The Official Halo 4 News Board

[CrimsonEYEZ]

Lots of emphasis on sound quality It looks like halo 4 is going to be THE best halo yet!

I believe it'll be the best.

[USDevilDog117]

Only things I am worried about about this game are the lack of ranked playlists and the join mid game thing. Other than those, I am extremely excited!!

[fzdw11]

Only things I am worried about about this game are the lack of ranked playlists and the join mid game thing. Other than those, I am extremely excited!!

 

But we don't have concrete info on the ranked playlist and join in progress features, so keep your fingers crossed for both a ranked playlist and a join in progress for social games only.

[CrimsonEYEZ]

I have a love hate relationship towards information that is released early.

[Victory Element]

all of this stuff sounds good i im looking forward to trying the new system in halo 4........ but it almost seems like its becomins too much like

COD

[CrimsonEYEZ]

I'm not one to make harsh comments or criticize anyone or anything. I have nothing but positive expectations for Halo 4 and 343.

[Azaxx]

OP updated...go read

[reclaimer117]

Nice info, thanks for the roundup!

[Substandard IQ]

impressive thread, there were some things i didn't know on here

[TheEnd]

well that sucks. no dual wield. everything else sounds gucci

 

 

 

[TheGruntMeister]

if a gun is gas operated then how can it keep firing until the clip is empty or it overheats?

[TheGruntMeister]

Now all us 50's from H3 will get to be put on par with first timers since there is no more hiding or escaping, no more player intuition, no more timing, NO MORE SKILL OR REASON TO PLAY.

soooo it takes skill to run and hide?

[haloman 2]

I am sure most of you have heard, but the game informer cover of H4 has been leaked. SOmeone scanned the entire article onto the internet. After spending the last 20 minutes reading it, I can safely say that Halo 4 looks like the biggest fail of a game I have ever seen. I am sorry, I had high hopes for this, but as far as reach was a departure from H3 and H2, this takes the cake. For those of you that do not know I will sum up, AA's are back and you can purchase them at higher levels like CoD, Sprint is standard, weapon spawn are not set, they are drop podded in to prevent skilled players from being skilled, they are adding in X-Ray vision to see through walls and prevent anyone 1 shot or protecting the now random power weapons from staying hidden, there is instant respawns to completely F-Over anyone who just won a BR fight and it 1 shot and hasn't already been cleaned up by an xray toting idiot, and you can join in-progress games to put a definitive NO on the "will there be a 1 - 50 true-skill system like in H3?" question. Halo 4 sounds completely moronic. Let me explain all that is wrong with those changes.

 

1. Instant Spawns - THIS IS NOT COD!!! You are not 1 shot 100% of the time like in cod where that mechanic doesn't matter. In Halo you have shields and require 4 shots. If you are playing a game and you kill someone they can just instant-spawn back and kill you while your shields are low. Effectively shafting better players because they had the audacity to be better than an other player and kill them, oops, your dead for being better.

 

2. Jet-Packs and other AA's - Jet-packs destroy map design, plain and simple. Armor abilities in general do nothing more than screw up a good flowing MP experience. Why should someone carry around the right to be invisible any time they want, or have temporary invincibility to save all unskilled players from a certain death, nope, armor lock to again destroy the better player who had them dead. Don't even get me started on this new Forerunner Vision X-Ray garbage. That is quite possibly one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. Okay, now you can no longer hold onto a weapon, retreat when 1 shot, or plan an attack without the other players knowing exactly what you are doing. OMG, this makes me mad just thinking about it. X-Ray vision again takes a shot at the knees to players who actually took the time to become acclimated to the game and, oh God, were loyal to the series and played enough to get a thing I like to call anticipation.

 

3. Randomly Spawning Weapons - Okay, lets continue to chop down the loyal, regularly playing fan-base by not allowing them to time weapons or the now non-existent power-ups. Timing weapons is something simple that every player can do, but only the good ones ever seemed to remember to do, so what dose 343 do now, oh, lets see, take yet another thing away from the competitive Halo base. The excuse, "it ads more points of focus to the game." Okay, great, not the team winning by 3 with 2 seconds left gets a rocket spawning in the middle of their base, what does the other team get, plasma pistol, GREAT IDEA!.....Why couldn't you leave something as simple as weapon spawns alone, my goodness could you mess anything else up?

 

4. Joining in game sessions - YES YOU CAN! So now to fix the problem of quitters, you get join mid game. Okay, common scenario, oh, i join a game, my team has 12, the other team, 49 and 50 as I join, oops, there is a loss that I got without participating. There goes my 50..... oh yeah, there is no 50 because if you had them, you'd probably need to buy a few hundred thousand TVs for raging gamers who put their controllers through theirs. Now, just like reach and every other non-competitive POS game on the market there is no skill measuring system, just a stupid RPG style if you spend time you will rank up system, lovely.

