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

[Kornman00]

My guess is that there are just too many graphical tricks in SP to allow for theater, so they ultimately had to cut it for Halo 4 or else the game wouldn't have been able to look as beautiful as it does.

That's a good point, though they could have at least limited the camera views to FP and 3rd-rotating instead of letting people free roam. My guess is Havok AI (they no longer roll with the engine's own AI as far as I know, same goes for animations) has deterministic issues, where replaying the same inputs back doesn't net the same results, thus rendering films unusable (once the game state goes out of the sync, the rest of the film is trash). Though if this is the case I can't imagine how rough it got with debugging the game, as it's a mechanism used for debugging what caused the conditions that crashed the game in development.

Another piece of tech that may be causing film playback issues could be Wwise (their new sound platform). But since MP works, my bets on ODX's and/or my guess.

Arteen's List of Major Halo 4 Grievances

1. Where did all of the emblems and backgrounds go? Eagle emblem? Gone. Dreamcatcher background? Missing in action.

Did you notice that they named the Septagon symbol "asterisk"? Also, I think the pimp hat was also removed, meaning I can't sport my CAWK emblem anymore. IMAD.

Is the new spartan ops available?

EDIT: It is.

I was online around 2am PST, when the challenges cycle, and that's when the new ops were unlocked too.

Kinda interested in how they, technically, did firefight this time. Eg, did they come up with scenario variants? They reuse scenario zones (some from campaign even), and there's only eight or so firefight maps, so I'm curious what solution they rolled with, especially if the variant (ie, chapter) information isn't locked away in the map...meaning one could possibly mod these behind the scenes variant data. Or unlock the missions before the 343 servers give the green light.

[=sw=warlord]

The current state of the system hasnt been in any previous games. The problem with it is that it is in matchmaking, the automated system of putting you into a game. You have absolutely no control what game you get put in. Forge, and custom games you do.

Warlord, your losing the plot.

My point was that join in mid game has been a feature in Halo since at least Halo 3, it may not have been in matchmaking but the fact it was there at all gives the hint that the feature shouldn't be broken at all.
As for joining mid game without a choice, matchmaking is doing exactly what it was designed to do, find a existing game with the gametype you specified and if it can't find any slots then it will set you up with people to make your own match.
Your idea of what's game breaking actually isn't.

As for kornman joining a match where he was the only person on his team, I would bet that there was at least one person shortly before he joined and whilst he was making the transition in joining, the last person left as to make it look like he joined an empty team, I know for a fact that when the entire team quits that the match ends because I've seen it countless times.

[PenGuin1362]

If you play 12 games, 8 of them you get put into a game that you have no chance in hell of winning. You call that "general game experience?". No, that is a broken game. The idea of matchmaking is to put you into a suitable game, that is not a suitable game.

Still not broken. Aggravating as fuck, yes. But does not classify as broken. I still don't have this issue that often, it happens, but not frequent. You must have some shit luck with matchmaking.

[Tnnaas]

Hey, how do I access the Domian/Terminal videos from Waypoint? My Xbox froze trying to start the seventh one and I can't find it.

[Ki11a_FTW]

Welp. Went to try MP to find out it needs 8GB of storage and needs to be installed. BS. It's my step dads Xbox with a 4 gig drive. Also, after beating campaign, I had no idea that halo 4 consisted of the Spartan Laser of the Gravity hammer. At least the single player, I was surprised to see a spartan laser sitting there. Same with the gravity hammer.. considering there are no brutes in the game lol.

[BobtheGreatII]

Gravity Hammer is most likely there for Grifball would be my guess. And yeah, spartan laser was a surprise even though:

it was on the Pelican when you were flying around as a secondary weapon.

[Kornman00]

It may not be game breaking, but it sure as hell is mood breaking to not have an option to toggle mid-game joining in matchmaking.

What is, however, game breaking is this game's rediculously low object garbage collection threshold. May Bungie have mercy on your soul should you die in MP/Spartan Ops and have one of the few power weapons, cause that shit will be zapped from existance. Or temp swap your power weapon for another weapon to thrash the AI, cause it will be collected once you go back for it once a checkpoint or zone load is hit.

Also, the UI is horrible.

And where the fuck did campaign matchmaking go?

And the gravity hammer was there in the last mission. There's an achivement for it.

[Ki11a_FTW]

I saw the SL on the pelican and was like "well at least it was implemented into the SP someway", then i found Spartan Laser again on the second to last mission just sitting in a hallway on a crate, thank god though, it saved my life with all those fucking banshees at the end. Gravity hammer was there too, and yes I saw that, got the achievement as well.

Why is the banshee so hard to control on this game? Not pressing anything on the controller and the banshee is still going 25 mph. Makes it real hard to aim, yet the ai are like fucking professionals.

[ejburke]

That one Spartan Laser in campaign comes right before they give you a Mantis, so I never even used it.

Flying a Banshee is pretty frustrating. I don't know why they even bother with them if, in order to balance it, they have to constantly move forward, making it really hard to spot movement on the ground because EVERYTHING is moving. And when you do spot something, you have a tiny window to drop a bomb and hope something dies before you have to pull up and come around again. I also found the stunt maneuvers to be especially useless this time.

I got to pour one out for the Halo 1 Banshee. Maybe light some candles. Maybe tie a pair of sneakers together and toss them up onto a power line. I keep H1B in my HEART, son.

Speaking of Covenant vehicles, isn't it about time that they changed the Wraith so that you don't have to look up and completely lose sight of your intended target to shoot at it from range? How about a hold down/release mechanic like the Torque Bow in Gears of War? And while they're at it, would a visual indication of where the mortar is going to land kill anyone?

Well, I guess it would. That's the point.

[DarkHalo003]

Why is the banshee so hard to control on this game? Not pressing anything on the controller and the banshee is still going 25 mph. Makes it real hard to aim, yet the ai are like fucking professionals.

Well, from a lore standpoint, they are kind of supposed to. :P