…kills with the incineration cannon? Not that I’m complaining, I’m just curious. After all there are medals for kills with the rocket launcher and the fuel rod gun, which are the human and Covenant counterparts to the IC.
You have a point there, since Rockets and Fuel Rod have their own medals. Maybe there needs to be a Disintegration medal for kills that make your body dissipate like the knights.
Excellent point…now you got me wondering why there’s no medal for Incineration Cannon Kills. That would’ve been great to have.
A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
> A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
This.
We have too many medals now. Most should done away with, we don’t need a medal for every weapon or just playing the game. Others should be changed such as sniper kill medals is only gained if you get a headshot.
> > A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
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> This.
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> We have too many medals now. Most should done away with, we don’t need a medal for every weapon or just playing the game. Others should be changed such as sniper kill medals is only gained if you get a headshot.
I agree, it was better when medals were a bit more rare. The kill medal is a tad ridiculous and so are weapon kill medals. And you are right about the sniper, it should be the headshot for the medal. But I do like the no-scope medal.
> > A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
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> This.
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> We have too many medals now. Most should done away with, we don’t need a medal for every weapon or just playing the game. Others should be changed such as sniper kill medals is only gained if you get a headshot.
Make that…too many “Objective Medals”. The only medals i think that should be in the game are the weapon kills (sniper kill, shotgun kill, needle kill, etc.), weapon/vehicular sprees, & player medals (especially Perfection & Yoink).
Geez, the Dominion, Extraction, and King of the Hill medals are just ridiculous. Medal for every tiny thing you do. And the assists! I just can’t conceive the reason behind this.
> Geez, the Dominion, Extraction, and King of the Hill medals are just ridiculous. Medal for every tiny thing you do. And the assists! I just can’t conceive the reason behind this.
If i’m right, doesn’t Dominion have the most medals? Or was it Extraction?
I think it is Dominion. With all the fancy shmancy capture, resupply, and all those other medals.
They mucked up the medals…
Why were the weapon specific spree medals removed? Why was the Sniper Headshot medal removed? Why isn’t there a Perfection Medal any more? <mark>Better yet why is “Generic Kill” a medal?!?</mark>
How come pulse grenade kill and frag kill share the same medal?
I know, medals are becoming obsolete.
The specific sprees were cool, but also the medal design. Halo Reach’s medals looked like actual medals, now they look like stickers.
> A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
Simple, everyone feels like they win if they get medals. It’s another COD Thing.
Be fore the game came out Frank O’Connor said himself that 343i wanted everyone to feel like they did their part in the gamee. Instead of those people at the base hunkering down not getting any medals or the guy only using hte Plasma pistol to take out sheilds or even the person who is just fragging can get their own personal medals. AKA They want to try and make everyone happy and feel acomplished with what they do but that feeling of that I didn’t do -Yoink- in that game is what motivates some people. They took that away. Same with the standard scoring in slayer.
Instead of kills to 50 by single points they have added the 100 point thing and made it so basic slayer goes up to 60 kills. They are just trying to make everyone happy when what they should be doing is only making the Halo fans happy and not those who came over from COD or Gears. (I don’t have a problem with the Gears fans) but they need to focus on hte Halo fans nothing more.
> > > A better question is why is there a medal for getting a regular kill.
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> > This.
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> > We have too many medals now. Most should done away with, we don’t need a medal for every weapon or just playing the game. Others should be changed such as sniper kill medals is only gained if you get a headshot.
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> Make that…too many “Objective Medals”. The only medals i think that should be in the game are the w<mark>eapon kills (sniper kill, shotgun kill, needle kill, etc.)</mark>, weapon/vehicular sprees, & player medals (especially Perfection & Yoink).
Why? Medal are supposed to note rare occurrences or milstones. If you pick up a shot gun you are going to get kills with it, nothing justifying an pat on the back because it is not hard and pretty common. However getting a head shot with the siper, no scoping, double kills, and sprees are all medal worthy.
If they went back and did medals for sprees with each weapon like they did for some in halo 3 it would be more ideal. Like shotguns spree’s, sword spree’s or Sniper spree’s. They could have taken that concept and expanded on it by having a spree for each gun.
Medals are meaningless in H4 for a few reasons
1)Too many
2)Bland coloring/too small - you cant compare the iconicness of H4’s medals which are all the same vs the uniqueness of those found in H3 or ODST
3)You get them for doing near anything - reduces their specialness
4)generic shooter white text distracts from the medals
> They mucked up the medals…
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> Why were the weapon specific spree medals removed? Why was the Sniper Headshot medal removed? Why isn’t there a Perfection Medal any more? <mark>Better yet why is “Generic Kill” a medal?!?</mark>
Generic kill always made me laugh, I also don’t think we need individual weapon kill medals, beatdown, assassination
I don’t mind objective medals for the most part
> Instead of kills to 50 by single points they have added the 100 point thing and made it so basic slayer goes up to 60 kills. They are just trying to make everyone happy when what they should be doing is only making the Halo fans happy and not those who came over from COD or Gears. (I don’t have a problem with the Gears fans) but they need to focus on hte Halo fans nothing more.
I dont think they should ignore any fans in general.
In my opinion 343 focused on adding a ton of gimmicks to attract a newer crowd instead of focusing on balanced core gameplay. The problem is once the new car smell leaves the gimmicks lose their apeal and the only thing left is the gameplay. If the gameplay is not up to par even the fans you are targeting with the gimmick wont stay.
By focusing on good balanced gameplay you build a game that will last. Graphics don’t matter neither do achievements, scores or ranks if the gameplay is is not there.
Halo 4 at launch failed in that sense.