Halo 4

[anime52k8]

Wish I had jumped on with you guys. I was dead tired by that time though.

[Benson13]

Wish I had jumped on with you guys. I was dead tired by that time though.

I'll be home in 2 hours and ready to start another one. Let me know.

[CoryHolmes]

I'm home now. Let me get some dinner and we continue on. Either of you object to picking up where Benson and I left off, Episode 2 Chapter 3?

[Benson13]

Nope I'm good with it.

[Kicker773]

just got on to playing halo 4 today.. newbie.. first time into the halo series.

[Benson13]

just got on to playing halo 4 today.. newbie.. first time into the halo series.

Welcome to the fold. You're in for a treat.

[anime52k8]

still tired from yesterday, may just go to sleep again. (43 hours without sleep putting together a book takes a while to recover from. )

[CoryHolmes]

Well, I'll start up and see who's online for some Spartan Opping

[Hikuro]

None for me, haven't been feeling to good this week. : /blah

[CoryHolmes]

So, I maintain that Spartan Ops is a fabulous addition to the Halo game. Not just a horde/firefight mode, but it's got a driving plot behind it that makes the actions of the game seem reasonable. That seems to be something that 343 is focusing on in this game and hopefully the 2 that are to follow it.

In tonight's Spartan Ops adventures, I realized that dying and respawning is a popular pasttime on Legendary mode It's something quite spectacular to hit a switch and see your radar screen go almost solid red with the dots of your enemies. Fortunatly, Benson and I had a third member join us and we made quick work of them all... until Hunters dropped in. Not just 2 Hunters, since that'd be too easy. Noooo, the game spanked us with FOUR of them.

That led to the highlight of my night, where I got gutted by a Hunter as I charged its back, and then it swung its massive arm around and took out my two companions in one blow. TPK in two moves. I tip my hat to you, Hunter. You did your species proud.

[Benson13]

LMFAO @ Cory

Yeah, I wasn't as impressed as you were with that one. You did however drop out before the greatest Spartan Ops level ever (so far). Episode 3, Chapter 4 Shootout in Valhalla. If you think 4 Hunters is bad try 8 at a time with reinforcements coming as soon as you finish off a few. Nevermind the Elite Generals with their fuelrods trying to pound out your backdoor. That level just makes me giggle.

[CoryHolmes]

Sorry, but I had some serious personal stuff that came up and had to be taken care of. But I'm back and trying for more

[renegadeleader1]

Nevermind the Elite Generals with their fuelrods trying to pound out your backdoor. That level just makes me giggle.

... say what now?

[Hoptimus]

LMFAO @ Cory Yeah, I wasn't as impressed as you were with that one. You did however drop out before the greatest Spartan Ops level ever (so far). Episode 3, Chapter 4 Shootout in Valhalla. If you think 4 Hunters is bad try 8 at a time with reinforcements coming as soon as you finish off a few. Nevermind the Elite Generals with their fuelrods trying to pound out your backdoor. That level just makes me giggle.

I about crap a brick as it took 2 sticky grenades each to kill those generals! Gah!

[Benson13]

... say what now?

It's a lifestyle they chose and I'm not going to judge them for it. I just wish they would quit shooting those giant green blobs at my face.

[eugimon]

so, had a pretty amazing big team slayer match. Came in first at 23/3. I told my wife and she just looks at me and asks, "were you playing against little kids? I think you were."

[Benson13]

so, had a pretty amazing big team slayer match. Came in first at 23/3. I told my wife and she just looks at me and asks, "were you playing against little kids? I think you were."

I say tell her to give it a shot. It's a lot harder than it sounds. Damn little kids are good. Even worse is the old people with strategy.

I got my last achievement I need today excluding the ones that can be done this Monday. Once Monday gets here I'll have 1000/1000.

[Benson13]

Having a big air competition.

[anime52k8]

I got an email from Microsoft saying they where giving me a free gift for Halo 4. when I redeemed the code they sent me it unlocked the fallowing: "specialisation priority alpha." I have no idea what that is.

[Benson13]

I got an email from Microsoft saying they where giving me a free gift for Halo 4. when I redeemed the code they sent me it unlocked the fallowing: "specialisation priority alpha." I have no idea what that is.

The Google Machine said,

http://www.examiner.com/article/halo-4-specialization-unlock-codes-being-sent-out

[Benson13]

Basically, it allows you to pick any Specialization in any order instead of just having a choice of Wetwork or Operator.

[anime52k8]

hmm... well I've still got a long way to go before I can use that.