 

Final Thoughts. Why does this game go from being oh boy, a return to the classic halo series that was so successful to boy what a POS this will be. It is like 343 has taken a battle axe to the players who loved the game and spent time on it to get good and gave a big fat F U to everyone who liked and was good at Halo. Now all us 50's from H3 will get to be put on par with first timers since there is no more hiding or escaping, no more player intuition, no more timing, NO MORE SKILL OR REASON TO PLAY. So let me take this time to give a thank you to Bungie for making H1, H2, and H3 the best competitive games on the market (I will forgive Reach), and give a than you to 343i for making me drop the last part of my childhood I was looking to hold on to and destroying the best MP game on the market and thank you again for removing all stat tracking from H3 and destroying the last game I love and any evidence that Halo ever had a good game in the series. I guess you guys all thought that video games were juvenile and that we all should grow up. Guess I'll be, and it burns my tongue to say this, playing CoD from now on, at least they improve their games, even if they still aren't as good as H3 or H2.

 

P.S. For anyone who doubts my information I have attached the link to the scanned in article, take a gander and you can be the judge. Goodbye to anyone who I played with or against over the years, best wishes everyone, and finally, Goodbye Halo, you will be missed.

 

Article:

http://gamingsquid.c...former-magazine

just telling you that halo 4 will not be a bad game because a lot of bungie employees joined after halo 3 and created 343i so they know their stuff and all that and for the weapon drops i doubt they will have winning team get a rocket and the losing team get a plasma pistol all im asking you is to give halo 4 a few tries when it comes out please just give it some tries

[CHOAS333]

I'm going to miss you Martie...

 

Halo's audio was always the best, this new guy has HUGE shoes to fill.

 

Looks like I'll only be playing competitive playlists in H4; if I end up hating it, I'll at least play the campaign. I owe the series that much. Bungie is currently developing another sci-fi shooter, one separate from Halo, so if H4 tanks I can look forward to that.

 

343 has huge expectations; Halo fans are usually more mature, and more critical than CoD fans. Instant respawns, killcams, and custom loadouts are not something that I want to have, but if they're optional in MP I guess I can deal.

 

This new enemy shouldn't take Halo in a whole new direction; Right now I think they're probably Forerunner in origin, but introducing another faction into the game is not what fans want to hear about. What happened to the Covenant? Is the Arbiter still alive? Did we really save Earth? Are there forerunners still alive, presumably in one of the Arks?

 

Halo 1-3 was full of biblical metaphors, great audio, stunning visuals, and skill based gameplay.

 

343, you better get this right.

[Intolimbo]

I know I'm not writing a book like everyone else who's posting here, but here is a 343 Video breakdown of the e3 campain demo. It includes a bid of extra footage (testing light rifle and scatter shot) and is the best informative vid I have found yet. Skip to 50 seconds into the vid and enjoy. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dadCuKCyEfo

 

Source - IGN

[Azaxx]

Ok, im dont have a chance to update until the weekend, even then i have to study for exams, so when i do, prepare yourself for ALOT of news

[TezzFOUR]

Remove - AL, Jetpack. Add - 1-50 ranking system for competitive, I'm happy. I think this 'x-ray vision' AA will be A good addition, besides, if everyone in a game has it no-one is disadvantaged are they? Just because they can see you through a wall, doesn't mean they get a free kill on you. This will also teach players good and bad to be more tactically aware, watch their 6, check their corners and be team orientated.

[SeafaringPanda3]

I am sure most of you have heard, but the game informer cover of H4 has been leaked. SOmeone scanned the entire article onto the internet. After spending the last 20 minutes reading it, I can safely say that Halo 4 looks like the biggest fail of a game I have ever seen. I am sorry, I had high hopes for this, but as far as reach was a departure from H3 and H2, this takes the cake. For those of you that do not know I will sum up, AA's are back and you can purchase them at higher levels like CoD, Sprint is standard, weapon spawn are not set, they are drop podded in to prevent skilled players from being skilled, they are adding in X-Ray vision to see through walls and prevent anyone 1 shot or protecting the now random power weapons from staying hidden, there is instant respawns to completely F-Over anyone who just won a BR fight and it 1 shot and hasn't already been cleaned up by an xray toting idiot, and you can join in-progress games to put a definitive NO on the "will there be a 1 - 50 true-skill system like in H3?" question. Halo 4 sounds completely moronic. Let me explain all that is wrong with those changes.

