Halo 4 Packages

[eLantern]

Tactical Package: Unlocked at SR-7

Shielding – SR-7, 1 Spartan Point
Speeds up your armor's energy shield recharge rate.

<> At what percentage does it improve the shield's recharge rate? ...also does it lessen the time it takes for the quicker recharge rate to begin the recharge?

Mobility – SR-7, 1 Spartan Point
Allows unlimited sprint.

<> How long can you sprint for without the unlimited sprint? ...and in general how quickly does it recharge (no HUD indicator)?

Resupply – SR-14, 1 Spartan Point
Allows the recovery of grenades from fallen allies and foes.

<> Does it only recover the type of grenade you've chosen to carry or does it recover whatever the player had on them when they fell?

AA Efficiency – SR-14, 1 Spartan Point
Increases the rate of which energy recharges for your Armor Abilities.

<> Similar to the questions asked about the Shield Tech. Package... at what percentage does it quicken the AA's recharge rate? ...and does it allow the recharge to begin quicker then normal? ...plus does it have the same effect regardless to the chosen AA?

Grenadier – SR-24, 1 Spartan Point
Increases the grenade carrying capacity.

<> From 1 or 2 to what? ...and does it increase the carrying capacity for every type or just the type you've chosen as your starting 'nade?

Firepower – SR-24, 1 Spartan Point
Allows you the use of a Primary Weapon in the secondary weapon slot.

Fast Track (Pioneer Specialization) – SR50, 1 Spartan Point
Allows user to advance quicker in rank.

<> What percentage will it boost the experience a player receives?

Requisition (Tracker Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Lets the player request new choices when an ordinance is granted.

<> Just one "re-roll"? ...or more than once?

Wheelman (Operator Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Increases the long term durability of your vehicle / how it reacts to EMP charges.

<> How exactly does it increase the long-term durability and change the effects to EMP charges? ...the details.

Support Package: Unlocked at SR-12

Ammo – SR-12, 1 Spartan Point
You get an extra clip when you spawn.

Dexterity – SR-12, 1 Spartan Point
Allows faster reload times and switch weapon animation speed.

<> Is it a specific percentage reduction across the board for all weapons or is it weapon specific?

Sensor – SR-20, 1 Spartan Point
Increased Motion Tracker Range.

<> What is the range difference?

Awareness – SR-20, 1 Spartan Point
You retain your motion sensor while scoped.

Explosives – SR-26, 1 Spartan Point
Increases grenade strength and decreases grenade damage to the user.

<> What are the percentages of increase and decrease? Also, I read somewhere else that this package only altered the effect of the grenade by increasing its damage range, but at the cost of reducing its overall damage... so which explanation is true?

Ordnance Priority – SR-26, 1 Point
Reduced Threshold for Personal Ordinance.

<> How much of a reduction?

Drop Recon (Engineer Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
HUD Indicator for incoming ordinance.

<> What is the amount of time given for the advanced indicator?

Gunner (Pathfinder Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Turret Cooldown + Mobility while Carrying.

<> How much longer can you maintain firing a turret before overheating it? ...and how more mobility do you gain when carrying a turret?

Nemesis (Stalker Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Allows users to target and track down previous attacking enemies, highlighting them on the armor’s passive sensors.

<> What are the details on how this target and tracking system work? ...is it vastly different than MW3's revenge deathstreak?

Stability (Rogue Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Reduced Flinch While Shot In-Scope.

<> For clarification purposes... all this does is it prevents your character from being shot out of a zoomed scope, correct?

Stealth (Wetwork Specialization) – SR-50, 1 Spartan Point
Faster Assassinations, Quieter Footsteps, Reduced Visibility vs. Promethean Vision.

<> How much quicker are the assassinations? ...does it depend on the type of assassination used? Does quieter footsteps, mean that there is zero noise when not sprinting, but only a reduced noise level when sprinting?

[wittyscorpion]

Great info and questions. I'll try to answer some of them based on my limited playing so far:

Sprint duration without Mobility: feels similar to MW3

Resupply: I am pretty sure mismatch of grenades are allowed. Say you have frag in your loadout, you should be able to pick up grenades of all types from both ordinance drop and fallen players up to the limit of each type (frag: 2, plasma: 2, pulse: 1 for non-Grenadier)

Grenadier: my guess is that it increases capacity for all grenade types

Dexterity: my guess is that it is a flat percentage decrease for all weapons

Requisition: my guess is that you can re-roll once. Otherwise it would be unreasonable.

Nemesis: based on the podcast from 343: after you respawn you'll have "a few seconds" to see where your killer is, going away pretty quickly.

Stability: in Halo4, getting shot no longer pulls you out of scope, but it will cause violent view kick (flinch), just like how CoD does it. Stability reduces the severity of that kick.

[eLantern]

Nov 6, 2012 13:54:35 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

Great info and questions. I'll try to answer some of them based on my limited playing so far:

Thank you, witty

Sprint duration without Mobility: feels similar to MW3

So, Mobility is very useful.

