Halo 4 & Halo Remastered

[Immolatus]

got the game on xmas and so far I"m really enjoying it. fun over all

[Mr Light]

Just beat Halo 4! Man, it was so exciting finally having a new proper Halo game to play. ODST and Reach were just not the same thing. The flying section of the final stage was insanely difficult. We died a million goddamn times. We couldn't see well in the split screen to determine obstacles, and when one of us died, it shook the screen of the other, causing them to crash. Ugh!

That was really sad with Cortana dying, though. They did an excellent job with the story and cut scenes, there was some real acting going on with Master Chief, just with his posture. I guess they'll just give him a Cortana clone next game, like she mentioned.

Are we supposed to assume the Daidac survived?

When they showed Earth being hit by the beam I thought it was going to convert the humans into Prometheans, so that the opening of Halo 5 would be Master Chief fighting newly spawned Prometheans on Earth. Oh well.

[ATimson]

Mr Light wrote:

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Are we supposed to assume the Daidac survived?

I assume the Didact survived. I can't imagine them building him up in Greg Bear's prequel trilogy just to off him in the first game of the 4/5/6 trilogy. Especially since we got his voiceover over the epilogue cutscene!

[Mr Light]

Oh he's in those books???? Cool! I have the first two but haven't read them yet!

[Mutenroshi]

Watch the episodes in Spartan Ops, Mr Light. It takes place on Requiem 6 months after the events of Halo 4.

[Chris3123]

Tentative schedule for new Spartan Ops episodes, playlists, and specializations:

Week of 1/21
Spartan Ops Episode 6: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.

"Forge Test" playlist (name not final): A rotational hopper featuring small Forge maps such as Relay. Help us test these maps by providing feedback and reporting bugs that will assist us in getting them ready for Matchmaking!

Specializations: Pioneer and Pathfinder Specializations unlocked for all players.


Week of 1/28
Spartan Ops Episode 7: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.

Grifball playlist: A rotational hopper featuring everybody’s favorite virtual sport. Catch the disease!

Specializations: Engineer and Stalker Specializations unlocked for all players.


Week of 2/4
Spartan Ops Episode 8: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.

Team Doubles playlist: A rotational hopper for those of you that like action of the 2 vs 2 variety.

Specializations: Rogue and Tracker Specializations unlocked for all players.

The Halo Bulletin

Also, some hinting at what we'll be getting next month:

Matchmaking updates go live every Monday, and potential playlists for the month of February include both FFA and a new and improved version of Team Snipers. Late February will also bring both a Title Update and the Majestic Map Pack (which includes two small maps and one medium-sized map) to Halo 4 as well. Expect more information on all of those things next month.

FFA, finally!

[Mr Light]

Wait wait wait do I need XBL for Spartan Ops? Cause I'm not on that.

[Chris3123]

Mr Light wrote:

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Wait wait wait do I need XBL for Spartan Ops? Cause I'm not on that.

Yes, Gold is required to play Spartan Ops.

[heavy lids]

I beat Halo 4's campaign a couple days ago. Am I the only one that thinks the writing and story was really weak? During the cut scenes I felt embarrassed playing the game. The gameplay is really fun and I like the physics of it, but Jesus Christ could they not afford better voice actors and writing staff?

[Mr Light]

I thought the story was pretty good. I certainly felt the love story between M.C. and Cortana

[Herkimer Jitty]

No. The voice acting was fine.

[Chris3123]

A look at the Majestic Map Pack, which comes out February 25:

[Chris3123]

Here are a couple of clips of 343's Halo 4 panel at Pax East:

The New Title Update and Competitive Skill Rankings:


Forge Island Gameplay:


The entire hour-long panel, for those who want to watch the whole thing:

[ATimson]

I hope they don't tie skill rankings to an achievement.

[Chris3123]

Title Update 3 has been applied. The details:

Enabled “X-Markers” on the HUD to designate when and where teammates are killed.

Updated Active Camo to fully reveal players when they fire all weapons.

Reduced the auto aim, magnetism and damage on the Gauss Warthog.

Fixed an issue in which some players at SR-130 did not see their Specialization on their in-game Player Card.

Fixed various issues with ordnance navigation markers.

Fixed various join-in-progress issues with Flood.

Added the ability to make weapon adjustments via backend tuning.

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Also, the new Forge map Forge Island is now available for free download.