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

[PlasbianX]

I got thrown into an in-progress Flood match today. I spawned without getting to select a loadout, I was an enemy to everyone, and I only had an AR and pistol. It was great. But not. Then the next round started and it fixed itself.

Fuck this joining mid game shit.

Last night i was playing flood to try and get my remaining double kills. This guy randomly spawns in front of where im sitting (i was human still) and is blue. He showed up as an enemy on my radar so I killed him..

BETRAYAL.

Wut

[ejburke]

I just finished level 3 and I feel physically sick. I don't know if its the game or I ate something bad but its weird.

I'm just not feeling the campaign much, playing it on Heroic and I get frustrated, the lack of ammo is something I notice every time I play. I don't want to feel like I have to avoid using a certain gun because I need to keep that ammo for only X enemy.

Level 3 is the most frustrating level. There are 2-3 encounters where they dump you in, with no (good) place to retreat to and enemies left, right, center and above you. I don't know how many times I ran over this one Elite heading toward a Banshee before I finally figured out a course of action that would actually lead to a checkpoint. If I had to pick a worst level, that would be it. But it's not nearly as bad as the other worst levels in the series.

As for the ammo conservation, I found it to positively impact my experience. There are power weapons everywhere, but you can't carry them all and they aren't individually going to carry you through a level, so you might as well use them when they are available before moving on.

What I like to do is have a weapon that I AM trying to carry through a level, like a SR or one of those incinerator thingies and I'll be dropping it constantly to pick up available power weapons like Needlers and Rail Guns, emptying them, and then picking back up my preferred weapon and proceeding to the next encounter. The resource management meta game is one of my favorite aspects of the Halo series and I think it's been mastered with this game. It's so much fun to take constant inventory of available assets and figuring out a way to leverage them.

Be warned , though. There are some issues with garbage collection that crop up every so often. I dropped a Rail Gun in this one spot to pick up a weapon on a rack, then I triggered an event in the environment, came back and both the Rail Gun and the rack from which I picked my weapon were gone. I looked high and low. They were just gone.

Didn't happen very often, though.

[Kornman00]

So I just realized there's 8 firefight maps on Disc 2...only one of them has the same name as their mission (Sniper Ally), though not the same ordering as their chapters...and their descriptions are not the same as the ones used on the SPOPs menu...

[Limited]

So I just realized there's 8 firefight maps on Disc 2...only one of them has the same name as their mission (Sniper Ally), though not the same ordering as their chapters...and their descriptions are not the same as the ones used on the SPOPs menu...

Was that an accident, or did you really say firefight?

I think the problem with low ammo is I like using human guns, obviously after a while you have to pick up enemy guns.

I assume the loadout ammo ability thing doesnt cross over to SP?

[ODX]

In regards to the mid-game joining bullshit, I'm sure they'll fix it up. They haven't exactly had the oppurtunity to test run it with 300,000+ people before, mind you.

[Masterz1337]

With the new system, what does it matter if you join a game in progress? You can always quit it and not be penalized, or you can play and still earn points.

[Kornman00]

How about giving me an option to NOT join in-progress games at all? Bungie would have.

[Warsaw]

No they wouldn't have...they would have forced you to stay in a match.

[Sanctus]

Guys... guys. I just had a terrifying thought: Halo 6 Legendary ending scene. John is wounded and dying. Tired from years of war, he takes off his helmet for the last time, and we see... Frank O'Connor's face.

[Tnnaas]