Halo 4: Bullet sponge and terrible M/K controls. 343 can't make a good game.

[Mendax]

Boring game.

[Robert F.]

At the very start of the 3rd mission, there's a bunch of drone ability on the side that you can pickup, use it to distraction the enemy and flank them.

Prioritize the Watchers and the Crawlers first. If the knight come close to you, just run back to safety.

The knights in this game are bullet sponge as hell and they're annoying to deal with but... on normal difficulty? Really? They act like your typical red elites with a DMR.

Use your AR or Suppressor (or whatever available on that area) to take out his shields quickly and then headshot with a pistol/boltshot/light rifle or keep firing your same weapon

In later section where the covenant fighting against the promotheans. The needler gun can kill a knight in 1-2 supercombine explosion.

Plasma Pistol and precision (noob combo) is also effective against knights (most often use on Spartan Ops).

If you want it make it a bit easier, turn on Catch skull. It make the knight spam their grenades nonstop in mid range, allowing you to go around and assassinate.

[Lenny]

Get good, that's all I need to say.
PD: At least Halo 4 is not as hard as Halo: Reach.

[DivineLion]

the controls for keyboard is fine, you might as well say the same for every halo. also promethean knight can still get 1 shot after you take some armor off. maybe go normal difficulty next time if thats too much for you.

nvm looks like you have to play on EASY lmao.

[TheOutwardRug44]

Originally posted by Mendax:

Originally posted by FireHawk117:

What difficulty are you playing on

Normal.

Im actually dead this is too funny

[Soggy Bread]

You: *Complains about Halo 4 fighting mechanics*
Everyone who knows about Halo remotely: "We know."

First Halo game 343 did, gave them the benefit of the doubt, its much better that 5. To me when the game released it was like sour wine, but going back to it when it was released on the MCC the campaign more or less aged like fine wine- enjoyed it better than I did before. well, besides for the fighting mechanics. They are awful, everyone knows they are awful. It just do be that way. (At least its not garbage in both cases like 5, eugh)

Game isn't impossible, beat it on Legendary myself on Xbox. When you die, think about how you died- did you use to much ammo, miss an ammo case, missed to many shots? Got to work with the game a little here.

[SmugJay]

This entire thread is just a massive yikes moment.

[Cool Cereal]

Originally posted by Mendax:

♥♥♥♥ THIS GAME. It's impossible, enemies won't die. Headhsots, plasmas, weak spots, nothing works.

have you tried gitting gud?????????????????????????

[Veni]

Unpopular question: Halo 4 is the best in mcc. Im not going to argue about this.

[Cool Cereal]

Originally posted by HexAs:

Unpopular question: Halo 4 is the best in mcc. Im not going to argue about this.

This but the opposite

[Spicy Pupperoni]

In all honesty, I'd wait a while and see if Ruby, the guy whose Rebalance mods are gaining traction lately can do anything with Halo 4. So far his Rebalance mods have been a huge overhaul of CE, 2, Reach and lately 3 and they all seem pretty well received. Some of them have been a little meh, like with Needlers being even more of a headache, but the general gameplay has been better. Such as his philosophy of the dichotomy of the Ballistic/Plasma weaponry. Plasma weapons dealing more damage to shields but doing less damage to Health, inversely, Ballistic weapons SHRED Health but are weak vs Shields.

But NOT to the point where one is entirely ineffective vs the other, you could still gun down a shielded Elite with an Assault Rifle, it'll just take a bit longer. Things like that among other Quality of Life changes for the better, but not to inherently make the game easier. I'm going through CE on Legendary and it is still hard, but it's such a treat to be able to keep your Marine allies alive longer due to changes like they have a bit more health to work with, their firing patterns are a HELL of a lot tighter than before, the weapons they're equipped with, like you can use for yourself have been given major overhauls such as the Assault Rifle being a HELL of a lot more accurate in burst-fire, meaning you can still gun something down mid-range with proper bursts or you can tear through unshielded enemies close-quarters. They also aren't stun-locked from a single hit, their stun threshold was upgraded massively, they take at least 4 or 5 hits before they stumble and can't fire.

Doesn't sound like much, but give it a try, install the mod (just replacing map files) and try Silent Cartographer on Legendary, Marine allies are impervious to Friendly-Fire (including from each other, THANK GOD) and therefore can't be accidentally squished and watch how many of them will survive storming the beach.

There's also another philosophy of his that I TOTALLY agree with, enemies shouldn't be aggravating bullet sponges, I believe it was 2 he started making it so the damage would be the same as Heroic even on Legendary, but the enemies are FAR more aggressive in their approach to you and their firing patterns, as well as there generally being more enemies on Legendary, so there isn't some flat 50% damage buff for the enemies and some -50% damage dealt multiplier and you don't feel like you have to turtle through the entire friggin' game on Legendary with the same damn weapon combos, you're free to pick up whatever and it can be just as effective as the last weapon you used. Don't HAVE to always carry a Plasma Pistol just to drop something's shield.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Mendax:

Originally posted by FireHawk117:

What difficulty are you playing on

Normal.

Ok you have to be a troll

Promethean Knights die to 6 light rifle bursts on normal

Originally posted by Chibbity:

C'mon guys, he's obviously frustrated and for all we know he is 12, or even younger.

Making fun of him isn't productive.

No, if you're struggling on normal you're either brand new to video games in general (in which case OP almost certainly wouldn't be on this forum) or aren't capable of typing out the posts OP has typed out.

[tanman500]

I was switching back and forth between the kb/m and controller playing through Halo 4, and I was having a blast. Yeah the enemies were pretty stupid and the story was laughable, but nothing beats killing a flock of enemies with my mech. I really think 343 not hiring the OG Halo Composer for Halo 4 was a missed opportunity. He was a genius composer who could easily turn a boring halo game into an incredible blockbuster experience.

[BRT Cobra]

to be fair halo 4 isnt a real halo game. anything from bungie is the only games i consider to be halo. 343 games just ruin the name.

[GabeKirk24]

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Originally posted by Mendax:

Normal.

Ok you have to be a troll

Promethean Knights die to 6 light rifle bursts on normal

Originally posted by Chibbity:

C'mon guys, he's obviously frustrated and for all we know he is 12, or even younger.

Making fun of him isn't productive.

No, if you're struggling on normal you're either brand new to video games in general (in which case OP almost certainly wouldn't be on this forum) or aren't capable of typing out the posts OP has typed out.

You can run past them on normal, ♥♥♥♥ you can run past them on legendary, you know when I struggled on normal, about 15 years ago when I first ever played halo, when I played my first ever fps, and even then it was only after I kept at it for an hour did I find it easy

[GabeKirk24]

Originally posted by BRT Cobra:

to be fair halo 4 isnt a real halo game. anything from bungie is the only games i consider to be halo. 343 games just ruin the name.

Anything to have the name halo on the cover and feature the same main characters is halo to me, its like me saying 'only the infinity ward call of duty games are real call of duty games, the others just ruine the name' its stupid to say that