"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

[thehoodedsmack]

Joining mid-game is probably more to compensate for examples like the one I encountered today:

We were playing Slayer on Adrift, 4 vs 4. Then, two guys on the other team quit. We proceeded to gain the lead. Another guy was added to the other team, then another, until it was an even 4 vs 4 again.

I think it's better than games of old, where if two or three people on your team quit, it essentially doomed you to playing out the motions of your inevitable defeat.

I do think it should be an option you can select, though, to join games in progress or not.

[Timo]

I keep getting thrown into laggy 2 v 4 matches :\. Need to be able to filter matchmaking by ping as well.

[ejburke]

Beat the campaign on Normal and thought it was a really good game. Now I've finished the campaign on Legendary and think it's a really great game. That is exactly how I came to love the original.

There's no comparison between this and the other Halo sequels. I might even go as far as to say that this is the best campaign in the entire series. From start to finish, it is so consistently fun -- completely free of the bum levels that have been a recurring feature every other Halo SP.

As for the multiplayer: don't know; don't care. If I play online, it'll be almost exclusively Spartan Ops, which I think captures Halo combat far better than Firefight ever did. You don't (always) sit and camp as you did in FF; you actually move in and take territory.Now that my Legendary run is done, I'm looking forward to more of that.

[Spartan094]

I swear I got killed more times by the Binary Rifle on Legendary then anything else...next to Scattershot.

[t3h m00kz]

you don't fuck around with the bi-ri. it's some serious shit.

[Limited]

Joining mid-game is probably more to compensate for examples like the one I encountered today:

We were playing Slayer on Adrift, 4 vs 4. Then, two guys on the other team quit. We proceeded to gain the lead. Another guy was added to the other team, then another, until it was an even 4 vs 4 again.

I think it's better than games of old, where if two or three people on your team quit, it essentially doomed you to playing out the motions of your inevitable defeat.

I do think it should be an option you can select, though, to join games in progress or not.

It has its pros and cons. Being stuck in a game where your down players does suck, so you could end up getting new teammates which will help. Yet you could be thrown into a game you stand no chance, and getting killed over and over isnt fun.

An ability to say "okay I expect to join a game in-progress" because at least then, your deciding what you want.

[TeeKup]

The Binary Rifle is terrifying. Also Flood mode if you want to avoid the pro-tard try-hards.

[PenGuin1362]

If this game stuck with Reach armor design, and simply adopted the more Halo 3-esque lighting and shaders present in Halo 4, this game would look intensely better.

As it stands the art is amazing, there's no question. But my issue with it is just some of the aesthetic design choices they made. Like you said about the armor, I think a lot of the designs kind of got away from the halo universe, not that they're bad, they're really well done. I just don't think many of them look like Spartan armor.

[Arteen]

I'm liking the campaign more, now that I have a better appreciation of its nuances as I'm playing through legendary. The campaign levels are good, fun, and competent, but none of them reach the same highs as in previous games. Reclaimer (the Mammoth mission) comes close. It's the Elephant mission that never was, and the closest thing to boarding a scarab in the game.

Also, I'm glad that Sgt Stacker is still around.

I'd really love an ODST-style expansion game using the Halo 4 engine. Spartan Ops seems fun, but basic.

[Sanctus]

Gonna try to finish Spartan Ops on Legendary tonight. Yet I haven't been able to join an online match in Legendary, it's always either Normal or Heroic, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change that. This new UI is weird...