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Latest Halo 4 Update Enables 343 to Constantly Adjust Weapons
Written Thursday, March 21, 2013 By Richard Walker
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With its latest Halo 4 title update, 343 Industries is factoring in a new feature that will enable the studio to "fine tune and tweak" weapons via the game's backend without having to issue constant patches to do so. The update also brings other fixes and adjustments as detailed below.

  • Enabled “X-Markers” on the HUD to designate when and where teammates are killed.
  • Updated Active Camo to fully reveal players when they fire all weapons.
  • Reduced the auto aim, magnetism and damage on the Gauss Warthog.
  • Fixed an issue in which some players at SR-130 did not see their Specialization on their in-game Player Card.
  • Fixed various issues with ordnance navigation markers.
  • Fixed various join-in-progress issues with Flood.
  • Added the ability to make weapon adjustments via backend tuning.

Adding the ability for 343 to make constant weapon adjustments means that the developer will have more of a handle on the balancing, as the post over on Halo Waypoint explains.

"Previously added weapon adjustments, such as the Bolt Shot Nerf that went live last month, needed a title update in order to be released. With this title update, we are adding the ability to make weapon adjustments outside of the standard title update process," the post reads.

"This will allow us to fine tune and tweak the Halo 4 sandbox as often or not as often as needed. One thing to keep in mind is that even the tiniest of changes affects the sandbox as a whole, so these adjustments will be closely scrutinized and carefully tested before being released."

This upcoming Halo 4 title update is expected to go live "within the next few weeks".




 
 

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Comment #1 by BurnTheWelsh
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:04:31 AM
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This fix is perfect. one thing!!!

I LOVE HALO!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Comment #2 by RedstoneFanatic
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:04:57 AM
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Balancing a multiplayer seems to be on par with balancing a two ton weight on a stack of feathers.


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Comment #3 by UltimateAuron32
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:13:10 AM
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nerf the freaking DMR, that thing is just a LITTLE over popwered, not a lot but just a little. every match i play all you see and hear is DMR's going off.

the Boltshot nerf was greatly appreciated though, so they are listening, keep it up.


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Comment #4 by iBlaise
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:14:50 AM
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Don't they think its a little late for all that? Most people I know stopped playing this awhile ago. I went back to Halo 3.


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Comment #5 by Viperous
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:16:59 AM
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Too bad this game is already dead and abandoned. You lost your hardcore fans 343. Not including fully visible ranks was your first mistake. Your second mistake was letting people stay scoped in while they are shot. Your third mistake was making every map in the game a BTB map and the BR being a 5sk ant not a 4sk.


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Comment #6 by Zenka The Myth
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:18:31 AM
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I would love to check out the new changes, wish my friends were still in to playing it :-(


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Comment #7 by The BiggD
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:20:49 AM
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"Rockets on my X" will return!!

It's a shame all these good updates are being implemented so late after the game was released. I'm sure many people have moved on to other games...I know I have :/


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Comment #8 by Kisushima
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:22:18 AM
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@5. Ahahahaha. You're a funny guy!

Anyway, ignoring him, nice set of updates.


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Comment #9 by xGallade
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:24:03 AM
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People still play this game?


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Comment #10 by Dans1
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:27:13 AM
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@5 Just over 50,000 users online at this time of the day disagrees.

It might not be as heavily populated as past Halos were, but that are still decent figures. It's not like you won't find a game is it?

The visible ranks are coming with the next DLC apparently, people staying scoped whilst being shot has pros and cons of it's own, the maps are varied and great IMO with some nice throwbacks to earlier Halos, and the tweak to the BR was for balance.

Douchebag.


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Comment #11 by Chaos MAN
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:27:50 AM
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They can try to fix and tweak but in the end this game isn't half as good as Halo 1,2,and 3.


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Comment #12 by Dans1
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:29:45 AM
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@11 It's not as good as 1 or 2, but in my mind it's far better than 3, Reach and ODST were.


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Comment #13 by ZLU CORONA
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:32:21 AM
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Halo rocks!...raise the spartan ranks please!!!


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Comment #14 by BurnTheWelsh
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:32:22 AM
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@6 Hey add me, im playing it. Love halo


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Comment #15 by CallENWake17
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:35:50 AM
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@5 and all the whining "hardcore fans":
stay with your beloved halo 3 and play it until there is no more xbl support for 360 anymore and then play system link...For me the pacing is just much too slow now..
Is all you want really, that they always stick to the same formula?? Some changes are quite necessary to make a franchise fresh and new again. Just because you are a BR noob, does not mean that this game is meant to be played just with the BR...

