I have also noticed a lot of people getting "temorarily banned from earning XP go to blah blah blah for details"
Well it appears nobody has ANY clue as to how long this "temporary" Ban lasts for. As well nobody has answers about any of these things. I myself got banned for being idle for a minutes while I left to get a phone call. heaven forbid that I quit a match cause I have to go out somewhere and I get banned for that too. This needs to be sorted or it should be made public knowledge how long a ban is for and for what reasons you will be banned temporarily.
I personally didn't even know such a thing existed considering I played a lot of Halo 3 but not much of Reach, I am mainly a BF3 person but have always like halo franchise.
On another note, Halo 4 has been a big disapointment to me online, Halo used to be maps where everyone started with assault rifles and pistols and you had to pick up beter weapons on the field. So it was a lot of close quarter meat grinders.
Now its just oh hey I got a DMR im going to sit here and pick ppl off from across the map. Now I know it sounds like complaining, but Ive read many a posts on Waypoint and talk to a few "Die hard" Halo fans of mine and they all agree, its one large sniper game which isnt any fun if you cant even walk in the open for half a second or get out of your spawn.
The weapons are severely Bias, the covie weapons do nothing but the BR and DMR just own everyone around, DMR most of all can just hammer people at a range and you cant even get close.
The Ban system is flawed in my mind as well as this Halo skill ranking but I agree and disagree with the skill ranking system.
Also I have read many complaints about the maps and how they have no "flow" and having vehicle combat in these maps is a waste cause you got no room to move barely. There are also things like grenades, frags are under powered, plasmas as well. and What ever happened to the "lunge" system where within two feet of a enemy you lunge with your butt stroke, I find point blank if your not looking at the guy perfectly. Your not making your melee attack.
There are also some flaws I found with "Active Camo" the jammer feature is supposed to show "multiple enemy" on the motion sensor if an enemy is cloaked near you, I have been killed by cloaked enemy but the jammer shows a crap load of friendlys around, or sometimes no jammer at all on my motion sensor and there is someone cloaked near by.
Regardless, Good points is Spartan Ops rules. Campaign is pretty good, Graphics are great improvement.
However, on sound and graphics, Assault rifle sounds awesome, magnum sounds wimpy as well as the BR and the Covie weapons.
Why does the Warthog sound like im riding a lawnmower into battle????
All and all I would have to say this game is not what I expected to see from having played Halo 3 a lot and Halo reach a fair amount, I also wish Halo 4 had firefight mode for people who cant play online all the time, playing campaign over and over is monotanous. So like I said through my novel here, the game I found to be fun but with all the issues, I found it to be very disapointing and was actually going to trade it in for a pre order of another game two days after release. Im going to give it a fair shake and see what improvements are made, BUT one thing that SHOULD be paramount....There are A LOT of fans out there and frustrated people with this game, not just myself having discussed these issues. People need to be kept in the loop and I think 343 should make maximum effort to keep the gamers in the loop with issues and things like HOW LONG A TEMPORARY BAN LASTS. Its important to know these things, because after 3-4 days of being ban, I just wont put the game back in my xbox for another month or so and then maybe itll be cleared up.
Dont treat the fans and players like mushrooms, Fed **** and kept in the dark.
