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Damn. gaming in general has turned into this thing where players always have to feel good about themselves because of a high rank, rather than a thing where people just have fun and don't give a ****. Many players these days are willing to stop playing a game because there's no ranking system. The type of guys who take games way to seriously lol. No doubt there are flaws in Halo 4, but none of them are significant enough to make me want to stop playing. You want to know if someone is a good player? Look to see if they finished Legendary on solo mode, okay?

To me, it seems that in Halo 4, many people just stopped talking on the mic. Maybe they don't bother anymore or something, but damn, I have yet to have a cooperative team actually using the mic to their advantage, unless it's my own group of friends. In the first 3 Halo games and even Reach, at least I can hear people telling me where the action is. In Reach, it diminished a little, but in Halo 4, it's as if the mic didn't exist! I feel the whole team-based aspect of Halo has diminished significantly. With all these power-ups, we can all just be a one man army, right? I can immediately sprint to the place I died and get revenge. No need to tell my teammates what's up. Has anyone else noticed this?

On Waypoint, it says to look for glyphs on the DLC1 maps... I was wondering if anyone has found them yet and solved it?

When I perform an assassination, I randomly stop. It just stops for no reason and the guy lives. I'm trying hard for my Venator and it sucks when my assassinations just cancel themselves.

I don't know about the CoD thing. You've got different physics, huge maps that aren't as complicated as CoD maps, no killstreaks that bombard the other team... But I see what you are saying. The warthog isn't fun to drive anymore. The turret is terrible and the crosshair! It's so faded, it's invisible sometimes.

The game doesn't play anything like CoD. I'm tired of that false comparison. Anyone who's played both games would know it's still pretty different. And yeah, it can get better. Reach got better near the end with their title update. The developers have the power to change elements we don't, so you don't know what could happen.

Just gives me some clarification here... What exactly do you wish stayed the same from previous Halo games? Those games had flaws, just as this one did. Halo 3 was perfect in my book, but you can't expect a series to stay the same forever. See, unlike CoD, this isn't a game you can just shovel to the masses every year. Bungie and 343 take a decent amount of time and effort into these games. And for a developer, you always want to see your game evolve in different ways. If a new game had to remain exactly the same as the last, there'd be no real purpose for it in the first place! Oh, better graphics? No. To continue a story? Maybe. Only if you were under a very near deadline, it could be forgivable. I had fun breaking out of maps too, but in the eyes of a developer, it's just something you don't want to see. But I'd hate to break this to you people: it's never going back to the way it was. Ever. Everything needs a change. You can choose to follow it or move on to something else. Especially because it's under a new company, which is not entirely composed of Bungie members, as usually mistaken. I mean, there are many flaws with Halo 4, such as earning all these pointless medals, sniping, large map, infinite sprint (which isn't exactly infinite, btw.), etc... But there's many workarounds to this. You want a map like Guardian? Okay, we'll disable loadouts with Mobility so that people aren't sprinting constantly. Don't forget that settings can be tweaked for certain gametypes! Halo 4 is an improvement from Reach in my eyes, but there are many disappointments that came with it. No working File Sharing and file searching, latency issues and player search in matchmaking, no plasma launcher, and how they ruined Infection and crappy Custom settings.. But you know, it's not over. It's only been out for a month. There's PLENTY of time for improvement. To me, it seems like they rushed it a little bit because they didn't want us to wait anymore. I certainly would not mind waiting longer for a higher quality product. Just don't give up on this game yet!

The final kill cam in one match just had a guy standing there.

I love Halo 4, but I can't help but wonder how Bungie would have made it. I think it would be better.

Wow, really? So there is no point in playing the game if you can't rank up? How about the fun factor? You only play to gain? I look back at the other Halos and it were really Halo 3 and Reach that offered rewards for playing. Halo CE and 2 didn't give you crap, but I still put many hours into those games. I wouldn't care if I reached the cap in an hour. I'd still be playing afterward because the game is still fun.

