If we was able to get Reach and ODST firefight matchmaking , why not Spartan Ops? I understand Halo 4 was a lil meh but Spartan ops did come through after those frustrating games. Firefight is doing fine as it is and with Flood firefight added even better but after a while I do wish there was some progression from round to round instead of just sitting there, I feel like now the last final touch to MCC would be Spartan Ops Matchmaking.
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Unless they add asynchronous multiplayer support to SpOps they won’t create a matchmaking playlist. A lot of work went into Reach and ODST’s FF to improve the networked experience, and the team has said that they have no plans to port that work to other titles at the moment. 343 has also brought up that campaign matchmaking incited a lot of griefing in past games. Personally I never found the need for those playlists and am perfectly content without them.
I’d be down for this actually, maybe have it so you can select which difficulty to matchmake on and it picks a random spartan op, this should apply to campaign as well like in OG Reach where you could matchmake into a random campaign level with the difficulty you selected maybe higher difficulty options could come with skulls or something to give higher xp payouts
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Dude if you got to firefight you can find spartan ops. I dont mean through multiplayer selection, I mean through the menue.
Yeah it’s in that menu but it doesn’t have matchmaking
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Its also a mini campaign though so you realy cant give a matchmaking
it was in matchmaking on OG Halo 4, it has been done, and we’ll like to see it in MCC
as for the campaign matchmaking, it has been done on OG Halo reach, we’ll just like to see it in MCC
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You could it would just pick one of the many missions at random and difficulty would be selected like you select game modes, pretty much just Reach co-op matchmaking from back in the day, do-able but probably won’t happen
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So on Twitter, Psycho Duck who is the Software Engineer on MCC (and I asked the same question more or less with Spartan Ops and Campaign matchmaking) is they are planning to do some kind of feature work for this mode but they can’t talk about it right now. And for it to be in the Firefight mode is mostly correct anyway from a technical point of view due to the multiplayer like spawning system and picking loadouts. I think they absolutely should get this moved over to an asynchronous network model (which would solve alot of the issues were having with the netcode because its just so laggy on a synchronous model for Campaign and Spartan Ops for Coop).
But absolutely yes they should bring this back (been begging for this alongside Campaign Matchmaking and upgrading CEA and 2A’s Campaigns to 4 player coop since if Campaign Matchmaking were implemented in the Match Composer, we could have two tabs for 2 player coop and 4 player coop, either play the original CEA and 2A campaign with 2 players (searching for 1 player then) alongside searching for 1 player for all the other campaigns and 4 player which would include the upgraded campaigns on CEA and 2A alongside the other campaigns, otherwise if 343 doesn’t upgrade those two campaigns then they are locked only to 2 player coop, which people would be asking questions about that), gives us a reason to do PvE for Halo 4 in Matchmaking, since Halo Reach and ODST both have this already with Firefight.
Lastly the biggest reason why I want Campaign/Spartan Ops Matchmaking is mainly because of the challenges, its gotten really boring doing most of the PvE ones by myself (especially the Coop one I would like to do this if Campaign/Spartan Ops Matchmaking were included) and at this point I really would like to be able to search for people to play alongside with without making the effort to make a post on a community forum or looking for group postings, after a while and week after week I kind of would like to get them done more quickly if possible. So I think 343 might have a better reason to add this in because of this, solving a number of issue killing alot of birds (more than two) with one stone.