The "70 rank cap" matter - a serious feedback

[Andre_03]

Hi everyone.

Please forgive me if I don't indroduce myself in the appropriate section, but I joined this community with the only purpose to express my toughts about the rank cap in the Halo 4 multiplayer. Don't take this post as a pointless complaint, because it isn't: I like how 343industries managed to set the matchmaking and stuff, but there's something that doesn't work well in my opinion and just wanted to point it out.

 

As you can figure, I'm stuck - like some other players - at level 70 in multiplayer. I bought the Standard Edition and, even if I was playing Halo 4 the 20th of November, my Xbox wasn't connected to Live. No grumble, it was my mistake or choice - see it as you want. When I completed the two specializations (Wetwork and Operator), I didn't stop playing the game: it is fun, it is addictive, it is awesome. But then I noticed one thing: the largest majority of players I met online has every specialization unlocked. There are Pioneers at lvl. 51, Trackers at 64 and so on.

 

It doesn't make any sense to me. The specialization lock started as a plus for those who bought the Limited Edition of the game, and that was right. They spent more money on Halo 4, it was correct to lend them a bonus. Then 343i wanted to reward its early customers, giving codes to everyone who played the 20th of November, and that wasn't too fair. It wasn't to Limited buyers, neither for Standard players. In fact now the specialization lock went from being a plus for few to a minus for few.

 

This lends me to some question (intended to any member of 343i who might read this post):

1. Why did you adopt this policy? It was a miscalculation, a mistake or planned?
    
   
2. Do you plan to change things and allow every player to access all specializations?
    
   
3. Can we hope that in the immediate future will be unlocked at least two or three specs?
   

Please take this thread seriously and let me know how many of you other players are stuck at 70. Just my curiosity. =)

 

Thank you for your attention.

 

Andre_03

[Bloody Initiate]

Your first question echoes in my mind for a lot of the choices 343 made with Halo 4. I can see what they were doing, but I can never figure out "Why?"

 

I like the idea of specializations, but I really don't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea to make their availability so limited. At least let people keep accumulating experience after they hit 70 so that they can use the specializations once they're unlocked. It's my understanding that if you keep playing past 70 you are basically gaining no credit toward those specializations, and all your completed commendations and such are just getting wasted. I'm not even especially concerned about it (Although some specialization upgrades give you a real competitive advantage, like stability), I just don't understand WHY they effectively punish players who don't have them all unlocked from a code or from the LE.

 

I don't mind when LE buyers get some extra stuff, I prefer it all to be arbitrary in a competitive multiplayer title, but I really prefer that people paying more money get more stuff. What I don't prefer is the people who buy the base model or standard edition getting punished for it.

[Caboose The Ace]

you have to play halo 4 befor never 20th u should be k is it in spam maybe hope this heped u

[HA ACE G4H]

While I agree that people who bought the LE should get something extra, be it extra skins for armor or weapons... I don't agree that something extra should be "perks" in a multiplayer game that give them an advantage, an edge so to say. And to have an experience system that punishes people for leveling up (past 70) by wasting their challenges completed/commendations and so on... is just plain stupid! If that experience were "banked" for when said specs were unlocked it would be one thing, but to totally waste all those xp points... c'mon?

 

was extra frustrating for me, because I didn't really come onto the forums until after the 20th, the 21st to be exact. I played the game offline and beat campaign solo on normal before coming online... If I had come to forums and seen this silly prerequisite before I started playing campaign, I would've come online if only for that. As with all Halo games, I beat campaign in this one before going online.

[Twisted Oracle]

Halo Reach has a rank cap for awhile

 

343i will unlock the specs for everyone soon enough