I like halo 4 mp and most of it, I enjoy SWAT (1hs = 1k..) as I did already in H3 & Reach.
Anyway, IMO Halo 4 is a very great game, somehow I just don't like the maps that much, but that's because maybe I had too less time to play it. Will come back to this game once I have more time.

OT: I like the support from 343. They are doing a great job so far!


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Comment #16 by Earth Djinn
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 08:36:17 AM
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I wish I could use weapon skins in Swat. I know it's small, but I do wish it were possible.


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Comment #17 by blackdragon71425
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:14:36 AM
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Not real happy about the cloaking. Making people visible when they fire, doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?


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Comment #18 by CyberPunch83
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:18:42 AM
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Not sure if this update, allowing weapon tweaks without the need for a full update, is the first of its kind or not. Either way, it will be interesting to see what 343i does with it and if it breaks the game or not. Doubtful on that last part, but you must always keep the option open.


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Comment #19 by JackAzzMcTittles
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:23:21 AM
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I hope they eventually release weapon skins to the public. My pre-order never came with an Arctic BR code, which I didn't find out it was supposed to until a few days ago.


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Comment #20 by thenewpeter
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:25:30 AM
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@17, not really, the purpose of camo is to sneak, and take opportunities, not open up firing weapons, it defeats the purpose of stealth.

I wish they'ed allow you to turn off joining games mid game when you search, I just got sick of joining games which where half over, on the loosing side, even when i still manage be be the best in the game, i still lose because i've been thrown in mid game, where everyone has the advantage over you.

I've not really played this much lately, I've not played many games online lately, just not had the drive to really.


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Comment #21 by Sanchezz4387
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:36:28 AM
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Give up on this ages ago. Game wohldnt let me download crimson until 3.5 weeks after release and ive still not been able to download majestic !! :@


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Comment #22 by Dr Popodopolus
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:32:25 AM
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Game is not as addicting online as previous Halo's. They've gone too far with the changes.

Reach's SWAT is miles more fun than Halo 4's.

Where Halo 3 lasted about 3 years, Halo 4 lasted about 3 weeks.


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Comment #23 by BobHarskins
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:48:17 AM
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@22 yeah swat is a whole lot less fun this time around. Maybe it us because not everybody starts with the same weapon and are not 'equal' like in Reach.


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Comment #24 by Andreas_loel
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:49:17 AM
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Lol br nerf... The BR is halo and have been Halo since Halo 2.


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Comment #25 by Lou Keymia
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:49:20 AM
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Get over the BR. That weapon is a turd. LightRifle is the way to go.


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Comment #26 by Dans1
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:57:14 AM
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@24 It's Halo, but hasn't been in every Halo game released? Yeah, right.

The Magnum is Halo.


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Comment #27 by kynreeve
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 11:21:30 AM
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@18 No Mass Effect 3 had it but other than that no-one else I've seen.


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Comment #28 by elKazaam
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 12:02:33 PM
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To late...the most of the players are gone, same like me. THIS has to be at the beginn of Halo 4. Then it woukld be a great game. But 343i faild this game. RIP.


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Comment #29 by Jweezy117
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 12:32:00 PM
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The multiplayer may be pretty damn shitty, but the campaign and spartan ops are amazing. i personally think 343 did a good job with this game, besides the downfalls in multiplayer.


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Comment #30 by BruTaLyZe
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 12:43:12 PM
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@29
I actually think MP is great, but they shouldn't have taken out Firefight and put in Spartan Ops. Episodic gaming is great and all, but Firefight was massive fun.

Anyways, great update, but I already hate the Gauss Warthog so I'm not looking forward to it being even more difficult to blow up. Hope one Splaser shot still does it then. Love that feeling.


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Comment #31 by revokiller
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 01:58:42 PM
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I am a diehard halo fan more than 14,000 ranked halo2 games and 10,000 private games. 7,000 Halo3 games. but sadly after those 2 games it went down hill, Reach had almost no good maps so you had to rely on the forge, and anytime you do that its really lame with the colors being all the same. oh an the jetpack. Halo4 has really no good maps and has removed alot of custom settings that all the others had. Now Im not saying that it was terrible but when friends wanna play halo we put in halo3 an get our custom on. An 343 halo does not need to be like cod what made halo great was if you wanted the good weapons YOU HAD TO FIGHT FOR THEM now all you see is stupid cloaked people run to sniper spawn an squat bc thats there way. Please 343 look at gears judgement they removed almost everything unique about gears games and it is not as fun over a long period of time. Im sure the diehards will be back to hears 3 after they get their fill an please dont assume I like cliff anyone, I appreciate what he gave the gaming world not his obsession with fat people and armor its a little kinky.