 

1. Instant Spawns - THIS IS NOT COD!!! You are not 1 shot 100% of the time like in cod where that mechanic doesn't matter. In Halo you have shields and require 4 shots. If you are playing a game and you kill someone they can just instant-spawn back and kill you while your shields are low. Effectively shafting better players because they had the audacity to be better than an other player and kill them, oops, your dead for being better.

 

2. Jet-Packs and other AA's - Jet-packs destroy map design, plain and simple. Armor abilities in general do nothing more than screw up a good flowing MP experience. Why should someone carry around the right to be invisible any time they want, or have temporary invincibility to save all unskilled players from a certain death, nope, armor lock to again destroy the better player who had them dead. Don't even get me started on this new Forerunner Vision X-Ray garbage. That is quite possibly one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. Okay, now you can no longer hold onto a weapon, retreat when 1 shot, or plan an attack without the other players knowing exactly what you are doing. OMG, this makes me mad just thinking about it. X-Ray vision again takes a shot at the knees to players who actually took the time to become acclimated to the game and, oh God, were loyal to the series and played enough to get a thing I like to call anticipation.

 

3. Randomly Spawning Weapons - Okay, lets continue to chop down the loyal, regularly playing fan-base by not allowing them to time weapons or the now non-existent power-ups. Timing weapons is something simple that every player can do, but only the good ones ever seemed to remember to do, so what dose 343 do now, oh, lets see, take yet another thing away from the competitive Halo base. The excuse, "it ads more points of focus to the game." Okay, great, not the team winning by 3 with 2 seconds left gets a rocket spawning in the middle of their base, what does the other team get, plasma pistol, GREAT IDEA!.....Why couldn't you leave something as simple as weapon spawns alone, my goodness could you mess anything else up?

 

4. Joining in game sessions - YES YOU CAN! So now to fix the problem of quitters, you get join mid game. Okay, common scenario, oh, i join a game, my team has 12, the other team, 49 and 50 as I join, oops, there is a loss that I got without participating. There goes my 50..... oh yeah, there is no 50 because if you had them, you'd probably need to buy a few hundred thousand TVs for raging gamers who put their controllers through theirs. Now, just like reach and every other non-competitive POS game on the market there is no skill measuring system, just a stupid RPG style if you spend time you will rank up system, lovely.

 

Final Thoughts. Why does this game go from being oh boy, a return to the classic halo series that was so successful to boy what a POS this will be. It is like 343 has taken a battle axe to the players who loved the game and spent time on it to get good and gave a big fat F U to everyone who liked and was good at Halo. Now all us 50's from H3 will get to be put on par with first timers since there is no more hiding or escaping, no more player intuition, no more timing, NO MORE SKILL OR REASON TO PLAY. So let me take this time to give a thank you to Bungie for making H1, H2, and H3 the best competitive games on the market (I will forgive Reach), and give a than you to 343i for making me drop the last part of my childhood I was looking to hold on to and destroying the best MP game on the market and thank you again for removing all stat tracking from H3 and destroying the last game I love and any evidence that Halo ever had a good game in the series. I guess you guys all thought that video games were juvenile and that we all should grow up. Guess I'll be, and it burns my tongue to say this, playing CoD from now on, at least they improve their games, even if they still aren't as good as H3 or H2.

 

P.S. For anyone who doubts my information I have attached the link to the scanned in article, take a gander and you can be the judge. Goodbye to anyone who I played with or against over the years, best wishes everyone, and finally, Goodbye Halo, you will be missed.

 

Article:

http://gamingsquid.c...former-magazine

 

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT I WILL SPEND MY MONEY ON A GAME THAT BETRAYS WHAT THE FANS WANT.

[Azaxx]

Finally got the update through.

[Silvi i Be]

Still no news on H4 ranking system. only question i have left to be answered. I know it's a mix between H3 and reach but i want an in depth explanation how exactly will everything factor into the game. ranks, exp, and spartan ops!

[Kralcnoremac]

Never used this site before, but i came up with an idea for a medal announcement for the online. For when you get 5 assists in one life or 10 i was thinking instead of assist spree, how about irrassistable? I thought it sounded pretty good

[Exodus]

nice

[Ryu♥Hayabusa]

CORRECTION!

 

Ordnance drops are only in infinity Slayer. Slayer does not include ordnance drops. Read this on my Waypoint app the other day.

[DoctorB77]

CORRECTION!

 

Ordnance drops are only in infinity Slayer. Slayer does not include ordnance drops. Read this on my Waypoint app the other day.

 

That's great. I can't wait to see how they will work in custom games as well.

[DarkSlayer224]

The only thing I'm upset about thus far that they've announced is the return of jetpacks. I mean if they were only featured in Spartan Ops and Campaign, I'd have no problem with it. But from everything I've seen to this point, they will be back in multiplayer.