Resupply: I am pretty sure mismatch of grenades are allowed. Say you have frag in your loadout, you should be able to pick up grenades of all types from both ordinance drop and fallen players up to the limit of each type (frag: 2, plasma: 2, pulse: 1 for non-Grenadier)

Ya, I just watched some video in which I saw a mismatch of grenades, so I guess that answered that question, but it's good to know that with Resupply you will be picking up what other players didn't use of their own supply.

Grenadier: my guess is that it increases capacity for all grenade types

I hope your right about that, otherwise I don't think it would make sense to use this ever over Resupply.

Dexterity: my guess is that it is a flat percentage decrease for all weapons

It sure sounds like the most logical application for this package, but eventually verifying whether or not that's 100% correct would be ideal.

Requisition: my guess is that you can re-roll once. Otherwise it would be unreasonable.

Agreed, but I did ponder... what if it gave you two chances instead of just one?

Nemesis: based on the podcast from 343: after you respawn you'll have "a few seconds" to see where your killer is, going away pretty quickly.

Interesting. I hope I can watch a video on it in action.

Stability: in Halo4, getting shot no longer pulls you out of scope, but it will cause violent view kick (flinch), just like how CoD does it. Stability reduces the severity of that kick.

Very different then what I assumed it did. I thought Halo 4 also pulled you out of scope and that the Stability package was the only way to prevent that. Not so sure if I value Stability as much as I did before... I might favor Awareness over it now.

[wittyscorpion]

Regarding Stability: I actually feel that it might become my most favorite.

1) I have been using Focus in MW3 and really like it. Toughness is going to be my top perk choice in BO2;

2) With Fishstick loadout and lots of MW3 play, I tend to scope in a lot. That could be a bad habit that gives me disadvantage, and Stability can help out significantly in that regard.

[eLantern]

Nov 6, 2012 15:42:31 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

Regarding Stability: I actually feel that it might become my most favorite.

1) I have been using Focus in MW3 and really like it. Toughness is going to be my top perk choice in BO2;

2) With Fishstick loadout and lots of MW3 play, I tend to scope in a lot. That could be a bad habit that gives me disadvantage, and Stability can help out significantly in that regard.

I don't want to sound like I don't value the Stability Package at all, but considering I won't get knocked out of scope without it now, I just think the advantage of having Awareness trumps it. Just think how nice and useful being able to keep your eye on the radar despite being scoped is.

[wittyscorpion]

Nov 6, 2012 16:03:17 GMT -5 eLantern said:

Nov 6, 2012 15:42:31 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

Regarding Stability: I actually feel that it might become my most favorite.

1) I have been using Focus in MW3 and really like it. Toughness is going to be my top perk choice in BO2;

2) With Fishstick loadout and lots of MW3 play, I tend to scope in a lot. That could be a bad habit that gives me disadvantage, and Stability can help out significantly in that regard.

I don't want to sound like I don't value the Stability Package at all, but considering I won't get knocked out of scope without it now, I just think the advantage of having Awareness trumps it. Just think how nice and useful being able to keep your eye on the radar despite being scoped is.

True. I have to actually play the two to really know which one I like better. Maybe Stability for smaller maps and Awareness for bigger maps?

[eLantern]

Nov 6, 2012 16:06:42 GMT -5 wittyscorpion said:

True. I have to actually play the two to really know which one I like better. Maybe Stability for smaller maps and Awareness for bigger maps?

Not to mention, game type. I can't see using Stability at all for SWAT, but Awareness would be required if SWAT incorporated the radar.

[eLantern]

BTW, another good piece of info would be in dealing with the flinch effect. Does the amount differ per the Primary weapon?

[wittyscorpion]

Regarding SWAT: if I remember correctly motion sensor is always disabled for SWAT.

Regarding the amount of flinch: it definitely varies by weapon. In the podcast I mentioned, 343i devs explicitly said that SR has "massive" flinch.

I agree with you: it would be great if we can start having some detailed stats about these things...

[skitrel]

Regarding recharge: It does not affect the amount of time it takes for your shields to start charging after last being hit, it speeds up the actual recharge when it's on it's way up, considerably, making it about half a second as opposed to 1 or 2.

I don't rate stability. A skilled player simply adjusts for flinching, it's a crutch that's not necessary and otherwise a wasted slot that could be used for something else while utilising skill so as not to need stability.

[exaltedvanguard]

From what I can tell, shielding does not reduce recharge delay. It roughly doubles (just guesstimating here) recharge rate.

Mobility is unneeded. The only times you really notice the sprint limit is the at the beginning of big team and don't take a vehicle/mancannon.

AA Efficiency does not affect AA usage. It doubles the recharge rate (this one I've measured).

By rough estimation, explosives appears to be a 15-25% increase in range. It does not effect maximum damage. It also appears to reduce incoming grenade damage by 15-25%. A grenade under your feet will leave you with a tiny bit of shields left.