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Comment #32 by Waxy5
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 02:15:00 PM
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Really reduced the damage of the Gauss? What a bunch of bullshit. The Gauss isn't that hard to kill in reality just people are dumb and run out constantly. It's always been a one hit kill and should be. How about nerfing the tank since it kills in one hit also. It's only fair now. I barely play the game now.


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Comment #33 by Deltaleader36
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 02:15:30 PM
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ATTENTION FANBOYS. THE ONLY REASON HALO ISSO MUCH LIKE COD NOW IS BECAUSE 343 WAS PRESSURED INTOIT. THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD LOOSE SALES ID THEY DIDNT


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Comment #34 by BruTaLyZe
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 02:29:51 PM
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With regards to the comment made by @32, I re-edit me previous comment about the Gauss Warthog. I thought it was about the damage TAKEN by the vehicle, not DONE by it.


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Comment #35 by The Black Zero
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 02:34:59 PM
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Pressured into it or not, i played halo to play halo, not a cod clone. Unless they plan to fix it i wont be purchasing the next one at release. And wtf is with the dinosaur covenant? Totally ruined the most badass alien faction ever. So many loose ends, so much disappointment. I had to go find all the terminals just to understand the story. Sloppy work, and thats coming from a die hard fan whos bought every legendary and limited edition halo giodies he could find.


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Comment #36 by Deltaleader36
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 03:03:05 PM
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the only reason halo is so much like cod now is because they were pressured into. todays same fps loving society would hate ifhalo was different than all the others


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Comment #37 by Phantomzero17
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 03:04:26 PM
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Can't really get myself to play Halo 4. I'm excited for the possible Halo 3 PC port though.

Otherwise I'm just playing DOTA.


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Comment #38 by the real evanio
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 04:29:55 PM
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i'm just glad we can all say "guy on my x", but now with relevance, in this game.


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Comment #39 by Nevander
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 05:09:52 PM
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YAY FOR INSTANT NERF ABILITY! /sarcasm


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Comment #40 by Zeppelin 856
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 05:14:39 PM
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@36

The control scheme "Fish stick" is a good example of just that.


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Comment #41 by Mobius Evalon
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 05:37:05 PM
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The problem with multiplayer tweaks is that it is a process that will never end. There will always be somebody bitching about "the overpowered [x]" that kills them all the time, and gaining sufficient momentum when bitching about it in the developer's forums will get them the nerf they want, whereupon the next "overpowered weapon" begins killing them en masse and the process repeats all over again. Multiplayer shooter players are always going to bitch about something that's wrong with the game and are full of excuses as to why they're no good at it. I regularly go 30 kills/5 deaths or so on Modern Warfare but I straight up suck at Halo. Is this because of overpowered weapons, crappy maps, cheating, or unnecessary nerfs on my weapons of choice? No, I just suck at Halo. Look in the mirror you whiners.


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Comment #42 by Detroitwat
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 07:18:37 PM
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With 15 playlists and


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Comment #43 by EMP
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 07:50:28 PM
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I feel like Halo/Cod now is full of way to much crap. Too many guns and extra crap is starting to ruin both games for me. All the different classes with just so many options just really annoys me. Why I liked Halo 3 and Cod4/WAW the best because they were just simple and fair.


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Comment #44 by UltimateAuron32
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:10:45 PM
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@43 agree 100%, in MP games, less is more, as in less bitching and more playing.


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Comment #45 by Deltaleader36
Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 09:50:45 PM
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I love halo


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Comment #46 by xxdiamondxxinfernoxx
Friday, March 22, 2013 @ 06:18:00 AM
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If they release trueskill again or increase the max rank i will be very happy


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Comment #47 by AndyMan2k11
Saturday, March 23, 2013 @ 02:35:35 PM
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the game is terrible its new name shall be "call of halo" nuff said.


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Comment #48 by dbdikillhaji
Sunday, March 24, 2013 @ 10:36:37 PM
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@47 keep your childish retarded opinion on the cod articles!!!! CANNOT WAIT FOR CASTLE MAPPACK OR SPARTAN OPS 2

OT: please give us the old needler back its nerfed version sucks!!!


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Comment #49 by Gremlin615
Saturday, March 30, 2013 @ 02:13:05 PM
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Can they increase the level cap? I am sick of not getting xp. I only play MP now to get achievements.


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