BTW, I experienced something today that was at the same time absolutely hilarious and utterly pathetic. I joined a throwback FFA lobby, and as soon as I get in a rank 68 and a rank 102 are Just trash talking the crap out off each other. I've got no idea who started it but the rank 68 guy would absolutely not let it go; the match started and the two of them just kept going for a full king of the hill match, the time spent in the lobby and a whole second king of the hill match before the rank 102 guy finally left.

The best think about it was that both of them where absolute trash; I ended up getting first place both games and a rank 38 who placed second both times ended up getting the most kills and the best K/D each round.

So moral of the story:

The best way to win at life is to as an adult get into an angry verbal argument with another adult over a video game, and then fail miserably to back up any of the smack your talking.

Edited December 1, 2012 by anime52k8

[Chowser]

Thanks for the info on the specilizations. I think I'm still under level SR20 so it will be awhile.

Sorry I had to cut out, I had to go pick my son up from school and when we got back, my daughter was already on the Xbox playing Minecraft.

Need to get them their own xbox...

[CoryHolmes]

Anybody up for Spartan Ops? I have the last few chapters of Episode 4 to finish, and then on to Episode 5 starting Monday

[Benson13]

I'm actually going to bed now or I'd be down. I'll be down to play tomorrow night though.

[anime52k8]

BTW; in spartan ops, does changing the difficulty effect the EXP you earn? it a played a couple episodes on normal and a couple episodes on easy and the EXP reward at the end was the same both times. I just wanted to get the weekly challenges out of the way quick and get some easy EXP boosts. I really want to hit SR40 so I can finish the armor setup I want.

[Benson13]

BTW; in spartan ops, does changing the difficulty effect the EXP you earn? it a played a couple episodes on normal and a couple episodes on easy and the EXP reward at the end was the same both times. I just wanted to get the weekly challenges out of the way quick and get some easy EXP boosts. I really want to hit SR40 so I can finish the armor setup I want.

No it doesn't. The max xp you can get in a private match is 2966 and 5950 in matchmaking. Changing the difficulty changes what class of enemy you encounter during the mission. The reason that's important is when going for Commendations you have to pick the level of difficulty that has the enemy type that you need to kill.

[Hoptimus]

Sorry Benson I was in a full game last night and I crashed out shortly after.

[Benson13]

Sorry Benson I was in a full game last night and I crashed out shortly after.

Yeah, I was pretty crushed. My self esteem may never recover.

[Hoptimus]

I should be on tonight.

[Benson13]

:P/>

I should be on tonight.

Don't worry, I spoke to my mommy for three hours today and she gave me a great pep talk and I feel better now.

[Kicker773]

I'll probably hop on tonight as well.

In the meantime this is what I was dressed as for Halloween last year!

[Benson13]

You know what they say about Spartans with freakishly super huge feet right?

[Benson13]

So here's an update on the final achievements for Episode 5. I don't have names available so bear with me.

-Achievement for Ep. 5 Chap. 1, by "survive" they really mean complete the level. I died multiple times on heroic matchmaking and still got it. I may make it a personal challenge to beat the horde that attacks you on legendary without dying.

-Achievement for Ep. 5 Chap. 4, when defending the power generators my team found it useful to move the Puma's (Warthogs) in front of the generators and have a Spartan man the gun. Assign two Spartans to each side, one as a gunner and another as a floater to keep enemies off the gunner and generators that are coming from multiple directions.

-Achievement for compeleting the first five episodes of Spartan Ops on any difficulty. This was easy but there is a glitch. Just complete the levels. Nothing fancy. However if the achievement doesn't pop once they're all completed you have a problem. I personally had beaten all the chapters for all the episodes multiple times and once I beat Ep. 5 Chap. 5 it didn't pop. I looked back at my progress and it showed that I hadn't beat Ep. 2 at all. I call BS and start cussing. So I threw it on easy and started Ep. 2, Chap. 1 and once it was completed the achievement popped. I then looked at my progress and it once again showed me having completed everything on legendary.

I'm sure 343 is aware of this as Halo fans tend to be quite volatile when it comes to their favorite game being all glitched up. I'll keep taps on this issue and let you guys know once it's fixed.

Cory-Really happy you got a mic. It made getting stuff done so much easier. You made a great impression with my friends and you're always welcome to join us.

However, I'm still extremely bitter about that grunt you shot in the face while I was assassinating him.

Edited December 4, 2012 by Benson13

[CoryHolmes]

Cory-Really happy you got a mic. It made getting stuff done so much easier. You made a great impression with my friends and you're always welcome to join us.

I'm glad to have more than one person along side. The microphone makes things so much easier, considering there doesn't seem to be a text messaging system. However, I have to remember to put it on mute when doing things that don't sound too good over a microphone

However, I'm still extremely bitter about that grunt you shot in the face while I was assassinating him.

*innocent whistle* Who, me???