
> https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst174547_THE-REASON-Halo-4-is-so-Bad-2.aspx
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> they rushed the game to try and beat cod, we are in beta now.
> I guess whenever Xbox live goes down then Xbox isn’t a complete system?
Not even nearly the same thing. Its more like saying if the xbox had shipped without online matchmaking capabilities, you could only play with friends online.
In which case, yes, it would be.
Anyone who says Halo was not a rushed game, at least towards the end, is fooling themselves and no one else.
-Hiding inside Complex
-broken file browser
-(still) broken lifts on Adrift
-sticky detonator stuck inside Haven
-The lack of race
-the game changing OSK secondary weapon; Boltshot
-Sometime hilarious, but often frustrating Spartan Ops glitches
-Lack of map size variety, outside of large and even larger
Just to name things off the top of my head. Whats funny, is that most of these things could have been fixed with a simple beta test. No company should ever be arrogant enough to assume that a game of Halo’s capacity can be fully play tested by itself. The mentality behind that is all wrong too. Its like proofreading your own paper. You’re not going to catch everything, and what sounds good to you may not to others, especially the ones grading it.
Smash Bros Creator Mashiro Sakurai learned this lesson with the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl. He was the only person to create and fix each character’s moveset. This resulted in a very separated tier list among the characters, some of which literally being worth against others on anything higher than the casual level, and a few particular characters from his own gaming company, and one he was familiar with, being some of the best within the game.
He didn’t realize exactly how subconsciously biased you could be developing a game. He apologized for what he had done, and now for the next smash bros, has taken on a full team of developers from other popular videogame series to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Fortunately, 343i can title update to fix all their errors.
> Smash Bros Creator Mashiro Sakurai learned this lesson with the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl. He was the only person to create and fix each character’s moveset. This resulted in a very separated tier list among the characters, some of which literally being worth against others on anything higher than the casual level, and a few particular characters from his own gaming company, and one he was familiar with, being some of the best within the game.
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> He didn’t realize exactly how subconsciously biased you could be developing a game. He apologized for what he had done, and now for the next smash bros, has taken on a full team of developers from other popular videogame series to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
There are only 2 ways Halo 4 can be saved:
- Title updates, 343 starts communicating, add more options
- give power to the community/appoint Halo player representatives. Add more options
Compare Brawl to Project M. It’s absolutely mind-blowing how a community effort can make a derelict game look fresh and make up for horrible design fails.
Right now, Halo 4 is forcing things on people (i.e. instant respawn, ordnance, sprint, no dropping flag). Ordnance in particular is the damn reason for the weapons disappearing so quickly.
The modding effort for Halo 4 can only do so much… TUs should implement new options.