Spartan Ops has to be the most boring mode that I have ever played

[Corpulent Swine]

It literally consists of you dying over and over until the area has been cleared, pressing a button and repeating until the mission ends.

[Solid Gamer]

plus this annoying AI Roland with his stupid jokes. Thia mode is annoying!

[Fritzster]

It must have been designed with Matchmaking in mind.

[Malnificent]

Yea I was surprised to see it was just thrown in to the H4 campaign menu and not given a MM option like Firefight has. I wish they would implement that. On X Box 360 they did it by cycling through one of the 10 chapters each week and letting you MM any of its 5 missions.

For people with inconsistent and limited availability, trying to find groups without MM or searchable lobbies can use up all your play time so I guess in the mean time it is solo or no-go. It is a shame, it was a blast on co op.

[Wolf DragoX]

yeah, in SP its not so fun, its basically FF without co-op, and if you have tried FF in solo its not hard to see why spartan ops feels so boring at times, in normal its not so bad imo, just a bit meh, but in heroic its easy to see that spartan ops was made with 4 players in mind, sadly without MM spartan ops will remain as a bit of a broken experience (literally), 343 already said that they would need to rework the netcode for Spartan ops to make MM a thing, and they are not even working on that right now so...yeah i will not expect Spartan ops MM coming anytime soon

[Corpulent Swine]

Publicado originalmente por Wolf DragoX:

yeah, in SP its not so fun, its basically FF without co-op, and if you have tried FF in solo its not hard to see why spartan ops feels so boring at times, in normal its not so bad imo, just a bit meh, but in heroic its easy to see that spartan ops was made with 4 players in mind, sadly without MM spartan ops will remain as a bit of a broken experience (literally), 343 already said that they would need to rework the netcode for Spartan ops to make MM a thing, and they are not even working on that right now so...yeah i will not expect Spartan ops MM coming anytime soon

I'm doing all legendary for the achievement and I can barely stomach 2-3 missions before I have to take a break. Why they have an achievement for soloing all of it I'll understand. I'd rather slaso 2... and I will one day.

[Falleax]

You guys ever think that Spartan Ops is basically just Destiny missions? You go into some place, kill some brainless aliens, press a button, leave and repeat several dozen times. You even return to places you already cleared out and should have secured just to do the same thing you did earlier, nothing you do has any lasting effect, like in Destiny.

[Hogdriver155]

Needs matchmaking badly.

[BEEFYTV]

Wait... people dont like spartan ops? Its challenging but I still find it pretty enjoyable. Also i love how the enemy responds to situations. Feels alot more organic and tactical. If you are focus firing an elite he will back off a bit and two or three other enemies will fill his spot while his shield goes up.

:) if anyone needs help with the legendary run let me know!

[Pigeons555]

I honestly think Spartan Ops solo Legendary is not too terrible and quite fun. It is undeniably balanced for more people, but Halo 4's weapons are just so strong that there have only been a few times where I don't accomplish much everytime I am inevitably killed. The abundance of ammo and heavy weapons makes the gamemode more enjoyable for me as well (Hacksaw), though it's a shame there are not more vehicle sections.


The frequent deaths are definitely a thing, but as long as you accomplish something in each life, you will make steady progress and have no need to feel discouraged or anything. Not to mention, if you break down a lot of the Halo campaigns, it involves going someplace, killing everything, and interacting with something, Spartan Ops hardly changes it up much other than having smaller arenas (though the later levels are much larger).


I know this opinion is not a popular one and it probably stems from the fact that I genuinely enjoy the gunplay of Halo 4, especially the Assault Rifle, and Spartan Ops is a risk-free firefight populated with an overabundance of enemies and a 5 second respawn timer. People tend to begrudgingly admit that 343i at least balances weapons better than Bungie, and the Halo 4 Assault Rifle is the best example of that, turning a complete joke of a weapon to an absolute monster, at least in Campaign.

Just my two cents.

[Apollyon. Black Edition.]

In Solo at Legendary some missions(actually most of them) just "F*ck you mode". TONS of heavy enemies with rockets and infinite grenades... I've seen this sh!t A LOT at Halo 3 ODST's Legendary playthrough. Wasn't fun there - as well not fun here.

Well, it's not THAT bad, okay? But sometimes it feels completely wrong in terms of "Halo" game. This Elites just... like seriously? They just rush by group in any place where I do my shooting range and spamming everything they got... Do I really play Halo game?

Halo 4 campaign was awesome, but Spartan Ops just really lazy designed number of maps, which is all the same almost every time. I will finish that on Solo Legendary, but no way ever I'm going to replay it.

[The Commendatore]

It was better than H4's MP, that's all I'm gonna say.

[Corpulent Swine]

Publicado originalmente por Apollyon:

In Solo at Legendary some missions(actually most of them) just "F*ck you mode". TONS of heavy enemies with rockets and infinite grenades... I've seen this sh!t A LOT at Halo 3 ODST's Legendary playthrough. Wasn't fun there - as well not fun here.

Well, it's not THAT bad, okay? But sometimes it feels completely wrong in terms of "Halo" game. This Elites just... like seriously? They just rush by group in any place where I do my shooting range and spamming everything they got... Do I really play Halo game?

Halo 4 campaign was awesome, but Spartan Ops just really lazy designed number of maps, which is all the same almost every time. I will finish that on Solo Legendary, but no way ever I'm going to replay it.

I'm literally only doing it for achievements and season points. 20 more missions to go.

[I'm the walrus]

It's like firefight without matchmaking but
merging it with the TV show was stupid and unnecessary.
They should've made a well made enjoyable story dlc instead

[Warrior of Virtue]

It either needs co-op matchmaking (which is something that should have been implemented on day 1 anyway) or at the very least a dedicated solo mode.

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Hang in there. The later levels are much easier to be honest.