I'm level 43 and have DewXP. If the specializations are released on November 30th, it would just make the early access of the Limited Edition worthless. Why give us access if you're not going to give us that much time?

Being a trilogy means nothing. Bungie still took three years for each Halo game. Even 343 said Halo 4 has been in the making for three years. I'm sure they're working on Halo 5 now, but it's not going to take just one year to complete.

Would've been great to have fought the guy, jeez.

I noticed people stopped talking on Halo 4. I see headset symbols, but I don't hear speech! The only people who actually work with you are your friends. Nobody uses voice communication anymore. It's a real drag. I don't think Halo will ever return to its former glory of epic team battles.

Quite nonsensical spam at that... I am laughing so hard right now. In terms of the File Share, I'm pretty sure updates are being worked on for both the Waypoint website and the file browser in the game. I just want to play some fun custom games.

Never really tried looking at the female Spartans in H4. But I have noticed that the head of the lady spartan in the campaign sticks out funny.

I like it. I don't mind the infinite sprint, loadouts, Armor abilities, etc. But just the way people always seem to show up and shoot me when I'm facing away. I hate the spawns... SWAT on Adrift is a joke. The ordinance drops always give me useless weapons and my enemies Binary Rifles and sniper rifles. Ragnarok is ALWAYS chosen because people are already familiar with it and people love camping around the fallen Pelican. The Mantis isn't game busting but it's an annoyance because it just forces the team to hide on their side of the hill. The Halo 4 Assault Rifle is just a short ranged weapon. Don't attempt to use a DMR against an AR at close range. Simple as that. It always was like that. Oh and the pre-game lobby sucks... No full sized Spartan view like in Reach, a really small emblem, with the large image obscured by the Spartan...

I hope not. That simply isn't enough time to enjoy Halo 4. Not only that, but I'm sure 343 wouldn't turn the series into an annual release. They need much time to produce a quality game like Halo. If it were an annual release, it would most likely suck ass because it'd be a rushed product. By the way, it is not common knowledge that the new Xbox is out next year. We don't have that confirmation, nor do we have any official information. It's all speculation and assumptions. I don't except those as cold hard facts.

Longest rant ever.

Halo 4 warthog turret is kind of crappy. The crosshair is too faded. Other than that, I'm liking Halo 4. The guns are pretty cool.

Yeah I'm not sure if it can be recreated. I don't know what exactly caused it to happen.

My friend and I were doing the mission where we had to board the Covenant ship and destroy it, where you have the Gauss Hog. Well, when we activated the switch in the ship, it went on it's path toward the water like normal, but then it turned around and went back to it's original position, and the activation switch came up again! So I was there, shooting the dropship with my Gauss and the ship started rocking vigorously. The warthog and other objects on the ground started rocking along with it. including dead bodies. The ship would sometimes go very high in the air. My friend went inside and after about 15 minutes, the ship finally "blew up". It flew over the water with my friend inside and blew up again. I wish I had a video, but I don't have a capture card. We seriously jacked up the script of the game, haha. Anyone else have similar glitches going on?

Cool man, I'll send you a request later. My skill is diminished a tiny bit because I've had less time to play, but I could easily gain it back.

Hey I'm looking for a clan, (or just people to play with... nobody plays anymore, lol.) So this sounds good to me. I can help forge and create games, etc. I play for fun, but I do have intense matches from time to time. Keep in mind though, I'm not always available to play as I have school and work, times to study, gf, etc. Schedule can be sporadic. It really boils down to whether I've taken care of other things first. But this sounds like a great clan for me, as it doesn't seem to be all about matchmaking, and has some forging and fun customs going on here, which is actually my main search right now. (I'm getting a little bored with matchmaking... especially when you have quitters and such, you know how it is.)

I want to build an indoor map where there are many halls and some vents to crawl in to take shortcuts... Something akin to a Perfect Dark map.